Skinwalker Ranch: The Pentagon-Backed DIA Investigation and the $22 Million AAWSAP Project

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An account describes a $22 million DIA-backed inquiry into paranormal activity at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, funded through a 2008 congressional action championed by Harry Reid and run by private contractor BAASS under Robert Bigelow with James Lacatski and Jay Stratton, inspired by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp’s Hunt for the Skinwalker, set amid Utah’s UFO milieu and Mormon questions about other worlds, noting NIDS’s data criticisms, a 2008–2010 expedition of about 75 people with no published results and blocked database access, and skeptical warnings that media hype or Deep State theories may drive the narrative more than solid evidence, leaving the possibility that something extraordinary occurred or that the story mainly reveals how funding, belief networks, and media shape sensational claims.