January 6, 2000: Viewpoints on Chemtrails - Mike Castle & William Thomas

Art Bell brings environmental chemist Mike Castle on to offer a different theory about the persistent trails being observed in skies across the country. Castle, an industrial polymer chemist who has testified before Congress on Superfund cleanups, suggests the iron compounds and bacteria found in ground samples may indicate an airborne bioremediation effort, possibly an emergency attempt to repair ozone damage caused by compounds like ethylene dibromide in jet fuel.

Castle describes witnessing a chemtrail himself while flying and explains how iron filings and anaerobic bacteria are standard tools in environmental cleanup of chlorinated contaminants. He theorizes someone may be deploying these agents at altitude, along jet stream corridors, to neutralize ozone-depleting chemicals. The health consequences on the ground, including the nationwide flu epidemic reaching record levels, could be an unintended side effect that officials consider acceptable losses.

William Thomas, who first broke the chemtrail story, joins the broadcast for an unplanned meeting of minds with Castle. Thomas reports that CDC data shows fewer than one in four patients are testing positive for actual influenza, raising questions about what is truly making people sick. Both men call for a private mission using a high-altitude jet to collect uncontaminated air samples for laboratory analysis.