Copenhagen airport closure due to reported drone activity

[Kyle Ferriter]

Copenhagen airport has been temporarily closed to arrivals and departures due to a reported sighting of 2-3 large drones in the area. There's not really much in the form of substantive confirmation of what happened, aside from confirmation that there is an ongoing investigation.

It could be unrelated, but worth noting, that Russian jets and drones have been confirmed to have violated the airspace of Poland, Estonia, Romania, and Lithuania in recent months. With the violations of Polish and Estonian airspace seeming intentional.

Copenhagen Police posted on X (translated):

Copenhagen Airport is currently closed for takeoff and landing, as 2-3 large drones have been seen flying in the area. The time horizon is currently unknown.
#politidk

Source: x.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/1970213176860987866

All flights to and from Denmark's largest airport have been suspended after drone sightings, police have said.

Between two to three large drones were seen flying in the area around Copenhagen Airport, according to authorities.

Take-offs and landings at the airport have been suspended since around 20:30 local time (19:30 BST).

"[The airport] is currently closed for take-off and landing, as 2-3 large drones have been seen flying in the area. The time horizon is currently unknown," police said in a statement on X.
Speaking to the Reuters news agency, a spokesperson for Copenhagen Airport confirmed that the airspace over the airport had been closed due to unidentified drones.

"Police are investigating the matter and we currently have to timeline for reopening," the spokesperson said.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4lj1yvgvgo

https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...c-due-drone-sightings-police-says-2025-09-22/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/europe/copenhagen-airport-closed-drone.html

FlightRadar24's X account reported at 20:40UTC that the airport was tentatively scheduled to reopen at 23:00UTC.

FlightRadar24 X updates:

All take-offs and landings at Copenhagen Airport have been suspended since 20:26 local time due to drone reports. So far, at least 11 flights have been diverted to other airports.
3:19 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(19:19 UTC)

(20:26 Copenhagen local time is 18:26 UTC)
x.com/flightradar24/status/1970206322789339157

One flight has just landed at Copenhagen Airport, but others are still holding, waiting, or diverting due to the drone situation. So far, more than 15 flights have been forced to divert to other airports.
3:30 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(19:30 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970209204431450587

⚠️ As of 22:05 local time (20:05 UTC), more than 35 flights bound for Copenhagen Airport have been diverted to other airports due to the drone situation. Malmö, Billund, Aarhus and Gothenburg have received the most flights.
4:05 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(20:05 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970217982879228373

More than two hours after leaving the gate #U24652 from Copenhagen to Paris is headed back as authorities continue to investigate reported drone sightings near the airport. The airfield remains closed until 2300 UTC (tentative).
https://fr24.com/EJU12UJ/3c54602d
4:40 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(20:40 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970226717332840959

Per the latest update via Eurocontrol, Copenhagen Airport will remain closed through 0700 UTC 23 Sep. 50 flights have been canceled so far, 50 flights have been diverted, and approximately 20 further flights are likely to divert over the coming hours. https://flightradar24.com/airport/cph
5:46 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(21:46 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970243287698284896

Despite the above reporting it will be closed until 7:00 UTC Sept 23 (5am Copenhagen local time), the airport actually did reopen before that.

Copenhagen Airport is once again operational. #SK7744 will be the first to land after a four hour halt to operations due to reported drone sightings near the airport. https://flightradar24.com/SAS7744/3c54aa80
6:37 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(22:37 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970256089338806377

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

The Copenhagen Airport X account posted the following (translated) at 21:17UTC:

There are still unidentified drones around Copenhagen Airport. Therefore, no planes can take off or land. Incoming flights are being diverted to other airports and departing flights are delayed or cancelled. Passengers are asked to check http://cph.dk or with the airlines.
5:17 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(21:17 UTC)

x.com/CPHAirports/status/1970235925994074441

18:26 UTC to 21:17 UTC is a span of 2h51m.

Police are still present around the Airport, as drones have been observed.
Information regarding flight operations can be seen at http://Cph.dk. #politidk
5:49 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(21:49 UTC)

x.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/1970244153515884928

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

Reports of drone sightings near Oslo airport have led to a disruption in flights there.

Per ATC audio, aircraft are holding due to "drone observation" in the vicinity of the airfield. Aircraft now diverting away from Oslo. https://flightradar24.com/multiview/3c54b363,3c5458c5,3c546b67,3c548a9e,3c54b58b
6:07 PM · Sep 22, 2025
(22:07 UTC)

x.com/flightradar24/status/1970248595195543952

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

Copenhagen police (translated):

Police and other authorities are closely cooperating regarding the incident at the airport.
police will be available to the press at Politigården, Polititorvet at 01:30 #politidk

x.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/1970249932184658405

01:30 Sept 23 Copenhagen local time is 23:30 UTC Sept 22, or 7:30 PM EDT Sept 22.

 

[JMartJr]

This is fascinating, given how we have seen people unable to recognize airplanes and identifying them as drones in a couple of "Drone Flaps" recently. I have no idea if that sort if misidentification is in play in this specific case... but one thing you are going to see around airports pretty regularly is airplanes. It is going to create problems if they get reported as drones with any regularity...

 

[Trailblazer]

Video linked in this tweet.


Source: https://x.com/chrisuksharp/status/1970258214962020366?s=46&t=pi-PW2h-zayk3Ew8WL18KA


Looks like a fixed wing plane to me but I have only had a quick look on my phone. No details of what time it was filmed.


Edit to embed video below:

 

[Trailblazer]

This would look a good candidate for the culprit.

It flew at low altitude right over the airport, twice, and then a few minutes later all inbound flights stopped.

Specifically: 18:17 UTC at 375ft heading southeast (perpendicular to the runway), and then again at 18:19 at 425ft heading northwest.

Seven minutes later, at 18:26 UTC, the airport was closed to flights. Seems like a heck of a coincidence?

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

Between 8:16PM 22 Sep and 12:39AM 23 Sep, Copenhagen local time, only one plane landed at Copenhagen Kastrup airport. An ATR 72 from SAS airlines which landed at 9:25PM.

It had been in a holding pattern but was eventually allowed to land. Which is unique because many other planes were diverted even after spending time in nearby holding patterns. Perhaps fuel issue?

Seven minutes later, at 18:26 UTC, the airport was closed to flights. Seems like a heck of a coincidence?

I agree that this small aircraft making multiple low passes immediately before the airport gets reports of drone activity and closes down is quite the coincidence.

And while the video in that link has gone viral I don't think there's any reason to think it isn't a plane. People have been citing it as proof of anomalous large drone activity regardless.

Correction: another prop plane (in addition to the ATR 72 above) made a late landing at 8:21PM local time.

 

[Trailblazer]

As @Kyle Ferriter suggested on Twitter, perhaps the small plane was trying to land on the perpendicular runway (runway 12) but aborted the landing. All the other landings seemed to be coming from the northeast, landing on runway 22L.

But if it was just a plane missing a landing, and showing up on public flight radar, surely the air traffic controllers would have been aware of it!

As it is, two more flights landed after OY-CDT flew off to the northwest, and then the third one, SK652, aborted at about 700ft and diverted to Malmo at 18:28 UTC.

I wonder if all the planes in holding patterns just off the coast also gave rise to further drone reports and kept the airport shut for longer?

 

[JMartJr]

It looks to me like, at 18:20 (just to chose a time that is in the relevant range) Saturn would have been about 30 degrees elevation to roughly SSE, and Capella about the same to the ENE. Along with Vega a bit higher in the W, and Jupiter just rising at about that time to the NE, getting higher as the evening progressed. (CAVEAT: I have been known to make errors with time on things like Stellarium, and UTC vs. local time, so anybody feel free to double check me!)

Weather tonight there is said to be partly cloudy today, clearer tonight, any lingering cloudiness would possibly allow stars and planets to appear and disappear, and to seem to move when viewed in relation to clouds... there seems to be a low cloud visible in the video in Post #6 above.

SOURCE: https://weather.com/weather/tenday/...onicalCityId=5b65293b0180eb2352e315520b0398e2

So unless I've mucked up the time, there were a couple of bright astronomical objects available to be seen and reported as hovering drones, as they have been reported as UFOs repeatedly in the past, once people had been told to be on he lookout for drones, and at an elevation comfortably spotted by somebody watching for drones around the airport perimeter...

 

[Calter]

But if it was just a plane missing a landing, and showing up on public flight radar, surely the air traffic controllers would have been aware of it!

I imagine the situation could have gone something like passengers (or perhaps people in the airport itself) saw the plane and went "omg, is that a drone? quick, report it to the nearest airline employee", then the story about a huge drone went up the chain of command for a few minutes and by then the plane was long gone.
Given tensions with Russia and deciding to better play it safe than sorry, they then shut down the whole place down until more can be learned.

One thing I find odd about the UFO is that it has a fairly green light in the second half of the video

and to me at least it doesn't look like that's on the tip of the wing

 

[Mendel]

This would look a good candidate for the culprit.

cat = Copenhagen Air Taxi

The aircraft is 8m long, with 10m wing span.
For comparison, a MQ-9A Reaper drone is 11m long, with 20m wing span.

 

[Trailblazer]

Has anyone managed to figure out where in the airport the video was taken from?

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

At 18:16-17 UTC there were two Norwegian airlines planes next to each other by the northwest side of the terminals. Keeping in mind that ground tracks are not as accurate because the signal is not very good due to obstructions, and ground plane orientation around terminals is not as accurate because the speed is so low and the planes often make tight slow speed turns around these areas and the location pings are too infrequent to represent this accurately.

At this time, the small OYCDT flies from the NW on runway 12, staying over the runway the whole length.

At 18:19, OYCDT makes its next pass from the SE on runway 30 (opposite side of runway 12).

At this point NSZ5613 is making its way towards the runways to depart. Several location pings for OYCDT in FlightRadar24 show it pretty far off course from the runway, and at about 700ft altitude, passing directly over NSZ5613 and almost nearly overhead NSZ5075, as well as 3 other planes on the ground. Both ADSBX and FR24 show runway 30 as not really being clear when OYCDT passes overhead, but again due to accuracy issues for planes on the ground this could be a misrepresentation.

My guess is that the video filmed in this link:
https://www.nrk.no/video/drone-ved-kastrup_23fe513c-9529-4eae-badd-7a7f5b488eed

... was filmed by someone on flight NSZ5075 who watched OYCDT fly SE over runway 12 (but not land), and then watched OYCDT again fly NW somewhat over runway 30 but then veering off over the gate areas, much closer to NSZ5075, and then essentially directly overhead at low altitude. They could also have been on NSZ5613 as the two planes were very near each other and were schedule to take off one after the other. (EDIT: revised in a later post)

This theory also works for the location of the ATC tower visible in the video.

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

It could have also been filmed from NSZ5613.

EDIT: [removed some speculation]

Looking closer at EZS34HB and EJU69UA which FR24 shows approaching the terminals after landing at 22L. Their tracks appear to freeze in place while they are both crossing runway 12/30 towards the terminals, beginning at about 18:17 when OYCDT passes between them on runway 12.

They freeze in place with EZS34HB showing as being in the middle of the runway when OYCDT does its second pass. EZS34HB spends almost 4 minutes stationary and perpendicular in the middle of the runway from ~18:17:55 until ~18:21:50 when both EZS34HB and EJU69UA resume driving forwards towards the terminals. At first I thought their positions might have been a glitch, but they show pretty dense and regular location pings on FR24, and their resumed travel towards the terminals after the pause indicates they were indeed paused there.

My current theory is that OYCDT was doing something wrong. It flew extremely close to multiple airplanes on the ground, and I find it hard to believe they could have been approved to land on runway 30, because the runway appears that it was not clear. The ATC radio recording might shed some light on this.

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

I was having difficulty figuring out the first 8 seconds of the clip. It shows a camera looking out the left side of a Norwegian airlines plane, watching another aircraft fly to the right in frame. I don't think this is a possible view of the OYCDT's 1st pass, over runway 12.

I think this first 8 seconds of the video clip is actually filmed around 18:08UTC, while the plane the person filming is in is still parked at the gate. They are looking out the left window, of OYCDT flying north towards downtown Copenhagen, approximately 3.5 miles away, before it loops around and starts approaching the airport aligned with runway 12.

Then the second portion of the video, after the cut, is the 2nd pass of OYCDT, flying NW partially aligned with runway 30.

 

[Jon DK]

Thanks for working on this case! Being Danish, I have a special interest in this.

I'm not capable enough to participate in deeper analysis, but I cant help translate material from Danish if you need it.

I found another video, posted by the Danish national TV station TV2, alledgedly showing one of the drones:
https://tv2.dk/reel/2025-09-23-her-ses-droner-i-luften-over-koebenhavns-lufthavn-6379962402112.


Moderator note: embedded copy of video below:

 

[gargamel]

Tangentially related:

In the immediate wake of the NJ drone hysteria last winter there were multiple "drone"-sightings over the Køge bay off Copenhagen, and some of these "drones" were filmed (one example I dug up):
https://ekstrabladet.dk/krimi/her-er-de-mystiske-droner-aldrig-set-noget-lignende/10486537

This made headlines both in Denmark and in adjacent countries like here. Police were "chasing" the "drones" and criminal cases were opened, but eventually it seemed to quietly die down and not much else was ever said about it. The Danish armed forces later commented that they were "aware of the event" and nothing more.

To me it was obvious from the get go that the "drones" were just planes on approach to Kastrup and I was mildly flabbergasted by how it became a newspiece in the first place. Each photo and video that made the rounds just showed regular traffic aircraft on approach or in holding patterns, with the expected lights and other features. Sure, it was dark and the weather was very clear over the bay that night so perhaps planes were seen at an unusually long distance, but still. Planes.

Much later, in fact only weeks ago, this Danish bombshell dropped:
https://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/dronesvaerm-over-koege-i-januar-kan-vaere-russisk-hybridangreb

Where "internal documents unveil" that the airplanes were apparently in fact "non-civilian drones" and possibly linked to a Russian freight ship that passed through in the area that night* but Danish police and the country's military still refuse to comment.

This new little twist of sorts puzzles me, because the sightings that were shared at the time were positively just planes. What gives?

* Dozens of Russian freight ships pass in and out there daily though, the Danish straits are what they are to the countries with Baltic sea ports, just basic geography.

 

[Trailblazer]

Thanks for working on this case! Being Danish, I have a special interest in this.

I'm not capable enough to participate in deeper analysis, but I cant help translate material from Danish if you need it.

I found another video, posted by the Danish national TV station TV2, alledgedly showing one of the drones:
https://tv2.dk/reel/2025-09-23-her-ses-droner-i-luften-over-koebenhavns-lufthavn-6379962402112.

This was filmed from the terminal building. It matches the first, more distant pass of the plane:

Wider context with timestamps (it's a bit cluttered but hopefully legible). The purple and white arrows are as above and the red cross is the camera position:

The final left-right pass at 18:19 would have been a lot higher from the POV of the camera - see highest blue line in this view:

 

[Trailblazer]

The second part of the Danish TV clip seems to show a different pass - the aircraft is nearer, visually higher in the sky and passing from left to right. It's hard to locate this but it is on the main apron of the airport.

There are lots of light towers but matching them to specific ones would be hard. However this view of the apron in Google Earth shows the left-right flight path (upper blue line) and various light towers as ghostly 3D shapes:

Note that the flight path looks a bit erratic viewed from this angle.

 

[Mendel]

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/668360-cph-closed-due-drone-sightings.html#post11958110

OY-CDT flew an unusual manoeuver above the airport 7 minutes before CPH was closed. Maybe it was mistaken for a drone?

Definitely not. Typical (night-VFR) sightseeing from Roskilde, entering Copenhagen airspace D via reporting point Vallensbæk, following the published route to downtown Copenhagen, with a jaunt over the airport (Copenhagen ATC is very accommodating, if traffic permits), returning to Roskilde via Vallensbæk. Aircraft belongs to well known and established Copenhagen Air Taxi. It was Copenhagen ATC which spotted the drones.

https://www.bt.dk/krimi/live-droner-over-koebenhavns-lufthavn?directpost=10224671

Morten Fruensgaard, der er driftsdirektør i Naviair, forklarede på pressemødet, at man reagerede på et 'varsel' fra lufthavnen om dronerne.

- Det er det varsel, vi reagerer på, fortalte han med henvisning til, at man derefter valgte at stoppe al trafikken ind og ud af lufthavnen.

- Det var os, der observerede dronerne og meldte det til Naviair. Vi observerede dronerne i forskellige positioner. Både her omkring klokken 20.30 og ud på aftenen. De var på forskellige områder ind over lufthavnen, tilføjede Kristoffer Plenge-Brandt, Chief Operating Officer (COO) i Københavns Lufthavne.

Translation by kristofera/pprune:

Morten Fruensgaard, COO of Naviair, explained at the press conference that they reacted to a warning from the airport about the drones.

"That was the alert that we reacted to, he explained, adding that they decided to halt all traffic in and out of the airport."


"It was us that observed the drones and told Naviair. We observed the drones in different locations. Both around 20:30 and later at night. They were in different areas over the airport", added Kristoffer Plenge-Brandt, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Copenhagen Airport.

It seems the airport observed the drones; it seems very unlikely they'd misidentify aircraft.

 

[Trailblazer]

It seems the airport observed the drones; it seems very unlikely they'd misidentify aircraft.

If that is the case, then at least some of the videos circulating are not the "drones", because they appear to be a perfect match to OY-CDT.

 

[jarlrmai]

It seems the airport observed the drones; it seems very unlikely they'd misidentify aircraft.

I've heard this before... Who is "the airport" in this instance?

 

[Trailblazer]

I think this first 8 seconds of the video clip is actually filmed around 18:08UTC, while the plane the person filming is in is still parked at the gate.
[...]
Then the second portion of the video, after the cut, is the 2nd pass of OYCDT, flying NW partially aligned with runway 30.

Yes, agreed.

Embedded video here, as it was taken down from the Norwegian site earlier (it's back now)




First part of video. plane flying left to right, above the brightly lit terminal buildings....

Second part matches the final pass over the runway (note control tower on right)

 

[JMartJr]

Where "internal documents unveil" that the airplanes were apparently in fact "non-civilian drones" and possibly linked to a Russian freight ship that passed through in the area that night* but Danish police and the country's military still refuse to comment.

For a point of comparison, a news story from the NJ drone flap. Drones that are just planes MUST be coming from an adversaries "mothership" is apparently a thing now:

A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the mystery drones over the Garden State are from Iran, and they're being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, said the drones "very possibly could be" from Iran, citing confidential sources during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning.

"I'm going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones," Van Drew said. "It's off the East Coast of the United States of America. They've launched drones."

"These drones should be shot down," he said, adding that "the military is on full alert with this."

Fortunately the military was not persuaded to shoot down any of the passenger and cargo aircraft being reported as drones!

The Pentagon has later rebuked Van Drew's claims, insisting there is "no evidence" the drones belong to a foreign adversary – but did not offer any explanation whatsoever as to what they actually are.

Van Drew has stood by his statements, however, sending a letter to President Biden imploring him to take action and laying out "circumstantial evidence" supporting his claims.

"We have information that a sea-based Iranian drone mothership is currently missing from port, and that its embarkation timeline would align with the appearance of the New Jersey Drones," he wrote the president in a letter obtained by Agudath Israel of America news.

Is it possible for a large surface vessel to be "missing," in the age of a gazillion satellites?

He added that Iran has previously sailed ships near the US, and that the country has a "sophisticated" partnership with China over drone technology.

"And of course, it is the policy of the Iranian government to bring about the destruction of the United States of America.

Yet these evil mystery drones from Iran did... nothing. No destruction was brought about.

While I remain open to alternate explanations, I have not been presented a single credible, cohesive narrative except for that Iran is controlling these drones," Van Drew wrote.

They were planes, Conrgressman. There, an alternative narrative that matches all the pictures of drones that were clearly planes, and does not involve an Iranian mothership. (And a few helicopters. Possibly one or two hobbyist drones, or in the later phases police drones sent up to look for drones getting reported as more mystery drones.)


Esternal quotes above from: https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/us-ne...sman-claims-these-drones-should-be-shot-down/

 

[Trailblazer]

It could have also been filmed from NSZ5613.

Having refined the timings, I am pretty sure it must have been NSZ5075.

The two planes started off parked very close to each other, but by the time of the 18:19 pass of OY-CDT, NSZ5613 was already making its way down the taxiway. 5613 is in red here, 5075 is in yellow.

In Google Earth, there is a Lufthansa plane in the exact spot where 5075 is at the gate according to Flightradar24 (but see note below). This is the view of the flightpath from there (remember, it's the more vertical part of the visible path we are interested in):

Whereas if you place the camera in the location on the taxiway where 5613 was at the time, the angle is wrong - it's almost straight overhead (again it is the left-hand leg of the path we are looking at):

Another factor in favour of 5075 is that 5613 was taxiing at about 15 knots at the time, and the view from the window appears to still be stationary.


Edit to add - the departures board is still online for last night. This adds a bit more confusion.

NSZ5075 left from gate A20.

NSZ5613 left from gate A21, right next to it.

however the FR24 screenshot seems to show 5075 at gate A50, where the Lufthansa plane is in Google Earth.

Here is a summary of the positions:

The gate A50 orientation makes most sense to match the video, because the view of the control tower is blocked by buildings from gate A20, and also the view out of the right-hand window would not be facing the right way from there. So it's a bit confusing. Perhaps the plane backed out of the gate and was waiting on the tarmac between gates A20 and A50?

 

[flarkey]

Having refined the timings, I am pretty sure it must have been NSZ5075.

The two planes started off parked very close to each other, but by the time of the 18:19 pass of OY-CDT, NSZ5613 was already making its way down the taxiway. 5613 is in red here, 5075 is in yellow.

FlightRadar24 shows the history of the movement of NSZ5075 (737 LN-NHA) ---- it appears that "the plane backed out of the gate and was waiting on the tarmac between gates A20 and A50" like you suggested.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ln-nha#3c54587c

 

[Vertigo_uk]

i am losing the will to live with all these X conspiracy theorists. its a russian drone (where is the military response) its aliens. etc. i put a post out at 4am local time debunking the footage. yes i misidentified the aircraft (forgot fr24 was utc not local) but everything has to be a conspiracy. its clear this is a feedback loop the same as what happened with gatwick

• Trigger – a single sighting of a suspicious object near a runway.
• Official confirmation – authorities acknowledge the report, for example through a police statement or airport shutdown.
• Heightened vigilance – staff, passengers and residents scan the skies and begin interpreting ambiguous lights as drones.
• Multiplying reports – aircraft navigation lights, helicopters or even stars are misclassified as drones.
• Escalation – airports suspend operations, flights are diverted and media coverage reinforces the perception of an ongoing drone incursion.

 

[Trailblazer]

FlightRadar24 shows the history of the movement of NSZ5075 (737 LN-NHA) ---- it appears that "the plane backed out of the gate and was waiting on the tarmac between gates A20 and A50" like you suggested.

And before that it was on gate A20 so in exactly the same position as the Finnair plane in Google Earth, which makes it easy to get a match with the first part of the plane video - I was not in quite the right spot before.

 

[ThomasH]

Yes, agreed.

Embedded video here, as it was taken down from the Norwegian site earlier (it's back now)




First part of video. plane flying left to right, above the brightly lit terminal buildings....

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Second part matches the final pass over the runway (note control tower on right)

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I thought I had nailed it too, but the blinking thing to the left of the control tower is the bridge to Sweden, so the camera placement for the last clip is here:

 

[gargamel]

Paywalled article but upon hearing the news from Denmark, people in Malmö across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen started looking at the sky and saw "drones" as well:
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/flera-larm-om-dronare-i-malmo-pa-mandagskvallen/

Very predictable, IMHO.

 

[Mendel]

If that is the case, then at least some of the videos circulating are not the "drones", because they appear to be a perfect match to OY-CDT.

Yes. The questions are:
• does anyone claim these videos are official evidence for the drones? (They're still worth debunking, if not.)
• what is the official evidence? who were the observers? was this cross-checked with the tower?

It's just shortsighted to go from "the circulating videos are bunk" to "the official evidence is bunk". I mean, we don't necessarily trust observers without hard evidence, but then we don't know what they reported.

 

[ThomasH]

Yes. The questions are:
• does anyone claim these videos are official evidence for the drones? (They're still worth debunking, if not.)
• what is the official evidence? who were the observers? was this cross-checked with the tower?

It's just shortsighted to go from "the circulating videos are bunk" to "the official evidence is bunk". I mean, we don't necessarily trust observers without hard evidence, but then we don't know what they reported.

It's not official videos so you're right, we can't debunk the case.
It was Naviair and the airport reporting the drones, so I think the knew about that little plane
But the private videos are still questionable like all other

 

[JMartJr]

Yes. The questions are:
• does anyone claim these videos are official evidence for the drones? (They're still worth debunking, if not.)
• what is the official evidence? who were the observers? was this cross-checked with the tower?

It's just shortsighted to go from "the circulating videos are bunk" to "the official evidence is bunk". I mean, we don't necessarily trust observers without hard evidence, but then we don't know what they reported.

Yes, but I think we are about at the point where those who are so inclined can start debunking the video as it gets reposted all over social media. There may or may not have been a drone or drones around the airport, but the video does not show one.

 

[Ravi]

Interestingly, and I quote a Dutch news site:

The European Commission thinks Russia was operating the drone in Denmark. (De Europese Commissie denkt dat Rusland achter het drone-incident in Denemarken zit)

Somehow the EC has some inside info to conclude it KNOWS it was a drone and, it KNOWS it was russia?

 

[Kyle Ferriter]

The video link cited online:
https://www.nrk.no/video/drone-ved-kastrup_23fe513c-9529-4eae-badd-7a7f5b488eed

Has been redirected and updated by the nrk.no website, to append an additional 15 seconds to the original 25 second video. I have both videos downloaded. The additional 15 seconds shows the FlightRadar24 track of OY-CDT with overlay text added saying (translated):

a small plane was also observed over the airport during the same time period

 

[Ian Ridpath]

For a point of comparison, a news story from the NJ drone flap. Drones that are just planes MUST be coming from an adversaries "mothership" is apparently a thing now:

Many of the supposed drones in the NJ sightings and others around that time were undoubtedly celestial objects, i.e. bright stars and planets (there was a planetary line-up around that time). The chain of drones supposedly released from an Iranian ship were most likely a line of Starlink satellites. These are all things that used to create UFO reports. What were once UFO flaps are now drone flaps.
And remember when Gatwick was shut down for a couple of days back in 2018? No drones then either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick_Airport_drone_incident

 

[Trailblazer]

I thought I had nailed it too, but the blinking thing to the left of the control tower is the bridge to Sweden, so the camera placement for the last clip is here:

Which one do you mean? There are two other tall objects to the left of the tower. I assume you mean number 2 here?

It's a bit hard to make out what is going on from this video really.

I noticed from the shadow that there is a tall mast not far from the control tower which doesn't seem to show up in the Google Earth view, just to add to the confusion. Top right of this screenshot.

 

[ThomasH]

Which one do you mean? There are two other tall objects to the left of the tower. I assume you mean number 2 here?


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It's a bit hard to make out what is going on from this video really.

I noticed from the shadow that there is a tall mast not far from the control tower which doesn't seem to show up in the Google Earth view, just to add to the confusion. Top right of this screenshot.

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Yes number 2 - you can also the it lighten up the clouds. It's 99.9% that - but a bit annoying because the movement of the plane in Sitrec looks very much the same as the video, if it was shot at the other place.

 

[FatPhil]

Paywalled article but upon hearing the news from Denmark, people in Malmö across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen started looking at the sky and saw "drones" as well:
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/flera-larm-om-dronare-i-malmo-pa-mandagskvallen/

Very predictable, IMHO.

Confirmed: e.g. TV4 News's webpage

Malmöparet såg enorm drönare utanför balkongen: "Ringde polisen"

Vid 21-tiden på måndagskvällen stängde Kastrups luftrum efter larm om flera stora drönare.
Drygt en timme senare såg Malmöparet Sara och Paul en "enormt stor" drönare utanför sitt fönster.
– Då ringde vi polisen direkt, säger Sara till TV4 Nyheterna.
Det var vid 21-tiden på måndagskvällen som flera stora drönare observerades över Köpenhamns flygplats. Luftrummet stängdes av och över 30 avgångar fick ställas in och 50 plan omdirigerades.
Drygt ett timme senare såg Malmöparet Sara och Paul något märkligt utanför sitt fönster.
– Vi trodde först att det var ett flygplan, men sen tog min sambo fram kikaren och såg att det var en enormt stor drönare, säger Sara till TV4 Nyheterna.
"Var väldigt nära vår balkong"

-- https://www.tv4.se/artikel/3GNOdZJu...nare-utanfoer-balkongen-ringde-polisen-direkt
Deepl's translation of same, which looks perfectly cromulent to me:

Malmö couple saw huge drones outside their balcony: 'Called the police'

At around 9 p.m. on Monday evening, Kastrup's airspace was closed after reports of several large drones.
Just over an hour later, Malmö couple Sara and Paul saw a 'huge' drone outside their window.
'We called the police immediately,' Sara told TV4 News.
It was around 9 p.m. on Monday evening that several large drones were observed over Copenhagen Airport. The airspace was closed, over 30 departures were cancelled and 50 planes were diverted.
Just over an hour later, Sara and Paul saw something strange outside their window.
'At first we thought it was an aeroplane, but then my partner got out his binoculars and saw that it was a huge drone,' Sara told TV4 News.
'It was very close to our balcony.'