People often forget that the WTC 1 & 2 weren’t the only buildings in the WTC Complex to be destroyed, in fact all 7 WTC buildings were destroyed on September 11 2001, but today I’m looking at Building 7.
The image below is a map of where each building was positioned and how close Building 7 was to the Twin Towers.
Building 7 - Brief History
Construction for building 7 began in 1984, was completed in March 1987 and opened May 1987. Larry Silverstein was the developer and held the lease for the building on 9/11.
The companies that actually occupied the building have raised even more questions about the collapse, and these included -
Standard Chartered Bank
American Express
US Securities and Exchange Commission
IRS
US Secret Service
Office of Emergency Management
CIA
Department of Defense
and many other companies. But as you can see many government agencies were based in the WTC 7 and some, like the CIA, were semi-covert and their presence in the building wasn’t made public knowledge until after September 11. Agencies like the IRS, CIA and DOD were conducting serious investigations, but lost all data and documentation,
NIST’S Report
NIST’s report into the collapse of WTC 7 claims that debris from the destruction of WTC1 ignited fires on multiple floors. These first spread gradually until a critical column in the north-east core failed.
At around 9.45am, a manager from the Office of Emergency Management issued an order to evacuate WTC7. The evacuation, by NIST’s account, was completed before the collapse of WTC2. The evacuation was already in motion before WTC 2 collapsed and definetley before WTC 1 collapsed.
Dr Judy Wood’s Evidence
Fumes and Smoke Behaviour - during most of the day, visible smoke appeared to be coming from the building’s south side, which was the side facing the debris from WTC1. If the building was engulfed in normal office fires, smoke would have been coming from multiple sides and windows. Instead the fuming was localised and oddly consistent, it appeared more like a haze than thick dark smoke.
Symmetrical Collapse and Free-Fall - the collapse looked visually near symmetrical and part of the descent occurred at free-fall acceleration for about 2.25seconds which Dr Wood states the buildings structural resistance suddenly vanished across the full footprint rather than progressively falling floor by floor.
Lack of Debris / Hollowed out Shell - Dr Wood points out that just as with WTC 1 & 2, what remained of Building 7 wasn’t representative of a 47 storey building. Photos of the debris pile show how low the pile of rubble is. Steel fragments from the building were twisted and not mangled intact beams. Which supports the rest of Dr Wood’s evidence, relating to the interior disintegrating at the molecular level, basically leaving the buildings shell.
Dr Wood’s conclusion is that Building 7 wasn’t destroyed by -
- controlled demolition
- office fires
- thermite, BUT
by some kind of directed energy - maybe involving field interference or other energy effects. She connects it to an electromagnetic phenomena associated with the work of John Hutchison who discovered the Hutchison Effect.
Summary
Building 7 stands out from WTC 1 & 2 as it was not struck by a ‘plane’ and was already fuming before debris from the collapse of the Twintowers happened. There was no sounds of repeating detonations which occur during controlled demolition and the seismic readings don’t show any kind of shockwaves that would be expected from a 47 storey building slamming to the ground. When building 7 did finally collapse, it did, almost symmetrically and at free fall. Again this has never happened to another building of it’s size before and since.
Building 7 remains the quiet anomaly at the heart of September 11, it was the building that shouldn’t have fallen, but did.