"There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence

July 26, 2026

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Brandon Fugal is the owner of Skinwalker Ranch, the 512-acre property in northeastern Utah that has become the most intensively documented site of paranormal and UAP activity in the United States. He bought the ranch in 2016 as a skeptic, intending to donate it to the Boy Scouts. Instead, within six months, he became an experiencer. In this conversation, Fugal describes the decade-long investigation that followed — the data, the injuries, the military surveillance, and the mounting evidence that something engineered lies deep within the mesa beneath the property.

The skeptic who became a steward

Fugal’s path to Skinwalker Ranch was anything but credulous. In 2010, he funded a private laboratory to test claims about gravitational physics and over-unity energy, with Hal Puthoff and Kit Green as science advisors. The effort failed. The core claims did not hold up. Fugal walked away convinced that if you applied the scientific method to these topics, they would all dissolve. He describes himself at that point as a full skeptic.

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1 Timestamped Navigation Outline
2 (00:31) **Brandon Fugal's Introduction and the Nature of Skinwalker Ranch** - Owner Brandon Fugal describes the property as the epicenter of paranormal and UFO activity, a "private Area 51" for frontier science
3 (09:00) **The Fifth-Grade Pact and Fugal's Personal Discipline** - Fugal reveals a childhood promise that shaped his life, alongside his unusual dietary habits and work ethic
4 (13:37) **The Hitchhiker Effect Comes Home** - Fugal describes how the phenomenon followed him from the ranch to his personal residence, transforming him from skeptic to experiencer
5 (22:45) **GPS Malfunctions and Time Manipulation** - The ranch demonstrates repeatable GPS failures suggesting spacetime anomalies and possible portals
6 (26:54) **The Electromagnetic Signature and Eric Bard's Experiment** - Chief scientist Eric Bard identified a repeatable electromagnetic fingerprint associated with the phenomena
7 (31:21) **Cattle Mutilations and Anomalous Decomposition** - Mysterious cattle deaths on the ranch involve radiation, equipment malfunction, and radically altered decomposition

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