[Non-Sequitur]

I would be willing to accept almost any cause for the downing of TWA 800 from Navy missile to a tick-off Sasquatch, so long as the evidence is there to support it. Support for your theory of a Navy shoot-down isn't there. Nothing I have read in any of the eye witness descriptions of the missile bears any resemblance at all to any surface to air missile in the Navy inventory, and I base that on personal experience and 23 years of active duty are reserve service. With all due respect, you and the others are taking bits and pieces of information and innuendo, a lot of it conflicting, and trying to tie it together without any sort of personal experience or knowledge of the military, it's weapons and it's procedures. It's just not working. I don't see any point in trying to convince you otherwise.

[Cachelot]

Nothing I have read in any of the eye witness descriptions of the missile bears any resemblance at all to any surface to air missile in the Navy

I don't buy the Navy shootdown either. Some earlier accounts claimed that the missile went up from land, not out at sea.

Is there ANYTHING reasonably portable (not necessarily in the US inventory) that resemble the descriptions?