All Aircraft Are Not Involved

Joint US-Taiwan weather watch mission in orbit
by Ravi Chopra

CALIFORNIA: Six weather satellites that were launched Friday evening reached their orbit approx. 800km above Earth, today. The joint US and Taiwanese mission is designed to last five years and will help both countries to better monitor climatic changes and track hurricanes.

As the 40in high, 70kg satellites settled into orbit, they separated to form a chain. Once into position, they will take about 2,500 measurements daily using a GPS radio receiver and a photometer. The data will be relayed back to Earth.

The joint effort costing about $100m is funded by institutes representing the American Institute in Taiwan and Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US. Taiwan has contributed about 80 percent of the cost.

These include the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. and the National Space Organization of Taiwan. The Colorado-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will be managing the mission.

The six-satellite cluster is expected to aid research and improve weather forecasting both in the US and Taiwan. A Taiwanese spokesperson said the mission would certainly help predict the path of typhoons as the satellites measure their wind strengths and rainfall amount. The satellites are also equipped to observe space weather and forewarn scientists about geomagnetic storms that are known to disrupt power grids and telecommunications networks.

In the US, the mission is called COSMIC, abbr. of Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate. In Taiwan, it is known as FORMOSAT-3.

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Posted by may41970 on Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:23 am:

Hi soc, The link I posted to in my original 2006 chemtails post isn't the same anymore. Back when I posted it, the link talked about the members of Cosmic as including the US Navy, US Air Force, NOAA, and so on. Since then, the article changed. It's been watered down.

That's the problem with the net. We're not writing on paper. All this stuff in computer world can disappear, reappear, get altered, change at any time. If you want, feel free to do your own research on "Cosmic" and see what you can come up with. Here's a new link I found via a quick search:

space.com/missionlaunches/060413_cosmic_prelaunch.html

As far as Yuanlin, Taiwan - we're still getting chemtrails nearly every day, but the spraying has gone down quite a lot in the last few weeks.

Weird thing today, though. Don't know if it means anything or not. At 1:30 pm (June 29) an extremely heavy, low black cloud came over the Yuanlin, from the NW. (an unuual direction for a storm to hit) Couldn't stop looking at it because it looked EXACTLY like the kind of cloud that can produce a funnel cloud. Real tight - just a couple km in diameter.

Sure enough, at about 1:40 pm - a funnel cloud started to form. Wide, "stovepipe" sort of thing. It spun in a clockwise direction, but retreated while still a couple hundred meters above the ground. Though I didn't get a photo, I've got two witnesses - my boss and another colleague.

Over 15 years in Yuanlin, and this is the first funnel cloud that I've ever seen of heard of - though one was reported down in Kaosiung a couple weeks ago -- another highly unusual event.

By the late afternoon, fake chemtrail clouds over Yuanlin were thick in the sky once again.

may41970


posted by socrates on Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:06 pm:

may41970 wrote:
The link I posted to in my original 2006 chemtails post isn't the same anymore. Back when I posted it, the link talked about the members of Cosmic as including the US Navy, US Air Force, NOAA, and so on. Since then, the article changed. It's been watered down.

Hmmmm. It wouldn't surprise me if there was some scrubbing going on. Do you remember if it is the same article, but that it has been snipped clean of those nuggets you mention above? This seems to imply that there is a connection between chemtrails and COSMIC. From reading the scrubbed version, it would be a leap of faith to think there is a connection, but if you throw in the USAF, the US Navy, and other institutions, that leap is much easier to envision as a real possibility.

{the off-topic: I am able to access youtube again. I am thinking what happened to me last night was that youtube was down for maintenance, and that everyone was being redirected to the uk servers.}

That's the problem with the net. We're not writing on paper. All this stuff in computer world can disappear, reappear, get altered, change at any time. If you want, feel free to do your own research on "Cosmic" and see what you can come up with.

This is something definitely to keep in mind. This is why it is such a shame that the chemtrail boards are so compromised. Instead of us running around trying to find decent forums to help the cause, we could have been zooming in on lots of stuff, including the COSMIC program. We'd probably have a much better idea if it is related to the sky operations. The timing though seems to add up, just like with with morgellons, just like with Croatian chemtrails starting after they joined NATO.

As far as Yuanlin, Taiwan - we're still getting chemtrails nearly every day, but the spraying has gone down quite a lot in the last few weeks.

Weird thing today, though. Don't know if it means anything or not. At 1:30 pm (June 29) an extremely heavy, low black cloud came over the Yuanlin, from the NW. (an unuual direction for a storm to hit) Couldn't stop looking at it because it looked EXACTLY like the kind of cloud that can produce a funnel cloud. Real tight - just a couple km in diameter.

Sure enough, at about 1:40 pm - a funnel cloud started to form. Wide, "stovepipe" sort of thing. It spun in a clockwise direction, but retreated while still a couple hundred meters above the ground. Though I didn't get a photo, I've got two witnesses - my boss and another colleague.

Over 15 years in Yuanlin, and this is the first funnel cloud that I've ever seen of heard of - though one was reported down in Kaosiung a couple weeks ago -- another highly unusual event.

By the late afternoon, fake chemtrail clouds over Yuanlin were thick in the sky once again.

may41970

Maybe the COSMIC part of this does have to do with Frankensteinian attempts to knock down typhoons and other extreme weather events. You're in a part of the world which experiences those kinds of conditions.

Today it is cloudy here, but for some reason my eyes keep getting all watery. It doesn't make sense to me. I am thinking that if it is cloudy, then shouldn't one have less of a need for sunglasses? There are some funky looking clouds up there too. Some of it is discernible as coming from aircraft. Today I am feeling quite positive that this thing will be exposed. People need to look at this as a puzzle. The catch is that we are being herded into the bullshit major forums, where we end up banging our heads on the wall and wondering wtf. So we need to basically crack the code, and find a way to work around the cointelpro-like sham setups that are meant to confuse and alienate.


posted by may41970 on Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:28 pm
Post subject: Yeah, the article is different

At the time I made the post at CTC, the article I linked to mentioned NASA, NOAA, Airforce, Navy and other military-sounding agencies. It's been edited since then.

The reason I have such an interest in COSMIC is because the first time I saw chemtrails in Taiwan was April 19, 2006. From that point on, nearly everyday, there were months of extremely heavy spraying. Perhaps the chemtrails had been here earlier, and I never noticed; but I had been aware of chemtrails reports in the States for maybe two years, and had kept a closer watch on the Taiwan sky. And before that April afternoon, I never saw a chemtrail.

After seeing chemtrails for the first time, I did some google searches and discovered that that Taiwan's COSMIC had started up only a couple days before Taiwan's chemtrails. Felt significant to me then, and still does. Maybe a coincidence, but it's a striking one.

April 14, 2006 - Project COSMIC gets launched
April 19, 2006 - Taiwan initiates massive and daily aerosol spraying

The Space.com article I linked to above is too technical for me to understand, but a couple parts caught my attention.

1) it got me wondering what "UCAR" is:

The array of spacecraft is rooted on a system design provided by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), based here. UCAR is a consortium of 69 universities focused on atmospheric and related sciences.

2) and see if you can find the coincidence here:

"I am very excited about the project. The planning for this started in the fall of 1997. Nine years have passed since then. I firmly believe that COSMIC will revolutionize atmospheric remote sensing for weather prediction, climate monitoring, and space weather forecasting.."

[-William Kuo
Director of UCAR COSMIC Office]

space.com/missionlaunches/060413_cosmic_prelaunch.html

And from another article, here's proof of considerable involvement by the US military. I keep wondering something. If COSMIC, largely paid for by Taiwan, is about weather forecasting - then why the hell is the US military so deeply involved?

Taiwan's National Science Council and National Space Organization provided over $80 million for the system. The U.S. National Science Foundation, lead agency for COSMIC science activities, and its partners provided the rest of the support. Major partners include NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Air Force Space Test Program, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense Space and Missile Systems Center's Rocket Systems Launch Program of the U.S. Air Force, which also provided logistical support.

ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/cosmic.shtml

Sometimes I don't know if I'm being paranoid or clear. A few days after I made my first-ever post on CTC, I watched three low flying jets fly slowly DIRECTLY over my head. A fourth one was just to the outside. They were flying real slow and low. If I had a laser pointer and directed it straight up, it would have lit up three of them. Immediately after they flew over my head, they turned to the north and flew off.

I live in the countryside.

Last week, we experienced our first "sonic boom" EVER at about 8:00 in the morning, a day or two after I had posted here at gastronomes. A low-flying jet woke up the neighborhood. First time that's happened to me in my 13+ years in Taiwan.

Don't know if I'm being paranoid or not.

Still lots of chemtrails. The news today said that there are three, yes THREE, typhoons that have formed outside of Taiwan. Once again, that is a first for me in all the time that I've lived here. Three typhoons at one time? WTF?
...

Aug. 9 update:

As I look at the above post, I feel that I may have come across as being too hot-headed.

REGARDING MY GLOBAL WARMING COMMENTS:
Maybe I went too far. Truth is that I don't know anything about global warming; I've got no real idea what it is or how it relates to chemtrails. It's just that I've heard so many politicians, network news agencies, and even Nasa talk about the "global warming" threat....well, my instinct is that whenever these people try hard to sell something to the public, that it's a lie. Maybe statistically accurate, but not very scientific. I'll keep my mouth shut from now on this question until I know more. From this point, I'll write about something I do know about - and that's the chemtrails that I see over my head.


REGARDING JETS FLYING OVER OUR HOUSE
There's no int'l air traffic over Yuanlin, and until very recently - all the planes and genuine contrails I observed were always on an identical flight path, far west of the township. It's quite possible that chemtrails have existed longer than I think; but it was only after the advent of COSMIC... the massive joint program between Taiwan and the US to "improve weather forecasting" that I started noticing Taiwanese chemtrails.

nsf.gov/news


(Why the "U.S. Air Force Space Test Program, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense Space and Missile Systems Center's Rocket Systems Launch Program of the U.S. Air Force" are interested in forecasting Taiwan's weather -- your guess is as good as mine.)

The 4 jets flying over our home in formation were small military planes. The more recent sonic boom, I assume, was also from a military jet. There are loads of military bases parked on this tiny island. Just don't remember seeing so many fighters HERE. As far as I know, I'm the only person in Taiwan posting about the advent of chemtrails in this country - so maybe it's not too insane to think that I pissed somebody off and that some fascist at the American Institute in Taiwan made a request to send some planes my way to make me feel a little concerned.

But even in the case that those planes over our house were a freak coincidence, obviously my posting about them makes me sound like another nut. Either way, I lose. All I can tell you is that I now see loads of chemtrails here; and I didn't see them before. I see loads of planes all the time now; and I didn't see them before.

TONIGHT'S EVENING SKY:
Lots of clear blue, and no blatant trails. But still, it was very strange. In the forefront were lots "fishscale" clouds. Perpendicular to them was a spread of straight "lines" that reminded me of an open Chinese fan. I"ve not seen/noticed this style before. The "fan" was perpendicular to the fishscales. Temps were fairly cool.

National Science Foundation

Press Release 06-061
U.S.-Taiwan Constellation of Satellites Launched

Will track hurricanes, monitor climate change and accelerate space weather research



We have liftoff. COSMIC satellites will take to the atmosphere this week.
Credit: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research

April 12, 2006

A globe-spanning constellation of six satellites expected to improve weather forecasts, monitor climate change, and enhance space weather research will head into orbit on Fri. April 14, 2006. Barring delays, a Minotaur rocket is scheduled to launch the array at 5:10 p.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central Calif. coast.

The low-orbiting satellites will be the first to provide atmospheric data daily in real time over thousands of points on Earth for both research and operational weather forecasting. The satellites will measure the bending of radio signals from the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) as the signals pass through Earth's atmosphere.

Called COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate) in the United States and FORMOSAT-3 in Taiwan, the $100 million satellite network is the product of an agreement between the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. The array is based on a system design provided by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Temperature and water vapor profiles derived from the GPS data will help meteorologists observe, research, and forecast hurricanes, typhoons, and other storm patterns over the oceans and improve many areas of weather prediction. The stability, consistency, and accuracy of the measurements will provide critical new information to scientists quantifying long-term climate change trends, say atmospheric scientists.

COSMIC's measurements also will improve analysis and forecasting of space weather--the geomagnetic storms that can interrupt sensitive satellite and communications systems and affect power grids on the ground.

"The satellites will convert GPS measurements into a precise worldwide set of weather, climate, and space weather data," said Jay Fein, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric Sciences, which funded COSMIC. "The resulting new information will have a tremendous impact on geosciences research and weather prediction, and will be an important contribution to global Earth observations."

COSMIC relies on a technology known as radio occultation. Just as the water molecules in a glass change the path of visible light waves, molecules in the air bend GPS radio signals as they pass through the atmosphere. By measuring the amount of this bending, scientists can determine underlying atmospheric conditions, such as air density, temperature and moisture, and electron density.

"This is the first time the technique of radio occultation has been used on a large scale in real time to provide nearly continuous measurements of worldwide atmospheric conditions at all altitudes," said William Kuo, director of the UCAR COSMIC office.

While several single-satellite systems have used GPS signals experimentally over the past decade, COSMIC's unique six-satellite array is the first to provide the high-density global coverage required for both research and operational forecasting.

"Centers around the world will have access to this new information for both research and operational forecasting," said UCAR president Richard Anthes. "User-friendly versions of the data will enable those with less sophisticated systems to benefit as well."

Orbiting at an altitude of 500 miles (800 kilometers), COSMIC satellites will take approximately 2,500 measurements every 24 hours in a nearly uniform distribution around the globe. The system will provide novel and independent data over vast stretches of the oceans where there are no weather balloon observations. The data's high vertical resolution will complement the high horizontal resolution of other weather satellite measurements.

Because the satellites' radio signals pierce thick cloud cover and precipitation, weather conditions will not interfere with data gathering, as is often the case for remote sensing platforms. The satellites will not need to be recalibrated and the instruments' accuracy and sensitivity will not change during the five-year mission--common problems with Earth-observing satellites over their lifetime. The data will be available to researchers and forecasters within a few hours of the observations.

"The COSMIC mission would not have been possible without the broad support of U.S. sponsors and the partnership with Taiwan," says Fein.

Taiwan's National Science Council and National Space Organization provided more than $80 million for the system. The U.S. National Science Foundation, lead agency for COSMIC science activities, and its partners provided the rest of the support. Major partners include NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Air Force Space Test Program, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense Space and Missile Systems Center's Rocket Systems Launch Program of the U.S. Air Force, which provided logistical support.

-NSF-

I ask you: Maybe they have been there since spraying really fully commenced (mid/late 90's) but you just happened to awake to their existence that year? What do you think?

Have the methods of emination of the chemtrails changed at all recently, do you think?

My perspective is a little different than some others, though, because I had been aware of the concept of American chemtrails for around two years before I had ever seen them here. And in that time, I never saw anything that looked like a chemtrail - even contrails were extremely rare to see over my town. I had a two-year window of opportunity for watching the sky for chemtrails, but never saw them prior to April 2006. It would be great if someone else in Taiwan could comment, doesn't seem that anyone is. Do a google search on "taiwan chemtrails" and my posts are pretty much the only relevant thing that turns up - at least last time I checked

Yes, I do. This is a very interesting question, and if it's okay with you, maybe we can start a new thread on it up in the chemtrails section. I have a lot to say on that, and I wonder if others do too.

I hope my post/rant from last night doesn't scare you off. Hope I didn't sound too harsh.

So you were aware of the spraying (in the U.S.A. at least) for two years before noticing them in Taiwan.

You must have been shocked & absolutely horrified when first observing them being sprayed over your skies.