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You cannot really expect the police to have located the witnesses, conducted all their interviews, and filed all their written reports within three and a half hours of the crash. Do you really think all these disparate people pretended they saw essentially the same thing based in interviews within days of the event. What would they have based their reports upon? Was it a giant conspiracy, or did they all have the same dream within a day or two? What?

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You cannot really expect the police ... No, I don't think that at all. I do think that if, say, five people called the NYTimes, CBS, police, Fox, Drudge, etc, all saying "I saw a missile", it would have been reported. On July 17 or 18. News orgs have no problem repoting "witnesses claim seeing..." type of stories, and police have no problem reporting they are following up on witness reports, without waiting to complete investigations (almost daily I hear stories like "police are investigating claims that shots were heard", or similar). What do I think? I think on the night of the 17th witnesses saw something they did not understand - a ball of fire (maybe two), a streak of light. THEN they heard about TWA800, and the widely held suspicion of a bomb or missile, and then concluded that the streak they saw was a missile. And, no, I don't think they are liars, drunks, hallucinating, etc.