HOSPITALS JAMMED AS BANNED PESTICIDE IS SPRAYED FROM THE SKIES
by
William Thomas
posted February 15, 1999
SEATTLE, WA.... As formations of unmarked tanker aircraft continue to
criss-cross American skies on a mission authorities refuse to
disclose, an
environmental laboratory has identified an extremely toxic component
of the
spray drifting over cities and countryside.
ENS has learned that samples of oily fallout collected by farmers,
truck
drivers and pilots in Maryland and Pennsylvania were tested by
Aqua-Tech
Environmental of Marion, Ohio in September, 1997 and found to contain
ethylene dibromide (EDB). An extremely hazardous pesticide, EDB was
banned
by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1983.
But in 1991, the composition of jet fuel used by commercial and
military jet
aircraft in the U.S. was changed from JP4 to somewhat less flammable
JP8. A
Department of Defence source says the move "has saved some lives" in
air
crashes. Ethylene dibromide is a key component of JP8.
The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that repeated
exposure to
low levels of ethylene dibromide results in "general weakness,
vomiting,
diarrhea, chest pains, coughing and shortness of breath, upper
respiratory
tract irritation" and respiratory failure caused by swelling of the
lymph
glands in the lungs. "Deterioration of the heart, liver and kidneys,
and
hemorrhages in the respiratory tract," can also result from prolonged
contact with JP8.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous
materials
list: "Ethylene dibromide is a carcinogen and must be handled with
extreme
caution." A seven-page summary of this pesticide's extreme toxicity
notes
that EDB may also damage the reproductive system. According to the
EPA,
"Exposure can irritate the lungs, repeated exposure may cause
bronchitis,
development of cough, and shortness of breath. It will damage the
liver and
kidneys".
Mark Witten, a respiratory physiologist at the University of Arizona
in
Tucson where an official US Air Force study on JP8 was carried out,
told
Scientist in March, 1998 that crew chiefs "seem to have more colds,
more
bronchitis, more chronic coughs than the people not exposed to jet
fuel."
EDB is 6.5-times heavier than air. Unlike normal contrails, the thick
white
streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing tailbooms over at
least 39
states does not dissipate, but spreads into an overcast that refracts
a
purple color in sunlight and appears suddenly as an oily film in
puddles and
ponds.
Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground observers show
pairs
or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white mist that thickens
and
drifts toward the ground. More than 200 eye-witnesses - including
police
officers, pilots, military and public health personnel - have
provided
detailed accounts of aerial spraying in characteristic "X"s and
east-to-west
grid patterns, followed by occluded skies - and acute auto-immune
reactions
and respiratory infections throughout affected regions.
"I keeps coughing phlegm that tastes bad," 50 year old Mary Young of
Sallisaw, Oklahoma told ENS after an aircraft sprayed her home at
rooftop
level one night last January with something that struck the windows
like
sand. "My eyes hurt, my joints hurt. I'm not catchin' my breath
right. I
can't get rid of this cold. I've had this bad headache - it's not
just a
headache. My eyeballs hurt so bad - way in the back - I just wish
they would
fall out."
Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain and a
dry
hacking cough "that never leaves" are being reported by countless
Americans
jamming hospital Emergency Rooms from coast to coast. While December
and
January are traditionally bad months for asthma sufferers, patients,
doctors
and nurses across the U.S. report hospital wards filled to
overflowing with
bronchitis, pneumonia and acute asthma admissions at up to twice
normal
winter rates.
Early last month, The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina
reported
that respiratory admissions to Durham regional hospital jumped from
the
usual 184 patients a day to 247. Ambulance drivers were told that the
hospital was not receiving any more patients.
In New York City, doctors are calling a flood of respiratory cases an
epidemic. "We have people double- and triple-parked in the ER on
stretchers," Dr. Elliot Friedman, associate director of emergency
medicine
at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, told the New York Times
on
January 31. "And there have been times when upwards of 40 people have
been
admitted but are waiting for someone to be discharged," Friedman
added.
"This high fever is not typical of other flus," Dr. Sigurd Ackerman,
the
president of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center told the 'Times
shortly
after a TV cameraman panned up to frame lingering "X"-shaped
contrails over
Times-Square. Dr. Robert Saken, a partner in the Soho Pediatrics
Group, told
that newspaper, "It was surprising to me how sick they got and how
quickly
it happened."
Dr. Ilya Spigland, Montefiore hospital's director of virology,
doesn't know
the reason for the sudden epidemic of respiratory cases. It is,
Spigland
told the New York Times, "very possible that the increase in
respiratory
infections may not be due to the flu."
That same day in Lake Havasu, California, headlines in Today's News
Herald
announced: "Victims curse unnamed bug, but can't call it the 'flu'."
MD Mary
Lou Callername told the Herald "that a nameless virus is bringing at
least
10 patients a day into her office and driving some into the hospital,
but
laboratory tests show only a few are suffering from Type A or other
identifiable strains of influenza."
The previous weekend, after San Francisco resident Curtis Schumann
noticed
"sky grids in the making," and Melanie Zucker watched nine contrails
being
woven over Berkeley, local TV stations reported Bay area emergency
rooms
inundated with flu-like cases.
In Seattle - where a resident reports "I've lived here for 26 years
never
seeing this number of contrails at once" - pneumonia patient Lowell
Barger
told ENS that in the hospital where he was admitted in late January,
"their
respiratory ward was overflowing with people, and they were having to
put
respiratory patients in other wards." At that time, a resident of
Spokane
listening to a police radio scanner told ENS he heard "many rescue
calls for
people with breathing difficulties."
In Palmyra, New Jersey, shortly after Lucrecia Moon watched unusual
lingering contrails from a McDonald's restaurant, a nurse reported
"many
people ill." In Las Vegas, Nevada, TV news coverage told of area
hospitals
being filled with people experiencing breathing problems.
After a resident of Lexington, Kentucky watched helicopters circling
the
city for several days, flying low overhead at 3 a.m., "the sky looked
like a
giant checkerboard from the planes criss-crossing it, and the air
still had
the steel mill smell." According to this eye-witness, "Everyone here
is
sick. So far six counties have closed all the schools because all the
students were sick with 'flu-like symptoms'. I've been having
headaches, a
sore throat, and an annoying, hacking cough for the past four months
and it
seems to get worse after I see these aircraft circling the area."
Similar "chem trails" sightings continue to be reported over Phoenix,
Arizona. The January 28, 1999 edition of Arizona Republic reported
that "The
incidence of bronchial problems in Phoenix this month is 237
hospitalizations vs. last year at 160 or so."
At the same time, hospitals in Portland, Oregon; Marietta, Georgia;
Chandler, Arizona, Bakersfield, Santa Cruz, Redding and Salinas,
California
- and other cities across the nation - were jammed with bronchitis,
pneumonia and other acute respiratory cases after repeated spraying
and
cobweb-like fallout was reported in those regions.
"We're getting sprayed real heavily with the contrails," a south
Pennsylvania resident told ENS. "It's just total saturation." As
overfilled
Pennsylvania hospitals were forced to divert respiratory emergencies
to
other facilities with bed space, another south-central Pennsylvania
resident, Deborah Kammerer, looked out her window and watched
aircraft
"flying and dispersing over the city. It was supposed to be a clear
sunny
day. It became more overcast as the day progressed. I observed how
the white
trails widened out and settled down creating a haze over everything."
South Florida resident Karen Okenica told ENS she has watched on
several
occasions as contrails "criss-crossed or ran parallel to each other.
They
did not dissipate but got thicker and stayed in the sky for quite a
while."
Okenica says she became frightened after gazing through Nikon
binoculars and
noticing an all-white jet with "plumes" coming from the rear of the
plane.
In early December, local newspaper reported that Bethesda Memorial
and
Delray Community hospitals were full and could not accommodate any
more
patients.
The January 7 Philadelphia Daily News reported that "Emergency Room
patients overflowed into the hallways at West Jersey Hospital in
Berlin,
New Jersey, and ambulance crews were temporarily diverted to other
institutions as a wave of respiratory illnesses swept the area." At
Northern Westchester County Hospital, "there was a 24 hour waiting
period to get in."
In Manitou, Michigan, Registered Nurse Kim Korte was driving north
on
M52, when she noticed "stripes" in the sky. "It appeared as if
someone
took white paint on their fingers and from north to south ran their
fingers
through the sky. These contrails were evenly spaced and covered the
whole sky!" from east to west.
Within 24 hours, Korte became very weak and feverish. After her
boyfriend told her that "many in his family started coming down with
the
same complaints," the RN "started noticing alot of my patients and
their family members were coming down with these symptoms at the
same time." On checking with her colleagues, the former hospital
supervisor learned that other nurses and physicians were complaining
"of being extremely busy with respiratory diagnoses."
In Austin, Texas - where Richard Young reports that "The skies here
are
filled almost daily with trails crossing each other" - a school
nurse
told a worried parent that she had seen over 100 sick children in a
single day.
Where is the mass media's reporting of this mass phenomenon?
Indications of
a concerted cover-up came on February 11, when a retired Southern
Baptist
preacher named Everett Burton finally succeeded in reaching C-span.
After
voicing his opinion on the Clinton impeachment trial, this former
minister
told Americans to get a copy of the Constitution and read it to
realize what
they have lost. Rev. Burton then advised viewers not to take his word
for
what was happening in the US - but to "just look up in the skies as
the
planes regularly spray contrails across the skies, spraying people
and
making them ill." At this point, Rev. Burton was cut off. The screen
flipped
from C-span to the Tennessee state seal, remained silent for several
minutes.
Americans are not alone in their anxious bewilderment and suffering.
In
England, after lingering contrails and cobweb-like fallout were
reported
over London and Birmingham, the BBC reported on January 14 that
more than 8,000 people - mostly elderly - died from pneumonia and
other respiratory complications in the last week of December and the
first two weeks of January, 1999.
According to the BBC, in early January of this year, more than 97,100
people
in England and Wales were stricken with respiratory ailments in a
single
week - almost double the usual rate. Ambulances in the Greater
Manchester
and Mersey region were each dealing with more than 1,000 calls every
day -
almost twice the norm. Norfolk and Norwich suffered such an
unexpected
increase in deaths, a refrigerated semi-trailer capable of holding 36
bodies
was pressed into service as a temporary morgue. [see BBC photo]
The ENS investigation continues.
Contrails: Poison From the Sky
by William Thomas
SEATTLE, Washington, January 8, 1999 (ENS) - Contrails spread by fleets
of
jet aircraft in elaborate cross-hatched patterns are sparking
speculation
and making people sick across the United States.
Washington state resident William Wallace became ill with severe
diarrhea
and fatigue after watching several multi-engine jets spend New Year's
day
laying cloud lines in an east to west grid pattern. A neighbor working
outside came down with similar symptoms. But their wives, who remained
indoors, suffered no ill effects from the inexplicable maneuvers which
observers liken to high-altitude "crop-dusting" by unidentifed
multi-engine
aircraft.
Condensation trails, called contrails, are generated at altitudes high
enough for water droplets to freeze in a matter of seconds and not
quickly
evaporate - typically where the temperatures are below -38 degrees
Celcius.
Contrails can form through the addition of water vapor to the air from
the
jet engine exhaust. Even tiny nuclei released in the exhaust fumes may
be
sufficient to generate ice crystals, and hence, condensation trails.
Wallace wonders if ethylene dibromide, a highly toxic component of JP-8
jet
fuel, is making people sick. Similar incidents over Las Vegas last year
prompted a US Air Force spokesman to explain that the military aircraft
were
"dumping fuel" before landing.
But the strange spray patterns are being reported repeatedly over towns
in
Tennessee,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho, Mississippi,
Montana,
Michigan,
Texas, Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Wallace has been watching formations of high-flying jets weave grid-like
contrails above his home since last summer. Each time, "We get a taste
in
our mouth," he reports. He and his wife Ann get "kind of tired and
sick,"
having "no energy to do anything."
After plants began dying around his mountain cabin, "I got real sick for
about three weeks," Wallace relates. "My eyes watered. Fluid came out of
my
nose. I could hardly move my arm up above my head to comb my hair for
about
a week."
Wallace and his wife are not alone in their plight. In March, 1996, Dr.
Greg
Hanford bought an expensive camera and binoculars to keep an eye on jets
spraying white bands above his Bakersfield, California home. Hanford has
counted 40 or 60 jets on some "spray days."
"Everybody seems to be getting sick from it," Hanford told ENS. "Hackin'
and
coughin' when you really get nailed with this stuff." The dentist, many
of
his patients and two receptionists have repeatedly contracted severe
respiratory infections. Hanford's illness lingered for five months
despite
courses of four different antibiotics.
"It's really weird," Hanford says. "You think two jets are going to hit
each
other - and then they make an X." The dentist says he has sometimes seen
"furry globular balls" spread downwind in a long feather from the
high-flying aircraft.
Unlike normal contrails, which dissipate soon after a lone jet's
passage,
video taken by
Wallace and Hanford show eerily silent silver jets streaming fat
contrails
from their wingtips in multiple, criss-cross patterns. But instead of
dissipating like normal contrails, these white jet-trails coalesce into
broad cloud-bands that gradually occlude crystal clear skies.
"Passenger jets don't make contrails that stay and become clouds,"
Wallace
observes.
Government officials deny that anything unusual is taking place. When
Hanford called the local airport, tower personnel told him there was
nothing
going on." The jets were "just commercial" undergoing "international
flight
training."
But a skeptical Hanford responded, "Is the FAA going to allow two jets
to
come at each
other?"
Pseudo-color, multispectral images taken April 20, 1994 by a NOAA
satellite,
reveal a
number of contrails over Oklahoma and Kansas. X'es, overlapping W's and
the
Roman
numeral XII are among the patterns flown by the mystery aircraft. Last
June,
Hanford watched four aircraft spraying in circles to form a perfect
bulls-eye. Through his Swaroski binoculars, Hanford could see what
"looked
like a 737" painted all-white on top with an "orangish-red" underbody
and
red engine cowlings. Another 727-like aircraft was painted "all-white
with a
black stripe up the middle of fuselage." None of the planes carried
identifying markings.
Pat Edgar has been watching the jets spraying over eastern Oklahoma
since a
sunny day in
October, 1997 when as many as 30 contrails gradually occluded the sky.
"They
look like
they're playing tic-tac-toe up there," he says. "You know darn well it's
not
passenger planes."
Edgar says he has watched "cobwebbing stuff coming down" from the
zigzagging
jets flying "all day long, line after line, back-and-forth, like furrows
in
a farm field."
Edgar adds that "There is a lot of Lupus in the area now. A lot of women
have come down
with it."
Edgar's father-in-law, a former judge, and three or four other close
friends
were hit hard in their immune systems. Symptoms include swollen hands
and
legs, night fever and shortness of breath.
Retired Oklahoma state judge Bill Ed Rogers now runs out of breath after
walking 20 feet to the bathroom. Climbing stairs, he says, "is directly
out
of the question."
Rogers, does not attribute his strange malady to the mystery jets. But
neither he nor his doctors can explain his breathing difficulty, which
began
shortly after spraying began in November, 1997, and is getting worse.
The 57
year old former judge says he thought he was experiencing congenital
heart
failure when he was admitted into the Mayo clinic last January.
But after being diagnosed with severe inflamation in his right lung, a
team
of top surgeons were unable to pump an unidentified "jello-like" fluid
from
his lung.
Edgar, Wallace, Hanford and other eye-witnesses are uneasy over the
ongoing
aerial
"experiments and the secrecy surrounding them. "They're gettin' ready,
practicing," Edgar believes, for some kind of mass population cull.
Before Edgar sold his restaurant, customers came in complaining of
airplanes
"flyin' around all night" over a remote area of Oklahoma. In the
morning,
they could see "stuff comin' out of their wings." Edgar says he knows
four-dozen witnesses who have "come down violently ill, coughin' up
blood
for two weeks - or [with] real bad nosebleeds." As far as he's
concerned,
"it had to be something in that doggone plane that was spillin' out in
the
middle of the night."
Edgar joins witnesses across the U.S. who worry that whoever is behind
the
mystery spraying just has to "come up with something a little stronger
later
on. It's just a guess," he says. "But it sure seems weird. They have a
mission. They go back and forth all day. Hey man I'm talkin' hundreds of
contrails in a day! It's unbelievable."
U.S. Air Force aerial tankers may be causing and seeding clouds to
modify
the weather. The condensation trails and chemicals spread by these
aircraft
could be what is making some people sick in Tennessee, Connecticut, New
Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho,
Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Tommy Farmer, a former engineering technician with Raytheon Missile
Systems,
has been
tracking patterns of jet contrails phenomena for more than a year.
Farmer
has "positively identified" two of the aircraft most often involved in
the
aerial spraying incidents as a Boeing KC-135 and Boeing KC-10. Both big
jets
are used by the US Air Force for air to air refueling. A Boeing T-43
used
for navigation training and mapping may also be involved.
Confirming reports from eye-witnesses across the United States, Farmer
reports that all
aircraft are painted either solid white or solid black with the
exception of
two KC-135s which were in training colors - orange and white. No
identifying
markings are visible.
Farmer has collected samples of what he calls "angel hair" sprayed by
the
mystery aircraft on six occasions since February, 1998. Four samples
have
been taken since November, 1998.
Farmer says that globular filaments resembling ordinary spider webs,
"usually fall 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
(15.3 metres).
Farmer told ENS that the sticky substance "melts in your hands" and
"adheres
to whatever it touches."
Farmer urges caution to collectors after becoming ill after his first
contact with the "angel hair." Like Bakersfield, California dentist Dr.
Greg
Hanford and other ground observers exposed to the spraying, Farmer's
ensuing
sore throat and sinus infection lasted several months.
After repeatedly observing aircraft spraying particulates "in front of
and
into cloud systems," Farmer is "fairly certain the contrail phenomena is
one
part of a military weather modification weapons system."
He notes that because the chemical contrails allow much more moisture to
form inside cloud systems, severe localized storms result from the
aerial
seeding while surrounding areas that have surrendered their moisture to
the
storm cells experience drought.
The huge Xs being traced by formations of tanker jets in the sky can be
tracked by satellite and coordinated with the crossed-beams of
ionospheric
heaters to heat the upper atmosphere - changing its temperature and
density
and enhancing the storm's effects.
Based in Gakon, Alaska, this unclassified joint U.S. 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 to steer
powerful
beams of tightly-focused radio waves "to stimulate," heat and steer
sections
of the upper atmosphere.
Awarded in 1985 to MIT physicist Bernard Eastlund, HAARP's commercial
patent
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 an interview with this reporter, Eastlund admitted, "I had looked at
using this intense beam, which can be angled, to do some experiments in
terms of guiding the jetstream, moving it from one spot to another. I
presume it is possible, which might lend credence to these other
things."
In a U.S. Air Force research study, "Weather as a Force Multiplier"
issued
in August, 1996, seven U.S. military officers outlined how HAARP and
aerial
cloud-seeding from tankers could allow U.S. aerospace forces to "own the
weather" by the year 2025. Among the desired objectives were "Storm
Enhancement," "Storm Modification" and "Induce Drought."
According to the Air Force report, "In the United States,
weather-modification will likely become a part of national security
policy
with both domestic and international applications."
Within 30 years, the Air Force foresees using Weather Force Support
Elements
with "the
necessary sensor and communication capabilities to observe, detect, and
act on
weather-modification requirements to support U.S. military objectives"
by
using "using
airborne cloud generation and seeding" techniques being developed today,
the
1996 Air Force report says.
But on its HAARP website, the U.S. Navy says, "The HAARP facility will
not
affect the
weather. Transmitted energy in the frequency ranges that will be used by
HAARP is subject to negligible absorption in either the troposphere or
the
stratosphere - the two levels of the atmosphere that produce the earth's
weather. Electromagnetic interactions only occur in the near-vacuum of
the
rarefied region above about 70 km known as the ionosphere."
Still, according to the Air Force's 1996 report, other routine
weather-modification missions will deploy "cirrus shields" formed by the
chemical contrails of high-flying aircraft "to deny enemy visual and
infrared surveillance."
When it is completed, the HAARP antenna array will consist of 180
antennas
on a total land area of about 33 acres. The final facility will have a
total
transmitter power of about 3,600 kilowatts.
When the HAARP facility is completed, the transmitter will be able to
produce approximately 3.6 million watts of radio frequency power, the
HAARP
website states. The Air Force says HAARP transmitters have been designed
to
operate "very linearly so that they will not produce radio interference
to
other users of the radio spectrum."
Farmer guesses that besides its obvious tactical military applications,
aerial-seeding of contrail-clouds aligned in HAARP's characteristic
grid-patterns could be part of a secret U.S. government initiative to
address the global weather crisis brought about by atmospheric warming.
The aircraft spraying that has sickened Americans across the country may
not
be confined to the United States. On August 11, 1998, "USA Today"
reported
dozens of residents of
Quirindi, Australia "swearing they saw cobwebs fall from the sky" after
unidentified aircraft passed overhead.
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