{"id":526448,"date":"2026-03-18T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=526448"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:15:34","slug":"smugglers-weather-balloon-lands-in-bialystok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/smugglers-weather-balloon-lands-in-bialystok","title":{"rendered":"Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloon Lands in Bia\u0142ystok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A weather balloon used by smugglers has landed in Bia\u0142ystok, according to the police of Poland\u2019s Podlaskie Voivodeship.<\/p>\n<p>Balloons with a package attached were found on Gajowa Street. They landed in a parking lot between two cars. The contraband package is believed to contain a significant quantity of cigarettes, as it was carried by three balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Police are working at the scene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_526391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-526391\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-526391 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hdq07x4x0aakxt8-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-526391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Polish Police<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weather balloon used by smugglers has landed in Bia\u0142ystok, according to the police of Poland\u2019s Podlaskie Voivodeship. Balloons with a package attached were found on Gajowa Street. They landed in a parking lot between two cars. The contraband package is believed to contain a significant quantity of cigarettes, as it was carried by three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ba7b4a753d0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloon Lands in Bia\u0142ystok"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}