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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People14
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
Edward J.
Bob Pratt was a journalist with the National Enquirer and an investigator for APRO.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
A writer behind one of the field's key document books.
A Portuguese historian, and director of the civilian scientific group CNIFO.
A researcher of crash retrievals, and in 1955 the director of CRIFO.
A Belgian skeptic with a habit of rebuilding the evidence.
A researcher and author.
Gary Anthony was a ufologist and consultant to BUFORA, and his name turns up in two British cases.
Two different men share this surname in the archive.
A French ufologist with SERPAN.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
Organisations6
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
A Chicago newspaper that turns up again and again across this archive's stories.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
Civilian volunteers.
Someone was always listening.
Programmes and projects1
Secret files rarely stay secret forever.
Places3
Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.
Eglin Air Force Base sits on the Florida Panhandle.
A city in Texas, and the setting for two very different kinds of sky story.
Terms1
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.