SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
The Gatwick Drone: Little By Little, The Story Continues To Unravel:
If you remember the crazy events in the winter of 2018 as two airports were closed over reports of drone sightings, you might be interested to hear that there’s still a trickle of information about those happenings making it into the public domain as Freedom of Information responses.
[...] Received Opinion had it that a drone had closed an airport, but drone enthusiasts, and Hackaday as a publication in their sphere, were asking awkward questions about why no tangible evidence of a drone ever having been present had appeared. Gradually the story unravelled with the police and aviation authorities quietly admitting that they had no evidence of a drone, and a dedicated band of drone enthusiasts has continues to pursue the truth about those few winter nights in 2018. The latest results chase up the possibility that the CAA might have received a description of the drone, and why when a fully functional drone detection system had been deployed and detected nothing they continued with the farce of closing the airport.
[...] The couple who were wrongly arrested have not held back in their condemnation, but without the attention of any powerful vested interests it seems that some of the measures brought in as a response will never be questioned.
One of the lessons learned? If you want to fly covert drone missions, build your own.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday July 22 2021, @02:13PM
This reminds me of the news reports of "drone strikes" where you could see in the picture the splatters of drone blood on the plane aft of the strike. IIRC there may have even been visible drone feathers.
Then there's the FAA reports about commercial airliners at 30,000 nearly colliding with a drone only 29,000 feet below.
It's almost as if "authorities" are paranoid about a new technology that could provide high resolution pictures of things they don't want to admit to doing...