Released record CIA-UAP-011 · PDF

The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range

RELEASED

CIA / USSR

The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range

File
CIA-UAP-011
Agency
CIA
Date
December 1973
Place
USSR
Format
PDF

This CIA Intelligence Information Report from December 1973 provides information on the Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, including details about its facilities, weapons systems (System-75 SA-2 and System-300/Aldan warheads), rumored laser weapon research, and unidentified aerial phenomenon observed at the site. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.

The file itself
www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/CIA-UAP-011-The_Sary_Shagan_Weapons_Testing_Range.pdf

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Description from the US Department of War’s PURSUE release, public domain. Released in tranche 3, 12 June 2026.