KAPUSTIN-YAR · ACTIVE
Kapustin Yar
CREDIBLE WITNESS OPERATOR · Soviet/Russian Military
Russian missile test facility established in 1946, often called the Russian Area 51. Site of multiple documented UAP incidents from Soviet military personnel. Declassified KGB files describe encounters with disc-shaped craft, and a 1948 incident where an intercepted object reportedly fired on a Soviet aircraft.
Kapustin Yar was the Soviet Union's first rocket and missile test facility, established in 1946 with assistance from captured German V-2 scientists. The facility became the launch site for early Soviet ballistic missiles and space programs.
Declassified Soviet files, released in the early 1990s, describe numerous UAP encounters at and around Kapustin Yar. A 1948 incident describes a Soviet fighter pilot ordered to intercept a silver disc-shaped object. The pilot reportedly engaged the craft, which then fired on his aircraft. The pilot was killed and the incident was classified for over 40 years.
Additional Soviet military records describe objects that hovered over the facility, appeared to surveil launches, and in several cases demonstrated flight characteristics inconsistent with any known Soviet or Western aircraft of the era.