2025 · Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Brussels
Drones close Europe's airports
Still at 8 s from the official Borris video: single orange point of light. 2025-09-28 20:06 local, Borris camp, Denmark. Status: See video item. Note: See video item (WIF282 airliner identification). · Danish Armed Forces employee; published by Frame extracted by us from the DR-hosted Forsvaret video
WhenSeptember 2025 – October 2026
WhereCopenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Brussels
Backing11 independent
Evidenceofficial records
On September 22, large drones shut Copenhagen airport for hours; Oslo closed the same night. Danish military airbases and Aalborg airport followed. Munich airport shut twice in early October, and in November drones closed Brussels and Liège airports and appeared over Belgian military bases. Governments spoke of hybrid attacks and planned a European 'drone wall', but no operators were caught. Leaders blamed Russia within days. A year later nobody has named an operator, and in June 2026 the Danish police said they could not even confirm the Copenhagen objects were drones.
Evidence, in date order (11)
- 2025BKAofficialclassified quarterly report 'Tatmittel Drohnen zum Nachteil von KRITIS, militärischen Einrichtungen und Rüstungsunternehmen' since 1 Jan 2025
- 22 Sept 2025Danish authoritiesofficialconfirmed the Copenhagen and airbase closures; police said a capable operator flew the drones Danish police: the drones were flown by a 'capable operator'
- 22 Sept 2025Norwegian authoritiesofficialclosed Oslo airport the same night Copenhagen and Oslo airports shut after drone sightings (France 24)
- Oct 2025German authoritiesofficialMunich airport shut twice in early October Wikipedia: 2025 European drone sightings
- Oct 2025Flensburg prosecutorsofficialopened a § 109g StGB case over the naval installations on the Kieler Förde
- 1 Oct 2025Schleswig-Holstein Landtag interior committeeofficialminutes of the minister's report on the Kiel drone formations, 25–26 Sep 2025 Niederschrift 20-101
- Nov 2025Belgian authoritiesofficialdrones closed Brussels and Liège airports and appeared over military bases Brussels Airport shuts down after multiple drone sightings
- 21 Nov 2025Dutch Ministry of Defenceofficialguards saw 5, then 10 drones over Volkel (21 Nov 2025); ground fire, nothing downed; Eindhoven closed 22 Nov ('EHVN is dicht na waarneming Drones met systeem en oog'); an F-35 scramble on 7 Dec
- 25 Jun 2026Danish policeofficialAfter nine months, could not confirm the Copenhagen objects were drones; no suspects, case closed Reuters, 25 Jun 2026
- 1 Oct 2026Danish Armed ForcesofficialRevised report: objects over military sites, origin unknown; soldiers may have fired at a civil aircraft Euronews, 1 Oct 2026
- 20 Oct 2026Dutch Defence Woo release MINDEF20260037537 (20 Oct 2026)official19 documents; 'Dronewaarnemingen' and the 21–22 November recap withheld in full for state security
How plausible · High
Four governments confirmed drone incursions that closed airports and no operator was caught; Germany classified even the count.
- ●●Access Police and airport staff.
- ●●No gain sought Official.
- ●●Character record Governments and police.
- ●●Independent convergence Four countries.
- ●●Checkable details check out Airport closures on record.
- ●●Fits secrecy practice Counts classified even for the Bundestag.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- Airport closures confirmed by authorities in Denmark, Norway, Germany and Belgium.Three pilots report an unknown object at Nuremberg airport at night (Germany, 2026)
- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called it the most serious attack on Danish infrastructure so far.
- Danish police, 25 June 2026, closing the case: "We cannot confirm that there has been drone activity... we cannot rule out" it. No suspects.
- Danish Armed Forces, revised report (October 2026): objects over Borris camp on 24, 25 and 28 September 2025, origin unknown; soldiers at one incident may have fired at a passing civil aircraft.
- MEP Fabio De Masi asked the EU Council whether such incidents also reached nuclear facilities in other member states; the Council replied that "it is not for the Council to produce findings concerning incidents."
- Danish Armed Forces released their Borris video on 12 Oct 2026 (to DR, after an access-to-documents request): a single orange light filmed at 20:06 on 28 Sep 2025, just before soldiers fired. Their re-evaluation says the employee who filmed it judged it a propeller plane, and that the shots fell at 20:06-20:08 while a Norwegian airliner passed; the Army still holds that it fired at likely drones. It is the only official video in the 2025 wave.
Claims
Some of the objects behave like the UAP pilots describe, and the official attribution has no public proof.speculationSourced, unconfirmedcommentators
Either European airspace is vulnerable or the public is being misled. (analysis; MEP Fabio De Masi, to Euronews)analysisSourced, unconfirmedFabio De Masi
Drone-like objects over Kiel, Rendsburg-Eckernförde and Dithmarschen, partly over military sites; police saw some themselves, and police records show 'parallele Flugbewegungen und Drohnenverbünde'. 'Einige Sichtungen seien bislang nicht verifiziert.'firsthandOn the recordInterior Minister Sütterlin-Waack, Schleswig-Holstein Landtag interior committee, 1 Oct 2025
The federal government classified or refused every request for the number of drone overflights of Bundeswehr sites, even for the Bundestag's secret registry.firsthandOn the recordDrs. 21/1231; 21/2141 q58; 21/2290 q16, q18; 21/3438 q54; plenary 21/58 q50; 21/4657 q52
'Het is tot op heden onbekend welke herkomst de waargenomen drones hebben'; both electronic and kinetic means were used.firsthandOn the recordDutch defence ministers Brekelmans and Tuinman, Kamerstuk 30806 nr. 59 (25 Nov 2025)
Two possible drones north and south of Ørland air base, silhouettes and light signals for about 2.5 hours.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedNorwegian Air Force, confirmed by Joint HQ spokesman Brynjar Stordal (27 Sep 2025)
Where
Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Brussels
55.7°N 12.6°E
In The picture
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Connected cases
Italy 2023: 'drones' at airliner cruise altitude 2023Belgian wave 1990Drones over bases 2024Jersey drones 2024Three pilots report an unknown object at Nuremberg airport at night (Germany, 2026) 2026Poland's radar object that was never found 2024Taiwan's CCK air base closed by an unidentified drone 2026Unidentified drones over Toulon during exercise Typhon 2026
People and organizations
Fabio De Masi personGermany's first Bundestag question on UAP, and the government's answer (2026) documentEU Council question P-003904/2025: the Danish drones and nuclear facilities document
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Sources
- Wikipedia: 2025 European drone sightings
- Copenhagen and Oslo airports shut after drone sightings (France 24)
- Danish police: the drones were flown by a 'capable operator'
- Brussels Airport shuts down after multiple drone sightings
- Drones shut a Belgian airport as the minister points to destabilization
- Reuters: Danish police find no proof drones caused Copenhagen shutdown (25 Jun 2026)