The Arapaho, Cheyenne and other tribes of the Great Plains have one frightening legend in common: that of a race of terrifying cannibal dwarves of formidable strength. Skinwalkers are particularly terrifying because they can shapeshift and take the form of any animal at will.

In 1978, for example, the Deseret News wrote that a few separate individuals had seen an unearthly, metallic aircraft floating in the air above them. According to Kelleher and Knapp, they saw or investigated evidence of close to 100 incidents that include vanishing and mutilated cattle, sightings of unidentified flying objects or orbs, large animals with piercing red eyes that they say were unscathed when struck by bullets, and invisible objects emitting destructive magnetic fields. m., when the family's pickup was heading south on 163, about 20 to 30 miles from the town of Kayenta. The cattle ranch has spawned a popular book (" Hunt for the Skinwalker"), a feature-length documentary of the same name and a History Channel series (" The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"). There was even an early psychiatric condition dubbed “wendingo psychosis”, describing people of the Algonquain regions who were seized by cannibalistic compulsions.

One pilot described something that looked like a "sphere encasing a cube," and another pilot reported a white, wingless, oblong aircraft hovering over the water. Bigelow's organization, the National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS), wasn't a bunch of superstitious people in robes, or anything like that.

If you have any interest in the supernatural and unexplained, you may have heard of one of the most infamous locations associated with sightings of this fascinating creature — the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. As in the case of cultural workers and community healers, who are also commonly referred to as medicine men or medicine women, they will never be exposed to respect for their cultural values.Some tribes describe skinwalkers as Navajo witches who have decided to use their powers for evil while others may see the act of shapeshifting as a tool.