On this day in conspiracies

MH370 departs Kuala Lumpur at 00:42 local time for Beijing. At 01:19 the cockpit signs off to Malaysian controllers with 'Good night, Malaysian three seven zero'; about two minutes later, near waypoint IGARI over the South China Sea at the handoff to Vietnamese airspace, the transponder stops and the aircraft vanishes from secondary radar.

Dadayev and Anzor Gubashev are formally charged. Dadayev is initially reported to have confessed; he and his lawyers later say the confession was extracted under duress and torture, and he retracts it. Investigators say his role was overseen by a man he called “Rusik.”

Over three nights (8, 9, and 10 March), NASA uses the 70-meter Goldstone antenna in California, with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia receiving, to bounce radar off Apophis during a distant approach, pinning its distance to within about 150 meters and dramatically tightening the orbit.

The combined opposition formally files its no-confidence motion against Khan in the National Assembly, setting the removal process in motion.

At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray acknowledges the bureau had previously purchased commercial location data, while saying it was no longer doing so and now used a court-authorized process. The admission confirms the practice on the record.

AARO publishes Volume 1 of its Report on the Historical Record of US Government Involvement with UAP. Reviewing efforts from 1945 to 2023, it finds no verifiable evidence that any sighting was extraterrestrial technology and no evidence that the government recovered or reverse-engineered off-world craft.