For sale: a disused US missile silo near where aliens might have landed

In Roswell, New Mexico, a town with the reputation of having been the place where an alien spacecraft was supposed to have crashed but the US government insists did not, a unique property has come on to the market – it is a disused US intercontinental ballistic missile silo dating from the cold war.

Before being decommissioned in 1965 and sold off to private buyers, the silo was home to an Atlas-F rocket that carried a warhead over 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War II. After the missile was taken out of service, what was left was a subterranean lair 10 stories down with doors weighing thousands of pounds and walls of concrete and steel that are metres thick.

From a real estate perspective, the silo is a fixer-upper deluxe, for which there has been no shortage of interested parties including marijuana growers, hydroponic gardeners, a document storage company, and “doomsday types” looking for a virtually impenetrable bunker for when things above ground turn sour. Jim Moore, the real estate agent handling the sale, has found a buyer, and the deal is scheduled to close this month. He would not disclose the buyer’s identity, but said the offer was close to the asking price ($295 000).

Now, does anyone know of any disused missile silos in South Africa? (Just kidding.)

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