On 15 January 2016 a bulgarian news site run a story about a UFO sighting near the city of Nova Zagora that happened a day earier. A reader claimed that he witnessed a military jet chasing a strange object. Soon this UFO case went global.
It even appeared in the popular site "Mysterious Universe":
Bulgarian Jets Chase UFO Near Mysterious UFO-Shaped Building
One of the comments stated this:
"Looks like an A-10, I doubt the Bulgarians fly them, so the pic is fake."
But that is not correct. There are american A-10 in Bulgaria. They participate in military excersises.
Meanwhile I found another interesting article in another website. It was published 4 days earlier on 11 January 2016. Here is the translation:
„Unknown” airplane alarmed websites. It turned out this was air drill
“24 chasa”, 11.1.2016
Today afternoon an unknown airplane alarmed planespotting websites with its strange movement.
Ministry of Defense commented for “24 chasa” that it is probably a plane participicating in the NATO international aviation drill that started on 4th January.
For this excersise for the first time USA sended to Bulgaria ten planes А-10 that supports infantry. But in this case it might be КС-135 air tanker.
According to online map flightradar24.com the plane came from north and after reaching Stara Zagova it began its strange movement. First it headed toward Hisaria and Panagiurishte, then turned toward Burgas and over Karnobat it turned again toward Sofia. Then it started to make circles over Sliven and Straldja. In 16:30 the plane approched borders of Turkey and Greece. In 17:00 it switched off its transponder and dissapeared from the radar.
The plane mostly circles over military training ground in Novo Selo which means that it was doing operative tasks in the aviation drills, commented from Ministry of Defense.
I am very sceptical about this sighting. I doubt it is an unknown craft on the picture. No other witnesses came forward and no video was realised. Probably it was just another military jet seen from a different angle or maybe even a bird.
