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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
A Fortean historian and writer, Mike Dash turns up across the archive as the careful voice in the debate.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
Gordon D.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon played a quiet part in bringing the Navy videos to light.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
Paul Cropper is a Sydney yowie researcher.
January 1992.
Gordon D.
Three different witnesses share this surname across the archive.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
Organisations5
Canada's coin maker became an unlikely keeper of the country's UFO history.
A New York newspaper, and a recurring witness to the archive's strangest headlines.
A magazine.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
Programmes and projects3
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A BBC1 programme that kept turning up where the strange stories were.
A Navy-led effort to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Places9
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Niterói sits across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, and it surfaces in more than one Brazilian case.
A Canadian city with a long thread through the archive's haunted cases.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Craft and objects1
November 3, 1957.
Events2
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Terms7
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A giant bird.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.