VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, April 21, 1999 (ENS) - As unmarked tanker-type
   aircraft continue spraying sky-obscuring chemtrails over regions of the U.S. and Canada, this
   writer and American journalist Erminia Cassani have obtained laboratory tests of
   fully-documented samples of aerial fallout. The samples were tested by a U.S. Environmental
   Protection Agency (EPA) licensed facility.

   The two samples were taken from aluminum-sided structures in separate states nearly a year
   apart after their respective owners went outside in the wake of low-flying aircraft to find
   dwellings and outbuildings splattered with a brown, gel-like substance.

   Trained in the health sciences, Cassani carefully took samples from the second incident which
   occurred at 2:00 pm on November 17, 1998. The samples were taken from property directly
   under the flight approach path to Thomasville airport, an old airport once used for commercial
   flights but now used only for small planes. However, the woman whose house and property the
   sample substance fell upon, observed that military aircraft have recently been using this airport for
   "test runs" circling the immediate area and returning to the Thomasville airfield. This facility is
   located a 45 minutes drive from the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania.

   Noting nearby military hangars filled with big helicopters, Cassani videotaped a house splattered
   on all sides, as well as the driveway. The reporter also interviewed a man living near the main
   runway who claimed that a similar goo had hit his house the previous October.

   Cassani became ill with flu-like symptoms and was sick for four days after obtaining the
   sample. When a marine biologist at a nearby university started working with the gel material,
   he too immediately developed upper respiratory symptoms. The woman whose house had
   been struck also caught the"flu." Two weeks before Christmas 1998 she suffered a heart
   attack.

   Coliform tests by the state Department of Health were negative. But when the university Ph.D.
   biologist turned his microscope to high power, he found the glass slide teeming with a protozoan
   life form he said was "very resilient to very cold temperatures."

   The laboratory staff who eventually received our sample for a complete analysis had never seen
   cell cultures bloom so fast. Cell cultures normally take several days to grow; ours flowered into
   brilliant colors within 48 hours of being placed in petri dishes.

   Exclaiming that, "It was all over the plate," the biologist who examined our first sample wanted to
   know where we had obtained this "bio-hazard" material.

   No markers for jet fuel were evident. But the TNT and fuel-eating Pseudomonas fluorescens
   found in our sky sample is listed in 163 Pentagon patents for bioremediation.

   Sometimes employed against oil spills, Pseudomonas fluorescens can consume jet fuel as a
   primary food source. This bacteria can cause upper respiratory illness and serious blood
   infections in humans.

   Unlike P. flourescens, the streptomyces present in our sample is rarely found in outdoor samples.
   Used to make several antibiotics, this fungus can cause severe infections in humans.

   Also isolated in our sample was a fluorescent-type of bacteria found in distant coral reefs, which
   can be used as a "marker" in lab tests.

   Another bacillus contained a "restriction enzyme" used in research laboratories to "restrict" or cut
   DNA material for transfer to other organisms. A computer search for this usually benign bacteria
   turned up Streptomyces and P. flourescens on the same reference page - as well as the American
   Type Tissue Culture Corporation. U.S. Senate documents show that this Maryland company
   made at least 72 shipments of germ warfare cultures to Saddam Hussein's scientists between
   October 1984 and October 1993.

   Our second sample was obtained from the U.S. eastern seaboard after Cassani tracked down
   a woman whose house, barn, cars, lawn and driveway were covered by a similar brown gel on
   January 17, 1998. This homeowner noticed planes making "tic-tac-toe clouds" and "weird
   designs" in the sky before the goo fell - possibly from clogged spray nozzles.

   She had been at church while neighbors watched a large aircraft circling so low it rattled windows
   and almost hit a barn, before climbing toward a disused commercial airfield recently renovated for
   military flights. When the homeowner took a scraping into the local lab, she was told of similar
   incidents in the vicinity.

   The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dismissed the substance - which resisted
   power-washing and months of weathering - as "corn meal."

   But despite being stored for a year at room temperature, our EPA registered lab found this
   second batch of dried-out gel teeming with the same bacilli present in our more recent sample.
   Streptomyces was again found, as well as a bacteria capable of causing a painful ear infection.

   Three other molds in this second sample included a "black yeast" stockpiled by the U.S. Army
   as a "bioremediation organism" that thrives on TNT and petroleum spills. This black yeast can
   also cause a nasty upper respiratory infection - as Cassani discovered when her left lung
   became painfully infected with black mold that could have come from the sample she handled.

   We decided to withhold the name of our testing facility after an environmental lab in Ohio was
   besieged by calls from a militia organization claiming that a jet fuel additive identified by Aqua
   Tech Environmental Inc. was part of a conspiracy to cull the population.

   Larry Harris brought the controversial sample to Aqua Tech for analysis. A registered
   microbiologist who once worked on top U.S. biowarfare projects, Harris says that a lab
   technician immediately identified his sample as JP-8 aviation fuel similar to dozens of samples
   being brought in by sick pilots and ground crew.

   But after the harassing phone calls began, another chemtrails investigator who was with Harris
   when he submitted the fuel sample to Aqua Tech told ENS that the "lab went cold" and would
   no longer confer with them.

   A copy of Aqua Tech's report on Harris' sample has been obtained by this reporter.
   Submitted on September 17, 1997 and labeled "Jet Fuel," lab report number MEL 97-1140
   identifies more than 15 toxic petroleum products - including toulene and styrene, as well as
   traces of the banned pesticide ethylene dibromide (EDB). Currently used as a JP-8 jet fuel
   additive, EDB was banned by the EPA in the late 1970s as a known carcinogen capable of
   causing severe upper respiratory reactions at repeated low-level exposures.

   Harris charges that Aqua Tech altered its test results to "almost undetectable amounts" of EDB in
   order to fend off crackpots, protect government contracts and discredit his investigation.

   Aqua Tech insists its report is accurate.

   Despite efforts to protect her identity, our own friendly biologist turned edgy and cold after finding
   few references to our toxic samples in medical books or Internet databanks. When Cassani
   suggested that this lack of information seemed strange, the microbiologist laughed uneasily and
   said, "Well, the whole thing is strange, the samples, where they came from. So I'm not surprised."

   Similar encounters with a gel clinging tenaciously to porches, pick-up trucks and patrol cars have
   been reported across the USA - from Arizona's remote Mogollon rim to Aptos and Fresno,
   California and North Seattle, Washington.

   The most publicized incident occurred in August, 1994, when gelatinous globs began raining
   on Oakville, Washington about 80 miles southeast of Seattle.

   After local residents became sick with vertigo, lethargy and severe shortness of breath, a lab
   technician found human white blood cells in the sky goo. At the Washington State Department of
   Health, registered microbiologist Mike McDowell also discovered the sample swarming with
   Pseudomona flourescens and Enterobacter cloacae.

   Serratia marcescens was found in yet another gel sample obtained in Idaho in late March,
   1999. Often causing upper respiratory infections resulting in pneumonia, Serratia marcescens
   was sprayed into the New York subway system in 1953, and over Dorset, England from early
   1966 to 1971 by the military in both countries. Serratia marcescens was supposedly withdrawn as
   a biological warfare stimulant in the 1970s when this infectious agent was eemed too hazardous
   for  use on friendly "test populations."

   E. coli, Serratia marcescens, and Bacillus glogigii were sprayed over UK population centers
   to stimulate biowarfare attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, the London Telegraph reported in May
   of 1998. All three agents can cause disease in humans including pneumonia and chest  infections.
   According to recent admissions by the British Defense Ministry, a Canberra jet bomber was
   modified with spray tanks to "act as a spray aircraft for research into defence against biological
   warfare."

   Microscopic examination of spider web-like fallout obtained in Sallisaw, Oklahoma in
   October, 1997 also turned up enterobacteria, which can cause gastrointestinal illness.

   Despite these findings, microbiologists caution that the Oakville, Idahoand Sallisaw samples could
   have been contaminated by "background" bacteria present in the soil.

   Experimental lab material found in our samples remains unexplained. As outbreaks of staph,
   recurrent pneumonia and meningitis continue to be reported in hospitals by newspapers across
   the USA, Cassani and I note that staph-related organisms turning up in test samples of airborne
   spray can cause pneumonia and meningitis.

   Our investigation continues.