Teen arrested in spaceship theft from UFO museum

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

ROSWELL, N.M. -- A teenage boy has been arrested in the theft of a fiberglass-and-metal version of a spaceship from outside the UFO Museum in Roswell. Police said they're searching for two other suspects. The model spaceship has been a fixture in downtown Roswell, where it was mounted outside the UFO museum. Police said surveillance video showed three people hauling the spaceship off in a pickup truck. The saucer was found in pieces two miles west of Roswell on Wednesday.

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