This is very interesting.

As I’m reading through Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, the new book on the Faith Based Initiatives of George Bush’s White House, he is discussing the events of 911 from his perspective inside the White House. He describes the chaos of people running for cover and Secret Service men searching the skies and crowd for potential enemies. He also says in no uncertain terms that his eyes followed the gaze of the ever-alert Secret Service and he saw “silver-bellied airliner with two engines beneath each wing,” directly over White House airspace.

This is the airplane that is so much in dispute among the “Loose Change,” “911 Press for Truth” crowd that distrusts the official (woefully incomplete) account of events of that day. Primarily at issue here (for those of you who don’t keep up with these sorts of things) is that what hit the Pentagon doesn’t really seem based on circumstantial evidence to have been a plane. Many have suspected a rocket, and even gone as far as to suggest a US Patriot missle. At the same time, there are a number of reported sightings of an airplane over the capitol and even over White House airspace around the same time as the Pentagon was hit. While there was some chatter about this in live coverage of the events of 911, none of it made the official record, none of it was followed up on by the media and no mention can be found in the The 9/11 Commission Report.

I’m not suggesting that David Kuo is himself a believer in the alternate realities presented by the above-cited groups.? Neither am I suggesting that the mere existence of an airplane over the White House on 911 is proof of anything.? What I am saying is that here is a relatively unbiased report of the same thing seen by so many other people but utterly unexplained by the official record, and I find that interesting by itself.? Particularly in the way he describes it.? There is such a phenomenon as a person’s mind blending what others have said into what they remember (the name of this phenomenon escapes me at the moment), but Kuo doesn’t strike me as having spent a whole lot of time with The Lone Gunmen, so it’s hard to imagine where this suggestion would have come from.