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CIA Used Secret 'Ghost Murmur' Tool to Find Airman in Iran

The classified system uses quantum magnetometry and AI, and Trump said it spotted the airman from 40 miles away.

  • On Sunday, April 5, US special forces rescued a downed American airman from a remote Iranian mountain range after his F-15 jet was shot down. The CIA utilized a previously classified tool to pinpoint the pilot's location.
  • Weapons systems officer "Dude 44 Bravo" survived nearly 36 hours in a mountain crevice after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down on Friday, April 3. Iranian forces hunted the area with a bounty on his head.
  • Developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division, "Ghost Murmur" uses quantum magnetometry and AI to isolate human heartbeats from environmental noise. President Trump stated the agency spotted the airman from "40 miles away."
  • During a Monday briefing, Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed the agency verified the airman's survival before the rescue. Trump praised the technology, stating "It's like finding a needle in a haystack."
  • The system was previously tested on Black Hawk helicopters, with officials suggesting potential future deployment on F-35 fighter jets. This mission marked the first operational field use of the classified technology.
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Following the destruction of an F-15 by the Iranian anti-aircraft defence system, the CIA reportedly used top secret technology doped with the AI to locate the hidden pilot at the bottom of a crevice. This "Ghost Murmur" would locate a human hundreds of kilometres away.

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The CIA reportedly used new technology to locate a lost American pilot in the heart of the Iranian desert. Baptised "Ghost Murmur", it exploits artificial intelligence to remotely capture the electromagnetic signature of heartbeat. (New technologies).

Quantum technology is said to have tracked down a shot-down U.S. Air Force officer based solely on his heartbeat in the mountains. However, experts see something quite different in history.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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Such would be Ghost Murmur, the mysterious tool based on quantum magnetometry that the CIA has premiered in the rescue of the missing pilot in Iran. More information: Iran brings war to the 'cloud': data centers and technological infrastructure are the new combat targets

·Spain
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WASHINGTON.– In a surgical precision maneuver, the United States carried out a rescue operation in Iranian territory to extract a downed aviator. According to the information obtained by the New York Post newspaper, the success of the operation depended not only on the value of the elite troops, but also on the implementation of a secret and hitherto unpublished technology called “Ghost Murmur.” This device, whose existence remained in the stric…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ussanews.com broke the news on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
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