---
title: "Artist Tricks Arizona Drivers With Fake NASA Space Capsule Crash"
description: "The piece was actually just an old cement mixer in disguise."
date: "2017-02-07"
modified: "2017-02-07"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/7427/artist-tricks-arizona-drivers-with-fake-nasa-space-capsule-crash"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Arizona"
  - "Art"
  - "NASA"
  - "space"
---

# Artist Tricks Arizona Drivers With Fake NASA Space Capsule Crash

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An art installation in the middle of an Arizona desert left motorists shocked, concerned, and confused as to why an object that appeared to be a spacecraft crash-landed in the empty area.

The silver pod was placed on the side of I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson. The art, created by local artist Jack Millard, was originally an old cement mixer, but [Millard turned it into a space capsule](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4197530/Roadside-space-capsule-Arizona-interstate.html>) replica when he saw the object's potential.

"I just get[ these impulses to create](<https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/02/06/arizonas-newest-roadside-oddity-looks-like-fell-space/97534318/>)," Millard told the *Arizona Republica*. "It's a glorified yard ornament."

According to *Daily Mail*, the Arizona Department of Public Safety responded to calls Monday morning that stated it appeared something seemed out of the ordinary. Callers said that something looked like it had ["fallen out of the sky."](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4197530/Roadside-space-capsule-Arizona-interstate.html>)

One caller who was apparently a NASA scientist said that it looked like the object was a 1960s space capsule.

"As an artist, my mission is to find beauty and magic in things others would consider junk. If they enjoy it, that's great. We live in such a cynical, jaded world. If it distracts them for a moment, that's [a wonderful thing,](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4197530/Roadside-space-capsule-Arizona-interstate.html>)" said Millard to *Daily Mail*.

Anyways, if you're out in Arizona and you come across a space capsule-looking thing on the side of an interstate, there's a good chance it's just an art piece. Probably

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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