Chris Bovey is a conspiratorial activist from Devon
whom I've met several times; I've come to like and respect him. He has helped
organize Ian R Crane's AV conferences, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/shift-2-with-ian-r-crane.html.
Unusually though, he doesn't believe chemtrails are real. I've looked into both
sides of the subject and I disagree with him completely; I think chemtrails are
very real indeed. However I don't have a problem with him over that. If I
rejected everybody who disagreed with my views I'd be a pretty lonely person,
in fact I'd virtually be a hermit. A few weeks ago Chris was on a plane flying
from Buenos Aires in Argentina
to London , England Brazil , but
before it did it had to jettison some of its fuel. I only recently found this
out when talking to an aviation engineer; when aeroplanes take off sometimes
they're too heavy to land straight away because of the weight of all the fuel
on board. This is not a problem on a longhaul flight, like the one Chris was
taking, because by the time they reach their destination most of their fuel
load will have been used up and the aircraft will be light enough to land. However
if the aircraft has to land short due to unforeseen circumstances then the
pilots have to dump some of their fuel; it's a waste, but there's no other way.
Chris was in a seat where he had a good view of this operation and he filmed
it. The plane landed safely and nobody was hurt. While waiting for the
replacement flight Chris decided to post the film he'd shot online see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ccsh6XND0.
He pretended not to know what it was and asked for an opinion from the
conspiratorial community. He says his motivations were innocent and
light-hearted, and he didn't intend the trick to go as far as it did. Within a
few hours his post had gone viral and it had half a million views with comments
claiming that this was "proof of chemtrails!" Chris was very amused and
decided to write another post claiming that he'd been arrested at London 's
Heathrow Airport
It's true unfortunately that a lot of people did believe
Chris Bovey's hoax without question, but not everybody. I saw the video on
Facebook before Chris came clean and liked it because it was interesting to see,
but I didn't comment. Maybe I should have because I honestly tell you that I
did wonder if it was just a fuel dump. I did see a few comments along those
lines too. Unlike James Randi and his Carlos hoax, I don't think Chris made the
video with malicious intentions. It does us no harm at all to think more
critically and maybe Chris has done us a favour, whether or not you think
chemtrails are real. As Richie says in the radio show above, this has no
bearing at all over whether chemtrails are real or not, despite what Chris
says. Chris is not completely alone; in fact the late great Jerry E Smith also
denied the existence of chemtrails. The only really objectionable part of this
story was the way Chris was treated in the aftermath of his confession. He received
"vulgar abuse" including threats to rape him. He was called a shill
and a government informer; not terribly original that one. This kind of
behaviour is extremely counter-productive and those who engage in cowardly
cyberbullying should be ashamed of themselves. I know that the conspiratorial
community does have a thug element; I remember Charlie Veitch changing his mind
about 9/11 after his foolish decision to take part in a BBC documentary about
the attacks. He received a mountain of hateful abuse as a result. I was one of voices
appealing for calm. As much as I disagree with Charlie, I don't think he
deserved that, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/charlie-veitch-911-u-turn.html.
I hope that the tide turns for Chris as well and the trolls find another hole
to crawl into very soon.
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