I happened upon, and how I did so remains a dreadful and altogether murky a thing to be sure, a UFO library in Scandinavia. It collects all the texts, ephemera and disclosed government documents and newspaper cuttings of Unidentified Flying Object sightings, alien abductions and general contacts with the Spacemen that it can. And it is exactly how one of these places should be.
The small library is run by only a few volunteers – their sparse biographies (I assume you don’t want to give too much away without some kind of probing) whilst simultaneously dispelling the notion all Scandinavians are models but Uber-Geeks have that unhinged look in their eye and penchant for Nerd-Shirts the world over, conjure up the best of people who would commit their spare time and possibly their chance for true happiness in their lives to this type of thing:
The person in charge of the Library describes himself as 75% of the time a manager in a furniture store. There is a volunteer who has worked in the library for many years and now claims to be an open-minded sceptic on the subject of Alien Abduction and also has a “vast personal collection” of material regarding Swedish unsolved crimes. Another describes his real job as a reviewer for websites and the UFO Library Newsletter and has written 3 novels (all unpublished); he sites his other interests as the study of Satanism, the religious interpretation of aliens and computer games. The Librarian, brilliantly, merely states that she is “an old age pensioner” (this throws up the suggestion that she is either being kept her against her frail bodied wishes as the others mistakenly think she is a Grey Wrinkly or, more likely, that she is simply warm there). Finally, there is one full-time volunteer: in her spare time she writes X-files scripts continuing the series for herself, in all of which she "figures prominently". Of course she does.
If I was an Extra-terrestrial going to go to a volunteer run UFO-logy Library then these are exactly the people I would expect, even demand, to meet. They sound ideal for this sort of thing.
“Take me to your leader! Oh right, Ok… and how much of a percent has he been managing his store so far today? Ah, I’ll wait.”
I would post the link to their catalogue but they have only just managed to buy a PC with their Earth Pounds and I suspect may be hooked into someone else’s dial-up connection rather than the Borg’s central computer as I believe I managed to exceed their bandwidth and it crashed almost immediately. Or did it?
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