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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People9
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
A historian at the University of Caen.
A French Mariologist and priest, René Laurentin turns up again and again where the Virgin was said to appear.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
A French cryptozoologist with a habit of taking the strange cases seriously.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
Organisations4
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Events1
A French town.