Case files / skinwalker-ranch-2009
The Utah ranch the Pentagon paid to study
- When
- November 2009 to April 2010 · 2009 on the timeline
- Where
- A ranch in Utah's Uintah Basin
- Reported by
- Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), under contract to the Defense Intelligence Agency
- Released
- October 23, 2026 (seventh release)
- Status
- Official program records; no findings released
AAWSAP, the Defense Intelligence Agency program Congress funded from 2008, was run under contract by BAASS, a company owned by Robert Bigelow. Bigelow also owned the ranch in northeastern Utah widely known as Skinwalker Ranch, which his earlier group NIDS had studied since the 1990s. The government's records call it only "a ranch in Utah."
BAASS's monthly report for November 2009 lists its work that month: cases sent in through the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a preliminary report on a "blue orb" incident, and ongoing investigations centered on the Utah ranch and the area around it, including a separate database just for those events.
Its April 2010 investigation report covers field trips to the property and nearby communities in March and April 2010. Staff interviewed residents, police officers, ranchers, business owners and tribal community members, took readings with handheld sensors, planned experiments using plants as biosensors, and looked for photo, sound and chemical evidence. The report records many accounts of "dog-like bipedal creatures," orbs of light, "little people" and "prehistoric-looking" birds, and says BAASS meant to use interactive methods to try to communicate with whatever was behind the activity.
The records describe what BAASS set out to do and what people told it. They do not say what, if anything, it found.