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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People25
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
A Harvard astronomer.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
A writer on the yeti.
A pope appears at the edges of three Marian cases in the archive.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
Organisations13
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Someone was always listening.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
A rationalist organisation in India, it appears in the archive through one recurring figure.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
Programmes and projects1
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
Places5
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.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Craft and objects1
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events4
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
1988.
A French town.
Terms2
A superior mirage.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.