Claim That Flying Orbs Teleported Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Is Spreading—But The Video Appears To Be Fake

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew on a Boeing 777-200ER flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The evidence points to a crash in the southern Indian Ocean. The main wreckage still hasn’t been found. That gap has been filled with a theory that the U.S. military teleported the plane using three flying orbs. This narrative has gained traction and it’s now been featured (skeptically) in Rolling Stone and publicized by Candace Owens with over two and a half hours of airplay. The supposed video evidence appears to be stock images and special effects. The aircraft stopped communicating with air traffic control, turned back across Malaysia, and continued flying for hours. Analysis of its satellite communications places the end of the flight in the southern Indian Ocean, likely after running out of fuel. Debris washed ashore in the western Indian Ocean, including a piece of the wing component found on Réunion in July 2015. Investigators concluded that the turn back was likely made manually. I’ve always assumed pilot murder-suicide, but left room for the possibility of an extreme electrical failure. When the disaster happened, media attention was around the clock. I turned down numerous interview requests because I genuinely didn’t know what happened, had little useful to add, and did not wish to speculate on air. A healthcare technology consultant, though, has a story. Rolling Stone profiled Ashton Forbes of St. Paul, Minnesota. He began promoting the teleportation story in 2023 and has accumulated more than 300,000 Twitter followers and 100,000 YouTube subscribers. His claim is that the U.S. secretly developed fusion-powered orbs that manipulate gravity and space-time. Three of them circled the Boeing 777, opened a portal, and transported it elsewhere. He now presents this as a demonstration of American power aimed at China. But it reminds me of Millennium, the 1989 movie with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd, where people from the future steal passengers from doomed airliners and leave substitute bodies behind to conceal what happened. Forbes adds flying orbs and gives the Pentagon credit for the technology. The full film is online. Apparently the Pentagon’s solution to competition with China was to make a Malaysia Airlines flight disappear, then keep its spectacular demonstration secret from nearly everyone. Here’s Forbes’s repost of the footage, combining the supposed thermal drone recording with the supposed satellite view. April 28, 2025 Forbes says he has government security clearance to establish credibility. But in his letter to Congress, he says his work has nothing to do with advanced technology and that the information he’s presenting is public. He identifies military satellites and a drone interprets coordinates displayed in the footage and treats the two camera angles as corroboration. He argues that the recordings are too sophisticated to fake. Then we get: A lithium ion battery fire aboard the plane, with the orbs deployed to rescue it or prevent the 20 Freescale Semiconductor employees onboard from reaching China. Diego Garcia was the destination, and surviving passengers were returned to their countries in exchange for silence. One American passenger might have entered witness protection. And that the videos prove the government possesses teleportation, has made breakthroughs in superconductivity, and also has a hidden source of virtually unlimited energy (nonetheless the administration has allowed gas prices to rise following the conflict with Iran). While he’s pitching a secret weapons program, an international hostage operation, and the solution to the world’s energy problems, it seems that the footage appears to be fake? The portal seems to use a stock special effect. As Mick West explains, the flash in the thermal video matches a shockwave from the 1990s Pyromania effects collection, with changes to its color and shape. The clouds appear to come from stock photos. Investigators matched the supposed satellite background to images on Textures.com taken over Japan in 2012. The cloud formations match. The animation seems to have compositing errors. West also describes trails that wobble relative to the aircraft and supposedly stereoscopic imagery made from distorted copies of the same view. The technical details meant to demonstrate authenticity suggest how a fake was put together. Forbes’s answer to the cloud photographs, according to Rolling Stone, is that U.S. intelligence planted them to discredit the videos. Once someone finds the ingredients used to make the fake, those ingredients become evidence of the cover-up. The people are enthralled! His interview with Candace Owens was viewed over 1.7 million times. Here’s how she introduced his theory, Some people might think that that theory is completely kooky. I don’t. Not at all. Owens treats disbelief in the footage as evidence that the media and intelligence agencies have trained people to distrust their own eyes. I’ve covered some spectacularly bad MH370 theories, including the claim that Vladimir Putin stole the plane. Even people you might think would be receptive to this story have bailed on it, like Kim Dotcom and Joe Rogan who reportedly invited Forbes on his show, then pulled it after looking into it further. Topics on this page