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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People63
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
June 24, 1947.
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 journalist whose name keeps surfacing at the turning points of the field.
A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke.
A Canadian ufologist with Ufology Research of Manitoba, based in Winnipeg.
Bill Chalker is a Sydney researcher whose name runs through many of Australia's best-known cases.
A zoologist and palaeontologist who writes at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish turns up across the archive as a careful voice in cryptid debates.
A former director of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick offered sceptical readings of several cases in the archive.
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
A Zimbabwe-based researcher, Cynthia Hind later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa and edited UFO Afrinews.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
John Greenewald runs The Black Vault.
A German researcher and author, Michael Hesemann turns up again and again where cosmonauts, contactees and hoaxes meet.
Budd Hopkins was an abduction researcher and author whose name runs through some of the best-known encounter cases.
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Jim Lorenzen co-founded APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, and worked its cases alongside Coral Lorenzen.
A crash-retrieval researcher whose publications brought several disputed cases into print.
A researcher born in Sauchie, Malcolm Robinson founded Strange Phenomena Investigations.
Robert E.
A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.
An astronomer and investigator, Walter N.
A retired Air Force colonel, Wendelle Stevens turns up again and again in the archive's contact and crash stories.
Antonio Huneeus was a UFO researcher and journalist whose write-ups appear in several of the archive's cases.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
A Navy commander and the lead pilot in the USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter of 2004.
Irene Granchi was a Brazilian ufologist and author, and APRO's field investigator in Rio de Janeiro.
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.
Joel Carpenter was a researcher who weighed in on several classic cases.
A newspaperman turned Sasquatch researcher from British Columbia.
A retired USAF colonel and APRO investigator, Wendelle C.
Anders Liljegren was a Swedish researcher with AFU who turns up across several Nordic cases.
Anthony Bragalia is a researcher whose name turns up where old cases get reopened.
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
A researcher of old sky wonders, Chris Aubeck co-wrote Wonders in the Sky with Jacques Vallée in 2010.
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
A Caltech physicist and CIA consultant.
Cynthia Hind was a researcher based in Zimbabwe who later became MUFON's coordinator for Africa.
An engineer at UC Berkeley, Dr.
A researcher with Project 1947, Jan Aldrich went looking for the paper trail.
Jeff Meldrum is an Idaho State University researcher.
Lyle Blackburn is an author and researcher of North American monster cases, and his books come up again and again in this archive.
A Russian ufologist with the Russian Geographical Society, Mikhail Gershtein turns up in Soviet cases as the researcher who checked the details.
Two different men named Moore appear in these cases.
An investigator with the Victorian UFO Research Society, VUFORS.
Ricardo Campo Pérez is a researcher whose work runs through two strands of Spanish-speaking ufology.
Richard Haines was a researcher whose technical analysis appears in several of the archive's cases.
A researcher whose name runs through the technical side of several cases.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
A biologist and expedition leader who went looking for living legends.
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 former police officer turned UFO researcher, Tony Dodd ran a Yorkshire group and worked alongside Quest International.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
Organisations18
A skeptic forum.
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
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America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Magonia was a publication where researchers took apart some of the field's best-known stories.
The British UFO Research Association, known as BUFORA, held its inaugural meeting in Kensington on 22 September 1962.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
NARCAP is a research organisation whose members have written technical studies of sightings reported by aircrews and pilots.
A British body of investigators.
CISU is an Italian group of UFO researchers.
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Mexico's national university keeps turning up when strange things need checking.
A research institute in Columbus, Ohio, quietly enlisted by the Air Force to study UFO reports.
An Italian organisation of UFO researchers, founded by Roberto Pinotti, who later served as its president.
Kosmopoisk was the Russian research group led by Vadim Chernobrov, and its name turns up wherever the country's strangest cases left physical traces.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Project 1947 is a research effort whose work turns up across several cases in the archive.
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.
Programmes and projects5
A History series that went looking for answers.
January 1953.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
A Pentagon program with two names, AAWSAP and AATIP.
FOTOCAT is a catalogue and research project focused on UFO photographs, linked to V.J.
Places5
A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.
A mountain in Washington, and the backdrop to the sighting that began the modern saucer era.
Pretoria keeps turning up in the archive's South African cases.
An island in the Mediterranean, and the setting for two very different strands of the archive.
Malmstrom AFB sits near Great Falls, Montana.
Events2
The International UFO Congress is a gathering where researchers bring their cases before an audience.
Tunguska serves the archive as a yardstick for impacts from space.
Terms2
Jupiter, the planet, comes up again and again in this archive as the official explanation.
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.