That ‘quantum heartbeat detector’ allegedly used to find the lost US pilot? Experts are skeptical

A story claims a revolutionary skunk works built a quantum sensor that was used to locate a missing airman by reading his pulse from 40 miles away. But physicists say the laws of biomagnetism make that impossible.

[Photos: Pic4u/Adobe Stock, US Air Force]

The recent rescue of a downed American F-15 fighter jet weapons systems officer—known as “Dude 44 Bravo”—from a desolate mountain crevice in southern Iran was a massive military achievement. The airman survived two days in the harsh terrain while Iranian troops scoured the area with a bounty on his head.

He activated a physical Boeing-made Combat Survivor Evader Locator beacon that guided hundreds of U.S. troops to his location. It was a chaotic extraction where two rescue planes got stuck in a field, requiring even more aircraft and the ultimate destruction of the stranded........

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