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A look at the smoke from the Mammoth Cave required burn on Thursday. A second burn was planned for Friday
A mysterious and unnaturally thick haze of smoke blanketed counties throughout north central Kentucky on Thursday afternoon, raising curiosity and causing at least three fire departments to respond to places in Hardin County where people feared wildfires had sparked.

According to Kentucky Division of Forestry's Elizabethtown spokesman Steve Gray, the smoky haze seen throughout the region was caused by a prescribed burn of about 2,600 acres at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Winds from the southwest blew the plume northward into Hardin County.

The mysterious haze, which resembled a thick fog, prompted numerous calls to Hardin County's E-911 Center, from people worried about a wildfire in Radcliff, Elizabethtown and other parts of Hardin County, a county dispatcher said Friday morning. The calls spurred at least three fire departments to respond to general areas throughout the county to assess for potential fires.

Gray said a wildfire and second prescribed burn at Fort Knox Thursday likely caused a similar haze in Bullitt and southern Jefferson counties.

Friday morning, Fort Knox spokeswoman Connie Shaffery said she knew nothing about the fires on base.

Fort Knox meteorologist Mark Adams said Thursday evening that atmospheric conditions relating to a wide divide between dew point and air temperature may have caused the ground-level smoke to be more visible.


Comment: Let us suggest another possible explanation for the recent and mysterious atmospheric and climate changes all over the world, while 'unnaturally' thick haze is only one of the symptoms of a bigger and global change. It is possible that it was due to the atmosphere being loaded with dust? If so, the question is why?

What we suspect has really been happening, based on our research thus far, is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because it is being loaded with comet dust, which shows up in the form of noctilucent clouds and other upper atmospheric formations. The comet dust is electrically charged which is causing the earth's rotation to slow marginally. The slowing of the rotation is reducing the magnetic field, opening earth to more dangerous cosmic radiation and stimulating more volcanism. The volcanism under the sea is heating the sea water which is heating the lower atmosphere and loading it with moisture. The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an ice age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods.

Expect this trend to continue but don't believe in "man-made global warming". Whatever warming there has been, it's really a prelude to the way ice ages begin. Let's hope that there aren't any catastrophically large chunks in that stream of comet dust cycling through our solar system. The outlook isn't very promising in this regard, as we'll see further on.

An unimaginable calamity indeed.


A second round of burning at Mammoth Cave was planned for today as well, Gray said.

Bob White can be reached at (270) 505-1750. Jeff D'Alessio can be reached at (270) 505-1757.