Golf balls?

Here's an image I've picked out from last year that I didn't post at the time. This is Menwith Hill near Harrogate, as seen from the ridge near Timble, with Fewston Reservoir in the foreground.  Nominally an RAF base, it is in fact controlled by the US National Security Agency. Those golf balls are radomes, receiving satellite images and intercepting electronic communications for both military and commercial purposes, including the harvesting of data from emails and phone calls worldwide. Expanding from four radomes in the 1970s, there are now over 30 of them. It's described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. It's all very secretive and has attracted its fair share of peace marches and protests over the years. CND and others continue to protest. They say: 'The NSA and other US intelligence agencies represented at Menwith Hill are now capable of overseeing ‘real-time’ military operations, identifying low-visibility targets and coordinating special operations forces and remote control technologies like drones.' Not that anybody listens to the protests. I guess they're too busy listening to our global communications. (Probably doing overtime since Russia has started agitating in Ukraine!) Keeping us safe or being sinister... who can judge?