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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People30
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
November 20, 1952.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A writer, editor and translator for Flying Saucer Review, Gordon Creighton carried cases from many countries into English.
June 24, 1947.
Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
Juan José Benítez, better known as J.
A Spanish journalist and author, his name runs through some of the best-known cases of the Spanish-speaking world.
British ufologist Jenny Randles investigated for BUFORA through the 1970s.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A researcher and case historian, Curt Collins returns to old flaps and checks them against the original sources.
As director of the FBI, J.
British statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and later Prime Minister.
George Adamski's co-author on Flying Saucers Have Landed.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
A science writer, and the man behind a 1969 Mayflower paperback, UFO: Flying Saucers over Britain.
A Malaysian UFO researcher, Ahmad Jamaludin catalogued many of his country's strangest reports.
A psychologist and reserve Brazilian Air Force aviator-officer.
A psychiatrist who kept turning up where witnesses told strange stories.
Húlvio Brant Aleixo led CICOANI, the civilian investigation centre he founded in Belo Horizonte.
A British investigator who appears across three decades of cases in the archive.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
A British investigator, Paul Whetnall worked alongside Jenny Randles on some of the strangest close encounters of the late 1970s.
Three different men named Peter Davies appear in the archive's cases.
A psychologist who read flying saucers as symbols as much as sightings.
He says he worked a handful of days at a hidden site called S-4.
Organisations11
A British magazine at the centre of the field's paper trail.
Britain's Air Ministry turns up again and again in the archive's RAF cases.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
Air Materiel Command operated from Wright Field, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Civilian volunteers.
CICOANI was a civilian investigation centre in Belo Horizonte.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Farnborough.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
A collection of case files and photographs, UFO Casebook keeps old sightings in circulation.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Programmes and projects5
HUMCAT was a catalogue of humanoid encounters.
Project Sign was the Air Force programme that gathered flying saucer reports in 1948.
January 1953.
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
Peter Rogerson compiled it.
Places10
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
Washington, D.C.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A town in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
Kew is home to The National Archives, where Britain's official UFO files came to rest.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
A town in Kent that surfaces twice in the archive.
Terms3
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
A term born in 1947.