Spooky Hustlers: How wacky UFO activists and "crazy" ghost hunters duped Congress into hunting UFOs |
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Everything you were told is wrong.
For years, a small group of UFO activists and ghost hunters have duped the news media and United States Congress into funding and validating their paranormal crusade. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The UFO story 02:00 - AATIP, the "Pentagon UFO program", and Lue Elizondo 07:38 - Problems with the AATIP story 13:59 - The false UFO story goes viral 14:41 - James Lacatski goes public 16:44 - AAWSAP, the "Paranormal Disneyland" 22:02 - AAWSAP is shut down 23:33 - AAWSAP was "a secret", did Harry Reid know? 25:08 - Why AAWSAP wasn't included in the NY Times story, Leslie Kean's confession 28:59 - "AATIP" was just a nickname for AAWSAP 30:44 - Harry Reid's 2009 SAP request letter 32:00 - Outrage at the Pentagon over AAWSAP's wacky ghost hunts 33:11 - "AATIP" was just Lue Elizondo's "unofficial and unfunded" UFO "activity" 37:20 - Politico's Bryan Bender tweets that he was "misled" by UFO activists 38:06 - My concession: "I was wrong." 38:27 - Elizondo and other UFO activists continue to promote the false NY Times story to influence Congress 39:01 - AARO, the new Pentagon UFO program 39:29 - Lue Elizondo's complaint to the DOD Inspector General reveals he's not telling the truth 41:02 - How did we get here? 43:38 - Skinwalker Ranch introduction 44:33 - Greenstreet discusses his new skepticism with Nick Pope 46:07 - What is Skinwalker Ranch? 47:56. - What is a "Skinwalker"? 49:53 - The owners of Skinwalker Ranch - the Meyers and Sherman families 50:39 - The Sherman family claims UFOs and monsters are on the ranch 51:19 - Who is Robert Bigelow? 52:34. - The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) 55:23 - NIDS doesn't see any UFOs on Skinwalker Ranch 57:33. - "Hunt for the Skinwalker" book released in 2005 59:20. - George Knapp 01:00:19 - Where is the evidence? 01:02:23 - Frank Salisbury's "The Utah UFO Display", Garth Meyers, and Terry Sherman 01:05:12 - NIDS is shut down in 2004 01:06:57 - A Pentagon official reads "Hunt for the Skinwalker" 01:08:04 - James Lacatski's ghostly vision of the "Tubular Bells" 01:09:29 - Lacatski and Senator Harry Reid create the $22 million AAWSAP program 01:10:40 - Bigelow "wins" the AAWSAP contract 01:11:51 - "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon", Colm Kelleher and George Knapp 01:12:56 - The "hitchhiker" ghost virus 01:16:35 - The "dinobeaver" 01:19:30 - Monster owls, poltergeists, and ghost orbs 01:20:48 - Former Skinwalker employees say stories were embellished 01:22:10 - Drunken faxes about werewolves 01:23:36 - Colm Kelleher's muddy alien water 01:27:22 - Robert Bigelow sells the ranch to Brandon Fugal 01:29:56 - Strange "thumps" heard inside abandoned building at Skinwalker Ranch 01:33:16 - Flying to Utah and meeting Brandon Fugal 01:34:30 - Brandon Fugal's real estate empire 01:37:18 - Filling up on Diet Mountain Dew (with a splash of Goji Citrus Strawberry) 01:38:58 - Mormon church history, Joseph Smith and the Mormon pioneers 01:41:39 - Fugal's Scooby Doo castle with a haunted forest 01:42:49 - Tickling the ivories at Fugal's Salt Lake City "splash pad" 01:44:11 - Fugal's entertainment, book, and Mormon history collections 01:47:45 - Fugal's flying saucer machines 01:48:36 - Joe Firmage, General Wesley Clark, Hal Puthoff and Kit Green 01:57:42 - Fugal buys Skinwalker Ranch from Robert Bigelow 01:59:04 - Flying to Skinwalker Ranch in Fugal's helicopter 02:03:05 - Skinwalker Ranch - A question of faith 02:05:00 - Travis Taylor tries to cancel my trip to Skinwalker Ranch 02:06:17 - Arriving at the ranch, meeting the crew 02:07:48 - The Bigelow stories vs The Fugal stories 02:12:06. - The "Hitchhiker" 02:15:08 - Ranch tour: The Ranch House and Lacatski's vision 02:19:26 - Ranch tour: Bullet holes and The Rocky Mesa symbol 02:21:08 - The first UFO on Fugal's Skinwalker Ranch 02:22:43 - Phone call from Kit Green leads to Fugal's personal UFO encounter 02:27:29 - Ranch tour: Bait Pens and The Triangle 02:29:34 - Ranch tour: Homestead 2 02:31:11 - Disembodied voices, The Holy Ghost, the Mormon church 02:38:02 - Fugal and Erik Bard show me "the best evidence" 02:46:17 - Skinwalker team tries to stop me from camping alone on the ranch 02:48:52 - Setting up camp outside Homestead, the sun sets on Skinwalker 02:50:43 - The Ute Native Americans, the genocide, the legends 02:54:23 - "Dinobeaver" field & Carriage House 02:57:50 - Giant Mormon Mummies 03:00:13 - UFOs in sky and something "screaming" 03:03:17. - Secret 2018 DC "briefing" 03:09:45 - Noises in Homestead 2 03:12:00 - Travis Taylor, Jay Stratton and the UAP task force 03:19:45 - The west gate & burning eyes 03:21:48 - Darth Vader is immune to spookypox 03:32:48 - Leaving Skinwalker Ranch 03:34:33 - Final conclusion - "A whole lotta nothin" 03:38:22 - BONUS - Jay Stratton's werewolf |