March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Art Bell reads a report from a Nevada political figure describing a hunter-orange orb over the Spring Mountains that separated into six objects and recombined twice before vanishing. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center confirms a surge of similar orange-colored sightings across the Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, and Wisconsin, suggesting a possible UFO flap is underway.

Investigative journalist William Thomas returns to present what he calls a breakthrough in chemtrail credibility. Victoria, British Columbia resident Mark Porter shares his experience calling the local airport authority about intense aerial grid patterns over his city. The program plays a recorded voicemail from Terry Stewart, Manager of Airport Planning and Environment at Victoria International Airport, confirming the activity as a joint U.S. and Canadian military exercise and calling it "very odd." This marks the first official acknowledgment that the persistent plumes are not normal airline contrails.

Thomas presents lab results showing aluminum levels seven times above Canada's maximum permissible safe levels in rainwater collected beneath chemtrail activity. He connects this to a 1994 Hughes Aircraft patent and Lawrence Livermore Lab studies proposing stratospheric aluminum spraying to reflect sunlight and counteract global warming, estimating the program cost at one billion dollars annually.