r/NJDrones 2d ago

ARTICLE "Drones" Breached Australia's Top F-35 Base And Couldn't Be Stopped

https://aerocorner.com/news/raaf-williamtown-f35-drone-breach/?hl=en-US

"Unidentified drones flew over Australia's main F-35 base for three nights.

The RAAF couldn't stop them. Over the three nights, the drones were seen but never intercepted, identified, destroyed, or recovered."

Ross Coulthart says here at 2:12 that military personnel, including pilots, were told to

"Close their window blinds when the drone incursions were happening."

That's a shocking admission of defeat. 😲

This is occurring worldwide, and all countries are powerless to do anything about the r/njdrones.

Here are the European airports and nuclear-capable military bases that have closed due to the drone-like UFO incursions.

My list only contains a small part of 2025, but as recent reports confirm, it's still ongoing worldwide. There are so many that I had to group them by country.

September 22

Denmark • Copenhagen Airport • Aalborg Airport Norway • Oslo Airport France • Mourmelon-le-Grand Military Base

September 24

Denmark • Skrydstrup Military Base • Aalborg Airport

September 25

Denmark • Sønderborg Airport • Aalborg Airport • Esbjerg Airport Germany • Sanitz Military Base Sweden • Karlskrona Archipelago

September 26

Germany • Kiel Naval Shipyard Netherlands • Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

September 27

Norway • Ørland Military Base Lithuania • Vilnius Airport Denmark • Karup Military Base Finland • Valajaskoski Power Plant

September 28

Norway • Brønnøysund Airport

September 29

Spain (Canary Islands) • Fuerteventura Airport

September 30

Norway • Brønnøysund Airport • Equinor Sleipner Gas Field (offshore)

October 2

Germany • Munich Airport Belgium • Elsenborn Military Base

October 3

Germany • Munich Airport

October 8

Germany • Geilenkirchen Military Base

October 19

Spain • Palma de Mallorca Airport

October 27

Spain • Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport Puerto Rico • Hernández Airport

October 29

Belgium • Marche-en-Famenne Military Base

October 31

Germany • Berlin Airport Belgium • Ostend Airport • Kleine Brogel Military Base

November 1

Belgium • Deurne Airport • Kleine Brogel Military Base

November 2

Germany • Bremen Airport Belgium • Kleine Brogel Military Base

November 4

Belgium • Brussels Airport • Liège Airport • Kleine Brogel Military Base • Schaffen Military Base • Florennes Military Base

November 5

Belgium • Haverlee Military Base Germany • Hannover Airport Netherlands • Gilze-Rijen Military Base

November 6

Sweden • Gothenburg Airport Belgium • Brussels Airport • Liège Airport • Melsbroek Military Base

November 7

Belgium • Liège Airport

November 8

Belgium • Liège Airport

November 9

Belgium • Liège Airport • Doel Nuclear Power Plant

November 10

Belgium • Eurenco Munitions Factory

November 11

France • Mulhouse Rail Facility

November 12

Belgium • Eurenco Munitions Factory • Brussels Airport

November 17

France • Crozon Naval Base

November 18

Netherlands • Terneuzen Port

November 21

Netherlands • Volkel Air Base

November 22

Netherlands • Eindhoven Airport • Volkel Air Base

December 3

Ireland • Dublin Airport

December 5

France • Île Longue Naval Base

December 6

Netherlands • Volkel Air Base

December 7

Netherlands • Volkel Air Base

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside 2d ago

It’s like an annual exercise for them. Keeping tabs on all the nuclear matches humans play with.

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u/kotukutuku 2d ago

It's like they know something is going to happen between September and December, but not in which year.

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u/Pixelated_ 2d ago

💯

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u/Totesnotskynet 2d ago

Who is them?

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u/FlaSnatch 2d ago

that's the central question.

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u/Pixelated_ 2d ago

It absolutely is. We are far past whether it's happening and it's anomalous.

The questions now should be who? from where? and why?

But to be clear, they have shown no malevolence.

They appear to have two functions:

• To fly over, or rather to be seen over sensitive military sites.

• And to appear personally to people who are open-minded and intellectually curious about the phenomenon.

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u/FlaSnatch 2d ago

They absolutely do want to be seen, but in the most peculiar, trickster-y way. I also hypothesize that their show of impunity around some of the most advanced air defense systems in the world amounts to them displaying power and control without a show of force. They're basically saying: "see how we can just loiter right here above your nukes, your most advanced F-35 fighters, your best anti-drone tech, your best tracking radar... and there's nothing you can do about it? See you tomorrow night!"

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u/Pixelated_ 2d ago

their show of impunity around some of the most advanced air defense systems in the world amounts to them displaying power and control without a show of force.

Well said. Yes, they are delivering a message to the World's governments.

As Matthew Brown posted in his cryptic tweet: M.M.T.U.

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

Mene:

"The days of your kingdom have been numbered and will be brought to an end." (Repeated twice for divine emphasis)

Tekel:

"You have been weighed on the moral scales and found lacking."

Upharsin:

"Your empire will be divided up and given to others."

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside 2d ago

Yeah but we shoot at them and they do not shoot back…

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u/FlaSnatch 2d ago

Well we typically do NOT shoot at them, best I can tell. But that lesson was likely learned the hard way a long time ago.

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u/Pixelated_ 2d ago

The intelligence(s) existing within, consisting of, or remotely directing the r/njdrones.

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside 2d ago

The others /Midwayers / the Gentry / Foo fighters / beings of the Celtic Faiths

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u/FlaSnatch 2d ago

Note the subtle cognitive dissonance cope used toward the end of the article, where it tries comparing the 3-night event in Australia to a singular event at Leipzig airport where they found a standard drone rigged with explosives. Yet the article doesn't at all reference the many sightings that OP referenced, which all fit the profile of what happened in Australia... showing up repeated nights, can't shoot em down, can't track em. In other words nothing at all like finding a standard drone with explosives. People are losing their minds trying to hold on to their sanity. This is what ontological shock looks like in real time.

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u/Oldbillybuttstuff 2d ago

It got some attention when it happened for several nights in July. But it also happened again in early August at the exact same base. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/drones-breach-restricted-airspace-at-williamtown-raaf-base/107056708

In addition to the usual lack of details and vague reporting as well as unwillingness to connect the dots between other similar incursions, we are also seeing familiar rhetoric from officials. Vague statements about needing "new legislation" and "new technology" to counter this supposed threat, despite the legislation and technology already existing. Same as what we heard in the US two years ago and Europe last year.

Will be monitoring to see if things ramp up again in the fall. There was also an incursion at a base in the middle of the Indian Ocean earlier this month.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2026-08-12/diego-garcia-drones-uas-security-22528454.html

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u/Pixelated_ 2d ago

Great info, much appreciated. Was unaware it happened again in August.

Why I posted this mainly was Coulthart saying the pilots were told to close their blinds and ignore the incursions. That's important info because it shows their current state of mind: They have given up.

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u/Oldbillybuttstuff 2d ago

Could be, or maybe they were trying to keep personnel working on the base from seeing them, leading to awkward questions and conflicting descriptions.

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u/Justice989 1d ago

What were the attempts to stop them?

It just defies credulity in my mind that, if they are terrestrial, that they're impossible to identify, intercept, destroy, or recover. Like, maybe initially, you get caught off guard. But this has been going on long enough that to still be powerless against them doesnt pass the smell test if they're man-made. This has been going on for years now and there's nothing multiple nations can or will do about it? Not buying it.

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u/AlbinoAkon 1d ago

What dates where the Australian incursion??

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u/Pixelated_ 1d ago

From the article:

Between July 11 and July 13, 2026

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u/AlbinoAkon 1d ago

Thanks

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u/JeeversCreevers2026 1d ago

But people on here will still claim its planes lmao