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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People38
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
Robert E.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A Harvard astronomer.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A 34-year-old metalworker at the Ateliers du Nord de la France steelworks at Blanc-Misseron, Marius Dewilde lived with his wife at level crossing No.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
John Greenewald Jr.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
March 1967.
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A filmmaker drawn to the monsters of small towns.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations16
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
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.
Paris.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A film outfit built on local legends.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Programmes and projects2
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Places8
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
Great Falls, Montana.
Flat and treeless.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
Events1
Terms4
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
Arkansas, 1971.
Missouri had its monster first.