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Elmer, my theory has made another turn. Something dropped away from the P3 shortly before the crash. Do you recall a retired Navy Captain Gray or something like that? He said that a missile was launched from the P3 and it collided with the B747. I now consider the possibility that the object was a supersonic Russian target drone. It should have the velocity to really mess up a B747 and should have the maneuverability that Rocky desired. Maybe the 30-kt target was not involved afterall. If it were a Russian drone we could easily understand why anyone would want to keep it a secret. At the time that this object was released from the P3, it dropped down to and appeared to level off at the altitude of the B747. Since the US was concerned about terrorists getting their hands on Russian weapons and using them on us, a strong possibility exists that a planned test could use actual Russian hardware in a test. This could be a connection with terrorism but only by intent to test the effects of terrorism rather than be the work of terrorists. I seriously feel that this scenario deserves consideration. If a drone did release this could provide an excuse for another missile to be launched and use the drone as its target since that was what the drone was designed to be used for. This could account for some to have witnessed more than one foreign object in the mix. Any bites? Also, the portion of the time line which contained the object being dropped from the P3 was messed up with 102000 or invalid data symbols in the radar record as if a desire to mask the real facts was in effect. For some members of Congress to say that TWA800 was the result of terrorism could be true in a peripheral sense. Maybe, Bill Donaldson had this in mind when pushing terrorism. It could have had the appearance of terrorism without actually being the work of terrorists if the Navy were responsible for the screw up.

[Asmodeus]

"my theory has made another turn. Something dropped away from the P3 shortly before the crash. Do you recall a retired Navy Captain Gray or something like that? He said that a missile was launched from the P3 and it collided with the B747. I now consider the possibility that the object was a supersonic Russian target drone. It should have the velocity to really mess up a B747 and should have the maneuverability that Rocky desired."

Those comments dramatize the problem you've always had. You think you recall something that somebody said but you don't want to take the time to use Search features to find it so you'll know what was said and what wasn't and, if it proves to be compatible with your recollection, quote from it and provide the reference source URL so the readers can verify it themselves. Instead, you wing it and try to patch together bits and pieces of that sort of stuff into a hypothesis always lacking in specifics following which you then cavalierly allege the entire mass of mess is indisputable fact, make foul accusations at those who disagree with you and routinely rant about others cutting and pasting from the paper trail you've left in your rampaging wake until you have to admit your hypothesis is flawed and you then start the same house of cards process all over again without ever appearing to notice that you've demolished your own credibility along the way.