Phantom Truck is a real scale reproduction of a mobile biological weapons lab as described by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell when addressing the U.N. Security Council, prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The trailers found and photographed in Iraq after the U.S. invasion were later determined not to be capable of biological weapons production. Manglano-Ovalle has produced a platonic idealization of the mobile lab, giving reality to this 'phantom truck', only to conceal it again within the confines of a darkened space hidden within its exhibitions. KC Fabrications fabricated and internationally installed Manglano-Ovalle's Phantom Truck for Documenta 12, Kassel and Bilder Schlacten, Osnabruck Germany.