{"id":576256,"date":"2026-09-13T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576256"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:34:48","slug":"flock-of-birds-was-behind-air-raid-alert-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/flock-of-birds-was-behind-air-raid-alert-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Flock of Birds Was Behind Air Raid Alert in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania has canceled the previously announced <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/possible-drone-reported-in-lithuanian-airspace\">possible air raid alert<\/a>, Delfi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/lithuania\/v-vozdushnom-prostranstve-litvy-veroyatno-zafiksirovan-dron-zhiteli-poluchili-uvedomleniya-120303601\">reported<\/a>. The alert was canceled after NATO fighter jets determined that the objects detected by radar were a flock of birds rather than drones.<\/p>\n<p>A yellow threat level was declared on September 13 following the suspected detection of a drone in the country\u2019s airspace. Residents of Vilnius, Vilnius district, Trakai and Elektr\u0117nai districts received warnings.<\/p>\n<p>NATO fighter jets were scrambled to check the object. Italian Eurofighter Typhoons currently patrol the airspace of the Baltic states from their base in \u0160iauliai.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe fighter jets were scrambled to identify the object. They determined that the objects detected by radar were a flock of birds. The silhouettes of birds and drones are very similar on radar screens, so additional verification is needed to establish the circumstances,\u201d<\/em> the National Crisis Management Center said.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:37 p.m., the Lithuanian Armed Forces reported that the threat had passed.<\/p>\n<p>During the alert, Vilnius Airport suspended takeoffs and landings. Operations resumed after the threat was lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has canceled the previously announced possible air raid alert, Delfi reported. The alert was canceled after NATO fighter jets determined that the objects detected by radar were a flock of birds rather than drones. A yellow threat level was declared on September 13 following the suspected detection of a drone in the country\u2019s airspace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":576255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa6c2a1de2a3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Flock of Birds Was Behind Air Raid Alert in Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576256","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=576256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}