Davich: Contrails, chemtrails or contemporary legend?
Source: Post-Tribune, News of Northwest Indiana, article by Jerry Davich
Look, up in the sky. No, seriously.
There’s a possibility you’ll see intriguing white streaks of, well, something.
Are they simply contrails from jet airplane engines, which have been leaving exhaust-related plumes for decades? Or are these murky streaks something more?
Possibly “geo-engineering” at work or chemical trails (“chemtrails”)? Or more radical explanations, such as human pesticides, biological agents and weather pattern manipulation, as I’ve been told by critical observers. Conspiracy theories, you say?
“Conspiracy possibilities,” replied Andrew Reed of Chesterton.
“I’ve seen contrails. These are different,” he insisted, pointing to a ton of Internet information and conjecture on this topic.
“I’ve studied chemtrails for a while now, but this was the first time I saw them happen for myself,” he told me earlier this week. “My experience today helped solidify my beliefs that planes are dropping something on an unsuspecting public.”
On that day, our Northwest Indiana skies were littered with these cloudy white streaks going every direction. I always assumed they were created by jets flying to and from the two Chicago airports. Not so, claims Reed and others.
“The planes were crisscrossing and making 90-degree turns right before my eyes,” said Reed, a sanitation worker for Portage. “The trails they left acted in accordance with everything I have come to know about them. They left a murky cloud-like haze that did not evaporate. They are real and shrouded in mystery.”
Mystery indeed, until you talk with a university chemistry professor or meteorologist from The Weather Channel.
“There is a very basic scientific explanation for these chemtrails,” said Kory Stiffler, a visiting assistant professor of chemistry, physics and astronomy at Indiana University Northwest in Gary. “They are essentially trails of water vapor left by the exhaust of airplanes, which condense in the cold air and form little trails of clouds, the same way a regular cloud is formed.”
The reason these water vapor trails (and clouds) are white is that the water vapor of which they are composed scatters sunlight in all directions, he noted. On the other hand, the scattering of sunlight by atmospheric gases (primarily nitrogen and oxygen) is the reason the sky is blue — these gases scatter blue light in all directions.
It’s all Physics 101, a course he teaches every semester.
Meteorologists from The Weather Channel agree, telling me that when weather conditions are just right, jets leave behind a streaming contrail cloud.
“Some conspiracy theorists believe these are trails of chemicals released by planes. However, that is not the case,” a Weather Channel spokeswoman told me.
In simplest terms, such conditions need a rather high relative humidity but below the point of saturation, with no clouds. A slight change in air temperature can lead to this condensation.
“Relative humidity is when temperature and dew point are close together,” the spokeswoman said. “When the temperature drops to the dew point, this is when you get the condensation or clouds, or contrail in this case.”
Reed and other critics of such scientific explanation don’t believe it.
“Why do people refuse to believe that geoengineering is real?” asked Reed, who took a photo of the sky that day, which accompanies this column. “We’ve seen what governments can do, with cases like Agent Orange in Vietnam and other instances of chemical warfare.”
Reed is certainly not alone with such thinking locally. I’ve heard from many other readers about these contrails or chemtrails, especially this past year.
“They were spraying big time today. It can’t be good,” said Jerry Gilles, a social media follower.
“They’ve been doing it for years but people are finally starting to realize what’s happening,” said Kathy Parsons of Gary.
Many of them insist doubters watch the 2010 documentary film, “What in the World Are They Spraying?” which reportedly reveals the chemtrail-geoengineering cover-up.
This is how it’s billed: “Here is the story of a rapidly developing industry called geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations, and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water — all supposedly for the betterment of mankind.” But, “the effect has been devastating to crops, wildlife and human health. We are being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent.”
Reed, among others, is a believer.
“I believe it’s aluminum and possibly barium and strontium,” he said.
Why?
“Possibly to block solar rays to slow global warming,” he said. “Possibly to experiment on the population. To destroy plant life. To destroy soil on independent farms for big agriculture interests. Weather manipulation. There are numerous possibilities.”
Really?
“People can make all the tinfoil hat jokes they want, but I’m scared,” Reed said. “I don’t live my life based on fear, but this is so strange.”
From a sociological perspective, this is called a “contemporary legend,” contrary to an urban legend, used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in preindustrial societies.
This type of legend reflects contemporary circumstances and paranoia about unseen enemies and threats to our country, such as “enemy agents,” “big government” or “big brother.”
As the sociologist W.I. Thomas taught us, “What people define as real becomes real in their consequences.” Even though the stories may not be real at all.
“Remember, it doesn’t mean these contemporary legends are real but simply that people believe them to be true and what such beliefs say about urban life and perhaps even history,” said Charles Gallmeier, professor of sociology at IUN.
Again, I tell you, look up in the sky. But also look in your psyche and your gut before coming to your conclusion.
Source: Post-Tribune, News of Northwest Indiana, article by Jerry Davich
12 Responses
Under NSA, they can do anything they want. It trumps everything.
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/safety/factsheets/delaney.pdf
Lets leave behind, by moving forward with what we know we need to do, those who are lost souls ie, news casters, weather people, politicians, scientists, etc. by not watching their news (channels), their weather, their dummed down movies, (can anyone say boycott), and instead turn our attention and business to those who are now making a difference with energy devices, prayer and meditation, relief to people in need… Make your time, money and actions count. Raise each other up, build and speak for and with each other.
on one of the vids i have seen (this web-site?) a older gentlemen mentions the Delany Act, which officially makes it illegal for the U.S. to use anything (test) without public knowledge &/or authorization to do so. Is anyone here familiar w/ this, & if so seems like a Great place to start to bring some litigation to these issues. i bet it would work for fluoride as well if it indeed exists (still).
jerry when the truth comes out…the only decent thing for you to do is apologize and resign immediately!
Lrrpman 67 Can you give more info about this bill? Our recourse and ways we might block it? Thanks, Melinda
The Illuminati must come out of their caves, make a brief appearance in front of the cameras and then retreat underground again to avoid the poisons they are spraying on the rest of us. When it is complete they will have to wash the atmosphere and the earth and return to a voided earth to rest a short while before the White Throne Judgment.
Call out the writer Jerry Danvich.He is a paid goon.Protest where he lives(House)the paper where he works .Yes he must and other who lieSenators, Congress, Milatary pilots should be protested in workplace, homes, churches.
I like that, “Brain Shaming”. Don’t believe what your eyes see. Don’t believe what your body feels (stinging eyes, sinus pressure, nosebleed, headaches). Believe what we tell you. It’s all just fine said the spider to the fly.
Dane they are about to try to out think us. There is a Senate bill to legalize Geoengineering as we speak. They have said they haven’t done this yet. They must say that as millions will be clamp ring for their heads.
When signed into law the spraying will continue and they will be off the hook for their ongoing criminal activity.
This law must pass as the Senators and Congressmen are being bombarded with our mail, calls and SKYDER alerts. They can no longer cover their asses so they WILL pass this law and soon.
Excellent honest authentic courageous and I’m grateful.
“My psyche and my gut”, along with common sense, education, lab tests, eyesight and a sense of smell still tell me it’s poison. They act as though this is the first recognition of an elite agenda in the history of the world when it’s quite the norm. Oh, how quickly they forget when their bellies are full and the TV is on. I’m going to call this attack against thinkers, “Brain Shaming”.