posted 12-10-2003 10:17 PM
Julian Penrod
4 Fairfield Avenue
West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006
(973) 220-1601
julianpenrod@comcast.net December 10, 2003
To all:
A common phenomenon associated with chemtrails is what some refer to as the "black ray", the straight, dark colored trail that often accompanies a chemtrail, often stretching ahead of the trail! The "debunkers" often characterize it as only "a shadow" of the trail, cast ahead of it. They also tend to associate the "hysteria" they try to insist is in chemtrail opponents as giving rise to suspicions about the phenomenon, and a failure to realize that the sun was, presumably, at the right angle to produce a shadow ahead of the trail. Reports of such anomalous manifestations by impartial individuals, in fact, people who may never have even heard of chemtrails, in fact, are not often brought into the matter, for comparison. A convenient suggestion by "debunkers" and their ilk is that no such reports exist!
But, it appears, there have been a number!
One such can be found in the on-line archives of Science Frontiers, at www.science-frontiers.com. Issue 123, May - June 1999, the entry "Puzzling Shadows", in the Geophysics section, reports a sighting by an A. Evans, on August 3, 1997, in West Donegal, in Ireland. Reporting the sun to be "high in the sky", and shining from the "south southwest". Between 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m., five jets passed overhead, "all leaving vapor trails". In fact, the trails sound like they could be chemtrails, since A. Evans says the trails "extended eastwards". Two of the five jets, however, had dark trails that extended ahead of them, westward! A. Evans describes the planes as looking as if they were "running on an aerial railway"!
Since the sun is high, and to the south southwest, it seems unlikely that it would be able to illuminate a jet trail, stretching east, from behind! The fact, too, that only two out of five jets that flew overhead displayed that phenomenon can also be questioned!
Julian Penrod