March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport
Thomas returns to present what he calls a breakthrough in chemtrail credibility. Victoria, British Columbia resident Mark Porter shares his experience calling the local airport authority about intense aerial grid patterns over his city. The program plays a recorded voicemail from Terry Stewart, Manager of Airport Planning and Environment at Victoria International Airport, confirming the activity as a joint U.S. and Canadian military exercise and calling it "very odd." This marks the first official acknowledgment that the persistent plumes are not normal airline contrails.
Thomas presents lab results showing aluminum levels seven times above Canada's maximum permissible safe levels in rainwater collected beneath chemtrail activity. He connects this to a 1994 Hughes Aircraft patent and Lawrence Livermore Lab studies proposing stratospheric aluminum spraying to reflect sunlight and counteract global warming, estimating the program cost at one billion dollars annually.
Key Moments
How to tell a chemtrail from a contrail: Thomas explains the visual distinctions: real contrails are pencil-thin, fade like a boat wake, and per Canadian/US authorities disappear within 50 seconds; chemtrails are thick plumes laid down at lower altitudes than the contrails above them, billowing into milky haze and crossing in grids and Xs.
Victoria Airport Authority confirms military exercise: Bell plays a recorded callback from Terry Stewart of the Victoria Airport Authority telling a citizen the unusual aerial activity was a US-Canadian Air Force exercise. Thomas calls it the first official admission, then notes Comox Air Base flatly denied any such joint operation.
Aluminum at 7x safe levels in rainwater: Thomas reports an independent lab analyzed rainwater that fell through heavy chemtrail gridding over Espanola, Ontario, where 550 residents petitioned Parliament. The result: aluminum levels seven times the maximum permissible safe level in Canada - matching the spec of a known patent.
Edward Teller's geoengineering scheme: Thomas connects the dots: Edward Teller publicly told CBS News the simplest answer to global warming is high-altitude aluminum particles to scatter 1-2% of incoming sunlight, and Hughes Aircraft holds a 1991 Welsbach patent for putting those particles in jet fuel - with the only caution being that it might turn the sky milky white.
The economic-catastrophe motive: Thomas argues this is an act of desperation tied to insurance industry losses of $92 billion a year from extreme weather. He games out the presidential calculus: $100 billion a year to cut fossil fuels versus $1 billion a year for aerial aluminum spraying using existing USAF tankers.