At the end of January, police in Bellevue, Washington received an unusual call from an Ohio museum. The museum explained that a Bellevue local had contacted them about donating a nuclear missile.
Police went to check it out — and found that a recently deceased man had, in fact, had a military-grade rocket slowly rusting in his garage.
The Missile In The Garage
The saga of the missile in the garage began with a phone call. On January 31, 2024, the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio reached out to police in Bellevue, Washington state with a strange — and possibly dangerous — problem. They said that a Bellevue resident had contacted them about donating a Cold War-era nuclear missile.
The resident told the museum that his neighbor had purchased the missile at an estate sale. When he died, the resident was put in charge of his late neighbor’s belongings, including the missile. Apparently having no use for it himself, he contacted the museum, who promptly called the police…