- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- Where are they from, and what are they doing on their
seemingly purposeless routes across the sky?
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- Meantime, we are starting the long, hard road of corresponding
with the appropriate civil and military authorities about chemtrails.
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- We can hear both Franz Kafka and Charles Fort laughing
from their graves!
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- 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.
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- 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
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- He is the author of Looking for Orthon (Paraview Press)
a biography of George Adamski. His following book, on the life work, and
ideas of Charles Fort, was Politics of the Imagination (Head Press). This
won the Anomalist Award for Best Biography, 2002.
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- 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.
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- http://phenomenamagazine.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Area+5
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- Comment
- From John Albrecht
- 11-15-4
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- Jeff,
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- I offer a better study concept, and discount the conclusions
of the article.
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- A more valid study would be to track a number of commercial
airliners from take-off to landing, using positioned observers along the
route, using the flight-plans, and just WATCH to see if these "in-study"
commercial airliners generate "chemtrails". There is already
enough data to suggest optimum airports to start the study (history of
"chemtrails" reports, satellite photos, etc). One could study/photograph
the individual aircraft pre-flight (looking for nozzles, intake of unknown
supplies, etc), and one could also put people ON each flight in the study
to look for supporting data from within the plane. One could study airport
operations to see if there are hidden repositories of chemicals, special
fuels, and places where the plane is serviced in an unusual manner. One
could study the service records of the aircraft involved, talk to the people
who hands-on service the planes, etc.
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- It is just too easy to discount the conclusions of the
referenced article, if one assumes the base observation of flight altitudes
at 50,000 ft is incorrect. Surveying equipment and hand-held range-finders
are NOT designed to measure such distances. They ARE optimized to measure
distances to relatively near objects. For such distances, a much longer
observational baseline, or radar, is required. One can have incredibly
accurate scientific equipment, but if used outside of its operational parameters..the
results are just as meaningless as if the equipment were junk.
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- Given observational error and possible use of jet-streams
(a common airline industry practice), and if we assume the aircraft are
really flying at roughly 25,000 ft (a more common jet-flight altitude),
the resulting calculated air-speed is well within the reach of all just
about all jet aircraft...commercial, private, and military. Calculate it
for yourself (simple trigonometry, folks).
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- If the "operation" is as large as the article
suggests, it would be impossible to keep its existence a secret. The number
of people involved, aircraft, the fuel requirements, the labor and parts
support requirements, and so on are just too vast to hide away.
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- Regards,
- John Albrecht
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