But he didn’t stop looking: In 2007, he got that Pentagon contract-some $22 million to study advanced aerial threats, including some that remain allegedly unidentified.Īround the same time, in 2008, Bigelow created a new company: Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies, a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace.Īrchived versions of the Bigelow Aerospace Careers webpage say it “focuses on the identification, evaluation, and acquisition of novel and emerging future technologies worldwide as they specifically relate to spacecraft.” (Blair Bigelow, vice president of corporate strategy at Bigelow Aerospace, declined to comment.) Colm Kelleher-co-author of the Skinwalker book-was the company’s deputy administrator, according to his LinkedIn page.Īround the same time Bigelow created the new company, he also hitched a star to the Mutual UFO Network, a nonprofit that collects and investigates user-submitted reports of UFOs, according to MUFON’s executive director Jan Harzan. Toward the end of the book, the authors let us know that Bigelow abandoned studies at Skinwalker in the early 2000s. “Not that they appear.” You just have to keep looking and hope they come back. “The thing about UFOs that makes them so mysterious is that they disappear,” says historian Greg Eghigian, who is researching the global history of UFO sightings and alleged alien contact. Researching UFOs seems a bit like gambling: You mostly lose, or break even, but the promise that you might hit jackpot is powerful. We continued on our way toward Skinwalker Ranch, where Bigelow’s people had, for years, tried to find that weirdest thing, every day. “That’s probably the weirdest thing that will happen all day,” my sister eventually said. We stood in the silence for a few seconds. With that, the noises explained themselves and stopped. The frozen water heaved itself into a new position. “What is it?” I kept saying, deeply unnerved-not because I thought it was inexplicable but because I couldn’t explain it.Īnd then the lake’s ice cracked, the break spreading fast like a faultline in an action movie. Like maybe someone had pulled the power lines taut for miles and then plucked them with a giant finger. They sounded like alien spaceship chatter. Great metallic twangs, or thwangs, or something, that seemed to start here, no there, and rush across the landscape as if carried on an invisible wire. I’d been interested in Bigelow’s anomalistic dealings since that article came out thus, the audio book. In December, a New York Times story revealed that Bigelow Aerospace had conducted a study on UFOs- for the Pentagon. But as the world recently discovered, he didn’t give up the cause. Bigelow deactivated the National Institute for Discovery Science in 2004, after years of failing to capture the supposedly supernatural. That, at least, is the story told in Hunt for the Skinwalker, a book that I downloaded in audio form one Friday night in January. Soon after reading the newspaper story, he took Skinwalker off the family’s hands, and his institute set up shop. But in 1995, he had also founded something called the National Institute for Discovery Science, an organization built to research paranormal phenomena. Today, the Nevada businessman is known for founding Bigelow Aerospace, which spun off a business to sell its expandable space habitats just last Tuesday. It came with too-large-thrice-over wolves that refused to die by bullet, cattle with their reproductive organs sucked clean out, and a multitude of UFOs, as they told the Deseret News in 1996. In 1994, a Mormon family bought a 480-acre plot in in Utah’s Uintah Basin, thinking they’d get back to the land.
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