For starters, the only violation you could commit in front of the base would be speeding. However, there’s zero possibility that an American MP tried to pull you over for a traffic violation on UK soil. So it’s possible that you encountered a MP police car with it’s lights on that followed you halfway to Brandon on the A1065 before it turned at Wangford Rd. There have been occasions where there were security issues at RAF Feltwell, which shares Security Forces with the 48th Fighter Wing stationed at RAF Lakenheath. It IS possible that PART of your story is true, however. The idea isn’t just ridiculous, it’s actually a direct violation of the agreement that the USAF has with the UK government in using that airbase. I can assure you, I’ve never known anyone from USAF Security Forces who ever would have tried to pull over a UK national outside of the base. I was actually a member of Security Forces at RAF Lakenheath, and I’m calling BS.
To stop over-reactions, in our great land, So balloons in the sky, won’t cause such dread. The troops are ready, guns in their hands, The military’s called, what will they do? Posted in News, Radio Hacks Tagged balloon, HAB, pico balloon, wspr Post navigationĪ weather balloon, so harmless and plain,
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The full technical details of the USAF missile system used to shoot them down, sadly remains classified. Their website has a host of technical information on the balloons and the beacons, providing a fascinating insight into this facet of amateur radio that is well worth a read in itself. We love the smell of napalm in the morning! Its projected course and timing tallies with the craft reported shot down by the US Air Force, so it seems the military used hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of high-tech weaponry to shoot down a few tens of dollars worth of hobby electronics they could have readily tracked online. Its callsign was K9YO, and having circumnavigated the globe seven times since its launch on the 10th of October it was last seen off Alaska on February 11th. The balloon thought to have been shot down was launched by the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a group of radio amateurs who launch small helium-filled Mylar balloons carrying the barest minimum for a solar-powered WSPR beacon. It wasn’t a troll though, the evidence points to an amateur radio pico balloon - a helium-filled Mylar party balloon with a tiny solar-powered WSPR transmitter as its payload. Among the banter came the amusing thought that enterprising trolls on the Pacific rim could launch balloons to keep the fearless defenders of American skies firing off missiles into the beyond.īut humor may have overshadowed by events, because it seems one of the craft they shot down was just that. Every week the Hackaday editors gather online to discuss the tech stories of the moment, and among the topics this week was the balloons shot down over North America that are thought to be Chinese spying devices.
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