There's an ongoing effort to save HAARP from the demolition block [4], and as it inevitably does in all matters HAARP, the topic of chemtrails came up. Chemtrails are by and large considered to be an urban legend, but like all good legends, it turns out there's more than a trace of truth embedded in the story Perhaps the chemtrail legend has propagated so well because the ham radio community at large was involved in the first experiment that might have blossomed into the chemtrail mythos. During a magical period, in the mid '50s the United States Air Force experimented with augmenting the performance of the ionosphere, (think HAARP), by creating airborne clouds of particulate reflectors, (think chemtrails). In his landmark 1958 article describing the experiment[1], author Michael Gladych, (expect to see more about Gladych in these pages soon), first explained what the ionosphere was, first in words: "In this electronic age, everybody knows that the ion...