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N1098L Air-Launched Drones

The strongest government-linked drone thread in this case attaches to N1098L — a U.S. Army HADES ISR jet (Bombardier Global 6500) tracked on ADS-B making extremely low passes near Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Independent analyst John Cullen and multiple X posts allege the jet deployed and recovered drones during those maneuvers. The Army and Leidos-linked contractors have not publicly confirmed drone launch from that airframe on that day.

Reported flight behavior (open-source)

Per project research and citizen OSINT compiled in the master file:

Event	Reported time (MT)	Notes
Drones dropped	~9:16 AM	Low pass ~203 ft AGL, ~116 kt (stall-speed range)
Assassination	12:23 PM	Charlie Kirk shot at UVU
Drones picked up	~12:48 PM	Second low pass ~25 minutes after death

Additional pass details in debate: 600 ft AGL ~11:47 AM MDT and 335 ft AGL ~12:24 PM MDT described as textbook drop/recovery simulations. Aircraft reportedly within ~1–2 miles of campus.

ICAO: A0299E · Callsign: AXEL10 · Origin cited: Biggs Army Airfield.

Army air-launch program context

The War Zone reported Army interest in air-launched drones from Global Express–class jets — the same airframe family as HADES. That public program makes drone deployment plausible as doctrine even when a specific Sept 10 mission is disputed.

Counter-argument: @TJPHager and others argue the jet was not configured for launch and cite an alternate crew roster (Cooper Brown, Michael Reynolds, Sarah Kline). No FOIA release has settled the crew manifest or mission orders.

Why this matters to the investigation

If drones were released pre-event and recovered post-shooting, they could have provided:

• Overwatch of rooftops, crowd flow, and exit routes,
• Acoustic or visual masking (fast low passes are hard to track — see Military Drones on Video),
• A delivery vector for small UAS types discussed in Switchblade & DARPA Claims.

Presence of N1098L during the homicide window is a Proof Intel Services indicator regardless of whether drones launched.

Defamation note

Named crew (Harlan, Donovan, Vasquez, etc.) appear in research notes only. This site does not claim they participated in the killing.

Citizen Investigator Claims on X (2026 research)

:::note Attribution The claims below come from public X/Twitter posts, hearing notes, and citizen-investigator commentary captured in mid-2026 research. They are not court findings. Living persons are presumed innocent. The site does not assert that any living person planned or carried out Charlie Kirk's death. :::

Focus of this page

Claims that HADES jet N1098L dropped and recovered drones near UVU Sept 10, 2025 — John Cullen routing and Army air-launch program context.

Claims and discussions circulating (do not treat as proven)

HADES jet N1098L drone drop/recover claims.

Cross-cutting X signals that touch this topic

• Pre-event donor pressure (as reported): Candace Owens publicized private messages (authenticity discussed with TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet in mainstream commentary) in which Charlie reportedly wrote ~48 hours before Sept 10 that donor pressure was "leaving me no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause," and that he had lost a major donor after refusing to cancel Tucker Carlson. These are private-text claims, not a formal public policy renunciation, and they do not establish who fired any shot.
• July 2026 preliminary hearing: Citizen live-notes and press describe defense challenges to FBI DNA methods and ATF ballistics (including inconclusive comparisons widely discussed online), plus multi-agency testimony on the Sept 11 surrender chain.
• Information control: Threads continue on gag orders, Ryne Simmons video, platform deboosting, and rapid crime-scene paving (Lead Investigator Hull reportedly learned of paving via news, per circulating hearing notes).
• Counter-claims: Other accounts insist surveillance, DNA, texts, and admissions support a lone-actor charging narrative and treat foreign-intel theories as unsubstantiated. Present both sides; Tyler Robinson is charged, not convicted.

Open questions raised by investigators

1. What primary documents (GRAMA, work orders, unredacted orders, bodycam) would resolve disputes on this page's core claims?
2. Which circulating posts have independent corroboration vs single-source amplification?
3. How do July 2026 hearing exhibits (when unsealed or accurately transcribed) change the weight of earlier X threads?

Deeper related reading: After overview · CoverUp overview · FBI overview · Fix Laws.

Related

• Planes — N1098L
• Proof Intel — N1098L HADES
• Foreign Weapons & Hardware
• Counter-UAS at Provo
• Investigation Index

Interesting In This Area

• Switchblade and DARPA airframes are the platforms analysts route to that glide path.
• Campus police flew nothing; TPUSA media flew B-roll before the event.
• Fast objects on phone video are the citizen-side evidence, still unverified.
• The index sorts these into military, event-level and weaponized buckets.

Interesting In Other Areas

• HADES is a real Army program built on the Global 6500 airframe.
• ADS-B puts the jet low and slow before and after 12:23.
• John Cullen built the flight-record method other researchers copied.
• The full dossier notes the tail was previously registered N911PV.

Other Pages In This Section

Switchblade & DARPA Drone Claims

Two named platforms — a tube-launched loitering munition and a 2–5 kg DARPA airframe — are routed to a glide path near Provo by flight geometry alone. Public Army programs make it doctrinally plausible; no record places either at UVU.

Read this

Drones — Investigation Index

The routing memo for every drone thread — military ISR, event B-roll, and weaponized hypotheses, sorted by what is documented and what is only claimed. Read it before judging any single sighting.

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UVU Security & No Drones

Six campus officers, perimeter duty, and no security drone — that is the documented deployment for September 10. The university runs its own drone program; it was not used to protect the event.

Read this

Military Drones on Video

A 150 mph pass at fifty meters lasts under a second, which is why eyewitness drone counts run from zero to sixteen. The page separates streak claims on phone video from the one drone anybody admits flew.

Read this

Elsewhere In The Investigation

N1098L Spy Plane

A Bombardier Global 6500 flown by an Army ISR contractor, callsign AXLE10, ran an unusual low and slow profile near Orem on September 10. No track, tasking order, or sensor product from it has appeared in the prosecution.

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US Army HADES (Drone Launching Planes)

HADES is a real, publicly contracted Army ISR program built on the same Global 6500 airframe as N1098L. Defense-trade reporting separately describes Army interest in launching drones from that airframe.

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N1098L HADES Over UVU

Public ADS-B puts an Army HADES jet in extremely low, slow passes near UVU before and after 12:23 PM. The master file's summary of it runs to four words: it was ours.

Read this

John Cullen

The open-source investigator who put aircraft at the centre of this case — ADS-B tracks, altitude and speed profiles, departure fields. The page also documents where his claims cut against him.

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Interesting

• Egyptian contractors reportedly ran Counter-UAS testing at Provo that week.
• A recycled claim says Kirk planned an anti-Zionist AmFest lineup with Candace and Tucker.
• Search data reportedly spiked for Robinson's future defense attorney in December 2024.