Officials in Romania reported seeing strange balloon-like objects traversing their skies on Feb. 14, shortly after neighboring Moldova temporarily shut down its airspace after similar sightings, according to officials.
The incidents occurred around midday local time and come shortly after a number of objects, including a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon, were detected traversing over American airspace and were subsequently shot down.
Romania’s defense ministry said it had deployed two RoAF (Romanian Air Force) MiG-21 LanceR jets to an area located in the southeast of the country around 10 minutes after the unknown object was spotted in its airspace.
The defense ministry said the object had “characteristics similar to a weather balloon” and was initially detected by radar systems in Romanian airspace at an altitude of about 11,000 meters (36,000 feet)….