Is The Sky Falling Or Are Chemtrails A Paranoid Delusion?
A jet leaves a contrail across the sky.Chances are, that you have seen an airplane high in the sky leaving a contrail. Contrails most commonly form as water vapor from jet exhaust pushes the water content of the surrounding air past the point of saturation leading to the formation of water droplets or ice crystals that hang in the sky forming an artificial cloud. These contrails usually dissipate very quickly. However on occasion the contrails left behind a jet do not dissipate. Instead they hang in the sky overhead, slowly spreading, sometimes taking hours to fully disappear. Some people believe that these long lasting contrails are something much more vile than a normal trail of condensed water vapor. They theorize that instead of water vapor these contrails are made up of some sort of aerosolized chemical, purposefully sprayed out of specially designed jets.
Why you ask, would someone want to spray large areas covertly? Well, if you subscribe to the conspiracy theories, 
1966 photo of Project Stormfury personnel.the reasons are many ranging from the reasonably plausible to the incredible. On the easier to believe side of the scale, we have weather control - potentially to try and reverse the effects of global warming. Weather modification is something that does happen on a regular basis round the world when clouds are “seeded” to produce rain, though the effectiveness of this technique has never been proven and is hotly debated. It is also a topic that has been extensively researched by the US government which ran Project Stormfury from the early 60’s to the early 80’s in an attempt to discover a means of weakening hurricanes. The project was canceled after it failed to produce any viable results. Though over ten years past since the last official experimental flight and the projects cancelation in 1983, which may lead some to believe that Project Stormfury did uncover something in those intervening years before its cancelation.
As we journey further into the incredible, population control is brought up as a reason for chemtrails. Some people theorize that the government or another powerful organization are using chemtrails to disperse substances capable of making populations more docile or apathetic and easier to control. Other theories posit that the substance being sprayed into the atmosphere is actually a sort of mind control agent. Before these theories can be dismissed as rantings of the paranoid, one has to consider that the CIA has and may still be conducting experiments seeking methods of mind control. During the 1950s and 60s the CIA ran MK-ULTRA, a research project that attempted to develop new methods of chemical interrogation and mind control using various substances including LSD and other drugs. Allegedly CIA operatives would pick up people off the street for use in these experiments. Unfortunately little is known of MK-ULTRA and its results because the Richard Helms, the director of the CIA in 1973 ordered all MK-ULTRA documents destroyed to hamper congressional investigations into the agencies domestic activities. Some believe that the CIA may very well be continuing MK-ULTRA’s legacy even today.
The most vile and hopefully least plausible reasoning for the use of chemtrails is the control of population size. The theory states that chemtrails are made up of specific substances designed to target certain ethnic groups and are being used to effect a covert genocide. Other variations on this theory have chemtrails indiscriminately targeting areas, making everyone sick. The wealthy are able to seek treatment for their chemtrail induced ailments while the poor are left to die, reducing the strain put on the economy by welfare programs. There is almost no reliable evidence to, in my mind, make this even a remotely plausible, though I do not doubt the existence of persons who would put such a plan into action without a second thought. If chemtrails were being used in such a manor, we would see them heavily used (or evidence of their use) in countries such as China who are dealing with major overpopulation issues.
Skeptics point to the lack of reliable hard evidence and the inefficiency of chemtrails as a delivery method when arguing against their existence. However there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to point to interest in the potential end results of chemtrail use by governments and other organizations. I, however, have to side with the skeptics on this issue. If only for the fact that there are many more efficient methods of delivering chemicals to the public (public utilities, public transportation, regulation of chemicals used on crops) that make aerosol delivery a second or third choice at best. The only theory that I think is remotely plausible is that chemtrails are some sort of weather modification program/experiment. Even for that there is little evidence, leaving skeptical to the idea that chemtrails are anything more than normal contrails until better evidence is found. You will have to decide on your own if chemtrails are a threat or just a paranoid delusion…
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March 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I’ve heard of the chemtrail theory before and it seems to me that if the government was trying to induce a state of chemical euphoria upon a population to make them more docile there are much cheaper and direct ways of doing it. Like putting trace amounts of anti-depressants into the water or food supply. Flying an airplane at high altitude and wafting down chemicals over vast distances is kind of wasteful and expensive. I don’t know for sure of course, since one thing the government knows how to do well is waste money!
March 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
While there is no doubt that governments are one of the all time heavyweights when if comes to wasting money, I have to agree that the water supply is a much better distribution tool. There are already traces of many pharmaceuticals in the water supply (http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1/) which set a precedent if a doping operation ever needed to be covered up (or would make good cover for hiding something else in the water supply).
March 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I saw in my kids science book from school that there is a plane the were using to put a artificial sunscreen into the air.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I googled and found a link that said the textbook that contains this information is “Science 1: Essential Interactions” by Centre Pointe Learning (ISBN 1-930-799-00-4). I am trying to contact the company to get confirmation and possibly a sample copy. I will make sure to share what I find. -John
March 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I look forward to see what you can dig up on that. It’s the first I’ve heard about it which is weird because you’d figure the media would be all over a story like that. It’s kind of creepy in a way.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
UPDATE: I have tried to contact Centre Pointe Learning and their phone lines appear disconnected and any email sent to their domain bounces back. I am trying to see if their web host has contact information for the company, but I am not hopeful. A public record search showed their initial incorporation in 2000, but not much else. Hopefully, even if the company went under I can find someone to contact about their source material for that section. On the bright side, the text book is not to expensive on Amazon - so at least I can get a copy of it. -John
March 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I decided to look into this a little myself and found this link:
http://www.willthomas.net/Chemtrails/Articles/Chemtrails_In_US_Schools.htm
You might have seen it already I don’t know. I think what I took from it is that the text book is asking the question on if it could be possible to add sunscreen to the atmosphere by burning richer fuels in jet planes. Which in itself is pretty wrong since it’s like saying to a child you can add a layer of sun protection in your house by filling it with second hand cigarette smoke. It doesn’t seem like the text details whether or not the program is in place. I do know they have done studies which determine that contrails from planes DO effect and slow global warming since they block the direct sunlight. But obviously this is a double edged sword since the contrails also add to the polution and CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
I hope you get that book and do a write up about it. It’s really interesting stuff.