looks like a missile incoming....plane on ground could not go fast enough to penetrate 5 layers of steel walls. when you line the 'said' plane up with the hole in the building, the nose cone would hit much higher. And no wing debris. Stoopid.
Absolutely a missle. The plane in question would have had VERY little distance, especially traveling at speed, to be perfectly parallel to the ground, and so close to the ground, after having immediately cleared the highway and the tree line (look at pentagon on maps) all the while being piloted by beginner level pilots.
I see it. I think that's your brain seeing what it expects. Guided missiles can have weird-looking fins, and scale is hard to see here. My two cents. But I agree, I stopped the vid at 0:24 and it looks like a small plane with overhead wings.
That’s what I see as well. I have no idea what all different types of missiles there are. I also don’t know what AA 77 was supposed to look like either. Doesn’t appear to have caused a huge amount of damage though.
Rough numbers, and with a crappy as hell image, the scale looks like it could be 757-200 using numbers from net sources. Plane about 155 feet long...fuselage vertical diameter about 13 feet...pentagon about 75 feet tall... several hundred feet of travel and already explosion in one second. Seems about right. Doesn't look small to me given height of Pentagon in comparison.
That grey squiggle you are referencing has in actual fact been cut and edited. Someone ran the footage through a software program, and found from (IIRC) frames 23 - 27 had been cut and reversed. The theory being that grey squiggle is in fact some type of exhaust gas from the incoming missile, so they swapped it to appear in front to confuse people.
If you actually impose a 757 into that video, at the correct scale, it is clearly not an aircraft that we are seeing.
At the 25 second mark- is that a crop dusting type of plane?
looks like a missile incoming....plane on ground could not go fast enough to penetrate 5 layers of steel walls. when you line the 'said' plane up with the hole in the building, the nose cone would hit much higher. And no wing debris. Stoopid.
Absolutely a missle. The plane in question would have had VERY little distance, especially traveling at speed, to be perfectly parallel to the ground, and so close to the ground, after having immediately cleared the highway and the tree line (look at pentagon on maps) all the while being piloted by beginner level pilots.
I thought so too, but did you see the plane at the 25 second mark?
I see it. I think that's your brain seeing what it expects. Guided missiles can have weird-looking fins, and scale is hard to see here. My two cents. But I agree, I stopped the vid at 0:24 and it looks like a small plane with overhead wings.
See my comment, it was cut and edited, that grey squiggle is in fact the rear of the missile, with exhaust gas and the rear stabiliser fins.
My brain is totally broken. It sees an angry red monster face made of fire at 28 seconds glaring off in the direction the projectile came from.
Cannot unsee.
That’s what I see as well. I have no idea what all different types of missiles there are. I also don’t know what AA 77 was supposed to look like either. Doesn’t appear to have caused a huge amount of damage though.
Rough numbers, and with a crappy as hell image, the scale looks like it could be 757-200 using numbers from net sources. Plane about 155 feet long...fuselage vertical diameter about 13 feet...pentagon about 75 feet tall... several hundred feet of travel and already explosion in one second. Seems about right. Doesn't look small to me given height of Pentagon in comparison.
No. It was a tiny object relative to a commercial airliner.
That grey squiggle you are referencing has in actual fact been cut and edited. Someone ran the footage through a software program, and found from (IIRC) frames 23 - 27 had been cut and reversed. The theory being that grey squiggle is in fact some type of exhaust gas from the incoming missile, so they swapped it to appear in front to confuse people.
If you actually impose a 757 into that video, at the correct scale, it is clearly not an aircraft that we are seeing.
Oh good point! I forgot that digital cameras were low quality in 2001...