Show Notes
In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Mike Morgan, a former senior investigating officer with 30 years in British policing and the author of "The Silence is Deafening," and Liberty, a plane spotter who lives near Royal Air Force Lakenheath. The conversation centers on the objects reported over Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford in November 2024, which officials called drones without naming an operator or releasing a single photograph.
Morgan explains what his Freedom of Information requests turned up, from a police helicopter's near-miss report to an investigation staffed by part-time officers who, by his account, made no inquiries of local drone operators. Coulthart presses both men on the case for Russian or Chinese involvement and on why bases associated with nuclear weapons might draw that kind of attention. Liberty describes the silent craft that crossed his field the day before the incursions began and the radio call he says he heard from one of the pilots sent up to chase them.
Mike Morgan's book, "The Silence is Deafening": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3WSXH6D
Footage courtesy of Liberty, Military Aviation Channel.
Senator Mark Warner audio courtesy of Matt Laslo, Ask a Pol UAPs: https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/chinese-drones-shuttered-air-force-base-on-us-soil
Images of General Glen VanHerck courtesy of the United States Department of Defense.
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CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Anthony Diasio
On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.
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CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:30 Senator Warner on Langley 4:48 The British Base Incursions 10:42 Drones as the Official Answer 12:53 A Sighting the Day Before 17:37 The Police Helicopter Encounter 24:44 The Air Force Statement 28:38 What Liberty Heard on the Radio 31:04 Reports of a Drone Brought Down 32:37 The Russian Sabotage Theory 35:00 Nuclear Weapons at the Bases 39:06 Why Officials Say Drones 44:23 The Five Observables 50:34 Freedom of Information Refusals 55:53 Inside the Police Investigation
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