All right, Sam, we're just over top of you now
at 1,000 feet.
He's way behind the lidar truck.
I don't know, something's going on.
You should have been able to see that.
Oh, my goodness.
Wow.
CAMERON: Nothing should be frickin' flying up here.
It's crazy.
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.
TRAVIS: I can't wait to see that drill rod
poking up out of the mesa.
I bet it was a lot easier when Cameron
just flew y'all up here in the helicopter.
KALEB: It was quite nice, actually.
-TRAVIS: Hey, look at that. -THOMAS: Yeah.
I can't believe this thing is finally out the top.
THOMAS: This has been the strangest
and most revealing year ever
for our team on Skinwalker Ranch.
We still have a ton of questions
about all the phenomena that we've documented out here.
But last night,
during a high-tech ranch-wide experiment...
Whoa. Check that out.
TRAVIS: ...the crew from Mark Construction
was finally able to finish the first step
of an operation that we've struggled with
for the last several months.
-Travis, we have broken through. -(whoops)
And that was to drill an eight-inch borehole
all the way up through the rocky mesa
where ground-penetrating radar
has detected a huge, possibly metallic dome-shaped object
that's surrounded by a debris field
of smaller anomalies.
How far is it from here to down there?
Uh, from the drill, it's 675 feet.
TRAVIS: Dadgum. Wow.
Once we have that hole cased,
we'll be able to study the hell out of that question.
We'll drop beacons down there, radio transmitters,
uh, gamma ray sources,
everything we can think of, we're gonna put in that hole.
This drilling operation has been plagued
with bizarre equipment failures,
so it was a huge relief to finally get this hole done.
But now it needs to be reamed-- or widened--
several more inches, and then cased.
After that, Erik and I can insert some scanning devices
to hopefully identify
what these things truly are.
Whatever's inside that mesa may be critical
to figuring out the mystery of this place.
This is a 600-foot shaft now
that we can see through this mesa.
Can't wait to do that, but it's gonna
start snowing before long, Erik.
ERIK: Talk to us about options.
Um, what we can do is,
we can pull everything out,
come back when it's summer, and we get
right back to that hole.
What do you do to make sure
it doesn't collapse
or the weather doesn't fill it in?
As good as the hole is, and as many times
that we've been in and out of it,
I-I promise you I'll get back in that hole
when you guys want us back.
THOMAS: While it's looking like
time's not gonna allow us
to do much more on this hole this year,
we've at least got it drilled,
and Alex is very confident
that this hole will stay intact, and that,
next year, when we kick our investigation off,
they can come back and, using the same hole,
they can begin to bore it bigger.
I'm super excited to get back to this spot.
We're gonna get a lot of equipment down there
and we're really gonna start to figure out
what's lying in this very hard to reach spot
in the mesa at Skinwalker Ranch.
I... You know, I'm so anxious
to get some instruments down into this hole,
trace it all the way back to the origin.
It looks like we'll be coming back to this.
You ready for that?
We'll fight as long as we have to
for you guys.
We came here to do it,
and I'll be damned if we don't finish it, so...
TRAVIS: All right.
We're gonna get there.
This is awesome, guys. Thank you.
Next summer,
we're gonna get to the bottom of this.
ERIK: Amen to that.
BRANDON: All right, everyone.
Welcome back.
It's good to have our core team
back together and joined by Brad Crispin,
Ryan Graves,
Jay Stratton.
I'm anxious to see the data and get your eyes
on what we've recently discovered.
TRAVIS: A few days after we halted our operations
for the year on the ranch,
we gathered in Salt Lake City
to meet with ranch owner Brandon Fugal
and review all of our latest developments.
And joining us were retired U.S. Intelligence official
Jay Stratton, who helped oversee
Robert Bigelow's ranch investigation
more than a decade ago,
as well as retired Navy pilot turned UAP whistleblower
Ryan Graves and his business partner Brad Crispin.
They now study the UAP phenomenon in the private sector
with their organization called Americans for Safe Aerospace.
These are historic times.
As we all know, Skinwalker Ranch
has become ground zero
for not only studying the phenomena,
but really the world's attention on these topics.
JAY: Right. Having worked this topic
so long for the U.S. government,
I think the ranch
and civilian research into the topic
is going to break through.
It's opening up so many minds.
We're moving beyond the stigma to actual study.
-Yes. -BRANDON: People don't like
to have their paradigm
completely turned upside down, but it's time.
And I think this most recent experiment
is arguably the most comprehensive
scientific experiment of its kind
at our own Skinwalker Ranch.
I'd like to turn the time over to Erik to provide an overview
and the data relative
to this most recent dramatic experiment that has taken place.
Well, I think you put it well. I mean,
the experiments that we've done
throughout this entire summer have been ambitious.
Now, speaking to the most recent experiment,
of course, in scope and scale.
We're doing things in the sky above the ranch.
We're doing things on the ground.
We have a tremendous amount of data
coming out of lidar surveys.
TRAVIS: With this experiment, we deployed
four different, uh, lidars running
all at one time.
So, we really covered the entire ranch with this experiment.
We've gathered so much evidence
these past few years that suggests
the UAPs, strange energy signals
and other phenomena we've detected on the ranch
are caused by things we can't necessarily see
with the naked eye.
So, a few days ago,
during our final experiment of the year...
...we had a mobile infrared lidar vehicle
scanning back and forth across the entire property
while Cameron Fugal flew his helicopter above it
equipped with night vision technology
and specialty cameras.
We had Kaleb Bench
stationed in the east field
with a handheld lidar SLAM scanner...
Drone going up, Pete.
TRAVIS: ...while Jim Royston of OmniTeq
flew his lidar drone back and forth
from the triangle to the mesa.
And finally, technologist Pete Kelsey
was scanning near the triangle
with a terrestrial laser scanner.
Can't wait to see that post-processed.
TRAVIS: Earlier this year, using the same device,
he detected a massive, cone-shaped anomaly
that stretched from Homestead Two
over to the east field
and was centered right above the triangle
nearly 2,000 feet high.
So, we couldn't wait to see the processed data
from these scans and find out if any of them
would reveal what causes all the phenomena
we keep seeing on Skinwalker Ranch.
I know that Pete Kelsey is anxious to share
the findings, uh, from those lidar surveys.
We've got him on video call.
I'd like to bring him up and have him share with us
what he's found in his, uh, post-processing of the data.
Hello, Pete.
Hey, guys.
Thanks for jumping on with us.
But we're all in suspense.
PETE: Sure.
We'll go to
the terrestrial laser scanning first.
I don't think you're gonna be disappointed.
And I'll just cut right to the chase.
We've got data out to the northeast.
And it's probably gonna look really familiar.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Pete, I can see that there's structure
all around.
You can see lines off in the distance
that go all the way around the triangle.
So, Pete, do those lines appear
looking straight up?
PETE: Travis, this is looking straight up
from that terrestrial laser scan.
TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.
So...
what we're seeing now
is the same data that we got from the data set
prior to this that suggests
there's an invisible cone
surrounding the triangle that the lidar is perceiving.
Correct.
Wow.
PETE: Yes, and now we've
seen it twice.
Wow.
That... I mean, that's key.
TRAVIS: A lot like, uh,
some invisible barrier.
-Or field. -TRAVIS: Yeah.
Some type of... maybe a force field over the ranch.
So, what in the world are we seeing here?
Earlier this year...
...when we first detected the huge cone,
a laser beam that was projected straight up from the triangle
was stopped by something that we couldn't see
2,000 feet in the air.
CHRIS: You really don't see that unless it's hitting
some sort of mass.
TRAVIS: The same exact height of the cone.
So, Brandon's suggestion of it being
some kind of force field isn't crazy.
But since we don't have that technology,
then what the hell could it be?
It really makes me wonder
are we a part of an experiment?
You know, from someone or something?
Yes, it does.
-That's a good question. -(soft chatter)
TRAVIS: All right. What else you got, Pete?
PETE: So,
this is the first look at the mobile lidar
SUV that scanned
back and forth from the east field.
It's well over 100 gigabytes of data.
I have not had as much time
as I would like to go through all this data.
But I want to show you a few interesting things.
Can you see this yellow and red point cloud?
-ERIK: Yes. -Yes, we can.
PETE: Okay, so,
see these right here in the sky?
ERIK: Yup.
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah!
That's looking back toward the photogrammetry anomaly
that we saw two years ago.
PETE: Exactly.
Once again, to the northeast,
to the east field,
there's data that
frankly shouldn't be there.
ERIK: Oh, wow.
-Yup. -ERIK: Yes. -TRAVIS: Oh, yeah!
That's looking back toward the photogrammetry anomaly.
PETE: Exactly.
There's data that, frankly, shouldn't be there.
TRAVIS: How about that.
So, now we're getting data
from multiple sensors
and witness, uh, experiments.
That's right.
Wow.
TRAVIS: We really hoped that our final experiment of the year
would get us more data on the wild phenomena we've seen.
And, man, did it ever.
Using multiple lidar scanners,
we not only detected more evidence
of a 2,000-foot-high,
cone-shaped anomaly covering a huge area
in the center of Skinwalker Ranch,
but our mobile lidar vehicle also captured images
of something in the east field,
right in the area where a 300-foot-tall,
column-shaped spire was detected by Pete Kelsey in 2021.
So, was it the same thing?
If so, what the heck could it be?
So...
there is potentially some correlation
with some data that we're seeing at the same time.
-From your lidar drone? -ROYSTON: Yup. Same area.
-Erik has a bunch of the data. -Yeah.
ERIK: What you're looking at here on the screen
is some data that was collected in real time
using a GPS tracking unit,
as Jim was flying his lidar-enabled drone
through a pattern
that we sometimes refer to as the "in-and-out pattern."
Based on that video footage
that we saw last year from the helicopter,
where it appeared that something went into the mesa over here,
and came out of the mesa over in this area.
TRAVIS: One of the most insane events
that our team has documented was in 2022.
A camera on the helicopter captured images of a UAP
flying into the mesa in the east field,
and then out the other side a couple seconds later
as it continued right toward the triangle.
Since then, Jim Royston has flown his lidar drone along
that so-called "in-and-out path" numerous times,
and repeatedly experienced strange voids
in his aerial GPS data,
just like the drone was momentarily disappearing.
We've retraced that pathway as best we can
without, obviously, flying through the mesa itself.
But, uh, through that airspace at an altitude
of about 300 feet above ground level.
And what you see here,
there's this gap in the data right here.
-TRAVIS: Down by the "in" point? -ERIK: Yes.
TRAVIS: So, it happened again the other night?
Exactly.
ROYSTON: And I think what's important is the repeatability.
Because this wasn't one case you're looking at.
Multiple times, as we come through that area,
we lose the GPS.
And probably 40 flights over the whole summer
-that we did. -At least, right?
Yes, we have. These are... these are 40
instrumented drone flights where, at the very least,
we have a GPS sensor that goes silent.
And the interesting thing, I think,
-the best way-- -TRAVIS: Is to overlay 'em, right?
Yup. Wait till you see this.
I have a few of those drone flights illustrated here.
And look at the pattern that emerges.
BRANDON: Stunning.
ERIK: Here's a wonderful example
where we see repeatability.
You know, what we're seeing here
are repeated interruptions in data.
The biggest of which is over at the "in" point.
TRAVIS: Yeah, and that's very close
to the anomaly area that we saw in the lidar data.
-PETER: Right. -Yeah.
Wow.
TRAVIS: The mobile lidar data
which captured possible new evidence
of the 300-foot-tall column-shaped anomaly
was right in line with the so-called in-and-out path
the UAP took through the mesa.
So, could the column we previously detected
in the east field be
what has also been blocking the GPS sensor
on Jim Royston's drone during all those flights?
You know, again and again,
we keep seeing things right over there
where he's showing us these anomalous points.
TRAVIS: Oh, at drone-ageddon,
we had drones falling out of the sky right there at that point.
-ERIK: Right there. -And-and rockets disappearing.
KC: Here we go.
TRAVIS: Two weeks ago, we launched
illuminated drone swarms in order
to simultaneously probe the airspace above the triangle
and the east field.
And just after a UAP appeared above the mesa...
THOMAS: Whoa!
It's raining drones over here!
TRAVIS: ...all hell broke loose...
-Oh! -Holy mackerel.
TRAVIS: We got drones dropping like crazy.
...as hundreds of the drones at both locations
just started falling out of the sky.
Oh, my God.
TRAVIS: It was like
something on the ranch had taken control of them.
And then, right after we launched a rocket
to see if we could hit whatever it was up there,
the rocket disappeared for a split second.
Could the column-shaped anomaly be what blocked our view
of the rocket and caused all the chaos during the experiment?
And could it also be connected to all the GPS voids
we've repeatedly detected?
I think we might be getting close to figuring this out.
ERIK: I mean, given the environment that we're in,
you know, whatever it is we're seeing,
it seems unnatural.
-Yup. -PETE: Yeah, well,
hopefully, there's a lot more to come, because,
as I say, we're just at the tip of the iceberg
of diving into all this mobile lidar data.
So, more to come.
Well, Pete, you know, already, I'm sure you can tell
from the discussion around the table,
as usual, you've given us a lot to think about.
Um, dare I ask
if you found anything else anomalous
in those scans that were performed on your lidar systems?
Uh, yes, we have.
And this time,
in the east field, as a result from
the SLAM scanner, which Kaleb was running. So,
have a look at this.
TRAVIS: Why are there data points underneath the surface?
PETE: Exactly. That is impossible.
Lidar can't see through the ground.
TRAVIS: The lidar system we're using
is infrared light technology
designed to produce a 3D image of the environment,
as well as things
that aren't necessarily visible to the naked eye.
But it's not supposed to be able to see through the ground.
And like Pete said,
this is the second time we've seen this happen.
Earlier this year,
he detected a mysterious ring of data
directly below the triangle,
which lined up perfectly
with two different ring-shaped anomalies
that Jim Royston previously detected on the ground
and in the air above the triangle.
Taken together,
those anomalies resembled the physical structure
of what scientists have theorized
a traversable wormhole or portal might look like.
Now, we don't know if that's what could be at the triangle.
But it made me really curious
to see the rest of the data Pete captured in the east field.
PETE: I have one other view of it I can show you.
Right there.
Okay? Now, we've seen that before,
but what's unique about this one
is that the anomalous data
that's underground corresponds to anomalous data in the sky.
It has utterly astonished me.
I don't know what to make of it.
ERIK: That is amazing.
I mean, the textbook definition of anomalous.
KALEB: Wow.
Is this a sphere?
It just has utterly astonished me.
I don't know what to make of it.
TRAVIS: That's amazing.
I mean, look how far underground that is.
PETE: And notice how
the returns in the sky correspond
in a circular shape
to the returns underground.
I mean, this is nuts.
TRAVIS: So, what you're saying
here is we have sort of a donut
above the ground and below the ground of odd data points.
Yes.
TRAVIS: Just like what we found
at the triangle.
We've been trying
to figure out how the triangle and the east field
on Skinwalker Ranch might be connected,
based on a lot of the phenomena
we've seen between those two locations.
And this experiment may have revealed a major clue.
Using Pete Kelsey's handheld SLAM scanner lidar device,
Kaleb detected ring-shaped anomalies
both below and above ground in the east field.
And this is exactly what we've detected at the triangle.
Are these, in fact, two separate anomalies?
Or could it be something that moves around
within the massive, cone-shaped phenomena that we've detected
and encompasses both locations?
The more of this stuff I see, the less I understand it.
TRAVIS: Wow.
Well, and how would that be connected to the UFOs?
To the unidentified aerial phenomena
that we've captured on camera,
and seen, even with our own eyes?
Is there some type of interstellar
portal or some other
-phenomena happening? -TRAVIS: Well, if there's
a "doorway" there, a portal,
a wormhole, whatever you want,
it's got to be designed in a way that's
not destroying everything around us, clearly,
so it's more advanced than
the physics we have right now.
But in order to make the doorway transition into
normal space, you would have bends in space and time.
And we did measure a time anomaly
above the triangle
-with Lunasonde last year. -Yeah.
Yeah.
CLAYTON: Go for launch.
-KIM: Off it goes. -TRAVIS: In 2022,
a company called Lunasonde conducted a radar scan
using a weather ballon more than 10,000 feet
above the triangle, and got stunning results.
TRAVIS: Really.
For data like this, that's huge.
Exactly.
According to scientists such as Albert Einstein,
portal-like phenomena would not only resemble
the ring-like anomalies we've detected on the ranch,
but could also create instantaneous shifts in time.
So, could something like a portal or wormhole
explain the cone and the ring-like anomalies?
Is that why we've detected voids in our GPS scans?
And could that explain how a UAP could fly
through a mesa that is composed of solid rock?
I don't know,
but this is all incredible data.
This is frontier science discovery.
TRAVIS: Wow.
So, we have so much data,
it's going to be weeks and months
of analyzing this data, Erik.
ERIK: Yeah. You better believe
I'm going to dive into this.
You know, with Pete's help, I think we're going to
be able to peel back these very different
layers that we're seeing.
You know, the above ground, the below ground, and I'm sure
we'll be coming back to the table to talk about
more results like this.
Yep, I agree.
Well, Pete, I can't thank you enough, as usual.
You've blown all of our minds.
I look forward to connecting again.
Thanks for spending some time with us here in the meeting.
Yeah, uh, likewise. Thank you, guys.
-Thanks, Pete. -Thanks again, Pete.
Bye, Pete.
ERIK: Well, certainly, guys,
a key component of the experiment,
this large-scale experiment that we did
was, uh, the work that we did with
the helicopter flight,
so this is following your flight
-directly above the triangle. -Yeah.
ERIK: This is actually night vision goggle footage.
CAMERON: This is my perspective flying over the ranch at night.
This is interesting.
So, I'm going to play this through
at its, uh, normal speed.
TRAVIS: Oh, there was something. What was that?
ERIK: What did we just see?
Yeah, something came through
the screen, that's for sure.
What flew by here was not a bird,
and it was also at
5,000 feet AGL, which there's not
anything up there in the middle of the night flying.
It's not going to be a bug or a bird.
No.
ERIK: I have to freeze it
and play it through with frame advance
because it is so fast.
And it's only there for a split second.
Okay.
ERIK: As I'm looking at this thing,
you know, it's really hard to make out
any kind of structure.
If I had to guess what the shape of
this thing was...
-TRAVIS: Maybe spherical? -A sphere. Yeah.
KALEB: And it's at the same altitude
that we were at last year
when you reported seeing those other objects.
That's right.
TRAVIS: In 2022, Cameron flew Brandon, Kaleb
and Erik nearly a mile high
to collect data above the triangle, and through his
night vision goggles, Cameron saw several UAPs
similar to the ones he saw the other night.
So, what in the world are these things?
Where do they come from,
and then, where do they go?
THOMAS: I've been pouring over video footage
from those cameras that were mounted
directly under the helicopter.
Yeah.
So, one of those cameras, as you know,
was pointed directly straight down the ground.
Mm-hmm.
We've got one clip in particular
I think you guys are going to find interesting,
coming from the bottom of
-the helicopter camera. -Okay.
-Um... -Want me to bring that up?
THOMAS: Yeah.
There's something that happens here near center screen.
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah. Right there.
Can you adjust the contrast on that area?
ERIK: I-I can, that's a good idea.
So, to give you a reference of where we're at here,
you can see the triangle
on the right-hand side of the screen.
-TRAVIS: Oh, yeah, you can see the river. -CAMERON: Yeah.
TRAVIS: You see the river snaking across there?
CAMERON: Exactly.
And watch what happens.
-TRAVIS: Oh. -BRANDON: What the hell?
TRAVIS: There's a light
right in the middle of the river...
-Oh, wow. -Ouch.
TRAVIS: ...another place where we've seen
a ton of crazy things.
What?
TRAVIS: Yeah, what is that?
BRYANT: Right in the river. I mean, that's so bizarre.
I'll increase the magnification.
TRAVIS: Oh, that's a good idea.
What could that be?
TRAVIS: During our ranch-wide experiment a few nights ago,
just as Cameron Fugal saw
several orb-like UAPs about 5,000 feet
above the triangle from inside of his helicopter,
a camera mounted to the bottom of the chopper
caught video of a strange light in Dry Gulch Creek,
which runs through the south field of Skinwalker Ranch.
And not just anywhere in the river, but, uh,
I think that this spot in the river
has special significance based on our excursion down the river.
That's where we had the dead zone in the equipment,
-and-and... all of that. -TRAVIS: That's right.
THOMAS: Remember the Russian olive?
-The tree, yeah. -BRYANT: It's not too far from there
that, you know, I have to keep going back to
one of the strangest things that we've found,
that wolf creature that was described as
a possibility of an ancient dire wolf or something like that.
That's not very far around the bend from there.
No, it's not.
TRAVIS: Over the last couple of years,
we've seen a number of strange things in the south field,
including the mutilated carcasses of deer,
a post with very odd charring on it
and even an image of a silver orb-like UAP.
So, earlier this year, we put GPS devices in a kayak
and walked it down Dry Gulch Creek
to see what else we might find in that area.
According to the GPS, you're at
5,000 feet underground.
That's crazy, man.
It was worth it, because we not only collected GPS data
that showed the kayak appearing to go
thousands of feet underground...
THOMAS: Look at this tree right here.
TRAVIS: ...but we also discovered
a Russian olive tree
with burns that were very similar to those
we found on the nearby post.
-BRYANT: Oh, what is that? -THOMAS: What is it?
TRAVIS: And strangest of all,
we discovered a dead animal with huge fangs...
BEN: It looks like it is a young dire wolf.
TRAVIS: ...that according to biologist Ben Woodruff,
might have been a dire wolf,
a predator that scientists believe went extinct
more than 10,000 years ago.
So, could the glowing light we saw during this experiment
be related to all of those things?
Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like, from my angle,
-that it actually leaves the river. -CAMERON: Yeah.
THOMAS: So, anyways, that was the main one
that I wanted to point out, is this one.
-Wow. -Yes.
THOMAS: I mean, we've been talking about
how challenging it is to observe
what's happening on the ranch,
so if I could pick one spot
that was the hardest to try to understand,
-it would be at the mesa. -TRAVIS: Yeah,
and that's where we saw a lot of crazy things this summer.
While we were struggling this year to
get the borehole drilled up through the mesa,
a really crazy string of events happened.
ERIK: All right, guys. The 1.6,
measured by the Kraken, is coming from
-Homestead Two. -TRAVIS: I'm going.
It started when Erik detected
a radio frequency signal at 1.6 gigahertz
on his antenna system that was
coming from Homestead Two.
TRAVIS: Yeah, it's coming from this direction.
Now, because we've detected these signals many times
and suspect they could be some form of communication,
Kaleb, Dragon and I rushed over there to investigate.
It is coming from straight overhead.
When we got to the homestead, my antenna
detected the signal coming from somewhere up in the sky,
so we launched a rocket to see if it would make contact
with something that we couldn't see.
-BRYANT: Great launch. -It went straight up like normal,
but as it descended, it suddenly froze mid-air
for several seconds.
KALEB: Almost looked like it stopped right there for a second.
It looks like it's stuck there. Look!
KALEB: Yeah.
(calf mooing)
KALEB: Hey, guys, you see that?
TRAVIS: And then, later, a calf
in the nearby field
suddenly became really sick,
and its eyes turned white,
which is a symptom of being exposed to
a high level of microwave radiation.
So, could it possibly be that whatever's in the mesa
could be the culprit?
Could be what's causing all these different things
around the ranch, and it's just
a manifestation of it
somehow or other?
The GPR data looks like something
came down at a very fast rate
and it crashes into the mesa,
creating a debris field.
Was it an asteroid, a, you know, meteorite,
a comet, an alien space craft?
I don't know, but man, it sure is, uh, suggestive that
something like that occurred.
How else did that stuff get inside the mesa?
So, gentlemen, with all of this resource
committed to delving into the mesa,
what are the next steps, what are the priority items,
as we move forward with this mesa
that is aggravating?
BRANDON: So, gentlemen,
as far as we've come,
there's so much that has yet to be accomplished.
What are the next steps to really get the answers
with this mesa?
THOMAS: We now have a 600-foot-plus
drill hole going right up the side of this anomaly.
A large portion of that hole was drilled
through a very hard substance.
And so, that's not going to cave in,
that's not gonna collapse.
Now...
what that means is, you know,
when we come back to this, Alex
is certain that they can go right up that same hole,
and enlarge that hole and get us
to that 18-inch size
that we originally were going after.
We've got to get instruments into that borehole.
Erik, you know there's so many sensors we can put
-through a hole that size. -Oh, yeah.
Now that we have the first borehole
drilled all the way through the mesa,
we can't wait to widen it next year
to a foot and a half in diameter.
This will allow us to insert technology
like ground-penetrating radar or tomography devices
that could give us a closer and more defined image
of the dome-shaped and smaller anomalies buried inside there.
We can insert gamma ray and other kinds of scanners
to see if these objects are emitting things like radiation.
Once we know more about what we're dealing with,
then we can properly and safely figure out how to uncover them.
You know, we have a-a partial volumetric model
right now of whatever that anomaly is.
Maybe if we can get in there now in that borehole,
we can more completely image this thing
that we've been talking about as a possible dome.
-Yeah. -Uh, or more,
or more completely image what you've described
as a possible debris field.
Well, we have quite,
quite a task ahead of us.
When I talk about the work that we're doing,
you know, whether it's a given experiment or,
or the-the investigation as a whole,
the data payload is enormous.
From data we get patterns.
From patterns, we begin to get understanding.
And so I just want to show you the data
that we've collected in the form of GPS locations.
I'm going to walk you down through the work
of just this summer.
Watch this.
So we have the in-and-out,
uh, experiments that we initially ran.
We had rocket launches.
-Wow. -Yes.
TRAVIS: This year, every time we conducted helicopter
experiments...
...launched rockets...
TRAVIS (over radio): Holy crap, look at that thing go!
...or flew drones,
Erik would attach GPS devices to them
in order to collect data on their flight paths.
And incredibly, during nearly every experiment,
the GPS data would show anomalies
such as missing data or voids...
flight paths that were wildly different
from what we saw with our own eyes...
What in the hell is going on?
TRAVIS: ...and even crazy GPS data
that ended up underground or inside the mesa.
We had the dual helicopter experiment.
Uh, there was the-the Dry Gulch Creek uh, exploration.
-CAMERON: Yes. -We had the-the pits plane.
You recall Kendra came over and flew over
the ranch and of course with that you were flying, Cameron,
as you have been for so many of these experiments.
Okay, so what you're looking at...
-JIM: Wow. -...what you're seeing here,
represents but a fraction
of the actual data collected.
(exhales)
-TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness. -CAMERON: Oh, wow.
JIM: That's incredible.
-BRYANT: That's pretty amazing. -THOMAS: That's a lot.
ERIK: Let me back away from this to give you some perspective
on scope and scale.
TRAVIS: So as Erik added more and more GPS data
from all of our experiments this year to his computer model,
it was clear that a very complex pattern
of mysterious errors kept appearing,
but what is it that causes that to happen?
A-As you can see, it's almost impossible
-to-to navigate through this. -TRAVIS: It's too much for...
a single small group of humans
to go through and find all of the possible
trends and connections.
We have more data than you could possibly
imagine about this place.
It's going to require an artificial intelligence
and machine-learning algorithm
to go through this and find trends.
There's no telling what nuggets are in there.
Yep.
ROYSTON: In order to really
manage all the data,
we'll use what we call our Athena engine,
which is our AI platform.
And then with Athena, we can really look at
what are those patterns?
Did things change just a little?
Did things change a lot?
BRANDON: Well, and you're gonna be using
so many different scientific platforms.
Multi-physics sensor platforms that
in many cases have never been...
deployed in an environment like this.
And they're gonna be collecting enormous amount of data.
-Yeah. -We'll have seven fixed boxes
out there that have multi sensors in each,
five to six sensors in each one of those boxes.
You know, we'll probably get, it's over a terabyte a day.
ERIK: No human mind is going to get around
a terabyte of data a day
without the assistance of an AI or some other tool set.
TRAVIS: We're constantly seeking out and using
cutting-edge technology to investigate Skinwalker Ranch,
like the AI system called Athena
that Jim Royston and Sam Deriso of OmniTeq
are installing on the property.
This will help us to better detect phenomena
when they happen and, just maybe,
finally identify exactly what they are.
Turning the algorithms on,
that's the next step.
This is a big effort, the next step.
-Who knows what we'll find? -Yeah.
I feel like we're just on the cusp
of the greatest discoveries.
Ever, not just with respect
to Skinwalker Ranch, but on the planet.
I mean, this is the new frontier
that we're embarking on here
with these experiments with this research,
and I think it's gonna be interesting to see
what this coming year may end up revealing.
With that, I really want to express my appreciation
for the experts that have joined our effort this past year.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
And also see if you're willing to come back.
Even after seeing some things
that probably left you a little disturbed.
Um, you know, Brad and I,
I think, are-are confident that we would like
to come back next year and be able to share data.
Uh, I'd like to learn more about what you're seeing.
And I would like to, you know, follow that up with some
of the other sensors that you're using to correlate this data.
Well, I'd love to see not only your data
but a collaborative approach to understanding the nature
of the UAP aspect
that continues to be
a presence here at Skinwalker Ranch.
Jay, you're a veteran.
You've been at this for a very long time.
You came to the ranch before I had
acquired the property and were
involved with the prior investigation and research.
What do you suggest as we move forward?
The ranch has been a part of my life longer than everybody here
except for Thomas, 'cause he grew up next to it.
With that, I-I really feel like I'm connected to the ranch.
I really think it's trying to communicate.
-And we're trying to understand it. -Wow.
JAY: And if I can come up with new ways
to facilitate communication and understand
what's going on out here, so...
I really appreciate everyone coming together.
The sacrifice you've made.
This has been a grueling
series of months, I know
it has been taxing.
It has been fraught with danger.
There's been some real hazards involved
with this activity, and I really want to express
my deep appreciation for all of you.
And I hope that we can continue to move forward.
Love to pull everyone back together and let's
take this to another level and let's make history.
This is the new frontier.
JIML: Yeah, this is.
Well, thank you, everyone.
Let's conclude and, uh, onward.
(overlapping responses)
No mercy.
TRAVIS: Ever since I was a kid,
I've wanted to know if we're alone in the universe.
I've wanted to understand the strange encounters
and UFO sightings
that people across the world have reported.
Maybe the truth behind these kinds of mysteries and much more
is waiting to be revealed right here on Skinwalker Ranch.
And I can't wait to get back to work with this amazing team,
and hopefully we're finally gonna get
some answers and figure it out.
THOMAS: The more data that we get in our experiments,
the more I'm starting to think that all these places
on the ranch are somehow connected.
Whether it's the east canyons and the triangle,
the triangle and south side of the ranch,
Homestead Two.
There's no limits or bounds as to where we're gonna search next
and trying to find answers to the anomalous things
that are happening here at Skinwalker Ranch.
ERIK: Initially the question concerning
the ranch was, "What if?"
Today the question is, "What now?"
I think that as we add new capabilities,
new instruments, and the artificial intelligence
machine-learning platforms,
we will better understand this phenomenology
with which we are engaging here on the ranch.
I'm sure that new ideas are gonna emerge
and this is gonna continue to be a compelling problem set
for years to come.
BRANDON: As we conclude this historic year
of experiments and research,
we're left with so much to go back and explore.
We have more documentation than ever
proving the reality of the phenomena.
We are on the cusp of discovering
the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
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