What if the blue Glow at the end was actually ANOTHER plane? (hear me out)
Okay I just finished Manifest and I have a theory that I haven’t really seen anyone talk about. I’m NOT saying this is canon or that the show confirms it, but hear me out. We know Flight 828 didn’t disappear simply because Daly fucked up. The show makes it clear that the Glow was already chasing them, and Daly’s arc supports this because he tried recreating the exact flight conditions, including the weather and flight path, but the plane in the simulation crashed instead of disappearing like 828 did. So there had to be something else involved. At the end, the passengers get back on the plane at the volcano and complete the final trial on the plane. They then see the blue Glow and chase it. We know the Glow is connected to the Divine Consciousness and Sapphire, especially after everything with Cal and the volcano. BUT… what if the Glow they’re chasing is actually another airplane? I’m imagining different planes in different universes/timelines that are connected through the Divine Consciousness. Call them Plane A, Plane B, Plane C, etc. Plane A is the 828 we watched. It disappears for 5½ years, goes through everything, reaches the volcano, gets back on the plane, completes the final trial, and then sees the Glow. What if that Glow is actually Plane B? From Plane A’s perspective, Plane B appears as the blue Glow instead of an actual airplane. But from Plane B’s perspective, it’s just an airplane going through its own 828 experience, without knowing that another plane somewhere else is seeing them as the Glow. Plane A then returns to 2013, while eventually Plane B goes through its own 5½-year disappearance, Callings, Death Date, volcano, etc. At the end, Plane B sees the Glow too — except that Glow is Plane C. So it becomes: Plane A → sees Plane B as the Glow → returns to 2013 → Plane B sees Plane C as the Glow → returns to 2013 → Plane C sees Plane D as the Glow, and so on. This isn’t the same plane looping over and over; it’s different planes in different realities connected through the Divine Consciousness. And there doesn’t even have to be a “first” plane. If the Divine Consciousness exists outside normal time, the chain could be endless, with every plane connected to another one. So from Plane A’s perspective, Plane B is the Glow, while from Plane B’s perspective, Plane C is the Glow, etc. Basically, what one plane experiences as the supernatural Glow could actually be another plane experiencing its own version of the same phenomenon. I know the blue color has an explanation through Sapphire/Cal/the Divine Consciousness, and I’m not saying the show confirms any of this. I’m just wondering if the Glow could look like blue supernatural energy from one universe while actually being an airplane from another. Maybe I’m completely overthinking this 😂 but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about it. Has anyone else thought of something like this?