A Skeptic's Guide to the Universe: Advanced technology, unknown energies and supernatural phenomena - Exploring the farthest reaches of human comprehension
By Charlotte B. Cerminaro
web posted August 5, 2024
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. - Benjamin Disraeli
A fascinating new series documenting the ongoing investigations of an enigmatic ranch in northeastern Utah, is now becoming a journey to new and unknown territory, where the discoveries could change the way we see our universe. Some of our nation's top scientists are on-site, applying the latest cutting-edge technology for surveillance, experiments (inductive reasoning), data collection and analysis. Their research is data-driven - i.e., following the data wherever it leads. Intent on finding answers to bizarre incidents that have plagued local populations for centuries and vexed scientists for decades, they are uncovering much more than a key to a local puzzle – they are clues to the mysteries surrounding the very nature of reality.
Located within Utah's Uintah basin, this highly unusual piece of real estate is infamous among local northern Ute people - hence its name, Skinwalker Ranch. The land has been a subject of intense investigation for decades, owned by government funded groups such as NIDS, with both independent scientists and those employed by the DoD, NASA and others. Purchased in 2016 by a wealthy Utah real estate developer, he's been hiring upper-echelon specialists, research scientists, technologists and security experts in a monumental effort to decode the Skinwalker Ranch cipher that, thus far, remained elusive.
The ranch holds some secrets that are more than terrifying and confounding; unusual forms of energy detected there are unstable and at times dangerously high. Many scientists, staff, even visitors, have experienced severe acute health problems from sudden, unexplained surges of ionizing energy. It also wreaks havoc with high-tech electronics, and not just cell phones: Fully-charged devices drained within minutes; reliable $30,000 drones unable to get airborne; seasoned technologists analyzing their 3D topography scans - most of the data-points strangely missing from key areas; telescopes "misbehaving" in the hands of professional astronomers, their sky objects database suddenly empty. And much more.
In addition to technological aspects, researchers must explain the rationale behind every experiment: Which observations or data, specifically, are leading this line of investigation? Are they attempting to duplicate conditions, to provoke a response, and what data are they intending to capture? What are the possible risks, and are known variables (dangerous energy levels, etc.) being actively monitored?
With highly specialized research guided by the most stringent ethics, we now have evidence of an increasingly significant connection between technological advancement, unknown forms of energy, and supernatural phenomena. The countless documented and confirmed sightings of UAP's in that region, have connective energy to a measurable, verified anomaly in space-time at this particular geographical location - a possible rift, or more specifically, a traversable wormhole. Originally hypothesized by Albert Einstein as a possible quantum-based "gateway" between different dimensions, the phenomenon is actually called an "Einstein-Rosen bridge."
Sounds like science fiction until we begin to examine the evidence. Modern physicists know of 6 or 7 other dimensions in addition to the 4 that we inhabit. With the advent of quantum mechanics in 1900 by Neils Bohr, Max Planck, and Einstein's theory of general relativity, our previous cosmological model was completely upended. Reality is not what it seems. The entire known universe - everything - is comprised of quanta. Lacking differentiation and locality, these infinitesimal subatomic particle-waves confirm that matter and energy are one and the same. Furthermore, conventional laws of physics (by which we are bound) can warp and break down at the quantum level.
The implications of this are beyond staggering. Entities or energies that reside in and access these other dimensions, are not bound by the same natural laws. These energies/structures can disappear and reappear at will - and their bizarre actions (cattle mutilations, UFO's, abductions, poltergeist activities, etc.) defy every law of physics. Moreover, many witnesses and researchers who unexpectedly find themselves in close proximity to these phenomena, will spontaneously report a sense of malevolence coming from them.
There is more than an abundance of evidence to support a full paradigm shift. Video surveillance, infrared, radar, EM and LIDAR scans, ultra low frequency waves (both near and far field) and many other datasets confirm countless eyewitness reports. We can no longer make simplistic assumptions about the origins or intentions of beings that are clearly supernatural. Whether benevolent or malevolent, their abilities - to do as they will, to freely come and go - require open minds, growing in awareness. Right now, we can only see 'as through a glass darkly', but it is abundantly clear that we are not alone. And all this new information is also a new impetus that is more compelling than ever - to always strive, to penetrate that dark veil. 
Charlotte B. Cerminaro is a Juilliard-trained classical musician and recording artist. In her free time she enjoys writing and regularly contributes to Enter Stage Right and she attained a Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biology.
