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issued by the Utah State Records Committee, but Uintah County was finally convinced to release its 2023 PhenomeCon The contracts show names of PhenomeCon speakers and amounts they were to be paid in speaker fees. PhenomeCon attendees pay an initial price to get through the door and are then offered opportunities Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been budgeted by Uintah County for PhenomeCon. PhenomeCon is held in September in Vernal, Utah.

submitted public records requests to Uintah County in 2023 for material responsive to the county's latest PhenomeCon PhenomeCon is a paranormal-themed conference held annually since 2021 in Vernal, Utah. Travel and Tourism Office responded with 14 pages, but only three of those pages directly pertained to PhenomeCon A three-page Uintah County PhenomeCon contract entered into with UFO and Skinwalker Ranch personality EFR will publish and thoroughly report on 2023 PhenomeCon records obtained after its GRAMA cases are

Financial records obtained from Uintah County indicate it spent over $133,000 on the 2022 PhenomeCon The inaugural 2021 PhenomeCon likewise tallied over $74,000 in payouts while collecting about $59,000 Many of the PhenomeCon speakers are associated with Skinwalker Ranch. Further research indicated a “PhenomeCon” trademark was filed in 2021 and owned by Uintah County. He was asked to comment on if he supports Uintah County sponsoring PhenomeCon.

The Utah State Records Committee voted unanimously Thursday that Uintah County must release PhenomeCon 2023, request sought records from the Uintah County Office of Travel and Tourism pertaining to 2023 PhenomeCon The records, termed "Talent Agreements," are contracts undertaken between Uintah County and PhenomeCon

The tour bus is quite possibly a reference to “add-on” activities marketed at PhenomeCon , an annual

Thomas Winterton told EFR he objected to the release of Uintah County 2023 PhenomeCon contracts because The Tuesday EFR email sought comment from Winterton about why he objects to EFR obtaining PhenomeCon That assessment results from interactions with government officials, PhenomeCon organizers, and those In an arguably rambling paragraph about PhenomeCon finances, Winterton wrote in part, "How do you know that the sales numbers would not have reflected a $600K drop had Phenomecon not taken place?

He is also an organizer of PhenomeCon, an annual event underwritten by Uintah County which directs the Thomas Winterton Winterton is among those who financially benefit most from their involvement in PhenomeCon Attendees pay extra to participate in each add-on they select while PhenomeCon personalities like Winterton It is not clear how well members of the Uintah County Commission understand what is happening at PhenomeCon Commissioners subsequently asked Coltharp about who must pay to get into PhenomeCon and if the reason

regularly submits records requests to many agencies on a wide variety of subjects, it was the work on PhenomeCon The appeal resulted in dozens of previously withheld records, including over 90 pages of PhenomeCon “

at the end of this article, Winterton confirmed he was on a Uintah County organizing committee for PhenomeCon personality for hire to member of the PhenomeCon organizing committee to county economic consultant, that PhenomeCon speakers and amounts of compensation were decided by an organizing committee of which The request sought records pertaining to the PhenomeCon organizing committee as described by City Manager Thomas Winterton, when asked if he was a member of the PhenomeCon organizing committee, replied, “I am

EFR hit the ground running when we obtained public records indicating tax funds were used to finance PhenomeCon dollars were directly paid to cast members of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch for their appearances at PhenomeCon Public response to our work on the PhenomeCon story was very encouraging.

Thomas Winterton, a cast member of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and organizer of Uintah County's PhenomeCon fellow cable television and conference cast members, referred to as “talents” in their Uintah County PhenomeCon

would not accurately recognize even under ideal conditions, such as an inversion layer or refraction phenomenon McDonald addresses media coverage of the UFO phenomenon. “The person whose interest in the UFO phenomenon has been aroused by a sighting of what he absolutely