Object that fell on house in Poland identified as interceptor missile from F-16

The object that fell on a residential house in Poland’s Wyryki near the border with Ukraine overnight to September 10 was a Polish interceptor missile from an F-16 fighter jet, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper said, citing its sources.

"It was an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile from our F-16, which failed its mission due to a malfunction of the targeting system during the flight. Luckily, it did not explode thanks to the detonator fuse," the unnamed source said.

Meanwhile, the Lublin prosecutor’s office, which is carrying out its own investigation of this incident, has not yet identified the object and is waiting for an expert opinion. It refused to disclose findings after the survey of the site.

According to initial media reports, the object in Wyryki was one of the drones that violated Poland’s airspace in the early hours on September 10. Later, the Lublin prosecutor’s office said it was an "unidentified object" while interior ministry spokeswoman Karolina Galecka said that missile fragments had been found in the country.-TASS