Who we are

The Phenomenon Files (thephenomenonfiles.com) is an independent educational website about UFOs and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not collect your name, email address or other personal details through this site.

Hosting

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub may log technical information such as your IP address when you visit, for security and operational purposes. See the GitHub Privacy Statement.

Advertising and cookies

We use Google AdSense to show ads on some pages. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent message from Google appears on pages that show ads. It asks whether ads may use cookies and your personal data, and you can change your choice at any time.

If you live in a US state with a consumer privacy law, such as California, pages that show ads include a “Do not sell or share my personal information” link from Google. If you use it to opt out, the ads you see on this site will no longer be personalized.

Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit the site and which pages they read. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, your approximate location (country or city) and the type of device and browser you use. This information is aggregated and does not identify you personally.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Learn more in Google’s explanation of how it uses data from sites that use its services.

Fonts

The site’s fonts (Space Grotesk, Unbounded and JetBrains Mono) are hosted on this site itself, so loading them doesn’t connect your browser to Google Fonts or any other third party.

External links

Our pages link to government archives, news organizations and other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the bottom of this page shows when it was last changed.

Last updated October 18, 2026