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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People57
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
A sceptic.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A researcher of old sky wonders, Chris Aubeck co-wrote Wonders in the Sky with Jacques Vallée in 2010.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
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.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A historian at the University of Caen.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
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.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
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 author and retteller of strange tales.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
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.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
The surname Turner belongs to two different men in this archive.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
John Greenewald Jr.
A Swedish ufologist and APRO representative, K.
A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Three different people share this surname in the archive.
Vladimír Šiška founded Projekt Záře, a Czech group that keeps files on the country's unexplained cases.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations36
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Kew is home to the files.
A British body of investigators.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
This is Canada's defence department.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
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.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
A magazine.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
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.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
Farnborough.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Programmes and projects4
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places29
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A long road across southern Australia.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Flat and treeless.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
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 town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Edgehill.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Three places share this name across the archive.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Events1
Melbourne, Australia.
Terms10
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
February 26, 1946.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.
A term born in 1947.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.
Straight lines on a map.