MH370 Daily Research — working papers
18 September 2026
Working ISR report, source ledger and master chronology gathered the same day, with a cited-URL set pointing at contemporary MAGIC, Orion and Gorgon Stare reporting.
Papers attached that day: the working ISR report, the source ledger, the master chronology, Jericho’s 2019 compilation, and the Naval Postgraduate School MAGIC thesis. Public URLs cited alongside them include Aviation Week on Orion’s 120-hour aim; Defense Update 25 Sep 2013 on first flight; Shephard on Aurora winning the first MAGIC phase; SUAS News 2015 on Orion in storage after the record flight; Sierra Nevada / UAS Vision on Gorgon Stare Increment 2 IOC around 1–4 July 2014; GlobalSecurity PE 0305205F; Cubic US6641087B1; UPI 15 May 2014 on Exelis wide-area sensors. Pages about plasma teleportation in that citation cloud are not adopted. A causal link from these programmes to 9M-MRO is not established in the working report and is not established here.
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Working paper · 18 September 2026
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