Do You See That?

Chances are, on any given day, if you go outside and look up into the sky, you'll notice a plane fly by. Or, at the least, you'll spot the white trail commonly left behind, painting the sky into rows and rows and rows (and rows and rows, if you still haven't gotten the hint.)

As a kid when I saw them, I just thought they were normal and oogled about how pretty they looked. As I grew older, I started to read more about this, specifically, what it is.

And turns out, nobody really knows.

This can't be found within all planes, because then passenger planes would leave the trails too. So what is it? Many believe those pretty white lines to be chemtrails.

Chemtrails? What the heck is that? Well, it depends on the person you ask. It ranges from these trails used to exacerbate global warming, to more crazy theories that the government has secretly been dumping harmful substances on the land. Whatever the theory, however, chances are it's not a good one. 

One popular reason for this strange, unknown occurrence is that the government is using these trails to expose us to substances. What are these substances? No one knows, but many believe them to be harmful and dangerous.

While this is sort of extreme, not gonna lie, some believe that the government is intentionally spraying people with harmful substances in order to experiment with the effects -- or even to "weed out" the sick and elderly. This probably isn't true, as it would be released so high in the sky that it would be a pretty unreliable experiment.

Another theory, one less deadly, is that the government is dumping barium salt aerosol on the land in order to assist in radar mapping for defense purposes. In my opinion, this definitely seems more reasonable than the "weeding out" of the weak.

But then again, the government is pretty shady, so who am I to know?

One important reason that I want to touch on, and probably the one I believe to be most likely, is that the government could be experimenting with weather manipulation for defensive purposes, and it actually has some solid reasons for why.

Since the 1950s, the British have been able to successfully "seed" clouds with salt, dry ice and silver iodide to make rain. It would seem that this weather manipulation, even then, was and still is a very possible and even effective military defense tactic. Conspiracy theorists believe it might have connections to HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (which studies the atmosphere to advance communication and navigation systems)

Seems reasonable, doesn't it?

If you still aren't hooked on any of these theories, I got one more for ya. Maybe chemtrails are intentional attempts by the government to combat global warming or the depletion of the ozone layer (done by spraying particles to reflect the sun's radiation.) 

However, if true, it seems pretty ironic that (non-conspiracy theorist) environmentalists blame contrails for polluting the skies. These people say that jet traffic has become so bad that the sheer cloud cover from contrails, which can be seen from space, has been negatively affecting the environment, possibly contributing to global warming.

The only thing that has me personally is, why would the government hide what really is going on if it isn't dangerous? If it is a way to combat environmental problems or to provide defense to our country, why not just tell us that?

Whatever it is, it does not seem like we'll know anytime soon.

So, what do you believe?