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CHAPTER ONE

Project Cloverleaf

Controlling the weather has been a goal of industrialists for 150 years or more. But it was not
until the availability of vast numbers of jet aircraft that made it possible to replace huge sections
of the atmosphere with chemicals to control the flow of air and moisture. This is not advanced
technology but more like farming the sky with a million tractors. True advanced technology
would not require aerosols to produce “climate change.” It’s brute force climate manipulation
for which secrecy cannot be maintained without threatening the potential whistleblower. Now
that the public has increasingly realized the climate change cover-up, the media looks more and
more foolish in their attempt to protect the masters.
— Harold Saive, chemtrailplanet.net

As early as 1990, weather force specialists at the U.S. Air Force Academy were hard at work
studying how to chemically mix and lay “aerial obscuration” they called “chemtrails.” Project
Cloverleaf began quietly enough (as all classified projects do) with the 1994 Hughes Aircraft
patent for Welsbach Seeding For Reduction of Global Warming. Welsbach seeding called for
spreading highly reflective materials in the atmosphere to reflect back into space 1–2 percent of
incoming sunlight and thus slow down “global warming.” However, it was also about beginning
to create a more conductive atmosphere in preparation for Bernard Eastlund’s High-frequency
Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) already under construction in Alaska. The reflective
material (~10 microns) to be added to jet auxiliary fuel tanks was the highly conductive
compound aluminum oxide (Al O ). The jet’s main tanks would be reserved for takeoff and
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landing, and the auxiliary loaded with Al O for cruising altitude. Lawrence Livermore National
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Labs priced the program at US$1 billion per annum (in 1994 dollars).
By the late 1990s, aerial grids were being laid over chosen regions and cities of the U.S. and
other NATO nations. In 1996, the military went public with two documents that obliquely
referenced what Cloverleaf was up to: the Pentagon paper “Weather as a Force Multiplier:
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Owning the Weather in 2025” in Air Force 2025, which called the chemical whitening effect
“cirrus shielding”; and U.S. Space Command’s Vision for 2020 calling for full spectrum
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Air traffic controllers (ATC) at major airports were coached to re-route commercial air traffic
around military craft engaged in “classified aerial operations” at 37,000–40,000 feet. ATC radar
revealed a haze of aluminum and barium—Al O for solar radiation management (SRM)
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