New Air Quality Threat Seen

New "Air Quality" Threat Seen

"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.

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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 th at 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) -Sunds trand 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.

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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 various 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 a nd 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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