Plans unveiled for out of this world museum

Posted at: 10/01/2009 2:54 PM
By: The Associated Press

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - An out of this world design has been unveiled for the proposed UFO Museum in Roswell.

Architect E. Kevin Schopfer told a gathering in Roswell earlier this week that he wanted to avoid making the design look like a spaceship. He said they came up with an alien object as opposed to an alien ship.

Schopfer said the museum will be built in phases with an estimated final price tag of $25 million.

Museum director Julie Shuster said the new building will be about 30,000 square feet with ground breaking no later than October 2010 with a July 2011 opening.

In early July 1947, a mysterious object crashed on a ranch 30 miles north of Roswell.

The Roswell Army Air Field issued a statement claiming to have recovered a crashed "flying disk."

Later, military officials changed said the object was a weather balloon, not a flying disk as they previously reported.

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