There are some things that I read on the internet that act as red flags to me and cause me to either read no further or be extremely cynical about whether or not a particular information source is telling the truth or not. One of the things that make me go ‘uh oh’ is the subject of ‘Chemtrails’. If someone treats this bollocks seriously then I tend not to take seriously anything else they might be saying.

The whole idea that the condensation trails are chemical or biological weapons being used by the CIA/Illuminati/Jews/alien space lizards (delete according to your particular degree of lunacy) is complete and utter bunk. Condensation trails have been observed since the earliest days of aviation and in particular during World War One when aircraft were starting to fly high enough to create such trails.

There’s a very good explanation of how the Chemtrails Hoax came about over on the Principia Scientific and written by Arthur Firstenburg. He’s dug into how this hoax came to be created and the characters involved. He has also gone into how this is the hoax that doesn’t seem to die and one that 40% of Americans believe there is some truth to.

Mr Firstenburg said:

Origin of a Hoax

A couple of con artists from Lancaster, Ohio took advantage of that fact. Larry Wayne Harris was a lieutenant colonel in the white-supremacist organization Aryan Nations and a member of the racist, anti-Semitic sect Christian Identity.

He was arrested for possession of bubonic plague bacteria in 1997, and convicted of wire fraud for posing as a research microbiologist to obtain it. He was arrested for possession of anthrax and convicted of impersonation of a CIA agent in 1998.

He and his neighbor Richard Lew Finke are the people who invented “chemtrails.” But it took a nationwide radio show to popularize it, so widely that it has become nearly impossible for the average citizen to sort out the truth, to distinguish fact from fiction.

In 1996, Harris offered his services to analyze soil samples that he said were contaminated by fallout from additives in jet fuel. He told his clients that their samples contained ethylene dibromide (EDB), and that it was being added to jet fuel as part of a depopulation agenda.

Mr Firstenburg then went on to explain how those promoting the Chemtrail hoax lied about the effects of the condensation trails on people and how the hoaxers ascribed to ‘chemtrails’ chemicals either found naturally in rocks or introduced into the environment as components of pesticides and fertilizers. He also describes how there is a whole community out there of ‘chemtrail influencers’ making what must be a good living from the gullible saps who have little in the way of scientific knowledge and who are incredibly credulous.

Mr Firstenburg’s piece is a good one and one that is well worth reading if you want to understand the origins of the chemtrails cult.