Treasure of Victorio Peak

The Treasure of Victorio Peak is (or was) a supposed cache of gold bullion that was said to have been stored in caverns within Victorio Peak, a basalt outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin, part of the San Andres Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, very near the Trinity Site, where the first American atomic bomb was detonated, and now part of the White Sands Missile Range. The treasure is popularly known from the reports of Milton Ernest "Doc" Noss in 1937, who claimed to have discovered it, and later stories that the U.S. government seized it in the mid-1970s, while the origins of the treasure and the identities of those who placed it, if it ever existed, remain unclear.