A high-tech US Air Force aircraft just made a suspicious 1,300-mile detour to a known UFO hotspot. Officially, the Boeing E-3B Sentry is an airborne surveillance and command center. Unofficially? Let’s just say it has a habit of turning up in places where strange lights dance in the sky.
This particular flight took off from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, cruised over to the coast of North Carolina, made two deliberate circles above Pamlico Sound, then quietly returned home. A casual sightseeing trip? Doubtful. Pamlico Sound has a reputation: glowing orbs, pulsating lights, and the occasional run-in with what conspiracy theorists lovingly call “the greys.”
In 2019, a man aboard a ferry filmed 14 eerie lights hovering motionless above these waters. No wings, no blinking navigation lights—just silent, hovering orbs. The kind that make people question their entire reality. Of course, skeptics point to military activity in the region. Because nothing says “routine military exercise” like formations of luminous, stationary objects.
The E-3B Sentry, sometimes called “America’s ultimate spy plane,” is built for one thing—watching. It carries a massive 30-foot rotating radar dome, capable of sweeping vast areas for airborne activity. The Air Force has 30 of these in service, with 26 parked at Tinker, waiting for their next classified adventure.
Flight trackers picked up its full route, but the Air Force remains silent on why it was there. If the Sentry was just conducting routine radar sweeps, why pick a location infamous for UFO sightings? And why circle the same spot twice before heading home? Maybe it was monitoring something. Maybe it was looking for something. Or maybe—just maybe—it was waiting for something to show up.
Pamlico Sound isn’t new to bizarre aerial phenomena. The eastern seaboard has long been a magnet for UFO reports, with pilots, sailors, and regular citizens all witnessing inexplicable objects darting through the sky or hovering over the water. Some of these encounters date back decades. The military insists there’s nothing unusual. The people watching glowing objects float in the darkness would beg to differ.
So, what exactly was the Sentry doing? Best guess: either confirming what’s already known or investigating something new. Either way, it raises the same question UFO enthusiasts have been asking for years—if there’s nothing to see, why are they always looking?
Did You Know?
- The US military has a history of tracking unexplained aerial phenomena—just ask the Pentagon’s secretive UFO task force.
- In 1952, Washington D.C. had a week-long UFO incident where objects outran fighter jets. The government blamed “temperature inversions.” Sure.
- During WWII, US bomber crews reported glowing orbs following their planes. They named them “Foo Fighters”—yes, that’s where the band got its name.
