WTC 7 Is the Smoking Gun

[cmartenson (Chris Martenson)]

Originally published at: WTC 7 Is the Smoking Gun – Peak Prosperity

Here, on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I am drawn to examine the evidence again.

On 9/11, two buildings were struck by airplanes, but three buildings collapsed. WTC 7 was one of them, and it fell at free-fall speed for 2.25 seconds.

That fact alone completely invalidates the official version of events, which is that uncontrolled fires somehow caused a major beam to expand and walk off of its attachment plate, thereby initiating a progressive collapse of the rest of the building.

The key word there is “progressive,” which refers to something happening over time.

But there was no progression of failure traveling from one side of the massive 47-story WTC 7 building to the other, but instead the simultaneous initiation of freefall of all four corners of the building

WTC building 7. pic.twitter.com/irhmYGYPzT

— The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) July 28, 2025

And by “freefall,” I mean that the corners of WTC 7 fell at the same pace as a bowling ball tossed from the roof at the moment of collapse. The dropped bowling ball and the corner of the building would have tracked each other for a full 2.25 seconds (~81 feet).

The only way something can fall at free-fall speeds is if it’s encountering no resistance. As in none. If something is encountering resistance but still falls at free-fall speeds, then not one but two physical laws have been broken.

Grok got super defensive when I asked this about WTC 7 directly, so I asked about what laws would have been broken if a guy falling into a big stack of boxes didn’t slow down at all:

The boxes would have been the ~4,000 tons (8 million pounds) of structural steel that would have occupied the distance of the free fall. For WTC 7 to have fallen at free-fall speed despite millions of pounds of structural steel in the way requires me to do something I will do for no government report: suspend the laws of physics.

Another oddity is this weird collection of completely burned-up cars and a bus at the corner of West Broadway and Barclay streets, which is a whopping 632 feet away from the closest corner of the collapsed North Tower.

For a building that was supposedly pancaking on itself due to some fires more than 100 floors up in the air, the North Tower sure caught a lot of things on fire somehow that were very far away.

But the strongest evidence? Especially for a science guy like myself? It’s this piece of steel from WTC 7 that FEMA analyzed and found that it had undergone extreme oxidation to the point that the steel was vaporized.

You can appreciate this by comparing the object on the left with an equivalent sort of steel I-beam:

What could have caused such violent heat that it vaporized a steel beam? Not an office fire, that’s for sure.

Which fits with the melted concrete artifacts found in the basements of WTC 1, 2, and WTC 6, like this one showing a gun barrel fused with concrete:

Heat, heat, heat!

Where did all this heat come from? If it cannot have come from typical office furnishings, then we have to consider other sources, such as Thermate (a militarized form of Thermite).

The answers to the freefall and excessive heat questions remain unsatisfactorily answered, and that’s why I support a new and objective investigation of these phenomena.

And I’d begin with WTC 7. It is the proverbial smoking gun.

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Timestamps

00:00 The Unanswered Questions Of 9/11
00:27 Why Building 7 Deserves Another Investigation
02:36 Building 7 And The Official Story
04:56 Ron Johnson Calls For Answers
07:18 The Fires That Supposedly Caused The Collapse
09:43 The Evidence For Free Fall
11:33 Four Thousand Tons Of Missing Resistance
13:44 The Physics Problem With Free Fall
15:23 Building 7 Versus Controlled Demolition
16:54 The Mystery Of The Melted Steel
19:21 NIST’s Explosives Testing Problem
20:30 The Burned Cars 630 Feet Away
22:12 Where Did The Extreme Heat Come From?
24:34 Fused Concrete And Molten Material
27:00 More Anomalies Around Ground Zero
29:13 Why A New Investigation Is Warranted

[westcoastjan]

The one thing that I cannot, and never will be able to understand is how all the people involved behind the scenes, the enablers who helped facilitate this, and all other covert, nefarious activities, live with themselves on a day to day basis. I can understand pyscopathic big wigs no problem. But the everyday people who are neighbours, friends and even family to some, how do they live with the knowledge of what they have done? I highly suspect that they are really unhappy people inside, regardless of what facade they hide behind.

[ucwino (Jane B)]

@westcoastjan

But the everyday people who are neighbours, friends and even family to some, how do they live with the knowledge of what they have done?

I think it takes a “Special” kind of person to engage in these acts. And there are plenty of them out there.

Don’t waste time wondering how they can live with themselves, because they certainly aren’t.

Psycopaths

[chiara-fjm (Walberga)]

Thank you Chris, for doing this work, we can never forget.

Let us pray for all the victims, 25 years later, and their families

[laclimber (George Hung)]

Chris convinced me a long time ago before AI when it was just his eyes, his intellect, and a rigorous scientific and engineering approach. Not a conspiracy. Just the data, the physics, and the refusal to look away.

I think a key when debating friends and family who want to stay in the matrix is NIST’s unwillingness to release their model. If the science is sound, why hide the data? If the conclusion is verifiable, why block independent verification?

Some think it’s too late to wake people up. I disagree. We have a moral obligation to keep trying. Not because we’ll succeed with everyone but because silence is complicity. If we see what’s happening and say nothing, we’re part of the problem.

[binkey]

Excellent! Five stars!!!

[travissidelinger]

This is going to be hard for many to comprehend, but what if scalar weapons are far more advanced than what most conceive possible?

Basically you build two nuclear pumped lasers on the order of 10 to 100 million watts, focus and control the beams with magnetic mirrors, zero out the E and B fields, and then converge the beams on a target anywhere in space. Where the beams converge they produce real energy on the target. The hardest part would be getting the targeting to be accurate enough to hit a steel beam thousands of miles away.

Is this alien tech or human tech? All of the components here have been developed and perfected by humans. And you have to admit there are people that would be drooling over a weapon like that.

-Travis

[larrythelogger]

Since 9/11 I think we can say the best way to disprove the 3rd law of motion & the conservation of momentum is through the use of ad hominems. Deflection is also another great way to prove physics is wrong.

[westcoastjan]

Oh I do not waste any time dwelling on it. It is just an observation, reflective of the fact that none of these things that did happen, and are still happening, would to a large degree be able to happen without the complicit little people who enable the true psychopaths. People like the cooks and cleaners for the Epsteins and Gates of the world.

That being said, no doubts there are many who are kept compartmentalized, unaware that they actually play supporting roles in much larger events. That is hard to defend against.

All said and done, it is an ugly world to live in for people who place integrity above all else.

[sand_puppy (sand_kitty)]

Thank you for your clarity, courage and integrity, Chris. You speak very clearly for truth. I appreciate this.

[tycernc (Tycer)]

I just finished reviewing Dr. Judi Woods’ two hour video.

[sand_puppy (sand_kitty)]

@westcoastjan

The one thing that I cannot, and never will be able to understand is how all the people involved behind the scenes, the enablers who helped facilitate this, and all other covert, nefarious activities, live with themselves on a day to day basis. …. But the everyday people who are neighbors, friends and even family to some, how do they live with the knowledge of what they have done?

Hey Jan. Respectfully, this belief is relative to YOUR value system (which is also the official value system of western society).

But, a person with a different value system can chose to knowingly violate one moral principle in service to A HIGHER MORAL PRINCIPLE, and feel very “right” and comfortable about their actions.

So who are they, and what is that HIGHER PRINCIPLE that they follow?

[jbrayali (Josef Bray-Ali)]

Stalin proves himself a ‘great man’, in the grand style. The accounts of the banquets, staged in Moscow for the visiting dignitaries, set the symbolic tone. With their enormous menus of sturgeon, and roasts, and fowl, and sweets; their streams of liquor, the scores of toasts with which they end; the silent, unmoving secret police behind each guest; all against the winter background of the starving multitudes of besieged Leningrad; the dying millions at the front: the jammed concentration camps; the city crowds kept by their minute rations just at the edge of life; there is little trace of dull mediocrity or the hand of Babbitt. We recognize, rather, the tradition of the most spectacular of the Tsars, of the Great Kings of the Medes and Persians, of the Khanate of the Golden Horde, of the banquet we assign to the gods of the Heroic Ages in tribute to the insight that insolence, and indifference, and brutality on such a scale remove beings from the human level. . . . Stalin’s political techniques shows a freedom from conventional restrictions that is incompatible with mediocrity: the mediocre man is custom-bound. Often it is the scale of their operations that sets them apart. It is usual, for example, for men active in practical life to engineer an occasional frame-up. But to carry out a frame-up against tens of thousands of persons, important percentages of whole strata of society, including most of one’s own comrades, is so far out of the ordinary that the long-run mass conclusion is either that the frame-up must be true – at least ‘have some truth in it’ – or that power so immense must be submitted to – is a ‘historical necessity’, as intellectuals put it. . . . There is nothing unexpected in letting a few individuals starve for reasons of state; but to starve, by deliberate decision, several millions, is a type of action attributed ordinarily only to gods.

• “Lenin’s Heir” by James Burnham, Partisan Review, Vol. 12 No. 1, 1945 as quoted in Second Thoughts on James Burnham by George Orwell

Second Thoughts on James Burnham | The Orwell Foundation

Vol.12 No.1 1945

[thc0655]

I believe United Flight 93 was intended to strike WT7, but passengers fought back and it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania (allegedly). The plotters then had a huge problem: WT7 was already rigged with explosives so it would collapse like WT1 and 2 (which were also rigged with explosives). The explosives would eventually be discovered and blow the whole evil conspiracy into view of the world. What could they do? Start some office fires and blow the building after advising everyone inside and nearby to evacuate and get away. Then pick some malleable pussies at NIST to conduct a cover-up “investigation.”

Sadly, I must conclude we’re no more likely to get a real investigation of WT7 than we got for the JFK assassination or the Epstein crimes. We should try but I’m extremely pessimistic.

And it’s not just TPTB who want to block a real investigation. “We the people” don’t want to know either. When I quiz people even today, “How many buildings collapsed on 9/11 in NYC?” most answer, “Two.” They don’t know about WT7 and they don’t want to know.

[thecountmc]

@westcoastjan

The one thing that I cannot, and never will be able to understand is how all the people involved behind the scenes, the enablers who helped facilitate this, and all other covert, nefarious activities, live with themselves on a day to day basis. I can understand pyscopathic big wigs no problem. But the everyday people who are neighbours, friends and even family to some, how do they live with the knowledge of what they have done? I highly suspect that they are really unhappy people inside, regardless of what facade they hide behind

Im just spit balling here… not making excuses or justifying.. just putting together trends of past coverups and how they were successful. Covid being our most recent lesson learned.

1. Conditioning: military basic training.. Drill Sargent “if i say jump you yell how high” ..basically you are taught to do not question orders for god and country or ask why thats court martial time …run straight into machine gun fire and take that hill. think training in military, 3 letter CIA spooks, mkultra etc..

2. Compartmentalization - need to know… each was only given a piece of info… now i know guys setting termite clearly knew what the play was… but the guards at the 1st floor maybe not, maybe they were told a totally different narrative…now clearly they figured it out but see #3-#8 for why we haven’t heard from them.

3. Narrative- " this is for the greater good" there are bad people here I.E. “safe and effective” “Unvaxxed are evil and deserve to die”…whatever…I think some psychologist quoted 80% of humans are wired to be sheep… don’t know how accurate that is but Covid surely didnt disprove that hypothesis.

4. Silver or lead.-you choice to shut up and play ball… you can take a million $ or we kill you wife etc…

5. Accessory/guilt - They didn’t know exactly what they are participating in until after the fact. they are now an accessory to high treason only one punishment for that if that gets out… and the guys they got in bed with are not going to be fooled by witness protection, ie whistle blower will not be protected.

6. Manufactured blackmail, invite you to a party, slip that drug into your drink where you lose all free will, do whatever you are told… bring in some Epstein kids and roll camera and they own you when you wake up the next morning with no memory and make you watch a film of what you did… or just steal some money and move to a caymans islands bank account you name, have a hacker put some bad stuff on your computer whatever..

7. Funding/Cancelling— big examples of this during covid…every expert that testified was told credentials and funding would be pulled UNLESS they reported this conclusion…

8. Clean up… how many UFO whistle blowers took their own life by hanging themselves and shooting themselves in the back of the head with a shotgun recently…same pattern with Reagan Star wars program developers "died suddenly 2 years after program supposedly failed and the independant journalist who tried to break that story…suicided himself

I suspect everyone of the useful idiots who participated or had the whole picture experienced #8 shortly after… maybe those 1 degree of freedom away "guarding the doors and firing at the fireman trying to enter " coming up with BS physics experienced 1-7 or a combo

[jbrayali (Josef Bray-Ali)]

Where was the plane debris from Flight 93? So weird how it looks like a missle or bomb strike, no airplane parts scattered about the crash site. Lots of debris scattered, we are told six to eight miles away - almost like it blew up in the sky and the “crash site” is where some of it might have landed., if there was any plane at all.

[westcoastjan]

Agreed re the value systems. Whatever governance system comes next in societal evolution will need to somehow address the the diversity of values that exists in the human race, and decide which values can co-exist so that humanity can survive, thrive and prosper. Tall order when it seems there are some that do not share that goal.

[davefairtex]

Chris has a complete analysis, which I think is interesting to listen to.

Mine is more simple:

“Two planes hit, but three buildings fell. How did that happen - an office fire?”

[mike-from-jersey]

@davefairtex

Two planes hit, but three buildings fell. How did that happen - an office fire?”

One of the things that I learned during Covid was that the American media had become so arrogant that they thought they could hide anything - even things that were happening in plain sight.

Now people are questioning everything. So making a big deal of the anniversary of 911 was really not such a hot idea for the powers that be. They think it is going to be a solemn remembrance. It’s not. It’s going to be more people looking at it with open eyes.

[davefairtex]

@mike-from-jersey

So making a big deal of. the anniversary of 911 was really not such a hot idea for the powers that be. They think it is going to be a solemn remembrance. It’s not. It’s going to be more people looking at it with open eyes.

I think the Trumpito-flunkies were looking for a “rally round the flag” moment that would take us back to the Endless War on Nouns [complete with shoe-removal at airports] in order to distract from/increase support for that Endless Iran War. It worked so well back in 2001, after all.

I agree, I think it will backfire, as you say.

“Age of Disclosure.”

[added] And I suspect many if not most of them are vaxxed-and-boosted, so they aren’t operating at 100% right now.