Experts Reject Fire As Cause For 9/11 WTC Collapses

 Technical experts are mounting major challenges to official U.S. government accounts of how three World Trade Center skyscrapers collapsed in near-freefall after the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago.

Many researchers are focusing especially on the little-known collapse of World Trade Center (WTC) Building 7, portrayed in the 10:08 video above.

The 47-story building, which was not hit by an airplane and was located about two football fields away from WTC 1 and 2, collapsed in approximately 6.5 seconds some seven hours after the other buildings fell.

The pattern so resembled controlled demolition that experts who have studied it are increasingly questioning the official causation, which U.S. authorities and the mainstream media ascribed to fire. Last month, Europhysics News published 15 Years Later: On the physics of high-rise building collapses, a report challenging U.S. government findings that the skyscrapers collapsed because of fire. Published by a prominent society of European physicists, the four co-authors noted that no other skyscrapers in world history have ever collapsed from fire. Instead, the authors cited evidence that the falls resembled the physics involved in controlled demolition.

Similarly, the conference Justice in Focus convened prominent 9/11 technical and legal researchers in New York City Sept. 10-11 for an in-depth examination of physical evidence on the WTC collapses on the first day. The second day was a strategy session on ways to use legal procedures to advance research and create legal remedies congruent with the new evidence. 

Dr. Leroy Hulsey, shown at right in a Justice Integrity Project photo, summed up his team’s recent in-depth study by telling noted litigator Daniel Sheehan that there is “zero” chance that WTC 7 collapsed because of fire. Hulsey is the chairman of the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

Hulsey’s remarks during the forum at New York City’s historic Cooper Union typified other engineering experts’ conclusions. The conference “Justice In Focus 9/11 2016″ was co-sponsored by the 2,700-member group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911 Truth).

The group is led by founder Richard Gage, a major speaker at the conference. AE911 Truth funded the Alaskan university’s research and a free live stream video of the proceedings. The presentations are now available via YouTube, with donations requested here on a voluntary basis to cover costs.

Today’s article focuses on these new technical findings regarding 9/11 research. It is part of new Justice Integrity Project “Readers Guide to 9/11 Research and Advocacy.” That guide builds on our extensive previous coverage of the topic, and will soon include lists of vital books and films from varied viewpoints and coverage of important new legal advocacy on the issues, encompassed in part by the second day of the program at Cooper Union.

This “Readers Guide” is intended to make easily available in concise formats the major official and alternative studies, news items, commentaries, videos and films on the topic, with representation from diverse and reasonably credible viewpoints that attract significant support. This series thus parallels our three existing “Readers Guides,” which separately provided similar arrays of research on the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.    

As in those efforts, this editor, a member of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry that co-sponsored the New York event, is involved in research, writing and speaking on those topics, including both days of the forum at the Cooper Union. Nonetheless, this column and our forthcoming coverage provides ample links to alternative viewpoints, as in the appendix below listing major government and popular reports supporting the official verdicts arguing that fire caused the WTC skyscraper collapses.