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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People17
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.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
Lt.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
John Greenewald Jr.
Rubén Lianza was a retired Argentine Air Force commodore.
Organisations11
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
France's national space agency.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects1
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Places6
Woomera is a rocket and guided weapons range in the South Australian outback, run by the Long Range Weapons Establishment.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Events2
Zimbabwe, 1994.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Terms3
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.