**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Headline: Ghost Flames: Simi Valley Fire Burns Perfect Circular Ring, GPS Data Shows 17-Minute Time Gap in Response Logs

SIMI VALLEY, CA – Firefighters battling the 2,000-acre “Phantom Ridge Fire” in the Simi Valley foothills are quietly admitting the burn pattern has left veteran GIS analysts “speechless.”

According to exclusive data reviewed by The Anomaly Feed, satellite imagery of the fire’s origin point reveals a near-perfect circle, measuring exactly 437 feet in diameter. The burn ring is so geometrically precise, it resembles a crop circle—except for the fact that it is composed entirely of charred active fuel.

But the “Matrix Glitch,” as codebreakers on Reddit are calling it, lies in the digital trail. A forensic audit of the L.A. County Fire Department’s GPS command log reveals a 17-minute and 22-second gap in telemetry data originating from the site, directly preceding the fire’s exponential spread.

“We have thermal signatures, satellite pings, and radio chatter… and then, for 17 minutes, it’s as if the Earth’s geomagnetic record was erased in that specific grid square,” said Dr. Evelyn Shaw, a former NASA hazard mapping specialist who analyzed the raw data. “The turbines? No wind. The dry lightning? No clouds. It’s a glitch in the environmental matrix.”

Fire officials are officially citing “suspicious origin,” but unofficial chatter from the command center, obtained via scanner leaks, mentions an anomaly that made digital watches and compasses on the first-response truck “spin in circles” for those exact 17 minutes.

The Anomaly Feed has reached out to the DOD for comment on whether this “glitch” is linked to known experimental