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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
Robert E.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
An English-language blogger.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
A historian at the University of Caen.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A zoologist with the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Richard Freeman turns up wherever the archive's strange animals lead.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
Dr.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
Prof.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A New England minister, and the archive's most persistent chronicler of the colonial uncanny.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
A psychologist, and a recurring sceptical voice in the archive's ghost cases.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
Alex Boese writes for the Museum of Hoaxes, and his name surfaces whenever a Loch Ness image is put to the test.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
Lt.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
A researcher of British big cats, Di Francis wrote Cat Country: The Quest for the British Big Cat in 1983.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
A young pilot.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jon Downes turns up again and again where Britain's strange animals are hunted.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
A carnivore specialist at the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
The name belongs to two witnesses in this archive, decades apart.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
March 1967.
A lawyer from Varginha, he investigated for CEVAPPA.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations60
A British body of investigators.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
The Pentagon's UAP office.
A British group that goes looking for the creatures others only glimpse.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
A British newspaper with a habit of turning up where the strange things happen.
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.
Paris.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
A Russian newspaper, and a recurring channel for the strange.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
An Iowa newspaper.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
Harry Price ran it from South Kensington.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
A news wire.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
In these stories, the U.S.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
An Australian university whose library holds a piece of one of the country's oldest flying machine stories.
Programmes and projects5
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
A classified program from 1947.
Places38
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
Hall Road, Borley, north Essex.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
A district of Cairo.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
A town in Puerto Rico, and the place where the chupacabra was born.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Washington, D.C.
Two places share the name.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
An air base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base turns up again and again in the archive's New Mexico cases.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
A town in the Mackay hinterland of central Queensland, in grazing country.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
The island where the chupacabra legend was born.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
A town in Espírito Santo, Brazil, that turns up at the end of two abduction stories.
Craft and objects2
November 3, 1957.
A jump jet that can hover.
Events5
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
A French town.
July 1876.
Valensole is a high plateau in Provence, in the lavender country of what was then the Basses-Alpes.
Terms16
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Flying stones.
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
A contactee claims to have met beings from elsewhere and received their messages.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
March 1995.
A press name for a big cat that would not go away.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A ghostly passenger who asks for a ride, then disappears.
Arkansas, 1971.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
Muhnochwa.
Kangaroos far from home.