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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
Edward J.
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
A sceptic.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
An optical physicist with the US Navy.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
November 20, 1952.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Loren E.
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
June 24, 1947.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
Timothy Good is a British author.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Robert E.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A British aeronautical engineer, Tim Dinsdale was drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article in Everybody's.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
Ted Phillips studied physical trace cases.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A pen name, and a patient one.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
James Fox is a filmmaker whose work keeps returning to the field's hardest cases.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
A historian at the University of Caen.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
A French Mariologist and priest, René Laurentin turns up again and again where the Virgin was said to appear.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
In this archive the name belongs mostly to Hans Bender, a parapsychologist working from the IGPP, his institute in Freiburg.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
In this archive, John Paul II appears as the pope who set his seal on old Marian apparition sites.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A sceptic of the Loch Ness legend.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
James W.
A writer whose name runs through the archive's strangest tales.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
Gordon D.
John Green owned the Agassiz-Harrison Advance and spent some 60 years chasing the Sasquatch.
Dr.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A cardinal at the Vatican, and prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
Spring 1933.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A Harvard astronomer.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
Charles Garreau was a French journalist and ufologist.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
As director of the FBI, J.
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 Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
John G.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A sceptical investigator, writing for Skeptical Inquirer, who goes back to the records and the photographs.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
Parapsychologist William G.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
An author of Irish ghost lore.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A writer and UFO researcher who kept count of Argentina's strange skies.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A ghost writer whose books carried older haunting stories into the twentieth century.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
Lt.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
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.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
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.
A 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A former rodeo rider and amateur boxer from Yakima, Washington.
Summer, 1977.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
A Pentagon voice on record.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A researcher and author.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A researcher of British big cats, Di Francis wrote Cat Country: The Quest for the British Big Cat in 1983.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Three different men share this surname in the archive.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
Dr.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A young pilot.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
1921.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
January 1992.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
John Greenewald Jr.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
A sceptical voice from Brazil.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously.
A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A pope appears at the edges of three Marian cases in the archive.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
The name belongs to two witnesses in this archive, decades apart.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
March 1967.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
Rubén Lianza was a retired Argentine Air Force commodore.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
R.
Leonard H.
Gordon D.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
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 Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Vladimír Šiška founded Projekt Záře, a Czech group that keeps files on the country's unexplained cases.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A U.S.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
A researcher of earth lights.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Columbus, Ohio.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
He says he worked a handful of days at a hidden site called S-4.
Maj.
19 November 2024.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations160
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
J.
Kew is home to the files.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
The Vatican office that rules on claimed apparitions turns up again and again in this archive.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
A podcast.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
Ground Saucer Watch was a photo analysis group based in Phoenix.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
Paris.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
A sensational national weekly.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
Its members reached well beyond Loch Ness.
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
A British journal.
A wire service.
A wire service.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Several newspapers carry this name, and the archive meets them in different cities and centuries.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Dr.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
Portland, Maine.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
A French newspaper based in Épinal, La Liberté de l'Est carried strange stories from near and far.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
A blog.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
Someone was always listening.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
Civilian volunteers.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
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.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
A Czech research group founded by Vladimír Šiška.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
One police file.
A news wire.
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Roadside markers are its trade.
A British army regiment.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
In these stories, the U.S.
An Australian university whose library holds a piece of one of the country's oldest flying machine stories.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
An Iowa newspaper.
Programmes and projects27
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
October 1966.
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
A late-night radio programme, broadcast from Pahrump, Nevada, on more than 300 stations under Art Bell.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
A Syfy series that put famous footage to the test.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A television series.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Operação Prato gives its name to the Colares flap of 1977 in Brazil.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
A classified program from 1947.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places127
A Scottish loch with old stories of a fearsome monster, or water kelpie, told long before 1933.
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
A district of Cairo.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
Ohio.
A town in New Mexico.
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
On the shore of Loch Ness, Foyers keeps turning up where the monster story turns.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Great Falls, Montana.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A Massachusetts town whose witch trials of 1692 cast a long shadow over the archive.
The name turns up in two very different corners of the archive.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A gorge near Mount St.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
On the Nullarbor Plain, flat and treeless, Cook sat at the 569-mile mark of the Trans-Australian Railway.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
A garrison town on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Edgehill.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
Two very different cases share this name.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A small Cheshire town.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A market town in Northumberland, and the setting for two of the archive's strangest stories.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Three places share this name across the archive.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
Two very different places share this name in the archive.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
Three different buildings share this name in the archive.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
A monastery on the River Shannon, south of Athlone.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Two places in the archive share this name.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Craft and objects5
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
November 3, 1957.
A jump jet that can hover.
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
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A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
1961.
London, 1803 and 1804.
Late November 1989.
London, 1762.
A benchmark case.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
24 July 1948.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
A French town.
A Texas name that keeps turning up in the company of other mysteries.
June 21, 1947.
April 1934.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
1978.
Kentucky, 1955.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
July 1876.
Melbourne, Australia.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
GOFAST is a Navy targeting-camera clip from 2015, recorded the same month as GIMBAL.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Terms75
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Flying stones.
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
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.
Cetorhinus maximus.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
A contactee claims to have met beings from elsewhere and received their messages.
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
A phantom with a name.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
In this archive, sleep paralysis comes up as a sceptical explanation for abduction stories.
Two words that became a punchline.
The Tasmanian tiger.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A superior mirage.
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
Silent.
A giant bird.
Cornish for "sea giant".
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
1919.
A television series.
A book.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A sitting to reach the dead.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Arkansas, 1971.
February 26, 1946.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
The name means "short person".
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
Missouri had its monster first.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A term born in 1947.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
An explanation that returns again and again in this archive, usually once the prowler has vanished.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
A British law, and a theory that shadows the big cat reports.
An Animal Planet series about the hunt for Bigfoot, it reaches across three cases in this archive.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
A giant octopus, named from a carcass.
The marsupial lion.
In the bog country of Connemara, locals had a name for what some said lived in the small, dark loughs.
A horse's head.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.
Kangaroos far from home.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.
A theory of lights born from the ground itself.
Straight lines on a map.
Muhnochwa.