Walter Ego
Illuminator
The World Trade Center Dust and the Message of its Iron-rich Microspheres The provenience of the dust sample used in my study is from an apartment at 113 Cedar St. in New York City. This fourth-floor apartment was the residence of Janette MacKinlay, and wasapproximately 100 meters or so from the closest Tower, the South Tower. During the collapse of theSouth Tower on 9/11/2001, the windows of this apartment broke and the apartment was flooded withdust. About a week later, she re-entered the apartment and began clean-up and preserved some of thedust in her apartment.In this way, the dust represents a snapshot of the WTC collapse, for the dust came from thecollapsing Towers and was collected before much clean-up began. Even though the Towers weresome distance away, too far for any significant debris from the clean-up operations which were justbeginning to accidentally contaminate the apartment, yet they were close enough for the windows tobreak due to the debris of the South Tower collapse and for the apartment to be filled with collapse-generated dust.Janette told me that she had a sense, almost a spiritual or reverential feeling (knowing theorigin of the dust) to preserve some of it, which she did, placing dust from her apartment into a plasticbag. My first 9/11-related paper appeared on-line in November 2005, and Janette MacKinlay soonlearned from it that I was seeking WTC dust and other samples for study. She contacted me and sentme a small sample by mail. Later, I traveled to her new residence in California and obtained a secondsmall sample in the presence of other scientists.
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/JonesWTC911SciMethod.pdf p22
I was wondering where Jones got that WTC dust sample he analyzed and, oddly, I found the answer on the NIST site. Despite his claim that the dust is a ‘snapshot of the WTC collapse,’ what do you think are the chances of contamination, especially on the second sample acquired later in California?