Mystery Atlas9/11 Controlled Demolition Claim
The claim that the World Trade Center towers and 7 World Trade Center were destroyed by planted explosives rather than aircraft impact and fire, built substantially on Building 7's NIST-acknowledged period of free-fall acceleration.
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9/11 Controlled Demolition Claim was influenced by Steven E. Jones — First publicly argued the claim at a 2005 BYU seminar and later published a paper claiming to identify thermite byproducts in WTC dust.
Events
9/11 Controlled Demolition Claim is an alternative explanation for September 11 Attacks — Claims the World Trade Center collapses were caused by planted explosives rather than aircraft impact and fire; not accepted by any government investigation, professional engineering body, or court.
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9/11 Controlled Demolition Claim was debunked by NIST World Trade Center Investigation — NIST found no physical evidence of explosives in recovered steel or dust samples and attributed all three collapses to fire-induced structural failure.
9/11 Controlled Demolition Claim was popularised by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.