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The people, organisations, programmes and places that keep turning up. Each page gathers every case that mentions them.
People9
A folklorist and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke advised The National Archives on the Ministry of Defence UFO files released from 2008 to 2013.
An Australian UFO researcher who kept going back to old cases.
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
A Brazilian historian and ufologist, Cláudio Suenaga went back into the paperwork behind some of Brazil's strangest cases.
A journalist for Open Minds, also styled Openminds.tv and OpenMinds.
In 1974, Don Berliner compiled a list of Blue Book Unknowns for the Fund for UFO Research.
An Italian researcher, he was the founder of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale and later served as its president.
Physicist Willy Smith appears in these files as a researcher who checked the numbers.
Organisations13
Britain's Ministry of Defence kept a small desk for UFO reports for more than 50 years.
Kew is home to the files.
France's national space agency.
The Royal Australian Air Force runs through decades of the archive's Australian cases.
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
A British university, it appears in the archive mainly as the academic home of Dr David Clarke.
Records from the Royal Australian Air Force's UFO investigations are held by the National Archives of Australia.
ATIC was where Air Force UFO reports ended up being analysed.
The Arquivo Nacional is Brazil's national archive.
DI55 was a branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff at the Ministry of Defence.
Inside the Royal Australian Air Force, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, or DAFI, kept the flying saucer files.
Canada's national archive holds some of the country's key UFO papers.
Revista UFO is a Brazilian publication that turns up again and again in the country's major cases.
Programmes and projects3
October 1966.
In the early years, the US Air Force ran its UFO investigations through Project Grudge.
PURSUE stands for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters.
Terms1
A large, ape-like creature of North American folklore, and one of the archive's most persistent names.