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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People42
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
June 24, 1947.
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
Karl Shuker turns up again and again in the archive's sea monsters and mystery cats.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator, Alan Gauld turns up wherever the archive's séance rooms and haunted houses draw scrutiny.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
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.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A Society for Psychical Research investigator with a taste for natural explanations.
John G.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A former West Midlands police detective.
An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Mike Dash is a researcher and writer whose work runs through the archive's Spring-heeled Jack cases.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Irene Granchi worked out of Rio de Janeiro as APRO's field investigator and representative in Brazil.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Assistant to J.
A bulldozer operator from Salyer, California.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
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A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Organisations19
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Fortean Times is a magazine.
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.
A French ufology magazine, and a steady presence in the archive's French cases.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
Portland, Maine.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
A New York newspaper that turns up again and again in the archive's cases, sometimes as a megaphone and once as a closed door.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
Farnborough.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Programmes and projects5
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
January 1953.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
Places18
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
A creek in the Six Rivers National Forest of far northern California.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A garrison town in Hampshire, and in 1877 the British Army's main home base.
Flat and treeless.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
Edgehill.
A small Cheshire town.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
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.
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 town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
Two different places share this name in the archive.
Events3
1961.
London, 1762.
1988.
Terms13
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
British Columbia has its own sea serpent.
A giant bird.
A television series.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A figure seen near the moment of death.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
A time of state persecution for Catholics in Prussia.
A film creature serves as the yardstick for lake monsters.
Muhnochwa.