Erminia Cassani gel like hits a house caught my eye
SKY SAMPLES ANALYZED
By William Thomas with Erminia Cassani
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, April 21, 1999 (ENS) - As unmarked tanker-type
aircraft continue spraying sky-obscuring chemtrails over regions of the U.S. and Canada, this
writer and American journalist Erminia Cassani have obtained laboratory tests of
fully-documented samples of aerial fallout. The samples were tested by a U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) licensed facility.
The two samples were taken from aluminum-sided structures in separate states nearly a year
apart after their respective owners went outside in the wake of low-flying aircraft to find
dwellings and outbuildings splattered with a brown, gel-like substance.
Trained in the health sciences, Cassani carefully took samples from the second incident which
occurred at 2:00 pm on November 17, 1998. The samples were taken from property directly
under the flight approach path to Thomasville airport, an old airport once used for commercial
flights but now used only for small planes. However, the woman whose house and property the
sample substance fell upon, observed that military aircraft have recently been using this airport for
"test runs" circling the immediate area and returning to the Thomasville airfield. This facility is
located a 45 minutes drive from the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania.
Noting nearby military hangars filled with big helicopters, Cassani videotaped a house splattered
on all sides, as well as the driveway. The reporter also interviewed a man living near the main
runway who claimed that a similar goo had hit his house the previous October.
Cassani became ill with flu-like symptoms and was sick for four days after obtaining the
sample. When a marine biologist at a nearby university started working with the gel material,
he too immediately developed upper respiratory symptoms. The woman whose house had
been struck also caught the"flu." Two weeks before Christmas 1998 she suffered a heart
attack.
Coliform tests by the state Department of Health were negative. But when the university Ph.D.
biologist turned his microscope to high power, he found the glass slide teeming with a protozoan
life form he said was "very resilient to very cold temperatures."
The laboratory staff who eventually received our sample for a complete analysis had never seen
cell cultures bloom so fast. Cell cultures normally take several days to grow; ours flowered into
brilliant colors within 48 hours of being placed in petri dishes.
Exclaiming that, "It was all over the plate," the biologist who examined our first sample wanted to
know where we had obtained this "bio-hazard" material.
No markers for jet fuel were evident. But the TNT and fuel-eating Pseudomonas fluorescens
found in our sky sample is listed in 163 Pentagon patents for bioremediation.
Sometimes employed against oil spills, Pseudomonas fluorescens can consume jet fuel as a
primary food source. This bacteria can cause upper respiratory illness and serious blood
infections in humans.
Unlike P. flourescens, the streptomyces present in our sample is rarely found in outdoor samples.
Used to make several
Antibiotics , this fungus can cause severe infections in humans.
Also isolated in our sample was a fluorescent-type of bacteria found in distant coral reefs, which
can be used as a "marker" in lab tests.
Another bacillus contained a "restriction enzyme" used in research laboratories to "restrict" or cut
DNA material for transfer to other organisms. A computer search for this usually benign bacteria
turned up Streptomyces and P. flourescens on the same reference page - as well as the American
Type Tissue Culture Corporation. U.S. Senate documents show that this Maryland company
made at least 72 shipments of germ warfare cultures to Saddam Hussein's scientists between
October 1984 and October 1993.
Our second sample was obtained from the U.S. eastern seaboard after Cassani tracked down
a woman whose house, barn, cars, lawn and driveway were covered by a similar brown gel on
January 17, 1998. This homeowner noticed planes making "tic-tac-toe clouds" and "weird
designs" in the sky before the goo fell - possibly from clogged spray nozzles.
She had been at church while neighbors watched a large aircraft circling so low it rattled windows
and almost hit a barn, before climbing toward a disused commercial airfield recently renovated for
military flights. When the homeowner took a scraping into the local lab, she was told of similar
incidents in the vicinity.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dismissed the substance - which resisted
power-washing and months of weathering - as "corn meal."
But despite being stored for a year at room temperature, our EPA registered lab found this
second batch of dried-out gel teeming with the same bacilli present in our more recent sample.
Streptomyces was again found, as well as a bacteria capable of causing a painful ear infection.
Three other molds in this second sample included a "black yeast" stockpiled by the U.S. Army
as a "bioremediation organism" that thrives on TNT and petroleum spills. This black yeast can
also cause a nasty upper respiratory infection - as Cassani discovered when her left lung
became painfully infected with black mold that could have come from the sample she handled.
We decided to withhold the name of our testing facility after an environmental lab in Ohio was
besieged by calls from a militia organization claiming that a jet fuel additive identified by Aqua
Tech Environmental Inc. was part of a
Conspiracy to cull the population.
Larry Harris brought the controversial sample to Aqua Tech for analysis. A registered
microbiologist who once worked on top U.S. biowarfare projects, Harris says that a lab
technician immediately identified his sample as JP-8 aviation fuel similar to dozens of samples
being brought in by sick pilots and ground crew.
But after the harassing phone calls began, another chemtrails investigator who was with Harris
when he submitted the fuel sample to Aqua Tech told ENS that the "lab went cold" and would
no longer confer with them.
A copy of Aqua Tech's report on Harris' sample has been obtained by this reporter.
Submitted on September 17, 1997 and labeled "Jet Fuel," lab report number MEL 97-1140
identifies more than 15 toxic petroleum products - including toulene and styrene, as well as
traces of the banned pesticide ethylene dibromide (EDB). Currently used as a JP-8 jet fuel
additive, EDB was banned by the EPA in the late 1970s as a known carcinogen capable of
causing severe upper respiratory reactions at repeated low-level exposures.
Harris charges that Aqua Tech altered its test results to "almost undetectable amounts" of EDB in
order to fend off crackpots, protect government contracts and discredit his investigation.
Aqua Tech insists its report is accurate.
Despite efforts to protect her identity, our own friendly biologist turned edgy and cold after finding
few references to our toxic samples in medical books or Internet databanks. When Cassani
suggested that this lack of information seemed strange, the microbiologist laughed uneasily and
said, "Well, the whole thing is strange, the samples, where they came from. So I'm not surprised."
Similar encounters with a gel clinging tenaciously to porches, pick-up trucks and patrol cars have
been reported across the USA - from Arizona's remote Mogollon rim to Aptos and Fresno,
California and North Seattle, Washington.
The most publicized incident occurred in August, 1994, when gelatinous globs began raining
on Oakville, Washington about 80 miles southeast of Seattle.
After local residents became sick with vertigo, lethargy and severe shortness of breath, a lab
technician found human white blood cells in the sky goo. At the Washington State Department of
Health, registered microbiologist Mike McDowell also discovered the sample swarming with
Pseudomona flourescens and Enterobacter cloacae.
Serratia marcescens was found in yet another gel sample obtained in Idaho in late March,
1999. Often causing upper respiratory infections resulting in pneumonia, Serratia marcescens
was sprayed into the New York subway system in 1953, and over Dorset, England from early
1966 to 1971 by the military in both countries. Serratia marcescens was supposedly withdrawn as
a biological warfare stimulant in the 1970s when this infectious agent was eemed too hazardous
for use on friendly "test populations."
E. coli, Serratia marcescens, and Bacillus glogigii were sprayed over UK population centers
to stimulate biowarfare attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, the London Telegraph reported in May
of 1998. All three agents can cause disease in humans including pneumonia and chest infections.
According to recent admissions by the British Defense Ministry, a Canberra jet bomber was
modified with spray tanks to "act as a spray aircraft for research into defence against biological
warfare."
Microscopic examination of spider web-like fallout obtained in Sallisaw, Oklahoma in
October, 1997 also turned up enterobacteria, which can cause gastrointestinal illness.
Despite these findings, microbiologists caution that the Oakville, Idahoand Sallisaw samples could
have been contaminated by "background" bacteria present in the soil.
Experimental lab material found in our samples remains unexplained. As outbreaks of staph,
recurrent pneumonia and meningitis continue to be reported in hospitals by newspapers across
the USA, Cassani and I note that staph-related organisms turning up in test samples of airborne
spray can cause pneumonia and meningitis.