Peter Merlin trudges through the desert, side-stepping sage brush and creosote until he reaches a spot barren of vegetation. He points out a faint crescent-shaped scar in the earth 100 feet long.

A new scholarly book takes the wraps off the secret flight-test history of the U.S. Air Force facility in the Nevada Test and Training Range like no one ever has before. Listen in as our editors ...

Aeronautical historian Peter Merlin will speak tonight about "Dreamland: The Secrets of Area 51" as part of the distinguished lecture series at the Atomic Testing Museum. Billed as an X-Plane hunter, ...

Peter H. Merlin, 88, of Fort Collins, CO died on April 3, 2017. Peter and his first wife, Elizabeth Allen Swift have four children: Peter (Jennifer) Merlin, Diane (Jay) Homan, Barbara Neal and Philip ...