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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People12
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Ted Phillips studied physical trace cases.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
Assistant to J.
Boulder, Colorado.
Organisations9
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
J.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
Programmes and projects3
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
January 1953.
Places3
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
Terms2
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.