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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People49
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
A folklorist with a long reach across the archive's haunted houses.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A sceptic inside the Society for Psychical Research.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
James Fox is a filmmaker whose work keeps returning to the field's hardest cases.
A researcher and author of strange Midwestern encounters.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A husband and wife of the New England Society for Psychic Research, they turn up again and again in the archive's haunted houses.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A paranormal investigator and demonologist with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Ed Warren worked alongside Lorraine Warren.
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
Gordon D.
A clairvoyant and medium with the New England Society for Psychic Research, Lorraine Warren worked alongside Ed Warren on some of the archive's best known hauntings.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
A pope whose name runs through the archive's Marian apparition cases.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
Artist, playwright, stage magician and psychic entertainer.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
Tony "Doc" Shiels was born in Salford in 1938.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A former West Midlands police detective.
Chad Lewis researches the lake monsters and strange visitors of the Upper Midwest.
A cryptozoology author whose books turn up again and again in the sea serpent files.
An encyclopedist of the strange, Rosemary Ellen Guiley turns up wherever old cases get retold.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Admiral of the fleet on the 1492 voyage west, and author of the journal behind two of the archive's oldest sea mysteries.
A zoologist at the University of Tasmania.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
A writer on the yeti.
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Three different men named Thompson appear in the archive.
A US Representative, listed in one story as Rep.
Seymour Hess was a meteorologist who studied the skies of Mars.
19 November 2024.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations18
A skeptic forum.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A national newspaper that keeps turning up when a strange story breaks out of the local press.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
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.
Civilian volunteers.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
NATO is the Western military alliance.
Ed and Lorraine Warren worked under this name.
A British satirical magazine with a habit of laughing at the strange.
In these stories, the U.S.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Programmes and projects3
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places41
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
A name shared by two places in this archive, an English city and a Pennsylvania town.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A long road across southern Australia.
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.
Three different places share this name in the archive.
Flat and treeless.
Long and narrow, Okanagan Lake runs through the interior of British Columbia.
A large island of the Dutch East Indies, and the home ground of the orang pendek.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
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.
A clergy house, and a touchstone.
At the south-western end of Loch Ness sits Fort Augustus.
High ground between Ilkley and Keighley in West Yorkshire.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A great river runs through two of the archive's strangest creature reports.
A garrison town on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
A town in Staffordshire in 1971, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall since 1974.
About 21 km north of Porto Alegre sits a Brazilian Air Force base with two names.
On the Nullarbor Plain, flat and treeless, Cook sat at the 569-mile mark of the Trans-Australian Railway.
Two places share the name.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A city on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River, in Vanderburgh County.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
Two places in the archive share this name.
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.
A small dairy-farming town on the southern Atherton Tablelands, about 98 km south-west of Cairns.
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
An English city with an old fairy reputation on its western edge.
Two very different places share this name in the archive.
A Florida city on the bay, with Anastasia Island just across the water.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
A small town in Dallas County, Iowa.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Craft and objects1
Columbus's flagship on his first voyage west.
Events7
A Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
September 1952.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
October 13, 1973.
Melbourne, Australia.
GOFAST is a Navy targeting-camera clip from 2015, recorded the same month as GIMBAL.
Terms8
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.
Flying stones.
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
A shapeless carcass on a beach.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Okanagan Lake runs long and narrow through the interior of British Columbia.
Every so often the sea gives back something nobody can name.
The name means "short person".