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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People78
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
Robert E.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
A Loch Ness researcher and blogger, Roland Watson returns again and again to the classic cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Brett Holman is a historian who writes the Airminded blog.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
A Soviet historian at the centre of the hunt for Russia's wild men.
Gordon D.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A researcher with the Center for UFO Studies, Michael Swords turns up across decades of cases.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
A New Zealand-born journalist, active in the Society for Psychical Research.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A ghost writer whose books carried older haunting stories into the twentieth century.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
A religious studies scholar at Texas State University.
Martin Kottmeyer is a sceptical writer who looks for ordinary sources behind famous encounters.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
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.
A researcher and author.
A former FBI agent turned television investigator.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
A watercolour painter from the Southampton area, Doug Bower became one of crop-circle lore's best-known self-confessed hoaxers.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Dr.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
Boulder, Colorado.
R.
Leonard H.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
A leader of the Kosmopoisk group, Vadim Chernobrov appears in the archive as a field investigator who followed old Russian mysteries to their source.
An illustrator with a recurring role in Italian sightings.
A historian and anthropologist, William A.
A U.S.
A scholar and folklorist who looked at flying ships through the lens of story.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
A rationalist from the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku turns up in this archive when India's crowds are gripped by wonder or fear.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
19 November 2024.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations42
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
The Society for Psychical Research appears again and again behind the archive's ghost cases.
The Vatican office that rules on claimed apparitions turns up again and again in this archive.
In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word.
A catalogue of ghost reports.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the BFRO, was headed by Matt Moneymaker.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
Paris.
Naval officers who saw something strange at sea reported it here.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
The Soviet Union's leading scientific body twice brushed against the archive's stranger cases.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
A catalogue of Marian apparitions, Miracle Hunter appears in the archive as a reference point for status and scale.
At the Pentagon sat the National Military Command Center.
A Wisconsin research voice on lake monsters and Bigfoot.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory appears in this archive where photographs needed expert eyes.
A website that retells strange encounters, and in 2018 it turned to South Africa.
NATO is the Western military alliance.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
A news wire.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Programmes and projects12
October 1966.
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
A television series that kept returning to old mysteries.
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
A television series.
A television programme that went looking for America's local monsters.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places21
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A small town on the Gave de Pau.
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A town in New Mexico.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A hamlet in the municipality of Sprimont, about 15 km south-east of Liège.
A vast Florida swamp sits behind three very different stories in the archive.
Loring appears in the archive as one of the bases touched by the intrusions of autumn 1975.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Edgehill.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
Craft and objects1
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
Events5
1988.
A French town.
April 1934.
Garabandal appears in this archive as a reference point.
July 1876.
Terms7
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, or RSPK, is the research term for poltergeist activity.
A phantom with a name.
Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis.
A television series.
A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive.
An explanation that returns again and again in this archive, usually once the prowler has vanished.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.