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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People5
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Organisations8
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Farnborough.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects1
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
Places2
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Events1
Saturday, 4 August 1990.