Hi friends! With The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Posting Up (S6E6), we’ve reached the point in Season 6 that we hit in Season 5. The History Channel now only allows you to watch new episodes on their website if you have cable access. I do not. So, we’re at the whim of whenever they decide to upload the episodes to YouTube for purchase. That means there’s a good chance the next few articles will be slightly late. Our deepest apologies!
Due to it being so late, I’d like to get right into the newest episode…but. I do have some incredibly confidential news that might change your view on the show:
One of my friends is connected to the show in a specific way (I won’t say what). I know this person knows how much I like this show, and they do as well. It’s been reported that Dragon isn’t in Season 6 because he was dealing with a child who had a medical issue. There’s a high percentage that that information is WRONG.
(And to quell any potential rumors, it was not Jeremy McGowan.)
I cannot say what, but Dragon is not in Season 6 because of continual infractions of some sort, and there’s a good chance he will be off the show for good. The information I heard has completely changed my view of who Dragon is.
Anyway, let’s leave that in the past and focus on the now. It’s time to join our crew over at the ranch to see what they’re getting into this week. More digging? More rockets? Yes and yes!
Another Snafu
Mesa Drill Site. 10:16 AM.
Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Thomas Winterton, and Kaleb Bench join the team from Mark Construction at the Mesa Drill Site. The drilling team is preparing to start Borehole 2, which is about 45 feet to the west of Borehole 1. In the hopes of getting immediate answers to some questions, the team brings archaeologist Chris Roberts to the ranch. He will be inspecting the spoils as they’re drilled out of the Mesa.
Chris plans to set up at the spoils truck with a special screening rig and a metal detector. What will he find…?
Top of the Mesa Drill Site. 2:33 PM.
Thomas and Kaleb head to the top of the Mesa Drill Site, the top hole from Borehole 1, with international GPR expert Dr. Jan Franke. Previously, Dr. Franke had been on the ranch with some GPR equipment. They show Dr. Franke the top hole of the Borehole, and he devises a plan.
Dr. Franke had designed a compact GPR device that can be fed into small caverns and spaces. He had originally designed it to be used for the exploration of Egyptian pyramids. They get the device ready and start feeding it down Borehole 1.
Kaleb starts to feed the device down the hole. At around 72 meters in, they hit a blockage. Given the issues they’ve had time and time again, that doesn’t seem out of the norm. Don’t forget, Borehole 1 has been coated with the gel-like concrete. It should be smooth and unobstructed.
They decide to pull the GPR device out of Borehole 1 and use the information they were able to record.
Skinwalker Ranch Command Center. 8:30 AM. The next day.
Dr. Franke meets back up with Travis, Erik, Kaleb, Thomas, Jim Royston, and Sam Deriso at the Command Center. They reveal to the rest of the team that Dr. Franke’s GPR device hit a roadblock at about 200 feet in. That’s roughly one-third of the way into Borehole 1. Looking over Dr. Franke’s data reveals something that could possibly validate some hypotheses they had.
On the left side of Dr. Franke’s data is the device’s entry into Borehole 1. The first 60 feet of data show nothing, as expected. But at 60 feet in, the data captures a possible metallic reflection. Then, at roughly 150 feet, the GPR device shows another metallic object.
This is notable because it validates some of the ideas posited that a metallic object is the anomalous object inside the Mesa. Also, there should be no metal inside a sandstone Mesa.
Where’s The Water?
Mesa Drill Site. 1039 AM.
Thomas and Chris are prepping the sifting area when Kyle Blair (foreman, Mark Construction) radios. Kyle tells the team that Easton isn’t getting water in the pit. They ask Allen “Bearcat” Dosh to blast the water. But there’s nothing coming out of the hole.
Travis thinks the water is disappearing inside the Mesa. Thomas runs over to the Mesa Drill Site. Bearcat tells them they’re 85 feet in the Mesa and have lost 250 gallons of water. Is there a void inside the Mesa? They decide to keep drilling and hope to come out on the other side of the supposed void.
This is interesting because there were questions raised about a void in the Mesa three years ago. You may remember that they dropped some smoke bombs on the boulders on the hill of the Mesa. The smoke from the smoke bombs was sucked under the rocks, which indicated the possibility of a void.
Mapping The Bubble
Up until now, the Bubble has only been visualized with 3D images. To rectify that, they decide to plant wooden posts with lights on top all around the perimeter of the Bubble. This will give a boots-on-the-ground visual reference.
They start in the East field and work their way around. They place a post at Homestead 2, which requires them to traverse through some thick brush. While in the brush, Kaleb calls out for the team. He picks up and shows a yellow bottle that looks all too familiar. In 2021, Travis and Cameron Fugal dropped GPS bottles all around the ranch from Cameron’s helicopter.
It was noted that some of the bottles went off course for no apparent reason at the time. These bottles became lost. But now, it seems that this bottle could have hit the side of the Bubble and bounced off to where they now find it.
They continue placing posts around the perimeter. On their walk back, Kaleb finds something else: another GPS bottle.
What’s That??
Mesa Drill Site. 12:38 AM.
Bearcat tells the team that they’re about 130 feet into Borehole 2. They’ve hit something harder than granite, and progress has slowed down. Thankfully, they’re eventually able to get through the tough layer, and drilling continues.
Chris calls the team over to the spoils pit for an interesting discovery. Inside the spoils are a few chunks of the metallic spacecraft material. Travis takes a closer look at it and notices it looks layered, which means it’s a manufactured object.
There’s Pete!
Homestead 2. 7:27 PM.
Technologist Pete Kelsey is back for this experiment! He joins Travis, Thomas, Kaleb, Erik, Jim, and Sam as they plan to launch rockets at the western barrier of the Bubble. Last year, they shot a rocket around this location, and it seemingly floated in midair for longer than it should have. Could it have been due to the Bubble?
Pete will run his terrestrial LIDAR scanner, and Kaleb will be running Pete’s SLAM scanner. Also, Jim Royston will fly his LIDAR drone. The drone goes up without issue as Travis loads and primes the rocket.
The rocket is fired toward the west side barrier of the Bubble. As usual, the rocket changes direction in the sky as it nears the Bubble barrier. It’s as if it deflected the rocket. As that happens, Jim gets a drone error. It just so happens to be around the same time the rocket is deflected.
Jim loses complete control of the LIDAR drone as it gets to the edge of the barrier. That’s when Travis and Erik get the dreaded 1.2 GHz signal. Erik’s antenna shows it’s coming from their exact location at Hoomestead 2.
Jim quickly resets his drone and wants to see if he can find anything in the sky that would be emitting the 1.2 GHz signal. But he soon runs into problems of his own. As he returns to the west side Bubble barrier, something pushes his drone back. Significantly. It literally looks like the Bubble is refusing entry into itself.
The Data
Skinwalker Ranch Command Center. 2:33 PM.
Travis, Erik, Thomas, Kaleb, Jim, and Sam sit around the table at the Command Center. Erik pulls up Jim’s drone GPS data. As we’ve seen before, the second that Jim’s drone crosses into the Bubble, his GPS data becomes corrupted. They pull up video from the drone, and we see some interesting things.
You can clearly see Jim’s drone trying to go forward. Somehow, the drone is being pushed back in a way that looks like it’s hitting impenetrable cling film. Also, there’s something interesting about the drone’s home point. You can see the little ‘H’ mark on the drone’s HUD, which stands for the home point. As the drone is denied entry into the Bubble, the home point freaks out all over the HUD. Moreover, the home point is shown in distance at the bottom of the HUD. At the start, it reads 850 feet. As the home point marker freaks out, the home point distance starts to descend and eventually gets to around 600 feet.
But the drone didn’t move from that spot.
Final Thoughts
Something about this episode feels off. It’s like nothing happened. I guess Mark Construction made it through the void? Because after the missing water scene, we see the drill site, and there is water. Why no follow-up?
The experiment on the west side of the Bubble also seems half-assed. They fire one rocket and have one drone issue. And then they move on. They have all the control data they need, so why not do something that would havea greater impact on learning more about it?
Also, why don’t they just dig out the Mesa from the front? At this point, it would be easier than trying to make a borehole for one entire season. Oh well. This episode gave us little to no information behind The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch.
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You can watch The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Posting Up (S6E6) and previous episodes on The History Channel.