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"When you fly a helicopter at 120 knots over North Vietnam in the iron triangle - in the most heavily defended airspace in the history of warfare - you see a lot of missiles - you see a lot of flak - and I did - I saw a bunch of it - I know what it looks like. My purpose in being here tonight is to tell you that what I saw explode in the sky on July 17, 1996 was military ordnance... We're here is to say it's no accident - somebody shot this aircraft down"

Major Fred Meyer
March 12, 1998

From Eyewitness Meyer Speaks to the Granada Forum

The following includes both Meyer's interview by the NTSB and his later presentation to the Granada Forum.

TWA Flight 800 - Witness Frederick Meyer

LSoft Flight 800 Forum
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996
From: Michael Davias
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cite from Sunday NY Times of 7/21/96)
A US military official said yesterday he saw a flash of light, similar to a shooting star, cross the planes path when TWA Flight 800 jet crashed. The pilot was on helicopter patrol on Wednesday night when the jumbo jet exploded.

"I know the strike of a missile. What I saw didn't look at all like a missile," said Commander Fritz Meyer of the 106th Rescue Wing of the New York Air National Guard. "Our three man crew saw the same thing. A flash of red - orange light, characteristic of a shooting star", he said. "Then we saw a small explosion followed by a large explosion and a ball of fire fell into the sea".
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