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From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 20:56:57 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Fwd Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:31:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Meier Case - Redux


>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:23:46 -0800 (PST)
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>,
>From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
>Subject: Re: Meier Case - Redux

<snip>

>So the role of bromine is now given equal prominence to that
>of chlorine/fluorine. The main culprit seems to be methyl
>bromide emitted in smoke plumes from agricultural burning
>because methyl bromide is used as a pesticide.
>
>I doubt that either one of us wishes to attribute all this
>foresight to Billy alone. He was never a chemist!

<snip>

Hi Jim.

Two years ago a group of scientists led by Tom McElroy of York
U. were lucky to get a spot for their spectrometer on NASA's
ER-2 (a former spy plane) which flew to the North Pole at an
altitude of about 65,000 feet. Their instrument detected about
three times the amount of bromine than was known to exist over
land.

Tom later learned from another group of scientists led by
Leonard Barrie at A.E.S. in Toronto that they found a natural
source for this bromine which originated at sea level. Bromine,
which is found in sea salt, seemed to ride piggy-back on water
vapour that was released through large cracks in the Arctic ice
that made their way up the troposphere. This discovery explained
the mysterious and dramatic depletion of ozone in the
troposphere over the Arctic.

Although man-made CFCs are still the culprits for ozone
depletion in the stratosphere, it seems that natural bromine is
the major main ozone destroyer in the troposphere, possibly ever
since oceans existed on Earth. Why would E.T.s warn Billy about
this?

Nick Balaskas