Sometime ago when I first started noticing chemtrails I decided to attempt to ascertain the altitude of some trails. As my work has me out on the road here in England a lot, I decided that the best way would be to make two measurements, one to get an angle of elevation, and another to fix a position, and triangulate the actual altitude of the trail via simple geometry. So...

Driving down the M6 motorway, (freeway) I saw a trail that looked like it wasn’t going anywhere, and made an estimate of its angle above the horizon using a ruler and outstretched arm. The Irish sea was visible to give me an excellent horizon to use as a datum, and with the ruler held at arms length (74 cm from eye to thumb - 29.13 inches) and measuring its height from the sea surface I was able to calculate the apparent angle subtended from my viewing position. I then zeroed the trip meter of the car and raced down the road as fast as possible until I was directly under the trail, and noted the distance I had traveled. Simple. I was able to do this three times over a period of a few weeks. It is actually tricky, without going out explicitly to carry out this kind of work, to be in the right time and place to be in a position of having to do a journey when trails are presenting themselves. Perhaps if I had more time ...

But anyway... I did not keep the figures regarding angles and distances from the measurements I made, but I remember the results. The first time I got a figure of 18,500 feet (5638.8m), the second, 22,300 feet (6797m), and the third, 8,000 feet (2438.4m). Each time I made a measurement, I double checked the simple stuff, like reading the correct scale off the ruler, keeping the angle of my arm body the same to keep the eye-thumb distance consistent, quickly double reading the ruler, and making sure I had the right trail overhead at the end of the drive etc. Having trained as an electronics technician, I am familiar with calculating errors cumulatively induced by measuring instruments, and I have guesstimated that these figures can be counted on to be not far off 5 % accuracy. Which is ok when considering the subject matter of aircraft altitude.

Though I am not a meteorologist, I know from observation during the many times I have flown that contrail formation does not start to occur until at least 30,000 feet (9144m), and has been seen by me not to occur at altitudes as high as 38,500 feet (11,735m). And if anyone wants to know how I can tell if the jet I am flying in is leaving a trail or not, simple, just look out the window on the side opposite the sun, look down and you will see the shadow of your jet, and its' trail, or not, as the case may be. And those screens that tell you what height you are flying at and at what outside temperature come in very handy too.

On the other hand, I have seen aircraft from the ground that have been little more than white dots in the sky leaving little or no trail, and other aircraft so low, I imagine I could count the rivets in the wings, leaving trails so thick and billowing, they simple can NOT be water vapour. Chemtrails are real. Beyond all reasonable doubt.

Many Thanks To Mr. Philip Gorman For This Article

© 2005 Philip Gorman

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For a long essay on the Chemtrail phenomenon, with contrail vs.chemtrail comparison photos, please click HERE. (Large Graphic File - Long Download For Dial-Up Users)

When someone wants to argue with you that chem-trails are mere contrails, ask them "Where does all that MASS comes from then?" That's the key point in dismissing the contrail / ice crystal argument. MASS!

Imagine an old car that is burning oil due to bad piston rings. The blue cloud belching from its tailpipe IS nasty, but there isn't that much of it, and the cloud will dissipate rapidly. Can this car, by driving down one road through a small town, create a heavy blanket of smoke over the ENTIRE town? Of course not; there isn't enough MASS in that old car's exhaust. The same principle applies to chem-trails. Jet exhaust, known as a contrail, doesn't contain enough MASS to account for the phenomenon we call chemtrails.

At the end of the day, it's up to YOU to draw your own conclusions.