New UFO Files Detail Sightings of Six-Foot ‘Skinwalkers’ and ‘Portal to Another World’ Near America’s Famous Paranormal Hotspot

The newest files in the Pentagon’s rolling UFO release are not about anything seen in the sky this year. On Friday, October 23, the Department of War posted the seventh batch of records under PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — adding 28 documents to the public archive at war.gov/UFO, which now holds 478 files. Among them is a 60-page investigation report written in 2010 by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies — BAASS — a contractor working for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program, the Pentagon’s former effort to study reported anomalous phenomena.

The report records what residents around Fort Duchesne, Utah, told a four-person BAASS team in the spring of 2010. The property at the center of the accounts is not named in the released report — the name is redacted — but news outlets have identified it as Skinwalker Ranch, the 512-acre property in the Uintah Basin long associated with reports of unexplained activity. The investigation itself is 16 years old. What is new, as of Friday, is that the government has made it public.

Two Trips to the Uintah Basin

The BAASS team — two investigators and two scientists — worked the Fort Duchesne area twice, from March 22 to 26 and again from April 19 to 23, 2010. Their assignment, as the report states it, was to look for evidence of “the reported unidentified creatures and lights” and to interview new witnesses. They set up seven digital game cameras on and around the property, took environmental measurements with handheld sensors, and sampled soil and plants. The report’s stated goal was “definitive photographic, digital, sound and chemical evidence of purported anomalies.”

By May 7, 2010, the team had interviewed more than 25 people: local residents, law-enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, members of the tribe and a shaman. Their ages ran from 15 to 77. “All of the people interviewed have had firsthand encounters,” the company wrote in its report.

What the Witnesses Described

Eleven of the witnesses reported the same two things: a bipedal, dog-like creature, or orbs of light, or both. Several witnesses who described the large “dog” or “wolf” creature told investigators it could walk and run on two legs and stood six to seven feet tall when upright; a chart of the witness descriptions in the report puts the creature at six to eight feet tall in most sightings. One man described an encounter in January 2010 with a hunched figure about six feet tall and an estimated 250 pounds. “The head was described as looking like a German shepherd dog without the pointed nose,” the report says; the nose, investigators noted, appeared more human-like. A beam of light, the man said, showed short black-and-gray fur, pointed ears and a stubby tail.

The word “skinwalker” comes from Navajo tradition. It is the word the witnesses themselves used for what they believed they had seen.

The accounts did not stop at the dog-like creature. The report’s own summary lists “unidentified balls of light at close range, daytime sightings of ‘dog-like’ creatures running on two legs, unnatural animalistic howling/screaming, ‘little people,’ prehistoric-like birds and a maggot which measured about 8-feet long and 2 to 3-feet in diameter.” Four witnesses independently described a small, hairy, three-foot-tall “troll” creature with long arms that appeared to run like a chimpanzee. One witness described a portal appearing near a lake — in his words, “a doorway to another world.” Investigators wrote that, from the interviews, “there may be at least three separate types of creatures.” These are witness claims, recorded by the investigators. The report does not say the creatures were real, and nothing in it verifies them.

The Witness Who Drew What He Saw

One witness, asked for details on April 21, 2010, “asked for a pen and piece of paper and drew the pictures below to accompany his verbal descriptions,” the report says. One of the drawings, at the top of this story, shows a black-furred creature, “more dog-like in form,” with a pig-like snout. The witness said it was the size of a “big man” and that when he came upon it, “it was sitting and staring at him”; it seemed hostile, so he left.

The other drawing, reproduced above, shows the creature he called a “shape shifter,” which he said he and his grandson had seen a few years earlier. He described it as pale and furless, with a hunched back, and said its legs were not human. “During the encounter, the creature jumped over the fence and ran using its hands in a chimpanzee-like manner,” the report says.

What the Tests Found

The report also records the one part of the investigation that produced a checkable result. Just before the team arrived, a witness said his dogs had chased what he believed was a “skinwalker” through a barbed-wire fence, and hair was collected from the fence. A laboratory tested four samples: two sets of hair from the fence, hair from one of the witness’s own dogs, and hair stuck in a red-stained rock. The fence hairs matched the dog — the results, the report says, strongly suggest the hairs are “from the same individual” — and the testing described in the file found the samples carried the same canine DNA sequence, one the lab noted is common in domestic dogs.

The hair in the red-stained rock came from a raccoon. Raccoons had been seen near the homes, so, BAASS wrote, “this finding would not be out of the ordinary.”

The report reaches no conclusion about the creatures its witnesses described, and no photograph, recording or physical sample in it verifies any of them. The government’s own reviewers have taken a similar position on the wider subject: AARO, the Pentagon’s current UAP office, said in its 2024 historical review that it found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity in government programs.

The Rest of Friday’s Release

The Utah report is one document among the 28 posted on Friday. The same release includes two records of a 2026 sighting — an AARO memorandum and a signed FBI statement — in which federal agents describe a silent, matte-black triangular object near a secure site in the western United States; the Daily’s account of those files is the companion story, the black triangle in the new Pentagon files. And the Daily’s readers have seen an unexplained object closer to home: the publisher’s own footage, the TicTac object over the plaza in Cypress, California.

Sources: the Utah ranch investigation report by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (April 2010), released by the Department of War on October 23, 2026, in PURSUE Release 07 (war.gov/UFO); Fox News, October 24, 2026; D/REZZED, October 25, 2026.