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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People45
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
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.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
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.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
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A cryptid writer and artist, Rob Morphy kept old cases alive on Cryptopia.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
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.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
Spring 1933.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
January 1934.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
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.
An eighteen-year-old from Limehouse.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
Dr.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
January 1992.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
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 reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
Leonard H.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
Organisations25
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
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.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
A sensational national weekly.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
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 journal.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
A magazine.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
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.
Programmes and projects4
January 1953.
January 2002.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A television series.
Places24
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
A long road across southern Australia.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A mountain in Albania, and the setting of one of the country's best known UFO cases.
Flat and treeless.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
A French département east of Paris.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
A small Cheshire town.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A town in Ceará's Sertão Central, in north-eastern Brazil, about 170 km from Fortaleza.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Events2
Bluff Creek, 1967.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
Terms8
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
A phantom with a name.
A giant bird.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
The name means "short person".
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.