Skinwalker Ranch: the history, the research and the claims

About Skinwalker Ranch

📍 Place · 11 min readSkinwalker RanchThe main encyclopedia articleA Utah ranch known for reports of strange events, studied by NIDS and AAWSAP.

Location

Uintah County, Utah

Coordinates

40.2582, -109.8884 ↗

The full story, section by section

1. Location and ownershipThe ranch lies in western Uintah County, Utah, bordering the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.
2. The Sherman accounts (1996)UFO reports in the Uintah Basin had been publicised since the 1970s.
3. The Bigelow yearsRobert Bigelow, a Las Vegas real estate developer, founded NIDS in 1995 to study aerial phenomena and the survival of consciousness after death.
4. The Pentagon programThe New Yorker reported that in 2007 Bigelow received a letter from a senior Defense Intelligence Agency official who was curious about Skinwalker.
5. Fugal ownershipIn 2016 Bigelow sold the ranch for about $500,000 to Adamantium Real Estate, a Delaware company based in Salt Lake City.
6. AssessmentCritics have made several points against the ranch's claims:

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The government-funded research

How a Pentagon intelligence program came to study the ranch:

🏛️ Program or study · 11 min readAAWSAPThe Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.🏢 Organization · 10 min readBAASSThe Bigelow Aerospace division that carried out the AAWSAP contract.🗓️ Event · 12 min readDIA interest in Skinwalker RanchBigelow says the DIA expressed interest in strange events at Skinwalker Ranch.🗓️ Event · 8 min readAAWSAP begins (2008)Bigelow tells Vallée the DIA's AAWSAP project has started but promised access hasn't arrived.🗓️ Event · 8 min readBAASS investigationsA BAASS investigator for the DIA program looks into UAP cases.🎬 Book or film · 8 min readSkinwalkers at the PentagonA 2021 book about AAWSAP by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp.

Owners: Bigelow and Fugal

👤 Person · 10 min readRobert BigelowBusinessman who founded NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace and ran the AAWSAP contract.👤 Person · 8 min readBrandon FugalOwner of Skinwalker Ranch.🗓️ Event · 8 min readBrandon Fugal's convictionSkinwalker Ranch owner Brandon Fugal says senior figures convinced him reverse engineering is real.

Key people

• Colm KelleherBiochemist who helped run NIDS and BAASS and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
• James LacatskiDIA official who started AAWSAP and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
• George KnappLas Vegas journalist who broke the Bob Lazar story and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
• Harry ReidSenate Majority Leader who arranged funding for AAWSAP.
• Jeremy CorbellFilmmaker who made documentaries on Bob Lazar and Skinwalker Ranch and released leaked Navy UAP videos.
• Christopher "Kit" GreenCIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
• Harold PuthoffPhysicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.

🗓️ Skinwalker Ranch on the UAP timeline

1. 21 October 2007Bigelow says the DIA expressed interest in strange events at Skinwalker Ranch. Read the article →
2. 27 October 2022Skinwalker Ranch owner Brandon Fugal says senior figures convinced him reverse engineering is real. Read the article →

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🛸 UFO sightings near Skinwalker Ranch

35 sightings on ufos.dev were reported within 150 km. The most-upvoted:

Sightings that mention Skinwalker Ranch

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More in the encyclopedia

Other articles that link to or mention Skinwalker Ranch:

• NIDSRobert Bigelow's research institute (1995–2004) that studied UFOs and other anomalies.
• Bigelow's expectation of a UFO announcement (1998)Bigelow tells Vallée he feels a dramatic UAP development is coming soon.
• Bigelow AerospaceRobert Bigelow's space habitat company.
• Bigelow recruits consciousness experts (1996)Bigelow tells Vallée he is hiring experts on consciousness.
• Edgar MitchellApollo 14 astronaut who spoke about UFOs and whose estate held the Wilson–Davis notes.
• Defense Intelligence AgencyThe Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
• AAWSAP denied access to legacy programsColm Kelleher says the DIA sponsor still hasn't delivered access to legacy UAP programs.
• Wesley ClarkRetired general and 2004 presidential candidate who spoke about faster-than-light travel.
• Steve Millard's Silicon Valley study groupA Silicon Valley investor hosts a private UAP study group including Vallée.
• Bradshaw Ranch black site claimSteven Greer suggests a ranch near Sedona was turned into a black site.
• MUFON–BAASS contractMUFON forms a technical team that signs a contract with Bigelow's company.
• Government programs (topic)Overview of government programs on the UAP Timeline: 228 events.
• Havana SyndromeHealth incidents reported by U.S. diplomats from 2016.
• AAROThe Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
• Vallée meets D'Amato on secret programs (1992)Vallée writes he met Senate counsel Dick D'Amato about secret programs.
• Homeland Security and BAASS (2011)Homeland Security officials explore setting up BAASS as a UAP program in the government.
• Zero-point field theory of inertia paper (1998)Puthoff and Lockheed researchers publish a paper on inertia and vacuum energy.
• Nuclear & missile sites (topic)Overview of nuclear & missile sites on the UAP Timeline: 74 events.

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