The Pentagon Infestation

Conference on the 9/11 Pentagon Evidence

Scientists for 9/11 Truth, in conjunction with the International Center for 9/11 Studies

sponsored a Conference on the 9/11 Pentagon Evidence on May 4, 2019. The invited

speakers were Ken Jenkins, David Chandler, Wayne Coste, Warren Stutt, and John Wyndham.

A video record of the event can be found on the Scientists for 9/11 Truth web site.

Seeing the Pentagon Plane

Bitchute / YouTube For more detail, go here. [Image Sources]

A Joint Statement by David Chandler and Jonathan Cole

Overwhelming Evidence of Insider Complicity

If you watch our videos and read the links on this site you will understand why we assert

that the weight of the evidence points to the fact that 9/11 was orchestrated by insiders…

with access to high tech military-grade nano-energetic materials (aka nano-thermite)
with access to the infrastructure of some of the most highly secure buildings in New York over an extended period of time
with the expertise to accomplish the most difficult demolitions in history
with the ability to manage public perception of the event despite numerous contrary contemporaneous eyewitness reports
with the ability to coordinate the take-downs of the twin towers with the airplane flights
with the ability to coordinate with the military to not intercept the airplane flights
with the ability to stage a highly coordinated cover-up, starting on the day of 9/11 itself
with the ability to prevent ANY investigation for many months
with the ability to stage-manage fraudulent investigations once the demand
grew too loud (the 9/11 Commission report the NIST reports)

All of this evidence comes from the investigation of the World Trade Center, based on

public evidence and the laws of physics. The evidence is overwhelming, consistent, persuasive,

and broadly agreed upon by the “scientific wing” of the 9/11 Truth Movement. The concrete

physical and video evidence leading to these conclusions narrows the field of possible perpetrators significantly.

The Pentagon

There are also anomalies in the events at the Pentagon. The biggest anomalies, in our opinion ,

have gotten some of the least attention.

How could the Pentagon, the hub of the US military, have been so poorly defended that
it could be hit in the first place, after the buildings in New York City had
already been hit and other hijacked planes were known to still be in the air?
Why was Norman Mineta’s testimony about Cheney’s response to the
approach of the aircraft discounted in the 9/11 Commission report?
Why was the target the newly reinforced west face of the building, occupied primarily
by accountants that were tracing down what happened to the missing trillions of dollars
announced just the day before?
Why would the purported hijackers perform a difficult spiral descent to hit the face of the
Pentagon that had the least number of people in it, and was opposite from the offices
of the Pentagon high command?
Why would the purported hijackers risk mission failure by choosing a difficult
ground level approach when they could have simply dived into the building?
How could an untrained pilot have performed the difficult maneuvers? Was the
plane flown by some kind of automatic controls and/or guided by a homing beacon?

Instead of these important questions, from very early on the focus has centered on what

hit the Pentagon. The nearly unanimous testimony of over a hundred eyewitnesses, is that

a large aircraft, consistent with a 757, flew very low at very high speed, clipped several

light poles, and crashed into the face of the Pentagon at ground level. Still, speculation

persists that the Pentagon was hit by something else, such as a Global Hawk or a cruise

missile. The eyewitness testimony

is consistent with the pattern of damage both inside and outside of the Pentagon.

Read through the many eyewitness accounts.

What is very clear is that there is a consistent and blatant ongoing cover-up at the Pentagon.

Those INSIDE the Pentagon have all the physical evidence and all the confiscated videos.

They undoubtedly have the definitive proof of what hit the Pentagon, and how it was done,

but they are not saying.

The problem with focusing on a protest of the Pentagon cover-up is that the population

at large attributes to the military the right to keep secrets. Secrecy in wartime is understandable,

if it is in furtherance of military objectives. It is not reasonable that the military should be

allowed to extend this privilege to the cover-up of evidence of a monstrous crime, but the

fact is, they can get away with it. The population is not willing to second guess military

prerogative in matters like this. Therefore despite the absolutely blatant cover-up of the

facts of 9/11 at the Pentagon, there is no public outrage, and there is no reasonable

possibility that the public can be aroused on this issue.

Therefore the Pentagon is a dead-end for research. The puzzle of the Pentagon might

be fascinating or intriguing, but as an avenue to determining the truth, it seems

doomed to failure. The ones who want it covered up literally hold all the cards.

Fortunately the evidence at the World Trade Center makes the investigation at the Pentagon

almost irrelevant. If anything essentially new (and verifiable) can be discovered at the

Pentagon, fine, but the sparseness of information and the thoroughness of the cover-up at the

Pentagon makes it an unlikely venue for significant new findings.

The Honey Pot

On the other hand the mystery that surrounds the Pentagon makes it an attractive target

of speculation and the subject of truly wild conspiracy theories. (This kind of attractive

diversion is sometimes called a “honey pot,” a “setup” to be discredited at a later time.)

This is not the only instance of theories that seem designed to be easily discredited.

There are groups that insist the towers at the World Trade Center were taken down by space

lasers. Others claim no planes hit the Twin Towers at all: they were just holograms.

What better way to tar the movement than to seed it with absurdly false theories

that fuel a media circus, while making the Movement look ridiculous?

Despite popular belief, the physical evidence does not rule out that possibility that it was

American Airlines Flight 77 that actually crashed into the Pentagon. Confidently asserting

otherwise, then being proven wrong and discredited for sloppy research, would be

disastrous for the credibility of the solid science-based research at the World Trade Center.

Why, then, the strenuous push to focus the attention of the Truth Movement onto the Pentagon?

Does it sound too cynical to suggest that we are being intentionally set up? We must remember

that we are in a situation where nearly 3000 people were murdered in a day not counting the

thousands who have died since, and millions killed in the resulting wars. If agencies of the US

government really are complicit, which the evidence shows to be the case, then the people

who really know what happened are playing for keeps. Any movement with real potential for

arriving at incriminating truth will certainly be highly infiltrated. This is not paranoia: it is a

simple fact. The 9/11 Truth Movement must respond by policing itself and holding itself

to the highest standards of intellectual rigor.

CIT (Citizen Investigation Team)

It is sometimes hard to tell the difference between simply foolish theories and intentionally

planted foolish theories. The difference is generally speculative.

The wisest policy is to avoid foolish theories altogether.

The generally accepted story regarding the Pentagon is that American Airlines Flight 77

was hijacked and flown to Washington DC, did a very difficult downward spiral maneuver,

approached the Pentagon flying essentially eastward along Columbia Pike, descended to

very low altitude, knocked over several light poles, damaged a generator sitting on the

Pentagon lawn, crashed into the west face of the Pentagon at ground level, at very high

speed, and created a trail of damage inside the outer three rings of the

Pentagon in perfect alignment with the exterior trail of destruction.

Enter CIT, the Citizen Investigation Team. This grass-roots-sounding organization consists

essentially of two individuals from California who fly back to Washington, conduct interviews

with a number of witnesses on video who reconstruct the flight paths (from memory, years

after the event) as being significantly further to the north than the generally accepted flight path.

A north flight path is inconsistent with the trail of damage, both inside and outside the

Pentagon, so this flight path would require that all the damage was intentionally and elaborately

faked. CIT then asserts that since the north flight path is inconsistent with the damage in the

building, the plane did not actually hit the building. Instead it pulled up and flew over the

Pentagon perfectly timed with an explosion set off in the Pentagon. The plane was

hidden by the explosion as it flew off and blended in with general air traffic. (How the

passengers were disposed of is left to speculation.) Interestingly, nearly all of the people

they interview are certain that the plane hit the building and none directly confirm the

flyover hypothesis. The best they can do is elicit sketches of northerly flight paths that

actually differ significantly from each other. They compile their thirteen interviews in a

feature-length video called “National Security Alert” (with an eyebrow-raising acronym shared

with the National Security Agency: NSA), then further cherry-pick their witnesses and present

the four who are most in agreement with their own views, and add a musical

sound track for a second video they call their “Smoking Gun” version.

Think about it just for a minute. The Pentagon is completely ringed by major highways,

including Interstate 395 which had stand-still traffic that morning. Any flyover of the Pentagon

would have been witnessed by hundreds of people from all directions. If a plane flew over

the Pentagon at low altitude leaving a major explosion in its wake, anyone who saw it would

certainly think they were witnessing a plane bombing the Pentagon. Yet there were no such

reports, and some who were questioned later, who were in a good position to see any flyover,

said they did not see any such thing.

The CIT videos don’t qualify as scientific studies. Their witnesses are not representative

of the overall eyewitness pool, the witnesses accounts are far from contemporaneous

with the events, and the conversational style of the interviews frequently leads the witnesses.

Who knows what conversations preceded the videotaped interviews to either shape or filter

the testimonies? The “researchers” ignore the fact that none of their witnesses directly

confirms their primary hypothesis: a Pentagon flyover. Some of the witnesses contradict

themselves, but this does not count against their credibility. Furthermore, there is no mention

of the voluminous eyewitness testimony that supports the conventional path in line with the

path of destruction. Rather than subject their work to peer review, even internal peer review

within the 9/11 Truth Movement, they simply disparage any who take issue with their

methods or their results, and instead rely on a list of questionable endorsements. They

posted a literal “enemies list” on the internet in which they attacked the character of those

who disagree with them. [Ed. Note: we are not yet on that list, but after posting this essay

we will surely qualify.] CIT has even gone so far as to disparage their own witnesses,

accusing the driver of the taxi that was hit by a light pole of being a co-conspirator with the

perpetrators of the crime. CIT has gone out of its way to make themselves a highly divisive

issue in the 9/11 Truth movement. The “Flyover theory” had recent success in

getting main stream media coverage on the Jesse Ventura “Conspiracy Theory”

show. Whether CIT in fact represents an orchestrated attempt to splinter the 9/11 Truth

Movement or not, it is having a splintering effect. “Divide and Conquer” has a long history,

going back to Caesar in the Gallic Wars, and Alexander the Great before him. CIT is

attempting to become the public face of the 9/11 Truth Movement. If it succeeds, the 9/11

Truth Movement will be seen as vicious, mean spirited, crazy, and ultimately discredited.

If the Pentagon issue intrigues you, we highly recommend that you balance your reading

with the literature that sets Pentagon theorizing into perspective. Here is a short

recommended reading list. (All of the authors are on CIT’s enemies

list, but read them and decide about their credibility for yourself.)

In conclusion, we urge you not to be taken in by divisive speculation masquerading as research.

New Research on the Pentagon Events

Ken Jenkins and David Chandler recently took pairs of direct copies from the Pentagon

surveillance video cameras and put them together as you would see them in a blink comparator.

By doing this, the image of the plane “pops out.” The one shown here has been converted

to an animated gif. Converting to gif images degrades the color resolution, so an

alternate process is used here to blink higher quality png image. Watch the image cycle

a few times and the details of the plane are definitely visible. Hopefully this will go a long way

to take the air out of the “no plane” meme.

Since our joint statement was written

Frank Legge and Warren Strutt have published anew analysis of the data from the American Airlines Flight 77 FDR (Flight Data Recorder).

The previously published analysis omitted the last records and so appeared to be

inconsistent with the official narrative of the flight path of AA77 into the Pentagon.

This new analysis is consistent with the path of damage inside and outside the Pentagon

and the vast majority of eyewitness testimony. The article is published at the Journal of 9/11 Studies.

Frank Legge and David Chandler have also done an analysis of the plausibility of a

“North of Citgo (NOC)” flight path, based on flight dynamics, concluding that even with

a broad interpretation of the data, the transition to the NOC flightpath would have been impossible.

These results have been published in two articles,

The Pentagon Attack on 9/11: A Refutation of the Pentagon Flyover Hypothesis Based on Analysis of the Flight Path,

published on the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice web site, and

Addendum to the Paper Refuting the Pentagon Flyover Hypothesis,

published in the Foreign Policy Journal. Frank Legge published another summary paper in

the Journal of 9/11 Studies in 2012 with some additional information:

The 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon: the Search for Consensus.

Pilots for 9/11 Truth attempts to prove that a large plane could not have hit the Pentagon

based on has an analysis of the g-force needed to level out in the last seconds. That analysis

is based on flawed calculations, as pointed out to them by the late Dr. Frank Legge over

5 years ago. They continue to promote the flawed analysis on their website.

Here is my own independent analysis (DC) that supports Frank Legge’s results.

Dwain Deets, flight research engineer, who once endorsed the CIT, no crash at the Pentagon

theory has revised his position and now argues in favor of a crash consistent with the

American Airlines Flight 77 aircraft. He presented a paper describing his reasoning at 9/11:

Advancing the Truth, a 9/11 Commemoration Conference, September 14-15, 2013 in

Washington DC. The paper is posted on his personal page at the Scientists for 9/11 Truth web site.

Physicist John Wyndham has written a comprehensive review of the literature in a paper

entitled The Pentagon Attack: Problems with Theories Alternative to Large Plane Impact,

originally published in the Journal of 9/11 Studies with an updated version on the

Scientists for 9/11 Truth website. He concludes that “a large plane hitting the Pentagon is

by far the most plausible theory.”

The Physics of High Speed Collisions

This is what happens to a plane (F4 Phantom jet) striking an impenetrable barrier at 500+ mi/hr.

A plane moving at this speed has 25 times the kinetic energy of a plane moving at 100 mi/hr.

All that kinetic energy must be dissipated by the time it comes to rest. The results are not

intuitive. In the case of a passenger plane hitting the pentagon, or a plane hitting the ground

at Shanksville PA, if it is traveling at the same speed it has the same kinetic energy per

kilogram of mass. Therefore the same degree of destruction is to be expected. This is

the major fallacy of exercises such as “Hunt the Boeing” at the Pentagon. Look at this video

then I invite you to “Hunt the Phantom”

9/11 Film Festival, Oakland 2015

I did a presentation in Oakland on 9/10/2015 on the Pentagon evidence. At the time this

web page was started the primary concern was the theories being circulated by CIT.

The newest incarnation of speculative Pentagon theories center on Barbara Honegger.

(By agreement with the organizers of the event, I didn’t mention her by name in the talk,

but it is her theories I was addressing.) My talk was back-to-back with a presentation

of the eyewitness testimony in a short film by Ken Jenkins.

(This is one part of a longer work he is producing.)
(or view on YouTube here)

On a side note, several of the witnesses in the video were viewing the incident from upper

stories of buildings in Roselyn, VA, which is a little north of the Pentagon. They would

have been in a position to see the plane if it had flown over the Pentagon, but they testify

instead that it crashed into the Pentagon, which directly contradicts CIT’s speculation.

Also, (as Frank Legge has pointed out) several of the witnesses testify that the plane went

very low as it approached the Pentagon, so low that it disappeared from view before it hit.

Once the plane was that low that close to the Pentagon, it would have been impossible

to pull up in time and there was no place else for it to go. Therefore, even though these

people didn’t actually see the impact itself, they should be considered witnesses

to impact, because there is no alternative consistent with their testimony.

The 9/10/2015 Oakland talk was actually a preliminary sampling of the ongoing work by a

group of us who were working on a major paper refuting the Honegger hypotheses.

That paper is now available: The Pentagon Event: The Honegger Hypothesis Refuted

by (listed alphabetically) Victoria Ashley, David Chandler, Jonathan H. Cole, Jim Hoffman,

Ken Jenkins, Frank Legge, and John D. Wyndham. This paper is long, because

Barbara Honegger’s speculations and inferences are so wide-ranging. In our view it was

important to address this theory (like the C.I.T. fly-over theory before it) because theories

that are this blatantly flawed can seriously damage the credibility of the scientific basis

of the 9/11 Truth Movement. This is still a topic of heated controversy within the movement,

but perhaps a slow read through this analysis can bring some light to the issue.

More on CIT

Although Craig Ranke and Aldo Marquis of CIT have seemingly faded from the scene,

their surrogates appear to be actively promoting their theories and disparaging their critics

on Truth and Shadows and elsewhere. This has prompted me (David Chandler) to

write up something that has been brewing for a long time, a critique of the fundamental methodology used by CIT.

It centers on Craig Ranke’s telephone interview of Albert Hemphill. The techniques CIT

uses in their interviews do not qualify as “truth seeking” and the conclusions have no validity.

There are fundamental grounds to reject the analysis put forward by CIT (Citizen Investigation Team),

which proposes that a large plane approached the Pentagon from a northerly angle

(north of the CITGO gas station) incompatible with the external and internal damage path.*

The plane, they say, flew over the Pentagon, masked by a synchronized internal explosion

and smoke cloud (which CIT compares to a “magic show”), and all the damage was staged.

The issue goes beyond the selection of witnesses or the implausibility of their fly-over

hypothesis and elaborate staging of all the physical evidence. It comes down to the validity

of their interview methodology and the illogic of the inferences drawn from their data.

Their flawed methodology invalidates the entire process.

I will focus on Craig Ranke’s telephone interview of Albert Hemphill because we have a

complete, unedited, start-to-finish record of the interview as well as two follow-up phone

interviews by Jeff Hill, an independent researcher living in Canada, that allow Mr. Hemphill

to express himself fully about the Ranke interview and clarify his testimony.

Here are the three interviews:

The other interviews used in the CIT videos, on the other hand, have been subject to

selection and editing, so we don’t know the full context that surrounds them.

They are therefore less helpful in understanding CIT’s methodology.

Albert Hemphill was a civilian employee of the Navy with an office on the top floor of the

8th wing of the Navy Annex overlooking the Pentagon. The line of sight from his office

window to the impact point on the Pentagon passed directly over the CITGO gas station.

His line of sight was eastward, so north was to his left and south was to his right. CIT

claims Albert Hemphill as a north path witness. Rather than simply accepting this

characterization, listen to Hemphill’s actual testimony.

Here are excerpts from Albert Hemphill’s characterization of the flight path.

The Pentagon

Conference on the 9/11 Pentagon Evidence

Seeing the Pentagon Plane

A Joint Statement by David Chandler and Jonathan Cole

Overwhelming Evidence of Insider Complicity

The Pentagon

The Honey Pot

CIT (Citizen Investigation Team)

Recommended Reading

New Research on the Pentagon Events

The Physics of High Speed Collisions

9/11 Film Festival, Oakland 2015

More on CIT

Why the CIT Analysis of the Pentagon Event on 9/11