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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People23
Edward J.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
A cardinal at the Vatican, and prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
A writer on the yeti.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
Organisations17
France's national space agency.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
In London, specimens from strange cases kept ending up in the same place.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
Civilian volunteers.
Farnborough.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
Roadside markers are its trade.
In these stories, the U.S.
Programmes and projects5
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
Places15
Two places share this name in the archive.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Edgehill.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
Three different buildings share this name in the archive.
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 volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
Events3
Between 1764 and 1767, a beast terrorised the mountains of southern France.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
24 July 1948.
Terms4
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
The Tasmanian tiger.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
A sitting to reach the dead.