The mark consists of a circle showing the characters "NATIONAL UFO HISTORICAL RECORDS CENTER" around the rim of the circle with dots in between each word except for between the first and last words which shows a triangle in between the words. Two concentric circles with a globe in the middle are shown in the center of the design. The globe is superimposed over a night sky with a meteor streaking across the bottom left to the upper right. A four point compass symbol is shown above the meteor.