The Army used serratia to test whether enemy agents could launch a biological warfare attack on a port city such as San Francisco from a location miles offshore.
For six days in late September 1950, a small military vessel near San Francisco sprayed a huge cloud of serratia particles into the air while the weather favored dispersal.
Army tests showed that the bacterial cloud had exposed hundreds of thousands of people in a broad swath of Bay Area communities including Sausalito, Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, San Francisco, Daly City and Colma, according to reports that later were declassified. Soon after the spraying, 11 people came down with hard-to-treat infections at the old Stanford University Hospital in San Francisco.
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Years Ago, The Military Sprayed Germs on U.S. Cities
In Senate subcommittee hearings in 1977, the U.S. Army revealed that weeks before Mr. Nevin sickened and died, the Army had staged a mock biological attack on San Francisco, secretly spraying the city with Serratia and other agents thought to be harmless.
The goal: to see what might happen in a real germ-warfare attack. The experiment, which involved blasting a bacterial fog over the entire 49-square-mile city from a Navy vessel offshore, was recorded with clinical nonchalance: "It was noted that a successful BW [biological warfare] attack on this area can be launched from the sea, and that effective dosages can be produced over relatively large areas," the Army wrote in its 1951 classified report on the experiment.
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Chemicals sprayed on Americans secretly by its own government?
Get out...thats conspiracy mumbo-jumbo. Couldn't be true right?
Wrong.
I bet if someone even mentioned the possibility back in the 50's that something suspicious was happening they'd get hammered for thinking outside of the box...too bad our government doesn't except us to, and knows they have plenty of average frightened folks that will deny everything for them.
Now I'm not saying that these trails are CHEMICAL trails...I do not know concretely one way or the other...but I'm not going to smugly dismiss the possibility outright that some may be. Considering that this has happened before it's not far fetched at all.
P.S. No one has stated that every plane sprays chemicals and to suggest so is just an attempt to derail the thread and dismiss the idea.


