Overview

ASSESSMENT: Ashton Forbes is an investigator who analyzed leaked military footage showing MH370 being intercepted by three rotating plasma orbs on March 8, 2014. This IS the analogous event — the documented operational use of the Three Orb Protocol. TWO LEAKED VIDEOS: (1) Satellite video — Gorgon Stare WAMI (Wide Area Motion Imagery), Increment 2 with Argus IR integration, 6 fps. NROL22 relay satellite transmitting from MQ-9 Reaper drone. (2) MQ-9 Reaper thermal video — captures same sequence from different angle. BOTH SHOW: Three luminous objects in coordinated triangular formation around Boeing 777. Culminating in terminal event where aircraft and objects vanish simultaneously within visible distortion field. Orbs' rotational positions, aircraft attitude, and thermal signatures align across both feeds. FORENSIC ANALYSIS: MISB 0601 military metadata compliance (can't be faked). Stereoscopic 3D format (rules out consumer CGI). Coordinate verification matches Nicobar Islands. Cloud patterns match NASA Worldview satellite imagery for date and location. Three different frame rates (6fps background, 24fps foreground, 1Hz update). ORB PHYSICS — FRC FUSION: (1) FRC: 'Plasma heated and compressed into self-organizing toroidal magnetic field structure, compact, self-confined, no external magnetic coils.' (2) Fuel: Aneutronic p-B11 (proton-boron) — charged alpha particles, no neutrons, radiologically clean, direct energy conversion. (3) Confinement: Polywell/polyhedral cusp confinement (Bussard, Navy-funded, beta-one conditions). (4) Magnets: YBCO high-temperature superconducting magnets (engineering breakthrough for compact fusion). (5) Three-orb formation: Three FRC plasmoids in coordinated 3D triangular formation = Trivergence Protocol. AFRL CONNECTION: NROL22 + MQ-9 = Air Force assets. AFRL papers by Eric Davis and Paul Siz on MHD propulsion, zero-point energy, dense plasma fusion. 2006 paper: Q=3-6 overunity (3-6x energy gain, gigawatts from plasma orbs). NIMITZ CONNECTION: Forbes argues Tic Tac (2004) is same class of object, same program, witnessed decade apart. FOURTH-GEN NUKES: Aneutronic FRC device wouldn't trigger Vela or SBIRS detectors. US 'no detonation observed' statement March 8, 2014 doesn't rule out exotic thermal event. MILEY 2016: George Miley's paper specifies complete picosecond-laser p-B11 reactor — open-literature mirror of classified orb hardware. CRITICAL: MH370 = first documented operational use of Three Orb Protocol. Three FRC plasma orbs in triangular formation. Asset denial operation targeting Freescale Semiconductor engineers (CFR control system). Technology: FRC + p-B11 + Polywell/YBCO + Trivergence.

Entity Type: Assessment — Ashton Forbes MH370 Investigation (Three Rotating Plasma Orbs, Gorgon Stare + MQ-9 Footage, FRC/Trivergence, Nicobar Islands) is an analytical assessment synthesizing multiple data points.

Research Findings

Ashton Forbes MH370 Investigation (Three Rotating Plasma Orbs, Gorgon Stare + MQ-9 Footage, FRC/Trivergence, Nicobar Islands) appears in 5 research analysis documents:

AFRL FRCHX Plasma Lifetime 2011:

Findings: AFRL FRCHX Plasma Lifetime 2011

Source PDF: [AFRL_FRCHX_Plasma_Lifetime_2011.pdf](/archive/AFRL_FRCHX_Plasma_Lifetime_2011) Date range: 1976-2013 Source org: LANL

Summary

This 2011 report by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) investigates the trapped-flux lifetime...

AFRL LANL FRCHX 2016:

Findings: AFRL LANL FRCHX 2016

Source PDF: [AFRL_LANL_FRCHX_2016.pdf](/archive/AFRL_LANL_FRCHX_2016) Date range: 1981-2022 Source org: LANL

Summary

This programmatic analysis investigates the 2014-2016 closeout of the Field-Reversed Configuration Heating Experiment (FRCHX), a joint initiative by the Air Force ...

ARPA-E ALPHA Fusion Retrospective 2019:

Findings: ARPA E ALPHA Fusion Retrospective 2019

Source PDF: [ARPA-E_ALPHA_Fusion_Retrospective_2019.pdf](/archive/ARPA_E_ALPHA_Fusion_Retrospective_2019) Date range: 1956-2019 Source org: LANL

Summary

Produced by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E and Booz Allen Hamilton, this 2019 retrospective reviews th...

BAESystems CFR SoC 2015 2020:

Findings: BAESystems CFR SoC 2015 2020

Source PDF: [BAESystems_CFR_SoC_2015_2020.pdf](/archive/BAESystems_CFR_SoC_2015_2020) Date range: 1999-2025 Source org: AFRL

Summary

This report assesses BAE Systems' role as the lead subcontractor for the CFR program's radiation-hardened System-on-Chip (SoC) development between ...

Christofilos Astron Fusion 2011:

Findings: Christofilos Astron Fusion 2011

Source PDF: [Christofilos_Astron_Fusion_2011.pdf](/archive/Christofilos_Astron_Fusion_2011) Date range: 1955-2011 Source org: LANL

Summary

Published in 2011 by researchers affiliated with Princeton University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, this review article chroni...

Source Documents

Intelligence derived from 6 source documents:

• 4orbs.com — MH370 The Orbs (FRC plasma physics analysis)
• 4orbs.com — MH370 Gorgon Stire Video authentication
• 4orbs.com — MH370 Official vs Forbes analysis
• 4orbs.com — Major MH370 Videos Update (AFRL papers)
• michaelsalla.com — New Evidence leaked video genuine (2025)
• drewponder.substack.com — MH370 Wasn't Lost It Was Extracted

CPW CAMPAIGN MERGE (2026-08-17): CPW no-analogy adjudication (2026-08-17): an exhaustive 20-concept × 8-axis analogy matrix finds NO conceptual plasma weapon analogous to the three-orb footage under either authenticity branch — zero three-body plasmoid coordination precedent anywhere in the record (C14 multi-plasmoid row included: three-magnetron phase-locking is oscillator synchronization, not object control), lifetime gap (best demonstrated ≤ ~1 s vs 10–35 s), and no disappearance/translocation mechanism in any concept. Under the corpus CGI/VFX forensic grade (T5, rounds 111/115/117/133) the analogy question vacates; absence of a capable analog is affirmative corroboration of the VFX assessment, not an open weapon question.