Colorado's Hottest UFO/UAP Hot Spot
An investigative opportunity on par with Skinwalker Ranch!
Colorado has more that one UFO hot spot. Recent episodes of "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" focused on the Thomas Miller Ranch, a few miles east of Trinidad, and on an unnamed ranch east of the Denver area near Elbert. Both of these sites have cattle mutilations, strange radio and other electromagnetic anomalies, and multiple visible sightings of UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon) objects covering many years. These events have characteristics that overlap with those at the famous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.
The San Luis Valley is at the top of the list
But there's one area in Colorado that is extremely ripe for further in-depth investigations, as there's a ton of high strangeness in years of accumulating stories and events. Conveniently located near the center of all of this valley's events is the UFO Watchtower, near Hooper, Colorado, but there's more to the story than just the Watchtower.
Mount Blanca
South-east of the UFO Watchtower a few miles, and highly visible from the tower, stands Mount Blanca.
There are many stories of military and UFO aircraft landing on or even disappearing into Mount Blanca over the years. The earliest mention I could find was of a great-great-grandmother who reported seeing a UFO descend into the top of the mountain back in the late 1800s, although most reports are of more recent incidents. Pretty much every year someone reports lights, jets, or other UFO objects "entering" this mountain.
Sand Dunes
Located just east of the UFO Watchtower, and also highly visible from the tower, are the massive piles of sand in the Great Sand Dunes National Park. There have been many reports of objects darting around, on, or near these dunes, but let's just take a look at the strangeness of the dunes themselves.
The amount of sand in these dunes is staggering; about 6.5 billion cubic meters, or 1.5 cubic miles in volume. Imagine a giant tunnel-boring machine that could carve out a tunnel about 42 meters (140 feet) in diameter. If such a machine could turn all the rock it encountered into sand, and were to deposit that sand into one big pile the size of the Sand Dunes, then that huge tunnel could span the entire continental United States from coast to coast. That's a lot of sand!
Take a look at how nearly perfectly circular the Sand Dunes pile of sand is, or was at one time, before about a third of it perhaps eroded away along the southwest edges...
To be fair, geologists have come up with a complex scientific explanation for the how these dunes probably formed over the past 12,000 years since the last ice age, but the explanations are somewhat forced, and a lot of questions do remain. For example, is it realistic for over 50,000 cubic feet of sand to accumulate each and every day, on the average, for the past 12,000 years in order to form this big of a pile?
Cattle Mutilations
Starting in1992, researcher Christopher O'Brien has investigated over one thousand paranormal events reported in the San Luis Valley, working with law enforcement and other agencies to attempt to unravel the mysteries. A lot, but not all, of his research has centered on the many still unexplained cattle mutilations. His books are very informative and very well researched. Here's a link to his author page on Amazon, and I do highly recommend his books: https://amzn.to/48B4Qu8
Snippy The Horse
One of the more well known animal mutilations happened in September of 1967, when a horse named Lady (more commonly referred to as "Snippy") turned up dead under very mysterious circumstances. This happened a few miles south of the UFO Watchtower on the Harry King Ranch. There was no blood on the ground, or in the horse, and all tissue, including brain matter, had been removed from the bleached white, bare skeletal remains from the shoulders up. The rest of the body was apparently untouched. The skeleton of this famous horse is on display today at the UFO Watchtower, and it can be seen in documentary episodes such as Ancient Aliens.
UFO Watchtower
Just north of Hooper, Colorado, along highway 17, and 274 miles due south-east from SkinWalker Ranch, is the UFO Watchtower.
The owner, Judy Messoline, is always ready to share the latest sightings reported by campers and visitors to the site. She's also been featured in a bunch of the UFO documentary and UFO investigative news shows as well.
Over 300 sightings reports in one place
On the counter top in Judy's education center/gift shop is a thick 3-ring binder full of hundreds of hand-written sighting reports, left by visitors over the years. These sightings are mostly from the Watchtower, or from nearby around the Valley. In the summer of 2023 these documents were scanned and published in book form, now available on Amazon and at the Watchtower. Here's a link to this fascinating resource:
UFO Sightings from the UFO Watchtower: 2000-2023 In their own wordsMore research is needed!
Strange sounds, electromagnetic effects, and other high-strangeness phenomenon are often reported from around the San Luis valley, but a lot of these reports are overlooked simply because the more obvious UFO sightings get more attention. I strongly suspect research at the level of that provided at SkinWalker Ranch would reveal a multitude of important, correlating data for researchers.
Many of the sightings presented in the book UFO Sightings from the UFO Watchtower, both verbal and in some scanned photos, show tiny white orbs high in the blue skies above the valley. In appearance and behavior, these resemble the white dots in the sky above SkinWalker Ranch. This is just one of the compelling reasons why more research is needed.
What you can do
If you're in the area, be sure to stop by the UFO Watchtower to ask Judy Messoline about the latest unexplained events in the area. It's pretty much a guarantee she'll always have something new to report! If you wish to research the history of the UFO/UAP events around the valley, be sure to check out Christopher O'Brien's books, and for a fascinating collection of over 300 raw, mostly uninvestigated sightings reports, be sure to read UFO Sightings from the UFO Watchtower. Links are above.
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