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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 cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
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 husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
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.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
An English-language blogger.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
As director of the FBI, J.
John G.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
Parapsychologist William G.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
Assistant to J.
John Greenewald Jr.
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.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
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 Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Leonard H.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
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.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations37
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.
A British body of investigators.
France's national space agency.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
This is Canada's defence department.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
A podcast.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
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.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A film outfit built on local legends.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
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.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
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.
Programmes and projects4
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A classified program from 1947.
Places6
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Craft and objects1
A jump jet that can hover.
Events4
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
Kentucky, 1955.
A phantom beast of South Australia.
Melbourne, Australia.
Terms18
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
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.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
Two words that became a punchline.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Silent.
A giant bird.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.