Review: "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" S6 E6 "Posting Up"

 

Tonight's episode was entitled, "Posting Up." The team works to mark the parameter of the bubble, and come across something unexpected.

This is perhaps the first season I've felt rather weary. You know that feeling you got when "The Curse of Oak Island" had like 10 seasons of metal detecting? 

It's not because they haven't come to conclusions, but more about the repeated testing with rockets and drones. I feel like they are getting inbred testing concepts. They could use some input from others like maybe Chris Bledsoe and the consciousness aspect or perhaps Steven Greer and his protocol. I miss the exploration into things like tribal chanting, strange creatures, and studying the homesteads. 

Tonight, the episode opened with the drillers prepping to drill the second borehole parallel to the first, about 45 feet apart to define the boundaries of the object imaged within the mesa. The hope is to drop insruments into those boreholes to study the qualities of the object.

Chris Roberts, an archaeologist, joined the team to help with looking at the spoils from the drilling to see if there are any artifacts within. 

They lowered their first GPR (ground-penetratig radar) instrument into borehole 1. The device should have moved easily with the casing on the inner surface, but the instrument got caught. Jan presented the borehole results the next day. They got about 200 feet down. Around 60 feet down they had a strange reflection that could be metal. The GPR doesn't penetrate metal objects so that is how it's reading on imaging. About 150 feet in, another repeated metal-type structure. 

They prepped the sifting area so Chris Roberts the archaeologist could check out the spoils. The problem was, the second borehole, drillers pumped water in, but nothing came out. The conclusion is that water being pumped in, is going into a void. 

The team went out to try and put wood posts down around the perimeter so they can put instruments and lights on the posts. Erk gave them GPS readings to know where to place them. As they were defining the post locations at the edge of the bubble, Kaleb found two of the 2021 bottles they dropped from a helicopter years ago that seemed to bounce off something invisible. 

The drillers working on borehole 2 came to about 130 feet and hit an obstruction that did not sound like rock, something very hard. They finally managed to grind through the obstruction. Then, Chris informed them that he found something in the spoils. He found bits of metal that stuck to a magnet. They were flaky looking like the metal they had found before. This a manufactured layered metal and probably the same as the last metal that had the components that are used to protection during entry and exit from the atmosphere. 

The team decided to do another experiiment at the western boundary of the bubble where another rocket on a prior test got stuck in the air. Jim Royston will fly a drone with LIDAR by to see if anything is found. They shot the rocket and it made a turn at the area around the edge of the bubble. The LIDAR drone communications were lost over the bubble area. The team also got a 1.2 GHz signal again - like the one they had sent out awhile back and since then, it's been sent back to them. They tried to define the source of the signal. It was on the western boundary near where the team was operating. The bubble wall seemed to cause the drone with the LIDAR to stop and be unable to go further. The drone had corruption of GPS data. 

The next day at command center, the team reviewed the data. The drone GPS tracker showed error points right at the edge of the bubble. This was the same area that Jim's drone bumped up into an invisible barrier it could not cross. When they looked at the drone data, it showed where home was - the point it starts and lands at. That jumped and up and down on the screen as if confused where home was, and to top it off - the drone was pushed back 200 feet according to GPS reading, but the drone was frozen in place. Reviewing the video of the drone, they saw a soft faint green orb that seems to be riding alongside the drone. 

The plan next week is to utilize lasers. 

Probably the most exciting part to me was the find of metal within the mesa; metal that appears to be manufactured. I'd like to see them equip a man to measure his chemistry and EEG, etc, as he stands in the boundaries of the bubble. Maybe see how animals instinctively react there. Find out what instruments aren't messed with by the phenomenon. It can help them to eliminate some possibles. 

Host Matty Blake interviews the team in "Behind the Gates." As usual, they regurgitate what happened in the episode above.

Tonight's episode of "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" is entitled "Pennsylvania's Roswell." Andy and Paul go to the infamous location of a UFO/alien encounter - Kecksburg, PA. They check out the high strangeness. 

The Kecksburg crash occurred in 1965. It has been a much talked about incident in Pennsylvania. A craft of some kind that was acorn-shaped came down there. A lot of witnesses came forward. Then, it strangely went silent. Paul and Andy want to take technology there to answer some questions about the location.

In the Chestnut Ridge area where Kecksburg lies, there are all kinds of odd reports from that area. The high strangeness reminds them of Skinwalker Ranch.

Andy and Paul meet with Stan Gordon, a location expert on the subject. Back then, a fiery object was seen over Pittsburg, moving slowly as if controlled. Stan, in the 1980s, met a guy who was one of the finders of the object. Andy and Paul had Stan and some witnesses meet them in the area the thing came down. Police and military were there and locals pulled over on the roadway. The object was down in the ditch. The citizens were threatened to leave by the military. They pondered how military arrived to early in this rural location. 

They hope to get some signs of where it landed by using instrumentation. They decide to utilize a slam scan - LIDAR that is hand-held. They decided next to do a drone LIDAR session. The drone was doing well, bt then suddenly it wasn't responding, the drone sat still, hovering. After some time, it started to respond. It was driven back to landing to check the data as they couldn't trust it to be guided. 

Andy and Paul went to the abandoned town of Livermore in the same Chestnut Ridge. It has been the site of many weird things. Ron Murphy a man who knows a good deal about the abandoned town,  took them there to talk about some of the earth lights there - ground level lights at night. Legends started with 1700s witch stories as the start of high strangeness. She had supposedly cursed the town with a flood in a hundred years and the town ended up being destroyed by a flood 100 years later. 

The lights are often associated with three tones that are like windchime notes. Paul had the idea of trying to recreate the tones for the expert. The tones that preceded the light orbs were the target for Ron to identify so they could replicate. 1.57 GHz signal showed up after they played the three notes. When they heard the signals being sent, they echoed the windchime-like sounds. They saw energy being transmitted at 1.6 GHZ and that is only used for space to earth and earth to space communication. The signal appears to be coming from Kecksburg area and reaching the bridge at Livermore.

Andy and Paul met up with Pete Kelsey, the LIDAR expert, Stan Gordon, and Ron Struble, a witness. They looked at the LIDAR results from Kecksburg. Pete found some man-made work of the earth in one area, showing something had been leveled out. Two military tractor trailers were on site that night. The crane needed to move the object that landed/crashed, they needed to level out a pad for it. This location was very close to where Andy and Paul had been studying. They looked for radio signals in the potential site, 20 feet from where they measured earlier. The results were very different in just 20 feet. There was a flat signal there. So, only 20 feet and two different results on radio signals. This was impossible. 

Andy and Paul went back to Skinwalker Ranch's command center to share with Brandon, Erik, and Travis. Pete Kelsey showed LIDAR data 100 feet below the ground, an anomaly that is often seen at Skinwalker Ranch and Miller Ranch. Paul and Andy shared the radiowave spectrum analyzer results they got where 20 feet away from the potential landing/crash site was completely dull and inactive, but at the potential site, it was registering much. (a 55 dB change between locations)

Erik believed the conclusion might be that either they are registering something that happened 60 years ago or the area has some kind of strange anomaly that is active. 

The episodes were on par with how they usually unfold. I find Andy and Paul to be refreshing and perhaps Travis's approach has become a bit too inbred. He isn't getting the feedback from another approach. Erik is registering findings, but I don't see him an opposing force to Travis's obsession with rockets and lasers....