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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People36
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
A space analyst and sceptic, James Oberg turns up in the debate after several famous cases.
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
A cryptozoologist who turns up again and again in the archive, sometimes as the field investigator and sometimes as the commentator.
A witness to the summer flying saucer wave of 1947, in Douglas, Arizona, Coral Lorenzen went on to found APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
Gray Barker was a theatre booker from Clarksburg who became one of the most active chroniclers of the saucer era.
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
John G.
A psychologist at the University of Wyoming.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
A Swedish investigator who spent years testing the country's most famous cases.
A French engineer at the national space agency, CNES.
Steven Greer organised the Disclosure Project, and his name runs through several cases in this archive.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
Auguste Meessen was a physicist at the Université catholique de Louvain.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
A cataloguer of the strange autumn of 1973.
A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist.
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
As director of the FBI, J.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
John Greenewald Jr.
Three different witnesses named Johnson appear in this archive, centuries apart.
Loren Gross was a UFO historian whose writing appears across several cases in the archive.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
Chris Rutkowski has written on Canadian sightings since 1980, working with Ufology Research in Winnipeg.
Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker.
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.
A US Representative who keeps turning up in the congressional push on UAP.
Organisations14
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
France's national space agency.
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.
A British body of investigators.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
Dr.
The Air Weather Service was a US Air Force weather unit, and early sighting reports were sent to it to check the balloon question.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
This is Canada's defence department.
The Soviet security service runs through several of the archive's Cold War cases.
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
NewsNation is a news outlet that kept returning to the archive's stranger stories.
Programmes and projects3
Spain's Cuarto Milenio is a programme presented by Iker Jiménez.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
A classified program from 1947.
Places1
The National Press Club in Washington became a stage where witnesses to some of the most famous cases told their stories.
Terms8
Close encounters are the field's term for sightings up close, where a witness meets something at short range.
Missing time is a term of the field for a gap in a witness's memory after an encounter.
A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.
Men in black is a term from UFO folklore for strangers who visit witnesses and warn them to stay quiet.
A stock phrase of the field, and often a joke.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.
In the field, a mothership is a large craft that seems to carry or command smaller ones.
Space jellyfish is the archive's name for a glowing, jellyfish-like shape that rocket launches can paint across the night sky.