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Germany's Munich airport has halted flights for the second time in 24 hours, following more unconfirmed drone observations.

In a statement on late Friday, the airport said that air travel were suspended at 9:30 PM local (20:30 GMT), affecting approximately six thousand five hundred passengers.

At least seventeen flights were also halted in Bavaria on Thursday evening due to multiple drone reports in surrounding flight paths.

It represents the most recent in a sequence of events involving unmanned aircraft that have affected aviation in the continent in the past few weeks.

EU Officials Examine UAV Incidents

Agencies in the country on the previous day were also probing observations of multiple unmanned aircraft, which were seen above the military installation close to the frontier.

After the sighting, the devices according to reports moved from that nation to the German side, where they were also spotted by police in the tiny German town of Düren.

Officials have been incapable to identify where the drones came from or who controlled them.

Government Measures and Laws

The nation's Home Affairs Minister Alexander Dobrindt has said he will bring up the matter of anti-drone defences at a conference of European home affairs officials, which was originally planned as a policy conference.

Earlier on Friday, the minister also promised to bring forward proposed laws making it simpler for the police to request the armed forces to disable UAVs.

Continental Officials Confront Drone Issue

New UAV observations across the EU led to a high-level meeting in that city this week.

A number of EU member states have supported strategies for a multi-layered "drone wall" to rapidly spot, then monitor and neutralize foreign UAVs.

Multiple Russian UAVs entered into Poland and Russian fighter aircraft breached Estonian airspace in different new occurrences.

These air hubs were obliged to halt operations after unrecognized aircraft were seen near aviation and military flight zones.

Senior official the chancellor stated prior to the summit that violations were escalating and that it was "logical to presume the UAVs are originating in the Russian side."

The nation has disputed any participation, while Danish officials state there was no evidence Moscow was implicated.

Speaking at a meeting in the coastal location of that area on that day, Russian President Putin ridiculed suggestions he ordered aircraft to the Danish region.

"No repeat occurrences. No further actions - neither to the French or the Danes or that city," the president said.