As I suggested during our phone call Bruce, I think a lot of this is much ado about nothing. At times people lose sight of the forest through the trees. How does this get us any closer to DBC's identity?
The things described to me by my source make sense. Moreover they are first-hand comments directly from Cossey and may explain some of the problems that appear to exist with the Cossey narrative. But that's about it.
When all is said and done I think it is interesting but means very little. After all, it doesn't change a thing in my mind regarding DBC. That is to say, I believe he landed very near Tena Bar after jumping along the Western Flight Path, buried the cash and other items temporarily, later retrieved the money bag in June 1972, and rolled.
To some degree, I agree with you Eric.
But there is a fundamental need to understand the truth of what the FBI puts in its documents. Are they factual? Accurate? Meaningful?
To fully understand the DB Cooper case, we need to understand the FBI and its investigation. Further, to solve the case we're gonna need truthful, accurate information from the FBI, and that is lacking. Currently, it is often misleading, confused, inaccurate, incomplete, or just plain wrong.
My advice to any serious investigator looking into this case--and it is very good advice--start with the money find at Tena Bar and work back. Tena Bar is a blessing in many respects. It's geography limits the possibilities greatly. That is why I am so heavily focused on that area and why I think he landed very near there.
I’m in full agreement that the Tena Bar money find is key. However, where we disagree is the flight path. There’s no sense litigating it again. We both know where each of us stand. I will only speak from my perspective.
When the money find is combined with the generally accepted FBI flight path, you have to have a logical explanation for how the money that was in an airliner 10,000 feet over HERE ended up 12 miles west several inches under sand. Now, I have zero doubt about the accuracy of the flight path and believe that it generally followed the course on the yellow map. I know you and R99 will bristle at that. That’s fine, I’m not looking to argue.
My point is that with the plane at Point A, how did the money get to Point B?
There are three explanations:
1. Human intervention. Someone carried a 20+ pound bag of money 12 miles west and buried it on the banks of the Columbia. Or some similar event.
2. Natural intervention. The river is the most likely vehicle here. The money ended up in the water and the water carried it downstream to Tena Bar.
3. Supernatural intervention. Bigfoot killed Cooper, ate the money and then shat it out on the banks of Tena Bar a day or so later. Or Cooper was beamed up mid-fall by a flying saucer and some of the money fell out as it zipped west toward Japan.
Given the fact of the flight path and the fact of the money find, you have to pick your poison. You have to triangulate the most logical explanation for the money to end up where it did. In my mind, that’s via the river.
Not a new or interesting idea, but based on the evidence it’s the right one. Nothing else adequately explains how the money went from the plane to a beach 12 mile west.
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