DOW-UAP-D174: Utah Ranch interviews and hair-analysis results
BAASS’s March–April 2010 Utah Ranch investigation combines local witness interviews, camera deployment, radio-frequency measurements and plant experiments. An attached laboratory report identifies the tested hairs as raccoon and domestic dog; the fence samples do not establish an unknown creature. The report also qualifies its sighting-map extrapolations and says the plant experiments were too early for conclusions.
- File
- Document · Release 07
- Date
- March, April 2010
- Location
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Extent
- 60 pages
Search This File
Probed Assessment
The sampled hairs were identified as raccoon and domestic dog; the wider witness accounts and proposed experiments require separate evaluation.
Key takeaways
- Laboratory results are materially stronger evidence about the sampled hairs than witness labels such as Skinwalker.
- Matching canine sequences do not definitively identify one individual dog.
- Sighting-map intersections depend on an acknowledged straight-line assumption.
- The radio signals remained unidentified, with satellite-frequency research proposed.
Why it matters
The packet preserves both extraordinary reported experiences and ordinary laboratory findings, illustrating why each evidence layer must be evaluated independently.
Corroboration
Witness interviews and drawings are not direct measurements of a creature. The attached DNA letter supports species-level conclusions for the submitted samples, not a resolution of every reported event.
Open questions
- • Were raw sequence data obtained and independently checked?
- • What did the later camera and controlled plant experiments show?
- • Were the radio-frequency peaks traced to known transmitters?
Probed separates this editorial assessment from the source claims below. It summarizes what the released artifact supports; it is not independent verification.
Official Description from War.gov
This document is an administrative, programmatic, or contractor-produced record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As part of the broader program record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, executed, or described at a particular point in time. This April 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) investigation report documents field deployments to a Utah property and surrounding communities during March and April 2010. The report states that BAASS personnel interviewed local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, and tribal community members about reported anomalous events; used handheld sensors to collect environmental measurements; planned plant-based biosensor experiments; and sought photographic, acoustic, and chemical evidence of purported anomalous phenomena. It also records extensive reported accounts involving “dog-like bipedal creatures,” orbs of light, “little people,” “prehistoric-looking” birds, among other phenomena, and states that BAASS intended to use interactive methods to attempt communication with the presumed source of reported anomalous activity.
Preserved verbatim as source metadata. This wording is separate from Probed’s file-specific description and assessment.
File Context
Related entities
Tracker findings
Map intersections could have arisen arbitrarily
The creature-sighting map extrapolates straight paths from eyewitness directions and explicitly concedes that their intersections could be arbitrary if paths changed.
Investigators conducted more than 25 interviews
As of May 7, BAASS says it had interviewed more than twenty-five local people, including police officers, ranchers and Native American residents.
RF peaks remained unidentified
The report records radio-frequency peaks around 1.21–1.24 GHz and calls for further satellite-frequency and timing research to identify their origin.
A witness’s portal terminology was influenced by a book
A witness described a transparent, rippling, stationary phenomenon seen about twenty years earlier and said the later Skinwalker book influenced her use of the word portal.
Witness denied burns and chronic effects
The next page records the same witness denying eye burns, lasting eye effects, headache or difficulty sleeping.
Plant work had found no mutations at that stage
The tobacco inspection found no dark-green spots at that time, while spiderwort microscopic analysis was deferred to later deployments.
Hair sample SU01 matched raccoon
The April 27 laboratory report identifies SU-01 as matching raccoon reference sequences in GenBank.
Three other samples matched dog
The laboratory reports that SU-02, SU-03 and SU-04 share a canine HVI sequence found in domestic dogs, with an estimated population frequency of 9.8–13.8 percent at 95 percent confidence.
Matching sequences did not establish one individual with certainty
BAASS’s email interprets the control and two fence samples as probably from the same dog, explicitly acknowledging that matching HVI sequences are not fully definitive for individual identity.
Release provenance
- Release
- Release 07
- Official ID
- release-07-file-002-dow-uap-d174-utah-ranch-investigation-report-april-2010
- Cleared
- Oct 23, 2026
Referenced Timeline
First spring investigation deployment
The team visited March 22–26.
Biosensor plants transported
Six tobacco and six spiderwort plants were installed at the ranch.
Second spring investigation deployment
The team returned April 19–23.
Controlled seed experiment established
BAASS and ranch locations were used for the planned growth comparison.
Hair DNA laboratory report
The report identifies raccoon and domestic-dog sequence matches.
BAASS interprets hair results
The email distinguishes species identification from less certain individual-dog matching.
Source Claims
Claims are attributed to the released source and remain distinct from Probed’s assessment and tracker findings.
BAASS sent investigators and scientists to Fort Duchesne during March 22–26 and April 19–23, 2010 to pursue reports, interviews and camera deployment.
On March 22-26, 2010 and April 19-23, 2010
The report describes seven digital game cameras and a weekly memory-card collection protocol intended to capture reported creatures or lights.
seven (7) Moultrie digital game cameras
The creature-sighting map extrapolates straight paths from eyewitness directions and explicitly concedes that their intersections could be arbitrary if paths changed.
these intersection points could be construed as arbitrary
As of May 7, BAASS says it had interviewed more than twenty-five local people, including police officers, ranchers and Native American residents.
over twenty-five (25) people have been contacted and
BAASS summarizes eleven separately interviewed witnesses describing dog-like creatures or lights; those descriptions remain witness reports rather than species identification.
Total number of independent witnesses
The report records radio-frequency peaks around 1.21–1.24 GHz and calls for further satellite-frequency and timing research to identify their origin.
Further measurements and research, particularly into satellite transmitting frequencies and
A witness described a transparent, rippling, stationary phenomenon seen about twenty years earlier and said the later Skinwalker book influenced her use of the word portal.
she was not sure what a portal was until she read
An interview records transient warmth, ringing and facial numbness attributed by a witness to a nearby red light; the interviewer notes his attention was divided by radio repair.
was fixing
The next page records the same witness denying eye burns, lasting eye effects, headache or difficulty sleeping.
Any long term effects on your eyes?
The fence-hair collection followed a resident’s account of a fast black shadow and barking dogs; the investigator found fur on a barb at the indicated location.
This sample was
A witness supplied drawings of remembered creatures, including a pale, hunched figure; the drawings are witness illustrations, not photographs of an observed animal.
drew the pictures below to accompany his verbal
BAASS says twelve tobacco and spiderwort biosensor plants arrived April 6, but after two weeks no mutation-level conclusions could yet be drawn.
no observations or analysis can be drawn concerning
The tobacco inspection found no dark-green spots at that time, while spiderwort microscopic analysis was deferred to later deployments.
none are present at this time.
The April 22 seed experiment compared peas and beans at BAASS and two ranch-trailer locations using distilled water, fungicide-treated seeds and controlled lighting.
A seed germination and growth experiment was set up
The protocol calls for twice-daily photographs and germination charts, followed by measurement and weighing after the experiment.
germination charts will be filled out twice daily
Microscope captions identify a follicle-bearing hair strand suitable for nuclear DNA species analysis; the images themselves do not name a species.
which can be analyzed
The April 27 laboratory report identifies SU-01 as matching raccoon reference sequences in GenBank.
matched reference Procyon lotor (raccoon) samples in GenBank.
The laboratory reports that SU-02, SU-03 and SU-04 share a canine HVI sequence found in domestic dogs, with an estimated population frequency of 9.8–13.8 percent at 95 percent confidence.
This sequence is frequently found in domestic dogs
BAASS’s email interprets the control and two fence samples as probably from the same dog, explicitly acknowledging that matching HVI sequences are not fully definitive for individual identity.
identical suggesting (but not 100% definitive) the same canine individual.
The email identifies the rock-associated hair as raccoon and says BAASS requested the raw sequence data from the laboratory.
requesting a copy of the raw sequence data for these samples.
Source Material & Evidence
Research Map
Lines appear only when two entities share a row-level source claim or dated timeline event. Unconnected nodes remain visible without implying a relationship.