ERIK: Our ambition is to survey the triangle.
JAN: Right here, there is a target.
TRAVIS: Right where the data pointed to a tunnel.
JAN: Yeah, something's going on there.
THOMAS: We need to get our drill out there.
As they're hitting, you can see it just turned to pure liquid.
That would imply a void.
I'm getting, like, a really bad metallic taste.
Shut it down, shut it down.
We have a safety issue we need to address.
ERIK: That could be exposure to radiation.
I'm starting to taste metal.
I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding you.
Everybody needs to vacate this area now.
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah,
there is absolutely electricity built up on this thing.
There shouldn't be any, should there?
TRAVIS: No.
NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth:
animal mutilations,
bizarre UFO sightings
and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years, the federal government
tried to find answers and failed.
Now a new team of dedicated scientists,
researchers and experts has taken over.
They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...
...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
-ERIK: Hey, guys. -TRAVIS: What's going on, man?
THOMAS: Good to see you back. How are you feeling?
-ERIK: Heck of a lot better. -Good.
TRAVIS: Yesterday, our team had
one of the strangest experiences ever
during our investigation here on Skinwalker Ranch.
Right after we drilled into a void
where previous magnetometry and radar surveys
have detected evidence of
a possible underground tunnel
between the triangle and the mesa,
drill operator Brady Davis and Erik Bard
both started to taste metal.
And after those guys left for safety reasons,
something else happened that made me wonder
if it was caused by whatever we hit underground.
Right after you left, Erik,
we're trying to figure out
what is it about this drill that's causing people to
have this metallic taste.
And so, we went over to the drill rig,
and we took a voltmeter
and we touched one lead to the metal
drill bit and the other to the ground.
And we should have measured, you know, nothing,
because there's no current path for anything to flow there
-that we know of. -Okay.
And we measured an electrical field
between the ground and the drill bit.
And who knows how high that voltage got,
while they were standing there beside it and it was drilling.
ERIK: Wow.
I really wish I had stayed around.
Well, you know, I think you are going to be
very interested in what I'm about to show you.
So, you recall,
on the drilling rig, we put one of
-the data-logging GPS sensors. -Oh, yeah, right.
ERIK: I'm going to bring this up.
Watch this. Right there.
-TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness. -ERIK: Now, correct me if I'm wrong,
but that drilling rig did not go into the mesa.
-TRAVIS: Lord, no. -No.
ERIK: Right. That drilling rig didn't move at all.
Nevertheless, what we see happening here is
the GPS data are showing
a track that runs basically...
TRAVIS: Underground and into the mesa.
ERIK: Yeah, northwest.
Now, these are
the Lunasonde radar points.
TRAVIS: Look at that.
ERIK: Look at the correspondence between these.
TRAVIS: One year ago, we conducted a radar survey
with a company named Lunasonde,
which detected a possible metallic tunnel
underground between the triangle and the mesa.
And the GPS data from a device that
Erik attached to the drill rig yesterday
shows that the rig somehow moved northwest
and then went into the mesa
along the exact line where this possible tunnel
that we were drilling for was detected.
What in the world could have caused that?
You-you know, it's almost as if we've got something,
whether it's natural or not,
we've got something under the surface
that is influencing the data
that we've collected in several different ways,
completely different technologies,
and they're lining up.
TRAVIS: This is really fascinating,
that there could be something under the ground right there
that's causing these phenomena.
ERIK: Yes, it makes me want to keep drilling
-down into that hole. -Yes.
Yes.
ERIK: So, I want to get your eyes on
the high-speed video footage.
-TRAVIS: Oh, there's more? -Oh, yes.
TRAVIS: During the drilling operation, we also had
a high-speed camera pointed at the sky
directly above the triangle,
taking hundreds of shots per second,
looking for anything strange,
so we were on the edge of our seats to find out
what the camera had actually captured.
ERIK: Let's dive in.
I'm gonna look at it with the enhanced view.
This is the footage from out at the triangle.
Um, as we play this,
you probably see the, uh, the lens flare
that we're used to looking at.
But there's some things in here
that I cannot readily dismiss.
-Let's see it, all right? -All right.
Watch what happens here.
-TRAVIS: Wow. -ERIK: We have several objects
moving in unison.
TRAVIS: Look how fast they're moving.
And it looks like it sped up, even.
-Did you see that? -ERIK: Mm-hmm.
TRAVIS: They-- those are moving in a straight line.
-ERIK: And see this guy here? -TRAVIS: Yeah, look at that one.
And it's moving way faster than an airplane
in a straight-- Here's another. Look at this.
ERIK: Yes.
That's not natural.
Yeah.
TRAVIS: Erik was right.
These UAPs were definitely
nothing natural,
and were the most
we've ever captured
in a single setting.
So, what were they?
Where did they come from?
And how might they be connected to
whatever we drilled into
underground between the triangle and the mesa?
-TRAVIS: Wow. -This is cool stuff.
Yeah, so, you know, out of all these observations,
you know, I feel like we've got some-some action items.
Well, I think, as soon as possible,
we need to get that drill rig back out here
and see what's in that-- the bottom of that hole.
ERIK: Yep.
Well, guys, this has been a great discussion.
I... I appreciate getting your minds, obviously,
your eyes and your minds on this problem set.
-BRYANT: Yeah. -TRAVIS: All right.
-THOMAS: Yeah. Eventful day. -TRAVIS: Good stuff, Erik.
ERIK: Yeah.
JAN: Okay, let's do it.
Grab that.
TRAVIS: While Thomas Winterton
was arranging for the drillers to come back
and help us figure out what's underground by the triangle...
We're going to want to go on this side right here,
up this path.
You'll kind of see where we've kind of gone before,
-but... -Okay.
TRAVIS: ...Kaleb Bench was helping
ground-penetrating radar expert Jan Francke
scan the mesa with a new device
where he's previously detected evidence of
something very strange buried deep inside there.
-All right. -So, Jan,
I'm assuming we would just
-want you to go back and forth... -Yeah.
...as much as we can, and really see how far back
and how deep this anomaly is by chance.
-Let's give it a go, for sure. -Yeah.
TRAVIS: If all the UAPs we've seen in the skies
above Skinwalker Ranch weren't strange enough,
for the last three years,
we've been trying to identify a 400-foot-long,
dome-shaped object that we detected inside the mesa.
During previous drilling operations,
we've been unable to penetrate it,
but we have recovered metal fragments
in the spoils that, believe it or not,
are composed of similar materials
to what NASA uses to protect
the outside of our spacecraft
for re-entry into the atmosphere.
-JAN: Here we go. -So, Jan has come back to
scan the top of the mesa
with a new, specialized GPR unit
that he believes can get better images of this thing
and help us plan for an even more advanced
drilling operation in the coming weeks
to finally figure out
just what the heck is really inside there.
-KALEB: Is it good? -JAN: It's good, everything's working.
KALEB: We'll just kind of go slow.
JAN: Yeah, yeah. I'll let you lead the way.
-ADDY: Hi. -KANDUS: Hey, there.
How's it going?
-TOM: Hi, Addy. -Hello.
TRAVIS: While Jan and Kaleb
conducted the GPR survey on the mesa,
over at Homestead One,
ranch caretakers Kandus Linde and Tom Lewis
met once again with Addy Diaz and her brother Bubba.
They live very close by and wanted to share
more information with us
about cattle mutilations that took place on Skinwalker Ranch
back when the previous owner, Robert Bigelow,
investigated the property with the help of
the federal government more than a decade ago.
-Look at these tooth marks. -Yeah.
It would have to be larger than a wolf.
TRAVIS: We recently found a dead cow
on the property with teeth marks in it
that biologist Ben Woodruff told us
may have actually been caused by a dire wolf,
an animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Since there have been legends of dire wolves
attacking and mutilating cattle on Skinwalker Ranch in the past,
we really wanted to find out
what Addy and Bubba had to tell us.
So, you basically grew up here, right?
-ADDY: Yeah. -KANDUS: Can you tell us
a little bit more about cattle mutilations
-in the area? -BUBBA: Oh, yeah.
ADDY: Yeah, it was probably around September of 1997,
my grandpa was driving out, you know,
in the field over this way
and he found his cattle on the fence line.
-TOM: Okay. -Hmm.
The cow's, you know, body there had no nose,
no tongue, no eyes, its ears were cut off.
Everything inside of the cow was gone.
There was, like, no blood around it,
and the liver was perfectly placed on a log next to it.
-What? -TOM: Really?
ADDY: But, like, it didn't have no opening
right here, and if it was coyotes, there'd be tracks,
there'd be blood everywhere.
Right.
They had a team come out and look at it.
TOM: Do you know if the people they called in
to look at the cow were part of the Bigelow team
or if it was a vet or...
ADDY: Yeah, it was a vet first,
and then Bigelow's team came.
-TOM: Bigelow's team came. -KANDUS: Uh-huh.
BUBBA: What is that?
ADDY: Oh, yeah. It's over there. Look.
TOM: Oh, that's huge.
BUBBA: Oh, man. Big, giant plane.
I've never seen a plane fly that low.
TOM: Yeah.
-That's like a military... -Oh, man.
-ADDY: Yeah. -BUBBA: That's way low.
TOM: Wow.
TOM: That's like a military...
-KANDUS: Oh, man. -ADDY: Yeah.
BUBBA: That's way low.
Wow, that was a military plane, wasn't it?
TRAVIS: In the past few years,
numerous military helicopters and planes
have flown back and forth
over the ranch during our investigations.
Helicopter, helicopter!
TRAVIS: Like they were trying to conduct surveillance
of what we were doing.
When Tom and Kandus alerted us about the aircraft they saw,
Erik checked the surveillance cameras
and confirmed that it was, indeed, a C-17,
which are used by the United States Air Force.
We could tell because of the shape
of the rear rudder and its cargo tailgate.
So, was this a military plane trying to spy on us
just as we were looking deeper
into what could be inside the mesa?
And if so, for what purpose?
Have you noticed any other military craft,
especially low-flying craft?
Oh, yeah. All the time throughout here in the Basin.
Wow.
BUBBA: You know, like, helicopters
and planes flying really low.
-Yeah. -(laughs) Yeah.
And they'll have a big dome
underneath the plane, like a camera-like thing
-or whatever it is. -KANDUS: Oh, yeah.
-Yeah. -BUBBA: One day,
I did see a big white plane that had,
like, a satellite dish thing on the very top of the plane.
-Yeah. -BUBBA: We've seen quite a few of those, actually.
-KANDUS: Like a radar or what? -BUBBA: Like a radar, yeah.
-That's what it sounds like. -KANDUS: Huh.
And then, over here on Highway 40,
we did spot two of those
helicopters with two propellers.
-Okay, yeah. Like a Chinook. -BUBBA: What are they called?
A Chinook, pretty much, yeah.
TOM: Yeah, we saw them fly,
basically, around the ranch.
-And then just take off again. -That's pretty weird.
Yeah. You've spent your childhood here,
grew up in these hills, grew up on these roads.
What was it like?
ADDY: It's definitely not normal.
-Mm-hmm. -ADDY: But, to me, it's the only place I know.
-Yeah. -KANDUS: And were you warned
to stay away from this area?
Um, no, not really.
Until Bigelow came.
Mm.
-So, late '90s? -Yeah.
Yeah, so what was it like? Do you remember
back then, when-when Bigelow's team was here,
what was going on?
Like, did you see
any crazy stuff happening
when he had his team stationed here?
I'd hear stories, you know, from my grandpa.
And, you know, just the traffic that go up and down the road.
I used to see military Humvees come up and down the road.
They had a cargo thing in the back.
ADDY: Yeah.
So, these Humvees, they had cargo area?
Yeah, they were pulling, like, little trailers
in the back of them, you know, like big spotlights.
You know, like the kind you haul around when you want to
-light up an area. -And they were coming into the ranch?
BUBBA: They were coming in and out.
They would be carrying something on their flatbed,
but it'd be in a cargo container.
I don't know what it would be,
but it would be a military truck, too.
TOM: Robert Bigelow dumped considerable money
into this place researching,
and the problem with Bigelow
is he hasn't released most of the data that he has.
Right now, hearing all these stories,
Addy provided us with some information
about the Bigelow era, which is interesting.
Considering our investigation
around the triangle and the mesa,
I can't help wonder,
maybe the Bigelow team found something.
So, thank you for sharing and, you know,
having the courage to share these experiences
that you've had and your families had with us.
And if there's anybody else that you can think of
that might want to share their experiences with us,
we'd really appreciate it.
-Yeah. All right. (grunts) -All righty, sounds good.
-Thanks so much, Bubba, -Oh, it's good to see you.
-Good to see you, too. -All right, yup, you're welcome.
TOM: We will talk to you soon.
ERIK: Hey, Jan.
Hey, Erik.
Well, thanks for jumping on with us.
We are all so anxious to find out what you've discovered
from the latest GPR survey there above the drill site.
TRAVIS: Based on our previous GPR scans,
we believe that there's a massive,
dome-shaped object in the mesa.
And we've also recovered metal fragments
made up of the same materials
that NASA uses to protect spacecraft.
So, we're hoping like hell that Jan Francke's new GPR data
will reveal additional details about this thing
and also help us make a plan
to get inside the mesa
and figure out what in the world it could be.
JAN: If you recall, from last year,
the last time we did the survey,
we did about 300 meters
along the very top of the slope,
and we detected that really strange anomaly.
ERIK: The dome feature.
JAN: Absolutely, yes, exactly.
What I wanted to understand is how far back
into the mesa does that continue?
So, let me share my screen with you,
and I'll show you what we've actually
been able to gather here.
So, guys, these black lines represent where we collected
the GPR data as we scanned back and forth
across the mesa.
So, we did a total of 12 passes,
starting at the edge of the mesa and going backwards.
Now, on the first pass,
I got a hit on my device right here,
and on the GPR screen, this is what it looked like.
It was the exact same area where we detected
the large anomaly last year.
So, on my second pass, a little bit further back,
I got another hit right here,
and it happened to be in line with the previous one.
Again.
JAN: So I kept going backwards.
On my third pass, yet again,
I got a hit that was also in line with the others.
And this kept happening
on the remaining nine passes.
So, in total, I got 12 hits
for the same anomaly as I went further and further back.
-Yes. -So, it is repeatable.
Whoa.
JAN: What this all adds up to
is probably a metallic object
that could be buried inside there,
measuring, well, at least 300 feet long,
and it might be even larger.
Wow.
Erik and I loved that Jan compared
multiple scans that confirmed
we do indeed have a massive object inside the mesa.
We've also been able to speculate about it based on
our drilling operations, so it was very helpful to have
new data to back up our previous findings.
JAN: So, what we did is,
being able to now create
a three-dimensional shape around it...
So, let me show you what that looks like in 3D.
This is our target in the same space,
so we can really see how that lines up.
-Really? -JAN: But, remember,
this is not the shape of the object,
this is just what the radar sees.
The main target is very, very clear.
But as we look at this,
there is an absolutely obvious target
that extends across this entire area.
-Wow. -It looks a lot like
you would think a debris field would be.
ERIK: Just think about what circumstances
would produce a debris field
inside of a mesa.
ERIK: Just think about what circumstances
would produce a debris field inside of a mesa.
TRAVIS: Our investigation
has to be objective, and we have to follow
where the scientific data takes us.
Jan Francke's new ground-penetrating radar scans
of the inside of the mesa,
where we've been investigating a massive dome-shaped object
for several years, is showing evidence
of a possible debris field around it.
So, what in the heck could be inside there?
Could it be something man-made?
Perhaps. But why in the middle of nowhere?
I can't see
a natural phenomenon that we could
explain easily causing this sort of anomaly.
KALEB: It reminds me of when we had,
uh, Jake Huffman out
in that same area right there.
Well, that's interesting.
I believe, at some point,
there was blasting done.
Perhaps that was done to hide something.
TRAVIS: A couple years ago,
demolition expert Jake Huffman inspected
all the boulders covering this area of the mesa,
and he gave us his opinion
that a huge explosion may have caused it.
So, now that Jan
has detected new images of what we believe to be
a massive dome-shaped object
and a possible debris field around it,
we have to figure out how to get inside there
and find out what this is.
So, this could be multiple things.
Right now, it's all speculation, but here's what we know.
There's a very large volume of different material makeup
in the mesa right there,
and it could be metallic.
It would really behoove us to drill there
and see if we can find any material in those spots.
You know, I feel like this has become
the center point of our research.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Well, Jan, thank you for sharing the data.
I know we're gonna be in touch again
and soon on the follow-up.
Well, thanks for having me on, guys. Really appreciate it.
-We'll be in touch. -Thanks, Jan.
JAN: All right, take care.
TRAVIS: All right, Kalista, we're getting close.
H-How you feeling about that?
KALISTA: A little nervous.
-TRAVIS: Yeah? -Don't know what to expect.
TRAVIS: While we were getting our ducks in a row
for how to get inside the mesa,
the next day, we were ready to continue drilling
near the triangle to find out
if there really is a metallic tunnel beneath Skinwalker Ranch.
Here you are, at the command center.
-KALISTA: I'm excited to meet them. -Here are the guys
waiting to meet you, look at that.
And to help us collect more scientific data
as we continue our drilling exercise,
I brought my favorite future scientist out
to work with the team--
my daughter, Kalista Taylor.
I got somebody I want y'all to meet.
-Nice to meet you. -Kalista.
This is my daughter, Kalista.
-Good to meet you, finally. -You, too.
-Nice to meet you. -You, too.
-Hey, how are you? -Good.
KALEB: The new and improved Travis 2.0?
Yeah, Travis 2.0, that makes sense.
Nice to meet you. Heard so much about you.
-So, I see you're carrying something. -Yes.
She's been wanting to build a sensor
that would help us. She put it together, tested it,
-got it working, wrote the code. -Yeah, it's multiple sensors
on two different microcomputers, so...
Yeah, it's got the GPS altitude, the pressure altitude,
and then, you can map the trajectory
by the accelerometer data,
so, many different mapping possibilities.
That's perfect.
KALISTA: I'm a sophomore electrical engineering student.
My dad asked me to build a multiple sensor package
that could detect GPS,
pressure, temperature and humidity data
to help decipher what's going on here.
-Well, let's go test it out. -ERIK: Yeah.
THOMAS: Kaleb and I will meet you out there.
-All right. Sounds good. -Let's get out there.
No time like the present.
KALISTA: I wanted to be able
to contribute something to help
read and decipher through some of those things
by collecting data through different types of sensors.
Oh, yeah.
TRAVIS: While the drillers were getting ready
to find out if there really could be
an underground tunnel near the triangle...
I think that's good. All right, let's load it.
...we wanted to run an additional experiment to collect
more data in the air where we've recently seen several UAPs and
experienced a bunch of odd GPS errors
with our instrumented drones
between the triangle and the east field.
-Oh, that's gonna work great. Perfect. -Nice.
TRAVIS: So, just a few feet away from the drill site,
we attached Kalista's multi-sensor device
to Jim Royston's lidar drone
so he could fly it toward the east field
and scan for anything strange between these two locations.
Who knows if there could be a connection
between the anomalies that we've detected in the air
as well as underground.
We hoped this experiment would help us find out.
Okay. Here we go.
-KALISTA: Yes! -TRAVIS: There it goes.
-Look at that. -How cool.
-(laughs) You built that. -Yup.
-TRAVIS: Maiden flight of your sensor, Kalista. -Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Ain't that cool? Can't beat that. -Yeah.
ERIK: I'm looking forward
to the scientific deliverables
that come out of flying this payload.
Hopefully, we'll get more insights
about what is happening above the triangle.
So we can see it's on its way.
We're gonna look for that typical error...
TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
ROYSTON: ...once it gets to the east canyon.
TRAVIS: Right.
It'll be really good to see what your sensor says...
-Yeah. -...compared to the accelerometers
and all the other sensors.
So, whenever we have good GPS, this is green.
See right here?
-It went red. -ROYSTON: So we just got it,
-right where we expected. -Okay. Yeah.
So you guys are seeing it on the screen, right?
-Oh, wow. -SAM: We've lost the connection to the controller.
-KALISTA: So it happens every time? -SAM: Yup.
TRAVIS: Yes, in that same spot every time.
That's so weird.
-It makes no sense, man. -Yeah.
TRAVIS: It was crazy that Jim's lidar drone lost its GPS signal
right as he flew over the east field, because
during other recent experiments between that area
and the triangle, the exact same thing happened.
It's like there's just this void in the sky
where we can't collect data.
So, what could that be?
And how might it be related
to those UAPs we saw a few days ago?
ROYSTON: Here we go, we're back, we're right in that area,
and we're green again.
Yup, there we... there we go again. Yep.
Well, hopefully, your sensor will give us some more
-information about what's happening there. -Yes, yes.
Yes. Perfect.
KALISTA: That would be awesome.
-THOMAS: You're at 35, right? -JEREMY: Uh-huh.
-I think that... -Keep going?
Yeah, I think we go another five feet
-and see if we get out of it. -Okay.
TRAVIS: While Jim Royston started processing the data
from the aerial survey that he and Kalista ran,
the drilling operation continued near the triangle
to look for evidence of a possible underground tunnel.
JONATHAN: Okay.
We're not having much luck with getting any deeper.
THOMAS: It seems like we've hit just a hard surface
-that's not letting it go down any further. -Yeah.
THOMAS: Is this hard surface what the GPR was picking up?
Or could it be a ceiling or some type of surface layer
to a void that lies below?
Either way, I'm eager
to get back to drilling.
JEREMY: We got to get that sample.
JONATHAN: Okay.
(whirring)
JONATHAN: It won't let me pull up.
MASON: That's not good.
JONATHAN: How are we going to get that out of there?
JEREMY: If it's okay, I'd like
to just see if our center rod is wedged in there.
Yeah, you do what you got to do.
If there is, we can get that out of there.
JONATHAN: Feels free.
Coming up.
JEREMY: It stayed down there.
THOMAS: It stayed down?
Yup.
THOMAS: Unfortunately, the drill rod is stuck
down in this hole, and we can't get it back up.
It's going to make it impossible
for us to drill any deeper in this same hole.
These guys have drilled thousands of holes,
but we're here on Skinwalker Ranch,
and just trying to get a single hole
seems to be a herculean task.
Hey, guys. You got our copy?
ERIK: Yeah, Thomas.
Go ahead.
THOMAS: So, uh,
we cannot go down any further, and that center rod
that goes down through the drill casing
and takes the core sample has fallen down the hole.
So, at this point, we're going to have
to leave that center rod down in there
and then, figure out a way to fish it out.
Understood, Thomas.
Thanks for that update.
Um, well, I got a much simpler idea
if you guys are on board with it.
-Go ahead. -Let's move to the center
of the triangle and try drilling there.
Definitely. I'd love to get out of this hole.
Definitely. Uh, drillers said
they would love to get out of this hole.
So, we can just move it over a little bit and do it again.
Okay, understood. Thanks for the update.
I would
normally expect a drilling rig to have no difficulty drilling
into the kind of soil that we at least think we have here.
So, clearly, this is kind of frustrating.
The next step is to move to another location.
Okay. Coming up. Watch yourself.
ERIK: In the past, we've seen things that are suggestive
of tunnels or some other structure beneath the triangle,
so I want us to continue drilling
at the center of the triangle. There's always
the possibility that we'll find something unexpected.
MASON: Keep going a little bit, a little bit.
That's perfect, then, looks great.
MASON: Start spinning her.
JONATHAN: Spinning.
TRAVIS: Given all the phenomena that
we've experienced here,
who knows what we could find?
Hopefully, the entrance to a tunnel.
Let's launch this thing.
We decided to launch some rockets to see
if we could stimulate anything strange to happen.
At the same time,
Erik got set up in the command center
to keep a watch on the spectrum analyzer,
signal detectors and the surveillance cameras.
BRYANT: Hey, guys?
THOMAS: Yeah, go ahead.
BRYANT: We're gonna go ahead and launch a rocket,
so just be advised.
Copy that.
THOMAS: All right, we'll, uh, watch for it.
TRAVIS: Go ahead and go hot with that thing, Kaleb!
(high-pitched tone)
KALEB: Five, four,
three, two, one.
TRAVIS: Holy crap, look at that thing go.
THOMAS: Yup, going north.
-(high-pitched tone) -TRAVIS: Hold up, hold up. Wait.
What is that?
Straight up, it's right there.
BRYANT: It's right here. It's right above our heads.
-TRAVIS: Right there! -KALEB: Right there, right there.
-Right there, right there. -TRAVIS: That is flashing,
-whatever that is. -BRYANT: Oh.
-Oh, right over there. -TRAVIS: I see it, I see it!
BRYANT: Is it an airplane?
KALEB: That's not a plane.
TRAVIS: I don't know what that flash up in the sky was,
but it definitely was nothing like an aircraft or a satellite
or anything that made any sense.
It was pulsing bright and then fading out over and over.
Disappearing and reappearing in the same spot
in the southwestern sky.
TRAVIS: Give me a walkie, give me a walkie! Somebody!
Walkie, walkie, walkie, walkie, walkie, walkie.
Hey, Erik, are you anywhere to hear a walkie?!
It's not flashing anymore.
Uh, I still see it. It's real faint.
TRAVIS: We have a flash in the sky.
It's, uh, straight up from the drill site,
a little bit south, a little bit west.
-Uh... -It got real faint.
I think there's a little bit of cloud between us and it now.
ERIK: Copy that, Travis.
I'm watching.
Yeah, that was a definite flash.
And it was right there, and it was flashing...
-bright, at us. -Yup.
That wasn't something that was just a flare.
No.
Well, should we launch another rocket and see if it comes back?
-Damn right we should. -Okay, let's do it.
TRAVIS: After that flash,
I couldn't wait to launch another rocket,
but also wanted to check in with the drillers
to see what they were finding underground.
How deep are they now, Thomas?
We're at 35, but we're at bedrock, so...
-Oh, really? -Yeah, we're-we're at bedrock.
So what I told 'em to do is let's get a core,
make sure that's what we're really into.
And, uh, if it is bedrock...
-Then you can't do nothing else, right? -We've gone
-as far as we can go, so... -All right.
That's interesting. You didn't hit anything like that
over there, did you?
JEREMY: No, no. We hit
hard stuff, but it was gravel.
This is smooth, and...
we're getting through it but very, very slow.
TRAVIS: You are cutting through it?
Mm-hmm. So far.
Well, I'd like to see a sample of it,
see what it is. Who knows?
-Who knows? -Yeah.
-Few more minutes, we'll have one, so... -All right.
Let me know.
Got it.
(whirring, rattling)
Hey, did you see that?
KALEB: Yeah.
TRAVIS: You see the UFO?
Holy crap.
Look at that thing.
ERIK: It looked just like
a large, circular object.
What is going on?
BRYANT: What the hell is up there?
KALEB: Erik, something just went
behind the mesa to the north.
I don't know if you can see it.
ERIK: 'Kay, I'll let you know
if we've got anything on the ADS-B.
10-4. It was-- it was moving...
west to east.
BRYANT: We were doing this core drilling exercise.
We were launching some rockets.
And then, all of a sudden,
off to the south, we saw a flash in the sky
that persisted for several minutes.
And then we saw a UAP in the sky.
I don't know what's going on, but it's blowing my mind.
ERIK: I do not have any aircraft in the airspace,
uh, to the north of the mesa moving west to east.
THOMAS: We don't have visibility now, but I did see something.
Well, I'm not seeing it anymore.
We do have the core sample from-from down there
-where it's hard. -What does it look like?
Well, we-we actually just got it out.
We're just gonna break it open right now.
Let's go look and see what, uh, they pulled out of the drill
on this last, uh, core sample.
THOMAS: Let's get the ends off.
All right, well, this is
the sample off of the...
What would this be, about 36 feet?
Yeah, 35 to 36 and a half.
TRAVIS: This is where you said you were hitting something hard?
-Yeah. -THOMAS: You guys pounded
the crap out of this to get it to go down.
Yeah. Yeah, we hit it
150 times, nearly.
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-It's empty. -THOMAS: Uh, what?
TRAVIS: Why is it empty?
THOMAS: What was so hard
that it was taking so many hits
to get it to go down?
To my shock, the whole bottom part of it is...
is empty.
This is not what any of us expected.
What is that?
It's clay-ish, whatever that is.
It just broke it up enough that it just fell right back out
or didn't go up in the sample.
THOMAS: Picture putting it on a sandstone rock
-and hitting it. -TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
Rather than it making a perfect core
that went up there that just shattered the rock...
-Turned into gravel. -Turned into gravel when they pulled it up.
-Interesting. -So what we have now
is more questions than answers.
Right.
TRAVIS: This core should have been full of something,
since they broke through a really hard surface.
We've now drilled two holes where this possible tunnel is
in the area of the triangle.
But the only thing we've come up with is more questions.
We'd have to drill 47 holes over there
to really kind of make a profile of what's there.
We got to think this through a little bit better.
I think we go ahead and pull up.
-They can't go any further with this. -TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah.
Great idea. Let's do it.
And Erik's probably gonna hear...
hear about this, too, so...
Well, guys, I appreciate it.
-Thank y'all. -(chuckling) -(chuckles) Yeah.
Our pleasure.
All right.
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TRAVIS: Hey, fellas.
BRYANT: Hello.
ERIK: Got some data collected
during the core drilling exercise
out there at the triangle.
TRAVIS: The next morning,
we were really excited that Erik and Jim Royston
had processed our data
and already reviewed the surveillance footage.
Of course, I was especially interested
to find out what Kalista's sensor
might have actually detected.
You flew all the way
to the east field and back with the drone.
-Multiple times. Yeah. -Multiple times
with the-- Kalista's sensor.
I actually have imported that
into the three-dimensional framework,
and we can look at that.
If you guys are ready to look at some data,
I'd love to get it on the screen.
So, what you're seeing is the GPS position
as data-logged by Kalista's instrument.
And I'd like to know
whether anything that you see here
-jumps out right away. -Boy, jump-jumps out at me. -ROYSTON: Right away.
-(chuckles) You go ahead. -Yeah. No, you flew the drone. You say it.
The start point,
which is at the triangle.
-ERIK: Let's zoom in on that. -Yeah.
That's off.
-For sure. -ERIK: That's exactly what jumped out at me.
You know, Jim, I know you did not fly it this way.
-No. No. -TRAVIS: That looks like it's, you know,
half the height
-or even less. -Mm-hmm.
TRAVIS: And, you know, what's interesting to me,
if you look right here,
the data appears to jump down.
Now, where is that?
Is that over the east canyon?
It's where we've been seeing,
time and time again,
those anomalies.
TRAVIS: Just like the other recent drone experiments,
the GPS data on Jim's lidar drone
did not match the actual flight path
we all saw it make.
And then Kalista's sensor data showed
some kind of interference near the east field,
where we've seen UAPs fly through the mesa
and then head towards the triangle.
ERIK: This is exactly where we've seen dropouts in the data before.
-Absolutely. -TRAVIS: And this is a different sensor
than the ones we've used before.
So, again, we're seeing
the same anomaly in the same location.
We're at a point now
where what we can say is,
we know there is some sort of anomalous phenomena here.
Now, following on the timeline,
the collection of this data,
we also have a video record that I want to share with you guys,
uh, taken the-- taken the night.
TRAVIS: So that's after we moved
-from this hole... -Yes.
...to the one that was closer to the triangle.
Right. Still in the same general vicinity,
but, yeah, there at the triangle.
And I think you're gonna find these clips interesting.
'Kay, this is a flash
-that occurs in the sky. -BRYANT: Oh. Yeah.
ERIK: You'll-you'll remember this.
Uh, we have
the actual video record of it here.
TRAVIS: Wow! Look at that.
BRYANT: Oh.
TRAVIS: Wow! Look at that.
-And, you know, if you zoom in on it, Erik... -Okay.
I think we can dive into it
and take a frame-by-frame approach
to-to really see what's happening.
-Yeah, there it is. -That's it right there.
Look at that.
That is very spherical.
-ERIK: Well-defined. -Well-defined.
The flashing UAP that appeared
while we were drilling at the triangle last night
was one of the most incredible phenomena
we've ever documented on Skinwalker Ranch.
But what could it have been and where did it come from?
And then the next frame.
TRAVIS: Oh, there-- Still, it's there.
It's fading.
And what's really interesting is
that it's still very bright in the middle.
ERIK: Yes.
Now, I know, Erik,
that we saw this for several minutes.
The video you got, is there multiple?
-We do have multiple instances of the flash. -(clears throat)
-So here's the next one. -Okay.
ERIK: And...
it's instantly on,
and then it fades off. So that...
That one didn't look as bright.
TRAVIS: That didn't look near as bright that time.
One of the things that comes to mind, of course,
every time we see flashes like this is
-what we saw in Orion. -Yeah.
-It was two years ago, right? -Yeah.
Okay.
-There. There. Right. -Oh!
-What was that? -Okay, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
TRAVIS: That's the brightest thing in the sky.
ERIK: So here it is.
It did have certain things in common with it.
TRAVIS: It looked just like it,
and, uh, it looked like the same color.
-ERIK: Okay. -Weird.
And so what in the world is doing that and to what end?
And why are we only seeing it here at the ranch?
Not that anything on this ranch makes sense anyway,
but why do we keep experiencing stuff like this?
We launch rockets above the triangle
and we see GPS data show up underground
where a possible tunnel has been detected.
Then we drill for a tunnel
and we see multiple UAPs in the sky.
It's like the old Masonic adage,
"as above, so below."
There has to be a connection,
and we have to find out what it is.
Well, you know, we need to put our heads together
on how to follow up on this.
Jim, I appreciate the data review.
Fascinating material.
-Yeah. -ERIK: Like you to tell Kalista
thanks for the data.
-Thank you. -TRAVIS: All right.
ROYSTON: All right, guys.
ERIK: So our attention is being drawn again and again to the triangle,
both to the airspace above
and to what may lie in the subsurface.
I'm convinced that, as we continue this research,
we're also going to...
broaden and deepen
the kinds of things that we're doing here
to get to the answers.
TRAVIS: Thomas Winterton told me on my first day here
that Skinwalker Ranch reacts to certain people.
Well, it dang sure seems to react to us.
So we're gonna keep poking it with hard science
until it finally reveals its long-held secrets.
BRANDON: We have observed acute medical episodes
occurring simultaneously with drilling activity.
The concept
that digging brings with it
other disruption and other danger...
...is a reality.
The data proves it,
and the team is more motivated than ever
to get the answers.
In some ways, we have accomplished so much.
On the other hand, we are just getting warmed up.
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