PUBLIC RECORDS / PURSUE RELEASE 07
The Utah Ranch files are the 60-page BAASS Utah Ranch Investigation Report, DOW-UAP-D174, released on October 23, 2026. Often searched as the “Skinwalker Ranch files,” the public report redacts the ranch name. Start with the original PDF, then compare its witness accounts and laboratory findings.
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The Utah Ranch report collects interviews, photographs of samples, witness drawings, sensor observations, and plans for further work. Its most striking passages describe dog-like bipeds, small hairy figures, unusual lights, and a supposed portal. These are accounts preserved in a contractor’s investigation; publication does not verify their explanations.
The file is associated in public reporting with Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. The ranch name is redacted in the released document. Read the identification context ↗
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| Topic | What you can check | Go to the source |
|---|---|---|
| Creature accounts | Recorded descriptions and estimated sizes, rather than verified species. | Descriptions & size infographic · PDF p. 9 |
| Portal account | A witness’s recollection of a clear, stationary, rippling wall. | Interview & diagram · PDF p. 13 |
| Physical samples | Dog and raccoon hair results; a common sequence does not uniquely identify a dog. | DNA results explained · PDF p. 37 |
| Release vs. fieldwork | A 2026 public release of a report about 2010 field visits and older accounts. | Original PDF & page guide |
01 / THE RECORD
BAASS personnel visited the Fort Duchesne area on March 22–26 and April 19–23, 2010. Their stated goals included gathering detailed accounts and looking for physical evidence. Seven digital game cameras were placed on the ranch and a nearby property, with a protocol to secure their memory cards weekly.
Report · PDF p. 5 ↗The abstract says more than 25 people had been interviewed by May 7, 2010. The group included local residents, police officers, ranchers, and business owners. The descriptions span different locations and times, including recollections many years older than the field visits. Witness totals do not turn recollections into instrumentally verified observations.
Report · PDF p. 8 ↗The abstract groups reports of upright dog- or wolf-like creatures, small hairy figures with long arms, large worm-like forms, and a prehistoric-looking bird. Some witnesses estimated the bipeds at six to seven feet tall. Those measurements are estimates reported in interviews.
Report · PDF p. 9 ↗A witness described a clear, stationary, rippling wall seen in the afternoon roughly twenty years before the interview. She interpreted it as a portal. Other interviews describe colored balls of light and sounds. Recording that interpretation does not establish a doorway to another world. Read the portal interview details and limits.
Report · PDF p. 13 ↗02 / VISUALIZING THE ACCOUNTS
See realistic artist’s renditions alongside a guide to the source descriptions and their limits. The creatures shown are fictional visualizations, not photographs or evidence.
03 / METHODS & LIMITS
The report lists electromagnetic surveys, radiation measurements, and soil analysis among its aims. It records signals around 1.2 GHz and explicitly calls for further work on possible satellite frequencies and timing. An unexplained reading in a report is not a confirmed anomalous source.
Report · PDF p. 10 ↗Sections on plants as biosensors describe approaches for studying environmental effects. Readers should distinguish proposed methods from completed experiments and independently replicated results.
Report · PDF p. 30 ↗The report extrapolates straight lines from reported creature movements and suggests possible observation locations. It acknowledges that the resulting intersections could be arbitrary because the alleged creatures could have changed direction after leaving view.
Report · PDF p. 6 ↗04 / TIMELINE
05 / QUESTIONS PEOPLE ARE ASKING
The phrase commonly refers to DOW-UAP-D174, the Utah Ranch Investigation Report, April 2010. It is a BAASS contractor report about field visits, witness accounts, measurements, and proposed experiments at and around a Utah property.
The report was included in PURSUE Release 07 on October 23, 2026. The underlying fieldwork occurred in March and April 2010. The release date and the dates of the reported events are different.
The 2010 Utah ranch report is widely discussed in connection with Skinwalker Ranch. The public file redacts the ranch name. This guide preserves that distinction instead of treating the popular identification as an unredacted statement in the document.
No. Publishing a contractor report establishes that those accounts were recorded. It does not establish that the reported creatures, portals, or supernatural explanations are real.
The appendix identifies canine sequences in three samples, including a control. BAASS interpreted the unknown fence hairs as likely coming from the same dog as the control, without claiming absolute certainty. A separate hair from a stained rock was identified as raccoon.
No. Every realistic creature image on this site is an artist’s rendition based loosely on reported descriptions. Anatomical details, lighting, and setting are imagined. The images are not photographs, official evidence, or verified depictions.
Use the official DOW-UAP-D174 PDF link in our reading guide, or search the government PURSUE portal for DOW-UAP-D174. Our page references use PDF page numbers; printed page numbers are offset in parts of the file.
Use the page-by-page reading guide to find the fieldwork, witness accounts, and laboratory results in the original PDF.
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RANCH BACKGROUND
Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp. A published account of ranch investigations, separate from the released 2010 PDF.
View Hunt for the Skinwalker on Amazon (paid link) ↗WIDER PROGRAM CONTEXT
James T. Lacatski, Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp. An authors’ account of a government UFO program, rather than the original case file.
View Skinwalkers at the Pentagon on Amazon (paid link) ↗