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The skeptical case on Skinwalker Ranch
Skeptic Robert Sheaffer (2020) and ufologist Barry Greenwood (2023) argue that decades of well-funded monitoring produced no solid evidence of anything anomalous at the ranch.
2020 CE · 40.26, -109.89 · status: disputed
The account
Sheaffer points out that the previous owners of about 60 years denied any strange events, and that many of the oddest stories came only from Terry Sherman. He also reports that two former guards believe they were subjects of monitoring, having been required to have MRI brain scans. In 1997 James Randi gave Bigelow a mock Pigasus Award for funding the ranch purchase.
The sceptical view
Supporters reply that eyewitness testimony from scientists and guards still counts as data, even if it was never published in a form scientists could check.
Connections in the atlas
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
- ? What goes on at Skinwalker Ranch?
- ▶ From Skinwalker Ranch to the 2017 AATIP story
- The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (TV series)
- Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005)
- The Sherman family's ranch reports
- Robert Bigelow's role