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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People40
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
A young pilot.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Organisations9
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects4
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A classified program from 1947.
Places8
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
Ohio.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
Terms11
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
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.
A television series.
A book.
The genus of the giant squid.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
The marsupial lion.
A theory of lights born from the ground itself.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
Straight lines on a map.