But we digress…Jokes aside, lots of “secret” military installations and army bases like that actually aren’t so secret. “The purpose of this facility is to construct, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles,” government officials wrote of the small military site. It’s not an outright American military base like many on this list. It’s as if Mezhgorye is a completely secret town, just like neighboring Yamantau is a secret military installation. For years, HAARP was a jointly-run military base overseen by the Air Force, the Navy, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and the infamous Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Source: The Nation June 05, 2023 14:00 UTC