The Newly Released 9/11 Witness Reports

Here's a link to the big compendium of PDF reports. This is definitely a very useful resource.

The report of Chief Joseph Pfeiffer has some very interesting bits*.

I was working the night before in the

1st Battalion, and sometime about 8:15 or so in the

morning we got a call to Lispenard and Church for a

gas leak in the street. We were there for a while

checking on the gas leak, and then we heard the loud

roar of the plane come over, and we turned around and

we looked and we saw the plane coming down, heading

south towards the Trade Center, and made a direct hit

on the Trade Center.

Q. You actually saw it hit?

A. I saw it hit. Within about ten seconds after

that or so I gave the first report on the radio and

transmitted a second alarm for a plane into the Trade

Center, and then shortly after that, the units I was

with, I told them all to start in to the Trade Center,

and shortly after that I found a radio to transmit the

third alarm. I told the dispatcher this was a direct

attack on the Trade Center and we had the second alarm

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coming in on the north tower and to stage the third

alarm on Vesey and West.

I pulled in front of the building. I looked

up and I saw no fire coming out, no smoke coming out,

which would have been the west side of the building.

If I can back up, as we went down the street

after the initial explosion of the plane hitting, we

saw there was somewhat of a hole, from our position,

certainly, maybe three or four of the stories, three

stories I think I said. Again, there was no fire

coming out. So, when we got there, there was no fire

and on the west side there was no smoke. But there was

an obvious hole in the building.

He must have gotten there within ten minutes of the first hit, but he couldn't see any fire! The jet fuel must have burned off very quickly.

We weren't getting good reports from the

police at all. There was one point there was a

possibility of a second plane coming in and somebody

said something and I turned around to try to confirm

that and we couldn't confirm that. There was also

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later on the possibility of a third plane. Again, we

just heard somebody say it and we tried to confirm it.

We could not confirm it with any law enforcement

people. We all ran out at that point.

Yet another allusion, as discussed by Mike Ruppert in "Crossing the Rubicon", that there was a warning about a second plane hitting. Obviously, who gave this warning, where it came from, is very important but right now it is shrouded in mystery.

But right before the south tower

collapsed, I noticed a lot of people just left the lobby, and I

heard we had a crew of all different people,

high-level people in government, everybody was gone,

almost like they had information that we didn't have.

Some of them were moved across the street to the

command post.

Q. Who were you with at this time?

A. You name them, they were there.

Q. With you?

A. Yes, in the lobby. They were moving the

command post.

This to me, is the most intriguing bit. The idea that high level officials had some warning of the collapse of the South tower yet they didn't tell the firemen. How would they have warning? Either their move was extremly lucky and coincidental, or they had some inkling that the building would collapse from the fire (which the firemen certainly didn't expect) OR they knew the building was going to be blown up.

On that note, here is a link to some of the reports that refer to explosions in the towers.


*tip from Rob