Kapusting Yar - Soviet Area 51 - Russia's Top Secret Experiment Center

Kapusting Yar - Soviet Area 51 - Russia's Top

Secret Experiment Center

The opening of classified files in Russia is revealing something that was an open secret in the UFO community, and that is that in the former Soviet Union they were much more concerned than they said about the UFO issue.

During the cold war period between the United States and the Soviet Union, an incident similar to the one in Roswell put the Soviet Union's air defense in check. It is noteworthy that while most speak of the famous Roswell case and American Area 51, they are unaware of the existence of this center, known as Soviet Area 51.

Kapustin Yar - the Russian Military Base that holds Secrets of Extraterrestrial Contacts

What was to be the top secret experimentation center for the first prototypes of Soviet jet aircraft and ballistic missiles, began on May 13, 1946 and ended on July 3, 1947. With an area of ​​2,600 km2, the facility was located in a desolate wasteland in the Astrakhan region, 100 kilometers from what was then the city of Stalingrad, today Volgograd.

The fact of being located on the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in history is not trivial. One of the first questions posed by the Western intelligence services and the Soviet scientific community was why this strange location had been chosen, since it was located a hundred kilometers from a city in ruins that had been less than three years old. It has been the scene of a bloody war, with 1,100,000 Russian casualties, 450,000 German and 1,500,000 civilians.

It would be the last place an emerging power like the Soviet Union would like to install its most important aerospace research center. In terms of logistics and functionality, the choice of Kapustin Yar had no reason to be. Unless those who decided to build it there took into account criteria other than strictly logistics.

The official version of Soviet intelligence was that, in the frenzy of rebuilding Stalingrad and the endless comings and goings of cranes and trucks, it would be easier for the construction of a military complex of this magnitude to go unnoticed. However, the reality was different and pointed to the designs of the almighty Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

Impact of a UFO in the Siberian region of Tunguska

Stalin was shocked by what happened in the Siberian region of Tunguska on June 30, 1908, when an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) fell in the area and caused what is considered to be the largest explosion of unknown origin suffered by the planet.

According to later studies, in that incident a fireball heated the surrounding air to 16 million degrees before exploding at about eight km above the vertical of Tunguska with a power equivalent to a thousand atomic bombs, knocking down 80 million trees in an area 25 km around and the blast wave circled the Earth twice. In fact, more than a century later, its effects are still visible in the affected area.

Most scientists already considered that the Tunguska explosion had a natural origin, but the future Soviet leader, then 30 years old, became obsessed with the possible extraterrestrial origin of the explosion and, once in power, commissioned his scientists to investigate it. , with Sergei Korolev at the helm.

Korolev traveled to Tunguska and found abundant radioactive material at the epicenter of the impact, the so-called "Devil's Graveyard", an area where no trace of plant or animal life had remained. But, although in his official report he undoubtedly attributed it to a meteorite, he himself did not dare to contradict the irate dictator and that further convinced Stalin of alien responsibility.

The truth is that the Kremlin leader was not interested in the UFO phenomenon itself, neither as possible evidence of extraterrestrial life nor as a scientific or philosophical challenge.

The only thing that obsessed him about aliens was the possibility of getting hold of their technology and harnessing it to their advantage.

On the other hand, the Kapustin Yar area was, along with the Crimean peninsula, one of those that traditionally registered the highest activity of UFO sightings in the entire Soviet Union and that convinced Stalin to install his brand new research center there, thinking that the most practical thing would be for the mountain to go to the UFOs and not the UFOs to the mountain; Of course, all of that about 75 years later.

The following is one of the few real photographs collected in the secret reports leaked by a Russian military to the Italian magazine "UFO Magazine" in 1999, from Soviet Roswell.

The Soviet Roswell Incident

As is public knowledge, no air force of any country likes to admit that strange flying artifacts of unknown origin appear in the skies they must keep safe and controlled.

 That is why neither in the Soviet period nor in the current one has the Russian authorities officially confirmed or denied what happened on June 19, 1948 less than a year after Roswell in the vertical of Kapustin Yar.

It was just after five in the afternoon when the radar operator monitoring the airspace of the top secret base saw a strange mark appear on the screen. As required by protocol, he immediately took off one of the new Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig 15 fighters, which had only been in service for two months, to the interception point where the contact was located.

The aviator reported the presence of an elongated, apparently metallic object that emitted extremely intense light that intentionally blinded him. The pilot was ordered to attack and he fired a burst of rockets that hit the target squarely and knocked it down. But first, the unknown object had time to emit a strange electromagnetic radiation that paralyzed the Mig's engine and forced the aviator into an emergency landing.

As soon as the downing of the UFO was confirmed, the recovery teams immediately set off; the remains were collected and taken to one of the Kapustin Yar underground facilities; specifically what the military familiarly called Hangar Zhitkur, which housed the most secretive material.

From this point on, the skeptics defend that what shot down that Mig was nothing more than a spy plane, while those who believe in the alien component argue that it was an extraterrestrial ship and that later there were similar incidents and that the shooting down of the This alien ship had an unexpected effect that would have led to more later encounters in the area.

For this reason, in the 1980s, an important official project for the study, observation and classification of UFOs called Circle was established precisely in Kapustin Yar.

New Cases of UFO Sightings in the Sivietic Union

"There were many cases of aerial encounters with UFOs in the sky over Kapustin Yar",

notes Mikhail Gershtein, former chairman of the UFO Commission of the Russian Geographical Society.

In 1968 the base sounded the Scramble alarm again at the appearance of strange ships that flew over four of the facility's silos and were repelled by the Mig.

“One of these cases was included in the so-called 'Blue File', the KGB UFO dossier that was revealed in 1991, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The most serious incident occurred on the night of July 28-29, 1989 when three unknown disk-shaped flying objects were reported by Soviet navy personnel at a weapons depot and another military base in the district.

The objects were disk-shaped, measuring between 2 and 5 meters in diameter, with a half sphere at the top, which glowed brilliantly. The command took off a fighter plane, piloted by First Lieutenant Klimenko, but he was unable to see it in detail, because the UFO did not allow the aircraft to approach him. The UFOs illuminated a missile launch silo with a strange beam and partially destroyed it.

The KGB opened an investigation and produced a report that includes testimonies and detailed sketches made by two officers, a corporal and four soldiers who were involved as witnesses.

Some leaks claim that five extraterrestrial ships are preserved inside the Zhitkur hangar, of which three would be discs, another one like a cylindrical cigar and one shaped like a dolphin.

One of the recurring sources of information on the subject is the Russian cosmonaut Marina Popovich, who is a highly prestigious personality within Soviet aeronautics, so it is feasible to think that she must have seen something, she claims to have seen them and that they recovered. bodies, which he told in his 2003 book Glasnost UFO, in which he explains that the remains of "flying saucers" are the result of collisions in Novosibirsk, Tallinn, Tunguska, Dalnegorsk and Ordzhonikidze.

The above is one of the few real photographs collected in the secret reports leaked by a Russian military to the Italian magazine "UFO Magazine" in 1999, from Soviet Roswell.

Conspiracy Theories

The secrecy surrounding Kapustin Yar has been the breeding ground for ufologists and conspiracy fans, who theorize about the presence of UFOs underground at the base. As they describe, the first of them would have been shot down in 1948, a year after the famous Roswell case, after an air battle with a Soviet fighter.

While the story has not been confirmed, sightings of alien ships during the space race have inspired countless science fiction books and shows. This is another of the many mysteries that surround us.