The claim
There are repeated claims on social networks that pilots imprisoned in Sweden have admitted that the toxic substances they sprayed cause serious illnesses.
Our conclusion
Incorrect. This story has been circulating online for some time and appears to have been made up. The video used to support the theory instead shows a firefighting plane dumping water to fight fires. There is no credible evidence that airplanes actually release chemicals into the air to manipulate or control the population.
There is a lot of supposed evidence circulating on the Internet that supporters of conspiracy myths use to try to support their theories. Often these are pure fantasy, such as the stories of supposedly imprisoned pilots who are said to have admitted to spreading toxins into the air with their planes.
This story serves the conspiracy theory of the so-called “chemtrails”. This says that planes spray secret chemicals into the air to manipulate the weather or even people.
Recently, social media users claimed that pilots imprisoned in Sweden admitted that the toxins they sprayed caused serious illness. As evidence of this, they share a video showing a plane releasing a substance into the air that supposedly represents the chemicals. also shared a sharepic

But the question arises: are these statements true?
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Similar claims were already put to the test in 2020
The claim about allegedly imprisoned pilots spraying toxic chemicals is not a new invention and has been circulating online for some time. It has been modified for current posts. In 2020, the German Press Agency in a fact check in Dutch about a lawsuit against the WHO due to alleged health damage caused by chemicals in the air. But there was never such a lawsuit and the alleged Reuters report to which the claim refers could not be found. The company itself makes it clear that it never published this report.
In our opinion, there is no serious evidence for the current claim.
But what is behind the video?
The clip shows a plane releasing something. Although the quality of the video is poor, you can see some writing on the fuselage at the beginning. At first glance, the inscription reminds us of the word “International”.
A reverse image search produces a photo that closely resembles the scene in the video. The picture shows an airplane that is also releasing a substance. “International” is also written on the hull. The photo comes from an English-language article from 2008 and shows a type of firefighting aircraft, the so-called “ Evergreen 747-based supertanker ”.
This firefighting aircraft was manufactured by the now defunct US aviation company Evergreen International Aviation. It was based on a Boeing 747 and could carry around 20,000 US gallons of water (approx. 75,700 liters).
Several YouTube videos that are over 10 years old confirm the identity of the firefighting plane model
A search on YouTube with this information leads to several videos over 10 years old showing the exact same clip currently circulating the Internet. The YouTube posts expressly point out that the plane in the shot is draining water and that it is the fire-fighting plane model. The better quality of these posts allows several details to be seen that match details in photos of the supertanker. These include, for example, the lettering “Evergreen International” and the Evergreen logo on the rudder at the rear of the aircraft. The video clearly shows the “supertanker”.
On the Internet, users repeatedly use the evergreen firefighting plane to illustrate their “chemtrail” claims. already be seen in posts from 2020 that mentioned an alleged WHO lawsuit.

Misconceptions about contrails and chemtrails
It is common for contrails to be incorrectly referred to as “chemtrails”. In fact, these are ice crystals that form when hot exhaust gases containing water vapor are expelled from aircraft engines into cold air. These contrails usually form at altitudes between minus 35 and minus 55 degrees Celsius.
The Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) explains that modern commercial aircraft spend around 20 percent of their flight time in such cold and humid air and therefore leave long-lasting contrails.
Conclusion

The claim that these contrails are so-called “chemtrails” – traces of often unnamed chemicals sprayed into the air – has been refuted by many sources, including the Federal Environment Agency .
The report about the imprisoned pilots who allegedly admitted to dumping toxic substances from airplanes is fictitious.
Source:
DPA
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