Airstrip in Africa. Airfield of Ancient Civilizations Found! Yundum airfield in Gambia (6 photos). Gambia International Airport

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the mysterious Yundum airfield, discovered in the small African country of Gambia. This airfield is almost a legacy of ancient civilizations, which, according to some information, had aircrafts- the so-called vimanas. In any case, no one knows for sure who and when Yundum was built.
In this photo, the red circles mark the unpaved areas of the ancient runway slabs.

This former British colony is located on Atlantic coast tropical Africa and belongs to the group of the most economically backward countries not only in the world as a whole, but also in its far from prosperous continent. The territory of the state is strongly elongated in the latitudinal direction. The Gambia extends 350 kilometers deep into the mainland from west to east; it is located along the bed of the deep river of the same name. The width of the country from north to south does not exceed 50 kilometers. Just over one and a half million people live in The Gambia, including 75% in rural areas. Industry there is extremely poorly developed and consists of enterprises producing peanut butter, beer, soft drinks and clothing. Peanut exports provide the country with half of its foreign exchange earnings.
The backwardness of The Gambia is eloquently evidenced by the fact that until recently the population could receive higher education only abroad: in Senegal, USA or Western Europe. The situation changed only in 1999, when the University of the Gambia was established in the capital Banjul. There is only one library in the country and the first museum opened not so long ago; now, however, there are already five of them. Here, the transition at the end of the last century from manual cultivation of fields with hoes to plows drawn by oxen, horses or donkeys is considered an achievement. Equipping fishing boats with outboard motors also became evidence of the Gambia's involvement in technological progress.
Of course, this small country has its own strengths. It is one of the few on the Dark Continent where a multi-party system operates. politic system. There are several in the vicinity of Banjul magnificent resorts with spacious and clean sea beaches, where tourists from the UK love to relax. Livestock farming can be considered very developed: the number of cattle exceeds 400 thousand heads.

They paved, marked and flew.

But Gambia has a real international airport. Also mysterious. This is Yundum - the same one so beloved by ufologists and alternative historians. It is located 27 kilometers from Banjul. The length of its runway (runway), which meets the highest requirements, is 3600 meters, so Yundum is able to accommodate aircraft of any weight. The Gambians themselves did not build this expensive runway. They just laid the asphalt on the existing rough-polished stone slabs that had been cleared of soil and made markings.
The Gambia was then helped by NASA, since the American space agency was interested in creating an alternate airfield for reusable spacecraft such as the shuttle. Initially, the United States chose the airport of the Senegalese capital Dakar, but its runway has too large an angle relative to the main flight path of the shuttles. Therefore, in September 1987, the Americans reached an agreement with the Gambian side on the use of the Yundum airfield for these purposes. The runway has been improved. In particular, its width was increased from 29 to 45 meters. The Americans also installed the necessary electronic control and navigation systems. And in 1996, the international airport building, built according to a joint Anglo-Gambian project, was put into operation.
If you look closely at satellite images, you can see that the central part of the Yundum runway is actively used, but there are unused areas on both sides of the runway. They are paved with light slabs of an unusual sandy-brown color. There are also extensions of the strip that have not yet been cleared of land. And the trees along it grow in a very interesting way - along the lines of some faults in the soil.

Versions, versions, versions....

So where did this runway come from? The most sensational, of course, is the hypothesis that the runway was built back in the days of pre-civilization, and that, very possibly, ancient Indian or Atlantean aircraft - vimanas - took off from here. However, fans of conspiracy theories made another assumption. They say the airfield was secretly built by the Germans during World War II. Sometimes a more precise date is given - 1944. At first glance, this version is not without some plausibility. Indeed, during the war, the Nazis showed great interest in African uranium and allegedly even took it out of the Congo by plane, making several intermediate landings.
In this regard, one can even recall the secret German airfields built in the Arctic, behind the lines of Soviet troops. But as far as Gambia is concerned, there are several big “buts”. Firstly, such airfields were not paved with massive stone slabs, but with small metal ones, which also had several holes to reduce weight. Secondly, the Gambians claim that the partially covered slabs have always been there and did not appear in the mid-20th century. Finally, thirdly, back in January 1943, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was passing through Banjul. This was due to the holding of a conference in Casablanca, Morocco. During the meeting, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, together with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Great Britain, discussed the prospects for opening a Second Front and the strategy for combating German submarines in the Atlantic. The port of Banjul was at that time used as a stopover for Allied naval convoys, and the mysterious airfield was favored by the US Army Air Corps. So there simply could not be any secret Nazi bases in the immediate vicinity of such a strategic Anglo-Saxon hub.

Did the allies try?

On some sites you can even find statements that Yundum, in fact, was built by the Allies themselves. So is there really no secret to the ancient airfield? No matter how it is! The length of the runway is clearly excessive for aircraft of that time. As we already know, local residents saw this covering long before the war. And the color of the slabs is sharply different from concrete. There is a photograph of the only combat aircraft of the Gambian army, a Su-25 attack aircraft purchased in Georgia in 2008, standing on a platform made of concrete slabs attached to the Yundum runway. They clearly have a different color - gray - which is what concrete should have. It can also be noted that, judging by the photographs, the sandy-brown stone slabs vary in size, and this is absolutely not typical for airfield surfaces of the 20th-21st centuries.
So the mystery of Yundum really exists, and it has yet to be solved.

Valdis PEIPINSH
Secrets of the twentieth century

According to supporters of paleovisit, in ancient times our planet was actively visited by aliens from outer space. They taught earthlings how to cultivate the land and a number of crafts, and gave them knowledge of medicine and the structure of the solar system. Having left the Earth, the aliens left behind not only a long memory, which became the basis for a number of ancient myths and legends, but also quite material traces, for example, their cosmodromes...

With the light hand of researcher Erich von Däniken, the famous Nazca desert was “designated” as the main ancient spaceport of aliens on our planet. south coast Peru: “Near the modern provincial town of Nazca, aliens from other worlds once landed on a desert plain and built a temporary spaceport for their ships, consisting of two tracks. The ships carried out patrols in the vicinity of the Earth. When the astronauts completed the task, they left for their planet.”

According to Däniken, the local tribes waited for a long time for the return of the “gods,” but they still did not appear. Then they decided to attract them and began to draw new straight lines in the desert. When this did not bring results, the Indians depicted giant insects and animals on the earth's surface. This is how, according to Däniken, Nazca acquired its famous lines and figures. Of course, such arguments are not taken seriously by archaeologists, historians, or even many ufologists.

The fact is that alien ships that had reached the stage of space flight in their development should have been capable of strictly vertical landing and takeoff, and therefore they did not need runways. In addition, the desert soil becomes quite viscous after rains and multi-ton starships would simply get stuck in it. However, it cannot be ruled out that the planes of the Hyperboreans or Atlanteans, and perhaps the vimanas of the ancient Indians, landed in the Nazca desert.

There is a hypothesis by Jim Woodman and Julian Knott, according to which the Nazca Indians were able to take to the air themselves, for the first time in the world constructing primitive Balloons from thin dense fabric and filling them with warm air.

The famous researcher Maria Reiche, who devoted more than 40 years of her life to the study of Nazca, believed that the desert drawings were a giant ancient calendar. In her book, she wrote: “For ancient peoples, the positions of the Sun and Moon served as a calendar, which determined the arrival of spring and autumn, seasonal fluctuations in the water regime, and, consequently, the timing of sowing and harvesting.” Reich was able to establish the astronomical significance of many lines and even images of the Nazca desert.

GIANT TRILITON OF BAALBEK

In the mountains of Lebanon, in the basin Dead Sea, there is an amazing structure - the Baalbek terrace, made of gigantic slabs weighing over 1,000 tons each. One of them still lies in an ancient quarry. Which titans, with the help of which technical means could such slabs be lifted up a mountain and there, at a height of seven meters, placed in a structure? After all, even now, with all the technical power, this is impossible to do.

“For what purpose did they deliberately choose such bulky and solid parts of the structure, in comparison with which the blocks of the Cheops pyramid or the rock-pedestal of the Bronze Horseman seem like pebbles?” - this is how the science fiction writer A. Kazantsev once described the Baalbek terrace that struck his imagination. It is located in ancient temple Jupiter, which is directly adjacent to the Lebanese city of Baalbek.

The first mention of Baalbek was found in one of the Assyrian inscriptions dating back to 804 BC. e. The city was founded by the Phoenicians, they were the ones who worshiped the god Baal, the lord of the sun and water, and the sanctuary of this god was called Baalbek, which means “city of Baal.” The temple that glorified this city is on site ancient sanctuary Alexander the Great laid the foundation, and the Romans finished it, dedicating it to the god Jupiter.

He was on a platform that was higher than all the other buildings. It is in this platform, called the Baalbek terrace, that there are three huge stones, which in ancient times were called trilithon and were considered sacred.

At the very beginning of the 60s of the 20th century, the Soviet mathematician M. M. Agrest suggested that this terrace was built by aliens from outer space in ancient times. According to his hypothesis, it could be either an ancient cosmodrome, or a kind of memorial structure left by aliens for future generations of earthlings.

An ardent supporter of this hypothesis was Erich von Däniken, who saw a surviving fragment of an alien landing site in the trilithon of the Baalbek terrace. According to the researcher, the trilithon is very ancient, and the builders of the temple did not move it, but only used it to build the platform.

Trilithon is truly amazing. The length of the giant monolithic blocks is 19.5 meters, width - 4.5 meters, thickness - 3.75 meters. The weight of each block is about 750 tons, although some researchers often put the figure at 2,000 tons. In addition to the trilithon, there is another huge block that remained in the quarry; its dimensions are 16x4x2 meters.

The huge stone blocks of Baalbek pose many mysteries to scientists. How were these stone monoliths mined from a quarry without distortion or damage, moved over a distance of two kilometers and perfectly fitted to each other? How did you manage to make a stone surface of tens of square meters absolutely flat, since this is impossible to do with hand tools? These questions are still awaiting answers.

Should the appearance of these blocks be associated only with aliens? After all, such blocks could well have been made by representatives of the civilization of giants, whose existence in the distant past is no longer disputed by many researchers. It is unlikely that the aliens needed such a powerful platform for their ships, but the hypothesis of an ancient cosmodrome cannot be completely ruled out.

THE MYSTERY OF YUNDUM AIRFIELD

On the territory of the small African country of Gambia there is a mysterious airfield called Yundum, about which last years a lot has already been written. What is the mystery of this airfield? The fact is that its main and most expensive component- a runway (runway) - no one built it here, since it already existed. The runway consisted of monolithic stone slabs, carefully fitted to each other. As local residents assured, these slabs had been in this place for centuries.

During the construction of the airfield, all that remained was to roll asphalt onto these slabs, apply markings, and the result was an excellent runway 3,600 meters long, capable of accommodating any modern aircraft, regardless of their weight and dimensions. It is worth noting that NASA took an active part in the creation of the Yundum airfield.

The American space agency chose it as an alternate airfield for landing its reusable space shuttles. With the help of the Americans, the necessary radio-electronic control and navigation systems were installed at Yundum, and in 1996, the international airport building, built according to a joint American-Gambian project, went into operation.

It is curious that despite the impressive length of the strip, not all ancient slabs are covered with asphalt and some of them can be seen both at its beginning and at the end. And then it turns out that the ancient runway was much more impressive than the modern one. But who took off from it? It is still difficult to answer this question - from the available publications it becomes clear that no one has conducted any research on this topic.

The areas of the strip not covered with asphalt are represented by light sandy-brown slabs carefully fitted to each other. The age of the slabs has not yet been determined. According to some publications, their surface is roughly polished, while others claim that the grinding is close to ideal. Judging by the published photographs, the first is closer to the truth, but this only speaks of the antiquity of the slabs, the perfect polishing of which could be significantly damaged by long-term weathering processes.

FASCISTS, ALIENS OR ANCIENT EARTHLANDS?

However, it is completely unclear why the Nazis needed to build a strip with a length that significantly exceeded all those available at that time. Opponents of this version note that the Germans built runways using small metal plates that have a series of holes to reduce weight.

To build this strip, the Germans would need to open a large-scale stone-cutting production, use powerful machines and cranes. But local old-timers claim that nothing like this has ever happened here, and the slabs have always been there - under their grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great-grandfathers, etc.

Thus, the presence of this runway can only be explained by the assumption of some ancient earthly civilization that built it, or by connecting it with aliens. As for the last option, it seems less convincing, because extraterrestrial ships must have the ability to land on any unprepared, albeit fairly level, place.

From numerous publications about the Yundum airfield, we can conclude that no research has been carried out on ancient plates, they are simply used, and that’s all. Of course, you would need to study them carefully. However, it is possible that NASA employees conducted some research during the construction of the airfield, but hid their results.

Of all the proposed cosmodromes of antiquity, Yundum is the most promising place for research. Perhaps spaceships did not launch here, and it was not a cosmodrome, but an airfield from which ancient planes took off, whose appearance was brought to us by golden artifacts from Colombia.

Discovered ancient maps of Antarctica without ice cover, a mysterious slab found in Bashkortostan by Professor A. N. Chuvyrov and called the Map of the Creator, on which a mock-up map of part of the earth’s surface was made, indicate that aerial photographs were clearly used in their production.

It is doubtful that aliens were in any way involved in the production of the map on the impressively heavy stone slab from Bashkortostan. Its authors, most likely, were representatives of an ancient earthly civilization that was destroyed as a result of some global cataclysm or nuclear war. Let us remind you: a number of authoritative researchers believe that aliens had nothing to do with the construction of the so-called ancient cosmodromes; they were built by earthlings.

Perhaps, once upon a time, our very distant ancestors managed not only to rise into the sky, but even visited the Moon and Mars. Now such assumptions seem fantastic to many, but recently everything has been accumulating more facts in favor of this particular hypothesis.

Recently, the media have reported many times about the mysterious Yundum airfield, which is located in small country Gambia, located on the African continent. Why did the airfield receive the status of “mysterious”?

But because its main and very expensive component, the runway (runway), was not built by anyone, because it existed before the airfield appeared here. The runway consists of monolithic stone slabs that are neatly fitted to each other.

According to local residents, this “road” of monolithic stones has been in this place since ancient times. When they decided to build an airfield here, they realized that better place can not found. The builders rolled asphalt onto the slabs and applied all the necessary markings, resulting in a magnificent runway 3,600 meters long. Any modern aircraft of any size and weight can land at the airfield.

It is interesting that the Yundum airfield was created with the active participation of the American space agency, which chose it as an alternate airfield, which is necessary for landing reusable spacecraft called Shuttles. NASA representatives helped install the necessary electronic control and navigation systems.

In 1996, the opening of the international airport building took place, the project of which was developed jointly by the Americans and Gambians. It is interesting that not all the stone slabs of the runway were covered with asphalt - some were left uncovered at the beginning and end. It turned out that the modern strip was smaller than the ancient one.

The question remains unanswered: what kind of equipment took off from this runway? This question is quite complicated. Available publications indicate that no studies have been conducted here. In areas not covered with asphalt, light slabs with a sandy-brown color are visible, carefully fitted to each other.

No one knows the exact age of the stone slabs either. Some publications talk about the roughly polished surface of ancient slabs, while others talk about perfectly executed polishing. Published photographs indicate that the rough grinding of the slabs is closer to reality, however, this can only indicate their antiquity. After all, even perfectly polished stones can be severely damaged over time by precipitation and winds.

The mysterious Yundum airfield, discovered in the small African country of Gambia. This airfield is almost a legacy of ancient civilizations, which, according to some information, had aircraft - the so-called vimanas. In any case, no one knows for sure who and when Yundum was built.

Today it is main airport country, capable of accepting aircraft of any weight and type. But no one knows by whom and when it was built.

During the construction of the airport, the Gambians only rolled asphalt onto the rough-polished stone slabs already existing in this place and made markings. According to local residents, mysterious stone slabs have been here for centuries. NASA actively helped in organizing the Gambia airport, since this agency needed an alternate airfield for its shuttles.

Not all existing slabs are covered with asphalt; they can be seen on the sides of the runway; they are of an unusual sandy-brown color. Amazingly, with a length of the runway of 3600 meters, there is a continuation of the strip that has not yet been cleared of land.

The runway of the Gambia's Yundum Airport. The photo clearly shows that modern asphalt and markings cover only part of the ancient stone slabs.

Skeptics, of course, tried to find a completely earthly explanation for the origin of the strip. For example, a version has emerged that Yundum was a secret airfield built by the Germans during World War II. However, the Nazis at that time did not need such a long airfield, and they paved such airfields with small metal tiles, rather than massive stone ones. It is worth remembering the Gambians’ claim that these slabs were seen by their distant ancestors, that is, they have always been there.

Whose aircraft took off from this strip in time immemorial - alien ships, Atlantean planes or vimanas of ancient Indians? This question has yet to be answered.

Gambian airports

There is a photograph of the only combat aircraft of the Gambian army, a Su-25 attack aircraft purchased in Georgia in 2008, standing on a platform made of concrete slabs attached to the Yunduma runway. They clearly have a different color—gray—that concrete should have. It can also be noted that, judging by the photographs, the sandy-brown stone slabs vary in size, and this is absolutely not typical for airfield surfaces of the 20th-21st centuries.

IN South America On the Nazco plateau, a flat surface 2,000 meters long was discovered and several such areas were found. It is assumed that these are airfields for ancient vimanas. Before the great war, there were many different vimanas, just as today there are passenger and military vimanas. The Mayans, the Egyptians and the Indians had vimanas.

In the film Avatar, when the battle between people and the Pandora tribe began. The fight was of flying objects as animals with wings, and people had modern tomahawks.

Also in this film there was the cradle of the ancestors of the Pandorians, where fireflies flew and the inhabitants saw them. These are the spirits that fly around us, but due to undeveloped perceptions we do not see. And those who see the world of spirits are called psychics. Although this is very general knowledge.

Mysterious Yundum airfield

Lately there has been a lot of talk about mysterious airfield Yundum, discovered in the small African country of Gambia. This airfield is almost a legacy of ancient civilizations, which, according to some information, had aircraft - the so-called vimanas. In any case, no one knows for sure who and when Yundum was built.

The Gambia extends 350 kilometers deep into the mainland from west to east; it is located along the bed of the deep river of the same name. The width of the country from north to south does not exceed 50 kilometers. Just over one and a half million people live in The Gambia, including 75% in rural areas. Industry there is extremely poorly developed and consists of enterprises producing peanut butter, soft drinks and clothing. Peanut exports provide the country with half of its foreign exchange earnings.

If you look closely at satellite images, you can see that the central part of the Yundum runway is actively used, but there are unused areas on both sides of the runway. They are paved with light slabs of an unusual sandy-brown color. There are also extensions of the strip that have not yet been cleared of land. And the trees along it grow in a very interesting way - along the lines of some faults in the soil.

Versions, versions, versions

In this regard, one can even recall the secret German airfields built in the Arctic, behind the lines of Soviet troops. But as far as Gambia is concerned, there are several big “buts”. Firstly, such airfields were not paved with massive stone slabs, but with small metal ones, which also had several holes to reduce weight. Secondly, the Gambians claim that the partially covered slabs have always been there and did not appear in the mid-20th century. Finally, thirdly, back in January 1943, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was passing through Banjul. This was due to the holding of a conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

Airports in Gambia

During the meeting, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, together with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Great Britain, discussed the prospects for opening a Second Front and the strategy for combating German submarines in the Atlantic.

Did the allies try?

On some sites you can even find statements that Yundum, in fact, was built by the Allies themselves. So is there really no secret to the ancient airfield? No matter how it is! The length of the runway is clearly excessive for aircraft of that time. As we already know, local residents saw this covering long before the war. And the color of the slabs is sharply different from concrete. There is a photograph of the only combat aircraft of the Gambian army, a Su-25 attack aircraft purchased in Georgia in 2008, standing on a platform made of concrete slabs attached to the Yunduma runway. They clearly have a different – gray – color, which is what concrete should have. It can also be noted that, judging by the photographs, the sandy-brown stone slabs vary in size, and this is absolutely not typical for airfield surfaces of the 20th-21st centuries.

So the mystery of Yundum really exists, and it has yet to be solved.

Valdis Peipins
Secrets of the twentieth century

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Lately there has been a lot of talk about mysterious airfield Yundum, discovered in the small African country of Gambia. This airfield is almost a legacy of ancient civilizations, which, according to some information, had aircraft, the so-called vimanas. In any case, no one knows for sure who and when Yundum was built.

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In this photo, the red circles mark the unpaved areas of the ancient runway slabs.

This former British colony is located on the Atlantic coast of tropical Africa and belongs to the group of the most economically backward countries not only in the world as a whole, but also in its far from prosperous continent. The territory of the state is strongly elongated in the latitudinal direction.

The backwardness of The Gambia is eloquently evidenced by the fact that until recently the population could only receive higher education abroad: in Senegal, the USA or Western Europe. The situation changed only in 1999, when the University of the Gambia was established in the capital Banjul. There is only one library in the country and the first museum opened not so long ago; now, however, there are already five of them.

Here, the transition at the end of the last century from manual cultivation of fields with hoes to plows drawn by oxen, horses or donkeys is considered an achievement. Equipping fishing boats with outboard motors also became evidence of the Gambia's involvement in technological progress.

Of course, this small country has its own strengths. It is one of the few on the Dark Continent where a multi-party political system operates. In the vicinity of Banjul there are several magnificent resorts with spacious and clean sea beaches, where tourists from the UK love to relax. Livestock farming can be considered very developed: the number of cattle exceeds 400 thousand heads.

Paved, marked and flew

But Gambia has a real international airport. Also mysterious. This is the same Yundum, so beloved by ufologists and alternative historians. It is located 27 kilometers from Banjul. The length of its runway (runway), which meets the highest requirements, is 3600 meters, so Yundum is able to accommodate aircraft of any weight. The Gambians themselves did not build this expensive runway. They just laid the asphalt on the existing rough-polished stone slabs that had been cleared of soil and made markings.

The Gambia was then helped by NASA, since the American space agency was interested in creating an alternate airfield for reusable spacecraft such as the shuttle. Initially, the United States chose the airport of the Senegalese capital Dakar, but its runway has too large an angle relative to the main flight path of the shuttles.

Therefore, in September 1987, the Americans reached an agreement with the Gambian side on the use of the Yundum airfield for these purposes. The runway has been improved. In particular, its width was increased from 29 to 45 meters. The Americans also installed the necessary electronic control and navigation systems. And in 1996, the international airport building, built according to a joint Anglo-Gambian project, was put into operation.

If you look closely at satellite images, you can see that the central part of the Yundum runway is actively used, but there are unused areas on both sides of the runway. They are paved with light slabs of an unusual sandy-brown color. There are also extensions of the strip that have not yet been cleared of land. And the trees along it grow very interestingly along the lines of some faults in the soil.

Versions, versions, versions

The port of Banjul was at that time used as a stopover for Allied naval convoys, and the mysterious airfield was favored by the US Army Air Corps. So there simply could not be any secret Nazi bases in the immediate vicinity of such a strategic Anglo-Saxon hub.

Did the allies try?

On some sites you can even find statements that Yundum, in fact, was built by the Allies themselves. So is there really no secret to the ancient airfield? No matter how it is! The length of the runway is clearly excessive for aircraft of that time. As we already know, local residents saw this covering long before the war. And the color of the slabs is sharply different from concrete. There is a photograph of the only combat aircraft of the Gambian army, a Su-25 attack aircraft purchased in Georgia in 2008, standing on a platform made of concrete slabs attached to the Yunduma runway. They clearly have a different gray color, which is what concrete should have. It can also be noted that, judging by the photographs, the sandy-brown stone slabs vary in size, and this is absolutely not typical for airfield surfaces of the 20th-21st centuries.

So the mystery of Yundum really exists, and it has yet to be solved.

Valdis Peipins
Secrets of the twentieth century

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There is a mysterious airfield on the territory of the small African country of Gambia. Yundum. What is the mystery of this airfield? The fact is that its main and most expensive component - the runway (runway) - was not built here, since it already existed. The runway consisted of monolithic stone slabs, carefully fitted to each other. As local residents assured, these slabs have been in this place from time immemorial...

During the construction of the airfield, all that remained was to roll asphalt onto these slabs, apply markings, and the result was an excellent runway 3,600 meters long, capable of accommodating any modern aircraft, regardless of their weight and dimensions.
It is worth noting that NASA took an active part in the creation of the Yundum airfield.

Attempts to explain the presence of such an impressive runway in the African wilderness led to the hypothesis that it was built in the 40s of the 20th century by the German Nazis, who allegedly exported uranium from the Black Continent during the Second World War. However, it is completely unclear why the Nazis needed to build a runway as long as , which significantly exceeded all available at that time. Opponents of this version note that the Germans at their secret military airfields built runways using small metal plates with a number of holes to reduce weight.

To build this strip, the Germans would need to open a large-scale stone-cutting production, use powerful machines and cranes. But local old-timers assure that nothing like this has ever happened here, and the slabs have always been there - under their grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great-grandfathers, etc.

Thus, the presence of this runway can only be explained by the assumption of some ancient earthly Civilization that built it, or by connecting it with aliens. As for the last option, it seems less convincing, because extraterrestrial ships must have the ability to land on any unprepared, albeit fairly level, place.

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