Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range
The Soviet anti-ballistic-missile and air-defence weapons test range in Kazakhstan. A CIA information report covering November 1972 to November 1973, from a former Soviet citizen who served there, summarises itself as covering "facilities, work areas, security fencing, the regional headquarters (V/Ch 03080), and a warhead checkout unit (V/Ch 03142)", plus "System-75 [SA-2] and System-300/Aldan [ABM-1 GALOSH] warheads; rumored laser research; and an unidentified aerial phenomenon." IT IS ON THIS MAP FOR THE LAST FIVE WORDS OF THAT SENTENCE. The site of the sighting is given only as "Site 7". This is the Soviet counterpart of the pattern the AFOSI argued in New Mexico in 1950: an unexplained green light over a place where nuclear weapons are handled, recorded by the state's own intelligence service and filed under something else.
In the UAP recordRuled by hand on 4 September 2026 when this entity was created. The one report this project holds about the range devotes a paragraph to an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed there, and lists it in its own summary.
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- The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range 1973-12-20
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happened there - the range the report names in its own subject lineThe Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Rangeprinted p. 1 · PDF p. 1 checked against the page
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a green unexplained light over a nuclear-weapons site, 23 years later and on the other sidesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 5 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
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→ PURSUEthe report naming it was published twice - Release 02 and again in Release 03same document as the row aboveprinted p. 1 · PDF p. 1 checked against the page
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Drawn at the sighting the CIA report describes, which is the only event on this map that happens here. The range itself is older and no founding date is claimed.