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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Sightings9 Nov 2025
Operator Engie said drones flew over the Doel nuclear plant near Antwerp on the evening of Nov. 9, 2025, first counting three and then five, aloft for about an hour. Operations were not affected. The operators were not identified; it followed drone reports over Belgian military bases.
Photo: Tadmouri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings4 Nov 2025
Days after drones were reported over Kleine-Brogel air base, drone sightings disrupted Brussels Airport on the evening of Nov. 4, 2025, and briefly halted Liege Airport on Nov. 6 and 7. Belgium's National Security Council met and the defense minister pledged a stronger air security center.
Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military1 Nov 2025
Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken said drones flew over Kleine-Brogel air base, widely reported to store U.S. nuclear weapons, over the nights of Nov. 1-2, 2025. A jammer failed and pursuers lost a drone. He called it a likely spy operation but named no one responsible.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Dewberry, Public domain
Sightings31 Oct 2025
Berlin Brandenburg Airport suspended takeoffs and landings for almost two hours after a drone was reported nearby, diverting a series of flights. Police sent a patrol car and helicopter; officers saw a drone but its operator was not found.
Photo: Roy Zuo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media31 Oct 2025
Yorgos Lanthimos's dark comedy Bugonia opened nationwide in U.S. theaters. Jesse Plemons plays a conspiracy theorist who, with his cousin, kidnaps the CEO of his company (Emma Stone), convinced she is an alien out to destroy the planet. NPR called it timely in an age of misinformation.
Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0
Government26 Oct 2025
An FAA notice replaced the air traffic manual's 'UFO Reports' section, which had told controllers to refer callers to a private center such as the National UFO Reporting Center. Controllers must now tell supervisors of UAP reports, and ATC must notify the FAA's security operations team.
Photo: United States Federal Aviation Administration, Public domain
Whistleblowers24 Oct 2025
The Sol Foundation held its third UAP symposium on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, October 24-27, 2025. Listed speakers included Karl Nell, Jacques Vallee, Garry Nolan, Tim Gallaudet, Beatriz Villarroel and Jake Barber.
Photo: Killarnee, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government8 Oct 2025
Germany's cabinet approved a draft law letting federal police bring down drones that violate German airspace, including by shooting them in acute danger, and planned a police counter-drone unit. It followed drone sightings that disrupted Munich Airport; parliament still had to pass it.
Photo: H-stt, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government3 Oct 2025
As 3I/ATLAS passed about 30 million km from Mars on Oct. 3, 2025, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imaged its coma, and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN and Perseverance also observed it, showing a fuzzy comet.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona, Public domain
Military3 Oct 2025
Belgian broadcaster VRT reported that 15 drones flew over the Elsenborn army camp around 1:45 a.m. and were also seen by police in Dueren, Germany. Defence Minister Theo Francken's office confirmed an investigation; who flew them was not known.
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Sightings2 Oct 2025
Munich Airport suspended flights on the evenings of Oct. 2 and 3, 2025 after unconfirmed drone sightings, amid a wave of drone incidents across Europe; thousands of passengers were affected. Germany's interior minister promised faster rules letting police call on the military to shoot drones down.
Photo: Thomas Kniess, CC BY-SA 3.0
SightingsOct 2025
Two peer-reviewed papers by Beatriz Villarroel, Stephen Bruehl and colleagues reported that brief star-like flashes on 1950s Palomar survey plates clustered around nuclear test dates and UFO reports. Other astronomers argued the flashes are plate or copying artifacts.
Photo: Palomar Observatory (scan by Michael Vergara), CC BY-SA 3.0
Government28 Sep 2025
After a week of unexplained drone sightings and airport closures, Denmark's transport ministry banned civilian drone flights from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2025, for an EU summit in Copenhagen, saying it would avoid confusing legal drones with hostile ones.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military27 Sep 2025
Norway's Armed Forces and police reported two possible drones near Orland, home of the air force's F-35s, early on Sept. 27, 2025. Police, PST and the military investigated and set a 10 km no-fly zone; police said it was too early to say what was seen.
Photo: yetdark from Hamburg, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
Military26 Sep 2025
Der Spiegel reported drones over Kiel's ThyssenKrupp submarine yard and harbor and the Heide refinery around Sept. 26, 2025. Schleswig-Holstein's premier said the flights aimed to unsettle. Who flew them was not established.
Photo: Marco Kuntzsch, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings26 Sep 2025
Amid Denmark's wave of drone alarms, Billund, the country's second-largest airport, was briefly closed early on September 26, 2025 after a report of illegal drone activity. Police later said the object behind that report was a shining star in the sky.
Photo: Nico-dk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government25 Sep 2025
After drones closed Copenhagen airport on September 22 and appeared over Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup air base, Denmark's defence minister called it a hybrid attack by a professional actor. No perpetrator was named; Russia denied involvement.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military25 Sep 2025
Danish Defence said drones had been observed at several military sites, including Skrydstrup Air Base, home to Denmark's F-16s and F-35s. A revised military report in 2026 conceded soldiers who fired at a suspected drone there may have fired while a civilian aircraft passed.
Photo: Beethoven9, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings22 Sep 2025
Oslo's main airport closed for several hours overnight after drones were reported in its airspace, on the same night drone sightings shut Copenhagen Airport. It reopened early on Sept. 23; Norway's security service PST said it was involved in the investigation.
Photo: Avinor Oslo lufthavn/Espen Solli, CC BY 3.0
Military13 Sep 2025
Romania's defence ministry said a Russian Geran drone entered its airspace near the Ukrainian border for about 50 minutes. Two F-16s intercepted it and were cleared to fire, but held off over collateral risk.
Photo: Footage courtesy of NATO's Allied Air Command, Public domain
