Originally posted by Insolubrious...I have little reason to doubt their testimony and I do believe they saw 'something' that looked exactly like a plane, lots of people did. But how can you be sure that 'whatever' was flying in the pentagon airspace wasn't a missile dressed up (modified ) to look like a plane?...I still felt that after watching your presentations as it never really cast any doubt on the modded missile theory for me but only re-enforced that idea.
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Also, just because I or anyone else says a 'plane' didn't/couldn't punch through 3 rings of the Pentagon does not mean that person can only conclude that it 'flew over'. If i recall you only have one witness who claims that he thought he saw a fly over. One witness? Or am I wrong there too?
Why would the fact that all of the witnesses independently describe having seen a large, twin-engine commercial airliner re-enforce a modded missile theory for you?
The missile in the video you linked to looks and behaves nothing like what they describe.
But regardless, you are completely missing the main point. Hypothetically speaking, even if it was somehow a "modded missile" that scores of people with front row seats mistook for a commercial airliner with large engines, it still could not have hit the building.
Over a dozen witnesses independently place the plane on the Over the Navy Annex (ONA)/North of Citgo (NOC) flight path from multiple excellent vantage points. This flight path is completely irreconcilable with the physical damage.
*That* is why it had to be a flyover. It has nothing to do with anyone's speculation as to whether or not a plane, or missile, or anything else could "punch through 3 rings of the Pentagon".
Roosevelt Roberts Jr. did see a large commercial aircraft flying away from the scene seconds after the explosion. Another witness (Dewitt Roseborough) has recently been identified who seems to have seen the same thing. These only serve as confirmation for what we already knew based on the unanimous placement of the plane on the ONA/NOC flight path by the witnesses who saw it as it approached Pentagon.
Undoubtedly there were more who saw the plane after the explosion, but, as CIT has meticulously documented, an elaborate 2nd Plane Cover Story was put forth to placate them. This is in addition to the fact that low flying commercial airliners flying near the Pentagon are an extremely common site since it is right next to Reagan National Airport.
[edit on 28-2-2009 by Ligon]














