European Observatory of Drone IncidentsIndependence, authorship and funding
Who makes it
The European Observatory of Drone Incidents is made by Lucas Alaniz Pintos, in a personal capacity. It is an independent project: it does not depend on any government, party, company or body, and nobody reviews or approves what is published before it is published.
- Author
- Lucas Alaniz Pintos, PhD
- ORCID
- 0009-0008-5179-2534
- Contact
- lucasalanizpintos@gmail.com
- Recommended citation
- Alaniz Pintos, L. (2026). European Observatory of Drone Incidents. Version YYYY-MM. https://droneobservatory.eu. Licence CC BY 4.0. (YYYY-MM: the version of the data used).
Funding
It is self-funded. It has no advertising and no third-party funding, and accepts no payment to include, change or remove any data.
Editorial criteria
- Sources
- Official and press sources, each piece of data with its link and a short sentence from the source.
- Statuses
- Reported, confirmed or denied according to what the competent authority declares, never by our own deduction.
- Drone presence
- Confirmed, not confirmed, not substantiated or ruled out, also according to what the authority declares. “Not substantiated” (in purple) means that an official authority closed its investigation without evidence of the drone or withdrew its statement: the incident and its effect stay on the map with their history.
- Attribution
- Only with a literal official statement saying who is responsible.
- Changes
- Nothing is deleted: what is corrected or withdrawn is recorded with its reason.