
“A full-scale mock-up of the Oxcart being assembled at area 51 in 1959, even before the CIA contract was officially secured,” Jacobsen says of this photo in her book, “Area 51.”
She continues: “The facility had been deserted after nuclear fallout shuttered the place in the summer of 1957. These Lockheed Skunk Workers were among the earliest returnees.”
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