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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People29
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
A 23 year old farmer near São Francisco de Sales, Brazil.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A NASA scientist who later studied encounters between aircraft and UFOs.
An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership.
Friday, April 24, 1964.
A writer whose retellings carry older cases to new readers.
British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
An Argentine researcher who heads CEFORA and directs the UFO Museum in Victoria, Entre Ríos.
An author who gathered the world's lake monster lore between two covers.
An Argentine ufologist, Roberto Banchs turns up across three cases from his country's files.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A former West Midlands police detective.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A cataloguer of cars that stopped in the presence of the unknown.
Robert Bartholomew is a psychologist and author.
A deputy sheriff for Marshall County, Minnesota.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
Brett Holman is a historian who keeps returning to the archive's oldest airship scares and wartime rumours.
Brooklyn, 17 February 1922.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
A Swedish ufologist and APRO representative, K.
Tasmania had its own record keeper.
Organisations11
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Italy's Carabinieri appear in these cases as the officers who arrived, measured and took statements.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
The SBEDV was a Brazilian organisation that recorded and published reports on strange encounters.
An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters.
Based in Oklahoma City, the International UFO Bureau was directed by Hayden C.
A Swedish UFO organisation that keeps an archive of cases and takes them seriously enough to argue.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
La Domenica del Corriere was an Italian publication whose painted covers by Walter Molino gave UFO stories a lasting image in the public eye.
The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, known as TUFOIC, has looked into the island's sightings since at least 1969.
Programmes and projects2
A television series, and a place where old cases found new audiences.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
Places6
Bog country in County Galway, scattered with small dark loughs.
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
A rural shire in the South West of Western Australia.
A long road across southern Australia.
A village in Westmoreland County, southeast of Pittsburgh.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
Events2
1961.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
Terms2
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests.