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	RAF Fylingdales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAF Fylingdales, opened in 1962, is a BMEWS or Ballistic Missile Early Warning System built on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
		The data grab obtained by Fylingdales is shared fully and freely with the United States where it feeds into NORAD's systems in Cheyenne Mountain.
		These radars are mounted on each face of a truncated tetrahedron, typically referred to as the "pyramid".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RAF_Fylingdales (588 words)

	CND - CND IN THE NEWS
		RAF Fylingdales, high on the North Yorkshire Moors near Whitby, was first opened in 1962 to give early warning of ballistic missiles bound for the West.
		Fylingdales, as well as other bases including in Greenland, would track hostile objects and possibly relay information to interceptor missiles while in flight.
		Fylingdales is an essential part of the new US ‘Star Wars’ missile defence system, and is the sole official 'Star Wars' base in the UK so far.
	www.cnduk.org /pages/cnews/042309.html (3680 words)

	Britain and Missile Defence
		Fylingdales is considered essential for the missile defence system because its location is ideal for tracking missile launches from the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe.
		Fylingdales has operated since 1963 as one of several radar facilities that provide early warning of ballistic missile launches against the US.
		The involvement of Fylingdales and Menwith Hill could make the UK a target for a state with which the US is engaged in hostilities.
	www.cnduk.org /pages/binfo/mdrole.html (625 words)

	WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2003
		It has a secondary UK-only role at Fylingdales which is to catalogue the many, many objects that are in space that fly over the UK in our portion of space.
		When Fylingdales was first commissioned there were only a few hundred objects in space and now there are many thousands and these re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at variable times and it is nice to know when they are coming back in, so that role will be enhanced.
		We were told when we went to Fylingdales that the Serco contractors did have considerable software writing capability that they had developed over the many years that they had the contract there.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmdfence/uc290-i/uc29002.htm (7573 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| North Yorkshire \| 'No cancer risk' from base
		Figures showed that rates were either statistically lower or similar to Scarborough and the PCT as a whole during the period after the last technology upgrade at the RAF base.
		But campaign group Fylingdales Action Network said this was exactly the kind of study that should be carried out at the base.
		"Fylingdales poses a potential threat to health through the rare type of pulsed radiation and through the long-term effects of the radar's beam," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/3244206.stm (765 words)

	National Missile Defence: The Role of RAF Fylingdales and Menwith Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If Fylingdales is to play a part in an NMD system the necessary upgrades would violate Articles III, VI, and IX of the ABM Treaty as currently constituted.
		Under the Clinton administration's NMD plans, both RAF Fylingdales and Menwith Hill were intended to have facilities that would be part of sensor systems used by the NMD system.
		The Fylingdales radar is a phased-array radar - a large, three-faced pyramid, each face of which is covered with an array of modules that transmit and receive radar waves.
	www.isisuk.demon.co.uk /0811/isis/uk/bmd/no4_paper.html (3689 words)

	CND - Press Releases
		No evidence of a link between RAF Fylingdales and cancer registrations in the region does not allow one to conclude that the base poses no health risks.
		Fylingdales poses a potential threat to health through the rare type of pulsed radiation and through the long-term effects of the radar’s beam.
		The government has a responsibility to fully investigate the whole spectrum of potential health effects of this type of radar, over the long-term and short term, and to study the type of radiation itself, which is little understood.
	www.cnduk.org /pages/press/281103.html (530 words)

	UK involvement in Missile Defence
		The Ballistic Missile Early Warning station at Fylingdales near Whitby and the spy-base and space monitoring station at Menwith Hill near Harrogate are both touted for key roles in the system.
		Fylingdales is therefore a significant command, control, communications and intelligence installation.
		Whilst a software upgrade at Fylingdales is all that is necessary at present, the full plans for missile defence are far greater and the implications far more destabilising.
	www.mdwg.org.uk /ycndpaperforselectcommittee.htm (4699 words)

	BASIC Publications
		While the outcome of the 7 July test is not certain, it is nonetheless clear that US plans to move toward deployment are not likely to be halted by a failure.
		Fylingdales is crucial to a workable US NMD network.
		Under the next stage of the Pentagon’s public plans, Fylingdales would be the site for a new, more powerful X-band radar that, if built, would also violate the ABM treaty.
	www.basicint.org /pubs/Press/2000july-UK_decide.htm (633 words)

	Subbrit: RSG: Sites: Fylingdales
		Fylingdales was the third and last of the BMEWS stations to be built.
		Fylingdales is unique, however, in that it is the only SSPAR with three active faces and 360° of coverage in azimuth.
		RAF Fylingdales is located alongside the A169 north of Pickering and easily identified by the 'pyramid' seen from the road.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /rsg/sites/f/fylingdales (1778 words)

	RAF Fylingdales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RAF Fylingdales is a Royal Air Force radar station in North Yorkshire.
		Fylingdales opened in 1962 as a Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station.
		Fylingdales was once famous for the 'golf ball' radomes, easily visible from the nearby motorway.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/RAF_Fylingdales (183 words)

	Global Network - Protest at Fylingdales - 7/10/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whitby is the nearest major town to Fylingdales - and well known for its link with the story by Bram Stoker as the port where Count Dracula first entered England.
		At 1pm we drove the 10 miles to 'RAF' Fylingdales - the pyramid-shaped phased array radar which forms part of the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) and which will need to be upgraded for a role as early warning and tracking radar in the US National Missile Defence programme.
		Fylingdales is situated in an exposed part of the bleak North Yorks.
	www.globenet.free-online.co.uk /reports/oct700repe.htm (564 words)

	BBC North Yorkshire - Have your say - RAF Fylingdales
		We in the UK must dissociate ourselves from the warmongering of the US which appears to have learnt nothing from the twentieth century's ghastly history of violence or from their own disastrous support for Osama and Saddam in the past (what makes anyone think their aggression is right this time?).
		The Fylingdales plan is based more on the plots of James Bond fantasy movies like Diamonds are Forever and Goldeneye - both have madmen trying to dominate the world by lasers from space.
		The real reasons for the US interest in Fylingdales are spelled out in documents such as the US Space Command's paper "Vision for 2020" which states" Global Engagement is the application of precision force from, to, and through space.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/have_your_say/fylingdales/index.shtml (1558 words)

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		Lung cancer The rates for lung cancer for Fylingdales and surrounding wards have been similar to that for the PCT as a whole and statistically, significantly less than the rate for the NYCRIS Region throughout the period 1991-2000 (pages 11 and 12).
		Colorectal neoplasms For colorectal cancers (neoplasms of the large bowel and rectum), the rates for the wards around Fylingdales were lower than the rates for the PCT as a whole and lower than the NYCRIS figures for most of the period under study (pages 15 and 16).
		The differences between the wards around Fylingdales and the PCT as a whole were not statistically different throughout the period and compared to the NYCRIS population this difference only reached statistical significance in one of the eight years analysed.
	www.swr-pcg.nhs.uk /BoardPapers/28nov03/FylingdalesStudy.doc (2372 words)

	Fylingdales -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RAF Fylingdales, opened in 1962, is a (Click link for more info and facts about BMEWS) BMEWS or Ballistic Missile Early Warning System built on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire, (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
		Its original primary purpose was to give the (Click link for more info and facts about British Government) British Government warning of an impending missile attack, the so called (Click link for more info and facts about four minute warning) four minute warning (though in practice three minutes was more likely).
		It has also complicated Britain's fragile relationship with certain (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) EU states such as (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fy/fylingdales.htm (736 words)

	Fylingdales Parish, Yorkshire.
		Fylingdales is a parish and township half-a-mile north of Robin Rood's Bay, and six miles south of Whitby.
		The principal landowners are Sir Charles William Strickland, of Whitby Abbey and Manor House, Robin Hood's Bay, who is lord of the manor; John Warren Barry, Esq., J.P., Fyling Hall; and Mr.
		Robin Hood's Bay is the name of a fine semi-circular bay, and a village, in the parish of Fylingdales, about half-a-mile from the parish church, six miles south of Whitby, and 14 north of Scarborough.
	www.ramsdale.org /fyling.htm (1219 words)

	Guardian \| Fylingdales: a history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From a remote ridgetop on the North Yorkshire moors, the radar station RAF Fylingdales has scanned the skies for hostile missiles since the height of the cold war.
		Under the programme, Fylingdales would be used to spot rockets from Russia, China or the Middle East early in their trajectories.
		But a handful of villagers have set up the Fylingdales Action Network, with the single aim of making any local contribution to the "son of star wars" politically impossible.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4569311-110595,00.html (441 words)

	BBC North Yorkshire - Have your say - RAF Fylingdales
		The UK Government has confirmed that the United States wish to use the RAF Fylingdales radar base on the North York Moors as part of their controversial Missile Defence Shield.
		The likelihood of an enemy of the USA identifying Fylingdales as a target for attack is real.
		I would vote for Fylingdales should not be used by the USA and that we should not be involved in a war with Iraq
	www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/have_your_say/fylingdales/page_2.shtml (1261 words)

	The Danish Peace Academy: Lee, Anne: Response (September 2003) to UK Ministry of Defence 'RAF Fylingdales Upgraded ...
		It was pointed out to her that the Fylingdales radar is a beam, not a circular scan similar to her description "I now believe that the cloud which fuoresced in the beam was electrically charged - as thunder clouds are - and that the atoms were energised by the radio beam into emitting light photons."
		RAF Fylingdales performs a vital role as part of the UK's contribution to the ballistic missile early warning defence capability for attack against the UK, Western Europe and the USA.
		The aim is to resurrect the RAF Fylingdales Conservation Group to act as a forum to discuss, advise and assist with conservation matters.
	www.fredsakademiet.dk /library/landuse.htm (15314 words)

	Trident Ploughshares - "Early Warning Base Part of Trident System" Say Fylingdales Defendants
		She had been aware of Fylingdales but had not realised its relevance to Trident until she saw the US Almanac documentation which revealed that the site would play a part in relaying the order to fire to the nuclear missile submarines, as well as acting as an early warning system.
		She had engaged in conventional political lobbying but had come to realise that nonviolent direct action, in the tradition of the Suffragettes and the US Civil Rights movement, was essential to social change.
		Fylingdales was essential to Trident and she would not wait until the four-minute warning was given to do something about it.
	tridentploughshares.org /article387 (493 words)

	RAF Fylingdales
		The unit is a vital portion of BMEWS operations, which include the 12th Space Warning Squadron, Thule Air Base, Greenland, 13th Space Warning Squadron, and Clear Air Force Station, Alaska.
		This crew is responsible for missile warning and attack assessment against the United Kingdom and areas of Western Europe and North America.
		RAF Fylingdales has a primary mission of maintaining continuous missile warning capability for the United States and United Kingdom, demonstrating that a surprise missile attack could not succeed.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/facility/fylingdales.htm (402 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| UK ready to help 'Son of Star Wars'
		Some fear the Fylingdales scheme could harm the UK The UK looks set to offer British radar facilities for a new US missile defence system (NMDS) dubbed 'Son of Star Wars'.
		Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told MPs his "preliminary conclusion" was that the UK should agree to America's request to upgrade the Fylingdales radar station in North Yorkshire.
		Fylingdales has an advanced radar which could track missiles launched by rogue states or terrorists in, for example, the Middle East.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2658861.stm (712 words)

	BBC - North Yorkshire Uncovered - Inside RAF Fylingdales
		No stranger to controversy RAF Fylingdales has recently been in the spotlight again.
		RAF Fylingdales has been in operation for around 40 years.
		It was built as an early warning station during the cold war to detect a potential nuclear attack.
	db.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/uncovered/fylingdales/index.shtml (224 words)

	Global Network - Keep Space for peace Local Action at Fylingdales - 25/9/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We were assembling in the usual place for a Fylingdales demonstration - about 1/2 a mile down the road from the base entrance in a side track off the main road near the road bridge by Eller Beck.
		Fylingdales sends data directly to US Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain and also forms part of the Space Surveillance Network which tracks all space objects orbiting Earth and would therefore be integral to any anti-satellite or space war programme.
		Together they reminded us of the role of Fylingdales and the continuing push by the US military for full spectrum dominance and control of space for war fighting.
	www.globenet.free-online.co.uk /reports/fdales_04.htm (1323 words)

	Some Consequences of the Future Development of Star Wars at Fylingdales by Dave Webb
		Fylingdales was built in 1964 on Ministry of Defence land in the North York Moors National Park.
		Fylingdales warned that a salvo of missiles had been launched against B52 bases from a Soviet submarine in the Pacific.
		Much more research is required into the extent of EMR pollution at Fylingdales, the effects of these EM fields at the frequencies encountered and a much more in depth study of the health effects of the proposed X-band radar system.
	www.russfound.org /Launch/webb.htm (3334 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The land at Fylingdales where the balls were, has been retained for this purpose for years.
		It should have been obvious.We really are commiting ourselves to a system that is an obvious precursor to militarization of space, it will never work as a defensive system.
		Free Fylingdales (originally FFN) was started in 2001 as a reaction against George Bushs announcment that he was going to get serious about Missile Defense.
	www.freefylingdales.org (312 words)

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