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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People10
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
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A former West Midlands police detective.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
Organisations7
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
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.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Programmes and projects1
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Places8
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A French département east of Paris.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.