CIA-UAP-011-The_Sary_Shagan_Weapons_Testing_Range.pdf

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COUNTRY USSR

DOI November 1972-November 1973

SUBJECT The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range

REPORT NO. FIK K-311/01638

DATE DISTR. 20 December 1977

ACQ Germany

FIELD NO.

SOURCE former Soviet citizen who served

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10. Besides the System-75 [SA-2] warheads, Site 4 also checked the warheads for a missile(s) known as the System-300 and/or Aldan. (Field Comment: Source did not know if Aldan was another name for the System-300 missile, or if they were two similar missiles.) The System-300/Aldan warheads after being checked at Site 4 were taken to Site 35 for launching. According to rumor, the missile was for antimissile defense (protivo raketnaya oborona - PRO). (Field Comment: Source identified the System-3…

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unidentified phenomenon at Site 7. While watching a sport competition between Canada and the USSR on television, he stepped outside for some air and observed an unidentified sharp (bright) green circular object or mass in the sky. The object was situated west of the site at an angle of sighting of approximately 70 degrees. The altitude of the object was undeterminable. (Field Comment: Although there were no clouds in the sky that evening, Source believed that the green mass would have bee…