I wasn't going to talk much about fringe subjects, like chemtrails, but I find I'm forced into it. The skies around Port Canaveral last Sunday made me do it.

“Chemtrail” is the term which has been coined to refer to aircraft contrails that exhibit a high degree of persistence. Once laid up in the sky, they'll remain there all day, gradually diffusing, unlike normal contrails which last a few minutes at most before they dissipate. And normal contrails dissipate, or evaporate or sublimate or whatever they do, completely.

There's a lot of controversy about chemtrails. Many people believe that the planes are depositing chemicals up there for any number of possible reasons, from weather control to mass inoculation. For thousands upon thousands of references, just Google “chemtrail” and see what you get.

The short story is that the governments and official agencies of the world insist these are normal contrails, whereas people with even modest powers of observation and moderate intelligence know they are something relatively new and different in our skies, and NOT normal contrails.

I've noticed, though, to my surprise and disappointment, that many people under 30 years of age see nothing unusual in them. Limited experience with the sky is the explanation, I presume.

To get back to last Sunday, though.

I had seen numerous chemtrails around Port Canaveral a week ago Sunday, and had even taken some pictures of them for my personal collection. It wasn't really an unusual display a week ago, but not insignificant.

But last Sunday was a different story. I have never seen the sky so clouded with chemtrails as it was last Sunday.

All day long you could see aircraft depositing these things, traveling north to south, laying parallel lines, but some also some tracking east and west. Often you could see three or four planes in the sky at a time.

Near the end of the day the western sky was pretty much just one big fog, yet the planes continued to lay the trails. I've never seen so much chemtrail laying in all my years of observation (and I've been watching since the mid 1990s, when I first noticed them – or for about 10 years now).

Back on the ship, after returning early from the mall with a stiff neck (from looking up in awe so much) I grabbed my camera and went back to deck 5 aft to get some pictures. I ran into the alto sax player back there. He was not looking at the sky, he was reading a book on investment strategies. Sort of the opposite of looking at the sky.

I went over to the rail and got my camera out. “I figgered I'd get some shots of this before we leave today,” I said.

He just kind of looked at me. “Shots of what?” he asked.

“The sky. Have you ever seen anything like it? The chemtrails, I mean.”

“The what?” He saw nothing unusual in the sky, and he had never heard of chemtrails. Well, what can you expect? He's from Calgary. I had tried to talk to him once about sprawl in the context of Calgary, but the concept of sprawl seemed as alien to him as chemtrails.

The trumpet player, although he's heard the term, is of the “chemtrails are simply normal contrails” school, and thinks I'm full of shit. He laughs at things like this, and people like me.

Sometimes I think musicians are an unfortunately dull and unimaginative lot.

I won't go on and on about this – I'm just letting you know what's happening down here, and this is part of it. Generally the skies in the Caribbean are mercifully free of chemtrails (which for me are visual pollution – I much prefer normal, God-made clouds in my sunsets). So it's unusual, and worth reporting.

A warning: I also look at the night sky down here and I brought my trusty 10X50s with me. I've seen lots of meteors up there, including a couple of really good ones, but nothing out of the “ordinary” (to me, the night sky can never be ordinary).

I am specifically keeping an eye out for those “triangle shaped craft” you may have heard about. This is even more fringe than chemtrails – but I'm looking for them because I have indeed seen them myself, on two occasions, from (what was) my backyard in Oakville. So I know there's something to the rumors and reports. I'll keep you posted, but it's looking doubtful with less than 5 weeks of observing left and no triangles so far.

Many reports suggest these triangles are very large. One theory has it that they are “tethered satellites”, probably spy satellites, and not monolithic aircraft at all. This makes sense to me, and coincides with what I saw.

By the way, I saw my first triangle before I had ever heard that they were a “phenomenon”. And I only found out how common these sightings were after having seen my first one.

(Try Googling “triangles” along with “craft” or “sky” or “formation” or something for more information on aerial triangle phenomena.)


Sunday afternoon in Port Canaveral


One week later...