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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People55
Edward J.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
From 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope ran the Ministry of Defence's small UFO desk.
A zoologist.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
Robert E.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Prof.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
As director of the FBI, J.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
January 1934.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them.
The Coptic Pope stands behind three of the archive's Marian apparition cases in Egypt.
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 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 lawyer and a ufologist.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
Linda Godfrey was the writer who put the Beast of Bray Road on the map.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
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.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
Organisations31
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
J.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
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.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
A Utah newspaper, and a recurring witness to the state's strangest stories.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
One police file.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region.
Programmes and projects9
October 1966.
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
January 2002.
A television series.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places25
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
A whaling station on the north coast of Graham Island, in what is now Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A small community on the Little Miami River, near Loveland, Ohio.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Washington, D.C.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A New Zealand city, and a quiet anchor for three very different stories.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
An air force base on the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Craft and objects2
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.
A jump jet that can hover.
Events2
Zimbabwe, 1994.
1988.
Terms14
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
Two words that became a punchline.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A giant bird.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
A frog-faced legend from the outskirts of Cincinnati.
An upright, wolf-like creature.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.
Missouri had its monster first.
A theory of lights born from the ground itself.
A big cat seen where no big cat should be.
Kangaroos far from home.