Did the Americans really land in Vegas..?

‘The darkness of the desert is dark beyond the darkness of night. No light can illuminate the darkness whose shadow renders everything obscure. In this other darkness, disappearance appears as the trace of something that is never there but is always slipping away. The desert makes our transiency transparent. To linger in the desert—and what place is not the desert?—we must embrace the loss of what we never possess. In the fleeting moment of this impossible caress, nothing is visible. Nothing.’
—Mark C. Taylor, Hiding