Shortly after UFO sightings started happening in earnest, another paranormal activity started: cattle mutilations. In the 1950s, UFO sightings in the area really picked up, with people all over the Uintah Basis reporting everything from glowing orbs darting around in the sky or emerging from bodies of water in the region to actual metallic aircraft suspended overhead. In 1776, for example, Franciscan missionary Silvestre VĂ©lez de Escalante described seeing fiery lights in the sky above his campfire. Stories of strange lights in the sky have been recorded for centuries, first by the native tribes of the area in folklore and rock art, then by European settlers. It's not just the skinwalkers that make Skinwalker Ranch and surrounding land so strange, however. The local native population knows the reason, however: the land is cursed. He shot at it and it disappeared, but Kelleher spotted a strange print that looked almost like a giant raptor footprint in the snow under the tree. One night in March 1997, after the ranch had been sold to Robert Bigelow and his National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) to lead an investigation of Skinwalker Ranch sponsored by the Pentagon, scientist Colm Kelleher looked up into a tree to see a large, humanoid figure with yellow eyes watching the research team. Other people have insisted they've tracked the creatures through the snow only to see their wolf-like footprints turn into human footprints and disappear. Multiple other sightings of these giant, wolf-like creatures and other humanoid beings abound, with the descriptions sometimes describing them as walking on four legs, sometimes upright like a human. Terry and his wife, Gwen, recounted it left a stench like rotting flesh in the air. It didn't even flinch, merely slowly turned its head and stared at him for a few minutes, sizing him up. Sherman shot the giant creature three times at point-blank range. He ran toward it to find a wolf three times the size of a normal wolf attacking a calf and biting its head through the bars. In 1994, then-owner Terry Sherman related a story in which he saw something approaching his cattle in their pen. Numerous reports of enormous, intelligent-seeming, humanoid creatures have abounded for over a century. It's not just members of the Ute tribe who have claimed to have seen skinwalkers in and around the ranch, however. Interestingly, however, ancient rock art of the tribes of the region have depicted strange animal-human hybrid creatures since well before the Civil War. The Ute believe Skinwalker Ranch, named for those skinwalkers, is right in the path of the monsters and largely avoid going to the ranch or entering its territory. Since that time, the land and Ute tribe been haunted by what they call "skinwalkers," malevolent, shapeshifting witches of Navajo lore, who, in the Uinta Basin, take the form of giant wolves and other creatures. The Ute have been convinced ever since the Navajo had laid a curse on the land in retaliation for their betrayal.
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