Beyond Skinwalker Ranch S03E04 - Orbs

[Mick West]

The most recent episode of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch presents some interesting geolocation and skydentification challenges.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBQZMiV2ZcA

(The above is an abbreviated version of the episode, mostly in Florida)

The sightings are tied into various brain and radio waves examinations related to Chris Bledsoe and his daughter. The thread will focus on locating and identifying the lights in the sky, and some criticism of their attempts to do the same. Please keep on topic.

This is a work in progress, and I've yet to identify any lights, but I have some dates and approximate locations.

There's some video of satellites, and this video of some planes:

The episode takes place in two locations (with some flashbacks). First, there's some satellite viewing (aka orb summoning) in what appears to be Colorado [Actually Virgina], and then some more sky watching in the Florida Everglades. Footage of these two events is sometimes intermixed.

The production company attempted to remove all dates, but missed a few.

They use a variety of screens. Flightradar24 for planes, an app called "Satellite Tracker" to track satellites. A FLIR thermal camera. Several radio spectrum analyzers. And some UFODAP systems (cameras and sensors with AI that is supposed to identify UFOs, but seemingly unused here)

The Colorado time and location comes from:

7:56 PM, Wed Sept 23. This must be 2023 (for it to be a wednesday). The location is somewhere near Trinidad, Colorado.
This screenshot is from is 01:56:40 UTC, Sept 28, 2023. Verified with that plane.

The Everglades' time and location come from:

7:22 PM Feb 14, 2024 (at 16:36 in the full video). FR24 appears to be offline, so is likely displaying earlier traffic. In both cases I suspect the location is near the center.

The data is confirmed by a poorly redacted screenshot timestamp taken later that evening, and shown at the Marker 88 motel the next day.

The Evergladed footage show overhead footage of a pond, which I've not found.

 

[flarkey]

Marker 88 Restaurant 24.97102366925043, -80.55661112208996

 

[Mick West]

The video above is from the everglades location, and contains what looks like five planes, shown here as echos

The view is to the northeast, and is quite wide angle. I matched the stars

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...es _ Stars Matching Feb 14/20250626_061627.js
The time is somewhere around 7:30 EST, based on the angle of the stars. There's some uncertainty there.

 

[Mick West]

There's a surprising amount of traffic there. To the north there's lots visible through the trees, but there's also lots of small planes just tooling around the everglades.

I've tried downloading various sets of tracks and moving the camera around, But have yet to have any luck

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...mazonaws.com/1/With tracks/20250626_094225.js
(Toggle "Show/Hide -> Show all tracks in Look View)

120x sim speed. Press play and move the camera around in the main view

 

[Mick West]

The episode is available on Amazon Prime. A link to a file with the full episode was also posted on Twitter.

Source: https://x.com/wow36932525/status/1937806604134400420

 

[flarkey]

The 'wiggling UAP' is flying straight towards the camera from Ploaris, so it has to be flying south. And the other plane west - east. Can we filter ADSB tracks by heading?

 

[Mick West]

The 'wiggling UAP' is flying straight towards the camera from Ploaris, so it has to be flying south. And the other plane west - east. Can we filter ADSB tracks by heading?

Not yet. And probably not for some time.

 

[flarkey]

Everglades time and location are also confirmed by this screenshot. I assume the red dot in the south of Florida indicated their location, which suggests it is towards the western edge.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2024-02-15-00:31&lat=25.689&lon=-80.664&zoom=9.0

 

[jarlrmai]

7:56 PM, Wed Sept 23. This must be 2023 (for it to be a wednesday). The location is somewhere near Trinidad, Colorado.
This screenshot is from is 01:56:40 UTC, Sept 28, 2023. Verified with that plane.

But they are in Virginia at the Monroe Institute according to the show, so they have the wrong location on FR24

 

[jarlrmai]

The Monroe Institute is here

https://maps.app.goo.gl/x92q6bmKb3x5igX89

37.860078184273505, -78.83054568495349

There is a photo here with a window pattern that matches 10:09 of the show:

 

[flarkey]

that's in an earlier part of the show. they relocate to Florida to record orbs at a dark sky site in the Everglades and set up their 'space tracking station' there too.

 

[jarlrmai]

that's in an earlier part of the show. they relocate to Florida to record orbs at a dark sky site in the Everglades and set up their 'space tracking station' there too.
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Yes I am addressing issues with that section based on Mick's statement they are in Colorado based on the FR24 screenshot.

They are not in Colorado for that section

 

[flarkey]

Yes I am addressing issues with that section based on Mick's statement they are in Colorado based on the FR24 screenshot.

They are not in Colorado for that section

Ah, ok. Agreed. There's definitely some continuity errors in the editing.

 

[jarlrmai]

The FR24 screengrab is seemingly during the Florida section

But it clearly shows the area near Trinidad Lake Colorado

 

[jarlrmai]

This is the sattelite tracking app they are using

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrdndf7?hl=en-US&gl=US

 

[jarlrmai]

So for both sections (Florida and Virginia the Satellite app is set to Eastern Colorado and in the Florida section FR24 is set to Colorado, Andrew Bustamante who seems to be in charge of operating the computers showing these apps, is said to live in Eastern Colorado.

This is the section of the Satellite app from the Florida section the red dot indicates the user set position.

 

[Mick West]

So for both sections (Florida and Virginia the Satellite app is set to Eastern Colorado and in the Florida section FR24 is set to Colorado, Andrew Bustamante who seems to be in charge of operating the computers showing these apps, is said to live in Eastern Colorado.

They are just using footage from the Colorado event for close-ups in that Florida section. There are wider shots that show the app set in Florida.

 

[jarlrmai]

But they were never in Colorado? The lying down outside a house is in Virginia and the other section is in Florida. Or are there 3 events?

 

[Mick West]

But they were never in Colorado? The lying down outside a house is in Virginia and the other section is in Florida. Or are there 3 events?

I think now they must just have been using old footage of Colorada for close-ups in BOTH cases. At 8:52 theres a shot that shows the location in Faber, Virginia.

 

[Mick West]

So we don't have a precise date for the Virgina sightings. The closest we get is the Skinwalker Ranch segment is described as "one week later" (after Florida), and the Monroe institute is then described as "two weeks ago", which would put it around Feb 7th, 2024, assuming the captions are accurate (which is an unknown)

 

[jarlrmai]

I am pretty confident based on social media correlation that the Virgina sightings are on or very near to 18/11/2023

 

[Mick West]

I am pretty confident based on social media correlation that the Virgina sightings are on or very near to 18/11/2023

Links?

 

[Mick West]

The previous episode is set in the same places, so I'll watch that for more clues

 

[Mick West]

Here's a clue

Not as unique as you'd think. That's a swamp buggy, used for hunting and tourists. But the seats and railings led me to:

Which is a bit further north than I'd been looking.

The buggy belongs to Dusty "The Wildman" Crum, a semi-regular on History and Discovery, so that makes sense they would use him.

 

[Mick West]

I am pretty confident based on social media correlation that the Virgina sightings are on or very near to 18/11/2023

In episode 3, it's just Chris at Monroe. They show him going into a Copper lined room, and there's a close-up

Earlier, while Chris and Paul are being compared, there's a timestamp. 8:24PM, 11/19/2023

Then, 8:54, supposedly correlated with an orb

And 8:59

Note time is shown both as MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYYY, but luckily it's unambiguous here.

 

[jarlrmai]

Okay I would like to say at first that Emily Bledsoe is a very young looking late 20's adult.

She has a public Tiktok

https://www.tiktok.com/@bledsoebaby

Last year on 18 Sept 2024 she posted some behind the the scenes footage of her at the Monroe Institute (where a part of the Beyond Skinwalker Ranch show was filmed)

Note the helmet and the overcost and lighter blue top she is wearing

https://www.tiktok.com/@bledsoebaby/photo/7438674403216395566

This indicates that she was at the Monroe Institute on her birthday in 2023

Her birthday is either 17/18 November (depending on the US timezon) as per this Instagram post


Source: https://www.instagram.com/emilyhollowayvoice/p/DChGC46Jn3P/?img_index=1


This is her from the Beyond Skinwalker Ranch show, note the helmet, overcoat and blue top

So the 19th works as within that period.

 

[flarkey]

The most recent episode of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch presents some interesting geolocation and skydentification challenges.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBQZMiV2ZcA

(The above is an abbreviated version of the episode, mostly in Florida)

The sightings are tied into various brain and radio waves examinations related to Chris Bledsoe and his daughter. The thread will focus on locating and identifying the lights in the sky, and some criticism of their attempts to do the same. Please keep on topic.

This is a work in progress, and I've yet to identify any lights, but I have some dates and approximate locations.

There's some video of satellites, and this video of some planes:
View attachment 81912

The episode takes place in two locations (with some flashbacks). First, there's some satellite viewing (aka orb summoning) in what appears to be Colorado [Actually Virgina], and then some more sky watching in the Florida Everglades. Footage of these two events is sometimes intermixed.

The production company attempted to remove all dates, but missed a few.

They use a variety of screens. Flightradar24 for planes, an app called "Satellite Tracker" to track satellites. A FLIR thermal camera. Several radio spectrum analyzers. And some UFODAP systems (cameras and sensors with AI that is supposed to identify UFOs, but seemingly unused here)

The Colorado time and location comes from:
View attachment 81915
7:56 PM, Wed Sept 23. This must be 2023 (for it to be a wednesday). The location is somewhere near Trinidad, Colorado.
This screenshot is from is 01:56:40 UTC, Sept 28, 2023. Verified with that plane.

The Everglades' time and location come from:
View attachment 81916

7:22 PM Feb 14, 2024 (at 16:36 in the full video). FR24 appears to be offline, so is likely displaying earlier traffic. In both cases I suspect the location is near the center.

The data is confirmed by a poorly redacted screenshot timestamp taken later that evening, and shown at the Marker 88 motel the next day.
View attachment 81917

The Evergladed footage show overhead footage of a pond, which I've not found.
View attachment 81920

Is this the lake....?

 

[Mick West]

View attachment 81963

Is this the lake....?

Seems a bit small. Count the trees.

We don't actually see them at that lake for sure, so it might just be some B-roll.

I think there might be two locations for that day. A lake and a swamp area (then 10,000 islands the other day)

 

[NorCal Dave]

Is this the lake....?

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I've been looking at every damn pod and lake with 1/2 mile of a road int Big cypress or the Everglades. There's only so many roads, and it's doubtful the entire crew hiked in a ways.

I'll throw this one in the hat as well. On Google maps it's hard to get the resolution needed:

Right next to the the Oasis Visitor's center where the swamp buggies leave from and a nice big open airfield to watch stars and UFOs. But it's also right next to the highway:

I'll keep looking in and around this area.

EDIT: It appears people meet at the oasis center for the buggy rides, but they may actually happen down the road:

 

[Mick West]

Some more shots from Ep3

 

[MonkeeSage]

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Potential match: Same style gate with rocks on left, road goes across the canal, two powerlines coming from above right. Rocks on the right don't match though. Street view image is from 2019.

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.964...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYyMy4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

[Mick West]

Potential match: Same style gate with rocks on left, road goes across the canal, two powerlines coming from above right. Rocks on the right don't match though. Street view image is from 2019.

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.964...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYyMy4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

The view down the road looks like a match to me!

 

[Mick West]

Also matches further up the dirt road. Nice find!

 

[NorCal Dave]

Potential match: Same style gate with rocks on left, road goes across the canal, two powerlines coming from above right. Rocks on the right don't match though. Street view image is from 2019.

I went up and down that road! Just missed that one turn off. Well done sir!!

 

[flarkey]

And just up that track is the lake.

 

[Mick West]

And just up that track is the lake.

Hah, I saw the lake but it was so short and there were so many vehicles around it I didn't think to check

 

[Mick West]

These two menu options work now and will be saved correctly. Handy with lots of tracks.

And I added "L" back to move the camera (functionally the same as "C")

 

[Mick West]

This clip

Has a nominal timestamp

But dropping that in does not seem to give a good result. The stars line up reasonably, but I can't get a good candidate plane.

There are, however, a LOT of plane that would be visible through the trees.

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu....com/1/Swamp with tracks. /20250627_064922.js

 

[flarkey]

This plane flies N-S past the property with the lake at 0101UTC.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2024-02-15-01:02&lat=26.064&lon=-81.322&zoom=10.0

N147BZ

It has a wobbly track too and other planes that on first inspection match the other lights seen in the video.

Sync'd In sitrec: https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...om/15857/FlarkeyPlaneSwamp/20250627_080322.js

 

[jarlrmai]

In the Florida section there's a scene where Bustamante is showing the desk of screens, this screen seems to be a tablet running FR24

Then when it cuts to the close up of the tablet but it's clearly footage from some other time, because of the screen to the left and FR24 is zoomed into Colorado and on Wed Sep 27

Then there's a cut to the to the Sat tracker but it's again from the 'Colorado' setup, the FR24 tablet is the same orientation and the charger is in the same place.

The continuity people did get him to wear a similar shirt though he seems to have acquired an extra friendship bracelet, perhaps Chris made him one.