Flight 77's Shadow?, page 1

I still have not finalized my full case on this, but want to get some response before the weekend, so here is my graphic presentation of findings and partial explanations.

Here is a frame from the Nexcom/Citgo security video released last year. The frame we'll be looking at is 'Single pump side," camera 4, seen far left, second from top.

The view here looks southwest - note the canopy blocking the upper part of the view, and canopy shadow at the bottom - sun from the southeast, so the lot is sunlit and the scene washed out.

Many have noted the flashes of light and one interior camera darkening seen at 4:45 in the Citgo video, but the best clue I've found happens two seconds earlier - a large shadow on the ground, visible for one frame in camera 4's view. SOUTH of the Citgo.
This is a high-resolution still showing that frame.

Can you spot the shadow already? If not, watch this short short video I did a while back using lower-res stills:
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In this montage of two site photographs kindly provided by John Farmer – taken on his research trip there earlier this year – we can see about what the video is trying to show. The security camera was set higher than this and looking down, but at about this lateral angle. Using satelite maps, I measures the south parking lot at about 75 feet long and therefore the area occupied by shadow seems at least 45-50 feet across.


But it's not A shadow, but rather two dots, right? What's up with that?

Subdividing the camera's view in 4, approximating its field of view on a satelite map, I have placed the shadow here, on South Joyce Street.


Factors at work to counter a clear view of the shadow include edge fuzzing due to altitude and refraction, road reflectivity, angle of view and surface topography, camera resolution, transfer resolution, and of course the shape of the object casting the shadow, in this case supposedly a twin-engine airliner.

Here's a photo I found that helps clarify what we might expect to see: Note the 'missing' nosecone, and that the foremost portion of the shadow is made of two separate segments - an engine and the fuselage.


brightness and contrast adjustment of the Citgo shadow:

note warped shape of left shadow, and think of the raised sidewalk, obscuring its true length on the roadway behind that. Also note what seems a linear extension of the shadow at far right, on the other side of the support pole. Latent at lower contrasts, it pops out here. It doesn't seem to be present in the frames before or after, but I don't have the full set at high res, so I'm not sure if that's the left wing edge or not.


Therefore, it seems this is not altogether an implausible explanation. This is all to scale, the blue arrow showing the official heading and the official path location. Does this shadow line up with a plane on that line?

Here is mapped out the sun angles for 9/11/01 at the Capital. numbers from here
Azimuth is the direction to the sun measured in degrees from north, and altitude is the angle of its rays relative to the horizon (0 at sunrise and sunset, highest at solar noon, 1:05 pm at the Pentagon). I goofed on the altitude number here: at 9:38 it should actually be 25 degrees, not 27.5. I used the correct number below, just didn't update the dial.
Anyone care to double-check or challenge my calculations? I'm new to this detailed an analysis, and presuned steady change of both readings during the day.


This allows us to find this:

IF on the official path - which considering the downed poles and angled building damage, seems reasonable - then the shadow is about 165 feet NW of the plane.
THIS plus sun altitude allows us to find this:


And so we have a plane - Flight 77? - about 72 feet above that shadow at that moment, or about 125-130 feet above sea level. I don't have the final math, but an average pitch of no more than 5 degrees would put it into the Pentagon's first floor.

The position of the plane also puts it about 2 seconds away from impact at the official speed of 530 mph. Watching the Citgo video, I find that the more famous flashes happen 65 frames after the shadow first appears – 2.167 seconds. Measuring the rough distance from that location to the Pentagon, 1600 feet (plus app. 100 feet descended) - this yields a speed of about 535 mph, or just what the flight data recorded found inside the Pentagon says.

Significance:
We have on video, quite possibly, the shadow of Flight 77, just 2 seconds prior to impact. In terms of size and shape it's possible, its location fits the model and gives it the right altitude, and if linked to the later light effects (fireball?), its speed fits the profile of the 'official story.' It clearly contradicts the north flight path claims, unless possibly we argue for two planes.

Questions: any other legit possibilities for these dark patches besides actual informational alteration of the video? And anyone want to suggest alteration? It was 'held by the perps,' right?

[edit on 26-10-2007 by Caustic Logic]
several edits for clarity

[edit on 26-10-2007 by Caustic Logic]

Before this goes any further let's just breathe in, and remember this:
Due to member demand, the 9/11 forum is now under close staff scrutiny.

Any inappropriate comments, insults, topic derailment, or trolling will result in immediate posting ban or account termination.

Let's stick to the topic.

Originally posted by Gemwolf
Before this goes any further let's just breathe in, and remember this:
Due to member demand, the 9/11 forum is now under close staff scrutiny.

Any inappropriate comments, insults, topic derailment, or trolling will result in immediate posting ban or account termination.

Let's stick to the topic.

I'm down with that, since the topic is my OP about the shadow. Thanks for the reminder as we move into the am where I sleep and the fur starts flying.

This data has been PROVEN to have been manipulated.

Details here.

They removed the most relevant cameras just AFTER the attack and manipulated these views from the data before it was released unannounced a nd with no press 5 years later and 1 week after we announced Robert Turcios as a witness to the north side.

We know this because the manager of the citgo TOLD US that the views were online.

This "analysis" from CL is yet another neutralization attempt.

The alleged "shadow" in question is 2 dots.

A shadow of a massive 757 would be continuous.

To suggest that these 2 dots come from a jet strains credulity beyond belief.

reply to post by Craig Ranke CIT

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Craig

Can I qualify what you mean by 'manipulated'?

Are you claiming that the Citgo video should contain another three panels, representing the three 'omitted' angles, or that the video content has been manipulated?

Originally posted by coughymachine
reply to post by Craig Ranke CIT

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Craig

Can I qualify what you mean by 'manipulated'?

Are you claiming that the Citgo video should contain another three panels, representing the three 'omitted' angles, or that the video content has been manipulated?

Both.

The video content had to have been manipulated to remove these critical views.

They not only manipulated it to remove these views but even completely removed the most critical camera soon after the attack and never replaced it:


The manager TOLD us this direct and ALSO told us that this camera had a view of the Pentagon itself and clearly it was pointing right towards the alleged impact point.

It would have definitely caught the plane as it passed by the north of the citgo.

To release this data quietly with these critical views manipulated out of the multiplex feed not only implicates them in a cover-up but is a federal offense within itself.

reply to post by CaptainObvious

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Huh?

I don't own any witnesses.

We have interviewed all known witnesses to the plane who were at the citgo station.

There aren't many other vantage points where you would be able to definitively tell what side of the station the plane flew which is why they are so critical.

If you know of anyone else at the station that saw the plane or ANYONE that was ANYWHERE who can definitively state what side of the station the plane flew let us know.

As it stands all known witnesses are in 100% agreement and refuted by nobody so it would be rather silly to suggest that the two dots in this proven manipulated data that was controlled by the suspect is sufficient to counter them.

reply to post by Craig Ranke CIT

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Would those three omitted views have appeared on the same screen as the seven views we currently have?

Is it your opinion that the 'shadow' CL has analysed has been edited in?

reply to post by coughymachine

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The multiplex feed sends all camera views to the same screen.

No data controlled and provided for by the suspect is valid evidence in defense of the suspect but the notion that this data has been proven to be manipulated it becomes doubly invalid.

The dots prove nothing whether or not they were edited in.

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