1 00:00:01,871 --> 00:00:03,612 -Watch what happens here. -TRAVIS: Wow. 2 00:00:03,742 --> 00:00:05,614 ERIK: We have several objects 3 00:00:05,744 --> 00:00:08,008 moving in unison above the triangle. 4 00:00:09,618 --> 00:00:11,228 TRAVIS: What is that? 5 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:12,751 KALEB: I just saw a flash right there. 6 00:00:12,882 --> 00:00:14,231 TRAVIS: I see it, I see it. UAP right there! 7 00:00:14,362 --> 00:00:16,755 -Yep. -TRAVIS: Look at that thing. 8 00:00:16,886 --> 00:00:18,322 KALEB: We just want to really see 9 00:00:18,453 --> 00:00:20,977 how deep this anomaly is, by chance. 10 00:00:21,108 --> 00:00:22,239 Let's give it a go. 11 00:00:22,370 --> 00:00:23,501 JAN: This is what our target 12 00:00:23,632 --> 00:00:25,242 actually looks like. 13 00:00:25,373 --> 00:00:27,418 It looks a lot like you would think 14 00:00:27,549 --> 00:00:28,506 a debris field would be. 15 00:00:30,987 --> 00:00:34,469 NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah. 16 00:00:34,599 --> 00:00:37,298 It is considered the epicenter 17 00:00:37,428 --> 00:00:41,780 of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth: 18 00:00:41,911 --> 00:00:44,131 animal mutilations, 19 00:00:44,261 --> 00:00:46,742 bizarre UFO sightings 20 00:00:46,872 --> 00:00:51,877 and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans. 21 00:00:52,008 --> 00:00:54,315 For 20 years, the federal government 22 00:00:54,445 --> 00:00:57,840 tried to find answers and failed. 23 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:01,887 Now a new team of dedicated scientists, 24 00:01:02,018 --> 00:01:05,761 researchers and experts has taken over. 25 00:01:05,891 --> 00:01:09,591 They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal... 26 00:01:12,246 --> 00:01:15,423 ...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 27 00:01:19,949 --> 00:01:22,169 KALEB: Morning, guys. 28 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:23,953 -Hey, man. -We got Mike and Alex here with Mark Constructions. 29 00:01:24,084 --> 00:01:25,911 -Hey, guys. -Hey, how's it going? 30 00:01:26,042 --> 00:01:27,565 -Man. Hey, man. -THOMAS: Hey, Mike. 31 00:01:27,696 --> 00:01:29,393 -Hey, Thomas, how are you doing? -Good to see you again. 32 00:01:29,524 --> 00:01:31,047 TRAVIS: Thomas Winterton arranged for us to meet 33 00:01:31,178 --> 00:01:33,528 with a drilling team from Mark Construction 34 00:01:33,658 --> 00:01:35,573 to help us crack one of the biggest mysteries 35 00:01:35,704 --> 00:01:37,967 we've ever encountered here on Skinwalker Ranch: 36 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:40,535 just what the heck is inside the mesa? 37 00:01:40,665 --> 00:01:42,711 ERIK: So, guys, it sounds like 38 00:01:42,841 --> 00:01:44,669 you're bringing some capabilities that we've never 39 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,324 had out here in terms of the horizontal drilling. 40 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:49,152 Yeah, so we'll-we'll have the capabilities 41 00:01:49,283 --> 00:01:50,371 to about 60,000 pounds of force. 42 00:01:50,501 --> 00:01:52,024 -ERIK: 60,000 pounds? -TRAVIS: Wow. 43 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:53,722 MIKE: With the machine that we're bringing, yeah. 44 00:01:53,852 --> 00:01:57,291 Now, if something stops that, that's pretty crazy. 45 00:01:57,421 --> 00:01:59,206 TRAVIS: In the past two years, 46 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:01,556 we've conducted two separate drilling operations 47 00:02:01,686 --> 00:02:03,297 inside the mesa where we've encountered 48 00:02:03,427 --> 00:02:05,864 a 400-foot-long object 49 00:02:05,995 --> 00:02:08,693 that seems to be shaped like a dome. 50 00:02:08,824 --> 00:02:11,218 Neither of the previous drilling operations 51 00:02:11,348 --> 00:02:12,567 could penetrate this thing. 52 00:02:15,004 --> 00:02:17,137 I'm up against something pretty hard right now. 53 00:02:17,267 --> 00:02:19,878 TRAVIS: But what really stunned us was that 54 00:02:20,009 --> 00:02:23,665 small fragments of metal came out of the spoils pile. 55 00:02:23,795 --> 00:02:25,928 They were composed of similar kinds of materials 56 00:02:26,058 --> 00:02:28,583 that NASA and SpaceX use 57 00:02:28,713 --> 00:02:30,672 to protect spacecraft from the intense heat 58 00:02:30,802 --> 00:02:32,717 when they reenter the Earth's atmosphere. 59 00:02:32,848 --> 00:02:34,589 Oh, my. 60 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:36,286 TRAVIS: And just one week ago, 61 00:02:36,417 --> 00:02:38,593 ground-penetrating radar expert Jan Francke 62 00:02:38,723 --> 00:02:41,335 rescanned the mesa, and he identified 63 00:02:41,465 --> 00:02:43,554 several more potentially metallic anomalies 64 00:02:43,685 --> 00:02:45,643 around the dome-shaped object 65 00:02:45,774 --> 00:02:49,343 that look a lot like a possible debris field. 66 00:02:49,473 --> 00:02:52,476 THOMAS: We've gotten some data that Erik's gonna share with you, 67 00:02:52,607 --> 00:02:55,087 and we wanted to get your thoughts on it 68 00:02:55,218 --> 00:02:57,960 and kind of get a game plan of how we would tackle this. 69 00:02:58,090 --> 00:03:00,484 TRAVIS: So now that Thomas has found a team 70 00:03:00,615 --> 00:03:02,660 with a much more powerful drill rig, 71 00:03:02,791 --> 00:03:05,620 we're gonna conduct a more strategic operation. 72 00:03:05,750 --> 00:03:07,709 Our plan is to collect as much data as possible 73 00:03:07,839 --> 00:03:09,363 about this dome-shaped object 74 00:03:09,493 --> 00:03:11,365 and the other anomalies around it. 75 00:03:11,495 --> 00:03:14,585 Then, perhaps we can find a way to excavate them 76 00:03:14,716 --> 00:03:16,544 and figure out what they actually are. 77 00:03:18,023 --> 00:03:20,025 ERIK: Now, let's take a look at this. 78 00:03:22,245 --> 00:03:24,595 Our GPR expert has post-processed the data 79 00:03:24,726 --> 00:03:27,032 and given us, really, a three-dimensional 80 00:03:27,163 --> 00:03:29,470 -representation of whatever this is. -ALEX: Wow. 81 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,994 ERIK: We expect to be able to punch through right up beside. 82 00:03:32,124 --> 00:03:33,561 We don't want to go into this thing. 83 00:03:33,691 --> 00:03:35,824 'Cause we don't know what it is. 84 00:03:35,954 --> 00:03:37,391 TRAVIS: What if it's something important or dangerous? 85 00:03:37,521 --> 00:03:39,915 ERIK: Yeah. You're gonna come in 86 00:03:40,045 --> 00:03:43,266 and hopefully maintain a-a distance 87 00:03:43,397 --> 00:03:46,313 from this feature to the east 88 00:03:46,443 --> 00:03:48,967 and, hopefully, to the west, so that we can then 89 00:03:49,098 --> 00:03:51,840 bring instruments into that cased hole, 90 00:03:51,970 --> 00:03:55,757 that, uh, borehole, and study it from both sides. 91 00:03:58,107 --> 00:04:00,936 We've decided, rather than to drill into the structure, 92 00:04:01,066 --> 00:04:03,634 we should create boreholes on both sides of the anomaly 93 00:04:03,765 --> 00:04:06,768 that will provide instrumentation access 94 00:04:06,898 --> 00:04:11,120 inside the mesa, very near to but not penetrating into 95 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:12,904 the anomaly itself. 96 00:04:13,035 --> 00:04:15,951 I have in mind to insert active and passive instruments, 97 00:04:16,081 --> 00:04:18,301 some of which simply measure, others of which 98 00:04:18,432 --> 00:04:21,173 may even broadcast signals into the anomaly 99 00:04:21,304 --> 00:04:23,872 in order to study its response. 100 00:04:24,002 --> 00:04:26,178 This will give us an opportunity 101 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:28,050 to better understand whether it is of natural 102 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:30,661 or possible technological origins. 103 00:04:30,792 --> 00:04:32,663 Do you mind if I draw on the screen? 104 00:04:32,794 --> 00:04:34,230 ERIK: Uh, s-- Go for it. 105 00:04:34,361 --> 00:04:35,144 -Yeah, I would love that. -Yeah, please do. 106 00:04:38,539 --> 00:04:42,673 All right, so, we've cleared out an area right here. 107 00:04:42,804 --> 00:04:46,242 The goal is to come up 108 00:04:46,373 --> 00:04:49,680 and go as close to the dome as we can. 109 00:04:49,811 --> 00:04:53,336 It'd be really nice if we were able to bring 110 00:04:53,467 --> 00:04:57,122 a second drill hole up like that 111 00:04:57,253 --> 00:05:01,213 and allow these guys the ability to-to put equipment down 112 00:05:01,344 --> 00:05:03,607 and almost X-ray, if you will. 113 00:05:03,738 --> 00:05:06,610 ERIK: You know, you're creating an asset for us 114 00:05:06,741 --> 00:05:10,571 to study what could be a very interesting thing 115 00:05:10,701 --> 00:05:13,574 inside the mesa. 116 00:05:13,704 --> 00:05:14,488 THOMAS: Now we need your guys' thoughts 117 00:05:14,618 --> 00:05:17,708 on the logistics part of this. 118 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,928 MIKE: We never know what we're getting into until we're on-site, 119 00:05:20,058 --> 00:05:22,104 'cause every-everything's underground, 120 00:05:22,234 --> 00:05:23,453 but it's definitely doable. 121 00:05:23,584 --> 00:05:25,455 One thing that we would need to know 122 00:05:25,586 --> 00:05:28,458 is-is the smallest-sized hole that would be able to obtain 123 00:05:28,589 --> 00:05:30,634 the equipment you guys are sending up there. 124 00:05:30,765 --> 00:05:32,027 ERIK: So, Mike, what are the increments? 125 00:05:32,157 --> 00:05:33,855 What are the size increments of that borehole? 126 00:05:33,985 --> 00:05:36,684 So, our pilot hole will be a six-inch diameter hole... 127 00:05:36,814 --> 00:05:40,035 -Okay. -...um, and stepping up, uh, four inches at a time. 128 00:05:40,165 --> 00:05:43,430 So, we'll go six-inch, ten-inch, 14-inch, 18-inch. 129 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,170 TRAVIS: Working up to 18 inches 130 00:05:45,301 --> 00:05:47,738 for each borehole would be perfect. 131 00:05:47,869 --> 00:05:49,392 So if you can do that on both sides, 132 00:05:49,523 --> 00:05:52,352 we can put a transmitter on one side 133 00:05:52,482 --> 00:05:55,529 and a receiver on the other and go up through there 134 00:05:55,659 --> 00:05:59,184 with, like, a robot or a, or something, and pull it... 135 00:05:59,315 --> 00:06:00,534 -ERIK: Pull it through. -...uh, up through there. 136 00:06:00,664 --> 00:06:02,579 -Okay. -TRAVIS: The big thing is, 137 00:06:02,710 --> 00:06:05,669 we don't want the pipe to be conductive, 138 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,543 because we need to use radio waves, microwaves, 139 00:06:09,673 --> 00:06:11,458 gamma rays, everything we can think of 140 00:06:11,588 --> 00:06:13,634 to try and shoot through this thing and... 141 00:06:13,764 --> 00:06:15,984 -Send a signal through it? -...and-and figure out what it is. 142 00:06:16,114 --> 00:06:17,507 MIKE: Yeah, it's gonna be 143 00:06:17,638 --> 00:06:20,292 a concrete gel-based, um, casing that we put in. 144 00:06:20,423 --> 00:06:22,033 Okay. 145 00:06:22,164 --> 00:06:22,904 If everything goes according to plan, 146 00:06:23,034 --> 00:06:25,776 we will have two holes 147 00:06:25,907 --> 00:06:28,823 that would enable us to perform something akin to an X-ray, 148 00:06:28,953 --> 00:06:32,130 or a CAT scan, of that anomaly, 149 00:06:32,261 --> 00:06:33,828 and really give us an understanding 150 00:06:33,958 --> 00:06:35,743 of whether we're dealing with a natural feature 151 00:06:35,873 --> 00:06:38,049 or something far more interesting. 152 00:06:38,180 --> 00:06:39,747 TRAVIS: We've been told all kinds of stories about 153 00:06:39,877 --> 00:06:42,358 UFOs flying into the mesa and out. 154 00:06:42,489 --> 00:06:45,448 The alien bases and, you know, crazy stuff. 155 00:06:45,579 --> 00:06:47,102 We don't have any evidence that any of that's real. 156 00:06:47,232 --> 00:06:49,496 But what we do know is there's something weird 157 00:06:49,626 --> 00:06:51,976 inside the mesa. 158 00:06:52,107 --> 00:06:54,022 Well, I'm anxious to get out there 159 00:06:54,152 --> 00:06:56,111 over the next few days and get set up 160 00:06:56,241 --> 00:06:59,027 and get your assessment of-of what can be done out there. 161 00:06:59,157 --> 00:07:00,898 -Absolutely. -Let's do it. -All right. 162 00:07:01,029 --> 00:07:03,118 TRAVIS: I'm looking forward to it, guys. 163 00:07:14,303 --> 00:07:15,957 KALEB: Hey, Mike. 164 00:07:16,087 --> 00:07:18,046 -MIKE: How's it going? -BRYANT: Hey. Welcome back. 165 00:07:18,176 --> 00:07:19,830 -It's good to have you. -Yeah, it's good to be back. 166 00:07:19,961 --> 00:07:21,702 Got your crew, looks like you've got 167 00:07:21,832 --> 00:07:23,704 -a little bit of equipment with you. -Yep. 168 00:07:23,834 --> 00:07:25,532 We've got our setup, we're ready to go. 169 00:07:25,662 --> 00:07:28,709 ♪ 170 00:07:28,839 --> 00:07:30,667 TRAVIS: Couple days after our meeting, Mike Seriani, 171 00:07:30,798 --> 00:07:34,584 Alex Swanson and their team from Mark Construction Drillers 172 00:07:34,715 --> 00:07:36,891 came back to get our operation started in the mesa. 173 00:07:38,762 --> 00:07:39,676 MIKE: We'll get the drill unloaded 174 00:07:39,807 --> 00:07:40,982 and meet you out there. 175 00:07:42,244 --> 00:07:44,115 THOMAS: I'm really excited 176 00:07:44,246 --> 00:07:46,030 because we can finally be able to get a clear picture 177 00:07:46,161 --> 00:07:49,164 of what lies in and around the mesa. 178 00:07:50,295 --> 00:07:51,819 In the past, 179 00:07:51,949 --> 00:07:53,603 we've pulled metal out of the mesa, 180 00:07:53,734 --> 00:07:56,040 so the thing I'm looking forward to most 181 00:07:56,171 --> 00:07:58,652 is figuring out what is that metal from 182 00:07:58,782 --> 00:08:00,305 and how did it get there? 183 00:08:00,436 --> 00:08:02,917 Is there still a cavern or tunnel in there? 184 00:08:03,047 --> 00:08:05,397 Is it gonna show this big dome? 185 00:08:05,528 --> 00:08:07,312 After years and years of hearing stories 186 00:08:07,443 --> 00:08:09,576 of things being inside the mesa, 187 00:08:09,706 --> 00:08:11,795 who knows what else we'll find in there? 188 00:08:11,926 --> 00:08:13,928 You're ready to rock, huh? 189 00:08:14,058 --> 00:08:16,408 -Yeah. -You gonna use the same drill hole 190 00:08:16,539 --> 00:08:19,237 from last year or are you gonna create a new one? 191 00:08:19,368 --> 00:08:20,935 No, we're gonna create our own. 192 00:08:21,065 --> 00:08:23,198 So, we'll go in just to the-the right 193 00:08:23,328 --> 00:08:25,287 of the existing one and make our own hole the whole way. 194 00:08:25,417 --> 00:08:26,767 THOMAS: Okay. 195 00:08:26,897 --> 00:08:28,508 -We'll get out of your way. -Yeah. 196 00:08:28,638 --> 00:08:30,161 You let us know if there's anything you need from us. 197 00:08:30,292 --> 00:08:30,945 Sounds good. 198 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:32,903 TRAVIS: Awesome. 199 00:08:33,034 --> 00:08:35,602 The team will start the first of two holes 200 00:08:35,732 --> 00:08:38,343 across the road to the south of the mesa, 201 00:08:38,474 --> 00:08:41,346 and then drill a six-inch-diameter borehole 202 00:08:41,477 --> 00:08:44,524 that will track upwards and trace along the eastern side 203 00:08:44,654 --> 00:08:46,264 of the dome-shaped object 204 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:49,093 until the bit breaks through at the top of the mesa. 205 00:08:49,224 --> 00:08:51,574 Once both six-inch holes are completed, 206 00:08:51,705 --> 00:08:54,403 the team will widen them to 18 inches 207 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:57,101 and then coat them with a concrete-gel-based sealant 208 00:08:57,232 --> 00:08:59,321 that will allow us to insert imaging 209 00:08:59,451 --> 00:09:02,063 and energy-detecting devices to hopefully identify 210 00:09:02,193 --> 00:09:04,979 what this dome-shaped object is. 211 00:09:07,808 --> 00:09:10,158 And in order to collect the drilling spoils, 212 00:09:10,288 --> 00:09:12,595 Thomas is digging a pit to catch them 213 00:09:12,726 --> 00:09:14,292 right at the base of the mesa 214 00:09:14,423 --> 00:09:16,251 so we can look for any more fragments 215 00:09:16,381 --> 00:09:18,166 of metal or other strange materials 216 00:09:18,296 --> 00:09:20,168 that the drill may encounter. 217 00:09:21,343 --> 00:09:23,214 -Hey, Alex. -How's it going? 218 00:09:23,345 --> 00:09:25,347 -You got your beacon running? -Yes, sir. 219 00:09:25,477 --> 00:09:27,131 ERIK: Okay, and so, we're gonna monitor you 220 00:09:27,262 --> 00:09:29,177 from over here on the side. 221 00:09:29,307 --> 00:09:32,006 All right, well, it looks like we're ready to start poking in? 222 00:09:32,136 --> 00:09:33,224 -Yep. -All right. 223 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:34,574 JARED: Fire in the hole, huh? 224 00:09:36,793 --> 00:09:39,056 ERIK: Just behind the drilling head 225 00:09:39,187 --> 00:09:42,233 on the end of that rod, we have a beacon. 226 00:09:42,364 --> 00:09:45,802 It is an electronic device that broadcasts a signal 227 00:09:45,933 --> 00:09:49,153 up through the mesa to the receiver 228 00:09:49,284 --> 00:09:53,288 and provides information about the elevation, 229 00:09:53,418 --> 00:09:55,682 the direction-- or inclination-- 230 00:09:55,812 --> 00:09:59,207 as well as the temperature of the drill head itself. 231 00:09:59,337 --> 00:10:02,689 This is very important to guide this otherwise blind operation 232 00:10:02,819 --> 00:10:04,778 taking place inside of the mesa. 233 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,563 So, Travis, you're monitoring 234 00:10:07,694 --> 00:10:09,086 for that beacon signal on that drill head? 235 00:10:09,217 --> 00:10:12,089 Oh, absolutely. 236 00:10:12,220 --> 00:10:13,525 -ERIK: Is that him? -TRAVIS: That's him right there. 237 00:10:13,656 --> 00:10:16,137 So, it's 3605. 238 00:10:16,267 --> 00:10:19,053 ERIK: The RF spectrum analyzer enables us to monitor 239 00:10:19,183 --> 00:10:21,229 the signal coming out of that beacon. 240 00:10:21,359 --> 00:10:23,057 We can pinpoint the exact frequency 241 00:10:23,187 --> 00:10:24,972 that it is broadcasting. 242 00:10:25,102 --> 00:10:28,062 They've got the bit to the right level 243 00:10:28,192 --> 00:10:29,933 and they're gonna-- about to punch 244 00:10:30,064 --> 00:10:31,761 into the main wall to go up into the mesa. 245 00:10:31,892 --> 00:10:33,197 ERIK: All right, well, this is where things start 246 00:10:33,328 --> 00:10:34,590 -to get interesting. -BRYANT: Yep, for sure. 247 00:10:40,596 --> 00:10:41,902 Oh, look over here. 248 00:10:42,032 --> 00:10:44,861 Holy crap. Look at this. 249 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:46,254 We're detecting a different signal 250 00:10:46,384 --> 00:10:48,865 from the one coming from the drill beacon. 251 00:10:48,996 --> 00:10:51,041 Let's listen to it. 252 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,000 ERIK: Okay, what frequency are you at on that one? 253 00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:56,351 -31 megahertz. -All right. 254 00:10:56,481 --> 00:10:59,136 [static] 255 00:10:59,267 --> 00:11:00,572 TRAVIS: It's coming from inside the mesa, 256 00:11:00,703 --> 00:11:02,444 right at the drill site. 257 00:11:02,574 --> 00:11:05,229 What in the hell is that? 258 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,450 ♪ 259 00:11:16,458 --> 00:11:17,764 TRAVIS: What in the hell is that? 260 00:11:20,244 --> 00:11:22,551 It's coming from right at the drill site. 261 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,945 And it's not the beacon. 262 00:11:25,075 --> 00:11:26,207 -What is that? -Yeah, you can see where the beacon is 263 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:30,602 because it's that constant thing across it. 264 00:11:30,733 --> 00:11:32,779 TRAVIS: Just after the drilling operation got started, 265 00:11:32,909 --> 00:11:35,869 almost immediately, we detected a strange signal 266 00:11:35,999 --> 00:11:38,175 at about 31 megahertz that 267 00:11:38,306 --> 00:11:41,048 our antenna showed us was coming from inside the mesa. 268 00:11:41,178 --> 00:11:43,920 I don't know what that is, 269 00:11:44,051 --> 00:11:46,444 'cause I've never seen a signal like that before. 270 00:11:46,575 --> 00:11:48,620 It definitely wasn't the drilling beacon 271 00:11:48,751 --> 00:11:50,710 that we were already tracking. 272 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,277 So, could it possibly have been coming from 273 00:11:53,408 --> 00:11:55,453 the dome-shaped object itself? 274 00:11:55,584 --> 00:11:56,890 I don't understand any of this. 275 00:12:02,852 --> 00:12:04,201 JARED: She's not wanting to move. 276 00:12:04,332 --> 00:12:05,420 ALEX: No? 277 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:12,732 JARED: Well, I don't know man. 278 00:12:12,862 --> 00:12:14,168 It's not moving very well. 279 00:12:16,431 --> 00:12:18,694 THOMAS: You can hear that drill's hitting something hard. 280 00:12:20,304 --> 00:12:21,697 It keeps going up. 281 00:12:21,828 --> 00:12:25,527 So, I've climbed 13% from back there. 282 00:12:25,657 --> 00:12:28,182 THOMAS: We were only drilling for a short period of time 283 00:12:28,312 --> 00:12:30,314 and already the bit is being pushed up 284 00:12:30,445 --> 00:12:32,839 too steep inside the mesa. 285 00:12:32,969 --> 00:12:34,884 Which means, unfortunately, 286 00:12:35,015 --> 00:12:37,191 they're not able to steer this bit around 287 00:12:37,321 --> 00:12:39,149 like they would like to, 288 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,151 just like we've seen in other exercises 289 00:12:41,282 --> 00:12:43,588 drilling into this mesa in the past. 290 00:12:43,719 --> 00:12:46,200 ALEX [on walkie]: She doesn't want to go down, huh? 291 00:12:46,330 --> 00:12:48,768 Nah, no. She don't want to go down at all. 292 00:12:51,335 --> 00:12:53,773 I mean, we're scraping on something. 293 00:12:53,903 --> 00:12:55,339 Just climbing like crazy. 294 00:12:55,470 --> 00:12:57,777 [signal static] 295 00:12:57,907 --> 00:13:00,214 Every time I try and tune into it, 296 00:13:00,344 --> 00:13:04,348 the signal coming from the mesa spreads around. 297 00:13:04,479 --> 00:13:06,786 That sounds just like what we heard in the east field. 298 00:13:06,916 --> 00:13:09,223 TRAVIS: That's exactly right. 299 00:13:09,353 --> 00:13:10,920 A few weeks ago, 300 00:13:11,051 --> 00:13:12,661 during an experiment about a half a mile away 301 00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:14,054 in the east field canyon... 302 00:13:14,184 --> 00:13:16,621 Oh. What was that? 303 00:13:16,752 --> 00:13:19,233 ...we detected a similar radio signal 304 00:13:19,363 --> 00:13:22,758 that sounded to me like a possible communication signal. 305 00:13:22,889 --> 00:13:24,760 I think it's two things talking to each other. 306 00:13:24,891 --> 00:13:27,632 And it was also coming from inside the mesa. 307 00:13:29,156 --> 00:13:32,812 Right where we've seen UAPs actually entering the rock face 308 00:13:32,942 --> 00:13:35,510 and then reemerging on the other side near the triangle. 309 00:13:38,165 --> 00:13:40,776 I've never seen a signal like that for any reason. 310 00:13:40,907 --> 00:13:44,127 Was this the same kind of signal? 311 00:13:44,258 --> 00:13:48,392 If so, what might that indicate about the dome-shaped object? 312 00:13:48,523 --> 00:13:50,699 All we could hope was that this drilling operation 313 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:52,353 would help us figure it out. 314 00:13:54,529 --> 00:13:56,444 THOMAS: It's really just basically right below 315 00:13:56,574 --> 00:13:58,446 -the rock you're standing on? -ALEX: Yeah. 316 00:14:01,362 --> 00:14:02,798 So, you want me to pull this back? 317 00:14:04,931 --> 00:14:06,584 Hey, Erik. You got a copy? 318 00:14:06,715 --> 00:14:09,152 Yeah, go ahead, Thomas. 319 00:14:09,283 --> 00:14:10,850 We've encountered some, uh, circumstances 320 00:14:10,980 --> 00:14:12,982 over here with this drill. 321 00:14:13,113 --> 00:14:15,680 Uh, we'd like to come down and visit with you about it. 322 00:14:15,811 --> 00:14:17,117 Copy you. 323 00:14:17,247 --> 00:14:20,120 Well, that sounds foreboding. 324 00:14:20,250 --> 00:14:22,078 TRAVIS: We were all anxious to find out 325 00:14:22,209 --> 00:14:24,037 what the problem was with the drill, 326 00:14:24,167 --> 00:14:26,822 especially since it happened right after we detected 327 00:14:26,953 --> 00:14:29,390 that strange signal from inside the mesa. 328 00:14:31,653 --> 00:14:34,047 -So, what is up, guys? -THOMAS: They haven't been achieving 329 00:14:34,177 --> 00:14:35,744 the direction that they want. 330 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,006 Oh, wow. 331 00:14:37,137 --> 00:14:39,269 We were about nine-foot-deep 332 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,228 and got another two rods in. 333 00:14:41,358 --> 00:14:43,099 Um, we're still trying to push it down, 334 00:14:43,230 --> 00:14:44,709 but whatever it is, 335 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,060 we're just scraping on it and chasing it up. 336 00:14:47,190 --> 00:14:49,236 TRAVIS: Wait, so you're-you're saying 337 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:51,281 you're hitting something, and it's pushing the bit up? 338 00:14:51,412 --> 00:14:53,849 -ALEX: Yeah. -THOMAS: At the rate he's going, 339 00:14:53,980 --> 00:14:56,243 he'll pop out before he's even halfway up the hill. 340 00:14:56,373 --> 00:14:58,898 Oh, really? How deep were you when you started hitting this? 341 00:14:59,028 --> 00:15:02,292 -Uh, probably about 40-feet. -Wow. 342 00:15:02,423 --> 00:15:03,337 TRAVIS: Well, that's just inside the mesa. 343 00:15:03,467 --> 00:15:04,773 ERIK: So, what kind of force 344 00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:07,167 or pressure are you guys at right now? 345 00:15:07,297 --> 00:15:08,908 Anywhere between 12,000 and 14,000 pounds. 346 00:15:09,038 --> 00:15:10,997 Holy crap. 347 00:15:11,127 --> 00:15:13,477 So, what in the hell have we hit there? 348 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:16,437 Something hard that's just keeping us right on top of it. 349 00:15:16,567 --> 00:15:19,483 We're not able to punch into it, we're just scraping up it. 350 00:15:19,614 --> 00:15:22,225 When have we heard that before? 351 00:15:22,356 --> 00:15:24,314 TRAVIS: Hearing from Alex that the drill bit was 352 00:15:24,445 --> 00:15:26,360 hitting something it couldn't penetrate 353 00:15:26,490 --> 00:15:28,579 and was just scraping alongside it 354 00:15:28,710 --> 00:15:31,147 was like déjà vu all over again. 355 00:15:31,278 --> 00:15:33,149 AARON: We're just hitting something 356 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,629 really, really hard. 357 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:36,457 And we're at 8,000 pounds of push. 358 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:39,503 THOMAS: Guys, you got a copy? 359 00:15:39,634 --> 00:15:41,201 Go ahead, Thomas. We hear you. 360 00:15:41,331 --> 00:15:43,986 It's just pushing up higher and higher. 361 00:15:44,117 --> 00:15:46,641 TRAVIS: Because that's exactly what happened 362 00:15:46,771 --> 00:15:49,122 to both of the previous drill rigs 363 00:15:49,252 --> 00:15:51,559 that attempted to break through the dome-shaped object. 364 00:15:51,689 --> 00:15:54,692 And this rig was applying twice as much pressure. 365 00:15:54,823 --> 00:15:56,651 But what's really strange is 366 00:15:56,781 --> 00:15:59,480 that they shouldn't have reached the dome-shaped object yet. 367 00:15:59,610 --> 00:16:01,221 According to our GPR data, 368 00:16:01,351 --> 00:16:04,137 it's at least 100 feet deeper inside the mesa. 369 00:16:04,267 --> 00:16:06,574 So, does that mean the drill hit one of 370 00:16:06,704 --> 00:16:08,619 the other objects detected around it? 371 00:16:08,750 --> 00:16:12,493 So, are you thinking you're gonna have to 372 00:16:12,623 --> 00:16:14,060 come all the way out with it 373 00:16:14,190 --> 00:16:15,713 and then move left or right or something? 374 00:16:15,844 --> 00:16:16,801 We're probably gonna pull it all the way out, 375 00:16:16,932 --> 00:16:18,368 back the drill up a little bit, 376 00:16:18,499 --> 00:16:20,980 and try and get a little bit deeper. 377 00:16:21,110 --> 00:16:22,416 -Get under whatever that is? -Maybe get under whatever it is, yeah. 378 00:16:22,546 --> 00:16:25,549 Okay, so we'll suck out the spoils pit. 379 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,160 And then back the drill out, 380 00:16:27,290 --> 00:16:29,205 -right? -Yeah. Yes, sir. -Okay. 381 00:16:29,336 --> 00:16:31,207 TRAVIS: Well, let's go check the spoils and see what's in them. 382 00:16:31,338 --> 00:16:33,296 -Yep, absolutely. -ERIK: Thank you. -TRAVIS: Let's go. 383 00:16:33,427 --> 00:16:35,211 THOMAS: After all the metal flakes that we found 384 00:16:35,342 --> 00:16:36,908 a couple of years ago, 385 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:38,998 I'm really eager to look at this spoils pile 386 00:16:39,128 --> 00:16:42,044 and see if there's anything indicating that we're drilling 387 00:16:42,175 --> 00:16:44,742 into the same metallic object that we did from two years ago. 388 00:16:44,873 --> 00:16:46,744 ♪ 389 00:16:46,875 --> 00:16:49,008 That's probably perfect. 390 00:16:49,138 --> 00:16:51,880 All right, guys. Go ahead and crack it open. 391 00:16:57,407 --> 00:17:00,541 TRAVIS: All right, so now we're down to the sludgy stuff. 392 00:17:04,762 --> 00:17:06,286 JARED: With the bit we have on there now, 393 00:17:06,416 --> 00:17:08,244 it grinds the material down to smaller pieces. 394 00:17:08,375 --> 00:17:10,333 That's good to know. 395 00:17:10,464 --> 00:17:13,293 There might be metallic flakes in there instead of chunks. 396 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,297 BRYANT: You seeing anything like the sort? 397 00:17:17,427 --> 00:17:19,038 TRAVIS: No, I don't think we are. 398 00:17:26,610 --> 00:17:28,134 -You got something? -Might be. 399 00:17:28,264 --> 00:17:30,571 We may have found something here, hang on. 400 00:17:30,701 --> 00:17:32,660 Oh... maybe. 401 00:17:34,966 --> 00:17:35,924 This does look like metal. 402 00:17:37,969 --> 00:17:39,928 We are examining the contents 403 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:41,408 of the spoils pit from the drilling operation. 404 00:17:41,538 --> 00:17:43,975 One thing does stand out 405 00:17:44,106 --> 00:17:45,760 and that's a small metallic fragment 406 00:17:45,890 --> 00:17:47,849 like we saw about two years ago. 407 00:17:47,979 --> 00:17:50,852 Could this be some part of what we've been describing 408 00:17:50,982 --> 00:17:53,811 as a debris field inside the mesa? 409 00:17:53,942 --> 00:17:57,337 All right, this sample is collected. 410 00:17:57,467 --> 00:17:59,034 And that's what makes it interesting to me. 411 00:17:59,165 --> 00:18:01,863 -It's an eventful day. -THOMAS: I know that 412 00:18:01,993 --> 00:18:03,082 we're gonna be starting over again. 413 00:18:03,212 --> 00:18:05,649 But we got data out of it, 414 00:18:05,780 --> 00:18:08,696 so, I guess we call it a day and-and we come back. 415 00:18:08,826 --> 00:18:10,437 -Sounds good. -Sounds good. -Thank you, guys. 416 00:18:10,567 --> 00:18:11,960 Absolutely. Thank you, guys. 417 00:18:19,402 --> 00:18:21,361 TRAVIS: Looks like Nu-Salt is here. 418 00:18:23,189 --> 00:18:24,973 Hey, Tim, how you doing, man? Good to see you. 419 00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:27,367 -Hey. How are you? -Hey, man, good to see you. 420 00:18:27,497 --> 00:18:29,847 TRAVIS: Our day of drilling at the mesa may have ended, 421 00:18:29,978 --> 00:18:32,633 but as sundown was approaching, we regrouped at the triangle 422 00:18:32,763 --> 00:18:34,287 for a nighttime experiment 423 00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:36,027 with our friends from Nu-Salt Laser 424 00:18:36,158 --> 00:18:38,943 and technologist Pete Kelsey. 425 00:18:39,074 --> 00:18:40,858 Well, it's good to have you back out to the ranch, Tim. 426 00:18:40,989 --> 00:18:44,384 There's something very interesting happening 427 00:18:44,514 --> 00:18:46,168 in the space right above the triangle. 428 00:18:46,299 --> 00:18:48,039 -Okay. -ERIK: I understand you're bringing 429 00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:50,477 more wattage this time than the last time 430 00:18:50,607 --> 00:18:51,913 you were out here with us. 431 00:18:52,043 --> 00:18:53,175 TIM: So, this year we actually have 432 00:18:53,306 --> 00:18:55,090 eight total Laser Space Cannons, 433 00:18:55,221 --> 00:18:58,093 and they're higher power, so I would expect 434 00:18:58,224 --> 00:19:00,139 we are definitely gonna see something. 435 00:19:00,269 --> 00:19:02,967 I love the idea of getting more photons into the sky, 436 00:19:03,098 --> 00:19:05,753 'cause, you know, that'll help us to paint that space 437 00:19:05,883 --> 00:19:07,972 and see if in fact we get a repeat 438 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:10,453 of the things we've seen before right over this triangle. 439 00:19:10,584 --> 00:19:12,934 TRAVIS: Just like in past years, 440 00:19:13,064 --> 00:19:16,459 we've recently experienced GPS errors, energy spikes, 441 00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:19,854 and seen several UAPs that were hundreds of feet 442 00:19:19,984 --> 00:19:21,595 in the sky above the triangle. 443 00:19:21,725 --> 00:19:23,249 Looks like wings. 444 00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:26,252 Not like bird wings-- look like airplane wings. 445 00:19:26,382 --> 00:19:28,602 And other UAPs 446 00:19:28,732 --> 00:19:32,040 that literally disappeared about 30 feet high, 447 00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,261 right about where we captured high-speed camera images 448 00:19:35,391 --> 00:19:36,740 of a blob-like anomaly 449 00:19:36,871 --> 00:19:38,786 back in 2022. 450 00:19:39,613 --> 00:19:41,092 Specifically, Tim, 451 00:19:41,223 --> 00:19:43,834 tonight, what we want to do is 452 00:19:43,965 --> 00:19:47,098 surround the anomalous area above the triangle 453 00:19:47,229 --> 00:19:48,796 with all of the lasers. 454 00:19:48,926 --> 00:19:51,407 That way, if something does pass through, 455 00:19:51,538 --> 00:19:52,713 it should hit one of those lasers. 456 00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:55,629 And then, we want to, uh, 457 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:58,632 pass a laser beam up through the anomaly and hit a screen. 458 00:20:00,547 --> 00:20:02,113 Tonight, once the sun goes down, 459 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:04,638 the Nu-Salt team is going to set up 460 00:20:04,768 --> 00:20:06,770 several high-powered Laser Space Cannons 461 00:20:06,901 --> 00:20:08,555 that will shoot beams of laser light 462 00:20:08,685 --> 00:20:11,079 from the center of the triangle all the way up 463 00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:13,342 into outer space. 464 00:20:13,473 --> 00:20:14,865 If we see any breaks in the beams, 465 00:20:14,996 --> 00:20:16,519 it might help us pinpoint 466 00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:18,652 whatever might be responsible for the anomalies 467 00:20:18,782 --> 00:20:20,480 we've seen and detected 468 00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:23,004 between the ground and high altitudes. 469 00:20:23,134 --> 00:20:26,921 And they'll also aim an additional Laser Cannon 470 00:20:27,051 --> 00:20:29,793 at a 12-by-8-foot white screen 471 00:20:29,924 --> 00:20:32,056 that Thomas will position at the 31-foot mark, 472 00:20:32,187 --> 00:20:33,841 using a lift. 473 00:20:33,971 --> 00:20:36,800 Then I'll use a device known as a spectrometer 474 00:20:36,931 --> 00:20:40,239 to measure any variations in the laser beams' color spectrum, 475 00:20:40,369 --> 00:20:42,328 which could indicate more evidence 476 00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:44,678 of the blob anomaly. 477 00:20:44,808 --> 00:20:46,897 So we're gonna look all across the spectrum 478 00:20:47,028 --> 00:20:49,683 with all of our sensors, and hopefully we'll-we'll see 479 00:20:49,813 --> 00:20:51,772 something in that spot again. 480 00:20:51,902 --> 00:20:54,209 ERIK: I know we've got a lot of equipment to put out, 481 00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:56,167 -so I say we get to it. -Great. 482 00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:58,474 TRAVIS: All right, let's do it. Let's go. 483 00:20:58,605 --> 00:21:01,564 Also, to look out for anything strange 484 00:21:01,695 --> 00:21:05,002 that we won't be able to see with the naked eye, 485 00:21:05,133 --> 00:21:07,309 Pete Kelsey and Jim Royston will be scanning 486 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,530 the entire triangle area with aerial, infrared lidar 487 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:12,445 and thermal devices. 488 00:21:12,575 --> 00:21:14,969 And all during the experiment, we're also setting up 489 00:21:15,099 --> 00:21:17,145 multiple cameras that will be programed 490 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:19,060 to take long exposure photos 491 00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:21,323 every few seconds of the triangle, 492 00:21:21,454 --> 00:21:24,587 so if anything passes through those laser beams, 493 00:21:24,718 --> 00:21:26,241 hopefully we'll capture images of it. 494 00:21:26,372 --> 00:21:28,461 THOMAS: Good. We can have a new scan. 495 00:21:28,591 --> 00:21:30,201 TRAVIS: And, of course, we'll be launching rockets 496 00:21:30,332 --> 00:21:33,379 because a lot of the really bizarre phenomena 497 00:21:33,509 --> 00:21:36,077 that we've been seeing during our investigation 498 00:21:36,207 --> 00:21:38,035 here on Skinwalker Ranch have occurred 499 00:21:38,166 --> 00:21:40,255 just after we launched rockets that were equipped 500 00:21:40,386 --> 00:21:43,258 with GPS and energy-detecting devices. 501 00:21:44,738 --> 00:21:47,044 Coming towards ya. 502 00:21:47,175 --> 00:21:49,220 ERIK: Our objective with the one laser 503 00:21:49,351 --> 00:21:51,222 that is directed at the target 504 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:53,399 is to determine whether the light will be scattered, 505 00:21:53,529 --> 00:21:55,226 diverted, or perhaps absorbed 506 00:21:55,357 --> 00:21:57,838 in some way that requires the presence 507 00:21:57,968 --> 00:22:00,623 of some exotic physical phenomenon. 508 00:22:00,754 --> 00:22:01,581 -Oh, so it's that way. -Towards the... 509 00:22:01,711 --> 00:22:03,887 Yeah. Okay. I got it. 510 00:22:04,018 --> 00:22:05,324 ERIK: Given the fact that we've recorded 511 00:22:05,454 --> 00:22:08,109 what we've termed "the blob" 512 00:22:08,239 --> 00:22:10,416 at about 30 to 40 feet above the triangle, 513 00:22:10,546 --> 00:22:12,374 we won't be surprised 514 00:22:12,505 --> 00:22:14,158 if we see something unusual happen 515 00:22:14,289 --> 00:22:15,377 with that laser light. 516 00:22:15,508 --> 00:22:16,596 It wouldn't be the first time. 517 00:22:16,726 --> 00:22:18,162 Okay. Very good. 518 00:22:18,293 --> 00:22:19,468 That's probably it. 519 00:22:22,166 --> 00:22:24,647 ♪ 520 00:22:30,174 --> 00:22:33,134 Yeah, when you come up with it, it'll be at low power, Chris. 521 00:22:34,657 --> 00:22:35,745 TRAVIS: Tim, you guys about ready? 522 00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:37,268 TIM: Yeah, we're ready to go, Travis. 523 00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:38,618 Hey, hey. What is-- Look right here. 524 00:22:38,748 --> 00:22:39,532 What is this? 525 00:22:41,838 --> 00:22:42,796 KALEB: What is that, right there, right there? 526 00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:44,188 TRAVIS: I don't see lights on it. 527 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:45,842 KALEB: I'm not seeing lights, either. 528 00:22:47,322 --> 00:22:48,671 TRAVIS: I don't see aviation lights at all. 529 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:50,543 KALEB: Yeah, I don't see any strobe. 530 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,156 TRAVIS: I think that could be a UAP. 531 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:01,249 Yeah, I can barely still see it moving 532 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,077 to the north and west. 533 00:23:06,472 --> 00:23:07,516 It's gone. 534 00:23:09,779 --> 00:23:11,215 TRAVIS: We've seen a lot of UAPs in the sky 535 00:23:11,346 --> 00:23:13,000 during the last few years, 536 00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:16,090 but as an optical scientist who's worked with NASA 537 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:18,440 and the Department of Defense on space technology 538 00:23:18,571 --> 00:23:20,921 for more than three decades now, 539 00:23:21,051 --> 00:23:22,836 this one looked bigger and brighter than anything 540 00:23:22,966 --> 00:23:24,968 we've ever documented on Skinwalker Ranch. 541 00:23:25,099 --> 00:23:27,493 It was even maneuvering like a craft 542 00:23:27,623 --> 00:23:30,887 for several seconds there, but then it just disappeared. 543 00:23:33,673 --> 00:23:34,848 All right. Well, let's get going. 544 00:23:34,978 --> 00:23:36,632 Okay, I'm gonna go lift the screen up. 545 00:23:36,763 --> 00:23:38,504 TIM: We're all hooked up and ready to go 546 00:23:38,634 --> 00:23:40,419 and we'll energize it 547 00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:42,246 when the backstop is up in the air. 548 00:23:42,377 --> 00:23:44,423 TRAVIS: All I knew for sure was 549 00:23:44,553 --> 00:23:46,425 that we needed to start our laser, lidar, 550 00:23:46,555 --> 00:23:48,949 and rocket experiment at the triangle right away 551 00:23:49,079 --> 00:23:51,081 to see if it reappears 552 00:23:51,212 --> 00:23:54,345 or, given all the legends we've heard about portals out here, 553 00:23:54,476 --> 00:23:56,826 detect something to explain why it vanished. 554 00:23:56,957 --> 00:23:59,220 We've got-- Pete's ready over here, 555 00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:01,352 OmniTeq's ready. Where are you gonna be? 556 00:24:01,483 --> 00:24:02,702 ERIK: I've got to get back over to the command center 557 00:24:02,832 --> 00:24:03,790 where I've got all the monitoring screens up 558 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,618 -right now. -TRAVIS: Great. 559 00:24:05,748 --> 00:24:07,315 Well, I say we get to it. 560 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,230 ERIK: All right. 561 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,318 TRAVIS: Who knows what might happen next? 562 00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:16,542 TRAVIS: Okay, guys, be advised, 563 00:24:16,672 --> 00:24:19,022 big laser's coming on. 564 00:24:19,153 --> 00:24:20,023 TIM [over walkie]: Hey, Chris. 565 00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:21,285 On the laser, 566 00:24:21,416 --> 00:24:22,461 go ahead and slowly 567 00:24:22,591 --> 00:24:23,592 bring up the power. 568 00:24:23,723 --> 00:24:24,985 Copy that. 569 00:24:26,116 --> 00:24:28,118 ♪ 570 00:24:29,555 --> 00:24:31,600 TRAVIS: Yeah, that's bright. Wow, that's bright. 571 00:24:34,255 --> 00:24:35,822 Look at that. Look at that right there. 572 00:24:37,737 --> 00:24:39,652 Before the Nu-Salt team turned on 573 00:24:39,782 --> 00:24:41,480 the seven vertical laser cannons 574 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:44,134 that were positioned around the triangle, 575 00:24:44,265 --> 00:24:46,746 I wanted to test the one we had aimed at the whiteboard 576 00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:48,487 positioned 31 feet high. 577 00:24:49,792 --> 00:24:51,881 That's right where we saw the blob-like anomaly 578 00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:53,796 that may have caused 579 00:24:53,927 --> 00:24:55,494 a rocket to explode back in 2022. 580 00:24:56,886 --> 00:24:59,062 KALEB: It's like staring at the sun. 581 00:24:59,193 --> 00:25:01,500 TRAVIS: While the laser canon fired its beam-- 582 00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:04,372 which has a specific spectrum of colors-- 583 00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,200 into the 31-foot zone, 584 00:25:06,330 --> 00:25:07,854 I watched my spectrometer 585 00:25:07,984 --> 00:25:09,943 for any changes in those colors 586 00:25:10,073 --> 00:25:11,510 which might indicate something strange 587 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,903 was in the airspace. 588 00:25:14,034 --> 00:25:16,471 So you can see the red, green and the blue. 589 00:25:17,690 --> 00:25:19,300 Look at that. 590 00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:22,085 Suddenly, it's gotten brighter in the green 591 00:25:22,216 --> 00:25:23,609 and dropped off in the blue. 592 00:25:24,827 --> 00:25:26,133 Why would it be doing that? 593 00:25:26,263 --> 00:25:28,657 This laser is programmed to emit light 594 00:25:28,788 --> 00:25:31,530 with no variation in its brightness or color. 595 00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:35,272 So when I saw the green light was suddenly getting brighter 596 00:25:35,403 --> 00:25:37,405 while the blue light started to fade, 597 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,234 and then the colors actually changed slightly, 598 00:25:40,364 --> 00:25:44,020 that meant something strange at about 31 feet was causing it. 599 00:25:44,151 --> 00:25:46,457 So it was time for us to use all of our tools 600 00:25:46,588 --> 00:25:48,416 to identify just what it was. 601 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:50,766 I think we're at a point now 602 00:25:50,897 --> 00:25:53,073 where we can start getting the rest of the lasers 603 00:25:53,203 --> 00:25:54,465 ready to go. 604 00:25:54,596 --> 00:25:57,207 -Okay. -TRAVIS: All right, Tim. 605 00:25:57,338 --> 00:26:00,210 Uh, we're ready to start getting the big lasers going. 606 00:26:00,341 --> 00:26:01,734 TIM [over walkie]: All right, Travis. 607 00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:04,737 Let's turn on the lasers, creating the circle. 608 00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:06,042 Copy that. 609 00:26:09,829 --> 00:26:11,178 All right. Lasers are up. 610 00:26:11,308 --> 00:26:13,572 Lasers are up, guys. 611 00:26:15,008 --> 00:26:16,836 Travis, you copy? 612 00:26:16,966 --> 00:26:18,925 Go ahead, Erik. 613 00:26:19,055 --> 00:26:20,579 ERIK: I'd like to know what you're seeing 614 00:26:20,709 --> 00:26:24,104 around 1.6 gigahertz over there on your antennas. 615 00:26:24,234 --> 00:26:28,195 'Cause I do show a source right behind Homestead Two. 616 00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:31,590 All right, me and Dragon are going to head back now 617 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:32,852 and check that, Erik. 618 00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:34,593 Copy you. 619 00:26:34,723 --> 00:26:37,378 We have a system with five antennas 620 00:26:37,508 --> 00:26:40,990 that we've deployed around the ranch to monitor activity. 621 00:26:41,121 --> 00:26:44,646 Now, I'm seeing a 1.6 gigahertz signal 622 00:26:44,777 --> 00:26:46,256 out in the west near Homestead Two 623 00:26:46,387 --> 00:26:49,303 just as we're performing this experiment. 624 00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:52,698 This is in fact a location where we've seen 625 00:26:52,828 --> 00:26:55,048 unusual things in the past. 626 00:26:55,178 --> 00:26:56,527 Now, there's nothing in that space 627 00:26:56,658 --> 00:26:58,138 that should account for that. 628 00:26:58,268 --> 00:27:00,967 Okay, I need to call Erik and tell him he's right. 629 00:27:01,097 --> 00:27:03,796 We're getting a signal at 1.6 gigahertz 630 00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:05,493 pointed at Homestead Two. 631 00:27:06,886 --> 00:27:09,149 Hey, Erik, do you copy? 632 00:27:10,977 --> 00:27:12,587 Yeah, Travis, go ahead. 633 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:15,764 You are correct. 634 00:27:15,895 --> 00:27:18,245 I'm not getting that signal on any of my antennas 635 00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:21,291 except for the one pointed out behind Homestead Two. 636 00:27:21,422 --> 00:27:23,293 There is something coming from that direction. 637 00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:26,862 Travis, that is really interesting. 638 00:27:26,993 --> 00:27:28,429 I'm gonna keep an eye on that. 639 00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:29,648 Just keep me advised as to whether you see 640 00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:31,650 any changes on that. 641 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:34,696 TRAVIS: We still have no idea what causes 642 00:27:34,827 --> 00:27:37,394 these 1.6 gigahertz signals, 643 00:27:37,525 --> 00:27:39,483 but we've been detecting them on our spectrum analyzers 644 00:27:39,614 --> 00:27:41,442 for the past few years, 645 00:27:41,572 --> 00:27:43,400 and it's usually right around the time 646 00:27:43,531 --> 00:27:45,228 when we see UAPs 647 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,709 or experience other strange things at the triangle. 648 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,192 So, since this 1.6 gigahertz signal showed up 649 00:27:52,322 --> 00:27:54,237 just after we had detected something strange 650 00:27:54,368 --> 00:27:56,065 with the lasers above the triangle, 651 00:27:56,196 --> 00:27:59,025 we wanted to kick our experiment into high gear 652 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:00,635 to see what would happen next. 653 00:28:01,767 --> 00:28:04,160 All right, next step. 654 00:28:04,291 --> 00:28:05,727 Uh, Jim, you're gonna run lidar, right? 655 00:28:05,858 --> 00:28:07,381 -Correct. -TRAVIS: So, Pete, 656 00:28:07,511 --> 00:28:09,731 -I'd rather you run thermal. -All right, check. 657 00:28:09,862 --> 00:28:11,254 TRAVIS: All right, Jim, if you want to go ahead and get in the air. 658 00:28:11,385 --> 00:28:13,648 JIM: Yeah, copy that. All righty. 659 00:28:13,779 --> 00:28:15,694 [buzzing] 660 00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:18,218 Here we go. 661 00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:20,786 Pete's in the air. 662 00:28:20,916 --> 00:28:23,397 JIM: Pete, I'm at 133 feet. 663 00:28:23,527 --> 00:28:25,399 I'm coming to a hundred feet, Jim. 664 00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:29,142 The lidar and thermal drones are up in the air. 665 00:28:29,272 --> 00:28:31,361 Copy you, Travis. 666 00:28:34,408 --> 00:28:36,715 -Try to go hot on the battery. -TRAVIS: All right. 667 00:28:39,892 --> 00:28:43,983 Rocket going hot in five, four, 668 00:28:44,113 --> 00:28:46,072 three, two, 669 00:28:46,202 --> 00:28:47,595 one. 670 00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:51,860 Did y'all see that? 671 00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:56,082 It was like it was diverted around the anomaly. 672 00:28:56,212 --> 00:28:57,736 It's gonna land on the mesa. 673 00:28:59,955 --> 00:29:02,349 The rocket should have gone straight up, 674 00:29:02,479 --> 00:29:06,179 but it clearly flew up in this odd S-shaped pattern, 675 00:29:06,309 --> 00:29:09,138 as if something redirected its course. 676 00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:11,750 So, could it have been the blob that did that? 677 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,753 PETE [over walkie]: Hey, have we got anybody on the ground 678 00:29:14,883 --> 00:29:17,364 over by where the orb came out of the mesa? 679 00:29:18,582 --> 00:29:19,845 To my knowledge, not. 680 00:29:19,975 --> 00:29:21,716 What are you seeing? 681 00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:26,199 PETE: So I've got something really warm on the ground 682 00:29:26,329 --> 00:29:29,942 near where you told me an orb flew out of the mesa. 683 00:29:39,647 --> 00:29:40,648 TRAVIS [over walkie]: What are you seeing? 684 00:29:40,779 --> 00:29:42,606 So I've got something 685 00:29:42,737 --> 00:29:45,348 really warm on the ground 686 00:29:45,479 --> 00:29:47,655 near where you told me an orb flew out of the mesa. 687 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:48,787 TRAVIS: What? 688 00:29:50,136 --> 00:29:52,355 -On the ground? -PETE: Yeah. 689 00:29:52,486 --> 00:29:54,488 Our lasers and rockets had just detected 690 00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:56,577 something in the 31-foot 691 00:29:56,707 --> 00:29:59,754 blob zone at the triangle when, all of the sudden, 692 00:29:59,885 --> 00:30:02,322 Pete Kelsey noticed that his aerial thermal drone 693 00:30:02,452 --> 00:30:04,933 picked up a strange heat anomaly 694 00:30:05,064 --> 00:30:07,327 several hundred feet to the northeast by the mesa. 695 00:30:07,457 --> 00:30:09,764 And that was right near the spot 696 00:30:09,895 --> 00:30:12,071 where we captured video last year 697 00:30:12,201 --> 00:30:14,073 of a UAP flying out of the mesa 698 00:30:14,203 --> 00:30:15,683 and straight toward the triangle. 699 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:18,381 Was it there before the launch? 700 00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:20,688 -PETE: Not that I noticed. -Where, where? 701 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,690 Right here. 702 00:30:23,865 --> 00:30:25,388 TRAVIS: What the hell is that? 703 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:27,347 PETE: That's just weird. 704 00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:30,089 I was just panning around and saw it. 705 00:30:30,219 --> 00:30:32,265 That's almost up at the base of the mesa. 706 00:30:32,395 --> 00:30:34,136 TRAVIS: I'll tell you what, 707 00:30:34,267 --> 00:30:35,921 Dragon, let's jump in the jeep and drive over there. 708 00:30:36,051 --> 00:30:37,357 BRYANT: That's a good idea. 709 00:30:37,487 --> 00:30:39,098 TRAVIS: We had no idea 710 00:30:39,228 --> 00:30:40,751 what Pete had just detected, 711 00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:42,797 but since that's where we documented 712 00:30:42,928 --> 00:30:45,365 one of the most shocking events we've ever seen 713 00:30:45,495 --> 00:30:47,280 on Skinwalker Ranch, 714 00:30:47,410 --> 00:30:49,935 which also might be connected to the triangle, 715 00:30:50,065 --> 00:30:51,371 I wanted to get over there with Dragon 716 00:30:51,501 --> 00:30:52,938 to see if we could figure out what it was. 717 00:30:54,374 --> 00:30:56,028 PETE: I got great visual on you, guys. 718 00:30:56,158 --> 00:30:57,464 BRYANT [over walkie]: All right, so walk us in. 719 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:00,119 PETE [over walkie]: You're-you're on a good line, 720 00:31:00,249 --> 00:31:01,947 just keep-keep walking that track. 721 00:31:05,776 --> 00:31:07,822 So bear right a little bit. 722 00:31:11,913 --> 00:31:13,567 Bull's-eye. 723 00:31:13,697 --> 00:31:17,963 BRYANT: Yep. It is a big rock. 724 00:31:18,093 --> 00:31:19,660 PETE: That's just weird. 725 00:31:19,790 --> 00:31:22,271 It doesn't look like any other rock around it. 726 00:31:23,577 --> 00:31:25,666 TRAVIS: I mean, I don't know what-what to think of it. 727 00:31:26,841 --> 00:31:28,234 It was definitely strange 728 00:31:28,364 --> 00:31:30,018 that this massive boulder appeared 729 00:31:30,149 --> 00:31:33,892 as a major heat source on Pete Kelsey's thermal device, 730 00:31:34,022 --> 00:31:36,633 because other large rocks right near it 731 00:31:36,764 --> 00:31:40,159 were much darker, or cooler, as we'd normally expect. 732 00:31:40,289 --> 00:31:41,508 [singing] 733 00:31:41,638 --> 00:31:44,859 But back in 2022, 734 00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:47,557 we detected a strange heat anomaly up on top of the mesa. 735 00:31:47,688 --> 00:31:49,037 When they started singing, 736 00:31:49,168 --> 00:31:50,430 the temperature literally changed. 737 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,648 Look how hot it's getting. 738 00:31:51,779 --> 00:31:54,738 And then saw two UAPs 739 00:31:54,869 --> 00:31:58,220 actually fly into the top of it. 740 00:31:59,526 --> 00:32:01,745 There's no geological reason why this rock 741 00:32:01,876 --> 00:32:04,705 would emit heat like that and show up on a thermal scan. 742 00:32:06,228 --> 00:32:08,491 All right, well, it was, it was worth taking a look at. 743 00:32:08,622 --> 00:32:09,666 -We'll head back. -Yep. 744 00:32:09,797 --> 00:32:11,538 Thanks, guys. 745 00:32:11,668 --> 00:32:13,627 TRAVIS: So, it really left us wondering 746 00:32:13,757 --> 00:32:15,542 what it is about this location 747 00:32:15,672 --> 00:32:17,587 that would explain the hot rock, 748 00:32:17,718 --> 00:32:20,634 especially since it's near where we've seen a UAP 749 00:32:20,764 --> 00:32:21,591 exit the mesa. 750 00:32:21,722 --> 00:32:23,767 And why did it show up 751 00:32:23,898 --> 00:32:25,813 right after something caused our rocket 752 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,902 to veer off course in the blob zone 753 00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:29,556 at the triangle? 754 00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:31,819 There has to be some kind of connection. 755 00:32:33,038 --> 00:32:35,040 Yep. All right, here we go. 756 00:32:35,170 --> 00:32:37,651 Let's get a rocket ready and let's do it again. 757 00:32:37,781 --> 00:32:41,089 As soon as Dragon and I got back to the triangle, 758 00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:44,092 we wanted to immediately launch the last rocket we had 759 00:32:44,223 --> 00:32:46,616 to see if it would go straight up this time, 760 00:32:46,747 --> 00:32:49,010 like it should, or get diverted again. 761 00:32:49,141 --> 00:32:51,708 If something was above the triangle, 762 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:55,060 we needed to do whatever we could to figure out what it was. 763 00:32:55,190 --> 00:32:57,584 We're ready, Jim. Are you about ready? 764 00:32:57,714 --> 00:32:58,367 ROYSTON [over walkie]: Yeah, I'm getting it in the air right now. 765 00:32:58,498 --> 00:32:59,499 Okay. 766 00:33:06,419 --> 00:33:08,682 Hey, everybody, uh, do you copy? 767 00:33:08,812 --> 00:33:09,639 We are going to, 768 00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:11,206 uh, launch a rocket here. 769 00:33:11,337 --> 00:33:13,992 Uh, so be warned, be advised. 770 00:33:15,297 --> 00:33:17,430 Everybody clear out for the lasers. 771 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,171 TIM: Lasers up, Chris. 772 00:33:21,738 --> 00:33:23,436 Lasers up. 773 00:33:23,566 --> 00:33:26,830 TRAVIS: The rocket is going hot. Rocket is hot! 774 00:33:27,918 --> 00:33:29,703 Going in five... 775 00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:31,835 four, three, 776 00:33:31,966 --> 00:33:34,012 two, one. 777 00:33:38,451 --> 00:33:40,496 How did it go over there? 778 00:33:42,498 --> 00:33:45,501 BRYANT: I don't know. There's hardly any wind. 779 00:33:45,632 --> 00:33:47,938 All right, let's go back and, uh, see what they got. 780 00:33:48,069 --> 00:33:49,375 Okay. 781 00:33:49,505 --> 00:33:50,289 TRAVIS: Sure enough, 782 00:33:50,419 --> 00:33:51,638 the rocket veered away 783 00:33:51,768 --> 00:33:53,292 instead of going straight up, 784 00:33:53,422 --> 00:33:55,555 as though something pushed it off course. 785 00:33:55,685 --> 00:33:58,775 Who knows what caused it, but it was really weird that 786 00:33:58,906 --> 00:34:01,126 the same thing happened multiple times. 787 00:34:04,955 --> 00:34:08,350 I don't see anything weird or crazy. 788 00:34:08,481 --> 00:34:11,614 Uh, Pete, are you seeing anything? 789 00:34:11,745 --> 00:34:14,182 Jim, are you seeing anything? 790 00:34:14,313 --> 00:34:15,053 KALEB [over walkie]: Nope. 791 00:34:15,183 --> 00:34:17,490 Nothing out of the ordinary. 792 00:34:17,620 --> 00:34:19,622 ROYSTON [over walkie]: We just flew on that last rocket launch. 793 00:34:19,753 --> 00:34:21,798 There was nothing in the air. 794 00:34:21,929 --> 00:34:22,930 Okay. 795 00:34:24,584 --> 00:34:26,064 Hey, Erik, do you copy? 796 00:34:27,891 --> 00:34:30,546 Yes, Travis. Go ahead. 797 00:34:30,677 --> 00:34:33,027 TRAVIS [over walkie]: You see anything exciting? 798 00:34:33,158 --> 00:34:35,638 ERIK: I didn't see anything jumping out at me. 799 00:34:36,944 --> 00:34:40,078 TRAVIS: We're about to wrap up out here at the tent. 800 00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:41,688 Um, I'll run out and join you guys, 801 00:34:41,818 --> 00:34:43,168 if it's not too much to wait. 802 00:34:43,298 --> 00:34:44,821 No. Come on, man. We'll wait. 803 00:34:44,952 --> 00:34:47,085 It's like that a lot out here. 804 00:34:47,215 --> 00:34:49,304 One minute, we're seeing and detecting 805 00:34:49,435 --> 00:34:51,306 strange things that we can't explain, 806 00:34:51,437 --> 00:34:54,135 and then the next minute, nothing. 807 00:34:54,266 --> 00:34:57,617 Okay, guys, uh, we can bring the lasers down, 808 00:34:57,747 --> 00:35:00,098 and, uh, let's start-- let's shut everything down. 809 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:03,710 Whatever was in that airspace 810 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,581 seemed to have suddenly just vanished. 811 00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:06,800 Hey, guys. 812 00:35:06,930 --> 00:35:07,801 Just like some of the UAPs 813 00:35:07,931 --> 00:35:09,455 we've recently seen. 814 00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:11,370 Well... 815 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,328 Erik, did you see anything in the cameras? 816 00:35:13,459 --> 00:35:15,200 ERIK: There were so many different views, 817 00:35:15,330 --> 00:35:17,898 um, I-I could've missed anything. 818 00:35:18,028 --> 00:35:19,682 But, uh, 819 00:35:19,813 --> 00:35:21,728 if in fact we got anything like that blob, 820 00:35:21,858 --> 00:35:24,557 we should be able to run some filters on it and find it. 821 00:35:24,687 --> 00:35:26,646 You know, uh, it's really interesting, uh, 822 00:35:26,776 --> 00:35:29,127 at one point, we did pick up 823 00:35:29,257 --> 00:35:32,347 a signal around 1.6 gigahertz pointed at Homestead Two. 824 00:35:32,478 --> 00:35:35,263 I got to tell you, that's been really persistent tonight. 825 00:35:35,394 --> 00:35:36,482 TRAVIS: Yeah. 826 00:35:36,612 --> 00:35:37,787 We got a lot of data, though, 827 00:35:37,918 --> 00:35:39,746 'cause every time we did something, 828 00:35:39,876 --> 00:35:40,747 we had two drones in the air. 829 00:35:40,877 --> 00:35:42,052 One doing thermal, 830 00:35:42,183 --> 00:35:44,229 one doing lidar. 831 00:35:44,359 --> 00:35:46,056 It was a lot to track. 832 00:35:46,187 --> 00:35:49,190 We'll look at the data, and after we absorb 833 00:35:49,321 --> 00:35:51,410 some of that and assimilate the data, 834 00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:52,933 we'll reconvene. 835 00:35:53,063 --> 00:35:55,109 All right, let's start breaking down. 836 00:36:03,683 --> 00:36:04,988 -ERIK: How we doing? -TRAVIS: All right. 837 00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:07,817 We are just about to review 838 00:36:07,948 --> 00:36:10,690 everything that happened during the exercise with Nu-Salt. 839 00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:12,866 In effect, trying to probe the anomaly 840 00:36:12,996 --> 00:36:15,303 directly above the triangle. 841 00:36:15,434 --> 00:36:17,349 THOMAS: That night was so crazy. 842 00:36:17,479 --> 00:36:19,133 BRYANT: That was quite an experiment. 843 00:36:19,264 --> 00:36:20,874 TRAVIS: The day after our multi-laser 844 00:36:21,004 --> 00:36:22,180 rocket experiment at the triangle, 845 00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:24,225 Jim Royston, Pete Kelsey, 846 00:36:24,356 --> 00:36:26,488 Erik, and I scoured through our data, 847 00:36:26,619 --> 00:36:30,231 hoping that we would see something at 31 feet in the air 848 00:36:30,362 --> 00:36:33,016 that might explain all the strange things we detected. 849 00:36:33,147 --> 00:36:36,498 But instead, we found something that none of us were expecting. 850 00:36:36,629 --> 00:36:40,720 So, near the tent, you guys remember we had 851 00:36:40,850 --> 00:36:42,461 a couple of cameras locked off 852 00:36:42,591 --> 00:36:44,071 on the Space Cannon beams going up. 853 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,204 -Yep. -And they were set to take 854 00:36:46,334 --> 00:36:47,857 a snapshot every so often, 855 00:36:47,988 --> 00:36:51,905 and we found something that is, uh, really odd. 856 00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:54,124 ERIK: Yeah, odd to say the least. 857 00:36:54,255 --> 00:36:55,387 I can't explain this. 858 00:36:59,913 --> 00:37:01,915 -THOMAS: Whoa. -KALEB: No. 859 00:37:04,526 --> 00:37:09,009 TRAVIS: Yeah, looks like the beam stops and then starts again. 860 00:37:09,139 --> 00:37:12,142 So, if there was something in there blocking the beam, 861 00:37:12,273 --> 00:37:14,406 it wouldn't continue above it. 862 00:37:14,536 --> 00:37:16,408 THOMAS: How could it block out the green and not the blue? 863 00:37:16,538 --> 00:37:18,453 TRAVIS: It doesn't make any sense at all. 864 00:37:18,584 --> 00:37:20,673 I've never seen anything like this ever. 865 00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:24,633 And if you look at the ends of the beams, 866 00:37:24,764 --> 00:37:27,245 the beams look rounded off. 867 00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:29,072 ERIK: Yeah, these do, certainly. 868 00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:31,161 Here and here. 869 00:37:31,292 --> 00:37:34,252 And it appears that this is cutting into 870 00:37:34,382 --> 00:37:37,255 the beam profile on the left-hand side. 871 00:37:37,385 --> 00:37:40,388 What-what could be doing that? 872 00:37:41,911 --> 00:37:46,438 ERIK: I see that the green light on the lasers directed skyward 873 00:37:46,568 --> 00:37:50,137 has been affected by something for which I have no explanation. 874 00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,139 I'm not even sure how it is possible 875 00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:54,663 for this beam to be interrupted, 876 00:37:54,794 --> 00:37:57,275 as we see in the image, and then to resume. 877 00:37:57,405 --> 00:37:59,842 This-this makes no sense. 878 00:37:59,973 --> 00:38:02,845 I don't think any of us has a good explanation for it. 879 00:38:02,976 --> 00:38:06,153 And it didn't just happen in one of the images. 880 00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:08,242 -[laughs] Oh, no. -BRYANT: You're kidding me. 881 00:38:08,373 --> 00:38:09,678 THOMAS: What? 882 00:38:10,897 --> 00:38:13,987 ERIK: So, here we see unaffected, blue-ish... 883 00:38:14,117 --> 00:38:15,554 TRAVIS: Blue-ish and purple lasers, right. 884 00:38:15,684 --> 00:38:18,078 -And now, look. Look there. -ERIK: Look here. 885 00:38:18,208 --> 00:38:19,993 -Look near the top here. -TRAVIS: Yeah. 886 00:38:20,123 --> 00:38:24,737 Again, just the green, just the green. 887 00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:28,436 ERIK: It's got that hard-edge geometry on it. 888 00:38:28,567 --> 00:38:30,743 I c-- I cannot explain it. I do not understand it, 889 00:38:30,873 --> 00:38:34,312 but there it is, and then, uh, we have another one. 890 00:38:34,442 --> 00:38:36,009 Look here. 891 00:38:38,185 --> 00:38:39,839 THOMAS: Yeah. 892 00:38:39,969 --> 00:38:42,320 So, you see, we had this in three different 893 00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:44,583 long-exposure photographs. 894 00:38:44,713 --> 00:38:47,063 And they're all at about 100 feet off the ground. 895 00:38:47,194 --> 00:38:49,283 TRAVIS: And, if we're running around doing so much stuff, 896 00:38:49,414 --> 00:38:51,720 we may not ever looked at the right time and saw this. 897 00:38:51,851 --> 00:38:54,375 Yeah. 898 00:38:54,506 --> 00:38:56,464 TRAVIS: The fact that we captured three different images 899 00:38:56,595 --> 00:38:59,815 of gaps in only the green laser beam 900 00:38:59,946 --> 00:39:02,252 showed that this wasn't a camera error. 901 00:39:02,383 --> 00:39:05,386 Something created three different voids 902 00:39:05,517 --> 00:39:07,475 in just the green laser beams 903 00:39:07,606 --> 00:39:10,609 at a height of about 100 feet above the triangle. 904 00:39:10,739 --> 00:39:13,002 I guess the question is, what is it that causes 905 00:39:13,133 --> 00:39:15,048 this thing to show up? 906 00:39:15,178 --> 00:39:17,746 Yes. I was just thinking, "Can I make it happen again?" 907 00:39:17,877 --> 00:39:20,183 TRAVIS: How were you thinking you'd make it happen again? 908 00:39:20,314 --> 00:39:21,968 ERIK: Well, I was just thinking of really bright 909 00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:24,057 infrared illumination, you know, that I can control. 910 00:39:24,187 --> 00:39:27,016 TRAVIS: Maybe we shine one laser with the lidar? 911 00:39:27,147 --> 00:39:29,062 -ERIK: Yes. -We should also launch a rocket 912 00:39:29,192 --> 00:39:30,368 through it while we're doing the lidar. 913 00:39:30,498 --> 00:39:31,934 ERIK: Absolutely. 914 00:39:32,065 --> 00:39:33,980 I want to understand what just happened here. 915 00:39:34,110 --> 00:39:36,025 TRAVIS: We don't know if the voids 916 00:39:36,156 --> 00:39:39,072 in the green laser were related to the UAP that we saw, 917 00:39:39,202 --> 00:39:42,075 or what caused our rockets to veer off course. 918 00:39:42,205 --> 00:39:44,382 But the experiment was a success. 919 00:39:44,512 --> 00:39:46,427 We now have a specific spot 920 00:39:46,558 --> 00:39:48,473 to focus on for more experiments 921 00:39:48,603 --> 00:39:50,475 that will hopefully lead to some answers. 922 00:39:50,605 --> 00:39:52,390 I love the idea of trying to see 923 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,087 if there's anything that can stimulate to see it again. 924 00:39:54,217 --> 00:39:56,176 -Yup. Yup. -Yup. Yup. 925 00:39:56,306 --> 00:39:58,961 I guess we need to invite these guys back 926 00:39:59,092 --> 00:40:01,007 -and bring those lasers back here. -ERIK: Absolutely. 927 00:40:01,137 --> 00:40:04,402 Absolutely. I want to understand what just happened here. 928 00:40:04,532 --> 00:40:07,100 -I did not expect to see that. -Right. 929 00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:09,668 -ERIK: Okay. Thanks, guys. -THOMAS: Thank you. 930 00:40:11,104 --> 00:40:13,585 ERIK: We've seen so many unusual things 931 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:15,848 happen here above the triangle. 932 00:40:15,978 --> 00:40:18,720 It raises the question as to what could be operating there? 933 00:40:18,851 --> 00:40:20,418 What could be present in that space? 934 00:40:20,548 --> 00:40:23,377 Could it be related to something 935 00:40:23,508 --> 00:40:26,772 in the UFO or UAP domain? 936 00:40:28,208 --> 00:40:31,385 We can't dismiss it, and that's tantalizing. 937 00:40:33,779 --> 00:40:36,172 TRAVIS: We don't know yet how all the crazy phenomena 938 00:40:36,303 --> 00:40:38,436 we keep seeing and detecting out here 939 00:40:38,566 --> 00:40:41,090 at Skinwalker Ranch might be related to one another, 940 00:40:41,221 --> 00:40:44,398 but after what happened during this past experiment, 941 00:40:44,529 --> 00:40:47,183 I think we have a lot more evidence to suggest 942 00:40:47,314 --> 00:40:49,316 that the triangle and the mesa could be 943 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,144 the keys to figuring it out. 944 00:40:52,624 --> 00:40:55,931 BRANDON: The world's attention has been drawn to Skinwalker Ranch. 945 00:40:56,062 --> 00:40:59,413 The mesa and the triangle 946 00:40:59,544 --> 00:41:04,287 have proven to be key centers of gravity for high strangeness. 947 00:41:04,418 --> 00:41:07,465 Utilizing a vast array of equipment, 948 00:41:07,595 --> 00:41:11,033 we've documented the most compelling evidence 949 00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:14,646 that there is something very strange at play. 950 00:41:16,299 --> 00:41:18,563 With so many crazy events occurring, 951 00:41:18,693 --> 00:41:20,521 more than ever before, 952 00:41:20,652 --> 00:41:23,176 we'll be focusing efforts to get some answers, 953 00:41:23,306 --> 00:41:25,961 to better document 954 00:41:26,092 --> 00:41:27,789 the nature of what we are interacting with 955 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,009 here at Skinwalker Ranch.