The Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory is the belief that the tracks across the sky left by airplanes, usually

called contrails, are actually composed of illness-causing or weather-controlling chemical elements

actively being distributed to the populace by malevolent parties like the Illuminati or a secret
government program. The conspiracy theory is widely discussed in forums online.

"Chemtrail" is a portmanteau of the words "chemical" and "contrail," and believers in the theory say that
a chemtrail can be differentiated from a regular contrail based on its length. First discussed in the 1990s,
after a theoretical United States Military white paper discussed methods for controlling the weather in
the year 2025, the theory of chemtrails has always been denied by the United States Government, who
released their first detailed statement on the topic in 1996.

Other sources, including late-night radio shows in the West Coast of the United States, continued to
disseminate the theory, causing many to call local politicians asking for investigations. This activity has
continued through 2014, when a well-documented case of 400 people sat at a city council meeting in
Shasta County, California, and demanded that the councilors answer their questions and concerns about
chemtrails.[3] These days, information is often distributed through YouTube videos, of which there are
about 850,000, and many of which have hundreds of thousands of views.

Chemtrails are believed in online communities to cause a number of illnesses, including Morgellons and
autism (because the chemicals being sprayed are vaccines, linking believers in the Chemtrail theory with
the Anti-Vaccination-Movement). One popular video, from 2012, shows a woman spraying the sky with
vinegar to prevent the spread of chemtrails in her home.

The most popular sites for the dissemination of information about chemtrails online are The Chemtrail
Center, OPChemtrails, and the Carnicom Institute. Traffic statistics are unavailable, but the OPChemtrails
site has over 6,000 followers on Twitter. A subreddit devoted to the subject, formed in October of 2008,
has only 331 readers, but is actively used.

On May 25th 2015, Kylie Jenner posted an meme indicating her believe in chemtrails to her Twitter
account, where the post received more than 11,000 retweets and 19,000 likes.[10] Other celebrities that
believe in chemtrails include Roseanne Barr, Prince, and Billy Corgan.[9] Snopes has debunked several
other rumors regarding chemtrails.