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Waco Archive - The articles

I am compiling an archive of articles found on the internet - hopefully when enough material is archived a comprehensive view of this disaster can be established.

Non-Gunshot Cause Of Key Waco-FLIR Flashes Discovered http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000526/ts/crime_shooting_7.html 5-28-00 The Vector Data Systems report made no effort to explain how multiple rapid flashes several times per second could occur in fixed locations on the ground as seen in the 1993 Waco FLIR tape, which multiple experts say are gunshots. Recently I proposed this rapid-flash reflection machine as a non-gunshot causal theory for those rapid flashes: http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir07.gif http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir03.htm That reflection machine rapidly vibrates a 1 by 3 foot reflective panel up and down several times per second, simulating key flash sequences on the 1993 Waco FLIR. It isn't likely that such a machine rested next to Mt Carmel! Shortly after proposing that reflective machine I realized a far more probable causal hypothesis for the rapid flashes: the reflective panel isn't being vibrated by a machine, but by the free gale-force winds blowing through the scene that day, and thus the panel is flapping like a flag in the wind. Hypothetical scenario: an infrared-reflecting surface like mylar is attached to a board and a loose edge is flapping in the wind with a cyclic "flap rate" identical to the cyclic rate of key flashes on the Waco FLIR. The flapping reflective surface produces a rapid series of flashes in one fixed location as seen by the FLIR camera, resolving the rapid-flash problem without a machine or a machinegun. My plan was to acquire mylar and staple a segment edge to a board with a strong fan on it and see if I might be able to film it causing rapid flashes of visible light (and thus presumably also of IR radiation). However, that's no longer necessary: I just acquired the best version of the 1993 Waco FLIR I've ever seen, it's dramatically better than the copy I've had. To my complete astonishment, on the better copy a flapping panel about 1 by 3 feet attached to a fallen-down portion of gym wall is visible IN THE EXACT LOCATION THAT THE MOST INFAMOUS SERIES OF FLASHES OCCUR AS THE FIRE STARTS! That flash series is emphasized by Dr. Edward Allard in both "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" and "Waco: A New Revelation." This flapping panel in the same location as those key flashes also produces flashes at other times during the hour before the fire. So it's clear to me that there's a flapping panel attached to a fallen board that creates an illusion of machinegun-fire as its moving surface causes a beam of reflected infrared energy to pass repeatedly over the FLIR sensor, just like the panel on the reflection machine I proposed http://Ian.Goddard.net/waco/flir07.gif , except the panel next to Mt Carmel was powered by the wind. The existence of this flapping panel, or perhaps a segment of mylar, is not mentioned in the Vector Data report, which made no effort to explain the critical factor of the rapid, machinegun-like nature of the flashes on the 1993 Waco FLIR. I've come to the sobering conclusion, after analysis of (1) a newly-acquired 1993 Waco FLIR video, (2) gunshots seen in the Somalia FLIR shown on "Waco: A New Revelation" and (3) the Vector Data Report, that ALL of the flashes in question on the 1993 Waco FLIR can be shown to be or to most-probably be solar reflections, contradicting both my previously stated position and the conclusions of infrared experts that the gunshot theory has rested on. I'll shortly publish an illustrated webpage explaining this conclusion, which is supported in large by facts not covered in the Vector Data report, and thus shall not be repetitive, and shall address key FLIR issues of concern to Waco watchers.