‘UFO’ thieves hunted by cops after CCTV footage shows ‘men stealing flying saucer’ from Roswell museum

The theft occurred at the International UFO Museum and Research Centre, in Roswell, New Mexico, US

This could be a case for Mulder and Scully.

Police are hunting thieves who stole a ‘flying saucer’ from a museum in the UFO capital of the world.

The fibreglass silver coloured disc has been on display at the International UFO Museum and Research Centre, in Roswell, New Mexico, for 24 years.

But last Saturday, three men were captured on CCTV loading the spaceship into a truck before driving off.

The case has mystified Roswell Police Department, who posted a message on Facebook.

They wrote: “There are certainly a good number of spaceships/flying saucers in Roswell, but if you happen to see one that looks a little out of place, please give RPD a call.”

The large disc was being stored behind the museum following repairs after it was knocked from its mount in a snowstorm last Decembe

UFO enthusiasts flock to the town every year to reminisce about the infamous UFO crash in July, 1947, when the US Army Air Force allegedly recovered a flying disc and several dead alien bodies.

Reports also claim the US military recovered a living alien which was taken to Area 51 in Nevada.

A rancher called Mac Brazel found the unusual metal debris scattered across the desert following a thunderstorm.

He called the local authorities who notified the military, and they launched a clean-up operation.

They issued a press release saying they had captured a “flying saucer” sparking a media frenzy and headlines around the world.

Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer from the 509 Bomb Group, stationed at Roswell Army Airfield – where the planes which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were based – flew the wreckage to Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio.

He said the recovered material could not be bent, broken or burned.

Some of the ‘I’ beams had strange hieroglyphics on them and material the thickness of tinfoil was indestructible.

A local funeral director, Glenn Dennis, claims he was asked to supply small hermetically sealed coffins and how to preserve bodies which had been exposed to the elements for a few days to avoid contaminating the tissue.

Dennis later met with a nurse who told him about small bodies which were brought to the local hospital before being taken away.

However a few days later the US military retracted its press statement saying the crashed saucer was nothing more than a weather balloon – codenamed Operation Mogul – a top secret project to detect Soviet atomic bomb tests.

They said the dead alien corpses were merely crash test dummies, which is disputed by several witnesses and top UFO investigators to this day.