DARK DAYS: Call us cynical, but we have always thought there was
something a little fishy about the explanation of “”forest fires””
for that dark day or two in September of 1950.[neWLine]

Now we know we’re not the only skeptic.[neWLine]

Andrew T. Sloter of Bradford poses some interesting questions
about the subject:[neWLine]

“”Did you ever hear of smoke from a forest fire jumping hundreds
and hundreds of miles over all kind of terrain and then coming down
in a special place? Was there really fires of this large size?
Where were the pictures and the witnesses? No one with any
understanding could possible accept this answer,”” he
writes.[neWLine]

Here’s his theory: “”What ‘might of happen’ was after WWII the
government decided that the blackout of cities and other
installations was not acceptable for two reasons. One, there were
always certain lighting that remained on, i.e. radio towers,
airport beacons, etc. Two, the rapid advances in radar. How to
overcome both of these problems?””[neWLine]

“”A special chemical was developed that first tested in this
area. Released from the air it created a total darkness. This
blackness totally turned out all the lights.[neWLine]

“”If you went through it as I did you know that even car
headlights couldn’t cut more than 6 inches into the stuff. These
chemicals also acted as a reflector for radar, thus rendering radar
of no effect. It seemed like this was the perfect answer to the
blackout problem. Was it?[neWLine]

“”Why has it never happened again? What if this stuff that was
released was carcinogenic? Maybe the scientists found out about it
too late – after it was first released. Perhaps this is the reason
this area has so many cancer incidents.[neWLine]

“”I was young and out there breathing the stuff in, no, it was
not smoke – wrong smell and wrong look – and I have had to fight
cancer just like too many of the people that went through
it.””[neWLine]

By the way, our writer adds a precaution to his hypothesis: “”I
have to say, ‘this is the way it might of happen,’ ’cause I don’t
want any black Suburbans in front of my house.””[neWLine]

We still have more material on these “”dark days”” and hope to
get to it soon.