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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People25
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, turns up again and again in this archive.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
John Keel was an author and investigator who appears across several cases in the archive.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
A ghost hunter and writer whose name runs through Britain's haunted places.
A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
A Portage County deputy, Dale Spaur sits at the centre of the best-known Ohio police sighting of 1966.
An Oklahoma City investigator who chased both lights in the sky and things in the woods.
A researcher and author.
Dave Chorley was a watercolour painter from the Southampton area.
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
A Kent researcher with a long reach into the county's strange animals.
An investigator from the north west of England, Peter Hough later co-founded NARO.
Organisations16
Fortean Times is a magazine.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
New Zealand's air force kept the country's UFO files for decades.
A London newspaper that turns up again and again in the city's stranger stories.
When a big cat turned up in London, the RSPCA was often called in.
A magazine.
A magazine that keeps turning up at the turning points of strange stories.
London's police force turns up across more than a century of this archive.
Malcolm Robinson founded this Scottish investigation group.
The county police force of Sussex turns up in three very different cases.
A newspaper that kept returning to strange stories.
A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region.
Places9
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Ohio.
A small place in the Nord, near Valenciennes and close to the Belgian border.
A garrison town on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
Two places share this name in the archive.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A small town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
Two counties share this name in the archive.
Craft and objects1
A white shape over the Pacific in 2004.
Events4
London, 1803 and 1804.
A ghost photograph from Raynham Hall, and a benchmark for the genre.
July 1876.
The Flatwoods Monster belongs to 1952.
Terms4
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
Kangaroos far from home.