For nearly three years, chemtrail observers have hoped an official would step forward to explain the origin and purpose of broad white plumes criss-crossing the skies above a dozen allied nations. Their wait is over...
It was nearly noon when S.T. Brendt awoke and entered the kitchen of her country home in Parsonsfield, Maine. As she poured her first cup of coffee, the late night reporter for WMWV Radio could not have guessed that her life was minutes away from drastic change. Her partner Lou Aubuchont was already up, puzzling over what he had seen in the sky a half-hour before. The fat puffy plumes arching up over the horizon were unlike any contrail he had ever seen, even during his hitch in the Navy.
Like breath exhaled on a winter's day, the contrails he was used to seeing would flare briefly in the stratosphere as hot moist engine exhaust flash-freezes into a stream of ice-crystals. These pencil-thin condensation trails are pretty to watch but short-lived, subliming into invisibility as exhaust gases cool quickly to the surrounding air temperature.
But in late 1997, Aubuchont started observing thicker 'trails extending from horizon to horizon. Hanging in the sky long after their creators had flown from view, these expanding white ribbons would invariably be interwoven by more thick lines left by unmarked jets, Air Force white or silver in colour.
On this March 12th morning in 2001, Lou did not mention his sighting as S.T. indulged in caffeine. Sipping gratefully, she glanced out the window. It looked like another gorgeous, cloudless day. But not quite. Brendt baulked at several chalk marks scrawled across the crystalline blue sky. "Contrails or chemtrails?" she jokingly remarked. Lou got up and looked. What kind of clouds run exactly side by side in a straight line? he wondered. It's just too perfect to happen naturally. When he said he wasn't sure, S.T. stopped smiling and went outside.
Looking up towards the southeast over West Pond, she spotted the first jet. A second jet was laying billowing white banners to the north. Both aircraft appeared to be at over 30,000 feet. Turning her gaze due west, Brendt saw two more lines extending over the horizon. She called Lou. Within 45 minutes the couple counted 30 jets. This isn't right, S.T. thought. We just don't have that kind of air traffic here. While Lou kept counting, she went inside and started calling airports. One official she reached was guarded but friendly. He had relatives in West Pond.
The Air Traffic Control manager told Brendt her sighting was "unusual". His radars showed nine commercial jets during the same 45-minute span. From her location, he said, she should have been able to see one plane.
And the other twenty-nine? The FAA official confided off the record that he had been ordered "by higher civil authority" to re-route inbound European airliners away from a "military exercise" in the area. "Of course, they wouldn't give me any of the particulars and I don't ask," he explained. "I just do my job."
Excited and puzzled by this information, S.T. and Lou got into their car and headed down Route 160. Looking in any direction they could see five or six jets flying at over 30,000 feet. Never in the dozen years they'd lived in rural Maine had they seen so much aerial activity.
A former US Navy Intelligence courier, Aubuchont was used to large-scale military exercises. But he told S.T. he had never seen anything this big. "It looked like an invasion," he later recounted.
Another driver almost went off the road as he leaned over his dashboard trying to look up. As they passed, he acknowledged them with a nod.
As far as they could see stretched line after line. Two giant grids were especially blatant. Instead of dissipating like normal contrails, these sky trails grew wider and wider and began to merge. Looking towards the Sun, Aubuchont saw what appeared like "an oil and water mixture" reflecting a prismatic band of colours. He couldn't call it a rainbow. Rainbows aren't sinister.
As Lou and S.T. completed their errands, the jets kept them company, leaving lines and even circles that resembled smoke rings. Even living near Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark jetports, Aubuchont had never seen so many big jets performing identical manoeuvres in the same sky. When they returned to Parsonsfield around four, the lines were starting to merge into a dingy haze.
Richard Dean called back. After receiving S.T.'s message, the assistant WMWV news director had gone outside with other news staff and counted 370 lines in skies usually devoid of aerial activity.
Brendt put in another call to the FAA official. He had never heard of chemtrails. In their first face-to-face interview, the chain-smoking controller responsible for air traffic over the northeastern seaboard repeated his earlier statements on tape. Similar military activities were ongoing in other regions, he added. On his 'scopes he could track the tankers flying north into Canadian airspace.
Speaking before witnesses at WMWV on condition of strict anonymity, our "Deep Sky" source answered a series of yes/no questions I helped Brendt prepare when she contacted me.
After nearly three years on this case, I wanted to corroborate extremely high levels of aluminum [aluminium] powder found in samples of rainwater falling through thick sky plumes over Espanola, Ontario, in the spring of 1998.
The Espanola lab tests were conducted after residents began complaining to the provincial environment ministry. Severe headaches, chronic joint pain, dizziness, sudden extreme fatigue, acute asthma attacks and feverless "flu-like" symptoms over a 50-square-mile area coincided with what they termed "months of 'spraying'" by photo-identified US Air Force tanker planes.
The USAF denied the intrusions. But former Ontario Provincial Police Officer and Supreme Court expert witness Ted Simola reported lingering Xs and numerous white trails, some of which "just ended" as if they had been shut off but remained in the sky.
Another Espanola resident told me that mental confusion and short-term memory loss were so prevalent that forgetting where their cars were parked had become "a standing joke" in the tiny town.
On November 18, 1998, the people of Espanola petitioned Parliament. Addressing the Canadian government on their behalf, defence critic Gordon Earle explained:
"Over 500 residents of the Espanola area have signed a petition raising concern over possible government involvement in what appears to be aircraft emitting visible aerosols. They have found high traces of aluminum and quartz in particulate and rainwater samples.
"These concerns combined with associated respiratory ailments have led these Canadians to take action and seek clear answers from this government. The petitioners call upon Parliament to repeal any law that would permit the dispersal of military chaff or of any cloud-seeding substance whatsoever by domestic or foreign military aircraft without the informed consent of the citizens of Canada thus affected."
The Ministry of Defence eventually replied: "It's not us."
Which was true. While the US Air Force counts 650 four-engine KC-135 Stratotankers and 50 KC-10 Extenders in its active inventory, Canadian Forces do not fly armadas of tankers. But they do operate the biggest radar installation in Canada at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island, easily capable of tracking the American formations coming up from the south.
"Was the classified operation a radar experiment?" we asked Deep Sky.
"That wasn't what I was told."
Were ATC radars "enhanced or degraded", we wanted to know. The barium spread in exercises conducted out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base acts as an electrolyte, enhancing conductivity of radar and radio waves. "Wright Pat" has also long been deeply engaged in HAARP's electromagnetic warfare program.
A SKY SHIELD TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING?
The puzzle pieces fell into place with Deep Sky's revelation that ATC radars were being "degraded" by tanker-released particles showing up as a "haze" on their screens. This radar characteristic matched the high concentrations of aluminum powder found along with a preponderance of quartz particles in Espanola's chemtrail-contaminated rainwater.
The tankers' aluminum powder emissions also matched the Welsbach patent. Issued in 1994 to the Hughes aerospace giant "for Reduction of Global Warming", the sky shield blueprint calls for dispensing microscopic particles of aluminum oxide and other reflective materials into the upper atmosphere to reflect one or two per cent of incoming sunlight. Computer simulations by Ken Caldeira at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory calculated that this would be enough to stop warming over 85 per cent of the planet, despite an anticipated doubling of carbon in the atmosphere within the next 50 years.
Lawrence Livermore priced the aerial spray program at US$1 billion dollars a year--a cheap fix to maintain massive petroleum profits in the face of Kyoto's internationally agreed carbon cutbacks.
Livermore's founder, Edward Teller, lobbied hard for another chance to play with planetary processes. At the 1998 International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies, the Father of the H-bomb presented his Next Big Idea. Having earlier pressed for detonating nuclear bombs to carve new harbours out of American coastlines, Teller now called for reflective chemicals to be spread like mirror-shades over the Earth. Or at least over allies who could agree in secret for this unprecedented geoengineering experiment to be carried out over their unsuspecting constituents.
In a draft report leaked to me soon after it appeared for peer review in May 2000, an expert panel chosen among 3,000 atmospheric scientists looked at Caldeira's computer simulations and agreed that Teller's scheme might work. But the IPCC warned against unpredictable upsets of the atmosphere, as well as against angry populaces reacting to "the associated whitening of the visual appearance of the sky".
Caldeira was so concerned he went public, warning that deflecting sunlight would further cool the stratosphere, concentrating icy clouds of ozone-gobbling CFCs that could destroy Earth's solar radiation shield.
Was the sky shield experiment already underway? Deep Sky hinted that it was.
Were the tankers involved in weather modification? Our FAA source hesitated before responding. "That approximates what I was told."
For the third interview we rephrased our key question. Were the tankers repeatedly observed on ATC radars involved in climate modification? I caught my breath as Deep Sky confirmed that this is what he was told was the object of the missions.
Here at last was our "smoking nuke" admission. After years of "airliner" double-speak, we could now corroborate Deep Sky's report of military aircraft dispensing reflective materials with an earlier report by a Canadian aviation official.
On December 8, 2000, Terry Stewart, the Manager for Planning and Environment at the Victoria International Airport, had broken this story wide open when he responded to a caller's complaint the previous day of Xs, circles and grids being woven over the British Columbia capitol. Leaving a message on an answering machine tape, later heard by more than 15 million radio listeners, the public servant explained: "It's a military exercise, US and Canadian Air Force exercise that's going on. They wouldn't give me any specifics on it."
Stewart added that he found the incident--one of hundreds reported over Canada's west coast since the fall of 1998--"very odd".
Tasked with defending Canadian airspace in the region, CFB Comox chose instead to defend a classified collaboration. "No military operation is taking place," the base information officer tersely told me when I called for details. But Stewart later told the Vancouver Courier that his information had come directly from CFB Comox.
CONTRAILS vs CHEMTRAILS
Across the strait from the island air base, a concerned mother of three children was noticing that people in Gibsons were coming down with ailments that coincided with constant chemtrail activity. Suzanne Smart's husband contracted asthma; their children were always sniffling and coughing. Smart ended up in the small coastal town's Emergency unit with a sore throat, "super-stiff" neck, pounding headache and ears "ringing like crazy". Even her teeth hurt.
It was all very nerve-wracking. Smart contacted a Transport Canada investigator who had noticed the jet trails too and was convinced it was normal contrail activity. Why he took special notice of normal contrails was not explained. But the TC official told Smart he hoped the Canadian equivalent of the FAA would be notified of any military exercises taking place.
On June 17, 2001, after photographing massive plumes over Gibsons, Smart checked with aviation authorities and found that no airline flight plans had been filed for that airspace at that time. Official weather data showed that when her photos of multiple white plumes were taken, the 30 per cent humidity at 30,000 and 35,000 feet was less than half that needed for contrails to form.
As NOAA meteorologist Thomas Schlatter explains, for even short-lived condensation trails to form, "we're talking temperatures lower than about minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and humidity at jet altitudes of 70 per cent or more".
Smart sent her findings to Transport Canada with a request for an explanation of how contrails could form when they couldn't. "It is my understanding," she wrote, "that the only way to form jet trails at yesterday's low humidity is to introduce very fine particulates into the atmosphere."
Smart's homework hit like hardball. According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, the only way to form artificial clouds in warm dry air is to introduce enough particulates into the atmosphere to attract and accrete all available moisture into visible vapour. If repeated often enough, the resulting rainless haze can lead to drought.
Following standard procedure to ignore all evidence contradicting the official line, Transport Canada's Randy Phillips responded by advising Smart to check out the "urban legends" website ridiculing chemtrails.
Col. Walter Washbaugh, Chief of the Congressional Inquiry Division for the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington, DC, also calls chemtrails "a hoax". In an April 20, 2001, letter to a US senator, Washbaugh blamed the increased number of contrails on "significant civil aviation growth in the past decade".
He was right. A National Science Foundation study has found that, in certain heavy traffic corridors, artificial cloud cover has increased by as much as 20 per cent since the jet age took off. Dr Patrick Minnis, a CERES atmospheric researcher and ardent chemtrails critic at NASA's Langley Research Center, reports that cirrus cloud cover over the United States is up five per cent overall because particulates in engine exhaust are acting as cloud-forming nuclei. As the number of flights currently exceeds 15 million annually worldwide, the NSF, NASA and EPA predict artificial clouds will intensify as air travel continues climbing sharply.
What about chemtrails? Colonel Washbaugh ascribed widely reported grid patterns to overlapping aircraft flying north-south, east-west airways. The only thing wrong with this explanation, an air traffic controller told me in Texas, is that US airways do not run north-south.
The biggest laugh came when the colonel told the senator: "The Air Force is not conducting any weather modification and has no plans to do so in the future."
In fact, attempts to steer hurricanes by spraying heat-robbing chemicals in their paths began in the 1950s. The recipe for creating "cirrus shields" was outlined in an unusually arrogant US Air Force study. Subtitled "Owning the Weather by 2025", the 1996 report explained how "weather force specialists" were dispersing chemicals behind high-flying tanker aircraft in a process the air force calls "aerial obscuration".
Official denials reached new altitudes of absurdity when another colonel claimed: "The US Air Force does not conduct spraying operations over populated areas." USAF spokeswoman Margaret Gidding told a Spokane newspaper: "The Air Force doesn't do anything that emits anything other than a normal contrail, which is vapor."
So were their replies. Apparently Anderson and Gidding had forgotten how US Air Force spray planes crippled a country and a culture by dispensing over Vietnam thousands of tons of "Agent Orange" defoliants containing dioxin toxins as hazardous as plutonium.
SEEING IS BELIEVING?
In the end, it has proved impossible to continue skywriting giant billboards advertising government duplicity, while insisting they are not there. By the summer of 2001, the controversy entered a new phase. Pictures of contrails were being distributed to newspapers by the Associated Press, and "chemtrails" could be overheard in coffee shop conversations across an entire continent.
When it comes to chemtrails, seeing is disbelieving official disinformation. As public awareness grows, people like war veteran David Oglesby are looking up. The 11 fat plumes fanning out over his Coarsegold, California, home did it for Oglesby last June.
"The trails formed a grid pattern," he told WorldNetDaily News. "Some stretched from horizon to horizon. Some began abruptly, and others ended abruptly. They hung in the air for an extended period of time and gradually widened into wispy clouds resembling spider webs."
A retired US Air Force radar tech named Shimera called a colonel responsible for all military operations in central California. "What would you say if I said there are three aircraft up there right now?" Shimera asked. "Are they there?"
"No," the colonel replied. "They are not there."
The Houston study is not so easily dismissed. Mark Steadham was looking for contrails when he started observing the skies over this busy Texas hub last winter. Using FAA tracking software called Flight Explorer to identify each aircraft, Steadham clocked contrails trailing from Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas and Airbus airliners. All but two of these condensation trails sublimed into invisibility within five to 20 seconds; the only exceptions persisted for two and 25 minutes.
Flight Explorer does not show altitudes for military jets, but, according to the FAA, tankers and transports usually transit continental airspace at around 30,000 feet to ensure safe separation from airliners flying between 35,000 and 39,000 feet. Military "heavies" flying below 30,000 feet should not leave contrails at all. Major-General Gregory Barlow confirms that Air Force tankers do not perform refuelling missions at contrail-forming altitudes.
But Steadham found just the opposite in his study. While observing air traffic for 63 days, the Houston skywatcher found that thick white plumes laid by similar-sized military aircraft--at the same time, in the same airspace as 20-second airliner contrails--lingered for four to eight hours.
GLOBAL CHEMTRAIL REPORTS
Sightings of oddly lingering plumes sometimes resembling rocket trails are not confined to North American skies.
While on leave in Italy in the summer of 1999, the US Navy's Kitty Chastain sat on her hotel balcony and watched aerial grids being laid all day just offshore over the Bay of Naples. "People were coughing all over Naples," she wrote. On the bus ride in from the base, Chastain explained chemtrails to many sailors with hacking coughs.
On October 12 that same year, a Paris correspondent reported "...heavy activity from all directions, X upon X. The pilots here seem to like to play chicken; they fly right at each other and then one will swerve, their trails forming pitchforks and Xs." No contrails were being left by "normal planes" in the same skies. But the next day, planes flying over Paris "from all directions" obscured the sky with more Xs that continued into the evening.
In Spain on April 27, 2000, American tourist John Hendricks dashed off a quick email from El Café de Internet: "Were we surprised to see that the chemtrails are as bad here as they are anywhere, both in Mallorca and in Barcelona." He and his wife "took plenty of pictures" before noticing a postcard they'd bought captured a perfect chemtrail.
"Add Sweden to the list," a Swedish resident wrote after spotting eight to 10 parallel 'trails and contracting flu for the first time in years. Weather conditions at the time were not conducive to contrail formation. "I know the commercial routes, and we have a bunch of them, but not where these trails were."
Chemtrail activity has been reported in at least 14 allied nations including Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. Croatian chemtrails began the day after that country joined NATO.
ATMOSPHERIC ORGANISMS
Many chemtrail observers note that chemtrails are often laid down at the leading edge of approaching frontal systems. While rare "sundogs" form ice-crystal circles around the Sun in advance of strong winds, much more common "chemdogs" create prismatic solar halos during stable weather.
More and more observers, like this Vancouver resident, wonder why "on the days of heavy spraying you will notice a rainbow around the Sun". Many more people who have been healthy all their lives wonder why they keep getting desperately sick whenever the chemplanes appear.
Unlike the refined aluminum in cooking utensils that is tenuously linked to Alzheimer's disease, aluminum oxide is as inert as sand and is not considered toxic.
But in a story headlined "Tiny particles can kill", the August 5, 2000, edition of New Scientist reported that "city-dwellers in Europe and the US are dying young because of microscopic particles in the air".
Looking at byproducts of hydrocarbon burning, a Harvard School of Public Health team determined particulates with a diameter less than 10 microns as being a serious threat to public health. (A human hair is about 100 microns across.) In 1987, US environmental regulations limited airborne concentrations of particles less than 10 microns in diameter.
But air pollution has grown worse. On April 21, 2001, the New York Times warned: "These microscopic motes are able to infiltrate the tiniest compartments in the lungs and pass readily into the bloodstream, and have been most strongly tied to illness and early death, particularly in people who are already susceptible to respiratory problems."
David Hawkins, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, speaks for "about a quarter-million Americans who have died prematurely as result of fine-particle exposure".
That number may be boosted sharply by chemtrail spraying. On December 14, 2000, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that inhaling particulate matter of a size 10 microns or smaller leads to "a 5% increased death rate within 24 hours".
Teller's sunscreen calls for spraying 10 million tons of talcum-fine reflective particulates of 10 to 100 micron sizes.
Allergic reactions to airborne fallout do not explain the entire syndrome of chemtrail-related illness. Falling blood temperatures accompanying symptoms of intense yet feverless "flu" is a classic sign of chronic fungal infection. Blamed for a host of auto-immune dysfunction, from chronic fatigue to fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis, the fungus within us also signals its presence in sharp joint pain, sudden extreme fatigue, sudden dizziness, mental confusion and short-term memory loss.
After nearly three years of intense investigation, I have found no proof that chemtrails constitute a deliberate biological attack. Research for my books on the Gulf biowar and earlier germ warfare experiments (Bringing The War Home; Scorched Earth) show that bio-attacks are conducted at low level and never in daylight, in order to avoid ultraviolet sterilisation of toxins.
The biohazards in chemtrails may be bad LUC. The "Law of Unintended Consequences" states that every human intervention creates unpredictable consequences. Chemtrails can cause drought by soaking up all available moisture, and drooping chemical curtains fall through vast colonies of UV-mutated bacteria, viruses and fungi living in the upper atmosphere. Could these malevolent micro-organisms be piggy-backing on the plumes?
A series of balloon flights made in the US during the 1960s collected startling stratospheric samples swarming with bacteria and fungi as well as viruses bigger than any known at the time.
If viruses fall from the sky, most would land in the sea. Dipping their beakers into coastal seawater, scientists found as many as 10 million large virus-like particles per quart. As one researcher said: "No one knows where they come from or what they do. Their size and shape match the virus-like particles found in the upper atmosphere."
Other life-forms, even tinier than bacteria, are also thriving in our atmosphere. The discoverer of nanobacteria, Dr Robert Folk, describes the most populous organisms on Earth as "dwarf forms of bacteria, about one-tenth the diameter and 1/1000th the volume of ordinary bacteria".
The Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas figures that these ultra-tiny bugs are "possibly an order of magnitude more abundant" than normal bacteria that swarm everywhere.
Since chemtrails are commonly spread over populated areas where temperature differentials are greatest and solar shading most needed, it is probable that particulate-laden plumes are precipitating airborne viruses, bacteria and fungi down into human lungs and respiratory systems unable to recognise or resist the alien invaders.
This possibility was further strengthened when Dr Folk chose a lightweight metal as a matrix to grow bugs too small to be seen by optical microscopes. Folk viewed under electronic magnification entire ecologies of swarming nanobac. The bacteria were feasting on (he called it "metabolising") aluminum.
PUBLIC CONCERN SPREADS
Are we worried yet? An August 2001 WorldNetDaily poll asked Americans: "Do you think 'chemtrails' are anything to worry about?" Forty-three per cent answered "Yes"; another 30 per cent wanted more information on chemtrails--a total 73 per cent of US respondents concerned about chemtrails.
As lawyers across the US discuss filing the "Mother of All Lawsuits" against Boeing, Bush and the US Air Force, their case now appears tight enough to force further disclosures. The last glaring evidential gap--photos of ground-based chemtrail operations--may soon be forthcoming.
What to do?
A British campaigner involved in another bid to reclaim individual sovereignty and local autonomy held out the best hope for change when she told a CBC radio interviewer: "The only way to get government to do anything is if enough people stand up and shout, 'This is ridiculous!'"
Stay tuned. With chemtrails confirmed as a military operation aimed at climate modification, the biggest trial is about to begin--in the court of public opinion.
References
Vancouver Courier chemtrails coverage:
www.vancourier.com/085101/news/085101nn1.html
WorldNetDaily chemtrails coverage:
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24152
Mark Steadham's Houston contrails study:
www.chemtrailcentral.com/report.shtml
"Tiny Bits of Soot Tied to Illness", New York Times, April 21, 2001,
www.nytimes.com/ 2001/04/21/science/21AIR.html
NOAA meteorologist Thomas Schlatter:
www.weatherwise.org/qr/q ry.chemtrail.html
About the Author: William Thomas specialises in health and environment issues. His award-winning writing has appeared in more than 50 publications in eight countries. His editorial commentaries have been published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun and Times-Colonist newspapers as well as Earth Island Journal and Ecodecision magazines. He has also appeared on CBC radio and TV, CNN and New Zealand national television. His articles, "Poison from the Sky: the 'Chemtrails' Crisis" and "Probing the 'Chemtrails' Conundrum", were published in NEXUS 6/03 and 7/02 respectively. He can be contacted by email at willthomas@ telus.net, or via his Lifeboat News website, www.lifeboatnews.com.
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Only now are the secrets behind Gulf War Illness, the "Green Run" deliberate radiation release on the residents of Hanford, Washington and 50 years of "open air" biowarfare experimentation over hundreds of U.S., Canadian and British cities being revealed. After 10 months of investigation, what do we really know about a phenomenon whose true origins may not be known until "insiders" speak - perhaps decades later?
THE PHENOMENON
Once you have watched two, six, eight or more unmarked planes weave broad white plumes into cross-hatched grid patterns, giants X's or furrows of expanding parallel lines that turn clear blue sky into a milky, dripping overcast that sometimes reveals prismatic bars of chemical coloring - you will never look at the sky in the same way again.
In the representative words of eyewitnesses across 48 states:
"I watched a clear blue sky become criss-crossed with the white trails from many jets. The sky then became overcast, in spite of the forecast calling for sunny weather. I felt stunned as I witnessed this event."
"I've lived here for 26 years never seeing this number of contrails at once."
"One morning I saw so many I almost had a car accident. They were X'ing, probably 50, 100 of them, as far as I could see. Lots of X's and parallel lines. Definitely not normal air traffic."
"They look like they're playing tic-tac-toe up there. You know darn well it's not passenger planes."
"These contrails do indeed behave differently from the usual contrails made by jets. They don't dissipate right away. They like linger, hang there. But they were so heavily concentrated that I just about fell over."
"Everywhere from horizon to horizon, as far as I could see above the trees and buildings, perfectly parallel streaks or stripes of clouds."
"I am under the understanding that we have regular flight patterns. This however, broke all the rules, as these patterns criss-crossed one another over a dozen times."
"Real jet trails are not as low as these."
POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
A wetter, warmer atmosphere and increased commercial air traffic are leading to the formation of artificial cirrus clouds in heavily-frequented air corridors over the Atlantic Ocean, Europe and North America. With more than 62 million commercial and military flights taking place every year over the United States, scientists say that the moisture from so many jet engine exhausts has increased cloud cover over the U.S. by as much as 5% since the jet age took off.
Even normal contrails can linger and spread over considerable spans of time and distance. Recent studies by NASA and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have found that under certain conditions in high-traffic areas, concentrations of contrails can cover 13,000 square miles, while being tracked by satellites for more than 14 hours.
BUT...
Changes in atmospheric processes and airline travel have been gradual. Why are people who have lived next to airbases and airports most of their lives - and would not normally give a contrail a second glance - stopping their cars and hauling family members and neighbors outside to point cameras and camcorders at sudden concentrations of aerial trails they instinctively recognize as not-the-normal contrails?
Why are formations of grid-weaving jets suddenly appearing over communities unused to seeing commercial or military air traffic?
How can these overflights be explained as "scheduled air traffic" when they abruptly cease, only to start up again weeks later?
According to Canadian and U.S. aviation officials, pencil-thin contrails normally form above 33,000 feet - and usually dissipate within less than a minute like the wake behind a ship In contrast, the broad white plumes known as "chemtrails" are often spread by formations of tanker-type aircraft far below commercial airliners that even in colder upper-air leave short-lived contrails or no contrails at all.
Most sightings take place far from air navigation beacons and established air routes Even over VORTAC beacons, commercial aircraft do not cross each other's flight paths in Xs and grid-patterns at the same altitude. Nor do airliners spend hours laying long-lasting plumes across the same patch of sky. To do so, air force pilots say, would violate many air safety regulations mandating minimum three-mile aircraft separation.
(Because windshear and temperature gradients at different altitudes would disperse contrails differently, the consistency of X's, grid patterns and parallel plumes show crossing aircraft to be flying at close to the same altitude.)
Commercial airliners prominently display their airline logo, "colors" and registration numbers. KC-135 and KC-10-type spray aircraft observed through binoculars are painted white and carry no identification markings.
PATHOGENS AND ILLNESS
Contrails do not make people sick. Yet many observers have become ill within four to 48 hours of watching chemtrails form. A metallic, oily or corrosive smell and taste has also been widely reported in the wake of chemtrails.
"Spikes" in emergency room admissions match by date and location reports of heavy "spray days". Last winter, during 15 consecutive weeks of what the Centers for Disease Control called "epidemic levels" of pneumonia and upper-respiratory illness, hospital admissions across the U.S jumped up to double normal peak flu-season rates - even in states reporting a "mild" flu season.
MDs across America told the New York Times and other newspapers:
-- "This is the worst crisis I have seen."
-- "We have people double- and triple-parked in the ER on stretchers."
-- "Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses are filling up the beds."
-- "It was surprising to me how sick they got and how quickly it happened."
-- "The increase in respiratory infections may not be due to the flu."
-- "We know there's a lot of sickness, but our diagnosis shows that it's not the flu."
-- "We've seen a lot of cases that you can't typically classify as flu."
-- "We don't know what it is or where it came from."
Often degenerating into pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, and/or increased frequency and duration of asthma attacks, these severe "flu-like" symptoms lingered for months.
This November, residents in heavily sprayed areas - including Arizona, Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon, Washington state, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and southern Vancouver Island - are also complaining of extremely severe headaches, stiff necks, fatigue and joint pain.
Other symptoms associated with heavy spraying include disorientation, depression, inexplicable anxiety, and an inability to concentrate.
DO YOU MIND?
"Whatever they're dumping on us does something to your mind," says William Wallace. The Washington state resident who launched my chemtrails investigation for the Environment News Service last January claims to have been repeatedly targeted by low-flying spray planes after going to the media with his concerns.
Wallace says he constantly forgets errands - and can't even remember the name of the town closest to his own.
Despite their isolation in a remote mountainous area of Washington, his wife Ann has been diagnosed with Epstein-Barr. According to Wallace, "Her heart is bothering her and her white blood cell count is very low and she remains in terrible pain, almost too weak to move."
In mid-September, 1999, a California resident wrote: "Will, they are really doing their job in a big way - chemtrail overlords, that is. My IQ has been rated at 180 IQ. I feel as if I'm functioning like a 12 yr. old. Also feel close to physical exhaustion. The feeling down here is rather scary. Cats nervous, ducks nervous. I'm on guard. That's the best way I can describe it. Cats sticking very close. We sit up at night, outside, and wonder."
According to the October, 1999 edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry, nerve agents can cause depression, insomnia and impaired thinking. Dr. Cleto DiGiovanni of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, notes that "Biological weapons can diminish the ability to think clearly and produce depression, irritability, and hallucinations."
One mother whose white blood count is down by half speaks for many Americans when she says, "I live in a rural community and most of these people work outside and have their whole lives and have never experienced these kind of symptoms till the contrails started showing up last fall. We live in no flight area, yet it is not uncommon for us to see up to 50 contrails a day...flying the multiple line pattern and the X pattern."
Referring to the resulting illness, she added, "Not just the usual sicknesses...ones that doctors have no idea what is causing them and have no cure for. We had two children die here from totally unexplained illnesses when the contrails were flying all the time. We have dead birds in our yards...we have dead animals. The livestock are sick. Suddenly last winter my nine-year-old daughter came down with an asthma problem out of the blue. My uncle died of respiratory problem, again, out of the blue."
This correspondent concluded: "Then just a couple of weeks ago my sixteen-year-old daughter started having panic attacks, just sitting at the computer it started and went on for a week till I took her to the doctor and he gave her Xanax."
FALLOUT SAMPLES ANALYZED
Ice-crystal contrails do not rain cobwebs and "goo" over porches, powerlines and police cruisers.
Tests done in 1998 and 1999 by government-licensed laboratories on cobweb-like filaments, gel-like material, carbon-laden rain water, and a red powder dropped by aircraft over Washington, California, Oklahoma, Idaho, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Espanola, Ontario have identified:
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Pseudomonas Fluorescens, various bacilli, Streptomyces, Enterobacter cloacae, Serratia marcescens, human white blood cells, and molds capable of producing heart disease and meningitis, as well as acute upper respiratory and gastrointestinal distress.
After my colleague, health researcher Erminia Cassani, brought in samples of a gel-like material obtained from a thoroughly splattered aluminum-sided home, the surprised director of an EPA-licensed lab wanted to know where we had obtained this "probable biohazard material".
Normally taking three or four days to grow in a Petri dish, Cassani's bacteria-laden sample "flowered" less than 48 hours after being cultured. Stating that "it was all over the plate," the lab staff said they had never seen anything grow this quickly. A similar gel sample obtained one year earlier in Pennsylvania and analyzed by the same lab matched our first sample's "Top 3" pathogens.
Skeptical of the link between this airborne fallout and reported illnesses, Cassani herself soon fell victim in May 1999 when she was stricken with a serious upper respiratory infection, swollen lymph glands, sore throat, and general "flu-like" symptoms, 24 hours after being outdoors beneath what she described as a "huge, vertical river" of suspect chemtrail.
Perhaps not coincidentally, earlier that spring, a pervasive radio ad campaign urged Americans to call special 1-800 "flu" tracking numbers. A similar campaign this winter advertises a 1-800 migraine number. Are these ways of tracking nationwide reports of illness? Could this have been a "planned" epidemic, similar to those seen in previous biowarfare experiments conducted in hundreds of cities across the USA, UK and Canada?
STATE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
In September, 1999, John Volkerdin of the New Mexico Environmental Protection Division, responded to a letter from Alan Hutner of the Santa Fe-based Skywatchers organization. The environmental enforcement
specialist stated that after contacting the National Guard, U.S. Army, New Mexico Agricultural Department, New Mexico Department of Military Affairs, and the Federal Aviation Administration - "the data does not suggest that any illegal or clandestine activity is occurring."
BIOWARFARE TESTS ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
But the recently revised U.S. Code Title 50, Section 1520 states that the Secretary of Defense may conduct tests or experiments "involving the use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population" - if they are related to research activity.
The law also stipulates that biowarfare tests can be carried out on Americans only if Congress is notified 30 days in advance, and "only if informed consent to the testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing on that subject."
There is plenty of pattern and precedent to suggest that clandestine biowarfare experiments were routinely practiced on the American public without their informed consent. Two congressional investigations in 1977 and 1994 - and recently declassified British defense documents - detail 50 years of "open air" testing that used ships and spray-equipped aircraft to spread biological warfare simulants on hundreds of cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
As recently as 1997, 61 secret tests sprayed the residents of Minneapolis with germ warfare simulants over a period of several months. Respiratory illness increased sharply in the sprayed areas.
Even as aerial atomic detonations were being conducted upwind of cities, American airborne biowarfare tests began in earnest in 1957 and 1958, when a cargo plane criss-crossed the country, spraying highly toxic zinc cadmium sulfide chemicals. A U.S. Army report states that "virtually, the whole country of the United States was covered with this material."
Prof. Leonard Cole testified at the first congressional investigation into large area biowarfare experiments. The author of Clouds of Secrecy described how "The plane would take off from the Canadian border, and fly slowly down to the Gulf of Mexico. These materials would be spread, and were found to be landing as far away as New York State. So, you know that, as the air would push the zinc cadmium particles around, most of the people who were residents of the United States during that time were inhaling at least some of the zinc cadmium sulfide. And the cadmium in that compound was clearly known then to be toxic, even in small amounts."
In the Sixties and Seventies, British germ-warfare trials spread Bacillus globigii and E. coli from a ship and a Canberra bomber converted with stainless steel tanks and sprayers.
For people with breathing problems or poor immune systems, these bacteria can cause septicemia, fever, pneumonia and chest infections.
Congress also learned that in 1956, U.S. military personnel released mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials tested victims for the effective spread of this disease.
In 1966, U.S. Army bioweaponeers dispensed Bacillus subtilis variant Niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians were exposed when army scientists dropped lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates. Similar biowarfare canisters were released in London subways.
In 1977, Senate hearings found that 239 U.S. populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
CONGRESS RESPONDS
Concerned citizens have asked many mayors and congressional representatives to intercede. Among those contacted in writing without receiving a response are senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Wayne Allard, Jesse Helms, Edwards, Murray and Bingaman.
In the House of Representatives, Jon L. Kyl, Charles Taylor, and Wayne Allard have also been contacted. New Mexico representative Mark Udall has met with Skywatcher's Clifford Carnicom and Alan Hutner.
On March 5, 1999, Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote to the EPA head Carol Browner regarding constituent concerns "about the possible release of toxic chemical substances from jet contrails" and "reports of toxic spraying over populated areas in 41 states."
In calling for a response from the EPA, Senator Lieberman noted that "My constituents further point out recent outbreaks of flu-like symptoms and other sicknesses in Connecticut and other states that may possibly be linked to jet fuel exhaust fumes."
No reply from the EPA has yet been forwarded.
THE FAA RESPONDS
Speaking from his Los Angeles office, head of the FAA's Western region, Charles Lieber, told this investigator that "There are no unidentified aircraft flying over the USA. There's different people looking at different types of aircraft flying back and forth across the country."
Three regional FAA Centers in the East, Central and West United States track all transiting aircraft flying at or above 18,000 feet. Each must file a flight plan identified by a flight number.
"We know where they are all the time," Lieber affirmed.
While no noise complaints have ever been received in connection with chemtrails, Lieber recommended that Creeland's complaints concerning unusual airplane activity be sent in writing to the Noise Ombudsman in Washington, DC.
Is this "file-a-noise-complaint" response a cover-up for clandestine operations by the U.S. Military for which airspace is specially cleared by the FAA and therefore needs no filed flight plans? When a Toronto chemtrail observer called the Pearson International Airport authority last spring, he was startled to hear "an obvious military voice" on the phone. Pretending to be an airplane buff, the caller excitedly asked where the airshow was. The airport authority was taken off guard.
"There's no airshow today," he stammered.
"Well," the caller responded, "I'm watching KC-10's and KC-135s painting low contrails over the West end of Toronto. I'm looking at them right now."
"Contrails!" The official was clearly taken aback, almost shouting the word "I have no information on that!" To the caller he actually sounded scared - before giving out the FAA number for noise control.
Perhaps the best official response came last March, when a Michigan caller complained of three bouts of illness after heavy chemtrail activity. An FAA representative calmly explained the unusual aerial activity as "delayed Christmas traffic."
THE AIR FORCE RESPONDS
Initially responding to complaints by citizens suffering adverse chemical reactions under high-flying aircraft, U.S. Air Force representatives pointed to "routine fuel dumping" over Las Vegas and other populated areas by fleets of multi-engine jet aircraft. The air force has since repeatedly declared, "Those are not our planes."
According to Major General Gregory P. Barlow, Office the Adjutant General, Camp Murray, Washington, "Our KC-135 jet aircraft operate at altitude below 33,000 feet which is typically the altitude where jet contrails form."
U.S. Air Force spokeswoman Margaret Gidding expanded on this theme when she told the Spokesman-Review of Spokane in November, 1999: "The Air Force doesn't do anything that emits anything other than a normal contrail, which is vapor."
But lab test MEL 97-1140 done in September, 1997 on a sample of JP-8 jet fuel by Aqua Tech Environmental Labs in Ohio found 51 toxic substances - including ethylene dibromide (EDB). Banned in 1983 by the Environmental Protection Agency in a rare emergency order, EDB is a potent pesticide, chemical irritant and known carcinogen. Air Force pilots routinely jettison JP-8 to lower aircraft weight for safe landings.
WEATHER MODIFICATION
A U.S. Air Force study - "Weather as A Force Multiplier: Owning The Weather In 2025" - also describes how jet tankers are deployed to spray chemicals that form "cirrus shields" capable of hiding aerial activity from observers on the ground.
In contravention of the U.N. "Convention On The Prohibition Of Military Or Any Other Hostile Use Of Environmental Modification Techniques" - adopted by the White House in May, 1977 - the report also revealed how U.S. military researchers are already trying to influence the weather "by adding small amounts of energy at just the right time and space."
HAARP
The joint US Air Force and Navy project known as the High Altitude Auroral Research Project (HAARP) has for the past several years been using phased-array antennas situated near Gakon, Alaska to steer powerful beams of tightly-focused radio waves "to stimulate," heat and steer sections of the upper atmosphere.
The first of three HAARP patents awarded to MIT physicist Bernard Eastlund describes his Method and Apparatus for Altering A Region of the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere. Issued on August 11, 1987, commercial US patent #4,686,605 claims that directed energy beams of more than one-billion watts can be used for "altering the upper atmosphere wind patterns using plumes of atmospheric particles as a lens or focusing device" to disturb weather thousands of miles away.
In February, 1990, a restricted-circulation "Plans and Activities" report RFP N00014-91-R-0001 jointly issued by the US Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research declared, with emphasis, that the program will go "beyond basic research to "controlling ionospheric processes" by "significantly altering" regions of the ionosphere at a range of 1,200 miles or more.
Though HAARP is currently operating sporadically at relatively low power levels, it's ability to bounce tightly focused beams of radio-frequency energy off the ionosphere gives its beams tremendous range. And as Dr. Len Horrowitz observes: "Very weak EM signals were often found to have the greatest effects, whereas strong signals produced none at all. The toxic effects of frequency vibrations are most commonly associated with specific EM amplitudes and wave frequencies."
Other USAF weather modification techniques spread carbon black to heat up the atmosphere. Perhaps serving the same purpose, iron oxide has been found in spray samples taken in Tennessee and Washington state.
FUNGUS AMONG US
In a recent survey among 179 patients reportedly suffering from chemtrail-related illness, naturopathic Dr. Joseph Puleo found that 22% had been to a hospital Emergency Room, 34% exhibited rashes and sores, half or more had experienced disorientation and suffered from stiff neck and gastro-intestinal problems, 72% had a sore throat and 78% reported severe headaches, 81% complained of congestion.
Almost everyone surveyed experienced short-term memory loss and difficulty in concentrating - and fully 99% were found to have fungus in their blood.
Fungi have been found in many chemtrail samples. Puleo and Horrowitz note how dormant fungus can be "raised from the dead" by exposing it to ultraviolet light. Could fungal spores sprayed from high-flying jets be activated by increased UV at those altitudes, turning it into a mycotoxin?
TREATMENT
Dr. Joseph Puleo has successfully treated many extremely ill patients with his own naturopathic formula. He also recommends that all of us "Detox, deacidify, boost immunity and eliminate dairy products and sugars that form mucus and grow fungus while reducing blood pH."
Vitamin supplementation to rebuild and shield the immune system, and increasing oxygen in the blood through exercise also help.
Puleo also found that cell phone users, and those using Walkmans or who had clock radios near their beds and electric blankets failed to respond to naturopathic treatment that provided relief to many others.
THE CANADA CONNECTION
On November 18, 1999 a petition submitted by 500 residents from the community of Espanola, Ontario was submitted to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa by the NDP Defense Critic Gordon Earle.
The residents of this small town located west of Sudbury, Ontario demanded an end to continuing spraying. They also wanted an explanation for widespread respiratory problems and strange aches and pains among Ojibway people over a 50 mile area following spraying by what some eyewitnesses have identified as C-130 aircraft that began in March, 1999.
Former Ontario Provincial Police Officer Ted Simeola reported lingering X's and numerous contrails, some of which "just ended" as if they had been shut off but remained in the sky. Tests on rainwater conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Environment found carbon black, as well as "chaff" used to jam radar signals - or track airborne dispersion patterns.
The Canadian Health Protection Branch calls chaff highly toxic to human lungs. Yet Espanola, or its nearby environs of Whitefish Falls and Birch Island, typically resort areas, are not U.S. military exercise areas.
The U.S. Air Force denies flying its aircraft over Espanola. But a red, powdery material was also eyewitnessed as coming out the back of a very low-flying C-130 Hercules aircraft passing over the rooftop of a Birch Island home. In the 72 hours following this drop, the residents of this property - in addition to their neighbors and their dog - became very ill with upper respiratory illness and severe gastrointestinal disorders. Samples of this red powder are being further analyzed after initial lab tests found infectious, human pathogens of bacilli and molds.
AERIAL VACCINES
Could widespread aerial spraying be an attempt to inoculate us against an undeclared biowarfare threat?
US Patent 5756104 filed June 5, 1995 by the Department of Defense describes an intranasal/inhalation vaccine formulation. Instead of the attenuated or killed components of inoculations, this highly experimental "whole pathogen" delivery method uses a live virus or bacteria which may have "undesirable side effects".
Four years later, the Maxygen corporation was given a $6.7 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop "aerosolized vaccines."
There is no indication that air-delivered vaccines are yet in production. And none of the immune-weakening pathogens identified in collected samples of air-delivered cobweb-like material or gels can be construed as antidotes to germ warfare.
When bioweapons can be genetically altered overnight, effective inoculation is impossible. As Ken Alibek, former head of the Soviet biowarfare program pointed out in a recent interview, "in many cases it's impossible to vaccinate the entire population of the country against all possible agents. It's absolutely impossible."
WHO IS DOING THE SPRAYING?
A clue to this key question was presented by investigative reporter John Titus. In his updated story, "Who's Who in the C-130 Scandal," published in the March/April 1997 edition of the Portland Free Press, Titus documents the diversion of an estimated 42 former Navy P-3 Orions and spray-equipped Air Force C-130's from firefighting duties with the U.S. Forest Service to the CIA.
According to Titus, "after leaving the Air Force, Roy Reagan used a network of contacts to successfully broker former military aircraft on the open market."
At least one C-130 obtained by Reagan in 1986 was sold to CIA operatives after former director of the Forest Service aviation program, Fred Fuchs and Reagan diverted spray-equipped C-130s to Evergreen Aviation. This "front company" for CIA aviation was established in 1975 at Marana, Arizona.
Titus also learned that "Top CIA aviation officers, including the legendary George Doole, worked for Evergreen. Prior to working for Evergreen, Doole had managed all of the CIA's proprietary airlines."
C-130s have been used by the CIA for drug smuggling to procure arms for the Contra terrorists and other covert operators. As Titus reveals, "Tail number N69-P operated on contract for the U.S. military's Nuclear Defense Agency and was later busted by the DEA in Miami, Florida, on a cocaine smuggling mission."
But the ubiquitous Hercules transport - sometimes called the "DC-3 of the 'Nineties" - can be leased or purchased without range-reducing spray equipment. Why does the CIA need spray-equipped C-130s? Is there any tie-in with the many reports of low-flying C-130s spraying communities across the U.S. as well as Canada?
In Pagosa Springs, Colorado last summer, I was stunned to see a throttled-back, camouflaged-colored C-130 Hercules swoop silently over this remote resort town. Pulling out at 500 feet - well below the 1,000-foot separation from inhabited structures mandated by federal regulations - I watched two spray trails spurt from the wings outboard of the engines. Though it was the height of the warm weather season, I was later surprised by how many store employees were coughing and sneezing.
Titus again: "The C-130 scandal is but the tip of an iceberg, with dozens of companies and individuals operating beyond the Forest Service and congressional oversight."
FUNDING THE SPRAY PLANES
The world's most lucrative business could easily fund clandestine spray operations that may be using leased or purchased C-130s, 707s and DC-10s for low and high-altitude spraying. Covert CIA funding from drug sales would allow air force officials to maintain an arms length stance - while servicing these unmarked white aircraft at newly reactivated USAF airbases.
My book, Scorched Earth, also describes an investigation by Mother Jones magazine that documents $100 million-a-day "back door" transfers of tax dollars used to fund the Pentagon's black operations. None of this money - or the projects it funds - are accountable to Congress or the American people.
SPRAY PLANE BASES
Outside Dobbins Air Base in Marietta, Georgia, one observer writes: "We drove up to a light, and saw the runway, and saw a large, white plane, with a blue stripe, no markings at all, taxiing to take off."
A delivery person at Tinker AFB states that "I have seen more than 30 of these white, KC-135 parked on the tarmac. I have seen six to 10 take off, one after another. They are, indeed, white with no markings.
The white planes have also been spotted at a former AFB near Phoenix, and at the previously closed George AFB in the Mojave Desert.
It must be emphasized that no photographs have been obtained to corroborate these ground sightings.
SUMMARY
Photographic evidence and thousands of detailed eyewitness reports confirm that hazardous bio-materials are being deliberately sprayed on North American city and rural dwellers by high-flying unmarked tanker-type aircraft, and low-flying C-130 turboprop transports.
Weather experiments, and attempts at "aerial obscuration" may be the purpose for some of these flights. The inadvertent or deliberate release of JP-8 jet fuel containing ethylene dibromide and dozens of other toxic chemicals may also be a factor in adverse health reactions among people on the ground. JP8 fuel used by military aircraft leaves a lingering broad white plume.
But instead of revealing concentrations of jet fuel, independent lab tests from samples obtained from low-level drops of cobweb-like and gel material reveal a mix of pathogenic bacilli and molds capable of producing severe illness that could cause fatalities to children, the elderly or those with weakened immune systems.
While background bacteria commonly found in dirt could have contaminated some samples, the uncommon mix and concentration of bacteria and molds in our lab-tested samples - as well as restricter enzymes used in research labs, and fluorescent organisms used as laboratory "markers" - indicate the artificial origins of these pathogenic "cocktails".
It is curious that a hazard materials HAZMAT team responding in full protective garb to air-dropped gel-like material splattered in several different areas of a Salt Lake City suburb last spring did not collect samples before washing it away with high-pressure hoses filled with a chlorine bleach mixture. Though no sewage was found, city health officials explained these occurrences as "a prank" - someone who filled airplane tanks with "sewage" and sprayed them over the houses overnight.
While anecdotal evidence points to sharply increased sudden deaths among young and elderly spray victims, no statistics are available to back up these observations by family members, registered nurses and other health professionals.
WHAT IS NEEDED
Commensurate with the hearings that uncovered the truth behind the Gulf Bio-War and resulting Gulf War Illness, a full congressional investigation must be called to question key FAA, CIA, CDC, EPA, USDA, and other administrative officials under oath.
The questions are simple: "What is the purpose and who is behind the sudden concentrations of unmarked tanker-type aircraft emitting lingering plumes of stripes, X's and grids over American towns and cities?"
"What is the purpose and who is responsible for low-level spraying by C-130 Hercules transports and unmarked black or dark green helicopters over Pegosa Springs and Fort Collins, Colorado; Burnette, Texas; Espanola, Ontario and other towns across America?
Congress must also demand a full accounting of all U.S. military weather modification techniques and experiments, as well as a publicly-accessible monthly description of all experiments undertaken at high level bio-labs across the country.
ALSO NEEDED
More sophisticated (and expensive) labratory analysis of low and higher-altitude spray residue aimed at detecting or confirming the absence of mycoplasms, prions, ethylene dibromide, magnetrophic bacteria and other "stealth" pathogens.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
So far, the financial burden of this investigation has been borne by this writer and other chemtrail researchers. While our mounting expenses have been partially reimbursed by donations from concerned American and Canadian citizens, their contributions are not enough to pay for more lab tests or further aerial sampling.
Urgently needed are samples taken by a trained technician and analyzed by an independent, government-licensed lab from the actual chemtrail plumes.
A Chemtrail Research fund has been set up in Aspen, Colorado for the purpose of consolidating public donations in order to charter an aircraft equipped to sample for chemical and biological material at altitudes above 22,000 feet where chemtrail aircraft congregate. Records of all donations and expense receipts will be available to the public at all times.
For further information contact Dave Peterson at: dcp@sopris.net.
FURTHER PARTICIPATION
To join a nationwide fax/email/phone blitz calling for an end to spraying and full accountability of this program, see: www.carnicom.com
Other chemtrail website:
www.islandent.com/wilco
www.contrailsconnection.com
www.members.tripod.com
www.strangehaze.com
www.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chemtrailtrackingusa
For additional information, corroborating documentation and permission to reproduce this material,
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William Thomas at wilco@islandnet.com.
26 July, 2000.
Over the past two years - and possibly longer - one of the biggest covert operations ever undertaken by a military in peacetime has caused illness and consternation across America as positively identified U.S. Air Force aerial tankers continue to spread broad white plumes in patterns that defy civil air regulations, public health and air pollution laws - and the physics of normal contrail formation.
As hundreds of thousands of North Americans jam hospital emergency rooms in a nearly year-round epidemic of sometimes fatal "flu-like" illness, it has been difficult not to believe that some kind of population cull is underway.
Indeed, more than 80 years of calls by pioneering American eugenicists, some of the most powerful families in the U.S., and their Nazi allies to eliminate unproductive "useless eaters" and the "human weeds" of non-white races, the infirm and elderly - are thoroughly documented. With the pressures of an aging population increasingly squeezing government and corporate bottom lines, such influential statesmen as Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Jaques Cousteau and Ted Turner have called for immediate and drastic population reductions.
The dictionary definition of decimation of a population is a one-in-10 death toll. Despite a CDC-confirmed few-percentage increase in annual deaths among the elderly from pneumonia, Influenza-Like Illness and related cardiac arrest - there is no statistical proof that such a chemtrail cull is currently taking place.
If genocide is truly intended, such an aerial spray program need not be repeated relentlessly over cities and remote rural communities for at least 28 months. Current U.S. biowarfare capabilities could see one or two aerial applications of a rapidly replicating contagion infecting, sickening and killing target populations virtually overnight.
But who would fly the genocide planes? Since there are not nearly enough foreign pilots qualified to fly the 700 KC-135 and KC-10 tankers in the U.S. inventory, how could American air crews be persuaded to carry out such missions against their own families?
The "inoculation" explanation would not play well among tanker crews already leaving the armed forces in droves rather than line up for anthrax vaccinations known to contain illegal adjuvants and the mycoplasma responsible for Gulf War Illness. Military personnel conversant with germ warfare also know that besides posing grave risks, no inoculation can possibly protect against terrorist "cocktails" of multiple disease agents whose genetic composition can be altered literally overnight.
If the choice is air-sprayed genocide, what would be the point of any government inflicting massive and indiscriminate casualties on its own people? With so many sick and dying workers, managers and consumers, entire economies would face catastrophic curtailment. Not to mention armed revolt by the survivors.
A far more effective and selective pathway for pathogens is through vaccination. In 1969, House Appropriations bill 15090 approved an additional $10 million for U.S. biowarfare researchers to produce a synthetic biological agent "that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired." Three years later, the misnamed World Health Organization suggested that their new human immuno-deficiency virus could best be tested in a vaccination program aimed at infecting siblings. In 1977, after warning of a non-existent epidemic, the WHO began injecting HIV-laced smallpox vaccine into over 100 million Africans in the remote jungles of Sierre Leone.
The following year an experimental hepatitis B vaccine administered to gay men in seven U.S. cities was followed by an outbreak of AIDS in those seven - and only those seven - locations. Five years after receiving the WHO,s contaminated vaccinations, 60% of recipients became infected with HIV. Today, half of New York City,s gay population has died from AIDS, and 30 million African people are infected with this lab-concocted disease. Within 15 years, the population of Africa could be cut in half, and the spread of AIDS in Asia will account for more infections than in sub-Saharan Africa.
Merck pharmaceutical, Litton Bionetics and other profiteering vaccines-makers have a long history of biowarfare research - as well as close connections with Henry Kissinger and other influential Americans who have called for a cull. In October, 1999, a special congressional investigation examined contractual links between vaccine makers and the biological weapons industry after the National Cancer Institute tied millions of cases of cancer and auto-immune illness to contaminated vaccines and possible bioweapons experiments. Experimental vaccines known to cause systemic illness continue to target minority groups in the USA, where the inoculation of infants is now mandatory.
A campaign as vast, blatant and expensive as chemtrails is not needed to facilitate a cull continued under the guise of "mercy killing" in hospitals across North America. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that at least 1 in 5 critical care nurses admit to having hastened the death of the elderly in their care - even killing patients who are not terminally ill. Pope John Paul II has railed against this "Culture of Death", which he warned in a recent encyclical "is advancing above all in prosperous societies, marked by an attitude of excessive preoccupation with efficiency and which sees the growing number of elderly and disabled as intolerable and too burdensome."
People sickened by chemtrails are easier to control. But mass media brainwashing, orchestrated fears of unemployment, a cornucopia of legal and illicit drugs - and the further mind-muddle caused by incessant din, experimental electromagnetic weaponry and rapidly rising microwave smog - have already created a befuddled and docile public too frightened, apathetic or mesmerized even to look up at the outrageous aerial patterns being woven right over their heads.
But not everyone is asleep. In the face of deepening distrust in shadowy federal agencies unresponsive to their electorate employers, chemtrail confusion and paranoia is spreading with every repetition of unverified rumor and garbled reports.
Let,s look at the facts as they are known today:
1. Steadily intensifying high-level "chemtrail" spraying at altitudes between approximately 20,000 and 35,000 feet are being reported over at least 14 allied nations.
2. Widespread illness and unusual, non-forecast weather events often follow heavy spraying - which usually takes place on "blue sky days", clear nights just before dawn, and/or along the edge of advancing storm fronts.
3. To date, no disease-causing organisms have been found in chemtrail plumes.
4. To date, no chemtrail plumes have been successfully sampled.
5. There are at least two aerial spray programs underway. Though much less extensive than high-altitude chemtrail spraying, over the past two years C-130 propeller aircraft have dropped gel-like material at rooftop-level over at least 40 neighborhood and wilderness locations in the USA. The biggest cluster of suburban spatterings has taken place in Utah near Dugway Proving Grounds. (This military test center for bioweapons became notorious for killing sheep around its boundaries after the spray valve on a jet fighter failed to close)
Intentional treetop-level drops of a sick-making red powder also took place over Espanola, Ontario last summer. Just as in high-level chemtrail spraying, in all documented cases of extremely low-level drops over populated areas, serious upper respiratory and/or gastrointestinal illness followed within 24 - 48 hours among people and pets exposed on the ground.
6. Our only laboratory tests of air-dropped gel and red powder come from rooftop-level releases. The disease-causing bacteria, molds and fungi found so far have not come from chemtrails.
7. While decades of "open air" biowarfare tests on population centers in Canada, England and the U.S. provide plenty of precedent for experimenting on uninformed and non-consenting "human test subjects" - the current chemtrail program is far too pervasive and persistent to coincide with previous biowarfare tests conducted at specific locations over a few days.
Nor are supposedly harmless biowar "simulants" being used today. "Bio-hazard" materials found in low-level gel and red powder drops by startled laboratory technicians include corroborative "cocktails" of disease-causing bacteria, molds and fungi. (The televised 1994 gel drops over Oakville, Washington were also found by the state health department to contain human blood cells.)
8. Cobweb-type material has also fallen across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia and South Africa. Eye-witnesses report fine filaments - sometimes referred to as "angel hair" - being dropped over Salisaw, Oklahoma and Karoo, South Africa from high-flying jet aircraft. So far, microscopic examinations revealing the possible presence of inert blood cells have not been corroborated by actual lab tests. \ 9. A call by Edward Teller for an aerial "sunscreen" to be sprayed above the Earth, a practical patent for the reduction of greenhouse warming by spraying reflective aluminum particles from jets, and a study by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory confirming that this billion-dollar-a-year aerial spray program would prevent further warming despite a projected doubling in CO2 emissions came in 1998 as the world,s insurers pressed governments to turn down the heat on rapidly rising temperatures. Reeling from catastrophic storm losses up 1,500% over the past decade, the insurance lobby is a voice - and money market investor - bigger than Big Oil and the international trade in arms.
10. The only actual laboratory test carried out on rainwater falling through heavy chemtrails over Espanola, Ontario found aluminum particles at seven-times maximum permissible "safe" levels.
11. Aluminum is a potent neurotoxin capable of producing all symptoms of Chemtrail-Related Illness (CRI). Unlike viral-derived illness, the absence of contagion between exposed and non-exposed family members - along with asthma attacks and other severe allergic reactions - points to a non-viral cause of chemtrail sickness.
12. Jet fuel ingredients found to cause severe allergic reactions include benzene byproducts and Ethylene Dibromide (EDB). Tests on commercial jet fuel (not chemtrails) carried out by Aqua-Tech labs in 1997 found in lab sample #MEL 97-1140, 51 toxic substances - including benzenes, various methanes, carbon tetrachloride, styrene, toluene, and 1,2 dibromethane (EDB).
The EDB measured by Aqua Tech was found at such minute levels as to be almost undetectable. But the Registered Microbiologist who submitted this California JP-8 jet fuel sample disputes the official lab report, insisting that the actual levels of this potent carcinogen (banned by emergency EPA order in 1984) were much higher. Recently reported NASA lab tests of JP-8 do not substantiate his claim.
13. Despite laboratory evidence of potent chemtrail allergens, the weeks-long dry hacking cough and other extreme and persistent symptoms often experienced in the wake of chemtrail spraying - coupled with reoccurring illness in the absence of re-exposure - argue strongly for a pathogenic component. With the CDC now reporting that an unknown disease-causing parasite is responsible for epidemics that most often test negative for influenza, this reporter believes that parasitic fungal infection is the primary agent of systemic sickness in the North American population today.
Since no actual chemtrail plumes have been tested, it is not yet possible to say whether fungal spores growing inside jet fuel tanks or deliberately introduced into the spray "mix" are part of the chemtrail program. But immune-weakening reactions to aluminum dust fine as talcum powder could leave susceptible persons vulnerable to extremely toxic fungal mycotoxins already proliferating in the environment.
The escape of germ warfare-modified mycoplasma fungi into the general population following the Gulf War, and the sudden appearance of other "stealth" pathogens such as viral-bacterial-fungal hybrids called viteria are further cause to suspect inadvertent and intentional releases of experimental bio-agents from secretive biowarfare labs. Adding chemtrail contamination to this unholy brew is extremely hazardous.
14. Though aluminum carries a relatively low electrical conductivity, the possible presence of other chemicals and/or metals in chemtrail sprays could interact unpredictably with electromagnetic energy already saturating urban environments. The possibility of deliberately introduced pulsed microwaves or low frequency waves to cause confusion and illness cannot be ruled out. On several occasions, aircraft displaying unusual antenna have been sighted during chemtrail activity and simultaneous television interference on the ground. At least two observers report electromagnetic alarms sounding during chemtrail flyovers.
15. So far, those persons with strong immune systems appear to be either unaffected by chemtrails, or recover relatively quickly from heavy exposure. Reported effective treatments and preventative "cellular shielding" include homemade colloidal silver, liquid oxygen supplementation, and high-quality vitamin and herbal supplements. Laboratory-confirmed mycoplasma infection can almost always be cured by repeated courses of specific antibiotics such as doxycycline administered under a physician,s direct supervision. \ 16. While the best available print and photographic documentation confirms what USAF "Weather Force Specialists" refer to as chemical spraying for the purposes of "aerial obscuration" - the bottom line of the chemtrails conundrum remains: We still cannot say for certain what is being sprayed on us, and why.
17. Any government that continues to spray toxic substances on its own people for any reason - knowing that an epidemic of fatalities is taking place at the same time - is committing murder.
18. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it is illegal to carry out an illegal order. Even if undertaken as an "operational necessity" for reasons of unannounced and unsubstantiated national security, any member of the military who deliberately sickens and kills her or his own people is committing treason against the populace they are pledged to protect.
Our investigation continues.
William Thomas - Investigative Journalist Author: Scorched Earth, Bringing The War Home, Probing The Chemtrails Conundrum Documentary videos: "Eco War", "Chemtrails: Mystery Lines In The Sky" wilco@islandnet.com
PORTLAND, Maine...A senior air traffic control manager responsible for commercial aircraft over the northeastern United States has confirmed in a second exclusive interview with radio reporter S.T. Brendt that large formations of U.S. Air Force tanker aircraft are conducting ongoing operations over the USA and Canada.
The sky-obscuring chemicals laid down in criss-cross patterns by the big jets have been observed by thousands of eyewitnesses across North America over the past two years. When asked the purpose of these missions, the FAA official said he was told "weather modification" after a "higher civil authority" ordered him to divert incoming trans-Atlantic airliners around military formations flying over 37,000 feet on March 12, 20 and 21, 2001.
On Monday, March 12, reporter Brendt and her partner Lou Aubuchont counted 30 aircraft laying down a lingering gridwork of plumes between 12:05 and 12:55 pm. Aubuchont, who witnessed many military maneuvers during his stint as a courier in U.S. Navy Intelligence, said he had never seen anything like it.
"It looked like an invasion," he told this reporter. Aubuchont emphasized that unlike aerial battle exercises, the tankers were unescorted by combat helicopters or fighter jets. "It was just tankers."
After being contacted at a major metropolitan airport by Brendt, the ATC manager drove to her home on Monday, March 26 to see for himself how many commercial jets would be visible from her location. The FAA official counted just three jets "off in the distance" between 12:05 and 12:55 pm.
Of the nine jets on his radar scope during that same time period on March 12, the official told Brendt she should have been able to see only one from her location. Instead, she and Aubuchont counted 30. And the flights continued all day.
Speaking on condition of strict anonymity in a secure location, the chain-smoking government source noted that the chemicals sprayed by the air force tankers on March 12 showed up as a "haze" on Air Traffic Control radar scopes. The weather at the time of the incident was unlimited ceiling and visibility, in a cloudless blue sky.
Such cloudy radar returns are consistent with clouds of talcum-fine aluminum oxide particles released by high-flying tankers in a process USAF Weather Force Specialists term, "aerial obscuration."
The Air Traffic Control manager admitted that the chemicals sprayed by the tankers degraded ATC radar returns. When asked if this posed a threat to flight safety, he replied, "not from my perspective."
But the ATC manager added that similar military operations have been carried out "on other dates" and "other regions" in the USA. When asked whether the air force jets crossed into Canadian air space, he replied "yes."
In November, 1999, a petition signed by 550 residents of Espanola, Ontario was presented to the Canadian government after alleged overflights by U.S. Air Force tankers sprayed sky-obscuring chemicals that townspeople claimed were making children and adults sick over a 50 square-mile area. Lab tests of rainwater falling through the chemical clouds over Espanola subsequently measured aluminum levels seven-times higher than permissible federal health safety limits.
A patent issued to Hughes Aircraft Company in 1991 calls for spreading a "sunscreen" of aluminum oxide particles to reduce global warming by reflecting 1% of incoming sunlight. Computer simulations carried out by geophysicist Ken Caldeira at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed that an anticipated doubling of atmospheric CO2 over the next 50 years would result in no net warming across the globe if the project touted by hydrogen bomb inventor Edward Teller was carried out.
But Caldeira warned a recent gathering of geophysicists that the sky shield could drastically cool the upper stratosphere and "destroy the ozone layer."
The inert aluminum oxide spread by the big jets is not considered to pose a human health risk. But according to U.S. chemical warfare experts, all talcum-fine particulates are extremely respirable - and quick to lodge in human lungs.
Each KC-135 Stratotanker carries 150,000 pounds of transferable fuel or chemicals. The KC-10 Extender carries approximately 320,000 pounds of fuel/chemicals.
The FAA official decided to come forward after his wife was stricken with what doctors diagnosed as Sudden Adult Onset Asthma following the March 12 aerial onslaught. She has no history of allergy. Their children also suffered asthmatic reactions, including an infant son who was rushed to hospital with a gushing nose bleed.
Uncontrollable nose bleeds are commonly reported in wake of the tanker spraying. Two years ago, Brendt was admitted to a local Emergency Room with a gushing nosebleed after accidentally photographing the chemical trails.
The particles sprayed into the upper atmosphere by the big jets also act as nuclei, forming clouds and precipitation.
Immediately after the March weather modification missions, the northeastern seaboard was struck by unseasonable snowstorms that confounded 70 year-old residents, and piled eight-foot snowdrifts against Brendt's home. At least one fatality resulted from collapsing roofs.
Our investigation continues.
About S.T. Brendt
Tiffany Brendt has been a broadcast journalist and on-air personality for the past eight years with Maine and New Hampshire radio stations WMWV, WCYY AND WLKZ.
Working primarily in the political arena, Ms. Brendt has interviewed candidates for the House of Representatives - most recently Martha Fuller Clark - as well as Presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Her interviews air on the award winning "Drive Time News Hour" on WMWV.
About William Thomas
William Thomas has been investigating "chemtrails" since breaking this story for the Environment News Service in January, 1998. He is the author of Bringing The War Home, Scorched Earth, and Probing The Chemtrails Conundrum. His documentary videos include the award-winning "Eco War", and "Chemtrails: Mystery Lines In The Sky"
Specializing in health and environment, Thomas's award-winning writing has appeared in more than 50 publications in eight countries. His editorial commentaries have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Sun and Times-Colonist newspapers - as well as Earth Island Journal and Ecodecision magazines. William Thomas has also appeared on CBC radio and television, CNN and New Zealand national television.
-- "I've lived here for 26 years never seeing this number of contrails at once."
-- "They look like they're playing tic-tac-toe up there. You know darn well it's not passenger planes."
-- "I watched a clear blue sky become criss-crossed with the white trails from many jets. The sky then became overcast, in spite of the forecast calling for sunny weather. I felt stunned as I witnessed this event."
-- "I remember sitting on my porch and telling my husband that the trails from jets were different now days, they stayed longer in the sky and looked different. He laughed at me."
-- "One morning I saw so many I almost had a car accident. They were X'ing, probably 50, 100 of them, as far as I could see. Lots of X's and parallel lines. Definitely not normal air traffic."
-- "These contrails do indeed behave differently from the usual contrails made by jets. They don't dissipate right away. They like linger, hang there. But they were so heavily concentrated that I just about fell over."
-- "I am under the understanding that we have regular flight patterns. This however, broke all the rules, as these patterns criss-crossed one another over a dozen times."
-- "About the contrails in Montana. The first time I noticed the different types of contrails was about five years ago. I was in the Air Force. So I know the difference."
-- "I was southbound on Interstate 65 from Indianapolis toward Camp Atterbury. I had just heard of chemtrails on Coast to Coast earlier in the week and thought it was a bit of a kooky theory. I noticed the sky in front of me had 27 separate contrails. I then noticed a large jet at altitude, also southbound parallel to the highway, was not leaving any contrails - That was when I knew it is being done on purpose."
-- "Everywhere from horizon to horizon, as far as I could see above the trees and buildings, perfectly parallel streaks or stripes of clouds."
-- "I am a private pilot and have a penchant for watching everything that moves in the skies above me. On Thursday, beginning around mid-morning, high altitude jets began 'painting' the sky with non-dissipating contrails. I am familiar with the physics involved in the production of 'normal' contrails. The fact that these contrails do not dissipate leads me to suspect that something of a chemical nature was being emitted."
-- "I am a veteran of eight years active duty in the Navy and still serve in the reserves. I was a qualified lookout while stationed aboard ship and was trained to observe the sea and sky and identify targets. I am also an aviation buff and also interested in weather. I have therefore spent a lot of time flying and also observing the sky from the ground. I jog every morning at a park near my apartment in the DFW metroplex."
-- "I am a police officer and have been one for 15 years. I was driving to a doctor's appointment in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. My attention was drawn to an unusually thick contrail traveling from the southeast to the northwest. I saw a large four-engine jet, silver in color. There was not a cloud in the sky and no other contrails. Unusual for Cleveland weather in February - basically a beautiful day. The plane was unusual because it was so big and lower than most jets that leave a contrail. Also it seemed to take a very long time to travel its path. I got a good look at it at a stoplight and from what I could make out it was silver and was reflecting the sunlight. It had four engines, two on each side and was making two large contrails that did not dissipate."
-- "On the morning of 10 March, 1999, as I looked to the sky I saw something I have never seen before. The sky was covered as far I could see with a criss-cross pattern of evenly spaced thick contrails. I counted at most three aircraft still spraying trails. This day had begun sunny with a brilliant blue sky just as forecast by weather channel and local forecasters, but they did not seem bothered by this unexpected 'haze.'"
-- "Our skies [in Australia] are being sprayed almost daily since April. Planes with red tanks underneath, spraying from 7 am till 8 pm at night. People getting sick everywhere, and no one gets answers. Why?"
-- "I am under the understanding that we have regular flight patterns. This however, broke all the rules, as these patterns criss-crossed one another over a dozen times."
From Chapter 1:
CONTRAILS OR CHEMTRAILS?
Contrails are formed when hot, moist engine exhausts momentarily condense stratospheric ice crystals into wispy trails, like breath exhaled on a cold day.
But contrails are anything but harmless.
Cloud cover has increased by 5% nationwide - and as much as 20% in some U.S. air corridors - since the jet age took off just three decades ago. If contrails are the culprit, "normal" jet contrails comprised mostly of "harmless" water vapor could in fact have already added during those 30 years of jet plane metastasis one-third to two-thirds as more warming than we would have gotten from pigging out on gas, coal and oil during the past century -
Computer models show that using aircraft to lay down microscopic sunlight-scattering particles of very high reflectivity can make natural clouds even more sunlight-reflective. In clear blue skies, these same chemicals added to the fuel and sprayed through the exhaust of many jet engines can create "made-to-order" overcasts over entire regions for days and weeks at a time - The purpose of my five year investigation was to discover and document who was giving those orders. And why.
TOO HOT FOR CONTRAILS?
Contrails cannot form behind aircraft unless the atmosphere is very cold. As NASA explains, "Contrails only form at very high altitudes (usually above 8 km) where the air is extremely cold (less than -40°C / -70°F).
NASA, NOAA and other scientific cloud-gazers also agree that a relative humidity of 70% or higher is necessary for cloud and contrail formation. If the air is very dry, contrails do not form behind airplanes," states the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Taking NASA's expertise as contrail catechism, chemtrail investigator Clifford Carnicom correlating atmospheric readings by NASA's Climate Diagnostics Center of with 21 days of heavy "chemtrail" gridding over Santa Fe from Jan. 1999 to Aug. 1999. At altitudes where persistent white plumes criss-crossed the usually cloudless New Mexico sky. Carnicom found 30% humidity or less -
CLOUD RECIPE
- clouds form when water vapor accretes around particles of grit acting as attracting nuclei. Recent NOAA and NASA atmospheric studies such as TARFOX, ACE-Asia, ACE-I and II, INDOEX and Project SUCCESS have confirmed that the only way to form artificial clouds under conditions of low humidity and less than ideal temperatures is by dispensing additional particles from aircraft -
The smaller the size of each additional nuclei, the greater the rate of cirrus cloud formation.
ROUTINE OPERATIONS
North American officials insist that nothing unusual is going on - that precisely spaced grid patterns and perfectly intersected X's are "normal flight operations". But when confronted with their own data showing the impossibility of normal contrail formation during heavy "spray days" they grow silent.
Meanwhile, a growing number of pilots, police officers, former military personnel, air traffic controllers and thousands of other observers report that they have never seen so many jet trails at once - often at altitudes below which commercial jetliners are simultaneously seen leaving no contrails at all.
As this eyewitness explains:
"Sunday between the hours of 12:30 and 1:30 in Mesa, AZ while standing outside Borders bookstore at Alma School Road and Southern conversing in the parking lot, I looked up and saw broad low hanging contrails running at angles mainly east-west across the sky and spreading apart north and south. High above were normal contrails coming from commercial flights, which dissipated within minutes behind the aircraft. I counted five or six low broad contrails slowly spreading out but not dissipating like the ones high above. Being involved with science it was very strange that these were above and not below the contrail."
Aviation authorities have also failed to explain the sudden appearance of formations of grid-weaving jets over communities unused to seeing any air traffic at all. Why are so many people who have lived near airbases and airports for most of their lives - and who would not normally give a contrail a second glance - stopping their cars or hauling family members and neighbors outside their homes to point cameras and camcorders at unprecedented concentrations of jet spoor they instinctively recognize are not normal contrails?
From Chapter 6:
A METEOROLOGIST QUESTIONS CHEMTRAILS CONTENTIONS
David Jones, a well-known Meteorologist for Environment Canada, wrote to me from Vancouver TV with questions for those suffering chemtrail hallucinations:
"How much time do you spend watching the sky? Have you logged your observations? Have you studied patterns of wind and moisture in the upper atmosphere and linked them to formation or persistence of contrails? Why are trained weather observers who take observations of the sky condition 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and who are intimately familiar with the multitude of natural cloud formations (and contrails), not reporting these so-called weird and unnatural clouds and contrails?BEWARE AMATEUR INTERPRETATIONS OF SATELLITE PHOTOSIf you think someone is trying to poison us then why would they be so dumb as to attempt it from the level of the jetstream? You would waste a lot of poison dropping it from so high in the sky. Do farmers spray their fields from 25,000 feet?
Do I sound cynical?"
NOAA RESPONDS
All chemtrail questions to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are directed to Jana Goldman who told reporters that she "can't comment" on chemtrails -
USAF CALLS CHEMTRAILS, A "HOAX"
A Nov. 2001 public information paper released by the USAF calls chemtrails a "hoax" perpetrated by people confused over contrails. "The 'Chemtrail' hoax has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications," the statement claims.
From Chapter 7:
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
From Chapter 10:
WELSBACH SEEDING
Environmental consultant Mike Castle discovered the primary purpose behind chemtrails when he came across a practical patent for "Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for Reduction of Global Warming".
Filed by aerospace giant, Hughes aircraft company in 1991, the patent points out that in addition to reflecting incoming sunlight, Welsbach materials are oxides of metals capable of converting heat trapped by greenhouse gases near the Earth's surface into far-infrared wavelengths, which then radiate into space.
Cautioning that the resulting white skies may be unpopular, the Hughes patent nevertheless suggests that these very tiny metal flakes could be "added to the fuel of jet airliners, so that the particles would be emitted from the jet engine exhaust while the airliner was at its cruising altitude."
EDMONTON'S EVIDENCE
Dave Dickie's World Landscapes company performs contract landscape work for the City of Edmonton. "Some contracts require us to utilize the services of environmental labs for soil tests," says Dickie. "Recent soils analysis have come back with a high EC
rating 4-7 (toxic) and we've had some soil sources rejected of course because they did not meet specifications."
In an interview with me on Nov. 23, 2002, Dickie explained that his city landscape crews were finding widespread nutrient deficiency in soils could cause severe problems for plant life - including trees -
City specifications call for a reading no higher than 1. Dickie's crews are now finding readings from 4.6 as high as 7 -
Presuming that unusual metal content in the soil could be causing the high readings, Dickie obtained samples of a fresh snowfall in sterile containers and took them to NorWest Labs in Edmonton. As he explained, "Our most recent snowfall was tested for aluminum and barium and we were not surprised with the results. You've said it all along and this just substantiates some of your claims."
In Nov. 2002, lab tests of snow samples collected by the city of Edmonton, Alberta between Nov. 8 - 12, confirmed elevated levels of aluminum and barium. Norwest Labs lab report #336566 dated Nov. 14. 2002 found:
This was hot. But imagine my shock when Dickie told me that he regularly visits Air Traffic Control at the Edmonton municipal airport and watches the chemplanes making repeated passes over the city!
- Blessed with good friends at work in the tower, he has watched radar-identified KC-135s "on many occasions." Last Father's Day (2002), Dickie and an excited group of 12 year-olds watched two sorties by two KC-135s. Petro 011 and Petro 012 were tracked by radar as HA (High Altitude) targets flying at 34,000 and 36,000 feet - "one to the south, and one to the north of the city."
Both USAF tankers had flown south out of Alaska. As Dickie, the kids and the controllers watched, the big jets began making patterns over Edmonton - "circuits" the controllers called it. The Stratotankers were working alone in "commanded airspace" from which all other aircraft were excluded.
And they were leaving chemtrails.
"The signature is significant," commented one radar operator, referring to a trail clearly visible on the scope extending for miles behind the KC-135. In contrast, a JAL flight on the display left no contrail.
Going outside, Dickie and several controllers scanned clear blue skies. They easily located the KC-135 leaving its characteristic white-plume "signature". Visibility was outstanding. They also clearly saw the JAL airliner at a similar flight level. It left no contrail at all -
"We see these guys up here a lot," Dickie says radar techs told him. The tanker flights originate in Alaska, grid the Edmonton area, and continue on into the States -
There was no doubt about the particulates left behind the tankers. On radar, these reflective particles showed up as "birdie feet" - triangles in the radar-tracked plume. They also appeared "as a concentration of dots" in the radar-visible 'trail. Focusing in and out on each plane with the click of cursor, "we could see different contrails," Dickie added. Some were short, and quickly vanished from the scopes. Other trails were thick, long and lingering - not contrails at all.
From Chapter 14:
CHEMTRAILS SCIENTISTS TALK