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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People34
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
Robert E.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A Canadian Sasquatch investigator, René Dahinden turns up across decades of the archive's Bigfoot cases.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
Parapsychologist William G.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
Dr.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
A sceptical voice from Brazil.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
A sceptical voice in the archive.
Organisations16
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
A podcast.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
A British journal.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
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.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
Programmes and projects3
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Places13
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
Two places share the name.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
A small Cheshire town.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
Craft and objects1
November 3, 1957.
Events2
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
Terms6
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
1919.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
An explanation that returns again and again in this archive, usually once the prowler has vanished.
Missouri had its monster first.