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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People29
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.
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
Robert E.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
Dr.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
Tasmania had its own record keeper.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Boulder, Colorado.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
March 1967.
Leonard H.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
Organisations14
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Fortean Times is a magazine.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
Civilian volunteers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
Programmes and projects3
January 1953.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
A television series.
Places8
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Great Falls, Montana.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
Two places share this name in the archive.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
Events2
May 20, 1967.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Terms8
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Cetorhinus maximus.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
A term born in 1947.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.