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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People35
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
An anthropologist at Washington State University, Grover Krantz turns up again and again in the Sasquatch record.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
Lt.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
The surname belongs to three different men in this archive.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
Leonard H.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A researcher and author.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
Two different people carry this name in the archive.
Organisations21
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
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.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
A sensational national weekly.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
One police file.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Programmes and projects4
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
January 2002.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Operação Prato gives its name to the Colares flap of 1977 in Brazil.
Places28
Ohio.
Tully lies in far north Queensland.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A town in New Mexico.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
The name carries two meanings in this archive.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A French département east of Paris.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
An Indiana steel town, Gary appears twice in the archive.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
A town in the Mackay hinterland of central Queensland, in grazing country.
Two places share this name in the archive.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Craft and objects1
November 3, 1957.
Events1
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
Terms3
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
Muhnochwa.