A US military aircraft fitted with sophisticated radar technologies was caught traveling 1,300 miles across the country to a UFO hotspot.
The Boeing E-3B Sentry, dubbed ‘America’s ultimate spy plane,’ left Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma Thursday around 7am ET.
The plane flew off the coast of North Carolina, where it made two circles around Pamlico Sound and returned to base at 2pm ET.
The the bay has been a place for bizarre sightings such as glowing orbs, pulsating white lights and encounters with ‘greys.
In 2019, a man captured a video showing 14 glowing orbs hovering above the water while aboard a ferry in Pamlico Sound.
However, there are also military installations in the area.
Sentry primarily takes flight for airborne surveillance, command, and control of air operations, and to detect, identify and track targets in the skies. But the purpose of yesterday’s mission is unknown.
The aircraft features a 30-foot-wide rotating radar dome that scans a wide area for threats. The Air Force has 30 Sentry planes in active service, 26 of which are stationed at Tinker.
A flight tracker spotted Boeing E-3B Sentry, dubbed ‘America’s ultimate spy plane,’ travel from Oklahoma to off the coast of North Carolina
Sentry primarily takes flight for airborne surveillance, command, and control of air operations, and to detect, identify and track targets in the skies. But the purpose of yesterday’s mission is unknown
The eastern coast of North Carolina has had its fair share of UFO claims.
William Guy was out on ferry moving through the Pamlico Sound in September 2019. Guy, from Indiana, was one of many workers sent to repair damage caused by Hurricane Dorian on Ocracoke Island, The Charlotte Observer reported.
He shared a video of the trip on YouTube, capturing more than a dozen circular lights in the sky. ‘Anybody tell me what that is?’ Guy says in the 31-second video. ‘We’re in the middle of the ocean, on a ferry, nothing around. Look. Nothing around. No land, no nothing.’
Other passengers on the ferry can be heard marveling at the sight.
‘A lot of people I have talked to here on the island said it was flares, but they also said they have never seen anything like what I captured,’ Guy shared in the video caption.
And one year later, a tugboat operator reported seeing a pulsating white light over Pamlico Sound that emitted a smaller light moving at high speed before disappearing.
He shared the experience on the National UFO Reporting Center, saying: ‘I brought the light to the attention of another crew member and we watched it for about 10 minutes before it just disappeared.
‘The light stemmed to pulsate getting dim then bright. For a few seconds it turned green. The objective was stationary the entire time.’
In 2019, William Guy captured a video showing 14 glowing orbs hovering above the water while aboard a ferry in Pamlico Sound
The plane then flew off the coast of North Carolina , where it made two circles around Pamlico Sound and returned to base at 2pm ET
Along the shore of Pamlico Sound is the town Oriental where Sev Tok claimed she ‘came face-to-face’ with an alien.
‘They’re what we call The Greys, the small ones with the big eyes,’ Tok told Greenville’s WNCT in 2023.
‘I was paralyzed on this bed and I was lying on my side and I could feel there was something behind me. When I moved my head and turned around, there was a Grey standing behind me doing something to my back.’
This area is also home to military installations like Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, which many people believe are associated with the strange sightings.
But Sentry did not land while circling the coast. It made two trips around Pamlico Sound and headed back to Oklahoma.
Engineering, testing and evaluation began on the first E-3 Sentry in October 1975.
In March 1977 the 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing (now 552nd Air Control Wing), received the first E-3s.
NATO also has 17 planes, the UK has seve, France has four and Saudi Arabia has five.
Sentry boasts navigation, communications, sensors (radar and passive detection) and identification tools, along with interior consoles that display computer-processed data in graphic and tabular format on video screens.
‘Mission crew members perform surveillance, identification, weapons control, battle management and communications functions,’ according to the Air Force.
The radar and computer systems are capable of gathering detailed battlefield information.
‘This includes position and tracking information on enemy aircraft and ships, and location and status of friendly aircraft and naval vessels,’ the Air Force shard.
‘The information can be sent to major command and control centers in rear areas or aboard ships. In time of crisis, this data can also be forwarded to the president and secretary of defense.’
