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Global Security and other similar sights like FAS.org are often like wiki in the sense that they are a collection of loosely edited submissions and often generalizations.

I did a quick search of GS and presume that you took the information from the 1998 GAO environmental impact report?

Well, that is what it says will be happening in 2005-06 alright, but reality doesn't match.

There is really no way to see filament chaff from any appreciable distance in the quantities it is dispersed in. Also, it is so light that it tends to float around for hours, instead of settling back to earth. I wasn't trying to awe you with my credentials, rather just acknowledging that I can't effectively prove a negative.

Nothing I posted had anything to do with wiki. So why even mention Wiki ?

I did a quick search of GS and presume that you took the information from the 1998 GAO environmental impact report?

Avoided posting anything from those because they were mostly chemtrail orientated. Might have used them to find the manufacturer web site though. So I ended up using the actual manufacturers web site. The guys that actually make the stuff you guys in the military use. Here is the source for Bundle chaff which led me to the picture. Think that is the source. My connection is too slow to verify that right now.

VAISC Esterline Radar Counter measures

Well, that is what it says will be happening in 2005-06 alright, but reality doesn't match.

They themselves state the US was planning too. But just because the US did not find the products usable, does not mean other countries did not find a use for the new technique and products. These companies sell to other countries beside the US. The point is, the product was at least considered feasible by the US at one time. No one is saying the US released that chaff.

There is really no way to see filament chaff from any appreciable distance in the quantities it is dispersed in.

Radar can see it, and it is part of the same electromagnetic spectrum that visible light is. At any rate, how could you not physically see the plane as you reported.

Also, it is so light that it tends to float around for hours, instead of settling back to earth. I wasn't trying to awe you with my credentials, rather just acknowledging that I can't effectively prove a negative.

Not talking about filament chaff. Talking about the continuous stream chaff that the US at least was planning to deploy in 2005/2006 time frame.