Pentagon Research

KEY NOTES: The first matter is the decision to release this particular frame. There is one before it and one after it that clearly profile the aircraft. There are many discussions on what can be deciphered from it. There is the Flight 77 theory, the missile theory, another aircraft theory, and the aircraft/missile theory.

Just from a gut reaction it does appear missile-like no doubt. I have a problem with this only because it denies numerous eyewitness accounts. I know eyewitnesses vary but only mass hysteria could mistake a missile for a plane regarding the number of accounts given, including ones that originated with audio stimulation (i.e. people hearing the aircraft first and then looking). There were also witnesses who reported a "whooshing" sound like that of a missile. The white plume is the most convincing evidence for a missile since under normal circumstances jet engines do not produce white vapor trails at ground level.

The aircraft/missile theory contends that it is an aircraft firing a missile as it approaches. This puts us at a bottleneck. Here we have to decide how the aircraft is being controlled. Is somebody flying through lamp poles, throttling up the engines, and aiming the plane perfectly while facing death at 345 mph with enough composure to fire a missile in a millisecond's precision? There are only two choices as to how this aircraft is being controlled. It is either a suicidal and extremely skilled pilot or some form of remote control. Either a pilot who wishes to live is being overridden mechanically or there is no human control on board. No human control means that we then have to account for a missing 757-200 and its passengers as well as a significant number of people in on a conspiracy to pull off such a feat. The substitute aircraft and the missile-only theory leaves us in the same shoes.

The Flight 77 theory produces several questions as well. If there's nothing to hide, then why not show the whole video? How did a Cessna 172 unqualified hijacker fly a 757-200 with the precision to hit between the first and second floors without touching the lawn? Why would you want to hit light poles, a generator, a construction trailer and a tree when all of the other four sides of the Pentagon were essentially clear targets? Why did they choose to impact the only reinforced and least populated wedge of the Pentagon? Why didn't they fly down the front lawn and hit the offices where the brass resides? This is the dilemma. Any choice leaves you with significant laws of physics or human nature to overcome.

The only reasonable alternative to the white plume if it is a 757-200 in the video frame is an engine damaged by a foreign object. A very common theme in the eyewitness accounts was the acceleration of the engine sound just before impact. Here's a few eyewitness accounts that seem to juxtapose the hitting of the lamp poles with the engine "powering up".

Kat Gaines, a Fairfax County Fire & Rescue ....saw a "low-flying jetliner strike the top of nearby telephone poles." She "then heard the plane power up" and plunge into the Pentagon.

Noel Sepulveda, Master Sgt. ...was walking back to his motorcycle in the Pentagon South Car Park The plane tried to recover, but hit a second light pole and continued flying at an angle. "You could hear the engines being revved up even higher,"

Mark Bright, 32, Traffic Patrol Officer ....was the first to arrive at the scene after seeing the plane from his guard booth by the Mall Entrance. "-- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." He also said he heard the plane "power-up"

Wanda Ramey, DPS Master Patrol Office....watched from the Mall plaza booth. "I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant. Then the engine revved up."

If one of the engines took in a piece of the 5 lamp poles then it would make a "revving up" sound, stall the compressor, and cause the fuel to vaporize instead of burning. This is the only witness statement that seems to have caught the white smoke to my knowledge (which would also agree with a missile being fired).

Henry Ticknor, intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia ....was driving to church that Tuesday morning when American Airlines Flight 77 came in fast and low over his car and struck the Pentagon. "There was a puff of white smoke and then a huge billowing black cloud".