Case file · Disclosure & CE-5
Robert Bigelow
Las Vegas hotel and aerospace entrepreneur (b. 1944) who has spent decades funding UFO and afterlife research.
1995 CE · 36.17, -115.14 · status: account
The account
Bigelow founded the National Institute for Discovery Science in 1995, bought Skinwalker Ranch in 1996, and founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1999, which flew the Genesis I and II test modules. He urged Senator Reid to start the Pentagon UFO programme in 2007 and his company received most of its $22 million. In 2020 he founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies, whose 2021 essay contest Jeffrey Mishlove won.
The sceptical view
His private programmes produced dramatic anecdotes but no public, verifiable evidence; the main AATIP-era report has never been released.
Connections in the atlas
- Mishlove wins the Bigelow essay prize
- Robert Bigelow
- Hunt for the Skinwalker
- ▶ From Skinwalker Ranch to the 2017 AATIP story
- Harry Reid's 2009 letter on AATIP
- BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies)
- Harry Reid
- Colm Kelleher
- AAWSAP: the DIA contract
- The New York Times reveals AATIP
- AAWSAP at Skinwalker Ranch
- Skinwalker Ranch