2. After nearly 6 years of effort, nobody has been able to publicly present one atom of physical evidence that the 747 was a missile(s) "shootdown" or a bomb victim nor has anybody been able to present anything remotely resembling a meaningful rebuttal to this.
The reference source documentation for #1 is also applicable to the Gas Burp Theory, the Meteor Theory, John Barry Smith’s presentation of his Cargo Door Theory and the Center Wing Tank Theory. In short, there is zero eyewitness support for any of these theories either
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Message 7231 Yahoo TWA800 Forum
From: George A Donaldson
Date: Fri Mar 15, 2002 2:39 pm
Subject: Re: [twa800] A little sensitive, aren't we?
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Ace, I totally understand your faith in Fritz Meyer's report. It is natural. But what would be the purpose of missile action after the IE? The IE broke up the airframe. Nothing was flyable after the IE. The debris contained falling aircraft structure and bodies of the victims. It seems rather morbid for someone to be shooting at falling bodies such as at a skeet shoot.
To place the MF at a much higher altitude would prevent gravity from being a constant 32.2 feet per second per second. Some claim that the MF was at the IE altitude but anything falling from that altitude would take a nominal 30 seconds to free fall to the ocean. Most witness reports were that is was around 10 seconds which agrees with an altitude reported by Faret and Wendell. With the MF that low, what were Meyer's missiles or ordnance shooting at? It would take anything falling from 13,700 feet a nominal 20 seconds to fall to the MF altitude. Fritz claimed the 'ordnance' occurred a few seconds before the MF. 15 seconds delay before the ordnance does not allow a few in my mind if a few seconds totalled five.
Physics controls what may have occurred, not someone's guess as to what happened. Fritz had wartime experiences which 'told' him that he had witnessed ordnance. The best witness is someone who has had no experience which acts as a bias to his observations. Fritz saw explosions. I don't contest that but what actually was exploding? Emergency breathing oxygen bottles exploding would look like ordnance. [end quote]
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Message 7252 Yahoo TWA800 Forum
From: Jack Reed
Date: Sat Mar 16, 2002 10:38 am
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Explosion fireballs, the luminous sphere in nuclear blasts, reach about 165 ft from 1-kt NE, scaling down to 16.5 ft for 1000 lb TNT. That is a 33 ft diameter, which is 1.4 minutes of arc at 15 miles range. And that is just below visual acuity, according to Tricker in "An Introduction to Meteorological Optics" which I cited in an earlier posting. The duration would be very short and most unlikely to be visible without intense concentration. Thus I believe it highly unlikely that anyone outside that doomed aircraft saw the IE.