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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People5
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Boulder, Colorado.
March 1967.
Organisations3
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
Programmes and projects1
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Places4
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Great Falls, Montana.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Terms2
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A term born in 1947.