CASE 23 — PASSION PROJECT

UAP FOR INDIA

India’s only UAP reporting site, ranking #1 on Google for “UAP India” — a search moat built from scratch on research, SEO and micro-budget ads.
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THE BRAND

WHO THEY ARE

UAP for India is a research and reporting site covering Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the Indian context — the only one of its kind in the country. It is my own project.

Elsewhere this function belongs to governments and space agencies: the US has AARO, other nations have formal reporting channels. India has none. The site exists to fill that gap with something credible rather than sensational.

That makes the design problem unusual. The subject attracts cranks, so the presentation has to work harder than the content to establish seriousness — and the audience has to be found on a budget, in a category advertising platforms actively restrict.

THE PROBLEM

THE BRIEF

Build an informative, credible home for UAP research in the Indian context — a task handled by governments and space agencies elsewhere.

THE RESPONSE

WHAT I DID

Designed the site for clarity and article discovery, structured content around geopolitical context (AARO disclosures, historical sightings, country-level responses), and search-optimised every page. Created custom artwork, infographics and reels that stayed inside Instagram’s restrictions on political content.

HOW I GOT THERE

THE THINKING

01

Win the search term, not the argument

The moat is organic. Every page was structured and optimised around the terms a curious Indian reader actually types — which is why it holds rank #1 for “UAP India”.

02

Anchor to geopolitics

Framing coverage around AARO disclosures, historical sightings and country-level responses moves the subject from folklore to policy.

03

Design against the stereotype

Clean typography, restrained artwork, infographics over imagery. The look deliberately borrows from journalism, not science fiction.

04

Advertise inside the rules

Instagram restricts political content. Creative had to be educational in form to be servable at all — a constraint that improved the work.

THE RESULT
Rank #1 on Google for “UAP India” — an owned search position in a category with no Indian competitor. Two ad experiments reached 74,000 people at ₹4–5 per site visit.
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