{"id":215731,"date":"2026-03-12T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:19:23","slug":"navy-submarine-hunter-spotted-in-fresno-after-doomsday-plane-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215731\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy &#8216;Submarine Hunter&#8217; spotted in Fresno after &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; plane sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26)  \u2014 A massive Navy plane was spotted circling over Fresno Tuesday night, just days after an unmarked Boeing plane was seen, leaving many wondering what it was doing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents say they heard it before they saw it.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, a Boeing P-8 Poseidon, flew over the city for about 30 minutes before heading back north.<\/p>\n<p>The P-8 is a specialized maritime patrol plane used for anti-submarine warfare, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described the plane as big, loud, and flying unusually low, performing what appeared to be touch-and-go landings at Fresno Yosemite International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>It carried few visible markings, which is typical for military training or operational flights.<\/p>\n<p>The P-8 Poseidon is based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington and regularly conducts training exercises along the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/navys-doomsday-plane-spotted-circling-the-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Navy&#8217;s &#8216;Doomsday Plane&#8217; spotted circling the Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sighting comes just three days after an unmarked Boeing E-6B Mercury, often referred to as a \u201cDoomsday Plane,\u201d was also spotted in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear why the plane was flying over Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A massive Navy plane was spotted circling over Fresno Tuesday night, just days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-215731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}