Earth Port, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan might be regarded as being to the former Soviet Union what Nevada is to the United States: a netherworld of nuked landscapes and super-secret research facilities on the one hand, and a blank geographic canvas for fantastical architecture on the other. In the former respects, I refer to the Soviet test & research sites located just to the South West of Semipalatinsk, where it was feared in the depths of the Cold War that a doomsday weapon, a "death beam" had been developed (though reportedly it was merely a research facility for nuclear space propulsion); in the latter respect, I refer to the new capital city, still under construction, of Astana, a "freemasonopolis" designed in large part by Sir Norman Foster, replete with a pyramidal Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (gaudy enough to resemble the Luxor Hotel of Las Vegas, its noble intentions notwithstanding) and a main thoroughfare which appears to attempt the masonic grace of the Mall of Washington D.C., in the essential respect of being drawn on the one end with a towering phallus (Bayterek) and on the other with a teat-like dome (of the Presidential Palace).

Another project, now only in its planning stages, and apparently not to be built in Astana, but in the former capital of Almaty, is an embassy for extraterrestrial beings*. Kazakhstan is not an inappropriate location, if you consider that within its borders is the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch site of Sputnik and countless other Soviet space missions. This tradition shall continue with Kazakhstan's own National Space Agency, as we read in this EADS Astrium press release: Astrium signs strategic partnership agreement with Kazakhstan...

Kazakhstan has been involved in spaceflight since the very beginning. In 1955, the USSR chose Baikonur as the launch site for the first satellite, the legendary Sputnik 1. Then in 1961 the world’s first astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, took off from Baikonur. Leased from Kazakhstan, Baikonur is still Russia’s foremost launch site today. Talgat Musabayev was one of two Kazakhstan astronauts who worked for the USSR / Russia. He is now Head of the new National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, “Kazcosmos”.

Curiously enough, Musabayev is said to be involved in the alien embassy project, as we read in Kazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy.

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* A very rough translation:

The first embassy for extraterrestrial beings in the history of humanity will be built in Kazakhstan.

Allegedly the authorities of Almaty have already granted a section of land under the building and appropriate diplomatic status for the structure. The section is an area of several square kilometers located beyond the limits of city, in the Nenavigatsionnoy zone. The embassy for the official methods of the newcomers will in the course of time bring to Kazakhstan enormous financial and scientific benefits.

The initiators of the building of the embassy for the extraterrestrial beings assured that extraterrestrial super-civilization will sooner or later arrive on a mission to Earth. - Naturally, for the newcomers it will be necessary to have an embassy, from where they will begin to achieve contact with Earthlings. There Kazakhstan will prove to be at the forefront of the entire planet. Accordingly, the newcomers of extraterrestrial civilization will fix the first diplomatic contacts with Astana.

In the constructed embassy for [inoplanetyan] are provided all necessities: guest houses, conference hall, mobile connection with diplomatic missions, translation service, tennis court, solarium, film auditorium and the Internet.