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I wouldn't rule out a mass panic-type event. A similar event which closed London's Gatwick airport (one of Europe's busiest) garnered no evidence and no serious

I wouldn't rule out a mass panic-type event. A similar event which closed London's Gatwick airport (one of Europe's busiest) garnered no evidence and no serious lines of enquiry. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-of-the-gatwick-drone https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-... See also the recent closure of Heathrow Terminal 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5ypl5grg24t https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5ypl5grg24t

Tankenstein 1y ago
There's footage of this incident, footage of monday's Copenhagen incident, and there were arrests in Oslo on monday for another incident over Oslo.
- demarq 1y ago
  Where
  - clan 1y ago
    In Oslo a 50 year old mand was arrested and his drone confiscated. Link: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn BREAKING now is additional drones over 4 other smaller Danish airports: Aalborg, Esbjerg og Sønderborg samt Flyvestation Skrydstrup. Link: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavns-lufthavn https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavn... https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere-danske-lufthavne-i-aalborg-lukkede-det-flytrafikken https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere... (In Danish - Google Translate is your friend)
    - demarq 1y ago
      I was replying to claims of footage
- ejolto 1y ago
  The arrest in Oslo were a married couple from Signapore in their 60s. The man was fined and 8000 NOK for admitting to flying the drone and might get deported. They were flying in central Oslo, and it seems unrelated to the drones in Denmark. There were also unconfirmed sightings of drones around the airport in Oslo. The director of police states that "It is still unclear what was observed. There are conflicting interpretations of the observations that were made".
  - Tankenstein 1y ago
    Thank you for the additional context. Based on this, I agree that Oslo might not actually be related.
demarq 1y ago
Yup and impossible to verify, you can wake up and claim drones were sighted and that’s that.
vintermann 1y ago
These drones have lights on at night. That doesn't sound too much like Russians to me. But maybe that's just what the Russians want me to think... At least one of the videos published recently was likely of a school plane from Copenhagen Airtaxi, according to a Norwegian drone trade magazine: https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-skolefly/ https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-...
- Tankenstein 1y ago
  If the intent is to harass - lights on is the way to go, to make their presence very clearly known.
  - vintermann 1y ago
    But, as I said, it looks like the early (earliest?) observations were actually of a school plane. Probably some concerned citizen filmed it, and the authorities didn't immediately realize what it was since figuring out the exact place of a light in the sky in a cell phone video isn't that easy. Could it still be the Russians? Yes, I guess. But if the first observation turns out to have NOT been the Russians, to me that's a bit like how the first crop circles turned out to be a confirmed prank - yeah, technically later ones could still be aliens but given how it started doesn't that seem implausible? Not to make a comparison otherwise, of course believing in nefarious Russians is a lot more reasonable than believing in mischievous aliens. But I'm trying to make an argument about a causal explanations and a kind of data-generating process, ... not doing too great a job at it I guess.
- 4ndrewl 1y ago
  Don't get me wrong - at Gatwick there were many reports of people seeing drones with lights. The only problem is they weren't - they were seeing something else and reporting as seeing drones because they must have seen a drone - what else could it be?
- clan 1y ago
  4 smaller airports in DK had visits during this night as well. Also lights on. Still thinking coincidence?

Tankenstein 1y ago

There's footage of this incident, footage of monday's Copenhagen incident, and there were arrests in Oslo on monday for another incident over Oslo.

demarq 1y ago
Where
- clan 1y ago
  In Oslo a 50 year old mand was arrested and his drone confiscated. Link: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn BREAKING now is additional drones over 4 other smaller Danish airports: Aalborg, Esbjerg og Sønderborg samt Flyvestation Skrydstrup. Link: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavns-lufthavn https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavn... https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere-danske-lufthavne-i-aalborg-lukkede-det-flytrafikken https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere... (In Danish - Google Translate is your friend)
  - demarq 1y ago
    I was replying to claims of footage
ejolto 1y ago
The arrest in Oslo were a married couple from Signapore in their 60s. The man was fined and 8000 NOK for admitting to flying the drone and might get deported. They were flying in central Oslo, and it seems unrelated to the drones in Denmark. There were also unconfirmed sightings of drones around the airport in Oslo. The director of police states that "It is still unclear what was observed. There are conflicting interpretations of the observations that were made".
- Tankenstein 1y ago
  Thank you for the additional context. Based on this, I agree that Oslo might not actually be related.

demarq 1y ago

Yup and impossible to verify, you can wake up and claim drones were sighted and that’s that.

vintermann 1y ago

These drones have lights on at night. That doesn't sound too much like Russians to me. But maybe that's just what the Russians want me to think... At least one of the videos published recently was likely of a school plane from Copenhagen Airtaxi, according to a Norwegian drone trade magazine: https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-skolefly/ https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-...

Tankenstein 1y ago
If the intent is to harass - lights on is the way to go, to make their presence very clearly known.
- vintermann 1y ago
  But, as I said, it looks like the early (earliest?) observations were actually of a school plane. Probably some concerned citizen filmed it, and the authorities didn't immediately realize what it was since figuring out the exact place of a light in the sky in a cell phone video isn't that easy. Could it still be the Russians? Yes, I guess. But if the first observation turns out to have NOT been the Russians, to me that's a bit like how the first crop circles turned out to be a confirmed prank - yeah, technically later ones could still be aliens but given how it started doesn't that seem implausible? Not to make a comparison otherwise, of course believing in nefarious Russians is a lot more reasonable than believing in mischievous aliens. But I'm trying to make an argument about a causal explanations and a kind of data-generating process, ... not doing too great a job at it I guess.
4ndrewl 1y ago
Don't get me wrong - at Gatwick there were many reports of people seeing drones with lights. The only problem is they weren't - they were seeing something else and reporting as seeing drones because they must have seen a drone - what else could it be?
clan 1y ago
4 smaller airports in DK had visits during this night as well. Also lights on. Still thinking coincidence?