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To: DoughtyOne
"False allegations? Would you care to expand on that?"

You've had ample time now to carefully review the documented report of the 2 witnesses who put the massive fireball explosion below 8500 feet thereby conclusively ruling out any possibility that TWA 800 was the victim of a missile(s) shootdown.

161 posted on 11/21/2007 9:50:37 PM PST by Hal1950
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To: Hal1950

Honestly, I don’t know what you folks are smoking out there in the hinterland.

If you wished to take me to task for saying there were 600 witnesses to a missile, you had plenty of reason to do so. I mistakenly took the rough estimate of total witnesses and made an incorret attribution to them, that they had all seen what looked like a missile. That was faulty logic and you should have called me on it.

There were 755 FBI witnesses. Many of them did see what looked like a missile, but by no means did they all.

When it was first said that TWA 800 was flying at 12,500 feet (or close to it), I had a hard time believing it. The aircraft had taken off a few minutes earlier, and it seemed to me like 12,500 would have been a very rapid assent.

Seven thousand five hundred feet sounds a lot more realistic to me. I have no problem with that at all. As for conspiracy theorists seeming to want a 12,500 foot elevation, I’m not sure why you say that.

I did read the report of the two men you mentioned. It sounded very credible. I doubt these men had any reason to report anything other than what they had seem from their vantage point, and I take their report at face value.

Let’s say we had 500 witnesses to a car accident. 250 of them were looking at the front of the car. They saw a small dog run out in front of the car, and this explained why the car veered off the roadway to miss the dog. 250 people behind the car swear there was no reason at all for the driver to swerve off the road.

Who was right? Using your logic, the dog in front of the car couldn’t exist because so many people didn’t see the dog.

A portion of the witnesses to TWA 800, not seeing a missile type object, does not rule out the presence of a missile. We listen to all the witnesses, because some of the witnesses were in a postion to see it. Others were not.

I am not 100% certain a missile took down the plane. In light of the witnesses, I am about 99.99% sure a missile was involved.

You are not. That’s okay. It makes sense to you and I understand that. It doesn’t to me.


162 posted on 11/21/2007 10:05:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
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