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During the Cold War arms race, both the US and USSR were testing top-secret, cutting-edge technologies that seemed beyond belief to deliver nuclear warheads effectively to the other side. The goal was to strike as quickly, quietly, and as devastatingly as possible. To accomplish this, in 1964 the Soviets began developing an audacious plan that turned their focus to a most unlikely place. While US attention was trained upwards towards aerial superiority, the USSR would instead target the ground beneath their feet. Underground, in fact… with a brand-new experimental vehicle nicknamed the "Battle Mole."

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An unidentified fighter jet, a top-secret flight squadron, and a mysterious Russian connection... what just crashed in 2018 near Area 51? A classified black project aircraft? Or something even stranger...? Click to subscribe to Dark Docs: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

At around 6 pm on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017, an undisclosed aircraft fell out of the evening sky and into the Nevada Desert below. The vast tract of empty land it crashed down in is known as the Nevada Test and Training Range, 5,000 square miles of dry wilderness used by the Air Force for bombing, training, and stealth exercises. The crash site was located 100 miles northwest of the Nellis Air Force Base, in the vicinity of both Groom Lake Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range Airport, facilities notorious for housing top-secret aircraft and weapons programs.

The pilot of the downed aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz, was lost in the incident, and photos and documentation of the event have been actively hidden from the public. Given the intense secrecy of many flight activities in the area, rumors have since emerged that Schultz may have been piloting a highly classified aircraft. In the absence of official details, questions loom: What kind of aircraft had Schultz been flying that day? Was it from one of the U.S.’s own black project programs? Or, even more intriguing, was there an unusual Russian connection?