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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People19
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.
Loren E.
A biologist and cryptozoologist from the University of Chicago, Roy P.
Frank Podmore worked for the Society for Psychical Research.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
Tyler Rogoway was a journalist at The War Zone who kept turning up the records behind strange aviation encounters.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
A ghost writer whose books carried older haunting stories into the twentieth century.
The night of 19 February 1838.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A researcher of old sea monsters and colonial-era hoaxes.
Three different people share this surname in the archive.
Brad Sparks is a researcher and the compiler of the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns.
The surname Turner belongs to two different men in this archive.
An Italian stigmatic and UFO contactee, Giorgio Bongiovanni was named Eugenio Siragusa's heir in 1992.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
A filmmaker drawn to the monsters of small towns.
Organisations16
A catalogue of ghost reports.
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
China's national science academy appears again and again where strange animals are reported.
A wire service.
A wire service.
A group of ghost hunters from Oak Lawn, led by Dale Kaczmarek.
A source the archive keeps returning to.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
The War Zone is a news outlet that kept turning up in airline sighting cases.
An air traffic control centre, and the voice on the other end of the radio for crews who saw something they could not name.
A local Cornish newspaper.
Civilian volunteers.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
A London newspaper that kept turning up when the uncanny made headlines.
Trove is the National Library of Australia's newspaper archive.
A newspaper of the Rio Grande Valley, and a recurring voice in its strangest bird stories.
Programmes and projects2
A ghost-hunting television programme that came back again and again to the archive's haunted places.
A Fox television series hosted by Tim White, Sightings brought several of the archive's cases to a wide audience.
Places12
A long lake on the border of New York and Vermont, with a monster of its own.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
Two places share this name in the archive.
On the shore of Loch Ness stands Urquhart Castle.
A small village in Logan County, Illinois.
A district on the edge of Woolwich, in what is now the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
The Gulf of Mexico is a wide stretch of water that sets the stage for several encounters in the archive.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A town in Ceará's Sertão Central, in north-eastern Brazil, about 170 km from Fortaleza.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
A Cornish harbour town, and the home port of more than one sea monster story.
A volcano in Skamania County, Washington.
Craft and objects2
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
November 3, 1957.
Events1
May 20, 1967.
Terms4
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens.
A name, and a creature, that the lower Rio Grande Valley gave to its flying monster.
The mind reads a familiar image into a random pattern.