When I first started the website I was the only one. This meant I could use google ads and really had no competition. I averaged around 5 cents per click whenever someone was searching for UFO Database, or I saw a UFO, or a variety of 100 other keywords. At 5 cents per click I would get between 100 and 200 clicks per day, and a great number of UFO reports. I may have been a bit crazy to pay for google clicks on a website that generates no income. A website not even trying to monetize itself, not even plans to monetize in the future. Fast forward to today and the landscape has changed a bit. UFOs have become mainstream and sites have popped up capitalizing on the traffic. Now clicks in this area are around $1 per click. This makes getting traffic from Google Ads a no-go, beyond a poor decision, just not a possibility for a sane individual.
I’ve experienced this issue throughout my life, throughout my time building Internet ventures. I’ll have an idea, I’ll start a site, but when it starts to gain traction, another company will start, a company with venture capital, and they will leapfrog ahead of whatever I’m doing. I’m basically seeding the Internet with great ideas, so that people with more money can come in and overshadow what I’m doing. I don’t really care, because I’m not motivated by money. I really couldn’t care less. Unfortunately, the websites that pop up are often made using generic website platforms, and they don’t share the same motivations that got me going in the first place. UFOIndex.com is one example. As someone very knowledgeable in programming, I wanted to make something that actually analyzes the data, and provides a great user experience. The sites that have leapfrogged my site just seem generic. I don’t understand their motivations or how they would generate a profit. I fund my website entirely myself. It costs money and I can’t even conceive of how it would become profitable, but profitability is not the goal this site. I spend money to find others who have had similar experiences, to alleviate a very strange type of loneliness.
I started the website because I had a close encounter with 3 amber-colored orbs in the late 90’s. A very close encounter. This was a life changing event for me. Ever since, I’ve wanted to connect with others who have also had these experiences. Unfortunately, many other platforms have popped up to document UFO sightings and I don’t know their motivations. I can’t seem to find any information that talks about their motivations. It makes me wonder if they’re just trying to capitalize on the growing traffic around UFOs and other phenomena that has been taking over the news lately.
I’ll keep working on my website. I’m sure these other websites will come and go because they lack concrete motivation. A motivation that transcends monetary value, to know something is coming here and wanting to gather more data.
Check out my UFO Reporting Database. It’s a labor of love these days.
Hi Ken,
I’m a new member to your site as I only just discovered that it exists but it seems pretty awesome so far; well put together, visually pleasing, and most importantly seems to be a large catalog of reports on the UFO index. I haven’t had the time to read all of your thoughts on your blog yet obviously, but from the bits that I did skim through so far it seems like we might have similar thinking on some of this phenomena and potential explanations. Not necessarily the same thinking, but similar.
I don’t want to just dump a bunch of info and theories and opinions in a comment here, especially as a newcomer, but if you would be interested in maybe trading some thoughts back and forth I think I might have some perspectives that could be pretty substantial feeling for your consideration. I’m not sure how you would take them but when I Came Upon them they felt profound and paradigm-shattering to me personally. And I VERY rarely, basically never, see anyone offer these or even similar theories as potential explanations or a new lens to view this phenomena through. Anyway, no pressure but feel free to reach out, I guess through email, i’ll try to remember to check that now and then lol.
BTW, I saw your ideas about gravitationally propelled craft. That seems pretty smart thinking to me. I have a similar sort of theory but kind of more like manipulation of electromagnetic fields and like modulation of the polarity and frequency/intensity of the electromagnetic field… which makes more sense when you hear my other ideas about what I suspect is happening. And of course the two ideas gravitationally propelled craft in electromagnetically propelled crafts are not mutually exclusive either even the framework that I believe i’ve kind of stumbled upon that explains a lot for me personally i still don’t believe that that is the end all be all I don’t think that accounts for every sighting even if my theories were proven to be definitively correct. I saw that you had a page dedicated to orbs specifically on the UFO index and orbs are kind of my thing as well, in a way that’s pretty Central to some of my thinking on the whole UFO/UAP thing in general. anyway yeah no pressure but if you’re curious or anything just let me know and I’m happy to offer my thoughts and I’d be happy to hear some more of your thoughts but we seem like we may be on similar wavelengths.
PS
Even if too busy/not interested in exchanging ideas (I can relate, lol I’m definitely a loner myself) it’s very interesting running a large dataset through a simple python script to pick out details like reported shape, color, etc….. I would have NEVER guessed the ratio of seemingly nuts and bolts craft is SO low in comparison to a more nebulous description of ‘a light’ or ‘lights’…. Some sort of light phenomena.
And no, that is NOT me arguing that means just atmospheric effects or any other mundane explanation, just to clarify.
Hi Richard. Thank you for your message. These types of conversations are just what we need. I had a very close encounter with orbs in 1998 and again in 2024. I think both were just a matter of chance, but they were both extremely close. This recent event was more telling because they both turned off when they noticed me, and immediately began floating upward and out of sight. Almost as if they could no longer travel forward with the light, but that’s just speculation. Their upward travel reminded me of a how a bubble travels up through water, not exactly a straight path. I’ve been a little anxious walking through the parking lot since, but they have yet to return. I also think it’s odd that I’ve never seen a typical craft-like UFO, but have seen these orbs two different times over the span of 30 years. I guess that does say something about their frequency and numbers being much more common than larger craft. Alien scouting craft perhaps.