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Skinwalker Ranch

The Utah ranch studied by NIDS and a Pentagon-funded program, and the Uinta Basin sightings before it. 24 events, newest first.

1990s

Skinwalker Ranch

Deseret News 'Frequent Fliers?' story on the Sherman ranch

Deseret News reporter Zack Van Eyck published the Sherman family's account of repeated UFO sightings and cattle losses on their Uintah Basin ranch, with Terry Sherman speaking publicly for the first time. Robert Bigelow bought the ranch later that year.

Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

Skinwalker Ranch

National Institute for Discovery Science founded

Las Vegas real estate developer Robert Bigelow founded the National Institute for Discovery Science, a privately funded nonprofit that studied UFO reports, animal mutilations and survival of consciousness. It disbanded in 2004.

Photo: Bill Ingalls, Public domain

Skinwalker Ranch

Sherman family buys Uintah Basin ranch

Terry and Gwen Sherman bought a 480-acre cattle ranch south of Fort Duchesne, Utah. In a June 1996 Deseret News story they reported odd lights and craft, voices, and missing or dead cattle; the property later became known as Skinwalker Ranch.

Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

1970s

Skinwalker Ranch

Frank Salisbury publishes The Utah UFO Display

Utah State University plant scientist Frank Salisbury published The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist's Report, on reports from the Uintah Basin that teacher Joseph Junior Hicks had collected since the 1960s. Salisbury interviewed witnesses himself from 1968.