Casseem Campbell, 28, said he had seen objects above his house in Beck Row.
He described seeing a triangle-shaped aerial vehicle, which was "a grey, dark colour", in one of two evening sightings of drones he had made in the past week.
"They were really noisy and had lights. They looked official to be honest," he added.
"If they are a threat, why aren’t they being shot down? Why let them fly over if they’re sinister?"
It has since emerged that a drone came within 273.40 yards (250m) of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier, as it entered the Port of Hamburg on 22 November.
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“In the last 10 days I have seen military jeeps around the village. There has been a much higher police presence than usual – military and UK police," she said.
Mrs Mason also described what she believed was a drone being intercepted, though the BBC has not been able to verify this.
"There was a big orange light in the sky and all of a sudden it was gone. I heard people shouting 'wow'," the mother-of-one added.
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Johnny Whitfield, who also lives in Beck Row, described seeing "lots of activity".
"I’ve seen the drones three or four times," he said, before confirming the sightings had taken place at night in the past week.
He also described the flying objects being lit up and hovering over the airbase, although he said he could not detect a noise, while he said the objects were large.
"All you see is light, but it’s a big, big light," he added.
He said he felt the US military was being reticent about what was going on.
"You don’t know if they’re foreign or local. [The US Air Force] don’t give out much information.
"You get more information off Facebook than the base."
All the residents of Beck Row that the BBC spoke to described increased military activity in the area with an apparent uptick of planes in the skies.
The BBC has also seen evidence that agents from the
US Air Force Office of Special Investigations have been in the Suffolk area and have
spoken to local people about what they have seen.
Roger Smith, a Suffolk-based military aviation enthusiast, told the BBC that he believed the US Air Force pilots had reverted to more secure communication methods in recent days.
Defence sources have told the BBC that suspicion had fallen on a "state actor" being responsible for the incursions.
