VIDEO: Roswell police search for UFO thieves

Friday, March 25, 2016
ROSWELL, N.M. (WLS) -- Roswell Police are searching for three men who are seen on surveillance video stealing a UFO from a museum.

On the video released by the police, you can see three men get out of a pick-up truck, load the UFO, and drive away. Officials later found the museum decoration in a ditch off Highway 70 about two miles west of Roswell, destroyed.

The spaceship had been a fixture in downtown Roswell, where it was long mounted outside the UFO museum before a recent snowstorm damaged it.
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It was being stored behind the museum before it was stolen.

No arrests have been made.

Roswell still stirs debate about extraterrestrials seven decades after the 1947 crash of a flying object.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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