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Spyplanes

Published October 5, 2009 at 5:00 AM PDT

If you've never heard of Groom Lake, there's a good reason why. It was a secret place the government wanted kept secret because spyplanes crucial to the early years of the Cold War were being tested there. The veterans of those years are speaking at the Atomic Testing Museum this week but they give us a preview of their work on these top-secret projects.

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