posted by djeminy
Hi Preston,
you wrote in another thread:
posted by SPreston
"After viewing the video again and again in small and large video sizes, and the input from other people, I have decided that bright object was a light colored car reflecting the sun, traveling faster than what appears to be a truck also reflecting the sun. Of course I could be quite mistaken, but an aircraft even at landing speeds coming at an angle to the camera from North of the Citgo should appear to travel across the screen much faster than that (at least 4 to 5 times faster than the truck)."
posted by djeminy
Pehaps not, if its distance is further away from the truck - from the observers point of view!! (A planes apparent speed slows down proportionally in relation to its distance further and further away from the viewer).
Good point. The truck is eastbound, so it would be on the nearer sections of I-395. The alleged impact point is approximately 2700 feet from the near corner of the Doubletree Hotel, and the actual aircraft for most of its flight path even further away. There are two east bound sections of I-395 (here). However we are not certain as to the height of the camera or which camera, so we cannot be certain which eastbound lanes the truck was on. The alleged impact point is located approximately 2130 feet beyond the further and 2300 feet beyond the nearer to the Doubletree of the east bound lanes of I-395 along the same line of sight. Let's assume the further, so the truck was about 2130 feet from the explosion and about 670 feet from the camera.
posted by djeminy
Is it possible for you to bring the CNN Doubletree video to this new thread together with the Doubletree video presented by cogburn!!
Certainly. This is your thread and your train of thought, so I will attempt to help you as much as I can.
Here is the cogburn version
Here is a version with the CNN report.
The two different video sizes are here from a different video source. (HistoryCommons)
[edit on 11/23/08 by SPreston]








