Regarding my input... :waitasec: I always love a mystery - and this sure is! You guys are talking about stuff I don't know about, sounds interesting - but a little over my head! :whoosh:
Sounds exactly what my Huz was doing - he "thinks" he saw Venus, but like Georger said - it was like a very small dot!
Yeah, eye witness descriptions aren't too reliable! Everyone sees something the other person doesn't!
So just waiting for "someone" - FBI? a relative finally talking? anyone!! :doh: to solve this mystery!!
The description has suffered from a convergence of problems which seem to multiply as time passes. The original group of witnesses the FBI used, according to Agent Carr, seemed to have consensus. There was a first wanted poster late in 71, then a second in the Spring of 72 (the one used to this day), but then a third? Then an alleged fourth!? Then others over time from non-official sources and a few individuals who had been on the flight supposedly; one always wonders about the sources of these things? Then a poster from Flo Schafner using a forensic artist from the SF Police Dept (I think) ? Then people pushing candidates attacking the original FBI description. All the while the FBI never claimed their description released included "all" details, which is understandable.
Maybe some day the Smithsonian or NOVA will issue a comprehensive
unofficial-offical statement.
People expected Geof Gray's book would straighten some of these matters out. It didn't,
which was a surprise and I think a disappointment given all of the hoopla which attended
the book/symposium/promotional.
There does seem to be one universal in all of this. You can almost count on a challenge to
the original FBI description as concomitant with anyone forwarding a candidate, any more.
That assumes considerable latitude (and failing) in the FBI's original description. It is likewise
interesting that nobody literally, FBI or otherwise, has ever speculated or announced a
haplotype for DB Cooper. Carol Abraczinskas on the Kaye Cs Team came as close as anyone
when she suggested Cooper had to have been from certain regions in Canada, due to his use
of specific phraseology, according to Ms. Abraczinskas. Whatever genetic info the FBI has,
Cooper ethnicity remains a mystery ... "olive skin" notwithstanding.
What do you think?