I figured it was only fair that Belgium joins the list of countries to receive an official drone identification guide. Ik vond het alleen maar fair dat België zich aansluit bij de landen die een officiële drone-identificatiegids ontvangen.

Warning! There is a unique aircraft, made in Belgium & has been flying about today, it has already been mistook for a drone. Waarschuwing! Er is een uniek vliegtuig, gemaakt in België, dat vandaag rondvliegt — het is al aangezien voor een drone. youtu.be/McFT_Yt56dw?...

I prefer to uncover good news with drones, however, I uncovered that a child has been injured by a police drone, which was difficult as I was initially misled on FOIA, the BBC are investigating. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@willvs.bsky.social Als je gevraagd wordt te rapporteren over het recente “drone-incident”: drones vliegen niet harder dan helikopters — en politiehelikopters leggen een echte drone makkelijk vast met EO/IR. Zonder zulke beelden is het zeer twijfelachtig dat er een drone was.

BBC News have managed to barely even apologise for running video and using screenshots on their news reports of a "drone over Aalborg Airport" which was likely acquired from Reuters, it was neither of a drone and not even of Aalborg Airport. Going to escalate to OFCOM.

The MOD presumably afraid of being quizzed about the Lakenheath "drone" investigation that was likely a wild goose chase investigating navigation lights on airliners, are pulling the vexation card on me on volume, I've only done 3 FOIAs in the last year! www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/free...

I've just completed the GRC1 form which is used for appealing ICO rulings, this is my first against the UK CAA. This is for an FOIA about a jammer at Gatwick in 2018. Meanwhile I'm about to put in a very, very, very saucy FOIA to the Home Office.

I actually had a bit of a chat with the Danish equivalent to the CAA this week, they were nice and polite.

Reluctantly I'm off to First-tier Tribunal again as the CAA are trying to hide behind National Security on the basis they can't open a spreadsheet in their version of Excel which proves the jamming product at Gatwick in 2018, is already in the public domain. #NightFighter

Oh wow after years of fighting, I have a document the DfT led me to believe didn't even exist until I persisted. As it's now an ICO case the DfT released the document but applied redactions that would make Sussex Police blush. The case goes on. #BattleOfGatwick

A few commercial drone operators in the UK have also put in complaints against the BBC's "journalism" on Denmark. After Gatwick, New Jersey, New York, in 2025 the BBC should not be passing off helicopter video as drones nor should it be ignoring ADS-B.

sUAS News posing the question, given witnesses and ADS-B data, have we had the first firing of weapons at an airliner mistaken as a drone in the EU? Denmark :: Billund :: Borrislejren www.suasnews.com/2025/10/did-...

We now have the 1st case of testosterone filled idiots firing live ammo at airliners mistaken as drones. It's a matter of time until someone is killed from this stupid hysteria. youtu.be/ih1Ze78UZsI?...

Here's an insight into BBC News being more focused on having video than fact checking. The BBC in its reporting of Aalborg Airport used video recorded over 2 hours after an alleged drone sighting, recorded 9.2km away, when a helicopter was already tasked over the airport.

Meanwhile of the EU drone sightings, this one is the best yet, an entire ship, sailing on the sea, mistaken for a drone. www.dronemag.no/politiet-ing...

An excellent piece of journalism by no less than 5 Danish reporters at TV2 that have investigated the initial EU drone panic using reports from Swedish police. Spoiler alert, it was likely aircraft. BBC Verify meanwhile have been AWOL which is a real shame. nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2025...

Wait a minute, EHang had promised 100 minutes flight time & 300km range with the VT30 prototype, now the fruition of that design the VT35 offers 200km & 60 min. Its own graphics implies redundancy of only a single prop failure before gravity takes over. Underwhelming...

Another publication noting the European drone sightings are flawed, crediting the analysis of Mick West's Metabunk Oh and the G word gets a mention! istories.media/stories/2025...

Altitude Angel run dronesafetymap.com/ which I think almost everyone uses for safe flying, presumably that will cease at some point orbitaltoday.com/2025/10/10/a... #drones #uav

FR24 has launched their first automated airport livestream. It uses ADS-B data to track aircraft and includes ATC audio. It's pretty slick, with excellent aircraft tracking.

If you're in Denmark, there is a story in Frihedsbrevet with the latest twists & turns with the alleged drones. This publication is known for its investigative journalism, at the outset of the "drone" hysteria they were questioning the credibility of the panic. frihedsbrevet.dk/stor-gennemg...

It's all coming out now, airports in Norway are "protected" by DJI AeroScope. A key airport needs a higher end system. It's possible like Gatwick in 2018, that some if not all could be using the portable version which wouldn't routinely be turned on. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Av...

Oh dear, in the middle of a drone drama Danish police get a big FPV drone. The lettering is a good idea but it's not enough this needs to have ADS-B or a unique strobe colour/sequence. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

A small insight into Gatwick 2018 given the current drone dramas in Europe. These e-mail snippets show the frustration of the UK Home Office as LGW hour after hour after hour, after request, after request, failed to provide video evidence, finally providing "potato" quality.

The latest news from Denmark... The imaginary Danish drones, very much in keeping with imaginary drones are proving bloody inconvenient to prove. The question is how many millions of €s will be spaffed before the authorities realise they're imaginary? www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

So these are the "drones" that closed Vilnius Airport, it seems balloons have a tendency to be reported as drones.

Do you want to see the capability that is now finally at Munich Airport but should have been there all along? Of course you do, by the look it is the MODAR-BC by OptoPrecision. I'd wager now the drone reports will stop, or if they don't there will be evidence for once.

The lack of reports from Munich Airport tonight I'd wager means that they have begun to get their sh#t together and have briefed staff better against reporting lights.

I can't share it (yet) as it would endanger the camera person due to being able to geolocate, but I've seen video within the last hours of what a real Russian drone attack looks like & they're not lit up, they can be heard & it's far more terrifying not seeing them.

Huge news, authorities in Denmark are aware mistakes are being made but don't want it publicly to be known. I am certain authorities have seen Metabunk as the training aircraft has been mentioned by journalists. I hope his site one day gets some credit. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

This morning drone news website sUASnews got a reply from German police though they do not want to elaborate on if they were seeing lights, why they launched helicopters introducing more lights nor if they have a C-UAS (obvious they don't).

I think the debate that should be raised is how come so many significant airports that make so much money have not invested in sufficient counter-drone technology to protect passengers. It's penny-pinching and they're being found out.

Czech police, instead of seeking evidence, instead of setting up counter drone and EO/IR have decided snipers ready to shoot at lights in the sky is tactically sound. Maybe some collateral damage is the only thing that will expose the idiots.

Munich federal police still haven't replied to a press query to explain the statements that contradict: "Because it was dark, no information on the type, size or origins of the drones was confirmed" "The drones were first >seen< at 21:30 local time, & then again an hour later"

@matt-murphy96.bsky.social drones are incredibly easy to film at night if an airport (which ought to be the case in 2025) has a suitable counter drone system. This blog has video examples from an NPAS heli & shows the system that reopened Gatwick in 2018. www.uavhive.com/2021/12/10/t...

@matt-murphy96.bsky.social Hi Matt, my name's Ian, I've got years of experience with drone misidentification & recently assisted the BBC proving a drone sighted over Lakenheath was actually a USAF F-15 jet. The BBC's coverage of Denmark to be fair has been woeful, can you reach out, I don't bite!

The drone hysteria in Denmark gets even more comical as the Danish police crash their counter drone vehicle into the motorcade of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 🤣 This is epic clown 🤡 levels of drone panic. ekstrabladet.dk/krimi/ekstra...

As I've said from the start Copenhagen Airport didn't appear to have proper C-UAS (from checking video etc) & processes showed that. Now investigative journos at Frihedsbrevet have found that the airport appears to have put money over drone awareness. frihedsbrevet.dk/koebenhavns-...

While journos in the UK are AWOL when it comes to holding authorities to account for drone hysteria & failings, investigative journos in Denmark are tearing down the Denmark narrative. The Frihedsbrevet analysis matches with Samira Shackle's piece for The Guardian on Gatwick.

By coincidence the most important Freedom of Information battle to date on the topic of drone misidentification is in progress. The Department for Transport is fighting to prevent the release of the Gatwick Drone lessons learned report. I'm fighting for its release.

@karstenmarrup.bsky.social I saw your informed & accurate opinion here www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene... The Royal Air Force have already identified false sightings at Lakenheath in November. Have you noticed the drone reports in Denmark map to ADS-B on aircraft? www.metabunk.org/threads/cope...

This weekend, I had a proper play with Photoshop beta with Nano Banana and I used it to help make "The Littlest Robo" as a nod to my childhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwx...

Can you believe it, at the height of a drone scare, authorities have flown around one of the largest scariest looking drones close to the shore. I hope locals were warned not to log reports with the police. This S-100 UAS is believed to be operated by Danish forces. #SEG17 #44784E

Well that's a thing to try. My guess is this won't stop cases of planes being misidentified as drones though. www.dw.com/en/denmark-b...

Given events in Denmark, media in the Netherlands want to get alarmed about a balloon or maybe hobby drone seen near Schiphol's Polderbaan Airport. Hobby drones fly every day, some illegally near airports but authorities know this & decide on their own processes. www.dronewatch.nl/2025/09/27/d...

It only takes 1 journalist to Google "New Jersey Drone" to check Metabunk, to verify ADS-B to see police in Denmark are making mistakes. BBC Verify covered New Jersey last year, but where are the journalists now?

Why is it even BBC journos can't even research the BBC's own Verify piece from last year for New Jersey & realise, police, military & government officials have made mistaken drone sightings at scale before? Denmark is repeating mistakes from Gatwick, New Jersey, New York, Wright-Patterson etc.

It's almost uncanny how similar this is to the NJ drone flap, with people reporting that the drones are silent or quieter than planes (because they're actually planes that are far away). People have already figured out the two Scandanavian Airlines flights being misidentified: SK2988 and SK1878.

This story is really "guards without appropriate drone spotting training & kit spot lights in the sky" given it's unlikely Danish guards are better kitted out than the US, who themselves proved at Wright-Patterson & Lakenheath that they make mistakes. Denmark🤦 www.reuters.com/world/denmar...

It would be good to have another source for this, but it's being reported by Pravda that Danish police want the public to stop swamping them with drone reports as the public are reporting every light in the sky (well there's a surprise). 😆 denmark.news-pravda.com/en/denmark/2...