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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People10
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Frank Borman was Command Pilot of Gemini 7 and an officer of the US Air Force.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
Boulder, Colorado.
A U.S.
Organisations17
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
The Pentagon's UAP office.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
An Air Force investigative arm, it turns up again and again where a story needed checking.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Peru's military air arm appears across five decades of the archive.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
Programmes and projects6
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
Brazil's military kept its own UFO files.
A classified program from 1947.
Places9
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
An air force base in the Florida Panhandle, and a name that keeps surfacing in the archive.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
A town in seacoast New Hampshire, with Pease Air Force Base nearby at Portsmouth.
An air force base on the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
Craft and objects1
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Events1
24 July 1948.
Terms2
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.