Thanks for your e-mail and your encouraging remarks on my articles. I will give a quick reply now and if there are any other points I'll give a fuller response when I return home next week.
The OCT supporters seem to be concentrating on a side issue and not a particularly good one either. It does not matter what the radar sweep time is because of the type of information that it gives. If the aircraft returns a signal when interrogated then it is in the air above the minimum altitude for the radar. If it does not return a signal then it is not in the air above the minimum altitude. The time gap between interrogations or the returned signals cannot alter these facts, whether it is 4 seconds, 12 seconds or 12 weeks. The aircraft were in the air at the times noted by the last radar returns and were not in the air when the next sweep from the same machine should have returned another signal. The exact time when the aircraft became unavailable to radar due to impact or dropping below the minimum level can be narrowed down to between these two points in time and can be specifically ruled out for any and all other times.
Their concentration on this particular point is very revealing. They have failed to raise any argument whatsoever against the evidence presented by Mr Rodriguez and the many other witnesses to basement bombs, Mr. Walsh on the elevator damage or Ms Carr on the existence of two events separated by 9 seconds. For any account to be true it must acknowledge all of the evidence. The official story fails to account for, or even present, all of the evidence and is thus a false account.
The questions must also be asked,
"Why did NIST find it necessary to commission a new report from the LDEO when no question had been raised against the original LDEO analysis in the four years after it was written?"
"Why does the LDEO not show the later report commisioned by NIST?"
Hope this helps. If there are any other points or comments please do not hesitate to call. I will be back middle of next week and will have limited net access till then, but will reply on my return,
Gordon.