Signal “Mode”: what is known about an unidentified object over the Leningrad region

wikipedia.org | Digr/CC BY-SA 4.0At night, an unidentified flying object was noticed over the Leningrad region. What is known about the incident – in the material “PolitExpert”. On the evening of March 1, the signal “Regime” was announced in the Leningrad region, which requires leaving Russian airspace. The reason was an unidentified flying object in the sky over the Vyborg region. This was reported by the Telegram channel SHOT .Air defense detected a target at an altitude of 7000 meters, moving at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. Details about the object were not given.Later, information appeared that the air defense forces could react on an astronomical phenomenon: the approach of Venus and Jupiter.TV Channel 78 reassured residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, saying that a weather balloon was flying in the sky – an unmanned balloon designed to collect information about the atmosphere. Note that UFOs have been seen over Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor and Bolshoi Gorlovo. According to the media, the police received a dozen calls from concerned citizens.There was no official information about the incident.