Skinwalker Ranch, NDT, POE- Part II
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch is a truly fascinating reality TV show. Although. I have to admit; I don’t have much reality TV show experience, because for the most part, I don’t think there’s much reality in reality TV shows (See Trump’s Apprentice).
For those who haven’t seen the History Channel show, Skinwalker Ranch in Utah is a paranormal hotspot named after a Native American legend about a shape-shifting entity. As the legend goes, the Skinwalker is a medicine man that turned to the dark side, using it’s magic to menace instead of mend.
A fraction of the many notorious Skinwalker Ranch incidents include an encounter with a supersized wolf that is able to shrug off point blank rifle shots and trot away without a trace, a strange humanoid creature with raptor claws, cattle mutilations, UFO sightings and other high strangeness.
It’s fascinating because who knows what’s really going on there? The show revolves around a team of scientists running experiments on the Ranch. Why should a bunch of eggheads geeking-out be that interesting? I’m guessing it certainly isn’t to most people who prefer The Real Housewives/Duck Dynasty-type reality stuff. But to anyone with a semblance of intellectual curiosity- it’s quite the show.
The science experiments are continually thwarted in unexplainable ways throughout the series. Fully charged batteries suddenly drain at critical moments. Drones launched to map an anomaly 3,000 feet above the ranch fail and drop from the sky when they shouldn’t. UFO/UAP appear, and are captured on camera, in connection with the experiments and cattle deaths that continue in mysterious ways despite all the ubiquitous video surveillance.
In one case, a metallic orb appears in surveillance footage landed on the ground in front of a tree line for a fraction of a second- then disappears. Only one frame had the distinctly, clear image.
The video surveillance system managed to capture brief glimpses of several UFO/UAP. Some of the “lights in the sky” variety that suddenly appeared during experiments to probe the area above the ranch where some think there’s some kind of Portal or Stargate. Whatever these UAP were, the team was able to rule out all known phenomena like planes, satellites, etc., and none of these UFO/UAP had transponders.
The system also managed to catch a brief, but clear, glimpse of a classic flying disk appearing just over the treetops in conjunction with a mysterious cattle death.
Then there’s the IFOs (Identified Flying Objects) that have been documented. What appear to be military craft (helicopters, reconnaissance planes, including small craft – all without transponders – have appeared during critical experiments conducted by Travis Taylor, Eric Bard and their gang of researchers as they watch the flyovers scratching their heads.
The focal point of the investigation is an area on the ranch known as “the triangle,” which abuts a mesa that appears to have some sort of anomalous object buried within. Attempts to probe the area 3,000 feet above the triangle with rockets and drones where the Portal/Stargate is suspected to exist have failed spectacularly. Rockets appear to explode upon impact with an invisible object where the portal is suspected to exist and drones drop from the sky, failing to record data inexplicably.
All attempts to probe these mysteries have been thwarted by some unforeseen force. Technicians left scratching their heads have seen their systems fail or record nonsensical data that they’ve never experienced before. Attempts to drill into the mesa with heavy equipment all fail upon encountering whatever is buried there.
In one sequence caught on video, a UFO/UAP is seen flying into the mesa and out the other side near the triangle as if it flew through solid rock.
So, again, what is actually going on here?
One thing that seems obvious right off the bat is that this is either a hoax or something else. One of the first things I wrote on Cox’s “Life in Jonestown” blog comments is that I don’t see how it could possibly be a hoax. The show’s been on the air for six years now. UFO hoaxes are quickly exposed (see: COMETA Report).
Also, I don’t think Travis Taylor, an aerospace engineer with two PhDs who’s also been part of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation, is faking data for a reality TV show. Or lead scientist Eric Bard- or any of the various subcontractors they’ve brought in to do specific experiments and tasks. A hoax seems extremely unlikely, so, if it’s not a hoax, what is it?
Well, I have a theory, which is based on what I wrote a bit about in my first book, The Day After the Singularity: UFOs & the Great Technological Quantum Leap.
I think what Travis, Eric and their team are probing is post-Singularity (AI) technology that’s ubiquitous. It’s everywhere all around us, because our world is a product of/embedded within this vastly superior technological civilization that successfully navigated the technological Singularity long ago.
In his seminal work, The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil, renowned futurist and Director of Engineering at Google, wrote that a civilization that had been through the Singularity would be able to make itself undetectable to one that hadn’t yet made the transition.
When I watch Skinwalker Ranch, I’m reminded of Kurzweil’s prediction. It’s almost comical to watch the latest high tech devices fail, their batteries drained in an instant or their data blocked and sometimes scrambled by an unknown force in inexplicable ways.
What it seems like to me is that Eric, Travis and team might be encountering the AI firewall of a post-Singularity intelligence determined not to let them discover the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Whether that post-Singularity intelligence is “ours” or “theirs” is another question. In the public sector, the technological Singularity is forecast to come within the next few years, but there’s a real possibility it’s already happened in the classified world. Skinwalker Ranch could be an example of what UFO/UAP historian Richard Dolan calls a Breakaway Civilization that has come about as a result of reverse engineering ET technology.
Or it could be we’ve discovered the spaceport of a parent civilization…
It could be. It could be something else entirely- which we can’t yet conceive of.
I don’t think we’ll find out- at least not on a reality TV show…
I guess what would be really funny right now is a Neil DeGrasse Tyson commercial for a new People of Earth episode in an alternate “many-worlds-type” Universe where that assinine show wasn’t cancelled.
I can just imagine NDT sipping his coffee and thinking to himself, “So your equipment doesn’t work and your data doesn’t make any sense– and you think it’s because of some shape-shifting, Native American, ET ghost? Maybe you should make sure the plug is in the outlet?!!”
Zing!
Guffaws….
That would be hilarious.