"Clean cut I suppose I can believe, but there lies another problem," Press said. "The hole itself. Even an idiot would be able to tell that it wasn't caused by natural forces. I mean, who's going to believe that a circular hole, or whatever the hell kind of shape you're gonna make, is natural? Not to mention that people would be able to check to see how fresh such a thing would be. I know I could. Plus, civilians would converge toward the hole since it would be such an oddity. Their curiosity would override their sense of danger and we'd lose any element of surprise we'd have, not to mention that those civilians would make easy pickings of hostages, or worse. So, [i]Jack[/i], we're still in this aircraft, and not exactly the 'field of duty' yet. You save your oily flame for when we actually need it."