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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People12
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
A sceptical investigator, writing for Skeptical Inquirer, who goes back to the records and the photographs.
Parapsychologist William G.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
Organisations14
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
France's national space agency.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
A Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
A British army regiment.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
An Australian university whose library holds a piece of one of the country's oldest flying machine stories.
Programmes and projects2
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
Operação Prato gives its name to the Colares flap of 1977 in Brazil.
Places4
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
Events2
London, 1803 and 1804.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
Terms6
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
An explanation that returns again and again in this archive, usually once the prowler has vanished.
A Swahili spirit, a shetani, whose name joins popo, bat, and bawa, wing.
Muhnochwa.