Thieves made off with a solid gold replica of the first vehicle to land on the moon Friday.
Police in Wapakoneta, Ohio, say they found the model of the 1969 Lunar Excursion Module missing from the Armstrong Air & Space Museum after they responded to an alarm that went off at the museum late Friday night.
The gold replica, given to famed astronaut Neil Armstrong, is one of only three made — one for each astronaut aboard Apollo 11. Police said in a statement that “the value of such an item cannot be determined.”
The museum responded to the theft on its Facebook page:
“The truth is that you can’t steal from a museum. Museum’s don’t ‘own’ artifacts. We are simply vessels of the public trust. Museums care for and exhibit items on behalf of you, the public. Theft from a museum is a theft from all of us. Three hundred people driving from across the country were robbed of their opportunity to experience the museum today. For every day that an item is missing, we are all robbed of an opportunity to enjoy it and our history.”

Readers of French newspaper Le Figaro gave the 18-karat gold models to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins during a visit to Paris in October 1969, according to the website collectSPACE. Le Figaro commissioned French jewelry-maker Cartier to design and make the models; the newspaper asked its readers “to contribute to the cost — 10 francs, 20 francs, whatever they could afford — with two of [the readers] making the presentation,” Cartier archivist Violette Petit told Barron’s in 2015. Inside each model was a microfilm with the names of readers who contributed.