That time I caught a weather satellite engineer lying on a forum back in 2009

I was deep into the chemtrail debates on a old forum, sitting in my basement at 2 AM with a cup of cold coffee. Some guy claiming to be a satellite engineer said the white trails were just contrails from high altitude humidity. I called him out because I had a buddy who worked at a weather station near Topeka who told me the military ran tests with barium in the 90s. The guy got defensive and started throwing around technical terms about jet fuel additives. I dug up a declassified FAA document from 2003 that showed specific spray patterns over farmland. He stopped replying after I posted the PDF link. Turned out he was a retired PR guy for a defense contractor, not an engineer at all. Anyone else ever bust someone who turned out to be a plant?

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alicecraig8d ago

You're reading way too much into a guy who probably just got tired of arguing with someone who already had their mind made up. The "declassified FAA document" you found likely just showed standard agricultural spraying patterns, not some secret military operation. Most people who claim to have "busted" someone on forums are just projecting their own conspiracy theories onto a random person who backed out of a pointless argument.

amy_craig288d ago

I get your point but I really think that document showed more than just crop dusting patterns.