The EMP-Device Tip UVU Received the Morning of September 10
At about 7:30 a.m. on September 10, 2025, roughly five hours before Charlie Kirk was killed, UVU received an anonymous tip. It warned of an electromagnetic-pulse (EMP) device that a suspect might use at the event. This is not a rumor. It is written in UVU's own commissioned After-Action Report. This page sets out what the report says, then what commentators on X connect it to, and the questions nobody has answered.
What the After-Action Report says
The report (published September 25, 2026) states:
"Chief Long also contacted SIAC by e-mail at approximately 7:30 a.m. on September 10 to share an anonymous tip UVU received regarding a potential threat involving an electronic-magnetic-pulse device that a suspect might use at the event. Chief Long was seeking to determine whether any threat-related intelligence update was available regarding the tip."
According to the report, the Utah SIAC (the state intelligence fusion center) answered that the threat was not credible, because the tipster "had provided similar information in the past that was determined to be unreliable" (report p. 42). The report does not say who sent the tip, what exactly it described, or whether anyone searched the courtyard, the stage, or the vehicles for a device.
The same report describes UVU Police Chief Jeff Long's first security call with TPUSA Security Supervisor Dan Flood: "Discussion focused on arrival, departure, and parking logistics." The report also says Flood did not respond to the review team's calls, voicemail, or certified letter. You can read the full report page by page.
@JOKAQARMY1's video, September 27, 2026
"EMPs and SUVs," 2 min 39 s. Source: @JOKAQARMY1 on X, September 27, 2026. If the player does not load, watch the original on X.
Source: @JOKAQARMY1 (JOKAMRREDPILLZ), posted September 27, 2026. The post text reads:
"EMPs and SUVs used to 💀 Charlie Kirk."
The post carries a 2-minute-39-second video. It is commentary: one creator's reading of the After-Action Report. The poster's claims below are reported as his claims, not as findings of this site.
Key statements from the video
From the video by @JOKAQARMY1, September 27, 2026:
- The tip. "UVU released their third-party independent security review of Charlie Kirk's assassination today, and it turns out that the morning of September 10th at 7:30 AM, UVU received an anonymous tip regarding a potential threat involving an electromagnetic pulse device that a suspect might use at the event." (This matches the report text quoted above.)
- What an EMP does. "An EMP is a short burst of electromagnetic energy that can affect the power grid, cause disruptions with electronic equipment, and disrupt communications."
- Electronics that went dark. He cites Candace Owens's reporting that some UVU security cameras blacked out about two minutes before the shot. He also points to the gap in Officer Bagley's body-cam footage when Bagley reached the Losee Center roof.
- Security's priorities. He says the report shows Charlie's head of security "was not worried about the rooftops." Instead, Flood focused on "the arrival, the departure, and the parking logistics," and on the SUV having "a clean exit." (The report confirms the arrival, departure, and parking focus. The "not worried about rooftops" wording is his.)
- Where EMP devices are carried. "Manmade EMPs that are used by the military are often built into trucks, trailers, aircraft, because they often need a bulky power source." He adds that compact "suitcase versions" exist too. He asks whether one could ride in an SUV.
- Suitcases and the SUV. He notes that footage released by Candace Owens shows Charlie's security unloading suitcases from the SUVs after returning to campus from the hospital. He also notes that the SUV that carried Charlie was stripped and sold at auction.
- The tipster. "Is it possible that someone on the inside knew what was going to go down and gained a conscience that morning and tried to give UVU an anonymous tip to stop the whole thing?"
The video also names people connected to EMP work by profession. It says Erika Kirk once appeared as an interviewer in an EMP documentary, and that her mother, Lori Frantzve, runs Scottsdale, Arizona companies focused on EMP hardening. This site has not verified either claim. EMP hardening is lawful, protective work, and neither woman is accused here of any wrongdoing or of any knowledge of the tip. We include the claim only because it is part of what the post says.
The video itself adds a caution on screen: "Real EMP or high-power microwave systems that can affect electronics at any useful distance are generally large. Many are built into trucks, trailers, aircraft, or missiles because they need bulky power sources, capacitors or generators, and antennas. Compact 'suitcase' or easily SUV-portable versions that work over a wide area are mostly fiction or highly specialized military equipment whose details are not public."
It also shows a nighttime photo of a black SUV with its trunk open and people standing around it, and a still of a man near the "Prove Me Wrong" tent, circled.
The report, hour by hour: what else surrounds the tip
The EMP line does not sit alone. Here is what UVU's After-Action Report puts around it, in the report's own words.
Weeks before: an anonymous caller. The report's planning timeline (p. 18) records: "An anonymous caller demanded cancellation." It does not say whether this caller and the EMP tipster were the same person.
September 8, 3:12 p.m.: the roof text. The report prints this exchange verbatim:
Dan Flood: Hello Chief Long — We received this message today from the student group. FYSA "there is student roof access pretty close to where CK will be set up at Utah Valley (The Sorensen Student center has a couple stair cases that go up to the walkways on the roof)"
Chief Long: You want access to the roof?
Dan Flood: I was told students have access above us, if this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well. If possible.
Chief Long: I got you covered
Dan Flood: Thank you, Sir.
The report says this exchange "reveals the primary security focus for TPUSA was the Hall of Flags outdoor pedestrian walkway above the canopy," and that Long's "We got you covered" referred to that walkway. That is not the Losee Center roof, where charging documents place the shooter. So the one roof both sides discussed in writing was not the roof that mattered. This correction matters for anyone who reads the video's line that security "was not worried about the rooftops." Flood did raise a roof, just a different one.
September 10, 7:23–7:30 a.m.: the EMP tip. The incident-day timeline gives the time as 7:23 a.m. The report's narrative section gives it as "approximately 7:30 a.m." and adds that "Long was advised e-mail was the best method to request information from the Utah SIAC. SIAC responded shortly thereafter to Chief Long that it was not a credible threat, as it appeared the tipster had provided similar information in the past that was determined to be unreliable." Posters have asked a fair question: how did SIAC tie an anonymous tip to a specific past tipster?
About 9:00 a.m.: the security team arrives, with no introductions. "The TPUSA security team arrived at UVU with Dan Flood at approximately 9:00 a.m. Chief Long reported that he was not formally introduced to the members of the TPUSA security team upon their arrival, as he did not reach out to them to meet, nor did TPUSA security staff reach out to him to do so." Flood texted Long at 9:04 a.m. that he had arrived.
The report records no step between 7:30 a.m. and the event that follows up on the EMP tip. It does not say the tip was passed to TPUSA's team, to Orem police, or to anyone sweeping the venue.
How X reacted, by the numbers
The EMP line was one sentence in a 158-page report. Within 48 hours it became one of the most shared details in the whole document.
- We sampled X's recent-search results for posts about the EMP tip, UVU, Erika Kirk, and Lori Frantzve on September 27, 2026. Between the report's release on September 25 and the morning of September 27, at least 168 original posts in that sample drew more than 548,000 views, 12,700 likes, and 2,600 reposts. The sample is capped by X's API, so the real totals are higher.
- The single biggest post, from @ErinBWea, went up at 18:13 UTC on September 25, only hours after the report came out. It reached 86,409 views, 2,753 likes, 590 reposts, 319 bookmarks, and 161 replies.
- @DiligentDenizen posted the tip at least four times on September 25. Those four posts total about 99,000 views and 4,300 likes.
- Candace Owens covered the tip in a roughly 90-minute page-by-page review of the report on September 25, titled "WE WERE RIGHT! UVU Releases Their Independent Review. | Ep 394."
- @JOKAQARMY1's video had 7,844 views, 64 likes, 18 reposts, and 20 bookmarks when we checked on the morning of September 27. It went up less than a day earlier. (@JOKAQARMY1 has about 576,000 followers.)
The posts that carried it
Counts are views, likes, and reposts as of September 27, 2026.
| Post | What it said | Views | Likes | Reposts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @BlakeBednarz, Sept 25 | "I called it 2 days ago folks! Candace dropped on Wednesday that a 2 min 'Blackout' occurred just before detonation but left it dangling… suddenly the 'Blackout' fits perfectly with something mentioned in the report — Chief Long mentions an 'anon EMP threat'." | 98,047 | 417 | 64 |
| @ErinBWea, Sept 25 | "UVU received an anonymous tip the morning of the event about a potential threat involving an ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE DEVICE THAT A SUSPECT MIGHT USE." | 86,409 | 2,753 | 590 |
| @Mini_MinZzZz, Sept 25 | Paired the EMP tip (p. 42) with the report's line "An anonymous caller demanded cancellation" (p. 18). | 66,709 | 1,118 | 142 |
| @DiligentDenizen, Sept 25 | "UNDISCLOSED EMP threat morning of Charlie Kirk's assassination… Remember the surveillance 'blackout' @RealCandaceO described yesterday?" | 25,896 | 1,057 | 242 |
| @DiligentDenizen, Sept 25 | "It also mentions new information about an EMP threat that morning which was ignored. WHO gave the tip and WHY an EMP?" | 12,655 | 357 | 60 |
| @MrsDorough, Sept 25 | "Who sent the tip? What exactly did it say? Was the tip preserved? Was the person identified or interviewed? And what were the previous tips that caused authorities to dismiss this one?" | 8,187 | 162 | 35 |
| @fionanunya, Sept 26 | "We need to find out exactly who called in the EMP threat to the UVU campus police a few hours prior to Charlie's arrival." | 6,443 | 456 | 37 |
| @HiThereCommies, Sept 26 | Clip of Candace Owens on the tip: "This new information lends credibility to the exploding mic theory." | 240 | 10 | 4 |
| @vdidaskalou8, Sept 26 | "How do they know an anonymous tip is connected to past anonymous tips?… The EMP item appears only as a timeline/intelligence-handling note, not as a finding that an EMP was present or used." | 160 | 13 | 2 |
The Frantzve EMP background thread
The second-largest cluster of posts connected the tip to the Frantzve family's past EMP work. These posts made factual claims about that work, and this site has not verified them:
- @DiligentDenizen, September 25 (36,923 views, 1,969 likes, 616 reposts): "January 2012 Erika Frantzve (Kirk) hosted Dr Peter Pry of CIA about EMP-hardening… Lori Frantzve's AZ-Tech, E3Tek, etc does EMP hardening." The same post says EMP equipment is tested at Fort Huachuca's Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility.
- @nnnnnevaeh, September 26 (5,601 views, 262 likes): Erika Frantzve "previously appeared in Black Start, a documentary about threats to the U.S. power grid, alongside EMP expert Peter Pry… Now I REALLY want to know who sent that anonymous tip and why they specifically chose EMP."
- Posts and the video's own overlay describe Lori Frantzve as founder and longtime principal of Scottsdale companies in EMP hardening and critical-infrastructure protection, including AZ-Tech International. The overlay cites ZoomInfo as a source.
Read these for what they are. A family's professional work on protecting equipment from EMPs is lawful and public. It is not evidence that anyone used an EMP device or knew about the tip. Several posts ask why the tipster chose "EMP" in particular. That question is about the tipster, not about the family.
Skeptics and counterpoints
- The report records SIAC's view that the tip was not credible, and it makes no finding that any EMP device was present or used. @vdidaskalou8 made the same point.
- @PAC12Pilgrim, September 27: "And yes, the military has high powered emp's, and the hardware needed. Not the same thing. Metal cans are not human bodies. No generator or capacitor was there. This is getting out of hand."
- @CinemaShogun, September 26 (15,336 views, 548 likes), wrote that Owens "selectively reads (what she calls highlights) from the review" and "talks about EMPs and Erika's mom."
- @dan_merril3405, September 27, put it in liability terms: "That morning they had an EMP threat. Crowd size too big, not enough officers. All reasons to shut it down. That's on UVU."
The skeptics and the believers agree on one thing: the tip deserved a follow-up that the report does not show.
What is documented and what is claimed
| Point | Status |
|---|---|
| UVU received an anonymous EMP-device tip about 7:30 a.m. on Sept 10 | Documented in the After-Action Report |
| SIAC called the tip not credible because of the tipster's history | Documented in the report (p. 42) |
| TPUSA's security planning with UVU focused on arrival, departure, parking | Documented in the report |
| Flood asked about roof access on Sept 8; Long's "covered" meant the Hall of Flags walkway, not the Losee Center | Documented in the report |
| An anonymous caller demanded the event be cancelled | Documented in the report (p. 18) |
| Long and the TPUSA security team were never formally introduced on Sept 10 | Documented in the report |
| Erika Kirk appeared in an EMP documentary; Lori Frantzve's firms work in EMP hardening | Claimed on X; not verified here; implies no wrongdoing |
| Some UVU cameras went dark about two minutes before the shot | Reported by Candace Owens; see cameras |
| Officer Bagley's body cam has a gap on the roof | Discussed at Bagley body-cam gap |
| An EMP device was present or used | Unproven. No one has shown a device, and the report does not say one was searched for |
Open questions
- Who sent the tip, and what exactly did it say about the device, the suspect, or the location?
- Earlier tips from the same person were called "unreliable." What were they about, and were any of them later confirmed?
- After the tip, did anyone sweep the tent, the stage, the sound gear, or the vehicles?
- Did the camera outage and the body-cam gap have a technical cause that has been documented? If so, where is that record?
- Why did TPUSA's security supervisor not answer the review team?
An EMP disables electronics. It does not by itself explain the wound. Citizen investigators on X mostly conclude that Charlie died from an explosive, the exploding-microphone theory. An EMP-type device, if one existed, would fit best as a way to blind cameras and radios at the key moment, not as the cause of death.
X.com posts:
- EMP tip, SUVs, and camera blackouts at UVU
- UVU received anonymous EMP-device tip morning of event
- Candace's 2-minute blackout fits the report's EMP tip
- Undisclosed EMP threat and the surveillance blackout
- Report pages 42 and 18: EMP tip, cancellation caller
- Who sent the tip, and what did it say?
- EMP item is a note, not a finding