ALEX: And I lost signal. There's something throwing interference
inside the mesa.
I got to try an entirely different beacon.
PETE: This is the terrestrial laser scans we did.
-TRAVIS: It does go into a cone. -KALEB: Whoa. Look at that.
TRAVIS: We're all inside it.
How many drones did you bring us this time?
-A thousand. -A thousand!
(drones whirring)
They hit each other.
-Did you hear 'em hit? -Yep.
TRAVIS: What could be causing that?
ERIK: There's a lot going on here, guys.
I'm gonna play this through.
-TRAVIS: Wow. -This is really interesting.
-Yep. I saw it. Yep. -THOMAS: Oh, yes! Look, it's right there!
TRAVIS: Yeah. There you go. I'm seeing
maybe a formation flying event.
That is just unbelievable.
NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth:
animal mutilations,
bizarre UFO sightings
and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years, the federal government
tried to find answers and failed.
Now a new team of dedicated scientists,
researchers and experts has taken over.
They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...
...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
♪ ♪
ERIK: There's a lot riding on this.
THOMAS: So, this new beacon,
supposedly able to go deeper, then?
ALEX: Deeper and a stronger signal.
ERIK: That's encouraging.
Wow.
-Definitely a lot different. -Yeah.
And so is this the component
-that goes into the actual drilling... -This is
-what's gonna go into the drill head. Yes. -Okay.
ALEX: So, a transmitter.
THOMAS: Cool. Well, I say
we get it installed and get it back up
-in that hole. -Yeah.
-We'll do that right now. -Okay.
TRAVIS: This morning, the team from Mark Construction Drilling
needed to make another repair to the drill
that we hope will finally help us figure out
just what is buried in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.
For nearly two months, we've been struggling to drill
the first of two boreholes up through the mesa
on either side of a massive, dome-shaped object
that is surrounded by several smaller anomalies
that may all be composed of metal.
And once these holes are completed,
we'll insert scanning devices to better study and determine
what these anomalies are.
ALEX: Full battery.
Uh, calibrated. Everything should be
-good to go on it. -THOMAS: Awesome.
Hey, guys, you got a copy down there?
Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.
THOMAS: Just letting you guys know
they're just about ready to continue drilling.
-Copy you, Thomas. -TRAVIS: Let's hope this new beacon works.
During our drilling operation in the mesa,
the drilling team has been plagued with strange setbacks,
including drill rods breaking
after making contact with the anomalies.
And their drilling beacon has quit working over and over,
right when the drill bit reaches a spot
nearly 200 feet inside the mesa.
That's perfect.
Go ahead and just keep corkscrewing it on up, bud.
10-4.
TRAVIS: The drilling beacon is a device inside the drill head
that sends a signal to a receiver on the surface.
This allows the team to track
the direction they're drilling in,
which is critical to our plan
to further study these anomalies.
So, hopefully, this new beacon will work
and we can get our first borehole completed.
Are you still showing good connectivity?
I'm showing good signal on it, yeah.
It's moving forward.
Yeah, I'm seeing that, dude.
ALEX: We definitely have been doing this a long time.
So, when we came down to Skinwalker Ranch
with full intentions of quickly punching through the mesa,
we sure didn't anticipate
snapping off rods and problems
with the receivers and transmitters.
I feel there's definitely something going on here.
I don't know exactly what it is,
but there's some activity here that can't be explained.
(grunts) This locator's a lot harder to carry.
THOMAS: I'll update you guys as soon as we get on top
and we see whether or not he can still get a signal.
Copy you, Thomas. Thank you. We're all encouraged down here.
We'll, uh, we'll stand by for your word.
In recent drilling attempts,
we have lost contact with the beacon
at close to 200 feet inside of the mesa.
From what we've seen in the past,
I'm tempted to speculate that perhaps
that dome-shaped, impenetrable object
inside of the mesa itself
is acting like some kind
of electromagnetically active structure.
It could be interfering with our ability
to receive the beacon's signal and continue forward.
THOMAS: Hey, guys. You got a copy down there?
Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.
We have reached the last known spot
that they had a signal with the other one.
They're making better progress.
They're happy with their angle.
So far, so good.
TRAVIS: As the drilling operation inched closer and closer to that point
about 200 feet inside the mesa
where the other beacon just stopped working,
we were all anxious as hell to see if this new one
would finally get us past it.
We've been able to punch past that 240-foot mark.
It's struggling pretty hard
to, uh, drill through it.
It's real slow going right now,
but we are making progress and inching forward.
Copy you. That's good to know.
TRAVIS: What a relief to finally
drill past that spot inside the mesa.
Did we simply have mechanical failures
with the other beacons?
Who knows?
But with the power of this drill rig,
if this new beacon stays connected to the rig,
we're hopeful to get through the next 300 or so feet
and complete this first borehole very quickly.
-THOMAS: It'd be cool to finally punch through after all this. -ALEX: I know.
THOMAS: You guys have earned a victory.
ALEX: We want it, for sure.
(loud rattling)
Hold on one sec. My screen froze up.
Nothing's working right now.
(beeping)
-Is he being serious? -Yep. (chuckles softly)
(whirring)
(loud rattling)
You going through something real hard right now or what?
JARED: Feels like we, uh, broke a rod or something.
Hey, buddy, the head's not moving. Are you pulling back?
Yeah, I'm about five feet back already.
We broke somewhere.
We got to figure out where we broke now.
-Broke a ro... another rod? -Bro-Broke a rod, yeah.
So, we have, like, 480 feet of steel in the ground
with the head.
10-4. I'll start pulling this rod back
and we'll see where we sit.
10-4.
THOMAS: You probably don't have any idea where it broke.
ALEX: That's... Yeah, just gonna have him pull back.
Hey, guys, you copy?
Yeah, Thomas, what's up?
Can you guys meet us up by the spoils pit?
Yeah.
We'll be right over.
Yeah, we got problems.
TRAVIS: This rig is designed
to drill through solid rock with ease.
So, did it hit one of the anomalies in there?
And if so,
how much of a setback is this going to be?
Is that supposed to look like that?
ALEX: No, it is not, no.
TRAVIS: That used to go all the way to the other piece, right?
ALEX: Yeah.
We were hitting something pretty hard
somewhere right up in here.
So, the entire string with those rods
and with the drill head and everything
is in the mountain right now.
KALEB: How far in from right here are we?
ALEX: Uh, we're about four...
480, 500 feet. Right around there.
-So you'd have to dig a hole or what to get to it? -ALEX: Uh,
we have a fishing tool.
-Um... -A fishing tool. How's that work?
ALEX: It's shaped like a cone,
and it's got threads on the inside of it.
-Ah. -So I put it on the end of that
and I can run up in there and hopefully
catch a bite on the rod.
Assuming you can fish that bit out with th-this fishing tool,
what do you think is the time delay that that's creating now?
A day?
-Two days? -It's hard to say.
Just like everything else that's happened,
I guess we, uh, we-we wait.
But we're gonna get the steel out. That's what we're gonna do.
-Get it out. -JARED: We're gonna pull that out, get that broken rod off
and then continue to drill a hole through this mountain.
THOMAS: The more experiments we do,
the more we realize that whatever's in this mesa
is of extreme significance.
So, we have
more resolve than ever to figure out
what it is that lies inside that mesa.
Hopefully we won't be down long.
Because, at this point,
we could be on top of discovering
a long-held secret here at Skinwalker Ranch.
ERIK: Well,
we got some other things we need to work on.
TRAVIS: Yeah. We've got a major drone experiment tonight
that we've got to go get ready for.
All right. Good luck.
-Thank you, guys. -Yeah, thank you, guys.
KALEB: Hey, guys. I've got Sky Elements down here
by the front gate. I'm gonna be bringing 'em down
-to the triangle. -TRAVIS: Copy that.
Dragon and I will meet y'all over there.
While we were waiting for the drilling operation
to get going again at the mesa...
...Tyler Johnson, Preston Ward and their team
from a drone-based light show company named Sky Elements
came back out to the ranch.
-Here's Travis and Bryant. -TRAVIS: Their equipment was perfect
to help us with another major experiment we designed
to collect more data
where we've experienced a number of stunning phenomena
between the triangle and the east field canyon,
including a UAP
entering the mesa in the east field
and exiting moments later near the triangle.
-Oh! Right there! -Oh, my gosh!
TRAVIS: A month ago, using an infrared lidar scanner,
technologist Pete Kelsey
detected a massive cone-shaped anomaly
that covered an area stretching from the east field
all the way to Homestead Two
on the western side of the property
that was centered nearly 2,000 feet high
directly above the triangle.
Three, two, one.
And just last week, we had Sky Elements
attempt to launch a swarm of 1,000 drones
in a preprogrammed pattern of straight lines
right above the triangle.
-You see that? -BRYANT: What the hell is up there?
TRAVIS: But just after a UAP appeared in the sky,
only 200 of the drones could launch, and then struggled
-to keep their formations. -TYLER: We got a few
on the west side that seem to be misbehaving.
So when the sun goes down tonight,
we want to split the drones into two groups
and, along with our own instruments,
see if we can get more data on some
or all of these phenomena and figure out
if they are somehow related to one another.
So, I think the game plan is that, uh,
unlike the way we've done in the past,
where we've picked one site and we have, uh,
all the drone, uh, experiment
in one location, either here or in the east field,
tonight, we'd like to split it, and do both simultaneously.
-Yeah. -Got it. Easy.
TRAVIS: Okay, so, tell us what you brought for us.
TYLER: We've got 600 drones
that we're gonna fly directly overtop of the triangle.
Preston's gonna be the pilot over here.
We've got 400 drones that we're gonna take over
to the east field and we're gonna take KC over there
and he's gonna pilot over there and I'll be roving
back and forth to support both teams.
TRAVIS: Tonight,
the Sky Elements team will launch two drone swarms
equipped with specialized GPS tracking
above the triangle and the east field
in preprogrammed cylindrical formations.
Then, we plan to launch rockets
directly up through the center of each swarm
to see if the rockets or the drones themselves
make contact with anything strange in the air.
To look even closer for any anomalies,
Kaleb McEwen will be flying an FPV drone
all around the swarms,
which is equipped with an onboard camera.
While all that's going on,
Jim Royston will fly his infrared lidar drone
between the triangle and the east field
along the same path that we witnessed
the UAP fly in and out of the mesa
back in 2022.
And during the entire experiment,
we'll be using infrared and thermal cameras
which can visualize anomalies with temperature variations
that we might not be able to see with the naked eye.
Finally, we'll be monitoring an array of spectrum analyzers
to look out for strange energy spikes
and signals in the field while Erik
does the same thing from the command center.
Tonight, we're using more tools than ever
to figure out this place's secret.
So, hopefully, the effort will pay off
with some incredible revelations.
Well, I'm really excited.
The thought of putting that spiral, uh, drone configuration
up in the air at the same time at two locations that seem to,
for whatever reason, be connected--
who knows what we're gonna see when that takes place.
TRAVIS: Yeah. Okay, all right, let's go.
-Great. -All right.
I have all the drones connected,
I have their flight paths on them.
I also was able to set the time,
so now we have a manual start time.
Perfect.
TRAVIS: Well, I've got the standard kit going.
I've got my gamma ray detector running,
I've got the spectrum analyzers going
and we've got the FLIR.
I got it set up on top of the Jeep.
We're-we're looking almost due north,
a little bit east.
So we're looking at the place on the mesa here
where we saw that UAP come in
-and go into the mesa -Oh, yeah. Yep.
and, you know, fly out down by the triangle.
So, I was hoping if something flies into the-into the mesa
while we're doing this, we'll catch it
-on the FLIR. -Perfect.
Whoa, what is that?
BRYANT: Whoa.
TRAVIS: Holy cow.
Oh. We got... Look right there, right there.
Just as we were getting ready to start the experiment,
I saw a UAP that looked very similar
to one that appeared in the sky
right before everything went haywire
with our drone experiment at the triangle last week.
BRYANT: I think it's gone now.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead.
Hey, we just saw
kind of the same UAP fly across the sky
from, uh, west to east
right over the mesa here,
uh, as we saw the last time we were with these guys.
I was wondering if you had anything on the ADSB
or if you saw anything on any of the cameras.
Okay, let me tell you what we got on the ADSB. Um...
The closest aircraft would be about
24 nautical miles out at 35,000 feet.
And, uh...
I doubt that's a good match for what you're describing.
ERIK: Our ADSB transponder data receiver
receives the signals directly
from the aircraft in our airspace.
This object, whatever it is, is not broadcasting a signal.
In other words, it doesn't appear to be an airliner.
It is, in fact, at least, for the moment, unidentified.
Yeah, I-I don't think that's it,
and, uh, we don't see any other aircraft, either.
All right, well, uh, just letting you know.
Hey, we're getting close to, uh, getting started.
I'll let you know when we, uh, turn the trackers on
and, uh, when we're ready to launch rockets and drones.
Copy you. Thank you, Travis.
PRESTON: We are all set up and ready to go on this end.
KC: Copy.
I take that back. As soon as I said that,
I lost 168.
TYLER: And we just lost 200 drones at the east field as well.
What the hell?
TRAVIS: It's like a repeat of our last experiment
with the Sky Elements drone team.
Just as we were about to start our dual drone experiment
between the triangle and the east field,
a UAP suddenly appeared over the east field mesa,
and just vanished into thin air.
And literally,
right after that, hundreds of drones
in both locations malfunctioned.
Did the UAPs that appeared tonight and last week
interfere with the drones?
If so, what were they, how did they do it,
and then, where the heck did they go?
THOMAS: The fact that we fought through this
last time you were here, and then, tonight,
the closer that we're getting to launch time,
the more unstable it's becoming
and the harder that it is to-to keep these connected--
yeah, i-it's just... it's-it's interesting to me.
PRESTON: Yeah, it's weird.
THOMAS: I don't know what's going on,
but it makes me wonder if what we're seeing
is electromagnetic interference or some type of radio frequency
that's jamming the signal at both locations.
These sights have shown that they could
possibly be connected through some of our experiments,
and they're both sights
where we've seen a lot of anomalous activity.
If these two locations are connected,
we're gonna have to get to the bottom of it.
Hey, Travis?
We can only get 200 of our drones connected
over here at east field.
Copy that. Okay.
When Tyler said that only 200 of the drones in the east field
were staying connected to the system,
I couldn't believe it.
The same thing happened last week at the triangle.
What could possibly explain only 200 drones-- exactly--
staying connected while the others went haywire?
KC, this is Preston. Do you have a copy?
-KC: Go for KC. -We reconfigured some things,
I put more access points on, that seemed to solve it.
They're slowly coming back.
So, we should be good, though.
Okay, so we still good to go?
PRESTON: Gonna go ahead and arm.
Thomas, Kaleb, can you guys hear me?
Uh, Travis, we hear you.
TRAVIS: We've only got 200
of the 400 drones connected.
How are the 600 that you guys have
over there at the triangle doing?
THOMAS: Uh, he is arming the drones now.
Kaleb's over at the launchpad, uh,
ready with the rocket, and we're all systems go.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
ERIK: Yeah, go ahead, Travis.
They're a matter of minutes from starting the drone launch.
We've got a rocket on the pad ready to go.
Hey, everybody, keep clear of the grid.
KC: Clear the field.
Arming, arming, arming.
Good arm on 200 drones.
TYLER: Good arm, 200 drones, east field.
Good arm, 200 drones.
Okay, we're going hot here.
Ten seconds.
Ten seconds, ten seconds.
TRAVIS: My rocket is hot.
Rocket is hot.
TYLER: Three, two, one.
KC: Here we go.
Solid...
grid forming.
PRESTON: We are ready to go on this end.
THOMAS: Whoa!
What...
What the heck's going on?
It's raining drones over here.
Heads up! Heads up! They're coming down!
THOMAS: Heads up! Heads up! They're coming down!
Holy crap.
PRESTON: FPV drone is in the sky.
THOMAS: When these drones got 30 feet off the ground,
they just started to drop out of the sky.
We got them coming right down on top of the tents.
For these brief moments,
everything is complete chaos.
It's raining drones over here.
Raining drones.
Raining drones? Is that what he said?
Raining drones in the... at the triangle.
BRYANT: We're raining drones here, too.
TRAVIS: We're raining drones here, too.
We've had strange equipment failures
on Skinwalker Ranch before,
but it was insane that so many of the drones
were dropping out of the sky
just after both swarms launched at the triangle
and the east field.
KC: Cylinder forming.
Two more dropped.
TRAVIS: Several seconds later, our swarm in the east field
finally started to move into its cylinder formation,
but then, more drones continued to fall
every couple of seconds.
KC: Look at 'em.
-TRAVIS: It's raining drones. -BRYANT: We got drones dropping like crazy.
TRAVIS: We've had several fall, we got several
that are missing out of the formation.
Look at that!
PRESTON: Everybody stay back.
Everybody get back behind the vehicle.
-THOMAS: Oh, (bleep)! -PRESTON: Holy mackerel.
We have a massive amount being lost.
Oh, my God.
THOMAS: We just had catastrophic failure.
They're gonna hit the tent.
THOMAS: Holy crap.
It looks like we're having major problems.
-No, won't work. -Here, let me get...
We have one drone that literally comes down
and starts to come inside the tent towards us.
So I took my coat off,
and as this drone was coming down,
I had to swat it to the ground
to keep it from hitting us.
Stay under the tent. Stay under the tent.
Holy crap.
Still got one right there.
Yeah, we still have...
-They're coming down behind us. -Yeah, yeah.
THOMAS: Where-where the hell's that one going?
TRAVIS: They're just coming out of...
They're fall... There's... Look at that one!
That one just fell right out of the sky.
-BRYANT: -Oh, my God. -TRAVIS: Oh, it hit hard, too. Heads up!
-Heads up! You see that? -I don't want to be underneath this.
TRAVIS: Was the massive cone causing all this,
or something else that we couldn't see?
There was no way to tell in the moment,
so I wanted to start
launching rockets to see if it would reveal
whatever was affecting the drones.
BRYANT: Dude, it could clobber us, dude.
Just keep a watch, just keep a watch.
I'll watch, you launch.
If I say run, we're running
to the west, okay?
We're about to launch.
-BRYANT: Dude, I don't... I don't know -TRAVIS: Get ready, get ready.
-if this is gonna be a good idea. -TRAVIS: Get ready.
-Do not let me get clobbered. -Get ready, get ready, get ready.
So we prepped our rocket at the east field as a cylinder
formation moved into position directly above our launchpad,
while Kaleb prepped another one over at the triangle.
TYLER: Travis, I'll let you know
as soon as we're centered over top.
-Show me 2D, please. -2D's up.
We're set. Almost in position.
-TYLER: Travis, I got five, four, -Almost there.
-three, two, one. -Almost there.
TYLER: You're good, send it.
TRAVIS: Do it, Dragon! Do it!
BRYANT: We just blew our igniter out.
TRAVIS: Crap!
Oh, heads up! Let's get out! Get out! Get out!
Look, you can see over there, they are, like,
dropping like flies.
KALEB: I'm gonna send our rocket in
three, two, one.
(device beeping)
Malfunction on our rocket as well.
Give me a couple minutes.
Their rocket didn't go either. Grab an igniter.
TRAVIS: When the rockets failed to launch in both locations,
as drones were still falling out of the sky,
it honestly seemed like the ranch--
or something on the ranch--
was completely shutting us down.
Nothing made any sense.
We're too close, we're too close.
BRYANT: I don't know if I want to run over there
-and put another... -I'll do it.
Give me an igniter. Give it, give it.
I'll do it.
TRAVIS: But while what was left of the drone swarm cylinder
was still directly over the launchpad
in the east field,
I wanted to get a rocket
launched up through there before the swarm began
its preprogrammed flight back to the landing area.
You go, I'll watch.
Let's go. Move, move, move!
You go, I'll watch. Let's go.
After our first attempt to launch rockets at the triangle
and the east field ended with inexplicable,
simultaneous rocket malfunctions,
I wanted to make another attempt
to launch a rocket up through
the drone swarm cylinder
in the east field.
After all these crazy drone failures, I wanted to see
if the rocket would hit or be affected by whatever
might be up in the air causing these things to happen.
Watch out-- another one coming down!
It's gonna take us ten seconds, 20 seconds.
We were quickly running out of time before
the cylinder would move away from its position
and complete its preprogrammed flight
back to the landing area.
we got to move, got to move.
BRYANT: Dude, I'm working on it.
I know, I know.
-TYLER: Let me know as soon as it starts to move off, KC. -KC: Copy.
TYLER: Travis, they're starting to move out of position now.
-BRYANT: They're moving out of position. -TRAVIS: It's okay.
You good?
Go, go, go, go, go.
Don't count down. Don't count, just launch.
TRAVIS: We'll go up the side.
Even though the cylinder had moved away
from its position directly above the launch tower,
we still wanted to get a rocket up into the air
close to the drone swarm to see what would happen.
Uh, it's coming down. Something's wrong!
It's coming down!
I don't see a chute yet.
Looked like it was in two pieces, though.
What the hell happened there?
I don't know! We just rebuilt that rocket!
It broke apart. How?
'Cause the chute came out. There's another piece somewhere.
I have no idea what caused the rocket
to break up in the air.
It sure didn't appear to hit anything.
So, did it collide with something
that just wasn't visible?
BRYANT: Oh, my hell, what just happened?
Oh, man.
-What happened? -Look.
There's a nose cone with a chute attached to it somewhere.
Yeah, look.
TRAVIS: It just blew... it broke through the line.
They're coming down.
Now that all the drones are on the ground,
we finally have time to come out of the tent
and start examining.
And I have to say it looked like a battlefield
out on the triangle.
-Look at that-- pulverized. -PRESTON: Yeah.
THOMAS: There are crashed drones everywhere.
Honestly, I'm in shock right now.
I can't believe what I just witnessed.
Look-- you've got 'em in the tents.
I mean, this is like mass chaos.
Landing now, yes.
All down.
TYLER: This year we thought we were ready.
We brought out some new technology,
but even with all the experience we have, and all the shows
we do, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.
We've never seen drones fall out of the sky like that,
and drones start to return to home in random waves.
We're clear over here.
Everything looks good on our end.
Copy.
PRESTON: We do shows all over the country.
We never have these kind of issues that we get
here at Skinwalker Ranch.
There's definitely something going on here
that's unexplained, so once we can get the data,
I can't wait to see what actually happened.
-Hey, guys. -What a night.
What a night, huh?
So, there was a really odd...
phenomenon taking place today.
RF, electromagnetic, uh, maybe software.
You know, uh, who knows what?
I can't wait to see, though, how all this pans out.
Man, we got a bunch of data, we got to wrap up.
-I say we pack it up and get out of here. -TRAVIS: Let's do it.
-I'm 100% percent ready. -Let's get out. All right.
TRAVIS: Great work, guys. Thank y'all.
-TRAVIS: Hey, guys. -ERIK: Come on in, have a seat.
I've got, uh, Preston and Kaleb from Sky Elements.
-Oh, wow. -Good.
For a video call.
TRAVIS: Two days later, after scouring through all
the video that we collected during the drone experiment,
Erik called us into the command center
for a video conference with Preston Ward
and Kaleb McEwen from Sky Elements
to review what he found
and to compare data.
You know, I... I've been thinking about this day
a lot, and we've got a ton of stuff to share with you guys.
We've learned a lot. So, we took
the-the logs, and we were able to plot where
the drones thought they ended up.
So, this is from the triangle.
Uh, you're gonna see them lift off here in a second.
And, ultimately, what happened
is the GPSs were spoofed, right?
So, they lift up, and then, immediately,
they thought they were over here.
-ERIK: What?! -TRAVIS: Whoa!
ERIK: Gosh.
That's the in... that's the in spot.
TRAVIS: That is the in point.
What are the odds that the GPS devices in the drones
at the triangle would reveal messed-up data
that showed the swarm
literally teleported
over to the east field canyon,
right at a spot we call the in point?
That's the exact spot where we witnessed a UAP entering
the mesa before exiting it near the triangle back in 2022.
It made no sense.
Except that it pointed, once again,
to a place on the ranch
where strange things keep happening.
Of all the places on the ranch for them to think they were--
exactly over the spot that we think is the possible
-in spot. -TRAVIS: Well, but here's-here's... Wait, here's
the important question.
At what height were these drones
when they immediately jumped to the other location?
So, it was right after they started moving
from that 30-feet mark is when
they really started to have issues.
-ERIK: Whoa. -THOMAS: Incredible.
TRAVIS: Unbelievable. That's
right where we detected the blob
31 feet in the air above the triangle.
Dude, you cannot make this up.
TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.
Preston, we got to go through this one more time.
So, the drones' GPS show they basically teleported
over to the east field mesa when they got
30-something feet?
Correct, correct. They instantly thought they were over here.
-Instantly. -The ranch is 512 acres.
If it was gonna be random, it could have put 'em anywhere.
Why did it put it there?
And at the exact same height
where we had the rocket blow up and we see the blob
-in the high-speed camera. -TRAVIS: That's right.
This is one for the books.
Two nights ago,
when the drone swarm that was launched
at the triangle reached an altitude of 30 feet,
which is right where we detected
a blob-like anomaly in 2022,
the drones' GPS data shows that they instantly moved
to a location more than half a mile away
in the east field near the so-called in point.
The spot where we recorded video
of a UAP passing through the mesa
and flying toward the triangle.
This is fantastic data. Absolutely fantastic.
ERIK: Yeah. So, Preston,
we have some additional material
that we want to share with you.
Let's check it out.
ERIK: Okay.
This is footage from the camera that's positioned
at the east field looking off towards the west.
PRESTON: All right.
TRAVIS: There goes the rocket.
BRYANT: Yep.
KALEB: Why did it disappear?
It went off of the camera angle.
No, no, no, in the middle of its flight.
-Oh, I didn't see that. -Go back.
ERIK: I'm gonna play through this.
So, watch the rocket, guys.
Watch its path.
-TRAVIS: Oh, crap. -KALEB: Why does it disappear?
TRAVIS: Where did it go?
And look at where that's at.
It's right in that same area above the petroglyph.
Well, that's actually right above
-the photogrammetry anomaly. -Yes.
TRAVIS: I couldn't believe it.
The rocket that was launched in the east field
disappeared for a moment right near the in point too.
And as Kaleb and Dragon pointed out,
this is also where we detected
a strange column-shaped spire in 2021
using photogrammetry,
which is right near
an ancient petroglyph on the mesa
that's meant to depict an interdimensional portal.
I'm not sure yet what the heck any of this means,
but holy crap, we got incredible data from this experiment.
Why does it disappear right there?
What did it go behind?
Where did the light go?
-Yeah, where did the light go? Yes, right. -ERIK: Mm-hmm.
So, walk it through there.
ERIK: Yeah, so I'm frame-advancing.
TRAVIS: Right there-- it's just gone.
This is fascinating.
It's a-a... a kinetic projectile
going through a spot
and it's blacked out so that we can't see it
and the light from it is redirected to who knows where.
ERIK: I'm gonna show you something that gives us a chance to get
an additional perspective on what we just watched.
This is the camera perspective from the triangle
looking back over the drone swarm on the ground
and here we have the cylinder in the air.
TRAVIS: Ah, yeah. I see, okay.
The rocket goes.
The rocket vanished.
And it comes back.
That's really weird.
Okay, back up down through that, Erik.
All right, I'm gonna take us backwards.
Gone. Comes back.
TRAVIS: It vanished behind something.
ERIK: Yeah.
There's something there.
-(chuckling) What the hell? -TRAVIS: Play it again.
ERIK: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Oh, what is that? Is that a drone?
-That's got to be the FPV right there. -Yeah, that's got to be
Kaleb's FPV drone flying right there.
ERIK: Watch-watch... watch the drone.
Gone and comes back.
It-it vanished behind something.
ERIK: Yeah. I'm going to look at that again.
I want to see what's happening here.
BRYANT: Look where it's going.
-Right above the launch tower. -TRAVIS: Over the launch tower.
It is right over the launch tower.
Oh, my God.
And I'd bet you anything that's about
-that 30-feet mark, too. -Oh, yeah.
-I'm gonna zoom in. -Yes.
-ERIK: Okay. -TRAVIS: Oh, my God.
ERIK: Let me manipulate the brightness controls.
-Gone. -TRAVIS: It looks like... Wait, wait, wait.
There was something up right there.
TRAVIS: Something flashed when you did it, but
play it through again,
'cause I swore I saw something.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, right there.
-That was real time? -ERIK: Yeah.
-Where it went like this? -Yes.
What did we just see?
THOMAS: Oh, my gosh!
TRAVIS: Wait, wait, wait.
I swore I saw something.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, right there.
-That was real time? -ERIK: Yeah.
-Where it went like this? -Yes. What did we just see?
TRAVIS: We may have documented our best evidence
of high strangeness yet on Skinwalker Ranch
during our drone experiment two nights ago.
Right after a rocket disappeared from site
for several seconds near the mesa in the east field,
the Sky Elements FPV drone did the same thing
at about 30 feet high above the center of the triangle,
right where we captured images
of the blob-like anomaly in 2022.
Did these devices pass behind invisible aerial phenomena?
Or did they disappear into them for brief moments?
And then, just seconds later, we captured a flash coming out
and then going back into the mesa.
What could explain all of this?
Especially given that these things happened
within the area where we recently detected
a massive cone-shaped anomaly
that encompassed the triangle and stretched all the way
from Homestead Two over to the east field.
-I got to take it backwards so I don't miss it. -Yeah, sure.
There's so much going on right now.
-ERIK: Something here. -TRAVIS: Keep-Keep going,
see what direction it's going in.
There's something coming out of and going back into the mesa.
Yeah, it looks like the out point.
TRAVIS: It is... Yes.
That is at the out point.
Just when you think it can't get stranger out here,
right as our rocket and the FPV drone disappeared
for a split second, a UAP-- or some kind of light--
jumped out of the mesa and then immediately back in
right at the out point where the UAP exited the mesa
and flew toward the triangle in 2022.
That's crazy.
So, the rocket goes up.
KALEB: Disappears.
TRAVIS: Right, and then it gets to apogee,
got a motor burn out then.
That's probably the chute charge.
KALEB: The drone disappears right there.
The drone disappears right there.
Then, boom, look at that, how fast that is.
-That's at the exit point. -It is the exit point.
That is absolutely the exit point.
What in the hell are we seeing?
Something's obscuring objects in both locations.
And while that's happening, we have drones
that suddenly appear over there.
-Or think they do. -ERIK: Yeah.
Preston, I think this is absolutely amazing.
And, uh, Kaleb, you flew your drone
right behind whatever it was.
You didn't see anything in the virtual goggles?
I didn't see anything through the goggles.
Everything was on that flight to normal.
Wow. Wow.
PRESTON: Yep.
It's very interesting.
ERIK: I did not expect
anything quite like this.
Not at all.
This was pretty spectacular.
-Yeah. -Thanks, guys. Thanks a lot.
-This was amazing. -PRESTON: Absolutely. Anything
we can do to help you guys out
and test and improve our safety systems,
we're always ready to do it.
-Fantastic. -Awesome. -Amazing.
Okay, well, we'll be in touch, guys.
PRESTON: Sounds great.
Thanks, guys.
ERIK: Gosh. There was so much in that.
-BRYANT: Yeah. -TRAVIS: Yeah. What if we're
seeing something here that is a doorway for signals
to go through, like blinky lights,
right?
Or communication signals or GPS signals.
ERIK: Exactly. The things we've seen this year
have, you know, convinced me
there's a connection between east field canyon and triangle.
I think we have to follow up on that.
TRAVIS: That's a great point, Erik.
And I would include Homestead Two
and the mesa drill site as well.
ERIK: You know, I'm thinking,
given the possible connectivities
between different regions of the ranch,
you know, we really need to put something together
that spans as much of the ranch as possible.
-Yeah. -TRAVIS: Yeah.
If the east field's connected to the triangle,
if the drill site's somehow connected to all of this,
the homesteads, everything,
then, uh, that's-that's a great idea
to do a complete east to west experiment.
-I like it. -THOMAS: I like the logic of that because
as the weather turns and our investigation for the year
starts coming down to the... to the wire,
how would you pick one spot to really study?
And we've seen so much ranch-wide.
Well, that means we've got a lot of work to do in the meantime.
So I say we get to it.
-Let's do it.
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THOMAS: No matter how you look at it,
the data that we got from this exercise
is definitely strange and, so far, unexplainable.
What took place to make those drones just fall out of the sky?
We definitely need to find some answers.
But I will tell you that we've witnessed and experienced
some of the most incredible things
I've ever seen on Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS: As riddled with malfunctions as this drone experiment was,
it produced some of the most incredible data yet
that suggests there may be a connection between
all these hot spots where we keep documenting phenomena.
So, if we can incorporate all of these locations
into one grand experiment,
we might be able to finally reveal
just what that connection is.
ERIK: As we continue to witness
and to document these unusual phenomena,
these outlier events,
our search for a unifying explanation
will also continue.
We're operating under time constraints.
So, hopefully, our final experiment
will help us to put all of these different phenomena
under one umbrella, if you will,
and help us finally get some better informed answers.
TRAVIS: Three...
There it goes, rocket's up.
...two...
THOMAS: He's airborne.
-BRYANT: Another drone going up. -TRAVIS: ...one. Go.
ERIK: This experiment is one of the biggest,
if not the biggest, that we've ever attempted.
Cameron, you need to go up to 5,000 feet.
THOMAS: Does he think he's directly over the truck?
Something's going on.
TRAVIS: Holy crap. What is that?
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