Recovery · Bulgaria
Drone with no explosives recovered from Black Sea at Kamchia, Bulgaria
· Kamchia · Black Sea
Coastal aerial-drone recovery; individual origin unresolved
On 27 August 2026 a team inspected an object reported in Black Sea waters at Kamchia, on Bulgaria's coast, and identified it as a drone (UAV). The date is the discovery and response date: when the drone came down, and the route it flew, are unknown.
The origin of this drone has not been established, and no operator has been identified. Broader Russian or Ukrainian associations made for this group of coastal finds do not identify this particular object.
No explosives were on board and no casualties were reported. The drone was transported to Varna Naval Base. Its relationship to a drone wing reported on 25 August is unresolved; the two are not assumed to be the same object.
Attribution and uncertainty
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Individual origin unresolved; cohort-level Russian/Ukrainian associations do not identify this object.
- Investigation / uncertainty
- No final individual operator identification in collected release.
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Full record
Map positions are approximate anchors for the named place, not verified incident coordinates.
- Reported date
- 2026-08-27
- Date basis
- Discovery/response date unless described as report date; EEST
- Location / jurisdiction
- Kamchia, Black Sea waters
- Event categories
- Coastal/sea discovery; identification; recovery or disposal
- What was reported
- Team inspected a reported object.
- Aircraft / vessel / quantity
- UAV
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Individual origin unresolved; cohort-level Russian/Ukrainian associations do not identify this object.
- Damage / casualties / disruption
- No casualties reported in cited account
- Response / outcome
- Transported to Varna Naval Base.
- Investigation / uncertainty
- No final individual operator identification in collected release.
- Route / entry mechanism
- Found at sea/on shore; original flight route and crash date unknown
- Explosive payload
- No explosives onboard
- Counting / links
- Not automatically the same object as 25 August wing E071; relationship unresolved, no unique-airframe sum asserted.
- Research provenance
- Added during export source checks; absent from the visible chronological report
Record E079. Record fields keep the register’s original wording.