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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People9
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
Autumn 1975.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
A physical medium from Naples.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Organisations6
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
In these stories, the U.S.
Places6
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
Events2
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
Terms4
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
The name means "short person".
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.