Mystery Contrails May Be Modifying
Weather Source: Lycos Environment News Service
January 14, 1999
SEATTLE, Washington (ENS) - U.S. Air Force aerial
tankers may be causing and seeding clouds to modify the weather.
The condensation trails and chemicals spread by these
aircraft could be what is making some people sick in Tennessee,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho, Mississippi,
Montana, Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Tommy Farmer, a former engineering technician with
Raytheon Missile Systems, has been tracking patterns of jet
contrails phenomena for more than a year. Farmer has
"positively identified" two of the aircraft most often involved in the
aerial spraying incidents as a Boeing KC-135 and Boeing KC-10. Both
big jets are used by the US Air Force for air to air refueling. A
Boeing T-43 used for navigation training and mapping may also be
involved.
Confirming reports from eye-witnesses across the
United States, Farmer reports that all aircraft are painted either
solid white or solid black with the exception of two KC-135s which
were in training colors - orange and white. No identifying markings
are visible.
Farmer has collected samples of what he calls "angel
hair" sprayed by the mystery aircraft on six occasions since February,
1998. Four samples have been taken since November, 1998.
Farmer says that globular filaments resembling
ordinary spider webs, "usually fall in clumps or wads ranging from
pencil eraser size to the size of a balled up fist."
Winds often whip the cobweb-like material into
filaments as long as 50 feet (15.3 metres). Farmer told ENS that the
sticky substance "melts in your hands" and "adheres to whatever it
touches."
Farmer urges caution to collectors after becoming ill
after his first contact with the "angel hair." Like Bakersfield,
California dentist Dr. Greg Hanford and other ground observers exposed
to the spraying, Farmer's ensuing sore throat and sinus infection
lasted several months.
After repeatedly observing aircraft spraying
particulates "in front of and into cloud systems," Farmer is "fairly
certain the contrail phenomena is one part of a military weather
modification weapons system."
He notes that because the chemical contrails allow
much more moisture to form inside cloud systems, severe
localized storms result from the aerial seeding while surrounding
areas that have surrendered their moisture to the storm cells
experience drought.
The huge Xs being traced by formations of tanker jets in
the sky can be tracked by satellite and coordinated with the
crossed-beams of ionospheric heaters to heat the upper atmosphere -
changing its temperature and density and enhancing the storm's
effects.
Based in Gakon, Alaska, this unclassified joint U.S. Air
Force and Navy project known as the High Altitude Auroral Research
Project (HAARP) has for the past several years been using phased array
antennas to steer powerful beams of tightly-focused radio waves "to
stimulate," heat and steer sections of the upper atmosphere.
Awarded in 1985 to MIT physicist Bernard Eastlund,
HAARP's commercial patent claims that directed energy beams
of more than one-billion watts can be used for "altering the upper
atmosphere wind patterns using plumes of atmospheric particles as a
lens or focusing device" to disturb weather thousands of miles away.
In an interview with this reporter, Eastlund
admitted, "I had looked at using this intense beam, which can be
angled, to do some experiments in terms of guiding the jetstream,
moving it from one spot to another. I presume it is possible, which
might lend credence to these other things."
In a U.S. Air Force research study, "Weather as a
Force Multiplier" issued in August, 1996, seven U.S. military officers
outlined how HAARP and aerial cloud-seeding from tankers could allow
U.S. aerospace forces to "own the weather" by the year 2025. Among the
desired objectives were "Storm Enhancement," "Storm Modification" and
"Induce Drought."
According to the Air Force report, "In the United
States, weather-modification will likely become a part of
national security policy with both domestic and international
applications."
Within 30 years, the Air Force foresees using Weather
Force Support Elements with "the necessary sensor and communication
capabilities to observe, detect, and act on weather-modification
requirements to support U.S. military objectives" by using "using
airborne cloud generation and seeding" techniques being developed
today, the 1996 Air Force report says.
But on its HAARP website, the U.S. Navy says, "The
HAARP facility will not affect the weather. Transmitted
energy in the frequency ranges that will be used by HAARP is
subject to negligible absorption in either the troposphere or the
stratosphere - the two levels of the atmosphere that produce the
earth's weather. Electromagnetic interactions only occur in the
near-vacuum of the rarefied region above about 70 km known as the
ionosphere."
Still, according to the Air Force's 1996 report,
other routine weather-modification missions will deploy "cirrus
shields" formed by the chemical contrails of high-flying aircraft "to
deny enemy visual and infrared surveillance."
When it is completed, the HAARP antenna array will
consist of 180 antennas on a total land area of about 33 acres. The
final facility will have a total transmitter power of about 3,600
kilowatts. When the HAARP facility is completed, the transmitter will
be able to produce approximately 3.6 million watts of radio frequency
power, the HAARP website states. The Air Force says HAARP transmitters
have been designed to operate "very linearly so that they will not
produce radio interference to other users of the radio spectrum."
Farmer guesses that besides its obvious tactical
military applications, aerial-seeding of contrail-clouds aligned in
HAARP's characteristic grid-patterns could be part of a secret U.S.
government initiative to address the global weather crisis brought
about by atmospheric warming.
The aircraft spraying that has sickened Americans
across the country may not be confined to the United States. On August
11, 1998, "USA Today" reported dozens of residents of
Quirindi,Australia "swearing they saw cobwebs fall from the sky" after
unidentified aircraft passed overhead.
by William Thomas