UFO stuff & "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"
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I just happened to check out the ranch on Google Earth, which I do occasionally to see if anything different pops up. The latest satellite imagery is from 5/13/2026 and shows construction taking place on top of the mesa, north of the ranch property. (40° 15' 35.43" N, 109° 53' 54.25" W)
The construction is approximately 500' due north of where the bore holes emerge on top of the mesa. It appears that an oil well drilling operation may be setting up, as there are tanks lined up for installation. If that is the case, it could be very interesting if someone else starts drilling into the mesa!
The construction is approximately 500' due north of where the bore holes emerge on top of the mesa. It appears that an oil well drilling operation may be setting up, as there are tanks lined up for installation. If that is the case, it could be very interesting if someone else starts drilling into the mesa!
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The excavation should reveal something in the next series of episodes of Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (SSWR). We know there are oddities in The Mesa, and to dismiss this as "just TV" is shortsighted.
Rockets as a baseline for comparison: Rocket launches are repeatable science. Igniting reliable rocket propellant and directing fin-guided tubes vertically achieves a 99% success rate elsewhere, yet on SSWR the failure rate is closer to 35% across multiple attempts. What explains that discrepancy? Could government interference be involved?
Drone malfunctions: Light drone shows offer visual interest but shift from reliable performance to even higher failure rates than rockets. What could cause such degradation?
Biological effects: Radiation and energy spikes are documented in the area. Calves grazing in the triangle/energy zone have gone blind, become sickly, and appear to suffer from directed energy exposure. While the U.S. military possesses this capability, the question remains: why would it be deployed here?
Unexplained phenomena: Orbs, UAPs, and unexplained hot and cold spots appear intermittently while researchers experience recurring interference. This suggests something beyond entertainment is occurring. The hope is that researchers will eventually uncover what's actually happening and help us understand it.
Though tangentially related to UFOs, a 2026 video attempting to debunk the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film:
www.forbes.com
en.wikipedia.org
I haven't indulged into the meaty details, but I'll bet the new 40 seconds exposed in "Capturing Bigfoot" will be shown to be overblown misrepresentation of something else.
A 1997 debunk was unconvincing and connects with the 2026 effort: https://www.bfro.net/REF/THEORIES/pgfdebunkings.asp
As the last attempt to debunk back in 2006 didn't kill the beast--Bob Heironimus says he was in the ape suit:
I don't have a iron in this fire but the pro-vs.-anti hoax factions of the film has burned through the internet. I saw a professional costume maker's take on the details which to me were simple and interesting. She stressed the suit was beyond anything available in the 60s and that the footwear part leads to a problem: An actor in a suit would not walk that well unaided and unguided. As the film shows a strongly striding creature not once showing any signs of tripping, or even hesitance, as it disappeared, though living on in Big Foot lore.
Capturing Bigfoot
In March 2026, the documentary film Capturing Bigfoot premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film#cite_note-272"><span>[</span>272<span>]</span></a> The documentary purports to show the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film is a hoax orchestrated by the filmmakers. Director Marq Evans discovered a 40-second clip that was allegedly shot in 1966, which purports to show a dress rehearsal of a skinnier Bigfoot walking through a wooded area similar to the location of the 1967 film.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film#cite_note-273"><span>[</span>273<span>]</span></a>
Has Bigfoot Finally Been Debunked?
A new documentary, ‘Capturing Bigfoot,’ has sent shockwaves through the Bigfoot community, featuring new evidence challenging the famous Patterson-Gimlin film.
www.forbes.com
Patterson–Gimlin film - Wikipedia
I haven't indulged into the meaty details, but I'll bet the new 40 seconds exposed in "Capturing Bigfoot" will be shown to be overblown misrepresentation of something else.
A 1997 debunk was unconvincing and connects with the 2026 effort: https://www.bfro.net/REF/THEORIES/pgfdebunkings.asp
As the last attempt to debunk back in 2006 didn't kill the beast--Bob Heironimus says he was in the ape suit:
I don't have a iron in this fire but the pro-vs.-anti hoax factions of the film has burned through the internet. I saw a professional costume maker's take on the details which to me were simple and interesting. She stressed the suit was beyond anything available in the 60s and that the footwear part leads to a problem: An actor in a suit would not walk that well unaided and unguided. As the film shows a strongly striding creature not once showing any signs of tripping, or even hesitance, as it disappeared, though living on in Big Foot lore.
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I am more inclined to have misgivings about the "Trinity" case. Yet, the way critics (mostly Douglas Dean Johnson)
are still swinging the axe to chop it down leads me to question whether there is more to it. Is it all a hoax? Here's a follow up of not too long ago where Vallee et. al. gave up responding because of the rabidity:
Crash Story File: "Witness" credibility implodes for Jacques Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale
By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on X/Twitter January 25, 2024. Updated March 12, 2025. "Jose Padilla was an officer with the Highway Patrol in California for many years, and fought in Korea– had two bullets in his body. I mean, this is the best witness you could have, because
douglasjohnson.ghost.io
Johnson is not a bad Substack independent journalist but he has as much to gain by trumpeting his claims as anyone else to gain readership and followers. You get a taste of Johnson's near-hair splitting when he goes into a long dissection of "smoke" vs "fire" discredit of testimony. He tests my patience and his case.
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I think that Vallee made a huge mistake by getting involved with Paola Harris. The whole UFO crash story by the boys was a huge false fabrication (lie) in my opinion.I am more inclined to have misgivings about the "Trinity" case. Yet, the way critics (mostly Douglas Dean Johnson)
are still swinging the axe to chop it down leads me to question whether there is more to it. Is it all a hoax? Here's a follow up of not too long ago where Vallee et. al. gave up responding because of the rabidity:
Crash Story File: "Witness" credibility implodes for Jacques Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale
By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on X/Twitter January 25, 2024. Updated March 12, 2025. "Jose Padilla was an officer with the Highway Patrol in California for many years, and fought in Korea– had two bullets in his body. I mean, this is the best witness you could have, because
Johnson is not a bad substack independent journalist but he has as much to gain by trumpeting his claims as anyone else to gain readership and followers.
I can understand the skepticism, and Johnson's critical reports make a compelling case. However, I won't dismiss this entirely yet. If Vallee now believes it's a hoax, he should say so directly rather than remaining ambiguous. I've followed the UFO topic for years, and experience tells me there's usually more beneath the surface—though I could be wrong. I'll reserve judgment until at least one of the key figures publicly confirms it's fiction.
Menzel, Klass, and others before Johnson have thoroughly examined UFO claims:
Governments have legitimate reasons to suppress information—protecting state secrets, for example:
UFO reports and disinformation - Wikipedia
Other motives are less transparent: protecting public stability, controlling access to alien technology for profit, or something else entirely.
The Trinity case could fit these patterns, or it could simply be a debunked myth. Johnson's attacks certainly weaken it significantly. Yet I notice Vallee and Nolan have stopped responding to Johnson. Are they silent because they know Padilla is unreliable, or because Johnson is deliberately muddying the waters with facts which could be solid or possibly not part of the truth?
Vallee at the 8:00 minute mark adds a witness that I haven't seen touched by critics:
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Summary of "Smoking Guns," which aired on June 9, 2026 (Episode 4 of Season 7) of "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"
In Smoking Guns, the Skinwalker Ranch team continues its deep dive into the mystery of ancient ceramics discovered in the Mesa. After a new scientific test deepens the enigma, the investigation branches out to two key locations: the Triangle and the boundary of the Bubble the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch.fandom.com+1.The Triangle, long known for anomalous readings, becomes a focal point for matching the ceramic findings to physical phenomena. At the same time, the team explores the outer edge of the Bubble — a force field area that has been unusually active this season, including after a recent large-scale drilling operation. The goal is to see if the ceramics can be linked to something tangible at either site, which could shift the investigation’s direction significantly.
The episode’s centerpiece is a smoke test conducted near both locations. This experiment produces bizarre results: invisible barriers, distorted movement, and unexplained atmospheric reactions YouTube. For the first time, the ranch appears to reveal something hidden directly in front of the team’s eyes, hinting at possible connections between the Mesa, the Bubble, and the Triangle YouTube.
The investigation blends science and suspense, with the team working to piece together whether these anomalies are natural, technological, or something else entirely. The episode leaves viewers with a heightened sense of mystery, suggesting that the ceramics may be tied to a larger, more complex phenomenon the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch.fandom.com+1.
Key themes:
- Ongoing ceramic mystery from the Mesa
- Testing the Triangle and Bubble boundary for physical links
- Unexplained atmospheric and movement anomalies
- Possible connection between multiple ranch zones
If you haven't perused the latest release of UFO/UAP tranche here are three connections and NewsNation:
www.space.com
www.theblackvault.com
Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos. How to see them all, from 'a football-shaped body' to 'a misshapen and uneven ball of white light'
The newly released files include nearly 30 videos, which feature a range of mysterious objects.
UFO Phenomena - The Black Vault
Download a massive number of documents obtained officially from the U.S. government and military via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Home Sweet Homestead
Synopsis
Not much of a show, a lot of mumbo-jumbo but whatever, it was trying and did not add to how Science should operate.
Airing Tuesday, June 16, 2026, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch’s Season 7, Episode 5 — “Home Sweet Homestead” — returns to one of the ranch’s most mysterious locations: Homestead Two.
The episode centers on a Navajo Shaman who, when asked where to perform a sacred ritual, chooses Homestead Two --a site with a long history of anomalous readings and strange occurrences. The team, led by Dr. Travis Taylor, Brandon Fugal, Erik Bard, and Thomas Winterton, documents the ceremony in hopes of unlocking new insights into the ranch’s enigmatic phenomena.
During and immediately after the ritual, the team records instrument-confirmed anomalies though offered nothing conclusive about them. These phenomena was not clearly defined and was a blur of an investigation, blending science, spirituality, and the unknown as the team seeks to understand what the Shaman’s actions might reveal about Skinwalker Ranch’s oddities.
Given the season’s focus on the Mesa’s ceramics, buried metallic objects, and the “Bubble” mystery, this episode serves as a "time eater," distracting the investigation to use up an episode from drilling and drone data into a spiritual and cultural dimension. Viewers can expect a mix of as the team confronts one of the ranch’s most persistent and regular hotspots.
Synopsis
Not much of a show, a lot of mumbo-jumbo but whatever, it was trying and did not add to how Science should operate.
Airing Tuesday, June 16, 2026, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch’s Season 7, Episode 5 — “Home Sweet Homestead” — returns to one of the ranch’s most mysterious locations: Homestead Two.
The episode centers on a Navajo Shaman who, when asked where to perform a sacred ritual, chooses Homestead Two --a site with a long history of anomalous readings and strange occurrences. The team, led by Dr. Travis Taylor, Brandon Fugal, Erik Bard, and Thomas Winterton, documents the ceremony in hopes of unlocking new insights into the ranch’s enigmatic phenomena.
During and immediately after the ritual, the team records instrument-confirmed anomalies though offered nothing conclusive about them. These phenomena was not clearly defined and was a blur of an investigation, blending science, spirituality, and the unknown as the team seeks to understand what the Shaman’s actions might reveal about Skinwalker Ranch’s oddities.
Given the season’s focus on the Mesa’s ceramics, buried metallic objects, and the “Bubble” mystery, this episode serves as a "time eater," distracting the investigation to use up an episode from drilling and drone data into a spiritual and cultural dimension. Viewers can expect a mix of as the team confronts one of the ranch’s most persistent and regular hotspots.
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If you would like a great, long podcast here is one by one of the top UFO researches in the world: Richard Dolan.
Covers a lot of ground from unidentified submerged objects USOs to attacks on people by UFOs in Brazil.
Covers a lot of ground from unidentified submerged objects USOs to attacks on people by UFOs in Brazil.
Here is a very good breakdown on the possibility of life in the Universe for which I find agreement though have some differing views:
“All Mesa’d Up” (Season 7, Episode 6 — aired June 23, 2026) centers on the team returning to the Mesa and the Bubble, where they uncover new anomalies in drilling data, encounter magnetic interference affecting drones, and make a puzzling discovery suggesting a buried metallic structure beneath the Triangle.
Dr. Jan Francke returns with confusing GPR data from Borehole One and surface scans. The interference is so extreme that he compares it to what you’d expect near airports or military installations—not inside a sandstone mesa. To overcome this, he develops a Coded Sequence Reader, a GPR system using encrypted signals to cut through the noise.
The team resumes drilling into the Mesa, approaching the depth where drill bits were destroyed in Season 6. At around 32–33 feet, the drill hits something hard, the sound changes, and the rig begins shaking. Spoils reveal flaky metal fragments that cling to magnets—evidence of something metallic embedded in the Mesa. The team halts drilling to avoid damaging the object.
A 100‑drone Sky Elements swarm is deployed to map anomalies above the Triangle. The drones experience:
Dr. Jan Francke returns with confusing GPR data from Borehole One and surface scans. The interference is so extreme that he compares it to what you’d expect near airports or military installations—not inside a sandstone mesa. To overcome this, he develops a Coded Sequence Reader, a GPR system using encrypted signals to cut through the noise.
The team resumes drilling into the Mesa, approaching the depth where drill bits were destroyed in Season 6. At around 32–33 feet, the drill hits something hard, the sound changes, and the rig begins shaking. Spoils reveal flaky metal fragments that cling to magnets—evidence of something metallic embedded in the Mesa. The team halts drilling to avoid damaging the object.
A 100‑drone Sky Elements swarm is deployed to map anomalies above the Triangle. The drones experience:
- GPS drift
- Course deviations toward the Mesa
- A drone falling from the sky
- Drones spinning in place at ~950 ft
- Landing pads missed due to magnetic misalignment
According to the episode listing, the team identifies a bewildering new anomaly at the center of the Bubble, deepening the season‑long mystery that the Mesa, Triangle, and Homestead phenomena may be interconnected.
Coverage notes that this episode builds directly on LIDAR clues from “Smoking Guns,” suggesting the ranch’s three major hotspots may form a single linked system. The team tries to interpret the new data scientifically, but—as usual—the answers only raise more questions.Overall takeaway
All Mesa’d Up pushes the investigation deeper into the Mesa’s hidden structure. Between metallic debris at 33 feet, drone malfunctions consistent with magnetic anomalies, and new data from the Bubble’s center, the episode reinforces the idea that something engineered—or at least highly unusual—may lie beneath Skinwalker Ranch.I remember Kjell Qvale but don't have information about his "flying saucer" UFO observation. If you have a link I'd be glad to connect to it.
The link below is a short bio about him including the erroneous Zodiac Killer accusation.
Kjell Qvale - Wikipedia
Notes, updates,
Several independent abduction researchers, therapists, and psychiatrists interpret anal probes as electroejaculation devices used to collect genetic material efficiently, quickly, non-violently, and with precision. The procedure is rarely reported in female abduction recall; when it does appear, it seems connected to health monitoring rather than genetic collection.
In recent seasons on Skinwalker radiation attacks on experienced crew members have largely ceased, yet new investigators continue to be targeted. Apparently, the intelligence behind these attacks uses this reinforcement mechanism to instill respect. The regular crew, having been humbled by these powers, are no longer harmed. New researchers with apprehension, doubt, or anger are not as fortunate.
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High speed, small orbs chasing helicopters on SWR? Read the post above where in bold and note the similarity to the video linked here:
