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Debunked: AnonSec’s NASA Hack, Global Hawk Hijack, Evidence of Chemtrails [Public Domain Data]

AnonSec is laboring under this misconception that contrails cannot persist and spread, and hence they have also fallen for a lot of the the other “Chemtrail” misconceptions, in fact a large portion of the text file is basically going through all the commonly given “evidence” for chemtrails - largely things that were debunked many years ago (on Metabunk, or contrailscience.com). This is interweaved with discussions of hacking, and descriptions of the various NASA programs, in a way that might make the casual reader think they are related. But there’s no connection here. There’s basically the public domain NASA programs, and then there’s a bunch of chemtrail speculation that has been bouncing around the internet for years. Putting them in the same text file and adding some (public domain) flight tracks does not create a connection.

Finally there’s the claim that Anonsec uploaded a flight plan for a drone to try to crash it. There’s really no evidence this actually happened. Obviously a drone never crashed. NASA says they have no evidence that such a thing happened.

But either way, this is a very good answer to the question of “what’s the harm” in conspiracy theories. Anonsec is an actual group of hackers. They do hack things. They probably did get into a bit of NASA’s network. They may have even attempted to crash a $200 million dollar drone that was just doing science projects to help forecast the weather. They did this because they believed in the chemtrail theory. That’s the harm. They were so swept up in the belief that there’s something nefarious going on that they thought it was fine to crash one of NASA’s science aircraft.

That’s why I think it’s important to debunk the baseless claims of theories like these. If a misunderstanding of how contrails works can lead to losing $200 million of taxpayer money, and disruption of valuable science projects, then I think debunking that misunderstanding is worthwhile endeavor.