197 - "That site says the Navy was 180 MILES AWAY at the time. Hardly in a position for eye witness accounts seeing it come up from the surface..."
Look a bit more. There are several different stories on that, initially, the Navy was immediately underneath the flight path, and doing exercises; then suddenly the Navy was 180 miles away (according to xlinton announcement), and then that was modified again - that there were a few ships still left in the area.
There was a massive government coverup, like OKC, only far worse because they had so many eyewitnesses, and had to fabricate and supress evidence. Even put one set of reporters in jail.
If you check out the radar sites info, there are two types of info, all of which have been secreted by the government - those for shipping and those for aircraft.
Scan through the reports and you will find more.
If the Navy ship was right under the flight path that would place it 10 miles or so off shore. The RIM-67 Standard missile is a hair over 26 feel long and looks like a flaming telephone pole in flight, especially at night. Launching one generates a tremendous burst of flame and a huge amount of smoke. Don't you think someone would have seen that?
Where's YOUR book - ya got one coming out too?
(Prime these suckers hard enougbh on 'the boards' and you, too, can 'cash in' ...)
JUST follow the usual 'conspiratorial recipe' and AVOID the responsible observations made by flight crews, the material evidence that exculpates anything BUT an airframe/component failure on an OLD high flight-time aircraft ...