New First Hit Footage


Slow motion excerpt from
http://users.adelphia.net/~earthwatch/2ndVideoOf1stTowerCloseup.mov

Even a bad video carried more information than a good still.

From this video I can see that my initial impression from the one still I'd seen that the black object in the foreground was a whatzit was wrong.

It is a streetlamp in the middle distance.

Notice how extremely off-color the video becomes as the action progresses.

http://thewebfairy.com/video/newfirsthit.wmv
shows a longer cut than this FlixPro flash.

Notice that whatever is creating the familiar explosion is happening at the top of the video as well.
The developing explosion at the top is eventually subsumed by the more rapidly developing explosion below it.

This is shown more graphically in the anamolous bulge seen in the original fireman footage, which is explored by Brad at

http://www.81x.com/WTC1/missle

 

and is visable in
http://thewebfairy.com/video/plane.no.demon.yes.wmv
and every other slow motion view of the first hit.