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Last
fall, a long-time landscaper working under contract for the City of Edmonton
began noticing that carefully tended flowers and trees were showing signs
of severe nutrient deficiencies.
City
specifications call for electrical conductivity (EC) readings no higher
than “1” in local soils. When soil samples showed damaging EC readings
4.6 to 7-times higher than this maximum permissible level, Dave Dickie
suspected that elevated levels of electricity-conducting metals in the
soils could be leading to the plants’ “chlorosis” condition.
A
life-long plane spotter, Dickie also wondered if there could be a connection
to events unfolding on ATC radar scopes during his regular visits to the
Edmonton municipal airport’s Air Traffic Control center.
Last
Father’s Day, Dickie and an excited group of 12 year-olds watched two KC-135s,
tagged “Petro 011” and “Petro 012”, flying at 34,000 and 36,000 feet south
and north of Edmonton.
According
to the controllers watching the scopes, both U.S. Air Force KC-135 air-refueling
tankers had flown south out of Alaska. But the big Boeings were not refueling
other aircraft. Instead, as Dickie, the kids and the controllers watched,
the four-engine jets began making patterns over Edmonton – “circuits” the
controllers called it.
The
Stratotankers were working alone in “commanded airspace” from which all
other aircraft were excluded. And they were leaving chemtrails.
TELLTALE
SIGNATURES
“The
signature is significant” commented one radar operator, referring to trails
clearly visible on his scope extending for miles behind the KC-135s. In
contrast, a commercial JAL flight on the same display left no visible trail.
Going
outside, Dickie and several controllers scanned clear blue skies over the
northern Canadian city. Visibility was outstanding. They easily located
a KC-135 leaving a lingering, broad white plume. They could also clearly
see the JAL airliner at a similar flight level. It left no contrail at
all.
On
other occasions, Dickie has watched KC-135s on Edmonton radar leaving lingering
trails as low as 18,000 feet.
“We
see these guys up here a lot,” radar techs told Dickie, explaining that
the USAF tanker flights originate in Alaska and continue on into the States
– after gridding the Edmonton area with emanations clearly visible on radar.
“You
should have seen it when they had the big summit up in Calgary,” the Canadian
controllers exclaimed. “It was exciting to watch them.” The G7 maneuvers
suggested that barium might have been sprayed to enhance radio and radar
surveillance over what protesters condemned as a “globalization” conference
aimed at worldwide corporate domination.
That
was speculation. But back in Edmonton, there was no doubt that particulates
were being sprayed by the tankers. Pointing to “birdie feet” on their scopes,
the radar technicians showed Dickie particles appearing “as concentrations
of dots” in the radar-tracked plumes.
Zooming
in and out on each plane with the click of cursor, Dickie said that he
and the controllers “could see different contrails.” Some were short, and
quickly vanished from the scopes. Other trails were thick, long and lingering
– not acting like contrails at all.
Especially
exciting for Dickie and the kids was watching head-on passes between KC-135s
and commercial airliners. Flying directly at each other with a closing
rate of nearly 1,000 mph, the huge jets appeared about to collide. But
the unconcerned controllers explained to Dickie that the aircraft must
adhere to a minimum 1,000 foot vertical separation rule – recently reduced
from twice that safety margin. No one explained what might happen, if the
“top” plane suffered a sudden decompression and was forced to dive to lower
altitude.
BARIUM
AND ALUMINUM CONFIRMED
Assuming
that unusual metal content in the soil could be causing the high electrical
conductivity readings, Dickie collected samples of a fresh snowfall for
the city, and took them to Edmonton’s NorWest Labs for analysis.
This
reporter has obtained copies of lab tests conducted on snow samples collected
by the city of Edmonton, Alberta between Nov. 8 - 12, 2002. The tests show
unaccountably elevated levels of aluminum and barium. Norwest Labs lab
report #336566, dated Nov. 14. 2002 found:
Aluminum
levels: 0.148 milligrams/litre
Barium
levels: 0.006 milligrams/litre
Acting
like the electrolyte in a car battery, barium chemtrails developed at Ohio’s
Wright Patterson Air Force Base are routinely sprayed into the atmosphere
to “duct” or bend military radio and radar waves over-the-horizon, instead
of continuing straight beyond the Earth’s curvature into space. “Wright
Pat” is also closely connected to HAARP experiments employing tightly focused,
extremely high-energy radio frequency beams to alter the weather, disrupt
communications and “X-ray” bunkers deep underground thousands of miles
away the transmitter array in Gakon, Alaska.
Aluminum
stunts plant growth by sucking nutrients from the soil.
Dave
Dickie told me, “Our most recent snowfall was tested for aluminum and barium
and we were not surprised with the results. You’ve said it all along and
this just substantiates some of your claims.”
But
the soil expert cautioned that because the chemistry of unrefined aluminum
oxide often found in the environment depends on soil acidity and the presence
of other minerals, it is difficult to estimate “natural” background concentrations.
Even so, NorWest Lab techs told Dickie that the elevated levels of aluminum
and barium they were finding are not usually found in Alberta precipitation.
Concerned
city officials ordered more tests made on precipitation falling within
a 40 mile radius of Edmonton. A second series of lab tests has now confirmed
high levels of barium and aluminum in snow Dickie thinks fell through chemtrails.
So far, he says, there is no other explanation for the high-levels of each
chemical compound in city soils.
Dickie
says it’s so simple to test for aluminum and barium, labs typically charge
$10 to $15 for this analysis. He is adding quartz to the list of possible
fallout components after tiny quartz particles dominated lab tests of rain
falling through heavy chemtrails over Espanola, Ontario in the summer of
1999. Levels of aluminum analyzed in the Ontario samples were up to seven-times
higher than provincial permissible safety limits.
U.S.
CONTROLLERS CONCERNED
OVER
CHEMTRAILS
South
of the border, U.S. Air Traffic Controllers were also concerned over tanker-spread
emissions. Just after Christmas 2001, the Air Traffic Control manager for
the northeastern seaboard became increasingly concerned that his young
son’s illness – and episodes of Sudden Onset Acute Asthma suffered by his
formerly allergy-free wife – could be linked with the increased aerial
activity he was seeing on his scopes.
On
March 12, 2001, this source – who came to be called “Deep Sky” by this
reporter and ABC-affiliated radio reporter S.T. Brendt – told Brendt that
he and other controllers were being told to re-route commercial air traffic
beneath formations of air force tankers. Insisting that flight safety was
not affected, he admitted during a follow-up interview at WMWV radio station
that the KC-135s were spraying something that reflected radar pulses as
a “haze” that degraded ATC radars.
Brendt
contacted the FAA official after counting more than 30 big jets within
45 minutes spreading persistent plumes over rural Maine. Also alerted by
Brendt, assistant WMWV news director Richard Dean and his staff counted
370 chemical trails criss-crossing his nearby location. But Deep Sky told
Brendt that of the nine commercial jets on his radars at the time, only
one or two would have been visible from her location..
Speaking
on condition of strict anonymity, the ATC manager later expressed concern
over the classified operations conducted by much larger military formations
of KC-135 tankers between 37,000 and 40,000 feet.
Many
video-documented plume patterns grid skies away from charted airline routes
on days when high altitude temperatures and humidity do not permit normal
contrail formation. Studies by Ralph Steadham of FAA-identified traffic
over Houston found that while commercial condensation trails comprising
momentarily flash-frozen water vapor typically disappear within 22 seconds
or less, much broader, sunlight-reflecting jet trails left by military
jets flying at the same time in the same airspace often lingered for four
to eight hours.
CANADIANS
LODGE CHEMTRAILS
COMPLAINTS
The
previous December, 2000 Canadian aviation authority Terry Stewart investigating
a Victoria caller’s complaint of intensive “chemtrail” activity over the
British Columbia capitol left a taped message saying, “It’s a military
exercise, U.S. and Canadian air force exercise that’s going on. They wouldn’t
give me any specifics on it…very odd.”
Despite
denials from a Canadian commander at Comox Air Base that the American tanker
flights were taking place, Stewart later admitted to the Vancouver Courier
that his information came directly from the Comox base. He was later stopped
and interrogated by U.S. authorities while crossing the border on a routine
visit.
Before
ever hearing of “chemtrails”, Canadians were the first to formerly complain
to their federal government over what they identified as chemical spraying.
In November 1999, an Opposition Defence Critic presented a petition to
Parliament signed by 550 residents of Espanola, Ontario. The largely native
community demanded an explanation and an end to aerial spraying by photo-identified
USAF tankers, which they claimed was sickening children and adults over
a 55 square mile area.
Laboratory
tests of rainwater falling through the sky plumes being paid in X’s and
grid patterns over Espanola found levels of aluminum seven-times higher
than federal health safety limits. The U.S. Air Force denied flying over
Espanola. The Canadian Forces, which do not operate large squadrons of
aerial tankers, eventually responded, saying, “It’s not us.”
DEEP
SKIES II
But
in late December 2002, just three months after the traumatic events of
Sept. 11 left air force tankers gridding skies emptied of commercial aircraft,
an increasingly worried “Deep Sky” began calling his colleagues at FAA
flight centers across the United States to ask them if they were seeing
what he was seeing on his own radar scopes.
They
were.
Controllers
at Chicago’s O’Hare (still the busiest airport in America), all three New
York City area airports, LA’s LAX, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Cleveland,
San Diego, Dulles, Washington DC and the nation’s biggest airport in Atlanta
all reported tracking unusual formations of particle-emitting Air Force
tankers on their scopes. So were controllers at smaller municipal airports.
Every
controller contacted by Deep Sky said they were being told to divert commercial
traffic below formations of tankers flying strange patterns they were told
were “routine”.
But
instead of enhancing radar coverage, initial explanations from their superiors
warned controllers that unspecified “experiments with radar” could
degrade their own displays. The controllers confirmed to Deep Sky that
they had never seen so much “clutter” or artificial “cloudiness” obscuring
their radars.
By
then, a growing number of informally networked Air Traffic Controllers
were aware of the “chemtrails” controversy. Some cited the short-lived
House Resolution 2977 sponsored by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich,
which sought to ban space warfare and other exotic weapons, including “chemtrails”.
But
concerned controllers across America told S.T. Brendt that whatever was
going on, flight safety was a consideration. Even more worrisome was the
fallout they were seeing on their scopes. They knew from their professional
studies in meteorology, that “this stuff falls to the ground.” And they
wondered about what they termed, potential health hazards
As
federal employees, the FAA radar operators were afraid to come forward
with their concerns. But at least one controller working in America’s heartland
visited a local hospital after heavy tanker activity – to find the emergency
room jammed with acute respiratory cases.
“They
want to know what the heck is in there,” Brendt reported. “One of them
said – al or barium – that’s not something you want to be breathing.”
[Al is the chemical abbreviation for aluminum.]
Corroborating
Deep Sky’s allegations, controllers across the USA confirmed that the word
“climate” is still being mentioned by their superiors in explaining the
ongoing aerial experiments. At the time of Brendt’s follow-up interviews,
at least six Air Traffic Controllers were told that the air force tankers
were engaged in “climate experiments”.
In
1998, H-Bomb inventor Edward Teller urged the spraying of 10 million
tons of sunlight-reflecting aluminum oxide in the atmosphere to deflect
a small percentage of incoming sunlight and avert catastrophic global warming.
A patent issued to the Hughes aerospace giant calls for mixing 10 micron
particulates of aluminum oxide and other sunlight-scattering into jet fuel
for dispersal at cruising altitudes.
After
studies in the U.S. and U.K. showed that random concentrations of air pollution
can cause lethal lung and heart problems, the United States EPA now classifies
10 micron air pollutants as an “Extreme Health Hazard”. (A human hair is
100 microns in diameter.)
As
reports continue to come in of renewed heavy chemtrail activity across
the USA and Canada’s western provinces, lab testing continues in Edmonton,
where an ongoing investigation seeks to correlate chemtrail “spray days”
with fresh snow and soil samples.
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William
Thomas is the author of Chemtrails Confirmed.
This
account of his four-year investigation into
chemtrails
was last updated in Jan. 2003.
Please
post freely.
For
commercial reproduction, please contact
William
Thomas: willthomas@telus.net
http://www.island.net/~lbnews
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