The Suppressed Photos of Thermite Explosions
26 May 2006
The Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers published by
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in September 2005
provides a great deal of data and evidence to support the thesis that Thermite
was used in the destruction of the twin towers on 9-11. The report includes many
appendices which contain photographs and data confirming that many explosions
occurred prior to the collapse and that molten iron was produced as a result.
These "pressure pulses" produced molten iron and puffs of white smoke, precisely
what is produced in a Thermite reaction.
Although some reports claim that the molten metal is aluminum and the NIST
report "assumes" it to be aluminum, molten aluminum in daylight conditions
appears silvery and does not emit bright yellow and orange light due to the
peculiar characteristic of aluminum of having low emissivity.
A high-resolution photograph (Fig. 9-71) of the northeast face of WTC2 was taken
4 seconds after one of the many "pressure pulses" that occurred in the tower
before it collapsed. NIST provides no explanation for what caused these pressure
pulses which ejected white smoke and debris from the tower in the seconds before
it collapsed. The white cloud seen in Fig. 9-71 has all of the characteristics
of the aluminum oxide particles, or whitish smoke, which would be produced
during a Thermite reaction. A second or two after this photo was taken, massive
amounts of molten metal poured from the window where the extremely bright flames
are seen.
At 9:53:41 and 9:53:46 two more pressure pulses occurred, which were accompanied
by flows of molten metal from the same window. The largest flow occurred during
the second release, which is seen in the photo taken at 9:53:51 (Fig. 9-75) when
the bright flow of molten metal from the top of window 80-255 was "prominent,"
according to the NIST final report.
The "pressure pulses" described by NIST appear to have been explosive reactions
that produced white smoke and molten iron, precisely what a Super-Thermite
reaction would produce. Super-Thermite is finely powdered aluminum and iron
oxide which reacts like an explosive due to the extremely small size of the
particles.
At 9:57:21, there was another pulse followed by a more intense pulse at 9:57:32.
These pressure pulses greatly increased the flow rate of the molten metal, which
would now be nearly continuous until the tower collapsed, according to the NIST
report. The pressure pulses in the tower ejected debris which was seen being
blown from the 80-81st floors of WTC2 from 9:58:49 until the tower collapsed 10
seconds later.
Photo: The bright reaction and white smoke in this photo of the South Tower
followed one of the many pressure pulses described in the NIST final report.
These reactions occurred in the minutes before the tower collapsed. The
evidence indicates that an aluminothermic reaction like Super-Thermite produced
the molten metal, white smoke, pressure pulses, and extreme hot spots seen prior
to the WTC collapse and found afterwards in the rubble.