After years of rumors on the internet and elsewhere, the U.S. Department of Defense has released videotapes of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. The release is part of a Freedom of Information Act request by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Conspiracy theorists have speculated that the Pentagon was hit by a truck bomb, or a fighter jet or some other type of explosive device. Many claim that Flight 77 never existed and that plane debris was never found.

American Flight 77 left Washington-Dulles for Los Angeles, California at 8:20am. It crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37am, killing all 64 people on board and 120 on the ground. Small pieces of the plane were found at the Pentagon, but large pieces of the airliner were incinerated in the explosion.

One of the reasons that the video had not been released up to this point was the Department of Defense claimed that it could have harmed the trial of would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui. Jurors in his case all live and/or work in the Washington D.C. area.