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=== Concerns over radiation levels === The radar beam has created serious concern of radiation risks due to leakage from the sides of the beam's "side lobes". Although the radiation levels are within UK limits (NRPB), it would be harder for the base to keep within the tighter European Union limits (INIRPB), which the UK may soon adopt, though Britain's exit from the EU makes this less likely.
=== 2019 bomb hoax === On 26 August 2019, Laura Woodwardsmith telephoned North Yorkshire Police and made a bomb threat in relation to RAF Fylingdales. Although, the Ministry of Defence Police locked down the base as a precaution, it was later revealed that Woodwardsmith was both drunk and having a mental breakdown when making the threat.
=== Guarding and security === The Northern Echo states that Fylingdales is guarded by 80 military policemen, however RAF Fylingdales is guarded by the Ministry of Defence Guard Service (approx 19 officers) and Ministry of Defence Police (approx 60–100 officers) neither of which operate under a military capacity. The station has a checkpoint by the A169 roadside and further checkpoints at each of its fences. The outer fence is an 8000 volt electrified fence and all entrance gates can be locked and razor wire placed in the opening on metal truss frames.
== Cultural references == The monitoring function is referred to in the Jethro Tull song "Fylingdale Flyer" which appears on the album A and in the Slipstream video. In the 1983 film The Day After, the Fylingdales facility is referred to 'as some place in England' with response to the early detection of a nuclear strike by two radar facilities (the other being Beale Air Force Base, California, US). RAF Fylingdales can be seen in earlier episodes of the 1960s set ITV Drama Heartbeat, filmed in the village of Goathland just a few miles away. Turning Fylingdales Inside Out is a Newcastle University project to make RAF Fylingdale's history visible to the public for the first time
== See also == List of Royal Air Force stations Space Situational Awareness Programme GRAVES – French space surveillance system
== References ==
=== Citations ===
=== Bibliography === Halpenny, B. B. (1982). Action Stations: Military Airfields of Yorkshire v. 4. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-0850595321. March, P. (1993). Royal Air Force Yearbook 1993. Fairford, UK: Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. Missile Defence: A Public Discussion Paper Archived 5 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Defence, 9 December 2002 Upgrade to RAF Fylingdales Early Warning Radar: Environment and Land Use Report Archived 5 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Defence, 16 June 2003 Wilson, B. C. F. (1983). A history : Royal Air Force Fylingdales. Royal Air Force Fylingdales. ISBN 0950852104.
== External links ==
Official website