Denmark shuts second airport in a week, more ‘unidentified’ drones spotted

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Danish constabulary said drone enactment successful Aalborg airspace akin to drones that unopen down Copenhagen airdrome earlier this week.

Published On 25 Sep 2025

Denmark’s Aalborg airport, which is utilized for commercialized and subject flights, was closed owed to unidentified drones operating successful its airspace, a closure that follows conscionable days aft the country’s main Copenhagen airdrome was forced to shut temporarily owed to drone sightings.

Danish constabulary said aboriginal connected Thursday that “more than one” drone was sighted adjacent Aalborg airport, which is located successful bluish Denmark, successful the Jutland region, and is the country’s fourth-largest metropolis by population.

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Police said the drone sightings successful Aalborg followed a akin signifier to the drones that halted flights astatine Copenhagen airdrome for 4 hours connected Monday, erstwhile a fig of ample and unidentified drones were spotted adjacent what is 1 of Scandinavia’s busiest airports.

The closure of Aalborg airdrome affected Denmark’s equipped forces due to the fact that it is utilized arsenic a subject base, constabulary said.

“It is excessively aboriginal to accidental what the extremity of the drones is and who is the histrion behind,” a constabulary authoritative told the Reuters quality agency, adding that authorities would instrumentality down the drones if possible.

The Danish equipped forces said they were assisting section and nationalist constabulary with the investigation, but declined to remark further.

Police said aboriginal connected Thursday greeting that the drones had near Aalborg airspace but that drones were besides reported successful the vicinity of airports successful the towns of Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup successful the westbound of the country.

Fighter Wing Skrydstrup successful confederate Jutland is the basal for Denmark’s F-16 and F-35 combatant jets.

De uidentificerede droner som blev observeret one det nordjyske, befinder sig ikke længere implicit luftrummet ved Aalborg Lufthavn. En intens efterforskning er gået one gang, og politiet beder alle med oplysninger one sagen henvende sig på telefon 114. #politidk https://t.co/sU3Azw8amD

— Nordjyllands Politi (@NjylPoliti) September 25, 2025

Translation: The unidentified drones that were observed successful bluish Jutland are nary longer successful the airspace implicit Aalborg airport. An intensive probe has been launched, and the constabulary inquire everyone with accusation astir the lawsuit to interaction them connected telephone 114.

Northern Jutland constabulary told reporters that “more than 1 drone” had been sighted adjacent Aalborg airport, and they were flying with lights on.

The drones were archetypal sighted astatine astir 9:44pm section clip [19:44 GMT] connected Wednesday, according to police, and remained successful the airspace for respective hours.

Eurocontrol, which oversees European aerial postulation control, said arrivals and departures astatine Aalborg airdrome would beryllium astatine a “zero rate” until 04:00 GMT connected Thursday owed to drone enactment successful the vicinity.

Northern Jutland constabulary said they could not specify the benignant of drones oregon whether they were the aforesaid arsenic the ones flying implicit Copenhagen airdrome connected Monday.

Authorities successful Denmark said the incidental astatine Copenhagen airdrome was the astir superior onslaught yet connected its captious infrastructure and linked it to a bid of suspected Russian drone incursions and different disruptions crossed Europe.

Authorities successful Norway besides unopen the airspace astatine Oslo airdrome for 3 hours connected Monday evening aft a drone was sighted.

Speaking connected Tuesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she “cannot cull successful immoderate mode that it could beryllium Russia” that was down the Copenhagen airdrome incident.

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said connected societal media that “while the facts are inactive being established, it is wide we are witnessing a signifier of persistent contestation astatine our borders”.

“Our captious infrastructure is astatine risk,” she said. “And Europe volition respond to this menace with spot and determination.”

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called immoderate allegations linking Russia to the drones “unfounded”, saying that Russian “aircraft are guided by planetary regulations successful each their flights and bash not interruption them successful immoderate way”.

Earlier this month, Poland closed 4 of its airports, including 1 successful its capital, Warsaw, aft Russian drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace, according to the Polish military.

NATO members person committed to expanding the defence of their borders portion reconfirming their allegiance successful the aftermath of the drone incidental successful Poland.