-Caveat Lector- Hello CTRL list members, I recently ran into the following response to an email I wrote back in June after I discovered that the flash sequence on the 1993 Waco FLIR that has been said to be a machinegun shooting people trying to escape from the rear is actually reflections on a highly-reflective surface that flaps in the wind and periodically reflects the sun (flashes) during the time that the wall panel the reflective surface is attached to rests on the ground. Since then I also discovered that the claim on Waco: A New Revelation that the DoJ report says 15 bodies were found shot to death near the rear exit is also false, instead the DoJ report lists 0 bodies near the rear exit, hence that alleged bit of corroborating evidence is just as unreal as the alleged gunmen shooting at the rear exit. Here's my reply to a reply to a report I wrote last June: ========================================================== Richard Fleetwood wrote: > > That flash series is emphasized by > > Dr. Edward Allard in both "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" and "Waco: A > > New Revelation." > > ..... I've come to the sobering conclusion, after analysis of (1) a > newly- > > acquired 1993 Waco FLIR video, (2) gunshots seen in the Somalia FLIR > > shown on "Waco: A New Revelation" and (3) the Vector Data Report, that > > ALL of the flashes in question on the 1993 Waco FLIR can be shown to be > > or to most-probably be solar reflections, contradicting both my > > previously stated position and the conclusions of infrared experts that > > the gunshot theory has rested on. > >What an arse. > >I spent 4 and one-half years in the mid 80's, working in a defense >electronics firm (not to be named) BUILDING and TESTING FLIR systems, for >use on several different types of military aircraft. > >What does it take to get this complete idiot, and the world full of media >morons and government wonks to understand that FLIR images show >HEAT....NOT light reflections. Also, don't forget THIS. If FLIR systems >in actual use, such as for heat seeking weapons that are hunting down >enemy hardware, were to spot something ....oh, lets say the >SUN.....reflecting off a pond, lake, or the ocean, while heading towards >the an INTENDED target....then why haven't there been an inordinate amount >of lakes, streams, and small fishing villages reported blown up by >accident....due to MIS-guided missiles? > >The core of most FLIR systems, at least during my time working on them, >were COMMON MOD systems, based an a Galium Arsenide receiver system. >Plenty of research available on THAT. > >ITS HEAT HEAT HEAT.....not LIGHT....not REFLECTIONS....not GHOSTS...and >not WONKY WISHES. > >Anybody wanna spell it out better for the rest of us? IAN: To say flashes seen on FLIR are "solar reflections" is not to say they're reflections of visible sunlight. The sun emits electromagnetic radiation in all wavelengths, not just the visible band. The sun emits much more energy in the 8-12 micron infrared range than the earth emits. The Waco FLIR was sensitive to 8-12 micron energy. Allard claims that the infrared energy radiating from the earth exceeds the IR energy striking the earth from the sun, and therefore the background temperature of ground behind a glass shard would be warmer than a solar reflection on the glass, and thus the reflection would NOT produce a flash on FLIR measuring an increase in 8-12 mic IR energy. What makes his argument persuasive is that it's true but only when we're looking at solar energy striking the earth spread over the earth's surface. However, when looking down a specular solar reflection on a highly reflective (low emissive) surface, we're NOT looking at the earth as Allard's analysis does, we're looking at the hot surface of the sun, and the FLIR reads a temperature close to the surface of the sun, manifesting on any FLIR as a flash, which is exactly what both the VDS FLIR test and a follow-up FLIR test conducted by Davidian's legal team confirmed -- solar reflections DO produce a flash on a 8-12 micron FLIR. The logical and empirical falsification of Allard's no-solar-reflection claim results in the collapse of the primary argument supporting the claim that the flashes are gunshots. When we also consider that the durations of Waco FLIR flashes last many times longer than real gunshot flashes last, and the fact that nothing like people are ever seen near the flashes, and that debris that's apparently reflective is in each flash location, the FLIR-gunshot case rapidly evaporates into nothing but pure misinformation. ------------------------------------------------------------ GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm ____________________________________________________________ Asking the "wrong questions," challenging the Official Story <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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