Pentagon employees (bombs, high explosives, missiles)
I was convinced it was a missile.
It came in so fast – it sounded nothing like an airplane.”
Don Parkal said. “A
bomb had gone off. I could smell the
cordite. I knew
explosives had been set off somewhere.”
Tom
Seibert said, “We heard what sounded like a missile.”
site: perso.wanadoo.fr/ericbart/
We see a white-hot explosion
rising 200 feet in the air. This blast of released energy is the chemical
explosion of a missile warhead. Only
high-explosives can make this kind of blinding flash. (And
yes, some Pentagon witnesses heard a missile, others
smelled cordite, rather than burning flesh, after the
explosion.) This blast is consistent with an
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http://bedoper.com/eastman/index.html
what caused brilliant ball of fire outside the
building, http://eric.bart.free.fr/iwpb/inv4.html
Huge explosive force and
blinding silvery flash
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Air Force Lt. Col. Marc Abshire
-- from in his office on the D ring, near the eighth corridor |
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It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast.
I could feel the air shock wave of it. I didn't know exactly what it was. It
didn't rumble. It was more of a direct smack. |
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Terry Morin, a former USMC
aviator -- heard from the BMDO offices at the old Navy Annex |
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I saw the flash and
subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was
a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this
type of sound. Associated with that was the increase in air pressure,
momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military,
it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off 1/2 mile in front of you. |
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James S Robbins -- from
office 1 1/2 miles from Pentagon |
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There was a silvery flash,
an explosion, and a dark, mushroom shaped cloud rose over the building. I
froze, gaping for a second until the sound of the detonation, a sharp pop at
that distance, shook me out of it. |
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Jeff Anlauf
-- from 14th floor of the Sheraton Hotel, located 1.6 miles from the
explosion |
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Then, about 5 seconds
later, the whole hotel shook. I could feel it moving. |
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Peter M. Murphy -- in Mr.
Murphy's office on the fourth floor of the Pentagon's outermost ring, the
E-Ring, overlooking the helo-pad |
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At that instant, a
tremendous explosion with what Mr. Murphy said was a noise "louder than
any noise he had ever heard" shook the room. Mr. Murphy, who had been
standing with his back to the window, was knocked entirely across the room,
while Hogue was jolted into his office. |
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Mike Dobbs -- |
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Everyone said there was a
deafening explosion, but with the adrenaline, we didn't hear it. |
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Noel Sepulveda -- in
parking lot, over one hundred feet from explosion |
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For a brief moment, you
could see the body of the plane sticking out from the side of the building.
Then a ball of fire came from behind it. An explosion followed, sending
Sepulveda flying against a light pole. |
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Master Sergeant Noel
Sepulveda -- standing only 150 feet from the point of impact |
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... followed by an
explosion; and the blast of the impact was so tremendous, that from his
vantage point, it threw him backward over 100 feet slamming into a light pole
causing him internal injuries. |
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Then we heard an explosion
and the truck rocked back and forth. |
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Navy Capt. Charles Fowler
-- heard from inside the Pentagon |
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You could feel the building
shake. You knew it was a major explosion. |
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Lt. Col. Ted Anderson -- |
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We ran to the end of our
building, turned left and saw nothing but huge, billowing black smoke, and a
brilliant, brilliant explosion of fire |
Lisa Burgess
: Stars and Stripes reporter Lisa Burgess was walking on the Pentagon's
innermost corridor, across the courtyard, when
the incident happened. "I heard two loud booms - one large, one smaller,
and the shock wave threw me against the wall," she said. Burgess, reporting by telephone from the
scene at about
http://www.pstripes.com/01/sep01/ed091201i.html
"The
employee "was thrown about 80 ft down the hall through the
air" Wayne T. Day
"It blew me 10 feet" Peggy Mencl
"heard
a whoosh and a whistle and she wondered where all this air was coming
from" Sheila Moody
"less than one mile from the
Pentagon ... I heard a tremendously loud crash and books on my shelves
started tumbling to the floor" Plaisted
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"One mile away from the Pentagon ... The house shook, the
windows were vibrating" Rob Schickler
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Garofola's desk literally rose straight
up several inches then slammed down" Peter M. Murphy
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"The blast lifted Beans off the floor" Michael Beans
What else than an internal explosion would have set such a wide wide fire inside the building ?
Pierre-Henri Bunel is
a french artillery army officer. During the 1991 Gulf
war, the allies used his expertise to help evaluate the damages caused by missiles. He
wrote a chapter on bombs and missiles in Le
Pentagate.
http://www.pentagate.info/
Pierre-Henri Bunel thinks that the Pentagon attack was made with an
anti-bunker missile. An anti-bunker missile contains both a shaped charge and a
bomb. It first used the shaped-charge to pierce the wall and then dropped a
bomb inside the bunker. The white color of the initial blast, as explained by
Pierre Henri Bunel, a French explosives
expert, indicates the presence of a very fast moving explosion fireball,
caused by a solid explosive and not the burning of kerosene
Huge heat
High explosives and
shaped charges generate huge amounts of heat.
As a whole, the body of eywitness
accounts is fairly consistent. It supports both aspects of the official story,
such as the approach and crash of a 757-like jetliner, and aspects beyond that
story, such as the detonation of a bomb. 9-11
Research analyzed the accounts in Eric Bart's compilation to find strong
support for several elements:
http://911review.com/attack/pentagon/witnesses.html
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/explosive.html#detonation
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/explosive.html
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/analysis/conclusions/explosion.html
http://911review.com/attack/pentagon/witnesses.html
http://911review.org/Wiki/PentagonAttackWitnessesBlast
Supersonic airplane/Missile
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Rob Schickler -- |
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A few seconds later, there was this sonic boom. The
house shook, the windows were vibrating. There was a hole in the building,
and you could smell it in the air. |
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Joel Sucherman
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I heard a sonic boom and
then the impact, the explosion. ... There were light poles down. |
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Tom Seibert -- |
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We heard what sounded like
a missile, then we heard a loud boom. |
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Lon Rains -- |
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At that moment I heard a
very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in
front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and
an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a
missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane. |
Sea Slug was a Royal Navy
surface-to-air missile system built by Hawker
Siddeley, which came into service in the 1950s and was still
in use at the time of
the Falklands
War. The missile had four
boosters which separated after launch, the main cordite motor then powered it
to its target.
Missile
Tom Seibert, in
the Pentagon, listened to "what sounded like a missile" followed by a
"loud boom."
Lon Rains
Editor, Space News, was driving up Interstate 395 from
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Allen Cleveland -- |
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Soon after the crash (Within 30 seconds of the crash) I witnessed a
military cargo plane (Possibly a C130) fly over the crash site and circle the
mushroom cloud. My brother inlaw also witnessed the
same plane following the jet while he was on the |
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Scott P. Cook -- |
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As we watched the black
plume gather strength, less than a minute after the explosion, we saw an odd
sight that no one else has yet commented on. Directly in back of the plume,
which would place it almost due west from our office, a four-engine propeller
plane, which Ray later said resembled a C-130, started a steep decent towards
the Pentagon. It was coming from an odd direction (planes don't go east-west in
the area), and it was descending at a much steeper angle than most aircraft.
Trailing a thin, diffuse black trail from its engines, the plane reached the
Pentagon at a low altitude and made a sharp left turn, passing just north of
the plume, and headed straight for the White House. |
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Kenneth McClellan -- |
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A C-130 cargo plane had
departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to |
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John O'Keefe -- |
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Then the plane -- it looked
like a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a
complete turnaround. |
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Phillip Thompson -- observed
from 1-395 |
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Then a gray C-130 flew
overhead, setting off a new round of panic. I tried to reassure people that
the plane was not a threat. All around me people began to panic, fleeing for
their lives. |
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Keith Wheelhouse -- |
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The second plane looked
similar to a C- 130 transport plane, he said. He believes it flew directly
above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing
on radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon. |
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Ournetfamily -- watched from the Naval Annex |
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The only large fixed wing
aircraft to appear was a gray C-130, which appeared to be a Navy electronic
warfare aircraft, he seemed to survey the area and depart in on a westerly
heading. |
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Joel Sucherman
-- |
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Within a minute another
plane started veering up and to the side. At that point it wasn't clear if
that plane was trying to manouver out of the air
space or if that plane was coming round for another hit. |
The first reports on
to a crash on the northern end of
and over Reagan National. But all the
Boeing would have to do after it overflew the
Pentagon hidden from most witnesses who saw its approach
by first the flash and then the rising mass rising smoke
and flame was to put down its wheels, bank to the right (while over the
and then land at Reagan National which has a runway that
ends only one mile southeast of the crash point -- in three seconds the Boeing
would be
closer to the airport than to the Pentagon, it could blend
into Reagan traffic (and of course
full of DoD and
or given new numbers and a
paint job while the airport was shut down and evidence cleaned up -- Reagan
National was the last airport to open, yet it
already had the most security of any non-military airport in
the
were holding ILLEGAL top secret clearances at both Dulles
(where Flight 77 took off) and Reagan National (where it most likely landed) --
and these
persons were all
deported to their home countries (
gainst them, by order of John
Ashcroft.