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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People18
A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
November 20, 1952.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A sceptical voice in the pages of Magonia.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A Spanish ufologist and author whose name runs through some of the country's best known cases.
George Adamski ran the Palomar Gardens café below Palomar Mountain in California.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
An investigator with the Italian sceptics' group CICAP, Massimo Polidoro turns up wherever a mystery needs a second look.
A Rio physician, Olavo Fontes served as the Brazilian representative of APRO.
A journalist and author, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso went back to some of South America's strangest encounters.
Dr.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was 26.
Organisations12
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
Ground Saucer Watch was a photo analysis group based in Phoenix.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
Several newspapers carry this name, and the archive meets them in different cities and centuries.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
An English-language journal of psychical research.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
A blog.
Places17
A village in Čitluk municipality, Herzegovina.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
Two places share this name in the archive.
A small coast village in Pembrokeshire, then the county of Dyfed, near St Brides Bay.
One of the Great Lakes, its shoreline touches several cases in the archive.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A district of East London, and the setting for two very different Victorian mysteries.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Two places share the name.
A Warmian village, known today as Gietrzwałd.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
A village near Verviers, in Belgium, now part of the town itself.
A village on the New York shore of Lake Champlain.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
An island in the Mediterranean, and the setting for two very different strands of the archive.
A town in the hills above Genoa, on unlit mountain roads iced by freezing rime fog.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Events1
July 1876.
Terms4
A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all.
The name means "short person".
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
Muhnochwa.