US police have found a carrier-type missile used to carry nuclear warheads inside the garage of a house in the city of Palevo, Washington.
Police said the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, contacted them to report an offer to donate the artifact, which was said to have been purchased during a property sale.
Members of the Explosives Disposal Team examined the rusty object and found it to be a Douglas Air-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air missile designed to carry nuclear warheads.
Although there was no warhead attached to it and rocket fuel, police confirmed that the element posed no explosive threat.
She explained that due to the inactivity of the artifact and the army’s failure to request its restoration, it was left in the neighbor’s possession to be reassembled and displayed in the museum.
According to the Air Weapons Museum Foundation, the United States and Canada used the unguided air-to-air missile during the Cold War to counter the threat of Soviet strategic bombers.