Chemtrails in Southwest Colorado

Chemtrails over La Plata County, Colorado (digital photos February 4, 2006; portrait style photo in lower right corner is dated February 10, 2008)

Unlike typical jet streams, chemtrails do not dissipate, and they are not laid down in regular patterns over time (as would be the case if these are simply the residue of regularly scheduled airplane flights). Rather, after seeing a number of jet airplanes crisscrossing the sky, leaving trails that sometimes are parallel and sometimes form vortexes, often intersecting perpendicularly as in the image just above/right, one can see a cloudless blue Southwest Colorado sky turn into a cloudy sky.

Wikipedia states that "The term "chemtrail" does not refer to common forms of aerial dumping (e.g. crop dusting, cloud seeding or aerial firefighting). It specifically refers to systematic, high-altitude dumping of unknown substances for undisclosed purposes, resulting in the appearance of these unusual contrails." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory viewed on Feb. 13, 2008.)

Some thoughts to ponder and to research further:

Durango, Colorado, is not near any major jet airport. The commercial planes flying in and out of the Durango La Plata County Airport are propeller-driven aircraft.
These clouds are evidently not being produced to create precipitation by cloud seeding, as they were laid immediately following 5 feet of snowfall in the Durango area in February of 2008. There was no lack of precipitation in this region at that time.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that individuals of this region have experienced flu-like symptoms following especially active periods of chemtrail spraying.

For further reading, an Internet search of "Chemtrails" will yield numerous pages that describe this phenomenon and offer possible explanations. The website of Clifford E. Carnicom (a resident of the Southwest) includes records of interchanges with the Durango Herald regarding Judith Reynolds' Nov. 24, 2002 editiorial cartoon about chemtrails, following Carnicom's presentation of evidence of aerosol operations to the Durango community on Nov. 16, 2002, at http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm (simply do a Ctrl+F search of that home page for the word Durango).

Historians and other researchers ask the question, why? Causality and motive are the stuff of scholarly historical research. To add to the discussion of chemtrails in the Durango, Colorado, area, send an email to archives@fortlewis.edu

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Page revised: February 13, 2008