Are the ranch's reports distinctive within the Uintah Basin's own record of sightings and animal deaths?
Most likely: the ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Three answers have been proposed. The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… leads, with evidence 5 for, 1 against: partly supported by its tests. Two are still possible. Of the one narrower question under it, none is answered yet.
Why it matters
The Basin had a UFO literature before the ranch: Frank Salisbury's 1974 book compiles the reports gathered by the Roosevelt teacher Junior Hicks, who by 1996 had looked into more than 400 Basin sightings since the early 1950s[1][2]. If the ranch's reports match the Basin's, the ranch is a focus of attention, not a place apart; the 2005 book claims the opposite[3].
Answers 3
History
- Salisbury puts forward: the ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Salisbury: salisbury's book compiled the Basin sightings gathered by Hicks and was published in 1974, twenty years…For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Van Eyck: hicks, who heard the Shermans' accounts, said the Basin's UFO activity was not unusual; the same article…For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Van Eyck: the sheriff confirmed that a neighbour's two cows were mutilated in 1996.For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Whiting: a Basin vet of forty years recalled one horse mutilation north of Ballard decades earlier, at a time of many…For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Kelleher et al.: one NIDS investigator had examined 16 mutilation cases in the Basin by 1998.For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- Kelleher & Knapp puts forward: the ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record.
- Kelleher & Knapp: creatures, the wolf and the 'tunnel of light' are reported from the ranch, not from the Basin's earlier…Against: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…
- McCue: salisbury, who compiled the Basin's record and interviewed the families, doubted the claim.Against: The ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record.
- McCue: hunt for the Skinwalker says the greatest concentration of high strangeness in the Basin has always been in…For: The ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record.
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