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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People17
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
Taxidermist Bob Titmus turns up at key moments in the Bigfoot record.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Gordon D.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
Autumn 1975.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
Organisations4
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Paris.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
Programmes and projects2
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A classified program from 1947.
Places1
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
Terms5
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
Muhnochwa.