The three Erika rows position data refutes
Where this came from. On the Following overview, the ledger table splits the register by whose presence the row claims and then by what recovered position data says about it. The cell reading "Erika Kirk — refuted" holds 3 rows. This page is those three rows, in full.
What this slice is
A row lands here when two things are both true. First, the compiler's sheet claims Erika Kirk
alone — Charlie Kirk is not claimed on the row, and no TPUSA event is attached to it. All three
rows carry the attendee class "Erika Kirk alone". Second, recovered ADS-B position data for the
named airframe on the claimed date exists and puts it somewhere else: the verdict ELSEWHERE,
which requires that the aircraft was actually heard that day, so the closest recovered position can
be measured against the claimed airport. That second condition is what separates this list from the
much larger undecided one — a row where the archives simply hold nothing is not refuted, it is
unheard. Filter overlaps.csv for attendee_class = ERIKA_ONLY and adsb_verdict = ELSEWHERE and
you reproduce these three.
At a glance
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Rows in this slice | 3 |
| Distinct dates | 3 |
| Date range | 9 May 2023 → 18 June 2025 |
| Aircraft | SU-BND — 2 rows · SU-BTT — 1 row |
| Airports claimed | CYYR — 1 · KSTL — 1 · KOMA — 1 |
| States | MO — 2 · NE — 1 |
| Years | 2023 — 2 · 2025 — 1 |
| ADS-B verdict | Elsewhere — refuted — 3 |
| Tracking-site audit verdict | Inaccurate — 2 · Accurate — 1 |
| Who the sheet claims | Erika Kirk alone — 3 |
| Ground-position confirmations | 0 |
| Rows on a same-day sourced Kirk or TPUSA appearance | 0 |
TABLE A — the following aircraft
| Row | Date claimed | Airport | City / State | Following aircraft | Type | ICAO hex | Arrived from | Departed to | Ground stay logged, arrived | Departed | Days | Transponder / ground flag | ADS-B verdict | Closest approach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWENS-015 | 9 May 2023 | CYYR Goose Bay (via St. Louis → Cairo) | St. Louis then Goose Bay, MO | SU-BND | Gulfstream (G550/G-IV, trackers disagree) | 01003E | St. Louis | Goose Bay → Paris → Cairo | 9 May 2023 | 9 May 2023 | 0 | — | Elsewhere — refuted | 1062.56 km |
| OWENS-050 | 12 May 2023 | KSTL St. Louis (claimed) | St. Louis, MO | SU-BND | Gulfstream (G550/G-IV, trackers disagree) | 01003E | Missouri (claimed) | Paris / Cairo (claimed) | no logged stay covers this date | — | — | — | Elsewhere — refuted | 7034.48 km |
| OWENS-036 | 18 June 2025 | KOMA Omaha then Lincoln (claimed) | Omaha / Lincoln, NE | SU-BTT | Dassault Falcon 7X | 0101D3 | Paris (claimed) | Wilmington / Cairo (claimed) | no logged stay covers this date | — | — | — | Elsewhere — refuted | 10139.55 km |
TABLE B — who they are claimed to have been following
| Row | Date claimed | Who the sheet claims was present | Erika location as the sheet gives it | Sourced Kirk / TPUSA appearance same day | Venue | Local time | Nearest airport to that venue | Kirk-side aircraft on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWENS-015 | 9 May 2023 | Charlie: not claimed · Erika: claimed | Missouri / Cairo | None same-day. Neither this register's own nearest-event column nor a date join against the sourced speaking-events catalog finds a Kirk or TPUSA appearance within three days. | — | — | — | none recorded |
| OWENS-050 | 12 May 2023 | Charlie: not claimed · Erika: claimed | Missouri / Cairo | None same-day. Register's nearest sourced appearance: none in MO mid-May 2023 (register, gap not stated) | — | — | — | none recorded |
| OWENS-036 | 18 June 2025 | Charlie: not claimed · Erika: claimed | Nebraska | None same-day. Register's nearest sourced appearance: YWLS Grapevine TX 2025-06-13 to 2025-06-15 (the only well-dated joint Charlie-and-Erika appearance before Sept 10 — and no aircraft in Texas) (register, gap not stated) | — | — | — | none recorded |
TABLE C — sourcing and both verdicts
| Row | Sheet index | Audit verdict (tracking-site pass) | ADS-B verdict (position data) | What the position data says | Source of the claim | Source post | Full row page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OWENS-015 | 15 | Accurate | Elsewhere — refuted | REFUTED. The airframe was tracked that day and its closest recovered position is 1,063 km from CYYR. | Owens sheet via Kanekoa audit (ACCURATE overall) | post | open |
OWENS-050 | 50 | Inaccurate | Elsewhere — refuted | REFUTED. The airframe was tracked that day and its closest recovered position is 7,034 km from KSTL. | Owens sheet via Kanekoa audit | post | open |
OWENS-036 | 36 | Inaccurate | Elsewhere — refuted | REFUTED. The airframe was tracked that day and its closest recovered position is 10,140 km from KOMA. | Owens sheet via Kanekoa audit | post | open |
What the specifics show
The three refutations are not the same size. OWENS-050 (12 May 2023, KSTL) and OWENS-036
(18 June 2025, KOMA) are refuted by 7,034 km and 10,140 km respectively — continental distances,
consistent with the Kanekoa audit's own conclusion that the airframe was in Egypt on both dates.
OWENS-015 (9 May 2023, CYYR) is refuted by 1,063 km, which is a different kind of miss: an
aircraft on a transatlantic leg is 1,063 km from Goose Bay for part of the day almost by definition.
Two of these three rows are wrong about the continent; one is wrong about the waypoint on a routing
the sheet otherwise describes correctly.
OWENS-015 is also the only row in the slice where the two passes disagree with each other. The
tracking-site audit called it Accurate overall; the recovered position data reads ELSEWHERE.
Both readings are published here rather than reconciled. The register does not silently pick a
winner when its two independent passes conflict.
The other pattern is that all three dates are Erika-only rows with nothing on the Kirk side. Table B
records the same result on every line: no sourced Kirk or TPUSA appearance within three days,
anywhere, and no Kirk-side aircraft on record. Even before the position data is consulted, these
three rows have no confirmed person at either end. The OWENS-036 row makes the point most
sharply — the register notes that the only well-dated joint Charlie-and-Erika appearance in the
whole window before 10 September 2025 is Grapevine, Texas, 13–15 June 2025, and that no aircraft in
this investigation was in Texas for it.
This slice weakens the compiler's claim rather than supporting it, and it is published on the same footing as the corroborated slices for exactly that reason. Note also how small it is: 3 rows. Position data refutes far fewer rows than it corroborates or fails to reach, so the honest headline is that most of the register is still undecided, not that most of it is disproven.
What this list cannot tell you
- A trace proves an aircraft was there. It never proves who was aboard. These three refutations work in the negative direction only: they show the airframe was elsewhere. Even a corroborated position would not have placed any passenger in the cabin.
- Erika Kirk's presence is not established on any row — not on these three and not anywhere in the register, where the count of rows with established Erika presence is zero. Her flight logs are reported erased and no dated itinerary was ever published, so the "Erika location" column here is the compiler's claim rather than a source.
- "Refuted" refutes the claimed location, not the compiler's honesty. A wrong cell in a volunteer spreadsheet is an error. Nothing on this page asserts that anyone committed a crime or falsified anything, and no such assertion should be read into it.
- No archive gap appears in this slice, and none is being read as a deletion. Every row here was
heard — that is the precondition for
ELSEWHERE. Where sibling pages carryNOT_HEARDorNO_ARCHIVE_COVERAGE, those are limits of what free volunteer archives hold, never suppression and never evidence of absence. - Ground confirmations here are 0. The 9 May 2023 Goose Bay row has a logged ground stay of 0 days with no times captured; that is a logged transit, not a recovered on-ground position.
- Where this count differs from the overview, both are printed. The tracking-site audit worked from 78 rows; this register holds 85. Any audit-derived figure and any register-derived figure are counting different populations.
Related
- The Following overview — the ledger table this cell sits in
- The overlap index — every row as its own page
- The speaking-events catalog — the sourced Kirk and TPUSA appearances
- The three rows refuted by recovered position data — the whole refuted set, which is identical to this one
- The 12 Erika rows position data corroborates
- The Erika rows the archives cannot decide — 41
- The rows where Erika Kirk's presence is actually established — 0
- Missouri — every overlap, every landing, every event — where
OWENS-050sits. Two of these three rows are filed under Missouri in the register, but the Missouri slice lists onlyOWENS-050:OWENS-015's claimed airport is Goose Bay in Canada, so the airport-level filter leaves it out - Aircraft pages: SU-BND · SU-BTT
Flight-record pages for what is on this page
This investigation keeps one page per airport and one page per recorded ground contact, built directly from the recovered ADS-B traces. These are the ones this page touches.
Airports named on this page:
- KSTL — Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, St. Louis, MO — 2 recorded ground visits, 1 tracked aircraft
Aircraft named on this page:
- SU-BND — full recovered movement record, every airport and every leg
- SU-BTT — full recovered movement record, every airport and every leg
The two indexes:
- Every airport in this investigation — 290 fields, each with its complete recovered ground-visit and flight-leg record
- Every interesting date, all aircraft — 147 ground contacts near a sourced event, across 110 pages
- Investigating Deleted Flights — how the data was recovered, how much of it we hold, and where it is still missing