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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People5
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.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Organisations9
Kew is home to the files.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
Farnborough.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Places4
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events1
September 1952.