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Excerpts of statements by eye witnesses:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/STATEMENTS.html

“We saw what appeared to be a flare going straight up. As a matter of fact,
we thought it was from a boat. It was a bright reddish-orange color. Once it
went into flames I knew that it wasn’t a flare.”
- Lou Desyron, Flight 800 eye-witness; ABC World News Sunday; 07/21/96.

“I looked up because it sounded like thunder. I kept looking trying to
figure out what it was. And that’s when I saw a flare come off the water.
The flare, trailing orange flame, shot up roughly at a 45 degree angle, then
rapidly increased its angle of ascent. Then it appeared to strike
something. This was the strangest thing I ever saw. Everyone calls it a
‘missile theory,’ but when you see something, you know what you see, and I
didn’t see a ‘theory’.”
- Tom Dougherty, Flight 800 eye-witness; interviewed on Hard Copy, 1996

“It was what we would best describe as a boat flare, a reddish object going
up. It went up and a few seconds later we saw an explosion in the sky. I
can’t say if it came off shore or on shore. At first, we thought it was a
boat flare. It zigzagged a little. We thought it was strange. Then, several
seconds later, we saw an eruption of fire. We never heard anything. We saw a
fireball, and at that point we identified what was an aircraft. We could see
it fluttering down. We were the third boat on Long Island to report the
incident to the Coast Guard. It was something going up to it beforehand.
Yes, I saw flaming debris go down. Something attracted us to the area before
it exploded. And even my wife and my oldest daughter, we all were witnesses
to it. There definitely was something there first before the aircraft went
down.”
- Donald Eick, Flight 800 eye-witness; October 20, 1997; The
Press-Enterprise, Riverside, CA.

“It looked like a big skyrocket going up. The flash looked like a rocket
launch at a fireworks display”.
- Paul Runyan, Flight 800 eye-witness; N.Y. Daily News, 11/09/96

“More than 150 credible witnesses - including several scientists and
business executives - have told the FBI and military experts they saw a
missile destroy TWA 800. ‘Some of these people are extremely, extremely
credible,’ a top federal official said. ‘When we asked what they saw and
where they saw it, the witnesses out east pointed to the west, and the
people to the west pointed to the east’.”
- The New York Post, September 22, 1996.

“Almost due south [of the helicopter], there was a hard white light, like
burning pyrotechnics, in level flight. I was trying to figure out what it
was. It was the wrong color for flares. It struck an object coming from the
right and made it explode.”
- Capt. Chris Baur, eye-witness to Flight 800 crash; July 1996.

“My God! Somebody’s shooting at that airplane!”
- Crew of a British Airways jet flying behind Flight 800 whom radioed to air
traffic control; July 17, 1996.

“I know what I saw. I saw an ordnance explosion. And whatever I saw, the
explosion of the fuel was not the initiator of the event. It was one of the
results. Something happened before that which was the initiator of the
disaster.’’
- Frederick C. Meyer, An Air National Guard helicopter pilot who witnessed
the explosion of TWA Flight 800; 7/29/97; Riverside Press.

“I know what I saw, I saw several fires go across the sky. One hit the plane
at the tail and the second hit at the front, just before the wings. The fire
came from both ends and met in the middle and exploded. Then the nose
dropped, hung there for a minute. I understand that when a plane bursts into
flames the flames fall, but this was a fire going up towards the plane.”
- Barbara Pacholk, Flight 800 eye-witness; November 19, 1997; The New York
Post.

“We know what we saw. We weren’t drunk. I looked up and my immediate
response was, I never saw an alert flare like that. It was projecting upward
with a stream of smoke behind. I don’t think our accounts will be reflected
in the final version [of the FBI report]. I have a hard time believing that
the FBI believes its conclusions. I don’t believe that the truth is ever
going to come out.”
- Jim Naples, Flight 800 eye-witness; November 24, 1997, The New York
Observer, (p.16)

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