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Brandon Fugal

contested civilian status · verified public figure

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Brandon Fugal · 1:48:24

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Fugal, chairman of a Salt Lake City commercial real-estate firm, bought Skinwalker Ranch from Robert Bigelow in 2016 and opened it to a television series in 2020. He says he has witnessed unexplained objects there. The corpus discusses him as the current patron of the ranch investigations.

Who

RoleUtah real-estate executive; owner of Skinwalker Ranch since 2016
Sidecivilian
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

Interviews and appearances

Claims made

  • An oil and gas company obtained a county drilling permit on the parcel immediately adjacent to the Skinwalker Ranch drill site, over Fugal's filed objection, within months of material being extracted from the mesa.

    INFERENCE contested 2026

    • 1:48:24 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      county goes ahead in spite of our notice and our filing and grants them a permit right above our drill site right on the border of my property
  • The 1969 aerial survey imagery of Skinwalker Ranch shows a smoothed or filtered region over the area where the drilling anomaly was later found, and no earlier aerial record survives.

    INFERENCE thin 2026

    • 1:42:35 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      you can see that there's a significant spot that it thinks [music] is has been dithered or smoothed with some sort of filter in the 1969 image that's not in the other images. the the photos were doctorred but specifically in this kind of teardrop shape which is
  • Ground-penetrating radar and soil resistivity at Skinwalker Ranch were commissioned to test pre-existing local rumours of a cave system or tunnels under the mesa, not on the expectation of finding exotic material.

    FACT thin 2026

    • 1:39:58 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      It wasn't because we thought there was any exotic material. It was because there were rumors going back to the the Bigalow era and even before going back to the Meyers that there was a cave system that there were tunnels
  • An engineered, manufactured object of unknown origin is buried inside the mesa at Skinwalker Ranch.

    INFERENCE thin 2026

    • 1:33:42 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      There's something under the mesa. I mean, to be extracting material that is manufactured that's engineered from hundreds of feet within the mesa.
  • A healthy calf died on Skinwalker Ranch with elevated radiation readings around the carcass, simultaneous malfunction of two phones running different operating systems, and an unidentified object visible above it in surveillance footage.

    INFERENCE thin 2026

    • 0:31:42 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      They had different type, one had a Samsung >> device and one had an iPhone. So, different operating systems, both behaving strangely at the same
  • Computer servers that had been completely destroyed by heat were found buried under the Mount Wilson Ranch property in Nevada, along with an unearthed rail system.

    INFERENCE thin 2026

    • 2:15:02 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
      we uncovered evidence that there there was activity uh predated there was a cover up. I mean we're talking about fried uh computers computer servers that were completely fried and buried deep within under the property. There was a rail system of some sort that we've unearthed down there.

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Named in 7 uploads (automatic name matching, 8 mentions)

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Skinwalker Ranch, Skinwalker Ranch surveillance and television footage, Mount Wilson Ranch, Nevada. Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • 1:48:24 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
    county goes ahead in spite of our notice and our filing and grants them a permit right above our drill site right on the border of my property
  • 1:42:35 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal
    you can see that there's a significant spot that it thinks [music] is has been dithered or smoothed with some sort of filter in the 1969 image that's not in the other images. the the photos were doctorred but specifically in this kind of teardrop shape which is

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