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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People21
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
Project Blue Book's man at the top in the mid 1960s.
A researcher behind the scenes.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
Dr.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
March 1967.
Organisations19
Kew is home to the files.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
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 government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
Farnborough.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Programmes and projects4
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
A History series that went looking for answers.
Operação Prato gives its name to the Colares flap of 1977 in Brazil.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
Places15
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
Great Falls, Montana.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
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.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
Craft and objects1
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Terms4
The Tasmanian tiger.
A superior mirage.
1919.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.