Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
'Frequent Fliers?' (Deseret News, 1996)
Zack Van Eyck's Deseret News feature of 30 June 1996 was the first published account of the Sherman ranch, the property later called Skinwalker Ranch.
1996 CE · 40.76, -111.89 · status: account
The account
The article was a round-up of Utah UFO stories that opened by noting the coming release of the film Independence Day. Terry Sherman spoke publicly for the first time, and local investigator Joseph 'Junior' Hicks put the ranch in the context of decades of Uinta Basin sightings. It also mentioned the 1952 Tremonton film and other Utah reports. Within months Robert Bigelow had bought the ranch.
The sceptical view
The piece reports what witnesses said and includes the sheriffs' statement that no recent UFO or mutilation reports had been filed.