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“Kapustin Yar”

Stories3

Shaitan Mazar UFO Crash, the "Devil's Grave" (1991)

August 28, 1991 · Shaitan Mazar gorge, near the source of the Sary-Jaz River, Central Tien Shan, about 100 km east of Karakol

Kyrgyzstan

UAP · Cigar · 19 sources

22Thinly documented

Kapustin Yar Missile Base Sighting from the KGB Blue Folder

July 28, 1989 · Two Soviet Army units 30 and 45 km north-east of Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, USSR

Russia

UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources

26Thinly documented

The KGB Blue Folder: Mineralnye Vody Airliner Sightings

October 15, 1987 · Mineralnye Vody, Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol and Nalchik area, North Caucasus

Russia

UAP · Cigar · 12 sources

32Partially documented

Names3

Kapustin Yar Place · 3 stories
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
Michael Hesemann Person · 7 stories
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
KGB Organisation · 4 stories
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.

Documents8 · see all

/specialCollection/MissileGap/1961/1961-04-25.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 101 pages· 16 pages mention it
- p. 5 …Kapustin Yar-Vladimirovka Missile Test Center 23 23. Training Launch Area, Complex G, Kapustin Yar 23 24. SS-1 Surface…
- p. 51 …This photograph of a troop training area at the Kapustin Yar missile test range was taken in December 1959. The…
Allegations Concerning Cosmonaut Losses, Gagarin's Role Refuted FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1990-09-22· 5 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …Cosmonaut Lodovskiy died in 1957 while taking off from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome. In that same year, Shiborin died. Two…
/specialCollection/MissileGap/1992/1992-04-01.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 406 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 29 …Operations Staff, OSI, "Overflight of Kapustin Yar." 15 October 1954, OSI (OSWR) records TS, down- graded to S). UNCLASSIFIED
- p. 36 …British Overflight of Kapustin Yar The British were also working on high-altitude reconnaissance air- craft. In 1952 the Royal…
CIA/CSI/ History Staff Monograph, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 16 July 2002. FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 406 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 29 …Operations Staff, OSI, "Overflight of Kapustin Yar." 15 October 1954, OSI (OSWR) records TS, down- graded to S). UNCLASSIFIED
- p. 36 …British Overflight of Kapustin Yar The British were also working on high-altitude reconnaissance air- craft. In 1952 the Royal…
The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1900-01-01· 406 pages· 10 pages mention it
- p. 36 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 ## British Overflight of Kapustin Yar The wide variety of programs discussed at the conference were all…
- p. 177 …Squadron leader Robert Robinson left Peshawar on 6 December and overflew Kuybyshev, Saratov Engels Airfield, and the Kapustin Yar Missile…
CIA-UAP-003, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 Official release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954· 406 pages· 9 pages mention it
- p. 29 …OSI. --overflight of Kapustin Yar.'' 15 October 1954. OSI (OSWR) records, job S0R-01424. bo" I (TS. down graded 10…
- p. 177 …Squadron leader Robert Robinson left Peshawar on 6 December and overflew Kuybyshev, Saratov Engels Airfield, and the Kapustin Yar Missile…