Brandon Fugal
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedFugal, 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.
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Brandon Fugal is a Utah commercial real-estate executive who bought Skinwalker Ranch from Robert Bigelow in 2016 and revealed his ownership in 2020. He funds a private research team on the property, hosts the History Channel series filmed there, and says he has personally seen an object over the ranch and experienced equipment failures he cannot explain. He describes himself as a former sceptic.
The purchase and the series are documented. Fugal's specific claims in the corpus include that a large object lies under the property and that a region of the ranch behaves as a 'portal'; he also notes that an oil company obtained a drilling permit on the adjacent parcel and that 1969 aerial imagery appears filtered over one area. These are his interpretations of readings and records, and none has been independently examined.
The corpus interviews Fugal twice, in episodes about the object under the ranch and about the 'time portal', and mentions him in others on Skinwalker Ranch. The knowledge base records his ownership as documented and his observations as testimony.
Who
| Role | Utah real-estate executive; owner of Skinwalker Ranch since 2016 |
|---|---|
| Side | civilian |
| Status | verified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true) |
Interviews and appearances
- 0:00:00 Skinwalker Ranch Owner Reveals “Time Portal” On the Property 25 July 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
- 0:00:00 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence 26 July 2026 guest ▶ YouTube
- 0:00:00 I Searched for UFOs on Skinwalker Ranch… 10 August 2022 discussed ▶ YouTube
- 0:06:23 "I Located A UFO Base In Arizona!" -Ross Coulthart 21 June 2025 discussed ▶ YouTube
- 1:07:25 “Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) 2 April 2025 discussed ▶ YouTube
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.
- 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
- 1:48:24 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
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.
- 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
- 1:42:35 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
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.
- 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
- 1:39:58 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
An engineered, manufactured object of unknown origin is buried inside the mesa at Skinwalker Ranch.
- 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.
- 1:33:42 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
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.
- 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
- 0:31:42 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
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.
- 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.
- 2:15:02 "There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence · Brandon Fugal ▶
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"There's A UFO Under the Ranch!" - Skinwalker Owner Breaks Silence 26 July 2026
- 0:00:00 ▶ interview
- 0:31:42 ▶ Brandon Fugal A healthy calf died on Skinwalker Ranch with elevated radiation readings around the…
They had different type, one had a Samsung >> device and one had an iPhone. So, different operating systems, both behaving strangely at the same
- 1:33:42 ▶ Brandon Fugal An engineered, manufactured object of unknown origin is buried inside the mesa at…
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.
- 1:39:58 ▶ Brandon Fugal Ground-penetrating radar and soil resistivity at Skinwalker Ranch were commissioned to…
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
- 1:42:35 ▶ 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
- 1:48:24 ▶ 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
- 2:15:02 ▶ Brandon Fugal Computer servers that had been completely destroyed by heat were found buried under the…
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.
Skinwalker Ranch Owner Reveals “Time Portal” On the Property 25 July 2026
I Searched for UFOs on Skinwalker Ranch… 10 August 2022
"I Located A UFO Base In Arizona!" -Ross Coulthart 21 June 2025
“Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) 2 April 2025
Named in 7 uploads (automatic name matching, 8 mentions)
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- “Tesla's Technology is Still Classified!" (Ft. Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell) ×1
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- Why NASA Studies This Man (He Attracts UFOs!) ×1
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Skinwalker Ranch, Skinwalker Ranch surveillance and television footage, Mount Wilson Ranch, Nevada. Open the full map filtered to this record.
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- 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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