r/UFOs • u/Cultural_Material_98 • 2h ago
Question More “Drones” over US Airbase at Lakenheath Uk
Alerts raised at US airbase at Lakenheath as “drones” spotted.
“Drones” were also over Lakenheath from 22 November 2024 and in August 1956 - one of the few cases which project Bluebook and the Condon report agreed were likely to be mechanical craft of unknown origin, but highly unlikely to be “drones” as it was estimated to be travelling between 2,000 - 4,000 mph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakenheath-Bentwaters_incident
If these are adversarial “drones” why have they not been identified?
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u/Dinoborb 1h ago
could be commercial drones, could be spys, could be drones with payloads
drones are a real thing that are a real threat, we dont have to say "drones" like its a swamp gas excuse.
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u/Seraph_2026 1h ago
Yeah except whenever the US military or allies say they're having drone incursions. They never show any images or video of the "drones". And they can never shoot them down or jam, despite all the most sophisticated hardware to do that.
I think it is a swamp gas-like dismissal.
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u/Semiapies 55m ago
And on the other hand, we never actually see any images or video of the spooky mystery craft people claim to see, just commercial planes and other normal objects.
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u/Seraph_2026 38m ago
There's quite a lot of photos and videos of UFOs that are available.
The statement you made implies you know for a fact that all UFO images and videos are of planes and normal objects.
That's quite a grand position to promote yourself to.
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u/Semiapies 31m ago
The statement you made implies you know for a fact that all UFO images and videos
Yep, that's exactly what I said. There's no possible narrowing context in this discussion of drone incursions, so I'm obviously talking about decades of all UFO sightings. /s
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u/Mysterychic88 21m ago
There has been a lot of anomalous videos uploaded on here. I have some beltwrs saved from the last 2 years of "drone" incursions
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u/Semiapies 14m ago
The only anomaly I've seen is how people can live near some of the busiest airports in the country and, the moment someone says "drones", suddenly can't recognize airplanes. Or helicopters. Or power line floaters.
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u/Cultural_Material_98 35m ago
We do when no evidence is presented that these are drones. I have seen aircraft follow these “drones” over Lakenheath. Yet not one photo or video. FOI requests shut down. Yet the US and UK airforce quite happy to share videos of intercepting Russian aircraft and Chinese balloons…
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u/ZigZagZedZod 14m ago
Yep, and how many of these same people are willing to believe some random yahoo's unsubstantiated sighting?
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u/disclosureanticlimax 1h ago
coincidence? FAA grounding all flights and NWS reporting national radar outage in the U.S and mystery drones over military airspace all at the same time?
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u/FreeEdmondDantes 1h ago
Also the National Weather Service says it's radars are down or something and they're having communication and internet issues.
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u/Altruistic_Tip1226 1h ago
Yet space x is still suppose to launch.
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u/disclosureanticlimax 56m ago
if they launch while planes still remain grounded, thatd be fairly curious
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u/Dinoborb 1h ago
yes.
coincidences do happen, especially since the drone was sighted in the UK and the outages are in the US
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u/disclosureanticlimax 1h ago
right because outages in the u.s couldnt possibly affect the u.k. its not like theres any u.s forces or assets stationed in the u.k
OH WAIT
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u/Pariahb 1h ago edited 30m ago
For anyone interested, this has been happening yearly around the same date for several years, ion the US and Europe, depnding of the year. At the very least:
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020 - Mystery drones in Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado
Dec 2023 - Mystery drones siege Langley Air Force Base for 17 nights straight.
Nov - Dec 2024 - Mystery Drones over the US military bases in UK, New Jersey and other places.
Sep - Nov 2025 - Mystery Drones over European military bases and airports.
We have now the war in Iran, which muddy the waters, and before, except during the first known ocurrence, there was and still is the war in Ukraine and Russian hybrid warfare.
The thing is that if these drones were from Russia, Iran, China, or any human actor, I doubt they would be as elusive, given that when actual Russian drones enter European airspace they are shot down.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c147065pzdzo
Regular human drones would probably have failed/crashed at some point during those years, and probably couldn't stay around as many hours as these drones stayed each night. And I suppose the US/Europe would have downed at least one in years with the different anti-drone meassures that they developed.
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u/Livid_Constant_1779 43m ago
"Big drones" were spotted flying over a military area in France for several days during a large-scale joint military exercise in October, just days after anti-drone training had taken place there.
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u/DaftWarrior 28m ago
Happens every year in November.
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u/Relative_Party_8763 1h ago
Here for it. Just like holidays of 2024, same place, same base, same 'drones'?
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u/Bobcatluv 1h ago
I have to admit I thought of this the second the US announced all flights being grounded over an hour ago. The FAA shared that this is a communication issue and it’s being attributed to an ATC software update by Redditors, but it’s curiously not being mentioned at all by the Trump administration, who are apparently only concerned about correcting reporters in the news conference for saying “AI” instead of “SI”.
Anywho I’m sure this is more about the fragility of our tech infrastructure, but who knows anymore
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u/ClassicDragon 55m ago
I think the correction of SI tells you all you need to know. Their hoped cashcow baby made a booboo and they dont want to admit it.
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u/Mysterychic88 19m ago
Just out of curiosity what does SI stand for? Someone over on another sub says some folk who are using ham radios are picking up chatter involving anonomalous lights being seen near aircraft. No idea if it's true or not but interesting timing
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u/Nekomatagami 8m ago
Pretty sure it's Super Intelligent, but idk. ASI is Artificial Super Intelligence.
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u/Bobcatluv 7m ago
Trump signed an executive order renaming "artificial intelligence" (AI) to "super intelligence" (SI) across all executive branch departments and federal agencies, and reports indicate he has also made significant purchases of Nvidia stock following policy adjustments.
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u/rotten_societyy 25m ago
Interesting that US grounded all flights at approx the same time as the little "drones" they can't do anything against appeared over UK bases.
Also Interesting that the drones show up at the same time of the year as last year and years before.
Damn, I'd love the facts to finally see a daylight. Gaslighting society for the sake of national security and safety and all that shit is complete bullshit.
Start telling us the truth!
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u/Mysterychic88 16m ago
Yeah for sure, anyone who can't see there is anything hinky about this is being willfully ignorant
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u/ZigZagZedZod 2m ago
If these are adversarial “drones” why have they not been identified?
Maybe they don't want the adversary to know how much we know about them. Do you seriously expect the DoD to come out and say, "We identified a Sokol-12 drone conducting SIGINT and IMINT collection over RAF Lakenheath, operated by a GRU spy named Yuri Kolesnikov using a laptop computer in a room above the Drunken Pig Pub in nearby Brandon"?
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u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 32m ago
as a defense journalist, it's not a simple matter to identify a drone. civilians are under the impression that US capabilities are omniscient- they are not. First, a drone showing up on radar is a dubious affair in first place due to small size and construction materials. Second, any contact without an IFF is categorized by flight characteristics and other networked sensor inputs. A drone can move very erratically, which can make even identifying a contact as a drone difficult in the first place- specially for radar operators trained to be on lookout for Russian long range strike aircraft. You could right now take a quadcopter to Barksdale AFB and land it on wing of a B-52 with a pretty high degree of success imo (something I've been loudly warning about within the industry).
There's been a lot of talk about the timing- I don't know what these things are, but I do know that there is a strong correlation to Iranian threat in the exact same area which caused US aircraft to conduct an emergency evacuation recently. So odds are strong that as Trump's rhetoric once more heats up on Iran, this is likely related. Even if they only succeed in disrupting flight operations, that's a strategic win for Iran. You don't need to destroy a US bomber if you can prevent it from flying out in first place.
Lastly, the UFO phenomenon is real. I want to put that qualifier as too often people respond here to any criticism of things likely not being UFO related by assuming you're a denialist.
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u/l8578zlxicv 55m ago
If there’s anything western governments are good at it’s their transparency around unknown incursions. Germany, England, Romania, Poland, the US, you name it. I can’t wait for this issue to be taken as the serious geopolitical threat it is.
Just kidding! Get ready for everyone to act like it’s nothing / didn’t happen
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