-Watch what happens here. -TRAVIS: Wow.
ERIK: We have several objects
moving in unison above the triangle.
TRAVIS: What is that?
KALEB: I just saw a flash right there.
TRAVIS: I see it, I see it. UAP right there!
-Yep. -TRAVIS: Look at that thing.
KALEB: We just want to really see
how deep this anomaly is, by chance.
Let's give it a go.
JAN: This is what our target
actually looks like.
It looks a lot like you would think
a debris field would be.
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.
KALEB: Morning, guys.
-Hey, man. -We got Mike and Alex here with Mark Constructions.
-Hey, guys. -Hey, how's it going?
-Man. Hey, man. -THOMAS: Hey, Mike.
-Hey, Thomas, how are you doing? -Good to see you again.
TRAVIS: Thomas Winterton arranged for us to meet
with a drilling team from Mark Construction
to help us crack one of the biggest mysteries
we've ever encountered here on Skinwalker Ranch:
just what the heck is inside the mesa?
ERIK: So, guys, it sounds like
you're bringing some capabilities that we've never
had out here in terms of the horizontal drilling.
Yeah, so we'll-we'll have the capabilities
to about 60,000 pounds of force.
-ERIK: 60,000 pounds? -TRAVIS: Wow.
MIKE: With the machine that we're bringing, yeah.
Now, if something stops that, that's pretty crazy.
TRAVIS: In the past two years,
we've conducted two separate drilling operations
inside the mesa where we've encountered
a 400-foot-long object
that seems to be shaped like a dome.
Neither of the previous drilling operations
could penetrate this thing.
I'm up against something pretty hard right now.
TRAVIS: But what really stunned us was that
small fragments of metal came out of the spoils pile.
They were composed of similar kinds of materials
that NASA and SpaceX use
to protect spacecraft from the intense heat
when they reenter the Earth's atmosphere.
Oh, my.
TRAVIS: And just one week ago,
ground-penetrating radar expert Jan Francke
rescanned the mesa, and he identified
several more potentially metallic anomalies
around the dome-shaped object
that look a lot like a possible debris field.
THOMAS: We've gotten some data that Erik's gonna share with you,
and we wanted to get your thoughts on it
and kind of get a game plan of how we would tackle this.
TRAVIS: So now that Thomas has found a team
with a much more powerful drill rig,
we're gonna conduct a more strategic operation.
Our plan is to collect as much data as possible
about this dome-shaped object
and the other anomalies around it.
Then, perhaps we can find a way to excavate them
and figure out what they actually are.
ERIK: Now, let's take a look at this.
Our GPR expert has post-processed the data
and given us, really, a three-dimensional
-representation of whatever this is. -ALEX: Wow.
ERIK: We expect to be able to punch through right up beside.
We don't want to go into this thing.
'Cause we don't know what it is.
TRAVIS: What if it's something important or dangerous?
ERIK: Yeah. You're gonna come in
and hopefully maintain a-a distance
from this feature to the east
and, hopefully, to the west, so that we can then
bring instruments into that cased hole,
that, uh, borehole, and study it from both sides.
We've decided, rather than to drill into the structure,
we should create boreholes on both sides of the anomaly
that will provide instrumentation access
inside the mesa, very near to but not penetrating into
the anomaly itself.
I have in mind to insert active and passive instruments,
some of which simply measure, others of which
may even broadcast signals into the anomaly
in order to study its response.
This will give us an opportunity
to better understand whether it is of natural
or possible technological origins.
Do you mind if I draw on the screen?
ERIK: Uh, s-- Go for it.
-Yeah, I would love that. -Yeah, please do.
All right, so, we've cleared out an area right here.
The goal is to come up
and go as close to the dome as we can.
It'd be really nice if we were able to bring
a second drill hole up like that
and allow these guys the ability to-to put equipment down
and almost X-ray, if you will.
ERIK: You know, you're creating an asset for us
to study what could be a very interesting thing
inside the mesa.
THOMAS: Now we need your guys' thoughts
on the logistics part of this.
MIKE: We never know what we're getting into until we're on-site,
'cause every-everything's underground,
but it's definitely doable.
One thing that we would need to know
is-is the smallest-sized hole that would be able to obtain
the equipment you guys are sending up there.
ERIK: So, Mike, what are the increments?
What are the size increments of that borehole?
So, our pilot hole will be a six-inch diameter hole...
-Okay. -...um, and stepping up, uh, four inches at a time.
So, we'll go six-inch, ten-inch, 14-inch, 18-inch.
TRAVIS: Working up to 18 inches
for each borehole would be perfect.
So if you can do that on both sides,
we can put a transmitter on one side
and a receiver on the other and go up through there
with, like, a robot or a, or something, and pull it...
-ERIK: Pull it through. -...uh, up through there.
-Okay. -TRAVIS: The big thing is,
we don't want the pipe to be conductive,
because we need to use radio waves, microwaves,
gamma rays, everything we can think of
to try and shoot through this thing and...
-Send a signal through it? -...and-and figure out what it is.
MIKE: Yeah, it's gonna be
a concrete gel-based, um, casing that we put in.
Okay.
If everything goes according to plan,
we will have two holes
that would enable us to perform something akin to an X-ray,
or a CAT scan, of that anomaly,
and really give us an understanding
of whether we're dealing with a natural feature
or something far more interesting.
TRAVIS: We've been told all kinds of stories about
UFOs flying into the mesa and out.
The alien bases and, you know, crazy stuff.
We don't have any evidence that any of that's real.
But what we do know is there's something weird
inside the mesa.
Well, I'm anxious to get out there
over the next few days and get set up
and get your assessment of-of what can be done out there.
-Absolutely. -Let's do it. -All right.
TRAVIS: I'm looking forward to it, guys.
KALEB: Hey, Mike.
-MIKE: How's it going? -BRYANT: Hey. Welcome back.
-It's good to have you. -Yeah, it's good to be back.
Got your crew, looks like you've got
-a little bit of equipment with you. -Yep.
We've got our setup, we're ready to go.
♪
TRAVIS: Couple days after our meeting, Mike Seriani,
Alex Swanson and their team from Mark Construction Drillers
came back to get our operation started in the mesa.
MIKE: We'll get the drill unloaded
and meet you out there.
THOMAS: I'm really excited
because we can finally be able to get a clear picture
of what lies in and around the mesa.
In the past,
we've pulled metal out of the mesa,
so the thing I'm looking forward to most
is figuring out what is that metal from
and how did it get there?
Is there still a cavern or tunnel in there?
Is it gonna show this big dome?
After years and years of hearing stories
of things being inside the mesa,
who knows what else we'll find in there?
You're ready to rock, huh?
-Yeah. -You gonna use the same drill hole
from last year or are you gonna create a new one?
No, we're gonna create our own.
So, we'll go in just to the-the right
of the existing one and make our own hole the whole way.
THOMAS: Okay.
-We'll get out of your way. -Yeah.
You let us know if there's anything you need from us.
Sounds good.
TRAVIS: Awesome.
The team will start the first of two holes
across the road to the south of the mesa,
and then drill a six-inch-diameter borehole
that will track upwards and trace along the eastern side
of the dome-shaped object
until the bit breaks through at the top of the mesa.
Once both six-inch holes are completed,
the team will widen them to 18 inches
and then coat them with a concrete-gel-based sealant
that will allow us to insert imaging
and energy-detecting devices to hopefully identify
what this dome-shaped object is.
And in order to collect the drilling spoils,
Thomas is digging a pit to catch them
right at the base of the mesa
so we can look for any more fragments
of metal or other strange materials
that the drill may encounter.
-Hey, Alex. -How's it going?
-You got your beacon running? -Yes, sir.
ERIK: Okay, and so, we're gonna monitor you
from over here on the side.
All right, well, it looks like we're ready to start poking in?
-Yep. -All right.
JARED: Fire in the hole, huh?
ERIK: Just behind the drilling head
on the end of that rod, we have a beacon.
It is an electronic device that broadcasts a signal
up through the mesa to the receiver
and provides information about the elevation,
the direction-- or inclination--
as well as the temperature of the drill head itself.
This is very important to guide this otherwise blind operation
taking place inside of the mesa.
So, Travis, you're monitoring
for that beacon signal on that drill head?
Oh, absolutely.
-ERIK: Is that him? -TRAVIS: That's him right there.
So, it's 3605.
ERIK: The RF spectrum analyzer enables us to monitor
the signal coming out of that beacon.
We can pinpoint the exact frequency
that it is broadcasting.
They've got the bit to the right level
and they're gonna-- about to punch
into the main wall to go up into the mesa.
ERIK: All right, well, this is where things start
-to get interesting. -BRYANT: Yep, for sure.
Oh, look over here.
Holy crap. Look at this.
We're detecting a different signal
from the one coming from the drill beacon.
Let's listen to it.
ERIK: Okay, what frequency are you at on that one?
-31 megahertz. -All right.
[static]
TRAVIS: It's coming from inside the mesa,
right at the drill site.
What in the hell is that?
♪
TRAVIS: What in the hell is that?
It's coming from right at the drill site.
And it's not the beacon.
-What is that? -Yeah, you can see where the beacon is
because it's that constant thing across it.
TRAVIS: Just after the drilling operation got started,
almost immediately, we detected a strange signal
at about 31 megahertz that
our antenna showed us was coming from inside the mesa.
I don't know what that is,
'cause I've never seen a signal like that before.
It definitely wasn't the drilling beacon
that we were already tracking.
So, could it possibly have been coming from
the dome-shaped object itself?
I don't understand any of this.
JARED: She's not wanting to move.
ALEX: No?
JARED: Well, I don't know man.
It's not moving very well.
THOMAS: You can hear that drill's hitting something hard.
It keeps going up.
So, I've climbed 13% from back there.
THOMAS: We were only drilling for a short period of time
and already the bit is being pushed up
too steep inside the mesa.
Which means, unfortunately,
they're not able to steer this bit around
like they would like to,
just like we've seen in other exercises
drilling into this mesa in the past.
ALEX [on walkie]: She doesn't want to go down, huh?
Nah, no. She don't want to go down at all.
I mean, we're scraping on something.
Just climbing like crazy.
[signal static]
Every time I try and tune into it,
the signal coming from the mesa spreads around.
That sounds just like what we heard in the east field.
TRAVIS: That's exactly right.
A few weeks ago,
during an experiment about a half a mile away
in the east field canyon...
Oh. What was that?
...we detected a similar radio signal
that sounded to me like a possible communication signal.
I think it's two things talking to each other.
And it was also coming from inside the mesa.
Right where we've seen UAPs actually entering the rock face
and then reemerging on the other side near the triangle.
I've never seen a signal like that for any reason.
Was this the same kind of signal?
If so, what might that indicate about the dome-shaped object?
All we could hope was that this drilling operation
would help us figure it out.
THOMAS: It's really just basically right below
-the rock you're standing on? -ALEX: Yeah.
So, you want me to pull this back?
Hey, Erik. You got a copy?
Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.
We've encountered some, uh, circumstances
over here with this drill.
Uh, we'd like to come down and visit with you about it.
Copy you.
Well, that sounds foreboding.
TRAVIS: We were all anxious to find out
what the problem was with the drill,
especially since it happened right after we detected
that strange signal from inside the mesa.
-So, what is up, guys? -THOMAS: They haven't been achieving
the direction that they want.
Oh, wow.
We were about nine-foot-deep
and got another two rods in.
Um, we're still trying to push it down,
but whatever it is,
we're just scraping on it and chasing it up.
TRAVIS: Wait, so you're-you're saying
you're hitting something, and it's pushing the bit up?
-ALEX: Yeah. -THOMAS: At the rate he's going,
he'll pop out before he's even halfway up the hill.
Oh, really? How deep were you when you started hitting this?
-Uh, probably about 40-feet. -Wow.
TRAVIS: Well, that's just inside the mesa.
ERIK: So, what kind of force
or pressure are you guys at right now?
Anywhere between 12,000 and 14,000 pounds.
Holy crap.
So, what in the hell have we hit there?
Something hard that's just keeping us right on top of it.
We're not able to punch into it, we're just scraping up it.
When have we heard that before?
TRAVIS: Hearing from Alex that the drill bit was
hitting something it couldn't penetrate
and was just scraping alongside it
was like déjà vu all over again.
AARON: We're just hitting something
really, really hard.
And we're at 8,000 pounds of push.
THOMAS: Guys, you got a copy?
Go ahead, Thomas. We hear you.
It's just pushing up higher and higher.
TRAVIS: Because that's exactly what happened
to both of the previous drill rigs
that attempted to break through the dome-shaped object.
And this rig was applying twice as much pressure.
But what's really strange is
that they shouldn't have reached the dome-shaped object yet.
According to our GPR data,
it's at least 100 feet deeper inside the mesa.
So, does that mean the drill hit one of
the other objects detected around it?
So, are you thinking you're gonna have to
come all the way out with it
and then move left or right or something?
We're probably gonna pull it all the way out,
back the drill up a little bit,
and try and get a little bit deeper.
-Get under whatever that is? -Maybe get under whatever it is, yeah.
Okay, so we'll suck out the spoils pit.
And then back the drill out,
-right? -Yeah. Yes, sir. -Okay.
TRAVIS: Well, let's go check the spoils and see what's in them.
-Yep, absolutely. -ERIK: Thank you. -TRAVIS: Let's go.
THOMAS: After all the metal flakes that we found
a couple of years ago,
I'm really eager to look at this spoils pile
and see if there's anything indicating that we're drilling
into the same metallic object that we did from two years ago.
♪
That's probably perfect.
All right, guys. Go ahead and crack it open.
TRAVIS: All right, so now we're down to the sludgy stuff.
JARED: With the bit we have on there now,
it grinds the material down to smaller pieces.
That's good to know.
There might be metallic flakes in there instead of chunks.
BRYANT: You seeing anything like the sort?
TRAVIS: No, I don't think we are.
-You got something? -Might be.
We may have found something here, hang on.
Oh... maybe.
This does look like metal.
We are examining the contents
of the spoils pit from the drilling operation.
One thing does stand out
and that's a small metallic fragment
like we saw about two years ago.
Could this be some part of what we've been describing
as a debris field inside the mesa?
All right, this sample is collected.
And that's what makes it interesting to me.
-It's an eventful day. -THOMAS: I know that
we're gonna be starting over again.
But we got data out of it,
so, I guess we call it a day and-and we come back.
-Sounds good. -Sounds good. -Thank you, guys.
Absolutely. Thank you, guys.
TRAVIS: Looks like Nu-Salt is here.
Hey, Tim, how you doing, man? Good to see you.
-Hey. How are you? -Hey, man, good to see you.
TRAVIS: Our day of drilling at the mesa may have ended,
but as sundown was approaching, we regrouped at the triangle
for a nighttime experiment
with our friends from Nu-Salt Laser
and technologist Pete Kelsey.
Well, it's good to have you back out to the ranch, Tim.
There's something very interesting happening
in the space right above the triangle.
-Okay. -ERIK: I understand you're bringing
more wattage this time than the last time
you were out here with us.
TIM: So, this year we actually have
eight total Laser Space Cannons,
and they're higher power, so I would expect
we are definitely gonna see something.
I love the idea of getting more photons into the sky,
'cause, you know, that'll help us to paint that space
and see if in fact we get a repeat
of the things we've seen before right over this triangle.
TRAVIS: Just like in past years,
we've recently experienced GPS errors, energy spikes,
and seen several UAPs that were hundreds of feet
in the sky above the triangle.
Looks like wings.
Not like bird wings-- look like airplane wings.
And other UAPs
that literally disappeared about 30 feet high,
right about where we captured high-speed camera images
of a blob-like anomaly
back in 2022.
Specifically, Tim,
tonight, what we want to do is
surround the anomalous area above the triangle
with all of the lasers.
That way, if something does pass through,
it should hit one of those lasers.
And then, we want to, uh,
pass a laser beam up through the anomaly and hit a screen.
Tonight, once the sun goes down,
the Nu-Salt team is going to set up
several high-powered Laser Space Cannons
that will shoot beams of laser light
from the center of the triangle all the way up
into outer space.
If we see any breaks in the beams,
it might help us pinpoint
whatever might be responsible for the anomalies
we've seen and detected
between the ground and high altitudes.
And they'll also aim an additional Laser Cannon
at a 12-by-8-foot white screen
that Thomas will position at the 31-foot mark,
using a lift.
Then I'll use a device known as a spectrometer
to measure any variations in the laser beams' color spectrum,
which could indicate more evidence
of the blob anomaly.
So we're gonna look all across the spectrum
with all of our sensors, and hopefully we'll-we'll see
something in that spot again.
ERIK: I know we've got a lot of equipment to put out,
-so I say we get to it. -Great.
TRAVIS: All right, let's do it. Let's go.
Also, to look out for anything strange
that we won't be able to see with the naked eye,
Pete Kelsey and Jim Royston will be scanning
the entire triangle area with aerial, infrared lidar
and thermal devices.
And all during the experiment, we're also setting up
multiple cameras that will be programed
to take long exposure photos
every few seconds of the triangle,
so if anything passes through those laser beams,
hopefully we'll capture images of it.
THOMAS: Good. We can have a new scan.
TRAVIS: And, of course, we'll be launching rockets
because a lot of the really bizarre phenomena
that we've been seeing during our investigation
here on Skinwalker Ranch have occurred
just after we launched rockets that were equipped
with GPS and energy-detecting devices.
Coming towards ya.
ERIK: Our objective with the one laser
that is directed at the target
is to determine whether the light will be scattered,
diverted, or perhaps absorbed
in some way that requires the presence
of some exotic physical phenomenon.
-Oh, so it's that way. -Towards the...
Yeah. Okay. I got it.
ERIK: Given the fact that we've recorded
what we've termed "the blob"
at about 30 to 40 feet above the triangle,
we won't be surprised
if we see something unusual happen
with that laser light.
It wouldn't be the first time.
Okay. Very good.
That's probably it.
♪
Yeah, when you come up with it, it'll be at low power, Chris.
TRAVIS: Tim, you guys about ready?
TIM: Yeah, we're ready to go, Travis.
Hey, hey. What is-- Look right here.
What is this?
KALEB: What is that, right there, right there?
TRAVIS: I don't see lights on it.
KALEB: I'm not seeing lights, either.
TRAVIS: I don't see aviation lights at all.
KALEB: Yeah, I don't see any strobe.
TRAVIS: I think that could be a UAP.
Yeah, I can barely still see it moving
to the north and west.
It's gone.
TRAVIS: We've seen a lot of UAPs in the sky
during the last few years,
but as an optical scientist who's worked with NASA
and the Department of Defense on space technology
for more than three decades now,
this one looked bigger and brighter than anything
we've ever documented on Skinwalker Ranch.
It was even maneuvering like a craft
for several seconds there, but then it just disappeared.
All right. Well, let's get going.
Okay, I'm gonna go lift the screen up.
TIM: We're all hooked up and ready to go
and we'll energize it
when the backstop is up in the air.
TRAVIS: All I knew for sure was
that we needed to start our laser, lidar,
and rocket experiment at the triangle right away
to see if it reappears
or, given all the legends we've heard about portals out here,
detect something to explain why it vanished.
We've got-- Pete's ready over here,
OmniTeq's ready. Where are you gonna be?
ERIK: I've got to get back over to the command center
where I've got all the monitoring screens up
-right now. -TRAVIS: Great.
Well, I say we get to it.
ERIK: All right.
TRAVIS: Who knows what might happen next?
TRAVIS: Okay, guys, be advised,
big laser's coming on.
TIM [over walkie]: Hey, Chris.
On the laser,
go ahead and slowly
bring up the power.
Copy that.
♪
TRAVIS: Yeah, that's bright. Wow, that's bright.
Look at that. Look at that right there.
Before the Nu-Salt team turned on
the seven vertical laser cannons
that were positioned around the triangle,
I wanted to test the one we had aimed at the whiteboard
positioned 31 feet high.
That's right where we saw the blob-like anomaly
that may have caused
a rocket to explode back in 2022.
KALEB: It's like staring at the sun.
TRAVIS: While the laser canon fired its beam--
which has a specific spectrum of colors--
into the 31-foot zone,
I watched my spectrometer
for any changes in those colors
which might indicate something strange
was in the airspace.
So you can see the red, green and the blue.
Look at that.
Suddenly, it's gotten brighter in the green
and dropped off in the blue.
Why would it be doing that?
This laser is programmed to emit light
with no variation in its brightness or color.
So when I saw the green light was suddenly getting brighter
while the blue light started to fade,
and then the colors actually changed slightly,
that meant something strange at about 31 feet was causing it.
So it was time for us to use all of our tools
to identify just what it was.
I think we're at a point now
where we can start getting the rest of the lasers
ready to go.
-Okay. -TRAVIS: All right, Tim.
Uh, we're ready to start getting the big lasers going.
TIM [over walkie]: All right, Travis.
Let's turn on the lasers, creating the circle.
Copy that.
All right. Lasers are up.
Lasers are up, guys.
Travis, you copy?
Go ahead, Erik.
ERIK: I'd like to know what you're seeing
around 1.6 gigahertz over there on your antennas.
'Cause I do show a source right behind Homestead Two.
All right, me and Dragon are going to head back now
and check that, Erik.
Copy you.
We have a system with five antennas
that we've deployed around the ranch to monitor activity.
Now, I'm seeing a 1.6 gigahertz signal
out in the west near Homestead Two
just as we're performing this experiment.
This is in fact a location where we've seen
unusual things in the past.
Now, there's nothing in that space
that should account for that.
Okay, I need to call Erik and tell him he's right.
We're getting a signal at 1.6 gigahertz
pointed at Homestead Two.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
Yeah, Travis, go ahead.
You are correct.
I'm not getting that signal on any of my antennas
except for the one pointed out behind Homestead Two.
There is something coming from that direction.
Travis, that is really interesting.
I'm gonna keep an eye on that.
Just keep me advised as to whether you see
any changes on that.
TRAVIS: We still have no idea what causes
these 1.6 gigahertz signals,
but we've been detecting them on our spectrum analyzers
for the past few years,
and it's usually right around the time
when we see UAPs
or experience other strange things at the triangle.
So, since this 1.6 gigahertz signal showed up
just after we had detected something strange
with the lasers above the triangle,
we wanted to kick our experiment into high gear
to see what would happen next.
All right, next step.
Uh, Jim, you're gonna run lidar, right?
-Correct. -TRAVIS: So, Pete,
-I'd rather you run thermal. -All right, check.
TRAVIS: All right, Jim, if you want to go ahead and get in the air.
JIM: Yeah, copy that. All righty.
[buzzing]
Here we go.
Pete's in the air.
JIM: Pete, I'm at 133 feet.
I'm coming to a hundred feet, Jim.
The lidar and thermal drones are up in the air.
Copy you, Travis.
-Try to go hot on the battery. -TRAVIS: All right.
Rocket going hot in five, four,
three, two,
one.
Did y'all see that?
It was like it was diverted around the anomaly.
It's gonna land on the mesa.
The rocket should have gone straight up,
but it clearly flew up in this odd S-shaped pattern,
as if something redirected its course.
So, could it have been the blob that did that?
PETE [over walkie]: Hey, have we got anybody on the ground
over by where the orb came out of the mesa?
To my knowledge, not.
What are you seeing?
PETE: So I've got something really warm on the ground
near where you told me an orb flew out of the mesa.
TRAVIS [over walkie]: What are you seeing?
So I've got something
really warm on the ground
near where you told me an orb flew out of the mesa.
TRAVIS: What?
-On the ground? -PETE: Yeah.
Our lasers and rockets had just detected
something in the 31-foot
blob zone at the triangle when, all of the sudden,
Pete Kelsey noticed that his aerial thermal drone
picked up a strange heat anomaly
several hundred feet to the northeast by the mesa.
And that was right near the spot
where we captured video last year
of a UAP flying out of the mesa
and straight toward the triangle.
Was it there before the launch?
-PETE: Not that I noticed. -Where, where?
Right here.
TRAVIS: What the hell is that?
PETE: That's just weird.
I was just panning around and saw it.
That's almost up at the base of the mesa.
TRAVIS: I'll tell you what,
Dragon, let's jump in the jeep and drive over there.
BRYANT: That's a good idea.
TRAVIS: We had no idea
what Pete had just detected,
but since that's where we documented
one of the most shocking events we've ever seen
on Skinwalker Ranch,
which also might be connected to the triangle,
I wanted to get over there with Dragon
to see if we could figure out what it was.
PETE: I got great visual on you, guys.
BRYANT [over walkie]: All right, so walk us in.
PETE [over walkie]: You're-you're on a good line,
just keep-keep walking that track.
So bear right a little bit.
Bull's-eye.
BRYANT: Yep. It is a big rock.
PETE: That's just weird.
It doesn't look like any other rock around it.
TRAVIS: I mean, I don't know what-what to think of it.
It was definitely strange
that this massive boulder appeared
as a major heat source on Pete Kelsey's thermal device,
because other large rocks right near it
were much darker, or cooler, as we'd normally expect.
[singing]
But back in 2022,
we detected a strange heat anomaly up on top of the mesa.
When they started singing,
the temperature literally changed.
Look how hot it's getting.
And then saw two UAPs
actually fly into the top of it.
There's no geological reason why this rock
would emit heat like that and show up on a thermal scan.
All right, well, it was, it was worth taking a look at.
-We'll head back. -Yep.
Thanks, guys.
TRAVIS: So, it really left us wondering
what it is about this location
that would explain the hot rock,
especially since it's near where we've seen a UAP
exit the mesa.
And why did it show up
right after something caused our rocket
to veer off course in the blob zone
at the triangle?
There has to be some kind of connection.
Yep. All right, here we go.
Let's get a rocket ready and let's do it again.
As soon as Dragon and I got back to the triangle,
we wanted to immediately launch the last rocket we had
to see if it would go straight up this time,
like it should, or get diverted again.
If something was above the triangle,
we needed to do whatever we could to figure out what it was.
We're ready, Jim. Are you about ready?
ROYSTON [over walkie]: Yeah, I'm getting it in the air right now.
Okay.
Hey, everybody, uh, do you copy?
We are going to,
uh, launch a rocket here.
Uh, so be warned, be advised.
Everybody clear out for the lasers.
TIM: Lasers up, Chris.
Lasers up.
TRAVIS: The rocket is going hot. Rocket is hot!
Going in five...
four, three,
two, one.
How did it go over there?
BRYANT: I don't know. There's hardly any wind.
All right, let's go back and, uh, see what they got.
Okay.
TRAVIS: Sure enough,
the rocket veered away
instead of going straight up,
as though something pushed it off course.
Who knows what caused it, but it was really weird that
the same thing happened multiple times.
I don't see anything weird or crazy.
Uh, Pete, are you seeing anything?
Jim, are you seeing anything?
KALEB [over walkie]: Nope.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
ROYSTON [over walkie]: We just flew on that last rocket launch.
There was nothing in the air.
Okay.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
Yes, Travis. Go ahead.
TRAVIS [over walkie]: You see anything exciting?
ERIK: I didn't see anything jumping out at me.
TRAVIS: We're about to wrap up out here at the tent.
Um, I'll run out and join you guys,
if it's not too much to wait.
No. Come on, man. We'll wait.
It's like that a lot out here.
One minute, we're seeing and detecting
strange things that we can't explain,
and then the next minute, nothing.
Okay, guys, uh, we can bring the lasers down,
and, uh, let's start-- let's shut everything down.
Whatever was in that airspace
seemed to have suddenly just vanished.
Hey, guys.
Just like some of the UAPs
we've recently seen.
Well...
Erik, did you see anything in the cameras?
ERIK: There were so many different views,
um, I-I could've missed anything.
But, uh,
if in fact we got anything like that blob,
we should be able to run some filters on it and find it.
You know, uh, it's really interesting, uh,
at one point, we did pick up
a signal around 1.6 gigahertz pointed at Homestead Two.
I got to tell you, that's been really persistent tonight.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
We got a lot of data, though,
'cause every time we did something,
we had two drones in the air.
One doing thermal,
one doing lidar.
It was a lot to track.
We'll look at the data, and after we absorb
some of that and assimilate the data,
we'll reconvene.
All right, let's start breaking down.
-ERIK: How we doing? -TRAVIS: All right.
We are just about to review
everything that happened during the exercise with Nu-Salt.
In effect, trying to probe the anomaly
directly above the triangle.
THOMAS: That night was so crazy.
BRYANT: That was quite an experiment.
TRAVIS: The day after our multi-laser
rocket experiment at the triangle,
Jim Royston, Pete Kelsey,
Erik, and I scoured through our data,
hoping that we would see something at 31 feet in the air
that might explain all the strange things we detected.
But instead, we found something that none of us were expecting.
So, near the tent, you guys remember we had
a couple of cameras locked off
on the Space Cannon beams going up.
-Yep. -And they were set to take
a snapshot every so often,
and we found something that is, uh, really odd.
ERIK: Yeah, odd to say the least.
I can't explain this.
-THOMAS: Whoa. -KALEB: No.
TRAVIS: Yeah, looks like the beam stops and then starts again.
So, if there was something in there blocking the beam,
it wouldn't continue above it.
THOMAS: How could it block out the green and not the blue?
TRAVIS: It doesn't make any sense at all.
I've never seen anything like this ever.
And if you look at the ends of the beams,
the beams look rounded off.
ERIK: Yeah, these do, certainly.
Here and here.
And it appears that this is cutting into
the beam profile on the left-hand side.
What-what could be doing that?
ERIK: I see that the green light on the lasers directed skyward
has been affected by something for which I have no explanation.
I'm not even sure how it is possible
for this beam to be interrupted,
as we see in the image, and then to resume.
This-this makes no sense.
I don't think any of us has a good explanation for it.
And it didn't just happen in one of the images.
-[laughs] Oh, no. -BRYANT: You're kidding me.
THOMAS: What?
ERIK: So, here we see unaffected, blue-ish...
TRAVIS: Blue-ish and purple lasers, right.
-And now, look. Look there. -ERIK: Look here.
-Look near the top here. -TRAVIS: Yeah.
Again, just the green, just the green.
ERIK: It's got that hard-edge geometry on it.
I c-- I cannot explain it. I do not understand it,
but there it is, and then, uh, we have another one.
Look here.
THOMAS: Yeah.
So, you see, we had this in three different
long-exposure photographs.
And they're all at about 100 feet off the ground.
TRAVIS: And, if we're running around doing so much stuff,
we may not ever looked at the right time and saw this.
Yeah.
TRAVIS: The fact that we captured three different images
of gaps in only the green laser beam
showed that this wasn't a camera error.
Something created three different voids
in just the green laser beams
at a height of about 100 feet above the triangle.
I guess the question is, what is it that causes
this thing to show up?
Yes. I was just thinking, "Can I make it happen again?"
TRAVIS: How were you thinking you'd make it happen again?
ERIK: Well, I was just thinking of really bright
infrared illumination, you know, that I can control.
TRAVIS: Maybe we shine one laser with the lidar?
-ERIK: Yes. -We should also launch a rocket
through it while we're doing the lidar.
ERIK: Absolutely.
I want to understand what just happened here.
TRAVIS: We don't know if the voids
in the green laser were related to the UAP that we saw,
or what caused our rockets to veer off course.
But the experiment was a success.
We now have a specific spot
to focus on for more experiments
that will hopefully lead to some answers.
I love the idea of trying to see
if there's anything that can stimulate to see it again.
-Yup. Yup. -Yup. Yup.
I guess we need to invite these guys back
-and bring those lasers back here. -ERIK: Absolutely.
Absolutely. I want to understand what just happened here.
-I did not expect to see that. -Right.
-ERIK: Okay. Thanks, guys. -THOMAS: Thank you.
ERIK: We've seen so many unusual things
happen here above the triangle.
It raises the question as to what could be operating there?
What could be present in that space?
Could it be related to something
in the UFO or UAP domain?
We can't dismiss it, and that's tantalizing.
TRAVIS: We don't know yet how all the crazy phenomena
we keep seeing and detecting out here
at Skinwalker Ranch might be related to one another,
but after what happened during this past experiment,
I think we have a lot more evidence to suggest
that the triangle and the mesa could be
the keys to figuring it out.
BRANDON: The world's attention has been drawn to Skinwalker Ranch.
The mesa and the triangle
have proven to be key centers of gravity for high strangeness.
Utilizing a vast array of equipment,
we've documented the most compelling evidence
that there is something very strange at play.
With so many crazy events occurring,
more than ever before,
we'll be focusing efforts to get some answers,
to better document
the nature of what we are interacting with
here at Skinwalker Ranch.