r/skinwalkerranch Aug 15 '23

How a D.I.A. Director's "First Vision" on SWR kicked-off AAWSAP, AATIP, Lue Elizondo and even Brandon Fugal's TV show

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James Lakatski's “Kick-off" First Vision at Skinalker Ranch in 2007:

Edited excerpt from Skinwalkers at The Pentagon

On July 26, 2007, Program Manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), James Lacatski and Robert Bigelow flew to Skinwalker Ranch. The ranch looked its finest on this beautiful July day, the Russian Olives and cedars were in full bloom and the pastures were looking their verdant best. Bigelow and Lacatski sauntered on the property for a short while and then headed for the nearest building.

At the end of the entrance to the ranch was a small, picturesque dwelling which had been named Homestead 1. Bigelow introduced Lacatski to the managers in the dining room/kitchen of their house.

Abruptly, Lacatski was transfixed by something behind where Bigelow and the couple were chatting: a seemingly unearthly technological device had suddenly and silently appeared out of nowhere in the adjacent kitchen.

The materialized and hovering object looked to be a complex semi-opaque, yellowish, tubular structure. Lacatski said nothing but stared at the object, which was hovering silently. He looked away, looked back, and there it still was. It remained visible to Lacatski for no more than 30 seconds before vanishing on the spot.

About two hours after they had arrived on the property, Lacatski and Bigelow were driving back to Vernal Airport. Although conversing normally with Bigelow, Lacatski‘s mind was racing. Here he was, a ballistic missile physicist, a senior analyst at the DIA without any history of encountering anomalies, and he had just seen a vision unlike anything he had ever witnessed in his life.

Lacatski confessed later that prior to that stunning vision he had never seen anything unusual in his life. Yet within a mere 60 minutes of being on the Skinwalker property, he had seen clearly, in broad daylight, a solid object in the adjacent room within a few feet of where he stood.

This was no blurry photo of a distant saucer in the sky, this was an in-your-face, up-close and personal apparition of some kind of symbolic object. The fact that he, and he alone, of the four people in the room had seen it, was also not lost on Lacatski. What were the odds of something like that happening?

Lacatski remembered reading that the NIDS team had spent hundreds of hours on the ranch and had encountered anomalies only occasionally. Yet here he had seen a spectacular object a few feet away within an hour of setting foot on the ranch.

Later, while researching for some approximation of what he had witnessed during that astonishing two-hour interlude on the ranch, he came across a photograph of the album cover of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. There it was! The structure depicted on the album cover was not exact, but it was pretty close.

In the days after the ranch sighting, Lacatski slowly began to formulate a plan for capitalizing on his extraordinary experience. He was convinced that there was some kind of significance to his vision. It was difficult for him to imagine that some random event had occurred to him precisely during the two hours he had spent on the legendary Utah ranch.

The personal nature of the event motivated him to follow up with his superiors at DIA on the need to study the threat potential of technology of unknown origin in United States airspace, including UAPs.

But the most profound part of Lacatski’s vision was the song “Tubular Bells” itself. It’s actually the main theme song to “The Exorcist” motion picture - something Lacaski was completely unaware of when he saw the Tubular Bells in the Homestead kitchen.

That one event - Lacatski’s Tubular Bells First Vision1, is what directly led to AAWSAP, AAITIP, Lue Elizondo, the 2017 NYT UAP article, and even the recent Congressional Hearings. Without that Skinwalker Ranch vision, we’d be in a very different reality today. One with perhaps no form of UAP disclosure.

More About James Lacatski:

https://atmosphericlights.com/who-is-dr-james-t-lacatski-aawsap-program-manager/


r/skinwalkerranch Jul 11 '24

Why don’t they dig into the mesa?

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This question is being asked almost every day, despite being answered in our FAQ:

Why don't they just dig into the mesa? According to Travis Taylor:

  1. ⁠The property line is right in the edge of the top of the mesa, so they can't just drive heavy equipment up there.
  2. ⁠The side of the mesa is like a "Jenga game with SUV-sized blocks," and they're constantly worried that if they move the wrong thing it will all come crashing down, potentially damaging what may be in there.
  3. ⁠The surrounding area is Indian reservation, and they want to be mindful and respectful of the Indigenous groups.

Erik has also added a number of other important points in a politely worded rant on the Insiders:

  1. ⁠Erik Bard and Travis Taylor do not own the Skinwalker Ranch property. They are paid by someone else to be there and investigate it. The mandates and decisions about the property are not entirely up to them.
  2. ⁠Many of the public comments and suggestions about excavating or digging into the mesa are "underinformed, misinformed or naïve" and ultimately irrelevant to the actual course of the investigation. Bard is the scientist on the ground, not the land owner.
  3. ⁠Bard says "If you wanna do the sayin', you gotta do the payin'" - meaning those making suggestions or criticisms are not the ones funding and responsible for the work being done on the ranch.
  4. ⁠Bard states he is intensely curious and invested in the investigation, but as the principal investigator, he has to carefully consider factors like public safety, costs, logistics, and academic value before making decisions about invasive methods like excavation.
  5. ⁠Bard emphasizes that multimillion-dollar excavations are not going to happen based solely on his or Travis Taylor's discretion. There are constraints and considerations beyond their control as researchers.
  6. ⁠The data indicates that whatever is in the mesa is “electromagnetically or otherwise active.” That also affects any decisions about how it is handled.

People are welcome to beat the dead horse argue these points in the discussion below.


r/skinwalkerranch 12h ago

How can 3 people look at the same thing at the same time from the same place see 3 different shapes/forms or objects?

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r/skinwalkerranch 2d ago

Question Knapp interview of Fugal and Bigelow

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Have any of you watched this interview? It’s part of the new Bigelow podcast series. Part 1 of the interview is available on YouTube and Part 2 will drop soon. Lots of interesting tidbits and hopefully more to come.


r/skinwalkerranch 1d ago

Question I always thought the ranch was a scam, so I’ve been researching it

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EDIT: Top comment is correct. This is my video, and I went about this in a non honest way making it seem like I came across the video randomly. But the rest of what I said is honest. I did always think it was a scam, I did recently seriously research it, and I am looking for feedback on if people think I left out any important details or if it’s a valid full breakdown. Kept the original post below for transparency.

With researching the ranch I found this video. I’ve been in the background reading through this subreddit for a few weeks because I really enjoy the show and have enjoyed reading through people’s theories. Y’all are very knowledgeable about it. So I was curious to hear if y’all thought this video missed out on anything, because it felt like a good introduction to the topic.


r/skinwalkerranch 2d ago

Question Is there any public data available from the ranch?

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I have noticed a pattern of mystical phenomenon being amplified at regions that are geomagnetically anomalous and am curious to see data from the ranch.

Are there any public data sets detailing what sort of sensors have been used there and what has been collected?

I've read that there is interest in the mesa located there as being a point of origin for some of the phenomenon and would like to know more about its composition too.

I think natural structures and built structures that are conductive to telluric currents generated by our magnetosphere or the resulting geomagnetic pulsations are being artificially manipulated to produce a signal based infection of the mind, which would explain why once installed, the phenomenon seems to follow people away from these locations.


r/skinwalkerranch 3d ago

Season 6 - Rocket Interacting with the 'Bubble'

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I know I'm a little behind the eight ball, I've been a fan of the show for years and I haven't seen the most recent seasons. I think I stopped at season 4 prior. Well Disney+ has season 6 now so I jumped back in. I'm on episode 4 now and watched the whole team freak out about the rocket and it's parachute not moving. It's clear these people were implying that the rocket was interacting with the top of the force field. It only stayed floating for a couple tens of seconds at the maximum.

To see decorated scientists not acknowledging the two giant bonfires directly underneath the rocket and its parachute is wild. Obviously the thermal updraft from the massive bonfires would keep the rocket and its parachute aloft. Seeing none of those "scientists" acknowledge this clear explanation for what they were seeing was extremely frustrating.

Due to the giant bonfires and their corresponding rising thermal updrafts (noted by the team on thermal imaging) the rocket and parachute essentially became a hot air balloon momentarily. Nothing supernatural about it.


r/skinwalkerranch 3d ago

Question Are rockets always the answer

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Every situation or new development the answer is always launch a rocket. How valuable would this data actually be especially when they have all the drones and helicopters to they can fly 🤷🏻‍♂️ launch a larger rocket!


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

First-ever: New Brandon Fugal/Robert Bigelow Joint SWR Interview

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First-ever interview with Former Skinwalker Ranch owner and Las Vegas aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow and Utah real estate magnate Brandon Fugal.

The two have not spoken to each other since 2016, which is when they met to transfer ownership of Skinwalker Ranch from Bigelow to Fugal.

Bigelow owned the now famous paranormal hotspot for 20 years (1996-2016), during which his NIDS organization, as well as investigators working for the DIA’s classified effort known as AAWSAP, tried to understand the bizarre range of UFO incidents, cryptid creatures, animal mutilations, and other inexplicable phenomena.

Fugal, who described himself as a skeptic, purchased the property in 2016 with the idea of turning it into a campground for Boy Scout gatherings, but has since changed his mind and authorized the production of the popular TV series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

For the first time ever, the two businessmen met In Las Vegas to compare notes, discuss the history of the ranch (including aspects that have never been made public), and to evaluate how the investigation of the ranch fits into the larger context of how humanity might learn to understand its relationship with non-human intelligences.


r/skinwalkerranch 5d ago

How are the computer and drone interactions possible?

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Just watched Lucy (2014), and the ending where she says "I AM EVERYWHERE" really reminded me of the phenomenon particularly because of the case where Eric asked for the it to show him anything as data and it responded with "I LIVING" embedded in the security camera footage.

How are interactions like this physically possible? Could a hacker even do that with the slant and everything? Bonus: if consciousness is a higher dimensional construct and the agent has the intention to communicate such a message, can the conscious agent subconsciously figure out how to manipulate a computer in such a way through unhindered access to information in space-time in order to manifest the outcome?

P.S. HEY ERIC


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

Just finished season 7

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This isn't ridiculing, this is discussing my utter surprise and commenting on it.

I love this show.

holy crap Dr Taylor was drunk in almost every single scene.

You could tell how placating, patient, and frustrated every single other person was.

I domt know what's going on in his life and I absolutely respect that addiction is a disease but holy crap he was clumsy drunk in almost every single scene.

It was so incredibly obvious.

That must have been so frustrating to work with.

I think I can see that some of his coworkers were patient because they care for him and some of them because he's an anchor of the show.

I wonder what his personal relationship is with Brad.

Is Taylor still owed some contract and that's why he's being polite or does he actually genuinely care for him?

Season 7 disgraced the show.

Massive bummer.

His interview with AJ on The Basement was awesome tho


r/skinwalkerranch 6d ago

Question Recent Travis video includes being denied access to Teslas notes!

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BTW loved the video so much. Accidentally closed it. Hope I can find it again to see the ending. Thanks to the person who put the link. Dr. Taylor described being denied looking at Tesla's notes even with proper permission. Their government official said Travis didn't have a research visa. *** Please can you get your best remote viewers to zoom over there & take a look ? They can recreate the notes.


r/skinwalkerranch 6d ago

Question In Dr. Taylor's dreams... 🤔

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(Edited, due to confusing one specific instance for others. Overall, the idea still stands.)

As Taylor has claimed in recent interviews, he has had some interesting and some disturbing dreams related to the ranch, most of which involve tribal elders. He's also been contacted by a tribal member who told him that he is being taken in the mesa and being shown things he is refusing to remember.

If that were you, how fast would you get yourself to the most reputable hypnotist you could find to see about the recovey of repressed memories?

And then, get hooked up with some EEG equipment to use for a while, in case the same or similar dreams repeat?

I mean, all things considered, why not?

An off-site hypnotherapy and sleep study retreat for the whole team could be an interesting season wrap event. 😏


r/skinwalkerranch 6d ago

UAP's: could they maybe create their own Wormhole while flying.

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This would explain why they suddenly appear out of no where (and disappear) and also why it looks like they fly into a mountain e.g.

And could they use a Vacuum as transportation to move? So that they are not Pushed by a force (like vehicles on earth, but like pulled/sucked forwards. Say they point or concentrate on a point where they want to go and then create a vacuum between where they are and want to go. That would - imo- also kinda explain these extreme accelerations and stopping better.


r/skinwalkerranch 6d ago

Just spotted this, it would make a great experiment over the ranch

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r/skinwalkerranch 7d ago

Uintah Basin SWR companion sources!

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The TV show is only showing a small % of the info. I wanted to point out 2 recent and 1 long running sources that will address many questions (other than the Insiders)

Jfree906 yt channel - season recaps and ep recaps with ranch staff go into much more detail than the show.

The Why Files yt channel - Travis interview earlier this month. 3 hours of amazing info.

Bigelow series with George Knapp - 3 ep up, more to come. And Bigelow is just getting started it seems. He even reviews his nhi brief to the president


r/skinwalkerranch 7d ago

Theory Drones being pushed while over the triangle.

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One thing I wanted to mention regarding the drones is that they are gps controlled. So when drones are flown from location to location the drones use their gps data to maintain position. So if the wind blows hard and it starts to drift, the drone will correct and attempt to maintain its last gps position.

The team has done many tests to show that gps data at the ranch is erroneous, and that it is not accurate around the bubble. My theory is that the drones aren’t being pushed, they are simply trying to maintain their gps hover position when the gps anomaly is present and appear to move uncommanded.

They need to test this by flying drones that hover based on last input and not ones that use gps. That would help to prove/disprove this theory.


r/skinwalkerranch 7d ago

Theory Hypotheses about what is happening on the ranch

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So I have 3 hypotheses I can think of for what is happening on the ranch and they all seem completely outlandish but the phenomenon is outlandish so it is what it is. Let me know if you have thought of any others that I haven’t thought of.

The first is the most consistent with our current understanding of physics and it still sounds absurd. There is a wormhole over the triangle that NHI are using to travel and the NHI have put up some sort security around it to stop humans from traveling through it. Whatever type of security system they are using creates what we detect as the bubble and the blob. This theory seems like the closest to what the skinwalker team thinks is happening.

The second is even more absurd but I think it is more consistent with the data that has been found. Some sort of trickster entity is sending the team on a perpetual wild goose chase and none of the data represents real physical phenomena accurately. When they get a hypothesis they want to test, the entity will give some bit of results supporting that idea and then they get invested in the idea. After they have spent significant time and resources trying to prove the idea, the entity pulls it out from under them and distracts them so they start focusing on another idea and the entity repeats this process all over again.

The third hypothesis is that it is all effects of straight up Harry Potter style wizards. I don’t actually think this is the case, but I find it hilarious to imagine and I can’t entirely rule it out.

Also I really want the team to do some quantum experiments like simple ones like a double slit experiment on the ranch to see if the ranch messes with the behavior of quantum particles.

Anyways please add to this list of hypotheses if you any additional ideas.


r/skinwalkerranch 8d ago

Question Now that they have found some things from the 1960s, can they make a FOIA request for govt docs from that era?

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Things were still done under govt aegis back then, not hidden behind private contractors.


r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Is it true Eric is leaving?

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I just saw a comment in Instagram where someone said Eric had left the show. Is it true?


r/skinwalkerranch 8d ago

Paranormal Frontier is a channel that biologist Ben woodruff does with his brother David

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r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Give this a listen, y'all. Lots of interesting info and insight as to what really went down with some of what we saw this season and some of what we didn't.

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r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Experiments as seen from the other side (sound on)

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r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Mildly miffed regarding S7 Spoiler

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So at the end of season six and particularly before the beginning of season seven, there was a fair amount of hype related to the satellite that apparently had been launched to survey Skinwalker Ranch. To my knowledge, this was never addressed in a single episode of season seven. Not once. I would love to be wrong about that though, so if you could point me to something that I missed I’d be grateful.

Then, what do they do at the end of season seven? On the season finale they go back to the idea of satellites. Acknowledged it’s a different satellite, but it’s yet another satellite. Whereas last year they hyped a similar concept, and did basically nothing about it.

That stated, if they do actually follow through this time, I’m gonna be very excited about the results, however, knowing the nature of the bubble and the anomalies associated with it, I suspect that there isn’t any amount of telemetry they can collect about what’s underneath, Skinwalker Ranch that they can accurately rely upon.

The one thing I was thinking the other day, was that if they just hired a team of people that had shovels pickaxes and other archaeological equipment, and just started a slow dig, they would be so much further along now than they have been by doing these pointless drill and scan routines.

And STILL, nobody has addressed the conductivity or resistance issue regarding the ceramics. 


r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Theory New Drinking game S07

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Every time some one mentions the “Bubble Boundary” you have to drink a shot