The Pentagon 9/11 Truth & Disinformation
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Before reviewing any of the Pentagon crash site evidence we can be sure of one thing: there was no way the attackers could have known ahead of time that when the attack was over, that they alone would be in control of all images and/or videos of the attack. The attack occurred in a highly-exposed area, during rush-hour on a weekday morning. A single image would have revealed the lie. This is what happened in Manhattan, when a documentary filmmaker working nearby heard a plane low overhead and swung his camera upwards just in time to catch the North Tower impact.
One of the most telling things about the claim that Flight 77 did not hit the pentagon is that it would have served no conceivable purpose or benefit from the perspective of the attackers, while adding numerous additional and unnecessary complications.
The function of the no planes meme is obvious: to associate nonsensical claims with 911 Truth, there-by discrediting the legitimate evidence proving these were domestic crimes. That dozens of cameras ring the roof of the pentagon yet the only video released were five frames from a parking garage camera, shot through a fish-eye lens, is a transparent attempt to push the no planes meme. Just because footage of impact was never released does not mean it did not exist. It simply means those in control chose to not release it and, mostly likely, destroyed it just like they did the hundreds of tons of evidence at Ground Zero. *Watch David Chandler's "Going Beyond Speculation" and read the papers linked below and then see what you conclude.
The idea that no large commercial aircraft hit the pentagon was out of the gate almost immediately. The first person to spread this idea widely was French journalist Thierry Meyssan in a book published within 90 days of the attacks, and subsequently translated into dozens of languages. What independent researcher would not love to have the resources to do that? [see: The Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline] The same book was reprinted again and again, with minor changes (like CIT did with its 'documentary') using different titles for subsequent editions over the years, i.e. "L'effroyable imposture", "11. September. Der inszenierte Terrorismus," "La Terrible Impostura," "Le Pentagate", "O pentagate", "L'incredibile menzogna. Nessun aereo è caduto sul Pentagono," "Pentagate Hunt The Boeing," "L'incredibile menzogna", "9/11: The Big Lie" etc. Based on nothing other than the deceptive use of photographs and mischacterization of the size of the hole.
No Planes claims are designed to do a number of things. Not least of which is to be as offensive as possible by denying the victims even existed, or did not die at that location. No reason is ever given for how it would have benefited the terrorists to use a 'missile' or a" bomb", etc. rather than the already-hijacked Flight 77.
An interesting case to compare this to is that of TWA 800, (use an ad blocker or you will have to sit through ads) where the official story says that a missile was not involved, yet over 200 eyewitnesses all said they saw a missile hit the plane. It was a blatant cover-up. Eyewitnesses have no reason to lie. Although eyewitness accounts are considered one of the poorest forms of evidence in a courtroom, when there is a large body of concordant accounts, their value as evidence increases exponentially. If you have hundreds of people saying they saw the same thing , it is a pretty safe bet that is what happened. In this case we have a catastrophic event that left numerous trails forensic evidence.
Disinformation today is a finely-honed craft that exploits the way memory functions. Through the use of keywords, memes are formed that serve as triggers that create a conditioned emotional response through the pairing of ideas and our feelings about them. This way, they are spread like a virus, from person to person, throughout society.
They are far more sophisticated than might first seem to be the case, by targeting different groups (both inside and outside the Truth Movement) and co-opting people's best intentions.
Nonsense as a weapon is nothing new. What is particularly insidious about the no plane hit the pentagon claim is that it works in tandem with the claim that no planes hit the towers, i.e. that they were 'CGI on TV only', a much more transparently absurd claim. Through use of the same keywords: 'no plane/s-911 truth' it is linked to the more plausible idea (even as it is based only on an incorrect analysis of select photographs) in the minds of people already predisposed to not face the implications of this disturbing reality.
If you're interested in learning what it was like fighting the fires and recovering the bodies at the pentagon, I suggest reading Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Other important Pentagon analyses resources:
Compositing Photographs to Determine Impact Damage
Going Beyond Speculation - David Chandler
Scientific Method 911: Pentagon
Wayne Coste : Explanation of the Evidence at the Pentagon on 9/11 This is probably the most comprehensive analysis of the subject ever produced. There is both a pdf version by Wayne Coste and this video version narrated by David Chandler
Seeing the Pentagon Plane by David Chandler and
Blinked Views of
the Plane at the Pentagon
By David Chandler
Nonsense as a weapon - Jim Hoffman
Compilation of Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts
Honegger Hypothesis Refuted
Jim Hoffman Interviewed on Visibility 911 with Michael Woolsey
The Frustrating Fraud
Bringing Closure to a Manufactured Debate
The Pentagon Attack: What the Physical Evidence Shows by Jim Hoffman
The Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline
history of the hoax Goes to 2006
The 'loony end' of the no plane/s meme.
This is what was being fax-spammed to people (at least in NYC, in the building where I rent my office) nine years later.
Sgt Legasse's complete eyewitness account of Flight 77 hitting the pentagon.
His interview was selectively & disingenuously edited so as to make it seem that he was saying the opposite of what he actually did in "CIT" mockumentaries: "The Pentacon" & its reissue, with minor edits, as "National Security Alert".
A number of Meyssan's book covers in different languages
View from CCTV traffic camera 740
Firefighters work to put out the flames moments after a hijacked jetliner crashed into the Pentagon at approximately 0930 on September 11, 2001.
September 13, 2001
Photo by Jocelyn Augustino/ FEMA News Photo
Main landing strut found just inside the 'C Ring punch-out hole.'
Sierra Exif JPEG
Sierra Exif JPEG
"Where's the plane?"
Image from the Germanwings suicide-mass murder crash site into the Alps makes for an interesting comparison because, like at the Pentagon, we do not see anything that resembles a plane. In the Alps there was no building for most of the plane to go inside of, as happened at the Pentagon and still we see no large macroscopic pieces of plane debris.
