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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People17
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
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.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A journalist who reported for Earthfiles, Linda Moulton Howe turns up across decades of strange cases.
A 23-year-old staff photographer at La Nueva Provincia.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
A researcher who went back to old cases and read the files again.
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Organisations20
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
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.
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.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
Peru's Air Force runs its own UFO office.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
Programmes and projects5
October 1966.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
Places4
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
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.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Terms1
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.