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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Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Anthony Diasio

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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