Were DU Missiles Used on 9-11?
October 23, 2004
The video, "911: In Plane Site," by Dave vonKleist, examines the video evidence
and shows that there was a white flash occurred immediately before United
Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 struck the towers. In the
case of the South Tower, the vonKleist video shows the underside of the plane,
seen from four different cameras and angles, with a cylindrical pod and a
mysterious white object being fired from the pod before the plane hits the
tower. This object impacts the tower immediately before the nose of the plane
creating a bright flash. A similar white flash can be seen in the video, made by
the Naudet brothers, of Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower.
The white flashes are very similar to the flashes seen when depleted uranium (DU)
penetrators strike their target. DU is a spontaneous pyrophoric material, i.e.
it ignites in the air. If DU missiles struck the towers immediately before
Flights 175 and 11 impacted, then what happened to the DU penetrators? One would
expect that they traveled through the towers and carried on into the streets of
New York or into other buildings. Unless they impacted sufficiently dense
objects to stop them, they should have continued through the buildings, and be
seen flying ahead of the flames and debris. After all, uranium is 1.7 times more
dense than lead.
Several photos of the conflagration that occurred as the plane struck the South
Tower show two objects passing through the South Tower, ahead of the flames. One
of them clearly displays the characteristics of burning uranium. One of the
objects is black and leaving a white smoke trail; the other is burning with a
bright white flame and leaving a black trail. The color of the flame and the
color of the oxides [smoke] are important. The color of the flame indicates the
substance that is burning and its temperature. The bright white flame is
indicative of a reactive metal, such as magnesium or uranium.
I contacted Marion Fulk, former staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National
Lab, to ask about the photos. After studying the photos, I asked Fulk if the
object in the photo could be uranium. "Yes," Fulk said, "It is possible." Asked
if the black smoke could be uranium oxide, Fulk said, "Yes, it could be uranium
oxide." Fulk went on to describe the "dirty" olive green, brown, and black
colors of the 21 different phases of uranium oxide.
The gap between the burning object and the black smoke trail was explained by
Leuren Moret, geo-scientist and radiation expert, who said that the gap is where
the uranium gas and vapors are so hot they are still invisible. As the vapors
cool, they condense into visible uranium oxides. Asked how the piece of uranium
could be burning so hot, Moret explained that some of the kinetic energy from
the uranium missile would be converted into heat. If this is a DU penetrator,
it could explain Moret's claim that the World Trade Center rubble was
radioactive.
Were DU missiles used to ignite the fuel in the airplanes to create the
spectacular explosions that were used to explain the pre-planned demolition of
the twin towers?