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Originally posted by moonwilson
I had a friend, who was working in the Pentagon at the time, who was in the parking lot and saw the plane come over and slam into the building with his own two eyes. He's a civilian contractor who works for the Air Force- he's not military, and he's not a spook. Just a paper pusher. He said it happened really fast- a huge plane roared in and WHAM
Why would he lie?
It's not like he goes around telling his tale to anyone who will listen. He just told his friends and family about it, because he was pretty shaken up.
There were a lot of people who saw it happen- there are 30,000 plus people who work in that building, and many of them were outside in the parking lot when it happened.
The Pentagon is not exactly concealed- it's within plain view of several highways, residential buildings etc.
And it's freaking huge. I used to drive by the Pentagon all the time- I lived in Arlington for several years around 9-11. I drove by the Pentagon the day after the plane hit, and it sure did look like a plane hit it to me.
The hole looks small in pictures and in video, because it's hard to capture the scale of the building. It's HUGE. It's a lot bigger than it looks,
and it's hard to grasp the scale because of the huge parking lot area that surrounds it, there's not much to reference it by. The plane didn't do as much damage to the Pentagon as it did to the Twin Towers, because it's a totally different type of building
It's not a glass-curtained office tower, it's a fairly low-slung, heavily-built steel and concrete building- and a hardened military structure to boot. Planes are built to be light. Light, fast moving aluminum vs. heavy concrete= not much left of the aluminum.
A real plane, filled with real people hit that building.
but why would anyone go to incredible lengths to make it LOOK like it happened. When all it would take to make it happen for real would be a couple of guys with box cutters and cans of pepper spray?
Originally posted by Achorwrath
Originally posted by SPreston
posted by Achorwrath
reply to post by Achorwrath
showing people standing and pointing means nothing you have no frame of reference for their indications.
I will waste no more time with a person who has not bothered to watch the interviews with the ANC eyewitnesses.
witnesses.... you mean the ones that saw the PLANE hit?
Your ANC interviews neglect to mention that,
where are the witnesses that say it flew away?
interesting how you can exclude that information.
[edit on 18-3-2009 by Achorwrath]
Originally posted by SPreston
It is obvious that that you have never bothered to look at CIT's research nor the videotaped interviews with the ANC eyewitnesses. If you had, you would know that the aircraft could not possibly have flown level inches above the lawn and left the heavy white smoke trail, let alone knocked down the five light poles. the aircraft flew above them from Over the Naval Annex and banked to its right. It was not down inches above the Pentagon lawn creating a heavy white smoke trail and knocking down light poles as scripted in the 9-11 Pentagon OFFICIAL STORY. The aircraft could not be above them and the Naval Annex and the Citgo and simultaneously inches above the Pentagon lawn hundreds of feet to the south. That is just not possible.
Originally posted by SPreston
It is obvious that that you have never bothered to look at CIT's research nor the videotaped interviews with the ANC eyewitnesses
Originally posted by SPreston
waste no more time with a person who has not bothered to watch the interviews with the ANC eyewitnesses.
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by matrixNIN11
How about all the eyewitnesses who saw the plane hit and didn't see a plane leave? Why does CIT ignore their testimony?
Except most of the 13 CIT eyewitnesses and the 7+ extra witnesses reporting the aircraft Over the Naval Annex were interviewed way back in 2001 by the Center for Military History and the Library of Congress, and any trolls and pseudoskeptics and 'government loyalists' who bothered to look at CIT's research and videos would already know that fact.
None of these interviews have been openly published but in 2008 a few dozen were released via FOIA with the names redacted.
So in essence this data amounted to nothing but a bunch of anonymous transcripts that have been sequestered, vetted, and provided for solely by the very suspect we are investigating in this crime.
Unless of course we could figure out who the alleged witnesses were, get a hold of them, and confirm their accounts first hand. Only at that point would their witness accounts become independent verifiable evidence.
Enter CIT (independent confirmation).
Of the few dozen transcripts released, only a small handful even claim they witnessed the plane as most were simply part of the recovery efforts or involved with the event in some other way.
The Center for Military History (CMH) reportedly conducted over a couple hundred interviews in the weeks and months immediately following the event
Originally posted by Achorwrath
So you do not know for a FACT that the plane was north of the former Citgo.
It is theory and one that does not fit the physical facts and multiple other eyewitnesses.
Again you have little more than theory, hearsay and personal attacks.
Except most of the 13 CIT eyewitnesses and the 7+ extra witnesses reporting the aircraft Over the Naval Annex were interviewed way back in 2001 by the Center for Military History and the Library of Congress
or else you reveal yourself as someone without regard for critical thinking principles and true skepticism
Originally posted by Achorwrath
No one has provided proof they were interviewed by either of those agnecies.
If you have the proof please provide it.
now according to pentacon you recived a "few dozen" redacted statements and only a "handfull" reported a plane.
Would you care to tell us exactly how many you recieved? How many are a few dozen? 3 dozen? 4, 5 ,6 dozen? How many are a Handful? 3,4, 10? You would think that you would want to have firm numbers to show how the majority of the statments supported your claims.
Yet hard numbers and statistics are missing.
You accuse me of lacking critical thinking
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
Originally posted by Achorwrath
No one has provided proof they were interviewed by either of those agnecies.
If you have the proof please provide it.
Of course we did. We have provided transcripts and recordings along with CMH interview numbers and a direct link to the Library of Congress.
The fact that you don't know this only shows that you lied about viewing the evidence or else your attention span is too small to retain the information.
Either way I am not at liberty to hold your hand through the process since the information has been there all along.
But the real evidence here are the first-hand video-taped on-location independent interviews where questions were asked on an investigative as opposed to human interest level that are more important here anyway.
First-hand accounts are evidence.
Your hollow accusations against the accuracy of our reporting means nothing since you have cited no examples, provided no quotes, and have not provided a single instance where a witness claims we misrepresented their account.
The evidence we present is independent and verifiable. We provide names of all the witnesses so ANYONE can check with them direct to see if we lied or twisted their claims. Out of hundreds of obsessed psuedo-skeptic detractors out there who follow our every move you better believe one of them would have found out about it if we lied about a witness.
Surely the Pentagon police officers would be happy to speak out against us. The fact is that NONE of the witnesses we spoke with have said a single word against our reporting so you have NOTHING and your accusations are baseless and uncalled for.
Furthermore you have provided no evidence for anything at all let alone evidence countering what we present. You have only demonstrated that you have utterly failed to bother reviewing the information in full that you are desperately attempting to argue against.
Stop it.
now according to pentacon you recived a "few dozen" redacted statements and only a "handfull" reported a plane.
Would you care to tell us exactly how many you recieved? How many are a few dozen? 3 dozen? 4, 5 ,6 dozen? How many are a Handful? 3,4, 10? You would think that you would want to have firm numbers to show how the majority of the statments supported your claims.
Yet hard numbers and statistics are missing.
You accuse me of lacking critical thinking
You clearly don't even understand what you are talking about because you have not bothered to view the information.
We never said we "received" anything.
We sought out the witnesses from the released CMH transcripts who claimed they saw the plane.
THAT is all that I was saying from the part of the article that you quoted out of context and clearly failed to comprehend.
Seriously....please pay full attention to the information and make a relevant point with evidence if you have one but as it stands you have only shown that you haven't a clue about what you are trying to discuss.
In common law systems that rely on testimony by witnesses, a leading question is a question that suggests the answer or contains the information the examiner is looking for. For example, this question is leading:
You were at Duffy's bar on the night of July 15, weren't you?
It suggests that the witness was at Duffy's bar on the night in question. The same question in a non-leading form would be:
Where were you on the night of July 15?
This form of question does not suggest to the witness the answer the examiner hopes to elicit.
Leading questions may often be answerable with a yes or no (though not all yes-no questions are leading), while non-leading questions are open-ended. Depending on the circumstances leading questions can be objectionable or proper. The propriety of leading questions generally depends on the relationship of the witness to the party conducting the examination. An examiner may generally ask leading questions of a hostile witness or on cross-examination, but not on direct examination.
It is important to distinguish between leading questions and questions that are objectionable because they contain implicit assumptions. The classic example is:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
This question is not leading, as it does not suggest that the examiner expects any particular answer. It is however objectionable because it assumes (among other things) that the witness (1) was married and (2) had in fact beat his wife in the past, facts which (presumably) have not been established. A proper objection would be that this question is argumentative.
According to Marc Green:”Memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the colour of a car. And memories can be distorted. They are just an interpretation. They are not a record” [1]. This is what makes the eyewitness memory primarily unreliable for the court. It goes without saying that there are both accurate and inaccurate eyewitnesses. Nevertheless, the probability of getting inaccurate eyewitness testimony may is still rather high and this is extremely dangerous due to the fact that the wrong person can be put in jail only because someone gave “inaccurate” information concerning the case.
Originally posted by Achorwrath
Again without anything to refute the information I posted, your post here is little more than a personal attack.
You have not refuted ANYTHING I wrote.
Nothing and that is in reality what you have to back it up NOTHING.
As stated your inteviews used Leading and Suggestive questioning,
In a court room that is called a Leading Question and is normally thrown out.
The Library of Congress and the CMH did not conduct interviews, they collected them from the investigating body (the the time the FBI).
I have posted proof of how the human memory responds to this type of questioning,
I have show how you chose witnesses at a distance too great to see any detail but you asked detailed questions.
I have asked for and again you have yet to respond to a plot of the location of the witnesses with their line of sight.
Yet you and all others fail repeatedly to provide this simple and easily verifiable evidence.
You also skip over the question of haw many transcripts were released under the FOIA (and play semantics with the statement).
You also fail to account for witnesses that directly saw the imapcts at the WTC and the pentagon.
Please stop twisting the information; your questioning techniques make all witness statements inadmissable in a court room so they wont fly here.
If you had anything to offer in the form or real and verifiable evidence you would present it. Instead you attack me directly.
I have not attacked you at all but have refuted your evidence in more than one case regardless of your clams to the oposite.
Originally posted by Achorwrath
The flaws of eyewitness testimony after the fact.
about 89 The amount of eye witnesses I gathered who stated they saw an object crash into the Pentagon. The vast majority of the still available ones.
at least 45 The amount of eye witnesses who reported seeing a plane and described it with words like: 'airliner', 'big', 'silver', 'roaring', etc.
at least 23 The amount of eye witnesses who specifically said they saw an American Airlines jet. In all cases a large jet.
at least 22 The amount of witnesses who reported the noise of the plane was very loud to deafening.
at least 17 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a plane running down light poles when crossing the highways.
at least 12 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw and heard the plane increase its throttle at the last seconds.
at least 11 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a C-130H flying 30 seconds behind a jetliner.
at least 5 The amount of eye witnesses who specifically stated they saw the plane had its gear up.
at least 2 The amount of eye witnesses who stated that they saw a small corporate jet, without doing any creative interpretating [sic] of the witness accounts.
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a missile. What the person thought he heard isn't relevant!
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a military jet fighter at the time of the crash.
at least 0 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw a Global Hawk at the time of the crash.
at least 3 The amount of witnesses who reported the sound of the plane was quite noiseless. (One of them acknowledged it was the shock)
at least 1 The amount of eye witnesses who stated they saw the plane had it's gear down. (Indirect, said a wheel hit a pole)
at least 25 The amount of witnesses who have said something that might point to the use of explosives or incendiaries. (White flash, powerful blast waves which blew people through the air, molten glass, burning aluminium, [sic] spreading debris over hundreds of yards back to where the plane came from, including 2 engines, the missing plane itself, etc.)
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
reply to post by Achorwrath
I'm sorry but that is none of that is evidence.
It is a 3rd party classification breakdown of 2nd hand out of context media quotes that amount to nothing but hearsay.
Why do you dismiss scientifically validated independent verifiable evidence in favor of hearsay and pure faith in what you were told?
That is not very sound methodology particularly when it comes to a crime of mass murder that has been used as a pretext for permanent global war.
Why do you have such disdain for true skepticism and critical thinking principles?