UPDATED 12/12/16: Just to underline the extraordinary implausibility of Blaine Alan Gibson's finds, I've taken the extra step of putting in bold the three (3) separate occasions when Gibson hit the jackpot with a 1-in-a-million stroke of luck. Run into if you can spot them beneath. My personal favorite is the 1 with the ATV.

On December 8, 2016, the Twitter account voice370 (@cryfortruth) Tweeted the following:

In a Facebook post the same day, Grace Subathirai Nathan (one of the NOK on the current debris-finding expedition to Madagascar) posted about the same notice:

Another slice of debris constitute before today. This time by individual denizen Blaine Alan Gibson while he was with ii French journalists Pierre Chabert and Renaud Fessaguet.
He walked past the spot on the embankment where next of kin Jiang Hui found a slice yesterday and nothing was at that place then 30 mins after the way back the waves done the slice on debris to the shore.
This just goes to evidence that debris can exist there ane minute and gone the next and vice versa.

She included some of the images that were also in the Tweet, amidst them this one:

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I've already written in the annotate section of the preceding postal service that I notice information technology quite extraordinary that a purported piece of MH370 evidently washed up on the shore inside half an hr of Blaine's passing by the spot. The body of water is vast, the number of pieces of MH370 necessarily express. The odds of finding a slice of the plane on any given stretch of sand is very small; the odds of finding something that done aground within the last one-half hour must be infinitesmal.

One would also would not expect a newly done-ashore slice of debris to exist free of biofouling, every bit I've discussed earlier. Something that just came out of the ocean, if free of biofouling, must have spent time ashore, gotten picked clean, so done back out to ocean, only to come up ashore again inside a few days. Truly miraculous.

I've voiced suspicions in the past most Gibson'due south self-financed investigation. He said that he found his first piece of MH370 debris, so-chosen "No Step," twenty minutes after starting his first beach search. Though information technology was constitute on a sand bar that is awash at loftier tide, it, likewise, was remarkably free of biofouling. Since then, he has institute more than than half of the pieces of suspected debris. All have have been completely innocent of marine life. His finds have excited remarkably little enthusiasm amid the government; the Malaysians waited half-dozen months to remember one batch, and then just made that attempt after their inaction was the subject of unflattering news stories.

Gibson is clearly an eccentric; before he constitute "No Step" he was bouncing effectually the Indian Bounding main littoral, investigating crackpot theories and making himself known to the authorities and next-of-kin. In the past he has, he says, tried to notice the Ark of the Covenant. A recent commodity in the Guardian had this bit:

Blaine Gibson, a lawyer turned investigator who arrived on Madagascar six months ago, said he has seen debris from the plane used to fan a kitchen fire by a 9-yr-old daughter on the island.

"Information technology was light and it was solid and it was office of the airplane," said Gibson, 59. "When I put the word out effectually the village, another guy turned upwardly with another piece he had been using every bit a washing board for clothes."

Are we to believe that he walked up on a girl fanning a fire and, lo and behold, she happened to be fanning it with a piece of MH370? Instead of any of a billion suitable modest, light, flat objects that exist in the globe? What'southward more, I am troubled by Gibson's suggestion that the residents of this region are and then materially impoverished that they would eagerly size on any scrap of textile that comes their way and put it to immediate utilize—to incorporate into a shelter, to burn for fuel, to fan a fire with, or to use as a washboard. In fact I find this thought rather bonkers.

Some people experience that it is unacceptable to question Blaine Alan Gibson; they say that he has inspired and given hope to the next-of-kin. As I've said before, I feel that if we are going to solve this mystery, nosotros have to put every piece of show under intense scrutiny, regardless of however someone may or may not feel emotionally about that scrutiny.

Indeed, I find the fact that Gibson and his associates try to aggressively silence questions nigh his finds fifty-fifty more arousing of suspicion.

UPDATE 12/xi/sixteen: A couple of points I'd like to add to the to a higher place:

— In September, Gibson enlisted the aid of Australian aviation journalist Geoffrey Thomas in challenge that two pieces of debris that he'd found likely came from the electronics bay, showed evidence of fire damage, and therefore supported the hypothesis that the aeroplane had come to grief due to an accidental fire. This theory, while favored by some, is very much at odds with other show in the case. Australian regime responded by saying that "opposite to speculation there is no prove the detail was exposed to heat or fire."

— More on Gibson's background from SeattleMet:

For the next 25 years, Gibson lived a life that could be described every bit unconventionally adventurous. After a brusk stint at Seafirst, he moved to Olympia and worked for iii years in the part of Washington state senator Ray Moore. Then he joined the U.S. Department of Land. But he didn't final long there either; in the late '80s he could see that the Soviet Spousal relationship was on the verge of collapse and decided to capitalize on it. For ten years he lived off and on in the newly backer Russia, serving every bit a consultant to new business owners and fattening a bank account that would later fund his drifting.

When I interviewed him later the "No Step" find, he told me that he speaks fluent Russian.

— Based on the full quantity of droppings establish in the concluding year and a half, one observes that the pieces plow up quite infrequently. Yet Gibson has now twice found debris with a camera crew present. In June he constitute 3 pieces while accompanied by a crew from the France two TV bear witness "Complément d'enquête." From the same SeattleMet slice:

In the first calendar week of June he did, in fact, go to Madagascar. And on June 6 he led a French television news crew to a sparse strip of land off the isle's east declension. They rode quads forth the beach, and at the north end he signaled for the party to stop. The camera crew had a good reason to follow him: He is, to this 24-hour interval, still the only person to find a slice of Flight 370 while actually looking for information technology. And he'd done enough research to take a good idea where he might detect more than. But come on, it was still a ane-in-a-meg discover. There'south no way he'd really uncover some other.
Right?

With the cameras trained on him, Gibson dismounted and started walking. And as he got closer to the object that had caught his eye, he could see that information technology was greyness fiberglass. It was almost a clone of No Step. Later, he found a scattering of other pieces, one of which looked exactly like the housing for a seat-back TV monitor. He couldn't be sure, simply he had a pretty good thought they came from Flight 370.

To recap, Blaine and a TV coiffure rode in ATVs forth the beach until he signaled them to stop, got out, and pointed to a piece of MH370 droppings. Holy. Shit.

— This is the piece that NOK Jiang Hui found the 24-hour interval before Blaine discovered his on the same beach. Once more, pretty make clean:

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— Notation: I've accept out a paragraph in the original in which I said that the location of the debris in the sand appears to be way likewise far from the water to have done up there within the last one-half 60 minutes. Several commenters pointed out that the piece appears to straddle the wet/dry line demarcating the high water mark, and I concede that point.

UPDATE 12/12/16: There's a story in Der Spiegel today virtually a tree torso that washed upward in New Zealand. The remarkable size and density of these organisms is so hit that this entirely natural phenomenon struck those who came upon it as something fantastical and alien.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - DECEMBER 12: Muriwai local Rani Timoti walks to see a large driftwood tree covered in gooseneck barnacles on Auckland's west coast on December 12, 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand. The large object washed up on Muriwai beach on Saturday, 10 December. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

Large Barnacle Covered Object Washed Up On Muriwai Beach

I bring this up to emphasize how extraordinary it is that all the debris recovered past Blaine Alan Gibson, and indeed all of the suspected pieces of MH370 debris save ii, have been recovered in a almost pristine country. Yeah, objects which spend some fourth dimension aground tin can get picked clean in time. But many of the pieces of droppings recovered so far have been found inside hours of beingness deposited. As I've previously written in some detail, such pieces would be expected to exist colonized past a diversity of marine organisms. If you look at galleries of objects which have washed aground later having spent a similar amount of time at ocean, such as seismic sea wave droppings nerveless in the U.s.a. Northwest and Hawaii, information technology collectively looks very, very different from MH370 debris. Don't accept my word for information technology; at that place are links to such image galleries at the finish of the piece linked to a higher place.