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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People14
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
An investigator with Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Isabel Davis went to Kentucky in 1956.
An author who gathers the strange encounters of others into books.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
A West Yorkshire Police constable.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
A former West Midlands police detective.
A forestry foreman for the Livingston Development Corporation.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
Organisations3
A New Zealand research group, UFOCUS NZ keeps the record on some of the country's strangest encounters.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs.
Programmes and projects5
Police Reporting UFO Sightings.
URECAT is Patrick Gross's catalogue of cases, where each report gets a rating and a verdict.
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
January 2002.
Places7
A Pennine town in West Yorkshire, about 6 miles from Bacup.
An Anglican mission on Goodenough Bay, in the Territory of Papua.
A volcanic hill beside the M8 motorway, near Livingston in West Lothian.
A small Cheshire town.
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
A cathedral city in Hampshire, England, Winchester sits at the edge of two very different cases.
Events2
Kentucky, 1955.
September 1952.
Terms1
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.