Welcome back, fellow ranchers! I genuinely hope you’ve been enjoying our journey through Season 7 of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Since we’re basically caught up, and I have some interesting news, we can finally take a step into Brendan’s Ufology Corner (name is still being workshopped). Please bare with me while I work through all of this, or you can skip to the first subheader if you want to get right into The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch coverage.

On June 9th, 2026, David Grusch and a coterie of politicians, notably Representative Jared Moskowitz, Representative Tim Burchett, and Representative Anna Paulina Looney, ran a press event at the Capitol. They stood in front of a microphoned podium with a “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets” board on the front. Much was said in that amount of time, but it’s a few specific points and the event’s timing that are of particular note.

David Grusch, whose bombshell 2023 testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability brought Ufology back into the zeitgeist (along with Ryan Graves and Commander David Fravor), mentioned one thing that struck a specific chord for many people. Grusch’s specific mention of Australia’s 1971 Intelligence UFO Assessment raised a few eyebrows. But why?

That assessment is important for many reasons, though proof of aliens doesn’t necessarily rank high at the top of that list. This previously classified document shed light on how intelligence agencies were studying the topic. It basically said that governments were shifting public focus on, then, UFOs to hide the fact that they really didn’t know what this phenomenon really was. So, did the government want to get to the bottom of this? Or was their only goal to save face when they came up short on answers?

Could this be an analog to what David Grusch feels currently? He wasn’t necessarily taken seriously in his 2023 testimony. In fact, claims of alcoholism and pointed character assassinations of Grusch grew as the seconds passed. It feels like a plea from Grusch that the government needs to help protect him from, well, the government.

Grusch’s 60 Day Disclosure Warning

But it goes deeper than that. Ignoring the fact that Tim Burchett said the Chinese spy balloon was used to cover up the fact that Grusch was openly talking about biological entities. And ignore the fact that Leslie Kean said that these biologics happened to be the pilots of recovered UAPs. Grusch claims there are several dozen retrievals that have taken place where non-human biologics were discovered.

Think that’s all? Think again! A little over a month ago, David Grusch made a statement that we should be seeing an escalation regarding ‘D’isclosure in the next 60 to 90 days. But why does that matter?

Roughly 35,000 BC saw the waning civilization that inhabited the Orion constellation, and slowly expanded outwards in search of overcoming potential generational losses. Now, this next part was succinctly put together by a Twitter page Oyagaa-Oomo Network, but it’s the best way to fully understand the importance of the press conference. Basically, visitors from Oomo have confirmed a disclosure strategy and are reducing their stealthiness to validate goodwill, which was agreed upon in the Greada Treaty in 1954 (which was signed between President Eisenhower and The Greys, which was supposedly facilitated by Valiant Thor). An account known as NOAY, which I’m still struggling to understand how it applies, released a clue that states “D-365”. That clue was released by NOAY on July 24, 2025.

All this leads many to believe that D-365 implies July 24, 2026, which would fall directly in line with David Grush’s comment about 60 to 90 days, could be D-Day Two. Could this all be bunk? Sure. Could this be all too real? Definitely. Will July 24, 2026, be the day 500,000 Greys begin their colonization of Earth?

If you’re still reading, thank you! It’s now time for us to head to our second favorite ranch in Utah to see if we get any closer to uncovering The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

Skinwalker Ranch Command Center – 9:10 AM 

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Thomas Winterton, Technologist Pete Kelsey, Kaleb Bench, and Sam Deriso sit around the Command Center table. Pete Kelsey shows the team an image from his terrestrial LIDAR scans, which he took when the drilling started at the top of the Mesa. The image Pete has is taken from the top of the Mesa, looking southwest. What we see is something that isn’t unusual for the team, but is for Pete’s LIDAR scans: displaced data.

Pete reveals an image that shows data that is not just displaced, but underground. Moreover, the data is in an arc pattern. Does this mean signify more proof of The Bubble’s barrier?

Mesa Drill Site – Later That Day – 10:35 AM

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Technologist Pete Kelsey, Sam Deriso, Thomas Winterton, Kaleb Bench, Archaeologist Chris Roberts, and Triple A Drilling (Jed Murray and Bo Camp) stand atop the Mesa. They are joined by special guest and GPR expert Dr. Jan Francke, who we last saw on Season 6 Episode 12 of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Dr. Francke was the man who found the 400-foot-long object inside the Mesa, which sparked the drilling initiatives.

GPR Inside Borehole One Triggers Mysterious Signals at 33 MHz and Beyond

Dr. Francke is back on The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch to run new GPR scans. But this time, he’ll be inside the Mesa. Using his cutting-edge tools, Dr. Francke will run his GPR through Borehole One. And his new equipment will allow the team to see the depth and distance of the anomalies. He will also be running this scan while Triple A gets back to drilling.

The drilling begins with Dr. Francke, Erik Bard, Sam Deriso, and Thomas Winterton at the top of the Mesa, while Dr. Travis Taylor and Kaleb Bench will run the computers and analyzers at the bottom of the Mesa.

As the experiment kicks off, Sam Deriso notices a 33 MHz signal. Once alerted, Travis notices that he is also seeing that signal on his spectrum analyzer. What’s weird is that 33 MHz is the same signal given off by the drill bit beacon used by Mark Construction in Season 6 Episode 11 “Hard to Handle”. The beacon that was on the tungsten drill bit that was destroyed by the Mesa’s Type A ceramic material. If that wasn’t enough, Travis starts to see both a 1.2 and a 1.6 GHz signal.

This leads Thomas Winterton to question whether or not the drill is stimulating the object(s) within the Mesa.

Dr. Jan Francke starts to run his GPR device down Borehole One. While that is going on, Chris Roberts begins to inspect the drill core samples with a gamma ray detector. That’s when Chris notices 108 CPM. Then 110 CPM. And then 115 CPM. While that’s not an unsafe count for CPM, it’s highly irregular for a sand mesa. In fact, Travis says that it is about 10 times higher than it should be. It’s also the same count they had from the Type A ceramics when they initially found them.

With the drill one third of the way to its goal, and Dr. Jan’s scanning complete, the team calls it a day.

What Is That? Literally.

Skinwalker Ranch Command Center – 11:16 AM

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Jim Royston, Chris Roberts, and Thomas Winterton sit around the Skinwalker Ranch Command Center table. On a video call, they have the team from Artemis Testing Lab. The team consists of Bob Dodge, John Sherman, and Serge Fayeulle PH.D. These are the people Chris Roberts sent the Type A ceramics sample to.

Testing Finds the Type A Material Undatable and Unlike Any Known Ceramic

But, before we learn what they found out, what exactly is thermoluminescence testing? The tl;dr is this: they take a sample from ceramics or pottery and cut through that sample. The dust from that cut is used and put in a special contraption that measures the amount of stored light energy in the object. The sample is then heated up to 500 degrees Celcius. Once heated up, some light will be emitted. That light is then measured, where its intensity and value determine an object’s age.

Rigorous testing of the Type A ceramic material reveals that it is undatable. Bob is also completely sure that the object wasn’t fired (created with heat, as ceramics or pottery usually are). But, to cross their I’s and dot their T’s, Artemis also ran an XRF analysis on the material.

Artemis reveals the object isn’t ceramic, but contains similar properties to plaster. But how could a piece of plaster do that to a tungsten drill bit? This information seems helpful for the Skinwalker Ranch team, and Travis says he wants to take the materials back to the lab at UVU with this new information.

Skinwalker Ranch Command Center – 2:37 PM

Dr. Travis Taylor, Thomas Winterton, Erik Bard, Jim Royston, and Sam Deriso stand outside the Command Center during a wild windstorm. This presents the perfect opportunity for a test they’ve been wanting to run surrounding The Bubble boundary. Erik reveals that they want to see how smoke interacts with The Bubble’s boundary, and this west-to-east wind creates the best conditions. The plan will be to blow smoke from the west side of The Bubble while driving in and out of the boundary.

West Side of The Bubble – 3:32 PM

Thomas Winterton picks up a giant, industrial-grade smoke machine while Travis sets up high-speed cameras.

With Thomas on the back of the pickup truck, the team gets the experiment going. Thomas turns the smoke machine on while Jim starts driving the truck backwards through 33 miles per hour winds.

The smoke acts as you would think, shooting out of the long barrel as smoke does. But as the team approaches The Bubble boundary, the smoke acts as if it’s hitting a wall and dispersing in all directions. Once through the boundary, the smoke goes back to shooting normally. To see if this was a fluke, Jim drives back through The Bubble. And, as expected, the smoke acts as if it’s hitting a wall at the exact spot of The Bubble boundary.

Erik instructs the team to head to the eastern side of The Bubble, and they head over there.

Experiment number two starts with Jim driving out of The Bubble’s eastside boundary. Once the smoke hits the boundary, it acts as if it’s hitting a wall. Every sign points to The Bubble’s boundary being a physical anomaly. It seems to be proven time and time again. And since that’s been all but confirmed, Erik tells the team to head over to The Triangle to test out The Blob.

Once at The Triangle, Travis and Thomas get in a cherry picker and go about 30 feet in the air. Travis sets off the smoke machine and expects the smoke to blow in a straight line. At the 30-foot mark, the smoke seems to maneuver itself around an invisible object. Does this also prove The Blob is a physical anomaly, too?

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Thomas Winterton, Sam Deriso, and Jim Royston sit around the Command Center table. Erik has some fun data to share with the team that only furthers the probability of The Bubble and The Blob being physical anomalies.

The first video comes from one of the high-speed cameras, with a final processing through Erik’s Meta-Frame. Erik overlaid a motion change-detecting filter over the video. The video of the smoke hitting The Bubble boundary shows the smoke fanning out in multiple directions, rather than going straight through.

A second video is from a camera that was shooting at 120 FPS. It’s another filtered video. But this one doesn’t involve smoke. As the team fires off the smoke machine, a UAP appears hundreds of feet in the air. Almost as if it’s monitoring them. The last video we see is from The Triangle test, where the smoke moves around The Blob.

Final Thoughts

As interesting as the smoke experiment was to watch, it was an incredibly weak way to end the episode. This should have been the start of the episode, but the Artemis stuff didn’t have enough of a punch for a stinger. But what really pisses me off is how the smoke experiment didn’t need a data review. We saw all we needed to see during the tests! Sans the singular UAP, of course.

Why does The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch feel the need to CONSTANTLY repeat things over and over again? Do they think we’re stupid? Well, actually, yes, they do. Season 7 Episode 4 “Smoking Guns” is another in a long line of plain, boring episodes. Minus the part where we learned the ceramic is actually plaster-like, we are left with a seemingly nothing episode.

Anyways! Something, something, something, fun little setup, The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch. (Hey showrunners! See what happens when I phone in my outro? It has little effect on the entire article. I’m underwhelmed by my outro as much as I’m underwhelmed by this episode! Pick it up, do better, and let’s have some fun!)

Welcome back, fellow Ranchers! As much as I’ve been complaining about this season of Skinwalker Ranch in general, it feels so good getting back into it. While I have severe issues with this show, it’s been an absolute blast getting to tune in and watch it become a bastard of what it once was. Their natural flows of talking head interviews have slowly amalgamated into awfully scripted rehashing of things we’ve heard 10 times already, all while they stand in front of an improperly lit green screen. 

And maybe that’s why I love this show. 

I grew up watching the Sci-Fi Channel B-movies that gave the channel its true namesake. I love trash TV. I love The Curse of Oak Island and The Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch. But those shows handle themselves in a much more respectable manner than this show. At least those two shows don’t hide their greed behind slimy Botox-ed smiles. But it’s fun watching Mormon millionaire Brandon Fugal slip into his Villain Era. The man we came to know and love throughout the first few seasons has Cronenberg-morphed into a greedy shell of a human who wants nothing more than to use his money to gain fame.

That’s enough of that. This is the last Skinwalker Ranch article before I’m all caught up, so hopefully the next article has some fun Ufology news for you all! But, until then, let’s head back to our second favorite ranch in Utah to see if we get any closer to uncovering The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch.

(Oh, and one rocket launch attempt, will it go off properly? Stay tuned!)

Dr. Travis Taylor, Thomas Winterton, Kaleb Bench, Erik Bard, Sam Deriso, and archaeologist Chris Roberts are atop the Mesa for something spectacular…the drilling is about to start back up! We’ve come a long way from Thomas wholeheartedly against drilling, to being the one [basically] running the entire drilling operation. Even Brandon Fugal used to be against the drilling. 

Jed Murray and Bo Camp of Triple A Drilling arrive to kick things off. Thomas Winterton explains to the drillers that, rather than finishing Borehole Two in the way that Borehole One was completed, they want to do things differently. A 4-foot diameter hole will be dug vertically to connect Borehole Two to the top of the Mesa. There’s only one small caveat: Brandon Fugal wants them to go slow so as not to damage any potential objects within the Mesa. Jed and Bo say it will take a couple of days if they can’t go at full speed. Dr. Travis Taylor and Thomas head to the bottom of the Mesa to monitor data equipment, while Erik Bard and Sam Deriso will stay up top to monitor equipment. 

Triple A gets their large drill in place and begins the process. Within seconds of the drill starting, Travis starts to receive the dreaded 1.6 GHz signal. He radios to the team on top of the Mesa, and after a quick check, Erik and Sam confirm that they, too, are receiving the 1.6 GHz signal. Thankfully, the first 8 inches of drilling go off without a hitch. 

Sick Calf Inside The Bubble Raises Radiation Concerns

The Corral – Later That Day – 3:15 PM 

It wasn’t until now that I realized we haven’t seen Ranch Manager Jim Morse or Ranch Caretakers Kandus Linde and Tom Lewis once this season. Have they departed the show? Or, did they ask for too much money, and the producers just cut them out of the show? Because last time something like this happened, they were front and center. 

Thomas Winterton, Erik Bard, Thomas’s sons Kevin and Micah, and Dr. Haleigh Lundgreen meet outside of The Corral. This is Dr. Lundgreen’s first time back on Skinwalker Ranch since Season 5 Episode 9 “Spinning Out”, where she was monitoring a cow who was experiencing extreme distress. But why are Thomas’s kids here, you may ask? 

It seems that Kevin and Micah Winterton lend a hand with the ranch’s cow population. Which, unfortunately, are nothing more than grazing test animals. 

After the drilling started earlier in the day, the kids realized one of the calves was acting very strange. The calf was sitting in the same spot for a very long time and separated itself from the herd. On top of that, this happened to the cow while it was inside the western side of The Bubble. The same episode that Dr. Lundgreen was previously on brought her to the ranch because a cow had become irradiated. 

The good doctor takes some measurements on the calf and finds some distressing results. The calves’ heart and respiratory rate have significantly increased, and it’s showing a high temperature of 103.3. Dr. Lundgreen states these COULD be secondary symptoms of Chronic Radiation Poisoning. (Notice how she made sure to say COULD. I’m surprised Brandon Fugal didn’t fight to get the word ‘could’ out of the final cut.)

They all take the calf back to the Corral, and it basically snaps back to life immediately. But that doesn’t mean all the glitters is gold. Dr. Lundgreen takes some blood samples from the calf in the hopes that we can learn something more. Let’s not keep our fingers crossed that we’ll see a follow-up on it, though. 

Mesa Drill Site – 5:43 PM

Triple A ends up making it about four feet down on their first day of drilling. They wrap up, but we can expect to see more developments in the coming episodes. Hopefully.

100 Drones Deployed at The Bubble Boundary

Western Bubble Boundary – 6:18 PM

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Jim Royston, Thomas Winterton, Sam Deriso, and Kaleb Bench meet up with Preston Ward and his team from Sky Elements (who we last saw on Skinwalker Ranch in Season 6 Episode 8 “Swarm Weather”). If Preston is at the ranch, that means one thing: DRONES. 

Preston says he and his team are going to set up 100 drones and fly them in a 10×10 pattern. That drone pattern will move in and out of The Bubble boundary up to 1000 feet, in horizontal stacks. The plan is to monitor specific data on where and when the drones malfunction. Brian Woodard will also fly his POV drone. What I find most compelling about Preston and his team is Preston and his team. They do drone shows for a living. And if they consistently had errors, there is no way they would be as big an organization as they are. So when issues arise on the ranch, and Preston has these gigantic, show-stopping issues, I find it to be the most compelling evidence we see on the show. 

While Preston and his team are setting up the drones, Brian gives his POV drone a test flight. But something happens, and the drone goes wild; Brian loses control, and the drone crashes hard into the ground. The drone had shorted out and fallen out of the sky. This also happens to be the same exact location where the calf got sick. 

And, as if on cue, Preston notifies the team that they are having drone connectivity issues.

Drones Lose Connectivity Before the Bubble Boundary Kills 30 More

8:38 PM

All drones have finally connected to the network, and they are preparing to start the night’s experiments. But then things go to hell in a drone basket. 40 drones drop connectivity. And then more, and more. Something starts to suck all of the ranch’s bandwidth from the drones. Preston notifies the team that the bandwidth is currently at a 99% utilization, which is wild because the ranch has its own Wi-Fi towers. 

And then out of nowhere, they all come back. 

Things seem to be back to normal, so the drones begin their flight. 98 of the drones go off, while two stay firmly planted on the earth. The drones continue their flight plan and approach 250 feet in the air. It’s time for them to make their first pass out of The Bubble boundary. Suddenly, as they pass through, 10 drones go offline. Then 20. Then 30. 

Right as the drones go offline, Dr. Travis Taylor reads 1.6 GHz on his spectrum analyzer. But no one else gets that reading, not even Erik. 

Preston’s drones continue their flight pattern, losing and gaining connectivity. One drone starts wobbling out of formation, but they’re set to return to the ground, so it doesn’t go too awry. 

It’s time for part two of the experiment. Preston and his team send two drones at a time in a sweeping pattern up to 1,000 feet. While that’s going on, Travis does what he does best: fires a rocket. (From Homestead Two.) Right as Travis launches the rocket, something zips across the sky!

Drone Data Reveals The Bubble Boundary Is 120 Feet Wide

Skinwalker Ranch Command Center – 1:15 PM

Dr. Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Jim Royston, Thomas Winterton, Technologist Pete Kelsey, and Kaleb Bench sit around the table in the Command Center. They’re joined by Preston Ward and Matt Edminster of Sky Elements via video call. 

Matt Edminster starts by showing the data he had collected. We are looking at an interesting graph of data; an orange and green line inclines from left to right, the lines overlapping and separating at multiple points. We learn that the green line indicates a long-range wireless signal while the orange line is Wi-Fi. These lines should be overlapping, but this data indicates heavy communications loss–the Wi-Fi loss coincides with each time the drones crossed The Bubble’s boundary. Every time they came back into The Bubble, the Wi-Fi reconnected. 

They have similar data points from the secondary formation drone flights, too. 

And all of that becomes way more important than anyone could have thought. Some quick math by Dr. Travis Taylor revealed something fascinating. Basically, they are able to measure the data loss of the drones from inside to outside The Bubble. Two feet per second for 60 seconds equals 120. The width of The Bubble’s boundary is 120 feet!

Pete Kelsey’s terrestrial laser scanner shows an interesting anomaly above Homestead Two. Erik Bard thinks it might be displaced data. So they maneuver the image to a more horizontal view, and we can clearly see that the anomaly truly is displaced data from the tree line below. That tree line, which is displaced by 200 feet, is exactly where Travis previously saw the blue orb UAP. Erik even has some fancy Meta-Frame data that shows a distinct light emerging over Homestead Two.

Final Thoughts for The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch S7E3

Maybe it’s my simple lizard brain, but every time this show uses drones, I eat it up. They’re so pretty to watch, even when it all goes awry. And I really can’t get over how Preston and his team always have tech issues on Skinwalker Ranch, which they say are unlike any they have anywhere else. THIS is the stuff I wish the team would focus on. Because of that tech issue, the team was able to [potentially accurately] measure the width of The Bubble’s boundary! That’s great TV!

MORE OF THAT PLEASE.

And all the data-loss stuff astounds me. Whether you’re a believer in this kind of stuff, it’s hard to disagree with missing data. Plus, with the amount of money that Mormon millionaire Brandon Fugal spends on this ranch, you can bet your ass he’s not paying for broken stuff. Anyways, thanks for going on this journey with us, and we look forward to seeing you on the very next episode. Maybe then, just then, we’ll get slightly closer to getting to the bottom of The Secret…of Skinwalker Ranch.