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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People60
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
Aimé Michel was a French writer and ufologist.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
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 researcher behind the scenes.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
Alejandro Agostinelli is an Argentine-focused journalist, author and sceptical investigator whose work runs through several of the archive's South American cases.
A historian at the University of Caen.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A Condon Committee investigator, Roy Craig worked on several of its best known cases.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
An author and retteller of strange tales.
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.
John G.
An Argentine ufologist with a habit of pushing back.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A physical medium from Naples.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A Swedish ufologist and APRO representative, K.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
A ghost hunter known as "the Spectre Inspector." Andrew Green wrote Our Haunted Kingdom (1973), and his accounts surface across several British hauntings.
A researcher and author.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
Assistant to J.
John Greenewald Jr.
A sceptical voice from Brazil.
A sceptic and author, Melvin Harris turns up in the debates that followed several famous cases.
Micah Hanks is a journalist at The Debrief who turns up as a commentator on several cases.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
A physician in Rio de Janeiro.
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
Ross Coulthart is a journalist and commentator with NewsNation.
Vladimír Šiška founded Projekt Záře, a Czech group that keeps files on the country's unexplained cases.
Organisations31
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command watches the continent's skies, and its name runs through several cases in the archive.
A cryptozoology website where Loren Coleman wrote about strange creatures and old mysteries.
This is Canada's defence department.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
A history blog with a taste for the strange.
Several of the archive's photographic cases ended up in this journal's pages.
Spain's military air arm kept its own files on the unexplained.
A wire service.
Several newspapers carry this name, and the archive meets them in different cities and centuries.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
A French daily newspaper, Le Méridional carried several foreign sighting reports to its readers.
The Office of Naval Intelligence turns up in the paper trail of several naval sightings.
A blog.
An American supermarket tabloid, and a recurring stop on the trail of several strange stories.
A modern channel back to Victorian ghost stories.
One police file.
A reference work of the SPR, it turns up as a quiet authority behind several classic cases.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
A newspaper by name, The Star turns up in the archive's press trail across more than a century.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
A Victoria newspaper that put two of British Columbia's strangest water creatures into print.
Its magazine was called Doubt.
Programmes and projects5
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
January 1953.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places12
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
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.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Ireland's main air gateway turns up at the edges of several stories in the archive.
A city in Alberta, and a quiet thread running through several cases in the archive.
A Scottish city of tenements, graveyards and ironworks, and the backdrop to several of the archive's stranger cases.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
Craft and objects1
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Events2
October 11, 1973.
A French town.
Terms7
Cetorhinus maximus.
A creature of the inland rivers and lagoons of south-eastern Australia.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
SpaceX's internet satellites.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A theory of lights born from the ground itself.