This comes after a report was recently released by UK Airprox Board, which showed that a police helicopter mistook a US F-15 fighter jet for a drone on November 22 last year, leading to the two aircraft coming in close contact.

At the time of the incident, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, and RAF Feltwell, in Norfolk, had been at the centre of multiple reports of drone sightings.

However, Gary Mortimer, CEO of sUAS News, a drone news site based in Sacramento, USA, says the mistake was "concerning" for his community.

"It casts into doubt all the hundreds of drone airprox reports previously reported in the area", he said.........

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