[hombre_sincero]

Yep -- an experienced pilot has NEVER seen a flock of birds in the air so he reports ..... ???

I don't expect any confirmation by any govt official - since by the laws of the MASTERS - "if you can't prove it, it didn't happen!"

[frankjr]

"Yep -- an experienced pilot has NEVER seen a flock of birds in the air so he reports ..... ???"

Maybe he (or she) was drunk.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Yep -- an experienced pilot has NEVER seen a flock of birds in the air so he reports ..... ???"

When the Dow is threatened, it's a flock of birds. Got it? The economy has to keep humming along. Terror reports like that could disrupt employment. Or so the theory goes. /sarcasm

I have no idea if this is true or not. But I remember other strange reports in years past. An immediate knee-jerk govt flunky gets the word out, "Can't be terrorist", before there's even a chance to seriously look at the matter, and then one lie after another is sent out like trial balloons.

[MikefromOhio]

I know this probably goes against the conspiracy theorist in some of us, but can ANYONE say definitively if there were F-15s flying around the site afterward?

If not, then they probably didn't find any evidence of any kind of missile. If they did, the military would have been there in an instant.

[dufekin]

I don't know what an "irregularity" means, but the engine(s) could have ingested one (or more) of the birds (or the birds might have gotten sucked against the air intake, blocking it), resulting in some problems with the airplane operations or some unusual gage readings.