Everyone has seen "Contrails (Condensation Trails) from jet planes. Apparently some people believe there is a distinct difference from a contrail that disappears very quickly and a "chemtrail" that lingers for hours and hours in the sky dissipating very slowly while it spreads out. Conspiracy theorists on this issue (I'm not one of them) believe there is something nefarious in regard to chemtrails.

Either way, maybe this year has been a drill year for the National Guard and Air Force, but I see more fighter jets and other non-commercial jets in the sky; or, maybe I'm just noticing them now and didn't really pay attention to them much before. I'm about 150 miles each way to two different National Guard bases.

Here's my question: Why is it that I can not recall seeing contrails/chemtrails from commercial passenger carrying jet liners? Why to my recollection (I could be wrong) are they only given off by military aircraft? Because military aircraft fly at much higher altitude and the air temp/composition is such that it makes spent jet fuel look like that whereas lower altitudes don't produce contrails/chemtrails? Possibly. But, the military aircraft also fly at altitudes that I believe are in the same range as commercial airliners and you still see contrails/chemtrails from the military aircraft. I just had to pull over and snap a few pics a few hours ago when I was on the way home. These are lower altitude contrails/chemtrails that appear to have been in the sky long enough to where they're blending in to existing clouds:

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The chemtrail can be seen on the picture above running parallel with the power lines. It's hard to tell from the pic, but the chemtrail ran on for miles to the right of the pic and blended in with the cloud formation on the left and center of the pic.

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Within the last six months or so, on a weekend when I was spending a significant amount of time outside I noticed 10+ military jet higher altitude passes which created chemtrails. It's distinct in my memory because as the day progressed, the chemtrails ended up dispersing into cloudlike formations and at the end of the otherwise cloudless day, there was noticeable "cloud cover".

Chris L