The Bellevue Police Department received an unusual call Wednesday evening: Could they come check out a military-grade rocket in a garage?
A Bellevue man bought a rocket from an estate sale. After he died, his neighbor called the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, asking if the rocket could be donated.
The museum called Bellevue police, who went to the residence and found the rocket was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5-kiloton W25 nuclear warhead.