Mystery Jet Contrails May Be Modifying Weather, Involves HAARP
Mark Graffis
By William Thomas
SEATTLE, Washington,
January 12, 1999 (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.
contrails
Contrail (Photo courtesy European Southern Observatory)
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.
HAARP
Taken: 1/11/99; 16:14:59 Alaska Time, this is a photograph of the high
frequency antenna array at the HAARP Ionospheric Research Observatory. It
was taken with an automated camera in the temporary operation center trailer
at the HAARP facility. (Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force)
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."
HAARP
Aerial view of the HAARP Ionospheric Research Facility eight miles north of
Gakona, Alaska, summer 1997. (Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force)
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.
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