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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People71
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Project Blue Book's man at the top in the mid 1960s.
A zoologist.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
Gordon D.
Dr.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
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.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
Lt.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
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.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
Summer, 1977.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
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.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
Dr.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
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 reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
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 physician in Rio de Janeiro.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
19 November 2024.
Organisations27
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.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
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.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
A podcast.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
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.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical 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 British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
Dr.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
Programmes and projects6
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.
A History series that went looking for answers.
January 2002.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Places31
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
Flat and treeless.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A gorge near Mount St.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A town in the Mackay hinterland of central Queensland, in grazing country.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
Two very different cases share this name.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
Three places share this name across the archive.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Two places in the archive share this name.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
Craft and objects3
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Events9
1961.
Bluff Creek, 1967.
London, 1762.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
1988.
A French town.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
July 1876.
Terms13
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
Two words that became a punchline.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
Missouri had its monster first.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.
A horse's head.