During a town hall meeting, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that the Defense Department's DARPA might be spraying Americans with harmful chemicals, referring to ongoing conspiracy theories about chemtrails. An audience member raised concerns about stratospheric aerosol injections, and while Kennedy denied any agency involvement, he asserted this might be happening via jet fuel. Experts and reports clarify that contrails, not harmful chemical sprays, are the result of aircraft flights, thereby raising skepticism regarding Kennedy's claims and highlighting the absence of evidence.
Kennedy responded. "That is not happening in my agency. We don't do that. It's done, we think, by DARPA," he said, referring to the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Kennedy's statement builds on years of chemtrail conspiracy theories, which allege that the U.S. government is spraying toxic chemicals from airplanes. PolitiFact has repeatedly reported that chemtrails aren't real.
Planes aren't spraying jet fuel as part of a Defense Department program when flying. The clouds seen behind airplanes when they fly are called contrails, short for condensation trails.
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