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was, he had never seen it before. Nor had the pilot of the heli- to hit each other—and then they make an 'X’." copter, who had been flying to the rigs for years. The dentist has sometimes seen “furry globular balls" spread "It covered several platforms that were miles apart," the oil downwind in a long feather from the chemtrails left by the high- worker told me. "The substance was not sticky but stringy, web- flying aircraft. like, white in colour and just clinging to the structure flowing in "Everybody seems to be getting sick from it," Hanford notes. the wind. It really was annoying having to walk through it. "Hackin' and coughin’...you really get nailed with this stuff." However, the next day it was gone! Not a trace anywhere." The dentist, many of his patients and two receptionists have A few weeks later in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Mary Young turned repeatedly contracted severe respiratory infections. When the her attention from late-night TV to listen as a circling aircraft angry dentist called the local airport, the tower personnel told him drew closer and closer. Suddenly the prop plane thundered right —_ there was nothing going on. The jets were "just commercial", over the house, so low that the windows rattled. Everything undergoing "international flight training". shook. And something that sounded like sand rattled against the "Right," Hanford responded. "Is the FAA going to allow two windows. Now the 50-year-old Native American says: "I keep jets to come at each other?" coughing phlegm that tastes bad. My eyes hurt, my joints hurt. Hanford's illness lingered for five months, despite courses of I'm not catchin’ my breath right. I can't get rid of this cold. I've four different antibiotics. 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." A MILITARY WEATHER MODIFICATION WEAPON? Pat Edgar lives near Mary Young. He has Are aerial tankers causing clouds to modi- been watching jets spraying over eastern fy the weather? Tommy Farmer thinks so. Oklahoma since a sunny day in October Tracking chemtrails across the USA for 1997 when as many as 30 contrails gradually more than a year, the former engineering occluded a clear blue sky. "They look like technician with Raytheon Missile Systems they're playing tic-tac-toe up there," he says. 4 has positively identified two of the most "You know darn well it's not passenger Pon the silvery strands common spray aircraft tankers as Boeing planes." resembling spider webs KC-135 and Boeing KC-10, used by the US Edgar has watched "cobwebbing stuff | |, . Air Force for in-air refuelling. The chemical coming down" from the zig-zagging jets fly- usually fall In clumps OF | sprayers are not engaged in any refuelling ing all day long, line after line, back and wads ran in from Operations. ; ; forth, like furrows in a farm field". He also ae . The only official Air Force explanation comments: "There is a lot of lupus in the pencil-eraser size to the has been that "routine fuel-dumping" was area now. A lot of women have come down size of a balled-up fist" making people sick in Las Vegas. But there with it." is nothing "routine" about formations of Edgar's father-in-law is a retired state Boeing tankers spraying fuel for hours. judge. Today, Bill Ed Rogers runs out A A Jet pilots say that their aircraft burn of breath after walking 20 feet to the Winds often whip the fuel so prodigiously, the only time it's bathroom. Climbing stairs, he says, "is cobweb-like material vent is during an in-flight emergency directly out of the question". Rogers . . shortly after take-off, when heavy air- does not attribute his strange malady to into filaments as long as craft must quickly reduce weight for the mystery jets. But neither he nor his 50 feet. landing. doctors can explain his breathing diffi- Farmer notes that all the aircraft are culty, which began shortly after spray- painted either solid white or solid ing began in November 1997 and is black, with the exception of two KC- getting worse. The 57-year-old former 135s which are in training colours judge was admitted to the Mayo Clinic (orange and white). No identifying last January when he thought he was markings are visible. experiencing congenital heart failure. According to Farmer, the silvery Instead, he was diagnosed with severe strands resembling spider webs "usual- inflammation in his right lung, but a team of top surgeons was ly fall in clumps or wads, ranging from pencil-eraser size to the unable to pump an unidentified "Jello-like" fluid from his lung. size of a balled-up fist". Winds often whip the cobweb-like mate- Before Pat Edgar sold his restaurant, customers came in com- rial into filaments as long as 50 feet. Farmer says the sticky sub- plaining of airplanes "flyin' around all night" with "stuff comin' stance "melts in your hands" and "adheres to whatever it touches". out of their wings". Edgar knows 48 people who have "come Forrest McClure concurs. While patrolling the Denver Airport down violently ill, coughin' up blood for two weeks, or [with] real last November, this police officer spotted "fine filaments floating bad nosebleeds". As far as he's concerned, "it had to be some- through the air...thousands of them, and some were 30 to 40 feet thing in that doggone plane that was spillin' out in the middle of —_ long". the night". Earlier that month, third-shift police officer Michael Cloutier A California dentist named Greg Hanford has been watching "noticed the web-like stuff hanging from the power lines" in the formations of jets lay down zigzag spray patterns over his main street of Anthony, a small cattle town in Kansas. "They Bakersfield home since 1996. After counting 40 or 60 jets on came during the night, but couldn't last in the sunlight," officer some "spray days", Hanford purchased a good camera and a pair Cloutier reported. of $1,200 binoculars to keep an eye on the all-white jets that car- After becoming ill from his first contact with "angel hair", ried no identifying markings. Tommy Farmer urges caution to collectors. Like Dr Greg "It's really weird," Hanford says. "You think two jets are going Hanford and others exposed to the spraying, Farmer's ensuing to hit each other—and then they make an 'X’." The dentist has sometimes seen "furry globular balls" spread downwind in a long feather from the chemtrails left by the high- flying aircraft. "Everybody seems to be getting sick from it," Hanford notes. "Hackin' and coughin’...you really get nailed with this stuff." The dentist, many of his patients and two receptionists have repeatedly contracted severe respiratory infections. When the angry dentist called the local airport, the tower personnel told him there was nothing going on. The jets were "just commercial", undergoing "international flight training". "Right," Hanford responded. "Is the FAA going to allow two jets to come at each other?" Hanford's illness lingered for five months, despite courses of four different antibiotics. Winds often whip the _ cobweb-like material 50 feet. 18 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 1999