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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People41
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
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.
Edward J.
A cataloguer of humanoid encounters.
November 20, 1952.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
A British mountaineer whose name runs through the Yeti record.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed.
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British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A psychical researcher and a conjuror.
A physical medium from Naples.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Three different men named Stevens turn up in the archive, each at the centre of a strange case.
A psychical researcher who turned up at three of the archive's most famous hauntings and tests.
A ghost hunter from the Chicago area, Dale Kaczmarek leads the Ghost Research Society, a group based in Oak Lawn.
A physicist at the University of Colorado.
Three different men share this surname in the archive.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
1921.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
A researcher who went back to the witnesses.
A showman, and twice a figure on the edges of the strange.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
Boulder, Colorado.
March 1967.
A folklorist and folklore historian, Dr Simon Young turns up where old fairy and sea-creature stories need a second look.
Gordon D.
Not one person but a recurring figure.
Simon Young, a folklorist and Dr, returns to old cases and asks what really happened.
The name belongs to two different men in this archive.
Organisations13
The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases.
Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
An Afrikaans daily newspaper, and the first stop for many South African sightings.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
A magazine.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
A news wire.
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.
A magazine of the strange, edited by Mark Chorvinsky, that kept returning to cases others had left cold.
Programmes and projects3
The US Air Force's long-running inquiry into unidentified flying objects grew out of Project Sign and Grudge.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
Skyhook was a classified Navy programme of high altitude research balloons, and its name surfaces again and again in the archive.
Places27
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
The water between Victoria and Tasmania.
A small bay at the south-western end of Loch Ness, just east of Fort Augustus.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
Two towns share this name in the archive.
Giant Rock rises seven stories out of the Mojave Desert near Landers, California.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Washington, D.C.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
On the Nullarbor Plain, flat and treeless, Cook sat at the 569-mile mark of the Trans-Australian Railway.
A small Cheshire town.
Three places share this name across the archive.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
An atomic installation in New Mexico, and a recurring point on the map of the early sightings.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Mansfield appears in the archive as a landmark for two Ohio-area stories.
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
An island of the Canaries, and a recurring landmark at sea.
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.
A steam-powered flour mill on a semi-circular promontory at Willington Quay.
Craft and objects2
A Leda-class frigate built at Sheerness.
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events6
October 11, 1973.
London, 1762.
24 July 1948.
1988.
June 21, 1947.
GOFAST is a Navy targeting-camera clip from 2015, recorded the same month as GIMBAL.
Terms6
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
Lake Champlain's monster has a name.
A belief in contact with the spirit world, reached through mediums and séances.
Florida's own Bigfoot.
A term born in 1947.