Owner of Skinwalker Ranch Recounts Bizarre Paranormal Activity During Tour with Area 51 Surgeon

His number one wish on his life bucket list to visit Skinwalker Ranch.

What’s going through your head when you get a phone call asking you for this guy from Area 51? This is his lifelong dream to come out to Skinwalker Ranch. I mean does that validate? No, I just thought it was cool.

Standing fully upright, this six foot six giant of a man in the back of this UTV, and I thought that’s odd.

I received a call from one of my advisors saying that a certain individual, a prominent doctor out of Las Vegas who had been working on Area 51, had been a consulting physician, Area 51, that his number one request, his number one wish on his life bucket list was to visit Skinwalker Ranch.

And this advisor of mine asked if I would be willing to host him, and I said yeah, of course. I was intrigued by this individual’s background and I said as long as they signed the confidentiality agreement, the liability waiver that I put in place, I have no problem hosting him.

What did that conversation go like when he arrived?

Well, so they arrive in Salt Lake City, signed the confidentiality agreement. I of course informed them that I did not want my identity as the owner in the public domain. I didn’t want that disclosed and I appreciated them keeping that private.

I also told them that there had been reports for 20 plus years that there’s strange activity on the property, and that even though I hadn’t witnessed anything, I mean this is sorry I’m getting a little ahead of myself here, but as a skeptic of the entire operation that’s been going on there, even after seeing the two little images, yeah you were still a skeptic.

All right, and now you have a guy who had a major part in Area 51, right? Which I mean, what’s going through your head when you get a phone call asking you for this guy from Area 51? This is his lifelong dream to come out to Skinwalker Ranch. I mean does that validate?

No, I just thought it was cool. I thought it was interesting. I was happy to host them.

And so when they signed the confidentiality agreement and flew into Salt Lake City and met with me, an hour before making the journey and flying out to the ranch, I told them, I said you understand, I’ve owned the ranch for six months and I haven’t yet experienced anything unusual.

I’ve been going out there periodically to inspect the property, meet with my team, and all I find is a beautiful landscape. So if you’re expecting that you’re going to come out today and see something unusual, bear in mind I own the property and I have yet to witness anything personally with my own eyes or even feel anything that would be even slightly unusual out on the property.

So I look forward to hosting you today. I look forward to it being a fun day looking at a historic landscape that has a very interesting history to it, but don’t expect anything more than that.

I wanted that disclaimer to be out there at the very beginning.

And so we proceeded to fly out to the ranch. We were accompanied by my physicist who is Eric Bard, who continues to this day as our principal investigator.

Eric was also a skeptic. Eric was the physicist brought in to debunk and disprove the claims of the gravitational physics effort that I had funded. So I thought who better to bring in to bring scientific rigor and discipline and a critical eye and critical thinking skills to the ranch than Eric Bard.

He had already disproved these core claims that we’d spent millions of dollars investigating and was a very skeptical person. I mean you could flat out call him that. He’s a non-believer.

And so Eric Bard the physicist accompanied us that day as well as Ranch manager Jim Morse.

Upon arrival everyone wanted to hike up the Mesa, everyone wanted to get up on top of the Mesa and look out over this incredibly beautiful property. And I was like okay fine knock yourselves out.

I was wearing Armani slacks and black dress shoes and I didn’t want to get dirty and I was trying to somehow get a line out at the time to check my voicemail.

So they proceeded to hike up to the top of the Mesa and within minutes I hear Eric Bard the physicist start shouting down, “Brandon, Brandon get up here!”

I looked at him, I yelled, I said really? You really want me to hike up? You want me to run up the face of the Mesa to join you?

He says yes get up here right now. He’s pointing to his iPhone.

So I shrug, go booking it up the face of the Mesa in my dress shoes and my slacks, and as I arrive out of breath at the top of the Mesa he’s sitting there looking at his phone and motions for me to watch his iPhone.

We sit there in silence for minutes. Nothing’s happening. I see nothing unusual. I’m like what are you talking about?

And Eric says well you should have seen it. My phone was malfunctioning in the most strange ways. It was turning all sorts of magenta purple color and I’ve never seen this. It was very very unusual.

And I just shrugged. I said well it’s not doing it now.

And about that time the others that were up there on the Mesa said that they were feeling a little bit woozy, feeling a little uneasy, and wanted to hike back down and proceed with the tour of the ranch.

And so we all went down and proceeded to drive out to Homestead 2, which is the cluster of old structures that seems to be a center of gravity for strange phenomena on the property.

As we pull up to Homestead 2 and we’re all kind of congregating out in front of those old structures, it was interesting. A few people said well do you feel the ground shifting?

And even Eric Bard said yeah, I feel it. You guys feeling this sensation that I’m feeling, kind of vertigo?

And I was kind of across the courtyard from them and I just smiled and said no, I don’t feel anything.

Then all of a sudden Eric says, “Ah my phone’s doing it again, my phone’s malfunctioning again.”

Well I learned from earlier that I need to move fast if I’m gonna see whatever is happening. So I dart over to his side and sure enough his whole phone had turned purple, had turned this magenta purplish color and was flashing and acting all erratically.

And everyone was talking about how they were feeling uneasy. Well thank goodness he had the presence of mind to screen capture the malfunctioning phone. I’ll share that with you right now.

And you can see it. In fact he was taking photos of me right before, standing in the entry to Homestead 2 in front of the doorway just before they started feeling uneasy and then ultimately the smartphone malfunction started occurring.

It was strange.

My brother Cameron, who is a very skilled aviator, has multiple degrees in aviation science and management, and my little brother Matthew who runs operations, who were there, said that they weren’t comfortable.

They said we want to leave. We’ll go to the airport, call us later on today when you’re available, but we’re feeling uneasy.

Which I thought was the silliest thing. I’m like come on really?

So what, how many people from Area 51 was it?

Well so there was the one surgeon, the doctor, and then he was accompanied by two security professionals. One was former president of the California Hells Angels and another one was a contractor.

And then he had his son, he was a grown adult, I don’t know how old he was, but his son also accompanied.

So it was a group of four of them that joined. At the time my brothers, Eric Bard who was kind of my consulting physicist, and Jim Morse ranch manager, and they’re all witnessing this.

So what was the conversation like? They signed the paperwork, they signed the non-disclosure, the waiver. What are they hoping to see?

Well I asked him, after telling them I’ve never seen a UFO, I’ve owned the ranch for six months and all I’ve seen is a strikingly beautiful landscape, and I’m skeptical, I’ve never seen anything like that that I can report.

And I proceeded to ask them, I said we’re sitting there preparing to leave for Skinwalker Ranch, I said do you guys really believe in this UFO crap?

And the two security guys that were accompanying the doctor said no. They shook their heads no, we don’t believe it.

And the doctor just smiled and he says, “You guys don’t even know what you’re talking about. You have no idea what is real.”

And we all just kind of shrugged it off and I kind of winked at the two security guards knowingly that oh yeah, the doctor’s probably just another UFO nut but that’s okay, he’s a nice enough guy.

So anyways we find ourselves out at Homestead 2, smartphone malfunctioning, everyone’s feeling these physical effects, my brothers are feeling uneasy enough that they want to leave, and they leave.

They’re happier driving and sitting at the airport for hours until I tell them that we’re ready to fly back, and I’m finding the whole thing interesting.

Well as we’re all discussing kind of the history of Skinwalker Ranch and the homesteads, we proceed to get our phones out to take some pictures. I felt like it was a good photo opportunity and lo and behold my phone’s dead.

It had previously been at 80 percent charge. My phone’s completely dead. Eric Bard’s phone that had recorded the anomaly was dead. The others’ phones were dead.

So we didn’t have our cameras. So I thought darn, well we better go take them back to the ranch house and plug them in and let them charge up, but we don’t want to disrupt our day.

So we took the phones back, put them in chargers, and then we proceeded to return back out to the old homesteads.

This time we drove all the way back out to Homestead 3 which is beyond Homestead 2, and it’s a single structure. It’s pretty haunting looking.

We pull up around the back side of the structure. This is October 14th of 2016.

And we all pile out and walk around the other side and again we’re looking at the landscape and everyone’s visiting and having a good experience.

My brothers have left and returned to the airport awaiting a call hours later, and we’re just visiting.

After about 10 minutes I asked well where’s George, the big guy, the six foot six security professional that was there.

For some reason we kind of lost track of him and everyone said well when we all piled out of the open air Polaris UTV, no one really paid attention.

I said well let me go try to find him.

So I proceed to walk around to the back of Homestead 3 to find George, and right as I’m coming around the corner in this grass area where we’d parked, it was as if something cupped my ears.

All of my hearing was impacted. It was as if I walked into a soundproof room. If you’ve ever been into an anechoic chamber, that sensation.

The only thing you can do to simulate it right now is by cupping your ears. It’s like a frequency change. All of the ambient noise disappears.

And I thought it was the strangest thing. The strangest sensation.

Then I see off in the distance standing fully upright this six foot six giant of a man in the back of this UTV, and I thought that’s odd.

So I yell his name, “George!”

Now I can hear kind of muffled. It’s almost like yelling underwater. That’s strange.

And I proceed to walk to get closer and he’s not responding.

As I near the vehicle and shout his name again, he’s standing upright with his eyes closed.

And right as I’m nearing the vehicle, all of the ambient noise, all of the sound, comes back.

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