[coloradan]

_Fed, cargo doors fall down. Missiles go up. Witnesses saw things go up. That would tend to put a damper on the cargo door theory. Not to mention how the nose gear doors were blown inward, nor the red residue, nor the Mach 2 things recorded on radar exiting the plane to the south in the first few radar sweeps after the initiating event.

[Asmodeus]

"cargo doors fall down. Missiles go up. Witnesses saw things go up."

It was the perception of some of the witnesses that the fiery streak ascended. Not all. Fred Meyer, for example, perceived it to be nearly horizontal but "gradually descending", as dramatized in his own press graphic.