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Want to own a flying saucer? Check out this $1.8M property listing in southern Utah.

The Hurricane short-term rental property also features a pair of aliens “preserved” in large tubes.

(escape2stgeorge.com) A short-term rental property in Hurricane that features this spaceship is on the market for $1.89 million.

Ever wanted to own your own spaceship, complete with a couple of aliens housed in an “Area 51″ warehouse? Here’s your chance — just such a property in Hurricane is for sale for a mere $1.89 million.

It’s the perfect spot to hang out, relax and maybe fight a Nerf gun war.

The short-term rental property at 166 E. 300 North is astonishing on multiple levels, beginning with that spaceship, built inside a metal building emblazoned with signs declaring it Hangar 18 at Area 51, albeit misspelled as “Hanger.” Recently highlighted in the “Zillow Gone Wild” newsletter, it has:

• A flying saucer complete with a flight bridge.

(escape2stgeorge.com) The Area 51 hangar is one of three rental units on the property.

• A “secret entrance” to a faux ventilation system, which leads to a slide.

• A pair of aliens “preserved” in large tubes.

• Five bedrooms, including one in the flying saucer and another in the “bioscience lab” that comes complete with four “cryogenic tubes” (single beds), according to owner Kendall Clements.

(escape2stgeorge.com) The slide — and a couple of aliens — in the Area 51 hangar.

His company, Escape Properties, owns or manages about 80 short-term rental units in the St. George area — including one that features a Captain Nemo-esque submarine, and another that features a shipwreck.

“There’s just a saturation starting to take effect in the St. George market,” Clements said. “So the way to keep the occupancy up, we thought, was to go ahead and do this thing.”

Area 51 may be the most unusual. The property also features:

The Atomic Love Shack, a small building that’s a studio suite with a queen bed, private bath, kitchenette and a private patio overlooking the pool. (“We thought it was a funny marketing name,” Clements said. “Our wives disagree with us on that.”)

(escape2stgeorge.com) There's a saltwater pool in the middle of the three rental units.

The Roswell Cabin, a three-bedroom, one-bath log home with a full kitchen, two decks and an outdoor grill.

• An eight-person hot tub and a saltwater pool with a volleyball net and a “Shamu shelf.” There’s an outdoor shower, and a half-bath so swimmers don’t have to go inside.

All totaled, the property has nine bedrooms, which sleep 23 people; 7½ baths; and parking for 13 vehicles on a 0.31 acre lot. You can rent the buildings separately or together.

When Clements and his partners bought the property two years ago, the cabin was the only rental unit. The steel building housed an electronic equipment recycling company. Before that, it had been a mechanic’s shop with a paint booth. And the “little casita out back was basically just a laundry room.”

(escape2stgeorge.com) The short-term rental unit features a flying saucer and all the modern conveniences.

The log cabin was remodeled from two bedrooms to three; the laundry room became a studio apartment; and Clements and his brother, Stuart, started kicking around ideas for the steel building.

The original idea was to turn it into an airplane-themed getaway, but it wasn’t big enough to get a fuselage inside. While at lunch one day, the brothers “just sat there and thought, ‘What would be a cool property that people would enjoy?’” Kendall Clements said. So they started drawing on napkins, and came up with the idea of the spaceship.

There are three primary bedrooms and two bunk rooms. Inside an air shaft, in the area that leads to the slide, there are eight Nerf guns with 1,000 rounds of Nerf gun ammo.

“The idea is that parents and kids get to play together,” Kendall Clements said. “We see a lot of dads with their sons playing Nerf gun wars instead of sitting there looking at their phones. And then they go up and play in the pool. Every generation of the family plays at the house, and they can go hike at Zion National Park, which is 20 minutes up the road.”

(escape2stgeorge.com) One of five bedrooms in the Area 51 hangar.

Although the property is for sale, it’s still being rented out to vacationers. You can reserve a stay at escape2stgeorge.com, and reservations will be transferred to the new owner when the sale is complete.

Why sell? To finance another project two blocks south of the property. An old pioneer home, it was later converted to an army surplus store. Clements and his partners then converted it to a bed and breakfast, and built a duplex behind it — which is home to the shipwreck and the mineshaft.

He recently acquired the property next door to that, and has plans for four more rental units, he said — including a fire station with a fire pole and fire engine; a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed unit; and a Scooby-Doo Mystery Mansion, complete with the Mystery Machine van. “To access the pool, you’ll have to go down through the crypt and fight off the zombies as Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the gang,” Clements said. “That takes cash, and we’re looking for cash flow.”

If you’d like to get in on this but don’t want to spend upward of $2 million to buy the Area 51 property, there may be an alternative. Clements said he’d like to convince his partners to bring on an investor. “That’d be my preference, but they haven’t agreed to that yet,” he said. “So we decided to sell that property and roll the cash into the next project.”