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Courtesy of Mike Chillit, via the Last Ping :

“Photoshopped” Images 1


May 7, 2022 by Mike Chillit

In 2014 I was one of several individuals who spent time and personal resources on the effort to locate MH370’s crash site. Having spent many years as a statistical analyst, I thought perhaps I could help. Volunteers like me chose to use a variety of tools. The most common was something developed by Inmarsat known as Burst Frequency Offset (BFO). I tried several different approaches, but by mid 2017 I concluded that the US government had been correct in placing the crash site at or near Zenith Plateau, 91 degrees and 1,227 kilometers due west of Exmouth, Australia. The US government came to that conclusion with the help of classified satellite images of surface debris near Zenith. Those images were not made available to volunteers.

So, the rest of us were on our own. The method I finally settled on is known as trilateration, a close relative of the more familiar triangulation. The main difference between them is that trilateration uses the ratios between each of three sides of a triangle to obtain an unknown side or angle; triangulation uses the ratios between each of three angles of a triangle to obtain an unknown side or angle. In practice, there isn’t much difference between the two approaches, and most geometric solutions incorporate both angles and sides metrics. As a rule, solving for the lengths of triangular sides or angles between triangular sides requires three sides, or three angles, or a combination of three sides and angles. The Pythagorean Theorem sometimes makes it possible to solve with just two sides or angles if one of the angles is 90 degrees. That often comes in handy, but there was more than enough information from the satellite to locate the endpoint without Pythagoras.

With a geometric solution I was quite sure was correct, I spent some time testing and Tweeting it to friends and followers on Twitter. By late 2020 I believed I had located the plane’s endpoint using only the geometry of the plane-to-satellite final ping, plus the GPS locations for the satellite and the Kuala Lumpur airport. I routinely shared my findings with others on Twitter. By chance in late 2020 I discovered a Google Earth plugin developed by Scripps Oceanographic in California that included a bright shiny object in the deepest part of the Indian Ocean that needed clarification. The only reason I noticed it is that it was precisely where my math put the plane’s terminal “ping”: the so-called Seventh Ping.

No one at Scripps seemed able to explain what it was, but we all agreed that it was “unusual”. Scripps suggested I contact the Principal Investigator for a 2017 Oceanographic survey, which was their source for the data. I did that, and was told it was probably just “noise”, which can do odd things with sonar data. But I could not help but wonder how the object could be precisely where MH370’s debris field should have been, if my calculations were correct.

Then, December 12, 2021 I received five JPEG images from Victor Vescovo purporting to show a pristine seafloor at Zenith Abyss. They were sent to me by Mr. Vescovo in five separate Twitter DMs (each of which is limited to one attachment.). Mr. Vescovo indicated that the images were actually from marine biologist Alan Jamieson, and that he, Vescovo, was passing them along to me as Jamieson requested. Only four of the images were unique.

Since it had taken Mr. Jamieson seven months to agree to share the images, I took the precaution of conducting a series of forensic checks on them to determine their value in the search for MH370. All were found to have been altered (“photoshopped”). Each of the images is displayed below, followed by the finding that all pixels in each image were from “software editors”. Hence my conclusion: all four had been altered beyond recognition before Messrs. Vescovo and Jamieson sent them to me. To date, neither individual has disputed that.

When I questioned the absence of aircraft debris, Mr. Vescovo stated that he had personally interviewed each member of the crew to confirm that they had not seen aircraft debris at Zenith. (The seabed at Zenith is seven kilometers below the surface and cannot be viewed from a surface vessel.)

The conclusion I reached long ago is that Alan Jamieson or someone acting on his behalf photoshopped those images to deceive me, the flying public, grieving families, and those who have shared that grief for years. He covered up a seafloor strewn with debris from MH370 in an effort to convince viewers that MH370 did not crash 2,000+ kilometers north of the original search area. But make no mistake, that abyss became a cemetery on March 8, 2014, and Mr. Jamieson did as Geomar had done four years earlier without acknowledging why he was there or what he found.  The object may include geologic material such as rocks. But rocks do not shine like aluminum. More importantly, AIS ship tracking data confirms that DSSV Pressure Drop made repeated passes across the area for 35 continuous hours at only one or two knots, beginning at the object and scanning in the direction the plane had been moving: to the southwest. That is a debris search pattern, recognizable worldwide.

Knowing all of this solves two mysteries. I can confirm MH370’s crash site, and I’ve explained why ATSB’s Greg Hood threatened his staff with criminal prosecution if they talked about any of it. Fortunately, they were not all intimidated.













The website titled "Image Edited?" finds that this and each of the other three images shared with the author are basically forgeries. They were all edited extensively, presumably to hide MH370 debris strewn across the Zenith Abyssal seabed.

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