Ashton Forbes Claims Secret U.S. Technology Removed MH370 From the Sky...🧐🤔
More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard, the aircraft’s main wreckage and flight recorders have still not been located.
That unresolved absence has allowed numerous alternative theories to develop, including one centered on two viral videos that appear to show a passenger aircraft surrounded by three luminous objects before suddenly disappearing.
In a recent interview, information technology consultant Ashton Forbes argued that the videos may show what happened to MH370.
Forbes does not believe the objects were extraterrestrial.
He claims they may represent secret technology developed or operated by the United States military, possibly the U.S. Navy.
The two controversial recordings are commonly described online as a satellite video and an infrared drone video.
Both appear to show a large passenger aircraft flying through clouds while three small objects circle it.
The sequence ends with a bright visual event, after which the aircraft and the objects are no longer visible.
Forbes says he began investigating the recordings after encountering them online in 2023.
He explains that he had no previous involvement with the UFO community and initially approached the material by asking what evidence would need to exist for the videos to be authentic.
His argument depends on three broad areas.
The first is the unresolved disappearance of MH370.
The second is the alleged timing and provenance of the videos.
The third is the possibility that classified military technology could account for the aircraft’s apparent disappearance.
Forbes argues that a Boeing 777 should not have been able to disappear completely in 2014.
He points to satellite surveillance, military radar, aircraft engine monitoring, acoustic detection systems and over the horizon radar networks as technologies that might have recorded the aircraft or its destruction.
He specifically refers to Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network, which can monitor activity across very large distances.
From his perspective, the absence of a publicly released record showing the final moments of MH370 suggests that relevant information may have been withheld.
However, MH370 did not disappear without leaving any trace.
Military radar recorded the aircraft reversing direction and crossing the Malay Peninsula after communication with civilian air traffic control ended.
Satellite communication data also indicated that the aircraft continued operating for several hours after it vanished from conventional air traffic tracking.
Those records became the basis for the official search in the southern Indian Ocean.
Physical debris was later recovered from islands and coastlines in the western Indian Ocean.
A flaperon found on Réunion Island was confirmed as belonging to MH370, and additional pieces were either confirmed or assessed as almost certainly originating from the aircraft.
The main fuselage, engines and flight recorders remain missing, but it is inaccurate to say that no physical evidence from the aircraft has ever been found.
Forbes also points to the online history of the alleged satellite video.
The original upload reportedly described the file as having been received on March 12, 2014, four days after MH370 disappeared.
The video itself was published online in May 2014.
Forbes argues that this narrow timeline would have made it extremely difficult for someone to create an elaborate fabrication containing accurate details about the case.
The problem is that the “received March 12” statement comes from the anonymous uploader’s description.
It is not an independently authenticated government timestamp.
A description written by the person uploading a video cannot establish when the underlying footage was created or received.
The fact that the material appeared online within several months of the disappearance is relevant to its history, but it does not prove that it was recorded by a military satellite or drone.
It also does not make visual effects work impossible.
The strongest public challenge to the alleged satellite video concerns its cloud background.
Researchers identified cloud photographs that appear to match the background used in the video.
Those photographs were reportedly taken in 2012, approximately two years before MH370 disappeared, and later appeared in an online visual asset library.
The photographer provided raw image files associated with the original photographs.
If the match is genuine, the implication is substantial.
A real satellite recording of MH370 in 2014 could not naturally contain a cloud scene photographed in another location in 2012.
That would indicate that the video was assembled using preexisting visual material.
Supporters of the videos have disputed the conclusion, questioned the history of the image files and argued that the entire moving sequence has not been satisfactorily reproduced from a single static background.
Nevertheless, the visual correspondence remains one of the most serious problems facing the authenticity claim.
The infrared video has also been criticized because the final flash resembles an existing visual effects element used in older digital productions.
Similar appearance alone does not automatically prove that an effect was copied, but it adds another unresolved issue to the footage.
Forbes rejects the idea that these elements conclusively demonstrate a hoax.
He believes the videos contain technical details, motion, perspective and apparent sensor information that would have been unusually difficult to fabricate so soon after the disappearance.
He also argues that two different viewpoints showing the same event would require a coordinated and technically sophisticated production.
Even if the videos were authentic recordings of a real aircraft, a further problem would remain.
Nothing visible in them independently identifies the plane as MH370.
There is no readable registration number, no authenticated telemetry and no verified chain of custody connecting the recordings to the aircraft.
The association with MH370 was made online after the disappearance.
Forbes’s most extraordinary claim is that the three objects and the aircraft’s disappearance may be linked to secret human technology rather than extraterrestrial intervention.
He describes the objects as advanced systems associated with the U.S. military and suggests that the event could involve technology capable of manipulating space, energy or the physical position of the aircraft.
No publicly available technical evidence currently demonstrates that the United States possesses a system capable of making a Boeing 777 disappear in the manner shown.
No identified satellite operator, drone crew, intelligence officer or military program has authenticated the footage.
No original government file, metadata record or classified document has been publicly verified as its source.
The official investigation also provides a different evidentiary trail.
Radar and Inmarsat data indicate that MH370 continued flying for hours after its initial diversion.
Confirmed debris recovered in the Indian Ocean is consistent with the aircraft having ended in that region.
These findings do not explain why the plane diverted, who controlled it during its final hours or exactly where the main wreckage lies.
They do, however, create a major conflict with the interpretation that the aircraft disappeared during the event shown in the viral recordings.
The continued mystery of MH370 is real.
The failure to locate the main wreckage and flight recorders has left the families of those aboard without a complete explanation.
There were also serious failures in communication, coordination and the early search response.
Those failures deserve continued investigation.
But an unresolved tragedy does not automatically validate every alternative explanation.
For the viral videos to be accepted as genuine evidence, investigators would need the original files, a verifiable chain of custody, authenticated metadata, confirmation of the recording platforms, orbital or flight data matching the scene, and independent analysis showing that the imagery was not assembled from existing visual assets.
Forbes presents the videos as the key to solving one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.
The publicly available evidence currently supports a more cautious conclusion.
The footage is historically connected to the MH370 discussion and contains enough detail to continue generating debate, but its source remains unverified and major visual evidence indicates that at least part of it may have been artificially constructed.
Until the original files and their provenance can be authenticated, the videos cannot establish that MH370 was removed by UFOs, secret U.S. technology or any other unconventional system.
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