Brendan Jesus
Hello, fellow truth seekers! I’ll continue saying this. Sorry for the delay on this week’s article. It was uploaded to YouTube later than last week’s, AND I got a little slammed with work. But here we are! There’s no new interesting information in the Ufology world, so we’ll get right into this week’s episode to see if we get any closer to learning The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch.
Does The Bubble Control The Weather?
Mesa Drill Site. 10:17 AM.
Mark Construction is continuing the drilling of Borehole 2, and they’re roughly 188 feet in. This has the entire team on edge as the drilling of Borehole 1 hit major issues at 200 feet. Thomas Winterton radios Dr. Travis Taylor, Kaleb Bench, Jim Royston, and Sam Deriso to inform them. He tells them things are going okay so far. But he should have bitten his tongue.
Shortly after Thomas’s a-okay proclamation, he learns that the drill head’s beacon battery is quickly draining. This is odd because the battery is new, and for only being on for three hours, the battery shouldn’t be anywhere near this low. Thankfully, this doesn’t affect the drilling.
Archaeologist Chris Roberts is waiting at the spoils location to see what goodies the Mesa has in store for him. He starts sifting through the spoils and finds more of the charcoal-based green gel. That’s not all he finds. Chris washes off a weirdly large rock-like material. It’s gypsum, with a center of oxidized iron in the middle. As someone who doesn’t know much about rocks or rock-like materials, I’m not too sure if their finding is a huge deal or not. They certainly don’t make a huge deal about it.
Chris’s finding is compounded by Travis receiving the dreaded 1.2 GHz signal on his spectrum analyzer. Interestingly, Sam doesn’t see the 1.2 GHz on his spectrum analyzer. What Sam is seeing, though, is the 1.6 GHz signal.
These two signals occur simultaneously as a herd of cattle goes absolutely buck wild. (If you remember, one year ago, when they hit 200 feet on Borehole 1, the cattle freaked out just the same.)
That’s not all! Sam’s radiation sensor at the South Tower shows a highly elevated level of radiation. And that’s still not all! Suddenly, the ranch is hit by a major windstorm, causing the team to pack up for the afternoon.
Fire In The Sky
The Corral. 5:15 PM.
Travis, Erik, Kaleb, Thomas, Jim, and Sam are joined by Technologist Pete Kelsey and Sky Elements’ Preston Ward (and team). Sky Elements is back to set the ranch’s night skies alight with hundreds of drones. They will be using 100 drones at The Triangle and 100 drones at the East Field. These two sets of drones will be triggered simultaneously in a cylindrical pattern. The goal is to determine if the drones outside of The Bubble are affected differently from those inside. Both drone locations will have their own master clock connected via satellite.
Pete Kelsey and Kaleb will be near The Triangle with a SLAM scanner and a terrestrial LIDAR scanner. Jim Royston will be flying his LIDAR drone. Twenty-five pyro drones will accompany each group of drones, with the hope of filling The Bubble with smoke. Once the pyro goes off, Travis plans to fire a rocket through each drone cylinder.
Interestingly, now that it’s 10:49 PM, Travis says that Mark Construction is still drilling? Why are they still there this late? They’ve never mentioned night drilling before this point. Wouldn’t we have heard about this before? It feels a bit too weird to me.
Erik ends up installing his own independent tracker on one of the East Field drones, allowing him to monitor it from the Command Center. The drone is taken back to the East Field when Erik notices something odd. His tracker indicates that the grounded drone is 800 feet in the air. At the same time, Preston Ward is receiving GPS warnings every five seconds for the drones in The Triangle. This shouldn’t be happening as the drones and master clock are connected via satellites. While this happens, the drones in the East Field are also displaying GPS warnings, but they are two seconds delayed compared to the drones in The Triangle. We’re told this shouldn’t be happening.
At the same time, Travis again receives the 1.2 GHz signal on his spectrum analyzer. Erik starts to redirect the signal antenna to see if they can pinpoint the source of the signal. Who could have guessed…it’s coming from the Mesa. But it’s not just coming from the Mesa, it’s coming from the In Point (where we witnessed a UAP fly directly into the Mesa a few years ago). When the 1.2 GHz signal appears, the team from Mark Construction radios over to say they are seeing a UAP due north above the Mesa. We see the UAP before it blinks out of existence.
Erik heads back to the Command Center, and the experiment is ready to begin. Both sets of drones go up without issue. And unlike the times we’ve seen drone malfunctions from Sky Elements in the past, there isn’t a single drone issue throughout the whole experiment! The drones both enter their cylindrical patterns, and the pyro drones go off.
Now that the pyro drones have completed their task, Thomas (at The Triangle) and Travis (East Field) prepare to fire their rockets through the center of the drone cylinder. Thomas’s rocket launches perfectly. Travis’s rocket does not. We learn that Travis’s freshly tested launch battery is completely dead. This leads Travis to question if The Bubble can cause issues outside of itself. I can understand Travis’s question, but my thought is, what if The Bubble can move?
Travis, thinking on his feet, runs to his Jeep to use its battery before the drones come down. But he’s too late. The drones descend and complete phase one. Travis does some tinkering with his launch battery and thinks everything is good to go for round two.
Sky Elements releases the drones for their second flight. Travis attempts to launch his rocket, but it still doesn’t fire. After some more tinkering, Travis finally gets his rocket to launch. That’s when the ranch is covered with torrential rains. Travis starts to question if The Bubble can also control the weather? Oof, man. That’s a wild thing to say.
Data Review Skinwalker Ranch: Swarm Weather
2 days later. Skinwalker Ranch Command Center. 11:44 AM.
Travis, Erik, Kaleb, Thomas, Jim, and Sam sit around the table in the Command Center. Pete Kelsey, Preston Ward, and Brian Woodward (Sky Elements) join via video call. Preston discusses the issue with the master clock, but that stuff just went over my head. I’m still not sure why it’s an issue, especially since the drones went up without a single issue (for the first time in ranch history).
Brian Woodward was using a FPV drone throughout the experiment. He states that he lost signal a few times, but it wasn’t enough to impact the experiment. Though, Brian says that it shouldn’t have happened.
We see the data from Pete Kelsey’s SLAM scanner (used by Kaleb) during the second drone flight. There’s a weird anomaly within the data, and it looks like a blue fog is on the ground. We soon learn that this was the SLAM scanner catching the torrential downpour. Travis makes note of how the SLAM scanner is getting a data return on the drones when they’re 300 feet in the sky, but there’s no data return on the rain at 300 feet.
Erik slightly corrects Travis and says maybe it’s not the rain. Or at least, they shouldn’t say the blue fog in the image is rain. Erik also notes that the blue fog is an interesting feature, one they’ve never seen before. That’s when Erik pulls up a timelapse video. We see the night sky when suddenly a bright red UAP zips through the sky at incredible speeds.
Travis says the UAP is flying at hypersonic speeds!
Final Thoughts
That final UAP video from the timelapse is one of my favorite pieces of data they’ve had to date. It appears as a bright red tear in the dark night sky. It’s truly a sight to see. But come on, Travis, do you really think The Bubble is controlling the weather? That’s one of the most outlandish things he’s ever said. And this is coming from someone who read his collection of space operas.
Honestly, this episode felt like nothing but filler. Very little happened, and it felt very beat-for-beat. A show like this should not be “taking it easy” with just five episodes left. Fingers crossed they amp it back up for the rest of the season. Who knows, maybe we’ll find something that gets us closer to uncovering The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch.
You can watch The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch: Swarm Weather (S6E8) and previous episodes on The History Channel. And check out more of Brendan’s coverage from this and previous seasons.
