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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People50
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A detective constable with the British Transport Police.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
Charles Fort collected the strange.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
Andrew Collins investigated two of the stranger English cases in the archive.
Daniel Otis was a journalist with VICE World News who went back to Canadian sighting records in 2021.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A young pilot.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Assistant to J.
A ufologist from Duncan, British Columbia.
Tasmania had its own record keeper.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations44
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
The Mutual UFO Network sent its investigators into some of the field's best known cases.
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
France's national space agency.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
A London newspaper, and for more than a century a recurring stage for strange reports.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
Australia's national science body turns up whenever a strange case needed a laboratory answer.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
When a strange photograph needed a verdict, the film often went to Kodak.
A French newspaper based in Épinal, La Liberté de l'Est carried strange stories from near and far.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
A congressional committee, and the stage for one remarkable day in 1968.
The National UFO Reporting Center collects sighting reports from the public, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
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 Russian newspaper, Pravda turns up across the archive as the place where strange accounts went public.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
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.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
A Belgian group of UFO investigators.
Programmes and projects6
October 1966.
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places16
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
A port city in Argentina, and for a time the national capital of UFOs.
A small town in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland, home to about 6,000 people.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
Ohio.
A mountain in Albania, and the setting of one of the country's best known UFO cases.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
Two places share the name.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Events5
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
1961.
Late November 1989.
24 July 1948.
Kentucky, 1955.
Terms6
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
Two words that became a punchline.
Silent.
1919.
Central Scotland, the early 1990s.