Mystery drones have been spotted in the sky above three US airbases in Britain’s Suffolk and Norfolk.
A spokesperson for US air force in Europe said: “We can confirm that small unmanned aerial systems [UASs] were spotted in the vicinity of and over RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall and RAF Feltwell between 20 and 22 November.
The Mail Online reports: It comes as mysterious drone activity near a US Army base in New Jersey causes a sensation in America, with the federal government proving unable to provide an explanation of what they are. Witnesses there claim the drones perfrom manuvers impossible for known technology.
Reports about American nuclear weapons being deployed to the latter for the first time since the Cold War have heightened fears that Russia could be behind the drone activity.
In America, experts have warned that the drone activity could be intelligence gathering by Iran or Russia. Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence Colonel, said the recent drone sightings in the UK had ‘all the hallmarks’ of an operation by Russia’s secretive GRU.
The US Air Force admitted last month that drones had flown close to three of its UK bases – including Lakenheath, Feltwell as well as RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.
Farmworker Ricky Fletcher, 43, was leaving work on November 29 when initially he only saw one of them flying above.
He told us: ‘I first saw them on the farm I work at, I was leaving work at 4pm on Friday evening and saw one flying way from Feltwell low to the ground, I almost thought it was a helicopter, it was so big.
‘But it wasn’t. The way the lights flashed it wasn’t a plane. It was definitely a drone.’
However, soon after that, he claims the sky was filled with a dozen of them.
‘All of a sudden we looked up and saw about 10 of them circling around. We were fascinated by them, they were just circling around, not really flying in the same direction.’
He added: ‘We couldn’t believe what we were seeing.’
‘They moved in and circled around that one there was over my village in Hockwold between Lakenheath and Feltwell.’
He said he drove home, in the same village, but could still see them circling over.
‘I would come out to smoke and would see them at night,’ he said.
This came after footage emerged of what is suspected to be four drones, brazenly flying with bright lights, in the early evening darkness above RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
While two of the drones to the left of the screen in the video appear stationary, the other two are shown moving and passing each other on the night of November 28.
