{"id":550633,"date":"2026-06-13T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=550633"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:36:27","slug":"meteorological-balloon-triggered-air-alert-in-vilnius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/meteorological-balloon-triggered-air-alert-in-vilnius","title":{"rendered":"Meteorological Balloon Triggered Air Alert in Vilnius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Lithuanian Armed Forces on Saturday issued a yellow-level air alert to residents of Vilnius County after radar detected an object displaying characteristics typically associated with unmanned aerial vehicles. The alert was quickly cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>It later emerged that a meteorological balloon, rather than a drone, had entered the country&#8217;s airspace. This was stated by Lithuanian Defence Minister <b>Robertas Kaunas<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/ru\/novosti\/17\/2959036\/kaunas-v-litvu-zaletel-ne-bespilotnik-a-meteorologicheskii-aerostat-meteozond\">LRT reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the county received SMS messages urging them to remain calm and resume their normal activities. The military also reminded the public that anyone spotting a suspicious flying or fallen object should call 112 and avoid approaching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lithuanian Armed Forces on Saturday issued a yellow-level air alert to residents of Vilnius County after radar detected an object displaying characteristics typically associated with unmanned aerial vehicles. The alert was quickly cancelled. It later emerged that a meteorological balloon, rather than a drone, had entered the country&#8217;s airspace. This was stated by Lithuanian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":543759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2d4ecf2562e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Meteorological Balloon Triggered Air Alert in Vilnius"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[143120],"class_list":["post-550633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550633","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=550633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}