MH370’s disappearance has sent the minds of many conspiracy theorists into overdrive.The missing Malaysian flight MH370 has provided a lot of fodder for conspiracy theorists around the world. The overactive imagination of these creative geniuses have come up with implausible, out-of-the-world (literally) explanations behind the disappearance of the ill-fated flight. We bring you some of the wackiest theories that have been doing the rounds in the cyber world.Almost everyone would have thought of this explanation at one point or another. Aliens are blamed for almost every inexplicable incident, and this disappearance was no exception. Alexandra Bruce, a Brazilian-American author, claimed that the airplane was hijacked by extraterrestrials. She ‘analysed’ radar data to ‘prove’ that there were aliens involved. She also claimed that a YouTube video of computer simulation of the flight shows the presence of something that “can only be termed a UFO” in the skies over Malaysia.The zombie plane theory joined the fray quite late. Who do you think led this theory? A conspiracy theory website? Reddit? Nope. It was CNN. “It sounds very ominous here, but this is a theory that could explain why and how this plane went down,” a CNN correspondent told the audience. So what is the zombie plane theory? Lack of oxygen or fumes and smoke knocks everyone on board unconscious. The plane, on autopilot, flies on until it runs out of fuel and then crashes. The CNN correspondent then noted that a similar incident occurred in 1999 when professional golfer Payne Stewart’s charter airplane crashed.This one is courtesy Reddit users. The basic idea is that MH370 slipped through a rip in the space-time continuum and landed in the 1970s, where the Americans found it and reverse-engineered the aircraft’s technology to create the original Boeing 777 in the 1980s. The other time travel idea was that time travellers from the future came to the present to prevent WWIII, and to avoid time travelling technology from falling into the wrong hands. The poor Freescale employees were again dragged in and made collaborators of these time travellers. Those who spawned the theory claim that the device the time travellers used to make the aircraft jump to the future was damaged.The presence of Freescale employees gave rise to another theory: foul play by the Illuminati. Apparently, four of the company’s employees were co-owners of a patented semiconductor. And now, the fifth co-owner would be the sole owner, who happens to be Jacob Rothschild, an alleged Illuminati member. A conspiracy website claimed that Rothschild engineered the whole plot.Conspiracy theorists have also suggested that MH370 may have been consumed by a black hole. A CNN anchor even wondered out loud if it was “preposterous” that it could have happened? Needless to say, he regretted it later.The idea of a new Asian Bermuda Triangle has surfaced among those discussing possible theories about the missing flight. The Triangle is thought to be similar to the one in the North Atlantic Ocean, where many ships and planes have disappeared.Although there is no evidence that suggests the pilot or the co-pilot may have committed suicide, it has not stopped some conspiracy theorists from speculating about that. In the late 1990s, pilot suicides were cited as possible reasons for many such incidents.Some suggest that Pitbull and Shakira’s song Get It Started displays prior knowledge of the flight’s fate. The lines quoted by these conspiracy theorists are, “Now it’s off to Malaysia” and “Two passports, three cities, two countries, one day”. The “two passports” have been linked to the stolen Austrian and Italian passports that were used by two passengers to board the plane.The flight’s passengers included 20 employees of a Texas-based technology firm, Freescale Semiconductor, which makes data-gathering components. A website claims that maybe the plane was used to test a ‘cloaking technology’ that would make it invisible and send it off the radar. Some believe that the plane was diverted by fringe groups to get hold of the technology. Others are of the opinion that with the help of this technology, the aircraft was taken to a remote airport left over from the Vietnam War.After the authorities reported that two passengers were travelling on the missing flight with stolen passports, speculations of a terror ploy were high. There was also information on five passengers, who had checked in their luggage for flight MH370 but did not board. A previously unheard of terrorist group claimed that they were responsible for the attack. In an email to the Chinese media, the group, called Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade, wrote, “You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as payback.” Rupert Murdoch also added fuel to the terrorist theory, and tweeted, “World seems transfixed by ‘777 disappearance’. Maybe no crash but stolen, effectively hidden, perhaps in Northern Pakistan, like Bin Laden.”You have to admit – there are uncanny similarities between this incident and the TV show LOST. This has led a lot of netizens to wonder – could this just be marketing for a re-launch of LOST? This theory got so much attention, that audiences attending the reunion of LOST cast members were specifically asked not to ask questions about the missing flight. An overenthusiastic PR department, maybe? Twitter user @lmcheney67 wrote, “Might be inappropriate, but: what if J.J. Abrams is making a “Lost: Reality show” and the 1st season is about that missing Malaysia flight?”