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#24349686 at 2026-03-06 19:33:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #29684: White Is Black Is White >>> Orange Edition

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/gatwick_drone_tribunal/
https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/20/gatwick_drone_non_shootdown_reasons/

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps
Fri 6 Mar 2026 // 09:57 UTC

Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons from the 2018 Gatwick drone chaos.
Government sources confirmed the development to The Register this week - the latest in a series of attempts made by the DfT to prevent the "Lessons Report" document from being released in full.
This incident review document is likely to provide greater detail about what exactly happened during the 2018 disruption at London Gatwick Airport, which prevented around 800 flights from taking off, affecting around 120,000 passengers.
Officials blamed the situation on drone sightings, although experts disagree.

The DfT has also allegedly attempted to conceal the document's existence, despite requests made under Freedom of Information laws explicitly seeking its release.
Ian Hudson is one of the few drone experts committed to uncovering further details about the Gatwick incident, and he has filed hundreds of these requests since 2018, including those that revealed the document's existence.
Hudson has fought for the document's release since May 2024. In responding to one of his requests in July 2024, Hudson believes the DfT tried to conceal the document.
The response ignored parts of the request pertaining to the Lessons Report, only answering other questions by saying the information was already in the public domain.

Follow-up requests made later that year revealed that the DfT had five versions of the Lessons Report document. However, the department refused to release it based on national security grounds and upheld this decision following an internal review.
"Specifically, these documents include structures, processes, and actions taken by us as a government in response to a drone incursion at a UK airfield which, if released into the public domain, would be likely to assist an assailant in harming critical national infrastructure, possibly leading to a significant loss of life," the DfT wrote. "Thus, it has been assessed that the release of these documents poses a national security concern."
Hudson engaged the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to fight his corner, and on October 20, 2025, the DfT released what it claimed was the document in question [PDF].

However, everything of importance, except the information already in the public domain, was completely redacted.
The ICO examined the DfT's response and published an official decision notice on February 2, 2026, ruling that the government's attempt to apply the national security exemption, preventing the document's release, was not valid, and that it must finally unredact it, for the most part.
After consulting with the DfT on the matter, John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, was ultimately unconvinced that the section 24(1) national security exemption applied, and after reviewing the redacted content, ruled that it was "unlikely" to lead to security issues.
Reporting the decision, senior case officer Samantha Coward said Edwards deemed the information "high level" and struggled to see how it would endanger the UK.

Edwards also decided that the age of the redacted information is a factor. The technology behind drones and the way in which airports and law enforcement detect them "will have significantly moved on since 2018. It is constantly evolving," he believes.
The ICO only sided with the DfT on its section 23(1) defense, and agreed that the names of three national security bodies that appear in the report must remain redacted. Everything else must be released.
Given the DfT's plans to appeal, which the ICO also told The Register was going ahead, the case will now be overseen by the Government Legal Department and head to the General Regulatory Chamber first-tier tribunal (FTT).
Neither the ICO nor DfT wished to provide any further comment.

The great drone debate
The government and airport officials have maintained that Gatwick Airport's runway was closed for 33 hours between December 19 and 21, 2018, because of multiple drone sightings, which began on the evening of the first day. The incident was named Operation Trebor.
Reports at the time suggested there were at least 50 sightings in the first 24 hours, while follow-up testimony from Sussex Police confirmed there were 109 credible sightings in total.
However, numerous sources have since cast doubt over whether there was a drone at all, and whether a drone could even be piloted in the weather conditions at the time.

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#22871164 at 2025-04-05 16:45:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27924: QR Weekend Edition

Police helicopter 'near miss' during drone alert
April 4, 2025

A police helicopter was forced to abandon a mission when the pilot reported coming dangerously close to a drone.
The chopper had been sent to assist at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, following reports of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the vicinity.
Flight data indicated the aircraft climbed steeply and made a series of sharp turns while over the nearby town of Newmarket in November.

The National Police Air Service (NPAS), which operates the Airbus H135, would not comment as the incident was still under investigation.
However, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to police revealed the helicopter withdrew "due to a drone coming close to them".
NPAS confirmed that the helicopter, understood to have the registration G-POLJ, had been sent to the area on 22 November following reports of drone sightings.

The US Air Force said a number of unmanned aerial systems had been spotted in the vicinity of RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, RAF Feltwell in Norfolk and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
NPAS has video footage of the incident but would not release it on national security grounds, following a series of FOI requests.
What is known as an Airprox notification was sent following the incident.
These are submitted when a pilot or air traffic personnel identify a near miss in which the safety of the aircraft involved may have been compromised.

'Doing loops'
The near miss incident was detailed in an FOI request to Norfolk and Suffolk Police, made by Stuart Onyeche.
This disclosed a log entry which stated: "NPAS is withdrawing due to a drone coming close to them."
The logs contained 35 notifications related to drone sightings reported to local police between 22 and 27 November.

They contained reports, mostly from members of the public, which described drones making three loops of an undisclosed perimeter and another doing loops around Feltwell.
Sightings were also reported at Bodney Camp, another military installation, and were seen moving in the direction of Sandringham and a nearby Center Parcs.
One log entry also described a man who "grabbed the drone, got back in the car and roared off at speed", although the date when this happened was unclear.
The final entry stated: "Informant said that he has spoken to ex-USAF service men, and he now believes that a UFO/spaceship was captured by the US military during the early 80s."

Mr Onyeche, who said his work was aviation related, told the BBC the incident "raises obvious safety concerns for the public on the ground from the risk of collision above".
He added: "The public are being kept in the dark about what happened, so we are being left to join dots and speculate."
Suffolk Police referred the BBC's inquiries to the Ministry of Defence.

Scepticism
Ian Hudson, a drone commentator and analyst, extracted data from the flight tracking website ADS-B Exchange.
He said it showed G-POLJ taking off from North Weald Airfield, in Essex, at 21:13 GMT on 22 November. It arrived at RAF Lakenheath 23 minutes later before turning southwest towards Newmarket.
The chopper then climbed steeply before making a series of turns. The BBC was able to reproduce his findings.

The flight path "appears to be a search or pursuit over Newmarket", and there were reservations within the drone community about the presence of drones in the skies above the airbases, Mr Hudson said.
"There is scepticism about drone sightings at night as often there are mis-identifications," he added.
Investigations into the sightings were led by the Ministry of Defence Police.

An MOD spokesperson said: "We take threats seriously and maintain robust measures at defence sites."
In February, the i-Paper published an analysis of open source data which indicated three people, linked to RussIan military intelligence, had been in the area during and leading up to the sightings.
The BBC has not been able to verify these reports.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r8lzd1398o

#17479723 at 2022-09-02 01:45:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21425: Dark Brandon In The Dark Edition

Sold on Goodwill as:
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Dominion Voting Machine on Ebay for $1200
Ebay Seller: Ian Hudson (Purchased at Goodwill, Northern Michigan)

Harri Hursti (Currently in his possession)

Michigan Secretary of States Office reported to law enforcement -Jocelyn Benson (D) SoS

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/michigan-voting-machine-sold-ebay-goodwill-investigation/index.html

#7436916 at 2019-12-06 03:30:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9511: Roller Coaster Up and Down Edition

The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups

BolivIan President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup d'état earlier this month after BolivIan army generals appeared on television demanding his resignation. As Morales fled to Mexico, the army appointed right-wing Senator Jeanine Añez as his successor. Añez, a ChristIan conservative who has described Bolivia's indigenous majority as "satanic", arrived at the presidential palace holding an oversized Bible, declaring that ChristIanity was re-entering the government. She immediately announced she would "take all measures necessary" to "pacify" the indigenous resistance to her takeover. This included pre-exonerating the country's notorious security services of all future crimes in their "re-establishment of order," leading to massacres of dozens of mostly indigenous people.

The New York Times, the United States' most influential newspaper, immediately applauded the events, its editorial board refusing to use the word "coup" to describe the overthrow, claiming instead that Morales had "resigned," leaving a "vacuum of power" into which Añez was forced to move. The Times presented the deposed president as an "arrogant" and "increasingly autocratic" populist tyrant "brazenly abusing" power, "stuffing" the Supreme Court with his loyalists, "crushing any institution" standing in his way, and presiding over a "highly fishy" vote. This, for democratic-minded BolivIans, was "the last straw" and forcing him out "became the only remaining option," the Times extolled. It expressed relief that the country was now in the hands of "more responsible leaders" and stated emphatically that the whole situation was his fault; "There can be little doubt who was responsible for the chaos: newly resigned president Evo Morales," the editorial board stated in the first paragraph of one article.

The Times, according to Professor Ian Hudson of the University of Manitoba, co-author of "Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times," remains America's most influential news outlet in shaping public opinion. "Despite the changing media landscape and the financial troubles of old school journalism models - including the New York Times - it remains the agenda setter. Social media often use or respond to Times stories. It is still probably the single most referenced news outlet in the U.S. Other websites, like Yahoo get more hits, but they do not report or create their own stories. The New York Times still ranks as the top investigative and opinion setting news organization" he told MintPress News.

The first draft of history Newsrooms across America are sent advanced copies of the Times' front page so they will know what is "important news" and adjust their own coverage accordingly. In this way its influence extends well beyond its nearly 5 million subscribers, its output becoming the first draft of history. Yet, when it comes to U.S. intervention, the Times offers its "consistent support" for American actions around the world, Hudson says, claiming that the latest Bolivia example "very much followed this trend." Indeed, there has rarely been an effort at regime change that the paper did not fully endorse, including the following six examples.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-new-york-times-long-history-of-endorsing-us-backed-coups/

#7384283 at 2019-11-27 18:57:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9444: Trips confirm Memers are golden! USMCA! Czech em! Edition

The New York Times' Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups

The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn't approve of.

BolivIan President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup d'état earlier this month after BolivIan army generals appeared on television demanding his resignation. As Morales fled to Mexico, the army appointed right-wing Senator Jeanine Añez as his successor. Añez, a ChristIan conservative who has described Bolivia's indigenous majority as "satanic", arrived at the presidential palace holding an oversized Bible, declaring that ChristIanity was re-entering the government. She immediately announced she would "take all measures necessary" to "pacify" the indigenous resistance to her takeover.

This included pre-exonerating the country's notorious security services of all future crimes in their "re-establishment of order," leading to massacres of dozens of mostly indigenous people.

The New York Times, the United States' most influential newspaper, immediately applauded the events, its editorial board refusing to use the word "coup" to describe the overthrow, claiming instead that Morales had "resigned," leaving a "vacuum of power" into which Añez was forced to move. The Times presented the deposed president as an "arrogant" and "increasingly autocratic" populist tyrant "brazenly abusing" power, "stuffing" the Supreme Court with his loyalists, "crushing any institution" standing in his way, and presiding over a "highly fishy" vote.

This, for democratic-minded BolivIans, was "the last straw" and forcing him out "became the only remaining option," the Times extolled. It expressed relief that the country was now in the hands of "more responsible leaders" and stated emphatically that the whole situation was his fault; "There can be little doubt who was responsible for the chaos: newly resigned president Evo Morales," the editorial board stated in the first paragraph of one article.

The Times, according to Professor Ian Hudson of the University of Manitoba, co-author of "Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times," remains America's most influential news outlet in shaping public opinion.

"Despite the changing media landscape and the financial troubles of old school journalism models - including the New York Times - it remains the agenda setter. Social media often use or respond to Times stories. It is still probably the single most referenced news outlet in the U.S. Other websites, like Yahoo get more hits, but they do not report or create their own stories. The New York Times still ranks as the top investigative and opinion setting news organization" he told MintPress News.

The first draft of history

Newsrooms across America are sent advanced copies of the Times' front page so they will know what is "important news" and adjust their own coverage accordingly. In this way its influence extends well beyond its nearly 5 million subscribers, its output becoming the first draft of history. Yet, when it comes to U.S. intervention, the Times offers its "consistent support" for American actions around the world, Hudson says, claiming that the latest Bolivia example "very much followed this trend." Indeed, there has rarely been an effort at regime change that the paper did not fully endorse, including the following six examples.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/

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