UFO Hunter May Have ‘Spotted’ Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 On Google Map Near Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa [Video]

Alien and UFO hunter Scott C. Waring claims to have spotted in a Google satellite image an outline of a plane that matches the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — a Boeing 777-200 — that disappeared on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing, China, with 239 people on board. He spotted the outline of the plane just beneath the waves near the Cape of Good Hope, off the coast of South Africa, while searching for evidence of UFOs on Google Earth.

According to Waring, he discovered the fuzzy outline he claims could be the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in a Google satellite image taken about eight months ago at a location about 1,200 miles off the Cape of Good Hope near Cape Town in South Africa. And judging from the evidence of the outline as seen beneath the waves, Waring believes it was still in one piece at the time the satellite image was snapped eight months ago.

Waring, famous for his outlandish theories about alleged UFO and alien sightings, explained in a post on his blog, UFO Sightings Daily, that he spotted the plane while searching for a UFO he first sighted some years back.

Waring writes on his popular blog, “I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found three years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water, which resembled an airliner.”

“I used to work on B-1 bombers back at Ellsworth SD, at an SAC during my USAF days,” he continues. “I know a plane when I see one. I certainly crawled onto them and in them enough.”

Attempting to account for the presence of the plane near the Cape of Good Hope, he cited unnamed sources that estimate the range of a Boeing 777-200 at between 10,000 kilometers to 12,700 kilometers. This suggests the plane could have reached the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope before crashing into the water.

The UFO blogger suggested the plane may also have drifted with the ocean currents to the location after it crashed on March 8, 2014. The Google satellite image was snapped on June 26, 2015, about eight months ago.

He uploaded a map (see YouTube video above) to his blog showing how the wreckage may have arrived at the location eight months ago.

“The Google Earth photo is dated June 26, 2015 and it crashed on March 8, 2015,” he writes. “It’s had 16 months of moving about [with the ocean currents]. The Cape of Good Hope is going to have powerful currents moving around it with deep crevices, and since the photo on Google is eight months old, it could have moved 30-60km away if its semi-floating only 4-9 feet under the water.”

Waring called for urgent action on his discovery, saying the airliner may have drifted up to 60 kilometers away from the place where it was photographed eight months ago.

“I know there is less than one per cent of one per cent of a chance that this is MH370, but it’s better than we had five minutes ago right?” he concludes.

However, some skeptics have dismissed the claim, saying that the ill-defined outline could be an incidental surf and that it was unlikely the entire plane survived in one large piece as Waring suggests.

Ignoring criticism, Waring promised to tweet a message to Malaysia Airlines to let them know of his latest discovery. He also asked his followers to retweet the message so that it will have a better chance of being seen and read by the airlines management.

“I feel awful for those families who lost friends and family on this plane and I hope this might help get them closure,” he writes.

But it remains to be seen whether Malaysia Airlines will take his claim seriously.

Waring has gained online notoriety for his outlandish claims about UFO sightings and weird theories about alien crafts and extraterrestrial life. He has a history of bizarre sightings, including alien faces, alien statues, ancient alien architectural ruins, alien fossils, alien bases, and UFOs.

Experts and skeptics have attributed his alleged discoveries to a psychological phenomenon called apophenia, which refers to a tendency of the human mind to see patterns where there are none. A form of apophenia called pareidolia predisposes the mind to seeing faces in unlikely places.

But Waring strongly contests claims that he is a victim of apophenia or pareidolia.

The UFO hunter’s claim comes soon after pieces of wreckage that aviation experts believe could be part of MH370 were discovered on the east coast of the African continent in remote waters near Mozambique and Madagascar. The debris has been sent to Australia for tests to confirm that they are linked to the Malaysia Airlines flight.

Teams have searched for the wreckage with the help of satellite images and radar data since the crash occurred in 2014. Despite having conducted intensive searches in a large area of the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia, they have failed to achieve a major breakthrough.

Officials say they may have to abandon the search by June if they fail to obtain reliable clues about the location of the airplane.

[AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File]