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Deep in UFO country, a prepper's dream home for sale: Roswell nuclear missile silo
Yahoo Homes ^ | 1/15/15 | Jennifer Karmon

Posted on 01/16/2015 3:35:30 AM PST by Kartographer

Deep in the heart of flying-saucer land, a real estate agent is peddling conspiracy theorists' dream home. This Atlas-F nuclear missile silo — decommissioned, of course — is one of a dozen around Roswell, New Mexico, a remote town best known as the site of a supposed flying-saucer crash in 1947. (Almost 50 years later, the Air Force revealed that the wreckage was actually an atomic-age spy contraption meant to detect minute atmospheric evidence of Soviet nuclear test blasts on the other side of the planet.)

Century 21 agent Jim Moore, who's marketing the 25-acre property, recently gave the New York Times a silo tour. He told the paper that the property is already under contract, for close to its $295,000 asking price.

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The property is 25 acres. A green door juts from the landscape, with stairs leading down into the silo.
1 posted on 01/16/2015 3:35:30 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


2 posted on 01/16/2015 3:36:21 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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New Mexico PING!!


3 posted on 01/16/2015 3:37:11 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Looks like it is sold!

Here is the listing here:

http://www.century21.com/property/8422-clovis-hwy-roswell-nm-88201-C2122348538


4 posted on 01/16/2015 3:40:24 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

A real fixer-upper.


5 posted on 01/16/2015 4:04:25 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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"A real fixer-upper."

Yes, $295K to buy and how many millions to fix it up, I wonder?

6 posted on 01/16/2015 4:08:34 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Kartographer
Pic of the buyers...


7 posted on 01/16/2015 4:12:05 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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Yes, $295K to buy and how many millions to fix it up, I wonder?

You got that right! The missile alone would cost ...

8 posted on 01/16/2015 4:12:31 AM PST by The Duke
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"Almost 50 years later, the Air Force revealed scrapped the official government claim that it was a 'weather balloon' and made a new claim: that the wreckage was actually an atomic-age spy contraption
9 posted on 01/16/2015 4:25:47 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Kartographer

What this means to me is one less target for the ruskies to worry about.


10 posted on 01/16/2015 4:27:53 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: zot

Roswell ping


11 posted on 01/16/2015 4:53:57 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Kartographer

Wouldn’t getting water be somewhat of a problem in New Mexico?


12 posted on 01/16/2015 5:30:37 AM PST by chrisser (Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids. And Cheetos are for Rinos.)
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One of the pic captions at the site says the property comes with 280 acres of water rights...


13 posted on 01/16/2015 5:33:11 AM PST by chrisser (Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids. And Cheetos are for Rinos.)
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One of the pic captions at the site says the property comes with 280 acres of water rights...

That's a relief, because surely that would be of indespensible help in a post-apocalyptic world.

14 posted on 01/16/2015 5:40:02 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Kartographer

On the downside,it’s in Roswell. If rather die.


15 posted on 01/16/2015 6:30:33 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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Mine

(Needs a little paint)

16 posted on 01/16/2015 8:26:47 AM PST by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
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Some paint new carpet and a little decorating and it would be in move-in condition!


17 posted on 01/16/2015 8:34:29 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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“Almost 50 years later, the Air Force scrapped the official government claim that it was a ‘weather balloon’ and made a new claim: that the wreckage was actually an atomic-age spy contraption.”

Thanks for posting this.


18 posted on 01/16/2015 9:09:24 AM PST by zot
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. I wouldn’t want it.


19 posted on 01/16/2015 9:10:57 AM PST by zot
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To: Mouton

Unless the ruskies are using old maps and then blam!


20 posted on 01/16/2015 9:33:27 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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