Sky Samples Analyzed
By William Thomas with Erminia Cassani
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, April 22,
1999 (ENS) - As unmarked tanker-type aircraft continue
spraying sky-obscuring chemtrails over regions of the
U.S. and Canada, this writer and American journalist
Erminia Cassani have obtained laboratory tests of
fully-documented samples of aerial fallout. The samples
were tested by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) licensed facility.
The two samples were taken from aluminum-sided
structures in separate states nearly a year apart after
their respective owners went outside in the wake of
low-flying aircraft to find dwellings and outbuildings
splattered with a brown, gel-like substance.
Vapor trails January 1999 (Photo courtesy W.
Thomas)
Trained in the health sciences,
Cassani carefully took samples from the second incident
which occurred at 2:00 pm on November 17, 1998. The
samples were taken from property directly under the
flight approach path to Thomasville airport, an old
airport once used for commercial flights but now used
only for small planes. However, the woman whose house
and property the sample substance fell upon, observed
that military aircraft have recently been using this
airport for "test runs" circling the immediate
area and returning to the Thomasville airfield. This
facility is located a 45 minutes drive from the
Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania.
Noting nearby military hangars filled with big
helicopters, Cassani videotaped a house splattered on
all sides, as well as the driveway. The reporter also
interviewed a man living near the main runway who
claimed that a similar goo had hit his house the
previous October.
Cassani became ill with flu-like symptoms and was
sick for four days after obtaining the sample. When a
marine biologist at a nearby university started working
with the gel material, he too immediately developed
upper respiratory symptoms. The woman whose house had
been struck also caught the"flu." Two weeks
before Christmas 1998 she suffered a heart attack.
Coliform tests by the state Department of Health were
negative. But when the university Ph.D. biologist turned
his microscope to high power, he found the glass slide
teeming with a protozoan life form he said was
"very resilient to very cold temperatures."
The laboratory staff who eventually received our
sample for a complete analysis had never seen cell
cultures bloom so fast. Cell cultures normally take
several days to grow; ours flowered into brilliant
colors within 48 hours of being placed in petri dishes.
Exclaiming that, "It was all over the
plate," the biologist who examined our first sample
wanted to know where we had obtained this
"bio-hazard" material.
Vapor trail dispersed by wind, January
1999(Photo courtesy W. Thomas)
No
markers for jet fuel were evident. But the TNT and
fuel-eating Pseudomonas fluorescens found in our sky
sample is listed in 163 Pentagon patents for
bioremediation.
Sometimes employed against oil spills, Pseudomonas
fluorescens can consume jet fuel as a primary food
source. This bacteria can cause upper respiratory
illness and serious blood infections in humans.
Unlike P. flourescens, the streptomyces present in
our sample is rarely found in outdoor samples. Used to
make several antibiotics, this fungus can cause severe
infections in humans.
Also isolated in our sample was a fluorescent-type of
bacteria found in distant coral reefs, which can be used
as a "marker" in lab tests.
Another bacillus contained a "restriction
enzyme" used in research laboratories to
"restrict" or cut DNA material for transfer to
other organisms. A computer search for this usually
benign bacteria turned up Streptomyces and P.
flourescens on the same reference page - as well as the
American Type Tissue Culture Corporation. U.S. Senate
documents show that this Maryland company made at least
72 shipments of germ warfare cultures to Saddam
Hussein's scientists between October 1984 and October
1993.
Our second sample was obtained from the U.S. eastern
seaboard after Cassani tracked down a woman whose house,
barn, cars, lawn and driveway were covered by a similar
brown gel on January 17, 1998. This homeowner noticed
planes making "tic-tac-toe clouds" and
"weird designs" in the sky before the goo fell
- possibly from clogged spray nozzles.
She had been at church while neighbors watched a
large aircraft circling so low it rattled windows and
almost hit a barn, before climbing toward a disused
commercial airfield recently renovated for military
flights. When the homeowner took a scraping into the
local lab, she was told of similar incidents in the
vicinity.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dismissed
the substance - which resisted power-washing and months
of weathering - as "corn meal."
Vapor trails over northwest Arkansas (Video
still frame by James E. Gribble III)
But
despite being stored for a year at room temperature, our
EPA registered lab found this second batch of dried-out
gel teeming with the same bacilli present in our more
recent sample. Streptomyces was again found, as well as
a bacteria capable of causing a painful ear infection.
Three other molds in this second sample included a
"black yeast" stockpiled by the U.S. Army as a
"bioremediation organism" that thrives on TNT
and petroleum spills. This black yeast can also cause a
nasty upper respiratory infection - as Cassani
discovered when her left lung became painfully infected
with black mold that could have come from the sample she
handled.
We decided to withhold the name of our testing
facility after an environmental lab in Ohio was besieged
by calls from a militia organization claiming that a jet
fuel additive identified by Aqua Tech Environmental Inc.
was part of a conspiracy to cull the population.
Larry Harris brought the controversial sample to Aqua
Tech for analysis. A registered microbiologist who once
worked on top U.S. biowarfare projects, Harris says that
a lab technician immediately identified his sample as
JP-8 aviation fuel similar to dozens of samples being
brought in by sick pilots and ground crew.
But after the harassing phone calls began, another
chemtrails investigator who was with Harris when he
submitted the fuel sample to Aqua Tech told ENS that the
"lab went cold" and would no longer confer
with them.
A copy of Aqua Tech's report on Harris' sample has
been obtained by this reporter. Submitted on September
17, 1997 and labeled "Jet Fuel," lab report
number MEL 97-1140 identifies more than 15 toxic
petroleum products - including toulene and styrene, as
well as traces of the banned pesticide ethylene
dibromide (EDB). Currently used as a JP-8 jet fuel
additive, EDB was banned by the EPA in the late 1970s as
a known carcinogen capable of causing severe upper
respiratory reactions at repeated low-level exposures.
Harris charges that Aqua Tech altered its test
results to "almost undetectable amounts" of
EDB in order to fend off crackpots, protect government
contracts and discredit his investigation.
Aqua Tech insists its report is accurate.
Despite efforts to protect her identity, our own
friendly biologist turned edgy and cold after finding
few references to our toxic samples in medical books or
Internet databanks. When Cassani suggested that this
lack of information seemed strange, the microbiologist
laughed uneasily and said, "Well, the whole thing
is strange, the samples, where they came from. So I'm
not surprised."
Similar encounters with a gel clinging tenaciously to
porches, pick-up trucks and patrol cars have been
reported across the USA - from Arizona's remote Mogollon
rim to Aptos and Fresno, California and North Seattle,
Washington.
Vapor trails March 3, 1999, location unknown
The
most publicized incident occurred in August, 1994, when
gelatinous globs began raining on Oakville, Washington
about 80 miles southeast of Seattle.
After local residents became sick with vertigo,
lethargy and severe shortness of breath, a lab
technician found human white blood cells in the sky goo.
At the Washington State Department of Health, registered
microbiologist Mike McDowell also discovered the sample
swarming with Pseudomona flourescens and Enterobacter
cloacae.
Serratia marcescens was found in yet another gel
sample obtained in Idaho in late March, 1999. Often
causing upper respiratory infections resulting in
pneumonia, Serratia marcescens was sprayed into the New
York subway system in 1953, and over Dorset, England
from early 1966 to 1971 by the military in both
countries. Serratia marcescens was supposedly withdrawn
as a biological warfare stimulant in the 1970s when this
infectious agent was deemed too hazardous for use on
friendly "test populations."
E. coli, Serratia marcescens, and Bacillus glogigii
were sprayed over UK population centers to stimulate
biowarfare attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, the London
Telegraph reported in May of 1998. All three agents can
cause disease in humans including pneumonia and chest
infections. According to recent admissions by the
British Defense Ministry, a Canberra jet bomber was
modified with spray tanks to "act as a spray
aircraft for research into defence against biological
warfare."
Microscopic examination of spider web-like fallout
obtained in Sallisaw, Oklahoma in October, 1997 also
turned up enterobacteria, which can cause
gastrointestinal illness.
Despite these findings, microbiologists caution that
the Oakville, Idaho and Sallisaw samples could have been
contaminated by "background" bacteria present
in the soil.
Experimental lab material found in our samples
remains unexplained. As outbreaks of staph, recurrent
pneumonia and meningitis continue to be reported in
hospitals by newspapers across the USA, Cassani and I
note that staph-related organisms turning up in test
samples of airborne spray can cause pneumonia and
meningitis.
Our investigation continues.
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