I have no reason to think that conversations here were either informed or influential. They were de facto ignorant, because something happening in Puget Sound could not have had any effect or consequence for Air Force One.

The helicopter light was on the ventral surface. It's field of light wouldn't have included the rotor. The argument was that the image was a smear of a round light across the long shutter interval of the camera. But I didn't buy that explanation either, so I don't think we are arguing.