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Eyewitness Accounts Conflict
Over Pentagon Crash
By Thierry Meyssan
www.asile.org
5-21-2
Many eyewitnesses saw some kind of craft hit the Pentagon. Was what
they saw a Boeing 757-200 or was it a missile?
Eyewitnesses confirm having seen something fly into the Pentagon.
However, their accounts differ largely when it comes to describing
the nature of the aircraft in more detail.
"We heard what sounded like a missile"
Several eyewitnesses testify to having seen a large airliner. An
anonymous woman interviewed by CNN on September 11 confirms having
seen "a commercial plane". Army Captain Lincoln Liebner told the
AFP: "I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast
and low."
Since our article Pentagon: Hunt the Boeing! And test your
perceptions! went on-line, many other eyewitnesses have come forward
on the internet.
However, other accounts reported in the American press, immediately
after the event, speak of a smaller aircraft that, in flight, was
very unlike a commercial airliner, and even resembled a winged
missile.
The aircraft "appeared to hold about 8 to 12 people" and "sounded
like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter", explained Steve Patterson
to the Washington Post, on September 11.
"That may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that (flight)
pattern."
Tom Seibert, a network engineer at the Pentagon, told the Washington
Post: "We heard what sounded like a missile, then we heard a loud
boom."
"There wasn't anything in the air, except for one airplane, and it
looked like it was loitering over Georgetown, in a high, left-hand
bank", explained U.S. Army Brigadier General Clyde Vaughn, director
of military support, to CNN. "That may have been the plane. I have
never seen one on that (flight) pattern."
"It was like a cruise missile with wings"
Just after the attack, Mike Walter, journalist at USA Today,
explained to the Washington Post and CNN that "it was like a cruise
missile with wings".
Danielle O'Brien, air controller at Washington's Dulles airport, from
where American Airways flight 77 took off, explained that the craft
that hit the Pentagon had the speed and maneuverability of
a "military plane". Her account was published on the ABCnews site and
used on the National Air Traffic Controllers Association site. We
reproduce an extract of it here:
"I noticed the aircraft. It was an unidentified plane to the
southwest of Dulles, moving at a very high rate of speed - I had
literally a blip and nothing more."
O'Brien asked the controller sitting next to her, Tom Howell, if he
saw it too.
"I said, 'Oh my God, it looks like he's headed to the White House',"
recalls Howell. "I was yelling 'We've got a target headed right for
the White House!' At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the plane
was headed straight for what is known as P-56, protected air space
56, which covers the White House and the Capitol."
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all
thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic
controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You
don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all
thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic
controllers, that that was a military plane."
"The plane was between 12 and 14 miles away" says O'Brien, "and it
was just a countdown. Ten miles west. Nine miles west... Our
supervisor picked up our line to the White House and started relaying
to them the information, [that] we have an unidentified very fast-
moving aircraft inbound toward your vicinity, 8 miles west."
Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker. White
House staff members were told to run away from the building
"And it went 'six, five, four', And I had it in my mouth to say,
three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away. In the room, it was
almost a sense of relief. This must be a fighter. This must be one of
our guys sent in, scrambled to patrol our capital, and to protect our
president, and we sat back in our chairs and breathed for just a
second," says O'Brien.
But the plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree
maneuver.
"We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited. And we
waited. And your heart is just beating out of your chest waiting to
hear what's happened," says O'Brien. "And then the Washington
National [Airport] controllers came over our speakers in our room and
said, 'Dulles, hold all of our inbound traffic. The Pentagon's been
hit.'"
On September 11, the State Department for Defense confirmed that a
Boeing 757 had crashed on the Pentagon. Eyewitnesses indeed talk of a
flying craft. But there is no absolute consensus that this craft was
an airliner. Maybe the official version of events subsequently
influenced eyewitness accounts. Two French newspapers, Le Monde and
LibČration, have both published counter-arguments to our own. Both
cite Steve Patterson and Mike Walter to prove how wrong we were to
doubt the Boeing 757 hypothesis.
Such accounts, those first reported in the American press, should,
however, open up new lines of enquiry. The first said that the
aircraft 'appeared to hold about 8 to 12 people' and 'sounded like
the high-pitched squeal of a fighter.' The second said that it 'was
like a cruise missile with wings'...
This begs the question: What evidence is available to determine the
nature of the craft? Please read the article that follows:
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero14/missile/trou_en.htm
The evidence: One hole, 2 1/2 yards in diameter
1 - http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero14/missile/temoins_en.htm
Eyewitness accounts: Boeing 757 or military craft ?
2 - http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero14/missile/trou_en.htm
The evidence: One hole, 2 1/2 yards in diameter
3 - http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero14/missile/missile_en.htm
Possible theories: Aircraft nose or warhead ?
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