Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Trout Lake skywatching ranch
Near Mount Adams in Washington, James Gilliland's ranch at Trout Lake became a gathering place for people trying to call down UFOs by meditation, in the style of CE-5.
1986 CE · 46.00, -121.53 · status: claim
The account
Gilliland dates his first experiences there to the 1980s. Visitors photograph lights over the mountain, which has its own history of strange reports going back to Fred Johnson in 1947.
The sceptical view
Lights photographed there are usually satellites, aircraft, stars and camera artefacts, and the group's spiritual claims cannot be tested.