(KTVX) — California authorities investigating the disappearance of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard revealed bombshell new information in the search for her, including that license plates were switched on a rental car driven by her mother some time after leaving on a cross-country road trip.

The FBI Denver Field Office also advised Western Slope residents to be on the lookout for Melodee as she was confirmed to have been near the Colorado-Utah border at one point.

Melodee was first reported missing on Oct. 14 when faculty at her elementary school noticed she had been absent for a long period of time. The young girl was homeschooled at her home located in Vandenberg Village, near the Space Force Base that shares the same name in Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County.

When Santa Barbara County Sherif

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