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Google Quotes — Photo Evidence

Photo evidence filed under Google Quotes — 4 images on this page. Scan the list and open any image for the full picture and its write-up.

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These four screenshots are quoted-string searches — the search term is wrapped in quotation marks so Google Trends measures only the exact phrase, not loose word matches. Researchers used that technique to test specific names and identifiers that surfaced in the N1098L flight-crew dispute and the SU-BTT aircraft thread, asking a narrow question: does anyone anywhere appear to have been looking up this exact string, and if so, from where and when. The names here — Michael Harlan, Michael Reynolds, and Elena Vasquez — all come from competing accounts of who crewed the spy plane over Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. One account names Michael R. Harlan as pilot in command with Elena Vasquez as mission engineer; a rival account names Cooper Brown as pilot with Michael Reynolds as co-pilot. Neither list has been confirmed by the operator or the FAA.

The pattern each capture shows is the same shape: a flat line at zero for a full year, broken by one narrow spike to the maximum index of 100, then flat again. The three name searches land on widely separated weeks — Michael Reynolds peaking in the Washington D.C. bucket the week of November 24-30, 2024, Michael Harlan in the same D.C. bucket around mid-February 2025, and Elena Vasquez in the Israel bucket the week of June 29 - July 5, 2025. The fourth capture searches the Egyptian aircraft tail number SU-BTT in Israel across a custom June 11 to September 1, 2025 window and spikes on exactly July 20, 2025, the date researchers treat as the anchor for the wider search-pattern argument. Readers should note the obvious limit: common personal names produce search interest for reasons that have nothing to do with this case, and Trends reports relative interest inside a bucket rather than raw volume, so a single spike against a near-empty baseline can represent a very small number of queries.

Open the SU-BTT capture first — it is the strongest of the four because a six-character aircraft registration is not an ordinary search string. Then compare the three name captures against each other and against the aircraft material in the sibling cluster N1098L NCSS CIA. For the written analysis, see the planes search patterns page, the July 20, 2025 anchor, and the aircraft sections at SU-BTT and N1098L.