records about ufo sightings in north america. and this morning we're getting a look inside from our albuquerque station. david mahler spoke with the head of the national ufo historical records center. how you interpret what a ufo is, you know, is it misidentification of something prosaic? is it alien? is it something else? it doesn't matter. at the end of the day, it's history and ufo record archivist david mahler 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. mahler built an addition onto 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 and even air traffic control radio recordings. it's right out of the x-files. i mean, it's a definite ufo or something like that are all packed inside this small room. it is essentially a traditional historical archive, albeit dedicated to a nontraditional subject and his collection, officially known as the national ufo