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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People24
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A French Mariologist and priest, René Laurentin turns up again and again where the Virgin was said to appear.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Prof.
As director of the FBI, J.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
The surname Turner belongs to two different men in this archive.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
Boulder, Colorado.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A zoologist at Yale.
Organisations18
Kew is home to the files.
The Vatican office that rules on claimed apparitions turns up again and again in this archive.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
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.
Farnborough.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects1
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places23
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Craft and objects1
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
Events1
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
Terms6
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
A giant octopus, named from a carcass.
Muhnochwa.