If nothing else, American citizen journalist Ashton Forbes is demonstrating that the governments that should be working to solve MH370 are going out of their way to do nothing of the sort. Forbes has produced evidence that demands a response from the US government, if not also China, Malaysia, and Australia, but all are continuing mute, providing further confirmation that one has been withholding information from the outset and that the others are knowingly or unwittingly complicit.
Forbes has discovered two videos that appear to have been leaked to the internet by someone in the US military. The videos are taken from two drones in the early hours of 8 March 2014, one above a plane and one to the side, and the co-ordinates show the drones to be in the region of the Nicobar Islands, where MH370 was last known known to be. The videos have every mark of authenticity, in their synchronisation, their metadata and US-patented software, and a hundred other forensic details specified by Forbes in his commentaries. The problem lies with what they depict. They show three orbs spinning around the plane, leading to a flash and the disappearance of both the plane and the orbs. According to Forbes, the plane has been drawn into a wormhole and teleported either to the Maldives or the US military base at Diego Garcia.
What is to be made of this? As far as the ‘MH370 Establishment’ is concerned, being the investigators who rely on the Inmarsat satellite data and believe the plane came down in the Southern Indian Ocea (SIO), Forbes would do better to try his hand at a new sci-fi fantasy trilogy. For Forbes, however, the shoe is on the other foot. With their belief that a Boeing 777 could fly for a further six hours after being on fire and flying low over the seas adjacent to the Malaysian Peninsula, as corroborated by more than twenty eye witnesses, it is they who are lost in a dreamworld. Forbes says his theory is grounded in quantum physics and the evolution of advanced weaponry, as documented in papers authored by US defence scientists for more than twenty years, whilst the ‘establishment’ theory is and always has been speculative.
For Forbes, the disappearance of MH370 was a ‘black op’ of the US military, designed, seemingly, to prevent the defection to China of twenty passengers who were engineers with the US microchip company, Freescale Semiconductor. With growing support including from retired US Defence personnel and contractors, he is on a ‘prove me wrong’ crusade, and so far no one conclusively has. Some have purported to do so but Forbes dissembles their arguments one by one. Besides, it is not for any independent expert, no matter how well credentialled, to disprove the videos. Whether they are real or not is only for the US government to say.
But they have not done so. Any suggestion that these ‘strange’ videos do not warrant a government comment does not suffice. There is too much evidence of US provenance of this kind of sixth-generation technology, and the videos themselves. Nor would that suggestion be consistent with all of Forbes’ FOI requests being denied on national security grounds. The onus is on the US. If there is a different story behind these videos, an explanation could go a long way to solving MH370.
With this approach to MH370, which is purposeful evasion, not indifference, the US is not alone. China, despite losing the most people on MH370, continues to exhibit a care factor of zero, even after the circulation of the videos. France and the UK are nowhere to be found. Australia, the bunny rabbit that hopped out excitedly when it was told that the plane came down near Perth, has scurried back down its burrow, never to peek out again. Even Malaysia wants nothing to do with it. Their officials do everything they can to block or forestall any new search, and when eventually they have to approve one, their pain is there for all to see.
One consequence of this government non-engagement is that the MH370 research industry is unregulated, left to the private sector and volunteer researchers. Even here, though, the ruling party, the ‘Establishment,’ stifles debate by shunning all evidence or opinion that contradicts their SIO theory. For these investigators, those twenty eye-witnesses of a burning plane flying low all must have seen something else, and despite not so much as a life jacket ever having been found in the SIO after four searches, they persist with their theory like a dog with a bone.
Similarly, their media outlet, the you-tube channel Daily Airline News (DAN), is little more than an SIO-theory propaganda machine. Any opinion that is not in accordance with DAN values, such as those of GeoResonance, Kate Tee, Florence de Changy, Jeff Wise, Sergio Cavaiuolo or Ashton Forbes, is given no air time. The most you will see of someone like Forbes on DAN is an occasional remark from him in the comments section, where he is abused by others but gives as good as he receives.
What also flows from the government silence is an implicit admission that there has been a lie. This was apparent from the beginning, with Malaysia delaying four days until revealing that the plane had flown to west, and with Indonesia, Australia, India and Thailand all saying that their military radars were switched off, or that their data was never requested. The ‘MH370 Establishment’ has nonetheless forged ahead and searches in the SIO have proceeded in earnest. It is hard to imagine future generations looking back on this period with any great admiration.
But what is the lie and who is the main actor behind it? It has always felt autocratic but Forbes is flipping the script by pointing to the leader of the free world. Whatever it is, the message we are receiving from our governments, democratic and autocratic alike, is that it is a lie we have to learn to live with.
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Craig Pett, Independent journalist 