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Russian Information Agency Novosti:

NOT ANYBODY, BUT RUSSIAN PILOTS, CAN MISTAKE CLOUD FOR TRESPASSER PLANE

KALININGRAD, January 26 (RIA Novosti's Anatoli Nilov) - Air pilots from the Russian exclave on the Baltic sea (Kaliningrad region) have mistaken a cloud for a trespasser aircraft. The amusing incident was reported by the press service of the Baltic fleet on Wednesday.

'In the afternoon, the ground services said they had detected a violation of the Russian air border from Lithuania. A tentative examination showed it was a light plane', the press service reported.

A SU-27 fighter led by Major Alexei Pletnev rose from a military airfield near Kaliningrad, it said.

'Our fighter approached the trespasser to make it land or leave the Russian air space', the press service said. 'A closer examination showed that there was a cloud instead of the light plane and it was coming from the territory of Lithuania', noted not without humor the spokesman for the press service of the Baltic fleet.

Thought #1: we spent how many years being afraid of these guys?

Thought #2: this is not a story a Russian paper would have printed when the Commies were in charge.

Thought #3: they don't tell us whether the cloud actually left.