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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
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A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
Timothy Good is a British author.
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
Robert E.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A zoologist and author of The Elusive Monster, Dr Maurice Burton retired from the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958.
An Australian researcher of yowies, poltergeists and strange beasts, Paul Cropper often worked alongside Tony Healy.
A researcher of yowies, tigers, yetis and poltergeists, Tony Healy often worked alongside Paul Cropper, his co-author on Out of the Shadows.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A pair of chroniclers of the strange, Janet and Colin Bord turn up across the archive as authors and record keepers.
Spanish broadcaster and author, best known in these cases as the face of Cuarto Milenio.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
A Kelowna journalist, researcher and author, Arlene Gaal spent years studying the Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
A naval officer and author, Rupert T.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
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.
Charles Gould was the author of Mythical Monsters, published in 1886.
A writer drawn again and again to the poltergeist.
John G.
A cryptozoologist and author, Ken Gerhard keeps returning to the winged things of Texas.
A writer on cryptozoology, and author of Bunyips & Bigfoots.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
A psychical researcher, and research officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research.
An author whose books sit behind many retellings of the Spring-heeled Jack legend.
Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis appears in the archive as the final authority behind Vatican rulings on Marian apparitions.
An author and researcher, Nick Redfern returns again and again to British cases.
An author of Irish ghost lore.
A sceptical author, Trevor H.
An author who kept strange stories alive by retelling them.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
Nandor Fodor was research officer at the International Institute for Psychical Research, described as its chief ghost hunter.
A professional mountaineer, author and one of the finest mountain photographers of his day.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A researcher and author.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
An author whose books gather the strange from many corners.
A reporter and author, Linda Godfrey brought Wisconsin's werewolf sightings into print.
A researcher and author whose name surfaces wherever old newspaper trails lead.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
An author whose book became a reference point for Loch Ness land sightings.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
Leonard H.
A horror novelist, author of The Wolfen and The Hunger.
A French journalist and author whose name runs through two of the country's notable cases.
A researcher with UFOCUS NZ, Suzy Hansen wrote up some of New Zealand's most striking encounters.
Organisations14
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
When Britain's big cat reports needed an expert eye, the authorities often turned to London Zoo.
The Midlands had its own nightly window on the strange.
A periodical that kept strange English stories alive in print.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
Canada's aviation authority turns up across four decades of these cases.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects2
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Places3
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A small town in the province of Namur, home to about 2,000 people.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
Terms1
A book.