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: Fwd: [BIOWAR] 3 military jets release 'spider webs' over Wallowa
County
Apparently this was published in early October as indicated at
the end of the story. I accessed the link given below; it is still
active
From The Wallowa County Chieftain,
http://www.wallowa.com/chieftain/archives/023/3news/3news.html
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Spider
webs choke Wallowa County air space
By Elane Dickenson
of the
Chieftain
Wallowa County Extension Agent John Williams examins what
appear to be
spider webs under a 20-power bioscope. (Photo by Elane
Dickenson)
Shortly after 1:30 last Thursday afternoon, the Wallowa
County Chieftain was
alerted to a phenomena taking place over the city of
Enterprise at that very
minute. The message was that spider web-like
material was falling from the
sky, and said to be the product of
"contrails" from three military jets that
had been flying back and forth in
a east-west flight pattern at high
altitude at the south end of the Wallowa
Valley above the mountains.
They flew "at least an hour" and one flight
pattern was directly overhead,
according to the informant, Steve Doster of
Enterprise. He said stuff like
that which was falling from the sky here has
been making people sick all
over the country.
Doster, the person who
called, suggested that someone with a good camera
come out to shoot some
photographs above the street in front of Ace
Hardware, where he and a group
of other people were watching the "webs" fall
down.
Though there was
no aircraft visible when the requested camera arrived, and
the bright sky
made a decent photograph doubtful, spider-web like material
from thin
filaments to thicker masses was indeed falling from the sky,
hanging
up on utility lines and car antennae. The stuff seemed to
be
everywhere.
Doster said, according to information he'd read on
the Internet, some of
this material had been tested in a health lab and was
found to be a
"biological soup" designed to make people ill. He said
theories ranged from
the government trying to raise the immunity of
residents to the government
trying to reduce world population to somehow
facilitate the establishment of
a world order.
"I haven't formed any
opinions myself, I just wanted people to be aware that
this has been
happening," said Doster.
Doster later supplied Internet material, most
of it reports published by
Environmental News Service (ENS), as well as
Internet links, talking about
the "contrails" coming from military jets
flying in a grid pattern.
Contrails are condensation trails generated
at altitude high enough for
water droplets to freeze in a matter of seconds
and not quickly evaporate.
Unlike normal contrails , which dissipate soon
after a jet's passage, videos
show "eery silver jets streaming fat
contrails from their wing tips,"
according to a ESN release dated Jan. 8,
1999. One from Jan. 12, 1999,
described "globular filaments resembling
spider webs usually falling in
clumps or wads ranging from pencil eraser
size to the size of a balled up
fist. ... Winds often whip the cobweb-like
material into filaments as long
as 50 feet. ... (The) sticky substance
'melts in your hands' and "adheres to
whatever it
touches.'"
According to ENS reports, flu-like illness with symptoms
ranging from
bronchial problems and headaches to fever and diarrhea
connected with the
contrail/web phenomena, according to the Internet
reports, with some
hospitals reporting epidemic conditions.
The
contrail patterns have been reportedly been observed in over 40 U.S.
cities
and in 10 or more countries, according to the reports. The address to
the
web page from which most of the material was taken is
http://www.islandnet.com/~wilco/. Most of the reports
were written by
William Thomas, who can be described as a right-wing
environmental
journalist.
Before reading this material which
cautioned against handling the stuff
because of illness associated with it
the Chieftain retrieved a sample of
the stuff lying on the ground. As
of press time the reporter handling the
web-like material had not gotten
sick.
However, Doster said Tuesday this week that he was suffering from
an "upper
respiratory infection and fever, typical flu symptoms," while two
of the
people who'd been watching the webs with him had light headaches
that night
and one woman was suffering from severe diarrhea. "Of course it
could be
coincidental," he noted.
A call to Wallowa Memorial
Hospital Tuesday afternoon uncovered the fact
that there were then five
patients in the hospital, "a little lower than
normal," said a spokesman.
When told about the web-like material that had
fallen that is said to
possibly make people sick, he commented, " As far as
I know, nobody has
even heard of that around here."
A trip Friday morning (when there was
no longer webs falling from the sky)
to the Wallowa County Extension Office
to investigate the web stuff was
inconclusive. The filaments, by this time
mostly a sticky white glob, were
compared under a 20-power bioscope with a
normal spider web. The two samples
were very similar, though it did appear
that the material that had fallen
out of the sky was somewhat coarser than
what was known for sure to be a
spider web.
A call was placed by
Wallowa County Extension Agent John Williams to Oregon
State University to
consult an entomologist. Insect identification
specialist Lynn Royce said
that this time of year spiders do produce a large
amount of spider web
material to send their spiderlings "ballooning"off into
the world. She said
they could seem to be coming from high in the sky.
She admitted,
however, that usually the spider webs would not fall all at
once, in one
day, and the phenomenon described with the spider web
material
falling heavily at once did sound to be atypical. "I would expect
to see
spiderlings (on the webs) ... and not all at once," Royce commented.
An
insect wing but no spiderlings had been found on the material
under
scrutiny, but then it had been retrieved from the
ground.
Local rancher Pat Wortman happened to be coming into the
Extension Office at
the time of the inconclusive investigation. When he
heard about it, he had
his own theories: "They are spider webs. It happens
every year on an annual
basis, you see them everywhere. ... Chief Joseph
probably saw them, and
wondered if they were coming from airplanes or
motorcycles."
Wortman added one more theory, "It was probably caused by
the hot air from
the presidential debates."
Whether Wallowa County
was the victim of a somewhat mysterious phenomena
that has been reported
or rather non-reported by most major news outlets
around the
country, or whether there was just an unusually heavy drop of
spider webs
last Thursday may never be
known.
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