Das Geheimnis der Skinwalker Ranch

My favorite part of the show is the dude who's name is Dragon always telling the astrophysicist what they need to do 😂 Otherwise the show is pretty entertaining it has a bit of "The Curse of Oak Island" feel to it. Not sure they will ever figure anything out in regard to what they are searching for but something about the show keeps me coming back! The owner of the ranch I feel like he's the alien in charge of all the things going on the ranch somethings off about him. I don't know what it is but he feels like he could be the evil genius in like a James Bond movie or something like that. I'm keeping an eye on that guy.

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.

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.

Being familiar with Skinwalker Ranch and the assorted phenomena prevalent there, I was really excited about this.

I'm also familiar with the head scientist, Travis Taylor, and his work on television and for the US Government. I had high, high hopes this would be a definitive study of a patch of land that's befuddled people for decades.

There were some interesting points, such as when they brought in several different scientific teams to do their testing. I also found it interesting they discovered the intermittent flashes of microwaves and RF. I had high hopes when this happened.

What bothered me the most was how scripted a great deal of this was, including the "meetings" they held to discuss what happened, where do we go from here? SO MUCH DRAMA!

Had this show been permitted to go without all the scripted moments, I think I'd be enjoying it more. What's going on there is already dramatic enough without the production company/History Channel adding more that is setup and scripted.

I'm disappointed purported real scientists, such as Taylor and Jim Sagala allowed this to happen, given they're "supposed" to be more science, less folklore or rumor. It makes me wonder just how much "science" they actually practice any longer, given they're apparently willing to do whatever a production company wants, so long as they get paid. Their credibility, IMHO, is taking a real hit.

I am, however, looking forward to their "conclusion" of what's happening on the 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.