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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People24
An astronomer, and for years the Air Force's own scientific consultant.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Edward J.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
Project Blue Book's man at the top in the mid 1960s.
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
A researcher behind the scenes.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
A historian at the University of Caen.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A British journalist and former travel writer.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
A parapsychologist of the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, J.
Assistant to J.
March 1967.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Organisations12
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Dr.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Programmes and projects9
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
October 1966.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
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.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A classified program from 1947.
Places10
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
Washington, D.C.
Nepal's capital is where yeti evidence arrives, and sometimes where it vanishes.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
Craft and objects1
A rumoured spy plane, whispered about but never shown.