'Submarine hunter’ circles over CA days after ‘Doomsday Plane’ and bombshell Iran drone memo

 California residents spotted another ominous plane, the Navy’s “submarine hunter,” zooming over Fresno Tuesday night.

The intelligence aircraft made its flight days after the “Doomsday” plane, the Boeing E-6B Mercury, also flew over the city as state Californians worry about a drone threat from Iran following a leaked FBI memo.

The Bureau had said in an early February alert agents had unverified information that Iranian drones could be sent from an unidentified vessel off the American coast.

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California residents spotted another ominous plane, the Navy’s “submarine hunter,” zooming over Fresno Tuesday night.

The latest plane, a Boeing P-8 Poseidon, is used as a “multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft excelling at anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, maritime domain awareness and search and rescue,” according to Boeing.

The Poseidon flew over the city for about 30 minutes before heading back north, KMPH reported. Residents told the outlet that they saw the plane before they heard it.

In the video, a large plane is seen flying overhead, cutting through the blue sky before passing through the sun’s light.

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The “Doomsday plane” also flew over the city in recent days.Naval Air Systems Command

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The “Doomsday plane” would act as the president’s emergency operations hub if nuclear war breaks out.Merrill Sherman / NY Post Design

Witnesses told KMPH the plane is large, loud and flying unusually low. It was performing what appeared to be touch-and-go landings, the outlet reported, and had few visible markings.

The plane took off from the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, flight data shows, and the plane regularly conducts training exercises along the West Coast, KMPH reported.

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Iranian-made Shahed-136 ‘Kamikaze’ drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran.Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

The “Doomsday” plane is a more worrisome sighting than the “submarine hunter.” The plane serves as a nuclear control platform and strategic command post. If the plane had to execute its mission, the US could be heading for a nuclear war.

But the sub-hunting plane, Boeing P-8 Poseidon, could hunt any threat to the West Coast from foreign adversaries. It’s specialized in eliminating submarines and performing reconnaissance.

It’s unclear why the sub-hunting plane was flying over Fresno.

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