{"id":10537,"date":"2024-11-24T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/unidentified-drones-spotted-over-three-us-air-force-bases-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:07:17","slug":"unidentified-drones-spotted-over-three-us-air-force-bases-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/unidentified-drones-spotted-over-three-us-air-force-bases-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified drones spotted over three US Air Force bases in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhe5cf003l2cqlctgxce6o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Unidentified drones have been spotted flying over three bases used by the United States Air Force in Britain, the two countries have confirmed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhew8n00043b6m5tuf71dk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The objects were seen bet\ufeffween Wednesday and Saturday flying over the Royal Air Force\u2019s Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell bases, all used by the US Air Force (USAF).    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhew8o00053b6mx0o4nixc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe number of (unmanned aircraft systems)<strong> <\/strong>fluctuated and they ranged in size\/configuration,\u201d a spokesperson for the US Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhew8o00063b6mkue6t77i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cInstallation leaders determined that none of the incursions impacted base residents or critical infrastructure,\u201d the spokesperson added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhew8o00073b6m92aoibmd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A spokesperson for Britain\u2019s Ministry of Defence said: \u201cWe take threats seriously and maintain robust measures at defence sites. This includes counter-drone security capabilities.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhz2e50000356mtgy63l5h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Both nations said they would not comment further.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhew8o00083b6moopiad2w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The three bases are located within a few miles of each other in eastern England. Since 1992, Mildenhall has been home to the only permanent American wing in Europe that conducts air refueling operations, while Lakenheath houses the USAF\u2019s 48th Fighter Wing, which has played a<strong> <\/strong>role in post-9\/11 operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3vhfviw000f3b6mvmvema94@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In 2017, a car attempted to ram the entrance to the Mildenhall base, resulting in shots being fired by US personnel and the base being briefly locked down.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified drones have been spotted flying over three bases used by the United States Air&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}