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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People10
November 20, 1952.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
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.
An author whose retellings tended to enlarge the cases he touched.
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.
Organisations3
Civilian volunteers.
Farnborough.
London's police headquarters turns up in this archive more than once, usually as the voice that confirmed what others would not.
Programmes and projects1
The Flying Saucer Working Party was a British official study set up to look into reports of flying saucers.
Places4
Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.
An olive grove community in Tehama County's Sacramento Valley, Corning sits near Interstate 5.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
In the archive, RAE Farnborough is remembered for one prank.
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.