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Photo evidence filed under Articles — 5 images on this page. Scan the list and open any image for the full picture and its write-up.

About This Cluster​

The aircraft at the center of this investigation's flight thread, N1098L, is a Bombardier Global 6500 tied to the US Army's HADES program — High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System. The claim that a Global 6500 could be configured for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance work is not a fringe assertion; it is documented in open defense-trade reporting, and this cluster is where that reporting is preserved as screenshots. Keeping the source articles as images matters because at least one of the key pages that researchers cited later returned a 404, which is the subject of the Cover Up sub-cluster.

Every capture here comes from The Defense Post. One article, dated November 27, 2024 and bylined Christine Casimiro, reports that "Bombardier has delivered the first Global 6500 aircraft" to the US Army HADES program. A second, published September 10, 2025 by Rojoef Manuel — the same day as the shooting — is headlined "SNC Accepts Second Bombardier Jet for US Army HADES Spy Plane Program" and states that Sierra Nevada Corporation received the second airframe for conversion, with HADES intended to give the force "long-range platforms with a higher speed and service ceiling." Two of the captures are close crops of the same rendering, captioned "Rendering of the future HADES ISR aircraft based on the Global 6500 business jet." These establish the program and the airframe type; they do not establish anything about what N1098L was doing over Utah, which remains contested.

Read these alongside the N1098L Spy Plane page, which carries the flight-data analysis, and ISR Operations for how surveillance aircraft are normally tasked. The Cover Up sub-cluster documents the removed article, and N1098L Air-Launched Drones covers the drone-launch claim itself. The section index is Planes.