On 9/1 a twitter user @Dusky_Wireworm identifying himself as "Cole Optera" posted two numerical strings to twitter, they are:
- 22578422644012261167226427032725833040110317701105721111831812181501222128512291071...
- 211724216385223573224468318150325133430758528031510476827261326972247627
It has since been discovered that:
- The user stated thier home page as [1] which is a page on the "dusky wireworm" beetle
- This creature, Agriotes obscurus, is a member of the family Elateridae which are commonly known as "click beetles" or "Skipjacks"
- Skipjacks is also the name of a cryptographic cipher which has led some hunters to believe that the tweets are cipher text of some kind
- "Agriotes" is an anagram for "riot sage" the source of an earlier clue
- This creature, Agriotes obscurus, is a member of the family Elateridae which are commonly known as "click beetles" or "Skipjacks"
- The user updated their location and bio:
- Location San Francisco, Denver...
- Bio Found out. Might have to flap my wings and fly away soon.
- perhaps he is in denver about to fly somewhere else?
- 9/5 Noticed Bio is now: Taking off soon.
- Based on post by @nxthompson we have details on some flights in past 2 years. Below they have been matched to numbers from above.
https://archive.is/20130626112906/www.wired.com/vanish/2009/09/flying-the-friendly-skies/
First set of numbers:
225 784 - Feb 24, 2008 US784 SFO->CLT
226 4401 - Feb 26, 2008 US4401 CLT->TRI
226 1167 - Feb 29, 2008 US1167 CLT->SFO (date doesn't match @nxthompson post should be 229?)
226 4270 - Feb 29, 2008 US4270 TRI->CLT (date doesn't match @nxthompson post should be 229?)
327 258 - Mar 27, 2008 US258 SFO->PHX
330 401 - Mar 30, 2008 US401 PHX->SFO
1031 770 - Oct 31, 2008 UA770 SFO->DEN
1105 721 - Nov 05, 2008 UA721 DEN->SFO
1118 318 (not listed)
1218 150 (not listed)
1222 1285 (not listed)
1229 107 (not listed)
Second set of numbers:
211 724 (not listed)
216 385 (not listed)
223 573 - Feb 23, 2009 UA573 SFO->SAN
224 468 - Feb 24, 2009 UA468 SAN->SFO
318 150 (not listed)
325 133 (not listed)
430 758 - Apr 30, 2009 AC758 SFO->YYZ
52 8031 - May 2, 2009 AC8031 YYZ->BNA (where to after BNA?)
510 47 (not listed) (maybe May 10, 2009 Delta 47 ATL to SFO?)
68 272 (not listed) (NWA272 SFO->MEM)
613 269 (not listed) (NWA269 MEM->SFO)
72 24 - (not listed) Jul 2, 2009 VX24 SFO->JFK -probable based on twitter activity mentioning Virgin
76 27 - (not listed) Jul 6, 2009 VX27 JFK->SFO -probable based on twitter activity mentioning Virgin