{"id":222369,"date":"2026-03-16T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:45:07","slug":"another-doomsday-plane-spotted-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222369\/","title":{"rendered":"Another ‘Doomsday Plane’ spotted in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Caught on camera! Another large unmarked airplane was spotted circling the airport in Fresno on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Navy Boeing E-6B Mercury, known as a ‘Doomsday Plane,’ spent about 30 minutes flying unusually low near the airport.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what the plane was doing in the area or where it came in from, but this will be the fourth unmarked airplane seen around the Valley.<\/p>\n

Another ‘Doomsday Plane’ spotted in Fresno (Photo: FOX26 Photojournalist Ronnie Gerber)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Last weekend, another E-6B Mercury was spotted circling Fresno and making several mock landings<\/a> at the airport.<\/p>\n

The E-6B Mercury was nicknamed the ‘Doomsday Plane’ because of its ability to survive a nuclear war and coordinate a US military response.<\/p>\n

It was followed by a sighting of a Navy Boeing P-8 Poseidon or ‘Submarine Hunter<\/a>‘ last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Two days later, a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker accompanying a B-21 Raider was spotted flying over Lone Pine and making several loops over Death Valley National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Caught on camera! Another large unmarked airplane was spotted circling the airport in Fresno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-222369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222369","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=222369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}