ROSWELL N.M. (KRQE) – Remember the teen who was caught last year for stealing the flying saucer that used to be on the outside of the Roswell UFO Museum? It was a prank caught on tape.

Cheyenne Cope krqe.com 1-19-17

You may be surprised at what kind of punishment he got for that dumb move. If you were thinking that teen probably got a slap on the wrist, guess again. KRQE News 13 has learned the judge sentenced him to up to a year in a juvenile facility.

Surveillance video caught him and two friends stealing the UFO back in March. It was sitting behind the museum after it was damaged during a blizzard when 17-year-old Newman Seely and two others swiped it and took off.

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ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Police have made an arrest in the case of the flying saucer stolen from Roswell’s International UFO museum last week. They also say they are still looking for the two other suspects. Police say they were able to track down one of the thieves because of a phone call.

Cheyenne Cope krqe.com 3-28-16

The flying saucer that used to hang on the side of the museum was stolen while being stored behind the museum for repairs.

The museum’s security camera caught three people loading the spaceship into the bed of a red pickup and taking off. [...]
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ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Police believe they found the UFO stolen from a Roswell museum. However, they found the spaceship in pieces.

By Cheyenne Cope krqe.com 3-22-16

“We’re sad, we thought maybe we would get it back in one piece but doesn’t look like it; its in several pieces,” Karen Jarmaillio, interim museum director.

Police say they found what they believed to be pieces of the destroyed spaceship on the side of a road near West Second Street.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a caper that could only happen in New Mexico, Roswell police say a flying saucer has been stolen from a UFO museum.

www.abqjournal.com 3-22-16

“Be on the lookout: missing spaceship,” the Roswell Police Department said in a post Monday on its Facebook page (see below).

The silver-colored saucer made of fiberglass, metal and stainless steel was allegedly stolen about 3:30 a.m. Saturday from behind the International UFO Museum and Research Center on Roswell’s main drag. [...]
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