Here's Most Outrageous Top Secret Spy Plane In The Word

In 1955, the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Air Force and defense contractor Lockheed Martin chose an ultra-remote site in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, to begin testing and developing the newest, most advanced aircraft in the world at the time.

But even if no alien-made UFOs ever took to the skies over the salt flat known as Groom Lake, we now know thanks in large part to declassified CIA documents that a number of highly sophisticated, highly unusual aircraft were developed and tested there. From the U-2 spy planes of the Cold War era to a purely experimental Star Trek-inspired craft from the 1990s, here are six of Area 51’s most intriguing aircraft.