THE millionaire owner of an eerie property once at the heart of a top secret Pentagon probe into UFOs has told how a cow dropped dead as a “50ft silver disc” appeared in the skies overhead.
Skinwalker Ranch is home to some of America’s most spine-chilling mysteries including horrific cases of cattle mutilation, sightings of shape-shifting creatures and talk of a Native American curse.
Brandon Fugal said he saw a ’50ft flying disc’ over the ranchCredit: History
Cows are often found mysteriously dead at Skinwalker RanchCredit: History
Real estate entrepreneur Brandon Fugal purchased the isolated spread from aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow in 2016, who had spent decades investigating mysteries there alongside the US government.
He has since set up his own full-scale scientific probe into the 500-acre property in Northern Utah – which has been dubbed the “eeriest place on Earth.”
Dr Travis Taylor – who has worked for the US Dept. of Defense and NASA – has launched a full scale investigation into the mystery.
Previously the Sun Online was given access to clips of the show which reveals the probe into the ranch – which has attracted interest from top stars fascinated with the paranormal including Robbie Williams and rapper Post Malone
Mr Fugal said: “I bought the ranch as a sceptic. I had never seen a UFO, a ghost, an orb, or anything of the sort in my life.
“Those first six months of owning it I really saw nothing myself that would lead me to believe that there was anything unusual.”
That all changed when he and others witnessed what he believes was a flying saucer hovering above the hills surrounding the ranch.
“We saw what can only be described as an unidentified flying object, a craft a forty, fifty-foot-long silver disc hovering right above the mesa,” he said.
“This wasn’t just a blinking light in the sky or something that was a little bit ambiguous.
“This was a solid object that appeared out of nowhere could move in the blink of an eye and over a twenty second period perform manoeuvres that I believe defy any propulsion physics we’re acquainted with.”
And in the documentary he tells at that precise moment one of the cows on the ranch suddenly collapsed.
Mr Fugal has also revealed how Mr Bigelow told him the spooky ranch was at the heart of a multi-million dollar probe by the US government into the supernatural.
In a livestream in with AlienCon, he said: “Mr Bigelow and his advisers did disclose to me that this property had been the centre for a Pentagon-funded black budget programme that ran for five years.
Real estate entrepreneur Brandon Fugal (in suit) with his investigation teamCredit: Twitter
CCTV cameras now monitors the skies above the sprawling property in UtahCredit: History
The Pentagon funded a programme studying UFOs at the mysterious ranch“Tens of millions of dollars were dedicated to that effort…and dozens of high-level scientists, military operatives and officials were involved in that investigation.”
He was then informed that the results of the long-running probe would remain “classified and confidential” even if he bought the 500-acre ranch.
“At first I was a little troubled by that. I felt like if I was buying the property I should be privy to those detail, but I quickly changed my view…there is something to be said to bringing a fresh set of eyes to the property.”
He said not knowing the Pentagon’s findings enabled his own team of specialists to look into the mysteries without any preconceived ideas.
Scientist Dr Taylor was one of those brought in to carry out experiments at the strange site.
CAUGHT ON VIDEO
He said: “I really didn’t know any of the details of the ranch. I watched the YouTube videos and all that..I thought somebody is on hallucinogenic drugs or somebody is perpetrating the biggest hoax that I have seen.
“Literally, I had not been on the ranch 30 minutes and weird stuff starting to happen…and since then so much weird stuff has happened I am now as crazy as the rest of them.
“Seeing things progress from making measurements of electromagnetic signals that shouldn’t be there..to seeing things that appear in the sky and then we have a cow dying on us.
“Then we go back at look at the video footage..and at the instant the cow is dying something appears overhead and we capture it on video.
“We’ve got multiple events that cannot be explained away or debunked. I don’t know what they are but they are not like anything I was expecting when I got there.”
The investigation is the focus of Season 2 of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, which is being screened on Tuesdays in the US on the History Channel from this week.
Mr Fugal said: “As early as 1911 the homesteaders started seeing unexplained phenomenom….by 1979, there were a lot of UFO sightings being documented.
“People (who visit the ranch) have had really acute medical episodes…..everything from nausea to perception-altering experiences and even temporary paralysis.
“And then the Sherman family acquired the property in 1992 and were witness to some of the most disturbing events on record.
DRAINED OF BLOOD
“There were daylight cattle mutilations. We are talking surgically precise dissections.
“They were drained of their blood…as much as 25 per cent of the herd were lost.”
During the probe, his team witnessed multiple UFO sightings, heard shocking accounts of cows being virtually “turned inside out” and noticed strange anomalies in the ground beneath the ranch and the skies above.
The existence of the £15million Pentagon study was first revealed in a story published by the New York Times in 2017 – which sent shockwaves around the world.
Further details then emerged in a report looking into the work of the US Defense Department’s mysterious Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
Dr Travis Taylor led the team that examined unexplained events at Skinwalker Ranch
Cattle mutilations are an eriee phenomena across the US
The Pentagon has spent tens of millions secretly researching UFOs
Documents acquired from Bigelow Aerospace – a private company contracted to conduct work on behalf of the AATIP – indicate the programme studied UFOs and other apparent paranormal phenomena.
During Dr Taylor’s study, the investigation team were shown images of towering lights shooting skywards and mystery glowing emanating from surrounding hills.
Some have speculated the lights could be beacons used to help send messages to alien craft honing in on the ranch – which supernatural experts say ranks alongside the Bermuda Triangle and Area 51.
The research team also heard how the Sherman family eventually quit the ranch in the 1990s through sheer terror.
MYTHICAL BEAST
Dr Jim Segala revealed: “There is a story where a very large wolf came in off the plains… it put its head through a fence and started pulling at one of the calves.
“The Shermans went inside and got a weapon and came out and started shooting at it point blank.”
The wolf then apparently ran off and vanished into thin air – sparking fears it could have been a mythical beast of native American legend.
For centuries the “cursed” region surrounding the area has been awash with stories of supernatural and unexplained goings on.
The ranch – which is guarded 24/7 by an armed security team – itself takes its name from shape-shifting demons which the Navajo tribes believed once prowled the plains.
Mr Fugal said he was a sceptic when he bought the ranch in 2016
Dr Taylor and his team launch an instrument to measure electromagnetic anomalies
The property used to belong to paranormal enthusiast and billionaire Robert Bigelow
In February, the Pentagon admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter, seen by The Sun.
Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) requesting details of all UFO material, which they hold and results of any tests they had been carrying out on it.
He wrote: “This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPS [unidentified aerial phenomenon] or unidentified flying objects.”
In the response, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious “memory” metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.