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Lagol Ranch July 2009 High-Strangeness Investigation

CMS heading: July 6, 2009; BAASS background/timeline: July 5-27, 2009Lagol, California, California, United States

Multi-week MUFON/BAASS case involving repeated blue lights and structured-object reports, unusual sounds, a reported sky-opening/oblong-object event, deleted cellphone footage, night-vision sightings, equipment power anomalies and later BAASS surveillance. The source chronology contains an explicit July 5/July 6 date discrepancy.

// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:Unresolved Structured Object(C-000265)→
Claims are displayed with the source wording, locator, relationship and verification state. Competing claims remain separate rather than being averaged into a single answer.
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Encounter · New Insights evidence provenance

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CLAIM-216115reported
“The Chapter 8 CMS heading gives July 6, 2009 as the event date, whereas the BAASS background narrative and submitted timeline place the first seven-blue-light event on July 5 at about 21:20 and extend the sequence through July 27.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 91-101; printed pp. 80-90
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CLAIM-216122reported
“On July 17 a witness recorded two large blue lights on a Motorola cellphone. When reviewed that night, the witnesses interpreted the clip as showing a solid object between the lights with a flattened bottom and hatch on top. A reenactment clip was said to contain two small red orbs and an apparent small humanoid form in the truck headlights.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 97-98; printed pp. 86-87
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CLAIM-216124reported
“The family said the cellphone files were deliberately locked before sleep, but by approximately 8:00 a.m. the next morning all image/video files on the phone—including unrelated vacation material—had been deleted, leaving only contact information.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 98-99; printed pp. 87-88
CONTEXTUALIZES
CLAIM-216129reported
“The book says multiple photographs from the July 27 period and a 257-page BAASS special report on the Lagol incidents were submitted to the Defense Intelligence Agency.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 100-101; printed pp. 89-90
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Multiple claim rows are intentionally retained when sources disagree. ANOMALY does not silently reconcile competing values.
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CLAIM-216116reported
“The initial Lagol report describes seven extremely bright bluish porthole-like lights in the orchard area, stationary several hundred feet from the house and associated with no sound. When witnesses drove toward the location, the lights were gone and no departure was seen.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 91-93; printed pp. 80-82
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CLAIM-216119reported
“Around July 10-11, multiple family members reported an intense blue light near ground level and a vague structure behind it. Two witnesses later watched a self-contained-looking blue light in the pasture for several minutes before it disappeared.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 95-96; printed pp. 84-85
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Multiple claim rows are intentionally retained when sources disagree. ANOMALY does not silently reconcile competing values.
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CLAIM-216117reported
“Witnesses searched soft, recently watered dusty ground and reported no tire tracks, disturbed soil, bent trees or other physical traces at the location of the initial lights.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 91-92; printed pp. 80-81
CONTEXTUALIZES
CLAIM-216121reported
“A three-person BAASS team deployed July 13-15, mapped and photographed the 20-acre property, separately interviewed four witnesses and conducted night watches on July 13 and 14. The source states that the team saw nothing unusual during that first deployment.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 96-97; printed pp. 85-86
CONTEXTUALIZES
CLAIM-216125reported
“During a second BAASS deployment beginning July 23, three investigators independently reported six to eight bright circular objects through Generation III night-vision equipment. They described coordinated formations and motion for more than a minute, but the objects were not visible to the naked eye.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 99-100; printed pp. 88-89
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CLAIM-216126reported
“On July 27 one investigator found a Sony HDR-SR10 camcorder switched from Record Mode to Demonstration Mode despite prior checks and later noticed image-like frames of unidentified objects. The source attributes significance to the mode change, but the excerpt does not establish how it occurred.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 100-100; printed pp. 89-89
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CLAIM-216130reported
“The source states that the Lagol property phenomena were real because four family members and all three investigators had witnessed unusual events. ANOMALY retains this as the program/author conclusion rather than upgrading each reported phenomenon to verified fact.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 101-101; printed pp. 90-90
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Multiple claim rows are intentionally retained when sources disagree. ANOMALY does not silently reconcile competing values.
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CLAIM-216118reported
“During a return to the orchard the family reported five loud clicking sounds from changing directions with no visible source. Later that night another witness described a blue/silver flash, an oblong object appearing to enter an opening in the sky, and a swirling bluish residue; he compared the experience to a wormhole.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 92-95; printed pp. 81-84
SUPPORTS
CLAIM-216120reported
“Two horses were reported to become unusually agitated after a blue-light episode, and family members described significant stress, insomnia and lethargy during the period of activity.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 95-96; printed pp. 84-85
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CLAIM-216128reported
“The BAASS team reported abrupt battery drainage or power loss affecting a Thermo Fisher Niton X-ray fluorescence analyzer and an Aaronia Spectran HF-60100 spectrum analyzer on the property. The Spectran reportedly functioned normally when tested off-site at a nearby hotel.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 100-101; printed pp. 89-90
SUPPORTS
CLAIM-216131reported
“The family also reported intermittent refrigerator/door movements, unexplained indoor/outdoor flashes and other low-level poltergeist-like events throughout July. The book compares these reports with Skinwalker Ranch patterns.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 101-101; printed pp. 90-90
SUPPORTS
Multiple claim rows are intentionally retained when sources disagree. ANOMALY does not silently reconcile competing values.
SOURCE COMPARISON

Lagol Blue-Light Structured Object (2009) · New Insights reported subject characteristics

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CLAIM-216123reported
“The July 17 footage was reportedly interpreted as a solid object hovering roughly 25 feet above the ground between two intense lights, with a flattened bottom and an apparent hatch on top. The lights were described as self-contained rather than projecting beams.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 97-98; printed pp. 86-87
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Lagol NVG Dark Craft-Like Object (2009) · New Insights reported subject characteristics

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CLAIM-216127reported
“A BAASS investigator reported a dark craft-like object through Generation III NVG for about 15 seconds: approximately 30 feet wide by 20 feet high, curved top, sides sloping inward toward the top, flat bottom, no visible lights or markings. It was not visible to the naked eye and video attempts failed.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 100-100; printed pp. 89-89
SUPPORTS
Lagol Ranch July 2009 High-Strangeness Investigation (CMS heading: July 6, 2009; BAASS background/timeline: July 5-27, 2009): Evidence Dossier & Witness Reports | ANOMALY | ANOMALY UAP Archive & Controlled Vocabulary