What the record actually says.
Long-form analyses written from the 252,001-event Phenomainon corpus. Every claim is anchored to specific Case File IDs, source counts, and decade-level distributions. Documentary tone. No hype, no ET, no real names.
015 min · 996 wordsThe 1897 Airship Wave: The Largest Single-Year Spike in 173 Years of Records
An anomaly detector run blind across the entire master dataset flagged 1897 as the most extreme yearly outlier on record, with 1,145 events at 57x the rolling baseline.
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025 min · 1,027 words1967: The Biggest Year in the Modern UFO Record
A 12-month spread of 8,276 catalogued events makes 1967 the densest year in the Phenomainon corpus, outpacing both its neighbors and the 1973 Pascagoula wave.
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035 min · 1,016 wordsThe 1973 Wave: Pascagoula, Coyne, and a Year of Close Encounters
October 1973 produced 1,846 reported events in the Phenomainon dataset, more than five times the year's January baseline and the densest single month of close-encounter activity on record for the decade.
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045 min · 1,041 wordsRadar and Aviation Encounters: What 7,183 Pilot and Military Cases Actually Look Like
Instrumented observers and multi-source corroboration make the aviation subset the most evidentially dense slice of the master file, but its distribution is lopsided in ways worth naming.
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055 min · 1,049 wordsEntity and Contact Reports: What 6,397 Close Encounters Share
A small slice of the 252,001-event master file accounts for almost all the narrative weight in UAP literature, and it clusters in ways the lights-and-discs corpus does not.
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065 min · 1,001 wordsThe Sightings Map Has Two Anchors: Wet Forests and Dry Deserts
Across 67,850 distinct city-state places in the Phenomainon corpus, the highest-volume American hotspots cluster into two regions that share almost nothing except open sky.
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075 min · 1,025 wordsThe Disc Era Ended in 1979: How UAP Shape Reports Rewrote Themselves
A decade-by-decade audit of 150,000+ shape-tagged reports shows the "flying saucer" was a 30-year cultural window, not a constant of the phenomenon.
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085 min · 1,079 wordsThe 100 Most-Credible Cases: What "Good Data" Actually Looks Like in UAP Research
When credibility is scored by sources, observer quality, and physical evidence, the top of the file is dominated by quiet trace cases, not the famous ones.
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Phase 3 analyses, generated 2026-06-16 from the master corpus and the Phase 1 / Phase 2 derived tables (rankings, narrative themes, hot spots, timelines, credibility index, related-case graph).