THE SKIES TURNED HOSTILE: The Denmark Drone Crisis and Uri Geller's Alien Warning

The mysterious drones that paralyzed European airports in September 2025 triggered an international crisis - and one psychic's claim is that we're witnessing something far stranger than Russian aggression.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Denmark's airports sat in darkness, not the ordinary darkness of
a September night, but something different. Runways empty terminals hushed,
thousands of travelers stranded, while security officials scanned the skies
for intruders that kept appearing and vanishing like ghosts. The
nation's defense minister would later call it systematic. The Prime

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minister would declare it the most serious attack on Danish
infrastructure to date. But according to Yuri Geller, watching from
his home in Israel, everyone was looking in the wrong direction.
I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird Darkness. Welcome, weirdos.

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This is weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore,
the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained.
Coming up in this Bonus Bye episode. The mysterious drones
that paralyzed European airports in September twenty twenty five triggered

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an international crisis, and one psychic's claim is that we're
witnessing something far stranger than Russian aggression. Now bolt your doors,
lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with
me into the weird darkness. The first major incident forced

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a near four hour suspension of lights at Copenhagen Airport
on the evening of September twenty second, after two to
three large drones were repeatedly seen inside controlled airspace. These
weren't small hobbyist quad copters accidentally straying into restricted zones.
Witnesses reported multiple drones approaching from different directions, flickering lights,

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and vanishing without a trace. The drones were first sighted
at about nine forty four pm local time on that Wednesday,
according to police, and remained in the airspace for several hours.
The pattern was deliberate, methodical. The Defense Minister said it
appeared a professional actor was behind the systematic lights. Copenhagen Airport,

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Scandinavia's busiest hub, handles hundreds of flights daily. When those
flights stopped, the ripple effects spread across Europe, but Copenhagen
was just the beginning. Oslo gardamone and neighboring Norway also
briefly closed its airspace that night, following a separate sighting
two capitals. Two sets of mysterious drones appearing almost simultaneously

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the next day brought no relief. Alborg Airport, which also
hosts some military air base was twice affected on September
twenty fourth and twenty fifth, and then September twenty fifth
and twenty sixth, and police received additional reports near Asburg
and other airports near the southern town of Sorg and
had a key military installation, the main base of Danish
F sixteen and F thirty five jets. The military base

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houses Denmark's most advanced fighter aircraft, the kind of target
that would interest hostile intelligence services. They also noted that
the drone sidings in Alborg followed a similar pattern to
those halted flights at Copenhagen Airport for four hours on Monday,
when a number of large and unidentified drones responded. The
consistency suggested coordination planning expertise. The Danish Prime Minister met

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Frederickson declared a hybrid war in Europe was underway, describing
it as the most difficult and dangerous situation since the
end of the Second World War. Her words carried weight.
Denmark had not seen this level of thread to its
infrastructure since World War II. Danish authorities characterized the activity
as a likely hybrid operation intended to unsettle the public

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and disrupt critical infrastructure. Hybrid warfare the Turmer intelligence agencies
use for attacks that blur the lines between criminal activity, espionage,
and acts of war. Drones appearing over airports fit the
pattern perfectly, causing maximum disruption with minimal risk to the operators.
The timing was particularly suspicious. Top European leaders had been

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scheduled to descend on Copenhagen for a European Council meeting
to discuss defense and Ukraine, followed by a European Political
Community summit with European leaders gathering to discuss the war
in Ukraine. The drone appearances took on darker implications. The
Danish police chief, Superintendent Jens Jesperson told reporters that authorities
were investigating several theories as to the origin of the drones,

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including that they may have been launched from nearby ships.
A Danish newspaper reported that a Russian warship was spotted
off Denmark's coast with a transponder turned off during those
critical days, but the drones themselves behaved strangely. The drones
appeared to be flying around the airports with their lights
turned on, but authorities decided against attempting to shoot down

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the drones. Why would covert operators fly with lights on
making themselves visible. It seemed almost like they wanted to
be seen. NATO announced that it was upgrading defense measures
in the Baltic Sea region. Soon after, a German air
defense frigate, the FSG Hamburg with NATO's Baltic Sentry Mission,
arrived in Copenhagen to help strengthen airspace surveillance during the

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EU summit. Denmark's response was unprecedented. Denmark barred all civilian
drones from its airspace before the European Union summit, following
reported sightings of drones at several military locations overnight on
that Saturday. A violation of the prohibition could result in
a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. Ukrainian

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military personnel traveled to Denmark to support their partners in
response to the recent appearance of unidentified drones over the country.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced
I was not lost on observers Ukraine fighting its own
war against drones, sending experts to help Denmark. The government

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never officially pinpointed who staged the drone flights, but the
Prime Minister said there's only one country willing to threaten us,
and it is Russia, and therefore we need a very
strong answer back. While Danish authorities scrambled fighter jets and
NATO deployed warships, Uri Geller was composing a very different
analysis from his home. The seventy eight year old Israeli

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British psychic, famous for his spoon bending demonstrations and controversial
claims about extraterrestrial contact, saw something else entirely in the
Danish crisis. His statement on social media platform x was extraordinary,
even by his standards. Quote, friends watched the skies. Remember
last year's mysterious drones over military bases in the UK,

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Germany and the US. They forced a state of emergency
in New Jersey, and now it's happening again. Been making
claims about alien contact for decades, but his most explosive
assertion involved NASA itself. Geller says he was shown the
bodies of beings from outer space by a NASA engineer
and an astronaut. In recent claims made by the illusionist,

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the massive aliens are said to be kept in a
refrigerated room well below the surface of NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center. The story, as Geller tells it, begins in
nineteen seventy four, after Geller used his will to bend
a famous rocket scientist's wedding ring, Werner von Braun, to
convince him of his powers. The pioneer opened his safe
to reveal a mysterious piece of metal, which he said

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was a piece of a UFO that crashed on Earth.
The former Nazi rocket scientist who became the architect of
America's space program, allegedly showed Geller something that officially didn't exist.
They drove to a concrete building on a NASA base.
Geller described going down three or four floors underground. They
put on orange Antarctica style coats with NASA logos before

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entering a refrigerated room. What happened next, according to Geller,
changed his understanding of reality. A total of eight corpses
were on display in the building, according to Yuri's recollection,
with the intact but mangled bodies preserved in glass containers.
Geller claims to have seen alien bodies in glass tubes,
many of which appeared mangled, as if forcefully removed from

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a craft. According to Geller, the Danish drones weren't drones
at all, at least not human controlled ones. The excuses
are the same as last year. Hobby drones or foreign
military tech ridiculous. It's the same playbook used to dismiss
Roswell in nineteen forty seven as a weather balloon. He wrote.
His argument centered on the drone's behavior. If these were

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hobby drones, how could they hover over airports for hours,
evade detection and disappear at will? If they were military drones,
why flash lights like a show? The lights were the
key detail for Geller. Military drones conducting espionage would operate
in stealth mode. The theasecraft seemed to want attention to
be witnessed to cause disruption without actual damage. Uri claims

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aliens bestowed him with psychic powers when he was a
toddler aged just three. He had a UFO encounter on
Christmas Day nineteen forty nine near the working class neighborhood
in Israel where he grew up. After hearing kittens, the
young Yuri is said to have wandered into a piece
of land at the back of his house. Suddenly, a
bright light appeared above him and struck him, apparently activating
his powers. Geller's interpretation of the medal that the rocket

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scientist allegedly showed him was equally unusual, saying I felt
it wasn't terrestrial. It was metallic, elongated and had a
hue I have never seen before. It felt like it
was alive, like it was breathing. The Denmark incidents weren't
occurring in isolation. On the nineteenth of December twenty eighteen,
shortly after nine pm, a security officer reported seeing two

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drones while waiting at a bus stop at Gatwick Airport,
one above a vehicle and the other above a nearby
perimeter fence. Due to the risk of collision with aircraft,
Gadwick immediately closed its only runway and suspended all flights.
The investigation into the disruption lasted eighteen months, cost eight
hundred thousand pounds and involved five different police forces. One

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hundred and seventy drone sidings were reported, one hundred and
fifteen of which were deemed credible by police. No videos
or photographs of the drone were given to the police.
The Gatwick incident remains one of aviation's most puzzling mysteries.
The investigation was closed on September twenty seventh, twenty nineteen,
citing lack of new information, no culprit or evidence of

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drone use was found. Some experts later suggested there might
never have been a drone at all, just misidentified aircraft
lights and mass hysteria. Economists estimate that during the thirty
three hour closure, with over one thousand flights canceled, airlines
lost fifty million pounds and Gatwick Airport lost one point
four million pounds. The financial damage was enormous, but the

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psychological impact was greater. Airports worldwide suddenly realized their vulnerability
to tiny flying machines. Frankfurt Airport in Germany experienced similar
shutdowns in twenty twenty three. Last year, Ry Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio, ironically, the same base long associated
with UFO conspiracy theories, closed for four hours due to

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drone sidings. A freedom of information request in twenty twenty
four showed that the NPAs recorded no drone sidings at
Gatwick between the nineteenth and thirty first of December twenty eighteen.
This revelation raised troubling questions if professional pilots and security
personnel were reporting drones but surveillance systems recorded nothing. What

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exactly were people seeing. The Danish incidents showed similar patterns.
Professional observers, pilots, military personnel, air traffic controllers reported multiple sightings,
yet the drones seemed to appear and disappear at will,
evading both detection systems and pursuit. Danish authorities said they
were still unclear, and the country had yet to decide

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whether to invoke NATO's Article four, which enables member states
to request consultations over security concerns. Article four had only
been invoked a handful of times in NATO's history. Considering
it showed how seriously Denmark took the threat. In twenty seventeen,
declassified documents from the CIA showed that Geller convinced America's
top intelligence agency in scientific testing that he did have

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some psychic abilities. The CIA's Project Stargate, which investigated psychic
phenomena for intelligence purposes, had taken Geller seriously enough to
conduct extensive testing. But we can say that this resembles
a model of hybrid warfare we've seen elsewhere in Europe,
a security official said during a press briefing. I would
remind you, as some of you, of course know, that

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we assess the risk of Russian espionage in Denmark to
be high, and we also assessed the risk of Russian
sabotage in Denmark to be high. The timing supported the
Russian theory. The Baltic Sentry Mission had launched in January
in response to a string of incidents that damaged power cables,
telecom links, and gas pipelines on the Baltic Sea bed.

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Russia had been accused of sabotaging underwater infrastructure across the
Baltic region. The Russian embassy in Denmark suggested the drone
sightings are a staged provocation. Undoubtedly they will be used
as a pretext for further escalating tension in the interests
of forces seeking by all means to prolong the Ukrainian
conflict and extend it to other countries, the embassy wrote

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on telegram. But Russia's denial came with its own strange twist,
suggesting the incidents were staged by someone else to frame Russia.
If true, it meant someone was conducting sophisticated operations to
heighten tensions between NATO and Russia. Suspected drone activity forced
Denmark's Aleborg Airport to close for a second time just

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twenty four hours right before midnight on that Friday, the
latest in a slew of similar incidents that prompted Danish
authorities to alert NATO and the EU. The drones kept coming,
following patterns that suggested intimate knowledge of airport operations and
security responses. The Danish Police commissioner said many people had
reported drone sidings. Of course, many of these reports do

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not cover activities that are of interest to the police
or the military. But some of them do. But I
think the one inn al board does. The sheer volume
of reports creates its own problems. How could authorities distinguish
between actual hostile drones, misidentified aircraft and pure imagination fueled
by media coverage. The uncertainty itself became a weapon. I

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predict more sightings in the coming months across airports, cities,
and military bases worldwide. Watch the skies, but don't believe
the lies, because it's about to get busy up there,
Geller wrote in a statement. This theory represented the extreme
end of speculation, but it highlighted a troubling truth. Nobody
really knew what was happening in Denmark's skies. Yuri dismissed

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a US Defense Chief's report, in which they claimed to
have found no evidence ETS exist as a massive pile
of hot, steaming bull. US intelligence whistleblower David Grush has
claimed officials had recovered debris and alien biologics from ten
UFOs that have crashed on Earth. He said scientists had
been secretly tasked with reverse engineering ET technology and a

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bid to give the US an advantage in the global
arms race. Grush's testimony to Congress has given new credibility
to UFO claims. Even if most experts remained skeptical for years,
I had to deny my true mission and camouflage my work,
Geller said, adding few people know the truth. I presumed
all world leaders do Obama, Trump, Natan, Yahoo, We're all

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communicating with ET. As October arrived and Denmark slowly returned
to normal operations, fundamental questions remained. If Russia was behind
the drones, why make them so visible? If they were
surveillance operations, why use lights that announced their presence. If
the goal was disruption, why not cause actual damage. Little

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was known about what kind of drones were used in
Denmark's sightings. However, the use of high tech drones had
become more widespread as the technology developed, making it difficult
to draw conclusions as to those responsible. Drone technology has
become very sophisticated, said Edward Arnold, a senior research fellow
for European Security, a UK defense and security think tank RUSSIE.

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A lot of people are trained and use drones almost
for recreational purposes, so this isn't now the preserve of
elite state based actors. The Danish crisis revealed a new
kind of vulnerability. Airports, military bases, critical infrastructure all could
be paralyzed by machines that cost less than a used car,
whether operated by Russian intelligence, criminal groups or something else

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entirely the drones. It exposed weaknesses that couldn't easily be fixed.
Living in Denmark, you might have, just as maybe also
in Sweden until a couple of years ago, kind of
thought that you were shielded from these developments. That a
farmer Swedish ambassador who directs the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
But this is obviously no longer the case. Uri Geller,

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watching from AFAR, remained convinced that humanity was misunderstanding the
entire situation. The drones weren't attacking or surveilling. They were demonstrations, messages,
perhaps even warnings from intelligence that didn't originate on Earth.
Most dismissed his claims as fantasy, But in airports across Europe,
security officials scanning empty skies for threats they couldn't identify

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or stop might have wandered, just for a moment if
the strangest explanation might somehow be true. After all, the
conventional explanations weren't working either. The skies above Denmark had
returned to normal, filled again with the orderly procession of
commercial aircraft, but everyone watching knew it was temporary. The

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drones would return, whether Russia, criminal, or something else entirely,
and when they did, the world still wouldn't know how
to stop them. Thanks for listening. If you'd like to
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you do. All stories used in Weird Darkness are purported
to be true unless stated otherwise. And now that we're
coming out of the dark. I'll leave you with a

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little light, Ezekiel one, verses four and five. I looked
and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north,
an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light.
The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and
in the fire was what looked like four living creatures.
And a final thought, the universe is a pretty big place.

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If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
Carl Sagan, I'm Daryn Martler. Thanks for joining me in
the weird darkness.