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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People12
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
An Argentine ufologist, Fabio Zerpa turns up across decades of the country's strangest cases.
A writer whose retellings turn up across the archive, sometimes with details the older sources never gave.
An astronomer and the writer behind the Bad Astronomy column.
A crop-circle researcher whose name runs through several cases in the archive.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
Marc D'Antonio worked as a photo and video analyst for MUFON, and the Jerusalem case names him its Chief Photo/Video Analyst.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
March 1967.
A Pennsylvania UFO researcher, Stan Gordon worked the ground where sky and forest met.
Vladimír Šiška founded Projekt Záře, a Czech group that keeps files on the country's unexplained cases.
Organisations8
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
A sensational national weekly.
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
The Center for UFO Studies published the International UFO Reporter, and its pages carried several cases in this archive.
A Mexican television network, Televisa turns up again and again in the capital's sightings.
A Czech research group founded by Vladimír Šiška.
A news wire.
Places9
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
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.
Washington, D.C.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
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.
A town near Caracas, and the place where Venezuela's 1954 run of hairy dwarf reports began.
Craft and objects1
An uncrewed drone, filming with its sensors.
Events2
A town in Texas, and the starting point of a restless month.
1988.
Terms3
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
A wartime name for lights that would not explain themselves.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.