The troubling question on the mind of many who have spotted them above is: why? Vegard Rabban had little doubt about what he was seeing when a strange red light appeared between his house and garage on Norway’s west coast one cold Friday night in late September.
The father-of-three, a salmon fisher and firefighter, had just driven his teenage son home from football practice when they were stopped in their tracks by something above in the clear Norwegian sky.
“Between the garage and the house I react to a strange light that is not normally there. Me and my boy see straight away it’s a drone,” he said. “We stand for two minutes and look and we see the red lights. I could see it was a very big drone. Maybe 1.5 metres wide.”
As a regular drone user, he was well aware of the restrictions near his home close to Ørland airport, a key base for Nato and the Norwegian air force.
It was unusual to see a drone flying at night. But it was not until the next morning, when he read about the drone incursions at Norwegian airports, that he started to think more about it.
View image in fullscreen A specialist Danish police unit inspects an area near Copenhagen airport. Photograph: Steven Knap/EPA
His sons were nervous. He tried to calmly explain.
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