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In 1986, two years before the F-117 Nighthawk was made public, one of the planes crashed in Sequoia National Forest. The US Air Force set up a perimeter around the crash site and covertly replaced the wreckage with a wrecked F-101A that had been stored in Area 51 for this purpose.

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In 1986, two years before the F-117 Nighthawk was made public, one of the planes crashed in Sequoia National Forest. The US Air Force set up a perimeter around the crash site and covertly replaced the wreckage with a wrecked F-101A that had been stored in Area 51 for this purpose.

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