A judge in Colorado ordered a mother's child to be removed from her custody because the mother's interest in "chemtrails" was a "fringe subculture" and represented a threat to her daughter.

Boulder Judge Dolores Mallard told Becca Vandb that her interest in the chemtrail conspiracy – which holds that some contrails emitted by commercial and military aircraft are in fact part of clandestine geoengineering programs – was a radical view because "99% of people would know those are just contrails."

Vandb said that the inquiry was triggered after she raised the subject of chemtrails during a visit to her daughter's school and was immediately told to leave the premises.

"I can now only see my daughter with a social security worker standing over me taking notes, and the judge said this was so that if I mention chemtrails they would put a stop to that. I am being railroaded for expressing my views about chemtrails," wrote Vandb, adding that she had not received any CPS visits nor were there any allegations of child abuse made by the court or her daughter's school.

According to Judge Mallard, Vandb being "immersed in a fringe subculture" means "she is a danger to her daughter."