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Watchtower Alert · Standing notice · Updated live

FAA Project T-WP17-FY26-0397: agency acknowledged Oildale violations — now silent while the conduct continues.

We reported systematic low-altitude flights over residential Oildale to the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency assigned a project number and named an investigator. For six months there has been no public movement — while our sensor network logged 4,618,883 new detections across 46,489 aircraft and 46,520 classified violations of the 14 CFR § 91.119 floor.

This page is the public notice. Every claim below links to a SHA-256 hashed, Merkle-chained record independently verifiable from public ADS-B broadcasts and the public FAA registry. Silence after this point is a choice — and it is on the record.

System online · Baseline learning · 1459h observed

They don't cause fear anymore. They build evidence.

The sky over Kern County is not normal.

We watched the sky for 1459 hours. Persistent low-altitude loitering, masked identities, night operations that don't match normal traffic. Every record SHA-256 hashed, Merkle-chained, independently verifiable. The machine watches. The math chooses. The record stands.

The Blind Machine

The machine doesn't know who it's watching.
That's the point.

For the first 48 hours after a sensor comes online, Watchtower flags zero aircraft. It is learning what normal looks like. No allow-list. No watch-list. No human judgment about who counts as suspicious.

After baseline, the math chooses. A sheriff's helicopter loitering at 400 ft and a private LLC loitering at 400 ft trigger the same flag. The system has no opinion about either of them. It only knows that 400 ft is below the FAA floor and that loitering for 90 minutes is not transit.

That's why the record survives cross-examination. Math chose it. Not a human.

Recent events · in plain English

Three things the machine caught while you slept.

Below: a plain-English sentence built from each detection's own fields, the question that data raises, and a link to the hashed record. We describe what the machine logged. You draw the conclusion.

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EVIDENCE · STRIPPED · HASHED14 CFR 137.51

BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE flew at 0 ft — inside the Dead Man's Curve, too low to survive an engine failure over LOS ANGELES County — crossing 14 CFR 137.51.

The question this raises

Who authorized a sub-500 ft pass over homes?

Machine logged: Jul 20, 09:08 PM PDT — BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE flew so low they couldn't survive a crash.At 0 ft, this aircraft was inside the Dead Man's Curve — too low to autorotate to a survivable landing if the engine failed.

TAIL
N940AV
ALTITUDE
0 ft
COUNTY
LOS ANGELES
WHEN
Jul 20, 09:08 PM PDT
Source: public ADS-B broadcast + FAA Aircraft Registry.Verify this →
EVIDENCE · STRIPPED · HASHED14 CFR 137.51

A DE-registered LLC (FLIGHT TRAINING AIRCRAFT LLC) flew at 0 ft — inside the Dead Man's Curve, too low to survive an engine failure over VENTURA County — crossing 14 CFR 137.51.

The question this raises

Who is actually paying for these flights?

Machine logged: Jul 20, 07:54 PM PDT — FLIGHT TRAINING AIRCRAFT LLC flew so low they couldn't survive a crash.At 0 ft, this aircraft was inside the Dead Man's Curve — too low to autorotate to a survivable landing if the engine failed.

TAIL
N5309V
ALTITUDE
0 ft
COUNTY
VENTURA
WHEN
Jul 20, 07:54 PM PDT
Source: public ADS-B broadcast + FAA Aircraft Registry.Verify this →
EVIDENCE · STRIPPED · HASHED14 CFR 137.51

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO flew at 50 ft — inside the Dead Man's Curve, too low to survive an engine failure over SANTA BARBARA County — crossing 14 CFR 137.51.

The question this raises

Who authorized a sub-500 ft pass over homes?

Machine logged: Jul 20, 07:50 PM PDT — SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO flew so low they couldn't survive a crash.At 50 ft, this aircraft was inside the Dead Man's Curve — too low to autorotate to a survivable landing if the engine failed.

TAIL
N8647A
ALTITUDE
50 ft
COUNTY
SANTA BARBARA
WHEN
Jul 20, 07:50 PM PDT
Source: public ADS-B broadcast + FAA Aircraft Registry.Verify this →

Each card is a verbatim translation of one detection row. Every claim links back to the raw, hashed record. You don't have to take our word for it — check the math.

0% flagged during baseline — by designPopulation-scale, not selection biasSHA-256 + Merkle chain on every recordBradford Hill causation frameworkOpen source · CC BY-SA 4.0EFF meets ProPublica meets a sensor networkMath chose it. Not a human.
0% flagged during baseline — by designPopulation-scale, not selection biasSHA-256 + Merkle chain on every recordBradford Hill causation frameworkOpen source · CC BY-SA 4.0EFF meets ProPublica meets a sensor networkMath chose it. Not a human.
Public petition · Addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration

The violations are public.
The record is hashed.
FAA — enforce the rules we pay you to enforce.

4,618,883 court-ready flight detections. 46,520 statistical anomalies. Every record SHA-256 fingerprinted and Merkle-chained against tampering. Every altitude, every registration, every owner pulled from public ADS-B broadcasts and the public FAA Aircraft Registry — independently verifiable by any member of the public, including the regulator whose statutory job it is to look.

14 CFR § 91.119 (minimum safe altitudes). 14 CFR § 91.13 (careless or reckless operation). 14 CFR § 91.227 (ADS-B Out integrity). These are not novel theories. They are the FAA's own regulations, broken on a population scale, in plain view, over a populated county, while the agency that taxpayers fund to enforce them has not acted.

This site is the notice. The dataset is the exhibit. Silence after this point is a choice — and it is on the record.

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WATCH

An autonomous sensor network learns what NORMAL looks like for 48 hours before it identifies ABNORMAL. One person can't watch 4,000 aircraft. A system can.

Watchtower 2.0
02

DOCUMENT

Every detection is SHA-256 hashed, timestamped, and Merkle-chained. 100% chain-of-custody coverage. Court-ready by construction.

Neon · SHA-256 · Merkle
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ADVOCATE

Public reporting. Legislative support. Legal referral networks. FOIA-as-a-service. The data becomes leverage.

Architecture of Never

How we complement existing accountability work.

Civil liberties orgs, investigative newsrooms, and flight-tracking communities already do essential work. Watchtower Project LLC adds a specific missing layer: continuous, autonomous, population-scale sensor evidence with chain of custody — designed to hand off cleanly to those existing efforts.

Where our approach fits alongside existing work:

Existing accountability workWhat Watchtower adds on top
Civil liberties litigation (ACLU): responds to documented harmsContinuous machine-logged evidence, ready to hand to counsel
Digital-surveillance advocacy (EFF): focus on data and devicesPhysical airspace surveillance, sensor-verified
Flight-tracking hobbyist communities: excellent raw data, no legal frameworkBradford Hill causation framework + Merkle chain of custody
Investigative journalism (ProPublica, etc.): deep post-hoc investigationsReal-time findings, sourced and hashed for reporters to verify
Individual complaints: often dismissed as anecdotalPopulation-scale statistical baselines the individual case can be measured against
Your Rights in the Airspace

The Bill of Rights doesn't stop at the roofline.

Watchtower exists because constitutional protections do not enforce themselves. Here's what's at stake every time an aircraft loiters over your home — and what this site is built to defend.

RightWhat Watchtower protects
4th AmendmentSecurity in your home against unreasonable aerial search.
1st AmendmentYour right to document, analyze, and publish public airspace activity.
5th AmendmentDue process when surveillance is used as evidence.
6th AmendmentConfrontation of aerial evidence through verifiable chain of custody.
14th AmendmentEqual protection against discriminatory surveillance deployment.
From the record
Negative altitudes are not anomalies. They are evidence of ground-based spoofing the FAA registered anyway.
Watchtower Project — Transponder Anomaly Notes

Watch back.

Journalists, attorneys, legislators, and affected residents: the data is open, the methodology is public, and the chain of custody is built to survive cross-examination.