Kingman, Arizona
Kingman is a city in Mohave County in northwestern Arizona, situated between Huapi Valley to the west and the Ceriat Mountain Range to the east. The surrounding desert terrain — sparsely populated and remote in the early 1950s — is the alleged site of the 1953 Kingman, Arizona Crash Retrieval, in which an unidentified oval craft reportedly impacted the desert floor on May 21, 1953. The specific crash site was approximately four hours' drive by blacked-out bus from Indian Springs Air Force Base in Nevada, placing it in the desert southwest of the city.
Kingman sits along historic Route 66 and serves as a waypoint between Las Vegas and Phoenix. Its proximity to both the Nevada Proving Ground (where Operation Upshot-Knothole was ongoing in 1953) and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's southwest operational sphere makes the region geographically plausible for a covert AEC recovery operation.