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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People13
Arthur Conan Doyle appears in the archive as a writer drawn to the uncanny cases of earlier times.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
An astronomer and author, Camille Flammarion founded the journal L'Astronomie.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
Tim Dinsdale was a British aeronautical engineer, drawn to Loch Ness by a magazine article.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
A worker at the British Aluminium Company's works at Foyers, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Organisations9
A wire service, and a quiet amplifier.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
A German group with a sceptical eye.
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.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
Programmes and projects1
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
Places11
Ohio.
A long road across southern Australia.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
A town in Kent, on the English coast above Romney Marsh, with Army firing ranges beneath a busy flight path.
A French astronomical institution that turns up in three very different chapters of the archive.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
A town on the River Wear, historically County Durham, with old Bishopwearmouth now part of its city centre.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
Craft and objects1
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
Events4
A field near Fátima called the Cova da Iria.
London, 1803 and 1804.
Sunday, 23 February 1975.
Rosenheim is a poltergeist case.
Terms9
A book.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A sitting to reach the dead.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
A deep-sea cephalopod, and a recurring suspect in the archive's sea monster cases.
The name means "short person".
A term born in 1947.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.