Brandon Fugal

I believe our antenna is next to the heliport, not sure about type. The helicopter was right there - immediate vicinity. Direct line of sight.

Well, given that they were perfectly visible, I think that the simples explanation is that your ADS-B receiver wasn't handling that particular situation. There's no stealth if you can see it and read the number. Surely someone took a photo with a zoom lens?

I believe the team was truly unable to identify any number on the helicopter, & the avionics receiver was working perfectly fine, from what I was told. You state authoritatively that it was for a power line survey, but you haven’t verified who it really was & if that was the case

Also, maybe you can ask Apple what would cause an iPhone to go nuts as demonstrated on their footage. That should be a major security/usability concern for them.

Explain this @MickWest: When the team discovered the dead cow, BOTH Kaleb’s iPhone AND Thomas Winterton’s Galaxy S9 started malfunctioning. Caught on camera. Not re-enacted. Not fabricated. And this is not an isolated incident on the ranch (different makes/models/settings)

Lol please reach out to a mathematician. I’d love to see the probability of “ghost touches” , RF spikes, the sudden death of cow due to sudden shock/stress, and an object spotted in the sky at that location happening together in a short time frame looks like.