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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People35
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.
Scott Corrales is a writer and translator whose name comes up again and again in Latin American cases.
A naturalist with a sceptic's eye for sea monsters.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
Patrick Gross compiles cases.
Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA.
Charles Garreau was a French journalist and ufologist.
As director of the FBI, J.
A writer and UFO researcher who kept count of Argentina's strange skies.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A sceptical researcher and writer, and a co-host of MonsterTalk.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
A Pentagon voice on record.
A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research, Tom Ruffles returns to old cases with a careful eye.
The surname Turner belongs to two different men in this archive.
A lawyer and a ufologist.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
The surname Hughes belongs to three different people in this archive.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
João Martins was a reporter for O Cruzeiro, the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro, and he turns up in three Brazilian cases.
A Swedish ufologist and APRO representative, K.
A researcher and writer, Mike Swords appears across the archive as the author behind several NICAP case pages.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A retired general, Ricardo Bermúdez directed CEFAA, Chile's official UAP committee within the civil aviation authority DGAC.
A writer of London ghost lore and Ripper history.
March 1967.
A U.S.
He says he worked a handful of days at a hidden site called S-4.
Organisations21
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
Paris.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.
A magazine that kept turning up when strange reports needed a hearing.
A wire service.
Chile has an official body for unexplained aerial events.
A Scottish newspaper, sometimes called the Glasgow Daily Record, that turns up again and again at the edges of famous cases.
Dr.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
O Cruzeiro was the Diários Associados weekly in Rio de Janeiro.
Farnborough.
Programmes and projects3
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
A sceptical podcast, co-hosted by Blake Smith, that has returned again and again to the archive's strangest photographs.
A television series.
Places17
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
An Air Force base where the uncensored Project Blue Book files could still be read.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
A small town in West Virginia, and the home of a legend.
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
The Mexican capital appears in the archive again and again.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Washington, D.C.
An air-minded district in southern England, home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
A name that turns up in two hemispheres.
Kapustin Yar was set up by decree on 13 May 1946.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
A town in Idaho's Magic Valley, Twin Falls sat at the centre of the 1947 flying disc wave.
A stretch of New Mexico desert, and a recurring backdrop in the archive.
Events6
Bluff Creek, 1967.
A benchmark case.
Zimbabwe, 1994.
24 July 1948.
Saturday, 4 August 1990.
Melbourne, Australia.
Terms5
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
A book.
Fátima, 13 October 1917.
A flying terror of Zambian legend.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.