I've just finished taking notes on over 14,000 pages of transcripts of interviews and radio transmissions from people who were involved in the WTC incidents. These include Port Authority WTC Police, WTC security, WTC fire wardens, FDNY 10-House members, and maintenance, elevator, structural and mechanical technicians on many levels in both towers and around the complex.
Number of these people who report massive explosions, or any explosions, before the airplane impacts, besides Willie Rodriguez? Zero.
Rodriguez doesn't come across as credible to me in many respects. Yes, yes, I know about his rescue stories and all, but his own story has changed so many times that I find myself, in full lawyer mode, saying that if I can't trust the messenger, I can't trust the message.
He keeps adding more and different details to his story years after the fact, and his story just seems to grow with each passing telling from his own lips.
He has for the past couple of years been touting his duplicate explosion story, but that all came after he got a taste of media fame and became the plaintiff in a lawsuit that reads like an incredible delusional alternate universe sort of story.
Going back, though, he initially described the sound as a rumbling like furniture being moved and described a man being burned by a fire shooting down an elevator shaft.
A year later, he is on record as saying that fireballs came down the elevator shafts and burned people, including the man he initially described (presumably David Filipe, but it's hard to know for certain).
He only changed his story to include multiple "explosions" and to add that he heard explosions coming from below, and to add that the elevators appeared to be blown out from below, etc. etc. etc. AFTER he got involved with those suffering from conspiranoia and after he agreed to be a plaintiff in the alternate universe lawsuit mentioned above.
More recently, for instance in the video that some troofy conspiranoid posted a link to a video of him at the troofy conspiranoid conference, his story just gets better and better.
As many have pointed out before, the "truth" doesn't require do-overs. William Rodriguez seems to have been doing multiple do-overs these past five years. And every time he adds further layers of alleged "detail", he undermines himself because the new "facts" don't fit with the old "facts".
From my perspective, sitting back and collecting data on his numerous inconsistent stories, it's like a slow motion train wreck, but combined with another metaphor, which is handing someone enough rope to hang himself.
The guy just doesn't know when to stop embellishing his story, and I predict that his penchant for self-aggrandizement and his desire for fame will be his undoing.