Chemtrails Are Over Las Vegas

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Chemtrails Are Over Las Vegas

Marcus K. Dalton

Tribune Media Group

08/19/2005

Part 1

 

Editor's Note: Las Vegas residents are increasingly noticing the

appearance of chemical trails overhead. They appear EVERY weekend

without fail, the only exception being the two weeks after September

11, 2001. Such " chemtrails " are substantially different in appearance

to the normal condensation trails left by jet airliners. The

difference is that while condensation trails are composed of water

vapor that dissipates rapidly, " chemtrails " linger much longer and

spread out over time to eventually cover the sky with a thin haze.

This week the Las Vegas Tribune begins a two-part article to examine

the undeniable and mysterious phenomena of Chemtrails Over Las Vegas.

 

Last year a concerned reader wrote to the Idaho Observer: " Driving

across Idaho and Nevada we saw normal condensation trails in the skies

above north Idaho and we were habitually looking up as we drove toward

Las Vegas. We had noticed that the sparsely populated areas in Nevada

had brilliantly clear blue skies and that the occasional airplane left

vapor trails that dissipated normally. But as soon as we neared Las

Vegas, in the skies directly above the city, we watched what appeared

to be a military C-135 Transports spraying something over the

populated areas. When the planes were no longer directly over Las

Vegas, they continued flying leaving a vapor trail that dissipated

normally. "

 

It has been reported that the " chemtrails " contain ethylene dibromide

-- a substance that has been an additive to gasoline and airplane

fuels as well as a banned pesticide. Ethylene dibromide has been

linked to kidney and liver damage and is an immunosuppressive and a

lung irritant.

 

William Thomas, who has researched chemtrails since their appearance

in the latter 90s, has noted stunted plant growth in once-healthy

gardens and wilderness areas in Santa Fe and Aspen. Similar

plant problems are commonly associated with chemtrails in other

regions of the U.S.

 

A brief history of the chemtrail phenomenon can be traced to a

Washington state man who told award-winning investigative reporter

William Thomas that he'd become ill on New Year's Day 1999 after

watching several jets make strange lines in the sky. Within six

months, Thomas, writing primarily for the Environmental News Service,

has detailed 1000s of eyewitness reports of chemtrails from 40 states.

 

" Mainstream newspapers have gone out of their way to dismiss these

eyewitness accounts, " Thomas told the New Mexican newspaper in June

1999, " It's easier to sell UFOs to major media than a phenomena as

close in many cities as the nearest window. "

 

Especially disturbing for residents of heavily chemtrailed communities

like Las Vegas is a " chemtrail sickness " associated with heavy spray

days leaving many stricken people complaining of the " flu " and acute

allergic reactions months after the flu season has ended. Upper and

lower respiratory and gastrointestinal ailments remain unusually high

in many spray areas, along with debilitating fatigue - and something

even more worrying.

 

What's going on?

 

Thomas is convinced that we are under " deliberate biological attack "

by agents known only to top military and government officials

responsible for permitting continuing over-flights by unmarked spray

aircraft.

 

Government officials deny that anything unusual is taking place, yet

increasing numbers of concerned observers are seeing 727-like aircraft

painted " all-white with a black stripe up the middle of fuselage "

laying long and often cries-crossing chemtrail patterns over Southern

Nevada and elsewhere. None of the planes carry identifying markings.

 

Pat Edgar has been watching the jets spraying over eastern Oklahoma

since a sunny day in October, 1997 when as many as 30 contrails

gradually occluded the sky. " They look like they're playing

tic-tac-toe up there, " he says. " You know darn well it's not passenger

planes. " Edgar says he has watched " cob-webbing stuff coming down "

from the zigzagging jets flying " all day long, line after line,

back-and-forth, like furrows in a farm field. " Edgar adds " There is a

lot of Lupus in the area now. A lot of women have come down with it. "

 

One source, who spoke to the Tribune under condition of anonymity,

working as a civilian archeologist on government land throughout

Nevada, began to notice " all white unmarked aircraft " preparing for

take-off at Nellis AFB and at the Mancamp Complex near Tonapah in the

late-90s. " It was these unmarked planes that were constantly laying

down the criss-crossing X patterns of lingering chemical-spray trails

over Southern Nevada. " When the archeologist asked the military escort

who accompanied the civilian research team into 'sensitive' areas

around Nellis, about the planes, the reply received was, " You didn't

see anything. "

 

Another Las Vegas resident, Sandy Range, grew up within an outdoors

field and stream-type family and has been watching the weather and the

skies all her life. Holding a degree from Syracuse University, Range

moved to Las Vegas in 1989. " I first began to notice the chemtrails in

late '96 - 14 criss-crossed miles-long vapor trails that didn't

evaporate like the norm. I began to see them weekly, then daily, "

Range states matter-of-factly.

 

One early morning in '99 Range was returing from Henderson when a

low-flying craft dropped a trail right overhead along Boulder Highway.

" It covered my car with a sticky web-like coating and I saved a

specimen in a jar. Microscopic fiber-like filaments, " Range reports.

 

Government denials, as usual.

 

Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio authored the Space Preservation

Act of 2001, which sought a " permanent ban against weapons in space, "

specifically banning " chemtrails " as weapons. But in a subsequent

version of the bill, the " chemtrails " language disappeared entirely.

The missing words suggest an eyes-wide-open denial, which says as much

about the cover-up as it does about the spraying that's plainly

visible in the sky.

 

In a front-page story entitled " Conspiracy theorists look up, " the

Akron Beacon Journal noted that Kucinich's bill " had been rewrittenand

the references to chemtrails and the other types of weapons were

quietly eliminated. " The Beacon Journal article, linking chemtrails to

conspiracies, resulted from massive local pressure. Michel Massullo of

Akron provided that newspaper with rolls of photos of plane trails and

a sworn affidavit attesting to extensive aerial activity over that city.

 

The U.S. Air Force Website refutes the " Chemtrail Hoax " as having been

around since 1996, " accusing the Air Force of being involved in

spraying the U.S. population " with mysterious substances: " Several

authors cite an Air University research paper titled 'Weather as a

Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025' that suggests the Air

Force is conducting weather modification experiments. The purpose of

that paper was part of a thesis to outline a strategy for the use of a

future weather modification system to achieve military objectives and

it does not reflect current military policy, practice, or capability.

The Air Force is not conducting any weather modification experiments

or programs and has no plans to do so in the future. The 'chemtrail'

hoax has been investigated and refuted by many established and

accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media

publications. "

 

Explaining the government's position, Lieutenant Colonel Michael K.

Gibson of the U.S. Air Force wrote U.S. Representative Mark Green in

August 2000 and stated, " The term 'chemtrail' is a hoax that began

circulating approximately three years ago which asserts the government

is involved in a joint federal program of covert spraying of the public. "

 

But many intelligent researchers call Gibson's communique a classic

non-denial denial: Gibson is denying that the Air Force is secretly

spraying U.S. citizens. The reality is the U.S. Space Command and

other government agencies are involved in ongoing experiments for

military and environmental purposes that involve aerial spraying, and

the microfibers and other sprayed chemicals inevitably fall to earth,

putting the public at risk.

 

Before you believe Gibson's and the government's " denial, " do an

Internet search for the following terms: " Joint Vision for 2020 " and

" Weather is a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 " , a

whitepaper by MIT's Bernard Eastlund and H-bomb father Edward Teller.

Before he died in 2003, Teller was director emeritus of Lawrence

Livermore National Laboratory, where plans for nuclear, biological and

directed energy weapons are crafted. In 1997, Teller publicly outlined

his proposal to use aircraft to scatter through the stratosphere

millions of tons of electrically-conductive metallic materials,

ostensibly to reduce global warming.

 

Two scientists working at Wright Patterson Air Force Base confirmed to

the Ohio newspaper, Columbus Alive, that they were involved in aerial

spraying experiments. One involved aluminum oxide spraying related to

global warming and the other involved barium stearate and had to do

with high-tech military communications.

 

And even in the face of government denials, environmental laboratories

have begun to identify an extremely toxic component of the spray

drifting over cities and countryside. Several independent sources

claim that samples of fallout from the lingering smoke trails and have

been independently tested and found to contain ethylene dibromide (EDB).

 

In 1998, a US Air Force public affairs officer told residents of Las

Vegas that their sudden upsurge of respiratory ailments could have

come from " routine " fuel-dumping by military aircraft reducing weight

for landing.

 

An extremely hazardous pesticide, EDB was banned by the US

Environmental Protection Agency in 1983. But in 1991, the composition

of jet fuel used by commercial and military jet aircraft in the U.S.

was changed from JP4 to somewhat less flammable JP8. A Department of

Defense source says the move " has saved some lives " in air crashes.

Ethylene dibromide is a key component of JP8.

 

The 1991 Chemical Hazards of the Workplace warns that repeated

exposure to low levels of ethylene dibromide results in " general

weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, coughing and shortness of

breath, upper respiratory tract irritation " and respiratory failure

caused by swelling of the lymph glands in the lungs. " Deterioration of

the heart, liver and kidneys, and hemorrhages in the respiratory

tract, " can also result from prolonged contact with JP8.

 

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous

materials list: " Ethylene dibromide is a carcinogen and must be

handled with extreme caution. " A seven-page summary of this

pesticide's extreme toxicity notes that EDB may also damage the

reproductive system. According to the EPA, " Exposure can irritate the

lungs, repeated exposure may cause bronchitis, development of cough,

and shortness of breath. It will damage the liver and kidneys " .

 

Mark Witten, a respiratory physiologist at the University of Arizona

in Tucson where an official US Air Force study on JP8 was carried out,

told Scientist in March, 1998 that crew chiefs " seem to have more

colds, more bronchitis, more chronic coughs than the people not

exposed to jet fuel. "

 

EDB is 6.5-times heavier than air. Unlike normal condensation trails,

the thick white streamers being sprayed from downward-pointing

tail-booms over at least 39 states does not dissipate, but spreads

into an overcast that refracts a purple color in sunlight and appears

suddenly as an oily film in puddles and ponds.

 

Hundreds of photographs and videotapes made by ground observers show

pairs or larger formations of aircraft spreading a white mist that

thickens and drifts toward the ground. Thousands of eye-witnesses -

including police officers, pilots, military and public health

personnel - have provided detailed accounts of aerial spraying in

characteristic " X " s and east-to-west grid patterns, followed by

occluded skies - and acute auto-immune reactions and respiratory

infections throughout affected regions.

 

Severe headaches, nosebleeds, shortness of breath, joint pain and a

dry hacking cough " that never leaves " are being reported by countless

Americans jamming hospital Emergency Rooms from coast to coast. While

December and January are traditionally bad months for asthma

sufferers, patients, doctors and nurses across the U.S. report

hospital wards filled to overflowing with bronchitis, pneumonia and

acute asthma admissions at up to twice-normal winter rates.

 

" We're getting sprayed real heavily with the chemtrails, " a Las Vegas

resident told the Tribune. " On some days it's just total saturation. "

 

As over-filled Pennsylvania hospitals were forced to divert

respiratory emergencies to other facilities with bed space, a

south-central Pennsylvania resident, Deborah Kammerer, looked out her

window and watched aircraft " flying and dispersing over the city. It

was supposed to be a clear sunny day. It became more overcast as the

day progressed. I observed how the white trails widened out and

settled down creating a haze over everything. "

 

Where is the mainstream media's reporting of this mass phenomenon?

Indications of a concerted cover-up came in February 2003, when a

retired Southern Baptist preacher named Everett Burton finally

succeeded in reaching C-span. After voicing his opinion on the Clinton

impeachment trial, this former minister told Americans to get a copy

of the Constitution and read it to realize what they have lost. Rev.

Burton then advised viewers not to take his word for what was

happening in the US, " just look up in the skies as the planes

regularly spray contrails across the skies, spraying people and making

them ill. " At that point, Rev. Burton was cut off. The screen flipped

from C-span to the Tennessee state seal, remained silent for several

minutes.

 

.... to be concluded next week.