The No Further Action Files Organization (fafo) is a collaborative effort to document and analyze a growing archive of case files that have been marked as closed—not because they were resolved, but because they were inconvenient. Each bears the same quiet verdict: No Further Action. A stamp meant to be an ending. But we treat it as a beginning.

We believe these files tell a different kind of story—one built from loose threads, handwritten notes in the margins, unexplained absences, and the uneasy space between official narratives and lived experience. These aren't just bureaucratic artifacts; they are signals, scattered across time and place, waiting for someone to pay attention.

FAFO isn’t a monolith. We operate without a central office, without hierarchy, and often without introduction. We're a scattered collective of archivists, amateur historians, former bureaucrats, field researchers, folklorists, data analysts, and the quietly obsessed. Our members have backgrounds in everything from records management to comparative mythology. Some of us are chasing patterns in names, dates, and disappearances. Some are reconstructing timelines that were never meant to align, Others are just listening for the things that don’t quite fit.

There is no single theory that unites us. No manifesto.

Only a shared understanding that something strange happens when you pay attention to what others have chosen to forget.