The dry lakebed south of Area 69 in GTA: San Andreas is a direct Easter egg referencing Groom Lake, the actual salt flat adjacent to the real Area 51 in Nevada — a detail so subtle that many players never connected the in-game 'Area 69' parody to its real-world counterpart.
Source: Groom Lake — CC BY-SA
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