Back in September 2025, during a period of intense, unexplained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) activity, the drone hysteria almost certainly resulted in mistakes as reported by Danish TV2.

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen, declared the “most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date”. But the real danger came from the military itself. I wrote about this very incident in an article published on the 17th of October 2025, where I asked a simple, question: “Did a Danish soldier try and shoot down an airliner?”.

The military initially treated the event like a massive nothing burger, refusing to officially comment on what happened. The sources we used then to break the story were not official military dispatches, but eyewitness accounts and brilliant open-source intelligence.

Specifically, the true nature of the object was brought into question by independent aviation experts, most notably ThomasH, a member on the forum Metabunk and a YouTuber. Using flight radar data, ThomasH lined up the coordinates of a local eyewitness, Michael Knuhtsen, who had seen an object flying from the north just after 8:00 p.m. local time. ThomasH posted his analysis, stating unequivocally: “It appears the military tried to shoot down a ‘drone’ on September 28 – I found out it was a plane heading for Billund Airport, 9000 ft up !!”.

In his YouTube video, ThomasH ran the simulation to prove the “drone” was actually a fast-winged Widerøe propeller plane travelling from Bergen to Billund—potentially carrying tourists to Legoland. He rightly asked: “Excuse me but what on earth is going on here are we shooting at passenger planes now have we completely lost it”. ThomasH reasoned that if a civilian eyewitness on the ground mistook the high-altitude plane for a low-flying drone, it is entirely plausible that an edgey soldier made the exact same mistake seconds later.

The geography of the incident is crucial here. The shooting took place at Borris camp (also known as Borrislejren or Borris Skydeterræn). Located about 12 km east of Skjern in Vestjylland, it is the largest heath in Denmark, covering 4,743 hectares (47 km²). Established back between 1902 and 1903, the range is uniquely designed so that all shooting is performed inwards towards the centre of the area. Drone flying is strictly forbidden there unless specifically authorised by the Armed Forces. So, when the Widerøe plane crossed the airspace over this closed military area, a soldier fired several volleys of live, small-calibre gunfire.

Now, months later, freedom of information requests by the Danish broadcaster DR have finally forced the truth into the light, confirming exactly what we reported back in October. The heavily redacted logs reveal that personnel documented an “unknown drone with propeller and white/green light”.

I reckon the officers that called this out as unidentified drones need to be called out for their actions. Flight safety cannot just be held up as a magic bullet to absolve them of responsibility for the chaos they have caused. There is no credible evidence of any drones near the installation. But there never needed to be—once the call has been made, excuses can be invented.

As Gareth Corfield of The Telegraph pointed out, uncontrolled firing carries unacceptable risks: a bullet fired upwards at 30 to 45 degrees travels up to five miles and can easily kill when it falls back to earth. This represents what is likely the first mistaken kinetic firing in the EU.

It is too late to stop the madness, as the counter-drone industry will be milking these airport closures and security panics for all they are worth. We are left to watch the BS and nest feathering roll out, while ground personnel suffering from ‘drone paranoia’ continue to prove they can easily misidentify routine air traffic.