Weather balloons disrupt flights at Vilnius Airport
by editors@theworld.org (Aaron Schachter) from The World: Latest Stories on (#70KBY)
Balloons carrying thousands of packs of cigarettes have disrupted flights in Lithuania, as Vilnius Airport was forced to close for hours when dozens of them floated into the country's airspace.
National authorities say that 25 meteorological balloons were detected entering Lithuania from neighboring Belarus, two of which ended up directly over the airport.