Idaho State Highway 51 February 2015, some map products such as Google Maps still show SH-51's former overlay with American Legion Blvd. SH-51's northern terminus is in the city of Mountain Home in Elmore County. After turning south from Airbase Rd. and the intersection with SH-67, the road crosses the Snake River into Owyhee County and passes through the towns of Bruneau, Grasmere, and Riddle. About from the state border it enters the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. As the road crosses into Nevada it becomes State Route 225. The reservation's only major town, Owyhee is about south of the state border. After another through
Area 51 aerospace magazine "The Space Review" titled "Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident". The article was based on a memo written in 1974 to CIA director William Colby by an unknown CIA official. The memo reported that astronauts on board Skylab 4 had, as part of a larger program, inadvertently photographed a location of which the memo said: Although the name of the location was obscured, the context led Day to believe that the subject was Groom Lake. As Day noted: The memo details debate between federal agencies regarding whether the images should be classified, with Department of Defense agencies