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September 11 News.com - Heavenly crosses, and mysterious images, faces, and creatures in the smoke of the World Trade Center towers after the terrorist attacks in New York City on 9-11-2001.
 
Many Mysterious Images and Objects are Seen in the WTC Smoke.
Crosses are Seen Standing in the Ruins after the WTC Towers Collapse.
Images and Crosses
Editor's Comments
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was working at my home office. After being informed of the first
 terrorist attack on the Trade Center towers I turned on the television and watched the horror unfold. I was
shocked at the unimaginable destruction, and overwhelming loss of life. It was a tragedy beyond belief.

As I watched that morning, I noticed a series of eerie faces in the billowing smoke. These images appeared
to morph in the seemingly never-ending pillars of ugly black smoke. I made a mental note of these surreal
apparitions, and I mentioned it to my wife. I did not discuss these sightings again. After all, I tend to see
images in clouds. However the images I see in clouds are always pleasant images, usually animals.

In assembling the archives for this site, I viewed thousands of images and newspaper covers. Again, I noticed
the eerie faces in the still images of the smoke of the burning towers. They seemed to be present in not just
 one, but several of the burning tower images. Further research provided additional information and seemed
 to confirm what I was seeing.

I was not alone in noticing these awful faces.

Mark D. Phillips, a professional AP photographer in New York, captured an incredibly real image of an evil,
devil-like face that is distinguishable on the side of the tower's exterior structure. The authenticity of this
image has caused a bit of a stir. Our research has concluded that his image is original and not doctored.

The Associated Press and Mark Phillips have unequivocally denied any tampering or enhancement of the
image. In fact, neither AP or Phillips were aware of what the photograph appeared to reveal until the image
was noticed by readers of US newspapers. When the photo appeared on an early Wednesday (Sept. 12)
edition of the Saginaw (Michigan) Press, the phone calls began. (See images below.)

Further reports indicate that both CNN and ABC have also captured additional devilish images on their
television videotape coverage. (See images below.)

Additional faces and images have also been identified by several others. (See images below.)

The images on this page are not intended to frighten. They are what they are: mostly evil images from an evil
act. I, like most people in the world, are convinced that goodness will prevail over evil, and we pray that the
likes of these images will never be seen again.

In a speech to the USA on September 11th, President Bush said, "Today, our nation saw evil." He may have
been literally correct. Later in that same speech he also said, "Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those
who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security
has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through
the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for
you are with me."

Not all images below depict evil faces. Some images depict angel-like images, objects, and flying creatures.

We offer our research as an archive of the images that show something, whatever that something may be.

There are also remarkable stories of NYC firemen dropping to their knees in prayer after seeing crosses
rising up from the catastrophic ruins of the WTC towers.

We begin this section with the original story of the crosses, images of one of the crosses, where the cross was
originally sighted, and a memorial with the NYC Fire Department. We have also included memorable cross
images from the days following the September 11th attacks.

God Bless Our Earth.

 
Crosses Standing in the Ruins of the WTC Towers.
Images are ©AP or Reuters
Click on the photos for a larger image.
A cross of steel beams is left standing after the WTC towers collapse. Click on the image for a larger image.
September 13, 2001
Steel cross found
in WTC ruins.		 A cross of steel beams is left standing after the 9-11 WTC towers collapse. Click on the image for a larger image.

The WTC cross
becomes an
inspiration to
the Ground Zero
workers.		 A cross of steel beams is left standing after the 9-11 WTC towers collapse. Click on the image for a larger image.

Two FDNY Firemen
raise hands at a
cross ceremony
on October 4, 2001,
where the Cross
was blessed and
later moved.		 A cross of steel beams left standing after the 9-11 WTC towers collapse. Click on the image for a larger image.
October 4, 2001
WTC cross is
blessed by
Father Jordan.		 Click on the June 2002 WTC Cross news photo for a larger image.
June 20, 2002
Vatican WTC
cross ceremony.
Subsequent to the NY Post story below, we located a photograph of one of the original crosses
found on the top of the rubble (image above). It is the same cross used in the October 4th
memorial ceremony with the New York City Fire Department. The cross of steel beams
 was blessed at Ground Zero on the northwestern side of the World Trade Center
attack site. The cross was found by a laborer at the site two days after the twin towers'
collapsed and later moved to its present location. Father Brian Jordan blessed the cross. The
cross was from World Trade Tower One, and was found in World Trade Building Six, and
then moved to the October 4, 2001 location. (Click on the photographs for larger images.)

On September 23, 2001, The New York Post Published the Following Story:
 © NY Post
You are looking at what some people believe is a miracle.

Two days after the disaster, a construction worker found several perfectly formed crosses planted upright in a
pit in the rubble of the heavily damaged 6 World Trade Center.

The large, cross-shaped metal beams just happened to fall that way when one of the towers collapsed. An FBI
chaplain who has spent days at ground zero says he has not seen anything like it on the vast site.

As word of the find has spread at ground zero, exhausted and emotionally overwhelmed rescue workers have
been flocking to the site to pray and meditate.

"People have a very emotional reaction when they see it," says the Rev. Carl Bassett, an FBI chaplain. "They
are amazed to see something like that in all the disarray. There's no symmetry to anything down there, except
those crosses."

Chaplain Ray Giunta of Sacramento, Calif., has been to the crosses to pray with rescue workers.

"One of the firefighters pointed to them last night and told me, ‘There's my angel,'" Giunta said.

The angel protecting the pit where the crosses were found is the Brooklyn-born hardhat who found them: a
gentle giant named Frank Silecchia.

Silecchia, 47, who now lives in Little Ferry, N.J., found the crosses on the Thursday morning immediately
following the collapse of the towers. He marked the site by spray-painting on a nearby wall the words
"God's House," and a directional arrow.

"The crosses are just shards of steel that came from the Tower 1 [the north tower], and went right through
the roof of Building 6 and destroyed the entire center of it," he explained.

"When I first saw it, it took my heart, and made me cry for about 20 minutes," he says. "It helped me heal
the burden of my despair, and gave me closure on the whole catastrophe."

In subsequent days, Silecchia, a born-again Christian, led his fellow rescue workers and others - many of
whom were grieving the loss of loved ones - to the crosses.

A veteran firefighter who had been digging through the twisted metal for his lost firefighter son. An angry
cop who lost someone in the collapse. A Vatican representative, who photographed the crosses for the
pope. And ABC's Barbara Walters.

He says they all left in peace.

"Barbara Walters' niece lost her son in the building," he said. "Barbara told me she wanted people to see
the House of God, so people who needed healing could find it."

 
 
 
The Image Captured in a Photograph by Mark D. Phillips of Stellar Images.
Images are ©Mark D. Phillips and Stellar Images.
Click on the images for a larger view.
Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image. Images are ©Mark D. Phillips and Stellar Images.
 Image as Reported
in USA Newspapers		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image. Images are ©Mark D. Phillips and Stellar Images.
Image from USA
News Service Site		 September 11 News faces in the WTC smoke. Images are ©Mark D. Phillips and Stellar Images.
 Enlarged Image of
Face in the Smoke		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image. Images are ©Mark D. Phillips and Stellar Images.
 Image from USA
News Service Site
The images above are from internet news services. To read the testimonial of authenticity of
this image, or to read the bio on the photographer, go to the photographer's web site at
Stellar Images.
The Images Captured on Videotape by CNN and WABC.
Images are ©CNN and WABC.
Click on the images for a larger view.
Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
Television Videotape
Image / WABC News		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
Television Videotape
Image / CNN		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
TV Videotape Image
Enlarged / CNN
The images above are from internet news services.
September 11 News faces in the WTC smoke.
Images of Faces Seen in the Smoke of the WTC Towers.
The following images were posted on the internet by the individual as shown.
Click on the images for a larger view. Enlargements show outlines.
Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
Evil Face
Posted by D. Caprio		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
Evil Face
Posted by M. Masi

This image is also apparent
on newspaper and CNN
above. Masi's image has
traced a complete body.		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
Evil Face
Posted by D. Caprio
Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
 Angel Image
Posted by J. Destafano		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
 Face of God?
Posted by G. Howard		 Click on the WTC face in the smoke image for a larger image.
 Mystery Face
Posted by J. Reyes
A Mysterious Flying Creature Departs the Collapsing WTC Tower.
Images are © Reuters
Click on the images for a larger view.
September 11 News images in the WTC smoke.
A flying creature
departs the top of
the collapsing WTC
South Tower (Seq.1)		 September 11 News mysterious images in the WTC smoke. Click on this photograph for a larger image.
 South Tower Seq. 1		 September 11 News mysterious images in the WTC smoke. Click on this photograph for a larger image.
 South Tower Seq. 2		 September 11 News mysterious images in the WTC smoke. Click on this photograph for a larger image.
 South Tower Seq. 3
On September 11, 2001, at 10:00 A.M. EDT, the WTC South Tower collapses.

September 11 News has discovered an image above the tower as it begins to collapse.

 The winged creature appears bird-like, and seems to be backing up and flying away from the
top of the tower. In the Reuters photograph sequence above you can see the image as it
appears to leave the top of the falling tower.
September 11 News mysterious images in the WTC smoke.
 Close-Up South Tower Seq. 1		 When we zoomed in on the flying creature we also
noticed a bear-like creature across from the winged
animal. The bear is on top of the North Tower with a
leg and paw on the side of the building. He appears to
be looking at the departure of the South Tower creature.
 
 
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