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Apr 10, 2026 12:00 PM

Ghost Murmur: Lockheed's Quantum Heartbeat Hunter The CIA Used To Pluck US Airman Out Of Iran's Desert

Lockheed Martin Corp.’s (NYSE:LMT) "Ghost Murmur" technology sounds like science fiction, but it just reshaped what combat search and rescue looks like.

On Sunday, the CIA reportedly used the never‑before‑deployed system to help extract a downed U.S. airman from Iran's mountains after his F‑15E was shot down. 

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President Donald Trump later called the mission "unbelievable," according to the New York Post's reporting on the tool and its role in the operation.

Per that report, Ghost Murmur is a classified quantum‑sensing platform developed inside Lockheed's Skunk Works, a specialized unit that develops top-secret technologies. 

The technology can pick up the faint electromagnetic signature of a human heartbeat from a long range.

It reportedly combines ultra‑sensitive quantum magnetometers with AI to isolate a single cardiac rhythm from the electromagnetic noise of the Earth, vehicles, infrastructure ...