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Plane Photos and Videos

The aircraft side of this investigation is mostly pictures: flight-tracking playbacks, registration documents, transponder tracks, screenshots of claims made on X, and video of objects in the sky over a campus. They are spread across 257 separate pages, one per file, which is the right way to hold evidence and the wrong way to look at it for the first time. These two pages put the whole corpus on one scroll each.

The two walls​

  • Every Plane Photo In One Place — all 227 photographs from the aircraft picture cluster, two columns, each at its real aspect ratio, with two sentences under each saying what it is. Click any picture for its own page, the full resolution file, its source, and what it does and does not show.

  • Every Plane Video In One Place — all 30 clips from the aircraft and drone video clusters, playable where they sit, nothing downloading until you press play. After every fourth clip the page stops for three sentences on what the flight data itself shows, each pointing somewhere new in this section.

What these pages are not​

They create nothing. Every tile re-uses the exact file its own evidence page already serves — no image was re-encoded, resized or written to disk, and each video streams from the same sources its own page uses. Removing an item from the picture cluster, or adding it to ban_images.csv, removes it from these walls too; they are a second route into one corpus, never a second copy of it.

They also settle nothing on their own. A screenshot of a claim is a record that the claim was made. A video is a record of what someone said — several of the ones collected here contradict each other, and at least one contradicts itself between its first half and its second. The argument about what any of it establishes belongs on the pages the tiles link to, and above all on Following Charlie or Erika, Which Flight Records Were Deleted and What A 403 Actually Means, which is where this site retracted one of its own claims after a control test failed the same way the suspect one did.