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    Drones over US airbase in England

    Over the past few days there have been a ton of drones over US airbases in England. At the same time US and UK military jets have been scrambled to fly, often with lights out. Yet this is hardly making the news.

    These drones don't display any of the characteristics of so called alien UAPs as their flight characteristics are very human, however they most certainly aren't civilian drones either- with flight ceilings of 80k feet down to ground level and hovering in situ for 5 hours at a time. There's dozens of them at a time. Currently ongoing at RAF Lakenheath as I type.

    Might this be some hitherto undisclosed missile defence tech in response to Russian threats of attack against military targets in countries who are supplying Ukraine with longer range weapons? Sure is very weird.

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    We might never be told,tother week B52s landed at Fairford.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Over the past few days there have been a ton of drones over US airbases in England. At the same time US and UK military jets have been scrambled to fly, often with lights out. Yet this is hardly making the news.

    These drones don't display any of the characteristics of so called alien UAPs as their flight characteristics are very human, however they most certainly aren't civilian drones either- with flight ceilings of 80k feet down to ground level and hovering in situ for 5 hours at a time. There's dozens of them at a time. Currently ongoing at RAF Lakenheath as I type.

    Might this be some hitherto undisclosed missile defence tech in response to Russian threats of attack against military targets in countries who are supplying Ukraine with longer range weapons? Sure is very weird.
    It’s been reported that the same has been happening over in the states at one of the bases there. It’s certainly strange.
    One thing the Russians aren’t is stupid, the threat to the UK is as credible as the one the press peddled when they said Saddam was going to fire chemical missiles at the UK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bwest76 View Post
    We might never be told,tother week B52s landed at Fairford.
    B52s regularly visit Fairford en-route to USAF bases around the world, nothing unusual about that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooks View Post
    B52s regularly visit Fairford en-route to USAF bases around the world, nothing unusual about that.
    Yep we regularly see them, U2s and the odd B1 Lancer which is quite something on full reheat over your house late at night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aa388 View Post
    It’s been reported that the same has been happening over in the states at one of the bases there. It’s certainly strange.
    One thing the Russians aren’t is stupid, the threat to the UK is as credible as the one the press peddled when they said Saddam was going to fire chemical missiles at the UK.
    Except Saddam never had missiles that would reach the U.K. and Russia does. As for the will to use them, that’s another discussion altogether, and probably best not in the G&D.
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    I'm not sure whose the drones are, but I live within three miles of Feltwell and Lakenheath, and six from Mildenhall; and there's been a heck of a lot of war plane air traffic circling around here.

    There's also been a lot of overweight, middle-aged men with long-lensed cameras parked up at the side of the roads - moreso than usual.
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    It's getting weirder and weirder.

    A bunch of folks in the UFO community saying they are alien drones as they handle differently to man made drones. If so it's very handy that aliens have adopted the same red/green lighting configurations that we use in aviation. And the alien engineers who created the cloaking/invisibility functions must be getting very narked that the drone pilots have left the bloody lights on.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk4g3zddexo.amp
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    Why don’t the airbases just shoot them down?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance wheel View Post
    Why don’t the airbases just shoot them down?
    Reticence, no desire to spark an Intergalactic incident?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    It's getting weirder and weirder.

    A bunch of folks in the UFO community saying they are alien drones as they handle differently to man made drones. If so it's very handy that aliens have adopted the same red/green lighting configurations that we use in aviation. And the alien engineers who created the cloaking/invisibility functions must be getting very narked that the drone pilots have left the bloody lights on.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk4g3zddexo.amp
    Subterfuge maybe by our little green friends?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    It's getting weirder and weirder.

    A bunch of folks in the UFO community saying they are alien drones as they handle differently to man made drones. If so it's very handy that aliens have adopted the same red/green lighting configurations that we use in aviation. And the alien engineers who created the cloaking/invisibility functions must be getting very narked that the drone pilots have left the bloody lights on.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk4g3zddexo.amp
    Even if not aliens and someone up to no good why have they got lights anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingstepper View Post
    Even if not aliens and someone up to no good why have they got lights anyway?
    The suspicion is they're Chinese or Russian and the lights are on to let the base know that they are there - basically as a kind of 'we can do this to you' stunt.

    It's coinciding with the US moving a bunch of nuclear weapons to these bases in the UK btw.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Passenger View Post
    Reticence, no desire to spark an Intergalactic incident?
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    Quote Originally Posted by stooo View Post
    Wrong.

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    Chortle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance wheel View Post
    Why don’t the airbases just shoot them down?
    I’m certain they could.

    The question is whether they should.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stooo View Post
    Wrong.

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    Snigger.

    He would if they were wearing Chris Rock masks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    The suspicion is they're Chinese or Russian and the lights are on to let the base know that they are there - basically as a kind of 'we can do this to you' stunt.

    It's coinciding with the US moving a bunch of nuclear weapons to these bases in the UK btw.
    Which conspiracy theory site has this come from ?
    Do you really think that defense systems would allow such a thing because I don't.

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    I’ve seen a lot on the internet about the Manchester airport drone with camera footage from the airline pilot, it’s a strange looking drone for sure round in shape ,I’m wondering if it’s a secret drone from Russia or china

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    So why haven’t they used counter measures to prevent or bring down these ‘drones’?
    Surely then they could trace where they are from and who supplied them to whom?
    And given drones use RF transmission for control why can’t they trace where the controller is?
    It all seems a bit fishy to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    So why haven’t they used counter measures to prevent or bring down these ‘drones’?
    Surely then they could trace where they are from and who supplied them to whom?
    And given drones use RF transmission for control why can’t they trace where the controller is?
    It all seems a bit fishy to me.
    Well the one at Manchester Airport took off and flew vertically upwards to 20 thousand feet in less than a second. There's a video taken by a Qatar Airways pilot on the taxiway of this happening. That would make it hard to shoot down.

    The ones over the airbases on the other hand seem more human made vs the Manchester one- I guess they know more but aren't sharing the info.

    Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Well the one at Manchester Airport took off and flew vertically upwards to 20 thousand feet in less than a second. There's a video taken by a Qatar Airways pilot on the taxiway of this happening. That would make it hard to shoot down.

    The ones over the airbases on the other hand seem more human made vs the Manchester one- I guess they know more but aren't sharing the info.

    Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Well the one at Manchester Airport took off and flew vertically upwards to 20 thousand feet in less than a second. There's a video taken by a Qatar Airways pilot on the taxiway of this happening. That would make it hard to shoot down.

    The ones over the airbases on the other hand seem more human made vs the Manchester one- I guess they know more but aren't sharing the info.

    Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!
    That’s >Mach 17, impressive reflexes by the Qatar pilot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Well the one at Manchester Airport took off and flew vertically upwards to 20 thousand feet in less than a second. There's a video taken by a Qatar Airways pilot on the taxiway of this happening. That would make it hard to shoot down.

    The ones over the airbases on the other hand seem more human made vs the Manchester one- I guess they know more but aren't sharing the info.

    Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!
    How would something that small be tracked at those speeds?
    If they can track that why can’t they track the others to where they land?
    If true then it would surely have serious consequences for our defence and also serious questions on the technology involved.
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    Some other imagery plus video from the pilot here;

    https://x.com/umadilojan/status/1862...zWK6lzImg&s=19

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingstepper View Post
    That’s >Mach 17, impressive reflexes by the Qatar pilot.
    Yeah that was a typo I meant 2000 feet lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Some other imagery plus video from the pilot here;

    https://x.com/umadilojan/status/1862...zWK6lzImg&s=19
    And you think that video is real, not fake?
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    And you think that video is real, not fake?
    The 1st pic seems to be an AI generated render to show more details, the other pics are posted by an aircraft pilot including the video. Would be a heck of a stunt to get a wide body passenger Airbus, then take those photos and video from the cockpit, all in the interests of generating a fake set of pics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    And you think that video is real, not fake?
    I'm guessing he does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ventura View Post
    Subterfuge maybe by our little green friends?
    I can't see Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay having the tech savvy tbh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    The 1st pic seems to be an AI generated render to show more details, the other pics are posted by an aircraft pilot including the video. Would be a heck of a stunt to get a wide body passenger Airbus, then take those photos and video from the cockpit, all in the interests of generating a fake set of pics!

    "AI generated render to show more details"
    Sounds like a posh way of saying it's faked to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post

    "AI generated render to show more details"
    Sounds like a posh way of saying it's faked to me.
    That's the first image and it's obvious that one is an AI render. It was never presented as an original. The other 2 pics plus the video are clearly not AI renders however.

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    20k feet vertically in less than a second LMFAO. Not only have we got the threat of Putin hanging over us we’ve got aliens to worry about now as well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    The 1st pic seems to be an AI generated render to show more details, the other pics are posted by an aircraft pilot including the video. Would be a heck of a stunt to get a wide body passenger Airbus, then take those photos and video from the cockpit, all in the interests of generating a fake set of pics!
    What, just like any other CGI/AI images we see on the movies? That kind of stunt?

    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    That's the first image and it's obvious that one is an AI render. It was never presented as an original. The other 2 pics plus the video are clearly not AI renders however.
    Sorry I missed the part where you said it wasn't an original picture!

    "Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!"

    Anyway, while I'd like to believe they're from some intelligent race I can't help but think surely we would be seeing a whole lot more activity from the RAF/USAF if they were?
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    What, just like any other CGI/AI images we see on the movies? That kind of stunt?



    Sorry I missed the part where you said it wasn't an original picture!

    "Here's some pics of the Manchester UAP - apparently it hovered almost on the spot for a few minutes before its high speed escape vertically upwards once Airport workers arrived on the scene to investigate. No obvious propulsion systems on this one - certainly not something you could pick up on Amazon in the black Friday sale!"

    Anyway, while I'd like to believe they're from some intelligent race I can't help but think surely we would be seeing a whole lot more activity from the RAF/USAF if they were?
    No the other 3 are real pictures, the 1st one is an AI rendition of 1 of the other actual pictures just to show more detail on the object which was presumably photographed on a mobile phone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    No the other 3 are real pictures, the 1st one is an AI rendition of 1 of the other actual pictures just to show more detail on the object which was presumably photographed on a mobile phone.
    To me it's still strange that given the excellent cameras available on phones, the cameras on military aircraft, all the pictures of UFO's or UAV's or whatever they call them now we still haven't got a picture in focus actually showing any of them.

    And I'm not just a cynic where this is concerned having read most books and articles I can find about it. From Von Daniken to Nick Pope and Roswell to Project Blue Book I've tried to have an open mind about it all, but I'm still no nearer to being convinced.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    To me it's still strange that given the excellent cameras available on phones, the cameras on military aircraft, all the pictures of UFO's or UAV's or whatever they call them now we still haven't got a picture in focus actually showing any of them.

    And I'm not just a cynic where this is concerned having read most books and articles I can find about it. From Von Daniken to Nick Pope and Roswell to Project Blue Book I've tried to have an open mind about it all, but I'm still no nearer to being convinced.
    The way I'd explain that is it's like taking a photo of a carp in a flowing river and trying to get it in focus whilst also getting a good idea of the actual size and precise location.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    So why haven’t they used counter measures to prevent or bring down these ‘drones’?
    Surely then they could trace where they are from and who supplied them to whom?
    And given drones use RF transmission for control why can’t they trace where the controller is?
    It all seems a bit fishy to me.
    Drones can be completely autonomous and/or not rely on a constant RF link for directions.

    It’s obviously likely that we know far more about these drones than is being communicated, understandably, more can be learnt from just observing, even just radar signature and other observable details.

    It could even just be a military exercise, but again we won’t know or be told.

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    The overhead shot looks like a helium balloon from the card factory, if anyone thought it was a credible threat the Airport would have been closed like they did with Gatwick a couple of years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    The way I'd explain that is it's like taking a photo of a carp in a flowing river and trying to get it in focus whilst also getting a good idea of the actual size and precise location.
    There’s lots of very detailed pictures and film of fish swimming fast under water (and birds, cetaceans, insects etc.).

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfat33 View Post
    There’s lots of very detailed pictures and film of fish swimming fast under water (and birds, cetaceans, insects etc.).
    Yes but birds don't bend light around themselves

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    Are they mini black holes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    Yes but birds don't bend light around themselves
    What does?
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    What does?
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    Quote Originally Posted by stooo View Post
    There is a yo mamma joke in there somewhere.
    Is that a takeaway chain?
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    Is that a takeaway chain?
    You will have to ask yo mamma

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balance wheel View Post
    You will have to ask yo mamma
    Might be a tad difficult without the assistance of a spiritualist.
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