List of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch episodes
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The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch is a reality television series that premiered on March 31, 2020.[1] The program explores high strangeness associated with alien and extraterrestrial phenomena on the ranch. As of May 19, 2026,[update] 73 episodes of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch have aired. The seventh season premiered in May 2026.[2][3]
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | Viewers (millions) | ||
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| 1 | 8 | March 31, 2020 (2020-03-31) | June 2, 2020 (2020-06-02) | 15.2 | |
| 2 | 10 | May 4, 2021 (2021-05-04) | July 13, 2021 (2021-07-13) | TBA | |
| 3 | 11 | May 3, 2022 (2022-05-03) | July 19, 2022 (2022-07-19) | TBA | |
| 4 | 15 | April 18, 2023 (2023-04-18) | August 8, 2023 (2023-08-08) | TBA | |
| 5 | 14 | April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23) | July 23, 2024 (2024-07-23) | TBA | |
| 6 | 14 | June 3, 2025 (2025-06-03) | September 2, 2025 (2025-09-02) | TBA | |
| 7 | 14 | May 19, 2026 (2026-05-19) | 2026 (2026) | TBA | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2020)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Bad Things Happen When You Dig" | 31 March 2020 (2020-03-31) | 2.7[4] | |
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Travis Taylor joins a tight-knit group of people dedicated to investigating the ranch. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Night Visions" | 7 April 2020 (2020-04-07) | 2.1[5] | |
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When the team investigates beneath the ranch, they claim to experience karma. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Looking Down" | 14 April 2020 (2020-04-14) | 1.9[6] | |
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Tom Winterton's headache forces the team to re-evaluate the plan; human bone in the basement at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "High Strangeness" | 21 April 2020 (2020-04-21) | 2.1[7] | |
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The team witnesses a double UFO in the sky while performing experiments with weather balloons. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Dangerous Curves" | 28 April 2020 (2020-04-28) | 1.7[8] | |
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New tests reveal that the team must dig. Brandon Fugal concedes. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Poking The Nest" | 12 May 2020 (2020-05-12) | 1.7[9] | |
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Travis claims to be attacked by "Ionizing radiation" when he opens an old sewer at Homestead 2. The team claims that Alpacas brought in for experiments are attacked by "dire wolves". Everyone's iPhones react in strange ways. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Surveillance" | 19 May 2020 (2020-05-19) | 1.5[10] | |
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A Cow's mutilation makes the team bring Brandon on-site. Guest Star Linda Moulton-Howe | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Revelations" | 2 June 2020 (2020-06-02) | 1.5[11] | |
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A flashback on the year; Strange, unidentified peeping toms. | |||||
Season 2 (2021)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) | |
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| 9 | 1 | "Breaking Ground" | 4 May 2021 (2021-05-04)[12] | 7.1 | |
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Returning to what they had done in 2020, Travis rejoins the team and this episode they dig at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 10 | 2 | "Carved In Stone" | 11 May 2021 (2021-05-11) | 7.1 | |
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A guest investigator tells the team there are some bizarre rock carvings depicting the mesa in an unexplored area. A new investigator takes a new look at season 1's "cattle mutilation" but it is a brown cow, not a black one. | |||||
| 11 | 3 | "Laser Focused" | 18 May 2021 (2021-05-18) | N/A | |
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An ex-military personnel officer tells the team about a disturbing phenomena from his experience. The team decides to conduct a laser experiment at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 12 | 4 | "There's No Place Like Homestead Two" | 25 May 2021 (2021-05-25) | N/A | |
| 13 | 5 | "The Ranch Strikes Back" | 8 June 2021 (2021-06-08) | N/A | |
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The team remakes the Rabbi's experiment, only this time with thermal imaging. The team claims their injuries are caused by the ranch taking revenge. | |||||
| 14 | 6 | "Skin Deep" | 15 June 2021 (2021-06-15) | N/A | |
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A new investigator shows the team a new cavern system circulating underneath the ranch. | |||||
| 15 | 7 | "Can You Dig It?" | 22 June 2021 (2021-06-22) | N/A | |
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The team proceeds with the drilling operation in the newly-discovered Triangle Area. They claim to find dangerously high energy levels and "an object from beyond". | |||||
| 16 | 8 | "Shocking Revelations" | 29 June 2021 (2021-06-29) | N/A | |
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The team discovers that the soil of the ranch is highly conductive when they experiment with Tesla coils. | |||||
| 17 | 9 | "Look, Up In The Sky" | 6 July 2021 (2021-07-06) | N/A | |
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The team claims to see UAPs immediately after high-tech rockets are shot into the ranch's atmosphere, just a mile into what is known as the "high zone". | |||||
| 18 | 10 | "It Follows" | 13 July 2021 (2021-07-13) | N/A | |
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On the season finale, the team claims that a strange body has caused a malfunction with the ground monitor in Brandon’s helicopter . The season finale ends with Travis driving home in his new red Jeep. | |||||
Season 3 (2022)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) | |
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| 19 | 1 | "Above and Beyond Explanation" | 3 May 2022 (2022-05-03) | N/A | |
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The team resumes for the third time their research in 2021 and attempt to tie evidence between the mile-high zone and the mesa.[13] | |||||
| 20 | 2 | "Tic Tac 2" | 10 May 2022 (2022-05-10) | N/A | |
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The team invites government officials from the original Tic Tac incident to the ranch and claim they have simulated a similar event. | |||||
| 21 | 3 | "Inner Fear-Ence" | 17 May 2022 (2022-05-17) | N/A | |
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As new aerial experiments are underway at the triangle area, the team claims to have discovered evidence that radiation and UAP phenomena are stimulated by below ground anomalies in the mesa. | |||||
| 22 | 4 | "Scoped Out" | 24 May 2022 (2022-05-24) | N/A | |
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The team claims to witness UAPs when astronomers work at the triangle area. | |||||
| 23 | 5 | "Digging Up the Past" | 7 June 2022 (2022-06-07) | N/A | |
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Former NIDS employee, retired Army Colonel John Alexander, visits the ranch, who claims that an experiment "may have opened a portal". The team claim they have received a mysterious signal they interpret as an attempt to communicate. | |||||
| 24 | 6 | "Where There’s Smoke…" | 14 June 2022 (2022-06-14) | N/A | |
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While the team digs up a cave system beneath the ranch, they also broadcast what they describe as "an alien sound effect" on the local radio station. | |||||
| 25 | 7 | "Full Metal Mesa" | 21 June 2022 (2022-06-21) | N/A | |
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While drilling, the team say they find a void containing "an impenetrable object". | |||||
| 26 | 8 | "Dome of the Rock" | 28 June 2022 (2022-06-28) | N/A | |
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The team recover metal fragments from what they claim is "a massive dome buried in the mesa" on Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 27 | 9 | "Closer Encounters" | 5 July 2022 (2022-07-05) | N/A | |
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The team conducts an ambitious experiment at the Triangle. | |||||
| 28 | 10 | "Photo Finish" | 12 July 2022 (2022-07-12) | N/A | |
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The team performs a three-dimensional scan of Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 29 | 11 | "The Strangest Things So Far" | 19 July 2022 (2022-07-19) | N/A | |
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The team reviews all the experiences and evidence of the last three years. | |||||
Season 4 (2023)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) | |
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| 30 | 1 | "Over and Out of This World" | 17 April 2023 (2023-04-17) | N/A | |
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Brandon Fugal and his team return with Travis Taylor to continue “the most interesting science experiment of our time”. | |||||
| 31 | 2 | "Who’s Your Data" | 24 April 2023 (2023-04-24) | N/A | |
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The team conducts a drone light experiment above the Triangle they claim indicates activity in the mesa. | |||||
| 32 | 3 | "The Blob" | 2 May 2023 (2023-05-02) | N/A | |
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The team claims to have discovered metallic objects beneath the Mesa and conducts an experiment. | |||||
| 33 | 4 | "The Watchers" | 8 May 2023 (2023-05-08) | N/A | |
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The team claims to find more evidence of something buried in the mesa. Brandon returns to the ranch with Utah's Attorney General Sean Reyes. | |||||
| 34 | 5 | "Here’s The Drill" | 15 May 2023 (2023-05-15) | N/A | |
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The team begins drilling at the Mesa and conducts new experiments at the Triangle. | |||||
| 35 | 6 | "What A Mesa" | 22 May 2023 (2023-05-22) | N/A | |
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The team drills into the Mesa on Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 36 | 7 | "The Return" | 5 June 2023 (2023-06-05) | N/A | |
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A former ranch investigator and government official return. | |||||
| 37 | 8 | "Between the Lines" | 12 June 2023 (2023-06-12) | N/A | |
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A new, subsurface investigation leads to a discovery near Homestead Two. | |||||
| 38 | 9 | "Something's Up" | 19 June 2023 (2023-06-19) | N/A | |
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The team perform a radar experiment above the Mesa and Triangle. | |||||
| 39 | 10 | "A Frequency Occurrence" | 26 June 2023 (2023-06-26) | N/A | |
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Multi-tribal Native Americans perform a drum ceremony. The team find the results interesting. | |||||
| 40 | 11 | "In the Heat of the Night" | 10 July 2023 (2023-07-10) | N/A | |
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The team uses aerial LIDAR above the triangle. They are baffled by the results. | |||||
| 41 | 12 | "In and Out" | 17 July 2023 (2023-07-17) | N/A | |
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After more rocket and helicopter experiments, the team feel the result is a phenomenon which might prove an ancient legend. | |||||
| 42 | 13 | "Everything in the Air All at Once" | 24 July 2023 (2023-07-24) | N/A | |
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The team conducts complex experiments at the Triangle, and claim a number of events are bizarre. | |||||
| 43 | 14 | "Living in a Metamaterial World" | 1 August 2023 (2023-08-01) | N/A | |
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The team makes further experiments and say they reveal more evidence of activity in the skies above the ranch. The team feels they have discovered anomalies underground. | |||||
| 44 | 15 | "Looking Back and Far Beyond" | 8 August 2023 (2023-08-08) | N/A | |
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Clips show recapping the most important and interesting discoveries of the series thus far. | |||||
Season 5 (2024)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) |
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| 45 | 1 | "What's Up?" | 23 April 2024 (2024-04-23) | N/A |
| 46 | 2 | "Holey Cow" | 30 April 2024 (2024-04-30) | N/A |
| 47 | 3 | "Dead In The Water" | 7 May 2024 (2024-05-07) | N/A |
| 48 | 4 | "Bad Taste" | 14 May 2024 (2024-05-14) | N/A |
| 49 | 5 | "The Flash" | 21 May 2024 (2024-05-21) | N/A |
| 50 | 6 | "Beaming Up" | 4 June 2024 (2024-06-04) | N/A |
| 51 | 7 | "The Cone Zone" | 11 June 2024 (2024-06-11) | N/A |
| 52 | 8 | "Graves Concern" | 18 June 2024 (2024-06-18) | N/A |
| 53 | 9 | "Spinning Out" | 25 June 2024 (2024-06-25) | N/A |
| 54 | 10 | "What the Gel?" | 2 July 2024 (2024-07-02) | N/A |
| 55 | 11 | "Bad to the Drone" | 9 July 2024 (2024-07-09) | N/A |
| 56 | 12 | "Drone-Ageddon" | 16 July 2024 (2024-07-16) | N/A |
| 57 | 13 | "The Breakthrough" | 23 July 2024 (2024-07-23) | N/A |
| 58 | 14 | "Shock and Awe" | 23 July 2024 (2024-07-23) | N/A |
Season 6 (2025)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original release date | Viewers (millions) |
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| 59 | 1 | "Bubble Trouble" | 3 June 2025 (2025-06-03) | N/A |
| 60 | 2 | "The Drone Zone" | 10 June 2025 (2025-06-10) | N/A |
| 61 | 3 | "Smoke It Out" | 17 June 2025 (2025-06-17) | N/A |
| 62 | 4 | "Bursting the Bubble" | 24 June 2025 (2025-06-24) | N/A |
| 63 | 5 | "Pushing Boundaries" | 1 July 2025 (2025-07-01) | N/A |
| 64 | 6 | "Posting Up" | 8 July 2025 (2025-07-08) | N/A |
| 65 | 7 | "Lights Out" | 15 July 2025 (2025-07-15) | N/A |
| 66 | 8 | "Swarm Weather" | 22 July 2025 (2025-07-22) | N/A |
| 67 | 9 | "Darting Around" | 29 July 2025 (2025-07-29) | N/A |
| 68 | 10 | "Hard Target" | 5 August 2025 (2025-08-05) | N/A |
| 69 | 11 | "Hard To Handle" | 12 August 2025 (2025-08-12) | N/A |
| 70 | 12 | "Hard Boiled" | 19 August 2025 (2025-08-19) | N/A |
| 71 | 13 | "Fire In The Holes" | 26 August 2025 (2025-08-26) | N/A |
| 72 | 14 | "Meeting of the Minds" | 2 September 2025 (2025-09-02) | N/A |
Season 7 (2026)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [1] | Original release date [1] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 73 | 1 | "All Fired Up" | 19 May 2026 (2026-05-19) | TBD |
| 74 | 2 | "Flying High" | 26 May 2026 (2026-05-26) | TBD |
| 75 | 3 | "Setting Boundaries" | 2 June 2026 (2026-06-02) | TBD |
References
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