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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People170
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
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.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
June 24, 1947.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
A British psychical researcher of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price turns up across the archive's hauntings.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
A zoologist.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Robert E.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
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 of old sky wonders, Chris Aubeck co-wrote Wonders in the Sky with Jacques Vallée in 2010.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
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.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
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 researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
In this archive, John Paul II appears as the pope who set his seal on old Marian apparition sites.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
Harry Price ran the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
A Loch Ness researcher, linked in the archive to Loch Ness Investigation.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A parapsychologist who went where the objects moved.
Three different men named Anderson turn up in the archive.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
A parapsychologist from Freiburg, Hans Bender directed the IGPP and was called to some of Germany's strangest disturbances.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
Parapsychologist William G.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
A former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
A writer for the Pine Barrens Institute.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
A barrister and chairman of the Ghost Club, Alan Murdie turns up in the archive as a patient reader of old files.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
A writer and UFO researcher who kept count of Argentina's strange skies.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A physical medium from Naples.
A psychical researcher, and a name that surfaces where the Society for Psychical Research went looking for the unexplained.
An encyclopedist of hidden animals.
A writer and investigator of poltergeists, Guy Lyon Playfair turns up across three cases in the archive.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
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 filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
A Fortean investigator from Ohio, Ron Schaffner turns up across decades of creature cases.
Leonard H.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
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.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
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.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
A researcher and author.
A Wisconsin folklorist, and the man who first gathered the state's lake monsters between two covers.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
Two different men named Crawford appear in the archive.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
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.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
A researcher of earth lights.
An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Columbus, Ohio.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations63
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
A skeptic forum.
J.
A British body of investigators.
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.
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
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.
Across more than a century of strange reports, the American Society for Psychical Research sent its people to look.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
A British illustrated weekly, and a recurring stage for sea serpents.
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
An Argentine research group with a long reach into the country's archives.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
A society devoted to cryptozoology, it reported, investigated and published.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A British journal.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
A magazine.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
The printed record of the Society for Psychical Research.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
A local Cornish newspaper.
A parapsychology institute in Freiburg, and the home base of Hans Bender.
India's space organisation appears in the archive as a scientific voice on strange things in the sky.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Harry Price ran it from South Kensington.
A scientific journal that kept turning up in strange cases.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A Czech research group founded by Vladimír Šiška.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Roadside markers are its trade.
An Australian university whose library holds a piece of one of the country's oldest flying machine stories.
Programmes and projects8
A History series that went looking for answers.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
January 1953.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places28
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A gorge near Mount St.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
A town on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
A beach on the coast north of Boston, Massachusetts.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
An RAF station in north Wales, on the island of Anglesey.
An island in the Mediterranean, and the setting for two very different strands of the archive.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
Craft and objects1
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
Events6
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
Kentucky, 1955.
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
1978.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Terms25
Flying stones.
Cetorhinus maximus.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A great serpent of the sea, reported by sailors and naturalists for centuries.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
The Tasmanian tiger.
Cornish for "sea giant".
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
1919.
A book.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
February 26, 1946.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
A long-necked marine reptile, and the name witnesses and writers reach for when something with a neck rises from the water.
A horse's head.