on March 17, reports of a group of “flying saucers” flooded the police switchboard, with reports ranging from five to nine objects seemingly heading in a northeast direction. “Farmington ‘Invaded’ By Saucer Squadron” was the banner headline in the March 17 edition of the Santa Fe New Mexican, with the subhead, “Citizens See ‘Hundreds’ Over Town.” The newspaper’s business manager was quoted in the story as having seen “about 500” objects in the sky. Rumors of intimidation and warnings to “stay quiet” circulated.Īn edition of the Farmington Daily Times had a story – with the headline, “Huge ‘Saucer’ Invasion Jolts Farmington” - about the first day’s incident, but no follow-up stories. He said he was later interviewed by military personnel over the next few days. Webb told Marler there seemed to be an intelligence to them, as they remained in a purposeful and tight formation, occasionally making extremely tight turns.
Webb was curious so he stepped outside, looked up, and saw 15 to 20 soundless “objects” moving from east to west. One morning, he saw a handful of people outside, looking and pointing to the sky. In March of 1950, Webb worked in the parts department of the Perry Smoak Chevrolet Garage.
One of them, Marlo Webb, was interviewed by Marler in 2016, who told him that despite being more than 90 years of age, he still had a sharp mind. Over a thousand residents of the area witnessed what was described as a fleet of “flying saucers” – from 200 to 500 in all – hovering and maneuvering in the sky. He said UFO researchers, himself included, prefer cases that have collaborative testimony rather than one eyewitness report – and the Farmington incident had hundreds, if not thousands, who witnessed the bizarre events. 72 years ago. Marler believes the incident was basically overlooked for decades, which he termed an “egregious oversight.” Marler will talk about what happened over a three-day span in Farmington, N.M. “Multiple eyewitness cases definitely raise the bar of credibility, as opposed to a solitary witness,” he said. I’m interested in facts and data.”Ĭollectively, he said, UFOlogists “always take a conventional approach to an unconventional topic.”įrom his research about a March 1950 incident, the topic of one of his presentations in Roswell, seems difficult to refute. He’s never seen a UFO and: “I’ve got more questions than answers.
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“Quite often, we talk about the archive – documents, case files, books, journals – but the other thing I try to do, I’m not only an archivist, I’m a researcher … and I try to track down these witnesses,” he said.
Marler has a huge, and still growing, collection of UFO materials and reports of sightings – but he’s not merely a collector, he’s a historian and researcher. Don’t worry, citizens were told. After all, why else would the Army Air Force cordon the area off and remove all evidence?īut almost 30 years later, the USAF released a 25-page report saying the alleged UFO materials found on a ranch not far from Roswell had been parts of a special, top-secret balloon project designed to detect Soviet nuclear activity.Ĭoincidentally, in the last two weeks of that June, hundreds of UFO sightings were reported from as far east as Glens Falls, N.Y., to Yakima, Wash. government vehemently denied any such thing happened. What’s cool about this event, Marler said, is it marks the 75th anniversary of that famous “Roswell Incident” of July 1947, when pieces of a UFO that crashed near Corona, N.M., were retrieved, as many as four “alien bodies” reportedly gathered and sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and the U.S. (Herron photo)ĭavid Marler, the Rio Rancho’s “resident UFOlogist,” is among a dozen guest speakers headed to Roswell for its annual UFO festival July 1-3. David Marler at home, surrounded by a small portion of his collection.
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