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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People11
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A writer whose name runs through the archive's strangest tales.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
Naturalist, writer and broadcaster Ivan T.
A researcher who kept returning to the paper trail.
James W.
Author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Daniel C.
A social worker and civil-rights activist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
A historian of Australian folklore, ghosts and phantom cats.
A former West Midlands police detective.
Organisations5
An online archive run by John Greenewald, The Black Vault pursues government records through Freedom of Information requests and publishes what comes back.
A magazine.
Again and again, the first call went to the gendarmerie.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
Programmes and projects2
A French report from 1999, and a recurring reference point in the archive.
A secret Ministry of Defence study of unidentified aerial phenomena in the UK.
Places1
Three places share this name across the archive.
Terms3
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
A creature said to live in the waters of Loch Ness.
A reported creature of the Likouala Department in the Congo Republic, said to haunt the waters around Lake Tele.