Denmark Closes Aalborg Airport Again After New Suspected Drone Sighting

Overview

• Aalborg’s airspace was shut late Thursday and reopened after roughly an hour, forcing a KLM return flight and a Scandinavian Airlines cancellation, though police did not confirm drones were present.
• The latest alert followed multi-hour disruptions tied to sightings over Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sønderborg and the Skrydstrup air base, after earlier closures at Copenhagen and Oslo this week.
• The government calls the pattern a hybrid attack conducted by a professional actor, has so far avoided shoot-downs for civilian safety, and is procuring detection and neutralization systems with approval to down drones if necessary in future incidents.
• NATO says it is treating the case very seriously after contacts with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and EU countries opened talks on a shared counter‑drone network with detection, tracking and interception capabilities.
• Investigators are examining possible Russian involvement without establishing a direct link, Moscow rejects the accusations, and Norwegian police seized a drone near Oslo and will question a foreign national with no connection proven to the Danish cases.