The Secret History of Weather Modification

Buried deep inside the infamous Pentagon Papers you can find references to weather modification by the United States Department of Defense going back to the 1950s and 1960s.

In truth, the US Gov has been engaged in weather modification since the 1940s.

Project Cirrus was the first attempt by the US Gov to modify a hurricane. It was a collaboration between GE, the US Army Signal Corps, the Office of Naval Research, and the US Air Force on October 13, 1947 — the target was Hurricane Cape Sable.

The experiment didn’t go as planned, and the Gov was even blamed for the storm turning and making landfall near Savannah, Georgia.

This didn’t end the experiments however. The Gov upgraded from Dry Ice to Silver Iodide and other chemicals. They upgraded how they inject the chemicals into the storm — moving from “dumping dry ice” to rockets and flares packe…