9/11 iceberg

9/11 iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "9/11 Iceberg", was posted by u/Hinata_2-8 on 29 March 2024 and had about 1 upvotes when it was collected. The subreddit has 1 other chart on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "9/11 (ADAPTED FROM ICEBERGCHARTS, BY VARIK)" by portaldash, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 1,708 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "a reup of an iceberg made by varik, featuring around 100 extra entries of my own. "Theories, facts, and other musings about the September 11th terrorist attacks, from the plausible to the insane." nothing on this iceberg represents the opinions the original author or myself. many entries removed for being too vague or a lot of pre-9/11 coincidences, some are still kept for being interesting or…"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"9/11 Iceberg" by u/Hinata_2-8 (29 March 2024)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" – Meme phrase claiming the fires caused by the ignited jet fuel in all of the targets couldn't have caused the collapses.
• Controlled Demolition – Theory that claims the buildings collapsed following a controlled demolition following the crashes. See "Tremors/Earthquake theory" later on.
• No planes – A common theory claims that there were no planes used to hit any of the major targets on 9/11. Little to no proof to back it up, but it does support another theory, although baseless, cartoon planes.
• Osama bin Laden U.S. Government connections
• Foreknowledge – Refers to all sorts of theories and facts that suggest the U.S. Government, Silverstein, or others were aware of the attacks and did nothing to stop it.
• The Falling Man – An unidentified jumper from the North Tower was photographed by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 A.M. One of the most recognizable photos of the attacks that does not include the burning towers. The original…
• "Bush did 9/11" – Meme phrase claiming Bush was the mastermind or allowed the attacks to unfold.
• The Simpsons predicted it
• Bush informed of attacks photo
• Too Soon
• War on Terror
• Naudet Footage
• Shanksville
• AA11
• $2.3 trillion reported missing by Pentagon
• "Let's roll."
• Loose Change
• Pull it
• Insider trading foreknowledge

Tier 2

• Cruise Missile hit the Pentagon – Usually paired with the theory that a plane did not hit the Pentagon. This theory claims a cruise missile hit the Pentagon, which explains the large amount of damage to the building and notable lack…
• Holograms – See "No planes."
• Twin Pines Mall / Lone Pine Mall
• The New Pearl Harbor
• bin Laden's CIA training
• Wolfgang Staehle photos – An artist and photographer who set up a camera shortly before September 11th to take a photo every four seconds. His project managed to capture Flight 11 clearly, hitting the tower, and the resulting…
• Dust Lady – Marcy Borders, worker at the Bank of America, who was captured in a photo completely covered in dust following the collapse of the North Tower.
• The 9/11 Commission
• LOL Superman – A rumored lost shock video that depicts jumpers hitting the ground from the towers.
• New World Order
• Number 11 Coincidences
• 20th hijacker – Possible additional terrorist in the attacks who was unable to participate. Proof of their existence has never been confirmed.
• "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US"
• No plane debris at Flight 93 crash site – Photos of UA93's crash site seemingly have no plane debris around the crater.
• Kevin Cosgrove's final phone call
• 911 man tries to climb down
• Raising the Flag at Ground Zero (2001)
• War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
• Daniel Lewin
• Nano-thermite
• Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
• More than 1000 people still unidentified
• MCR
• November 2001 tape
• Cleveland Evacuation
• The Man in the Red Bandana
• Trade Center Defender
• "Tourist Guy" Hoax
• AA587

Tier 3

• "The jews did 9/11" – Antisemitic theory that blames the Jewish people and their supposed greed for the September 11th attacks.
• Emergency Response to Terrorism Self Study (August 1997) – A booklet that shows an illustration of sniper crosshairs over the North Tower in the New York City skyline on the cover. Likely referencing the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• "...bank sharply and smash directly, perhaps purposefully..." – Jim Ryan relays the reports of eyewitnesses of AA11's impact coincidentally as Flight 175 makes its final maneuvers into the South Tower.
• WTC hard drive restoration operation
• "We have some planes." – Message from Mohammed Atta to flight controllers. Theorized that he meant to speak to passengers from the cabin but mistakenly called flight control instead.
• The Bathtub
• Helicopter video error / nose-out theory
• Wingdings / Q33 NY e-mail
• PENTTBOM
• Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
• Seth MacFarlane missed Flight 11
• Impending Death (2001)
• Pentagon Memorial
• 9/11: The Big Lie
• Carol Lin
• Naudet footage never fully released
• CNN Reporter Say No Plane Hit The Pentagon
• bin Laden had anime on his hard drive
• Pager Intercepts
• She's Always a Woman
• Cortlandt station
• Engine 54
• The Pet Goat
• Fox News Ticker
• Vegas Meeting
• Pavel Hlava – The only man known to have ever captured Flight 11 and Flight 175 on the same camera.
• Maasai
• Family Room
• BBC Reports 911, WTC 7 Collapse BEFORE it Happens – BBC relied on an incorrect report from Reuters that WTC7 had collapsed prior to it actually doing so. In fact, a lot of news services reported the same.
• Urban Moving Systems & Mossad connection
• Dancing Israelis

Tier 4

• Witness Protection – Theory that most or all victims/families of 9/11 victims are under witness protection and are connected with the US government, usually involving a cover-up.
• Air-defense stand-down theory – Theory that the government prevented air-defense from shooting down the hijacked airliners.
• Able Danger
• Silverstein Properties terrorism response meeting months before 9/11
• "Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings"
• Jim Huibregtse almost caught AA11 on camera – Jim Huibregtse claims if his camera had not been slow to start, he would have captured AA11's impact.
• Twin Towers II
• The 28 pages
• Debris caused the collapse of WTC7
• The Disintegration Loops – Experimental album by William Basinski completed the day of the attacks. Music consists of a repeating tapeloop that slowly degrades.
• The remains of the South Tower
• Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations
• Meteor prediction
• Genelle Guzman-McMillan
• The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 #36 / The Black Issue
• you would have thought no one was on the plane.
• bin Laden's bookshelf
• Gander / Come From Away
• Post-9/11 Hindu temple hate crime
• Khalid al-Masri
• 2001 anthrax attacks
• 4,000 Israelis missed work on 9/11
• Alicia Esteve Head
• skylight.mov
• De-aging Bin Laden
• Prague connection
• Shanghai Baosteel
• William Rodriguez / Basement Explosion
• "We're fucking dying"
• 09:03:11
• World Trade Center (Brussels)
• War Games
• Screw Loose Change
• key.com
• HJCK
• UA 2011 Reassignment
• The Jersey Girls
• Survivor Stairs
• Survivor Glass
• Delta 1989
• Korean Air 085
• Guillaume Dasquié
• 9/11 was a rebrand of Operation Northwoods
• WPIX
• Missing polygons on CGI UA175 – Conspiracy theory that the reflections on the bottom of Flight 175 were actually missing polygons on the 3D model edited into the footage.
• Gold rushed out of tunnels, no bodies found

Tier 5

• "Cartoon Planes" – Refers to an image claiming the planes used to attack the World Trade Center (and by extension, those seen in CCTV footage hitting the Pentagon) were edited in with Computer Graphics.
• Ejection of material
• Israeli agents
• Edna Cintron – Also known as the Waving Woman. Cintron was employed by Marsh McLennan as an administrative assistance in the North Tower. She can be seen in several videos waving in the impact site of Flight 11…
• Satellite view – There is a satellite image of the large plume of smoke generated by the burning towers.
• Flight UA93 was shot down
• Flight 77 U-turn
• 4K/16mm/Super8 Footage – Flight 175 was captured by a photographer on 16mm film reel, which can be scanned in 4K resolution.
• Staten Island Ferry – There are numerous videos taken of Flight 175 from the Staten Island Ferry, likely due to the plane flying directly over photographers into the World Trade Center.
• Zacarias Moussaoui
• Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American"
• Rudy Giuliani involvement
• PROPANE BLASTS HIT TRADE CENTER
• bin Laden's son
• Delta Air Lines Flight 2315 near midair collision
• Photos taken inside by soon-to-be-victims
• Megan drinking apple juice
• hop owner saves woman's life from wall of dust on 9/11
• View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 (2001)
• 9/11 weather
• The Lone Gunmen prediction
• DEFCON 3 placed following attacks
• George Washington Bridge van bombing claim
• Kevin McPadden overheard WTC7 Countdown, Explosions
• Emma E. Booker Elementary School
• If A 707 Hit The World Trade Center?...
• Disposable Camera
• William Cooper
• FBI Roomate
• Lynch Radar Gap
• Sibel Edmonds
• Barry Jennings
• CAPPS I
• 6 stairwells
• No Inferno on 78th Floor
• Jason Z
• Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
• USS Carl Vinson
• Hell Floor
• Without Precedent
• Bloomberg Windows on the World Conference
• 9/12 celebrating men
• 81 Minute Flight 93 CVR
• Flashes of Light
• "if a fire breaks out above the 64th floor, that building will fall down."
• bin Laden videos – bin Laden was frequently filmed in videos addressed to the United States after the attacks.
• Terrorist Nuke Card
• CameraPlanet

Tier 6

• WTC7 was left to burn – Theory that the wing of Flight 175 fell on the roof of WTC7 and burned through, and the fire was never reported.
• 175 heard on camera in D.C. – There is a video that claims 175's engines were captured on video.
• The White House was a target
• 5th plane couldn't be hijacked
• Kevin Westley foreknowledge – Kevin Westley captured Flight 175 clearly on video and claimed he uploaded the video in 2005, but never made it public until September 2023. He was a former aircraft commander, and it is theorized he…
• Adobe Flash shutdown destroyed evidence and information
• Scott Myers Murder
• Osama bin Laden (elephant)
• Korean Air Flight 085 "HJK"
• Hamburg cell
• Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi
• Colonial Williamsburg Super Bowl Ad
• Victim 0001 / Father Mychal Judge / The American Pieta – Image of Father Mychal Judge's corpse carried from the North Tower. He became the first deceased recovered from the site.
• Howard Stern reaction
• CeeCee Lyles final phone call
• Jules' camera
• St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine (1830s-2001) – The only building outside of the World Trade Center complex (and only house of worship) to be completely destroyed.
• Mystery white plane over White House
• Flight 93 Barrel Roll Final Maneuver
• Michael Jackson rumored meeting at WTC on 9/11
• "PLZ CONFIRM ALL IS NML... THX"
• Rudi Dekkers
• Operation yellow ribbon
• Bojinka plot
• Ptech
• Scott Forbes
• Hurricane Erin
• The Carlyle Group
• Vermiculite Plaster
• Odigo Messenger
• Willie Brown
• Gwyneth Paltrow "Sliding Doors" moment
• E-Team
• Larry Silverstein terrorism insurance
• King St. Van
• Scoggins Still Airborne
• AA11 & UA175 Black Box
• NORAD Drills using jets as weapons
• gelitin
• CL00001
• Toronto Report
• Kenneth Johannemann
• Saudi Official cases the U.S. Capitol years before 9/11
• CIA agent met Bin Laden in July
• Operation Tripod
• Barry Hoover
• Rosbrook 3 Minute Discrepancy

Tier 7

• Tremors/Earthquake theory
• Security camera footage – It is widely assumed that the World Trade Center had cameras that captured each floor during the attacks. In 2023, a
• 1993 bombing was the first attempt
• AA63 failed shoe bombing
• The Phoenix Memo
• Bush era reports
• Afghan leaders denied bin Laden was behind the attacks
• Saddam Hussein condemned the attacks
• "... just walk north."
• AA11 impact footage withheld by news stations
• Something Awful "oeps" post
• AT&T eliminated domestic call costs in NYC following 9/11
• Pavel Hlava's postcard
• Cantor Fitzgerald's Cast of The Thinker missing shortly after being recovered at Ground Zero
• Disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip
• "America's Still Strong" Song by unknown female singer
• Park51 / Cordoba House
• bin Laden corpse photos/hoax photos
• Ace Baker
• Karen Juday jumping photo
• Steve Buscemi volunteered on 9/11
• Salty & Roselle
• The size of Al-Qaeda
• Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
• Killing of Henryk Siwiak
• Disappearance of Michele Anne Harris
• New York City elections cancelled
• Flight 175 acknowledged hijacked Flight 11 prior to being hijacked themselves
• Benazir Bhutto
• Omar al-Bayoumi
• Ahmad Shah Massoud
• CITGO CCTV
• Columbine and 9/11
• Red Cross Ghost
• Oracle Emergency Drill
• Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia evacuated following bomb threat
• Hijackers allowed through airport security despite setting off alarms
• Terry Tyksinski
• Gold underneath the Twin Towers – The theory that the Twin Towers were deliberately demolished to retrieve the gold hoard stored underneath the buildings. The rumour was spread by the same who spread the Tallano gold hoard theory.
• Spirit of Oklahoma
• August 11, 2000 Elevator Crash
• Mick Hovsepian
• Unknown Man in Taliercio Footage – Throughout Jack Taliercio's footage at the plaza, an unknown man is heard (and briefly seen) tagging alongside Jack as he filmed the WTC plaza, making some rather crude remarks. He's heard a little…
• Police Scanner WTC 1 Collapse Audio/Aftermath – Police scanner audio that depicts the second collapse. Even more haunting, at three points throughout this recording, officers calling for help (presumably in the rubble) can be heard. It should also…
• Post-9/11 murders and spree-killings
• Convar
• Committee for a Reasonable World Trade Center
• Amalgam Virgo 01
• WTC Roof Closed 9/10/2001
• Atta calls father 9/12
• 2 found with video of Sears Tower
• Machine shop "gone"
• José Felgueiras had nothing to do with 9/11 – Since the 2010s, Portuguese personaility José Felgueiras has been the subject of absurd humor related to the 9/11 attacks, in which memes claim that "José Figueiras had nothing to do with 9/11".…
• Unknown Scream over Radio

Tier 8

• Test condition / Williams
• The Marriott
• The 1981 Near Miss – Aerolinas Argentinas Flight 342 narrowly missed the antenna of the North Tower in 1981. "Argentine 342 ... climb, climb immediately."
• British intelligence
• Building 7 arson/bombing
• Bush's September 11th, 2001 intelligence briefing did not mention bin Laden or al-Qaeda
• Banzai Deck
• "It should be an easy day."
• The Smiling Woman – Gary Pollard's footage of the WTC2 collapse films citizens fleeing in terror apart from one lady, who can be seen smiling and skipping as she walks past the camera.
• Skeleton of WTC2 shortly after collapse
• Distant screams among the white noise – In several recordings of either tower collapse, distant screams can be heard among the deafening sound of the Tower's collapse, almost like the screams of the people trapped inside.
• Jesus in the night sky
• Evacuations before 9/11
• Abderraouf Jdey, Khalid al-Juhani, Ramzi bin al-Shibh videotapes
• Penthouse on WTC7 crumbles shortly before WTC7 collapse
• Black Tag Lady
• Nosebleed
• Atta and al-Shehhi "homos"
• WTCRRS – 9/11 Commission, p.284
• Xineohpoel
• Arab Assassins
• Bronx Mosque Warning
• the last 12 seconds
• Securacom
• Marvin Cetron 1993 Report
• MA-TF1 Deployed 9/10
• Andre Koudachev

Other versions

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

• 9/11 Iceberg by u/Math_Metalhead, 15 October 2021 (553 upvotes) (image no longer available)

Text versions on other sites:

• 9-11 on IcebergCharts.com (archived; 35 entries)

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Conspiracy theories iceberg
• Aviation disasters and incidents iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/Hinata_2-8. 9/11 Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 29 March 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: portaldash. 9/11 (ADAPTED FROM ICEBERGCHARTS, BY VARIK). IcebergThreads. 24 March 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.