May 6, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas

Art Bell brings back investigative journalist William Thomas for an in-depth examination of the growing chemtrail phenomenon that has generated thousands of eyewitness reports since their initial broadcast. Thomas presents new lab results from a government-certified laboratory that found Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria, a restricted DNA-cutting enzyme called bacillus, and streptomyces fungus in brown gel samples collected from buildings in two separate states nearly a year apart, with matching results that alarmed the lab technicians.

A Boeing senior flight test engineer calls in to argue that the unusual sky patterns are simply test flight contrails, but Thomas counters with evidence that the cross-hatching occurs far from major airways and navigation beacons. An airline pilot with 15 years of experience at Continental confirms he has never seen contrails cover an entire sky. William Wallace, the original witness whose report launched the investigation, describes repeated low-altitude spraying over his property that left him and his wife chronically ill with joint pain and Epstein-Barr virus.

Thomas connects the symptoms to mycoplasma infections linked to Gulf War illness research and reveals correspondence from a high-ranking Air Force officer whose own inquiries into the spraying resulted in his security classification being elevated. Multiple callers from Salt Lake City report hazmat teams rushing to clean up brown deposits falling from aircraft, incidents confirmed by local news coverage that same day.