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MH370 “Teleportation” Video Hoaxer Identified
After nearly 12 years, the creator of the viral #MH370 “orb/teleportation” videos has been identified.
Rowan Callahan, now 25, has come forward and said that he created both clips in 2014 as a middle schooler in Oregon while experimenting with basic VFX editing tools after school.
“I was just messing around with Photoshop, Blender and AfterEffects and some early VFX stuff because I’d just gotten the Video
Copilot JetStrike pack and wanted to see what I could make with it. You have to understand, the videos weren’t meant to be anything serious - just a plane and some effects.”
According to Callahan, the videos were never intended to be tied to MH370.
He says he shared short clips in an online gaming chat at the time, where two users later approached him asking for the files.
“They offered to buy the videos. I didn’t think much of it - I was a kid, and kids aren’t exactly rolling in dough, so I was like ‘hell yeah, why not?’ And I ended up sending them over.”
Those files would later surface online under the now-infamous “RegicideAnon” account, framed as “leaked” footage of MH370.
Callahan says he didn’t realize how the clips were being used until much later.
“I figured maybe they were using it for a project or indie game they were making or something. I didn’t think anyone would believe that videos that looked like those did could actually be real.”
He also pointed out details that, in hindsight, should have been obvious red flags:
•Static cloud layers that don’t move
•Frozen ocean texture beneath the aircraft
•A stock 777 model with a generic livery that doesn’t match Malaysia Airlines’
“Once they surfaced on YouTube and Reddit, I just assumed that people would immediately recognize them as fake.”
Despite years of analysis and multiple independent debunks, the videos have continued circulating as “evidence” in conspiracy circles.
Once confirmed, this will close one of the most persistent and pernicious internet hoaxes tied to the MH370 tragedy.
More details to come soon.
@AmiriKing I did the same and then went to bed. Woke up 4 hours later, was seeing swirls with my eyes closed, shifted to manual breathing and sweated for about 45 minutes before I fell back to sleep.