An unindentified flying object, likely an observation balloon, entered Poland's airspace from the direction of Belarus, the Polish Defense Ministry said. A search for the object was underway.
EDnews informs via Euronews that an unknown object that entered Polish airspace from the eastern direction was probably an observation balloon, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter on Saturday.
The ministry said that the object was spotted by the country's flight control center, but radar contact with the object was lost near Rypin, a town in central Poland 143 kilometers northwest of the capital, Warsaw.
Captain Ewa Zlotnicka, press officer of the Armed Forces Operational Command, told broadcaster TVN 24 the object entered Polish airspace on Friday evening. According to Zlotnicka, to intercept the object, two MiG-29s, and then the F-16, were sent into the air.
A Territorial Defense Force spokesman said a search for the object was underway and the search team consisted of "about ten soldiers," including sappers and medics.
