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Skinwalker Ranch Blue-Orb Dog-Chase Event

one April evening in 1996Skinwalker Ranch, Utah, Utah, United States

Tom reportedly released three dogs to chase a maneuvering intense blue orb; after the animals disappeared into brush he heard yelps and silence, and the chapter says he found burned/incinerated remains or traces the next morning.

// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:High Strangeness & Anomalous Effects(P-000106)→
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Encounter · New Insights case observation

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CLAIM-216377reported
“One April evening in 1996 Tom reportedly saw an intense blue orb larger than a baseball maneuvering near the ground and released three dogs to chase it. After the animals followed it into brush he heard yelps and then silence.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 181-186; printed pp. 172-177; section: Blue Orb Attack
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Encounter · New Insights evidence provenance

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CLAIM-216379reported
“The chapter says that the next morning Tom found the dogs incinerated in a clearing. This is preserved as the source’s reported aftermath; Chapter 10 does not provide a forensic report demonstrating that the orb caused the animals’ deaths.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 181-186; printed pp. 172-177; section: Blue Orb Attack
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Blue Orb Close-Encounter Reports · Reported Craft Appearance

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CLAIM-200008reported
“In the Ron Becker case the source reports three sharply defined bright blue spherical objects, roughly softball-sized; two were said to pass through the vehicle and one was said to pass through Becker’s upper body.”
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“Three blue orbs are reported; one is described as passing through Becker’s body.”
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Blue Orb Close-Encounter Reports · New Insights reported subject characteristics

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CLAIM-216373reported
“In this Gorman report the orb was described as containing a swirling or boiling-looking blue substance. The chapter portrays its rapid response to a flashlight and tight movement through trees as suggestive of control, but does not establish a mechanism or origin.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 181-186; printed pp. 172-177; section: Blue Orb
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CLAIM-216378reported
“The April-1996 orb was described as intensely blue, round, larger than a baseball and capable of evasive or apparently intelligent maneuvering.”
Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
SRC-002150 · uploaded PDF pp. 181-186; printed pp. 172-177; section: Blue Orb Attack
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