Michael Harlan — DC, Two Spikes Untooltipped
What This Image Shows
The same twelve-month Google Trends series for "Michael Harlan" in the Washington DC (Hagerstown) bucket, captured with no tooltip open. The chart shows a flat baseline at zero broken by two narrow spikes, each reaching the maximum index value of 100, with 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. Michael R. Harlan is named on one list as pilot in command.
The value of an untooltipped capture is that it shows the whole series shape without a hover state obscuring part of the plot area. Read together with the dated versions, the two spikes resolve to the first week of December 2024 and the last week of August 2025 — nine months apart, both in the D.C. metro bucket, both on a name with no other measurable interest across the year.
That is the pattern the researchers rest on. The standard caveats apply in full: a normalized index in a metro bucket can reach 100 on very few queries, a common personal name cannot be tied to a specific individual through Trends, and nothing here identifies who searched or why. Related: N1098L, planes search patterns, and the dated captures at August 2025 and December 2024.
Related Areas
- Cluster: N1098L NCSS CIA
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