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A conspiracy theory that ties weather modification to alleged catastrophic threats and 'chemtrails'.
The phrase “chemtrails” usually refers to a conspiracy claim that persistent white lines left by aircraft are deliberate sprays of chemicals or biological agents with a hidden purpose — most commonly ...
Since 2020 state-level activity has shifted from sporadic curiosity to an organized wave of proposals that either ban or tightly regulate and traditional weather modification, with passing the first s...
A small number of online accounts purport to be airline or airport employees describing covert loading and spraying of “,” but those accounts are largely anonymous, unverified, and amplified by conspi...
Yes — but only historically and episodically: researchers and private operators experimented with in in the , and state law has long regulated weather modification, yet in recent years there have been...
Social media has turned the chemtrails conspiracy from a fringe late‑night-radio curiosity into a persistent, globally visible online subculture by enabling mass sharing of photos, videos and anecdote...
Cold War–era U.S. tests in the 1950s–1960s deliberately dispersed tracer particles and presumed‑harmless microbes over cities and regions to study how a biological or chemical agent might travel, nota...
There are individual people and online outlets who have presented themselves as “chemtrail whistleblowers,” but no verified insider—nor any credible, documented government disclosure—has produced evid...
Multiple state-level bills introduced or enacted in 2024–2025 explicitly name or describe stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) as a prohibited form of “geoengineering” or “solar radiation modificatio...