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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People12
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
A leader of the Kosmopoisk group, Vadim Chernobrov appears in the archive as a field investigator who followed old Russian mysteries to their source.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
He says he worked a handful of days at a hidden site called S-4.
Organisations7
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects1
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
Places7
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Terms1
Cornish for "sea giant".