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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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September 18, 2004: Chemtrails and Weather Modification - William Thomas

Sep 18, 2004
2h 53m
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Art Bell opens with a surprise visit from Whitley Strieber, discussing a rare hurricane tracking across the Arizona desert, a swarm of 200 earthquakes on the California-Nevada border, and the connection between atmospheric temperature differentials and increasingly violent weather. Strieber warns that changes in the stratosphere are intensifying storms at an unprecedented rate.

Award-winning investigative journalist William Thomas then presents new evidence of hurricane seeding off the Florida coast. Thomas describes gel-like material washing ashore ahead of Hurricane Francis that matches earlier reports from cloud-seeding tests by the company Dyn-O-Mat. He details independent lab results from Ontario and Edmonton showing elevated levels of aluminum and barium in rainwater samples collected beneath persistent aerial plumes, connecting these findings to Air Force weather modification projects and HAARP research.

The conversation expands into weather weaponization, with Thomas citing a congressional bill that originally named chemtrails and a military vision document outlining plans to control the atmosphere. Art plays actual HAARP transmissions recorded from Alaska, prompting a flood of listener reactions ranging from physical discomfort to unusual emotional responses.

Key Moments

  1. Strieber blames CO2 for storm intensity: Whitley Strieber tells Art he's certain greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere are driving the unprecedented hurricane season, despite Republican-led Senate testimony to the contrary.

  2. Art plays HAARP audio on air: Art plays two recordings made by Steve Wingate of actual HAARP transmissions aimed at the ionosphere, calling the signals 'weird, weird stuff' and asking what purpose they serve.

  3. Thomas alleges Hurricane Frances was seeded: Will Thomas reports that a gel-like material washed ashore at Juno and Pompano Beach ahead of Hurricane Frances, matching DynoMat's DynoGel previously identified after a 2001 thunderstorm-seeding test off West Palm Beach.

  4. Air traffic controllers told it's climate modification: Thomas says FAA radar operators on the East Coast and Edmonton, Canada controllers tracked unidentified tanker aircraft leaving radar-visible trails and were told by superiors the flights were weather, then climate, modification experiments.

  5. Lab tests, Wright-Patterson scientists, Hughes patent: Thomas walks through Espanola, Ontario rain samples showing aluminum at seven times safety limits, Edmonton snow samples showing elevated aluminum and barium, two Wright-Patterson scientists confirming Air Force aluminum-oxide and barium projects, and the Hughes global-warming-reduction patent that called for putting reflective materials in jet fuel.