Debunked: The "These are Chemtrails! You stupid zombies!" image

[Mick West]

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It's actually from a 2007 photo of contrails left during an exercise of the Chinese air force practicing high altitude dogfights between F-10 and SU-27 fighters.

http://war.163.com/07/1225/08/40I0FABE00011MTO.html (http://archive.is/ckekT)

时间：2007年某月某日

地点：云贵高原上空

主角：成都军区"红""蓝"空军

任务：多兵种联合防空与地面目标攻击

[Translation:]
Time: one day a month in 2007

Location: Over Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau

Protagonist: the Chengdu Military Region, "red" and "blue" Air Force

Task: for combined air defense and attack ground targets

Similar contrails were observed during dogfights in WWII:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/battle-of-britain/7881879/Battle-of-Britain-our-finest-hour.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fighter_plane_contrails_in_the_sky.jpg

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Mick.
Have a lttle heart.
We may be into Jan.
But there is stil that Christmas spirit and stuff.

Ya mean those aren't trails from Santa's sled on X-Mas eve??

 

[Jay Reynolds]

Dane Wigington is using a version of the picture in the original posting as propaganda during his talks:



The image being used:

The Claim:

At 6:00 Dane shows a photo of a sky filled with twisted entertwined contrails. He says, "Anybody thinks that's commercial traffic is in a different reality."

I took a screen shot from his video:

A google reverse image search yielded this Metabunk thread.

Dane has been notified: