Public sentiment is largely skeptical and frustrated regarding drone sightings over critical infrastructure, with many attributing these claims to misinformation or political manipulation. Users express a demand for transparency and evidence, while criticizing governmental and NATO responses as instigators of unnecessary fear and propaganda.

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Its hilarious that we have had this thing sporadically happening fpr about 10 years and no one seems to be able to identify what they are

GodSlayer691

what is up with drones above various nuclear sites routinely in NOVEMBER and DECEMBER?

I find that part of the mystery truly baffling.

DontCallMeLady

What baffles me about these incursions over the last year, or the reporting, rather: is whether any party has tried to shoot them down and failed (after all their jamming equipment failed), or if they just can't be tracked, whatever that means.

Could an unidentified flying anything get over say The White House's air space, or Salt Lake without being annihilated? I don't think so

I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear the real conversations taking place at the highest military levels. There's no chance they're just like "huhh, that's weird but we can't do anything about it, doh!"

suggestedusername88

They aren't going to bring one down. It will be more excuses. I would love to be wrong.

Strength-Speed

Drones over UK Bases! Dont Worry.


Drones over US F22 Base! No worries.


Drones over New Jersey. Fuhgedabout It!


Drones over Nuclear Power Plant!  Everything's  Ok.


I sense a pattern.

HardyPancreas

I saw one flying low in Belgium. Could not film it because it disappeared between buildings from my sight.

Saw something fly very flow and fast. It looked like three red lightsbulbs in a row. No flashing.

fermentedbolivian

They can’t even photograph them, how are they going to bring them down? Nah

SR_RSMITH

"Our nuclear reactors can withstand aircraft impacts.” Yeah but we don’t even know what these UAPs are but for sure it can withstand our aircraft impacts.

tylercaca

That's a lot of specialists, wonder what happens when they can't do shit.

Ranae_Gato

All these drones you’d think social media would be awash with pictures and video from all these wonderful Samsung and Apple phones with impressive cameras!

smeaton1724

Arclet__

Didn't I see an article that said the EMP device has no effect on them???

Southern_Loquat_4450

We Americans have heard that whole can withstand a 747 hit before somewhere.

xOrion12x

If they are human tech and can’t be brought down by electronic counter measures, then that suggests they are piloted. And if so, my guess is by people with dwarfism.

whiskygreen

If they aren’t on radar and don’t make noise and can’t be brought down kinetically or electronically they are either holograms or something from a NHI.

skyvoyager9

I was talking to someone who works in a base. Not saying any more than that, but he’s legit and credible. He said they had an incident where a drone was detected over the base. No idea how, but he said they were able to trace the operator and apprehend him while the drone was still in the air.

Lasersheep

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WasabiDobby

Mac800

Are there any real people in this thread?

Natural_Mention_1793

The moment they shoot down a drone , the game is over because they will identify who they belong to.

Important_Pirate_150

Can we get 4k video of them shooting down the drones pls?

NoPain_666

theREALlackattack

It is time that we all DEMAND photographic proof of these so called “drones”.

With all of the high-tech imaging apparatus’s that our governments and militaries have available, they should have mounds of visual and sensor data. 

Contact your congressional representatives and submit FOI requests. It is about time that they show us the “drones” flying over nuclear sites and shutting down our airports.

AskInevitable9552

Don’t count on it. The German and Belgian (lol) militaries are useless.

JAG_NG

Spotted? Has anyone taken a photo of that ''drone''? I'm curious how it looks like

Nokayo

I just giggle how they are trying to hide obvious UAP/UFO demonstration... Stupid governments trying to hide the truth that belongs to humanity.

ZOLLINO

Just waiting for each country now. New countdown to contact? Lmao

Cosmic_Driftwood

"Drones" immune to EMP weapons. Yeah, that sounds like monkey tech.

Wake up.

Hubrex

You guys in Belgium - stake out the nuclear plant, take a powerful torch/spotlight, a telescope with a camera for max zoom and get a HD photo that isn't a blurry white dot.

dzernumbrd

I think people have lost their minds a little with these drones. They are not alien; they are US CIA technology. Remember that the US military were bringing down alien aircraft; both on purpose and by accident, in the 1950’s. These are new tech CIA; being advertised and promoted as alien; and being tested in local airspace; against local authorities.

Mountain_Climate5885

Let me guess they are powerless to stop it and powerless to take a high red photo or video of it

TacoCatSupreme1

I understand why they fly around nuclear weapons storage areas but never understood why they hang around nuclear power plants. I mean if they are smart enough to manipulate gravity, then they should already know that nuclear power plants have nothing to do with weapons.,

pittguy578

So. Nuclear power plant, Airport, NATO base… 
Does it cling a bell here? It’s goddamn Russians. Why are you people so desperate to connect everything to Aliens?

aLvindeBa

I'm still waiting for any proof of these drones doing anything anomalous.

ufo2222

There has already been a leak from a whistleblower in Stern magazine in Germany regarding the use of drones in Germany by the government. The aim being  to create fear and make people agree to a massive program of militarisation against Russia

waxeggoil

Krangh

This would be more strange if they didn't have the navigation lights. This could be related to the Illuminati or a hidden civilization. Someone must know the answer.

Fantastic_Low8279

GRANMA5_K1TTEN

If the authorities know that these things pose no threat then it's pretty clear they know exactly what they are and that they are obviously man made (otherwise what is the point of stating that the bunkers can withstand a 737 impact)

essdotc

Press in belgium now saying they think the drones are from a ship about 200+km away 😂 they must have some insane batteries to make that trip ngl

Wonderful-Appeal-118

You know what those drones are carrying?  Hundreds of more drones, drones so miniscule that you cannot see or touch.  They are collecting information.  For what, that I don't know.

Decent_Management449

Russian apparently….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dn2ep584ko

Leomonice61

jaspervers

Shivdaddy1

See something? Say something. 

Be a Good Samaritan. Call 101, explain what you see.

Arco123

Share all details here... other people can take actions too.

Also, first check flightradar24 to be sure about.

BelgianGinger80

I'm clueless about drones and how they work so this may be a dumb question, but if they're really spy drones why do they have a light on them thats visible from a kilometer away? I saw a similar thing early this morning at work but no idea if it was a drone.

HermanBroodnodig

Cs1981Bel

evil_boy4life

you only need to report drones near no fly zones (such as airports and military bases) or if you think its taking pictures of your property.
if its not near a no fly zone there is no need to worry

Alicelovesfish

Ps: i saw it in grobbendonk, de oude steenstraat... I think there's a military base closely but im not sure

evan_chan2013

Launch your own counter drone, catch it and become honorary general of drone warfare

VizslaFellaRIB

Could you provide us with a location where this was spotted?

RiccWasTaken

Er ontbreekt al jaren een platform waarop je als burger kan nakijken of een drone die overvliegt geregistreerd is en toelating heeft.
En dus ook om te melden dat er een drone zonder toelating bezig is.
Nu kan je enkel de politie bellen die dit moet nakijken(doorgeven coördinaten etc) en mogelijks tijd verdoet voor een vergunde drone.
Terwijl dat met een app met kaart(of website met locatie-toegang) heel vlot zou kunnen werken voor een gebruiker.

Met hoe luid en irritant drones dikwijls zijn zou dit als meldpunt toch sneller operationeel zijn dan de uitrol van dure detectiesystemen. (Die natuurlijk noodzakelijk blijven bij militaire luchthavens etc)

edit: Ik heb het niet over kleine speelgoeddrones, maar over grotere [drones in de toelatingsgebieden die hier zijn aangeduid.](https://map.droneguide.be)

SignAllStrength

Main-Touch9617

''Is het een vogel, is het een vliegtuig, nee dat is het niet. Het is ... die je aan de hemel ziet.''

Alarmed-Letter-34

Is the same Drones last year in US i dont belive that is drones and special from Russia ...

Wrong_Level5167

Time to get the good ol' airguns out and practice a bit. 

Eikfo

Is het een vliegtuig, is het een vogel? nee dat is het niet, het is...? Het is een Russische drone die overvliegt?

EliasVH2001

Drone flying over residentiel neighbourhood? Yeah def not a spy drone lmfao. Stop worrying so much. Probably just someones personal drone. The green light is obligated if you want to fly in the night. Have a good day

Galaxypark1

Drones are used by hospitals to move samples and some medication around. They are used by law enforcement and by maintenance crews, … If you see something with lights on it, you’re not getting bombed by the Russians just yet.

havnar-

Call 112 : report when and where you saw it

LadyMidnightData

Could be, but also could be many other things.
Specially like it’s been 3-4days they see them everywhere above military installations and such… that could give ideas to a lot of people wanting to mess around.

Recently I saw a video of a guy sending flying some kind of plastics and tubes (very simple arrangement) above suburbs somewhere (if I recall correctly it was in Spain or Portugal or something, but whatever),
And soon as that thing he sent flying lifted about 10m, it really started to look like a jellyfish!
Really, no kidding, just a prank some alien visitor was floating in the sky…
And it wasn’t that hard to do, the genious was with so few make it look as much alien as that (specially at night) with so few components…

So when you multiply that at the scale of the world with all people wanting some fun and have the ingenuity to build stuffs to make people react, just assume it can be anything.
Specially nowadays, make drones flying is really easy.
Before year2000 or so, yeah something in the sky was out of the ordinary, but nowadays above densely populated areas ? Better not scratching your head too much, cuz it’s pointless, it can be anything.

Can also be the Russians ofc, but could really also be Theo Franken who asked Belgian intel military units to do a psychological influence campaign to make the Belgian population feeling unsafe and more easily agreed on all the spendings the Belgian defence ministry wants to do to align with the 5% GDP spending for all NATO members following Trump demands couple of months ago… and from Franken, I wouldn’t be surprised honestly. So, yeah…

Overall, it could be a lot of things nowadays, sooo 🤷🏼

kilen2020

rikske243

If they're are indeed Russian drones that can go anywhere without impunity, its really strange to use them to hover around airports and military bases to scare people.

If you have the capability to have your drones fly to these sites and not have them be identified (no one has actually proven they are in fact russian) nor taken down, you could do a lot more disruptive things with them, such as assassinations or strikes on energy and industrial targets. This could be done in Ukraine. Yet in Ukraine the main force of drones used by russia are those shahed drones.

This looks more like the new jersey UAP flap. I have strong doubts these drones are Russian. Or Chinese.

Henchman_Gamma

Calm down im just playing with my new drone

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Apparently this was posted by a russian kid, so i don’t even know if its true😂

Prestigious-Title529

who actually cares about some random drones?

I refuse to believe some of you are real, functioning people

PleaseLetMeBeAlone

Who cares.

Trouwens je mag met een drone vliegen op 90% van de locaties he!
Hier zelf gisteren nog rustig rond gevlogen...

Background-Ad3810

It's only a matter of time before someone is getting killed by those.

Numerous-Plastic-935

They may have a drone unit but people responsible for deploying it are still living in last century warfare ideas. Probably didn't even cross their mind that a drone unit could help here.

deeeevos

Waarschijnlijk niet opgeroepen omdat jammers en netlaunchers toch niet effectief zijn tegen dat type drone 

Automatic_Bit1426

radicalerudy

https://preview.redd.it/1627aby1pf0g1.png?width=1026&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=d9e3964928fab68d6c10fbe080898899142a02be

Jeroclo

To everyone complaining about “them doing nothing”, what would you want them to do? Shoot the drone down above an airport full of people? Shoot a drone down above our beautiful lintbebouwing? Shoot a drown down above a built up area next to the airport? Shoot a drone down above an army depot full of things that might go boom?

WalloonNerd

How do you say ‘Belgen-mop’ in French? 

Asking for a Theo.

Mofaluna

Open een sportschutter competitie rond zulke zones en wie de drones het snelst neerhaalt krijgt een permanente job bij defensie.

Warm-Arm-9603

A drone unit means an anti-drone unit? What a country!

https://preview.redd.it/q9rtmpid7g0g1.png?width=398&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=c2c2bcaadd9d2c2fb019e840ce417e197b4d2d4b

atrocious_cleva82

RotisserieChicken007

Let's keep dividing ourselves and not evolving. That must please to Putin.

Low_Technician7346

It´s obvious that they didn´t want to stop the drones. Draw your own conclusions.

ChaoticTransfer

Gotta be honest this is getting difficult to keep track of. Ill wait till for the dust to settle a bit before adding the latest ones in your post.

I like how Germany is sending aid to help Belgium with the drone Incursions that Germany has done nothing to stop themselves...

Copenhagen Airport, Denmark: September 22nd


Oslo Airport, Norway: September 22nd


Mourmelon le Grand Military Base, France: September 22nd


Aalborg Airport, Denmark: September 24th


Skrykdsrup Military Base, Denmark: September 24th


Aalborg Airport, Denmark: September 25th


Sonderborg Airport, Denmark: September 25th


Sanitz Military Base, Germany: September 25th


Esbjerg Airport, Denmark: September 25th


Karlskrona Archipelago, Sweden: September 25th


Kiel Naval Shipyard, Germany: September 26th


Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands: September 27th (some reports indicate balloon but pilots maintain they saw a drone)


Vilnius Airport, Lithuania: September 27th (subsequent incursions have been attributed to an apparent smuggling balloon invasion but this initial report still claims to be drones)


Karup Military Base, Denmark: September 27th


Valajaskoski Power Plant, Finland: September 27th


Bronnoysund Airport, Norway: September 28th


Bronnoysund Airport, Norway: September 30th


Equinor Sleipner Gas Field, Norway: September 30th


Munich Airport, Germany: October 2nd


Elsenborn Military Base, Belgium: October 2nd


Munich Airport, Germany: October 3rd


Geilenkirchen Military Base, Germany: October 8th


Brandenburg, Germany: October 18th (reported over the course of many days)


Palma de Mallorca Airport, Spain: October 19th


Alicante- Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport, Spain: October 27th


Marche en Famenne Military Base, Belgium: October 29th


Berlin Airport, Germany: October 31st


Ostend Airport, Belgium: October 31st


Kleine-Brogel Military Base, Belgium: October 31st


Deurne Airport, Belgium: November 1st


Kleine-Brogel Military Base, Belgium: November 1st


Kleine-Brogel Military Base, Belgium: November 2nd


Bremen Airport, Germany: November 2nd


Brussels Airport, Belgium: November 4th


Liege Airport, Belgium: November 4th


Kleine-Brogel Military Base, Belgium: November 4th


Florennes Military Base, Belgium: November 4th 


Schaffen Military Base, Belgium: November 4th


Heverlee Military Base, Belgium: November 5th


Hannover Airport Germany: November 5th


Gilze-Rijen Military Base, Netherlands: November 5th

Gothenburg Airport, Sweden: November 6th

Brussels Airport, Belgium: November 6th

Melsbroek Military Base, Belgium: November 6th


Liege Airport, Belgium: November 6th

Oldbillybuttstuff

I live near one of Belgium's nuclear power plant. It's currently 3am. I looked outside thinking there was no way it was happening here. It was there wtf! A drone just above the plant blinking red and white. This was so flashy that you can't miss it. Wtf


Edit: Nobody’s probably gonna read this, but anyway, the drone moved away quickly. It was really close to the “chimney.” I’m 100% sure it wasn’t a plane; it moved too erratically, though quite slowly. At times, it seemed to hover for a few seconds. Then it came back a few minutes later, but to an other plant, and I couldn’t see that clearly anymore.

Edit 2: Went back North East again. It was a bit closer to me and it seemed quite big. 2 "lesser" non blinking lights "at the back" and flashing red and white in front. Could be an helicopter but it's freaking weird

Edit 3: It's not alone. Looked back at the plant, there is blinking white light In the sky quite far away now too

gas1001

All we do is strengthen surveillance. 

"We are going to look at them, but HARDER this time".

asabado123

For the first time this is all making me a bit nervous, theres alot going on with these drones across europe and zero answers from any government

Northernirelandguy

ShadyAssFellow

So we should expect Belgium military to shoot them down right? Right?

Kufangar

Why do spy drones have position lights? Like wtf.

NotDoneYet88

Get some video footage with a long lens people of Belgium!!!!

MonsieurLartiste

Random idea, but what if these drones were slowly going around the world dismantling nukes? Maybe a preemptive preparation for disclosure or meet and greet. Make sure no one freaks the fuck out.

Hawkwise83

Anybody have any authentic photos of drones over military bases?

C-Moose

We can see 3i atlas, use the james webb space telescope to see billions of years in the past, we can send people to the International space station for months at a time, we can put men on the moon, 60 years ago, btw.   But of the thousands of drone sightings,  across numerous countries, we can't seem to figure out what they are, where they come from, or where they return to.  And they're literally a hundred or so feet directly overhead.   Yeah, this all makes sense

Retirednypd

This shit is so strange, it's got me questioning the abilities of law and military, are we giving them too much credit of what they are actually capable of? 

In my mind I assume anyone flying a drone over restricted air space is signing themselves up for an instant arrest, hobby drones use 3G/5G,GPS and cellular networks, they can tap into that and disable/disarm those channels and frequencies with ease (I thought). 

Has me tempted to fly my hobby drone over an airport just to test the reaction and capabilities because at this point with so many drone flaps all over the world and nothing coming of it wreaks of their own doing with their own tech or the big super power USA just isn't as great as they make out.

hUmaNITY-be-free

The big question for me is all about the lights. If they are sent to spy on things why have lights? They could remain invisible and do whatever they want.

I’d be happy if they disabled all the nukes.  Like taking a sharp knife away from a toddler.

Shap3rz

And I say WE as in human beings, citizens of earth. I'm sure there are people from various countries reading this and we are all in this together. If those things are not from earth then we need to put our heads together and figure out what we are gonna do about it.

Such confidence that they’re drones, when we can’t get even a clear image of one

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