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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

Source: YouTube · Veritasium · published Jun 5, 2026 · 34:10

Cybersecurity
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GPS expert Professor Todd Humphreys and his student investigated a 2021 public dataset based on a mysterious tip and discovered a simultaneous, coordinated anomaly across a network of GPS monitoring stations 0:00.

Key Takeaways:
• In November 2024, Professor Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas at Austin received a tip directing him to examine specific times within a public dataset collected years earlier 0:00.
• The dataset was generated by a network of stations that continuously record the strength of satellite navigation signals relative to background noise 0:18.
• Although the 2021 data was publicly available and assumed to be thoroughly reviewed, it contained a previously unnoticed anomaly 0:27.
• Following the tip's exact coordinates, Humphreys and his student Zach Clements found that at one precise moment, receivers across the entire network reported the exact same unusual phenomenon 0:36.

This unexpected discovery in seemingly ordinary public data highlights the potential for uncovering hidden, synchronized events within global satellite navigation systems 0:44.

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  • 0:00 Introduction of Professor Todd Humphreys and the mysterious tip-off
  • 0:18 Explanation of the GPS monitoring network and signal strength data
  • 0:27 The assumption that the public 2021 data had already been thoroughly checked
  • 0:36 The discovery of the simultaneous anomaly across all receivers

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  • In November 2024,
    Professor Todd Humphreys, a GPS expert at the
    University of Texas at Austin, got a mysterious tip-off. Look at two specific days, at exact times in a data
    set collected years earlier by a network of GPS monitoring stations. These stations continuously record signals from satellite navigation systems, measuring how strong they are
    relative to background noise. It didn't seem promising. The data was from 2021, and it was publicly available online. So surely if something
    unusual was in there, someone would have already found it. But Professor Humphreys and his
    student Zach Clements looked into the data at the two
    specific times suggested, and they discovered something surprising. At one precise moment, receivers across the network
    all reported the same thing, a sudden drop…