Kristen Meghan’s first reaction on hearing talk of “chemtrails” was to feel personally offended. She was an industrial hygienist and environmental specialist working for the Air Force in bio-environmental engineering. She had joined up after 9/11 and was committed to her oath of service, and when in 2006 friends started coming to her with questions about chemicals being sprayed from military planes she felt professionally affronted. Her responsibilities included environmental impacts, compliance with EPA standards, and approving and tracking hazardous materials. It was her job to know what chemicals were imported into her air force base, and their precise and approved end-use and disposal.
Naturally enough, the appeal to ignorance immediately came into play — an appeal to professional ignorance, you could call it…
If her friends wouldn’t accept this on her authority, she would prove it to them. Confidently, she set about debunking the ‘conspiracy theory’. But as she went systematically through the computer system, checking all the Air Force Form 3952 Approvals of Hazardous Materials, she started finding large quantities of materials which she could not account for. She checked and double-checked, found Material Safety Data Sheets without manufacturer names, lacking key information in required fields.
She stopped approving such orders. Questioned, and asking questions in return, she was, in her words, progressively demonised over the next two years by her superiors.
Eventually she was transferred to another National Logistics Center at Warner Robins in Georgia. Asking the same questions of her new superiors, she soon found herself threatened with psychiatric coercion.
What she was finding was large quantities of aluminium, barium and strontium oxides and sulphates. Having methodically eliminated all legitimate usages, she then sought evidence of these chemicals in the environment: sampling soil, air and water near bases in Oklahoma, Georgia and Illinois she found anomalous amounts of these metals.
At this point, approaching her re-enlistment date, she decide to leave the service and devote herself to publicising the ‘chemtrails’ issue — more properly termed ‘aerosol injection’, ‘stratospheric particle injection’, or ‘solar radiation management’. Wisely, she confines herself rigorously to her own expertise and experience and does not broach the Why? question, leaving that for others to address. As a whistle-blower and oath-keeper she acted with courage and principle, and made an important contribution to the debate about what is being done to our skies, to the atmosphere of the planet.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHm0XhtDyZA&w=560&h=315]
NEXT: 3 CRITICAL LACUNAE: MONCKTON & CHOMSKY, GATEKEEPERS