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sore throat and sinus infection lasted several months. gested the same thing". HAARP's original patent-holder added Farmer is "fairly certain the contrail phenomenon is one part of that "recent work on polymeric additives for microwave absorp- a military weather-modification weapons system". Unlike com- tion has been done for commercial curing applications, so the mercial cloud-seeding operations currently injecting silver iodine —_ polymer fibres are available". into rainclouds throughout the United States, the huge Xs being Joe "Six-Pack" Burton still wonders how hot-weather tornadoes traced by formations of tanker jets in clear skies can be tracked by formed over hilly country in Arkansas in the middle of January. satellite and perhaps coordinated with the crossed beams of Using a recently purchased video camcorder with 72-power zoom "ionospheric heaters" to heat the upper atmosphere, changing its lens, the chemtrail-tracking Tennessean captured close-ups of temperature and density to enhance or mitigate storm effects. spray planes just days before 38 winter tornadoes struck Arkansas Based in Gakona, Alaska, the joint US Navy and Air Force pro- on a single day. All told, some 90 twisters tore up Tennessee and ject known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research three adjacent states. Program (HAARP) has in the past several years been using The US Air Force says that other "routine" weather-modifica- phased array antennas to steer powerful beams of tightly focused tion missions seek to deploy "cirrus shields" formed by the chemi- radio waves to heat and 'steer' sections of the upper atmosphere. cal contrails of high-flying aircraft "to deny enemy visual and HAARP's commercial patent, awarded in 1985 to MIT physicist infrared surveillance". But this official 30-year forecast may be a Bernard Eastlund, claims that directed-energy beams of more than smokescreen for operational cloud-forming capabilities. one billion watts can be used for "altering the upper atmosphere Some investigators speculate that the enormously complex and wind patterns using plumes of atmospheric particle alens or costly spraying currently taking place over much of the USA, as focusing device" to disturb weather thousands of miles away. well as parts of England and Australia, is an attempt to "mask" In an interview with this reporter, Eastlund admitted: "I had unsuspecting populations from intense solar flares or other upper- looked at using this intense beam, atmospheric activity. But intense which can be angled, to do some gamma rays and X-rays striking Earth experiments in terms of guiding the from massive solar flares are unaf- jet stream, moving it from one spot fected by cloud cover. to another. I presume it is possible, "They go back and forth all day. Another problem with these theo- which might lend credence to these ' Aa ries is that as aerial spraying intensi- other things." Hey, man, I m talkin hundreds fies across the USA, HAARP has Despite the Environmental of contrails ina day! een shut down and its February Modification Convention—which research program moved to March prohibits the US and other signato- It's unbelievable. Like furrows after a smaller companion ionospheric ries from the military use of environ- in a farm field!" eater in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, suf- mental modification techniques— fered hurricane damage. altering the weather remains a top US military priority. BIOCHEMICAL WARFARE A paper, "2025: Weather as a OVER AMERICA? Force Multiplier", was presented by Pat Edgar and many other seven US military officers in August 1996 [see deBriefings this Americans are uneasy over the ongoing aerial experiments and issue]. This US Air Force study outlines how, by using airborne the intense secrecy surrounding them. Mindful of the words of tankers to seed the atmosphere and "by adding small amounts of former National Security Council head Henry Kissinger and CNN energy at just the right time and space", US aerospace forces mogul Ted Turner, who along with other statesmen have called could "own the weather" by the year 2025. Among the desired for an immediate reduction in world population to 500 million or objectives stated are "Storm Enhancement", "Storm Modification" fewer, Edgar believes that "they're gettin’ ready, practising" for and "Induce Drought". some kind of mass population cull. The characteristic east-west aerial grid patterns are reminiscent Edgar joins Americans who worry that whoever's behind the of clouds that ‘line up' with pulsed radio-frequency beams from mystery spraying just has to "come up with something a little ionospheric heaters such as HAARP. US Patent #4,253,190 stronger later on". "It's just a guess," he says, "but it sure seems demonstrates how a polyester resin "mirror" sprayed behind high- weird. They have a mission. They go back and forth all day. flying aircraft could be held aloft by the pressure exerted by Hey, man, I'm talkin' hundreds of contrails in a day! It's unbeliev- HAARP-type transmissions. According to a researcher who able. Like furrows in a farm field." desires anonymity, "the resulting electron-cyclotron resonance Unofficial confirmation of 'spooky' activities came soon after could form a mirror in mid-air by polymerisation of the sprayed —_ my first two "Contrails over America" stories were sent to news precursors". agencies worldwide by the Environment News Service. Could cobweb-like polymer strands, spun behind tanker air- Managing Editor Jim Crabtree called from Lake Havasu, craft—perhaps contaminated with a bio-agent to discourage han- California, to inform me that ENS subscriber sign-ups had nearly dling or tracking of its dispersion—be formed in the cold reaches doubled. of the stratosphere, only to sublimate and disappear quickly in "Some of the newbies," Crabtree confided, "include creepy- sea-level warmth? crawlies from the FAA, Air Force in the Pentagon, National HAARP's inventor Bernard Eastlund told this reporter that a Security Agency, Centers for Disease Control...and suspicious Paper presented to NATO in late May 1990 discussed the ‘ops'-type addresses with '.gov' and '.mil' subdomain names." "Modification of Tropospheric Propagation Conditions" to thwart Then—as formations of unmarked tanker aircraft continued to an enemy. According to Eastlund, the research study "went into criss-cross American skies on a mission authorities refuse to dis- details on how you could modify the atmosphere to absorb elec- close—an independent laboratory identified one component of the tromagnetic radiation", although he said his "original patents sug- spray drifting over cities and the countryside. "They go back and forth all day. Hey, man, I'm talkin’ hundreds of contrails in a day! It's unbelievable. Like furrows APRIL — MAY 1999 NEXUS 19 in a farm field!"