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This man had a north view of the towers and saw the drone coming from the west.
OK, we actually have an "Eyewitness News" reporter, Dr. J. Atlasberg (ph) who was downtown at the time and he is on the phone with us live.
Dr. J., what can you tell us?
DR. J. ATLASBERG (ph), REPORTER: Hello, Steve.
I'm actually uptown at 86th and Riverside. I can see the World Trade Center from about half the building up to the top. And about five minutes ago, as I was watching the smoke,
a small plane -- I did -- it looked like a propeller plane, came in from the west. And about 20 or 25 stories below the top of the center,
disappeared for a second, and then explode behind a water tower, so
I couldn't tell whether it hit the building or not. But it was very visible, that a plane had come in at a low altitude and appeared to crash into the World Trade Center.
ABC News Special Report: "Planes crash into World Trade Center"
He never saw a plane like that before, because it wasn't a plane at all.
He said it twice, corroborating witnesses like Burnback and Oliver who described a drone.
It was identical to what hit the north tower.
Mr Arraki
"Yeah. I--I saw--yeah, I saw the second plane, it go boom. I--I heard, you know. I just wake up my head like that I saw the side, too"
Arraki claims that the plane that hit WTC2 was identical to the plane that hit WTC1. Arraki's description of the first plane is reproduced below:
"I saw it come up from the left, and I saw the plane coming through to the building, go inside, a small plane, no, no, it was plane, you know, like they teach the people to pilot plane,
small plane, you know, it was that kind of plane, yes, going into the building, and
I never saw that plane before. It's like something, I don't know, it's like they work with the motors,
I never saw a plane like that before!"
Mark, cryptically laughs at the end of his description, further proving that he was describing the slow moving drone, and falling short of confirming that it really wasn't a plane.
It's no different than Jean Hill saying she saw the secret service shooting back, but falling short of fingering the driver.
Of course it didn't belong in the area because it was a drone and not the boeing 767 it was supposed to be.
Eyewitness on 9/11 Mark Burnback was able to get a good view of the plane that hit the World Trade Center, because he said that the plane was flying very low.
He explained to FOX News that the plane had no windows, a blue logo, and
did not look like a commercial plane.
Fox NewsCaster: "Mark Burnback, a Fox employee, is on the phone with us. Mark witnessed this... Mark were you close enough to see any markings on the airplane?"
Mark Burnback: "Hi gentlemen. Yeah there was definitely a blue, circular logo on the front of the plane towards the front.
It definitely did not look like a commercial plane. I did not see any windows on the side. It was definitely very low...
"Mark, if what you say is true, those could be cargo planes or something like that. You said you did not see any windows on the side?"
Mark Burnback:
"I did not see any windows on the side. I saw the plane was flying low. I was probably a block away from the sub-way in Brooklyn and that plane came down very low,
and again it was not a normal flight that I have ever seen at an airport. It was a plane with a blue logo on the front and
it just looked like it did not belong in this area."
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