The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, confirmed that on Saturday morning it was possible to locate the pilot hidden in a mountain crevice, where he had remained invisible to Iranian forces.
The system used artificial intelligence and quantum magnetometry to locate the aviator in the middle of the desert.
The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, confirmed that on Saturday morning it was possible to locate the pilot hidden in a mountain crevice, where he had remained invisible to Iranian forces.
“We achieved our main objective by finding and confirming that one of the best and bravest in the United States was alive,” he said. As he explained, the information was quickly transmitted to the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, which made it possible to immediately activate the final rescue phase
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For his part, President Donald Trump highlighted the decisive role of the intelligence agency in the success of the mission. “It's like finding a needle in a haystack, finding this pilot, and the CIA was incredible,” he told reporters
.In addition, it revealed that the initial location was achieved from a distance of approximately 64 kilometers, a fact that reinforces the innovative nature of the system used.
Trump also directly praised Ratcliffe, stressing that he “did a phenomenal job that night” and suggesting that some of the details of the operation are still classified due to the sensitivity of the technology used.
Secret CIA technology made it possible to locate and rescue the American pilot of the F-15 shot down in southern Iran, in an unprecedented operation that combined different types of advanced tools and military equipment.
According to sources close to the operation to The New York Post, this futuristic system used by the CIA, called “Ghost Murmur”, was key to locating the second pilot who remained missing in a remote area of the Iranian desert.
The system combines long-range quantum magnetometry with artificial intelligence to detect the electromagnetic fingerprint of the human heartbeat, making it possible to isolate it even in extremely hostile environments.
“It's like hearing a voice in a stadium, only that the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert,” a source informed about the program explained. “Under the right conditions, if your heart beats, we'll find you,” he added, graphing the level of precision achieved by this technology
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The operation, which involved hundreds of military personnel, took place under complex conditions. During the mission, two rescue aircraft were trapped in the ground, forcing additional reinforcements to be deployed and, eventually, to destroy the stuck planes to prevent their technology from falling into Iranian hands. Despite these setbacks, the operation was completed without