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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People46
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 sceptic.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
James Fox is a filmmaker whose work keeps returning to the field's hardest cases.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
In this archive, John Paul II appears as the pope who set his seal on old Marian apparition sites.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
A shipyard foreman from Gautier, Mississippi.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
John G.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A physicist, drawn into one of the field's most contested paper trails.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
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 physicist at the University of Colorado.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several 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 historian and anthropologist, William A.
A U.S.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations44
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
France's national space agency.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
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.
This is Canada's defence department.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A sensational national weekly.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
Dr.
Portland, Maine.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Harry Price ran it from South Kensington.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
In these stories, the U.S.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
Programmes and projects5
October 1966.
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places18
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
Craft and objects1
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
Events5
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
London, 1762.
A benchmark case.
May 20, 1967.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
Terms6
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
Silent.
The name means "short person".
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.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.