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BTW I think you and Jo are the only ones to threaten law suits in this thread.

yeah... all this tough talk about lawsuits but nothing ever happens. That's OK though, most litigation is a huge waste of time and money. It's better used as a threat than a weapon.

I welcome Blevins and still support Jo's right to be here, although I disagree with her all the time. It's a numbers game. Cooper was a real person, not a Sasquatch. He lived somewhere. He had posessions. He had friends and relatives. Somebody somewhere has a valuable clue that has not yet been processed in the investigation. It could be a vehicle that was deemed abandoned and towed, a person who went missing right after Norjack but escaped FBI attention, etc. All this digging, even by Jo, widens the net. It doesnt guarantee that we will solve the case but it ups the odds as more people are contacted and are asked about events that occured around that time and in that area.

I do think the Norjack case will be solved in my lifetime and that Amelia E's plane will be found as well. Just hunches from an optimistic jumper and aviation nut.

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Sasquatch has been seen numerous times and seems to have a grudge against low-flying aircraft.
He is known to inhabit the approximate area of the Pacific NW woods where Cooper jump. He is approximately 6 ft tall, has brown hair and eyes, and has a dark complexion.

Because of his ability to work with animals, he may have been involved in Operation Dumbo Drop in Vietnam. But no proof of this exists.

Eye witness have not stated specifically that he is not Cooper.

We need to look into the names of all Special Forces personnel with names starting with S during the VN war. Anyone who doesn't do this immediately is part of the FBI/CIA coverup.

This may be the key to blowing this case wide open!

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BTW I think you and Jo are the only ones to threaten law suits in this thread.

yeah... all this tough talk about lawsuits but nothing ever happens. That's OK though, most litigation is a huge waste of time and money. It's better used as a threat than a weapon.

I welcome Blevins and still support Jo's right to be here, although I disagree with her all the time. It's a numbers game. Cooper was a real person, not a Sasquatch. He lived somewhere. He had posessions. He had friends and relatives. Somebody somewhere has a valuable clue that has not yet been processed in the investigation. It could be a vehicle that was deemed abandoned and towed, a person who went missing right after Norjack but escaped FBI attention, etc. All this digging, even by Jo, widens the net. It doesnt guarantee that we will solve the case but it ups the odds as more people are contacted and are asked about events that occured around that time and in that area.

I do think the Norjack case will be solved in my lifetime and that Amelia E's plane will be found as well. Just hunches from an optimistic jumper and aviation nut.

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Thank God there is somebody here with a brain! Yours is the best post in a long time
imho.

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Somebody please tell me how the parachute found was used by a pilot in 1945 when it wasn't MADE until Feb 21 1946?

And no I haven't read most of this thread.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

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BTW I think you and Jo are the only ones to threaten law suits in this thread.

yeah... all this tough talk about lawsuits but nothing ever happens. That's OK though, most litigation is a huge waste of time and money. It's better used as a threat than a weapon.

I welcome Blevins and still support Jo's right to be here, although I disagree with her all the time. It's a numbers game. Cooper was a real person, not a Sasquatch. He lived somewhere. He had posessions. He had friends and relatives. Somebody somewhere has a valuable clue that has not yet been processed in the investigation. It could be a vehicle that was deemed abandoned and towed, a person who went missing right after Norjack but escaped FBI attention, etc. All this digging, even by Jo, widens the net. It doesnt guarantee that we will solve the case but it ups the odds as more people are contacted and are asked about events that occured around that time and in that area.

I do think the Norjack case will be solved in my lifetime and that Amelia E's plane will be found as well. Just hunches from an optimistic jumper and aviation nut.

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Thank God there is somebody here with a brain! Yours is the best post in a long time

1. I am Not writing a book.

2. I have been unable to go to
WA to do research and depend
on others to do this for me (such as the FBI and volunteers and some of you guys).

3. I believe when you have heard me mention legal action it was to defend my word when someone publishes or states something about me that is not accurate or is slanderous. Or when someone makes a claim regarding things I can prove are not true.

4. I have told some things in confidence to a couple of people - things I was adamant they COULD NOT use and told only because they are necessary to understand Duane and my relationship with him and would serve no purpose other than to create sensationalism.


If a writer for profit has to reduce himself to abusing information explicitely excluded to "sell" his story he should be sued.

Sometimes ALL of the truth serves no purpose in the telling of a story and every interviewer interperts things differently. Too many times somethings I have said are taken out of context. If it is put into an article or book or used to cause damage to my personal life - that person should be disciplined or as they do in news article - at least make a public retraction.

I chose to participate in this thread because if I don't make myself clear or understood - I have the opportunity to explain myself. You can't do that in a book or a movie. I have already experience what documentaries and writers can do with the information one provides and I do NOT interview well. Why I have NOT been interviewed since 2002 and that was MY choice.

I was only able to tell what I knew, but I knew little about the crime itself and not much more about Weber's past. Also I DID NOT know how much I knew and that some of the things I knew were important...why everything I learn is so important. Not to make a better story, but to aid myself and others in finding the truth...regardless of what that truth turns out to be.

For example: communicating with another person researching the Skyjacking (just sharing thoughts). Suddenly there was something mentioned that never really seemed important. Out of the blue - I questioned why I had not given this particular subject in Duane's past more importance.

Researching this put Duane in The Dalles when the FBI claimed he was not. This is a recent development and it does NOT prove Duane was Cooper. I still have to put him on the plane....therefore I have NO reason to share this with the FBI or the forum until I get written or photographic verification....all it does is prove Duane did NOT lie to me about this unrelated story which I was unaware until 5 wks ago had anything to do with WA or OR or the NW.

I think this thread will eventually lead to the unveiling of the real Cooper...and I believe that with all of my heart and soul.

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Somebody please tell me how the parachute found was used by a pilot in 1945 when it wasn't MADE until Feb 21 1946?

And no I haven't read most of this thread.

Terry, I caught that also, but figured someone had just made a mistake or that the chute did not belong to that pilot who walked out. I have heard of Old Chutes being used for shelter (from the sun or as a tent) when they were not useable to jump with.

Would be interesting what Cossey has to say about this and to see the actual FBI documents on the found chute.

It got very confusing when they talked about the belly packs. One was cut apart in order to obtain cords to secure his package. What about the chute inside - what did he do with that?
Maybe he tossed it out the door. I got lost in that discussion - obviously as I have never even been close to a chute.

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3. I believe when you have heard me mention legal action it was to defend my word when someone publishes or states something about me that is not accurate or is slanderous. Or when someone makes a claim regarding things I can prove are not true.

Jo,

Lawsuits rarely result in defending honor or a persons word. They
just create a lot of expensive paperwork and enrich your counsel. Unless you are a movie star your defamation case is totally ignored by the public. Stop threatening suits. Either bring them or stop the bluffing.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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3. I believe when you have heard me mention legal action it was to defend my word when someone publishes or states something about me that is not accurate or is slanderous. Or when someone makes a claim regarding things I can prove are not true.

Jo,

Lawsuits rarely result in defending honor or a persons word. They
just create a lot of expensive paperwork and enrich your counsel. Unless you are a movie star your defamation case is totally ignored by the public. Stop threatening suits. Either bring them or stop the bluffing.

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Outside of one character who was abusive to me outside of this forum and the Scotts who hijacked the BuDop thing - who else have I yet had reason to sue? I believe those are the only 2 things within the context of this thread. There are a couple of other things certain individual know cannot be published and I am sure they will abide by the rule - but, so far they have been decent to me...and nothing has been published nor blabbed to the media.

You can agree to disqualify any subject without causing damage to living parties. You do not do that by calling them names or smearing them. I have my personal opinions about Blevins, Grey, Tosaw, Himmelsback, Gunther, Cook and Mr X among many others who have written some pretty sleazy books on Cooper. Most of the writers had a long term personal interest in or were involved in the aftermath of Cooper. A book was just the end results due to demand or where the writers research took him.

Some went too far - such as the writer whose name is not part of my vocabulary claiming McCoy was Cooper. He could claim McCoy was Cooper, but he should have drawn the line when he accused the wife of being a participant. You know she sued and it was settled out of court.
Because he was so blatant and ball'sy in regards to the wife - his book was never a "have to read" regarding research into Cooper.

I don't have a problem with Blevins other than his only agenda is selling a book for profit and he will write whatever it take to sell that book. Any writer who does that without doing his research is defacing not only himself, but the individuals he portrays in the book...without the proper research these people may have been led astray.

Unlike Grey, Cook, Himmelsbach and Tosaw - Blevins is JUST a writer for profit. Cook got hooked yrs ago on Cooper. Grey got hooked accidentally and I think his book will be about how Cooper has affected the lives of others and not about solving the crime. Tosaw - it was all about the search for the money and of course Himmelsbach needs no explanation.

There are countless people who have contacted me over the yrs. with their stories about Cooper and Weber - but, most of them did NOT pan out. There are 2 writers I could have let write Duane's story, but as you know I would NOT allow mistruths just to lure the readers. The first one was "On his deathbed he whispered". Please! That is NOT how it was. This man wrote 3 pages with hardly a word of truth.

Just because I have principles does not mean others do - I will NOT allow something to be written that would cause damage to me or my children.

What will be the Cats Meow is this: What will happen if the REAL Cooper is revealed by the authorities or by someone who was on the plane just about the time these books are on the store shelves. It won't be cats screaming, but wolves howling.

Imagine what the public and media will do with that one -
3 books sitting on a shelf and suddenly the News Headlines read:
"True Identity of D.B. Cooper Revealed by the FBI".
"Witness positively puts 'subject' on the plane after new evidence revealed".

Wake me up - I have to be dreaming!

Oh, but I am awake. It must be someone else's Nightmare, Whew!

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- I will NOT allow something to be written that would cause damage to me or my children.

EXACTLY the position taken by Kim Il Jong, the dictator of North Korea.

You are in good company Jo.

Fortunately we have the First Amendment and courts which pay it occasional respect. I'll tolerate slander and libel if that's the price of free speech.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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Unlike Grey, Cook, Himmelsbach and Tosaw - Blevins is JUST a writer for profit

Really??? Isn't this the guy who put his first edition on the Internet FOR FREE in an effort to solicit responses which would improve the factual accuracy of subsequent publications?

There is nothing wrong with being "JUST a writer for profit." You don't have to be a starving zealot to be a credible journalist.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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to get 'cords' you would cut apart the parachute inside the belly pack. Or the pack opening bands could have been used to secure a bag but couldn't be 'cut'. I guess I've assumed since one was cut up they had the remenants, which would have included the rest of the parachute.

A chute used for shade or cover wouldn't have ended up buried in a field. This was jumped and either hidden or abandoned and buried over time. And NOT in 1945.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

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And NOT in 1945.

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Does it not say:

"The date stamped on the found parachute --
Feb. 21, 1946 -- is the repacking date, not the packing date, Hanson said. Local military historian John "Cye" Laramie said last week that date was the only thing questionable about linking it to Walling's crash"

Taking the above literally is questionable and confusing. I question the knowledge of Hanson and historian Laramie.

Unless protocol was different in 1946 than it is now--which I doubt was the case--packing dates and repacking dates are not stamped on a parachute they are written in a packing data record card which is placed in a "pocket" of the container the rig is packed in.

The only date I ever recall seeing stamped onto a canopy is the manufacturing date. All packing and maintenance data is on the packing data card.

I defer to any Master Rigger who can correct my thoughts on this since I have only a Senior rating.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

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Does it not say:

"The date stamped on the found parachute --
Feb. 21, 1946 -- is the repacking date, not the packing date, Hanson said. Local military historian John "Cye" Laramie said last week that date was the only thing questionable about linking it to Walling's crash"

Taking the above literally is questionable and confusing. I question the knowledge of Hanson and historian Laramie.

Unless protocol was different in 1946 than it is now--which I doubt was the case--packing dates and repacking dates are not stamped on a parachute they are written in a packing data record card which is placed in a "pocket" of the container the rig is packed in.

The only date I ever recall seeing stamped onto a canopy is the manufacturing date. All packing and maintenance data is on the packing data card.

I defer to any Master Rigger who can correct my thoughts on this since I have only a Senior rating.

It seems strange to me also. In fact very strange, but what do I know! I know nothing of these matters. My first layman's thought was that it
looked like some chute purchased at a surplus
store and the store or somebody had stamped the cute with a date 'for inventory', in a pile of chutes being sorted prior to distribution and sale? There
is something fishy about the whole thing, but I am
willing to bet the answer is a simple one whatever it is?

It's just one more example of something that should be simple not being simple, in this case!
So, the people from Venus did it! Or this is another
in a long line of signs of conspiracy, on the Govt or
Satin's part, with xrays being beamed on Florida also! And only some inconspicuous realtor from
New Mexico can dig the truth out, through her spy network .... using Snmowmmaannn.

Maybe the chute was stolen from a mummy museum by Sylvester Stalonne, except the numbers are modern English and not ancient Coptic?

SYLVESTER! PLEASE DONT SUE ME!

This case is full of this shite.

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The 1946 date is the date of manufacture. The other number is either the part number or the contract number.

It doesn't matter what the news paper says. I KNOW this as a FAA Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner.

Repack dates weren't and aren't stamped on the canopy. They are written on a paper record stored on the container.

This parachute didn't exist until Feb 1946.

When you know what your talking about rather than quoting someone who doesn't let me know.

The only reason for a canopy to be buried is to conceaL it.

I'm done.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

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Unlike Grey, Cook, Himmelsbach and Tosaw - Blevins is JUST a writer for profit

Really??? Isn't this the guy who put his first edition on the Internet FOR FREE in an effort to solicit responses which would improve the factual accuracy of subsequent publications?

There is nothing wrong with being "JUST a writer for profit." You don't have to be a starving zealot to be a credible journalist.

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You KNOW that is not how it is meant - What are you? Blevins promotionalist. I am stating his motive is entirely different than mine and that of others - he is a writer and not someone with a heavily invest effort in this in terms of yrs and peronal research.

Blevins did not enter the Cooper story because of personal interest - his motive was to make money.

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Does it not say:

"The date stamped on the found parachute --
Feb. 21, 1946 -- is the repacking date, not the packing date, Hanson said. Local military historian John "Cye" Laramie said last week that date was the only thing questionable about linking it to Walling's crash"

Taking the above literally is questionable and confusing. I question the knowledge of Hanson and historian Laramie.

Unless protocol was different in 1946 than it is now--which I doubt was the case--packing dates and repacking dates are not stamped on a parachute they are written in a packing data record card which is placed in a "pocket" of the container the rig is packed in.

The only date I ever recall seeing stamped onto a canopy is the manufacturing date. All packing and maintenance data is on the packing data card.

I defer to any Master Rigger who can correct my thoughts on this since I have only a Senior rating.

Thank you for a good sensible answer - I just do not know why some people get so out of sort when I ask what I consider a reasonable question. If what they were saying about a packing date - was correct then the chute could not be Wallings, then who's was it? This was all I was enquiring about. Was simply asking for clarification of what I had read and what I thought I understood... and to find out if there could possibly be a misunderstanding about the dates that were reported and what these dated meant on that "pink" chute.

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So nobody is saying the chute belonged to Walling and nobody in any article I have read
has mentioned Jo Weber as an authority about anything! And, people acknowledge there is a
problem about the dates ... etc.

Georger,why are you so insulting? I have stated before I know nothing about chutes or jumping.
All I did was ask a simple question for clarification since I did not understand what was being said. At least Guru understood what I was trying to enquire about and addressed the situtation without insulting me or making snide demeaning remarks. Guru is a jumper and you Georger are not.

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The 1946 date is the date of manufacture. The other number is either the part number or the contract number.

It doesn't matter what the news paper says. I KNOW this as a FAA Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner.

Repack dates weren't and aren't stamped on the canopy. They are written on a paper record stored on the container.

This parachute didn't exist until Feb 1946.

When you know what your talking about rather than quoting someone who doesn't let me know.

The only reason for a canopy to be buried is to conceaL it.

I'm done.

Don't go yet.

Was your above response to my post or someone else's? It seems to me we are both saying the same thing.

I know I should have stayed away from this thread.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

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The 1946 date is the date of manufacture. The other number is either the part number or the contract number.

It doesn't matter what the news paper says. I KNOW this as a FAA Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner.

Repack dates weren't and aren't stamped on the canopy. They are written on a paper record stored on the container.

This parachute didn't exist until Feb 1946.

When you know what your talking about rather than quoting someone who doesn't let me know.

The only reason for a canopy to be buried is to conceaL it.

I'm done.

Don't go yet.

Was your above response to my post or someone else's? It seems to me we are both saying the same thing.

I know I should have stayed away from this thread.

Guru, You are right - both of you are saying the same thing. I didn't understand Councilman's retort either? Since he is new to the site maybe all this going back and forth got him flipflopped.

I know they have me Totally Confused - but, for someone with Blonde roots that is REAL easy. Now they got me where I don't even know what color the Found chute was. You are right Guru ... I keep asking myself why I even bother to post here.

I have a question for you, but I will P.M. it.

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So nobody is saying the chute belonged to Walling and nobody in any article I have read
has mentioned Jo Weber as an authority about anything! And, people acknowledge there is a
problem about the dates ... etc.

Georger,why are you so insulting? I have stated before I know nothing about chutes or jumping.
All I did was ask a simple question for clarification since I did not understand what was being said. At least Guru understood what I was trying to enquire about and addressed the situtation without insulting me or making snide demeaning remarks. Guru is a jumper and you Georger are not.

"The Devil Made Me Do IT." (Jo Weber).

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The 1946 date is the date of manufacture. The other number is either the part number or the contract number.

It doesn't matter what the news paper says. I KNOW this as a FAA Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner.

Repack dates weren't and aren't stamped on the canopy. They are written on a paper record stored on the container.

This parachute didn't exist until Feb 1946.

When you know what your talking about rather than quoting someone who doesn't let me know.

The only reason for a canopy to be buried is to conceaL it.

I'm done.

Don't go yet.

Was your above response to my post or someone else's? It seems to me we are both saying the same thing.

I know I should have stayed away from this thread.

Yep, too many things and agendae going on here
all at the same time ...

You said, "I question the knowledge of Hanson and historian Laramie." They seem to only add to the confusion.

Councilman says The only reason for a canopy to be buried is to conceaL it. Nothing gets buried unless to conceal, especially a parachute.

The chute was found near a field or a road? Things get buried all the time here in rural areas near fields and roads.. in the 50s that used to be the rule rather than an exception including historically important artifacts.. but that cannot apply here since this is the Cooper case. Nothing is as it appears in the Cooperphelia.

Take care you might get sued for joining in when they sing "their" pledge of allegiance to buried
parachuites.

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Blevins did not enter the Cooper story because of personal interest - his motive was to make money.

How do you know what his motive was? Sounds like he could have made a lot more doing his regular gig, manuscript editing, than he did working on the Cooper book.

Anyone who thinks they will make serious money off Cooper is a fool and Blevins is not a fool. You could make a lot more money writing trash about Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton.

I agree about the Amboy chute stamp being a mfr date. I've seen hundreds of surplus canopies ranging from WW 2 vintage through the 60s and the only date stamp I've seen on the fabric is the mfr date, NEVER a repack date.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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Blevins did not enter the Cooper story because of personal interest - his motive was to make money.

How do you know what his motive was? Sounds like he could have made a lot more doing his regular gig, manuscript editing, than he did working on the Cooper book.

Anyone who thinks they will make serious money off Cooper is a fool and Blevins is not a fool. You could make a lot more money writing trash about Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton.

I agree about the Amboy chute stamp being a mfr date. I've seen hundreds of surplus canopies ranging from WW 2 vintage through the 60s and the only date stamp I've seen on the fabric is the mfr date, NEVER a repack date.

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Take yer choice - accounts of the chute finding:

The parachute was unearthed in a field that was being plowed by the property owner and was found by the man’s children while they were playing. The children pulled the cloth until the chute’s shroud lines appeared and their father recognized it as a parachute. Kirotv

Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading a road, agent Larry Carr said. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors. Assoc Press

He may have landed around Amboy, not 30 miles from Portland. That's the same area where children playing outside their home recently found fabric sticking up from the ground where their father had been grading a road, FBI agent Larry Carr said Tuesday.The children, responding to a publicity campaign, urged their father to call the FBI, Carr said, and when their find became public this week, it reignited talk of the region's favorite folk hero. FOX NEWS

FBI agent Laura Laughlin said Tuesday that the agency came to its conclusion after speaking with parachute experts. It also dug where children found the parachute early last month. USA TODAY

The parachute -- similar to the one Cooper jumped with -- was unearthed earlier this month after a Clark County man plowed part of the rural property he's owned for nearly a decade, said Larry Carr, the lead agent on the Cooper case. The man's children found the parachute when they were playing and Carr, who is based in Seattle, retrieved it from southwest Washington. Seattle PI

Cooper may have landed around Amboy, less than 30 miles from Portland, the same area where children playing outside their home recently found fabric sticking out of the ground where their father had been grading a road, FBI agent Larry Carr said. News.Scotsman.com

Children playing outside their home in Amboy, Wash., found the chute sticking up from the ground. Having seen recent media coverage of the case when the FBI launched publicity efforts last fall, they urged their father to call the authorities. National.ABC.NEWS

I live at Amboy and the FBI in Seattle is looking for local experts to step forward to help analyze a parachute unearthed in a field. Is it a Navy Backpack-6? Perhaps the very one used in 1971 by infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper? It was recently dug up by the landowner's kids near Amboy, when the road to the field was being improved. Blogger KING

Larry Carr, the FBI special agent who reopened the case in January, said the children saw the partially-exposed parachute in an area where their father had been repairing a road. Telegraph.co.uk

An investigator with the FBI says the parachute was found in an agricultural field by some kids, it appeared to have been buried. The parachute Cooper used in 1971 was white, so is the one that the Washington kids found. The FBI agent believes it probably is Cooper's 'chute, or it is a strong coincidence. The Associated Press reports that the farm field is in Cooper's most probable landing zone, between Green and Bald mountains near Amboy. Salem-News.com

The discoverers of the chute and its exact location are undisclosed, although theories here favor a number of backroads in the steep, heavily wooded hills where moss-draped trees are of almost rain-forest density. But some ask how the chute came to be buried if Cooper didn't live to bury it. Or if it isn't Cooper's, they ask, whose is it? Retired FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach of Woodburn, Ore., who worked the case for years, said yesterday that he doubts the remnant is from Cooper's parachute. JB Frazier Associated Press 3-27-08

FBI agent Larry Carr said that earlier this month, children playing outside their home near the town of Amboy in Oregon state recently found fabric sticking up from the ground where their father had been grading a road. Sydney Morning Harold, UPI

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Blevins did not enter the Cooper story because of personal interest - his motive was to make money.

Ya know, often times a person has a personal interest in making money.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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Blevins did not enter the Cooper story because of personal interest - his motive was to make money.

How do you know what his motive was? Sounds like he could have made a lot more doing his regular gig, manuscript editing, than he did working on the Cooper book.

Anyone who thinks they will make serious money off Cooper is a fool and Blevins is not a fool. You could make a lot more money writing trash about Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton.

I agree about the Amboy chute stamp being a mfr date. I've seen hundreds of surplus canopies ranging from WW 2 vintage through the 60s and the only date stamp I've seen on the fabric is the mfr date, NEVER a repack date.

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found this also -

"Posted by Whistle Berries at 4/1/08 5:16 p.m.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/135556.asp


" Hmmm...

More than likely, that parachute found near Amboy was one used by Clyde Snufford.

He was a U.S. Army Viet Nam veteran who lost one leg below the knee, after he stepped on a bamboo spike and the wound became infected, back in 1968.

An avid parachuting enthusiast, he participated in many jumps. That last one, when he had the rough landing, he broke his good left leg in three places, and had to crawl about a mile and a half to get to some help.

Of course, he left the parachute behind, and after a few weeks of medical treatment and recovery, he thought that it was not worth the effort to go find it.

Clyde moved to Chicota, Texas about 20 years ago, and I've since lost track of him."
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There is also a long post by Blevins on the same Seattle PI blog (url above) for those who wish to
find and read it.

There is a photo of the father and children at the find site that used to be on the net - did anyone save it?

The following url supposedly shows the find location
although the location is not marked - follow the Google map link:

http://www.wheredidithappen.com/recent_additions.php?pageNum_get_currentevent=3&totalRows_get_currentevent=86