the military, both know what a missile looks like. neither saw a missile that night. >> i was aware from both the height off the ground and the fact there were no vapor trails in the sky it was unlikely to have been a missile that brought the aircraft down. >> i thought there was a bomb on board. that was my initial -- i did not see any missile at all. >> now, alison, there was a helicopter pilot who says he did see a missile before the explosion, but he was at lower attitude than those two airline pilots. >> jack, what do you think happened? if it wasn't an internal explosion like those two pilots saw? >> well, unlike what jim says, there were 270 eyewitnesses to a missile strike, 96 of them, this is fbi eyewitnesses, saw it from the horizon ascend all the way up to the plane. they all described it the same way, that it was a red tip, a plume trail after it, gray, and then it gets near the plane and