These kinds of rocket experiments have been going on for several years here in Norway, at the Andøya Rocket Range (ARR), the world's northernmost permanent launch facility. The ARR-activities are highly connected to EISCAT, the Norwegian HAARP-facilities.
http://www.rocketrange.no/
However I don't belive these ARR-experiments have been conducted on a massive scale, so I find this information to be very disturbing!