The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

I wanted to like this show. Had high hopes. But it is too heavy on the corny. At times the pain of Taylor dealing with the "team" especially Dragon are just painful. Show needs to be re-tooled, without the tools.

Why even watch this new season of skinwalker ranch? Because I'm pretty sure all they're going to do is talk about uninteresting signal frequencies, launch a bunch of dumb rockets, hire some company to drill in the ground and act like they've found some weird & extremely shocking substance that's not supposed to be there, make a bunch of data oriented claims that you cant actually see or know if it's real, and show some way far off orb-like UFOs occasionally yet conveniently. Oh and maybe fly a bunch of lit up drones in sync @night and lose control of them!! WOW. Anybody want to bet that that doesnt pretty much lay out the whole complete upcoming season?

It is not a serious scientific effort.

There are so many simple, yet credible tests that could have been done in a serious manner that are being completely ignored. For example, deploy 16 stationary (altitude scalable) balloons to work as permanent instrument platforms (for GPS and camera of various types - mounted and each balloon).

Such balloons should be anchored to the ground, over a large area, ensuring a 360º complete coverage around points of interest to collect continuous data. Such instruments should be permanently linked (by cable) to storage data-servers on the ground (Control Center Installations).

It is very important that such cameras and sensors stay stationary while collecting data to extrapolate what is changing, the environment or the sensors, because when all is changing (moving) at the same time (rockets, drones, heli) the data lacks a stationary reference to be correctly extrapolated (compared with) in this specific kind of investigation.

It is also important to ensure and verify the quality of the GPS chips used. Such chips should be tested, calibrated and "quality verified" in order to garant that acceleration or hardware errors are not being generated.

There are so many other important steps that are being absolutely ignored. Anyway, my opinion is that this is not a serious investigation, in fact I don't think the production team has any real interest in doing so. The main interest is to explore an entertainment business.

About me: I'm a scientifically minded person. I love astrophysics and astronomy. I love every topic regarding the Universe. I'm a NASA subscriber. My name is part of a list of names carried by Curiosity Rover (sent to Mars).

I believe that our natural human senses and brains can only identify and understand a small part of the Universe, meaning that there are "space" for everything else in the Universe but this TV show is not doing much to explore such mysteries.

Well I understand the use of theatrics but hello it's television! Scientists and engineers are not generally thought of as bowls of laughs, charismatic and people you want to binge watch. However the fact that I watched 6 episodes in one sitting tells me that I need to get a life...AND it was interesting if not engaging. That's not to say the security guard isn't annoying because he most definitely is. But Travis managed to break down complicated science jargon into things I actually understood and that I found fascinating. It's creepy, interesting and I am a believer in the strange occurrences taking place. And I disagree with others who claim nothing happens. Plenty happens but it is speculation as to what is the source. Hopefully they will eventually get there, but if not, I still consider it a very interesting, educational and engaging show.

I want to, just once, see a show about this ranch without "actors". This is almost as bad as Mountain Monsters. They try to build suspense with forced reality tv show style conflicts between the characters when the property itself is interesting alone.