From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky? By Samira Shackle. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This spring. The world feels different now a dystopian masterpiece
0:15.6	This is big brother becomes a reality.
0:18.9	Time to finally do this.
0:20.4	Winston, I'm scared.
0:21.8	George Orwell's 1984
0:25.6	starring Andrew Garfield
0:27.5	Cynthia River.
0:28.8	Andrew Scott and Tom Hardy.
0:30.7	No wait this is it. It's over already.
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0:48.0	How's what you might call your social battery right now?
0:52.0	Are you bursting with energy to see friends every night?
0:54.8	Or are you feeling drained? As spring gets going and the weather's nicer,
1:00.4	our social diaries tend to get suddenly busier and if you're not careful it can be easy to ignore your social battery and begin to feel run down.
1:10.0	So what's the right amount of socialising for you?
1:14.0	Maybe you're a real people person, or perhaps you're the kind of person who needs more me time.
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2:19.7	archive Long Reed. This article is called The Mystery of the Gatwick drone and it was
2:25.2	originally published in December 2020. I knew that I wanted to write something about the
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