We have someone who's connected, tribally, to the area.
I would like to start off with a ceremony,
see if we can instigate a connection.
-Are you getting something at 1.6? -[Sam] Yeah.
[Travis] It's coming directly from Homestead Two.
This is just crazy. This tree is heating up.
[Pete] And it keeps getting hotter.
Doesn't make any sense.
I've got a few interesting hits from Homestead Two.
-There. -[Travis] Makes me wonder
-if we're looking at a UAP. -[Pete] Wow.
-Oh, god. -Oh. -[computer voice] Distance, 2,000 feet.
It landed 2,000 feet!
That's the exact distance from the center of the triangle
to the edge of the bubble.
[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.
[Thomas] Here come the drillers.
[Travis] This spot's right in line with the GPR data.
-Right here. -Okay.
[Erik] Yeah, so we know that the anomaly starts
at least as shallow as 30 feet.
-Yeah. -[Erik] So this spot
-should put us on that target. -Yeah. Makes sense to me.
We've covered a lot of ground this year
with our investigation.
So now we really want to figure out
if all the hot spots where we experience strange activity
are somehow connected.
And today starts at the mesa.
We're about to drill our fourth large borehole
that we're hoping against hope will finally intersect
with one of the biggest mysteries on Skinwalker Ranch--
a massive object buried around 33 feet deep,
along with a bunch of smaller objects
that we've detected using our ground-penetrating radar.
-Well, guys, let's get to work. Got a lot to do. -All right.
Let's go.
Last week, the team from Triple A Drilling put
a 24-inch-diameter hole to the west of where
we've detected the big object.
That's where a smaller drill was damaged last year
when it hit something really hard at the 33-foot level
and we found the Type A ceramics.
Unfortunately, that hole didn't produce
any more ceramic material.
[Erik] What are we looking at?
-[Chris] We got metal. -Wow.
But between 60 and 70 feet,
we did find some small shavings of strange metal.
[Thomas] That's right where we need to be.
-Here we go. -All right, let's get drilling.
So today we're sinking
another two-foot-diameter borehole
right in the center of where the big object was detected.
While we want to be careful we don't damage anything,
we think it's our best bet to finally make contact.
How's it going, Chris?
Have you found anything?
[Chris] No, nothing yet.
[Travis] While the new hole gets drilled,
Kaleb and I will be helping
archaeologist Chris Roberts
sift through the leftover spoils from our previous hole
where we found those metal flakes last week.
Hopefully we'll find more metal or ceramics or something,
anything, that helps us figure out what the heck this thing is.
So these are from 60 to 70 feet down.
So this is the same level we found that metal at.
This is the one we found the metal.
-Where's your magnet? -It's right here.
[Travis] A lot of these flakes we've found
have been very small. Some are about the size of a quarter.
But we've also found some shavings
that were practically microscopic.
So the magnet will help make sure
we don't miss any possible clues.
Oh. Whoa, look here.
Metal?
[Travis] That right there-- that's a piece of metal.
Metal filings.
-Yeah. Yeah. -Wash this piece off, Chris,
'cause this piece looks like it might have some patina
or something on it.
Yeah, it's got rust on it.
[Chris] That means it's been in the mesa for a while.
So that didn't come from our drill bit.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[Chris] Let me get a baggy for these
-while you guys are looking. -[Travis] Maybe we ought
to tell the guys about it.
Kaleb, why don't you call up Erik and let him know.
[Kaleb] Hey, Erik. You copy?
-Yeah, go ahead. -[Kaleb] We found something
that you might want to come look at.
Very cool. I'll be right down.
To find what I would describe as a highly magnetic,
very thin metal at the depth of 60
to 70 feet down in vertical hole three
in the mesa is highly unique.
That's a flake right there, whatever that is.
[Chris] There's no natural process
to explain how it got there.
So did the drill scrape this off a much larger object?
-Guys, what do we got? -[Travis] We're finding
little bitty pieces of the material like we saw earlier.
And we got one right here right now.
-Yeah. Okay. -It matches color, thickness.
I see a flake here.
Just a visual inspection
tells me clearly this is, uh, artificial material.
We need to send these samples off to a laboratory
and have a more detailed analysis performed.
This is something that makes me personally quite hopeful
that we will drill directly down onto the center,
the top of that anomaly buried in the mesa.
-I need to bag that up separately. -Okay.
-I got one right here. -All right.
[Thomas] What depth are we at right now?
-[Jed] So we're at the 40-foot minimum. -Really?
-Yeah. -We should have hit that anomaly by now.
Hey, Bo, you mind cutting the drill?
-Okay. -[engine stops]
Erik, Travis, you guys got a copy?
Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.
Just gonna see if you guys
wanted to meet me down here at the drill.
Yeah, we'll come down.
-Hey, hey. -Hey, guys.
-So what's the word? -So we got down to that targeted
-40-foot depth that we were after. -Yeah.
[Thomas] We're far enough down that hole that
we should've hit what we were looking for.
[Travis] That just doesn't add up.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
We've had three different times drill hitting something
right about where you guys are
-and couldn't go through it. -Yeah.
[Travis] We've got data from multiple instruments,
all confirming that there is something huge
buried in the mesa.
Our previous smaller drilling operations
have hit something impenetrable right friggin' here.
So how do we keep missing it
with a much bigger drilling operation?
Well, I think we need to keep looking for that evidence
-and see what we find. -Yeah.
I think the best thing we could do now
is take a step back from drilling
until we can get Jan back out here to scan this thing again.
-[Kaleb] Right. -That sounds like a good plan. -[Chris] Yeah.
[Travis] We don't want
to go back to the drawing board with GPR.
But Erik's right.
We really need more data that confirms
where this is buried.
Great stuff, guys.
So, Jan, what do you need to get started?
Yeah, literally it's just the radar itself. That's about it.
With this encrypted device, we should finally get
-some good data. -[Thomas] Sounds good.
[Travis] A few days later,
Jan Francke was able to come back to the ranch
to do some new scans inside Borehole 1
with a brand-new device that he designed just for us.
[Jan] I've come up with the coded sequence radar,
and this is what I made you.
[Travis] He designed it after previous scans conducted
a couple weeks ago were totally messed-up,
which Jan believed was due to something inside the mesa
jamming the radio waves from his device.
Now, if Jan's theory's correct,
this new GPR unit with an encrypted signal
should bypass any interference
and finally collect clean images of these buried things
from inside Borehole 1.
All right, well, um...
Then you and Thomas get it set up up here
-and tie it off. And Kaleb -Okay.
-and I will head down to the bottom. -You guys gonna do
-the pulling? Okay. -And we'll pull, so, uh, keep
your walkies on and we'll stay in contact. We'll let you know
-when we get set down there. -Great. -Okay.
[Travis] To move Jan's device up and down the mesa,
we'll attach it to a rope pulley system inside Borehole 1.
As Thomas and Jan lower it from the top,
Kaleb and I will pull it down through
from the bottom of the mesa.
So, uh, we're all set up here and we're ready
for you guys to start pulling.
Zero-foot marker out of the hole.
-[Thomas] There she goes. -[Jan] There she goes.
-Okay. -Okay.
I've worked in, I think, 108 countries around the world,
and this one site
produces the most amount of frustration
from an instrumentation standpoint,
from a data standpoint, because there's weird things
that happen that I can't easily explain.
[Travis] We're almost completely out.
And now we are.
[Jan] All right,
-let's bring it back up. -Copy that.
Just go whenever you're ready.
[Jan] Okay. Do your thing.
This is the best hope we have
to get usable data within
the mesa itself.
Yeah, the, uh, radar's out of the hole.
-Copy that, Jan. -So I've got a huge file right now
that I need to process.
You pretty excited to look at this file?
I am. I'm a little nervous, too.
Because, you know, anything goes at the ranch.
-Right. -And you never know what we're gonna see.
But this is the best bet that I can possibly think of.
[Thomas] All right. Well, let's get it detached
-and analyze it. -All right. Let's do it. Okay.
♪ ♪
-Come on in, Jan. -Come on in.
[Travis] Jan already deserves an A for effort,
because he worked crazy fast to process that data by morning.
[Jan] The good news is that we got
-usable data back. -[Travis] Awesome.
-Oh, good. -[Jan] So if you guys
want to take a look at the screen here. This is starting
at the top of the mesa. On the left-hand side,
this is the entry point where I was standing.
So this is just, you know,
the first 30 feet.
Nothing exciting.
As we go down,
you start getting things like this.
[Travis] Wow, look at that.
[Jan] So this is what we see at about 80 feet down
Borehole Number 1.
What is it? Who knows, right?
But the good news is we are getting
some reflections from that.
Well, and it stands out, though, clearly.
And right where your old data detected it.
So why didn't we hit it?
[Erik] This is a validation.
It's puzzling, but it's a validation
of our original location for the anomaly.
[Travis] According to Jan's data,
that huge object is right where we thought it was.
That means we should have hit this thing
with all four vertical boreholes we drilled this year.
So how did they all miss it?
[Jan] I've got something else I want to show you.
So, again, we have all these reflections.
These are sort of hits on possible objects, okay?
But take a look at this.
-A big one here. -[Erik] That's--
Yeah, that's pretty strong.
-[Jan] Yeah. -Wow.
-[Travis] What the? Wow. -[Erik] What is this? Whoa.
[Travis] How far from the top of the mesa is that?
[Jan] Somewhere around 290 to 300 feet down Borehole 1.
-And there seems to be two of them. -[Erik] Okay.
To me, this looks metallic.
Oh, wow.
[Travis] Jan's past GPR scans have detected smaller objects
surrounding the main anomaly.
So are these more of those or something else?
You know, Jan, I was just thinking--
we've got those large boreholes now
-from the top vertical drilling. -Yeah.
It's two-foot in diameter. We could run your GPR in those.
'Cause one of 'em goes to 90 feet.
It's right between Borehole 1 and 2.
[Erik] We should get much more precise data
for where we could drill again.
[Thomas] Yeah, and make sure we can't miss next time.
[Travis] I think we got some marching orders, right?
We-we have lots of work to do.
Figure out a way to get a radar down
in these new holes that we've drilled.
And so, Jan, your work here isn't done.
-[laughter] -[Erik] And, Jan,
this has been a very productive discussion. And I appreciate
everybody's ideas.
[Thomas] We'll see you again soon, Jan.
[Jan] Yeah.
Hey, Jim.
How we doing, guys?
-You got it up and running? -Got the box ready.
Well, it's the perfect time to get back out to Homestead Two.
Later that night, we switched our focus
for a follow-up experiment
at another important hot spot, Homestead Two,
the dilapidated group of old buildings
just southwest of the mesa drill site.
A few weeks ago, we conducted an experiment there
with Navajo shaman Art Hardy,
who performed a prayer ceremony to try and make contact
with whatever causes the strange phenomena
that we and others have encountered.
These include everything from orbs...
...and strange cold anomalies
that we recorded on thermal cameras.
Heck, members of a government-funded investigation
back in the early 2000s
reported seeing strange creatures
emerge out of portals there.
And it definitely seemed like Art made something happen.
We not only detected strange 1.6-gigahertz signals
coming from inside one of the homestead buildings...
This is just crazy.
...but saw the trees suddenly heat up above them, too.
Just watch what happens. There.
[Travis] But the craziest thing was a UAP that Erik found
in our processed high-speed video
that appeared during the ceremony
right above the homestead.
Is there something happening inside Homestead Two
that may be connected to UAP activity on the ranch?
If so, then hopefully tonight's experiment will help us
actually see what it is.
It's been a while since we've tried anything
with light out there.
So we're gonna set up a laser grid at Homestead Two.
And to see those laser beams clearly,
we can use that smoke gun, right?
We do have the smoke guns.
[Erik] So that would maybe help us see what's going on.
The goal of tonight's experiment is to help us identify
phenomenon that's not visible to the naked eye.
Using specialized laser boxes,
we're going to project a grid of light beams
inside of the main building at Homestead Two
where we detected those 1.6-gigahertz signals.
Then we'll fill the room with smoke
to make the lasers easier to see.
If there's something invisible in there,
maybe we'll see disturbances in the smoke and the laser light.
We ought to also take, uh, a-a digital audio file
of the whistle Art used during his ceremony.
I want to play it during our experiment to see
if we see similar things
-happen again. -[Royston] Okay. -[Thomas] Perfect.
[Erik] Well, this is shaping up to be a good plan.
-I say we execute on it. -Let's go. -[Thomas] A lot to do.
I'm gonna go get my Jeep. We'll see y'all out there.
Thomas, let's set the high-speed cameras up--
one looking through the door and one looking through a window.
Okay.
[Travis] To help collect data and look out for more UAPs,
we'll be using several high-speed video cameras
pointed inside Homestead Two.
We'll also be capturing images using both stationary
and portable lidar devices,
which use infrared scanners to help reveal
anything that would otherwise be invisible.
We also will be monitoring
a GPS sensor positioned on top of the homestead,
as well as multiple spectrum analyzers.
Thomas, you don't have to keep holding that heavy thing.
-Bring that-- Set it down-- -No, I'm gonna put it
-on the table right here. -Yeah, set that on the table, man.
So, Jim, you're gonna be flying
-your thermal drone tonight, right? -Yeah.
Flying thermal. Right back here.
-Oh, across the canal? Okay. -Yeah.
That's perfect. Are you gonna fly that path
-back to the east through the boundary? Okay. -Yeah.
[Travis] Another reason we're interested in Homestead Two
is because it sits just beyond
the western boundary of the bubble.
It's like there's a massive invisible force field
covering a huge portion of the ranch
and constantly prevents our equipment,
like rockets and especially drones,
from passing through its boundaries.
We think it may be connected to whatever's buried in the mesa,
but this is also a good chance to see
if we detect any possible connections
to Homestead Two as well.
All right, guys.
I'm gonna get back in place at the command center.
-All right, man. -We'll stay in contact with you
-on the radios. -All right.
[Travis] During the experiment,
Erik will be monitoring
all our ranch-wide surveillance cameras and sensors
from inside the command center.
It gives him a vantage point
to see things that all of us in the field could miss.
I'm gonna try testing my signal generator.
Hey, Erik.
I'm running a test signal at 1.6 gigahertz.
Let me know if you see it.
Yeah, copy that, Travis. You know, I see a lot of hopping,
uh, in that range.
Copy that, Erik.
I'm shutting off the signal generator now,
so the signal should go away.
Copy. I'm no longer seeing the 1.6-gigahertz signal.
Okay, thank you.
Wait, am I on over here?
What?
Hey, Erik. Do you copy?
Yeah, Travis. Loud and clear.
So, be advised-- I turned off my signal generator
and now there's a 1.6
-gigahertz signal. -Copy that.
I got, uh, the same thing.
It's like playing that copycat game again.
It's-- I mean, it's really crazy.
♪ ♪
[Travis] It's like playing that copycat game again.
[Erik] All right, copy that.
Uh, it's-it's above the noise floor out there.
Quite a bit of activity.
[Travis] We've seen this happen during our experiments
more times than I can count.
We broadcast a test signal to make sure our equipment
is receiving it between our stations.
And then we get a signal back at the exact same frequency.
So, was this another one of those cloned signals?
And if so, could it be coming from Homestead Two,
like the one we got during our last experiment here?
This is a head-scratcher, man. [chuckles]
We'll keep an eye on it,
see if this thing comes and goes.
And if it repeats, it means something.
Let's start the experiment
and see what we find in the building.
Let's do it. I was wondering if I could get
-you guys to try the grid. -[Pete] Copy that.
All right. Go, smoke!
Thomas is starting to pump smoke now.
[engine whirring]
[Pete] When that thing's getting full of smoke, I'll...
I'll hit the laser.
[Travis] Copy that.
[Thomas] Does it look like it's filled up?
Yeah.
[engine stops]
So if y'all get the grid going in the kitchen,
-that would be good. -[Pete] Okay.
Let's turn the laser grid on.
You seeing anything?
[Travis] Your laser grid's not on.
[Pete] It is. Yeah.
[Travis] Now I can see the grid. Right there.
Right there. I can see it.
[Pete] That's better. There you go.
That smoke is amazing, dude.
The lasers and the smoke
were working perfectly right out of the gate.
The grid of colors in the building
with the cloud filling the room
should easily let us see anything out of the ordinary
that might be in there.
What is that, all the way over there?
I'm watching the smoke experiment
from the command center.
And in fact I am seeing
a light source that is apparently
out at Homestead Three,
out to that western extreme portion of the property.
I want to know what this is.
Hey, guys, just a quick check.
Do we have any personnel out at Homestead Three
or on the western side of the property?
No, we don't have anybody there.
Homestead Three is another early 20th century property
here on the ranch
that was owned by the Locke family.
They also passed down rumors
of UAP activity and other strange things.
Our investigation hadn't seen evidence
of anything there recently.
So we needed to investigate that immediately
to find out what Erik just saw.
I've got some movement on a--
on a-on a light source out there.
-I'm not sure what I'm looking at. -A light source?
[Travis] Erik, did you say you saw a light source
-at Homestead Three? -Yeah, Travis.
Thomas, can you confirm
whether or not we have anyone out
in the western part of the property near Homestead Three?
[Thomas] Kaleb and I are gonna go check it out.
I'm out here at Homestead Three.
I'm searching for any signs of the source of that light.
Yeah, Thomas. Thanks for chasing that down.
-Is that you, Kaleb? -Yeah.
[Thomas] We need to make sure it wasn't another person
-down here messing around. -Yeah.
Yeah, you know what, Jim, you want to get your drone
over there? Do a thermal survey
-around the homestead. -Yeah. That's a good idea.
I'm gonna throw it up, get it up there and take a look.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
Yeah, Travis, what do you got?
We're gonna get Jim's thermal drone up in the air.
Maybe it'll help us find this thing.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
[Royston] The drone is up.
I'm approaching Homestead Three with the drone now.
Wait.
What was that?
Somebody there?
Make yourself known if you are.
You see anything, Kaleb?
I thought I saw a green light in the homestead.
Jim,
are you seeing something?
No. I'm looking around on the thermal.
I don't see anything.
[Thomas] Pretty certain I just saw a flicker
out here in the brush.
[Erik] Copy that, Thomas.
Yeah, Jim, if you could put that drone
in a hover right over Homestead Three,
it would help me to orient
the, uh, location of this light source.
It may be just off property.
[Royston] Stand by, Erik. I'll head there right now.
I'm coming over Homestead Three right now.
They're seeing a light source there, so I'm trying--
Why is Homestead Three so warm?
[Royston] I don't know.
-[Travis] What are those lines? -[Pete] Are you seeing this?
-What are those lines? -That's heat.
[Travis] What in the world?
[Pete] Wow. Look at the heat coming out
-of the homestead. Look at that. -I know.
It's like somebody's got a furnace on.
[Travis] That's crazy, man.
[Pete] Wow, look at the heat coming out of the homestead.
It's like somebody's got a... the furnace on.
What in the world?
Jim's drone reached Homestead Three,
and the whole place was lit up like it was on fire.
There were hot spots everywhere.
It was a cool night.
Everything on the thermal drone camera
should have been bluish or black.
There's just no natural explanation
why an empty old house would be giving off
this big of a heat source.
So what is it?
And could it have something to do
with the strange light Erik saw
or the 1.6-gigahertz signal we detected
just before it appeared?
Is this evidence that some, if not all,
of these hot spots on the ranch are connected?
Erik, you know what's crazy is,
I'm hovering, as you can see, right over Homestead Three.
It looks like all these hot spots on the roof,
-Strange. -[Erik] Yeah, copy that.
I bet those are holes.
-But you said the floor. -There are holes...
holes in the roof.
[Erik] Hey, guys, I'm not seeing that light anymore.
Thomas, do you see anything over where you are?
[Thomas] I'm not seeing anything over here, either.
[Erik] Thomas and Kaleb have reported that they do not
see a light source at Homestead Three.
So, where did it go? And what was it?
Hopefully, the video we captured will tell us more.
[Thomas] I think, uh, we've done
all the searching we-- we're gonna do.
I'm gonna head back to Homestead Two.
-[Travis] Copy that, Thomas. -Yeah, Erik, so,
I'm gonna bring the drone back to land.
Yeah. Thanks, guys, for that.
[Travis] Whatever that light was,
it disappeared before Thomas and Kaleb could find it.
So, hopefully, it will stand out on our cameras
and maybe we can learn more about it
once Erik has had time to process the data.
It was sure some unexpected strangeness to kick things off,
and it made us eager to get back to Homestead Two
to see if something even stranger would show up there.
Let's fill the homestead back up with smoke
-and try this again. -[Thomas] Copy that.
[engine whirring]
[Royston] That's nuts.
Hey, that was perfect, the way you had that grid in there.
-That shows up great in the IR. -Yeah.
So, could you do that when we fill it back up with smoke?
Yeah.
-Good? -[Kaleb] Yeah, you're full.
[Travis] All right, I'm gonna start the sound now,
of Art blowing his ceremonial whistle.
[high-pitched whistle]
Now that we've got the smoke and lasers going,
I wanted to play a recording of that whistle
from Art Hardy's ceremony to see what might happen.
[high-pitched whistle]
What is going on here?
Hey, Travis, I'm watching the GPS tracker
we put on top of Homestead Two
and it started moving vertically.
Um, it's at about treetop height now,
whereas it has been sitting right down
at the roofline level.
[Travis] Well, Erik,
we just started playing that recording of Art,
so that correlates with what you're saying.
That's crazy.
If it goes back to normal, call us and let us know.
Yeah, okay, will do.
[Travis] The GPS tracker hasn't moved
from the roof of Homestead Two.
So, what could be causing it to think it's floating
several feet up in the air?
And right after we started playing the recording
from Art's ceremony?
Look, check this out.
These two signals at, uh, 1.6 gigahertz
have just showed up.
And the antenna's pointed right at the Homestead.
Like clockwork.
We play Art's prayer ritual,
and multiple 1.6-gigahertz signals
pop up inside Homestead Two.
Could a Navajo prayer really be the catalyst
for making all this weird stuff happen?
The timing was pretty dang convincing,
and made us both nervous and excited
for what might happen next.
[Pete] Okay, Travis.
[Travis] Ooh, wait, wait, wait.
What in the hell?
What is that that's passing through the beam?
Pete, do you notice that?
[Pete] Can't really tell.
[Travis] Oh, we're really getting it
in the camera. There's something going on.
Ooh, look here.
Looks like there's something moving around right here.
It looks like there's-like there's something
actually wal-- are-- Is anybody in there?
[Pete] No.
[Travis] That is frigging weird.
There was something moving through the laser beam.
-[Royston] Oh, yeah, I see it. -[Travis] You see that?
[Royston] Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Look at it moving around. -[Travis] Yeah.
It's like there's something moving around in there
-other than just smoke. -Look at that.
[Travis] I can't believe what we're seeing.
It looks like there's some sort of invisible object
or figure moving through our smoke and lasers
inside Homestead Two.
What the heck is that?
We should get the SLAM scanner going.
Get down there and scan that thing, Pete.
Yeah, I'm ready to go, so... I-I'm going in there?
-[Travis] Yes, do it. Do it. -[laughs] Yeah.
Watch your eyeballs.
Whatever this thing is,
we never would have known it was there
without the smoke and lasers.
So, hopefully, Pete can capture infrared images of it
with his SLAM lidar that will help us identify more clearly
just what it could be.
[Pete] Travis, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead.
-So, I'm... -[radio static]
[Pete speaking indistinctly]
Look, he's ins... he's right there
-and we can't, can't hear him... -Can't hear him.
...hear him at all.
[radio static]
[Travis] We can see you talking to us,
but your walkie's not coming through at all.
That's weird, dude.
We can see you talking to us,
but your walkie's not coming through at all.
Pete's walkie was working just fine
until he stepped inside the building.
A really similar thing happened a couple of weeks ago,
when Art Hardy performed his Navajo ceremony.
[blows whistle]
[Travis] I think that was the end of the ceremony.
After his prayer, he entered the building
while wearing an EEG brain scanning device.
-What? -[Travis] We wanted to monitor him
for any strange physical effects,
since he was trying to summon phenomenon
at the homestead to appear.
The headsets just stopped working.
[Kaleb] The moment he walked in there.
[Maddy] It's just... It's gone.
[Travis] The device glitched immediately
when he went inside the building,
even though it was completely within range
to transmit his brain activity data.
Huh. Now that the smoke has dissipated some,
I'm not seeing anything move through it.
That's good, Pete. You can come back out.
That's a wrap.
[Travis] So, did whatever
we just saw move through the smoke
cause our instruments to malfunction?
And could it also be the source
of the 1.6-gigahertz signal we detected here?
Oh...
Well, we've seen a lot so far.
Uh, what I would like to do is put
Pete's laser grid back in there
and fill the room with smoke again.
And while we're doing that, Jim, you fly
through the bubble boundary.
Back and forth, yeah?
-All right. Appreciate it. -[Thomas] All right. I'll go get
started on the smoke gun.
You seeing anything, Jim?
[Royston] I'm dead...
...right when I hit the boundary.
[Thomas] So, your signal is
-dropping out? -Yeah, going completely out.
It's like it's getting blocked or jammed?
[Travis] You have no connectivity to it, do you?
-It's flying itself? -[Royston] Yeah, no.
Whatever's going on, I'm completely red.
[Travis] Why did it do that right at the bubble?
[Royston] Yeah.
[Travis] After all the bizarre things we've seen tonight
at Homestead Two,
it should be no surprise that Jim's drone
is having issues once again
while trying to fly through the western bubble boundary.
But since the boundary is just a few yards away,
could that mean that the bubble is connected
to the phenomena at the homestead?
That's bizarre, man.
Look at that.
Finally got control back.
[Thomas] And there you go.
[Royston] I'm gonna land the drone while I still have signal.
[Travis] Just as quickly as unexplainable things
appear on the ranch,
they suddenly disappear sometimes, too.
After several more minutes
of watching our instruments and cameras,
no more signals or visual anomalies were detected.
-Hey, Erik, you copy? -Yeah, go ahead, Travis.
We're not seeing anything else, so I think we're gonna call it
if you want to head on out.
Yeah, copy that. I'll head right out.
[Travis] So, hopefully, the processed data
will help us understand what the heck
really happened here tonight.
Erik, I-I think
it was a lot of things
in this experiment that we weren't expecting.
I really want to get back and scrub that video
-of the infrared camera -Oh, yeah.
and whatever that was in the laser beam,
-'cause that was pretty weird. -[chuckles]
So, uh, I think there's a lot of follow-up we can do.
-Yeah. Sounds like a plan. -Yeah.
-Good deal. -All right.
Homestead Two never disappoints.
[Travis] Never does, does it?
-[Kaleb] Morning. -[Thomas] Hey, guys.
You ready to talk about the experiment
-out at the homestead? -Oh, yeah.
-I am. -Yeah.
There was a lot going on, so I'm excited to see
-what data you have. -[Erik] Well, yeah, in fact, uh,
some of the really interesting things
happened not at Homestead Two
but over-over Homestead Three, as you saw
-with the-with the drone. -Oh, yeah. No doubt.
-Yeah. -[Erik] So, I'll start
with the video that was recording
inside of Homestead Two.
We have the, uh, the-the green laser grid.
You guys called out something really interesting,
and I'd like you to sort of talk me through it.
[Travis] Yeah, we saw something moving through the smoke.
Okay, so, should I just play this through and you guys
-can, uh, stop me when you see something? -[Royston] Yeah.
-Yeah. -[Erik] Okay, so, tell me what caught your attention.
[Travis] If you'll watch right there,
you will see something move across
the bottom of the beams,
-almost like a void. -[Erik] Okay.
-[Royston] It kind of moves up and moves back. -[Travis] Right.
[Travis] It's moving around in that, just, one spot.
[Thomas] I see.
I got it.
[Travis] Watching the playback on the video,
it's clear we really did see some kind of disturbance
or void moving around inside Homestead Two.
Was it an invisible object or something else?
I don't know. It's the craziest thing.
Pete SLAM-scanned the room, too, right?
-That's right. -Yeah, you did.
[Erik] Unfortunately, we didn't see anything
in the lidar data to explain what we're seeing here.
-Really? -Yeah.
[Royston] Well, we saw,
you know, some pretty unique kind of flow in that area,
-but also, the radio communication -Right.
-with the... -The-the... Now, this was interesting.
-[Royston] Yeah. -So, we call Pete,
and we're looking at Pete on the monitor
and we see Pete respond, he picks up the walkie
and he starts talking-- nothing.
We literally could get no walkie communications
out of the kitchen in the homestead.
Uh, direct line of sight to us.
My point is, there's a one-way door,
it seems like, inside Homestead Two,
where information can fall into it
but information can't get away from it.
[Erik] One of the interesting results
from the experiment is that
we have, um, something interfering with radio comms
from the Homestead Two area itself.
There's no really good explanation for that
that comes to mind.
Could it be from whatever we saw moving through the smoke?
Next, I want to review
that light source that appeared by Homestead Three.
When I saw it in the moment, it was blinking,
but this is what it looks like processed through Meta-Frame.
Watch what happens in this region here.
[Travis] Oh.
-[Erik] Clearly, we've got a light source. -[Kaleb] Yeah.
[Erik] And you can see the movement.
-[Thomas] Wow. -You know, the question is,
do we have someone or something moving through the area?
-Yeah. -[Thomas] But we didn't find anything
by Homestead Three.
[Royston] And if that's not a person we're seeing,
-what's out there? -I don't know what that is.
If that's not a person we're seeing, then what's out there?
I don't know what that is.
[Thomas] We didn't find anything
at Homestead Three.
We've got to figure out
-what else there is that it could be. -Yeah.
[Travis] Looking at this video Erik processed,
there is no doubt that some light source
was moving around over by Homestead Three.
And then it just disappeared.
But what the heck was it? And why did it appear
just moments after we started our experiment at Homestead Two?
[Erik] Jim, I'm gonna pull up
your thermographic video footage now
that you captured using your drone.
So, talk us through, you know, what those, uh,
different colors mean.
Yeah, so, basically, you're gonna see
cold as darker,
and it gets brighter as it gets hotter.
If you look at the top, you'll see the scale,
it's 39 to 62 degrees.
-[Travis] That's in Fahrenheit, right? -That's right.
-So, that sticks out a little bit. -So, that's 39 degrees
being the coldest
-and 62 degrees being warm... the warmest? -The hottest.
-That's correct. Yep. -Okay.
[Erik] So, should I just play this through and you guys
-can, uh, stop me when you see something? -Yeah. Yep.
[Travis] Now, I'll point something out here
that's interesting, is you notice the ground,
when you can see through to it, it's really cold.
It's about 30 to 40 degrees, somewhere in there.
-Maybe-maybe upper 40s, I don't know. -[Royston] Mm-hmm.
But, uh, now you look at Homestead Three,
-the roof is cold. Yeah. -[Erik] Right here, yeah.
[Travis] But inside the homestead,
it's up in the 60s.
If it was a concrete floor
and the sun had been beating down on it all day,
I could understand why we would be seeing heat
radiate from it, but
that wood floor's not gonna retain heat.
It wouldn't retain heat any more than the wood roof.
[Erik] So, what on earth could be heating up the interior?
I have no idea.
How does a completely abandoned old building
show up 20 degrees hotter
than everything else around it on a cool night?
It just doesn't make any sense.
There was clearly something going on inside Homestead Three.
Was it connected to the strange light or UAP that Erik recorded?
Well, we've got a new hot spot to investigate for answers now.
We've seen so much to draw our attention
to events out at Homestead Three.
I think it would be a good idea for us to design
an experiment out there.
You know, we've had that light, we've had what we saw
with the, uh, the-the thermal infrared.
We've done so little at Homestead Three.
That should be a-a new priority for us.
[Travis] I think it-it's high time
-we get in there. -[Erik] Yeah. I like it.
-[Thomas] Let's do it. -[Erik] Good plan, guys.
[Thomas] I don't know what's going on,
but I do find it interesting
that as we are doing an experiment at Homestead Two,
we're seeing anomalies at Homestead Three.
It's very curious, and it makes me wonder
if there's a connection between the two.
I'm confident
that's definitely gonna be a high priority
that we're focused on.
[Travis] Just the way it goes out here on Skinwalker Ranch.
You investigate one area,
and suddenly, there's a bunch of strange activity
in places you never expected.
Whether it's the bubble or the mesa
or these old homesteads,
there has to be something that connects
all these hot spots together.
[Erik] Our attention is being drawn out to Homestead Three.
So, what is going on?
And is it, in fact, related to the things
we've seen happen between Homestead Two
and the bubble boundary?
I don't have a convenient answer
or explanation for why we're seeing what we're seeing,
but I'm confident that we will get to the bottom of it.
[Erik] I wanted to look at that metal we found in the mesa.
-[Royston] Whoa. -[Thomas] Look at that.
It looks like it was manufactured that way
-intentionally. -Am I reading that right? -Yeah.
[Travis] All right, let's smoke it one more time.
Something weird has happened to this gamma ray detector.
[Thomas] The Geiger counter showed
dangerously high counts of gamma radiation.
-Really? -[Erik] I'll play this.
It'll jump right out at you.
That.
That is really bizarre.
How could that happen?
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