The NTSB planned to hold a meeting in Baltimore where eyewitness statements would be presented and the witnesses themselves could testify and be questioned. Before the meeting Kallstrom wrote a letter to Chairman Hall basically saying they had reviewed the eyewitness statements which would relate to a criminal act and had found nothing but with the remote possibility of further developments they did not want the statements released or the eyewitnesses testifying or questioned at the meeting. This is where the investigation goes seriously off track. The witnesses did not say they saw a terrorist missile go towards the airplane (which would be criminal). They did not say they saw a US Navy missile going towards the airplane (which would be an accident). They did not say they saw a burning 747 on fire climbing steeply (which would be incidental). If it was one of the last two possibilities it was not a criminal act and the FBI would have no authority anyway. Dozens of credible witnesses said they saw what appeared to them to be a "missile" or streak of light climbing to the aircraft. Why would that be suppressed? Why would NTSB investigators be discouraged from interviewing those witnesses after the FBI did the initial interview? Why were the witnesses not allowed to testify?