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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People42
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A sceptic writer, and a persistent voice of doubt in the archive's cryptid cases.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Prof.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
Autumn 1975.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
A Pentagon voice on record.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A U.S.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
Organisations21
A skeptic forum.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
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.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
Dr.
Portland, Maine.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Civilian volunteers.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
Programmes and projects4
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A Syfy series that put famous footage to the test.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Places9
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
Two places in the archive share this name.
Craft and objects2
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Events2
Bluff Creek, 1967.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Terms4
March 1995.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
A giant bird.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.