Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
| Author | Col Tamzy J. House, Lt Col James B. Near Jr., LTC William B. Shields, Maj Ronald J. Celentano, Maj David M. Husband, Maj Ann E. Mercer, Maj James E. Pugh |
|---|---|
| Published | August 1996 |
| Format | Report |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A 1996 Air Force 2025 student research paper imagining how the US military might modify weather for combat advantage by 2025.
Written by seven officers for Air Force 2025, a study the Air Force chief of staff commissioned from Air University, and presented 17 June 1996. The paper sketches a weather-modification capability — fog and cloud generation or dispersal, precipitation enhancement, storm modification, ionospheric and space-weather effects — and a technology roadmap, using fictional future scenarios for illustration.
Its disclaimer is explicit: the views are the authors’ own, not Air Force or government policy, and the scenarios are fiction. The report is frequently cited in chemtrail and weather-control conspiracy material, which usually omits that context.
What it is: an unclassified military-school research paper, cleared for public release; speculative futurism, not a programme. Hosted by DTIC (ADA333462).
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- DTIC: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA333462.pdf (mirror verified at https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA333462)
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
52 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.