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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People52
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
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 primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A Condon Committee investigator, Roy Craig worked on several of its best known cases.
James W.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Gordon D.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A sceptical investigator, writing for Skeptical Inquirer, who goes back to the records and the photographs.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
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A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Boulder, Colorado.
Leonard H.
Gordon D.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
19 November 2024.
Organisations21
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
The Mutual UFO Network sent its investigators into some of the field's best known cases.
A skeptic forum.
A British body of investigators.
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
Programmes and projects3
October 1966.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Places13
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Two very different cases share this name.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
Craft and objects1
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
Events3
London, 1803 and 1804.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
June 21, 1947.
Terms5
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Two words that became a punchline.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
Kangaroos far from home.