0:00 All right, so a week ago I built WorldView. Basically, my personal geospatial command [music] center with live open-source intelligence all running in my browser. It was just a prototype, a fun weekend project, but the internet kind of went crazy over it. It's like being shared by all these people over here. I vibe coded Palantir. I'm like Then Saturday morning, the Iran strikes happened. And I'm sitting there watching the news, and I suddenly realized, holy [snorts] crap, I'm sitting on the perfect infrastructure to actually monitor this situation. >> [music] >> So, while this was happening, I set loose an AI agent swarm to basically capture every open-source signal that I could find before the caches [music] cleared. And what I got back is a full 4D reconstruction of Operation Epic Fury. From the satellites flying over to the first strike, to ships and planes getting rerouted, to the retaliatory
0:45 response, it's all captured and replayable on a 3D [music] globe. And I'm going to break it down for you minute-by-minute what actually happened and show you some intel you're not going to see anywhere [music] else, unless you have a security clearance. Let's get into it. All right, welcome to the WorldView. We're now in playback mode, and on the bottom, you'll see we have the entire timeline of Operation Epic Fury. The entire strike on Iran and the response therein. I've got all sorts of data in here. We've got the satellites that are flying over orbit. We've got the commercial flights. We've got military flights. We've got GPS jamming, to the red tiles over here. And if you zoom really in, we've even got maritime data of like boats and ships that are moving around. So, let's talk about all of it. So, the first thing you'll notice is that we've got a bunch of commercial flights down here. But we're seeing a sudden spike in GPS jamming. This is all
1:32 derived from ADSB data, and you will see very quickly that starts getting pretty freaking spicy. Another really interesting view is to see what are the commercial and defense satellites that are flying over Iran right before the first strike happens. So, we see the Pleiades Neo, WorldView Legion, SPOT satellites, and you'll start seeing lines connect when they actually go over an area of interest. And it might be interesting for us to see what are some of these satellites. So, let's look up Persona 3. Persona 3 is a class of Russian high-resolution military surveillance satellites. And what you'll find is this only escalates further. So, we got WorldView, which is Maxar Ventor, commercial satellite imagery provider. We've got Gaofen 11. Let's look that one up real quick. So, Gaofen 11 and 12 are
2:17 Chinese high-resolution microwave remote sensing satellites. There is the WorldView constellation again, WorldView Legion. There we got Gaofen 12, the Chinese satellite going over Iran. Oh-oh, directly over the point of interest. We got Capella and Gaofen. So, Capella is a synthetic aperture radar satellite. The thing that was used to like map the stuff below the pyramids that's been going viral. And the cool thing about synthetic aperture radar is like it can see through clouds. So, whether you have clouds or not, this thing will penetrate. Pleiades Neo, a really nice European satellite, another Chinese satellite. And so, as we get to zero hour here with the first strike, you'll see a lot of countries are interested in what's going down. Of course, you got the Chinese, the Russians, and let's take a second to look at this satellite over here. USA 234 Topaz. Wonder what that is. Oh,
3:03 that's right. Cool. Very cool. All right. So, we have zero hour strike on the nuclear base in Iran, and the Topaz military spy satellite going over. And then right after you have a flurry of activity. The Chinese and the Americans making sure they're imaging what it is they bombed. So, my guess is what's happening is the initial satellites are documenting the initial positions. And then right after events start escalating, you've got other satellites imaging what happened after the fact. [music] So, what you'll notice is other events pop up on the map. They're typically very closely aligned with satellites flying over. And there we go, Tehran's in internet blackouts. But the satellites fly over Iran just continues, especially as you see strikes in other parts of the country. And by the way, this doesn't include all the other spy
3:49 satellites, cuz a few of them just aren't tracked or we only have the last known position for when, you know, open source folks are actually doing the tracking. And then, as all the strikes complete, we get a complete new sweep. We got the spy satellites going over, we got the commercial satellites, all of them. And by the way, like 90% of the business of most of these commercial satellite providers is the US government. And then it's like companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft for maps and things like this. So, very cool. I haven't seen anyone else really correlate satellite flyovers with these type of global events, which makes a ton of sense, right? Like, what are the areas of interest that are being imaged? And what does that tell us about the various sites? So, another interesting thing that you'll notice here is like, obviously we got a bunch of commercial flights. But as GPS jamming intensifies and we get closer towards zero hour, notice how a bunch of these flights start redirecting. They're just going
4:34 straight, right? Like, uh-uh, I'm getting the hell out of dodge. I ain't going that way. But yet, there are a few brave ones that trudge on. Let's see which ones those are. Let's see, we got THY631 and VIR354. And okay, this is Now we got Tehran in a freaking blackout. And you've still got a bunch of these flights that are stuck in the middle of this all. And these flights that are continuing, they're going full Leroy Jenkins. And this one is Turkish Airlines. They want to get to Turkey, which is on the other side, which kind of makes sense, right? Like, there's a bunch of commercial air traffic and stuff going on over here. But yeah, imagine being on these flights as shit's going down. Oh my god, that has to be absolutely crazy. And meanwhile, all these other flights that we saw that are getting the hell out of dodge are just happy to be out just in the nick of time
5:21 before Iran is declared a no-fly zone. Now let's take a look at the various airspaces getting shut down after the first strike happens. Very quickly, you'll see that as soon as Iran's a no-fly zone, Iraq is right next to it, right? Like, they're the next to go down. They're like, "Holy [ __ ] get the hell out of dodge. This is about to go crazy." And you'll see Iraq pop up over here. So, their airspace is largely cleared out. And then the other Gulf countries are going to follow suit. So, you'll see right as we get to about here, Kuwait's closes down its airspace. These are Iran's retaliatory strikes, right? So, the US has airbases all over the place, right? Including in Bahrain and Qatar. And you'll see they're going to get targeted next by the Iranians. So, there we go. That's the Fifth Fleet. That's a military base run by the US that got hit. You get Al Udeid, that was hit as well. And with some of the air
6:06 defense systems, you've got civilian bleed over, right? Like basically crap falling out of the sky in civilian zones. Okay, so as all the airspaces are all shut down and then Kuwait gets hit. Now, this part of the world has some of the busiest commercial air traffic and you will see a cascading effect as these no-fly zones pop up, right? So, Tehran's down at this point as we mentioned. You had a bunch of the strikes going down. Another interesting thing to see is if we go back to the start and now I give you a much faster time lapse, basically 15 minutes per second. You can notice how robust the commercial air traffic is between this region, right? This is one of the busiest areas in the world and you'll see the moment all these no-fly zones come up, this commercial traffic is going to completely thin out. So, look at this. All completely gone. And what's funny is like if I zoom in and actually slow
6:52 things down, you can see a bunch of planes go into this like holding formation before they figure out where the hell are they supposed to actually go. It's kind [laughter] of crazy. It's like, "What do we do? What do we do? Oh my god." And then all the airspaces start shutting down. They're like, "Oh [ __ ] UAE shut down. Where do we go now?" So, they like creep right below between these like no-fly zones and pop out over here. By the way, a bunch of these yellow planes are military planes. So, another interesting thing to observe is after the air traffic completely clears out, what about maritime trade, right? Like this is the Gulf region. What happened is essentially the Strait of Hormuz got closed down. Essentially, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard was like, "Yo, this is basically closed. Get the hell out of here." There were reports of some ships being attacked. And by the way, as all these other tankers are clearing out, this is the tanker that actually got hit. Now, what's crazy is
7:38 if I come out to about the zoom level and just play everything at a much faster clip, like a time lapse if you will. Being able to see the GPS jamming intensify, you've got commercial traffic that's like trying to make its way in and immediately starts getting the hell out of dodge. You've got all of the military and commercial satellites that are trying to image the area of interest that's about to get totally bombed. And then suddenly back-to-back with actual OSINT data, like things happening on the ground completely correlated on a 3D globe. Seeing all the strikes pan out, then you go down and see like the Gulf airspace completely get cleared out. And then you get to see the cascading impact of all the other countries around close their airspace. The retaliatory strikes, airspace over here getting closed down. And then of course when we zoom in, we've got the Gulf of Hormuz over here
8:23 and the closures that happen. I mean, it's kind of crazy that I'm able to put this stuff together. It's really cool to see folks that who worked at Lockheed Martin and DARPA talk about this. And I mean like I would echo this too. Like I spent so many years working on Google Maps, Google Earth, and a bunch of AR 3D platform stuff with so many talented engineers. And I cannot tell you how insane it is that I was able to do this over a freaking weekend just by myself. And it's interesting, right? Like when I shared my worldview project with the world last week, the response was phenomenal. But it was interesting, like a lot of people were just saying like Palantir is cooked. And it was to the point where like the Palantir co-founder felt compelled to respond noting his company's edge and secure large-scale defense integrations with classified data. And that's absolutely true. I mean like some of the stuff they're doing is phenomenal and I could only dream of the
9:11 type of data that they have access to. Like of course I don't have the feeds from Fort Meade. And yet it's kind of insane how complete of a picture you can put together without proprietary data fusion just by taking advantage of the open-source intelligence that we all have access to. I mean to me, this is more compelling than any journalistic coverage that I've seen of the events that are playing out. The order of operations and the cascading impact that it had across the region. I mean, it's kind of nuts and I'm just one person doing this over the weekend. Holy crap, y'all. We are in a new era. And the response to this has kind of been crazy. Like, people on the OSINT side that want this, on the journalism side that want it, folks that just want to monitor the situation on a big-ass monitor, kind of like what we're doing right now. What's been particularly crazy is defense tech founders hitting me up wanting to partner, saying that the capabilities
9:57 that I'm showing are like leaps and bounds in terms of visualization above systems that the Department of War is buying. Like, it's this funny thing where the government has access to some of the most exquisite sensor systems on the planet, like satellites that can literally capture a license plate or your face from space, but the software itself, it sounds like, hasn't completely caught up. But for the rest of us who want to monitor something in the most immersive way possible, feeling like you got access to like a freaking Keyhole satellites or Argus IS overhead imagery system, this is the spot for you. And I'm excited to share I'll be opening up WorldView in April. So, stay tuned for that. Everyone that's been emailing me for access to help out, keep it coming. You can find my email online. And if you haven't seen my previous video about WorldView itself, you can check that out over here. Stay tuned for
10:44 a lot of cool projects like this. I've got like six other items on the WorldView road map that are going to be freaking amazing. So, you're going to want to stay tuned for that. Anyway, if you enjoyed this video, please be sure to hit that like button. Comment, let me know what would you like me to cover next. Maybe there's going to be a lot more situations to monitor, and I will be there with WorldView at hand. Balavo signing off, and I'll see y'all in the next one. Cheers.
