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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A writer on the Frontiers of Zoology blog, Dale Drinnon weighed in on sea serpents, lake monsters and flying cryptids alike.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
A historian of the Chesapeake Bay's own sea monster.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
Organisations8
Fortean Times is a magazine.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
Poltergeist cases kept bringing investigators from the Psychical Research Foundation to troubled homes.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
Programmes and projects1
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
Places6
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.
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
A courtroom where the archive's strange stories sometimes ended.
A naval town on the English coast, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
Events2
London, 1803 and 1804.
June 21, 1947.
Terms3
Two words that became a punchline.
Australia's answer to Bigfoot.
Florida's own Bigfoot.