(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Journal of 9/11 Studies published a new paper in June, further making the case that Building 7 of the World Trade Center was destroyed by a controlled demolition on Sept. 11, 2001—and not by fires caused by the main two towers collapsing, as the official narrative claims.
Dissident researchers have been arguing for years that Building 7 collapsed at free-fall speeds, which suggests a controlled demolition.
The new paper in the Journal of 9/11 Studies further makes this case by measuring multiple points along the building, including the north and west face rooflines, as well as the north screen wall and the west penthouse.
The authors of the research—including David Chandler, who has a degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College; and Tony Szamboti, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Villanova University—said their measurements indicated that the entire roofline of Building 7 entered free fall instantaneously and simultaneously to within two-tenths of a second.
“In summary, our new measurements show that WTC 7’s instantaneous transition to free fall did not occur only across the north face roofline of the building,” they said. “It occurred virtually simultaneously across the entire measurable roofline on the visible north and west sides of the building.”
According to the researchers, their finding undercut previous research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which is a federal agency that conducts scientific research.
NIST has claimed that Building 7’s roof gradually accelerated to free-fall speeds, which would support government’s official narrative that Building 7 collapsed from damage and fire caused by debris from the North Tower.
But NIST only used one point of measurement on the rooftop to reach that conclusion, according to the new research, which argues that NIST’s methodology doesn’t tell the whole story.
“While a point near the center of the north face roofline did begin to experience minimal downward motion at the time NIST labels as ‘global collapse initiation,’ the rest of the north face and west face rooflines remained essentially motionless for about 1.4 seconds,” the new research paper said.
“After that, the entire north face and west face rooflines instantaneously transitioned to free fall,” it continued. “This instantaneous transition to free fall of the entire measurable roofline is conspicuously absent from NIST’s description of the downward motion.”
The Journal of 9/11 Studies research follows a significant revelation about the terrorist attacks earlier this year.
In March, veteran national security reporter Seth Hettena published a government document citing two unnamed FBI agents who allegedly said that the CIA was monitoring and attempting to recruit two of the airplane hijackers in the lead-up to the attack.
The government document is a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro, who summarized the inteviews he conducted with FBI agents about the 9/11 case.
According to Canestraro, at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit two of the hijackers—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
