I THINK THE SHOTS RECORDED BY THE POLICE CRUISER VIDEO ARE FAKED.
I meticulously timed the shot spacings as recorded by the police cruiser parked in front of Building 6. Stationary mike, so compare to Trump’s stationary mike and if all the report spacings are the same, case closed, all 8 shots came from the same position, almost certainly. When I compared, there was such agreement that there was less than 1 foot difference (1 ms) for any of the shot spacings! The two recordings line up perfectly for report spacings. Wow, single shooter for sure.
But then I noticed something funny. A striking similarity between the waveforms of the eight shots in the police cruiser recording. And by that, I mean IDENTICAL but for a small amount of added white noise (probably the AC running in the car, this is channel 2 from the cruiser). IMPOSSIBLY identical. Here are all eight shot waveforms, stacked one above the other, with a few vertical lines to help you see the alignments.
What are the chances? Other microphones, including Trump’s, don’t show this. Most have dramatically different waveforms between 1-3 and 4-8, let alone between shots in the same group.
But it gets even better. The donor sound they picked for this fake recording has a report duration that is longer than the spacings between shots five, six, seven, and eight. So if you were going to fake this “right” (and I wouldn’t have duped the same sound clip), you would have to put those shot clips in separate tracks and mix them to get it right. But they just cut and pasted 6 over 5, then 7 over 6, then 8 over 7, completely overwriting the ends of the preceding reports, all in the same track. Because of the significant energy still arriving from the preceding shot, it is doubly impossible for the beginning sections of shots 6, 7, and 8 to match the beginning sections of shots 1-5. Look at this spectrogram–I took some dead space out from between 1, 2, 3, and 4 so it was easier to view these all together. The spectrograms of the first 100 ms of each shot look identical, and the “end” energy of 5, 6, and 7 magically disappears when the next shot comes in.
@cmartenson I know you have looked closely at spectrograms in the past. Does this look like anything you would be expecting based on the other recordings you have analyzed? I call BS.
Based on this, I would never, ever, ever use a government-provided recording for shooter placement in this investigation. This frankly tells me they are trying to cover up for a second shooter.
And all respect to Greg N and his work trying to figure out where the shots came from, but my analysis is different. I had worked last weekend from Greg’s numbers, but I have now made my own measurements. Not for this post, but I will work on that hopefully for tomorrow. I don’t see a single-shooter solution.