Archive / search
The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People15
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
Tony Dodd spent 25 years with the West and North Yorkshire Police.
A researcher and pilot from the Maritime provinces, Don Ledger wrote Maritime UFO Files.
A researcher whose observations surface across several of the archive's strangest cases.
A Wisconsin writer who keeps returning to the state's strangest stories.
An Albuquerque electronics businessman.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
March 1967.
Three different people share this surname in the archive.
A Brazilian researcher and archivist who digs up the paper trail.
Organisations11
The Mutual UFO Network sent its investigators into some of the field's best known cases.
A British body of investigators.
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Brazil's military aviators turn up again and again in the country's strangest cases.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, ATIC, sat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio.
A newspaper name that turns up twice in the archive.
In 1973, UFO reports in Australia went to the Royal Australian Air Force.
A government transport department, and a name that surfaces in more than one country's files.
Britain's elected chamber, where strange sightings sometimes became questions for ministers.
A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange.
Programmes and projects1
A History series that went looking for answers.
Places10
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
The Argentine capital has drawn more than one crowd to its windows.
A district of Cairo.
Sheffield sits near the South Yorkshire saucer photographs.
An airport in southern England, and a recurring backdrop in the archive's British cases.
A town in central Victoria, and the setting for two very different kinds of night-time strangeness.
An island in the South Shetlands, in the Antarctic.
A town in New Mexico, close to the White Sands Proving Ground.
A railway junction village in the Karoo of the Eastern Cape, about 12 km east of Middelburg.
Open water between Australia and New Zealand.
Events1
October 13, 1973.
Terms5
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
A superior mirage.
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
Missouri had its monster first.
Muhnochwa.