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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People17
A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A pen name, and a patient one.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
Organisations7
France's national space agency.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
Programmes and projects2
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
A late-night radio programme, broadcast from Pahrump, Nevada, on more than 300 stations under Art Bell.
Places4
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
Two places share the name.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Events2
Late November 1989.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
Terms5
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Flying stones.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Silent.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.