Cite the wind. Show where it carried things.
AirVeto publishes sourced wind reconstruction data for every major airspace incident on the EU eastern border. Journalists and editorial teams use it to verify balloon drift trajectories, corroborate official statements, and add a data layer to incident reporting.
Recent cross-border balloon and aircraft incidents.
Recent reported incidents - the event location, the wind at the time where reconstructed, and links to primary sources. Each entry is its own page, with a deep link to the event location on the live map.
Larga paraglider, Moldova, 26 Oct 2026 - pilot asked asylum
A powered paraglider from Ukraine entered Moldova's airspace at 13:13 on 26 October 2026; border police found the pilot about 2 km inside Moldova, and he asked for asylum.
Kaunas airport balloon closure, Oct 24 - 2 flights diverted
Airspace restrictions over Kaunas Airport began at 23:37 local on October 24, 2026 after balloon-type navigation markers appeared; two flights were diverted.
Chi葯telni葲a drone, Moldova, 23 Oct 2026 - fell near a home
A drone crossed Moldova's airspace on 23 October 2026 and police found one in a field about 100 m from a home at Chi葯telni葲a; President Sandu called it a Geran.Three ways newsrooms use AirVeto.
Verification. When an official source (VSAT, Polish Border Guard, Estonian Defence Forces) reports a balloon crossing, AirVeto's wind reconstruction at that time, location, and altitude provides independent verification of the drift direction. If the wind at 500 m was blowing from Belarus toward Lithuania at 40 km/h, the balloon trajectory is consistent with that claim. If it wasn't, the story gets more complex.
Visual evidence. The interactive wind map can be embedded in digital articles or screenshotted for print. Each incident page includes a time-pinned wind map showing conditions at the event window - a visual data source that supplements official photography.
Context and pattern. The incident archive covers over 100 events across Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Finland, Moldova, Estonia, and Sweden, among others. Reporters covering a new incident can quickly identify how it compares to previous ones: same location, same wind direction, same season, same method.
- 100+
- Sourced incident reconstructions in the archive
- 16
- Countries in the archive, led by LT, RO, PL, LV, FI, MD, EE
- ~24h
- Target turnaround from event to published page
What's in each incident page.
Every incident in the archive includes a sourced factual account citing the primary source (agency press release, official statement, or named outlet), wind field data at the incident location and event altitude, an interactive map pinned to the incident location, and a publication date. All incident pages are free to read without registration.
The standard citation format for AirVeto wind data:
Wind reconstruction: AirVeto (airveto.com), Open-Meteo wind data, [date of event].
For incident-specific reconstructions, link directly to the incident page. Each URL is stable and permanently archived. Contact hello@airveto.com for data exports or higher-resolution wind field visualisations for print.
Coverage area.
The incident archive is concentrated on the EU eastern border: Lithuania-Belarus, Poland-Belarus, Latvia-Russia, Estonia-Russia, the Romanian Black Sea coast, Finland, and Moldova. Key editorial resources by region:
Editorial accounts and team access.
Individual journalists can sign up free and access the live wind map immediately. For editorial teams - a news desk, a shared account for multiple reporters covering the same beat - the Companies plan provides team accounts and invoice billing suitable for newsroom procurement. Contact hello@airveto.com for pricing.
For specific editorial needs - custom data exports, higher-resolution imagery, a formal data partnership - contact hello@airveto.com. Brand assets, logos, and company boilerplate for media use are at airveto.com/press.
Tell it what you need. It plans the map
Ask in plain words and it runs your map: it places radars, sensors, vehicles and markers, moves them as plans change, connects your own data feeds and checks the wind at 8 heights at each one. It briefs you; you decide.
Start with the archive. Source what you need.
The incident archive is free and open. For editorial accounts or data partnerships, email us.