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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People6
A University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, James E.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Daniel Loxton, a skeptic writer and editor of Junior Skeptic, went back to old monster stories to find out what really happened.
March 1967.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
Organisations3
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
Places6
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
Terms3
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
The name means "short person".