Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Review "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" S7E13 "Heating Up"

 


I was pleased by last week's episode and contemplating what might be going on at the ranch. I still ponder if there is intelligent interaction or if their actions create reactions within the framework of the physics of the ranch.

The team this night was in a rush before the winter time shut down.

Red Devil Pyro team and Flug high speed camera team came to perform one of the last experiments of the season. 

The Red Devil team plans to shoot of a fireball in the bubble that will send smoke rings upwards within the bubble. It takes a massive energy blast, so they want to see if that will set off phenomenon.

The camera team will put 48 cameras all around capturing the event with high speed views. The team set up the cameras and then 12 of the cameras weren't working. They decided to just use the 36 that work. 

Within the bubble, Travis will send a 1.2 GHz signal from within the bubble and then monitor it from outside the bubble.

The first fireball shot off with high power and formed a perfect smoke ring above. The second detonation had an ill-formed cloud of smoke that didn't begin to form a sort-of ring high up. At the same time, the 1.2 GHz signal was getting stronger.

Standing 70 feet away from the 1.2 GHz transmitter signal inside the boundary, Travis could not register it, but Erik within the command center saw it on the monitor.

The next smoke ring seemed to be interrupted a bit by the bubble, but once above the bubble, it formed an ideal ring.

The second to the last fire blast had no formation of a ring. Each detonation was the same strength. 

Then, with the last blast, the smoke ring didn't form.

It appeared that the first ring was normal and, as if they awakened the bubble, the subsequent blasts had consecutive weakening smoke formations.

As they reviewed frames from the smoke ring attempts, they saw a strange object in the air on high speed. The object looked the cylindrical thing from the prior test that looked like it pushed the drone.

Erik decided to use smoke and laser lights again to try and see where this cylindrical thing came from. 

They brought Jan back to try and image whatever is inside the mesa. They decided to scan in borehole 1, the widened hole, with Jan's equipment. A surface scanner was sent down into the vertical borehole 1. They scanned in all directions. 

Thomas lowered the device on the east side of the hole and then the south side. About 20-25 feet down, they saw an anomaly when viewing the south side of the hole.

The last experiment for the year was going to be high energy to try and instigate reactions. The smoke and lasers would hopefully make whatever is happening in the bubble activate. They utilized high speed cameras and FLIR thermal imagery. The lasers were shot up in the air and then the detonation with smoke. 

They started with a small detonation with a kind of wimpy attempt at a smoke ring. The second big blast didn't form a ring at all. 

As they prepared the next blast, the lasers went off and on before they detonated. The instruments and computers went down. They were running a generator. Everything died at the same time. Even the lasers went down that were on a different power source. The command center was not affected.

Erik mentioned four 1.2 GHz signals were spiking. 

The breakers were not blown, there was power to the box. Nothing was making sense in the field.

Power started back up spontaneously. 

Thomas mentioned in a previous experiment at the homesteads, they got a strong 1.2 GHz signal just before instruments went down.

They decided to do another detonation and keep an eye on FLIR too to see if something shows itself. 

When they detonated they got a kind-of ring forming. The flir at that time showed dots across the mesa that showed heated spots. Strangely, it was a very cold night and they all wore coats.

They did one more detonation. The ring did not form. Instead, it twisted into something like a figure 8. After this last detonation, the mesa showed the dots of heat again. 

They hoped to see something on high speed cameras upon review. 

The show ended with them deciding to gather all the tons of data and meet up in the season finale conference room with a government elected official, UAP expert, and others to review the findings with something shocking revealed. 

My observations:
Season 7 was rather like weight loss. You make changes here and there, do some things each day. It's tedious. It seems like nothing big happens. Then, over time, you realize how much you were losing all along, but day to day you couldn't see a difference. All the experiments rendered a bit more to the puzzle, but over time you see trends that help to elucidate the engine that drives the ranch's phenomenon.

I love every season, but I am always extremely happy when they set the rockets aside and look into the mesa. I wish they had sent some instruments down the borehole during the experiment to register reactions within the mesa. 

I also would like to see the homesteads monitored with CCTV and motion activated lights just to see if there are cryptids or orbs running about.

And, like other viewers, I'd like to see them reveal DNA of the dog-thing found in the river. 

I cannot wait for next week's finale and all the data laid out. What I appreciate about the way Brandon has handled all of this is that the data is presented and the audience is allowed to come to conclusions.

More and more, as I watch the experiments, I come to different conclusions about what is going on. This season, I felt that perhaps the area had the right conditions for a thinning between worlds. Perhaps this area is like a tender bruise to the other world that, when pushed upon, reacts. As a comparison, like people often say on Halloween that the veil between the worlds is thinner and the dead and living can connect fleetingly. 

Keep watching, y'all! Science was never so sexy!