US Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment MH-47G helicopters were sighted over Caracas, Venezuela, with explosions reported at Higuerote Airport east of the capital and a warehouse in La Guaira north of Caracas, according to X posts by @Osinttechnical, @SA_Defensa, @AZ_Intel_, and @GeoConfirmed shared between 6:45 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. UTC on January 3, 2026. Additional explosions struck Fuerte Tiuna military complex, La Carlota Air Base, Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base, a communications center in El Hatillo, and El Libertador Air Base in Maracay, as reported in X posts by @OpenSourceZone, @EduMock, @SA_Defensa, and @sentdefender during the 29-minute window. The Associated Press confirmed at least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft around 2 a.m. local time (6 a.m. UTC) in Caracas. A large fire burned at a geolocated warehouse in La Guaira at coordinates 10.600674, -66.937218, per @GeoConfirmed and @sentdefender. AFP reported gunfire, explosions, and helicopters over Fuerte Tiuna and La Carlota, with power cuts in the capital, cited by @AZ_Intel_. Videos showed secondary explosions near Higuerote Airport after a US airstrike, according to @Osinttechnical. The US Air Force disabled transponders on virtually all flights, making them invisible on FlightRadar24, as stated in X posts by @disclosetv and @visegrad24. Al Jazeera and Al-Mayadeen reported intense military aircraft flights over Caracas. These developments follow earlier explosions at Caracas military bases coinciding with US Chinook sightings reported before 6:45 a.m. UTC.
