US Air Force evacuates aircraft from a base in England because of a threat, US official says

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has relocated aircraft from a base in eastern England because of a threat, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.The Military Air Tracking Alliance, a team of about 30 open-source analysts that routinely analyzes military and government flight activity, said that it spotted 13 U.S. aircraft stationed at RAF Mildenhall departing for bases in Scotland, Spain and Germany.The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the evacuation, said that the threat related to Iran. The report cited "people familiar with the matter."The relocation of the aircraft came less than two months after the U.S. Air Force withdrew its bombers from another U.S.-run base in Britain, RAF Fairford, as police investigated a suspected terror plot linked to Iran. Bombers flying out of RAF Fairford had been used to strike Iran during the Middle East conflict.Some of the aircraft that were relocated were permanently based at RAF Mildenhall, while others were there on rotation and inc