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This despite the fact that Sussex police said at the time the investigation included 129 separate sightings of drone activity (109 of these from credible witnesses). I can’t help but wonder who felt the need to mention the 20 incredible witnesses. Are we talking livestock? Perhaps just who might have had a few to drink?
The point is that the solution wasn’t to ban drones.
There was a look at the size of the Flight Restriction Zones around major airports, and the move toward ADS-B (self-identifying beacons in drones), but all of this common sense and tech has been arriving in the US too.
The US, also, has reasonably sensible rules about overflying civilian areas and indeed airbases, on the FAA’s Where can I fly page.
The addition of a temporary drone ban in New Jersey (until mid January) might also have been a smart move to calm tensions.
The key lesson, though, is that things can get overheated fast. In the UK, the police picked an individual. Sitting here, writing an opinion piece, I’m really hoping that – in the season of goodwill to all – America can find itself not to blame too many individuals or, worse still, a whole nation based on little or no evidence.
All I’m saying is it’d be a very silly thing to start a war over, especially if it turned out to be an American flying diet pills to another American. (And I say that as a Briton – someone from a country that was technically war with America, in 1859, over fertile land for pigs on San Juan Island. It was called the Pig War. (Look it up on Wikipedia if you don’t believe me). In that war, incidentally, German arbitrators sided with America. To be fair, neither London nor Washington wanted that war. Let’s hope things in DC are as relaxed today!
Anyway, perhaps it’s just early sleigh sightings?
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