Re: TWA 800 - One Year After

From: Ian Goddard (igoddard@erols.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 1997 - 22:41:40 MDT


Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com) wrote:

> Actually, the meteor theory has been getting a lot more attention
> lately. Thousands of meteors enter Earth's atmosphere every day,
> and there are thousands of commercial flights every day. An
> intersection was bound to happen sooner or later.

 IAN: If the basis for the meteor theory is
 witness accounts of a fiery object streaking
 toward TWA 800, then the meteor account is
 without basis once we are familiar with
 the details of witness accounts.

 I have spoken with several witnesses in detail.
 I have collected almost 30 detailed accounts.
 The primary reasons to discount the meteor
 theory based upon the preponderance of
 witness accounts are:

  1) pilots with the advantage of having
  a higher point of view saw the object
  rise up from the surface of the earth.

  2) the curved nature of the trajectory
  of the missile-like object [1]

  3) the diminution in the observed
  size & width of the flame and "exhaust
  trail" as the streak approached TWA 800,
  which indicates that the fiery object
  was going away from observes. In fact,
  many say that it became small that it
  vanished just before the first explosion.

  4) the wreckage shows no sign of
  penetration caused by a projectile
  on a downward trajectory [2]

 One witness, Tom Dougherty, to whom
 I spoke at length and to whom I raised
 the possibility of a meteor (to which
 he said "no way"), indicated that the
 streaking object not only curved in
 its overall trajectory but about 1/3
 of the way up, took a sudden sharp
 turn and then "corrected itself."

 I posit that at that moment the missile's
 guidance system temporarily locked onto
 its target drone, but then reselected
 the larger target/signal, TWA 800.
 This may have been that drone: [3].
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[1] http://www.erols.com/igoddard/levine.htm
[2] http://www.erols.com/igoddard/crash.htm
[3] http://www.erols.com/igoddard/kab-dir.htm

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