The world may be coming around to Richard O’Connor

Richard O’Connor is looking up.

Nine years ago, O’Connor founded the Jesse A. Marcel Library, a small red building off South Hills Road in Clancy, dedicated to exploring and exposing certain mysteries of the universe: unidentified flying objects (UFOs), crop circles, and alien life and lore.

He named it after his friend and medical colleague Dr. Jesse A. Marcel Jr., and Marcel’s father Maj. Jesse A. Marcel. In 1947, Maj. Marcel, then an Air Force intelligence officer, reportedly investigated the crash of an unidentified flying object in Roswell, New Mexico.