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.
The Times said the "small and idiosyncratic cut of potential buyers" has included marijuana growers, hydroponic gardeners, a commercial document archivist and, of course, preppers — "doomsday types," Moore calls them, who'd "love to have it, but it seems like they lack the money."
An uninformed visitor to the site might never guess at the existence of a 10-story structure underground. But the listing promises that there are "two level housing levels," about 60 feet down, each measuring about 1,250 square feet. There's also a control room. An adjacent silo is about 50 feet across and 300 feet deep. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow, including pictures of nearby Roswell.)
Inside the silo.
During the Cold War, one of the silos housed an intercontinental ballistic missile more than 100 times more powerful than the Fat Man plutonium bomb that leveled the city of Nagasaki.
These almost unimaginably massive capsules of steel and concrete, with walls thicker than the whole length of some bedrooms, "will last well over 1,000 years," one expert, developer Larry Hall, told the Times.
He would say so, though: Hall is the man behind the luxury missile-silo condos we told you about in November. His first Kansas project is sold out, but about half the units are available in a second complex. VIDEO
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