Case file · Secret facility (alleged)
Kongka La 'UFO base' rumour
A remote pass on the disputed India–China border in Ladakh is said online to host a hidden UFO base that both armies quietly know about.
2004 CE · 34.33, 79.03 · status: claim
The account
Kongka La, on the Line of Actual Control near Aksai Chin, is better known for the 1959 clash in which Chinese troops killed ten Indian policemen. Since the 2000s travellers' tales and websites have claimed that lights rise from the ground there and that both governments keep it off-limits for that reason.
The sceptical view
The area is closed because it is a militarised, disputed frontier. No official source, photograph or named witness supports a 'base'; nearby sightings investigated by the army turned out to be planets.