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Retired USAF Lt. Colonel on Chemtrails
 Mon Oct 16, 2000 3:10 am
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Original Article from Sightings.com
USAF Lt. Colonel (Ret) Photos Of Heavy Chemtrails Near Pittsburgh 9-27-00
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Dear Jeff,
Friday, October 13, 2000 - 7:10 pm.
I live 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and at the present time we have a chemtrail sky that's the worst I've seen.
We had a beautiful clear-sky day here until late in the afternoon. It was so clear that another fellow and I in the office were discussing how nice it would be to stargaze tonight even though there is a full moon. We are both amateur astronomers.
However, by the time I got home at 5:05 pm, I noticed sun dogs and the oily rainbows around the sun. There were a few chemtrail lines but not all that many. Nevertheless, I immediately recognized it as a chemtrail sky.
When I came out to wash the car after dinner at 6:20 pm, I couldn't believe it! The whole sky was xxxxxxxxx in a grid pattern. I ran in and got my camera, a Canon AE-1E with 200 mm telephoto lens, and took a dozen photos which I'll e-mail to you.
There were still several jet aircraft in the sky when I was taking photos and with the telephoto lens I identified one as a DC-9...not a likely spray aircraft. It appeared to be a two-engine commercial jet and was most likely just passing through. It's altitude was too high to be landing or taking off from Pittsburgh International Airport which is 15 miles north of my location. I couldn't tell the identity of the other aircraft but maybe something will show up in the photos. This spraying was of the high altitude type, not low altitude, and the only aircraft I saw in the area were multi-engine jet aircraft. I know I have some excellent photos of the spray fanning out across the sky.
This was so strong of a spraying that I questioned whether to allow my daughter to go to the homecoming game tonight because I didn't want her sitting in the bleachers with the 'stuff' drifting down on her. I watched it carefully for some time but did not detect any droplets or web-like material probably because of the high altitude of the spray.
On a personal note, I want to assure you that I don't take this matter lightly. I am a retired Lt. Colonel from the USAF and PA Air National Guard.
At the time I retired after 29 years of service, I was a squadron commander with a KC-135E unit and I certainly can recognize a normal tanker contrail when I see one or identify the shadow outline of one of our aircraft in the sky.
One of the things I want understood is that 'spraying' from a tanker is not unheard of regardless of what anyone tells you. It's what is being sprayed that is the puzzle. I have a photograph here in my collection that I personally took in 1969 when flying in a KC-135A tanker on a trip from Seymour Johnson AFB, NC to Pease AFB, NH. After we took off and reached altitude, most likely over Virginia, we lowered the refueling boom in the bottom rear of the aircraft and 'dumped' 3,000 pounds of JP-4 fuel into the atmosphere just to trim out the aircraft and improve its weight and balance. Nothing was considered unusual with this procedure. The reason I bring it up is to show that there are reasons for a tanker to sometimes spray fuel into the atmosphere.
However, what we are seeing today is not the occasional spraying I am talking about. When we dumped fuel we didn't fly in a grid pattern, for example.
Hope this helps anyone who thought they may have seen something unusual in the sky on Friday in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
Lt Col Den Ardinger,
USAF, (Ret) |
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