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MEBRO
10/15/26 · 4:21 PM UTC · 12 SOURCES
“The United States government operates a weather control program over Texas.”
LEANS FALSE · MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
TL;DR ·Texas has licensed cloud seeding, but no government weather control program exists.
The claim blends a real activity with an unsupported one. Limited weather modification does exist in Texas: the state regulates and licenses cloud seeding, which uses materials such as hygroscopic salts, through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation . The Texas Agriculture Commissioner has publicly defended cloud seeding as a rainfall-enhancement tool for drought . Federal interest in weather modification research is also on the record, including a Senate hearing on a research authorization act and a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on transparency of government weather and climate engineering . That hearing noted that the consequences of such activity are poorly understood . However, the claim implies a federal program that controls Texas weather, and the sources do not support that. NOAA and Climate.gov describe claims of weather manipulation as disinformation about nonexistent manipulation . FactCheck.org found it not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 2025 Guadalupe River floods . Snopes examined claims blaming private cloud seeding for those floods . Reuters rejected a similar claim of government weather manipulation in the 2021 Texas freeze . The EPA also addresses contrails and geoengineering as distinct from weather modification . The accurate framing is that Texas licenses small-scale, mostly state and privately run cloud seeding. No source documents a US government program that controls weather over Texas. Readers can examine the state regulator's explanation and the House hearing record directly.
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