ParrotheadVol

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  1. Steve Miller Band is a good choice....
  2. I enjoyed it. Now, wait for it....the next batch of files will "surprisingly" have his name in them.
  3. But they only "found" a chute, not the chute. Surely to God they realize that. I'm not sure what to think about any of this. Something has moved the needle with the FBI and I can't imagine the Dan Gryder bullshit was enough to do that. I liked the first video he did, by the way. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Didn't buy any of it, but I enjoyed it. The next one not so much. That chute discovery was a bit hokey. I find today's WWE to be more believable. If they have managed to acquire a better DNA sample than what they had used years ago, I don't see that coming from the tie. The cut parachute lines perhaps? A recently found hair slide perhaps? I suppose it's good news that the FBI is at least showing some level of renewed interest. Hopefully it doesn't start and end with McCoy.
  4. That makes me wonder if that may have sparked the talk within their family that Uncle LD could be Uncle DB. I think that’s the first I’ve seen a reference to his eye color.
  5. Just another example of stories changing over the years and people remembering things differently than they happened. Nothing new to the Cooper case.
  6. https://www.the-sun.com/news/10192516/db-cooper-case-not-closed-fbi-testing-tie-evidence/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1oDStBG4_Fj1WKMGDavPH2iJ1JY8DReVrHIl3BA288LA8rL3V0Y86VL9U I usually take these "news" articles with a HUGE grain of salt, and I do this one as well. However, the comments from Carr are interesting (if they're actually from Carr): Carr, while agreeing Ulis' theory could be plausible, said it's his understanding the Cooper file was never truly closed, despite the FBI's 2016 announcement. He oversaw the case between 2007 and 2010 before he moved from Seattle to Washington for a promotion. When he returned to Seattle in 2019, he was handed the reigns to the Cooper case once again despite it supposedly being closed three years prior. "I don’t understand them calling it closed because I was assigned the case when I came back, it was more administratively closed rather than slammed shut," Carr explained. Perhaps I slept through this part, but were we aware that Carr was re-assigned the case in 2019? Or is this just a bullshit article and Carr never said that? I'd have to listen again, but I don't recall any of that from the podcast he did with Darren.
  7. Eric is involved, but not just Eric. Tom will give the sample to whomever can get a lab willing to do the testing he wants. I think his hope however, is that Eric could bring some publicity to the lab and therefore the lab may be willing to eat the cost of the testing, which isn't cheap. Tom's post on the FB group: THE DNA SAMPLE EXPLAINED So there is a lot of confusion and speculation about what is going on with the DNA. First off, I am not doing this exclusively with Eric, I also offered the same deal to Pat if they could come up with a lab that would provide at least 5 DNA sequences. I have MULTIPLE samples that could include Cooper's DNA. I have all the stubs that you already know about, I have 11 sterile filter canisters that were used with the vacuum. One of these was used in the Peterson documentary that ended up with my DNA. There is also the paper bag from the vac when we forgot to initially put the filter in a canister. I also have some scotch tape that lifted stuff off the tie. All the "forensics labs" you are aware of are in my opinion a huge waste of time. By their own admission they can only reliably get one MAYBE two sequences off a sample. This is useless in our situation. What you are not aware of is that forensics labs are not state-of-the-art in DNA analysis. That status belongs to Ancient DNA Labs where the only DNA they have has been deteriorating for thousands of years and is completely contaminated with every other living thing in the area. Ancient DNA Labs use a process called Metagenomics. --Metagenomics is the study of the structure and function of entire nucleotide sequences isolated and analyzed from all the organisms (typically microbes) in a bulk sample-- Now let's think about that for a second... this means that you can throw dirt in this machine, it will replicate ALL the DNA in the dirt and then reconstruct ALL the different organisms DNA from that sample. How does it achieve this miracle when forensic labs can't? Think of a book full of words and sentences. Except instead of pages, all the sentences in this "book" are in a single long paper tape one sentence tall. Now imagine you have hundreds of these tapes of the same book and you chew them up into chunks of tape maybe 5-20 words long. If you have the TIME AND MONEY you could have someone sit down and sort through all the chunks and find ones that match like this: brown fox jumped over (DNA frag 1) The quick brown fox (DNA frag 2) jumped over the lazy dogs (DNA frag 3) dogs back. (DNA frag 4) The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back. (fully reconstructed DNA) So you can see how this is possible but it is VERY hard and VERY COSTLY. Every mastodon bone ever recovered is a poster child for contamination and completely degraded DNA. Yet these labs have been able to sequence DNA to the level they can tell different mastodon species apart. I have asked one of the best labs in the USA about doing Cooper's DNA and they said they only do human stuff if law enforcement asks for it AND it costs about 50k per run. What is new as of this week is that there are dozens of DNA labs around the world that would also probably be able to do this. They might not have the same stigma about not doing humans (hopefully). Then there is the problem of the cost. Que Eric Ulis, if he can generate enough publicity and make Cooper's DNA sizzle in the eyes of the public, then one of these labs may just do it for the public accolades!! So you see there is method in the madness. Finally how do I know so much about this? Because I was involved in a huge controversy over preservation of proteins (not DNA but similar) in dinosaur bones. This was the type of finding that would set science on its ear since those types of molecules were not supposed to last 65 million years. My team was on the side of modern contamination, the other side claimed that the dino bone locked out any contamination so the proteins had to be original dinosaur. Long story short, a student biologist on THEIR team contacted me not understanding the politics and was ousted unceremoniously when his findings hinted my team was correct. That student came into my team and suggested we take a chunk of dino bone (from the middle away from any surface) from the same geographic area and do a Metagenomics run on it. The resulting DNA pie chart showed that the middle of the dino bone was contaminated with DNA from every animal that lived on the surface of the ground in that area! This was supposed to put the protein thing to bed but politics has made it linger on. That “student” remains my good friend and is now the lead scientist for a group bringing back the passenger pigeon as well as other animals. He has been advising me on this for years. So if we want to get real Cooper DNA with the samples we have, Metagenomics is the only hope as far as I am concerned. If we get 100 profiles it will be easier to find him than if we get 10. Think about it, Cooper’s tie will have his DNA, his wife’s, his kids etc. I can do a family tree like I did with the particles (the software I used was actually for DNA family trees) and if a cluster shows up all closely related, we have our man! Your friendly neighborhood scientist, Tom Kaye
  8. I'm not optimistic that he finds someone to do this for publicity while eating the cost. If he does, then I'm still not optimistic that it leads to anything. Admittedly, I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to how this DNA stuff works, so maybe there is cause to be optimistic. Anyway, at this stage of the game, there's nothing to lose by trying it.
  9. I could never do that myself, but many men have done that. Melvin Wilson did it for obvious reasons. But then you've got a guy like Lepsy, who seemingly just walked away from his wife and kids. Cooper could very well be one of these kinds of men. As far as the Gunther book goes, I recently read it as well. I enjoyed it. If I had to lay money on it, I'm betting hoax.
  10. Playing devils advocate, what if the bomb were real, but Coop didn't want to tell Clara the bomb was real so he made that part up. That's not what I believe, but I don't consider that part to be "The Tell".
  11. Is this a fact or opinion? The reason I ask is because Blevins used this argument for years and no one agreed with him. I took him to task on it on several occasions. I've always been of the opinion that it would either be easier to judge height inside of an airplane or that it wouldn't be different at all. Is there anything that we can point to that suggest that this is the case?
  12. So, it's been said on this and other forums that Tina said that she had to look up to look Cooper in the eyes (I've always assumed that was with his shades on). I've even repeated this at times myself, but only because others have said it so I assumed it was true, which is never a good thing to do in the vortex. So does this come from somewhere? Or is it not accurate? It certainly seems to contradict her claim that she didn't get a good look at his face, which makes me think it probably isn't accurate.
  13. Interesting question. I suppose that there may be a distinction between sleuth and researcher, although one can easily be both. When I hear sleuth, I think of someone that is actively trying to solve the case, while a researcher may not have that as their prime objective. Both would be better served to be considered an expert as well, though there have been many over the years that I would certainly hesitate to call an expert. I do not consider myself to be any of the above. Sometimes I feel like I know less about the case now than I did when I first stumbled into the vortex.
  14. I read the book over a couple of weeks and I don't recall every little thing that made me think one way or the other. It's just more of a gut feeling that causes me to have my doubts. Not scientific at all and maybe I'm wrong. I thought the story of losing the money, then going and finding some of it, burying the chute and then laundering the money years later was a bit sketchy. I've always been of the opinion that the money wasn't spent or laundered, but maybe it was. On the other hand, I found it odd that Clara mentioned more than once that the description of Coopers shoes as loafers was wrong. Not sure why a hoaxer would even think to mention something like that. There were a few things that I questioned why a hoaxer would say, but I don't recall them. I should have made a list or took notes while reading the book. Perhaps I'll read it again and do that. You mentioned earlier that you had evidence that pointed more toward it not being a hoax. Has this evidence been revealed before, or is it part of the evidence that you have not made public?
  15. You are correct, it does not make sense, at least to me. But, I am not a hoaxer.
  16. I don't. I am, by nature, a skeptic and pessimist. I doubt it was the real Cooper but that is based solely on speculation and nothing more. There were parts of the book that made me wonder if it were real, and other parts that reaffirmed my doubts. At the end of the day, it's just another of the many mysteries within the mystery.
  17. My thought is that Gunther was actually contacted. I doubt he himself is the hoaxer. I'm skeptical that he was actually contacted by Cooper though. I wish he were though. The best hope for us having the most complete picture of what happened after Cooper's jump, would be for Gunther's book to be at least a somewhat true account. I just don't think that is the case though.
  18. I've always avoided reading Gunther's book, but finally caved and picked up a copy on eBay recently. I enjoyed it, as I enjoy most things Cooper. My guess is that the real Cooper wasn't going to talk to anyone, period. Of the options you post, I'd go with #2. I shouldn't have to ask this because I just read the book, but did the (assumed) hoaxer claiming to be Cooper communicate with Gunther any way besides mail? Did Gunther actually claim to have verbally spoke to him?
  19. If Kenny actually wore a trench coat and carried a brief case, then I don't think there's anything about that photo that is "Coopery". Your post ALMOST makes me wish Blevins was still allowed here. I'd love to hear how he spun that conversation, and we all know he would have.
  20. So does that now mean that the money could have entered the water on the night of the skyjacking. As I said on the facebook group yesterday, the more we find out about this money and Tena Bar, the more confusing it gets. It's supposed to work the opposite way dammit, lol.
  21. I wish I could have been there, looks like a blast! How was the attendance? From the pics I saw it looked down from last year.
  22. Very cool. And they even left the tie off, which is often overlooked on such displays (and book covers),
  23. So, I suppose that we are not supposed to notice that you are back? You are as full of shit today as you were the day you were booted off of the DZ.