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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People30
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.
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A cardinal at the Vatican, and prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
Parapsychologist William G.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
A physical medium from Naples.
Luis Elizondo, an ex-Pentagon intelligence officer, was named in 2017 as the head of AATIP.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
Three different people share this surname in the archive.
A Pentagon voice on record.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
Columbus, Ohio.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations17
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
A skeptic forum.
Kew is home to the files.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
This is Canada's defence department.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
Farnborough.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects6
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places11
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
A district of Cairo.
A town in New Mexico.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Events7
May 20, 1967.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
June 21, 1947.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Terms5
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
Britain has a long tradition of phantom cats.
A television series.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.