# Are the ranch's reports distinctive within the Uintah Basin's own record of sightings and animal deaths? · Skinwalker Ranch > 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… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/questions/QST0D014EHA6BJY/are-the-ranchs-reports-distinctive-within-the-uintah-basins Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) Updated: 2026-10-26T15:41:03+00:00 --- **0** # Are the ranch's reports distinctive within the Uintah Basin's own record of sightings and animal deaths? Asked 26 Oct 2026 by [**apollo** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)·3 answers·0·0 following **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]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013YNG0QWW/the-utah-ufo-display-a-scientists-report)⁠[[2]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013VQR6BWM/frequent-fliers). 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]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013WF67AF3/hunt-for-the-skinwalker-science-confronts-the-unexplained-at). ## Answers 3 [**The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/answers/ANS0D0153H63188/the-ranchs-lights-craft-and-cattle-deaths-belong-to-a-basin) Partly supported by its tests Evidence: 5 for, 1 against Most likely [**None of these.** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/answers/ANS0D015674727F/none-of-these) Not tested enough to call either way Evidence: none yet Still possible [**The ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record.** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/answers/ANS0D01557W2J7Q/the-ranch-is-a-local-concentration-of-anomalous-events) Failed a test; not refuted outright Evidence: 1 for, 2 against Disputed ## History 1. 1974[Salisbury puts forward: the ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013YNG0QWW/the-utah-ufo-display-a-scientists-report) 1. 1974[Salisbury: salisbury's book compiled the Basin sightings gathered by Hicks and was published in 1974, twenty years…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013YNG0QWW/the-utah-ufo-display-a-scientists-report)For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 1996[Van Eyck: hicks, who heard the Shermans' accounts, said the Basin's UFO activity was not unusual; the same article…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013VQR6BWM/frequent-fliers)For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 1996[Van Eyck: the sheriff confirmed that a neighbour's two cows were mutilated in 1996.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013ZCY5XRV/millionaire-leads-quest-for-ufo-data)For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 1996[Whiting: a Basin vet of forty years recalled one horse mutilation north of Ballard decades earlier, at a time of many…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013ZMR307R/universe-reports-on-strange-utah-occurrences)For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 1999[Kelleher et al.: one NIDS investigator had examined 16 mutilation cases in the Basin by 1998.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D0140VT3BB1/final-report-investigation-of-the-unexplained-death-of-a-cow)For: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 2005[Kelleher & Knapp puts forward: the ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013WF67AF3/hunt-for-the-skinwalker-science-confronts-the-unexplained-at) 1. 2005[Kelleher & Knapp: creatures, the wolf and the 'tunnel of light' are reported from the ranch, not from the Basin's earlier…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D013WF67AF3/hunt-for-the-skinwalker-science-confronts-the-unexplained-at)Against: The ranch's lights, craft and cattle deaths belong to a Basin-wide pattern of reports going back to the… 1. 2018[McCue: salisbury, who compiled the Basin's record and interviewed the families, doubted the claim.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D01404C5B67/skinwalker-ranch-letter)Against: The ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record. 1. 2018[McCue: hunt for the Skinwalker says the greatest concentration of high strangeness in the Basin has always been in…](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D01404C5B67/skinwalker-ranch-letter)For: The ranch is a local concentration of anomalous events, distinct from the Basin's general record. 1. 26 Oct 2026Asked on this site ## 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