Chemtrails: A Fortean View

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Chemtrails: A Fortean View

A New Look at a Mystery of the Skies

 

Chemtrails: What's Going On?

 

January 22 2005. By Colin Bennett

 

The so-called “chemtrails” that are seen almost

everywhere in the skies of the world are an incredible

phenomenon of our time, if only because like UFO

sightings, the broad span of social, political, and

intellectual life of major nations largely ignores

such things utterly. Even those with imagination

(artists, playwrights, novelists, poets) ignore such

anomalistic things as UFOs and chemtrails, even though

they offer images, symbols, metaphors, intrigue,

mysterious technology, and much more besides!

This changing of the skies of the world full

previously of traditional pantomime clouds to a sky

scored by lines of whitish-grey streaks is totally

ignored by major news, media, and communication

outlets. This is strange again given that the effects

are quite spectacular and beautiful when lit by the

evening sun. The trails spread out at different rates,

they come from different angles, and the aircraft that

create them can be seen streaking across the sky,

often several at once, and at extremely high speeds.

The word “chemtrails” is used here for lack of a

better word, but it is unlikely that what we see

spreading out across the sky are chemicals of some

sort. Such an amount of chemicals would surely have

the most immediate and obvious effect on both our

minds and environment. We would be please to hear from

environmental group who have more specialized

knowledge about any kind of chemical/environmental

approach.

Over the past year, the Combat Diaries team have

conducted a special investigation of chemtrails over

Britain. With the help of specialists (some ex Royal

Air Force), we conducted a 16 hour period of

observation by web, telephone, and amateur radio of

the skies over America and Central Europe, from first

light to last light, taking into account time

differences. The results were quite disturbing. It was

obvious that simultaneous operation by large numbers

of quite visible aircraft were being mounted over

continental areas on both sides of the Atlantic.

Through contacts, we managed also to get reports on

this selected same day from the civilian staff of

merchant and cruise ships crossing the Atlantic. They

reported that sky trails were visible in whilst

sailing in mid Atlantic.

Thus we concluded that chemtrails represent a

continuous operation of incredible magnitude. The

aircraft involved show remarkably similar

characteristic and performance, though their profile

we have yet to find in any book of aircraft

recognition. Roughly, they resemble in shape and size

the Boeing 757 (the type that crashed into the

Pentagon on 9/11), but carried no markings. This is

remarkable in itself, because technically it is

illegal. Measured by range theodolite and ex-service

hand-held rangefinders, they were doing approximately

the same speed at the same height. The speed was

steady, quite precisely maintained, being 1200 –1400

mph. This is somewhat high for an outmoded passenger

aircraft type, meant for inland short/medium range

commuter flights at a top speed of 450 mph!

These things are wonders in themselves, but it is the

sheer number of these pseudo 757-type aircraft that is

beyond belief. On this chosen sample day, our

reporters in France, Germany and Holland, Spain, Italy

and Israel alone reported at noon the sky trails of no

less that 234 almost identical aircraft at between

40-50,00 feet Since this hourly rate continued during

the day it represented some 2340 sorties over ten

hours. Worldwide, multiplying the quite reasonable

factor of 10, we have 23,400 sorties per day by planes

of a non-military non-supersonic configuration,

travelling at speeds equivalent to the combat speed of

F16 or Typhoon Euro-fighter.

By comparison, NATO figures for annual full-scale

exercises amount to something like 300 (jet

supersonic) combat sorties at full stretch for the

same time period, involving some no more than 150

aircraft. Again, the absence of reported noise is

strange. Even a single Tornado on afterburner over

central London would shake the population up

considerably.

Since our observers at military and civilian airfields

reported no such activity by any such aircraft, we

have here a modern mystery in our skies visible to all

on a clear day. National airspace regulations don’t

appear to be a problem at all with any country as far

as these infringements are concerned.

This vast number of aircraft appear to have no

detectable bases, they have no apparent air-refuelling

needs, they do not carry drop tanks, and the routes

appear to stretch across the sky from all compass

points, often crossing one another on a pretty random

basis. They appear also to have no detectible

manufacturers, support base, or refuelling facilities.

And they don’t appear to land or take off! Again,

since no air force in the world (not even the United

States Air Force) has any supersonic transport

aircraft, the presence of many hundreds of supersonic

transport aircraft is rather strange!

The cost such of such visible operations on a

worldwide basis by the approximately the same type of

powerful aircraft must be stupendous. The maintenance,

fuelling, and repair facilities of such a great number

of high-performance aircraft can only be imagined. The

training schemes and accommodation of the personnel

appear not to exist! Since no such numbers of this

aircraft type are on manufacturer’s lists, and the

number that have been manufactured are all busy on

conventional routes flying conventional passengers and

cargo, we have here a true mystery of our time.

Where are they from, and what are they doing on their

seemingly purposeless routes across the sky?

Investigations are continuing. We are trying, by

various means to monitor their VHF, but they do not

appear to have any measurable frequency signature and

neither do they appear to make any physical noise.

This again is amazing because the represent a very

great number of aircraft that are entering and leaving

(an indeed manoeuvring) inside national airspace at

will, with no recognition signals, and no visible

identification. Since they are supersonic, they are

over the visible horizon in seconds (the comparatively

lazy motion of a 400-mph 747 Jumbo may be compared to

them). Where these many aircraft all break into Mach 1

is another mystery.

We have discovered something else that multiplies

these astonishments. Using (passive) night scope

infrared amplifiers, we found that the operations did

not cease after nightfall!

This means that roughly speaking we can possibly

multiply the scale of operations by a factor of two,

bringing us into absurd realms as regards cost,

maintenance, and purpose.

Our collective “not-seeing” is unusual if only because

chemtrails are much more visible and more frequent

than UFO visitations. We are forced to consider the

idea that levels of conscious acceptance and

recognition within a culture have often nothing to do

with how much “evidence” is available. All anomalistic

structures have this common peculiarity. Somehow, like

a bioelectric switch, as a society we turn most

anomalies “off” as far as social cognition is

concerned. This is a most common effect. The

phenomenon may be large or small, fantastic or

mundane, it makes no difference. We cannot see the

kitchen matchbox in front of us, say, because we are

have been diverted into thinking about something else.

We don’t have enough RAM to hold all our files open at

the same time!

From a Fortean point of view, the phenomenon of

chemtrails might enable us to construct a new and

healthier definition of what we mean by “skepticism.”

We might see skepticism not a revealing of mundane

truth, so much as an automated control mechanism by

means of which maintain a kind of wonder-management

rather than differentiate fact from fiction. This was

Charles Fort’s original view of the function of

skepticism. It puts “doubt” in a new dynamic context

rather than it being seen as a depressing

semi-automated denial of all that is wondrous and

magical in the world.

Meantime, we are starting the long, hard road of

corresponding with the appropriate civil and military

authorities about chemtrails.

We can hear both Franz Kafka and Charles Fort laughing

from their graves!

About the author:

Colin Bennett was born in Robin Hood’s Sherwood

Forest, within arrow-shot of the Sheriff of

Nottingham’s castle. He left school after studying

science and mathematics, became a professional

musician, then a mercenary soldier before winning a

scholarship to read English at Balliol College,

University of Oxford.

After leaving Oxford, he had several plays performed

on the professional stage in London including the

Royal Court Theatre before retraining as an

electronics engineer to cure what he calls “a bad dose

of left-liberal decadence.” After his reconstruction,

he then ran his own electronics consultancy and

printing firm. He has had two novels published, and

now lives within a spear-throw of Portobello Road,

London, and hopes he has done with reconstructions. He

is frequently consulted on security, conspiracies, and

computer hacking. He now heads a team who spend all

their time running the Combat Diaries web site at

http://www.combat-diaries.co.uk

His third biography is due out in March 2005. This is

An American Demonology (Head Press) the story of

Captain Edward Ruppelt, who headed Project Blue Book

in the early 1950s. This Project was the official

United States Air Force investigation into the UFO

phenomenon. Both the above books are available on

Amazon.

 

Original article from Phenomena Magazine