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How does Edwards put the plane over Portland at 8:13? This goes against the FBI map, however he's using the FBI map for location? What's his reasoning?

I'm curious of this too Martin.  I just grabbed your book to look at Harold Anderson's statement.  When we look at time, it can get confusing, simply because no one knows exactly what time something happened.  Normally that is not a big deal.  Like saying, "he was five minutes late." Who is ever exactly five minutes late?  It could be 4 minutes, it could be 6, so and so forth.

However, Anderson does say he felt the bumps etc. before they were in Portland proper. He says they were definitely in the suburbs.  I've interpreted that as being north of PDX.  I guess one could technically say that over the river is not Portland, but I'm seeing this as they had not gotten to the river yet. So, regardless of if it was 8:10 or 8:12, Cooper was not near the river and would really have had to had some drift in order to get in the river.

This of course hinges on the belief that the activity (bumps/oscillations) were him jumping or waiting on the edge of the stairs ready to jump.  For those who say he jumped near Reno or somewhere else, I would prefer to see documentation that something happened.  The pilots seem to believe they knew when something was going on in their plane, regardless of if the sled test did not emulate it perfectly.

So, if someone says he jumped at 8:10 and that puts him near Ariel, and someone says 8:12 near Battle Ground, and someone says 8:13 near Vancouver, I guess I could argue any of those, but I find it difficult to argue that he jumped over the river. A river landing sounds cool, but it is a hard target to hit given all the land around it.

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How does Edwards put the plane over Portland at 8:13? This goes against the FBI map, however he's using the FBI map for location? What's his reasoning?

My understanding of Edwards' research is that he figures the oscillations preceded the pressure bump because they were a reflection of Cooper walking down the stairs. He assesses that the FBI and NWO linked the oscillations and bump as one event - at 8:11 - and calculated that they happened over Highland. The search strategies and on the ground and air proceeded from there.

However, Edwards assesses that the bump actually occurred at 8:13, and that 305 had just crossed the Columbia.

Edwards spends many pages backing these assessments and dives very deeply into the 302s and WSHM archival material. He has even determined that six different individuals were recording times and locations on the transcripts, and determined that Individual "F" is the most accurate and thus, he uses his calculations.

I think you're gonna love Edwards' book. You may disagree with his conclusions, but his leg work is outstanding. There is no one who has a more complete presentation of the documentation from Norjak. Not me, nor GG - not by a long shot.

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Bruce, congratulations on your overcoming the pain of not being referenced or mentioned in Dr. Edwards's book (according to your own statement).  Your last sentence above indicates that you are a true gentleman.

Thanks, Marty.

Edwards has not only read all of the 302s, he has absorbed them into his psyche. As a result, he has  profound depth of knowledge regarding the Norjak investigation, and from that place he assigns differing weights of validity to information or FBI conclusions.