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A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
Edward J.
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
A sceptic.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
November 20, 1952.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
An optical physicist with the US Navy.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
Loren E.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
June 24, 1947.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
Timothy Good is a British author.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
A zoologist.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Project Blue Book's man at the top in the mid 1960s.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Robert E.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
A researcher of old sky wonders, Chris Aubeck co-wrote Wonders in the Sky with Jacques Vallée in 2010.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
James Fox is a filmmaker whose work keeps returning to the field's hardest cases.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
An English-language blogger.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
Ted Phillips studied physical trace cases.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A historian at the University of Caen.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
A French Mariologist and priest, René Laurentin turns up again and again where the Virgin was said to appear.
A sceptic of the Loch Ness legend.
A Condon Committee investigator, Roy Craig worked on several of its best known cases.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A pen name, and a patient one.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
Taxidermist Bob Titmus turns up at key moments in the Bigfoot record.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
James W.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
Gordon D.
John Green owned the Agassiz-Harrison Advance and spent some 60 years chasing the Sasquatch.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
A writer whose name runs through the archive's strangest tales.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
Prof.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A cardinal at the Vatican, and prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
George Adamski ran the Palomar Gardens café below Palomar Mountain in California.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
A Harvard astronomer.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
Charles Garreau was a French journalist and ufologist.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
Dr.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
As director of the FBI, J.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
John G.
In this archive, John Paul II appears as the pope who set his seal on old Marian apparition sites.
A sceptical investigator, writing for Skeptical Inquirer, who goes back to the records and the photographs.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
Parapsychologist William G.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
An author of Irish ghost lore.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
Autumn 1975.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
Spring 1933.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
January 1934.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A writer and UFO researcher who kept count of Argentina's strange skies.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A physical medium from Naples.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
Lt.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
Luis Elizondo, an ex-Pentagon intelligence officer, was named in 2017 as the head of AATIP.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A 34-year-old metalworker at the Ateliers du Nord de la France steelworks at Blanc-Misseron, Marius Dewilde lived with his wife at level crossing No.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
An investigator with the Italian sceptics' group CICAP, Massimo Polidoro turns up wherever a mystery needs a second look.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
A former rodeo rider and amateur boxer from Yakima, Washington.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
Summer, 1977.
R.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
Leonard H.
A Pentagon voice on record.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
The surname Turner belongs to two different men in this archive.
A leader of the Kosmopoisk group, Vadim Chernobrov appears in the archive as a field investigator who followed old Russian mysteries to their source.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
A researcher and author.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A researcher of British big cats, Di Francis wrote Cat Country: The Quest for the British Big Cat in 1983.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Three different men share this surname in the archive.
A ghost writer whose books carried older haunting stories into the twentieth century.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Dr.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
A young pilot.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
1921.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
January 1992.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
Assistant to J.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
John Greenewald Jr.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
A Swedish ufologist and APRO representative, K.
Tasmania had its own record keeper.
A sceptical voice from Brazil.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously.
A 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
A writer on the yeti.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
A researcher of earth lights.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
A pope appears at the edges of three Marian cases in the archive.
A carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
The name belongs to two witnesses in this archive, decades apart.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
Boulder, Colorado.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
March 1967.
Three different people share this surname in the archive.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Rubén Lianza was a retired Argentine Air Force commodore.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
A filmmaker drawn to the monsters of small towns.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Gordon D.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
Columbus, Ohio.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A zoologist at Yale.
Vladimír Šiška founded Projekt Záře, a Czech group that keeps files on the country's unexplained cases.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A historian and anthropologist, William A.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
A U.S.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
He says he worked a handful of days at a hidden site called S-4.
Maj.
19 November 2024.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations204
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
The Mutual UFO Network sent its investigators into some of the field's best known cases.
A skeptic forum.
J.
Kew is home to the files.
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
A British body of investigators.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
The Pentagon's UAP office.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
France's national space agency.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
The Vatican office that rules on claimed apparitions turns up again and again in this archive.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
This is Canada's defence department.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
Ground Saucer Watch was a photo analysis group based in Phoenix.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
A podcast.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
An Italian sceptics' group, CICAP turns up again and again when a strange case needs a second look.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
A sensational national weekly.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
A film outfit built on local legends.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
A British journal.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
A wire service.
A wire service.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
Paris.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Several newspapers carry this name, and the archive meets them in different cities and centuries.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
Dr.
A magazine.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
Civilian volunteers.
Portland, Maine.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
A French newspaper based in Épinal, La Liberté de l'Est carried strange stories from near and far.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
A British army regiment.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
An Iowa newspaper.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
Someone was always listening.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
A book of records turns up at the edges of three very different cases.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
NATO is the Western military alliance.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Harry Price ran it from South Kensington.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
A New York newspaper that turns up again and again in the archive's cases, sometimes as a megaphone and once as a closed door.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
A Czech research group founded by Vladimír Šiška.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
One police file.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
A news wire.
Farnborough.
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
A blog.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
In these stories, the U.S.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region.
Roadside markers are its trade.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
An Australian university whose library holds a piece of one of the country's oldest flying machine stories.
Programmes and projects38
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
October 1966.
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
A History series that went looking for answers.
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
A late-night radio programme, broadcast from Pahrump, Nevada, on more than 300 stations under Art Bell.
January 1953.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
A Syfy series that put famous footage to the test.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
January 2002.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
A television series.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Operação Prato gives its name to the Colares flap of 1977 in Brazil.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
A classified program from 1947.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places170
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A small town on the Gave de Pau.
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A whaling station on the north coast of Graham Island, in what is now Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
Ohio.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
A district of Cairo.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Great Falls, Montana.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
A mountain in Albania, and the setting of one of the country's best known UFO cases.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Flat and treeless.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A town in New Mexico.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
A gorge near Mount St.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
A long road across southern Australia.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A French département east of Paris.
The name turns up in two very different corners of the archive.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
A garrison town on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
Washington, D.C.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
A monastery on the River Shannon, south of Athlone.
On the Nullarbor Plain, flat and treeless, Cook sat at the 569-mile mark of the Trans-Australian Railway.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Two places share the name.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Edgehill.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
Two very different cases share this name.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
A small Cheshire town.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
Two places in the archive share this name.
Three places share this name across the archive.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
An air force base on the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
A town in the Mackay hinterland of central Queensland, in grazing country.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
Two very different places share this name in the archive.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
Three different buildings share this name in the archive.
A town in Ceará's Sertão Central, in north-eastern Brazil, about 170 km from Fortaleza.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A Massachusetts town whose witch trials of 1692 cast a long shadow over the archive.
An island in the Mediterranean, and the setting for two very different strands of the archive.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Craft and objects7
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
November 3, 1957.
A jump jet that can hover.
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events39
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
October 11, 1973.
1961.
Bluff Creek, 1967.
The yardstick for every man-eating beast in the archive.
Between 1764 and 1767, a beast terrorised the mountains of southern France.
London, 1762.
A benchmark case.
May 20, 1967.
London, 1803 and 1804.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Late November 1989.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
24 July 1948.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
A French town.
June 21, 1947.
April 1934.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
September 1952.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
1978.
Kentucky, 1955.
1988.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
July 1876.
October 13, 1973.
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
A phantom beast of South Australia.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Melbourne, Australia.
GOFAST is a Navy targeting-camera clip from 2015, recorded the same month as GIMBAL.
Valensole is a high plateau in Provence, in the lavender country of what was then the Basses-Alpes.
Terms88
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
Flying stones.
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A phantom with a name.
A contactee claims to have met beings from elsewhere and received their messages.
Cetorhinus maximus.
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
March 1995.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
Magonia began as a land in the clouds.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
In this archive, sleep paralysis comes up as a sceptical explanation for abduction stories.
The Tasmanian tiger.
A superior mirage.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
Two words that became a punchline.
Cornish for "sea giant".
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
A television series.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
A giant bird.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Arkansas, 1971.
February 26, 1946.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
1919.
A book.
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
Silent.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
An explanation that returns again and again in this archive, usually once the prowler has vanished.
A sitting to reach the dead.
The genus of the giant squid.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A term for a wolf-like creature that walks on two legs.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
The name means "short person".
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
Missouri had its monster first.
A giant octopus, named from a carcass.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
The marsupial lion.
A theory of lights born from the ground itself.
A term born in 1947.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
A horse's head.
Muhnochwa.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.
Kangaroos far from home.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.
Straight lines on a map.