UFO over Mountain View

So the wings got broken and then glued on at the wrong angle, they forgot to put in a real cockpit, the landing gear are obviously from another plane, and what's that black thing at the tail?

Early 1960's.  No Shoreline, no Google.

In real life, it was the Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane.  But to a handful of Mountain View and Sunnyvale residents with access to telephones and the local police phone number, it was an alien spaceship.

On the ground, that's NASA Ames at NAS Moffett Field (mostly out of picture at the bottom).  The Ames hangar is the building with the wide black opening (and wow, there seem to be no airplanes on the ramp.  Odd.)  The large weird structure that appears just above the plane's nose probe is the 40 x 80 foot wind tunnel.  That tunnel had the 80 x 120 upgrade added in the early 80's, and the bigger tunnel is probably the most prominent feature when looking at Ames from the north, comparable to Hangar 1.  Here's a sketch from the NASA history page showing the 80x120 attached at a slant to the original structure:

135,000 horsepower (in the fan section where the two structures join)

 That's what Big Science looks like if you are not doing high-energy physics.