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Contrails Mystify, Sicken Americans
By William Thomas
SEATTLE, Washington, January 8, 1999 (ENS) - Contrails spread by fleets of
jet aircraft in elaborate cross-hatched patterns are sparking speculation
and making people sick across the United States.
Washington state resident William Wallace became ill with severe diarrhea
and fatigue after watching several multi-engine jets spend New Year's day
laying cloud lines in an east to west grid pattern. A neighbor working
outside came down with similar symptoms. But their wives, who remained
indoors, suffered no ill effects from the inexplicable maneuvers which
observers liken to high-altitude "crop-dusting" by unidentifed multi-engine
aircraft.
Series of aircraft contrails in a high traffic region over the northern
Gulf of Mexico 1992 (Images courtesy NASA)
Condensation trails, called contrails, are generated at altitudes high
enough for water droplets to freeze in a matter of seconds and not quickly
evaporate - typically where the temperatures are below -38 degrees Celcius.
Contrails can form through the addition of water vapor to the air from the
jet engine exhaust. Even tiny nuclei released in the exhaust fumes may be
sufficient to generate ice crystals, and hence, condensation trails.
Wallace wonders if ethylene dibromide, a highly toxic component of JP-8 jet
fuel, is making people sick. Similar incidents over Las Vegas last year
prompted a US Air Force spokesman to explain that the military aircraft
were "dumping fuel" before landing.
But the strange spray patterns are being reported repeatedly over towns in
Tennessee, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Nevada, Idaho,
Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Washington state and California.
Wallace has been watching formations of high-flying jets weave grid-like
contrails above his home since last summer. Each time, "We get a taste in
our mouth," he reports. He and his wife Ann get "kind of tired and sick,"
having "no energy to do anything."
After plants began dying around his mountain cabin, "I got real sick for
about three weeks," Wallace relates. "My eyes watered. Fluid came out of my
nose. I could hardly move my arm up above my head to comb my hair for about
a week."
Wallace and his wife are not alone in their plight. In March, 1996, Dr.
Greg Hanford bought an expensive camera and binoculars to keep an eye on
jets spraying white bands above his Bakersfield, California home. Hanford
has counted 40 or 60 jets on some "spray days."
"Everybody seems to be getting sick from it," Hanford told ENS. "Hackin'
and coughin' when you really get nailed with this stuff." The dentist, many
of his patients and two receptionists have repeatedly contracted severe
respiratory infections. Hanford's illness lingered for five months despite
courses of four different antibiotics.
"It's really weird," Hanford says. "You think two jets are going to hit
each other - and then they make an X." The dentist says he has sometimes
seen "furry globular balls" spread downwind in a long feather from the
high-flying aircraft.
Unlike normal contrails, which dissipate soon after a lone jet's passage,
video taken by Wallace and Hanford show eerily silent silver jets streaming
fat contrails from their wingtips in multiple, criss-cross patterns. But
instead of dissipating like normal contrails, these white jet-trails
coalesce into broad cloud-bands that gradually occlude crystal clear skies.
"Passenger jets don't make contrails that stay and become clouds," Wallace
observes.
Government officials deny that anything unusual is taking place. When
Hanford called the local airport, tower personnel told him there was
nothing going on." The jets were "just commercial" undergoing
"international flight training."
But a skeptical Hanford responded, "Is the FAA going to allow two jets to
come at each other?"
Pseudo-color, multispectral images taken April 20, 1994 by a NOAA
satellite, reveal a number of contrails over Oklahoma and Kansas.
X'es, overlapping W's and the Roman numeral XII are among the patterns
flown by the mystery aircraft. Last June, Hanford watched four aircraft
spraying in circles to form a perfect bulls-eye. Through his Swaroski
binoculars, Hanford could see what "looked like a 737" painted all-white on
top with an "orangish-red" underbody and red engine cowlings.
Another 727-like aircraft was painted "all-white with a black stripe up the
middle of fuselage." None of the planes carried identifying markings.
Pat Edgar has been watching the jets spraying over eastern Oklahoma since a
sunny day in October, 1977 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 "cobwebbing 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 that "There is a lot of Lupus in the area now. A lot of women
have come down with it."
Edgar's father-in-law, a former judge, and three or four other close
friends were hit hard in their immune systems. Symptoms include swollen
hands and legs, night fever and shortness of breath.
Contrails spread out over time. (Photo by Ronald Holle, U. of Illinois
Cloud Catalog)
Retired Oklahoma state judge Bill Ed Rogers now runs out of breath after
walking 20 feet to the bathroom. Climbing stairs, he says, "is directly out
of the question."
Rogers, does not attribute his strange malady to the mystery jets. But
neither he nor his doctors can explain his breathing difficulty, which
began shortly after spraying began in November, 1997, and is getting worse.
The 57 year old former judge says he thought he was experiencing congenital
heart failure when he was admitted into the Mayo clinic last January. But
after being diagnosed with severe inflamation in his right lung, a team of
top surgeons were unable to pump an unidentified "jello-like" fluid from
his lung.
Edgar, Wallace, Hanford and other eye-witnesses are uneasy over the ongoing
aerial "experiments and the secrecy surrounding them. "They're gettin'
ready, practicing," Edgar believes, for some kind of mass population cull.
Before Edgar sold his restaurant, customers came in complaining of
airplanes "flyin' around all night" over a remote area of Oklahoma. In the
morning, they could see "stuff comin' out of their wings." Edgar says he
knows four-dozen witnesses who have "come down violently ill, coughin' up
blood for two weeks - or [with] real bad nosebleeds." As far as he's
concerned, "it had to be something in that doggone plane that was spillin'
out in the middle of the night."
Edgar joins witnesses across the U.S. who worry that whoever is behind the
mystery spraying just has to "come up with something a little stronger
later on. It's just a guess," he says. "But it sure seems weird. They have
a mission. They go back and forth all day. Hey man I'm talkin' hundreds of
contrails in a day! It's unbelievable."
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