oh.
I notice I saved Sheridan's myspace page from back then. It shows his last login as 1/26/2007
Looks like I saved it maybe 11/7/08

But by that day he had removed the blurb that made me discover him. He had removed the "The FBI thought I was DB Cooper" line (or words to that effect). Attached the pdf of the saved page

I remember thinking it odd that he removed the reference from his myspace page at the time

If Sheridan's comments about the FBI telling him they think he was Cooper are true I consider this important. Half the challenge with this case is attempting to figure out what the FBI knows and thinks.

Sheridan has mentioned multiple times that the FBI told him that they thought he was Cooper...the MySpace page Snow has pointed out, the 2007 article Sheridan penned, the 2016 HC doc, and others.

With this in mind I specifically asked Fryar if it was true that she told him that the FBI thinks he was Cooper. Fryar texted back "A definite suspect because that is why we were sent to find him."

To be sure, I did not expect her to outright confirm the statement if it was true because she is still bound by confidentiality. On the other hand, if it wasn't true I expected her to say as much. Indeed, she has clarified several things for me when I've asked. I took her answer as a cryptic way of confirming that they had in fact told Sheridan that they thought he was Cooper. If this is not hyperbole from the FBI it is a remarkable statement in light of the passage of time and their unwillingness to discuss anything about Sheridan even to this day.

Furthermore, I asked Fryar about the administrative closing of the NORJAK case because I have felt like the FBI believes Sheridan is likely Cooper but that the US Attorney realizes that without the cigarette butts, there is no case. The only way this would change is with new evidence, like the money or parachute. When asked if she aware of the FBI ever closing a case like this before, Fryar responded "No."

Make of it what you will, but it is very intriguing especially when you consider that Larry Carr was silent on Sheridan when his name was mentioned.

I was trying to verify all of Pete's wild claims. The Tiananman Square thing with Voice of America is confirmed in a book. I'll find that next.

Here's some verification of his employment while in China..this was searched in 2008 (a 1997 usenet groups posting). Google eventually acquired all the old usenet postings and they are searchable (for people who used the internet during usenet groups days, it should bring up fond memories.


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this is from a search in google groups, which has the old Usenet group postings.

a post from 1997 that seems to confirm where he was teaching in Beijing at the time.

posted in a uk.jobs.offered group by someone with partial email address of 
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named Ming Xi Tang

Full Time ESL teachers are needed immediately in Beijing Caledonian
International Language School. ESL experience is highly desirable.
Attractive packages will be offered for fun-loving and open minded
team players who are proagmatic and able to adapt to adverse
circumastances. Appointments will be made on contracts of one or
two years.
Aplplication with a CV should be sent as soon as possible
to Mr. Edward, C. C. Yang, 8 Barrington House, Southacre Drive
Cambridge CB2 2EH, UK, or alternatively, direct to Mr. Sheridan
Peterson, Director of English studies, Beijing Caledonian International
Language School, Xisanqi, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China 100085
(Tel. +86 10 6292 1840/1841, Fax: +86 10 6292 1837).

Sheridan posted extensively in 2004 in an online japan magazine:
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he posted as eagleeye, but signed with his full name

Says in 2004 he was trying to get his book published for 3 years..so maybe he thought he had a reasonable copy for print in 2001?

Example of his rants about Vietnam (he ranted about all sorts of political things)
He says "I told a child whose village was bombed that I would write his story. He was the sole survivor."
Who knows if that is true.


Vietnam genoicide   
eagleeye Click (Jan 24 2004 - 12:04

I know all too well the atrocities committed by our troops in Vietnam. I saw it first. I was a refugee advisor for US Asistants to International Development in the Mekong Delta during the war and saw village after village hit by indiscriminate artillery fire from Special Forces Camps and military compounds. A shell would slaughter an entire village. These peasants were my responsibility. They looked to me for protection. They were innocent farmers who worked hard in their rice paddies every day in order to survive. Sometimes napalm was dropped on a village. That was a sight to horrible to describe. Sometimes door gunners on helicopters would shoot peasant - men women and children - for sport. I recall when a doorgunner started firing his 50 calibre machine gun at the foot of a women. She held up her baby as a plead of mercy and he shot the infant out of her hands.

I told a child whose village was bombed that I would write his story. He was the sole survivor. I wrote the book but no publisher or literary agent will even look at it. They prefer crap like Tom Clancy where the soldiers and Marines have hearts of gold and love the Vietnamese. That's the kind of crap that the American Public is fed.

They need to read my book before more of the same is not committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose I am a bit too late for that though. I've been trying to get my book published for over nearly three years. I am a professional writer. I have a degree from the prestigious University of Missouri's School of Journalism and have four years writing for newspapers.
Yours,
Sheridan L. Peterson

Funny here he mentions the Japanese Monga comic books


The Japanese are not complex. They are as simple as the Monga comic book characters that they and only they could read with such gusto. To understand how simple minded they are study the Manga. Study the characters. Those are their role models.
The Japanese are egocentric. When I lived there they were always informing me with great pride: "I am pure Japanese.

Japanese are xenophobic. They have a fear of foreigners or contempt or hate or all three combined.

Egocentric and Xenophobic sums their characters up very well.

Such a monomania is destroying them. It is isolating them from the rest of the world. Each generation becomes more withdrawn. Some teenagers are so withdrawn that they can no longer leave their room and face the world.

Here he posts about his time as a Marine in WWII.
I don't know at all if these details are true. He was a Marine in WWII but don't think he ever shipped out? Don't know.

Jubilant with joy   
eagleeye(Aug 7 2003 - 03:59)
I know it's hard. but try nevertheless. Try to empathize.

Fifty-eight years ago today I was a eighteen year old Marines with the twenty-fifth Marines,Fourth Division. We were preparing to land on the Japanese mainland. I would be in the first wave. Lugging a 73 pound flamethrower, I'd have been a perfect target.

Thus the news of the bombing of Hiroshima was joyous news. I was delirious with joy. It was a last minute repieve. The entire Fourth Division was joyous. We celebrated by firing our weapons into the air.
We were scheduled to land November 1 at Kagoshima, Kyushu. Major General Masakazu Amano was absolutely certain of victory. He had guessed with precision exactly where U.S. forces would land. With an army of two million men backed by a disciplined militant population he'd have annihilated us. He had 2,000 suicide boats, 393 small submarines, 4,800 Kamakazi planes with 2,645 pound warheads with jet engines with a range of 130 miles. I'm sure that Imperial Japan would have won.

Can you empathiza? Can you imagine my joy?

Switching topics to get away from the heaviness.

Here's a photo taken by Lynn Emrich in 1963 at the Nationals that were at Issaquah that year
It was in the Issaquah Press 8_29_63 page 3

It has a nice shot of the back of the rig the jumper is using. You can see it looks like either Hayden's not-taken rig or even maybe a NB-6. Hard to tell for sure.

Gives a sense of what '63 era rigs looked like

Photo of plane I think used at Issaquah in the '60s with some jumpers exiting.
Plane says "Seattle Sky Sports"

Just to give 377 a thrill. I'm sure he'll ID the plane