"The witnesses were fooled."
"Slight of hand illusion."
Translation: "A wizard did it. Don't ask me how."
You know, when David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty dissappear there are lots of theories out there of how he did it, all of which would have work, and all of them depending on a limited view of the scene by the audience.
When David Blaine does a 'Levitation' he depends on the mark seeing him from just one angle. If the mark were to walk a few feet left or right, the illusion is busted. Its a fact of life with many, many tricks and illusions.
YET SOMEHOW THE EEEVIL CONSPIRACISTS MANAGED TO USE "MAGIC TRICKS" TO FOOL HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, THEIR CAMERAS, IN A 360 DEGREE RANGE AROUND THE PENTAGON!
Lyte Tripper's nonsense reminds me of one of the old complaints about the Randi million dollar challenge. The whiner would complain that since Randi was a magician he would use his slight of hand skills to prevent the powers from working. I would ask the whiner how he would do this and they'd just say "He's a magician...you figure it out." I never got details of how Randi was supposed to do this.
If I pressed them, it'd make them look even more silly. I would ask them how it would work on say a spoon bender. Randi would set things up to prevent slight of hand trickery, but anyone who actually posessed real psychi powers would bend the spoon with their mindpower and leave Randi flabbergasted. I asked how Randi would stop this from happening and they'd get surly: 'He's a magician...don't be stupid' or 'Dont be naive!! He could do it!'. Apparently being a magician confers superpowers.
No matter what the setup, the whiner could never come up with any mechanism Randi could use to prevent actual paranormal powers, had they existed.
Lyte Trip is in the same boat. He'll never, ever, ever, ever come up with a Mechanism for how his plane flew over the Pentagon, fooled all the witnesses, knocked over lamp posts, left passenger DNA inside the Pentagon, etc. etc.
Instead, he will berate us for not figuring out the mechanism for this trick in an effort to hide the fact that what he is describing is physically impossible to achieve. I predict if we press him on this issue he will become more and more surly and aggressive about it. Eventualy, he might try to come up with some mechanism that will be utterly laughable.
But I doubt it. He'll most likely just make harder and greater accusations of us being dumb to cover the fact that his own arguements couldn't possibly work.