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Drones Over the Venue and the Butler Comparison (Claims)

:::caution Attributed claims only Permitted media and hobbyist drones are common at outdoor campus events, and compressed phone video routinely produces false drone sightings. The Butler linkage rests on a single anonymous conversation. Nothing below is a finding that any drone did anything. :::

The footage being examined here is the same phone video that captured the moment Charlie Kirk was killed, so the frames are also central to the explosive-device analysis.

Claim snapshot

Field	Value
The claim	Multiple drones were reportedly over the UVU venue, and an anonymous source reportedly tied them to the Butler attack on Trump
Raised by	Blake Bednarz (@BlakeBednarz); @JG_CSTT; an anonymous NCTC contact
First surfaced	September 2025; the NCTC conversation is dated Sept 18, 2025
Rests on	Analysis of compressed phone video, plus secondhand hearsay
Evidence rating	SPECULATIVE

What is alleged

Blake Bednarz says he spotted sixteen drones flying in footage from the UVU event. @JG_CSTT reports identifying UAVs in phone video and argues they moved fast enough — roughly 100–150 mph — to be nearly unnoticeable to the naked eye while still being captured by cameras; the reasoning offered is exposure time, with a 50-metre pass taking about 1.12 seconds at 100 mph and 0.75 seconds at 150 mph.

Investigators pair the sightings with the alleged N1098L low passes to argue a drop-and-recover cycle: drones released before the shooting, retrieved after. The investigation file also records that an anonymous NCTC contact allegedly told a researcher on September 18, 2025 that the Center believed the same drone-capable group was behind the Butler, Pennsylvania attempt on Trump, which likewise involved an unexplained drone, and that this group had demonstrated the ability to kill by drone while blaming a local patsy. The NCTC is also the agency whose then-director, Joe Kent, later said on the record that its official foreign-nexus review of the Kirk case was ordered to stop before those leads were exhausted.

One further theory in the cluster speculates that a surveillance aircraft may have been used to cut mobile reception and livestreams, hijacking phone and internet connections and using AI to scrape, edit or delete videos without users noticing. The file treats this as speculative, and the person advancing it says so himself. Candace Owens' investigative wish-list poses the operative question in its narrowest form: did any of these objects have the ability to fire, and did they fire?

The ordinary explanation

Compressed phone video is one of the most reliable generators of false drone sightings in existence. Birds, insects passing near the lens, wind-borne dust, rolling-shutter artifacts, compression macroblocks and lens flare all produce fast-moving specks that survive a frame-by-frame review and look exactly like a distant aircraft. The count is itself the tell: sixteen of them in one clip is far more consistent with imaging artifacts than with sixteen aircraft, because sixteen actual drones over a crowded outdoor venue would have been seen, heard, and photographed by hundreds of attendees and by the professional camera crews present. They were not.

Utah Valley is also dense with hobbyist and commercial drone traffic, and a major campus event with press coverage would ordinarily attract permitted media drones — the innocent baseline is not zero. The Butler linkage is anonymous hearsay with no named source, no document and no corroboration; the same conversation is the sole basis for the "rogue CIA faction" theory addressed at the halted NCTC probe.

The livestream-jamming claim deserves to be named as the problem it is: the capability described — hijacking every phone and internet connection in an area and using AI to silently edit users' videos in place — does not exist in the form asserted. Including it undermines the credibility of the cluster it sits in, and this section says so rather than quietly leaving it out.

What would settle it

1. Publication of the original, uncompressed source video files with their metadata, so the objects can be analyzed rather than described.
2. FAA and UVU records of any drone flight authorizations over the campus on September 10, 2025.
3. An independent imaging analyst's assessment of whether the tracked objects are consistent with aircraft or with compression artifacts.
4. Whether any attendee heard drones — a question hundreds of witnesses can answer.
5. Identification of the alleged NCTC contact, or retirement of the Butler linkage as uncorroborated.

Interesting In This Area

• N1098L's low passes are paired with these sightings as one cycle.
• Counter-UAS gear reportedly tested at Provo during the same week.
• The cease-and-desist reportedly conceded a media drone flew.
• Joe Kent's halted probe is the NCTC thread this conversation sits inside.

Interesting In Other Areas

• Butler PA drone parallel is the comparison this claim rests on.
• N1098L HADES over UVU is the flight-data version.
• NCTC is the component the anonymous contact belonged to.
• Airborne surveillance records over UVU withheld is the records complaint.

Images

This eye-level, medium-wide photograph captures political activist Charlie Kirk walking through an outdoor event venue under bright, direct sunlight. Full write-up →

This is a side-by-side comparison image containing two aerial, bird's-eye-view photographs of the exact same geometric rooftop garden or landscaped courtyard. Full write-up →

This low-resolution, vertically oriented image depicts an outdoor event production setup on a grassy field. Full write-up →

This eye-level vertical shot captures the outdoor preparation area of a public stage event, likely a political rally or tour. Full write-up →

A high-angle exterior photograph of a modern, multi-tiered concrete plaza on a university campus during a sunny day. Full write-up →

This image shows the modern glass facade of a building exterior during the daytime. Full write-up →

This high-angle, wide-shot photograph captures a section of the Utah Valley University (UVU) campus during the daytime, showcasing a terraced grassy amphitheater in the foreground. Full write-up →

This high-angle outdoor photograph shows a promotional setup for "The American Comeback Tour" positioned on a grassy patch at Utah Valley University (UVU). Full write-up →

A high-angle, wide-shot photograph capturing a large crowd of people, many of whom are ducking or seeking cover on the ground, during what appears to be a chaotic or tense event on a concrete plaza. Full write-up →

This is a slightly blurry, candid exterior shot of a crowd of people gathered outside the glass entrance of a modern building during the daytime. Full write-up →

This high-angle, slightly blurry outdoor photograph captures a group of people gathered near a raised concrete platform or stage. Full write-up →

This is a digital screen capture of a video playback showing a large crowd of young people gathered outdoors in front of a modern, multi-story building on a bright, sunny day. Full write-up →

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Suspicious at UVU on 9/10

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Elsewhere In The Investigation

Butler PA Drone Parallel

Butler 2024 and UVU 2025 share a rooftop-gunman account and an unexplained drone question. Notes from one long call reportedly attribute a same-group, same-drones working theory to the counterterrorism center — recorded as an allegation, not a finding.

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N1098L HADES Over UVU

Public ADS-B puts an Army HADES jet in extremely low, slow passes near UVU before and after 12:23 PM. The master file's summary of it runs to four words: it was ours.

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NCTC — National Counterterrorism Center

The center that integrates terrorism intelligence across agencies, its chain of command running up to the President, and the reported order that stopped its foreign-involvement inquiry.

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Airborne Surveillance Records Over UVU Withheld (Claims)

An Army HADES ISR jet under the callsign AXLE10 made low passes over the corridor that day, and a production drone flew while campus police reportedly engaged none. The crew lists, tasking orders and FAA files that would say what either one recorded have not been released.

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Sources

• Blake Bednarz on X — "I spotted 16 drones flying"
• @JG_CSTT, UAV identification analysis — no direct URL is cited in the investigation file.
• An anonymous NCTC contact, relayed secondhand. No name, no document, no corroboration.

This website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.

Interesting

• Analysts say a rifle round should have produced an exit wound and spray; neither appeared.
• Geared medics reportedly pleaded "Let us in" and were turned back by security.
• A tip claims the ER was cleared of patients two hours before the shot.

Related Areas

• Drone sightings and theories
• Aircraft and flight-tracking analysis
• Camera and surveillance footage analysis

• The exploding microphone theory
• Ballistics and the recovered rifle
• Technology and surveillance capability