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Re: Flight 800 Meteor report

Phil,

I think you  might be reading too much into the “lower half” of the
aircraft.  The center section of the fuel tank is indeed in the lower
portion of the “body” of the ship, where the leading edge of the wing
and fuselage meet.  However the tank itself is enclosed by a very thin
sheet of aluminum.  All that was necessary for ignition of the fuel
vapors was a single, tiny spark.  I would suggest you ask someone
familiar with aluminum, what the result would be of an impact of a pea
sized object, traveling at 30,000 mph at a temperature of say, 4-5000
degrees F.  The angle at which the object was traveling if and when it
hit the plane would have no bearing at all on the outcome.  

The actual track of the meteor was probably descending between 0-10
degrees, traveling in a south-east to north-west direction. That track
would have made it visible to the observers on the Long Island shore,
who were facing south, and depending on their location would have seen a
track that appeared, from their point of view, to go straight up or, if
they were off to the side of the direction of “flight” of the meteor,
would have seen it as curving toward the plane.  Both circumstances had
been reported by different groups of observers.

The ANG pilot flying from south from Connecticut reported a horizontal
“flash” . That would match what someone at altitude would have seen, if
not from the impact particle itself, then possible from some of the
debris left over from the partial disinterigation of the meteorite.

Investigation of the plane, body parts, engines and the like were
intensive , but were looking for specific chemical residues, based on
the assumption that an explosion of some kind occurred either in the
aircraft itself or in close proximity.   Naturally they had their eyes
open for anything out of the ordinary, but, what would you suggest they
should have been looking for? 

Lack of success in the chemical investigation all but precludes a
missile or weapon of some kind.  Plus a missile could not account for
the sound reported by the observers.  The timeline is all wrong.

The one of the most interesting pieces of the puzzle is the claim that
many of the witnesses heard the explosion, and looked up the see the
plane in flames.

Since the sound of the explosion took 40 seconds or so to reach them,
they could not have heard the initial explosion.  What they could have
heard though, was the boom of parts of the meteorite passing overhead. 
The time would fit nicely.  Hear a noise, look up see a ball of flames
over the ocean, assume the noise was the explosion. Human nature.

When all other theories fail, the meteorite theory is all that is left.

Oh yes, about a month before the Flight 800 disaster, a bouncing meteor
was reported to have entered the atmosphere, bounced back into space and
reentered over Arizona / Calif. reportedly on a south-east to north-west
course. So yes, a meteor can and did  “head earthward and then head back
skywards again”  

Frank
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