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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People27
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 sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A magician and sceptic, James Randi appears in the archive as a voice of doubt.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
The night of 19 February 1838.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
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A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
Organisations10
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
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.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
Places9
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
Edgehill.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events2
London, 1762.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
Terms3
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.