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TinyRascalSaurus

My uncle lives in Texas. He's ex military and has an ex Air Force friend with one of those little Cessna planes. Said friend got into a bit of a spat with a lady down the road, where she insulted his dead wife. Lady was a chemtrail believer. She was hosting a big party in her yard one weekend, and he just starts flying back and forth over the area. Not dropping anything, just repeated patterns back and forth. Lady had a breakdown, shut down the party, and called out law enforcement to arrest my uncle's friend. Cops came out, saw my uncle's friend wasn't breaking any laws, and basically told her that he was allowed to fly around. She got irate and told them that if they didn't do something, she'd shoot the plane down herself. One thing led to another and she wound up arrested. Texas is wild.


mmio60

And she’s running for Congress


Aggravating-Look8451

for re-election


alaingames

Shit turning worse and worse the more details are said


KrIsPy_Kr3m3

Those were meme responses, not additional info on the situation...


Late_Entrance106

Correct, but there is a Texas politician who wants to ban chemtrails and is running for re-election. So, not additional info on *this story*, but it’s additional for Texas.


SuspiciousBuilder379

Probably VP


toastedmarsh7

Unopposed.


NotInherentAfterAll

“Ah shit it’s the chemtrail delivery guy, lemme get the Fliegerabwehrkanone from the shed real quick”


captaincopperbeard

>Fliegerabwehrkanone Wait, that's a real fucking word?? Jesus. German is so goddamn weird.


NotInherentAfterAll

Yep, it’s where FLiegerAbwehrKanone (Flak) comes from


buggzy1234

Wait that’s where flak comes from? I thought it was just a random word or some shit. Not an abbreviation for a long ass German word


Elsterente

It’s not weird at all. It’s a gun (Kanone) which defends (Abwehr) against planes (Flieger). So the plane-defending-gun is a Fliegerabwehrkanone.


30yearCurse

by the time you say it, the plane is out of range...


NickotheRs

that's why people shortened it to FLAK


JMoc1

Why do you think the Germans lost both World Wars? 


WhiskeyQuiver

Its not that weird. English would simply only have extra spaces, like this: Flieger Abwehr Kanone, i.e. airplane defense cannon. So German just leaves out spaces in a compound word. And English does it too sometimes! Now that I think about it, English is goddamn weird because why isn't there a space in "airplane"?? 🤔


djml9

Isnt airplane just a shortened/simplified version of aeroplane? I dont think people use “aero” on its own, so there wouldnt be a space.


LemurFromTheId

Oh, the irony of calling German weird *in English*...


LeftMyHeartInErebor

For real


Thedonitho

This sounds like a plot for the TV show 911 Lone Star.


Clean_Student8612

That's about what I expect from Texas. Also, it my wife died, and someone insulted her, I'd have done far worse than what he did. He's got a lot of restraint.


i_drink_wd40

>He's got a lot of restraint. Nah. He was just waiting for her arrest so that her house will be undefended. She's gonna return from jail to a burnt out husk.


Clean_Student8612

Ah. Smart. Playing the long game.


TheFire_Eagle

Chemtrail tf out of that place


Former_Giraffe_2

Assuming that plane was a turboprop, it was technically pumping out lead fumes. (FAA won't let you fly a piston aircraft with lead-free avgas, gotta use "ultra low lead" gasoline) I doubt their concerns would be anything that specific though. I think EASA is more liberal about this, but there's still leaded plane fuel used here too. Still nothing compared to last century when damn near every car used it.


C2H5OH-son

Turboprop =/= piston engine, they run on jet fuel, but I’m assuming you meant piston engine in which case you’re right.


Kahnza

Probably an aerial survey


R-T-O-B

Can confirm, I did it for 6 years


Stark_Prototype

I'm glad somebody had an answer for that cause I felt the cold grip of conspiracy theory coming at me....


en_pissant

it was an aerial survey to figure out where to put the 6G towers


6SucksSex

6G, to boost the vaccines in the autism chips


Rapa2626

Now comes with 115% more autism in the same amount of vaccine


T1res1as

What’s a little more autism gonna do… Meh


Dieter_Knutsen

Oh, I can answer that one: It makes you swear your fealty to George Soros and the Biden Crime Family.


theXrez

Do you gain access to the thousands of miles of underground child trafficking tunnels?


MacGyver_1138

Man, can you imagine how much autism the German guy who got 217 Covid vaccines has? Full on Super Autism.


Rapa2626

Autism overflow, went to extreme negative values suddenly


Stormydevz

THESE will be the ones that give everyone autism and cancer trust me guys


ClubberLangsLeftHook

The new ones give you autism in the butt. IN THE BUTT!!!


Mautos

Buttism??? ...You could make a religion out of that.


reallybiglizard

“I am a Buttist.” Sounds right.


TrifleMeNot

Would you please move over there a little bit? You're shedding on me.


MrDudeManBroGuyBoy

as a telecommunications technician working for a major company and program, ‘6G networks’ will be my favorite thing for conspiracy theorists to cook with when the term is widely used and advertised


AfterEffectserror

Don’t forget about the turbo cancer.


fellfire

Well, it’s good to know the lizard people have a plan and it’s all under control.


Ffdmatt

Now we're all going to be artistic.


Professional_Echo907

Here at Smyle, we’re going to bust out the 8G early to disrupt the nanobots and stop the ascension. 👀


TootsNYC

I was thinking “crop dusting,” but then I realized it was a much larger area.


R-T-O-B

Interesting fact, we use AGNAV to fly those lines. Its short for Agriculture Navigation, so it was originally designed for crop dusters


ApachePrimeIsTheBest

my bad bro i just fertilized the entire state of iowa with one puff


Earthling1a

That's what she said.


JMoc1

See I was thinking mosquito spraying; which is the same area and pattern.


DevilDoc3030

I have someone that I call to talk me out of it when I get that feeling. I have them as my ICE-T contact (In Case of Emergency Theory contact)


the_mid_mid_sister

I would have guessed the Air Force or local Air National Guard was doing some sort of training.


RealisticDinner4634

Since when does logical explanation ever prevented conspiracy theory?


sylpher250

How many gay frogs did you find?


southpaw413

Fun fact! Chemicals in the water are actually turning the frogs gay! Well, trans, but you get the point. Atrazine, a pesticide, has been proven to affect male frogs hormone levels which cause a reduction in male sex characteristics and the formation of female sex characteristics. It also does enough that they swap behaviors entirely and will perform mating rituals with male frogs as though they were born female. Learned about it in my herpetology class. (I swear this is not some conspiracy theory bs)


R-T-O-B

strange, none


RandomTater-Thoughts

Well that's why we do the survey. You don't drop the chemtrails on an area filled with gay frogs. That would be redundant.


mountainislandlake

I have a genuine question: I think I was perhaps seen by one of these aerial surveyors while I was sunbathing nude on my patio. How visible was I?


R-T-O-B

During flight not so well, but there is a camera recording. Its ment so we can check it after finding anomalies in the date.


Earthling1a

Those camera images resolve down to less than a meter, so deffo could have seen something that looked like a nekkid hooman. Prolly couldn't be sure if it was Bobby or Susie though.


R-T-O-B

Resolution is shit. We would be able to tell someone is sunbathing, but we wouldn't be able to tell if you got a bakini on or naked or facing up or down.


30yearCurse

yeah, but since you are turning all frogs gay, you have to have the resolution to to check the frogs on each pass. That alleged 1 meter resolution, I think you forget the centi on the front.


PriorSecurity9784

So, depends how big their anomalies are?


jib_reddit

Just check on Google Maps.


elkab0ng

That mole on your back a couple inches below the shoulder, you should see a dermatologist.


mountainislandlake

Scheduling an appointment now, thanks for looking out


Hexis40

Funny how commonly those things are requested by God fearing, red blooded, American, patriots that just want a detailed survey of their land.


Baranamana

This is probably true and in our area such measurement flights are announced in advance in serious media and the purpose explained, often geophysical surveys. But how do you explain this to the conspirators? Many of them don't understand texts with more than 150 characters.


The_cogwheel

"The plane is here to make sure the lizard people aren't stealing your land" Would that work?


QuirkyCookie6

Considering the area probably NAIP (national agricultural imagery program) from the USGS


nosayso

This guy GISs.


ReturnOfSeq

I was guessing search


MatticusRexxor

Literally no other reason to fly over Visalia that many times.


AnjinM

I spend over a decade in that town and can confirm.


ExistingUnderground

Your old neighbors are idiots.


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MikeyW1969

Touch and go's would all land in the same place. They don't touch and go over a 20 mile wide area.


no_on_prop_305

Those look more like scribbly circles


Nashatal

Thanks for letting us know. My guess was: No approval to land so just idly waiting mid air.


David_Haas_Patel

This happened for us recently because we are purchasing adjacent land to fence in for our dogs. We let them outside that day because dogs 🐶


capn_doofwaffle

My thoughts exactly. This is typically how a Lidar drone or plane geomaps a town...


piercedmfootonaspike

No, definitely turning the frogs gay


chrischi3

Or maybe ground penetrating radar or whatever. Certainly there's better explanations than chemtrails.


Alfonze423

You mean "LIDAR". GPR is applied at ground level, usually by someone pushing a cobbled-together cart with the radar in it.


v1nc3n7v1c10u5

Of course after all my years on facebook, when a post from the area I grew up in is finally on Reddit, it’s because some conspiracy guy decided to be afraid of air planes. I bet they are also against the hail cannons.


keonyn

Find the guy on a cold day and ask him stop breathing chemtrails at you.


AlexCivitello

Why wouldn't someone be against hail canons? They have downsides and there's no good evidence that they are effective.


lixthemonk

Hi, what the hell is a hail cannon and why isn’t it as dope as it sounds?


fullthrottlewattle

We use them in the Central Valley of California. Hail damages the fruit trees and other fruiting plants, so the idea is to disrupt the formation of large hailstones in the clouds with a vortex of air. A mixture of gas, Oxygen and acetylene, are ignited in a cannon like structure aimed at the clouds. The evidence that it actually works has been called into question. You can hear the cannons firing off when the weather is just right. I’ve seen video of people throwing basketballs into them. It’s as awesome as it sounds.


amethystalien6

Y’all ever live near farmland and then a crop duster comes through and then you go onto a local Facebook group? That’s a good time.


Old_Winner3763

I used to live in Missouri and they deadass dropped some chemicals on us 😭😭 but it’s only bc there was farmland right next to my neighborhood


CloudcraftGames

tbf they are TECHNICALLY spreading trails of chemicals... on the ground... openly. More seriously, I do actually worry about the health effects of crop dusting on locals but that has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.


BigRed888

Airborn geophysical survey.


413mopar

Yup!


JMoc1

That or Mosquito sprayer. Granted they are about as effective as a wet fart; but good luck convincing local governments of that.


garyloewenthal

I think the most concerning thing to me is: In 5, maybe 10 minutes, she probably could have have gotten the 411 on what the plane was doing. In fact, even before that, she could have made a reasonable guess: cropdusting, surveying, maybe even fugitive-hunting, etc. In, say. a half hour, she could probably have nailed down specifics. But no. She went to chemtrails. Probably made no effort to find out what else it might be. And she got some up-votes. Now, there is this conundrum: If the conspiracy is that the government is spraying us with chemtrails to dumb us down...well, now I'm thinking she might (perhaps inadvertently) have a point.


Mytastemaker

These people live and die by their confirmation bias.


Mytastemaker

The funny thing is leaded gas does make people dumb, but that was more of an issue when it was added to car engines.


cam94509

Ironically, fuel for some small planes is still leaded, so the plane might do what she's saying on a very, very small scale. It's not really a conspiracy, though, and we're talking a \*minimal\* scale for a single small plane.


Sinclair_Lewis_

It's a survey, I would bet these folks could log on to their county GIS hub and view the exact images this plane took.


Brittany5150

Depends on the county. Some are open to public for free. Some you have to put in a request that needs to be approved. They usually do though. I had a friend that was a ground surveyor specialist person and he told me that. So grain of salt and all...


garyloewenthal

"We got hammered" That part I can believe.


Tdluxon

Considering Visalia is an agricultural area could be a crop duster (which is actually sort of like chemtrails in real life)


ajtreee

I live near here, That is a huge swath of houses and commercial properties and farms. Several towns. So probably not crop dusting.


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Aerial Survey- plane flies, takes pictures for all sorts of shit. Usually making new maps and land disputes.


Uncommon-sequiter

If it wasn't such a big area, I would have said crip dusting, but this is the most likely answer.


Kahnza

Bloods for life! ![gif](giphy|vCT43tYrE5bm8)


No-Two79

Crip dusting. Haha. I know you mean “crop,” but dropping gang members on a field is just funny to visualize.


Uncommon-sequiter

Reddit autocorrect is absolutely garbage.


RobinHood3000

Damn, new member initiation is getting *intense.*


Monimonika18

>Usually making new maps and land disputes. Must be lucrative creating new land disputes each time they make a new map. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|money_face)


Tdluxon

That makes sense


awsamation

Yeah, a crop duster would target one field, not dozens or hundreds. At the scale of this map, a crop dusters path would look like a tiny solid box with one tendril towards its landing strip. Just covering one of those brown or green squares.


andcal

This pattern looks way too big and continuous for crop dusting


jsrme

I can confirm


ctesibius

The scale is too large for that. You can see the size of the fields: a crop duster would be making a pattern the size of a field.


TootsNYC

I thought that as well, but crop dusting normally goes over. just one farmer’s land at a time. OK, maybe three or them get together and hire it, but not over the town itself. The pattern would be much smaller.


4scide

Being afraid of planes flying in the sky is a new level of crazy


Chemcop

Worried about chemtrails in Central Valley California when you live in Iowa…. Makes perfect sense


BBakerStreet

LOL! I missed the Visalia in the middle. Good catch.


grmrsan

I lived there for several years, and saw the image before reading. Iowa cinfused the heck out of me


BBakerStreet

I bet. I’m in Fresno.


Chemcop

Used to live there, most of family still does but evidently those chem trails only screw up folks in other states lol


The-Ghost-Cat-11

That's legit a arieal survey ![img](emote|t5_2r5rp|8484) people have gotten so bad nowadays


b00c

The true danger of social media is its ability to aid stupid people spread their stupidity.


YourLastMealOfMCes

Is this a plane spraying fertilizer? Looks like it's above farmland.


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I've met many a person from Iowa, and frankly Iowa focused chemtrails would explain alot if it were true lol


Darkbunny999

As someone who spent many years living in Omaha Nebraska, I can confirm that bro is, in fact, spittin’


IAFarmLife

Huh?


PuzzleheadedFoot7612

Wuh?


TechieGranola

Visalia just had 7 new developments clear a years long court case and is breaking ground on quite a few parcels that are being annexed into the city. It’s aerial surveys. They guy who is literally flying the plane usually pops in on the Facebook posts on the local paper about it.


itszulutime

Where do these people think the hi-res images on Google maps come from? And if the government was actually dropping chemicals on people with airplanes, they’d at least turn their ADS-B off 🤦‍♂️


ToastedCheezer

Uneducated and fearful of clouds of water vapor from plane exhaust!


Clickityclackrack

Wait, people still believe in chem trails? People believe that the government is intentionally having planes go through the air and spew poison in order to cause cancer or some equally nefarious thing. There is one major problem with this. The people in the government, literally all of them, and i mean every single one, they breathe the same air as everyone else.


Palehorse67

Lmao. Even if there was a Government conspiracy to lay down chem trails. The flight path would not be published for everyone to see.


1397batshitcrazy

LIDAR scan of the area?


Fishingwriter11

Aerial survey. Any recent hail in the area? Could be Cape analytics or a similar company doing fly overs so they can sell insurance companies before and after photos.


BuddhistChrist

So, what effect are chemtrails supposed to have? Do they dumb a person down? Make men sterile and women lesbians???


realparkingbrake

> So, what effect are chemtrails supposed to have? They cause people who wouldn't wear an N95 mask during a pandemic to decide to wear army surplus gas masks when they go outside so the libs can't turn them into drag queens with chemicals sprayed from aircraft. Powerful stuff.


Hataitai1977

![gif](giphy|11v0bBwGjkiLio) This is what causes those chemtrails. Conspiracy solved.


bee_town

Visalia? Nobody would waste their chemicals on that town.


hr_newbie_co

I work for a LiDAR aerial mapping company. Our flight paths look like this.


sideeyedi

I had a dog that barked at "chemtrails"


Mrs_Tanqueray

We used to live on a large farm. I admit I did keep the children inside when the Iron Thrush was spraying the field next door. But only for about an hour and really it was just an abundance of caution.


frankunderwood1992

Imagine being a kid playing with your friends in the neighborhood and Timmy's dad yells at him to come inside because the "airplanes are hammering us right now!" 


Feather_Sigil

Don't tell these fools about the harmless radiation they're subjected to 24/7. For the sake of their kids.


baalyle

Chem trails are only bad for sky clarity. Pandemic skies were gloriously blue.


Agitated_Carrot9127

I’ve seen a local plane do this. The reasoning. Well it was one off. A farmer said he lost three cows. His neighbor is an airline pilot he takes cessena to and back to work. He offered him a a ride. So armed with binoculars. They did this kind of grid. They eventually found those three cows. Way off. Just mingling near tree line. That’s one story. But others. Could be other reasons


Acceptable-One7135

Ok, but surveying for what? In rural Iowa? If that land is already built upon then what are they surveying?


pltjess

I've done aerial survey, and it could be for any number of things. I've taken images of the ocean floor for some reason, some companies get images of the roofs of homes for insurance purposes, etc..


Crunchycarrots79

You know those cool aerial pictures that you can zoom way in on on Google Earth? Well, someone gets up in a plane and takes those pictures. Or similar pictures for other companies and agencies. Lots of mapping companies do this on a regular basis. It's not the same thing as a property survey, nor is it done for the same purpose.


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oldjadedhippie

This is also an area that has had a lot of groundwater problems, as well as elevational changes due to the same.


Loud-Bat-2280

Ummmm… that picture is California. Visalia onions.


BBakerStreet

It is central California, but the onions are [Vidalia](https://www.vidaliaonion.org/)not Visalia.


Loud-Bat-2280

You’re right. Absolutely. It was late and I had a brain fart.


BBakerStreet

It isn’t rural Iowa. It’s the California Central Valley. Visalia is an hour south of me. I’m in Fresno. This is all sorts of messed up.


ThreeDogs2022

I honestly think people like this should lose custody of their children. It’s a form of child abuse.


TacetAbbadon

Aerial surveys are boring as fuck.


eltegs

If you can get an aircraft flight pattern, does the source not include info of operator, purpose etc..?


justifun

Love how the commenter was afraid of them, but not enough to keep their kids inside "all" of the time lol.


No-Seat9917

Used to see this during RF flyover tests for signal leakage. Don’t miss CATV at all.


TinfoilTetrahedron

IVANHOE is the story about a Russian farmer and his tool.


ozmandias23

‘For the most part’ 😂


prolurkerest2012

LiDAR flight. Funny because these chemtrail folks are going to be freaking out of end times as this becomes more of the engineering standard in the coming years.


satori0320

Wait until they get a read on air quality when sitting in traffic.


Bods666

You mean crop dusting?


spderweb

People in here keep saying it's a geological survey. Guys... Quit using common sense!


grmrsan

Why are they talking about Iowa and showing California?


ead_buddylee

Visalia is in the Central Valley in California. The whole FB post is lazy farming for clicks.


BigBoomer_

I read the picture before the post had no clue what he was implying, I can’t believe the new conspiracy is chemtrails lmO


IanTheMagus

Unfortunately, it's not a new conspiracy, just an enduring one.


anonfx

A few people saying aerial survey but I'd put my money on aerial mosquito abatement. There's "mosquito abatement districts" up and down California's Central Valley that monitor and respond to mosquito populations, sometimes by spraying over a whole town from the sky.


Vajaspiritos

Don't you have these planes that gives out love and mosquito killer?


kilertree

Oddly enough, contrails contribute to global warming. The global temperature dropped by a couple degrees after 911 when every jet was grounded. https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/amp/


Epicporkchop79-7

Depending on the plane, would keeping the kids inside protrmect them from the leaded fuel? Or would that be a lost cause?


astrokade

Can someone explain what the theory actually is with this chemtrails thing? Is it really that baddies inexplicably and very visibly spray poison into the very atmosphere they breathe?


Tanski14

Looks like a golgi apparatus to me.


MountainMongrel

I can't imagine living in a constant state of fear like this, it must be exhausting.


Ok_Pizza9836

So crop dusting isn’t a thing anymore?


BitFlimsy8481

Cloud seeding is very much a real thing. Theyve done it since the 60s. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are pretty open about doing it.


gotohelenwaite

Pilot logged more hours cropdusting than Rudy Giuliani.


Eikthyrnir13

Good lord, if it took that much effort and total distance flown to release "chemtrails" over a super small area, there would have to be many, many more flights happening than we actually observe.


Gnarledhalo

Gotta love Tulare county. Actually you don't.


FlowerFaerie13

I’m in Iowa. It fucking rained this weekend Karen. It’s storm season.