Stolen Skies: The Chemtrail Mystery
Jet Trails in the Sky Used to Disappear. Now they Linger.
by William Thomas
It was around noon on March 12, 2000 when S.T. Brendt, the
late night reporter for WMWV Radio, entered the kitchen of her country
home in Parsonsfield, Maine. Her partner, Lou Aubuchont, was 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 aircraft condensation trails
("contrails") he had ever seen.
Instead of dissipating like normal
contrails, these intersecting sky trails grew wider and began to merge.
Looking towards the sun, Aubuchont saw what appeared like "an oil
and water mixture" reflecting a prismatic band of colors.
Ordinarily, contrails flare briefly in the
stratosphere as hot moist engine exhaust flash-freezes into a stream of
ice-crystals. These pencil-thin condensation trails are short-lived,
evaporating into invisibility as exhaust gases cool quickly to the
surrounding air temperature.
As National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) meteorologist Thomas Schlatter explains, the
formation of condensation trails requires temperatures lower than about
minus 76 F and humidity of 70 percent or more. Because the Federal
Aviation Authority requires military tankers and transporters to cross
continental airspace at altitudes below 30,000 feet, ensuring safe
separation from airliners flying between 35,000 and 39,000 feet, these
military flights should leave no contrails at all.
But in late 1997, Aubuchont began to notice
thicker trails extending from horizon to horizon. Hanging in the sky,
these expanding white ribbons would invariably be interwoven by more
thick lines left by unmarked Air Force jets, white or silver in color.
As Brendt glanced out the window, it looked
like another gorgeous, cloudless day. But not quite. She spotted two jets
laying billowing white banners to the north. 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," Brendt thought. "We just don't have that kind of air
traffic here." While Aubuchont kept counting, Brendt started calling
airports.
Alerted by a call from Brendt, Richard
Dean, WMWV's assistant news director and the WMWV news staff filed
outside and counted 370 lines of persistent contrails in skies usually
devoid of aerial activity.
Brendt phoned a number of Air Traffic
Controllers. They all stated that nothing unusual was going on. After
several calls, Brendt reached one ATC manager who offered a different
story. He told Brendt that his radars showed nine commercial jets during
the same 45-minute span. From her location, he said, she should have been
able to see only one plane.
"What about the other 29?"
Brendt inquired. The ATC official confided off-the-record that he had
been ordered "by higher civil authority" to re-route inbound
European airliners away from an airborne "military exercise" in
the area. "They wouldn't give me any of the particulars and I don't
ask," he explained. The controller (who insisted on being identified
only as "Deep Sky,") subsequently repeated his statements on
tape before witnesses at the WMWV studio.
'It's a Military Exercise'
On December 8, 2000, Terry Stewart, the Manager for Planning and
Environment at the Victoria International Airport, responded to a
caller's complaint about the strange patterns of circles and grids being
woven over the British Columbia capitol. Stewart left a message on an
answering machine tape - a message that later was heard by more than 15
million radio listeners. Stewart explained: "It's a military
exercise, [a] US and Canadian Air Force exercise that's going on. They
wouldn't give me any specifics on it."
Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Comox on
Vancouver Island is Canada's biggest radar installation. CFB Comox is
easily capable of tracking the US formations coming up from the south.
When asked for a response to Stewart's statement, the base information
officer at CFB Comox replied tersely that: "No military operation is
taking place." Stewart later told the Vancouver Courier that his
information had come directly from Comox.
By the summer of 2001, pictures of
contrails were being circulated by the Associated Press and the word
"chemtrails" could be overheard in coffee shop conversations
across the continent
'It's a Hoax'
In an April 20, 2001, letter to a US senator, Col. Walter Washbaugh,
chief of the Congressional Inquiry Division for the Secretary of the Air
Force in Washington, DC, called chemtrails "a hoax." Washbaugh
blamed the increased number of contrails on "significant civil
aviation growth in the past decade."
He is right on that score. A National
Science Foundation study has found that in certain heavily trafficked
corridors, artificial cloud cover has increased by as much as 20 percent.
Colonel Washbaugh ascribed widely reported
grid patterns to overlapping aircraft flying north-south, east-west
airways. The only thing wrong with this explanation, a Texas air traffic
controller told me, is that US airways do not run north-south.
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, the Pentagon has long been interested in
using weather as a weapon of war. Attempts to steer hurricanes by
spraying heat-robbing chemicals in their paths date from the 1950s. The
recipe for creating "cirrus shields" was outlined in a 1996 US
Air Force study subtitled "Owning the Weather by 2025." The
report explained how "weather force specialists" were
dispersing chemicals behind high-flying tanker aircraft in a process
called "aerial obscuration."
Official denials reached new altitudes of
absurdity when another colonel claimed: "The US Air Force (USAF)
does not conduct spraying operations over populated areas."
Apparently the colonel had forgotten how USAF air tankers dispensed
thousands of tons of "Agent Orange" defoliants over the land
and people of Vietnam.
Meanwhile, the Internet was abuzz with
chemtrail conspiracy theories ranging from aliens leaving messages in the
sky to government agencies dumping mind-control chemicals on an
unsuspecting populace. The only problem was none of the theories were
plausible.
The Welsbach Patent
In 1994, the Hughes aerospace company was issued a remarkable
patent. The Welsbach patent "for Reduction of Global Warming"
proposed countering global warming by dispensing microscopic particles of
aluminum oxide and other reflective materials into the upper atmosphere.
This "sky shield" would reflect one or two percent of incoming
sunlight. The patent suggested that 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."
Computer simulations by Ken Caldeira at
California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) calculated
that employing Welsbach's chemical-sunscreen technology could stop
warming over 85 percent of the planet, despite an anticipated doubling of
atmospheric carbon within the next 50 years. LLNL estimated the cost of
creating thisso-called Sky Shield at $1 billion dollars a year - a cheap
fix to avoid threatening the massive profits of the oil industry.
At the 1998 International Seminar on
Planetary Emergencies, Edward Teller, the "Father of the
H-bomb," presented his Next Big Idea. Teller called for spreading
reflective chemicals over the Earth to act like a mirror-shade. If it was
impossible to protect the entire planet, these chemical sky shields
could, at least, be extended to cover allies who secretly agreed to allow
this unprecedented geo-engineering experiment to be carried out over
their territory.
In the July-August 1998 Science and
Technology Review, Teller argued that the Sky Shield offered a more
"realistic" option for addressing global warming than drastic
cutbacks in CO2 emissions.
When asked if the technology was being
pursued, Teller replied: "To my knowledge the answer is negative....
My recommendation was a tentative one depending on further evidence
whether expecting global warming is realistic."
In fact, the technology already exists. In
1975, the US Navy patented a device for producing "a powder contrail
having maximum radiation-scattering ability." The powder contained a
mixture of 0.3 micron-sized titanium dioxide pigment particles coated
with 0.007 micron hydrophobic colloidal silica and 4.5 micron particles
of silica gel. The purpose of the apparatus was "to generate
contrails or reflective screens for any desired purpose."
The Welsbach Patent proposed using
"very fine, talcum-like" powder of 10 to 100 micron-sized
aluminum oxide to produce a "pure white plume" in the sky.
In a May 2000 draft report submitted to the
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an expert panel chosen from
among 3,000 atmospheric scientists, concluded that Teller's scheme might
work. But the IPCC warned against unpredictable upsets of the atmosphere.
The panel also warned against angry populaces reacting to "the
associated whitening of the visual appearance of the sky."
Caldeira was so concerned that he went
public. Deflecting sunlight would further cool the stratosphere, he
warned, and this could intensify icy clouds of ozone-gobbling CFCs that
could destroy the ozone layer - the Earth's already damaged solar
radiation shield.
Was Teller's Sky Shield experiment already
underway? During his interview with WMWV reporters, Deep Sky hinted that
it was. Were the tankers observed on ATC radars involved in climate
modification? Our FAA source hesitated before responding: "That
approximates what I was told." Similar military activities were
ongoing in other regions, he stated.
Chemtrails and Health Problems
The Internet buzzes with conspiracy theories about chemtrails being
used as part of a secret government biological experiment. But after more
than three years of intense investigation, I have found no proof that
chemtrails constitute a deliberate biological attack. (To be effective,
bio-attacks must conducted close to the ground and never in daylight, in
order to avoid ultraviolet sterilization of toxins.)
In the spring of 1998, rain falling through
heavy chemtrails over Espanola, Ontario was found to contain
concentrations of aluminum particles seven times higher than permitted by
Canadian health safety laws. Provincial health officials ordered tests
after residents began complaining about severe headaches, chronic joint
pain, dizziness, sudden extreme fatigue, acute asthma attacks and
feverless "flu-like" symptoms. The results of the test were not
released.
The reports of illness all came from
residents inside a 50-square-mile area who complained that they had been
subjected to "months of spraying" by photo-identified US Air
Force tanker planes. The USAF denied the intrusions.
On November 18, 1998, Canadian Opposition
Party Defense Critic Gordon Earle petitioned Parliament on behalf of the
people of Espanola. Speaking on behalf of Canada's New Democratic Party,
Earle stated:
"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."
A Harvard School of Public Health team
determined that particulates with a diameter less than 10 microns
(one-tenth the thickness of a human hair) pose a serious threat to public
health. 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."
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 percent 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.
Congress Addresses Chemtrails
On October 2, 2001, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced the
"Space Preservation Act of 2001" (HR 2977), which called for
the elimination of "exotic weaponry" from space. Among the
weapons to be banned were weather-modifying weapons such as HAARP (High
Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) and chemtrails. Though HR 3616
was later amended to remove the section that would have banned
chemtrails, the original bill acknowledging the existence of chemtrail
technology remains on the pages of the Congressional Record.
With "chemtrails" now officially
admitted by the US government, an even bigger trial is set to begin in
the court of public opinion.
An earlier version of this report appeared in the October-November
2001 issue of Nexus Magazine [PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia.
www.nexusmagazine.com].
Edited reprint. Not available for distribution.
Chemtrails Go Global
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.
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."
"Add Sweden to the list," a
Swedish resident wrote after spotting eight to 10 parallel contrails.
"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.
Chemtrail photos from France, Australia,
Scotland and Germany may be viewed on the author's website
[www3.bc.sympatico.ca/Willthomas].
Another Scary Scenario
According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in
Boulder, Co., 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 vapor. If repeated often
enough, the resulting rainless haze can lead to drought.
Patrick Minnis, an atmospheric researcher
with California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) and
ardent chemtrails critic at NASA's Langley Research Center, reports that
cirrus cloud cover over the US is up 5 percent overall because
particulates in engine exhaust are acting as cloud-forming nuclei. As the
number of flights currently exceeds 15 million annually worldwide,
artificial clouds will intensify as air travel continues to
climb.
Perhaps the appearance of chemtrails is a
"sign from on high" that our atmosphere has become dangerously
burdened with pollutants.
Copyright Earth Island Journal
Edward ><+>
"UFOs exist. It's the Air Force that's only in science fiction."~GB+
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