Michael Harlan — DC, Second December Capture
What This Image Shows
A repeat capture of the twelve-month Google Trends series for "Michael Harlan" in the Washington DC (Hagerstown) bucket, tooltip again on December 1-7, 2024 at a value of 100, with the second spike visible in late August 2025 and the axis running October 20, 2024 to September 21, 2025.
The name comes from the disputed crew list for N1098L, the Bombardier Global 6500 that dropped to roughly 203 feet near the Utah Valley University campus on the morning of September 10, 2025 and repeated the maneuver about twenty-three minutes after the shooting. Crew names for private ISR flights are not published by the FAA, the operator, or any flight-tracking service, so the lists circulating on X are unverified and mutually contradictory.
Taken as a set, the five "Michael Harlan" captures establish one narrow but real fact: on the day these screenshots were taken, Google Trends showed exactly two weeks of measurable interest in that name in the Washington D.C. metro bucket across a full year — the first week of December 2024 and the last week of August 2025. That is what the record supports.
Everything beyond it is inference. The tool cannot say who searched, how many, or whether the queries concerned the retired pilot named on an unverified crew list rather than any of the other people who share the name. No wrongdoing by anyone is asserted here. Related: N1098L, ISR operations, planes search patterns, and Trends deletion and suppression claims.
Related Areas
- Cluster: N1098L NCSS CIA
- All photo evidence: Photos
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