# The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…

> Most likely: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the 1950s; what is distinctive is the…

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# The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…

The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the 1950s; what is distinctive is the attention, not the events.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionInduced0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: five pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Earlier and neighbouring Basin reports describe the same kinds of event.
- Cattle deaths reported as mutilations occur on neighbouring ranches at similar rates.

## What would rule it out

- A systematic count showing the ranch's report rate far above the Basin's before 1996 attention.

## Evidence 5 for · 1 against

[A Basin vet of forty years recalled one horse mutilation north of Ballard decades earlier, at a time of many…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0154R86Q7A/a-basin-vet-of-forty-years-recalled-one-horse-mutilation)

Suggestive

FOR

[Hicks, who heard the Shermans' accounts, said the Basin's UFO activity was not unusual; the same article…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0153S023A9/hicks-who-heard-the-shermans-accounts-said-the-basins-ufo)

Supported

FOR

[One NIDS investigator had examined 16 mutilation cases in the Basin by 1998.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0154GE7V8Q/one-nids-investigator-had-examined-16-mutilation-cases-in)

Supported

FOR

[Salisbury's book compiled the Basin sightings gathered by Hicks and was published in 1974, twenty years…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D01540T67ZR/salisburys-book-compiled-the-basin-sightings-gathered-by)

Established

FOR

[The sheriff confirmed that a neighbour's two cows were mutilated in 1996.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D01548M4009/the-sheriff-confirmed-that-a-neighbours-two-cows-were)

Supported

FOR

[Creatures, the wolf and the 'tunnel of light' are reported from the ranch, not from the Basin's earlier…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D0155024Q00/creatures-the-wolf-and-the-tunnel-of-light-are-reported-from)

Speculative

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Are the ranch's reports distinctive within the Uintah Basin's own record of sightings and animal deaths?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/questions/QST0D014EHA6BJY/are-the-ranchs-reports-distinctive-within-the-uintah-basins)

Most likelyThe ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…

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