Bigelow buys the Sherman ranch

Concrete barriers, a green gate and no-trespassing signs at a ranch entrance in desert scrub
The gated entrance to Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, photographed in 2013 Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Weeks after the Shermans went public, Robert Bigelow offered about $200,000 for the ranch and the sale closed in September 1996. His NIDS team set up an observation post; a spokesman said in 1997 that researchers had seen no flying craft.

Sources

  1. PressMillionaire leads quest for UFO data (opens in a new tab)Deseret News / 1996-10-20
  2. PressNo UFOs or ETs have dropped in at spooky ranch (opens in a new tab)Deseret News / 1997-04-27
  3. PressPrivate UFO study takes a public turn (opens in a new tab)Deseret News / 1998-08-10

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