O n March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared from radar over the Indian Ocean, sparking the most expensive search in aviation history, wall-to-wall global news coverage, and even rare public protests within China. The mystery captured the hearts and minds of millions of people across the world, but there was no closure or catharsis for the families of those missing. In an age of seemingly ubiquitous satellite coverage, the plane’s final resting place — and that of the 239 people on board — remains an open question.

But a man named Ashton Forbes believes he has the answer: the U.S. military teleported the passenger jet in a show of might against China. Armed with a pair of dramatic videos that appear to show the aircraft vanishing, Forbes has spent the last three years posting relentlessly on X and YouTube , trying to convince everyone that the military used orb-like vessels to instantaneously teleport MH370 out of the sky.…