A "Doomsday" plane has been spotted flying over California - for the second time in two months.
The giant Boeing E-6B Mercury aircraft, which is the president's emergency operations center in the event of nuclear war, flew over Fresno over the weekend.
Airport bosses said it was carrying out approaches to the scene and spent two hours making impromptu landings, leaving onlookers stunned.
The plane serves as a nuclear control platform and a strategic command post. If the plane were to carry out its mission, the US could be heading towards a nuclear war.
The platform can control bombers, missiles and ballistic missile submarines. It can stay in the air for up to 12 hours without refueling and is capable of mid-flight refueling to extend missions even longer.
It is built to maintain global communications and operate even if ground-based command centers are incapacitated, essentially functioning as a mobile Pentagon in the sky.
"They can control the bombers, if the bombers are on standby, control the missiles, because the missiles are always on standby, and they can obviously control our ballistic missile submarines. It's all combined into one," Maj. Gen. Garrison told Fox 26. "
The plane caused a stir earlier this year when it was spotted at Los Angeles International Airport. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been using the plane for his "freedom arsenal" tour.
Also on the plane was Laura Loomer. The appearance of the "Doomsday" plane comes amid the conflict in the Middle East between Iran and the US and Israel.
The war has been felt across the U.S. Oil prices have soared, drawing attention away from the Middle East to a war that has forever changed Iran.
The US and Israel assassinated the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, late last month.
Iran has replaced Khamenei with one of his sons, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, although reports indicate that he was injured early in the war.
President Donald Trump and Hegseth indicated that Tuesday would be the most intense day of bombing in Iran.
"Today will be our most intense day of strikes inside Iran yet: more fighters, more bombers, more strikes, more refined and better intelligence than ever," Hegseth said at a Pentagon press conference. /Telegraph
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