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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People22
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
A writer whose name runs through the archive's strangest tales.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
Charles Garreau was a French journalist and ufologist.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
Autumn 1975.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
1921.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
Organisations4
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
Programmes and projects4
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A television series.
A classified program from 1947.
Places7
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Terms3
1919.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.