- A Boeing E-3B Sentry, a high-tech U.S. surveillance aircraft, flew a 1,300-mile mission from Oklahoma to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, on March 13, circling the area twice before returning, sparking speculation about its purpose.
- Pamlico Sound is known for decades of UFO sightings, including glowing orbs, pulsating lights, and alleged extraterrestrial encounters. Recent incidents include a 2019 video of 14 glowing orbs and a 2020 report of a pulsating white light.
- The region’s proximity to military installations, such as Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, has led to theories that the sightings could involve classified operations or experimental technology.
- The E-3B Sentry, equipped with a 30-foot-wide rotating radar dome, is designed for airborne surveillance, command and control, capable of tracking enemy and friendly forces over vast distances, though the purpose of this mission remains undisclosed.
- The E-3 Sentry has been a key U.S. military asset since the 1970s, with 30 planes currently in operation, highlighting its role in global surveillance and the enduring intrigue surrounding UFOs and unexplained phenomena.
(Natural News)—A U.S. military aircraft equipped with advanced radar technology made a curious 1,300-mile journey on Thursday, March 13, to a stretch of North Carolina’s coast long associated with UFO sightings.
The Boeing E-3B Sentry, a high-tech surveillance plane often referred to as “America’s ultimate spy plane,” departed Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma at 7 a.m. ET and flew to Pamlico Sound, a body of water off North Carolina’s eastern shore. After circling the area twice, the plane returned to its base by 2 p.m. ET, leaving many to wonder about the purpose of its mission.
The flight has reignited interest in Pamlico Sound, a region known for decades of bizarre phenomena, including glowing orbs, pulsating lights and even alleged encounters with extraterrestrial beings. While the U.S. Air Force has not disclosed the reason for the Sentry’s trip, the area’s history of unexplained sightings and its proximity to military installations have fueled speculation about what the plane might have been investigating.
Pamlico Sound has long been a hotspot for UFO activity. In September 2019, William Guy, a worker repairing hurricane damage on Ocracoke Island, captured a video of 14 glowing orbs hovering above the water while aboard a ferry. “Anybody tell me what that is?” Guy can be heard saying in the 31-second clip. “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 were equally baffled. “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 wrote in the video’s caption.
A year later, a tugboat operator reported seeing a pulsating white light over Pamlico Sound that emitted a smaller light moving at high speed before vanishing. The operator shared the experience with the National UFO Reporting Center, describing the light as stationary but pulsating, with a brief shift to green before it disappeared.
In 2023, Sev Tok, a resident of Oriental, a town along the Sound, claimed to have encountered an extraterrestrial being. “They’re what we call The Greys, the small ones with the big eyes,” Tok told Greenville’s WNCT. “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.”
The eastern coast of North Carolina is also home to several military installations, including Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. These facilities have led some to speculate that the strange sightings could be linked to classified military operations or experimental technology.
A legacy of surveillance
The Boeing E-3B Sentry, with its 30-foot-wide rotating radar dome, is designed for airborne surveillance, command and control of air operations. It can detect, identify and track targets across vast distances, making it a critical asset for the U.S. Air Force. However, the purpose of Thursday’s mission remains unclear. (Related: US spy plane conducts strategic operations along border as drug cartels look for war.)
The Sentry’s capabilities are extensive. According to the Air Force, the plane’s radar and computer systems can gather detailed battlefield information, including the position and tracking of enemy aircraft and ships and the location and status of friendly forces. In times of crisis, this data can be relayed to command centers or even directly to the president and secretary of defense.
The E-3 Sentry has been a cornerstone of U.S. military operations since its introduction in the 1970s. Engineering and testing began in October 1975, and the first planes were delivered to the 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing (now the 552nd Air Control Wing) in March 1977. Today, the U.S. Air Force operates 30 Sentry planes, with 26 stationed at Tinker Air Force Base. NATO, the UK, France and Saudi Arabia also operate fleets of the aircraft.
The Sentry’s flight to Pamlico Sound underscores the enduring fascination with UFOs and the unknown. While the U.S. military has not explained the mission, the region’s history of strange phenomena and its proximity to military installations suggest that there may be more to the story.
Watch the video below that talks about the FBI being behind surveillance aircraft operations a few years ago.
This video is from the Stalag 357 channel on Brighteon.com.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
