Reply #88: Where on Earth

[RH]

does this idea of two witnesses come from?

As early as March last year I'd already assembled a compendium of around 3 dozen wintesses:

http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror/identification.html

Since then others have taken up the task and the total has expanded considerably.

Not so long ago I presented (to this very site) a collection of nearly two hundred names of people reputed one way or another to have seen the plane somewhere nearby.

The usually presented news reports identify altogether between 100 and 150 eye witnesses who saw the plane, depending upon whatever terms of reference you prefer. Some of the reports refer to groups, people at a funeral, on a bus or kids at Hoffman Boston Elementary school for instance.

It is also clear that many more witnesses exist. I'd guess that altogether 400 or more must have seen the aircraft and a couple of dozen or more of them had a perfectly clear, direct view of the building as the plane hit. At any rate there was most definitely a surfeit, not a shortage. Steve Riskus, famous for publishing his photos, later remarked that he'd never even been interviewed by the FBI.