Early in the year, I reviewed reports that a Venezuelan guard who managed to survive the raid on Maduro’s compound said that U.S. forces used an intense sound‑like weapon, describing it as a powerful “sonic weapon” that instantly incapacitated defenders.
Now another intriguing report has been issued about new technology used, this time to rescue the airman missing from the F-15 downed in Iran.
“Ghost Murmur” is reported to be a classified CIA sensing system that helped locate the airman hiding in mountainous terrain in Iran by remotely detecting his heartbeat.
The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic signal of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.
It was the tool’s first use in the field by the spy agency — and was alluded to Monday afternoon by President Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe at a White House briefing....
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