RAF Lakenheath
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Sep 18, 2026
Andrew NeilHOST
But many do involve hostile state actors.
Andrew NeilHOST
Many European and some UK sightings, especially around RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Fairford and Feltwell in late 2024, they fit a pattern of unarmed reconnaissance drones launched from or near, listen to this, shadow fleet tankers and cargo ships.
Andrew NeilHOST
And who runs these shuttle fleet tankers and cargo ships? Well, in the end, it's Moscow.
Andrew NeilHOST
Lickenheve is particularly sensitive because that's where there's going to be some planned US nuclear storage.
TowerHOST
They left Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho back in March of 2026, headed for the Middle East.
TowerHOST
Six months later, they touched down at RAF Lakenheath in England.
TowerHOST
And if you were standing on that ramp watching them roll in, the first thing you would have noticed wasn't the engines or the distinctive twin-tail silhouette of the F-15 Echo Strike Eagle.
TowerHOST
It was the nose art.
TowerHOST
They deployed in March of 2026 as part of a reinforcement package in the region.
TowerHOST
The aviationist where this story comes from is careful to note that operational specifics stay with the mission, but the return is public.
TowerHOST
On September 16th, 12 of those jets touched down at RAF Lakenheath in England, home of the 48th Fighter Wing in Suffolk, as a waypoint on the trip back stateside.
TowerHOST
And they came back painted.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
And the FBI in Newark, New Jersey, is investigating as some local residents are telling media that they are, quote, terrified, close quote, of the UFO mystery drones.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
Two weeks ago, on November 27, 2024, Fox News headlined, quote, Unidentified drones spotted over U.S. bases in the U.K. at RAF Lakenheath, RAF Feltwell, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Fairford.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
Those four bases have U.S. F-15 and F-35 fighter jets that allegedly have been attacked since November 20, 2024 by, quote, swarms of small drones, close quote.
Linda Moulton HoweHOST
Military witnesses reported the drones were like, quote, small quadcopters and octocopters, but are more sophisticated than drones purchased off the shelf, close quote.
Philip MantleGUEST
It's all black and white footage, but it's all there.
Philip MantleGUEST
But when you mention Rendlesham- Again, back in the 1950s, an air base there, same area, called RAF Lakenheath, also had UFO sightings that were recorded visibly and on radar, and they scrambled jets to try and incept- i- intercept it.
Philip MantleGUEST
And it's the same general area where we know now as Rendlesham Forest.
Philip MantleGUEST
That whole area around there, it has been a, an unusual area down the decades.
Karl GrunerGUEST
And that's why there was a mode called the Low Altitude Radar Altimeter, or LARA, L-A-R-A.
Karl GrunerGUEST
uh which was look a radar looking straight down so that's a radar altimeter and giving you your altitude above the ground um and that took over if you're over water so that's what set and you could still go down to 200 feet but instead of being determined by the terrain following radar itself it was determined by the low altitude radar altimeter and actually This is what killed an air crew at Lake and East.
Karl GrunerGUEST
That was just a few months before I got reported to Lake and East.
Karl GrunerGUEST
We lost a crew because they were flying up in Scotland over water, but approaching an island off the coast of Scotland.
Karl GrunerGUEST
And there was a malfunction in the terrain following radar itself.
Matt FalcusGUEST
So, yeah, countries like that, I think the Middle East, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, I wouldn't do it openly i know plenty of spots as good as you find it it's always been a popular place but it needs to be done um discreetly yeah you don't need to be hanging or hang about fences with cameras and binoculars because you will usually be questioned arrested it's it's not easy to spot them yeah um and i think
Peter JohnsonHOST
How about military airfields? You know, if I'm specific to the UK, you know, we've got places like Lake and Heath.
Peter JohnsonHOST
I'm always seeing photographs, videos of people.
Peter JohnsonHOST
What's the security issues like for spotters in places like that for us? I think in general, there are more.
TowerHOST
Not a training rotation, not a NATO exercise.
TowerHOST
Eight F-35A Lightning IIs with combat time behind them, setting down at Royal Air Force Lakenheath on the first leg of the journey home.
TowerHOST
I'm Tauer.
TowerHOST
This Is A.T. is on Radio Hangar.
TowerHOST
The Vermont Guard has been carrying it ever since.
TowerHOST
And this week, those Green Mountain Boys are coming home from a real-world combat deployment in the Central Command Area of Operations, which is to say, the Middle East.
TowerHOST
The Aviationist is reporting that the first eight of 12 F-35As have reached Lakenheath, broken into two separate flights for the transit.
TowerHOST
The remaining four jets are presumably still in the pipeline.