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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People10
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
Leonard H.
Organisations9
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
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.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
Civilian volunteers.
Programmes and projects1
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
Places5
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
A garrison town on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Terms3
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
Kangaroos far from home.