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Theyve done experiments on eye witness accounts, they are extremely unreliable, especially in situations like this.
Originally posted by CameronFox
I posted the links on a previous posts. I ONLY counted the people that in thier quotes said that from looking at the plane they KNEW it was an American Airlines plane.
How is this unreliable? The only thing that was different was the ONE guy that said the landing gear was down. Remember that these 61 people werent sitting on a bus together. They ALL had different views of the plane. This is only the quotes from ONE website... there have been literally HUNDREDS of eye witnesses that stated that they saw an airplane.
Originally posted by Conluceo
I really see no airplane, even from that angle you should be able to see an airplane, well there we have it. NO AIRPLANE.
Originally posted by Flyer
Theyve done experiments on eye witness accounts, they are extremely unreliable, especially in situations like this.
Originally posted by CameronFox
I posted the links on a previous posts. I ONLY counted the people that in thier quotes said that from looking at the plane they KNEW it was an American Airlines plane.
How is this unreliable? The only thing that was different was the ONE guy that said the landing gear was down. Remember that these 61 people werent sitting on a bus together. They ALL had different views of the plane. This is only the quotes from ONE website... there have been literally HUNDREDS of eye witnesses that stated that they saw an airplane.
"The most well known study on eye witness testimony was by Loftus(an American psychologist) in 1979 .This experiment has been repeated many times by psychology undergraduates in the classroom and has always come up with the same results. The students are shown a video of an incident( a car accident or bank robbery). They are then divided into groups in which some are witnesses and some are detectives.What the witnesses don’t know, is that the questions they answer are in different formats.
Witness 1 is asked open questions e.g. What colour was the car?
Witness 2 more closed questions e.g. Was the car blue or brown?
Witness 3 closed and leading questions e.g. The car you saw was blue yes?
Even when shown the film again, after questioning witness 3 will say they could have sworn the car was blue. If asked again 3 months later they will repeat the car is blue.Human beings have the capacity to fool ourselves that something untrue is true and stick to that idea stubbornly."
If eye witnesses are led in the questions, they will come to believe that as fact, even when its not.
Originally posted by Flyer
Theyve done experiments on eye witness accounts, they are extremely unreliable, especially in situations like this.
Originally posted by CameronFox
Are you kidding??? Thats all you got is the COLOR OF A CAR???
Witness #1 on September 11,2001: Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. I saw an airplane
Witness #1 on September 11,2004 Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. I saw a space Ship
Witness #2 on September 11,2001: Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. I saw an airplane
Witness #2 on September 11,2004 Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. I Think it was the Good Year Blimp
Witness #3 on September 11,2001: Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. I saw an airplane
Witness #3 on September 11,2004 Q:What did you see fly into the Pentagon?
A. It A Giant Octapuss
Come one...they may mess up the COLOR of the plane....In this study... did any of them FORGET it was a CAR????
Theres no doubt there was something there but if the question was "Was it a cargo plane?" then the majority would have said yes and then come to have believed that even if they werent sure beforehand.
Originally posted by chissler
I agree 100% can be unreliable. But when you say, especially in situations like this, the argument becomes empty.
We are not talking about a minor detail. In a court setting, witnesses drying to decipher if they actually witnessed the defendant commit the crime or not, is a little bit different.
Eye witnesses are prone to make mistakes and flub details of the event.
But when we are discussing an airplane, slamming into a building, I think it is suffice to say that eye witness accounts are more than valuable.
[edit on 3-12-2006 by chissler]
Originally posted by Flyer
Theres no doubt there was something there but if the question was "Was it a cargo plane?" then the majority would have said yes and then come to have believed that even if they werent sure beforehand.
Originally posted by Flyer
Theres no doubt there was something there but if the question was "Was it a cargo plane?" then the majority would have said yes and then come to have believed that even if they werent sure beforehand.
Originally posted by chissler
I agree 100% can be unreliable. But when you say, especially in situations like this, the argument becomes empty.
We are not talking about a minor detail. In a court setting, witnesses drying to decipher if they actually witnessed the defendant commit the crime or not, is a little bit different.
Eye witnesses are prone to make mistakes and flub details of the event.
But when we are discussing an airplane, slamming into a building, I think it is suffice to say that eye witness accounts are more than valuable.
[edit on 3-12-2006 by chissler]
Originally posted by chissler
I agree.
But deciding if it was actually Flight 77 or a Cargo plane because a little unrealistic in my opinion. Where did the passengers of the flight go, if Flight 77 did not go into the Pentagon?
Where is the plane itself? What of all the families who lost their loved ones?
Too far fetched, in my opinion of course.
You seem to be completely missing the point.
Originally posted by CameronFox
There was a PLANE that was Highjacked...there were passengers on this plane that called loved ones telling them that the plane was highjacked..... Hundreds of people SAW a PLANE fly into the Pentagon MANY of which stated that it was an American Airlines plane.... Parts of the plane were found where the Primer paint on the underside matching that of an American Airline plane..that along wit hother things..landing gear..engines......Do the math!
Originally posted by CameronFox
Originally posted by ThichHeaded
The smell of Cloride..
911research.wtc7.net...
Even before stepping outside I could smell the cordite. Then I knew explosives had been set off somewhere.
We saw a huge black cloud of smoke, she said, saying it smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.
Anything else?
Anything Else? Yes Thich... I went to your link where one person said that.... and I followed it to this site:
911research.wtc7.net...
Eric Bart put together a massive list of EYE witnesses to what they saw. Not JUST what they heard or smelled....what they SAW!.... ie:
Anderson, Steve - From his office at USA Today. "I watched in horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the left, drug it's wing along the ground and slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon exploding into a giant orange fireball. Then black smoke. Then white smoke."
www.jmu.edu...
Mrs. Deb Anlauf, resident of Colfax, Wisconsin, was in her 14th floor of the Sheraton Hotel [located 1.6 mile from the explosion], (immediately west of the Navy Annex) when she heard a "loud roar": Suddenly I saw this plane right outside my window. You felt like you could touch it; it was that close. It was just incredible. "Then it shot straight across from where we are and flew right into the Pentagon.
www.leadertelegram.com...
Benedetto, Richard Richard Benedetto, a USA TODAY reporter, was on his way to work, driving on the Highway parrallel to the Pentagon : "It was an American Airlines airplane, I could see it very clearly.(...) I didn't see the impact
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Here are some numbers I pulled together from this 911 research site where they list their witnesses:
61 = Number of People that stated they saw a plane
13 = Number of People that Identified it as an American Airlines Plane
7 = Number of People that witnessed the plane sped up prior to impact
2 = Number of people that saw people on the plane
7 = Smelled Aviation Fuel
2 = smelled cordite
7 = Noticed the landing gear was up
1 = Noticed the Landing gear was down
Anyway, thats my 2 cents about this Pentagon CT.
Originally posted by Flyer
Originally posted by chissler
I agree.
But deciding if it was actually Flight 77 or a Cargo plane because a little unrealistic in my opinion. Where did the passengers of the flight go, if Flight 77 did not go into the Pentagon?
Where is the plane itself? What of all the families who lost their loved ones?
Too far fetched, in my opinion of course.
I don't know about that, Im not saying it wasnt the plane but eyewitnesses accounts arent proof it was a plane.
I haven't made up my mind either way because there's not enough evidence either way and I don't trust the eyewitness accounts because every experiment done on them have proved them to be extremely unreliable.
Originally posted by CameronFox
They did experiments on the witnesses of the Pentagon attack??
Originally posted by CameronFox
I challenge you to find me ONE experiment that shows that witnesses of the Pentagon Attack FORGOT what they saw.
Originally posted by CameronFox
Heck, I challange you to find me one experiment AT ALL done on the Pentagon Attack witnesses.
Originally posted by chissler
Originally posted by CameronFox
They did experiments on the witnesses of the Pentagon attack??
No, I do not believe Flyer was referring to a Pentagon experiment. Flyer was referring to a separate experiment on eye witness accounts.
Originally posted by CameronFox
I challenge you to find me ONE experiment that shows that witnesses of the Pentagon Attack FORGOT what they saw.
See Above.
Originally posted by CameronFox
Heck, I challange you to find me one experiment AT ALL done on the Pentagon Attack witnesses.
I believe you have taken Flyer's post out of context.
Originally posted by CameronFox
One Witness does not discredit HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. One saw the landing gear down. Does that discredit ALL the others.
Seeker, could you please show me a picture the shows the lawn from an angle which shows the Grass leading up to the pentagon?
Thanks