[Yosemitest]

After going thru several ;links, I tracked it down to Shepard Leigh Ambellas and his report Freelance journalist: ‘Hijacked flight 370 passenger sent photo from hidden iPhone tracing back to secret U.S. military base Diego Garcia’.

What's really curious is this:

Amazingly, Stone claims that metadata within the photo yields evidence confirming “100 percent” that
Phillip Wood sent the photo, along with a brief voice activated text, from GPS coordinates
which put Wood only a few miles away from the U.S. controlled Diego Garcia military base
which is located on an island south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
In his post Stone claims that
the coordinates may be off by a few miles (see update below post),
proving that the iPhone actually sent the otherwise blank black picture revealing nothing else.
Stone speculates the picture was taken in a dark room or in some position in which Wood’s hands were bound.

As reported by Stone, the picture was posted along with the following text allegedly from Wood:
“I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded).
I work for IBM and I have managed to hide my cellphone in my ass during the hijack.
I have been separated from the rest of the passengers and I am in a cell.
My name is Philip Wood.
I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly.”

Strangely the blank black image labeled “1395192158752.jpg” contains the following metadata:
Dimensions: 240 x 320

Device Make: Apple

Device Model: iPhone 5

Color Space: RGB

Color Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Focal Length: 4.12

Alpha Channel: No

Red Eye: No

F Number: 2.4

Exposure Program: 2

Exposure Time: 1/15


Stone also points out in detail how the above Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) image data is the “smoking gun”, writing:

The Exif is intact.
Exif data gets embedded in every image by every camera and includes the circumstances under which the photo was taken.
It can be viewed by saving the image to your desktop, and then right clicking it and selecting image properties.
Hit the details tab.
You can see that the image was taken on March 18 with an iPhone 5, with the ISO at 3200 and a shutter of 1/15.
The coordinates are included in the exif data because the iPhone knows where it is, and the coordinates are for Diego Garcia.
THE FIRST TIME A BLANK PHOTO SAID IT ALL.

Exif can’t be rewritten with common software, it can only be added to in fields such as image credits with some advanced applications.
It can be erased as well but NOT CHANGED.
Photos with the exif intact will hold up in court.
If the Exif is hacked and this is not real, the CIA or a really good hacker did this, which I doubt, I’d say it’s probably real.

Another smoking gun is that the voice recognition software put the word personal instead of personnel.
This is completely consistent with a blind software assisted dial out.

Surrounding this story is the fact that
the man who managed to get this information to Farganne (forum member Glitch) was harassed and received many threatening voice mails over it
that is another piece of evidence pointing to this as being real.
One thing is certain, once it’s posted here on this site the genie is OUT OF THE BOTTLE.
I cannot stress how important it is that the GPS coordinates in the photo do not perfectly match what Google says and are not posted anywhere on the web,
because it proves that the source of those coordinates did not come from google or Wikipedia,
they really did come from the imaging device
and it HAD TO be at Diego Garcia when it took the photo.

...
Update 2:49 PM EST

The following information was posted as a tip on Steve Quayle’s website:

Hi Steve,

Re: the black/blank photo from the IBM tech on the lost Malaysian jet.
The photo was taken inside a building just off the runways at Diego Garcia.
I put the photo into my editing software, grabbed the GPS point and here it is.
Try this:
go to:
itouchmap.com ,
choose #6,
go to the bottom right box
and input the info:

-7 18 58.3 LATITUDE

72 25 35.6 LONGITUDE

Click on: SHOW POINT

Zoom in and you will see where the photo originated.
Wow.
You’ll probably recognize the heavy aircraft parked nearby.

Image Via itouchmap.com:

Now I have plenty of questions, starting with:

"What if the photo and the data is real ?"

"Who is Phillip Wood ?"

"Who is Shepard Ambellas other than the reporter of that article ?"

"WHY would the United States military be hiding this information and keeping 239 people, and their loved ones, in limbo ?"

"Why should anyone believe this story ?"

There's just too many far fetched secrets for this to be credible.
Is is possible? Maybe.
Is it probable? Not likely.

It doesn't line up with the satellite data, and it doesn't make sense.

[blueplum]

I have managed to hide my cellphone in my ass

oh, please. What Texan would have said this, this way? for real. This is nothing more than a vicious attack against the single American adult on the plane. Stone-r is a loser, and this article is just more anti-American propaganda, designed to detract from the real perps and foster distrust of America - as usual.

[Irishguy]

i do love these stories (aliens, conspiracy etc) except i always think of the real loved ones grasping for hope. having gone through a situation where my mum suffered a massive brain injury when hit by a car you will grasp at anything, and i do mean anything to give hope and just even a brief respite for the horrible reality around you.

For the families my heart weeps for them. Some terrible news is coming and it will be hard to accept.

The plane is at the bottom of the ocean. I dont know why and we may never know why.

a simple search of exif information shows there are thousands of exif editors out there where you can change GPS or any level of data. now to be fair i have not used one...but whenever i hear in software you cant edit something i know that is simply not true. you can edit anything, its just a matter of the will. do i hope they are in Diego Garcia, i hope they are...but thats just hope...the reality about to crash onto their hopes is going to be terribly sad for those family members. they are in my prayers.