Some background; I am working on a university project which includes data from GPS collars on Red Deer in the Netherlands. There are around 21,000 data points for 4 GPS collars (so 84,000 total data points). But I am have issues displaying them on the map. The points should be displayed in the Netherlands (close to Eindhoven) but instead they are being displayed either in the ocean near Nigeria or in the Red Sea.
I am using decimal coordinates (to 6 decimal places) and I have triple checked that the data frame and the layers are in WGS1984. I have used the simple "Display XY data" option from the drop down menu on the table of contents, I have used the "Make XY event layer" tool, and I have tried the "Project" tool on a shapefile made with the coordinates.