NARRATOR: There may be no place in America
with stranger aviation stories than this.
[STATIC AND INTERFERENCE]
Crunch.
Rip.
Smash.
[WESTERN MUSIC PLAYING]
Welcome to Roswell, New Mexico, where aircraft come to die.
Anyone frustrated by the current state of air travel
might want to try their hand at this, tearing
apart an entire airplane.
This hydraulic excavator has been outfitted
with a special giant claw that can demolish a once
mighty MD-80 jet in minutes.
[EXCAVATOR WORKING NOISILY]
This might just be one of the most
satisfying jobs in aviation.
But it takes a lot of skill.
You try plucking out the plane's bathroom as neatly as this.
When this aircraft is completely demolished,
workers will salvage spare parts for resale.
Next up?
This 747.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
But aircraft demolition isn't the only strange sight
here at the Roswell Airport.
Across the tarmac is a red Lockheed JetStar that
once belonged to the King of Rock and Roll,
Elvis Presley himself.
It was first sold by Elvis' dad, and then
sold again to a man from Poland, but still
gathers dust here is Roswell.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
And then, there's the strangest flying object of them
all, so strange, no one has actually ever seen it.
Almost 60 years ago, an unidentified flying object
reportedly landed in the desert outside Roswell.
Before anyone knew what it was, the US
government locked it away in this hangar
at the Roswell Airport.
Rumors that it was an alien spaceship
spread like wildfire, sealing Roswell's
extraterrestrial reputation.