Arrest Made in Theft of Model UFO from Roswell Museum
In what may have been a prank gone badly wrong, a teen suspect has been arrested for the theft of a model spaceship from the UFO Museum.
In late March, a fiberglass and metal version of a spaceship reported missing from the UFO Museum in the New Mexico town of Roswell was found in pieces two miles west of the city.
Police say the model UFO was stolen from the museum early one Saturday morning and surveillance video showed three people hauling the spaceship off in a pickup truck.
Albuquerque TV station KOB reported that the saucer was located in a ditch off Highway 70 about two miles west of Roswell.
The spaceship had been a fixture in downtown Roswell, where it was long mounted outside the UFO museum, before a recent snowstorm damaged it.
It was being stored behind the museum awaiting repairs before it was stolen.
Police say they’re still searching for two other suspects.
Police say tips led them to the teenager, who was arrested at his home in south Roswell. Due to his age, his name wasn’t being released. No explanation has been given for the theft.
Roswell still stirs debate about extraterrestrials seven decades after the 1947 crash of a flying object.