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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People18
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
John G.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations10
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects2
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Places3
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
Terms4
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
A contactee claims to have met beings from elsewhere and received their messages.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
The genus of the giant squid.