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Seismic Proof – 9/11 Was An Inside Job (Updated Version II) by Craig T. Furlong & Gordon Ross.

There is an appointed time for everything

And there is a time for every event under heaven

Ecclesiastes 3:1

SUMMARY

On September 11, 2001, the seismic stations grouped around New York City recorded seismic

events from the WTC site, two of which occurred

immediately prior to the aircraft impacts upon the

Twin Towers. Because these seismic events preceded the collisions, it is clear they were not

associated with the impacts and must therefore be associated with some other occurrence.

None of the authorities charged with the responsibility for

the investigation of the events of 9/11 have

proposed a source for these seismic events, nor

have they given a valid reason for the difference

in times between the seismic events and the aircraft impacts. Only by consideration of the evidence of basement explosions before the aircraft impacts, as experienced by William Rodriquez and 36 others, can an explanation be found for the fact that the seismic stations recorded seismic events originating from the WTC sites prior to the aircraft impacts. It seems unlikely

that Middle Eastern terrorists could have overcome the WTC security and managed this kind of high-level, technological coordination. Do the facts presented here, simple

and few, raise the possibility of inside

involvement in 9/11/01, both before and after the attack?

OVERVIEW

This paper is primarily concerned with the factual data surrounding the exact impact times of the two aircraft that hit WTC1 and WTC2. This is neither theory nor hypothesis, but a statement of publicized facts regarding the timing of the aircraft impacts. There exist two separate precision data time sets that address when the aircraft crashed into the Towers. Both data time sets are based on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, the world’s atomic clock system) and the sources that determined these times were prestigious, reliable and credible. There is no question regarding the precision and accuracy of the instruments used to record both data time sets, since their entire function depends and relies upon temporal accuracy,and therefore there can be no doubt that both data time sets are correct. The time data sets represent objective scientific data recorded by two

separate, independent entities.

The problem is the data sets have different impact times. These times were given out years ago but at different times. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University (LDEO) gave its findings around the time of the event with what it thought were impact times based upon the seismic data recorded, while the 9/11 Commission published its impact times, based upon FAA radar data and air traffic control software logic, years later in its Final Report.

The Commission no longer exists.

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Original seismic and Commission times.

Table 1

AA Flt 11

2001

LDEO

8:46:26

Original seismic

2004

Commission

8:46:40

(14 seconds difference)

UA Flt 175

2001

LDEO

9:02:54

Original seismic

2004

Commission

9:03:11

(17 seconds difference)

SEISMIC DATA AND TIMES

LDEO Published Findings 2001

Link:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/20010911_wtc.h

tml

LDEO confirmed its data as accurate:

Link:

http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/publications/download/91

1pentagon.pdf

9/11 COMMISSION DATA AND TIMES

Commission Timeline Link:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html

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The Commission’s times are based upon: "We have determined that the impact time was 9:03:11 based on our analysis of FAA radar data and air traffic control software logic." [9/11Commission Report, pg 460, Note 130]:

Link:http://www.insightful.com/infact/911/corpus/report_470_460.html

(Note 130 is the basis for WTC1 & WTC2 precision impact times to the second)

It is known that the FAA followed the aircraft using the four northeast ARTCCs (Air Route Traffic Control Centers) of Boston, New York, Washington DC, and Cleveland; there was also Air Traffic Control for the local air space of New York City. All of this radar and accompanying Air Traffic Control data was recorded to UTC timestamping. These stations utilized primary radar return tracking with all times to the second. Also, an AirTraffic Controller replied to this investigation stating that a time-check is done daily by all stations to make sure that all radar tracking is precisely coordinated to UTC. Radar is based upon microwavesthat travel at the speed of light, so error variance is not stated.

The Commission Report has the impact times. Their data set is based upon actual flight data that ended when the Towers were struck. There is no question: AA Flight 11 died

at 8:46:40 and UA Flight 175 at 9:03:11 [UTC – 4 hrs]. Since the planes crashed at those times, the question is: What caused the LDEO times 14 and 17 seconds earlier? What caused those seismic spikes?

BASEMENT EXPLOSIONS

On the face, it seems tenuous that the spikes were "impact times". How does an aircraft impacting the WTC near the 90th floor result in sufficient energy transference that travels all the way down to the earth, even through the massive multi-level, 6-story sub-basement structure, and be picked up by

LDEO as a seismic spike? Energy from the crash should have mostly been absorbed by the

building’s immense structure and mass.

The following is an excerpt about an eyewitness at WTC1 by the name of William Rodriguez (he

worked at the WTC complex for 20 years, was acknowledged a hero for the many lives he saved that day, and he was the last person out of the buildingbefore it came down):

Link:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna17.htm

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Arriving at 8:30 on the morning of 9-11 he went to the maintenance office located on the first

sublevel, one of six sub-basements beneath ground level. There were a total of fourteen people in the office at that same time. As he was discussing the day’s tasks with others, there was a very loud massive explosion which seemed to emanate from between sub-basement B2 and B3. There were an additional twenty-two people on B2 sub-basement who also felt and heard that first explosion.

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At first he thought it was a generator that had exploded. But the cement walls in the office cracked from the explosion. "When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and everything started shaking." said Rodriguez, who was crowded together with fourteen other people in the office including Anthony Saltamachia, his supervisor for the American Building Maintenance Company. Just seconds later there was another explosion way

above which made the building oscillate

momentarily. This, he was later told, was a plane hitting the Tower at about the 90th floor. Upon hearing about the plane, he immediately thought of the people up in the restaurant. Then there were other explosions just above B1 and individuals started heading for the loading dock to escape the explosion’s resulting rampant fire.

When asked later about those first explosions he said: "I would know if an explosion was from the bottom or the topof the building." He heard explosions both before and after the plane hit the Tower.

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The number of witnesses who presented evidence of explosion and explosion damage, and particularly the injuries that some witnesses received, again leaves no room for doubt that there wereexplosions in the basement of WTC1.

The following video link is powerful testimony by William Rodriguez and is evidence thatcorroborates the facts of this paper; also, these facts corroborate the37 eyewitnesses in the WTC1 basement: Link:

http://www.jonhs.net/911/william_rodriguez.htm

BASEMENT AND LOBBY DAMAGE

It is noted that the damage caused by these explosions had previously been attributed to aircraft impact. However, refutation of this is provided by both the testimonies of William Rodriguez in the above link, and by NYFD Lieutenant William Walsh inthe below link. This concerns specifically the middle, local elevators that were blown off their hinges

from below, as evidenced by the doors

resting outward at 45 degree angles that met in themiddle near the bottom. These local elevators

serviced only Floors 34 down to the lowest level ofthe building, Level B6 in the basement. They

could not have been the result of aircraft impact

Link:

Testimony, Lt. William Walsh NYFD, Jan 11, 2002.pdf

WTC Building Layout Link:

World Trade Center Building Layout, Floors and Elevators

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Lt. Walsh- Answer:

What else I observed in the lobby was that – there’s basically two areas of elevators. There’s elevators off to the left-hand side which are really the express elevators. That would be the elevators that’s facing north. Then on the right-hand side there’s also elevators that are

express elevators, and that would be facing south.

In the center of these two elevator shafts would

be elevators that go to the lower floors. They were blown off the hinges. That’s where the service elevator was also.

Chief Congiusta- Question:

Were these elevators that went to the upper floors?They weren’t side lobby elevators?

Answer:

No, no, I’d say that they went through floors 30 and below.

Question:

And they were blown off?

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Answer:

They were blown off the hinges, and you could see the shafts. The elevators on the

extreme north side and the other express elevator on the extreme south side, they looked intact to me from what I could see, the doors anyway.......

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.So I headed for the B stairway. I did not want to

deal with elevators. So Ladder 1—

Question:

Were there any elevators working or no? Probably no, I assume.

Answer:

I couldn’t tell about the express elevators. The elevators that I mentioned before that were

on the extreme north end and the extreme southend, I don’t know about those elevators. But I headed for where the service elevator was, which was in the center where the lower floor elevators were, the ones where the doors were blown off them.

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Lieutenant Walsh makes an extremely relevant point when he shows that the local elevator shafts acted as a conduit for the explosive effects and thereby limits the source of the explosion to the area covered by those shafts. His evidence shows that the elevator shafts affected by the explosions

served only the lower floors and not those at the impact levels, thereby ruling out jet fuel from the

aircraft as being involved in the explosions.

Additional corroboration of the elevators being blown out is provided by Lt. Brian Becker &

Firefighter Robert Byrne, NYFD: Link:

Lt. Brian Becker, NYFD, Elevators Were Blown Out Link: Firefighter Robert Byrne, NYFD: Core Elevators (Blown Apart)

Since only one elevator shaft was continuous from the aircraft impact level to the basement level, we can further rule out the aircraft impact as being the cause of the basement explosions by using additional testimony of William Rodriguez. In direct response to a question which postulated that the explosion was caused by aircraft fuel traveling down the elevator shafts, he stated, "Very strange

indeed, since there were only one elevator shaft (the 50A car) that went all the way to B6, the

operator was inside, Mr. Griffith and he survived with a broken ankles. He should have died burnt

since on this theory the ball of fire went down. Heis alive and well and I will interview him in the

future to clear the disinformation."

Link:

William Rodriguez | 08.18.06 - 12:20 am

When talking about the lobby damage and his experiences, Rodriguez added, "I said many times that when I got back to the basement after escorting a person totally burnt and 14 people from my office out of the building, there were sprinklers going off on the basement and not on the upper floors. Also when I got to the lobby, the passenger elevators in the field of view, their doors were popped open sideways like a pyramid, from the bottom up."

The evidence of William Walsh and William Rodriguezshows that there were explosions that

affected the basement and lobby levels, and these were not caused by the jet fuel.

TIME DELAY FROM BASEMENT EXPLOSIONS TO AIRCRAFT IMPACT

The authors have located evidence that possibly shows how long the time was between the initial

explosion and the later impact of AA Flt 11 at WTC1. Jenny Carr was at a business meeting with others on the morning of 9/11 at 1 Liberty Plaza, and a recording was being made of that meeting. During this recording a first explosion is heard, and then a second one about 9 seconds later. This data still needs to be corroborated, and both authors and the Scholars for 9/11 Truth are involved in

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this; however, it is worth presenting at this time.

This was found inside a movie compendium, "9/11 Controlled Demolitions of September 11, 2001". To repeat, this needs further corroboration.

Link:

Jenny Carr, Video - 9 Seconds

and go in 14 minutes, 30 seconds.

FAA TIMES

Within the Federal Aviation Administration’s “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September 11, 2001” are found the impact times of 8:46:35 and 9:0

3:14.

Link:

FAA Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events September

11,2001

What is interesting is, when the 9 seconds found on

the Jenny Carr tape are added to the original

LDEO seismic time of 8:46:26, the result is 8:46:35

, the exact FAA impact time for AA Flt 11

And although anecdotal, it is also intriguing that

the FAA’s 9:03:14 for UA Flt 175 matches closely

to the time of 9:03:17 found in the recent Vanity F

air article by Michael Bronner.

Link:

Vanity Fair article by Michael Bronner

This 9:03:17 time occurred when NEADS received

the call notifying them of a 2

possible hijacking while “almost simultaneously” p

eople in the

NEADS control room watched Flt 175 crash into WTC2

on CNN, including Colonel Marr, the

commanding officer. This adds credibility to the C

ommission’s impact time of 9:03:11.

Nevertheless, although the 9/11 Commission referred

to this FAA Summary many times in its Final

Report, it still based its impact times upon all th

e data they had and issued impact times of 8:46:40

and 9:03:11.

NTSB TIMES

Within the flight path studies by the National Tran

sportation Safety Board are found approximate

impact times of 8:46:40 and 9:02:40.

Link:

NTSB report, "Flight Path Study-American Airlines F

light 11," Feb. 19, 2002

Link:

NTSB report, "Flight Path Study-United Airlines 175

," Feb. 19, 2002

These reports, as a matter of course, state times o

f impact as approximate, this done with an

understanding that higher authority will review all

data in determining actual times of impact.

The 9/11 Commission’s impact time of 8:46:40 for AA

Flt 11 is the same as is found in the NTSB

report that the Commission referred to in its Note

39.

The Commission referred to the NTSB report for the

impact time of UA Flt 175 in its Note 51, but

even in doing so, it rejected the NTSB’s approximat

e 9:02:40 time and issued instead 9:03:11 as the

official time.

When one examines the radar graph from the study on

AA Flt 11, it can be seen there was one last

radar position-plot at the end. This coincides wit

h testimony by Controller Dave Bottiglia who

tracked AA Flt 11 that morning: This is from an art

icle that covers this: “

It was now being tracked

by New York Centre, where a controller, Dave Bottig

lia, saw it disappear from his screen just before

8.47. It had ploughed into the World Trade Centre's

north tower.”

Link:

Controller Dave Bottiglia, AA Flt 11 Disappears Fro

m Radar

Reference is now made to the original source data u

sed by the 9/11 Commission when analyzing the

impact time supplied by the NTSB flight path study

for AA Flight 11. Examination of this and

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particularly the radar graph supplied by magnificat

ion of the ending point area shows the last radar

return from the aircraft before impact at 08.46.40.

AA Flt 11 crashed at 8:46:40 EDT.

FAA & NTSB times added.

Table 2

AA Flt 11

2001

LDEO