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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People51
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.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
Robert E.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
In this archive, John Paul II appears as the pope who set his seal on old Marian apparition sites.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
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.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
As director of the FBI, J.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Dr.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
Assistant to J.
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 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
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 carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
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 Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Rubén Lianza was a retired Argentine Air Force commodore.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
Organisations29
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
Dr.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Someone was always listening.
A book of records turns up at the edges of three very different cases.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects5
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
January 1953.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places15
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A monastery on the River Shannon, south of Athlone.
Two places share the name.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
Two very different places share this name in the archive.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Events6
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
May 20, 1967.
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
24 July 1948.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Terms12
Two words that became a punchline.
The Tasmanian tiger.
Cornish for "sea giant".
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
Kangaroos far from home.