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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 01:38:45 -0500
From: Joe Bowling
To: John Quinn
Subject: electromagnetic energy and fires Possible observation of an
artificially produced electromagnetic phenomenon

You mention electromagnetic energy being used in weather manipulation. I
(and others) did note a phenomenon which can only be explained by

electromagnetic energy, while working in Eastern Montana (Roosevelt
County, to be specific).

A Little background: I am a scientist (Geologist) with some background in physics and
chemistry. I also have four years experience as a firefighter. I make my
living by evaluating rock samples on an oil rig, while the well is being
drilled. Small (domestic) oil companies help our national security,
there have been no environmental disasters in the Williston Basin (the
region I work in), or I'd be doing something different to earn my pay.

Be that as it may, I remember enough physics to know that the only way
to get a shielded, four conductor, outdoor phone line about 150 ft. long
to charge up, like a capacitor, when it is disconnected from all
potential power sources is through electromagnetic induction. The
phenomenon was noted when there was an arc from the shielding (while the
phone line was connected) to a conductor terminal in a standard four
wire to modular connector junction box, such as those used in most
houses. Please note that the arcing produced a loud 'snap', loud enough
to awaken me from a nap in a bunk at the other end of the mobile lab
(noisy place), some 20 ft. away, while my partner was watching the gas
detectors. The wires were then disconnected from the phone line coming
in from the pedestal; there was some concern about damaging the phone
which was hooked up. All four conductors and the shielding each
subsequently obtained a sufficient charge to deliver an uncomfortable
shock or arc about three centimeters to a ground. This happened
repeatedly--the conductors were discharged, could be handled without
shock, and recharged within a minute or two to their previous charge
level. The only voltmeter available was not functioning correctly, so no
readings were obtained. We (I was not alone in noting the phenomenon)
even checked to make sure the jacket of the line was not worn through
and in contact with any metal which may have been a source of power
through bad grounding. That can happen on an oil rig, but was not the
case. The jacket and conductors' individual insulations were intact. The
center 75 feet remained suspended about 15 feet above ground, tied in
place with dry, nonconductive material. The only possible, reasonable?,
explanation is that a thunderstorm some 5 to 10 miles south may have had
some effect, but if other data show that there may another cause, I
would like to know about it. Call it scientific curiosity, if you will.

While I cannot wholly agree that the absence of limited clearcutting is
not a factor in the severity of the fires in the American west, I firmly
believe that the stage has been carefully set by federal policy for the
fires out west to be of the magnitude they are. Decisions made at
Cabinet level and above have caused fuel loads to be at record highs,
firefighting infrastructure at a low, and some fires (like Los Alamos)
have been the direct result of federal action (they set that one).
Unemployment will cause someone to leave a line of work, as those of us
in the domestic oil industry know, and "let it burn" policies have
reduced the job opportunities for career forest firefighters, and thus
the number of experienced firefighters trained sufficiently to act in a
supervisory capacity.

Rumor has it that dwellings have been burned after people have been
evacuated on short notice with none of their posessions or documents as
part of 'backfire' areas. The list goes on, all in lockstep with an
administration which deeply desires to remove people from the land as
much as possible.

Please understand that this is not harassment, nor intended to be an
aggravation. As a scientist, I just want to see the data for the last
week of July, for eastern Montana, to try and find a correlation between
the phenomenon which I and others observed and artificially produced
electromagnetic energy.

Thank You,
Joe Bowling