About Us

Welcome to The Anomalies Network the world's largest online UFO/Paranormal Community. Anomalies.net, originally The S4 Database, was started a little over 9 years ago in response to the lack of quality UFO/Paranormal information on the web. The goal was to either mirror or download the world's largest FTP and Web archives and place them into one super archive which made information location easier.

Who is The Anomalies Network?

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Olav Phillips
Founder / Archivist / Researcher

Olav Phillips is founder of the Anomalies Network, the largest UFO and paranormal information source on the Internet. With 24 years of experience in UFO research and study, Olav's self-proclaimed passion is serving as archivist for the UFO and paranormal community. With a database of 142,000 recorded sightings, his area of specialization is the application of the latest technology to the field of ufology. Phillips uses technology to derive new sets of information, compile and analyze data in new ways, and develop new theories.

He has appeared on many popular radio shows as well as television presentations including: Shadows In the Dark Radio, Coast to Coast AM w/ George Noory, Voyager (RAI Due), Ground Zero Radio as well as many others.  Olav has also contributed to many of the television presentations you've seen on Area 51, UFO's and conspiracies.

You can reach Olav via email at olav@anomalies.net


What is the Anomalies Network?

Simply put The Anomalies Network is a vast archive of information, media, and resources which was designed on the simple premise only through raw information people can form their own opinions about what is happening. So we have constructed a site to those ends. We neither support nor deny the claims made in the files we house, we simply offer them to you to make up your own minds. We may not constantly update the news but we do constantly update the site with new ideas, and information so please visit often!


What does this site run on?

Thats a complicated question, the short answer is Open Source! We run the site on CentOS (linux), Apache, MySQL, PHP, Nutch and a few other Open Source applications. Open Source is very much about the freedom of information, a simple idea we share.

The Hardware

Web Server - AMD Opteron Quad Core, 16gb RAM, 850gb SATA Raid 5

Web Server #2 - Dell Poweredge 750, 4gb RAM, 250gb SATA

Virtual Machine Server - Dual AMD Opteron Quad Core, 16gb RAM, 1tb SATA RAID 5

Media Server - Dell PowerEdge 750 (2.4ghz), 3gb ram, 500gb

Support Server - Dell PowerEdge 650 (2.1ghz), 3gb ram, 250gb


The Content Management System

For our content management system we went with EM3 iOn. We chose iOn due in part to its flexibility.  Written in all JAVA its flexibility and speed are unmatched as is its ease of integration into other applications.

The Content Delivery System

For our content delivery system we went with NetDNA.  We chose NetDNA for its cost and performance and the fantastic customer support. If you need a CDN for your business and website please consider NetDNA!


Contact Us

We want to hear from you! Click here to get ahold of us right now! We do want to talk to you and do try our hardest to respond.









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