RAF Fairford Plot, Day 2: Public Demanding Answers – Officials, Media Channel Norm MacDonald

This incident gets curiouser and curiouser.

When I last updated my post about the foiled terrorist attack on RAF Fairford, the base we share with the British in the bucolic Cotswolds and from which our long-range bombers (B-1s and the venerable B-52s) launch for the Middle East thanks to its extraordinarily long runways, word had come that a farmer coming home from a party in the middle of the night had alerted authorities to the 3 suspicious vans, and their occupants scattering into the woods.

In what I look at as an incredibly close call for her, the unnAMed (and who can blame her) farmer came around a corner on one of those very tight country lanes there and found it blocked.

…Holy CRAP, what a close call for her!

And what a quick thinker – dang!

Driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road.

Confused, she turned her car around. As she did so, she saw a group of masked men in balaclavas scattering into the trees and across the fields towards RAF Fairford.

She accelerated away and called the police. When she stopped, she also messaged her local WhatsApp group and warned people to lock their doors.

Less than 25 minutes later, the men had been arrested. Video footage shows five men, shirtless, sitting on the ground in handcuffs in the middle of a road surrounded by counter-terror police.

This is where the light of the next day starts to tease out more details.

She said she’d called the base hotline number all the Whelford residents had, gotten no response, then another line – still no answer. And finally the British version of our 911, which is 999, and that’s when the Gloucestershire police responded.

I held off commenting on the base hotline side of it, because surely it wasn’t our Air Force running that, and it turns out I was correct. It was a British Ministry of Defense line, and aren’t they catching hell for that today.

Andy Burnham’s new Defense Secretary, Wes Streeting, looks green around the gills.

‘You can’t say why they didn’t answer the phone, were they on a tea break?’@elliecostelloTV grills Defence Secretary Wes Streeting MP over why MOD officials didn’t respond to the initial phone call made by the farmer that foiled the RAF Fairford bomb threat. pic.twitter.com/N0dtDNkf1O

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 28, 2026

There’s another mystery, and this one has yet to be teased apart. Initial reports all said that a call came in to the Gloucestershire police at 12:45 AM about the suspicious vans, and when this intrepid farmer’s interview broke late yesterday afternoon in the Telegraph telling her hair-raising story, everyone assumed they were one and the same. I know I did.

But, hello.

The farmer’s encounter didn’t happen until almost an hour later – nearly 1:45 am.

…“We assumed someone would be monitoring the roads around the base perimeter and taking regular patrols in the village,” the farmer said. “Clearly, this was not happening, and I believe that my 999 call foiled whatever plans they had.”

The farmer said she had seen a group of “hooded and masked men” run into the field and towards the neighbouring village of Kempsford when she approached, prompting her to report what she had seen.

“I immediately called the MoD [Ministry of Defence] Police, the phone rang out and they didn’t answer,” she said, adding that she then phoned 999.

Residents later photographed the five suspects handcuffed and shirtless on the ground, surrounded by armed police officers.

The farmer said she found it “strange” that the police said at a press conference they had responded to calls about suspicious vehicles at 12.45am, adding: “If this is the case, why did they not know they were in Whelford when I called almost an hour later?”

She added: “I am absolutely staggered that it was left to me, as a member of the public, to see and report this.”

VURT DA FURK?

What was happening in that hour between the first phone call and then the lady farmer stumbling across the vans? Was anyone moving on the information?

It gets worse, and again, the Defense Secretary has probably been having the worst morning of his life.

Everyone in that village, where many of them work on base or know someone locally who does, knew the base security threat level had been raised in the days immediately preceding the foiled attack.

And mind you, that’s SOP when threats begin to specify targets, as the Iranians have with Fairford. But the threat level it reached was significant because it indicated the intel they had was more active, more defined, or both. In fact, whatever they had was so concerning that non-essential base employees were excused from coming to work, and locals saw extraordinary measures at perimeter access points.

…One Kempsford resident, who has lived there his whole life, said neighbours who worked in the airbase had been excused from work in the latter half of last week. 

The man, who requested anonymity, told The Telegraph: “The place went into lockdown the back end of this week. They must’ve known something was up because all the vehicles are parked up at the fences. I’ve never seen that before.”

There was also chatter on local message boards concerning the heightened security around the base during the latter part of last week, which, naturally had area residents concerned.

Oh this is delicious, watch as thick as David Lammy’s toenails, Wes Streeting, get his arse handed to him on a plate over the RAF Fairford terrorist incident pic.twitter.com/bSbCv4jvWa

— MrBounceBack.com (@Bounce_BackLoan) September 28, 2026

Without a doubt, something had been in the air and in the works, but, as in the very nature of terrorists, so nebulous, all they could do was prepare.

They did, but it’s also left the folks in tiny Whelford, which butts right up against Fairford’s runways, wondering why it took four hours to get them evacuated if the threat was so significant that the base civilians had been evacuated.

…On Monday morning, evacuated villagers said they were “dumbfounded“ that police took more than four hours to evacuate them, leaving the residents as “sitting ducks”.

They were moved to a leisure centre in nearby Cirencester and later put up overnight in hotels in the town.

Many complained about the delay in moving them out of their homes and about the lack of information the police provided. Most said they were still wearing the clothes they were in the day before and had been unable to go back to work.

One, Dennis, an engineer in his mid-50s, said: “What I’m really struggling to understand is why they left us in our homes for four and a half hours after they nabbed the culprits. If there were other suspects, we were just left as sitting ducks while they were on the loose. I am absolutely dumbfounded by that.”

…The farmer said the village’s residents were aware that the base had been operating at a “high security level” and that “civilian staff had been evacuated”.

And then there’s the British government’s ham-fisted handling of the incident.

The heroic farmer?

Well, she’s being patted on the head, and everyone’s being told what a good girl she is, but she really shouldn’t get outside her lane, hmmm?

The farmer who is an eyewitness and literally saved the day only has ‘a partial picture.’

Five men remain in custody on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act after Gloucestershire police declared a major incident near RAF Fairford.

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting told #BBCBreakfast a farmer who called 999 when she saw “a large group of hooded and masked men” near… pic.twitter.com/BNYEfsYub4

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) September 28, 2026

…Defence Secretary Wes Streeting told #BBCBreakfast a farmer who called 999 when she saw “a large group of hooded and masked men” near the base, has only ”a partial picture” of events 

Not saying much of anything, and don’t anyone be taking any guesses about what they saw in that photograph (that wasn’t supposed to be taken) or what the farmer lady who can’t keep her mouth shut said.

Gloucestershire Police have said “these arrests will no doubt have caused some shock and anxiety,” while asking the public not to speculate, as around 85 homes near RAF Fairford remain evacuated.

This looks like it could have been one of the largest bomb plots this country has… pic.twitter.com/tLpd9mKqmp

— British Intel (@TheBritishIntel) September 28, 2026

Helpful regime media like The Guardian are publishing the bare-bones Cliff Notes edition of the plot – five men in hoods arrested, no pictures, a farmer called it in.

This is astonishingly blatant from @guardian on the terrorist plot at RAF Fairford.

A national news source is simply refusing to accurately convey important facts which are freely available.

Pic 1. Guardian quote the farmer who saw the alleged terrorists. Leaving out key… pic.twitter.com/O688NUp9F7

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) September 28, 2026

No speculating about Presbyterians.

The government just released a teaser on the suspects – all ‘British nationals,’ which settles everything. 

So shut up already.

Major update from counter terror police about RAF Fairford arrests – all UK nationals:
Male, 24, Resident of Borough of Camden
Male, 24, Borough of Westminster
Male, 25, Borough of Westminster
Male, 23, Borough of Westminster
Male, 24, Borough of Willesden

— Patrick Christys (@PatrickChristys) September 28, 2026

People are pointing out how worthless that ‘British national’ statement is. 

All it means is someone has a British passport, which any old terrorist can get.

The former Hamas bodyguard also was a “British National”. It’s meaningless now.

— Ramon Agusta (@ramonagusta) September 28, 2026

Ebola’s been sending me some hilarious memes that have been appearing on his former Cirencester/Gloucestershire neighborhood Facebook message boards. I thought I’d share a couple that nearly had me ruining my monitor this morning.

The first should be an addition to the recent handouts the British government created so their incoming asylum-seeking boat hordes understood that, like, rape, knifeyness, etc., are not considered cultural enhancements in England.

Don’t blow RAF bases up:

And some Sharpe’s Rifles is always appropriate.

‘British nationals.’

Updates as I know more.

 

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