Posted by Elmer Barr on September 16, 19100 at 16:27:22:
http://www.twa800.com/index.htm
"Recent E-Mail - Viewer reports seeing a home video of a missile broadcast on his local station the evening of 7-17-96. This is similar to dozens of reports we have received reporting similar brief videos that were never shown again. Independent Researchers purchased 24 hours of CNN footage from that night but did not find the video. If anyone else has seen such a video please e-mail us and contact your local TV station to see if they still have a copy."
http://www.twa800.com/news/email-9-15-00.htm
"Dear ARAP,
The night TWA800 went down, our local TV news station aired a video of what appeared to be a flare aproaching the aircraft seconds before the jet exploded. They also reported on the eye witness accounts to support what the video plainly showed. That was the first, last and only time I saw that video.
As we all know, when the media has in its hands this type of video; we the public are always treated to an ongoing barrage of showings over and over again. This is after all, big news. When something this big suddenly disapears from the TV screens, my antenni go through the ceiling.
Sure there has been reporting on TWA800 but I have yet to see that video again on any broadcast. This video showed a very clear sky and not poor visibility as stated by the NTSB. I cannot recall which local station broadcasted it but I usualy tune into wtvt ch.13 Tampa Florida. I have not contacted them on this matter because requests for other news stories have been responded with little or no help at all.
With such massive amounts of investigating you have done, this seems to me miniscule but, I thought it worth mentioning. Some where out there is the original home video that captured the actual account of TWA800. I am a person with little clout and little means but I saw what I saw and have long been suspicious of the Federal investigation of 800.
I would be interested in receiving future e-mails and updates on 800. Thank you for your attention."
[Note - email address not included in the above Donaldson brothers' re-print]
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Stan Clark stan@COULD.COM says he watched it repeatedly on CNN the night of the disaster - but didn't think about turning on his VCR.
Not even ONE home VCR copy has turned up during the 4+ years since then even though it's likely that millions of VCR's were taping the broadcasts of CNN and other TV news broadcasts around the world that night.
Are the "missile shootdown video" contentions simply more of the FALSE allegations some of the Missile Huggers continue to make? Such as those of "Rod" that Elmer Barr is the author of the Cargo Door Theory, that Elmer Barr is aka John Barry Smith, that Elmer Barr is a government agent disinformationalist, etc., etc.