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T W A 8 0 0 M I S S I L E T H E O R Y
- S T R O N G E R T H A N E V E R
(c) (07/17/97) Ian Williams Goddard
One year after the pulverized remains of
TWA Flight 800 plunged into the sea, it's
clearer than ever that the passengers on
board were victims of a missile strike.
While most of the 154 missile-witness
accounts taken by the FBI remain covered
up, a few accounts are available to the
public, such as the accounts of 5 pilots
who were flying in the area when TWA 800
was suddenly annihilated:
FIVE PILOTS - FIVE MISSILE WITNESSES
PILOT 1: Colonel William Stratemeier, Jr.
AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY reported
that Air National Guard C-130 pilot Colonel
Stratemeier "said he had seen what appeared
to be the trail of a shoulder-fired SAM ending
in a flash on the 747." [1] However, in the
next issue of AVIATION WEEK Stratemeier re-
cants, saying: "We did not see smoke trails
[from a missile], any ignition source from
the tail end of a rocket nor anything..."[2]
Col. Stratemeier recanted and therefore was
not hit with an FBI gag order, but the next
two ANG pilots did not recant their accounts
and therefore were hit with FBI gag orders.
PILOT 2: Captain Christian Baur
AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY reports
that right after the TWA 800 accident, ANG
HH-60 helicopter co-pilot Captain Baur told
federal officials: "Almost due south, there
was a hard white light, like burning pyrotech-
nics, in level flight. I was trying to figure
out what it was. It was the wrong color for
flares. It struck an object coming from the
right [TWA 800] and made it explode." [3]
PILOT 3: Major Frederick Meyer
At a press conference the day after the TWA
800 accident, ANG HH-60 helicopter pilot Major
Meyer said: "I saw something that looked to me
like a shooting star. Now you normally don't
see a shooting star when the sun is up. It was
still bright... Almost immediately thereafter,
I saw, in rapid succession, a small explosion
then a large explosion." [4] Meyer said that
the initial explosion "looked identical to
the detonation of an antiaircraft shell."[3]
PILOT 4: Vasilis Bakounis
Private Pilot and Olympic Airlines engineer
Vasilis Bakounis told the Greek publication
ELEFTHEROTYPIA [5] that as he was heading
toward Gabreski Airport on July 17, 1996,
"Suddenly I saw in the fog to my left toward
the ocean, a small flame rising quickly to-
ward the sky. Before I realized it, I saw
this flame become huge. My first thought was
that it was a flare that had been launched
from some boat... This flame then started
to quickly lose altitude and a few seconds
later there was... a second explosion."
PILOT 5: Sven Faret
Flying at 8,500 feet moments before the
cataclysmic explosion of TWA 800, private
pilot Sven Faret reported that a "short
pin-flash of light appeared on the ground,
perhaps water." [6] When asked if the flash
of light rose upwards vertically from the
earth, Sven confirmed that it did, stating
that it was "like a rocket launch at a
fireworks display" with a point-of-origin
"near the shoreline or in the water." [7]
All 5 pilots witnessed a rapidly moving
luminous and fiery object that was:
1. like a surface-to-air missile
2. like burning pyrotechnics
3. like a meteor yet not like a meteor
4. like a small flame rising quickly
5. like a rocket at a fireworks display
All 5 accounts indicate that this rapidly
moving fiery object hit TWA 800 initiating
the explosions that killed all on board.
At least 2 of the pilots saw the object
early enough in its trajectory to have
seen it rise upwards from the Earth.
The accounts of the pilots in the air are
corroborated by over 100 witnesses on the
ground who also saw a fiery object shoot
upwards and intercept TWA 800. Some of
them said that the fiery object was:
* like a flare
* like a thin white line
* like Grucci fireworks
* like a skyrocket
Most witnesses, such as Naneen Levine
on CNN [8], report that the fiery object
followed a curving trajectory as it shot
upwards toward TWA 800. There is simply
no phenomena other than the firing of a
missile that can explain all the details
reported by the witnesses who saw that
luminous object streak toward TWA 800.
When we also consider that TWA 800 wreck-
age shows the signs of missile damage,[9]
the real question is not was it a missile
that hit TWA 800, but whose missile was it.
TERRORISTS OR THE U.S. NAVY?
While the number of "terrorist-missile
theories" is greater than zero, the number
of terrorists known to be in the area during
the crash is zero. Military experts have
shown that the probability that terrorists
could even deploy the military hardware
necessary to destroy TWA 800 with a missile
is near zero. In sum, the terrorist-missile
theory offers us a whole lot of nothing.
In contrast to the terrorist-missile theory,
the U.S. Navy (a) could deploy the military
hardware necessary to take out TWA 800, (b)
did deploy assets to the area that were both
below and above TWA 800 when it was hit, and
(c) did activate warning zones near TWA 800
for military exercises and live-firings. TWA
800 even changed course to avoid an active
naval-warning zone moments before it was hit.
Unlike the terrorist theory, the Navy-missile
theory is overflowing with evidence.
THE NAVY SHUFFLE
It is common for the guilty to try to deny the
facts that place them at the scene of the crime
or accident. The U.S. military tried to deny
the fact that it was at the scene of the TWA
800 accident. On July 23, 1996, Department of
Defense spokesman Kenneth Bacon told the press:
I'm not aware [that] there were any
military exercises in the area. I've
been told by the Joint [Chiefs of]
Staff that there were not. [10]
Yet after eight months of such denials, the
Navy finally admitted that naval exercises
were taking place off Long Island at the time
of the TWA 800 accident. [11] The Navy also
admitted that they had three submarines off
Long Island in the ocean below TWA 800. [11]
We know that there were at least 8 military
assets in the area of the TWA 800 accident:
1. NAVY: The ALBUQUERQUE, attack sub
2. NAVY: The TREPANG, attack sub
3. NAVY: The WYOMING, ICBM sub
4. NAVY: P-3 Orion aircraft
5. NAVY: The NORMANDY, missile cruiser
6. USCG: The ADAK, CG patrol boat
7. NYANG: HC-130 aircraft
8. NYANG: HH-60 helicopter
Every asset except the Adak has either
(a) been denied to exist or (b) had its
reported location at the time of the TWA
800 accident changed by the military. For
example, while shuffling around crash-time
locations for months, the military placed
4 of its assets in 11 locations:
The Navy-missile-cruiser Normandy was:
1. 180 miles away [12]
2. 185 miles away [13]
3. over 200 miles away [11]
The Navy P-3 Orion aircraft was:
1. 15 miles to the south [14]
2. about 1 mile southwest [15]
3. 3,700 feet below TWA 800 [16]
4. 7,000 feet above TWA 800 [15]
The ANG C-130 aircraft was:
1. 10 miles offshore [17]
2. flying along the coast [18]
The ANG HH-60 helicopter was:
1. 10 miles offshore at 3,000 feet
doing search and rescue practice.[1]
2. 3 miles inland at 100 feet
doing practice landings. [19]
Are we to believe that with as many as
nine military radar systems blanketing
the area [20] it would take months for
the military to figure out where it was?
The pattern of location shifting has
been to move military assets further
away from the accident than initially
reported or further than was eventually
discovered, as in the case of the P-3,
which tapes proved was more than 10x
closer to TWA 800 than once claimed.
If the denial of evidenced proximity to
the crime scene is evidence of culpability,
then, since multiple instances of military
proximity to TWA 800 have been denied by
the military, the evidence that the mili-
tary is culpable in the downing of TWA
800 is significant. The fact that not
only assets but military exercises were
denied, makes this evidence compelling.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
TWA 800 researcher Tom Shoemaker recently
discovered documents showing that both the
New York Air National Guard and the Navy
were engaged in a large-scale exercise
called "Global Yankee '96" taking place
off shore between July 16 and 26, 1996.[20]
Shoemaker's findings confirm the claim of
TWA 800 researcher James Sanders that the
Navy and the ANG were working together
at the time of the accident. [21]
While the fact that ANG pilots reported
what they saw would seem to contradict
the possibility of their culpability, it
is clear that the ANG is not being forth-
right about the locations of ANG assets
at crash time.[18,URL] It should also be
noted that ANG co-pilot Baur never said
what he saw when he had the chance to at
a press conference after the crash; that
Major Meyer suggested first and foremost
that TWA 800 was hit by a meteorite; and
that Stratemeier suggested it was hit by
a terrorist-style missile, then suddenly
claimed he saw nothing. If the Navy and/
or the ANG are guilty, then the ANG pilot
responses would be predictable misleads.
One year after the fiery demise of TWA
800, the Navy-missile theory not only
remains superior to all other TWA 800
theories, but is stronger than ever.
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REFERENCES___________________________________________________
[1] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: Terrorist Fears Deepen
With 747's Destruction. E.Phillips, P.Mann (7/22/96) p.20.
[2] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: ANG Eyewitnesses Reject
Missile Theory. David Fulghum, July 29, 1996, page 32.
[3] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: ANG Pilot: Jet Hit
by Object. By David Fulghum, March 10, 1997.
[4] New York Air National Guard, 106th Rescue
Wing press conference, July 18, 1996.
[5] ELEFTHEROTYPIA. Greece, August 23, 1996.
Article by Aris Hatzigeorgiou. http://www.enet.gr
[6] Report of TWA 800 witness Sven Faret:
http://www.webexpert.net/rosedale/twacasefile/aviator.html
[7] http://www.erols.com/igoddard/sven.htm
[8] CNN: TWA 800 witness Naneen Levine illustrates missile
trajectory: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/levine.htm
[9] Debris: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/crash.htm
[10] Department of Defense press conference, July 23, 1996:
http://www.dtic.mil/defenselink/news/Jul96/t072396_t0723asd.html
[11] NEWSDAY: TWA Probe: Submarines Off LI. By R.E. Kessler,
03/22/97. http://www.newsday.com/jet/cras0322.htm
[12] ASSOCIATED PRESS: Missile Attack a Favorite
of Conspiracy Theorists. 09/03/96.
[13] ASSOCIATED PRESS: Document Says Navy Hit
TWA Plane. By Jocelyn Noveck, 11/08/96.
[14] NEWSDAY: The Story So Far. By Craig Gordon, Lima Pleven,
08/20/96. http://www.newsday.com/jet/jemyst20.htm
[15] ASSOCIATED PRESS: FBI Says Mystery Blip on Radar Tape
is Unarmed Navy Reconnaissance Plane. 03/21/97.
[16] THE NEW AMERICAN: What Really Happened to TWA 800? By W.
Jasper, 10/14/96. http://www.jbs.org/vo12no21.htm#TWA800
[17] NYANG says that the C-130 was in the area JAWS:
http://www.infoshop.com/106rescue/html/twa800-pres/sld002.html
NYANG rep. James Finkle says JAWS is 10 miles offshore:
http://www.webexpert.net/rosedale/twacasefile/jolly14.html
[18] NYANG rep. James Finkle says the C-130 was not in JAWS:
http://www.webexpert.net/rosedale/twacasefile/jolly14.html
[19] In [1] the HH-60 is reported to have been offshore with the
C-130, which the ANG says was in JAWS ten miles offshore,
but then suddenly the HH-60 was moved over Gabreski Airport:
http://www.webexpert.net/rosedale/twacasefile/jolly14.html
I called AVIATION WEEK and was told that it was an NYANG
representative who told them that the HH-60 was offshore.
I was told that the NYANG rep. read the off shore 3,000
ft altitude location straight from Major Meyer's report.
[20] http://www.webexpert.net/rosedale/twacasefile/newsfour.html
Visit these pages and copy their contents:
http://www.ang.af.mil/angrc-xo/xoom/aargy96.htm
http://www.ang.af.mil/angrc-xo/glbynk/partcpnt.htm
http://www.rl.af.mil/Lab/C3/current-events/gy_rap1.jpg
[21] The Downing of TWA Flight 800. By James Sanders, 1997.
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of Ian Goddard's TWA 800 inquiry is a Big Lie in full display.
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