Project Phenomenon — projectphenomenon.com
This is the place where UAP encounters, declassified government records, and frontier science meet — built for those who ask hard questions and expect serious answers. If you've experienced something you couldn't explain, your account belongs here.
At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. Department of War is overseeing a multiagency effort to find, review, identify, declassify, and publicly release unresolved UAP-related records in the federal government's possession. The effort is described by the DOW as an "unprecedented, historic undertaking."
On June 12, 2026, the Department released its third tranche of records under PURSUE. Materials include a declassified 1949 U.S. Army Flying Saucer Study, a CIA intelligence report on the Zimbabwe incident, FBI case files from a 2022 Colorado Springs UAP incident, FBI documentation of a 2026 Northeastern orb sighting, and new video footage of orbs over a pond. The PURSUE archive has now received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its launch on May 8, 2026.
Public interest is at a historic high. The release of Disclosure Day — a film directly inspired by the PURSUE program — has brought millions of new eyes to the government's own admissions. The conversation is no longer fringe.
Every record in the PURSUE archive is an unresolved case — one the government cannot make a definitive determination on. The Department of War has formally stated it welcomes private-sector analysis, information, and expertise.
View the PURSUE archive at war.gov →"These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it's time the American people see it for themselves."
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, May 22, 2026
| Date | Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| June 12, 2026 | Release 03 | 1949 Army Flying Saucer Study, CIA Zimbabwe intelligence report, FBI Colorado Springs incident (2022), FBI Northeastern Orb Sighting (2026), ICA analysis, orb video footage. Browse records → |
| May 22, 2026 | Release 02 | Infrared footage, CIA USSR report (1973), Apollo 12 debriefs, PANTEX radar, Iran formation (2022), East Coast incident (2019). Browse records → |
| May 8, 2026 | Release 01 | First historic release of classified UAP records under a presidential directive. Read statement → |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Presidential Directive | Trump directs DOW and other agencies to release government UAP files. |
Find Project Phenomenon
Hopkinsville, KY
A two-day exposition celebrating the anniversary of the Kelly/Hopkinsville encounter, featuring over 70 vendors, keynote speakers, educational workshops, and panels covering everything from UAP to ghosts to Bigfoot. Project Phenomenon will have a booth on-site — come share your story and add it to the living archive.
Saturday, Aug 22 10am–7pm · Sunday, Aug 23 10am–6pm
Learn more at goblincon.com →To give the most underdocumented category of human experience in modern history the serious, permanent home it has always deserved.
Governments are now formally acknowledging what they cannot explain — releasing classified UAP records, inviting private analysis, and admitting on the record: we saw it, we documented it, and we don't know what it is. The official record captures what instruments detect.
The human record — what ordinary people witnessed, felt, and carried in silence for years — has never had a trusted home. Project Phenomenon is that home. Every account submitted here is taken seriously, preserved with care, and treated with the dignity it was never given elsewhere.
The most powerful record we have is not what governments documented. It's what people lived.
Why This Moment Is Different
These are not leaked documents or speculation. They are official, classified-to-declassified records the government spent decades not releasing — and they come with an admission: we don't know what these are.
Every PURSUE record is a case the government explicitly cannot explain. "Unresolved" is the government's own word. The official position is now: we saw it, we recorded it, and we don't know what it is.
The DOW has formally requested private-sector analysis and expertise. This creates an obligation for science, engineering, and the public to engage — not observe from a distance.
Government records capture what instruments detect. They rarely capture what witnesses experienced, felt, or noticed that no sensor could. That knowledge gap is where civilian accounts matter most.
Every official archive — government files, congressional records, military reports — is built around what instruments detected. None of them capture what it was like to be the person who was there.
These are the ranchers, nurses, pilots, and families who never told anyone — because no institution ever gave them a reason to. Project Phenomenon is that institution. When someone submits their account, we offer them something they've never had: a place that takes them seriously.
That's not a database entry. That's a homecoming.
The most powerful record we have is not what governments documented. It's what people lived.
All submissions are reviewed. We do not dismiss, sensationalize, or editorialize. We honor the account exactly as you give it.
You will never be identified publicly without explicit written permission. Anonymous and partial submissions are welcome. You may request removal at any time.
Official files document what sensors detect. The living archive captures what people experienced — the details, the aftermath, the silence kept for years.
Every account contributes to a record that compounds over time — one no competitor, government body, or documentary can go back and recreate.
If you've witnessed something you couldn't explain — something that in hindsight might be consistent with UAP activity — we want to hear it. All accounts are reviewed. Partial and anonymous submissions are welcome, and you don't need to have reported it anywhere else first.
Project Phenomenon is where UAP encounters, declassified government records, and frontier science meet. Where official archives document what instruments detected, Project Phenomenon collects what people experienced — and treats those accounts with the seriousness and dignity they have never been given anywhere else.
We are built for curious people: skeptics, scientists, veterans, researchers, and anyone who has felt that official explanations left something out. Project Phenomenon is not about belief. It is about inquiry — the kind that begins with: this happened, and I have never been able to explain it.
In a moment when governments are formally acknowledging what they cannot explain, the personal record matters more than ever. Your account is part of a living archive that no government file, documentary, or database has ever captured.
"Experience the space between the known and the unknown."
What We Collect
First-hand encounters from civilians, military personnel, aviation professionals, researchers, and anyone who witnessed something they couldn't explain.
Date, location, setting, physical or electromagnetic effects, other witnesses — the kind of detail that sensors don't record and official reports rarely ask for.
What did your encounter make you wonder? What do you think science should be asking? The questions witnesses carry are part of the record too.
Many people never reported what they experienced — out of fear, doubt, or the absence of a trustworthy place to put it. This is that place.