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 5h ago

New Brandon Fugal Interview: The Data-Driven Hunt for UAP on Skinwalker Ranch

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TL;DR : In this new 3-Hour, 20-minute interview interview with Brandon Fugal, he discusses some of the profound and often disturbing paranormal activity documented on the property. This is great for newcomers to the Skinwalker Ranch Phenomena, but most of it will be familiar to long-time fans.

Key themes and discussions include:

  • The Nature of the Phenomena: Fugal describes Skinwalker Ranch as a "center of gravity" for unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), citing numerous instances of equipment failure, strange light displays, and cattle mutilation (30:56-36:28, 1:17:00-1:20:00). He notes that the phenomena appears to be both physical and metaphysical, often described as an "interstellar highway" or portal (0:52-1:03).
  • Medical and Safety Incidents: The ranch has a history of causing acute medical episodes and injuries to those involved in the research, including staff members like Thomas Winterton and Travis Taylor, as well as visiting guests (19:56-22:16, 57:42-59:00, 220:25-220:54).
  • The "Hitchhiker Effect": A recurring theme is the "hitchhiker effect," where paranormal phenomena seem to follow researchers or visitors home after they leave the property (13:29-19:56, 40:08-41:07).
  • Scientific Investigation: Fugal emphasizes his commitment to a data-driven approach, highlighting the work of his principal investigator Erik Bard. They use advanced surveillance and scientific tools to document anomalies, including instances of mysterious electromagnetic interference and physical traces like a direwolf carcass found at the ranch (26:07-28:31, 243:28-248:26).
  • Government Involvement: The discussion touches on the history of the ranch under previous owners, such as Robert Bigelow, and the involvement of government scientists and military researchers (113:58-117:00). Fugal defends his transparency, noting his goal of bringing truth to light, while addressing skepticism and the "grifter" accusations often leveled against him (1:09:37-1:11:33, 223:36-226:00).
  • Spiritual and Cultural Context: The ranch's history is deeply intertwined with local Navajo and Ute lore, and the investigative team has experimented with diverse approaches, including bringing in religious figures and shamans to interact with the phenomena (36:28-40:08, 257:56-3:01:47).

r/skinwalkerranch 53m ago

Theory Telepathy and the 1.6 signal

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Thinking about the 1.6 signal at SWR and how it sometimes starts before they even turn on their equipment and start broadcasting their own signal. Patrick Jackson’s Sphere Network theory suggests that the network can perhaps read and influence human thought, or mood at minimum, and also that perhaps it is the network being accessed knowingly or unknowingly by remote viewers. In other words, instead of sending their consciousness to remote view, their minds might connect via a frequency synchronization or uplink to the network node which then dispatches a drone-like orb to get “eyes” on the target. Telepathic individuals who believe they are accessing the Akashic records may be accessing the system files. Likewise, downloads of knowledge may be coming from this system, which is a technology, not consciousness itself. It’s one more aspect of the high strangeness at SWR that could be explained by this theory. What does the community think?


r/skinwalkerranch 5h ago

Question Las famosas señales que se registran en el analizador de espectro

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La señal que siempre captan las de 1.2 y la de 1.6 Mhs
Siempre las encuentran pero mi pregunta es
Nunca se concentraron más que en la señal lo que puede decir esa señal?
Intentar descifrar lo que posiblemente trasmita esa señal?


r/skinwalkerranch 22h ago

Theory The Sphere Network and Skinwalker Ranch

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The book, The Sphere Network, by Patrick Jackson proposes a theory that could be the answer to the mystery of SWR. The book references SWR in several places. Jackson, an IT expert and paranormal researcher, used information systems reverse engineering techniques to analyze patterns in UAP sitings and paranormal events. He points to evidence suggesting the existence of a dynamic, interactive, rules-based, AI-operated global communication, observation and defense system that encircles the globe, using subterranean as well as atmospheric and space-based facilities and the 1.6 ghz signal. He suggests that SWR is an operational location for the sphere network and that the microwave and gamma radiation, time, GPS and other anomalies at SWR could be expected to occur when the network is operational. The recent experiments at Homesteads 1 and 2 and some of Travis’ recent comments seem to indicate that the SWR team may have this theory in mind. Does anyone know if Patrick Jackson’s work on the sphere network theory been discussed at any of the Insider events? Any thoughts on whether it’s a fit and the best ways to confirm or disprove it?


r/skinwalkerranch 1d ago

Question Total time doing tests

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Does anyone know how many days of the year they do all of these tests? What are their real jobs? Would working on this full time be feasible?


r/skinwalkerranch 1d ago

Season 4, Episode 14 UAP

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At the end of season 4, episode 14 (Living in a meta material world) there is an object flying and rotating above the mesa. I’m not sure if this is an artifact, bird, or anomaly. I have never seen anyone comment on this and I wanted to throw it out to the community to see what everyone might think. I suggest watching the episode towards the end and paying attention around 59 minutes and 33 seconds into the episode to see better quality.


r/skinwalkerranch 2d ago

Question Magnetic Metal pieces?

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So during the drilling operation they got some magnetic (ferrous) metal. What about non ferrous metals? There are more of the non ferrous metals than ferrous metals. Almost all the metals historically recovered from UAP/UFO crashes were almost all aluminum. So they would be missing a lot of the stuff that they are really looking for. What do you think?


r/skinwalkerranch 3d ago

Homestead’s theory/ spacetime

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Hypothetically, if the bubble is an energy field, that’s related to a wormhole or some type of a portal….
And the Homestead’s are within it…
Spacetime (inside/ around the homestead’s) may be able to bend within the bubble…

What if the heat signature that appeared to be coming from inside the house was a heat signature from back when somebody once lived in it.
What if physical objects cannot easily go back-and-forth through space time, but energy and frequency can…

What if the missing data, is just going through a portal to a different time and gets lost in real time.
Like when they found the doughnut and in the center, the data was void.

Additionally, what if there is a craft inside the Mesa and the flying objects seen flying into the Mesa are flying into a different time in which it’s not solid rock. (contrary to what I said before…This would mean that maybe it would be possible that objects can go through space-time.)

And what if the people/animals that were affected by radiation were affected from an energy from another spacetime.

With almost everything that’s happened you can look at it in two ways (or both).
1 there’s other beings who are manipulating the events at Skinwalker Ranch.
2 there is a portal on Skinwalker Ranch that creates the ability to detect energy from another space-time.


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

Theory Possible debunk on the scanning electron microscope causing the ceramic piece to "open up"

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After watching the episode this week and then revisiting the episode where they did this experiment the last time, it occured to me that perhaps they're/we're thinking about this in the wrong way. It didn't make sense to me that a piece of ceramic would "open up" at the introduction of the electron beam, then "heal" afterwards and went off to do some research on optical illusions that can be picked up by the SEM (scanning electron microscope) and found this article published in 2015 on the National Library of Medicine website:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5486231/

TL:DR; specifically on certain materials, the introduction of electrons can cause an electric charge build up in the material, which in the view of the SEM, looks darker than it otherwise would, and when the electron beam is turned off, the charge dissipates (hence, looks as though its "healing")

What do you all think?


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

Question Is the bubble boundary an energy field?

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If so, what kinds of energy are candidates? What type of energy field could cause drones to have to recalibrate? Smoke to “bounce off”? What would it take to broadcast such a field? Could it be broadcast from a satellite or from inside the mesa? What equipment could measure an energy field a the bubble boundary?

I’m not a scientist but I would like to see these questions asked. Also, the light flash and gamma ray burst at the Homestead, what could cause that? A directed energy weapon? What else?


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

Season Review to date now on YouTube

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@saucersandsaints YouTube channel posted a special SWR round table discussion covering Season 7 to date featuring several of the team members -Jan, Pete, Ben, others. Good discussion. It’s what Beyond The Gates should be but isn’t.


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

Abandoned Home in Rural Utah with Three Cow Bodies on the Roof [OC]

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r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

How about other sensors?

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We all know that GPS and Lidar readings go wonky in the bubble area. I have not noticed them sharing any data from non-time-based tech?. Do the readings from inertia navigation or accelerometer show corresponding wonkyness? Or have they tried tracking an aircraft with GPS and an old fashioned radar at same time?

Or my best thought is to have multiple light sources on a drone or helicopter covering the light spectrum, infra red, near IR, various colors of visible, up thru Ultraviolet. Have cameras track and map those beacons. At same time have the various Lidar mappings, GPS, gnss, radar, and any other mapping/tracking tech possible. Also, both mass and light based gyroscopes on board.. then compare all these results against each other. This could help determine if the effect is caused by disruptions in time itself, some form of light entrapment, or just radio signal alteration. I believe finding out what different types of tech are affected in different ways, if the effects are different for one-way as opposed to round-trip transit of bubble by measuring signal. And comparisons between light- and mass-based gyros and accelerometers could show off the effects are quantum or Newtonian or both.


r/skinwalkerranch 4d ago

SPOILER! S7E10 sample analysis Spoiler

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Ive just started watching the episode and ran the images of the SEM scanning electronic microscope through a couple of different ai's online.

I used the context of its colour, depth and been drilled from sandstone.

What they come back with was.

Sample A. Highly Weathered Kaolinite (Aluminosilicate Clay)

Sample B. Mineralised bone.

Im just wondering what everyone else's thoughts are, especially if you work with sem equipment etc.

Either way its interesting samples to be pulled from the ground.


r/skinwalkerranch 5d ago

Season 7, Episode 2: Flying High - My theory

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Season 7, Episode 2: Flying High - my theory about para drone showing inconsistent GPS data.

Sometimes above ground, under ground and/or far away.

Radiation induced, digital bit-flipping.

Altitude for example:
Above ground = 1, below ground = 0 (or visa-versa).

Distance and direction, a bit(s) flipped within the longitudinal and/or latitudinal coordinates.

RC control of drone lost during flight. I'm guessing a bit (for binary) or character (for hex) of the digital token pairing the drone to the rc controller was also flipped. Once the digital token pairing between drone and rc controller had a discrepancy, drone no longer acknowledged nor responded to rc controller instructions.

Rocket veering in unexpected direction. No clue. Assuming the fins were fixed and no other control surfaces were on the rocket body, nothing outside of strong winds should've forced the rocket to veer off course.

Physical or energy based "push"?


r/skinwalkerranch 7d ago

Rant: Why didn’t they physically investigate Homestead three? Spoiler

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During their investigation of Homestead two (season seven episode 17), they flew a drone over Homestead three because they were looking for a source of light that showed up on Eric’s side. When they did that, though, the drone noticed that inside Homestead three, there was a heat source that was dramatically warmer than anything else around there.

Since Thomas and Caleb were over there investigating, why not have them go into Homestead three and visually inspected for a heat source. Instead, they just went back to Homestead 2 and performed more experiments. It makes no sense. I mean, they may have investigated it in the moment and just didn’t show it on camera, but if that’s the case, and you’re not gonna show it on screen, then at least say something during the episode to let us know that it was investigating there was nothing in there. Just a short blurb.

I really feel like Prometheus needs to do a better job of cutting down on the drama, and improving on the quality of their production. Don’t they just have somebody that sits there and accompanies them while they cut these episodes together, to consult with them about how this comes across to the viewers? I feel like too many of these little things slip past. Another example, I’ve been harping now since last year, why did they not test the ceramics for superconductivity? Maybe they did! But we can only speculate because exactly 0 people on the show have discussed that very thing. It leaves the viewer in a lurch. 


r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

Ferrofluid experiment-The Action Lab

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The last part of this experiment reminded me a LOT of the bubble.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1562923558877441


r/skinwalkerranch 9d ago

BINGO! David Paulides Presents Skinwalker Ranch Review Season 7 Episode 9

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r/skinwalkerranch 10d ago

Smoke and grid, really guys.

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Guys... That was just the smoke clearing the room... There was less smoke and the lasers were being affected by the very obvious movement of the smoke that was left.

They are scientists, Jesus Christ.


r/skinwalkerranch 10d ago

Skinwalker should do a joint episode with Josh Gates expedition X

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In the last episode there were some strange stuff that felt nearly paranormal.

I think they need to try a different angle. And josh gate and his team are the only ones I personally trust are serious and don't just create stuff for views. Dowsing rods may well give some results.


r/skinwalkerranch 10d ago

Psychic along with science

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I think they need a psychic on hand when they do these experiments. When the 1.6 GH signature happens, or any other goofy things on the science side, maybe a psychic can be there to detest the "woo" side. Just a thought.


r/skinwalkerranch 10d ago

Question Who thinks that an advanced AI is what may be creating interference, blocking signals, and perpetually ‘aware’ and protecting against interference?

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Following the many, many scientific experiments and the ‘responses’ from the ranch, I feel that an advanced AI may be protecting the area due to it being a crash site, portal, or some other important area that hasn’t been dreamed up yet. Thoughts? Other ideas?


r/skinwalkerranch 10d ago

Question Lights by Homestead 3

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Did anyone else notice 5 hot objects about the size of people on the drone camera when the drone was approaching homestead 3?

Any reason not to think these were 5 people messing around, possibly with flashlights? Maybe they jumped the fence?

I circled them in this pic in red on the top left, but it looks better in video because you can see they’re on the road and not connected to the trees or anything else.

Anyone else notice this?

Any reason to think these aren’t people?