News Updates Thread:
Colbert FOIA File Review report:
The FOIA files released to date are replete with duplication – perhaps as much as 70-80%. After examining over 50 gigs in file pages a mere 1.5 gigs (3% or less) were judged to contain factual material potentially useful to NORJAK case discussion. These remaining pages have been titled and placed in 20 topical categories: eg. Flight path, crew evidence, passenger evidence, flight path, flight path maps, ground search, Reno evidence, official summary accounts, San Francisco Conf., … and the like. Each page has been given a unique ID number which traces back to the Colbert archive, so the source of any page can be easily retrieved in the larger FOIA pdf archive.
By contrast, the previous Crew Interviews, and Tina Bar money reports are of much greater value in that they contain hard facts in far less textual space than the FOIA documents released to date.
Mr. Colbert estimates that at the current rate it will take more than eleven years for the full FOIA release to occur! If the same stats apply only 3% or less of that will be of any value whatsoever! We may have reached a point of saturation where material left to release to the public will be of little (or no) practical value - I base this also on having discussed this matter with people who have actually seen and worked with the large 302 file from which all FOIA documents are coming.
The search for hard facts about the Cooper case continues.
examples -
<tech note*> all pdf's were scanned using proprietary software and reduced to .bmp images (one image per page). These .bmp files were resized to an appropriate size and converted to .jpg format for easy reading and posting to forums with minimal storage space per page. Thanks to A.K. for the help!
