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Police find parachutes near mystery crash site
toronto99.com ^ | 03/22/2022

Posted on 03/11/2022 3:25:00 PM PST by BenLurkin

An unidentified object crashed near a Zagreb park overnight

Police in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, have confirmed the discovery of two parachutes near a park where a mysterious object crashed on Thursday night. No injuries on the ground were reported.

The police said they had begun to receive reports about an incident in the Jarun neighborhood, in southwestern Zagreb, from 11pm local time. Citizens had alerted the authorities about an object falling from the air and crashing to the ground.

On arriving at the scene, the police found a 3m-wide (10ft-wide) crater embedded with debris. Two parachutes were discovered during a search of the wider area.

The investigation continues, with the authorities urging the public to submit images relevant to the case. A police statement asks the media not to speculate about what has happened and to wait for official updates.

Closeup images circulating on social media show the crater and the debris. Croatian media outlets have circulated photos of the two parachutes at various stages of recovery.

There is widespread speculation in the country that the incident was caused by a crash of a Tu-141 Strizh unmanned aircraft. A Soviet-designed reconnaissance drone, it was developed in the late 1970s and 1980s, and has a range of 1,000km (620 miles).

Ukraine, the only nation officially operating Tu-141s...

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: clickbait; crater; drone; parachutes; tu141s
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1 posted on 03/11/2022 3:25:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

DB Cooper?


2 posted on 03/11/2022 3:26:34 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

I’m not saying it was aliens...


3 posted on 03/11/2022 3:31:12 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Larry Lucido

Good one.


4 posted on 03/11/2022 3:31:14 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I’m Mi saying it was aliens but..........


5 posted on 03/11/2022 3:31:49 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: BenLurkin

Blame Serbs so Nato can start killing them again


6 posted on 03/11/2022 3:34:50 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: BenLurkin

Aliens crash landed due to malfunction of their flying saucer.


7 posted on 03/11/2022 3:35:50 PM PST by entropy12 (Blockade of sovereign Cuba was fine, but invading Ukraine not acceptable to Neocons!)
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To: BenLurkin

...might be like the parachute that landed that little metal gizmo, in “The Andromeda Strain”...


8 posted on 03/11/2022 3:38:03 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Long Jon No Silver
Grdelica 12 April 1999


9 posted on 03/11/2022 3:41:32 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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10 posted on 03/11/2022 3:44:32 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of non-combatants on that train, IIRC. Didn’t hear much about it here, though.


11 posted on 03/11/2022 3:49:09 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of non-combatants on that train, IIRC. Didn’t hear much about it here, though.


12 posted on 03/11/2022 3:50:20 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have heard rumors of primate gain of intelligence experiments.

Some can fly mini drones, some have escaped and attack flying things.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/09/king-kong-monkey-batters-seagull-to-death-eats-it-in-wild-scene/


13 posted on 03/11/2022 3:53:49 PM PST by algore
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To: BenLurkin

Hillary and Huma?


14 posted on 03/11/2022 3:56:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: algore
This eyewintess photo just in from Zagreb....


15 posted on 03/11/2022 4:00:49 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Next we’ll have the story of desparate parents helping their two children escape on a drone, with parachutes to use when out of the war zone... /s

(I would prefer that story, to one about Derps spreading bioweapons...)


16 posted on 03/11/2022 4:01:14 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see.#MAGA)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s the mystery? A Uke recce drone went out of control and crashed.


17 posted on 03/11/2022 4:01:24 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: BenLurkin

Which aircraft have escape capsules?


18 posted on 03/11/2022 4:03:29 PM PST by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

too bad they dint bother to measure the chutes... or even guess


19 posted on 03/11/2022 4:04:00 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Parachutes for the drone pilots?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4045861/posts?page=2#2


20 posted on 03/11/2022 4:04:30 PM PST by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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