Updates
Updates
Working charts of the radar delays, the 9 March spear-phish of the investigation, and the 7–9 March theatre sit next to the latest findings.
Working charts
Open any board full-size. Green on the theatre chart is publicly documented. Amber is basing without a pinned 7–9 March sortie. Red is a record still to pull.
Working chart
The radar story and the 9 March cyberattack
Civilian secondary, military primary, Thai paint ten days late, a 12-hour lag before the rescue centre was told — and a spear-phish of the investigation the next day. What was stolen is still unpublished.
Working chart
Two waves of MH370-themed cyberattacks
9 March: official-network intrusion, about thirty machines, traffic toward a China IP. Late March–April: MyCERT backdoor and fake-transcript lures aimed more widely. A destination address is not attribution.
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US military presence in theatre, 7–9 March 2014
Pinckney already in the South China Sea, diverted to search. A Kadena P-3C announced the same day. Sortie logs, Global Hawk, Diego Garcia sensors and pre-search tracks still needed. Presence is not tracking.
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Forensic evidence board
Established MH370 data against QF-16, remote-control patents, JORN, Inmarsat and the ten dossiers that would actually close or kill a US-capability story.
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Remote-control claims versus evidence gaps
Unmanned fighter-class flight was demonstrated in 2013. Boeing’s patent exists. Teso showed an FMS path. Installation on 9M-MRO is still the test.
21 Sep 2026 · Working charts · 21 Sep 2026
Radar delays and a spear-phish of the investigation, the next day
The westbound primary, Thai paint ten days late, and a 12-hour lag before the rescue centre was told are already in the file. New on the chart: named feeds BD764 and BE144, and CyberSecurity Malaysia’s account that officials on the probe were hacked on 9 March. Destination IP in China is a routing fact, not a finding that Beijing ran it. What was stolen is still unpublished.
21 Sep 2026 · Working charts · 21 Sep 2026
Two waves: official-network theft, then public MH370 malware lures
9 March hit machines inside the investigation. Late March and April, MyCERT warned of backdoors and a fake investigation-transcript phish aimed at organisations and the public. Keep them apart. Neither is shown to have taken the radar file.
20 Sep 2026 · Working charts · 20 Sep 2026
Three working charts: US theatre, remote-control gaps, ten dossiers
Pinckney was already in the South China Sea on 8 March and diverted to search. QF-16 had flown unmanned in 2013. Boeing signed a NAVAIR engineering order on 4 March. Sortie logs, 9M-MRO configuration and the Boeing statement of work are still the test — not slogans about what was ‘impossible’.
20 Sep 2026 · Thesis catalogued
Quiet Exodus names Freescale as the target — the operation is not shown
The paper argues a US asset-denial to keep twenty Freescale employees from China, tied to Lockheed compact fusion. Headcount, Carlyle and a public Skunk Works fusion programme are real. An orb intercept at IGARI and a structural failure at 18:22 UTC are not established, and they collide with SATCOM and debris.
20 Sep 2026 · Investigation · 20 Sep 2026
BIG SAFARI is the hub: Gorgon Stare, Blue Devil and MAGIC/Orion are one family
Congressional and USAF budget records put the air vehicle, the wide-area sensor and Blue Devil residuals in the same office. Blue Devil Block 1 had already flown. Block 2 equipment went to Greenville as reusable GFE. An Orion carrying Gorgon Stare on 8 March 2014 is still open. So is any MH370 collection — not shown, and not ruled out.
20 Sep 2026 · Investigation · 20 Sep 2026
MAGIC stayed funded, the west-track lag is timed, Gorgon Stare is 2 fps
USAF budget exhibits keep MAGIC/Orion alive through FY2018. Malaysian military radar was played back the morning of 8 March; the civilian rescue centre was told that evening; Thailand spoke nine days later. A 2013 Pentagon report puts Gorgon Stare at 2 frames per second, not the 6 fps later claimed for alleged video.
20 Sep 2026 · Radar chronology
West-track: minister 10:30, ARCC 22:30, Thailand 9–10 days later
Military playback ~08:30 MYT 8 March; minister ~10:30; a military aircraft west at 10:54; KL ARCC only at 22:30. Thai Surat Thani disclosed 18–19 March. Raw military data unpublished because classified — not shown withheld from US/China investigators. Indonesia: no paint at Lhokseumawe or Sabang.
20 Sep 2026 · Video file · 20 Sep 2026
Forbes video archive listed; Lin FOIA does not name MH370
A third-party extract of 824 Ashton Forbes videos is a claim list, not proof. The RegicideAnon file went up on 19 May 2014; a claimed 12 March receipt is not verified by that date. Edward C. Lin’s court-martial records confirm Navy service and a classified-information plea. No released court document names MH370 or a satellite video.
19 Sep 2026 · OSD UAS report · 2013
Gorgon Stare is documented at 2 fps, not 6 fps
OSD’s September 2013 Next-Generation UAS report labels Gorgon Stare 2 fps versus 30 fps FMV. A claimed ~6 fps match to Increment 2 is not established. Increment 2 was not shown to be operational on 8 March 2014.
19 Sep 2026 · USAF budget exhibits
MAGIC/Orion did not fade after 2014
USAF PB2020 records Congressional adds of $20m (FY2015), $5m (FY2016), $50m (FY2017) and $40m (FY2018). Post-2016 money was a demonstrator-to-deployable Block 1 Orion path. Quiet press is not a disappearance.
18 Sep 2026 · Working research report
Working paper maps MAGIC, Orion, Gorgon Stare and Blue Devil as one family
The September 2026 ISR working report sets out programmes, budgets, patents and open questions in the 2013–14 window. The family under BIG SAFARI is documented. A specific MH370 collection is still open — not shown, and not ruled out.
18 Sep 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
Blue Devil, MAGIC, Orion, BIG SAFARI — collages from the 2014 window
Billion-dollar classified aviation and ISR programmes placed next to MH370. Freescale’s last gyro presentation is on the same boards. Egg-shaped Blue Devil airship, NSA collection, BIG SAFARI.
18 Sep 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
Redacted Blue Devil letters — MAGIC and remote-takeover patents go quiet in 2014
Aurora’s remote-operation work from about 2010. MAGIC and Boeing/NRL patents then thin out of the open record in 2014.
17 Sep 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
USAF, Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Kratos
Contractor plate against the MH370 date. Nic: the US military exercise around the flight has not been fully accounted for in public.
11 Sep 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
CIA files, Petronas Towers, and the January 2000 Kuala Lumpur meeting
Hijackers later on the 9/11 flights met in Kuala Lumpur in 2000. MH370 left the same city fourteen years later. Facilitator reported at KLIA.
9 Sep 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
Carlyle, Freescale, 9/11 finance and MH370
Briefing film on a common money trail: Carlyle’s Freescale ownership, 9/11-era investment histories, twenty Freescale employees on the flight.
13 Jun 2026 · EFI / 370 filmography
Public documentaries in the file — Netflix, Mentour, Wise, Cox, CNA
Three-theory Netflix series, Mentour Pilot’s 56-minute reconstruction, Jeff Wise’s debris and landing episodes, Capt. John Cox on forensic likelihood, CNA’s tenth-anniversary Insight, and the 2025–27 underwater search. Each film is a source, not a finding.
11 Feb 2026 · @nic_moneypenny
They May As Well Have Been Flying the Plane
MH370 song from the investigation. Who signed off the project; FOIA walls; families still waiting.
18 Sep 2026 · Investigation chronology
Gorgon Stare delivery order and Cubic remote-pilot patent
Sierra Nevada BOA FA8620-11-G-4020 DO 0007, about $30.1m in 2012, contemporaneous with Orion. Cubic US6641087B1 in full.
18 Sep 2026 · Naval Postgraduate School
Naval Postgraduate School MAGIC thesis, 2012
84-page business case treating MAGIC as long-range ISR. The $510m figure in the paper is a model, not a signed budget.
18 Sep 2026 · DoD IG · archived copy
DoD Inspector General: Blue Devil residual parts
DODIG-2013-128. Fifty-four pages. Residual hardware absorbed into other USAF programmes. Open: which components migrated, and whether any became GFE for Orion.
18 Sep 2026 · Cargo file
Cargo: Motorola air waybill, mangosteens, screening gap
2,453 kg Motorola consignment, about 221 kg lithium-ion cells, 4,566 kg mangosteens. Motorola load not X-rayed.
29 Jun 2026 · MOT Malaysia
Ocean Infinity contract extended to 30 June 2027
Malaysia extends the no-find-no-fee search. Remaining box on the 7th arc still unsounded.
1 Mar 2025 · MOT / Ocean Infinity
Underwater search resumes — then pauses for weather
Ocean Infinity returns to the southern Indian Ocean in 2025. Work pauses in April, resumes in December.
19–20 September 2026
The family under BIG SAFARI is confirmed. A specific MH370 collection remains open — not shown, and not ruled out.
- Confirmed
21 Sep 2026
Investigation networks were spear-phished on 9 March 2014
CyberSecurity Malaysia, public in August: about thirty computers at the Department of Civil Aviation, National Security Council and Malaysia Airlines. Malware posed as a news story that the aircraft had been found. Outbound mail carrying minutes and classified documents, some MH370-related, went to an IP in China. What was in the take is still unpublished.
- Confirmed
21 Sep 2026
MyCERT warned of MH370-themed backdoors in March and April
24 March: Facebook-app lure with remote-control capability. 18 April: emails posing as an investigation team, fake transcript, command-and-control. A second wave, aimed more widely — not shown to be the same job as the 9 March official-network theft.
- Open
21 Sep 2026
BE144 is charted as ending at 18:02:59 UTC — the 18:22 return is still to source
The working chart names BD764 (secondary, dies with the transponder) and BE144 (primary, westbound). The 2018 report already has a gap after Pulau Perak and a last military return at 18:22:12. If BE144 stops at 18:02:59, what produced the later points? Raw military data is still unpublished.
- Open
21 Sep 2026
No public list shows radar was in the 9 March steal
The intrusion sits on the same day the westbound primary was being played back, and twelve hours before the civilian rescue centre was told. CSM named minutes and classified documents. Radar recordings are not named. Timing is not a contents list.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Pinckney was already in the South China Sea; diverted to search on 8 March
Seventh Fleet: training and maritime security in international waters, then toward Vietnam’s southern coast with two MH-60R. A Kadena P-3C announced the same day; Kidd joined the surface search. Pre-search combat-system logs are still missing.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
QF-16 flew unmanned in 2013 — a fighter, not a 777
Boeing/USAF full-scale aerial target, including supersonic flight and landing. Remote flight of a high-performance jet was demonstrated before MH370. That does not install a remote architecture on 9M-MRO.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Boeing signed a $956k NAVAIR delivery order on 4 March 2014
Department of the Navy, aircraft-manufacturing NAICS, professional engineering support, St Louis. Date and dollar figure are public. The statement of work is not. Chronology is not a collection event.
- Correction
20 Sep 2026
HA08 North did go dark in March 2014 — UCT-2 was not on that cable
CTBTO: northern hydrophones off Diego Garcia failed ~189 km out, 1.5 km down; South kept listening. UCT-2 was on the atoll replacing zinc anodes on near-shore HDAS in about 110 ft of water. Both facts are real. They are not the same job. A deliberate deep-ocean cut is still open, and not shown.
- Open
20 Sep 2026
Quiet Exodus is on the file as a thesis, not a finding
Twenty Freescale staff, Carlyle, Lockheed’s public compact-fusion work and the HA08 outage are real hooks. A US asset-denial intercept by compact-fusion orbs, and a structural kill at 18:22 UTC, sit against six hours of SATCOM and African debris. Assignments of the twenty remain unpublished.
- Correction
20 Sep 2026
Gorgon Stare, Blue Devil and MAGIC/Orion are one family under BIG SAFARI
645 AESG executed MAGIC, developed Gorgon Stare, and took Blue Devil equipment. Same office, overlapping WAMI/SIGINT sensors, reusable GFE through Greenville, podded architecture meant to move between airframes. Overlap is the finding, not a dead end.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Blue Devil Block 1 was operational — not only a cancelled airship
Manned King Airs flew Angel Fire-derived wide-area imagery integrated with SIGINT. Block 2, the airship, was terminated. Treating “Blue Devil” as the failed airship buries the sensor lineage that Congress later told the Air Force to recapitalise onto Gorgon Stare.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Blue Devil 2 equipment went to Greenville as reusable GFE
FY2014 USAF budget: packed, transferred to a BIG SAFARI-managed facility in Greenville, Texas, components available for other projects. DODIG-2013-128: residual parts absorbed into other Air Force programmes. Storage is a reuse node, not a scrapyard.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Orion is MAGIC’s multi-day ISR air vehicle
USAF budget documentation selected Aurora’s Orion for MAGIC: multi-day persistence, medium altitude, multiple sensors. An empty first flight and a ballasted endurance hop do not make it a non-ISR aircraft, and they do not decide what was fitted in March 2014.
- Open
20 Sep 2026
A specific MH370 collection is not on the record — and is not ruled out
None of the material currently places Orion, Blue Devil-derived equipment or Gorgon Stare around 9M-MRO. Equally, none of it rules such a deployment out. The test is one object in both chains: a contract modification, GFE issue, sortie card or collector in the MH370 window.
- Correction
20 Sep 2026
MAGIC/Orion did not fade after 2014
USAF PB2020 records Congressional adds of $20m (FY2015), $5m (FY2016), $50m (FY2017) and $40m (FY2018). Post-2016 money was a demonstrator-to-deployable Block 1 Orion path. Quiet press is not a disappearance.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
OSD PB2012 names USCENTCOM and a multi-INT payload menu
Primary JCTD record: 120-hour sortie, 1,000 lb nominal / 2,600 lb max at 15,000 ft, EO/IR · SIGINT · GMTI · WAMI · comms relay · strike. Transition named to USAF 303rd AESW. Payload classes are design options, not the March 2014 fit.
- Correction
19 Sep 2026
Maiden flight and flight 18 are not ISR-payload proof — and not a rebuttal
No mission system on 24 Aug 2013. December 2014 endurance attempt was flight 18 with 1,000 lb ballast. Those two flights do not prove a March 2014 stack, and they do not mean Orion was not MAGIC’s ISR aircraft. Sorties 2–17 remain the hole.
- Correction
19 Sep 2026
Gorgon Stare is documented at 2 fps, not 6 fps
OSD’s September 2013 Next-Generation UAS report labels Gorgon Stare 2 fps versus 30 fps FMV. A claimed ~6 fps match to Increment 2 is not established. Increment 2 was not shown to be operational on 8 March 2014.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
West-track: minister 10:30, ARCC 22:30, Thailand 9–10 days later
Military playback ~08:30 MYT 8 March; minister ~10:30; a military aircraft west at 10:54; KL ARCC only at 22:30. Thai Surat Thani disclosed 18–19 March. Raw military data unpublished because classified — not shown withheld from US/China investigators. Indonesia: no paint at Lhokseumawe or Sabang.
- Correction
19 Sep 2026
Unnamed FY2013 ‘staring’ integration is RF, not EO/IR WAMI
Dual-band wide-angle continuously-staring hardware sits in RF Persistent Sensing, not the separate EO staring line. FIRST RF’s UHF/X-band SAR (Shadow-class SWaP) and ISIS test-facility work are documented alternatives. Orion is chronology-only.
- Confirmed
19 Sep 2026
HASC told USAF to recapitalise Blue Devil onto Gorgon Stare
Report 113-102 (7 June 2013): Gorgon Stare is the logical programme to take Blue Devil WAMI + NVDF SIGINT, with a USD(I)/USAF strategy paper due 14 February 2014 — 22 days before MH370. That paper is still missing.
- Attributed
19 Sep 2026
Blue Devil I aircraft were gone; the sensors were not
Operational demo ended 31 Dec 2013. Four leased King Airs returning to Leidos. The multi-INT sensor package remained US Government property and was being assessed for reassignment. Where it sat on 8 March is open.
- Correction
19 Sep 2026
Cubic’s remote-pilot patent was in force on 8 March 2014
Parent US6641087B1: fees paid 2007 and 2011; expired 4 Nov 2015 for later non-payment. Continuation abandoned 2007 does not mean Cubic dropped the IP. Still no prototype, certification or 777 installation.
- Open
20 Sep 2026
Forbes video archive listed; Lin FOIA does not name MH370
A third-party extract of 824 Ashton Forbes videos is a claim list, not proof. The RegicideAnon file went up on 19 May 2014; a claimed 12 March receipt is not verified by that date. Edward C. Lin’s court-martial records confirm Navy service and a classified-information plea. No released court document names MH370 or a satellite video.
- Confirmed
19 Sep 2026
WAMI + precision RF cueing was already live-flown in 2012
FY2013 NDAA Sec. 927 named WAND, Guardrail/ARGUS A160 and Blue Moon. DARPA WAND flew coincident WAMI/RF at Trident Spectre 2012. FY2014 NDAA Sec. 221 Blue Devil report was due ~26 March 2014 — 18 days after MH370, not before.
- Confirmed
20 Sep 2026
Mead / AFRL propulsion literature still does not make plasma orbs
Larson, Mead and Knecht 2004 is laser-thermal trajectory maths. Dense-plasma-focus plasmoids in Mead’s papers are centimetre-scale and confined. The 2004 Teleportation Physics Study is theoretical. None of it describes a metre-scale autonomous orb.
Search 2024–2027
ChronologyMalaysia extends the search contract to June 2027
29 June 2026
Cabinet extends the Ocean Infinity agreement from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 to finish a remaining 7,428.54 km². No-find-no-fee terms continue.
2025–2026 Ocean Infinity phases
25–28 March 2025 and 31 Dec 2025 – 23 Jan 2026
Two operational phases survey about 7,571 km² of a 15,000 km² priority box. Malaysia’s 8 March 2026 family update: nothing found that confirms the wreckage.
Ocean Infinity proposes a new search
May–December 2024
Ocean Infinity submits a fresh no-find-no-fee proposal. In December 2024 Malaysia approves in principle a 15,000 km² search worth up to US$70 million if wreckage is found.