[hattend]

Any conversation among the helo pilots wouldn't have been "Gee, does that look like a flare to you?", it would have been "Holy sh*t, who shot off the missile?"

Here is an example of what a Standard RIM-67 launch looks like in the day. Tell me that someone would have missed this at night.

What can I tell you...they were there. You and I weren't. They said they saw a missile. Why should I doubt what they saw?

BTW: A Sea Sparrow doesn't look quite that impressive coming off the launcher.

[Non-Sequitur]

You're right, we weren't there. But I have seen launches of Terrier, Standard, and Sea Sparrow missiles by day and by night. And none of the descriptions of any of these eyewitnesses comes close to what I've seen. So you can go down the list of missiles and show pictures of each but there is still no evidence that a missile fired from a U.S. Navy ship or aircraft brought down the 747.