The fatal flooding of Camp Mystic last summer in Texas was not merely tragic happenstance, said multiple speakers at last week’s Alabama House State Government Committee—it was the direct result of chemtrails.
“I have watched the weather, cloud-seeding in Texas and it happened right before Camp Mystic,” said Ted Holley, a frequent speaker on Republican bills. “And yes, it breaks my heart; but yes, that 500-year flood was the result of cloud-seeding in Texas.”
Holley and others were speaking on House Bill 25 by State Representative Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, which would create a Class B misdemeanor for the injection, release or dispersal of “a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within or above this state for the purpose of affecting the weather, including temperature, climate, and intensity of sunlight.”
Butler told the committee that he had learned about bee populations being affected by Alzheimer’s due to high concentrations of aluminum in bee pupae. Speakers pointed to chemtrails as the source of this aluminum, thus connecting the declining bee population to chemtrails.
The idea of “chemtrails” is a longstanding conspiracy theory based on the streams seen in the sky formed behind crossing planes. These are known as “contrails,” formed as water vapor in jet exhaust condenses and freezes around soot particles in the atmosphere.
“A contrail, if you go outside on a cold Alabama day and (exhales) and you breathe, you see it, that’s a contrail” Holley said. “If you see an airplane in the sky and it lingers just a fews seconds, that’s a contrail. When they crisscross the sky like spaghetti and hashtags and all that, that is chemtrailing.”
Scientists disagree. They say the trails can last hours or days if they form in the upper atmosphere where high humidity and extremely cold temperatures allow them to exist as persistent ice clouds.
But that wouldn’t stop people like Holley, who believe otherwise, from calling in those trails as a violation.
HB25 provides a means for enforcement of the law under the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The Department would be required to establish a publicly available email address and online form for the reporting of violations. residents could also report what they believe to be violations by telephone or mail.
Dr. Rick Roberts, a retired vascular surgeon and chemical engineer, claimed that Dan Wigington—who appears to be an online chemtrail influencer—flew with a microbiologist in a flying laboratory to test trails, which he said contained mostly aluminum.
“I think that they’re spraying it for weather manipulation, but also—I can’t say—they know it’s toxic,” Roberts said.
“And that’s what’s scary,” Butler added.
Butler responded to the claims that the activity targeted by the bill is not real by saying there would be no harm in outlawing the activity if it does not happen.
“But the skies of today are not the skies of my youth,” Butler said.
The bill now goes to the full House for consideration.
