![]() We were able to look down an additional eight or ten stories into the pit which, at one time, contained an Atlas nuclear arsenal. Our host showed us around the upper two levels of the silo, which served as his home. Sure enuf, the entire entryway area was lined by rattlers in terrariums. They’re in terrariums, just burglar defense. Oh, … and don’t worry about the rattle snakes. He said to me, “You go first, the light switch is inside on the left. He dragged the 2-ton door open with a classic cre-e-e-a-k and we descended the steep stairs to a second fortified door. He is willing to sell it to anyone for the asking price of 250,000.00. ![]() We followed him to the nuclear-blast-proof door. 80 X 125 building has been erected on the site.Salvaging is planed to start next spring. You guys ever been inside one of these silos?” Bombshell Listing: Former Missile Silo Quickly Enlists a Buyer in Nebraska By Tiffani Sherman For the second time this year, a decommissioned missile silo is for sale in. We explained we were working for ACoE, and he calmed right down, got friendly and explained he lived here. He screeched to a stop and shouted, “What are you guys doing here?” We were collecting and analyzing samples around the diesel storage tank when I looked up to see an old Chevy Blazer, with no top, roaring up the access road. Second was an alien homey encounter of the bizarre kind. When I asked the Roswell ER Doc what that swollen lump was, he asked me if I had ever seen the movie “Alien”. In the wee hours, the night before leaving for this Roswell project, I got between a dog/cat fight and ended up with a severe infected cat bite in my calf. I’ve written about this before and won’t waste much time about it. They were replaced by silos with solid rocket booster Titan missiles.īut, that entire Roswell project, in my mind, 30 years ago, was capped off by two amazing encounters of the surreal kind.įirst, was the alien cat attack. Those missile facilities were built starting in 1961 and de-commissioned around 1965 due to massive issues with leaks in liquid fuel and oxidizer from the Atlas rockets. Sometime around 1990, my environmental mobile laboratory company obtained a contract with the Army Corp of Engineers to provide analysis of potential leakage of diesel fuel from underground storage tanks which supplied fuel for backup electrical generators at former Atlas silo facilities in New Mexico, east of Roswell. Atlas Missile Silo, Roswell, NM (closer view)
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