Idaho State Highway 51 Idaho State Highway 51 State Highway 51 (SH-51) is a state highway in southwestern Idaho from Mountain Home south to the Nevada border, where it continues as State Route 225 to Elko. It is the major north–south road in Owyhee County. As currently configured in the state's official milepoint log, SH-51 terminates at the BL-84 intersection with American Legion Blvd., and is not otherwise officially concurrent/overlaid with BL-84 (where the signs at I-84's Exits 90 and 99 say "To SH-51/To SH-67") or the former section of US-20 that follows American Legion Blvd. to I-84/US-20 east at Exit 95. As of
Area 51 came to the Air Force's Project Blue Book, which investigated UFO sightings, through air-traffic controllers and letters to the government. The project checked U-2 and later OXCART flight records to eliminate the majority of UFO reports it received during the late 1950s and 1960s, although it could not reveal to the letter writers the truth behind what they saw. Similarly, veterans of experimental projects such as OXCART and NERVA at Area 51 agree that their work (including 2,850 OXCART test flights alone) inadvertently prompted many of the UFO sightings and other rumors: They believe that the rumors helped maintain secrecy