when you think secret government alien studying facilities you think area 51 and for good reason area 51 made headlines in 2019 when the internet rallied to potentially storm the gates but here's a thought for you are there other secret government testing sites in other countries guys of course there are in russia this facility is known as capustin yar above the surface you'll find four ballistic launch complexes 14 launch pads a precision tracking radar facility three 3500 foot runways and numerous strange and unidentified areas but travel a quarter mile below the surface yeah that's where things
get a bit spooky claims of alien autopsy rooms and long hangers containing crashed spaceships have been made by eyewitnesses but what do we really know about this place today we're finding out 100 kilometers east of stalingrad which was later renamed volgograd and just about 800 kilometers south of moscow you'll find the very first missile test range that was built for the soviet union this is the facility known as kapustan yar completed in 1947 it was during this inaugural year that kapustan yar had its first tests of the v2 also known by its more technical name
the aggregate four it was the first long-range guided ballistic missile development of this missile cost germany two billion dollars and during this time each missile cost seventeen thousand eight hundred seventy seven dollars at kapustan yar 12 missiles were launched just about 225 kilometers these tests caught the attention of american intelligence agencies so they quickly sent out american spy planes to see just what was going on at kapustan yar what they saw took their breath away a railroad led straight into the main complex of kapustan yar branching out a railroad headed north connected to a road
leading to a radar development area missile storage units and ending with the sam launch complex take a road or railway east of capuston yar and you'll see communications outposts a missile assembly and checkout area and troop training and support areas then you'll find seven additional launch sites that are all in a line from north to south ending very close to the nearby neighboring town of vladimirovka all in all this entire above-ground testing facility is 1 400 square feet but this is only half the story of kapustan yar the u.s spy planes caught wind of an
underground complex and it's here that things start to feel a bit out of this world see when the facility was first built there really wasn't a soviet space budget to give you an idea of what we're talking about from 1950 to 1960 only two billion dollars total was spent that was the entire budget for 10 years for any and all things space but starting in 1950 soviet space expenditures went up exponentially and it increased even more from 1960 to 1969 to the tune of almost 7 billion dollars spent in one year yeah the space race
was on and you can bet that the soviet union wanted to win and the more they spent the more their secret facility for all things strange and spooky grew which brings us to the underground portion of kapustan yar and from what we know by traveling through a long corridor that would take you down a quarter mile beneath the earth's surface you would find yourself in the heart of russia's main base for ufo research a central hub connects it all together with two large tunnels extending out from either side eyewitness accounts claim that these tunnels contain
rooms where alien autopsies extraterrestrial tech studies and experimentation and quite possibly otherworldly holding cells for visitors from space are all located just how many rooms there are or how big they are remains a mystery but one thing that is well documented by russian ufo experts is the two long hangers that extend out of the central hub that at first glance seem to be abandoned this might take you by surprise at first after all shouldn't hangers have planes and be above ground but keep traveling down these long thin tunnels and you're sure to come across massive
cylinder-shaped objects if you're thinking these cylinders are alien tech you're absolutely right experts claim that they are actually crashed spacecraft and here at kapustan yar government scientists spend day after day and year after year studying tinkering with and hopefully reverse engineering these advanced spacecraft the hope here is to find out just how these devices work and get the newfound technology into the hands of the russian military as you can imagine the advancements that would come out of these alien crafts would be a huge asset to russia no wonder they're keeping this work a secret these
days things have been pretty quiet with regards to a modern day space race between the us and russia and the proof is in the budget in 2014 russia only spent 5 billion on their space program and a few years later in 2020 they spent only 2.77 billion but don't count the russians out yet through all these years they've never opened the doors on kapustin yar we'd say it's because something worth hiding is going on behind its doors hey before we go have you ever wondered if great britain has the equivalent of kapustin yar or area
51 the answer is yes south west of england in wiltshire is a former raf base called rudlow manor on the outside it looks like an old english manor but beneath the surface are underground tunnels and chambers where ufo studies take place believe it or not this was confirmed in 2007 when declassified files were released from the national archives seems like everyone wants a piece of the ufo action we'll see you next time right here on the richest
