New "Air Quality" Threat Seen The Ashville Tribune, Inc. June 7, 1999
"Not a cloud in the sky." When is the last time you can
remember repeating that phrase? For many of us living in the
continental United States, a truly clear sky has become a thing of the
past. Is this due to the industrialized society that our nation has
become? Yes, in part, but what about Montana, Idaho, and Western North
Carolina for that matter? What about the quiet neighborhoods and
otherwise undisturbed wildlife throughout the United States whose
skies are being tainted with clouds which cannot be defined by any
meteorologist?
The answer is contrails. Contrails are the white/silver
cloud-like exhaust from airplanes that are visible from the ground.
Normal contrails from commercial planes dissipate and vanish into air.
That,s nothing new.
What is new is the abnormally thick contrails appearing
with great frequency as of late from non-commercial planes. These
planes are obviously not commercial jets because they fly together in
tight formations too close to comply with Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) regulations.
And they often fly in grid patterns and mark X,s in the
sky with the contrails they leave behind.
The contrails these suspicious planes produce do not
immediately dissipate. Instead, they linger across the sky and, after
several hours, spread out into what appears to be cloud coverage
hovering over us in the sky throughout the day.
If you have not noticed them, it is probably because you
thought you were seeing clouds, but quite often, on what would be an
otherwise clear day, contrails create a partly cloudy atmosphere. And
when there are already clouds in the sky, contrails simply blend in
with the atmosphere, making them even less detectable.
However, quite a few weary observers have taken notice
of the suspicious contrails zig-zagging and eventually blanketing the
sky. In fact, several websites have formed that are devoted to the
research of this bizarre and mysterious trend which has become
somewhat of a fixture throughout the U.S.
As a result, some unconfirmed theories have come forth
which could help to shed some light on the matter. An influx of
respiratory illnesses have been reported in areas of heavy contrail
activity. Meningitis outbreaks have occurred in several states
recently -- North Carolina being one of them. Some who believe they
have fallen ill as a direct result of the contrails say the ailments
they suffer from are not unlike symptoms of some types of biological
warfare. Meanwhile, William Thomas Author, a veteran award-winning
journalist, notes that toll-free tracking numbers across the country
are asking people to come forward for tests and treatment -- "if they
qualify with specific symptoms incurred within a specific time period
within a specific radius of exposure.
Shocking as this may sound, it should be noted that U.S.
government experiments have been conducted on the American population
before. For example, just last year the federal government made a
public apology to the Tuskeegee Airmen of World War II for secretly
exposing them to a painful, contagious and uncurable sexually
transmitted disease.
According to Author, two U.S. Senate investigations in
1977 and 1994 document decades of open air biowarfare testing over the
American and Canadian public.
Author gives a few examples among hundreds of US cities
which he says have been the target of open air experiments:
* In 1950, the U.S. Navy sprayed a cloud of Serratia
marcescens bacteria over San Francisco. Monitoring devices tested the
extent of infection as many residents fell ill with pneumonia-like
symptoms.
* In 1966 the U.S. Army dispensed Bacillus subtilis
variant Niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a
million New Yorkers were exposed.
* And Minneapolis was hit with the same disease causing
bacteria 20 years later in 1997.
United States Code - Title 50 - War and National Defense
Chapter 32 - Chemical and Biological Warfare Program Sec. 1520 -
Biowarfare experimentation on the American public - states that the
Secretary of Defense may not conduct any test or experiment involving
the use of a chemical or "biological agent on a civilian
population...except for research and law enforcement purposes,
including any purpose related to riot control.
This same U.S. Code defines "biological agent as "Any
micro-organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or
protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally
occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such
micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin
or method of production, that is capable of causing:
(1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a
human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism;
(2) deterioration of food, water, equipment,
supplies, or materials of any kind; or
(3) deleterious alteration of the environment.
This law also requires that all test subjects must give
their informed consent for research., Grant it, military servicemen
surrender their civilian rights upon enlistment, but, chances are less
than likely that the more than 460,000 American GIs forced to take PB
in the Gulf were ever asked for their consent, much less, informed
that this nerve agent actually amplifies the effects of the sarin
nerve agent raining over them. Or, that they were ever given the
choice to refuse
mycoplasma-contaminated anthrax.
Furthermore, Executive Order 12975 - Protection of Human
Research Subjects and Creation of National Bioethics Advisory
Commission - signed by President William Clinton, speaks to
departments and agencies taking into account recommendations contained
in a report from the "Advisory Committee on "Human Radiation
Experiments.
There,s much more to report on this topic and even more
that is still unknown and unavailable to the public. This report is
Part I of a four-part series.
Side Bar 1:
FINDING OUT ABOUT CONTRAILS
As the article states, there are several websites
dedicated to providing information, theories, geographical locations,
and photographs concerning contrails. One such website provided the
Asheville Tribune with its user log. During the course of only four
days these are some of the parties that were recorded signing onto
this particular contrails website:
- NASA, Goddard Flight Center -Defense Systems
Information Agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency -Kelly Air Force
Base, Texas (7 visits)
- McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento (maintains KC-135
tanker fleet)
- US Navy, Chief of Naval Education and Training
- US Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command -Department of
Justice
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (8 visits)
- Environmental Protection Agency (Pennyslvania)
- US Department of Agriculture (2 visits)
- US Veterans Administration (4 visits) -Univ. of
Pennyslvania Cardiology Dept.
- Virginia Beach General Hospital
- Martin County, Florida Board of County Commissioners
- Eaton, Inc. high-tech company that makes everything
from environmental testing to electro-magnetic
laboratories.
- Visioneering Research, Inc. - their website says they
"deliver image-based solutions in nuclear safeguards, DNA sequencing,
artifact classification, aerial monitoring, and space-debris
detection."
- Monsanto, Inc. - involved in health/pharmaceuticals
- Roche, Inc. - involved in pharmaceuticals, DuPont
Pharmaceuticals
- Medtronic, Inc. - medical and health, T.R.W. - 4
visits (defense contractor)
- Boeing Aerospace (12 visits), Rockwell Collins
Aerospace
- Allegheny Teledyne - aerospace and defense -Lockheed
Martin Aerospace(4 visits)
- Honeywell Aviation division, (2 visits)
- Sundstrand Aerospace (3 visits)
- Idaho National Engineering & Environmental
Laboratory (5 visits) Heavily into environmental technology, working
with Lockheed. They make "ionmeters" for the detection of chemical and
biological agents among other things.
"Some pretty heavy hitters there, as you can see. They
have shown repeated interest in this subject. I would think people
like that have better things to do than follow silly conspiracy
theories -- which tells me this is VERY real to somebody, said the
sites designer.
Side Bar 2:
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ...
One interesting note, from researching this article over
the past several weeks, is the consistency of descriptions and
photographs taken across the country. Of course, there is no way to
confirm each of these email claims and internet postings but many of
them attatch photo's with their reports. Here is a brief summary of
seperate statements
from individuals who do not know each other and are from various
cities across the nation:
MESA, AZ [May 10] - "I stepped outside this morning in
Mesa, AZ and couldn't help but notice that we are once again being
sprayed. There were at least three aircraft involved that flew in vari
ous criss-cross patterns over the valley."
SANTE FE [May 10] - "Sprayed all day Friday last week,
started sporadically today, Monday 10th. People sneezing to worse,
feeling tired, depressed and pissed."
CALIFORNIA [May 9] - "It is 9:00 am Sunday morning in
Fortuna, CA (on the northern coast of CA, 23 miles south of Eureka)
and there is at least one plane spraying or releasing a long
continuous patterns of white trails. The plane(s) have just finished
their third north to south parallel trail. The first trail is
dispersing into what appears to be a sinking white cloud, as is the
second."
CALIFORNIA [May 9] - Santa Rosa, CA (60 miles north of
SF on US 101) observed 7 North to South contrails, in dissipation mode
observed 2 additional contrails to the east, approximately Napa/Solano
Counties in the process of being made at 0815."
CALIFORNIA [May 9] - Currently have slight offshore
winds and the San Jose chemtrails are drifting overhead now. It is
very hazy and again we have rainbow halo around the sun. Got on top of
the house for better veiw and spotted heavy activity directly over
Monterey Bay."
OHIO [May 9] - "Sunday,10:55 A.M. Columbus, Ohio. I am
watching a heavy spray of Chemtrails. There appears to be multiple
planes involved. They all appear to be leaving the same Chemtail
pattern and all of them seem to be flying at the same alltitude. They
seem to be spraying in a grid like pattern."
NORTH CAROLINA [May 7] - On 5-7-99 almost all of Raleigh
and surrounding areas got it. I travel to work from 30 miles south of
Ral. to north Ral. and could see the trails in every direction. Large
X's and many planes spraying. My lungs have been burning since the
first spraying on the 4th."
CALIFORNIA [May 6] - I was in Century City, CA (A little
west of L.A.) on 05-06-99. I witnessed spraying that looked like it
went all the way over the valley. The trails lasted for a very long
time and spread out in a way I don't remember seeing before. I saw
four of them crossing over each other."
OREGON [May 4] - Tuesday, in Springfield Oregon. Several
Chemtrails, and by afternoon, the sky was gray. About 5 north and
south, and 2 east and west. My boss is very ill, and his wife is on
and off with this thing too."
TENNESSE [May 2] - I live outside of Portland TN (about
an hour north of Nashville) and on Sunday, May 2, there were an
unusual amount of contrails in the skies - four parallel to each other
and 2 X's. I make it a point to know where the usual
commercial/military flight paths are over my house and none of these
were in those paths. For several days afterward, I had a strange (for
me) thing to happen - it was as if I had suddenly become allergic."
Here are some samples of other reports being posted
across the internet:
* D. writes: "Just a note, sometime in early Feb.99, I
was going south on I55 in Missouri, when I started noticing quite a
few contrails, forming x's in the sky but also something else. I'm a
trucker, go thru this area quite often, and it's the first time I saw
this and a whole lot of spider web type substance floating down out of
the sky. I asked some other drivers via the CB, and they were
fascinated by this also. The
substance clung all over my truck for several hundred miles. Just
wondered if anyone else ever noticed this stuff also. I could give
exact dates if needed via my log books."
* C. writes: "[On April 13] from 10-10:45am eight planes
were seen laying a criss-cross grid over Sioux City [Iowa]. A funny
chemical smell is in the air. They contrailed yesterday but not this
severe. My daughter and I got sinus problems overnight and my 4-year
old daughter had a fever of 103.6 by 10:30pm last night. She had been
perfectly fine till the
fever. There are still no symptoms--just a very high fever."
* CH writes: "We have been bombarded with the contrails
here in Hartford Conn, for at least a month now. Everyday planes are
flying continuously over my area spraying long white clouds that then
widen. There are so many planes doing this that by mid-day the whole
area takes on the appearance of a cloudy day. Prior to learning about
this in CONTACT Newspaper my entire family, wife, son (2 yrs old) were
struck with what we believed to be the flu. I have never ever been so
sick in my life. I am 53 yrs old and I have never experienced such
sickness. Fortunately we are all over it but my son sickness lasted
over two weeks. I just rested my body for 3-4 days and allowed it to
heal itself. I don't believe in doctors or trust the medical
profession so I did not seek out any professional help (doctors). The
planes fly over all day and
into the evening. This month we had a new moon and you could still see
the planes flying at night. What in God's name
is going on and what can we as people coming together as one mind do
about this?"
"[April 30] Our television station Channel 10, located
here in Miami, picked up the contrails on their equipment and sent a
team to Boca Chica Air Force Base at Key West, Florida to find out
what is happening over the Ocean and the Keys. The Air Force admitted
that they are dumping canisters of fiber into the air which acts like
a screen to hide the aircraft. These are practice flights for combat.
The fibers
consist of silicon with an aluminum coating."
"{5/12/99] I watched from my back yard, three aircraft
take over four hours to make "ribs" across the entire dome of a
sky --and the ribs all drifted together and filled the entire sky!!!
We had electrical storms the following three days and I felt as if I
had the flu --really dragging around for a week."
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