Hunt for the Skinwalker Quotes

“the physicist Michio Kaku. “Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to an anthill,” he says. “The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no… If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even know its presence?… There’s a good chance that we, like ants in the anthill, would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Sasquatch, he’s an old man, an old man that lives on a mountain,” he explained. “He just comes in and looks at people and then he goes back out again. He just lives there all his life, never takes care of himself, and just smells real bad. Almost like, almost like that guy, like he is dirty, dirty human being smell is what it smelled like…a real deep, bad odor…It smelled like dirty bad underarms…The closer I got, the worse the smell got.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“In the future, an adventurous sociologist might consider writing a paper that examines the “caste” system in anomalies research. The “nuts and bolts” UFO research people regard the “psychosocial” UFO researchers with disdain. UFO researchers in general regard the cryptozoologists with contempt. Cryptozoologists who embrace the possibility of a paranormal connection to Bigfoot sightings are generally viewed with derision because of the prevailing view that Sasquatch is an undiscovered primate species, not an interdimensional playmate of alien beings. Likewise, the paranormal researchers view the UFO researchers with disdain, while the ghost hunters keep their distance from everybody else. And all of this hostility and contempt is a vain and so far unsuccessful attempt to earn a small measure of respect and acceptance (and maybe funding) from mainstream science, a lofty but unlikely goal.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“So Major Murphy was perhaps correct. This research project was beyond a simple scientific problem that was amenable to standard hypothesis-driven science. It involved hunting a very wily quarry. And NIDS constantly had to accept the possibility that any information acquired in this hunt was only the information that the intelligence (assuming that we were in fact dealing with an intelligence) wanted us to have.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Second, you should look for the irrational, the bizarre, the elements that do not fit… Have you ever felt that you were getting close to something that didn’t seem to fit any rational pattern, yet gave you a strong impression that it was significant?”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“you should try a different approach. First you should work entirely outside of the organized UFO groups; they are infiltrated by the same official agencies they are trying to influence, and they propagate any rumor anyone wants to have circulated. In Intelligence circles, people like that are historical necessities. We call them ‘useful idiots.’ When you’ve worked long enough for Uncle Sam, you know he is involved in a lot of strange things. The data these groups get are biased at the source, but they play a useful role.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“It all depends on how the team on the other side thinks. If they know what they’re doing, there will be so many cutouts between you and them that you won’t have the slightest chance of tracing your way to the truth. Not by following up sightings and throwing them into a computer. They will keep feeding you the information they want you to process. What is the only source of data about the UFO phenomenon? It is the UFOs themselves!”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Now, in the field of counterespionage, the rules are completely different.” He drew a simple diagram in my notebook. “You are a scientist. In science there is no concept of the ‘price’ of information. Suppose I gave you 95 per cent of the data concerning a phenomenon. You’re happy because you know 95 per cent of the phenomenon. Not so in Intelligence. If I get 95 per cent of the data, I know this is the ‘cheap’ part of the information. I still need the other 5 per cent, but I will have to pay a much higher price to get it. You see, Hitler had 95 per cent of the information about the landing in Normandy. But he had the wrong 95 percent!”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“the UFO phenomenon could be controlled by alien beings. “If it is,” added the Major, “then the study of it doesn’t belong in science. It belongs in Intelligence.” Meaning counterespionage. And that, he pointed out, was his domain.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“According to Kuhn, there are a small number of revolutionary scientists. These often lonely individuals or groups are engaged in creating paradigm shifts or in the creation of new scientific disciplines. They are the solitary people on the road less traveled who often have to endure the hostility or marginalization by colleagues. But, according to Kuhn, the scientists engaged in revolutionary science are the ones who make a difference. They make possible the giant leaps forward. They are the visionaries.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“If this single universe of ours truly is infinite, if countless other universes exist in our little slice of reality, if parallel dimensions also exist, each with its own countless universes, if it is likely that our world is part of a much larger reality,”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Tegmark cites the work of renowned physicists Paul Steinhardt of Princeton and Neil Turok of Cambridge University, whose calculations indicate the existence of a second three-dimensional brane that is literally parallel to our own plane of existence but separate from us because it is just a tiny fraction higher on the dimensional scale. It’s there, and it is part of our current reality, whether we can see it or not.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“University of Pennsylvania physicist Max Tegmark, the most outspoken proponent of the multiverse concept, believes that parallel universes already interact in definitive ways with our humble cosmic abode. Tegmark and other theorists think that our universe once had nine dimensions, but during the early stages of cosmic expansion, the three dimensions that constitute the parameters of our world stayed put, while the other six dimensions grabbed a cosmic taxi and split.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“just like you can only tune into one radio channel, you can only tune into one reality channel, and that is the channel that you exist in. The catch is that we cannot communicate with them, we cannot enter these universes.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“If a pair of pigeons alighted on a discarded newspaper page on a New York street, would they understand the content of the paper?”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Spanish physicist Beatriz Gato-Rivera has questioned whether we could be immersed in a larger civilization without being aware of it. She notes that “typical civilizations of typical galaxies” would likely be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years more evolved than our own.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“there is no known experiment, for example, that will distinguish between the simple ET hypothesis and the interdimensional hypothesis without more robust data.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Keel writes in Operation Trojan Horse, “the phenomenon had zeroed in on me, just as it had done with the British newspaper editor Arthur Shuttle-wood, and so many others.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“After experiencing all sorts of bizarre activity during his research on UFOs, John Keel formulated his “ultraterrestrial” hypothesis, which postulates that Earth has shared living space for millennia with other intelligent beings who interact with humans when they choose to, who are more intelligent than us, and who manipulate our physical and psychic reality for their own obscure agendas.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Tad and a couple of his friends had been asked by Tom to move 150 to 200 large metal corral poles from the front yard to a location beyond the canal. The poles were of varying length and were seven to eight inches in diameter and weighed between 25 and 150 pounds each. It took the three teenagers about four hours of hard work to complete the job. The boys finished about noon.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“The family got so used to finding the salt in the pepper shaker and vice versa that they would always shake a small amount onto their hand as a test prior to putting it on their food.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“one occasion Ellen Gorman had gone grocery shopping and had carefully put all the items on the kitchen table before stacking them in the cupboards. The job took a considerable amount of time. But when she returned several hours later, all the items were back on the kitchen table”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Doors in the home would suddenly open and close with great force for no apparent reason.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“when Ellen Gorman was getting into the shower, she would place her towel and hairbrush on the counter near the shower. But when she got out of the shower, they were gone. The items would then turn up in odd places in other parts of the house.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“shovels for digging irrigation ditches could not be located when needed but were found in unusual places”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Ellen Gorman purchased several boxes of cereal so that the family could eat quickly on the run. But when it came time to eat the cereal, no one could locate the boxes. They were later found in the fridge, freezer, and oven.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“It may not have been a true skinwalker that was haunting the Gorman ranch, but something certainly manifested itself, again and again, over a period of several years. Something gave rise to the bewildering plethora of anomalies. Something manifested itself as a black cloud in the trees, from which a telepathic voice reached out to the NIDS scientists. Something appeared as an opaque “Predator” creature that roared loud enough to make a grown man cry. Something moved through water but could not be seen. Something generated voices from the sky. Something floated in the sky as glowing orbs, Stealth-like craft, disc-shaped UFOs, and even a flying recreational vehicle. We saw them. Either a single “intelligence” was responsible for conjuring up this amazing variety of ephemeral events, changing its appearance and form as well as its tactics and strategies, or a “family” of anomalies was sharing the rent in some kind of paranormal fraternity house. Skinwalker or not, it could be argued that the ranch, for unknown reasons, functioned as a one-stop supermarket for all manner of bizarre activity.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Not surprisingly, the region also oozes Native American mysticism and legend. The Yuma culture was in the valley five thousand years before the birth of Christ.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“the San Luis Valley has long been the site of well-documented incidents of high strangeness. It is the place where the first publicized case of an animal mutilation occurred in 1967. Not coincidentally, the valley has also been the site of hundreds of UFO sightings over several decades and easily ranks as one of the most intense UFO hot spots on the planet.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah

“Indigenous tribes seem to be on the fringes of nearly all of these paranormal outbreaks. Where you find one, you almost always find the other. The Uinta Basin is the most notable example, but there are several others, including Yakima, Washington, and Dulce, New Mexico, as we have already mentioned.”
― Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah