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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People33
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
A Harvard astronomer.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A young pilot.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
A pope appears at the edges of three Marian cases in the archive.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
Organisations15
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
NATO is the Western military alliance.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
Programmes and projects2
A television series.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
Places8
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
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 courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Craft and objects1
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events3
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
1988.
A French town.
Terms6
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A superior mirage.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
SpaceX's internet satellites.