(continued)
In his evaluation, Weatherford said the figures
appeared to be "soft fuzzy blotches" that "often
obscure the rough, uneven background they are
displayed against."
That finding was important, Weatherford said,
because he found that more "muzzle flashes" were
"visible from more than a dozen persons not
identified by the producers" of "The F.L.I.R.
Project," "including three to four gunmen
advancing on the compound with weapons firing
while the fire is blazing. …"
"These, too, are most discernable when the film is
viewed in a frame-by-frame evaluation," he
continued. "The duration of the muzzle blasts are
fewer and appear to be either single shots or
short-duration (2-5 round) bursts."
In his final report, released Nov. 8, 2000, Danforth
said his team of 74 personnel concluded that
flashes, or "glint," seen in some frames taken by an
infrared camera aboard an FBI-sponsored aircraft
the day of the Waco raid were reflections of
sunlight off glass and other debris.
In a separate interview last month, McNulty told
WND that the "glint" appearing during his video
and the FBI's infrared film could not have been
flashes of sunlight because the camera used by the
agency was set to filter out such environmental
anomalies.
Also, he said, timed measurements of the duration
and speed of the so-called glint were much slower
than, and more indicative of, the cyclic rate of fire
for an automatic weapon.
Finally, McNulty said, the Danforth investigation
failed to test-fire the correct type of rifle carried by
FBI agents the day of the Waco raid.
McNulty has said photographic evidence obtained
by the Texas Department of Public Safety during
the raid shows FBI agents carrying shortened
carbine variants of the standard military M-16 rifle.
The carbines, which, McNulty says, were either
CAR-15s or then-experimental M-4s, are several
inches shorter than standard 20-inch barrel M-16s.
Hence, he said, the characteristics of the muzzle
flash would be different as well. He noted that the
longer a rifle's barrel, the less muzzle flash it would
normally produce.