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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People7
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A historian at the University of Caen.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
A 34-year-old metalworker at the Ateliers du Nord de la France steelworks at Blanc-Misseron, Marius Dewilde lived with his wife at level crossing No.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
Organisations3
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
France's national space agency.
An Italian sceptics' group, CICAP turns up again and again when a strange case needs a second look.
Programmes and projects1
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
Places6
A French département east of Paris.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
Events5
The yardstick for every man-eating beast in the archive.
Between 1764 and 1767, a beast terrorised the mountains of southern France.
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
Kentucky, 1955.
Valensole is a high plateau in Provence, in the lavender country of what was then the Basses-Alpes.
Terms2
Cetorhinus maximus.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.