Article on Gatwick Drone Incident:
Between 19 and 21 December 2018, Gatwick Airport
was closed to all flights after sightings of small drones being flown near the
airport's southern perimeter. As a precaution, all aircraft movements were
halted in case the drones were part of a plot to bring down an airliner.
From those initial sightings the whole thing
descended into farce very rapidly. Police eventually confessed that most of the
drone sightings after the initial ones were probably caused by them flying
their own drone around in a fruitless attempt to spot the rogue craft.