The NTSB Exhibit 4A explained it years ago and it's been on the internet since at least 30 January 1998 when it was posted in the LSoft Flight 800 Forum. It states in part as follows:
* One hundred twenty-eight witnesses reported an immediate end of the streak, 85 described it ending in an explosion, 32 said it ended in a fireball, and 11 said it ended in a flash.
* Of the 201 witnesses who said they saw an explosion, 39 said they saw 2 or more explosions. Of the 39 who said they saw more than 1 explosion, 11 said they saw 2 explosions, and one saw 3 explosions.
* Of the witnesses who said they saw an explosion, 38 reported it was orange, 17 said it was red, 16 said it was orange/red, 7 said white, 7 said yellow/orange, 2 said yellow, 2 said yellow/red, 1 said orange/red, and one said it was white/yellow/orange.
Click here for NTSB Exhibit 4A in its entirety.
Get it? Witnesses routinely have differing perceptions of what they saw.
The witness statement you referred to is what sounds like a snippet of radio or TV recording of a woman (no video) with eileen.daly.eye above the screen. My own transcript of what she said was as follows but since the tinfoil hatters routinely accuse those who don't agree with them of being liars engaged in a criminal coverup of "the truth", be sure to double check it, make any corrections you believe to be appropriate and present the readers with your own transcript - and your own analysis of what she described.
"My son was standing on the beach and he says 'oh look, an explosion' and we turned and what looks like fireworks that were in the sky was the first impression of what you saw, it was like a big white splash and then all of a sudden it turned into the big orange fireball, brokeoff into two pieces and a large fireball about, you know, a big rectangular fireball going - stretched from the the sky down into the water . ."
Do you contend that she saw the [1] fiery streak [2] ascend from the surface?
Where are the rest of the reports and your quotes from them of the "nearly 100 people" who you allege "saw something "rise from the surface"?
You're off to a pathetic start. Imagine my surprise.