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increased by as much as 20 per cent since the jet age took off. Dr | SEEING IS BELIEVING? Patrick Minnis, a CERES atmospheric researcher and ardent In the end, it has proved impossible to continue skywriting chemtrails critic at NASA's Langley Research Center, reports that _ giant billboards advertising government duplicity, while insisting cirrus cloud cover over the United States is up five per cent over- _ they are not there. By the summer of 2001, the controversy all because particulates in engine exhaust are acting as cloud- entered a new phase. Pictures of contrails were being distributed forming nuclei. As the number of flights currently exceeds 15 to newspapers by the Associated Press, and "chemtrails" could be million annually worldwide, the NSF, NASA and EPA predict overheard in coffee shop conversations across an entire continent. artificial clouds will intensify as air travel continues climbing When it comes to chemtrails, seeing is disbelieving official dis- sharply. information. As public awareness grows, people like war veteran What about chemtrails? Colonel Washbaugh ascribed widely David Oglesby are looking up. The 11 fat plumes fanning out reported grid patterns to overlapping aircraft flying north-south, over his Coarsegold, California, home did it for Oglesby last June. east-west airways. The only thing wrong with this explanation, an "The trails formed a grid pattern," he told WorldNetDaily air traffic controller told me in Texas, is that US airways do not News. "Some stretched from horizon to horizon. Some began run north-south. abruptly, and others ended abruptly. They hung in the air for an The biggest laugh came when the extended period of time and gradual- colonel told the senator: "The Air ly widened into wispy clouds resem- Force is not conducting any weather bling spider webs." modification and has no plans to do so | NASA's Langley Research Center, A retired US Air Force radar tech in the future." F named Shimera called a colonel In fact, attempts to steer hurricanes reports that cirrus cloud cover responsible for all military opera- by spraying heat-robbing chemicals in over the United States is up tions in central California. "What their paths began in the 1950s. The five per cent overall because would you say if I said there are recipe for creating "cirrus shields" three aircraft up there right now?" was outlined in an unusually arrogant | particulates in engine exhaust are ff Shimera asked. "Are they there?" US Air Force study. Subtitled "No," the colonel replied. "They "Owning the Weather by 2025", the acting as cloud-forming nuclei. are not there." 1996 report explained how "weather The Houston study is not so easily force specialists" were dispersing dismissed. Mark Steadham was chemicals behind high-flying tanker looking for contrails when he started aircraft in a process the air force calls "aerial obscuration". observing the skies over this busy Texas hub last winter. Using Official denials reached new altitudes of absurdity when anoth- —_—- FAA tracking software called Flight Explorer to identify each air- er colonel claimed: "The US Air Force does not conduct spraying craft, Steadham clocked contrails trailing from Boeing, operations over populated areas." USAF spokeswoman Margaret | McDonnell-Douglas and Airbus airliners. All but two of these Gidding told a Spokane newspaper: "The Air Force doesn't do condensation trails sublimed into invisibility within five to 20 sec- anything that emits anything other than a normal contrail, which —_ onds; the only exceptions persisted for two and 25 minutes. is vapor." Flight Explorer does not show altitudes for military jets, but, So were their replies. Apparently Anderson and Gidding had according to the FAA, tankers and transports usually transit conti- forgotten how US Air Force spray planes crippled a country anda _nental airspace at around 30,000 feet to ensure safe separation culture by dispensing over Vietnam thousands of tons of "Agent _ from airliners flying between 35,000 and 39,000 feet. Military Orange" defoliants containing dioxin toxins as hazardous as "heavies" flying below 30,000 feet should not leave contrails at plutonium. all. Major-General Gregory Barlow confirms that Air Force tankers do not perform refuelling missions at contrail-forming altitudes. But Steadham found just the opposite in his study. While observing air traffic for 63 days, the Houston skywatcher found that thick white plumes laid by similar-sized military aircraft—at the same time, in the same airspace as 20-second airliner con- trails—lingered for four to eight hours. GLOBAL CHEMTRAIL REPORTS 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. "People were coughing all over Naples," she wrote. On the bus ride in from the base, Chastain explained chemtrails to “Weeping” chemtrail photographed over Vancouver, Canada, June 2001. many sailors with hacking coughs. 16 = NEXUS SEEING IS BELIEVING? over the United States is up www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2001