Michael Reynolds — DC, November 24 to 30 2024
What This Image Shows
A Google Trends capture for the exact-phrase search term "Michael Reynolds", filtered to Washington DC (Hagerstown), Past 12 months, All categories, Web Search. The axis runs October 27, 2024 to September 28, 2025. The line starts at zero, shoots almost vertically to a peak of 100 marked with a solid data point, then drops back and runs flat along the baseline for the remainder of the year. The tooltip reads "Nov 24 - 30, 2024".
This name belongs to the second of the two competing crew lists for N1098L. Where one account names Michael Harlan as pilot in command with Jax Donovan and Elena Vasquez, the rival account — advanced by a commentator who disputes that the aircraft was even configured to launch drones — names Cooper Brown as pilot in command, Michael Reynolds as co-pilot, and Sarah Kline as relief and systems operator. Neither list has been confirmed by the operator, the FAA, or any flight-tracking service.
That the two lists contradict each other is the honest starting point for every name in this cluster. Running them through Google Trends cannot resolve which, if either, is accurate — it can only show whether a string registered somewhere, and "Michael Reynolds" is a common enough name that a D.C.-bucket spike in late November 2024 may have nothing to do with any aircraft. Nothing here identifies a searcher, and no wrongdoing by anyone is asserted. Related: Cooper Brown, Sarah Klein, N1098L, ISR operations, and DC metro search patterns.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Google Quotes
- All photo evidence: Photos