Danish security authorities said drones were seen over the country’s biggest military base overnight.
Denmark: New drone sightings over military infrastructure
Danish security authorities said drones were seen over the country’s biggest military base overnight.
Police cars are seen close to Copenhagen Airport on September 23, 2025. Large drones that flew over Copenhagen airport for hours
Danish security has been on high alert all week amid repeated sightings of drones over airports across the country [
New drone sightings were reported over Denmark’s largest military base overnight, Danish security authorities said on Saturday.
Broadcaster DR cited the armed forces as saying unidentified drones were seen near military installations.
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The Danish armed forces stopped short of identifying the exact location of the drone sightings.
But the French AFP news agency and Ritzau News agency cited the police as saying the sightings were reported over the Karup air base in western Denmark, the main base of the Royal Danish Air Force.
“I can confirm that we had an incident around 8:15 pm (1815 GMT Friday) that lasted for some hours. One to two drones were observed outside and over the airbase,” duty officer Simon Skelsjaer told AFP, referring to the Karup military base.
Skelsjaer said police could not comment on where the drones came from, adding that police were cooperating with the military in their investigation.
“We didn’t take them down,” the officer said of the drones.
The Karup base shares its runways with the Midtjylland civilian airport. Skelsjaer said the latter was briefly closed though due to the sightings, but with little impact as no commercial flights were scheduled at that hour.
