Authorities say the investigation began when they were alerted that two men, identified as 30-year-old Michael Mancil and 22-year-old James Dryden, Jr., were purchasing large quantities of high-powered firearms, magazines, and ammunition at several locations around Coffee County.
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Upon being interrogated at the sheriff's office, Mancil allegedly detailed a bizarre plan to overtake the HAARP facility, located in Gakona, Alaska. ... Coffee County Sheriff's Investigator Michael Vickers stated Mancil believed the facility was "storing people's souls," preventing them from going to heaven. He intended, Vickers said, "to blow up the machine" in order to free the souls that were trapped.