The Crash of a Secret Stealth Airplane the Air Force Tried to Keep Hidden

The F-117 Nighthawk

On July 11, 1986, a military airplane crashed at 2:00 AM in the Sequoia National Forest in California, killing the pilot and causing a 150-acre brush fire. It was a crash the United States Air Force didn’t want anyone to know about.

The reason was because the airplane that had crashed was the secret Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. The F-117 was…