-Go ahead and spin her. -[Erik] We want to go down
until we hit whatever is buried in the mesa.
[Thomas] The center of that formation
should be right over the bubble boundary.
Whoa! They're starting to fall out of formation.
Oh, did you see that? Erik, something just zipped
right overhead, just above Homestead Two,
moving real fast.
So, watch that little dot right there.
-[Erik] Okay, there's the light. -[Travis] That could be it.
You know, I got to tell you, the bubble wall,
-it could be a real thing. -Yeah.
[Royston] Wow.
[Narrator] There is a ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most disturbing occurrences on Earth.
For two decades,
the federal government
investigated the property.
Their findings have never been made public.
[Travis] Right there! We got something!
[Narrator] Now a new team
of independent scientists and researchers are taking over.
They are uncovering evidence
that the countless stories...
It came right out of the mesa.
...of unidentified aerial phenomena...
-UAP right there! -Yep.
...bizarre energies...
It looks like there's a heat source right above 'em.
...and portals that lead to other dimensions...
We're maybe looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
...might actually be true.
They will stop at nothing to reveal...
...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
[Erik] Well, guys, I'm feeling scan-happy.
[Travis] Me, too.
Yeah, I'm excited about, uh, what we're about to see.
I want to show you the terrestrial lidar scans
when we started drilling.
-Okay. -[Travis] Let's go. Let's do it.
Pete's excited to share some data
he took a couple of days ago with his lidar scanner
right as we started drilling a new
vertical borehole at the top of the mesa.
Our goal is to get down to around 33 feet,
which is where our drill got damaged last year
when it hit something super hard.
[Kyle] It's completely
welded shut.
-It's friction-welded. -Yeah. Mm-hmm.
[Travis] It's also where we found some material
we think was manufactured that we call Type A ceramic.
It might be similar to heat shield tiles
you'd find on the space shuttles or starship.
-Whoa, that's interesting. -Yeah.
So we're drilling a four-foot-diameter borehole
to get back down there and figure out
where these ceramics came from.
[Thomas] Hey, guys, the drill is in place.
[Travis] But the moment our drill bit touched the ground...
Look right here, it's the 1.6-gigahertz signal.
...we got one of those strange 1.6-gigahertz signals
that we see all the time out here
right when we start experiments.
That's so weird.
So we're hoping Pete may have caught
some kind of image that might provide new clues or insights
on what's producing those signals.
So why don't I show you what we got?
So, this is from the top of the mesa
looking to the southwest.
[Erik] Okay.
[Pete] Now check this out.
I spotted some interesting data.
-[Travis] Now, look at that. -[Kaleb] Whoa.
[Pete] Those should not be there.
[Erik] As you can see, it's intersecting
-with the bubble boundary. -[Travis] Sure is.
[Pete] This is why I got excited.
So, you see this large piece of data right here.
If I reorient, reposition our point of view,
it's actually underground.
[Erik] Are you kidding me?
[Travis] What in the world?
[Pete] If you'll notice, they're actually on an arc.
[Travis] It looks like it's forming a semicircle.
[Pete] And then, if you look over here,
it almost begins to look like something circular.
[Erik] So, could we be seeing
part of the bubble in this lidar data?
-Could be. -All right.
[Travis] When we've seen this giant sphere-shaped thing
that we call the bubble show up in the past,
it's always centered at the triangle
and encompasses the mesa drill site.
And when it appears, it also seems to be caused
by our activities.
[Erik] We have speculated
several times that the bubble can be turned on and off.
So I can't dismiss the idea that we're looking at something
-caused by the drilling. -[Thomas] Yeah.
This just reinforces that we've got to go back
to that mesa and keep drilling.
-[Travis] Absolutely. -[Erik] Yeah.
[Travis] All right, we'll see y'all up there.
[Thomas] Yeah, see you guys on top.
-[Travis] Hey, fellas. -[Kaleb] Sup?
[Travis] Greetings, Jan.
-How you doing? -Very well, sir.
[Travis] Later that morning, before drilling started again,
we welcomed back our buddy Jan Francke.
Jan's a ground-penetrating radar expert,
and we wanted to have him run some new GPR scans of the mesa.
Two years ago, Jan first captured
what's been a key image for us:
something that seems to be a big object
along with a bunch of smaller objects around it
buried inside the mesa.
[Erik] As you can see, we've already made some progress.
-Uh, what are we, 50, 50 inches in? -Mm-hmm. -Yep.
Today, as we do the drilling, the objective is to get
your instrument into that, uh, borehole.
-Yep. -Take it all the way from bottom to top,
-probably a couple of passes. -Yep.
It's similar to any of the other ground-penetrating radar systems
that we've used on the surface,
except this one, being in a borehole,
what we'll end up making for you, hopefully,
is a map of anomalies
giving you depth and distance away from the borehole.
That's fantastic.
[Travis] Erik and I wanted to see if putting Jan's GPR
inside Borehole 1 might give us a clearer idea
of what's inside the mesa.
We're really interested in what he captures
at around 33 feet,
where the drill bit in Borehole 2 broke last year.
-[Erik] We've got a lot of work to do. -Yeah.
-I say we get to it. -Let's get to work.
-All right. -Yeah.
We're good.
-Oh, it's running? -It's running right now.
-I can't stop it. -Okay.
[engine starts]
We're on it.
[Thomas] The drill bit just made contact with the earth.
Uh, be advised, the drilling has begun.
[Travis] Copy that, thank you.
Whenever you're ready for us to start pulling,
uh, the GPR down the tube, let us know.
[Erik] Copy that. We'll get everything in place
and, uh, we'll let you know.
[Travis] As the drilling started, the rest of us
were keeping an eye out for strange signals
on our spectrum analyzers
positioned both at the top and bottom of the mesa.
[Sam] So, we are picking up
-a 33-megahertz s-signal. -Wait.
-[Erik] Are you kidding? -I am not kidding.
[Sam] It's-it's strong there. You see it popping up?
It is weird.
[Erik] Okay, get this, Travis.
Sam reports he's getting a 33-megahertz signal.
This is not us.
Copy that. I'm gonna start looking for it down here.
There it is. There it is right there.
[Kaleb] Yeah.
[Travis] Talk about another obvious correlation
right when we start drilling again.
33 megahertz was the same frequency
broadcast by the drilling beacon last year
when the drill bit got destroyed in Borehole 2.
This year's drill has no beacon,
so what was emitting that exact signal?
The buried object? Or something else?
Whoa. 1.2 gigahertz just started right there.
[Kaleb] Whoa. And we also have the 1.6.
[Travis] Erik, we just had
a 1.2-gigahertz signal pop up,
and there's a 1.6-gigahertz signal.
Looks like we've got everything in the box showing up.
[Travis] It was a perfect storm of ranch strangeness.
Over the last year, these are the three signals
that we detect over and over during our experiments.
They've got to be connected to what's in the mesa.
Could it possibly be from the dadgum drill rig?
So you guys are positive there's nothing on this rig
that's transmitting a signal?
No.
-Nothing. -[Thomas] Well, I verified
with the drillers, there's absolutely nothing
on this drill that is transmitting any signal,
so, no, it's not coming from the drill
unless the drill somehow
is stimulating whatever's in the mesa.
[Thomas] It's not coming from the drill
unless the drill somehow is stimulating
whatever's in the mesa.
[Erik] This is a bit puzzling.
I'm not really sure what we're dealing with here.
We're still seeing the 33-megahertz signal over here.
Hey, Travis.
Are you guys seeing any changes
-down there? -Not really.
All right, guys. We're gonna watch it.
[Travis] As soon as we started drilling,
our spectrum analyzers picked up signals
at 33 megahertz, at 1.2 gigahertz,
and at 1.6 gigahertz.
It was like drilling woke something up inside the mesa
and now it was staying awake.
All right, so, are you about ready to put the instrument
-into the borehole? -Yeah, let's do it.
All right, so we'll start with this one.
[Travis] We thought that if something in the mesa
was sending out those signals,
maybe Jan could get the best images yet
of what it actually is.
Nice and easy, nice and smooth.
The device was rigged up to a pulley system
at the top and bottom of the mesa.
-There it goes. -[Travis] So,
we could pull the scanner all the way through
from the top to the bottom of Borehole 1.
That's 100 feet.
That's 450 feet right there.
450 feet.
[Erik] Copy that, Travis. 450 feet.
[Travis] All right, Erik, we have the instrument here now.
[Erik] Copy that, Travis.
We've got Sam back on this end of the rope.
When you guys are ready, we are.
Bring her back up.
[Travis] While we were scanning...
[Thomas] Wow, that's a good one there.
...archaeologist Chris Roberts was standing by
to inspect the drilling cores with a gamma ray detector
to measure if there were any high levels of radiation.
[Chris] I need to get a look at that.
The Type A ceramic that we found last year
had some interesting radiation levels.
That's why we need to go in looking for gamma rays
or something unnatural.
Anything that stands out that indicates
we're getting closer to what we need to find.
That's weird. This is not normal.
[detector clicking]
All right, I'm 108 right now. 110.
'15, it's going back up.
116, 117.
There is some elevated radiation in there.
Hey, Chris for Bard. Do I got a copy?
Yeah, Chris, go ahead.
Yeah, I've got some interesting gamma readings
on this core that just came out,
and it's elevated up to 115.
Yeah, that's clearly much higher than normal.
Hey, Erik.
When we took that, uh, ceramic out,
it was around 100 counts per minute.
Exactly what I was thinking.
[Travis] Now, 100 counts
of gamma rays per minute isn't dangerous,
but it's about ten times the radiation levels
you'd expect to see in normal sandstone.
And here's the kicker:
it matches the levels we detected
on the Type A ceramics we pulled out
of the drilling spoils last year.
I just put it right here in the center like this.
-Oh, wow. -[clicking]
[Chris] 119, 122.
128.
Now, that's interesting.
Chris, do you know our depth on this core?
-It was at 100 inches. -Okay.
[Erik] I did not expect to see radiation
in the core samples coming out of the drilling,
at least not at this depth,
because when we first encountered
the ceramics last year,
that came from a much greater depth.
Well, that's an interesting finding.
-I don't know what it means yet. -Yeah.
[Erik] Is it just a coincidence? I don't know.
But I'll tell you this, could this be an indication
that we are getting very close to some
of the ceramic-like material?
[Jan] Okay, there she is.
All right! Travis, we've got the instrument.
-Good run. -Copy that.
[Jan] We got the data.
Now my job's to go back and process it all
and hopefully have some results for you
-very soon. -[Thomas] Okay.
[Thomas] We are just about a third of the way down
to our 33-foot mark that stopped that drill.
-That's really exciting. -[Erik] Yes.
-It's gratifying. -Yeah.
[Travis] It was gonna take Jan several days
to process his data.
I'm hoping it'll give us some real answers
about whatever's happening inside this mesa.
I say we call it a day.
-[Thomas] Productive day. -Very productive.
[Chris] Hey, guys. Welcome.
-[Bob] Chris, how you doing? -Good. How are you?
I'm doing well.
[Travis] The next day, while drilling continued,
Chris Roberts set up a videoconference
with Bob Dodge and his colleagues
from Artemis Testing Lab in Louisville, Colorado.
We want to determine how old the Type A ceramic
we found last year might be.
A few weeks ago,
Chris ran a UV light test on the Type A ceramics,
and the results were crazy.
Yeah, I've got four pieces in here.
I saw some buildup and erosion
that would take a long, long time to occur inside the mesa.
How much time?
Conservatively, it's in the thousands.
Thousands?
Chris found material built up on them
that would take thousands of years
to accumulate on the surface.
If the ceramics are really that old,
how could they also have advanced properties
like the heat-absorbing tiles on the space shuttle?
That's too crazy for me to even think about.
So Artemis tested the ceramics with a dating test
called thermoluminescence.
Erik and I were really curious about what they've learned.
[Erik] Well, let's jump in.
[Travis] Let's see it.
[Bob] The thermoluminescence process,
you, uh, take a sample from ceramics or pottery.
[John] We cut through that pottery, and then we get
a very kind of simple dust amount of, uh, material.
[Bob] And then you put it into a very special type
of contraption, and it measures
the amount of stored light energy.
Okay, and it's the intensity of that value
that tells you the age?
Yes.
-I'm on the edge of my seat here. -[Chris] Yeah.
[Erik] So this piece is not from the ranch?
[Bob] Correct. That's a sample from
an old pottery vessel.
Perfect sample, very easy to analyze and read.
[Thomas] What the heck?
[Erik] That looks very messy.
[Chris] What is that?
[Chris] It's not dateable?
[Serge] Basically, it's not dateable.
You said it's not dateable?
[Bob] So, ceramics would be fired,
but this material probably
has not been fired...
...would be my assessment.
[Travis] When Bob said that the material had not been fired,
what he meant was: it was not created
using a high amount of heat,
which is how modern ceramics are made.
Especially the ones that are used
to make heat-resistant tiles on spacecraft.
Our previous lab test showed that our Type A ceramics
behaved exactly like those kinds of materials.
So these should have been easy to date with this test.
[Chris] There isn't the right ingredients to get a date?
Correct.
So what is it?
-[Erik] Wow. -[Bob] We also did
an XRF analysis of the material,
and we're getting elements that would lead us to believe
it is a plaster-like substance.
[Erik] Oh, wow.
[Thomas] So it's plaster?
-Is that what you're saying, then? -[Serge] No.
It's like plaster.
Well, it's not a plaster we've seen before,
-I would think is a safe assessment. -Yeah.
[Travis] It makes no sense that this material
could be like plaster.
When we found these Type A ceramics,
our drill bit had been destroyed.
And the bit was literally fused to the drill bar.
It would take something much more durable
than plaster to do that.
Well, we really appreciate your expertise,
and we appreciate this information.
It gives us more questions
but maybe a new road to travel down
to try and find some answers.
-All right. -Thank you, too.
-Yeah. -See you later. -Thanks, guys.
[Erik] Would you expect
a plaster material to survive the rigors
of the drilling process?
[Travis] You take any plaster known to man
and you put that kind of force and torque on it,
it's gonna turn into powder.
You know, we need to contact UVU again
and see about getting access to their, to the lab.
-Yes. -That would be great.
We were hoping this test would help us
take a big step forward in figuring out these materials,
but it didn't provide us anything conclusive.
All we can say for sure is, we need to keep drilling
to get down to that big object.
And we need to keep looking for new tests to find answers
about what we're dealing with inside the mesa.
Well, sounds like we're giving ourselves some marching orders.
Thanks, guys.
[Thomas] I'm gonna get back to work.
How fast is the wind blowing right now?
That right there feels like 50.
It's perfect to use the wind to our advantage.
-Yeah. -[Travis] Later that day,
while the drillers kept working at the mesa,
Erik and I wanted to turn our attention back to the bubble.
There were crazy high winds forecast,
which was the perfect weather for an experiment
we've wanted to try for a long time.
[Erik] These are the right conditions to run a test
with a smoke machine to see how the smoke interacts
with the boundary of the bubble.
We can exploit the fact that we've got the wind.
You know, we have a, uh...
you know, w-we know what to expect.
It-it should just blow right through.
Well, so, what-what I'm thinking is, uh,
the wind's blowing west to east.
So I say we get on the west side of the bubble
and blow smoke at it while we drive back and forth
through the boundary and watch it with cameras.
-Yeah. -[Thomas] So, what are you looking for,
to see if the currents are changing at all
-when they get to the boundary? -See if the boundary
does something unusual to the smoke flow.
[Erik] Yeah, that's right.
If we see a change in direction,
that would tell us we may have
-something else going on. -[Travis] Yeah.
[Travis] When we've detected the bubble
during our experiments,
it's always been centered at the triangle
with a 2,000-foot radius.
But what we don't know is if it's always there
or if it's maybe something that gets activated
to act like a giant spherical force field
when we start using our equipment.
[Kaleb] It's almost like it's not even moving.
[Thomas] I think something's stopping it.
[Travis] In the past, we've seen a helikite,
drones...
It's just stuck right there.
...and even rockets appear to bump
against its boundary and be pushed away.
So now we're curious if something like smoke
would be affected in the same way.
Maybe this experiment would show whether this thing
is always present, even if we can't see it.
So I think it'd be fair to say
that this is really more of just a passive measurement.
Purely passive, to see what-- see if it's there
-without us poking at it. -Yep.
-Yeah. -Well,
it-it's fairly straightforward.
Um, let's do it.
-[Thomas] All right. -All right. I'll-I'll keep an eye
-on things from the CC. -[Travis] That's great, Erik.
I'll be giving you wind gust alerts.
Yeah, that'll be good.
[Erik] I'm really interested to see what we'll learn,
given the fact that it's a very simple approach,
it's something we haven't done before.
Will we see effects out at that boundary,
as we have in the past?
Or will we learn something more about this bubble?
[Travis] I'll walk with the truck
and watch for, you know, what we're seeing.
And, Thomas, you run the smoke machine. Is that good?
-Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great. -All right.
[Travis] The plan was simple.
We're gonna start just outside the bubble boundary.
Then we'll reverse the truck
with the smoke machine pointed towards it
in the direction of the wind.
The smoke should just shoot straight out
if nothing is there to stop it.
Hey, Erik, I'm setting up cameras right now
so I can, uh, get as many views on the...
-barrier wall as I can. -Copy that.
[Travis] We also had several regular and high-speed cameras
set up all around this area.
This camera's ready to go, y'all.
If the smoke did anything unusual today,
we'd be ready to capture it.
Well, all right, Erik, we've got everything in place
to do the first test here
on the western boundary of the bubble.
We're gonna get going, so, uh,
we're-we're gonna start this thing right now.
Copy that, Travis.
-Okay. -[Travis] All right, let's do it.
I am recording.
Our, uh, gusts are at, uh, 40 and a half miles per hour,
current wind speeds are 31.1.
[Travis] That's crazy. It's almost like we're having
a hurricane out here or something.
All right, let's back up.
Hang on, Thomas.
All right, Jim, we're approaching the bubble boundary.
We're gonna stop just short of it.
Okay, stop there.
Wow!
[Royston] Travis, it's being pushed back at us.
It looks like it's coming our way.
[Travis] Yeah, it came backwards on us.
-Right at the wall. -Yeah! I know!
[Thomas] When we were right at the boundary of the bubble,
there was a pretty significant and noticeable effect
right there on the wall.
The smoke seemed to lift up
and kind of just really become discombobulated
as if some invisible force was stopping the smoke.
[Travis] Let's keep backing up through the boundary
and see what happens.
Copy that.
[Travis] We got through the boundary of the bubble.
That's good, Jim.
Now that we're inside the bubble,
it looks like it's blowing normal.
-[Thomas] It is! -[Travis] Isn't that weird?
Yeah, that's weird!
[Thomas] Interestingly enough,
as we proceeded through the bubble boundary,
the smoke went from being completely chaotic
to a well-organized stream of smoke
in the same direction the wind was blowing.
-[Travis] Can you believe it? -It does seem to indicate
that the boundary of the bubble seems to be affecting the smoke.
[Travis] Okay, Jim, now just drive forward slowly.
Copy that, here we go.
[Travis] Now that the smoke is blowing in the direction
of the wind inside the bubble,
we're gonna drive back outside of it
to see if the smoke changes again at the bubble boundary.
Now, look right here in the bubble. Look!
-Look! -[Thomas] What the hell?
[Travis] Look! Look!
[Royston] That's crazy.
[Travis] We couldn't believe it.
Even while moving and shooting smoke
with the direction of 30-mile-an-hour winds,
our smoke was being deflected and redirected
by the bubble boundary.
So either the smoke triggered the bubble
to turn on its boundary in response to a stimulus
or we got more data telling us that it's always there.
Ooh, that thing's loud.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
-Yeah, go ahead. -Wow.
The smoke, as we were on the outside of the bubble,
it seemed to spread across like it was,
uh, hitting something and move up and out,
but once we got through the bubble,
it was just going with the wind.
Copy that. I'm not sure what to make of it yet.
Let's move to the opposite side
and see if the same thing happens
at the eastern boundary of the bubble.
I'll get the assets trained on that area.
[Travis] Copy that.
All right. Well, let's load up and head on.
For this next test, we were gonna take
a little different approach.
Since the wind's direction was blowing
towards the eastern bubble boundary,
we were going to approach it with our smoke machine
from the inside going out.
We wanted to see if the smoke flow
would change again when it hits the inside of that boundary.
Hey, man, we're in place
and we're ready to start with the smoke
on the east side of the bubble.
We're just gonna back up from inside it this time,
and we'll ease through it like we did over there.
Yeah, Travis, I copy.
All right, Thomas.
All right, Jim, come on back.
Okay. We're approaching the bubble boundary now.
[Thomas] I'm seeing the same thing that I saw
over on the western side.
That when we're right at that bubble boundary,
the smoke is going everywhere
and I'm seeing a substantial lift,
as if it's being pushed upwards.
[Travis] Okay, we are through the bubble boundary.
[Travis] Yeah.
-[Thomas] I'm not seeing it plume now. -No, it's not. No.
[Travis] Just like before,
the smoke started shooting straight
with the direction of the wind
the second it got past
where we've marked the bubble boundary.
Now look, it's starting to spread and go up.
[Travis] Yeah.
But no matter if we were inside or outside of the bubble,
the smoke reacted any time it was blowing
against the boundary.
[Royston] Boy, from in there, it looked like
you got the same thing.
-Yeah. -Was it stopping right there?
Yeah, it was st-- and going up,
like if something's stopping it,
and then, when we got through it, it just went
-straight on down the driveway. -Yeah.
-[Travis] Isn't that something? -Unbelievable.
It was very chaotic, it was, like, trying to go right,
trying to go left, but it wasn't going down the road
-like you expect it. -[Travis] Yeah.
But then at a certain-- certain point, it all went.
[Travis] I know.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
I copy.
The wind's still going strong,
so let's move on to the triangle.
Maybe we'll see some effects in that blob region.
[Travis] We're gonna, uh, wrap up,
-then head on to the triangle. -Copy that.
I'll get the assets ready at the triangle.
[Travis] After we finished the second run
through the bubble boundary,
we had one more smoke test planned.
This time at the triangle,
where we've seen all kinds of evidence
of an invisible thing that we call the blob
right at about 31 feet in the air.
We've seen it appear to destroy and deflect rockets
right at that spot more times than we can count.
-Let's go on up. -Okay.
[Travis] So, we used a cherry picker
to lift the smoke machine up there
to see if the smoke might also get us more data
proving the blob is real and maybe connected to the bubble.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
We're about to start the smoke over here at the triangle.
Are you ready?
I'm ready to take data.
All right, let's crank it up.
All right, Erik, we're about to go.
[device whirring]
[Travis] It's pushing it down. That's crazy!
I didn't know what we were looking at.
It was like something invisible was right there,
31 feet high above the triangle,
and it was making some of the smoke shoot downward
instead of straight ahead with the wind.
When it comes to getting evidence of the blob,
I mean, talk about your literal smoking gun.
[Thomas] It's pretty convincing that there's something here.
[Travis] Well, we're finished here.
I can't wait to see what you captured
on the cameras we got out here.
I'm looking at it.
It's gonna take some head-scratching to, uh,
interpret what I'm seeing.
So many things have played out in this space
that are a little difficult to explain.
I'd really like to understand how.
I can't wait for us to take a look at the data and see what
insights we find to show us what the heck is going on.
[Travis] All right, man, we're gonna head on in.
[Erik] All right, I'll see you when you get back.
[Travis] Copy that.
I-I was not expecting to see something like that.
[Thomas] Yeah.
[Travis] What's going on, fellas?
[Erik] Uh, I've got the results
of our experiment with the, uh, smoke gun.
-[Travis] All right, cool. -Great. -[Erik] I want to start
with a video I recorded from a camera on the mesa
processed through the Meta-Frame software.
You know, you're looking down from the top of the mesa,
you know, I'm zoomed in on your location
on the western side of the bubble.
And I should probably explain,
you know, the colors and all that, you know,
this is not how we normally see things.
I've applied a filter to detect any motion changes
captured on the camera,
so anything that moves, like our smoke,
will show up in bright colors.
Where you see black, it's not that it's dark,
it's that nothing has changed.
You guys are stationed here
looking for, you know, any behavior
in that smoke that, uh, we wouldn't expect
-from normal air flow. -Okay, got it.
[Erik] Now watch what happens here.
This is when you guys were parked outside
the bubble boundary.
You can see the bright colors here,
which is our smoke.
And you'll notice we can see upward movement of the smoke.
[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that.
[Erik] All in this direction and in this direction.
So it's doing this, it's fanning like this.
Now, which direction
was the wind predominantly moving, though?
-It was doing this. -Right down that road, yeah.
[Erik] And yet you're seeing, you know, the spreading
of the bright area to the left and right.
-Which is interesting, right? -Right.
[Erik] Okay, so I'll just continue letting that play
at its natural rate.
-[Travis] Look how high the smoke's going up. -Mm-hmm.
-Can you back that up a little bit? -Sure.
All right, uh, go ahead and let it play.
-Okay. -So, if you start looking,
and you'll start to see in here,
and it starts moving up, which...
[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that. I can see it now.
I didn't even notice-- look how high.
That's got to be hundreds of feet in the air.
[Thomas] Correct.
[Erik] Why? Why is it going up?
Does the "bubble,"
does the structure we're talking about,
actually introduce its own effects on the smoke?
[Travis] And that's what we were looking for,
to see if there's something invisible
that's gonna change that normal flow.
It was one thing to see the smoke pushed around
in real time at ground level,
but Erik's Meta-Frame showed that the smoke appeared
to get pulled up and around the bubble boundary,
more than 100 feet in the air.
Normally, it should have dissipated in all that wind.
So, could the bubble boundary
have displaced the smoke that much? How?
Now let me show you an alternate perspective
of the video that was shot out of the western boundary
of the bubble as you guys were approaching.
Now, part of what makes this interesting
is, we're looking at 120-frame-per-second video...
-[Travis] Okay. -...from over on the north side of the canal.
[Travis] I'm intrigued.
[Erik] Now what I'm gonna do is zoom in and apply a filter.
-[Travis] Wow. -Okay, so I'm playing through this.
Out of nowhere, we've got something moving around.
[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at that. I can see it now.
-That's got to be hundreds of feet in the air. -Wow. Yeah.
-Look at that. -[Travis] Right there. Look at that.
-[Erik] Yeah. -[Travis] What in the world is that?
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-[Travis] Right there. Look at that. -[Erik] Yeah.
What in the world is that?
[Erik] Whatever this is, it's moving freely
-against the wind. -Yeah,
like it's not even having an effect on it.
And that's 120 frames per second.
Lord, that thing's moving fast.
Watching this UAP in the enhanced, slowed-down video
clearly showed how it was able to maneuver
without any wind resistance.
I don't think a bug or even a bird could do that
in a 30-mile-an-hour-plus wind.
So what was it?
And did it come from something inside the bubble?
That right there is what is real interesting to me,
where it stops and it, and it hovers right there.
-Yeah, it kind of loops around and stops. -Yeah.
[Travis] I can't believe you saw that, Erik.
[Erik] Well... there's some things that when you see 'em,
you can't unsee 'em.
Are we looking at something that could be called a UAP?
I don't know.
But it is interesting that it showed up
when we were pumping smoke at the bubble boundary.
Makes me wonder whether
these things are related somehow.
All right, I want to play into the next event
from the triangle.
Now, this is video of our last smoke test,
31 feet above the triangle, processed through Meta-Frame.
And we're punched way in.
You can see two towers out there.
The tower on the right is just below
where we've seen that blob feature before.
-[Travis] Right. -[Erik] Once again,
I've got that change-detection filter on,
so changes will show up lighter than what you see here.
-Yeah. -Yeah. -[Travis] Yeah. -All right. Okay.
[Erik] So, at this point, already the smoke is flowing
at the center of the triangle.
It's flowing the way we would expect it to
until it reaches the area where we've seen the blob.
[Thomas] Wow, right there, see where it's coming down?
-[Erik] Mm-hmm. -We did see the smoke
dive down, come about five feet off the ground.
Yeah, you can see it right here in the bottom piece.
-It does, you can see that. -[Erik] Yes. Okay.
[Travis] You see how the smoke...
it's not coming out in a, in a smooth path.
It's got a line to it.
That is right over the tower where the rocket hit the blob.
Okay, so, if I frame forward,
-it maintains that advancing front. -Look at that.
Yeah. Look at that.
During the experiment, we only saw it going down.
But it looks like it was going up around something, too.
Let's see right there. Stop.
-I-I'm gonna draw on the screen. -[Erik] Yeah. Go for it.
Look at the boundary it makes.
That right there is almost a perfect circle.
Mm.
-[Travis] So, is this the blob? -Mm-hmm.
[Travis] Once again,
we're seeing the smoke being manipulated
right where we've previously seen evidence of the blob.
The smoke even looked like it was moving around
a blob-like shape.
Are we looking at more evidence
that there is definitely something there at that spot,
31 feet above the triangle?
[Erik] So, now that we've seen these flow patterns
in the smoke,
does this help explain anything we've seen?
Well, it doesn't explain it,
but I think it showed more evidence
that the bubble and the blob are real
and maybe always present.
-[Erik] Now we need to figure out what they are. -Yeah.
You know, I think this informs future experiments
we do in both places.
[Travis] Right, back to poking harder
at the nest for some answers.
Well, I say we, uh, we get to it.
-Yeah. -[Thomas] Let's do it. -Great.
[Royston] I'll see you guys.
[Brandon] As we have elevated the experimental activity
in the region that we call the bubble,
we see more UAP activity
coupled with other high strangeness than ever before.
It will be no surprise if we continue to see
phenomena unfold before our very eyes,
so long as we continue to focus on the bubble.
[Travis] You see one rocket do something odd,
you chalk it up to chance.
But when you see multiple things--
smoke, rockets, drones,
helikites, you name it--
all showing the same kinds of effects?
I think we've proven that the bubble
is a real phenomenon.
And we're gonna hit it with everything we've got
until we figure out what it is
and how it's related to the blob
and whatever's buried inside the mesa.
[Erik] That space just above the triangle
and the bubble boundary continue to draw our attention.
We are engaging with several
very interesting features,
both of a very physical nature and an abstract nature.
I think we are going to have to retool
the approach to the unknown on the ranch.
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