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Remember that the purpose of the pages in this series are to describe "strange" coincidences and perspectives on events that you will not find in the media or elsewhere.  This page is not intended to provide a general summary of the news or to provide a "balanced viewpoint."  Many people are still traumatized by the events of September 11, 2001.  I apologize in advance if anything on these pages could be interpreted as disrespectful to the families of the victims of the tragic events.

We are looking for the most unusual, weird angle on these stories, so if you can't handle that, please change the page NOW.
If you are aware of links to other amazing photos, eyewitness accounts, and unusual perspectives on the events of September 2001, please forward to me by email at:  gcmastra@yahoo.com

It was sometime on Wednesday September 12 that my wife and I were discussing the crash and the significance of the date.
Susan was the first to tell me that the date "9-11" was actually "9-1-1" an emergency call to the world.

Since then, people have forwarded emails with even more weird synchronicities of the date "9-11"...

• The date of the attack:   9/11 -  9 + 1 + 1 = 11
• September 11th is the  254th  day of the year:   2 + 5 + 4 = 11
• After September 11th there are  111  days left to the end of the year.
• 119  is the area code to Iraq/Iran.   1 + 1 + 9 = 11
• Twin Towers - standing side by side, looks like the number 11
• The first plane to hit the towers was  Flight 11
• State of New York - The 11 State added to the Union
• New York City - 11 Letters
• Afghanistan  - 11 Letters
• The Pentagon - 11 Letters
• Ramzi Yousef - 11 Letters (convicted or orchestrating the attack on the WTC in 1993)
• Flight 11 - 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11
• Flight 77 - 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11

Here is another 'weird' synchronicity someone sent to me...

    Go to MS Word   (or MS Works)
    write   Q33NY    ( the number of one of the jets that attacked the trade center.)
    Enlarge to size   26
    Change the font to      Wingdings

Try it first for the "Aha!" Experience, then you can read my disclaimer.

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The warning "Don't go to the mall on Halloween!" is being sent around by email, but is it real or a hoax?
In this case, a half truth may be more dangerous than a lie!

You may have seen the email about the girl who got a warning from her middle eastern boyfriend who begged her to stay home on September 11, and not to go to the mall on Halloween.  You may also have read an email or seen a web page saying that the email is a HOAX.  I am sure that poor girl Laura Katsis regrets forwarding the email with her real name attached, because now she is getting crank calls and is being hounded by the tabloids and news media.

On the night of September 10, 2001, Mohammed Atta and Hani Hanjour, or at least someone using those identities, drove their rented Ford Explorer all the way from Boston to Maine, and stayed over night at the Comfort Inn on US Route 1 a few miles south of Portland.  They paid for gas with a credit card, and went to Walmart where they were captured on store security cameras making an undisclosed purchase.

It turned out that I was in Portland Maine in April 2000 for a birthday party, and I remember driving past that Comfort Inn, so when I saw it on the news in the days following 9-11, I recognized it immediately.  The hotel is on Rte 1 near the MAINE MALL, the largest shopping mall in southern Maine.

WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT??
Why did they go all the way to MAINE the night before they had to be on a plane in BOSTON- and catch a commuter flight from Portland at 6:30 AM to Logan when they needed to be on a 8:00 AM flight- doesn't that seem unnecessarily risky?

Who were they meeting with?  What information did they pass on?  For what purpose?
Were they meeting with a local "cell" of Al-Qaeda still operating undetected in southern Maine?
Were they planting a time-controlled device somewhere in the mall, with a timer set to go off on October 31, 2001?

There are multiple theories that could explain why they originated their trip from a small regional airport rather than the large, crowded Logan Airport terminals.  By starting out on a regional carrier, their bags would have been "checked through" to their final destination, and when they disembarked the plane in the terminal at Logan, the two men would already be in the ticketed passenger area of the terminal, not having to go through the security checkpoints again.  That could be reason enough, or...

They may have also been deliberately trying to leave a trail that would be followed.  As you know, they were photographed in the Walmart the night before, and the Portland airport at 6:30 AM that morning, but they were never detected by any cameras at Logan Airport.  Their credit card purchases were easily traceable.  And isn't it just a little too convenient that Mohammed Atta's suitcase, or at least the luggage checked in under that name, never made it to the flight that crashed!?
The suitcase that was found contained a "suicide note" and a "terrorist training manual" published by Al-Qaeda.

NEWS FLASH OCTOBER 29, 2001
Hani Hanjour bought his ticket in Paterson New Jersey, within a few miles of the source of the anthrax letters, the Costco candy scares, and the 'suspicious voicemail' on my cellphone.

Here is the link to the Truth or Fiction page debunking the Halloween Threat hoax.
The Snopes version of the Halloween Threat is much more detailed and accurate.
Hoaxbusters also has a version of the Malloween threat.

WHY HALLOWEEN??

A group of Islamic students in FRANCE distributed this  Islamic calendar for 2001 which was printed in Egypt.  The calendar page for September 2001 shown above has a picture of an airplane crashing into the water off NYC.  Some people took that to mean that these students had advance knowledge of the attack.

Instead, I believe the painting is an artistic rendering of the crash of EGYPT AIR 990 which crashed into the ocean off Long Island.  WHEN?? OCTOBER 31. 1999!  Halloween is the two year anniversary of that crash!

In the media frenzy and mass hysteria of the days following 9-1-1, while solar flares and geomagnetic storms were bombarding the earth with surplus protons fueling the mass depression and hypnosis, the talking heads inadvertently leaked a very important piece of information that was ignored and lost in the info-glut of those days.  In separate interviews at different times, Bill Clinton and George Stephanopolis, admitted that the CRASH of EGYPT AIR 990 was a deliberate terrorist attack in U.S. airspace but the Clinton administration KEPT IT SECRET to avoid panic in the interest of "national security."

Why does the picture appear on the page for September 2001 if the crash took place in October 1999?   The Islamic calendar is a LUNAR calendar which precesses (shifts) with respect to the secular/Gregorian SOLAR calendar.  The period of 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, so each year the corresponding LUNAR month starts 11 days earlier with respect to the SOLAR calendar.  That is the reason why the holy month of "Ramadan" can occur at any time of the solar year- in 2001 it began with the new moon on November 17, 2001.

In 1999, the date October 31 corresponded to 6-22 in the "Hijira" calendar.  The first day of the sixth month thus occurred on the new moon on October 9, 1999.  In the year 2000 the same month started in September, and in 2001 the first day of that LUNAR MONTH occurred with the new moon of September 18, 2001.

Here is a page that will convert Gregorian dates to Hijira dates.
Here is a links page with more calendar conversion pages.

But why would an Islamic calendar commemorate the supposedly accidental crash of an airliner?

THE HALLOWEEN THREAT WAS REAL!
Anniversaries are very important in the minds of terrorists and people with extreme agendas.  Think of how many bad things happened on the date April 19 (Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, and Elian).

October 31, 2001 was the two year anniversary of the crash of Egypt Air 990 in OUR western/Gregorian calendar.  The effect that the handling of that crash had on anti-American sentiment in the Arab world is completely ignored in this country.  It is now evident, as I suspected at the time, that the NTSB investigation was a cover story put out by the Clinton Administration- to hide the fact that Egypt Air 990 incident was really the first deliberate crash of a plane by hijackers in US airspace.  In retrospect it is even possible that one of the Egyptian crew had been recruited by Al-Qaeda to crash the plane into the WTC but the plot was foiled by deliberately crashing the plane into the ocean.

The false NTSB cover story had huge unintended implications.  It may have sent a message to Bin Laden and other terrorists that further terrorist attacks using airliners would be "swept under the rug" by the corrupt American government.  But more important was the fact that the NTSB "ruling" on the cause of the crash had a huge psychological impact in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world.  The NTSB blamed the crash on the actions of the Egyptian crew, and specifically, because the co-pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder "black box" saying an ISLAMIC PRAYER- they concluded that he must have been suicidal, or a terrorist!  There were RIOTS in the streets of Cairo when that ruling was made public- about the closest thing to the Rodney King verdict in this country.

Think about it! Suppose the co-pilot was a CATHOLIC rather than a MUSLIM, and while trying valiantly to regain control of the airplane had said a HAIL MARY that was picked up on the voice recorder- would that have been interpreted as meaning he was suicidal or a "religious extremist" of some kind?  The NTSB cover story, while it may have kept the wraps on the true nature of the crash of the plane in this country, caused OUTRAGE overseas because it INSULTED ISLAM.

In the week before Halloween 2001, there were two cases, both in New Jersey, in which a customer at Costco bought over $7000 worth of candy, and after the person checked out, the cashier realized that the person had a Middle Eastern appearance and accent!  One 'rumor' web site lists the story as true, while Hoaxbusters lists the story as false!  Who should we believe?

It turns out that in one case the FBI apprehended the suspect and arrested him on immigration violations totally unrelated to the candy purchase.  In the other case, the person was buying the candy to resell it at a small markup at his convenience store.  Now there's a news flash- a Middle Eastern guy owning a 7-11!!

On Monday, October 29, 2001, Attorney General Ashcroft issued a warning that all Americans should be on the highest state of alert that week, and on November 2, the alert was extended indefinitely with special attention paid to a threat against bridges in the western states.

The New Jersey Connection?
On Monday night, October 8, 2001, I received a suspicious voicemail from a person with a "middle eastern accent" on my cell phone.  Prior to that week, I had my resume posted on my web site with my cell phone number at the top, so it was not unusual for me to receive 2-3 calls a week from recruiters around the country with leads about possible software development positions.  Among the prior employers and projects listed on my resume are the Pentagon, the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia, and the US Air Force.

But it is a little unusual for me to get a phone call asking for information about one of the specific software projects I had done in the past.  The voicemail went like this:  "Hi Chris this is [garbled].  I want to know information on [garbled] online tracking tool and if you can [garbled]... can you please call me back at 908-755-xxxx* thank you bye bye."  (I left out the last four digits deliberately.)

At first I thought maybe this was one of those offshore phone scams I had read about recently in which the caller asks you to call a number with a "809" area code and this turns out to be a location in the Virgin Islands for which you are charged excessive long-distance fees.   I was not famililar with the area code "908" so I did a REVERSE PHONE NUMBER LOOKUP on InfoSpace.  It turned out that the phone call originated from the Islamic Study Center in Plainfield New Jersey not far from Staten Island and a short distance from the Verrazano Bridge into NYC.  It occurred to me that Ramzi Yousef and the other people convicted of the bombing of the WTC in 1993 had been living in Jersey City, New Jersey not far from there.
A Google Search on "Plainfield NJ Islam" reveals that there are at least four MOSQUES within Plainfield alone, and there is a huge Islamic community in that area.

The next day I was flipping channels on cable when I came across a rebroadcast of the October 8, 2001, Defense briefing on C-SPAN.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Myers, was showing before and after photos of the Al-Qaeda training camp that was destroyed.  When we bombed the complex, most of the Al-Qaeda members had already fled, so a reporter asked what was the value of destroying it if none of the terrorists were there.  SecDef Rumsfeld then answered: "These were their training facilities, the places where they collaborated on their plans, and their firing ranges.  This is the equivalent of destroying the Marine Corps training base at Quantico, Virginia."

It occurred to me that the voicemail had arrived on my phone about an hour after that briefing had aired LIVE on CNN and CSPAN.  Could it be that a group of students at the Islamic Study Center in Plainfield were doing a web search on "Pentagon, Quantico, Air Force" and found my resume was a "hit" on all three?  After that incident, I pulled my resume OFF my web site!
As of January 2002 - it's BACK!

This may seem far fetched, but look at this recent article from CNN on October 29.  All of the hijackers were spotted in New Jersey during the month of August, only weeks before the attacks.  Hani Hanjour bought his ticket at a ticket agent in Paterson, NJ!  And Nawah Alhazmi kept a post office box at the "Mailboxes Etc" in Wayne, NJ, the same town as the Costco where the candy scare was reported!!  Two men who shared an apartment in Jersey City, NJ were on board a TWA flight from Newark that was forced to land in St. Louis after the FAA grounded all flights on September 11.

It's also a little creepy that the hijacker's trail shows them moving freely between northern Virginia,  northern New Jersey, Del Ray Beach Florida, and Portland Maine, all locations where I have friends, family, or a connection of some kind.

When I told this story to my friends, they all advised me to CALL THE FBI!  Which I *DID*, eventually, but to find out what they told me you will have to email me at gcmastra@yahoo.com and I will send you the rest of the story if you will tell me in the email how you found this web page (online link, mailing list, email from a friend, web search, Google search, or whatever).

EMAIL ME: gcmastra@yahoo.com

Here is a page that will convert Gregorian dates to Hijira dates.
Here is a links page with more calendar conversion pages.

Information about Egypt Air 990

CNN Articles:
October 8 Defense Briefing
October 29:  Hijackers spotted in New Jersey during the summer
October 29: Three NJ Men Held For Questioning
Nov 2: Western State Bridges Threatened
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The picture above appeared on the front page of the Washington Post web site on the day after the tornado on September 24, 2001.  Luckily I saved a copy before it was removed from  the web site.

The tornado warning was issued at first in Prince William county based on a "hook signature" on radar.   It moved up I-95 passing within 3 miles of where I work, then moved on a path that was taking it on a direct course for the PENTAGON and the memorials of Washington DC!

At I-395 and Edsall Road, the exit closest to my home where I normally get on the Interstate, the tornado touched down briefly and caused a car to overturn.  It then continued north towards DC!

At Shirlington, the exit in Virginia immediately before the Pentagon exit, it blew out the windows of the Capitol City Brew Pub and other businesses in this trendy shopping and restaurant district.

Amazingly, the funnel cloud lifted up again and passed OVER the damaged Pentagon, within a few hundred feet!  It did not touch down again until it had cleared the historical areas of downtown DC!  In College Park Maryland, it touched down right on the University of Maryland campus, killing two sisters after picking up their car and dropping it 100 yards away onto a tree!  Many dorms and apartments on the campus had their roofs ripped off, and hundreds of students are without housing!

WHAT IF... the tornado had HIT the Pentagon which is still structurally unstable as recovery operations continue?

WHAT IF... the tornado had touched down on the Mall, or near the Capitol or White House?!?

That would have been just the "sign" that the Taliban would need to say "See, ALLAH is on OUR side!"

Instead we have a powerful reminder of who the BOSS really is!
Is George W Bush "the Boss?"
Is Osama Bin Laden "the Boss?"
 

New Tornado Pictures, April 2002
 

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Aha- I see that the "Truth or Fiction" web site has identified it as a hoax!

Here is another HOAX picture that is making the rounds on the internet.
Supoposedly the "last picture taken from the WTC" before the plane hit.
As the story goes, a roll of film was found in the rubble and developed,
and this is what it contained....

But the Halloween Threat was NOT a hoax!!

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It's amazing that at 9 AM on Tuesday September 11 there were so many people with cameras pointed at the World Trade Center from so many angles in and around Manhattan.  Below are two of the most amazing pictures that have been forwarded to me.  The first is taken a split second before the second airplane hit the World Trade Center tower.  The picture after that was taken a few minutes later, after the plane exploded and both buildings were on fire...

I didn't want to believe this either.
But it was run in a Philadelphia newspaper.
The article is titled: "Did Satan rear his ugly face?"

Quote: "The face of Satan seems to eerily appear in the smoke billowing
from the blasted World Trade Center buildings in New York. At
least, that's what many horrified people around the country have seen
in this Associated Press photo below. The Associated Press was
contacted and said the photo has not been touched up in any way."

The following sequence of images is from news.lycos.com...

Some people blew up the images and found some amazing things in the details.
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Remember in the movie "The Exorcist" when they played back the recording of the demonic voices, slowed it down, speeded it up, and played it backwards to confirm that there were really demonic forces at work?  In a sense, taking the CNN footage, going through it frame by frame, and magnifying certain sections, is the VISUAL equivalent.

Here is another version of the actual CNN footage...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The pictures above were run by a Colorado news station (KUSA).

Here is a link to the article:
http://9news.com/newsroom/13294.html
... a much longer story about the 'devil face in the smoke' picture that is still
causing quite a controversy.  People think it MUST have been doctored,
because they can not believe their eyes.

That's similar to the way I felt about the Eagle Nebula pictures released in 1995.
On internet discussion groups there were people convinced that some "born again"
zealot working at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute must have
deliberately implanted the subliminal image.

But no- these 'simulacra' really do happen all the time- does that mean they are NOT REAL?

On the contrary!  At the moment of creation of a new stellar system
we see the image that our minds can only interpret as our personal
understanding of "God" holding the new star in the palm of His hand...

At the other end of the spectrum, in the moments after the plane crash, as innocent
unexpecting people were burning alive and their souls crying out in unspeakable agony,
the demonic presence which our minds conceive as pure EVIL was dwelling in that place,
sucking out their souls from their last painful breaths, revelling in their horror and pain-
AS IT WAS WRITTEN centuries ago in descriptions of HELL...

But we in our post-modern post-tehnological age have lost touch
with the consciousness of the reality of EVIL - until NOW!

Since 1999 or earlier (the true bimillennium of the birth of Jesus)
these kinds of apparitions have been appearing spontaneously
around the country and the world.  They tend to happen in poor
neighborhoods with a majority of immigrants from Latin America.

I have pictures of several such sites in the Chicago area...
and it stands to reason that if it is happening in Chicago, it is
probably happening in other cities.  Of course you remember
what happened in Clearwater Florida in 1996. (My version.)

But with the news glut these days, these stories will not make the national news,
or probably not even the local news, with all the other things that are more "newsworthy" going on.

On the radio I heard someone agree with my statement that the advice
being given now for citizens to prepare for WAR sounds a lot like the
advice given prior to Y2K - get your financial papers in order,  keep
your normal routines,  stock up on some food,  etc.

Most of what I wrote on my Y2K-prep page(s) was advice for general
disaster preparedness from 1995-96 or earlier.  It was always good prudent
advice, but moreso now when there is a greater chance of disruptions.
Remember we are still not through the first year of the "true" new millennium.

Related Links
Image in the Eagle Nebula
History of the Gregorian Calendar
Chicago Area Pictures
Y2K Pages
Millennium Matters
 

Aurora Alert - September 2001

Within 24 hours of the terrorist attacks, while rescue workers were still sifting through the rubble, and the Pentagon was still on fire, the interplanetary shock wave from a solar flare that occurred earlier in the week reached earth and caused yet another geomagnetic storm!

It happened again on September 23, 2001 and September 26 after a series of large solar flares.

This has happened many times in the past two years.  In the year 2000, during periods when the sun was particularly active, the resulting solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and aurora borealis seemed to correspond to periods of unusually
strange human behavior...

For example, in April 2000, our nation was in the grip of the "Elian Gonzales" controversy with around the clock media coverage.  The sky over the entire United States from Washington DC to Florida glowed red !

Again in November 2000, solar flares and geomagnetic storms corresponded to the vice presidential debate, the election, and the recount.  With round-the-clock media coverage in a continuous feedback loop, our country seemed to be suffering from a form of mass hypnosis?  Could the extra protons from space have contributed to the media frenzy and mass hysteria??

The Perfect Vote
Elian Gonzales
Check Current Space Weather
Previous Aurora Galleries
Sep 26, 2001
Sep 23, 2001
Sep 19, 2001
Sep 13, 2001

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My Astronomy Links Page
 

In the early morning of  September 6, 2001, a fireball seen burning up over the east coast of the USA turned out to be a Russian rocket booster stage that was launched in 1975 that reentered the earth's atmosphere after 30 years.

Are we beginning a period during which these fireballs will be commonplace?

A fireball over Colorado on August 30 may have been "space junk" also...
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/08/30/colorado.fireball.ap/index.html

The American Meteor Society maintains a fireball log...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log.html

whic includes an even better picture of the July 23 "Pennsylvania Bolide"...

 

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