According to reports, the US military successfully discovered and rescued an American airman whose F-15 fighter jet was shot down in southern Iran, utilising a new, highly covert equipment created by the CIA.
The airman, known publicly only as "Dude 44 Bravo," spent two days hiding in a mountain fissure after his plane crashed, while Iranian commandos scoured the region with a prize on his capture.
According to The New York Post, the breakthrough occurred with the deployment of "Ghost Murmur" technology, which identifies a human heartbeat's electromagnetic signature from a considerable distance. To distinguish between the pulse and surrounding noise, the device uses quantum magnetometry and artificial intelligence.

"It's like hearing a voice in a stadium, but the stadium is 1,000 square miles of desert. If your heart is beating in the correct conditions, we will discover you," said one individual acquainted with the operation to The New York Post.
Ghost Murmur was created by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the company's top-secret research branch, and this mission was its first known operational application.
The device had previously been tested on Black Hawk helicopters in preparation for future deployment on fighter jets such as the F-35.
"The name is purposeful. A murmur is a clinical word for a cardiac beat. "The term 'ghost' refers to finding someone who has effectively vanished," the source explained.Typically, a human heartbeat is so faint that it can only be detected by sensors put against the chest. However, Ghost Murmur using quantum magnetometry detected these signals "at dramatically greater distances."
"The capability is not omniscient." The insider told The New York Post that it works best in distant, low-clutter situations and requires a large amount of processing time.
Although the airman had triggered a Combat Survivor Evader Locator beacon, search and rescue crews were still unable to pinpoint his exact location. Ghost Murmur was instrumental in narrowing it down.President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe both alluded to the technology at a White House briefing.
Trump said that the CIA found the airman from "40 miles away," describing the operation as "like finding a needle in a haystack."
The rescue mission reportedly involved hundreds of US personnel, with two planes being stranded on the ground. Extra planes had to be sent in, and the stranded jets were destroyed, but all Americans on the mission arrived safely.