Hunt the Boeing is the lure, bait, and hook for a conspiracy theory: it lines up a series of news photos to imply that the pattern of damage at the Pentagon (only the lower floors of the outermost ring in a fairly narrow segment of wall) is flat-out inconsistent with the claim that a 757 was the implement of destruction.
This sort of speculation is open to some fairly
simple sanity checks. For example, a CNN story entitled
Images show September 11 Pentagon crash would seem like a
fairly direct refutation of
The photos (from a Pentagon security video) are pretty dramatic stuff, but it's kind of hard to tell whether a particular smudge is a 757 or atmospheric haze. Well, presumably these stills are just excerpts from the actual video, so let's click on that "play video" link.
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Read that last one back to yourself.
Now, I'm not ready to sign up as a believer in the full
"Dreadful Imposture" theory behind
All the same, I trust CNN even less than I used to. The Pentagon asked them, "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" and CNN's answer was "you."