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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People33
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
Leonard H.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
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A young pilot.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
Organisations13
Fortean Times is a magazine.
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.
This is Canada's defence department.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
A British journal.
A wire service.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
A New York newspaper that turns up again and again in the archive's cases, sometimes as a megaphone and once as a closed door.
Programmes and projects2
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places17
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A town in Ceará's Sertão Central, in north-eastern Brazil, about 170 km from Fortaleza.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
Events1
A French town.
Terms5
Two words that became a punchline.
1919.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
Kangaroos far from home.