The mistaken drone sighting caused the closure of Vilnius airport, the Lithuanian authorities have said
A NATO fighter jet took flight after a flock of birds was confused with drones, the Lithuanian authorities have reported.
There have been a number of incidents of Ukrainian UAVs crossing the airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia or crashing in those countries as Kiev has intensified its long-range attacks on energy infrastructure in Leningrad Region in northwestern Russia in recent months.
On Sunday, a perceived drone sighting caused the closure of Vilnius International Airport, the country’s National Crisis Management Center said in a statement later that day.
It was reopened within 40 minutes after a NATO jet, which had taken off from Siauliai airbase in the north of the country, found that the cause of the air alert was not a UAV, but a flock of birds, it said.
“On initial radar readings, marks left by birds and drones can be similar,” the statement read.
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