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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey and Miranda Bryant

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Police officers at Copenhagen airport.
Police officers at Copenhagen airport after all traffic was closed due to drone reports. Photograph: Steven Knap/Reuters

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.

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