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9/11 Commission Report
officialU.S. government work; public domain. Institutional product with access limits later disputed.
Origin National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesCoverage 2004Added 02 Sep 2026Items 30September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM / ASHP)
independentBorn-digital public submissions: stories, emails, images, audio, first-responder documents. Contributor identity is often a handle. Contemporaneous emails outrank later anniversary stories.
Origin Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and American Social History Project, CUNY; LoC copy 2003Coverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 14Journal of 9/11 Studies
independentSelf-described peer review by two field experts. Author set heavily overlaps AE911Truth / Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Treat as a cited cluster, not as NIST-equivalent institutional independence.
Origin IC911 / Journal of 9/11 StudiesCoverage 2006Added 02 Sep 2026Items 13The 9/11 Toronto Report (2012), International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001
independentEdited by James Gourley. Panel of academics and jurists heard presentations arguing the official account is false. A hearing is not a court finding. Amazon print edition 1478369205 also exists.
Origin IC911 / Ryerson University hearings 2011Coverage 2012Added 02 Sep 2026Items 12The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File (NSAEBB 381)
official100+ recently released CIA documents posted 19 June 2012, edited by Barbara Elias-Sanborn. The Archive notes this is about one-quarter of CIA materials cited in the Commission Report. Heavy redaction. Interrogation reports of KSM remain withheld.
Origin CIA via National Security Archive FOIACoverage 2012Added 02 Sep 2026Items 9International Center for 9/11 Justice
independentAdvocacy research centre. Hosts the Journal of 9/11 Studies, Toronto Report, restored History Commons timeline, and planned data archives. Independent of the U.S. government; not independent of a demolition-hypothesis research programme. Origin class is not a quality score.
Origin ic911.orgCoverage 2023Added 02 Sep 2026Items 7FBI materials released under Executive Order 14040
officialIncludes a June 14, 2017 FBI analytical report and a 2021 synthesis, declassified 2021–2022. Analytical conclusions are not observations.
Origin FBI VaultCoverage 2021Added 02 Sep 2026Items 6NIST WTC investigation FAQs (towers and WTC 7)
officialAgency Q&A, including free-fall staging and responses to alternative theories. Interpretive, not a substitute for NCSTAR.
Origin NISTCoverage 2019Added 02 Sep 2026Items 4SHSU Library — U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online (9/11 page)
scientificFinding aid by Kristina Claunch. Created June 2010, last updated 16 April 2026. A research guide is not a primary. Used to locate the collections below.
Origin Sam Houston State University / Springshare LibGuidesCoverage 2010Added 02 Sep 2026Items 4FEMA 403 — World Trade Center Building Performance Study (2002)
officialEarly engineering reconnaissance. Appendix C on sulfidized steel is frequently cited by alternative investigators; FEMA treated it as an open materials question.
Origin Federal Emergency Management Agency / ASCECoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 3BBC World — Jane Standley live report of WTC 7 collapse (11 September 2001)
mediaLive broadcast reporting WTC 7 had collapsed while the building is visible standing behind the correspondent. BBC later called it a source-feed error. The tape is an observation; motive is an interpretation.
Origin BBCCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Composite tertiary web commentary (circular-sourcing demonstration)
independentIntentionally weak. Exists to train circular-source detection — do not treat as evidence of the underlying events.
Origin EFI-911 fixturesCoverage 2011Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Harrit, Farrer, Jones, Ryan et al., The Open Chemical Physics Journal 2:7–31 (2009)
scientificPeer-reviewed paper claiming unreacted thermitic red/gray chips in WTC dust. Journal later criticised; Bentham Open has a disputed reputation. The paper remains a citable object, not a hidden one. Chain of custody of dust samples is contested.
Origin Bentham OpenCoverage 2009Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After 9/11 (including Part Four, declassified 2016)
official28-page classified section released July 2016. Primary congressional investigative product.
Origin U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence / Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceCoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Michael Bronner, '9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes,' Vanity Fair (August 2006)
mediaTranscript-based reconstruction of NEADS tapes. Documents confusion, a phantom AA11, and divergence from earlier NORAD public timeline.
Origin Vanity FairCoverage 2006Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2NTSB flight-path studies and ATC transcripts released via NSArchive (NSAEBB 196)
agencyNTSB itself declined to open a public docket, citing FBI jurisdiction. The Archive obtained the path studies (AA11, AA77, UA175), UA93 DFDR specialist report, and four ATC transcripts.
Origin NTSB via National Security Archive FOIA, posted 11 August 2006Coverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2NTSB flight-path studies, Air Traffic Control tapes, and CVR/FDR summaries (AA11, UA175, AA77, UA93)
agencyRadar, FDR, CVR, and path reconstructions used by the Commission. AA11 and UA175 FDR/CVR not recovered from the towers.
Origin National Transportation Safety BoardCoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Natalie Schilling, Linguistic Analysis of AA11 transmissions purported to be Mohamed Atta (April 2026) and addendum (August 2026)
scientificIndependent forensic-linguistics report hosted by IC911. Full PDF not retrieved at ingest (host blocked automated fetch). Title, authorship, and stated target audio are stored.
Origin IC911 ReportsCoverage 2026Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2New York Fire Department oral histories (released 2005 after lawsuit)
witnessContemporaneous or near-contemporaneous first-responder statements. Many describe explosions. Explosion reports are observations of sound/sensation, not identifications of demolition charges.
Origin FDNY / NYCCoverage 2005Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2PBS — America Rebuilds: A Day with Larry Silverstein (2002)
mediaOn-camera statement including the phrase 'pull it' about WTC 7. Primary clip exists; competing interpretations of the phrase are stored separately.
Origin PBSCoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2ProPublica / New York Times reporting on declassified FBI files (2023–2024)
mediaSecondary journalism quoting primary FBI documents. Use to locate the underlying FBI text, not as a substitute for it.
Origin ProPublicaCoverage 2023Added 02 Sep 2026Items 2Wikipedia — 9/11 conspiracy theories (encyclopedia article)
mediaTertiary encyclopedia. CC BY-SA. A finding aid listing theory families and citations, not a primary record of 11 September 2001. Ingested 3 Sep 2026 from the External links board (Commission, NIST, State Department, Eagar, Popular Mechanics). Sister-project stubs (Commons, Wikiversity, Wikidata) had no additional load-bearing text.
Origin Wikimedia FoundationCoverage 2026Added 02 Sep 2026Items 29/11 Commission / SEC review of pre-attack securities trading
officialOfficial finding: investigation found no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities markets.
Origin 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 5 notesCoverage 2004Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1ASCE/SEI Pentagon Building Performance Report (2003)
scientificEngineering reconnaissance of the Pentagon impact. Independent of NIST WTC work.
Origin American Society of Civil EngineersCoverage 2003Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Able Danger hearings and Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer / Rep. Curt Weldon statements (2005)
officialData-mining programme claims to have identified Mohamed Atta and a Brooklyn cell before 9/11. Commission staff said they found the claim unsupported. Kept as an open contradiction.
Origin U.S. Congress / Defense IntelligenceCoverage 2005Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Allen M. Poteshman, 'Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,' Journal of Business 79(4) (2006)
scientificFinds unusual put-option volume on airlines in the days before 9/11. Does not identify traders as plot participants. Commission/SEC found no evidence that hijackers or al-Qaeda traded.
Origin University of Chicago PressCoverage 2006Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (Richard Gage and associated filings)
independentAdvocacy organisation. Collects professional signatories arguing the official collapse explanations are incomplete. Origin class is independent_researcher, not a quality score.
Origin AE911TruthCoverage 2006Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1BBC News, 23 September 2001 — reports that some named hijackers were still alive
mediaEarly identity confusion. Commission and later reporting treat the names as cases of mistaken identity / stolen identities. The BBC item is a real contemporaneous report.
Origin BBCCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1BBC reporting on Parkwood apartments and 2024 litigation
mediaLater recollection plus contemporaneous property-management context. Media, not a primary investigative file.
Origin BBC NewsCoverage 2026Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Bažant et al. — pancake / progressive-collapse papers on the WTC towers
scientificEarly academic collapse model. NIST later rejected a classic pancake sequence for the towers' initiation while still describing progressive collapse after initiation.
Origin ASCE Journal of Engineering MechanicsCoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Citizen Investigation Team / Pentagon no-Boeing claims
independentArgues AA77 did not strike the Pentagon. Labelled conspiracy by official and most independent aviation investigators. Stored as a claim with low corroboration, not as a silenced file.
Origin independentCoverage 2009Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Coleen Rowley memo to FBI Director Mueller (May 2002) on the Moussaoui case
officialWhistleblower account of headquarters blocking a FISA warrant on Zacarias Moussaoui's laptop before the attacks.
Origin FBI Minneapolis / SenateCoverage 2002Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Columbia Center for Oral History Research — September 11 Oral History Project
witnessMary Marshall Clark and Peter Bearman. Five programmes; After the Fall (New Press, 2011). Transcripts in the Columbia portal; not bulk-retrieved at ingest.
Origin CCOHR / INCITE, Columbia UniversityCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Complete 9/11 Timeline (Paul Thompson / History Commons), hosted by IC911
independentAggregator of mainstream news and government documents. Thompson's 2004 book The Terror Timeline is a print cut. Restored by IC911 after History Commons went offline. Derivative of the cited primaries.
Origin History Commons → IC911Coverage 2004Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1DOJ Office of Inspector General review of FBI handling of 9/11-related intelligence
officialOversight review of FBI processes; independent of the FBI operational chain but still a U.S. government source.
Origin U.S. Department of Justice OIGCoverage 2004Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1FBI Phoenix Electronic Communication, 10 July 2001 (Kenneth Williams)
officialWarned that Osama bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. civil aviation schools. Not acted on as a national lead before 11 September.
Origin FBICoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1FBI Vault — Counterterrorism FOIA library (blocked at ingest)
officialHTTP 403 at ingest 3 Sep 2026. Distinct from SRC-FBI-EO14040, which is already in the lab.
Origin FBI VaultCoverage 2011Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1FBI files on Urban Moving Systems and five Israeli nationals detained 11 September 2001
officialFive employees of a New Jersey moving company were detained after being reported as celebrating / filming the attacks. Later deported. 'Dancing Israelis' is a labelled-CT phrase; the detention and FBI interviews are documentary facts.
Origin FBI VaultCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Hulsey, Quan, Xiao — University of Alaska Fairbanks WTC 7 study (2019–2020)
scientificFinite-element study concluding fire did not cause the observed collapse of WTC 7. Funded by AE911Truth — independence is therefore reduced. Still an engineering product, not a blog.
Origin University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern EngineeringCoverage 2020Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1IC911 Research Agenda (January 2024)
independentProgramme document, not evidence of 11 September 2001. Records what this research community intends to study.
Origin IC911Coverage 2024Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 (S.D.N.Y.)
officialCivil litigation findings and inferences. A judicial inference is not a criminal conviction.
Origin U.S. District Court, Southern District of New YorkCoverage 2024Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1John Farmer / 9/11 Commission staff statements on NORAD and FAA accounts
witnessCommission senior counsel later said NORAD and some FAA accounts were not true. Process evidence, not a collapse mechanism.
Origin 9/11 Commission staff / later interviewsCoverage 2004Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Judy Wood — Where Did the Towers Go? (directed-energy claims)
independentDirected-energy demolition hypothesis. Kept on the board because the user instruction is not to hide labelled-CT material. Quality is low; it is not deleted for being unpopular.
Origin independent publicationCoverage 2010Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Lamont-Doherty / Palisades seismic records of 11 September 2001
witnessSeismic signals associated with the collapses, used by NIST for timing. Alternative readings have claimed explosion-like pulses before collapse; those readings are disputed.
Origin Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1NIST NCSTAR 1 — Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers (2005)
officialFederal building and fire-safety investigation of WTC 1 and WTC 2. Institutional product. Independence is limited by the fact that a U.S. agency investigated a U.S. disaster response.
Origin National Institute of Standards and TechnologyCoverage 2005Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1NIST NCSTAR 1A — Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (2008)
officialProbable collapse sequence for WTC 7. Later FAQ acknowledges a free-fall stage of the north-face descent.
Origin National Institute of Standards and TechnologyCoverage 2008Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1National Security Archive — September 11th Sourcebooks
scientificFOIA-driven declassification project. Hosts CIA, State, NTSB, and NSC documents cited in the Commission Report. The Archive is independent of the CIA; the underlying cables are CIA products.
Origin National Security Archive, George Washington UniversityCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Norman Mineta testimony, 9/11 Commission hearing, 23 May 2003
officialTransportation Secretary describes Vice President Cheney in the PEOC being told of an incoming aircraft and asking whether 'the orders still stand.' The Commission report does not use this exchange. Shot-down vs stand-down vs standard intercept orders are interpretations.
Origin National Commission public hearingCoverage 2003Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Odigo instant-message warning reports (Ha'aretz / Washington Post, 2001)
mediaTwo Odigo employees in Israel reportedly received a warning message two hours before the first impact. Company confirmed a message; origin and meaning remain unverified.
Origin Odigo / pressCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Piers Robinson, Manual or Automated? Flight simulation study of reported 9/11 aircraft manoeuvres (May 2026)
independentIC911 research director. Later simulation of reported manoeuvres; not FDR/CVR. Full PDF not retrieved at ingest.
Origin IC911 ReportsCoverage 2026Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Popular Mechanics — 9/11: Debunking the Myths (March 2005) and Debunking 9/11 Myths (Hearst, 2006)
mediaMagazine investigation, later expanded as a 2006 book by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan. Interviews experts and witnesses to reject demolition, Pentagon-missile, and shoot-down claims. Journalism, not a laboratory test. Independence is that of a consumer magazine, not of NIST.
Origin Hearst / Popular MechanicsCoverage 2005Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1President's Daily Brief, 6 August 2001 — 'Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US'
officialDeclassified PDB. Historical threat reporting, not a date/time/place warning of 11 September.
Origin CIA / declassified 2004Coverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Project for a New American Century — Rebuilding America's Defenses (September 2000)
independentContains the sentence that the desired transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor. Frequently cited as motive evidence. A think-tank sentence is not a plan to attack New York.
Origin PNACCoverage 2000Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Reporting on Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, ISI, and alleged Atta funding via Saeed Sheikh
mediaWidely circulated, poorly sourced on the specific wire. Ahmad was in Washington on 10–11 September. Treat as a lead, not a finding.
Origin press / later booksCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Richard Clarke memo to Condoleezza Rice, 25 January 2001 (NSAEBB 147)
officialFirst Bush-administration terrorism strategy paper. Central to the later Clarke–Rice dispute over whether Clinton left a 'comprehensive strategy.'
Origin NSC / National Security ArchiveCoverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1The Osama Bin Laden File (NSAEBB 343)
officialPosted the day of bin Laden's death. Index of prior Archive postings on UBL, Pakistan, Predator, 1998 missile strikes.
Origin National Security ArchiveCoverage 2011Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1The Taliban File (NSAEBB 97) and updates
officialVolume VII of the September 11th Sourcebooks, edited by Sajit Gandhi. Documents U.S. approaches to the Taliban to expel bin Laden, and Pakistani support.
Origin State / CIA via National Security ArchiveCoverage 2003Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1Thomas W. Eagar & Christopher Musso — Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation (JOM, Dec 2001)
scientificEarly MIT materials-engineering paper, weeks after the attacks and years before NIST NCSTAR 1. Argues jet-fuel fires did not melt steel but could weaken floor-truss connections enough to start collapse. Linked from Wikipedia's engineering publications list.
Origin TMS / Journal of Metals (JOM) 53(12)Coverage 2001Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1U.S. Department of State — The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories (28 August 2006)
officialPublic-diplomacy webpage issued the same week NIST and others published counter-messaging (NYT, 2 Sep 2006). U.S. government work. Independence is low: it is an official rebuttal, not a new measurement. Primaries it restates (Commission, NIST) are already in this lab.
Origin U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information ProgramsCoverage 2006Added 02 Sep 2026Items 1NPR report on EO 14040 FBI release
mediaSecondary account of a 16-page FBI report released September 2021.
Origin NPRCoverage 2021Added 02 Sep 2026Items 0