Vince_Condella's Blog

If there is one thing that gets the attention of our viewers, it is the jet contrail.   Or as some call them, chemtrails.  Every time I mention these or show photos of them, the e-mail fills quickly with people asking me to "tell the truth" to the viewers.

We all love a conspiracy.  Some of us more than others.  Many people are convinced that the U.S. Government or the CIA or some official agency is poisoning the residents of the United States by spewing chemicals from behind high-altitude jet aircraft.  They claim that we see those chemicals in the form of long, white lines in the sky.  The people who believe this also tell us that spraying of chemicals only occurs on certain scheduled days and that is why we don't see these white lines in the sky everyday.

I'm a firm believer in allowing everybody to have their own opinion on everything.  But here is the deal with jet contrails.  They are created when moisture in the exhaust of commercial jet aircraft freeze on contact with the cold air at high altitudes.  The moisture turns to ice crystals, so the long white lines are clouds made up of these ice crystals.  (Contrail is a combination of two words:  condensation trail)

You will often see the same thing on a cold winter day when a cloud of white is emitted from the exhaust pipe of your vehicle.  Moisture in the exhaust immediately condenses into a cloud when coming in contact with the cold air.  Our breath on a cold winter day is another example.

So why do we see long-lasting contrails on some days, while other days we see short ones that disappear immediately behind the jet?  That depends upon moisture.  If the air aloft is close to saturation, the contrails remain in the sky and spread out.  If the air aloft is not near saturation and quite dry, the contrail evaporates right away or doesn't appear at all.

Many people tell me they have just recently noticed contrails, and they are appearing in parts of the sky where they have never appeared before.  This is further proof, they say, that the government is stepping up its chemical poisoning and expanding it to other parts of the country.

But contrails are nothing new.  B-29 bombers in World War 2 used to create them because the exhaust from the engines contained moisture.  Contrails are created all over the globe and have been around ever since aircraft began flying at high altitudes where the temperature is well below zero.

You can believe what you want to believe, but now I have shared with you the real story behind contrails.