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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
The plane erupted into a fireball in the sky and crashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Immediately, the world began to wonder, was this an unfortunate technical malfunction or a more sinister act?
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Today, we're investigating TWA Flight 800.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
This is Red Web.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case for the very first time is Alfredo Diaz.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Well, we're not long after Operation Desert Storm, which ended by 91.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
The fall of the USSR at the turn of the 90s.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Also, I was a five-year-old, so I was running around watching Lion King at this point, so...
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
That's also my memory of the 90s, but no, nothing comes to mind necessarily, at least not through the lens of this case.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
These are all great questions, very good instincts, and some of them we'll cover.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
I mean, I love the idea of like recovering these pieces.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
Hold on to that because it's such a this is a mind blowing case in so many different ways.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
And that element right there is uniquely one of them.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
I will say, as far as conspiracy, I think in the human history and the zeitgeist, we're always a little bit of a conspiracy-loving species.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
We want to think that there's something greater going on.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
True.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
And I do appreciate you seeking what's happening in the world that is maybe driving the fears of these theories.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
But we'll get into all of that.
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TWA Flight 800 | 700 Eyewitnesses Saw a Missile. The Government Said They Were Wrong.
We'll say...