Pizza Delivery Monitor Alerts to Secret Israel Attack

The timing of Israel's plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell! 

About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof, according to a viral X account claiming to offer "hot intel" on "late-night activity spikes" at the US military headquarters. 

"As of 6:59 pm ET nearly all pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon have experienced a HUGE surge in activity", the account "Pentagon Pizza Report" posted on June 12, 2025. 

While far from scientific, the Pentagon pizza theory "is not something the Internet just made up", The Takeout, an online site covering restaurants and food trends, noted earlier this year. 

Pentagon-adjacent pizza joints also got much busier than usual during Israel's 2024 missile strike on Iran, it said. And pizza deliveries to the Pentagon reportedly doubled right before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989, and surged again before Operation Desert Storm in 1991. 

US President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal he was fully aware in advance of the bombing campaign, which Israel says is needed to end Iran's nuclear program. "We know what's going on". 

But for the rest of America, pepperoni pie activity offered the only clue that something was about to happen.