I still remember the night that happened, they had a military flight crew at a press conference. They asked what they had seen as they were flying in the area, at a higher altitude than the TWA plane. Iremember the spokesman for the crew telling the reporters they were pushing flares out (at high altitude) and there was some concern that TWA 800 had hit one of these flares. This story and that line of investigation suddenly disappeared, and after that first night I never heard or saw anything about it again.
I remember having to ask my dad, "Why would they be pushing flares out of a plane at high altitude?" and he told me he didn't know. I still can't think of any other reason to be dumping flares from high altitude unless it involves some sort activity to provide a target for a missile.
I agree with many people, the "official" story on what happened to that plane is not what actually happened.