I believe you are referring to comments on the Long Thread. And I don’t think you remember the discussion carefully. As I recollect the discussion considered that there were direct Honolulu to Seattle flights, but no London/Europe/African direct flights to Seattle — or anywhere on the west coast at the time. In 1961 flight legs where considerably shorter than we know them today, and the jet age was in its immediate infancy years. We were considering the possible story that his mom tried to rush back from Kenya to the states to birth Obama, but because airlines at the time had policies against boarding women very close to their delivery date, she was stopped at the gate and Obama was born in Kenya. She and he then rushed back — Kenya > London > Eastern Canada > Vancouver (that is all on British Air, because that’s what serviced Kenya). From Vancouver she drove to Mercer Island as a respite from the nearly two days in-flight with a newborn.
Very interesting theory.
Do you suppose passenger manifest on those flights could be dug up by any chance?
Now I have a question on travel document.
If Obama was indeed born in Kenya and came back to the States with Ann shortly, what travel document did he use?
Or did Ann register Obama’s foreign birth at the closest American Consulate to get his own passport?
Was it possible for baby Obama to travel on Ann’s passport alone without any documentation? Mind you they had to travel through a few countries.