It happened on February 3. A train carrying an unknown amount of toxic products derailed in the vicinity of East Palestine, a small town in the state of Ohio, a few kilometers from the border with neighboring Pennsylvania.
Information began to trickle in through the local media, which reported the immediate evacuation of the population. Not everyone did: some 500 residents of East Palestine, as well as the beaver county, in Pennsylvania, they refused to leave their homes, according to statements by local officials collected by CBS. And despite this, three days after the accident the decision was made to carry out a controlled burning of the contents of the wagons.
It is not just any waste: according to the British newspaper The Guardian, at least 50 of the wagons – half of the total – carried vinyl chloride, a highly toxic substance that is dedicated to the manufacture of pipes or to coat cables, and whose presence in the air is highly carcinogenic. In addition, when burned it releases hydrogen chloride and phosgene, a mixture that can be lethal. All of this has led some of the media to name what happened as “The Ohio Chernobyl”, in reference to the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history, which took place in 1986 at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.
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Whether or not that much, the images impress. In the photographs that circulate like wildfire on social networks, you can see an immense black cloud rising tens of meters above the ground. With it have come the consequences for the local fauna and flora. According to local authorities, there was the death of countless fish and farm animals in the vicinity.
From there, everything is speculation. Some of the most surreal. The coincidence in time with the shooting down of the Chinese spy balloon that was flying over the United States, followed by the enlistment of several unidentified objects in the skies of several states in the country, has led many Internet users to consider that it is about a cover to hide the true gravity of what happened in Ohio. The word UFO has been a Trending Topic for several days on social networks like Twitter, where all kinds of conspiracy theories come together.
The situation has even led the White House to rule on the matter. This Monday, spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre offered a press conference in which she assured: “There are no indications of aliens or of alien activity in these recent takedowns. I wanted to make sure that the American people knew it and it is important that we say it from here”. after the downing of the Chinese spy balloon were “of extraterrestrial origin”.
Beyond the alleged UFOs, it seems clear that the opacity that the Joe Biden government is showing does not exactly help to shed light on the facts. In recent days there has even been the detention of journalists who reported on the case. This is what happened to Evan Lambert, correspondent for the television channel News Nation, while reporting from East Palestine. After spending five hours in detention, he was released. “No journalist should be arrested for doing their job. I think it is very important that this does not happen in our country, ”he declared upon leaving the police station.
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