The media got fake news about the fact that Lithuania is a NATO aircraft shot down a UFO

Aircraft Military police NATO was shot down in Lithuania unidentified flying object, and a local resident of Vilkaviskis district, which found its wreckage, the Lithuanian army expressed their gratitude. This fake news comes in the Internet, and publish it in time English-language newspaper in the Baltics Baltic Times.

To created a few days ago the website daliapolitika.wordpress.com on 6 September there was a sensational news that "NATO fighters shot down in Lithuania UFO". The report said that on August 29, gate guards in Kudirkos City got the message of a local resident V. Kucinskas about what he found in his field the wreckage of a UFO.

According to the website, "V. Bucinskas" said "chip UFO resembles a rocket."

"Maybe it's not the first time when missiles Air-policing mission of NATO are falling on the heads of the inhabitants of the Baltic States. But now in Lithuania started to panic in connection with a UFO in the sky over Lithuania", — threatened the author of the article on the incoherent Lithuanian language.

Like deliberately was mentioned a real case that occurred on 7 August, when a Spanish Eurofighter jet fighter mistakenly fired a missile over Estonia.

The authors of the fake news are repelled not only from the case in Estonia, but also from events in Vilkaviskio area from 29 August. However, in fact, the border guards reported about a UFO or a rocket and a mortar bomb caliber 82 mm artillery shell 75 caliber. The identity of the resident who found them, was not reported, but stressed that the bomb squad defused them on the spot.

However, this did not prevent the authors to create fake news not only to give an imaginary quote of a man who found a fragment of a UFO, but to indicate that the head of Department on public relations of the Lithuanian army Limit Bruticus expressed V. Kucinskas gratitude for "care and curiosity".

This fake news was spread in social networks, they spread newly registered users. It was translated into English and published on the website edition of the Baltic Times. The authorship of news is attributed to the news Agency LETA and most Baltic Times. The later admitted that the news is fake and deleted it, but as it appeared on the website photo could not explain, maybe it was a cyber attack.

"Website www.baltictimes.com "hacked" and it posted a fake news. The article was quickly removed. Guide publications says that are doing everything they can to protect the site. We will seek advice from the Lithuanian centre of cyber security", reported The Baltic Times.

"In terms of the content of news, you can see certain Parallels with the history of the rocket in Estonia, ( ... ), this information is evaluated more like a joke. Probably the hacking of the website and the publication of this text was aimed at checking the security of the site (this time was chosen as The Baltic Times), as well as the reaction of the portal and services", — said in the comments of the Lithuanian army.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»