Reports of a suspected explosive device scrambled the Utah County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad to the Pony Express Parkway in Eagle Mountain late Wednesday morning.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the item, a tube with a large taped cap, was spotted in or near the median of the arterial, which was closed down about 9:30 a.m. in both directions between Porter’s Crossing and the Smith Ranch Road.
However, the road was reopened by 11:20 a.m. when the item, having been X-rayed, was determined to have been the nose cone of a model rocket, Cannon said.