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More Facts-Mystery C-130 over Pentagon at time of Attack
http://911exposed.org/C130.htm

Kelly Knowles, who lives in an apartment a few miles from the Pentagon in Fairfax County, says she saw a second plane in the air over the Pentagon, she said some sort of plane followed the first jet toward the Pentagon, “… when a low-flying, high-speed plane buzzed the high-rise, she jumped up, ran to the windows and saw the rear of a jet heading toward Washington, D.C. A few seconds later, a second plane that seemed to be chasing the first passed over at a slightly different angle.”[ii] This also coincided with what Keith Wheelhouse, her brother and who was ex-Army, saw: “The second plane looked similar to a C-130 transport plane… He believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon.” Then, “… the second plane banked off to the west.” His sister, Pam Young, and at least one other person, collaborated the story but weren’t sure what type of aircraft it was.199
FBI agents interviewed both Knowles and Keith Wheelhouse. A Pentagon official denied that another plane was flying with the jetliner, but admitted “it was possible a military plane was in the area at the time of the attack.”199
In an almost identical account, Allen Cleveland stated, “My brother-in-law also witnessed the same plane following the jet while he was on the HOV lanes in Springfield. He said that he saw a jetliner flying low over the treetops near Seminary RD in Springfield, VA. And soon afterwards a military plane was seen flying right behind it.” [iii]
Eyewitnesses saw the C-130 veer off from the “jet” then circle above the Pentagon when it was attacked.

The C-130 not only guided the “jet” to the Pentagon, but made a full circle above it, then made a course due west. Kelly Knowles noted that as the first plane “descends toward the Pentagon, the second plane veers off west.”199 An Arlington National Cemetery worker claimed, “ that a mysterious second plane was circling the area when the first one attacked the Pentagon.” [iv] And Scott P. Cook “ ...As we watched the black plume gather strength, less than a minute after the explosion … Directly in back of the plume, which would place it almost due west from our office, a four-engine propeller plane, which Ray later said resembled a C-130, started a steep decent towards the Pentagon.”[v] And, Joel Sucherman noticed that, “Off to the west…[he] saw another plane climb steeply and make a sharp turn.”[vi] And another witnesses, Allen Cleveland, identified the plane as a C-130, “Soon after the crash (Within 30 seconds of the crash) I witnessed a military cargo plane (Possibly a C-130) fly over the crash site and circle the mushroom cloud.”[vii] Ex-marine Phillip Thompson, stated, “…Then a gray C-130 flew overhead, setting off a new round of panic…”[viii]
The media failed to report or follow-up on the C-130 sightings. Allen Cleveland stressed, “…I was interviewed at Washingtonpost.com and gave them my full story, but they did not print it as I have told you …I’m not saying that the government new exactly what was about to happen, but I do believe that they are definitely hiding something here…”[ix] His remarks indicate that he believes there is some time of cover-up going on and possibly the media — complacently involved.
An Air Force man, Albert Hemphill, specifically identified the aircraft as an electronic warfare aircraft (EC-130), he noted, “The only large fixed wing aircraft to appear was a gray C-130, which appeared to be a Navy electronic warfare aircraft, he seemed to survey the area and depart in on a westerly heading.”[x]
After initially denying witness reports, the government reverses its position…

Official Confirms a C-130 crew did see the Pentagon strike.

Witnesses to the Pentagon attack were troubled that Pentagon had denied the presence of the C-130. However, almost a month and a half later, the Daily Press reported on the (dubbed) October 17th Surprise:

A C-130 cargo plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning… said Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon spokesman. In the days immediately following the Sept. 11 hijackings, the Pentagon claimed it had no knowledge of the C-130’s encounter, because all reports were classified by the Air National Guard…[!][xi]


So their excuse for deceiving us was “We didn’t know because — it was classified!” 208 It’s a bad lie because NORAD and NMCC obviously would have been tracking the C-130, unless it has some type of top-secret Klingon “cloaking technology”.

Despite numerous terrorist attacks and a FAA grounding Andrews AFB launches a routine C-130 across the nation!

Was it a routine flight? The C-130 (call sign: Golfer 06) was at both the Pentagon and Shanksville at the time of each attack. It was highly classified. (Since when is a routine ANG flight so classified that nobody at the Pentagon or NORAD knows!) And most importantly, we know that the government tried to cover it up for as long as they could, 36 days. Was it an EC-130 (electronic warfare version of C-130) on a sinister highly classified mission? How was this C-130 able to take off from Andrews AFB when the FAA issued a ground stop for all planes, including military, five minutes before?

At 9:25, The FAA in collaboration from the White House, initiated a national ground stop, which forbids takeoffs and requires planes in the air to get down as soon as reasonable. The order...applied to virtually every single kind of machine that can takeoff — civilian, military, [and] law enforcement.178


And so the fable began:

About 9:30 a.m., O’Brien throttled the lumbering plane down a runway at Andrews Air Force Base, just southeast of the District of Columbia …[xii]


Even though his account is rather immature and laced with inconsistencies, it was a clever ploy to turn an embarrassing and incriminating incident into something rather contrary. Since the government seemed to be coming up short of good evidence in substantiating it’s story, it appears that they elected to craft this “I saw the plane” tale. The tale would, like others before him (Donald “Tim” Timmerman — who fell on his face on CNN), attempt to unequivocally state that it was an American Airlines 757 — Flight 77. More on Steve O’Brien and the C-130 in the “Witnesses” chapter.
This of course was just spin, while the real questions were being circumvented. For one, why was the C-130 following and guiding a jet toward the Pentagon? Why was it circling above the Pentagon just prior to the attack? And why was this exact plane spotted, and even confirmed by the military, over Shanksville during Flight 93’s crash? And most importantly, how was the government promptly able to launch a transport plane, but unable to launch any high-speed fighters?

The flight path of the C-130.

We can reconstruct the flight paths of the jet and the C-130, which followed it by a few seconds. Witnesses claimed it was flying “on top of and behind” of a jet “and guiding it toward the Pentagon” as “to prevent two planes from appearing on radar”. At the time of the attack it was seen diving down and then circling the Pentagon. Later, it was seen heading in a westerly direction.