. >> donald nivert knows the exact spot he was when the plane went down. his daughter was seated several rows in front of the blast. >> i see this, and i say, i can't believe that i have let this deteriorate to the extent that it has. >> why have you let it go? >> because of her and the memory that the daughter we lost was the last one to pick them. it was too difficult. >> instead of berries we find an overgrown field that is sown with doubt and few explanations of what caused his daughter's death. >> i have reached the conclusion that a missile hit the airplane and probably friendly fire. >> where did it come from? >> it came from our navy. >> donald nivert was not alone in reaching that conclusion. less than 36 hours after the fireball flashed in the skies of long island, a trail of fire or red light going skyward hit the world wide web. that evening, her story of a possible missile was collected on web sites. >> i caught that red light and then the fiery stream coming down. >> and compiling all of the eyewitness accounts was one that took the missile t

. >> donald nivert was not alone in reaching that conclusion. less than 36 hours after the fireball flashed in the skies of long island, a trail of fire or red light going skyward hit the world wide web. that evening, her story of a possible missile was collected on web sites. >> i caught that red light and then the fiery stream coming down. >> and compiling all of the eyewitness accounts was one that took the missile theory and added layers of seemingly impossible intrigue. it was a theory of how a navy ship accidentally shot down flight 800 and how a cover-up reaching the highest levels of government was in play, and it might have stayed simply an internet conspiracy theory had it not been for this man. >> it is a document that i got about five weeks ago from an intelligence agent from france who had been doing an inquiry, and had some contacts with people in the u.s. navy. >> it was pierre sal liniger, a former white house secretary, u.s. senator and network correspondent who went public. salinger who died in 2004 claimed to have official pro