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I don't understand his reasoning behind moving the time 305 crosses the Columbia to 8:13.

Ringo!

I'm totally game, I'll debate anyone on anything.

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I'd be surprised if that was the only mistake I made transcribing those damn things.

What's the timeline for Catalano? Fired from TWA summer '72? What did he get arrested for in 1999? Same thing for our Shelton friend, can we get a bio sketch that I can steal for my website?

Does this mean that parachute is functional? (besides the age)

2 Darts 1 jet trainer 1 C130 Himms riding shotgun in a helicopter... Not sure what else...

Cossey was a champion skydiver at the time, it's not a revelation that another local skydiver knew his name.

Not surprising. The pursuit aircraft were put five miles back and 1000ft above the airliner, which was the standard procedure for a hijacking at that time, according to Cliff Ammerman.

He's wearing an Ike jacket, not his Class A's. He also has jump boots and the right hat on. There's a slim possibility he was sent to the division before his assigned jump school. Simplest explanation is these were taken after jump school.

This would have been after he completed jump school. These were likely taken when he was in Alaska. I dunno, this seems like an odd line of inquiry in Reca, when there are so many other crazy things going on in his story. I do wonder if he got dishonorably discharged, that might be one of the reasons he has a private marker instead of an issued one.

He's wearing a patch for the 11th airborne division in these pictures.

I didn't buy any of the Reca books, did they not share any of his military records in them? That'd be an odd thing to leave out of a criminal biography.

The marker looks like something purchased ahead of time, and would not be from the military. However, I can tell you it took almost 9 months to get the required documents for my mother's marker. She didn't keep any of her documents and it took several interventions from some friends still in the military to finally get her discharge papers.

That podcast was something else... good ol' Vern, bless his heart.

Eric Ullis has a press conference scheduled next week, are we going to get a new suspect?

Is there a picture of what this is supposed to be?

Since it looks like N467US had canvas lining the rear stairs based on that video clip Fly posted, then how did that fiberglass piece find its way into the hunting grounds underneath V23?

It's weird, I used to feel like one of the few who thought Cooper's survival was possible, and now it seems like it's flipped where it's unusual to find someone adamant about a no-pull.

Based on Carr's interviews on the Cooper Facebook page, it appears his confidence in a no-pull is based entirely on his interactions with Cossey.

Red and Yellow, which is the exact same color scheme fed to Colbert's team, so it was likely just FBI misinformation.

It was years and years ago. The same "evidence" was cited: Cooper got the exact title of the article right (which honestly just meant he knew how to use hyphens or had acess to a library) and the color of the parachute was wrong.

Confirmation bias much?

The focus on the Cooper letter in Gunther's book goes back to earlier chunks of this thread, but let me suggest another theory that explains the "perfect recall" of the title of Gunther's original True Magazine article. Gunther could have lost the original letter and tried to recreate it based on his own recollection. I doubt this is the case because it violates the Gunther's own ethics, but it's possible the publisher forced this on him.