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Science Officially Debunks

Chemtrails, But the

Conspiracy Will Likely

Live On

A panel of 77 atmospheric
scientists and geochemists weigh

in on the controversial streaks in
the sky

Smithsonian.com

These days it’s a common sight: hazy streaks
crisscrossing the sky left from passing aircrafts.
But many people believe there’s something
more going on. Dubbing the contrails
“chemtrails,” conspiracy theorists have claimed
that these trails of condensed water are part of a
secret program to control the weather, change
the climate or control our minds.
Conspiracy theorists have amassed huge
dossiers of “evidence” claiming that chemtrails Combined with anecdotal tales of plants dying 600-pound, 9ft tall ape-man would not go
are longer, brighter and do not dissipate as and people getting sick after planes left contrails unnoticed by people not even on the trail of the
quickly as normal aircraft contrails. They have above their homes, the conspiracy theory Bigfoot. Basically, if the creature did exist, we
photos, anecdotes and samples collected from coalesced and took off on the internet in the late would have found it by now.
the air and water. Though scientists have long 1990s. 7: There is no fossil or bone record: A
battled against these unfounded claims, they Since then, the issue periodically pops creature this big would have left bones or fossil
haven’t made much headway. But with a recent up in the media. According to Public Policy records behind. However, never once have any
study, researchers from the Carnegie Institution Polling, about five percent of Americans believe ape-like creature's remains or bones been found.
for Science hope to put these rumors to rest. in chemtrails. That’s more than the four percent 6: Breeding is impossible: If bigfoot is
The researchers provided the available who believe lizard people are taking over our an ape, it would live a longer lifespan than other
chemtrail evidence to 77 atmospheric scientists politics but much less than the number who mammals in North America and the population
and geochemists for evaluation. “I felt it was believe in bigfoot or that global warming is a would run into the thousands. Apes are not
important to definitively show what real experts hoax. solitary creatures - unlike how all Bigfoots are
in contrails and aerosols think,” Ken Caldeira, So, if it’s not a government program, presented.
an atmospheric scientists and author on the why do many people claim to see more and 5: Wrongly identified: Most experts
study, says in a press release. “We might not more contrails? Emerson says airplane contrails point out that the majority of Bigfoot sightings
convince die-hard believers that their beloved are likely lasting longer than they used to due to could simply be black or brown bears walking
secret spraying program is just a paranoid changes in jet engine technology. In addition, an on their hind-legs.
fantasy, but hopefully their friends will accept increase in air travel over the last couple decades 4: Explosion in sightings after the Bluff
the facts.” could also be fueling the belief in chemtrails, Creek Discovery of 1958: Like Roswell in 1947
In the study, published in the journal says Caldeira, and atmospheric changes from can be seen as year dot for UFO sightings, so the
Environmental Research Letters, the scientists global warming may cause the artificial clouds discovery of several large footprints in 1958 at
were asked if they had ever uncovered possible to linger longer than they used to. [] Bluff Creek in California can be said to have
evidence of a government chemtrail program in started the Bigfoot phenomenon. After that there
their research. Of the 77 scientists, 76 said no. False-Hope That Bigfoot were a spate of sightings which haven't stopped
They were also shown photos to this day.
supposedly containing chemtrails, writes Sara Will Be Found: 10 3: Lack of a body: There is a long
Emerson at Motherboard. Upon inspection, none Reasons Why The Mythic standing $1,000,000 reward for the body of
of the researchers saw any evidence that the sasquatch.
contrails in the photos were any different than Creature Will Remain 2: Hoaxes: But exactly because of the
normal contrails. immense financial rewards should a hunter be
Finally, they were presented with the Legend proved correct, people try to seek fame and
analysis of samples from pond sediment, snow fortune with fake Bigfoots.
and air that the collectors claim were 10: The photographic and video 1: No evidence: If Bigfoot exists, all
contaminated with traces of barium, aluminum, evidence is awful: Besides the famed 1968 scientists need is one strand of hair to determine
copper and strontium from chemtrails. The Patterson Gimlin video that purports to show through DNA that a new ape-like creature has
researchers said that 80 to 89 percent of the bigfoot walking all footage is grainy and been identified. That has not happened. []
samples could be explained by phenomena photographs blurred. We wonder why?
much more simple than chemtrails. 9: Bigfoot fails to fit into the food chain
The chemtrails craze likely originated with a in North America: The beast is supposed to be
1996 report from the Air Force called “Weather 9ft tall and weigh 600 pounds. That would mean
as a Force Multiplier,” which speculates how the
it would need to eat 5,000 calories a day to
military could develop weather modification survive - which would lead to a huge
technology by 2025, report Annalee Newitz and unexplained dent in the natural food chain.
Adam Steiner at i09. A patent filed in 1991 for a Scientists have said they have never detected a
technique of seeding the upper atmosphere with gap this size before.
particles that could reflect sunlight and slow 8: Bigfoot is just too big: Logically, a
global warming also intrigued theorists.