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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People31
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.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
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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.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Organisations16
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
An Iowa newspaper.
Programmes and projects3
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
An ITV series, and a doorway to a national audience for strange local stories.
Places12
A small Texas town in DeWitt County, between San Antonio and Victoria.
Edgehill.
Two very different cases share this name.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
Craft and objects2
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
November 3, 1957.
Events2
October 11, 1973.
October 13, 1973.
Terms4
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.