To wonder about a few things with the LGW drone attack

[badlydrawnperson]

Before I get flamed (and not that anyone will resist flaming if they want to anyway). I know-

-It's not that easy
-Safety First
-People are doing their best

But I can't help wondering and idly speculating about why -

We apparently don't have any counter measures for this.
It can go on so long
We aren't seeing any News footage of the drone(s)

I am 100% NOT a conspiracy theorist but I am very curious about exactly what is going on.

Silver-lining, I've just learned a new phrase.

Thank you, Wordthe, I'd never heard of the ring of Gyges.

Perkingfaintly I feel my allusion is fitting when you consider the powers that having a drone could confer on one!

I reckon someone on high has spotted the potential dangers of unfettered drone use, a plan for a staged crisis involving a drone was formulated and the UK drew the short straw

we had to suck it up take one for the team and play host to the Grinch with the drone that stole Christmas

"Therefore we took the necessary actions to ensure the safety of passengers using our airport. Safety will always be our number one priority.

Gatwick have apparently spent £5 million since Wednesday on anti-drone measures, if safety is (as quoted by the BBC) why wasn't this money spent on it earlier?

I'm surprised that they are now saying that there may not have been a drone. We had Police on house-to-house enquiries on Saturday, and they are still doing it today. Apparently the drone flew across our back gardens (they wanted to know if anyone had seen it - No, we didn't )

"Arrested couple break their silence saying they feel completely violated"

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-gatwick-drone-arrested-couple-13774718?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main&fbclid=IwAR2L50xtRVeqycncta36oP-i88n46--nx_OuE_9WxVZyjrhOlQ8co--5VYY

It still doesn't make sense because there was footage and articles released about how the drone was playing cat and mouse..

It still doesn't make sense because there was footage and articles released about how the drone was playing cat and mouse..
No footage of it I've seen.
A picture of a kestrel
several pictures of crane lights
lots of archive shots
but NOTHING definitely over Gatwick last week

I'm sure there was something. I'll try and find it.
But if there wasn't why are they making up that there was?!

And what about these timelines telling us there were new sightings?

You trust the twitter feed of a newspaper to be accurate ?
Really?
Unless its on the Gatwick or Police feeds I do not believe it.....

And quotes from the chief operating officer "Gatwick Airport’s chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe said the airport will be closed until at least 4pm. Earlier he said: “I’m absolutely certain this is a deliberate act. There is a drone on my airfield as we speak.”

Whisky
Find me a link to him saying it on a Gatwick account or on the police account.
Seriously. Newspapers especially ones edited by George Osborne lie

It must have been bloody traumatic for that couple being dragged in for questioning and villainised across the globe. Is there any report on why they were suspects? Did they own drones or have an affiliation to an ECO group or something or did they pick two names from a hat?!

Yes I know. But so do the police. I highly doubt the army woukd have been called in over no one seeing any drones.

OK, this one is real he just says "drone activity"
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/gatwick-airport-remains-closed-after-drone-activity-37646674.html

Sussex Police twitter feed has tweets about drone sightings.

It's possible there were no drones but there was an active effort by a group to report sightings or something? You can't really be jailed for being an 'apparently concerned citizen'.

Lots of people "saw" stuff
but no pictures or footage by any of the thousands of mobile phone owners hanging around terminal windows ....

I do believer there was a a drone - because there have been so many before
but the press whipped it up into a frenzy
to take Brexit off the front page for a day

67 individual drone sightings and a damaged drone recovered so Sussex police state.

Can't see how they can retract all of that.

GatwickDrones | We are continuing our investigation into 67 reported #drone sightings made by the public, passengers, police officers and staff at

@Gatwick_Airport

(link: socsi.in/ZluHd) socsi.in/ZluHd

67 individual drone sightings
that could be one person 60 times
and seven reporting the lights on the cranes

and the damaged drone could have been there for weeks

News reporting is mostly lies
Look at the garbage that was printed about that couple after all

I thought the police were now retracting the statement thst there hadn't been a drone? Or at least they seem to understand people are confused why they would take such drastic efforts as taking in a couple for questioning, calling in MOD and closing a major airport just on a few "sightings" with no proof. Does anyone know if air traffic control have been able to discuss it? At JFK thry warn about birds so I can only assume they would know what was in their air space.

That video of them

I hope that somebody like Branson offers them a fantastic New Years break on Necker
they deserve a proper destress after what they were put through