Having adopted the alleged drone sightings at Lakenheath final November, that induced an Airprox between a Nationwide Police Air Service (NPAS) helicopter and a United States Air Pressure (USAF) F-15 Eagle the place Lakenheath ATC didn’t establish what was unfolding, the Freedom of Data Act has revealed simply weeks later the USAF on the Wright-Patterson Air Pressure base reported as truth, a number of quadcopter drone sightings. Evaluation by Mick West‘s Metabunk exhibits the reality, that the sightings have been all planes.
Does this imply a police helicopter was unnecessarily tasked by Suffolk Constabulary? Does this imply the Ministry of Defence is probably funding a expensive and pointless investigation into drones that have been by no means actually there?
Except some concrete proof is produced, seeing the sample of previous “drone” sightings the indicators don’t look good.
By the way, the evaluation that Mick has achieved is the type of evaluation the UK Airprox Board ought to do, however usually refuse to do in relation to alleged drones. It is a disgrace as Mick has shared the software program without cost: https://github.com/MickWest/sitrec
The Metabunk hyperlink to this particular sighting:
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?customized=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/WPAFBpercent209511/20250711_213432.js
The evaluation course of happening:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/wright-patterson-drone-documents-and-video-lots-of-planes.14327/
Lastly, take into account that there was strain from politicians, police and navy to arm personnel on the bottom with effectors (jammers, kinetic weapons and probably lasers).
It’s assured these weapons have already been mistakenly used in the direction of airliners, how lengthy earlier than the paranoia about drones causes one in all these effectors for use leading to an accident? Whereas a jammer wouldn’t be anticipated to do any hurt, that’s not essentially going to be true of a laser or a kinetic weapon particularly have been a airplane at take off or touchdown.
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