EOD Respond to "Deserted Desert" UXO

Alamogordo, New Mexico New Mexico State Police called in members of Holloman Air Force Base EOD when a man reported a potential old military UXO in the back of his pickup truck. The unidentified item was approximately one foot long and a few inches in diameter.

The man reported the munition, which his friend found in the desert, after he became concerned that it may still be live. Officers responding to the truck owner's place of work, and removed the item for safe disposal.

Authorities remind people that just because an ordnance is laying in the open in the desert doesn't mean it is not dangerous.