Source:
Las Vegas Tribune
http://www.lasvegastribune.com

Chemtrails Are Over Las Vegas
http://www.lasvegastribune.com/20050819/headline1.html

Marcus K. Dalton
Tribune Media Group

August 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.

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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 www.willthomas.net , 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 http://tinyurl.com/b6l8b 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.

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