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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People20
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
November 20, 1952.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
George Adamski ran the Palomar Gardens café below Palomar Mountain in California.
A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
Organisations12
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
A local Cornish newspaper.
Someone was always listening.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
An Iowa newspaper.
Programmes and projects1
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
Places9
Two places share this name in the archive.
A district of Cairo.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
An air force base on the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Events4
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
Kentucky, 1955.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Every September, the town of Van Meter, Iowa, remembers its strangest visitor.
Terms4
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.