nervousThe very first descriptions—before the mind control machine had time to go into action—described something like a missle or a craft much smaller than a 757
Comments on the Pentagon Strike, Cassiopaea
The plane, which appeared to hold 8 to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming in for a landing on a nonexistant runway, Patterson said.
-Washington Post
"Ive never seen what the pictures looked like," he said. "The FBI was here within minutes and took the film"
-National Geographic News
My brain could not resolve the fact it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building. No tail. No wings. No nothing."
-Steve DeChiaro
"One thing that's confusing—if it came in the way you described, at an angle, why then are not the wings outside? ¶ I mean, the wings would have shorn off. ¶ The tail would have shorn off. And yet there's apparently no evidence of the aircraft."
-Reporter, DoD Pentagon News Briefing
"A bomb had gone off. I could smell the cordite. I knew explosives had been set off somewhere"
-Don Perkal
Some eyewitnesses believe the plane actually hit the ground at the base of the Pentagon first, and then skidded into the building.
-CBS News
"I didn't see any evidence of the aircraft down there"
-Terry Mitchell, Audiovisual Division, ASD PA
The subsequent devastation from fire is also evident
-ASCE
Five photographs taken approximately one second apart show the approaching aircraft
-ASCE
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that it was a military plane"
-Danielle O`Brien, Dulles ATC
"He could not fly at all"
-former employee, Arizona Flight School
"They were clueless. It was clear to me they weren't going to make it as pilots."
-Rick Garza, Flight Instructor
Hotel employees sat watching the film in shock and horror several times before the FBI confiscated the video as part of its investigation.
-Bill Gertz, Washington Times
"I watched this… it looked like a commuter plane, two engined… come down from the south real low"
-Don Wright
"It just went "pfff". It wasn't what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a football field away from me."
-John O`Keefe
"I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound… I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane."
-Lon Rains
"It was like a whoosh whoosh.
"we heard what sounded like a missile"
-Tom Seibert
"It sounded like a missile"
-Michael DiPaula
The top of the fuselage of the aircraft was no more than approximately 20 ft above the ground
-ASCE
The plane which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet, flew over Arlington cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I–395…
-Patterson
"While watching television reports of the Trade Center being hit, he saw a silver commuter jet fly past the window of his 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City…
-Steve Patterson
"It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion"
-Kirk Milburn
"Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground… Where are the parts?"
-Skarlet
"My mind could not comprehend what had happened. Where did the plane go?… But there was no plane visible"
-Christine Peterson
"Actually, there's considerable evidence of the aircraft outside the E ring. It's just not very visible."
-Lee Evey, Pentagon Renovation Manager
Hani Hanjour flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon
-FBI
NOTHING is in sequence as it appears in the film.