TRAVIS: I'm Dr. Travis Taylor.
As an astrophysicist, aerospace engineer
and an optical scientist with over 30 years
of experience working with NASA and the Department of Defense,
I've always been intensely curious about
the unknowns in the universe.
So, in 2021, when our own government
acknowledged that unidentified aerial phenomena--
or UAPs-- are real...
...it was no surprise to see
how the media, the public and Congress
wanted answers.
Right now,
I'm headed back to a place called
Skinwalker Ranch
to rejoin the team
as we begin our third year investigating
a number of unexplained phenomena.
It is going nuts.
TRAVIS: We've experienced everything from dangerous spikes
- in radiation... - It just jumped to 18.
- We need to get out of here, guys. - Let's get out of here.
TRAVIS: ...evidence of mysterious underground structures...
This thing is a thousand feet long.
TRAVIS: ...to inexplicable equipment failures.
Something's turning this off.
North is that way,
- and it's pointing south. - This is crazy.
TRAVIS: But the most extraordinary thing
we've witnessed so far
are numerous UAPs.
- Look. Look. Look. - What is that?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's something here.
TRAVIS: Just like the public, our team wants answers, too.
And this 512-acre property just might have them.
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.
CAMERON: Skinwalker command center,
Dragon, this is Cameron. We're entering the airspace
of the Skinwalker Ranch at this time.
BRANDON: I'm Brandon Fugal, the owner of Skinwalker Ranch.
One of the reasons why I acquired the ranch
in the first place was due to the mystery.
With Skinwalker Ranch, truth is stranger than fiction.
And the reality of the phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch
has become even more compelling.
Governor Herbert, it is a privilege to be entering
Skinwalker Ranch with you today
to meet with the team and to be fully briefed.
GARY: Well, Brandon, thank you very much.
We're honored to be here with you.
BRANDON: As our investigation
has progressed, I felt it important
to bring in a higher level
of oversight.
Governor Herbert has very real interest
in what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch
and is committed to assist us.
You can see ahead of us,
you know, what many refer to
as Skinwalker Ridge, which is a main point of interest
that runs the entire expanse of the property.
We're also, you know, flying over the infamous triangle area
that, uh, seems to also be a center of gravity for
strange activity and events.
Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch,
I think the greatest
scientific investigation of our time.
ERIK: Our team has reassembled
to resume our investigation for the summer,
and our plans are as ambitious
as any we have ever formed together as a group.
I really am excited about this work.
Well, looks like they're here.
TRAVIS: I can't wait to get this investigation underway.
Not only is there so much unfinished business
from last year,
but the world has literally changed overnight,
and now we have even more to uncover
with the connection between the ranch
and UAPs from around the world.
And with government officials involved,
it's going to be an exciting summer.
Here we go.
THOMAS: This year, we're gonna push
experiments beyond
anything that's ever happened here on Skinwalker Ranch.
Dragon, how's it going?
- Good. How are you? - Good to be with you.
BRYANT: I will tell you that each one of us
is more determined than ever to understand
what's truly happening on this crazy ranch.
Team, it's good to see everyone assembled
and good to welcome Dr. Taylor back.
- Thanks, Brandon. - BRANDON: I'd like to introduce
everyone to former Governor Gary Herbert and also
his former Chief of Staff Derek Miller.
Thank you, Brandon, for the invitation to come out
and spend a day with you.
GARY: What's happening here at Skinwalker Ranch
is important.
Government has a role to play in this issue,
if for no other reason than for national defense.
I think a lot of people
are fascinated by what you all are doing here.
The fact that you had so many different unexplained phenomena.
What I like about what you're doing here is
it's based on science,
uh, things that we can do with the scientific method
and do the research and try to understand
what is taking place.
I know I'm really anxious to hear what you have to say
and-and see what I can learn here today.
Which begs the question, what is the main
objective as we move forward?
There are a number of things that we want to follow up on.
We've done various events down at Homestead Two
and have had phenomena occur that we've captured on...
on various instruments.
TRAVIS: Over the course of the last two years,
Homestead Two has been a bona fide hot spot
of unexplained phenomena.
It is freezing cold right here in front of the homestead.
TRAVIS: We've seen crazy energy readings,
radiation spikes...
We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.
TRAVIS: ...and thermal imaging anomalies
that might even be explained scientifically
as wormholes, like Albert Einstein described.
It remains a location that we need to put more focus on.
I would propose that we work to engage the phenomena,
that we work to interact with whatever
intelligence is here,
on or above the property.
We've talked about some things over the... in the past
about how we might,
if there is something that will respond to stimulus
to first get it to respond, we've kind of done that.
Now, the next thing is trying to understand what the response is.
GARY: You know, there's a lot
that I'm learning, there's a lot that we don't know.
Certainly, there's a lot of phenomena here
that is occurring
that we don't have explanation for.
Governor, I doubt whatever this phenomena is,
is stopped by the barbed wire fence along the property line.
Well, a key aspect of our
investigation has been community engagement.
Working with the surrounding residents
in order to determine
whether these events are confined to the property
or whether it-it involves other points of interest
within the-the basin.
Jim, Tom Lewis, Kandus.
You're in a unique position
to work with the community, help document
what is happening, not only on the property but also
- in the expanded area. - Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, nothing I'd rather be doing.
Hopefully, you can open some doors for us, Governor,
even going back to Washington, D.C.,
that, uh, may be able to bring resource
and insight
that'll help us advance the investigation.
I do know people, and so keeping me informed
will help us maybe expand
the circle here of people we can get engaged.
TRAVIS: Uh, Governor, we have a spot
that's above the ranch, in what we call the Triangle,
that we think is right at about a mile high,
uh, from the surface.
And we think that we're getting, uh,
anomalous energy readings coming from that spot
in the sky above the ranch that we measured
with all these different scientific instruments.
TRAVIS: The triangle has been a mystery to us
since the very early days
of our investigation here at Skinwalker Ranch.
We've stimulated UAP activity
when we fire rockets up through it.
CASEY: What's this? What's this?
TRAVIS: We got something. We got something.
We got something right here.
We drilled down below
and found a strange substance.
Take any modern-day fighter plane or spacecraft,
and you crush it up, and then you take a sample of it,
you're probably gonna get these materials.
We triangulated a phantom signal from directly one mile up.
And last year, when we tried to get a closer look,
something was tracking us under Brandon's helicopter.
[alarm blaring]
So, I'm showing radar altimeter
showing we're only 40 feet above the ground right now.
That's not good.
CAMERON: So, something could be under us.
40-something feet under us?
It showed something under us, 40 feet below us.
Holy crap.
So, it lends you down various paths
of imagination as to what that could be.
Uh, was it some advanced, uh, stealth vehicle?
I'm sorry to interrupt. Um...
I'm getting some unusual air traffic.
I want to go check it out inside.
- I'll be right back. - What?
Erik's got a built-in system where he can track
all of the air traffic above the ranch.
So, when he jumped up and ran inside,
we're all wondering, like, what's going on?
Travis, you-you got to see this.
Hang on.
One second.
What's going on, Erik?
See, check this out.
TRAVIS: That's crazy.
Looks to me like we've got
a Gulfstream G5.
Look at that.
BRANDON: So, this is a National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation United States
Gulfstream Aerospace G5.
He's doing some sort of a grid survey pattern
right over us, and we're right here.
TRAVIS: Right in the middle of our team meeting
with former Governor Gary Herbert,
Erik suddenly detected
a government aircraft flying a very distinct pattern
about 45,000 feet above Skinwalker Ranch.
This pattern is shifting to the northwest.
Without instrumentation, without an autopilot coupled,
you cannot do it.
And then furthermore, to do it at
45,000 feet, it will mess with air traffic control.
They have to get specific permission to do this grid.
You're in controlled airspace.
So, what type of survey
could they be doing at that sort of elevation,
in that sort of a pattern?
Would it be lidar? Would it be...
This looks to me like
a pattern you would do if you were doing very detailed
3D mapping and lidar imagery,
like reconnaissance.
TRAVIS: The National Science Foundation
is an independent federal organization
created by Congress.
Why would the federal government
be flying a reconnaissance mission above Skinwalker Ranch?
What are they trying to collect?
That's not a sightseeing tour in a grid pattern like that.
And why were they doing it right here?
- Well, right above the ranch. - Yeah.
It's not a coincidence.
I mean, this has been preplanned and predetermined
to do this for whatever purpose.
It may be that there's some interest in the federal level,
which we knew happened way before you got the ranch.
Is someone listening to what we're doing?
And if so, for what purpose?
That's the weird part, yeah.
BRANDON: Between 2008 and 2013,
when Robert Bigelow was the owner of Skinwalker Ranch,
there was a black-budget Pentagon-funded program
that studied many of the claims associated with the ranch.
I have a hard time believing that,
following the government investigation,
that they just simply lost interest.
TRAVIS: Well, I got to tell you that,
uh, it gives us some things to think about.
Yeah, please, let's-let's get back to it.
BRANDON: I don't believe it was a coincidence
that in the midst of briefing Governor Herbert
on the next phase of our investigation,
Erik Bard discovered
a strange craft above
the property conducting surveillance.
I believe this is potential evidence that
we're-we're not only being monitored,
but there are other active programs
that may involve
what we're doing here right now.
Which begs the question, what are our next steps?
Well, the consensus among us is that
we want to be able to use the helicopter to return
to that 5,000-foot point over the mesa,
you know, over the... what we call the triangle.
- Okay. - ERIK: And we want to find the right way
to engage that spot,
- take additional measurements. - BRANDON: Sure.
TRAVIS: And I think we need to drop packages
with payloads on them from the helicopter.
Uh, what-what would you like to drop?
What do you have in mind to drop through that-that area?
Well, you know, I have an idea of involving GPS, uh, you know,
coming through, perhaps on descent down through that area.
Any kind of measurement payload
that we can either take with us up there, fly through the area,
above the area, drop through it,
I think... I think that's worth our time.
I think it warrants effort on our part.
- Yeah. - BRANDON: That's exciting.
TRAVIS: We're going up to 6,000 feet
so we can drop GPS trackers
down through that 5,000-foot region
where we've detected all this anomalous energy
and seen the UAPs.
Now, if there's anything unusual in the data,
that could be just what we need to pinpoint
the exact spot where these anomalies are occurring.
Cameron, are you willing
to reengage with the helicopter to
conduct further experiments above that area?
Of course, if we can do it safely, I'm okay with that.
At any point, any of us feel uneasy,
uh, we need to call it off,
we need to terminate that experiment.
I think we should proceed with urgency,
and I-I'd like to immediately schedule
really engaging with the helicopter
and conducting this experiment.
That's uh, I think, the logical next step.
CAMERON: Okay. Yeah.
We can plan that.
We... we're proud of this effort.
This is truly a multidisciplinary effort.
So, thank you for your commitment.
THOMAS: Onward.
- Erik, guess we got stuff to do. - We do.
All right.
TRAVIS: We've got a lot of work to do
to get set up for this experiment over the triangle.
With our first experiment taking place
in the sky above the ranch,
we called in the guys from LiveView Technologies
to set us up with some high-tech camera systems
around the property.
They'll give us the ability to film
in high definition, 360 degrees
all around the ranch 24/7, and they also have thermal
and night vision technologies for total coverage.
You want to hand me the center camera?
When the experiment is over, we'll be able to
keep the cameras up and running indefinitely
so that they'll be able to cover the ranch and the sky
during all of our future experiments.
THOMAS: We got several more to go, so, uh,
I suggest we head down and go
- put those other ones up. - Okay, sounds good.
BRYANT: So, these are the actual ones.
I'll leave it to you and Erik to figure out the foam
and the packing, but I think we can just
put 'em back together just like that and wrap it
- with some packing tape. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- If you think that works. - I think that's great.
TRAVIS: While Erik and the LVT team
are installing our new camera system
across the ranch, Dragon and I are preparing
for the GPS experiment.
All right, so this will go here.
TRAVIS: We've painted the tubes different colors
so that we can be sure to see them on the descent.
Depending on the clouds
and the sun, we won't know which color's
most visible until we start to drop them.
And I'm real excited because I know there's something up there,
and I've been dying to get a closer look,
so, hopefully, with this experiment,
we'll solve the mystery of the anomaly above the triangle.
- All right, man. - Okay, thanks, Trav.
Yeah. Thank you.
This is a perfect location for this thing.
You know, if there's any spot
I'm interested in locating one of these units,
it's on top of this mesa, on this ridge line,
- and this would be the spot. - Yeah. Okay.
TRAVIS: We now have thermal, night vision
and daylight cameras positioned along the north,
south, east and west perimeters of the ranch.
All our cameras will be focused
on the triangle for this experiment.
We're ready to go. All we need now is Cameron.
- Good job, guys. - All right. This is awesome.
To have this up here,
I mean, who knows what we're gonna catch?
ERIK: I'm confident that if something happens,
we're going to detect it with this new system.
This is the eye in the sky.
TRAVIS: Hey, Erik. Cameron's here.
Great. Bring him on in.
ERIK: What happened during last year's exercise
was frightening, quite honestly.
Before we ask Cameron to go up to the triangle,
we want him to see the video from last year's experiment.
He needs to know what we're seeing.
- Hey, Erik. How are you? - Hey, buddy. How you doing, man?
- Good. Good to see you, brother. - Good to see you again. Good to see you.
ERIK: Before we go back into the sky for this experiment,
I do want to get your eyes on some things that we caught
during last year's exercise.
I'd love to see it.
I'm going to show you a few clips that I've put together,
and then we'll look at some still frames
- taken out of these clips. - CAMERON: Okay.
I just want to see if you notice anything.
Okay.
Has anything jumped out at you?
- No. - Would you like to see it again?
- Yeah, I'd like to see it again. - ERIK: All right.
Let's go, let's go take a look at some frames.
Well, so watch, watch very carefully
for a change in the blue background.
Okay.
- CAMERON: Oh. Oh, my gosh. - TRAVIS: You see that?
- Yeah, look at that. - God.
I'd like to show you another sequence.
ERIK: So, as you can imagine,
I've been searching frame by frame
through anything we've got.
Wow.
Look at that.
- That's just crazy right there. - CAMERON: Oh, yeah.
Right under the helicopter.
- That's crazy. - ERIK: That's...
- that's very suggestive. - We were in there.
TRAVIS: Could this explain what happened last year
with Cameron's altimeter?
I don't know, but something flew under
the helicopter back and forth multiple times.
- Velocity changes, it starts climbing. - Mm-hmm.
And it was faster than the helicopter as well.
It got way too close to the helicopter.
- ERIK: Way, way too close. - CAMERON: It concerns me.
Whatever it is, if it happened
to pass through our rotor system,
it could be catastrophic.
- Oh, yeah. - Um, but it seemed to stay outside
of the helicopter's boundary.
TRAVIS: Which suggests that
it didn't want to collide into us, either.
CAMERON: No.
Yeah, I was staring out the window
looking as far down as I could from the inside
- and saw nothing. - TRAVIS: I never saw anything. Yeah.
CAMERON: It was concerning that something could
be right underneath the aircraft.
As a pilot, you've got to be ready for anything.
But they don't train you for things that you can't see.
ERIK: So, that's what I wanted to share with you, Cameron,
and going into this, I was asking,
you know, if you're comfortable
conducting another experiment with us.
Now that you've seen this, what do you think?
You-you do what you think is the safest thing to do.
Well, it's all about risk mitigation.
- Risk versus reward. - Mm-hmm.
I think there's a lot that we need to still discover
or research here.
As long as safety is our first concern
and we always prioritize that, I'm okay with this experiment.
- Let's get up there. - Sounds good.
We've got to get those instruments
packed and ready to go.
- Let's do it. - Hey, let's go.
All right. Thanks, Erik.
ERIK: You got it.
All right, guys. I think this is it.
TRAVIS: We need another bite at this apple, and Cameron knows
this airspace better than anyone, hands down, period.
Now we just got to get up there and get to work
and hope this time we get to finish our experiment
before something else happens to shut us down.
Load this up.
THOMAS: Last time we had the helicopter
up above the triangle, it was saying
that there was something underneath of it.
Sometimes as close
as 38 feet when it was up
at this 5,000-foot mark.
So I'm gonna be watching carefully.
We've got a telescope set up. We've got cameras set up.
I'm gonna take this up the ladder.
THOMAS: And our hope is
that if Cameron
encounters any of the same anomalies
he did last time he was flying,
that we'll be able to capture it and see it.
We are all ready. Uh, take off.
Erik says the sooner the better.
Fuel pump on. Check, check, check.
Pulse lights, check, and engines start.
ERIK: Bryant and Travis will be on board the helicopter
releasing the GPS trackers into the air.
Thomas and I will be observing
from down on the ground at the observation point
in the east field.
Do you want me to hand that up to you?
- ERIK: Yeah, go for it. - I will be monitoring
the GPS units
as they broadcast their positions.
We're going to allow the tracking devices
to log their positions on an internal SD card.
There's a light blinking pattern when things are working right.
- Okay. - And we're also going to try
to measure the signals coming from those
GPS trackers in real time
as they broadcast their positions
and see if any interesting features show up as they fall.
Okay, I've got the triangle location set.
All the warning systems look good. We're set.
We're ready to head up.
TRAVIS: There have been a lot of theories
and ideas tossed out about what could be above the ranch.
Could it be a portal or a wormhole
or some massive energy source or even a gravitational field?
Those sound like far-off ideas to me,
but we know that there's something strange
going on up there, and we need to get more data
to determine what it is.
CAMERON: We're 1,600 feet above the ground.
Winds are just up to five knots out of the southeast.
And you can see the triangle off to the side there, Travis.
TRAVIS: Yup. Yeah, I'm watching it.
- I've got eyes on it. - CAMERON: All right, perfect.
Erik, this is Cameron.
We're through 10,000 feet above sea level,
5,000 foot over the ranch.
Approaching 6,000 foot over the ranch.
We're about ready to drop that whenever you're ready.
We have eyes on you, and we are ready.
Okay, Thomas, we're right at the spot over the triangle.
TRAVIS: Cameron had the exact GPS coordinates
of the triangle from last year's experiments
that he locked onto.
His instruments all said we were right over the triangle.
Here we go on a countdown. Five.
- BRYANT: Well, wait, are we over the... - CAMERON: Four. Three..
- Are we over the triangle? - No, we're not.
THOMAS: Uh, that's a negative.
We have eyes on you,
and you're not anywhere close to the triangle.
TRAVIS: That's not good.
Huh.
Stand by. Stand by on that drop.
TRAVIS: This makes absolutely no sense to me.
The GPS had us locked to the triangle,
saying we were right above it,
then all a sudden, we weren't.
It's like something pushed us off course
without us even realizing.
- That's crazy. - CAMERON: Makes no sense.
GPS said we were right over the triangle,
but Dragon and I could see we were
way off the mark.
Cameron's GPS has never malfunctioned like this,
and it just doesn't happen in this kind of helicopter.
It's as if something was messing with our GPS
and telling us we're somewhere we're not.
Stand by. Stand by on that drop.
CAMERON: This helicopter has the latest in technological advances.
It's got top-of-the-line avionics and instrumentation.
To have something like this happen
is very, uh, untypical.
We don't see anything here.
Nothing on the radar. Altimeter is blank.
I think if you get where I can see the triangle.
CAMERON: Okay let's do that.
You'll go slightly northeast.
- CAMERON: Northeast? - Slightly. All right, there.
- Now, hold that heading right there. - CAMERON: Okay.
TRAVIS: Since we couldn't rely
on the instruments to get us over the target,
we had to go old-school on this one
and just eyeball the drop site.
I-I think we're... No, keep going.
Keep going east.
Yeah, I've got the-the triangle
immediately beneath us
- on the-the left side. - CAMERON: Yup.
I actually look straight down my leg
and use it sort of as a barrel sight,
and I'm right over the triangle.
All right, so we should contact Erik
and tell him that we're getting close
to, uh, launching one of the bottles.
Hey, Thomas, this is Cameron.
We're through 10,000 feet
above sea level, 5,000 foot over the ranch.
We're about ready
to drop that test bottle whenever you're ready.
Are we ready?
Yeah, I'm getting nothing. There's no data.
And I'm not getting the raw signal.
So, we are not picking up telemetry signals.
The light that's supposed to be blinking green...
This is telling me we're getting no data.
I can't lock on to them.
Clearly, something is interfering with the signals.
All right, we've copied on that.
- It messes with GPS. - How about that?
TRAVIS: It's like something was jamming us
or blocking our signal, and we needed to start tossing
these sensors out the door
before something else happened that would shut us down.
They should be landing right in the triangle,
so we'll just have to go collect them after the experiment
in order to get the data.
CAMERON: We're willing to try,
maybe if it got away from the helicopter,
it'll pick up some telemetry,
but it's up to you, Erik. Your call.
Yeah, at some point, we're just gonna have to make the call.
All right, so it sounds like
Erik's willing to go ahead and just drop,
even without a signal, to see if we can pick it up
as it tumbles down to earth.
All right, so I'm gonna drop this GPS right now.
Three, two, one, package away.
TRAVIS: Package away.
I have eyes on the package.
CAMERON: Okay, here comes the next drop.
Counting five, four,
three, two, one.
Cargo away.
The majority of the packages are landing north of the mesa.
Drop the rest of them further to the south.
I think there is a headwind, uh, aloft here.
- Cameron, is that right? - That is incorrect.
We've actually got a tailwind pushing us right now.
Wow, 'cause it looked like, uh, it pulled the bottle behind us.
Still doesn't match where those things are flying east.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, right? - BRYANT: Yeah, that's strange.
CAMERON: Why would they drift that way when the wind...
It's a pretty good wind out of the east blowing to the west.
TRAVIS: All right, I am right over the target.
- Tell them I'm ready to drop. - We're ready to drop
- if you're ready. - THOMAS: Ready when you are.
CAMERON: Five, four, three,
two, one.
Bottle is dropped.
Erik, it's in the air somewhere. Are you picking up data?
I'm getting nothing.
We are not picking up telemetry signals from packages.
We know that Erik's GPS trackers
were working when we put them in the helicopter.
Uh, roger. Copy on that.
Let's start throwing these others out.
TRAVIS: Yeah. Just tell them let's try it.
We're gonna throw the others out.
TRAVIS: The GPS units still weren't
transmitting data, and that was making me
a little bit nervous,
so I wanted to get these
tubes out the door as fast as we could
and hope we could find them later.
Dropping multiple payloads. Let us know what you get.
I'm getting no data.
We've got to retrieve those cards or we've got nothing.
We have eyes on them.
Yeah, we're right over it. I'm right over it.
TRAVIS: We were dropping multiple bottles,
one after another after another,
just to try and get as many of them out the door
as we possibly could.
Chuck them.
Oh, I'm chunking. I ain't stopping.
TRAVIS: We threw out the last 20 GPS trackers
just hoping that we'd be able to get good data
even though Erik couldn't track them.
You guys have any more to drop?
When you are in position, go ahead and drop.
CAMERON: Five, four, three, two, one.
Dragon's drop.
Package is away.
All right, Cameron, what elevation
are you at at this present moment?
We're 5,000 feet above the surface.
I'm getting raw signal.
Come on.
Copy that. Thank you.
Erik just started receiving data.
Uh, we say go ahead with it.
All right, we're gonna drop this last bottle
right over the triangle. Are you ready?
Go ahead when you're ready.
- All right I'm dropping now. - Dropping now.
Look how it went back.
- Yeah, it went way backwards. - CAMERON: What the heck?
It's in the air.
- They're going behind us. - It's moving backwards from where we're at.
TRAVIS: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
THOMAS: I lost it.
Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go?
You know, I had eyes on it until it got probably a couple hundred
feet above the ground, and then I lost eyes on it.
They're throwing out this tube
with this long 20-foot red ribbon.
I'm getting eyes on this package,
then all of a sudden, I can't see it from the ground.
It disappeared.
- That's interesting. - TRAVIS: Finally,
we get a good GPS signal
for the first time in this dang experiment.
But as the GPS tube was dropping through the zone
of the triangle, we were tracking it and tracking it,
and then it just disappeared, along with its signal.
It was there one minute, and then it was gone.
Thomas had eyes on it, too,
and he said it just disappeared out of thin air.
That makes no sense.
- Where did it go? - I lost it.
It just... it disappeared.
So all packages have been delivered, correct?
All-all packages have dropped.
We can, uh... we can return to base.
Can you guys see some of
the packages on the ground up there?
Tell him we'll look.
CAMERON: We'll look here,
and then they'll-they'll pick them up.
Erik would like to make it clear that if we
do not retrieve any of the packages,
we have zero data.
THOMAS: On the surface, this seems like
a very simple and straightforward experiment.
And yet, here we are once again
baffled because the packages that are dropped
out of the helicopter, one, are not landing where
we think they should, and we're not even finding them.
And I'm sitting here just shaking my head thinking
here's another experiment in the triangle
that just didn't go as planned.
Uh, think we had any go this far south?
No, I don't think so.
CAMERON: Guide me where we ought to go,
and we'll, uh, let's start looking.
I think some of them went north and east, too,
so we should, uh, go a little bit that way.
Red. Red. Right below us.
BRYANT: Okay, why don't we grab that one.
Yeah, I need to find a flatter spot.
BRYANT: I'll go.
CAMERON: From the triangle,
we're about, uh, 2,800 feet.
That's crazy.
CAMERON: There's no reason it should've drifted over here.
The winds aloft were not doing that.
And the wind was coming out of the north.
- CAMERON: Yeah, it makes no sense. - That makes no sense.
TRAVIS: When we dropped the payload packages,
they actually moved against the wind.
These packages have no propulsion.
They should've gone with the wind like a kite.
How about that?
It makes no sense.
Do you copy? This is, uh, Cameron.
Anybody on the ground copy?
- Uh, I hear you. - CAMERON: Hey, Thomas,
we've got, uh, one package.
We're looking for others. We're doing a search grid up here.
Yeah, they've only found one package.
Maybe that's all we need.
- Right here. - Straight ahead to your right.
- Right there in front of us. Right... - BRYANT: Right... Yeah.
Set down here. We need to set down here.
So, there's two. This is a start.
CAMERON: We're coming back to land at this time.
THOMAS: Copy that.
We'll, uh, meet you at the helipad.
All right. Let's head back.
TRAVIS: I know that I saw the triangle right below us,
and for these bottles to land so far off target,
it's like some invisible force just pushed them away.
I don't know what that could be,
but I hope the data gives us some answers.
Hey, guys.
- Hey, there. - Hey, Trav.
That was a fun flight.
- It was. - I'll bet.
Did, uh, you guys get any data?
That remains to be seen.
The answer is in that bottle.
The weird thing is, from our perspective,
the bottles didn't land where they were supposed to
according to the wind indication from the instrument.
- CAMERON: That's crazy. - ERIK: That's really odd.
That just makes the data on that card--
if we have any-- that much more interesting.
Well, actually, we've got some work cut out for us,
'cause there's still a bunch of them scattered out
across up there, and there's some down on the south end.
So we're gonna have to go do some, uh, you know, expeditions
to find them, right?
But first and foremost, we should get
as much of the data crunched and looked at.
Yeah. I'm-I'm getting impatient just standing here.
I want to get that... I want to get that data
- out of that bottle. - TRAVIS: This is gonna be
amazing data and very useful data.
Excellent. I've got more flights I've got to go on today,
so I've got to head back out.
- All right, thanks. Thank you. - Appreciate you.
Hopefully, we will be able to retrieve
the onboard data intact
and get our first real glimpse at what might be happening
with GPS in the skies above the ranch.
You guys ready to look at some GPS data
from that helicopter drop?
Heck yeah.
TRAVIS: So, we had, uh, two bottles
- that we recovered so far, right? - Yeah.
We've retrieved two of them so far.
And we're lucky to have what we've got.
Of the GPS trackers that we released
from the helicopter, we managed to retrieve two of them,
and it appears the data are intact.
At this point, we don't know the location of the others.
I've had a preliminary look at the data,
and there are some interesting discrepancies.
What I want to show you
are the two separate GPS data payloads.
All right. Now,
let me explain what you're looking at here.
You can probably guess.
These, uh, blue cubes that I'm using
represent the position of the GPS payloads.
This is where things start getting strange.
These blue cubes appear to be
50 feet, 70 feet below the surface of the mesa.
Looks like you smashed into the mesa.
What the heck?
How?
TRAVIS: The blue cubes that represent the GPS sensor
as we were on our way up to the 5,000-foot point
show that the helicopter actually went into the mesa
and came back out again.
Obviously, that didn't happen,
but something made our GPS think that it did.
How far below ground are those points there in the mesa?
- Do you have that information? - ERIK: Um, sure.
We can actually look below the mesa.
These blue cubes that I'm using
to represent the GPS data payloads
appear to be 50 feet, 70 feet below the surface of the mesa.
How?
And I got to tell you, you were hundreds of feet above the mesa.
It looks like the GPS data is inside
the mesa in that location.
But now here's something else
that just staggers my mind.
Like, look where we are when we throw the bottle out.
We were right over the triangle when we threw the bottle out.
- BRYANT: Mm-hmm. - THOMAS: Are you looking straight down
- at this point? - Looking straight down. So this is crazy.
- BRYANT: You're right here. - TRAVIS: You're looking straight down.
We're quarter mile north of the triangle.
The GPS data also shows us
that when we were dropping the bottles over the triangle,
we weren't anywhere near the triangle
even though, to us in the helicopter,
it looked like we were right over it.
So what caused that?
And when we were in the helicopter out,
we looked straight down.
Literally. My feet...
My foot was right on the edge of the helicopter,
and I'm using my leg as sort of a sight,
and I looked straight down, and I was lined up
to the center of the triangle.
ERIK: Well, if you find all of that confusing...
...wait till I show you what happens when we lay
our second data set on top of this.
- THOMAS: Look at that. - ERIK: These paths
should be identical up to a certain point in time.
Look what happens here.
TRAVIS: Right, but look how they're overlaying
- each other for a minute up there. - ERIK: They're right on top.
- TRAVIS: Right on top. - ERIK: Where you see white
is where the two tracks are essentially identical.
TRAVIS: Holy cow, look at that.
When we drop the payload...
So, we threw it out right there.
And then look, it goes upwind.
As if things aren't weird enough.
First, the GPS thought we went into the mesa.
Now we pinpointed an exact location
above the triangle where we've measured
strange energy readings in the past,
and it looks like the GPS units
bounced off something we couldn't see.
I wonder if that's the same thing
that went under Cameron's helicopter last year.
All right, so, holy crap.
Now, look. So, we have...
now have a region
and altitude that tells us there's some kind of phenomena
taking place right here that's messing with the GPS.
That's important right there.
That is something else. I was not expecting to see that.
How many people have said
in stories, in books,
that there's a portal above the ranch?
- Yeah. - TRAVIS: Now, I don't know
that I believe any of that, but what I do know
is that experiment tells us
that there's some anomalous something right there
above the mesa, over the triangle.
- Right. - TRAVIS: This is so exciting,
it-it warrants us doing something even grander on scale,
- so... Let's get to work. - Agreed.
Erik, that's amazing stuff. Great work, Erik.
We've just started investigating again, and already,
there's a spot over the ranch that may be a key
to finding the answers we're looking for.
The question is: How far do we have to go to find out?
ERIK: This year, we will be carrying our investigation deeper
and higher
and further than in previous years.
THOMAS: As we move into this year's investigation,
the ranch is a dangerous place.
What's in store for us?
When we start pushing further
and poking the hornets' nest harder
than we've ever poked before,
how's the ranch gonna kick back?
BRANDON: Our journey with the investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch continues
and not only continues to escalate
but continues to reveal new secrets.
This is not just a scientific experiment
or research project out in the middle
of a remote location in the Uinta Basin.
The world is watching.
TRAVIS: You never know what's gonna happen here at Skinwalker Ranch.
THOMAS: What the hell was that?
TRAVIS: Right, right there. We got something!
What the hell is that?
We captured a UAP on camera.
ERIK: We need to see what's underground.
THOMAS: There's something underneath this entire mesa
that's connected somehow.
That looks like a big chunk of something.
Definitely looks metallic.
ERIK: What scenario could put fine metal
300 feet into this mesa?
That tells me that was done to hide something.
This area is used to keep the evil on that side.
BRYANT: We're getting a spike of radiation.
There was a spike at 3,400.
Everybody out of here now.
- Hey. - Are you okay?
No.
BRYANT: Tom just blacked out.
Someone or something
doesn't want us to collect data from the triangle.
TRAVIS: Hey, look! UAP right there!
ERIK: Oh, I see it!
We are not in control.
ERIK: What is that solid light?
It's got a black dot in the center of it.
What?
- Oh, [bleep]. Let's go. - Oh, my God.
BRANDON: Something malevolent is here.
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