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Ukrainian drone strikes kill two civilians in Russia
6 Mar, 2026 10:47
Two civilians have been killed and at least 21 others injured in separate Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia’s Kherson Region and in Sevastopol in Crimea, according to local officials.
Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said two were killed and 12 wounded when drones dropped explosives on civilians gathered outside a grocery store in the town of Aleshki just before it opened.
He said several of them had repeatedly dropped munitions on the crowd.
Saldo said Kiev had launched a large-scale attack on the region the previous evening. Pavel Filipchuk, head of the Kakhovka municipal district in Kherson Region, later said his car had encountered a drone strike but that he was not injured.
Another UAV raid targeted Sevastopol overnight, according to the city’s governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev. He said air raid sirens sounded twice as Russian air-defense systems intercepted three targets above the city.
The official said at least nine people sought medical assistance after the incident, including three children. Six of the injured were hospitalized with shrapnel and laceration wounds.
Razvozhayev said debris from intercepted drones had damaged infrastructure and residential buildings, including a five-story apartment building that was heavily hit.
Authorities also said falling drone fragments had damaged a gas pipeline, an electrical substation, and several buildings, including a college dormitory and a local school.
Power outages were reported as emergency services responded to the aftermath.
Russian border regions have consistently been targeted by Ukrainian drones throughout the conflict, with Moscow accusing Kiev of “terrorism” and deliberately attacking civilians and critical infrastructure.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 300 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted and destroyed since the beginning of the week.
On Wednesday a Ukrainian drone raid injured seven in the Russian city of Novorossiysk and caused extensive damage on the ground, including to kindergartens, local officials reported on Wednesday.
In response to the attacks on border areas and deeper inside Russia, Moscow has targeted Ukraine’s defense-related infrastructure, including energy facilities. Russian officials have insisted that its attacks never target civilians.
https://www.rt.com/russia/633977-ukraine-drone-strike-sevastopol/
extra RT
https://www.rt.com/news/633973-hungary-zelensky-military-threat/
https://www.rt.com/russia/633999-russia-ukraine-exchange-300-pows/
Russian drone attack cuts power to TV tower in Kryvyi Rih, digital broadcasting down
06.03.2026 16:41
In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, central digital television and radio broadcasting has stopped after a massive Russian drone attack on a television tower.
According to Ukrinform, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine stated this on Facebook.
In a comment to the organization, Olena Demchenko, a representative of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting in Dnipropetrovsk region, said the tower had lost power and investigative actions are currently underway.
After that, specialists from the Broadcasting, Radiocommunications and Television Concern will be able to assess the damage caused by the Russian drone attack.
Read also: Invaders damage railway infrastructure and power grids in Kharkiv region
"Channels from all digital multiplexes, the local broadcaster TRC 'Rudana', and three radio stations, 91.6 'Lux', 93.2 'Classic', and 93.6 'Power FM', are not broadcasting.
However, the local stations 'Radio Megapolis' and 'Radio Kryvbas' are operating because they were able to switch to backup power," Demchenko said.
The journalists' union also reported that the "One kr" TV channel remains on the air through the city's cable networks.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, during the night of March 6 Russian drones attacked a nine-story residential building and an infrastructure enterprise in Kryvyi Rih, causing fires.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4098804-russian-drone-attack-cuts-power-to-tv-tower-in-kryvyi-rih-digital-broadcasting-down.html
Ukrainian drones successfully hit Russian aircraft repair plant in occupied Crimea, SBU says
Updated: March 6, 2026 6:30 pm
Ukrainian drones struck an aircraft repair plant and two Russian Pantsir-S2 air defense systems overnight in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Kyiv Independent on March 6.
The long-range drones hit the production workshops of the Yevpatoria Aircraft Repair Plant, located in western Crimea, as well as two Pantsir-S2 systems near a Russian military airfield in Dzhankoi, which sits in the peninsula's northeast, according to the SBU source.
The SBU source added that other Russian military equipment and sites were struck by the overnight Ukrainian drone strikes, including two fuel tankers, an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck, and a ground control station for drones.
"The SBU's systematic special operations in Crimea are aimed at destroying the military infrastructure that Russia uses to attack Ukraine," the SBU source told the Kyiv Independent.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense shot down 56 Ukrainian drones over Crimea overnight, but has not commented on the damages reported by the SBU source.
The reported Ukrainian drone strikes come as Ukraine regularly launches attacks on Russian military sites and infrastructure supporting the Russian army both inside Russia and in occupied territories, in efforts to grind down the Russian war machine from afar.
The direct impact of the attacks carried out by Ukraine's domestically produced drones is difficult to independently verify. The Kyiv Independent couldn't independently verify the reported overnight attacks on Crimea.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) claimed in January that its long-range strikes over the past year either "destroyed or disabled" Russian air defense systems worth a total of approximately $4 billion.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-hit-aircraft-repair-plant-2-russian-air-defense-systems-in-occupied-crimea-sbu-says/
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4098858-three-people-injured-in-mykolaiv-in-russian-drone-attacks.html
https://kyivindependent.com/postcards-from-kherson-the-city-where-russian-drones-hunt-civilians-every-day/
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260306-ukraine-zelensky-us-middle-east-counter-iranian-drone-threat
https://www.ft.com/content/947fc231-7100-4236-8d04-7acca12039fe
IDF Obliterates Khamenei's Underground Bunker
3/6/2026, 1:08:28 PM EST
The Israeli military said on Friday that the underground bunker of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has been destroyed just days after his death.
"50 Israeli Air Force fighter jets dismantled Ali Khamenei’s underground military bunker beneath the Iranian regime’s leadership compound in Tehran," Israel Defense Forces wrote on X.
The IDF released 23 seconds of aerial footage that captured the moment Khamenei's compound was eliminated.
Iranian leaders had planned to use it in emergencies with more than 100 munitions, according to military officials.
“This is a large-scale underground bunker located under several residential neighborhoods in Tehran, dozens of meters deep,” Israeli military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said on Friday.
“The secret bunker from which Khamenei was supposed to conduct the fighting against Israel. He was eliminated before he could use it,” Defrin said, noting that Iran’s elected officials continued to use the bunker because they thought it was impenetrable.
“They were wrong,” he said.
In the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes of the war, the 86-year-old was killed in an airstrike targeting his compound in downtown Tehran.
Airstrikes had also killed the defense minister, the head of the Republican Guard, Khamenei’s top security adviser, and other senior figures.
Also on Friday, Israeli warplanes hit Beirut and Tehran as Iran launched a series of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries that host U.S. forces.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said early Friday that it struck an Iranian drone carrier. Its Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, released footage of the moment it was taken down.
"U.S. forces aren't holding back on the mission to sink the entire Iranian Navy," CENTCOM wrote on X. "Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire."
The Iranian military did not immediately acknowledge the attack.
https://www.ntd.com/idf-obliterates-khameneis-underground-bunker_1130365.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/moment-idf-obliterate-iran-leader-36828093
https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/03/07/DAB7ITFDFJAFVCP6JTDXLEEHAU/
https://www.firstpost.com/world/watch-idf-destroys-ali-khameneis-underground-bunker-in-tehran-13986952.html
https://zeenews.india.com/world/idf-strikes-tehran-underground-bunker-khamenei-leadership-compound-3024419.html
https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/idf-strikes-tehran-regime
https://x.com/IDF/status/2029878769142358298
other Israel
https://www.i24news.tv/en/tags/idf
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2026/03/us-and-israel-establish-air-superiority-focus-strikes-on-irans-regime-and-military-assets-march-4-5.php
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/IDF-strikes-IRGC-Hezbollah-sites-in-Beirut/65822331
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-targeted-senior-iran-commander-said-to-be-acting-chief-of-staff-of-slain-supreme-leaders-office/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-chief-says-israel-to-seize-every-opportunity-to-strike-hezbollah/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-hit-400-targets-in-western-iran-today-estimates-100-200-ballistic-missile-launchers-remain/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-air-force-has-dropped-over-6500-bombs-in-iran-strikes-to-increase-on-regime-sites-missile-factories/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-more-than-70-hezbollah-operatives-killed-in-lebanon-strikes-since-group-joined-attacks-on-israel/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-889101
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-889103
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rycvtudkwl
https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202603053543
https://ir.usembassy.gov/security-alert-iran-march-6-2026-alert-2/
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-06/drone-strike-hotel-20969780.html
other Iran
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/iran_news_aws_drone_strikes/
https://www.navytimes.com/news/2026/03/05/us-has-destroyed-iranian-drone-carrier-centcom-commander-says/
https://united24media.com/latest-news/britain-just-sent-drone-hunters-trained-with-ukraine-to-the-middle-east-16570
https://discoveryalert.com.au/drones-hit-iraq-oil-fields-attack-2026/
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390495019112
https://azertag.az/en/xeber/secretary_general_of_council_of_europe_shares_post_regarding_drone_attack_on_azerbaijan-4063431
https://www.rt.com/news/633955-us-strikes-iranian-warship/
https://www.rt.com/news/633892-iran-crisis-oil-price/
https://www.rt.com/news/633971-uss-abraham-lincoln-iran/
Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Khamenei bunker destroyed
March 6, 2026
Summary
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US President Donald Trump told CNN he was open to having another religious leader in Iran. “Well I may be yeah, I mean, it depends on who the person is. I don’t mind religious leaders."
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Ali-Asghar Hejazi, the deputy chief of staff of the office of Iran's Supreme Leader, has been targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, according to Israeli defense sources cited by The Times of Israel’s military correspondent Emanuel Fabian.
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President Trump said on Friday there will be no deal with Iran unless it agrees to “unconditional surrender.”
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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said mediation efforts are under way but talks must address those who “ignited this conflict.”
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Israel said it struck and destroyed an underground bunker built for Ali Khamenei beneath Tehran’s leadership compound that it said was still being used by senior officials.
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A former Iranian government spokesperson said Iran International is a “legitimate and priority target,” accusing the news channel of acting against the Islamic Republic.
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Oil surges on Iran war fears, nears highest levels since 2024
Oil prices climbed sharply Friday as concerns mounted that the Iran war could disrupt global crude supplies.
West Texas Intermediate rose nearly 11% to $89.89 a barrel, while Brent crude jumped 7.7% to $92.06, both near their highest levels since April 2024.
Prices surged further after Qatar’s energy minister warned Gulf exporters could shut down production within days, a scenario that could push Brent toward $150 a barrel, the Financial Times reported.
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BREAKING NEWS
US considering 'a number of people' to lead Iran
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the administration is considering “a number of people” to lead Iran, adding that Washington expects the achievable US objectives to be completed in four to six weeks.
She added that the United States has sufficient weapons stockpiles to meet operational needs related to the conflict in Iran.
38 minutes ago
Video: MP appears to confirm Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed slain father
1 hour ago
Iran has attacked 12 different countries, CENTCOM chief says
“The Iranian terrorist regime has attacked 12 different countries and continues to deliberately target civilians throughout the Middle East," US CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper said in a statement on Friday.
"Last night, Iranian forces fired seven attack drones at civilian, residential neighborhoods in Bahrain. This is unacceptable and will not go unanswered. We will continue working with regional partners to address this threat to innocent people across the region.”
1 hour ago
PODCAST
US-Israeli strikes aimed at removing Iran regime, Senator Cruz says
Republican Senator Ted Cruz told Eye for Iran podcast this week that the US-Israel military campaign aims to remove the Islamic Republic from power.
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1 hour ago
Two reformist activists released from prison - state media
Two Iranian reformist prisoners were released on Friday, according to Iranian media reports.
Ali Shakouri-Rad, an ex-lawmaker, and Hossein Karroubi, whose father was a leader of Iran's 2009 Green Movement, had been detained almost three weeks ago following the January massacre.
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Iran says Trump will face consequences after killing Khamenei
"Trump still does not realize what he has brought upon himself and American soldiers by turning our Imam into a martyr, yet he wants to dictate terms to a nation," Iran's parliament speaker said on Friday.
"The Americans had not been dealt with firmly before, but now they will be made to understand that the fate of Iran, dearer than life itself, will be determined only by the proud Iranian people—not by Epstein’s gang," Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X.
1 hour ago
Israel says intercepting new barrage of Iran missiles
The Israeli military says it identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of Israel.
"Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat."
2 hours ago
Video: Israel releases animation of Khamenei's bunker
2 hours ago
Former IRGC intelligence chief Taeb is alive - Fars News
The Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars News said claims that former IRGC intelligence chief Hossein Taeb was assassinated in a US-Israeli airstrike are false, adding that he is unharmed.
2 hours ago
'Sorry we have to attack your countries,' Iran tells Arab neighbors
"We are sorry that we have to target our neighbors because of the existence of US bases in their territories. It is clear to all of them (that Iran has no hostility toward them)," Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told state TV on Friday.
3 hours ago
Trump says he is open to having another religious leader in Iran - CNN
US President Donald Trump told CNN he was open to having another religious leader in Iran.
“Well I may be yeah, I mean, it depends on who the person is. I don’t mind religious leaders. I deal with a lot of religious leaders and they are fantastic,” he said.
He said “Iran is not the same country it was a week ago. A week ago they were powerful, and now they’ve been indeed neutered.”
Asked if he is insisting there needs to be a democratic state, Trump said, “No, I’m saying there has to be a leader that’s going be fair and just. Do a great job.
Treat the United States and Israel well, and treat the other countries in the Middle East — they’re all our partners.”
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3 hours ago
VOICES FROM IRAN
Conscripts say commanders abandoned them in bases after Khamenei’s killing
After Khamenei was killed in Tehran on February 28, confusion and divisions have emerged within the command structure of Iran’s military forces, the conscripts said.
In a military base in Lorestan province, several soldiers reported uncertainty over the chain of command and growing security concerns after the recent developments.
In a message, one soldier said many commanders left their posts to avoid potential US and Israeli strikes, leaving ordinary conscripts behind in the barracks without support.
According to the soldier, fear of bombardment has led some troops to spend nights outside the base, resting in nearby open areas despite the cold weather.
The soldier also criticized what he described as a lack of attention to the situation of ordinary troops and called for authorities to address their conditions.
4 hours ago
Supreme Leader's deputy chief of staff targeted in Tehran strike - report
Ali-Asghar Hejazi, the deputy chief of staff of the office of Iran's Supreme Leader, has been targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, according to Israeli defense sources cited by The Times of Israel’s military correspondent Emanuel Fabian.
4 hours ago
Israel says it targeted senior Iranian commander in Tehran
Israel’s military said it targeted a senior Iranian commander in Tehran on Friday, without providing further details.
In a brief statement, the military said more information would be released later.
4 hours ago
Israel releases video of strikes on Khamenei's bunker
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Trump says only ‘unconditional surrender’ will lead to Iran deal
US President Donald Trump said there will be no deal with Iran except “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” in a post on Truth Social on Friday.
“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote, adding that after that and the selection of a “GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s),” the United States and its allies would work to rebuild Iran.
“Iran will have a great future. MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!),” he wrote.
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Tug hit by unknown projectiles in Strait of Hormuz - UKMTO
A tug was hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Friday.
UKMTO said it had received a report of an incident about 6 nautical miles north of Oman, citing a third-party source. No further details were immediately available.
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Why has a precision strike military drone been hovering over the north coast?
March 6 2026, 3:43 pm
A high‑powered military strike drone has been hovering over the north coast this week.
The activity was spotted on Flight Radar only a few miles off the coast of Wick and Thurso as the high-tech Protector RG Mk 1 aircraft took flight for testing.
It was also seen flying directly over the northern Highlands, near areas such as John o’ Groats and Thurso.
According to the RAF, the Protector is a highly advanced remotely piloted aircraft.
It has long endurance and precision‑strike capabilities to support missions including surveillance, search and rescue, and armed operations alongside NATO and US forces.
The aircraft carries Brimstone precision‑guided missiles and 500lb Paveway laser‑guided bombs.
It is also able to operate at an altitude of up to 40,000ft with for more than 30 hours at a time.
The drone can also be tasked with supporting anti-terrorism operations and assisting HM Coastguard with search and rescue missions.
But why was this aircraft seen over the north‑east of Scotland?
In February last year the Ministry of Defence announced they were conducting flight testing after adding four new Protector drones to their arsenal.
The RAF say the flight was not part of the ongoing Operation Agile Warrior wargames, but a separate trial.
An RAF spokesperson said: “Protector has been conducting routine trials; this is not linked to Agile Warrior.
“Testing took place at Holbeach Range in Lincolnshire in December and the Cape Wrath Range in Scotland today.”
FlightRadar shows the drone flew from RAF Waddington and returned there last night.
Two aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth are currently stationed at a British base in Cyprus.
The base was recently hit by an Iranian drone strike.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6971304/military-drone-north-coast-highlands/
other UK drone
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-03-06/drone-footage-reveals-charred-remains-of-phone-mast-destroyed-by-fire
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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Brendan Schulman, former VP of policy and legal affairs at DJI, said in 2021, amid leaving the drone maker for Boston Dynamics, that Hudson's work in uncovering piecemeal details about the incident had left him "convinced" there was never a drone near Gatwick.
"Weather conditions in the Gatwick area on the first evening of the incident were unsuitable for covert or overt operation of UAS [unmanned aircraft systems], especially given the technology available in 2018," Graham Degg, founder of drone industry trade body Unmanned Support, told The Register.
"Claims that UAS were flying in ways described on that evening were therefore extraordinary. To date, the industry has not been presented with the extraordinary evidence required to counter the official narrative.
"The CAA and other authorities have continued to reference the Gatwick incident when seeking to strengthen drone regulations. Additional regulation adds an administrative burden to all professional operators and hampers growth.
Perhaps worse is the fact that the Gatwick incident is also used by regulators outside the UK to the same ends and with similar impact. Never was so much regulation caused by an incident for which so little evidence seems to exist."
Hudson, who is a contributor to the Airprox Reality Check fact-checking website, previously summarized the drone industry's concerns about the official Gatwick narrative.
Freedom of Information requests revealed that the first sightings of drones were in the hours well after sunset, at a time when rainfall was reported at the airport.
Very few drones had water resistance ratings to fly in these conditions at the time, and drone enthusiasts questioned why someone who had access to one of the few rain-resistant drones, and would not want to be caught, would fly with their lights on in such close proximity to an airport.
The Royal Air Force deployed aerospace engineering company Leonardo's Falcon Shield drone detection system at Gatwick on December 20, which remained operational between then and December 24.
Leonardo has since said that no malicious drones were detected during this time, but detected all of the friendly test drones the airport and Sussex Police sent to the skies, testing the system's efficacy.
The company's testimony conflicts with the redacted Operation Trebor debrief report [PDF], the timeline from which states that numerous drone sightings were made after Falcon Shield was deployed.
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Surely there's footage?
One thing that could have settled the speculation was for the government or Sussex Police to release imagery of the drones that were sighted at Gatwick.
It wasn't until June 2023, however, that the Home Office finally revealed that images of the drone sightings existed and supplied them following Freedom of Information requests.
Before then, Giles York, Chief Constable of Sussex Police at the time, told Parliament's Defence Committee that there were 109 credible confirmed drone sightings, but said there was no footage.
"One of the most curious parts about it was that there was no filmed imaging at all of the drone, even though so many people thought they had seen it," said committee chair Dr Julian Lewis when questioning York over the lack of footage.
"Isn't it rather strange that no CCTV system and nobody with a mobile phone camera managed to pick up this device when it was causing such disruption?"
York responded by saying he was not surprised, and that because of the drones' speed and size, capturing them on any device at 0.5 miles away was "fantastically challenging."
"Should you wish to come and visit Gatwick Airport to have a look, I would welcome you there, because why it wasn't captured kind of feels obvious," said York.
"Gatwick Airport – I am looking behind me – is a huge area. You try telling me what a drone half a mile away at the other end of a runway looks like from here, film it on the best phone that you have got, and show me the footage that says, 'Undoubtedly, this is what we have got.'
"This is one of the fascinating things for us. We feel that we have seen so many pictures, videos, and whatever of drones in flight, but considering the length of the runway, the width of the airport itself, and the distances concerned, personally, having been at the heart of it, I am not surprised we haven't had any."
Sussex Police previously confirmed its investigation into Operation Trebor ran up a hefty bill to the tune of £790,000 ($1.05 million). It resulted in no convictions, nor much in the way of credible evidence.
"I am hoping the Lessons Learned document captures how unreliable sightings of lights at night are, as the same pattern of airport closures without any evidence of a drone has been reported across the EU, for example, in Norway," Hudson told The Register.
"The release of EO/IR [electro-optical/infrared] cockpit video by the MoD this week from a downing of a Shahed is positive proof drones can be captured without difficulty on EO/IR, and the RAF deployed one of the best EO/IR systems in the world to Gatwick, which only evidenced a lack of any rogue drones."
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Gravity Jet Suit experimentation with NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre
Mar 6, 2026
ive experimentation and trials with the Gravity Jet Suit at NATO’s Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre.
The first of our 6 serial vignettes. Demonstrating extended-range insertion to place operators rapidly onto a target vessel from stand-off distances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0vR4uQUZI
http://www.gravity.co/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ufo-disclosure-movies-spielberg-kosinski-roswell-1236522458/
Hollywood Is Suddenly Taking UFOs Seriously, With Rival “Disclosure” Projects in the Works (Exclusive)
March 6, 2026 5:36am
It’s quietly become a trendy new genre in Hollywood: The serious UFO movie.
An invasion of projects across the narrative and documentary space are exploring the topic of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), including prestige films from Steven Spielberg and Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski.
While movies about spacecraft and aliens are as old as filmmaking, this wave is heavily influenced by recent real-world events — a perhaps unprecedented level of media, lawmaker and public interest in videos and discussion of UAPs, which has included congressional hearings, the emergence of government whistleblowers, and the release of much-debated Navy footage of objects that some claim defy the laws of physics.
The truth, in other words, has gone from being “out there” to feeling just around the corner.
The latest project in the mix: Producer and podcaster Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies, Taken) has just packaged a film with UTA that’s billed as “the most grounded, historically anchored” look at the 1947 Roswell incident yet. Sylvain White (The Boys, Fargo) is attached to direct.
Titled Unidentified, the fact-based tale moves across three timelines: The infamous 1947 incident where the U.S. Air Force announced — then quickly retracted — that it had recovered a “flying disc,” a 1990s narrative focusing on Roswell investigators racing to secure testimony from witnesses and a present-day murder mystery looking into mysterious deaths related to the incident.
The film focuses on nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman and author Donald Schmitt, who endeavored to figure out “the truth” behind the story. The film is partly based on Witness to Roswell, which Schmitt wrote with Thomas Carey.
“Roswell no longer feels like folklore — it feels like unfinished business,” says Zabel, who just launched an iHeart podcast on the UAP topic titled Sound, Light & Frequency. “Instead of seeing Roswell as pop culture, our whole package — script, director, IP — treats it like a crime scene.
This isn’t a movie about little green men. This is about what happens to ordinary people when the impossible crashes into their lives. These two researchers are American heroes who never gave up and found hundreds of witnesses to this event.”
And then there are the heavy hitters wading into this: Spielberg has his Universal film Disclosure Day, about the global panic and societal upheaval when humanity receives undeniable proof that aliens exist.
While Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a UFO disclosure thriller for Apple Original Films, directed by Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), that’s been described as a “UFO-themed All the President’s Men.”
Congressional UAP whistleblower David Grusch is attached as a consultant on the Kosinski film. There’s even a new reboot of The X-Files in the works for Hulu with Sinners writer-director Ryan Coogler.
“This topic is fascinating and it’s been fun to find people who are really into it, because it’s a hole you can disappear into when you’re talking to the people who are in the middle of it,” Kosinski tells The Hollywood Reporter.
“There’s so much information that is not public yet about various things. This movie is going to blow people’s minds.”
To some extent, minds have already been a bit blown — or at least perplexed — by real-world events.
Last year, a buzzy documentary, filmmaker Dan Farah’s The Age of Disclosure, contained interviews with 34 current and former government officials discussing UAPs.
The film reportedly broke Prime Video’s VOD record for its highest-grossing documentary of all time when it dropped in November.
And in the last two weeks, Barack Obama made global headlines for casually saying aliens are “real” — before clarifying he meant aliens likely exist somewhere in the universe.
His remarks spurred Donald Trump to raise eyebrows by claiming Obama had revealed classified information, and the president then announced on Feb. 20 he would declassify and release files related to UFOs/UAPs.
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“The zeitgeist of our moment right now is the UFO, UAP reality issue,” Zabel says. “I think we are seeing more and more projects come forward because people are now becoming aware for the first time that this is a serious thing and it’s not crazy.
You couldn’t have two presidents that are more different than Obama and Trump, and yet both of them are entertaining the possibility that this is real. And with Obama, it’s very similar to the Roswell thing — you tell the truth and then you have to buy it back.”
Next up is Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which drops June 12. Spielberg has been fascinated by the UFO topic his whole career, with his 1977 classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind still considered by many to be the most compelling dramatization of the subject.
In a behind-the-scenes video discussing Disclosure Day, Spielberg said, “People’s questions about what is not only going on in our skies but what is going on in our worlds, in our realities, has reached a critical mass of people’s complete fascination with: Are we alone, or are we not alone?
And if someone knows we’re not alone, why have we not been told?”
Spielberg’s film has been generating some conspiracies online given its tagline (“All Will Be Disclosed”) and its title’s similarity to The Age of the Disclosure documentary.
Put simply: Some believe the documentary and Disclosure Day are part of a coordinated government-Hollywood movement to prepare humanity for the near-term disclosure of alien life.
The fact that Farah was a producer on Spielberg’s Ready Player One has added fuel to this, and the narrative has gone into overdrive since Obama and Trump’s viral comments.
It’s unclear if such confusion over Spielberg’s film will help or hurt its box office potential (Universal declined to discuss its marketing for the film).
To be clear, there have been plenty of reports pushing back on the UAPs-as-aliens narrative, though they tend to get less attention than the “it’s aliens!” claims.
A Wall Street Journal story last June reported that the Pentagon has seeded and encouraged UFO myths as a way of providing cover for real top-secret test flights of cutting-edge aircraft.
The Pentagon has also resolutely maintained they have found no sign of alien life in reported UFO sightings going back decades.
Similarly, new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently told The New York Times he has not seen any evidence — secret or otherwise — that his agency has encountered proof of alien life.
There are UFO believers who blend these two seemingly conflicting ideas: That most orbs and crafts and lights in the sky are indeed not-yet-revealed U.S. military technology, which has been reverse engineered from (you guessed it) retrievals of crashed alien spacecraft — like the one at Roswell.
For Farah, who says he was firmly convinced by his Age of Disclosure documentary participants, the real-world disclosure movement and the pop cultural side naturally travel hand in hand.
“Film has always helped usher in cultural transformation and accelerate change,” Farah said. “We wouldn’t be living through this extraordinary time without the cultural impact Steven Spielberg made with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.
We’re now seeing multiple films about the existence of non-human intelligent life being covered up by the U.S. Government because we are living in the age of disclosure—the moment in history in which we learn we are not alone in the universe and that the truth has been kept from us for 80 years.” — Beatrice Verhoeven contributed to this report.
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Air Force General Mysteriously Disappears After UFO Sighting in New Mexico
05/03/2026 23:08
New details have emerged regarding the disappearance of a retired US Air Force general, following a report of a possible sighting near a popular trail in New Mexico.
William Neil McCasland, 68, was last seen around 11 a.m. Friday near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office.
Friends say McCasland left the house without a watch or phone, which is unusual for this hiking and biking enthusiast. They mention that he had just completed a 60-mile bike ride and was a frequent user of the La Luz Trail and surrounding trail networks.
A woman on Facebook, who said she had reported the information to authorities, claimed she may have seen someone matching McCasland's description around the same time he disappeared near the start of the Whitewash Trail in Piedra Lisa Canyon.
In a post to the Albuquerque Trail Running Crew group, the woman, Mj Davis, said the man was standing on the side near a bridge over the arroyo at the beginning of the trail.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO), which is leading the search, later responded in the same post, reminding users to report any information directly to investigators, but did not publicly deny the reported sighting.
McCasland's wife, Susan, posted on Facebook that he disappeared at noon Friday and there has been no sign of him since. "There does not appear to have been any criminal activity," she added.
A veteran of Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, McCasland previously headed the Phillips Research Site and the Air Force Research Laboratory in Wright-Patterson, Ohio.
Some UFO enthusiasts have linked the facilities to secret studies of advanced aircraft technology and unexplained phenomena, though officials say they focus on national security and defense experimental projects.
New Mexico Search and Rescue told the Daily Mail that crews were "engaged in a mission to search for him in the Albuquerque Open Space area from Sunday into Monday."
Many of McCasland's friends have shared details about the retired general online, noting that he is physically strong and experienced in outdoor activities. His Facebook page is filled with photos of him skiing and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico.
However, BCSO issued a Silver Alert, a public notice to help locate people who are elderly or have certain medical conditions, shortly after McCasland's disappearance. "Due to his medical issues, authorities are concerned for his safety," the office said.
The Daily Mail contacted the BCSO and referred to a statement released on Tuesday, which says it is coordinating with partners at Kirtland Air Force Base to expand the operation and expedite the sharing of information that could help find him.
Sheriff John Allen said: “Our priority is to find Mr. McCasland safely. Investigators and search teams are working around the clock, and we are coordinating closely with our local, state and federal partners.
We are asking the public to assist by reviewing and preserving any security footage and reporting any information immediately.”
The FBI told the Daily Mail on Monday that they are also involved in the search, but that the Sheriff's Office is leading the operation.
A spokesperson said: "The FBI's Albuquerque office is part of this investigation, as is standard practice to assist local law enforcement partners when we have tools, tactics or techniques that may assist their investigations. The BCSO is leading this investigation."
Colonel Justin Secrest, commander of the 377th Air Base Wing in Kirtland, told the Albuquerque Journal that the base is working closely with local authorities to coordinate.
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Air-Force-general-mysteriously-disappears-after-UFO-sighting-in-New-Mexico/
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of course his skis are yellow with pyramids on them
T R U T H P O L E
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Candace Owens on Nimrod and the FOIA request that was leaked from Hillary Clinton's email regarding the " Resurrection Chamber of Gilgamesh, location of its Body and the location of the Buried Nephilim " in 2016
Nimrod said to be the first "Freemason" , The Grandmaster that the whole of Freemasonry is established around. It is speculated that Gilgamesh and Nimrod was the same figure .
6:00 PM · Feb 4, 2026
https://x.com/Truthpole/status/2019229645535866893
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🚨 The famous UFO splits a hellfire missile video was when the US was running bombing operations on Iran funded advanced technology facilities in Yemen in October 2024
Two weeks later the New Jersey mystery drone wave began and some members of Congress were told the drones were Iranian and Chinese
Matthew Livelsberger "Cybertruck Bomber" also stated the mystery drones were Chinese reverse engineered UFO tech
12:27 AM · Mar 6, 2026
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/2029836148680556750
https://x.com/debuggingworld/status/2029810220852281617
https://x.com/Vallejosac/status/2029804673184452939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usew87V8css (Full video: Is Iran A Holy War?)
extra Iran UFOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNlDLnbegac (URGENT: "Iran, UFO , Alien Connection" / Mike From Around World / Paul Begley)
Race Against AI: How A Team of Engineers Are Fighting to Save Humanity with Bible Code
March 6, 2026
The Teams Mission Statement: To provide stability on Earth and beyond that will have lasting effects on how humanity lives as well as enhance humanity’s standard of living not had before Spiritual Quantum AI.
Purpose:
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Quantum AI can be seen as a threat or an opportunity and will be the management that manages all technologies. We intend to set protocols and standards for world application to ensure that Spirituality is embedded into Quantum AI.
We have responsibility to protect and help humanity to adjust to changes which will happen at speeds never before experienced. .
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Gavin Brown- QIS -Quantum Integrated Systems Hardware and coder software team, Data Centers, US government liaison
J Dennis Serano (Yitzchak)-Panamanian Financial Company, Scalability to the project, liaison to Israeli scrolls
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extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ujLWQytsU (Area52: UFO Researcher Reveals Location of UFOs - UAP Gerb | DEBRIEFED ep. 78)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNlQSwAR8is (Polarity Josh: Welcome to the End of the World (as we know it))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl0nOerdx1s (Elisabeth Hancock: How DNA and Consciousness Shape Our Reality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gt_aiiX4C0 (Doomer Friday: The Doom crew goes down the UFO Rabbit Hole with Kelly Chase - Psicoactivo Live #3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2zZxLp9TY (Ben Swann with Pimp on a Blimp)