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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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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.
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 zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
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 researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
A sceptic.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
November 20, 1952.
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.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
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.
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.
June 24, 1947.
Loren E.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
Timothy Good is a British author.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
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.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
A zoologist.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
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.
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.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
Robert E.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A researcher of old sky wonders, Chris Aubeck co-wrote Wonders in the Sky with Jacques Vallée in 2010.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
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 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.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
An English-language blogger.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
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.
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.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
A historian at the University of Caen.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
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 French Mariologist and priest, René Laurentin turns up again and again where the Virgin was said to appear.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
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 researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
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 Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
Gordon D.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
Dr.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
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.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
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.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
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.
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 writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
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.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
Charles Garreau was a French journalist and ufologist.
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
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 New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
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.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
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.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
An author of Irish ghost lore.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
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.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
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.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
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.
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.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
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 psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
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 sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
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.
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.
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.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
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 science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
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.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Leonard H.
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.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
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 researcher and author.
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.
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.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
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.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
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 Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Dr.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A young pilot.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
1921.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
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.
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.
Rubén Lianza was a retired Argentine Air Force commodore.
A filmmaker drawn to the monsters of small towns.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
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.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A historian and anthropologist, William A.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
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.
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.
Organisations108
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
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 British body of investigators.
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
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.
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.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
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.
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.
This is Canada's defence department.
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.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
A film outfit built on local legends.
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.
Paris.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
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 Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
A wire service.
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.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
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.
Dr.
A magazine.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
Civilian volunteers.
Portland, Maine.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
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.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
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.
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 magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
Someone was always listening.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
A book of records turns up at the edges of three very different cases.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
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 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.
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.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
One police file.
A news wire.
Farnborough.
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
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.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
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.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
Programmes and projects15
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.
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.
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
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.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A classified program from 1947.
Places122
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
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.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
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.
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 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.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
A whaling station on the north coast of Graham Island, in what is now Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
A district of Cairo.
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.
Ohio.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
A town in New Mexico.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
A gorge near Mount St.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
A long road across southern Australia.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
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.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Flat and treeless.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A Massachusetts town whose witch trials of 1692 cast a long shadow over the archive.
The name turns up in two very different corners of the archive.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
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 small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
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.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
Two places in the archive share this name.
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.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
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.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
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 naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
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.
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.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
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 Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Two counties share this name 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.
Craft and objects4
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
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A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
1961.
The yardstick for every man-eating beast in the archive.
A benchmark case.
May 20, 1967.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
Kentucky, 1955.
1988.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
June 21, 1947.
April 1934.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
September 1952.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
July 1876.
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.
Terms43
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
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.
A phantom with a name.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Magonia began as a land in the clouds.
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
March 1995.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
The Tasmanian tiger.
A superior mirage.
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
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.
1919.
A book.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
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.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
The name means "short person".
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
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.
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.
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 big cat seen where no big cat should be.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.