{"id":563834,"date":"2026-07-30T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563834"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:33:24","slug":"polish-military-scrambled-f-16-to-intercept-unidentified-object-in-lublin-voivodeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-military-scrambled-f-16-to-intercept-unidentified-object-in-lublin-voivodeship","title":{"rendered":"Polish Military Scrambled F-16 to Intercept Unidentified Object in Lublin Voivodeship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Polish military scrambled an F-16 fighter jet overnight to intercept an unidentified object in Lublin Voivodeship. Later, an explosion crater was discovered near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, air defence radars detected the activity of at least 10 Russian missiles over western Ukraine overnight that could have posed a potential threat to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:29 a.m., one of the objects approached to within 5 km of the Polish border before turning around and flying east.<\/p>\n<p>At around 3:40 a.m., an unidentified object moving westward was detected in Polish airspace. An F-16 fighter jet was dispatched to identify and intercept it.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:46 a.m., before the object could be identified, it disappeared from radar.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;To verify and conclusively confirm the radar&#8217;s technical readings, a Mi-24 helicopter was dispatched to the area where the object was last detected. The helicopter crew identified a probable crash site in an undeveloped area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in Lublin Voivodeship. A ground search-and-rescue team and the relevant services were dispatched to the scene,&#8221;<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Polish media reported the discovery of a 10-metre crater and fragments of an unidentified object near the village. Local residents said they heard a loud noise resembling an explosion during the night. They also reported that windows in nearby buildings shook.<\/p>\n<p>Air raid sirens were activated overnight in most counties of Lublin Voivodeship.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, about two dozen Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Most of them were decoy drones. Earlier, in 2023, a Ukrainian air defence missile that had gone off course struck a border settlement in Poland, killing two people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish military scrambled an F-16 fighter jet overnight to intercept an unidentified object in Lublin Voivodeship. Later, an explosion crater was discovered near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia. According to the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, air defence radars detected the activity of at least 10 Russian missiles over western Ukraine overnight that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b0c5878978.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Military Scrambled F-16 to Intercept Unidentified Object in Lublin Voivodeship"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[143248,143121],"class_list":["post-563834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","tag-polsha","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563834","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=563834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}