Bumped into a retired weatherman at a diner in Ohio last spring

I was waiting for my food at a diner outside Columbus last April, and an older guy at the counter started talking about chemtrails. He claimed he worked 30 years for a local TV station and said he saw patterns in the sky that made no sense for normal aviation. I asked him what he meant, and he pointed out a specific day when planes crisscrossed the same spot for hours. Has anyone else run into someone with inside knowledge who made you second guess things?

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grantw417h ago

Wait, has anyone else actually sat down and counted how many planes cross the same spot in an hour on a normal day? Because that weatherman might have had a point. I did something similar a few years back when I lived near an airport, just sat on my porch and watched the sky for an hour. I saw maybe six planes total, but they were all heading in different directions, not crisscrossing the same patch of sky over and over again. It made me wonder what normal actually looks like up there. Something about a guy who spent his whole career looking at clouds and radar patterns saying it's weird, that carries weight with me.

david_reed222d ago

Him pointing out a SPECIFIC day of crisscrossing is what gets me. That is TOO weird for a guy who spent 30 years reading weather maps to just make up. I remember one time I saw like 8 planes all leave trails in a perfect grid over my house in Ohio, just drifting sideways, not going anywhere fast. I told myself it was just a holding pattern but it bugged me for WEEKS. A retired weatherman with nothing to gain from lying would make me totally second guess everything. I can't believe someone with that kind of access actually talked about it out loud.