The City of Vision is home to the largest collection of records about UFO sightings in North America.
KOB 4 found out you’ll soon be able to read through all of them yourself, and it sounds like they’ll need a lot of time.
“How you interpret what a UFO is, you know, is it miss identification of something prosaic? Is it alien? Is it something else? It doesn’t matter, at the end of the day it’s history,” said David Marler, executive director of the National UFO Historical Records Center.
Marler believes that history belongs to everyone.
“Whether you relegate UFOs, to fact fiction or folklore, it’s part of our history, it’s part of our culture. And I feel that regardless of belief, or non belief in the subject, we need to preserve this element of our culture,” said Marler.
Marler built an addition to his Rio Rancho home to house the thousands of documents he’s collected over the years. Everything from declassified Project Blue Book files to newspaper clippings, air traffic control radio recordings are all packed inside a small room.
“It is essentially a traditional historical archive, albeit dedicated to a non-traditional subject,” said Marler.
His collection, officially known as the National UFO Historical Records Center, is growing. Marler says more archivists are sending him their collections, so everything is under one roof.
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