A scandal has erupted in Denmark over the lack of evidence regarding unknown drones flying over the country in the fall of 2025.
Leading Danish experts are expressing skepticism about whether the drones even crossed the country’s airspace. In particular, drone technology expert and owner of the specialty store droner.dk, Tokke Sur, noted that there is no precise data to identify the objects in the sky. According to him, intelligence has not provided materials that would unequivocally prove the presence of UAVs, reports DR.
Rasmus Dalberg, an associate professor in the Department of Public Safety at Roskilde University, shares a similar view. The researcher emphasized that in the absence of evidence, one cannot rule out the scenario in which there were no hostile drones over Denmark at all.
“If this scenario is true, then the rhetoric used—when people spoke of attacks and compared them to 9/11—means that we were effectively waging a hybrid war against ourselves. Because then we would have frightened the population, sown anxiety, and potentially undermined trust in the authorities,” said Rasmus Dahlberg.
The experts’ doubts are reinforced by an incident at the military training ground in Borris, where the Danish military opened fire on an object they believed to be a drone. As DR journalists discovered, at the same time and in the same area, a passenger plane operated by the Norwegian company Widerøe was flying at an altitude of about two kilometers. Its characteristics, lights, and the sound of its propellers fully matched the military’s descriptions.
Carsten Marup, head of the Center for Air and Space Operations at the Military Academy, also confirmed that a significant portion of the reports concerned conventional aircraft. Marup noted that Denmark critically lacks modern equipment for the timely detection, accurate identification, and effective countermeasures against aerial targets.
Despite criticism and delays in the government’s report on drone activity, the current administration remains steadfast. The Danish State Ministry and Ministry of Defence assert that there is no reason to doubt the security forces’ findings, though they acknowledge the urgent need to improve capabilities for detecting and intercepting such objects.
