[thinking]

100 % correct, the fuel probes are low voltage, however as you have pointed out a higher voltage was shorted(shunted) into the probe lines, and arced across to ground inside the tank....this all seems reasonable, and technically possible.....but, how can we dismiss all the visual sightings, especially from a helicopter pilot with VN experience...Then after a couple days into the crash, the White House summoned all the principals working on the investigation, for a "summit" in Washington....

[U S Army EOD]

I have seen that pilot interviewed, he made no indication he ever saw a missile. No question there might have been a "summit". There was also a little "hanky panky" when the Value Jet went into the swamp.

[Non-Sequitur]

.....but, how can we dismiss all the visual sightings, especially from a helicopter pilot with VN experience...

It falls apart when you ask what kind of missile and where it was fired from.

[Rokke]

"how can we dismiss all the visual sightings, especially from a helicopter pilot with VN experience"

Way too much has been made about one man's recollections about what he witnessed that night. I have recent combat experience and have been fired on by missiles and AAA. I have also witnessed ordnance and fuel explosions of all types. Yet, I would never make an assumption of what caused one explosion over another. The guy in question flew helicopters in Vietnam. That doesn't make him an ordnance expert. And if you actually read his statements made early in the investigation, they are very ambiguous. And no where does he mention anything about seeing anything that would be obvious in a missile launch.