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Germany's Munich air hub has suspended air traffic for the second occasion in 24 hours, following more unconfirmed UAV incidents.

In a announcement on late Friday, the airport authority said that operations were stopped at 9:30 PM local (20:30 GMT), disrupting nearly 6,500 travelers.

A minimum of seventeen flights were also grounded in the city on the previous evening due to multiple drone sightings in nearby flight paths.

It's the latest in a sequence of incidents featuring drones that have interrupted aviation in European nations in the past few weeks.

EU Agencies Investigate Drone Sightings

Officials in the country on that day were also probing reports of fifteen UAVs, which were spotted above the Elsenborn military site near the German border.

Following the observation, the aircraft according to reports traveled from the Belgian side to the German side, where they were also observed by authorities in the tiny town in Germany of the Düren area.

Officials have been unsuccessful to determine where the UAVs originated or who operated them.

Official Response and Legislation

The nation's Home Affairs Minister the official has said he will raise the topic of drone defense systems at a Saturday meeting of European interior ministers, which was originally scheduled as a immigration meeting.

Earlier on Friday, the official also committed to accelerate proposed laws allowing it more straightforward for the law enforcement to request the defense forces to shoot drones down.

EU Leaders Discuss Drone Issue

Latest drone sightings across the EU led to a conference in the Danish capital recently.

Multiple EU member states have endorsed plans for a comprehensive "UAV barrier" to quickly spot, then monitor and eliminate Russian aircraft.

Twenty Russian UAVs entered into Poland and suspected MiG-31 jets invaded Estonian skies in distinct new occurrences.

Copenhagen and Oslo airports were obliged to shut down after unknown UAVs were spotted near airport and military flight zones.

Senior official the chancellor said before the meeting that breaches were getting worse and that it was "plausible to assume the drones are originating in Russia."

The nation has denied any involvement, while Scandinavian officials report there was no evidence the nation was involved.

Addressing at a summit in the destination of that area on Thursday, the leader the president laughed off claims he ordered UAVs to the Danish region.

"It won't happen again. No further actions - not to France or Denmark or that city," the president said.