Strac6 wrote: “As just one simple fact, out of so many that disprove all this BS, does anyone think a Navy ship could have shot down a huge airplane and no sailor aboard the ship wouldn’t have screamed to the media?”
There were many on free republic that claimed every sailor on the ship would have obeyed an order not to talk about it. Tried pointing out that such an order would be illegal but few would listen.
Old Russian Proverb: “Two people can keep a secret.... if one is deaf, dumb and blind.... or dead!”
Two othet items from that theory.
They try to point out that there was a Military Warning Zone in that area,,, and try to use that as proof.
Problem is, that WA had been on the FAA charts for 20 years. It’s where Grumman did the high speed runs testing the F-14s as they came off the production line at Calverton.
Secondly, had the so called missile missed, it would have continued north and impacted in Connecticut.
Would have disturbed the polo ponies, you know !