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deBriefings PROBING THE 'CHEMTRAILS' CONUNDRUM UNSCHEDULED AIR TRAFFIC by William Thomas © 1999 Why are people who have lived next to airbases and airports most of their lives, or who would not normally give a contrail a THE PHENOMENON second glance, stopping their cars and hauling family members planes weave broad white plumes into cross-hatched grid _ den concentrations of aerial trails they instinctively recognise are Or you have watched two, six, eight or more unmarked —_ and neighbours outside to point cameras and camcorders at sud- patterns, giants Xs or furrows of expanding parallel lines _ not normal contrails? that turn clear blue sky into a milky, dripping overcast that some- Why are formations of grid-weaving jets suddenly appearing times reveals prismatic bars of chemical colouring, you will | over communities unused to seeing air traffic’? How can these never look at the sky in the same way again. overflights be explained as "scheduled air traffic" when they In the representative words of eyewitnesses across 48 states: abruptly cease, only to start up again weeks later? * "I watched a clear blue sky become criss-crossed with the According to Canadian and US aviation officials, pencil-thin white trails from many jets. The sky then became overcast, in _contrails normally form above 33,000 feet and usually dissipate spite of the forecast calling for sunny weather. I felt stunned asI within less than a minute, like the wake behind a ship. In con- witnessed this event." trast, the broad white plumes known as "chemtrails" are often ¢ "One morning I saw so many, I almost had a car accident. _ spread by formations of tanker-type aircraft, far below commer- They were X-ing, probably 50, 100 of them, as far as I could see. __cial airliners, that even in colder upper-air leave short-lived con- Lots of Xs and parallel lines. Definitely not normal air traffic." trails or no contrails at all. ¢ "They look like they're playing tic-tac-toe up there. You Commercial airliners prominently display their airline logos, know darn well it's not passenger planes." "colours" and registration numbers. Spray aircraft of the KC-135 ¢ "These contrails do indeed behave differently from the usual and KC-10 type, observed through binoculars, are painted white contrails made by jets. They don't dissipate right away. They and carry no identification markings. like linger, hang there. But they were so heavily concentrated Interestingly, CIA aircraft are painted white. According to that I just about fell over." security personnel, their late-night departures and arrivals at ¢ "Everywhere from horizon to horizon, as far as I could see —_ major US airports are not entered in tower logbooks. above the trees and buildings, perfectly parallel streaks or stripes of clouds..." AIRBORNE PATHOGENS AND RELATED ILLNESS * "Tam under the understanding that we have regular flight pat- Contrails do not make people sick. Yet many observers have terns. This, however, broke all the rules, as these patterns criss- | become ill within 48 hours of watching chemtrails form. A crossed one another over a dozen times." metallic, oily or corrosive smell and taste has also been widely ¢ "Real jet trails are not as low as these." reported in the wake of chemtrails. "Spikes" in emergency room admissions match by date and location reports of heavy "spray days". Last winter, during 15 consecutive weeks of what the Centers TAKE YouR CALL for Disease Control called "epidemic levels" of pneumo- RIGHT Now Butt '” nia and upper-respiratory illness, hospital admissions Ex PA NDING... PLEAS across the US jumped up to double the ne peak season rates, even in states reporting a "mild" flu season. L Ene oe SAGE MDs across America told the New York Times and other BANG newspapers: aa ¢ "This is the worst crisis I have seen." ¢ "Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses are filling up the beds." ¢ "We know there's a lot of sickness, but our diagnosis shows that it's not the flu." ¢ "We don't know what it is or where it came from." Often degenerating into double-pneumonia or asthma, these severe "flu-like" symptoms lingered for months. In November 1999, residents in heavily sprayed areas—including Arizona, Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon, Washington state, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and southern Vancouver Island—were also complaining of extremely severe headaches, stiff necks, fatigue and joint pain. Other symptoms associated with heavy spraying include ANSWER ~MACHING OFT: THE ~~ disorientation, depression, inexplicable anxiety and an inability to concentrate. 12 - NEXUS FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000