Mark Harlan — Israel, September 9 2025
What This Image Shows
A Google Trends capture for the search term "Mark Harlan", filtered to Israel, Past 90 days, All categories, Web Search. The axis runs July 23 to October 9 and the tooltip marks a single sharp peak at September 9, 2025 with a value of 100.
The date is the reason this capture matters more than its four siblings: September 9, 2025 is the day before the shooting at Utah Valley University. The name is a variant of the "Michael Harlan" string captured repeatedly in the Washington D.C. bucket in this same cluster, and a related string, "Professor mark harlin", appears inside one of the sixteen-panel grids in the parent cluster dated to the week of June 8-14, 2025. Researchers treat the three spellings as attempts at the same person; that assumption is theirs and is not established.
Everything about this capture that makes it striking also makes it fragile. Spelling variants multiply the chance of catching an unrelated individual, a ninety-day Israel-bucket index reaches 100 on very few queries, and Trends discloses nothing about who ran a search or why. No claim is made here that any person knew anything in advance, and no wrongdoing by anyone is asserted. Related: N1098L, ISR operations, Israel IP search patterns, planes search patterns, and the Michael Harlan captures.
Related Areas
- Cluster: N1098L NCSS CIA
- All photo evidence: Photos