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Lithuania: Drone alert in the sky: NATO fighter plane in flight, but it was a flock of birds
Vilnius Airport closed for 38 minutes
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Alarm raised this morning in Lithuania due to the alleged sighting of a drone in the sky .
An airspace emergency that forced the closure of Vilnius airport and NATO to mobilize at least one fighter jet .
The alarm was later called off and the airport reopened within 38 minutes, after a NATO fighter jet performed a visual identification, and what had appeared to be a drone turned out to be a flock of birds , the Lithuanian National Crisis Management Centre said.
"In the initial radar surveys , the tracks left by birds and drones may appear similar ," the agency added.
(Unioneonline)
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