1 00:00:05,353 --> 00:00:07,529 TRAVIS: I'm Dr. Travis Taylor. 2 00:00:07,572 --> 00:00:10,575 As an astrophysicist, aerospace engineer 3 00:00:10,619 --> 00:00:12,490 and an optical scientist with over 30 years 4 00:00:12,534 --> 00:00:15,928 of experience working with NASA and the Department of Defense, 5 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:18,844 I've always been intensely curious about 6 00:00:18,888 --> 00:00:20,933 the unknowns in the universe. 7 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:24,198 So, in 2021, when our own government 8 00:00:24,285 --> 00:00:26,504 acknowledged that unidentified aerial phenomena-- 9 00:00:26,548 --> 00:00:28,028 or UAPs-- are real... 10 00:00:30,204 --> 00:00:31,770 ...it was no surprise to see 11 00:00:31,814 --> 00:00:33,511 how the media, the public and Congress 12 00:00:33,555 --> 00:00:35,426 wanted answers. 13 00:00:35,470 --> 00:00:37,037 Right now, 14 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,473 I'm headed back to a place called 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,778 Skinwalker Ranch 16 00:00:39,822 --> 00:00:41,215 to rejoin the team 17 00:00:41,258 --> 00:00:43,260 as we begin our third year investigating 18 00:00:43,304 --> 00:00:45,219 a number of unexplained phenomena. 19 00:00:45,262 --> 00:00:47,351 It is going nuts. 20 00:00:47,395 --> 00:00:49,266 TRAVIS: We've experienced everything from dangerous spikes 21 00:00:49,353 --> 00:00:51,616 - in radiation... - It just jumped to 18. 22 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:53,662 - We need to get out of here, guys. - Let's get out of here. 23 00:00:53,705 --> 00:00:56,621 TRAVIS: ...evidence of mysterious underground structures... 24 00:00:56,665 --> 00:01:00,060 This thing is a thousand feet long. 25 00:01:00,147 --> 00:01:02,671 TRAVIS: ...to inexplicable equipment failures. 26 00:01:02,714 --> 00:01:05,108 Something's turning this off. 27 00:01:05,152 --> 00:01:06,544 North is that way, 28 00:01:06,588 --> 00:01:09,330 - and it's pointing south. - This is crazy. 29 00:01:09,417 --> 00:01:10,679 TRAVIS: But the most extraordinary thing 30 00:01:10,766 --> 00:01:12,159 we've witnessed so far 31 00:01:12,202 --> 00:01:14,161 are numerous UAPs. 32 00:01:14,204 --> 00:01:15,423 - Look. Look. Look. - What is that? 33 00:01:15,510 --> 00:01:16,685 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 34 00:01:16,772 --> 00:01:17,947 There's something here. 35 00:01:19,905 --> 00:01:22,604 TRAVIS: Just like the public, our team wants answers, too. 36 00:01:22,647 --> 00:01:25,955 And this 512-acre property just might have them. 37 00:01:28,044 --> 00:01:32,396 NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah. 38 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,572 It is considered the epicenter 39 00:01:34,616 --> 00:01:39,011 of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth: 40 00:01:39,099 --> 00:01:41,536 animal mutilations, 41 00:01:41,579 --> 00:01:43,886 bizarre UFO sightings 42 00:01:43,929 --> 00:01:48,847 and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans. 43 00:01:48,891 --> 00:01:51,763 For 20 years, the federal government 44 00:01:51,807 --> 00:01:54,810 tried to find answers and failed. 45 00:01:54,897 --> 00:01:59,162 Now a new team of dedicated scientists, 46 00:01:59,206 --> 00:02:03,297 researchers and experts has taken over. 47 00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:06,648 They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal... 48 00:02:09,259 --> 00:02:12,784 ...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 49 00:02:21,576 --> 00:02:23,012 CAMERON: Skinwalker command center, 50 00:02:23,055 --> 00:02:25,449 Dragon, this is Cameron. We're entering the airspace 51 00:02:25,493 --> 00:02:27,582 of the Skinwalker Ranch at this time. 52 00:02:27,625 --> 00:02:31,803 BRANDON: I'm Brandon Fugal, the owner of Skinwalker Ranch. 53 00:02:31,847 --> 00:02:34,284 One of the reasons why I acquired the ranch 54 00:02:34,328 --> 00:02:36,808 in the first place was due to the mystery. 55 00:02:36,852 --> 00:02:40,247 With Skinwalker Ranch, truth is stranger than fiction. 56 00:02:40,290 --> 00:02:44,338 And the reality of the phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch 57 00:02:44,425 --> 00:02:47,515 has become even more compelling. 58 00:02:49,386 --> 00:02:53,303 Governor Herbert, it is a privilege to be entering 59 00:02:53,347 --> 00:02:55,653 Skinwalker Ranch with you today 60 00:02:55,697 --> 00:02:58,308 to meet with the team and to be fully briefed. 61 00:02:58,395 --> 00:02:59,831 GARY: Well, Brandon, thank you very much. 62 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:00,876 We're honored to be here with you. 63 00:03:03,139 --> 00:03:04,749 BRANDON: As our investigation 64 00:03:04,836 --> 00:03:06,229 has progressed, I felt it important 65 00:03:06,273 --> 00:03:07,752 to bring in a higher level 66 00:03:07,796 --> 00:03:09,580 of oversight. 67 00:03:09,624 --> 00:03:12,714 Governor Herbert has very real interest 68 00:03:12,757 --> 00:03:14,846 in what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch 69 00:03:14,933 --> 00:03:17,675 and is committed to assist us. 70 00:03:19,111 --> 00:03:21,113 You can see ahead of us, 71 00:03:21,157 --> 00:03:23,115 you know, what many refer to 72 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:25,553 as Skinwalker Ridge, which is a main point of interest 73 00:03:25,596 --> 00:03:28,599 that runs the entire expanse of the property. 74 00:03:28,643 --> 00:03:32,299 We're also, you know, flying over the infamous triangle area 75 00:03:32,342 --> 00:03:36,477 that, uh, seems to also be a center of gravity for 76 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,914 strange activity and events. 77 00:03:41,656 --> 00:03:43,440 Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch, 78 00:03:43,484 --> 00:03:45,007 I think the greatest 79 00:03:45,050 --> 00:03:46,922 scientific investigation of our time. 80 00:03:51,796 --> 00:03:53,363 ERIK: Our team has reassembled 81 00:03:53,407 --> 00:03:55,887 to resume our investigation for the summer, 82 00:03:55,931 --> 00:03:58,194 and our plans are as ambitious 83 00:03:58,281 --> 00:04:01,850 as any we have ever formed together as a group. 84 00:04:01,893 --> 00:04:04,026 I really am excited about this work. 85 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:07,595 Well, looks like they're here. 86 00:04:07,638 --> 00:04:10,641 TRAVIS: I can't wait to get this investigation underway. 87 00:04:10,685 --> 00:04:12,600 Not only is there so much unfinished business 88 00:04:12,643 --> 00:04:14,036 from last year, 89 00:04:14,123 --> 00:04:16,734 but the world has literally changed overnight, 90 00:04:16,778 --> 00:04:18,562 and now we have even more to uncover 91 00:04:18,606 --> 00:04:20,956 with the connection between the ranch 92 00:04:20,999 --> 00:04:23,437 and UAPs from around the world. 93 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,526 And with government officials involved, 94 00:04:25,569 --> 00:04:26,744 it's going to be an exciting summer. 95 00:04:26,788 --> 00:04:28,180 Here we go. 96 00:04:28,224 --> 00:04:30,139 THOMAS: This year, we're gonna push 97 00:04:30,182 --> 00:04:31,880 experiments beyond 98 00:04:31,923 --> 00:04:34,230 anything that's ever happened here on Skinwalker Ranch. 99 00:04:35,971 --> 00:04:37,581 Dragon, how's it going? 100 00:04:37,625 --> 00:04:39,322 - Good. How are you? - Good to be with you. 101 00:04:39,366 --> 00:04:42,194 BRYANT: I will tell you that each one of us 102 00:04:42,238 --> 00:04:44,414 is more determined than ever to understand 103 00:04:44,458 --> 00:04:46,895 what's truly happening on this crazy ranch. 104 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,507 Team, it's good to see everyone assembled 105 00:04:50,594 --> 00:04:52,117 and good to welcome Dr. Taylor back. 106 00:04:52,161 --> 00:04:54,250 - Thanks, Brandon. - BRANDON: I'd like to introduce 107 00:04:54,294 --> 00:04:58,646 everyone to former Governor Gary Herbert and also 108 00:04:58,689 --> 00:05:00,604 his former Chief of Staff Derek Miller. 109 00:05:00,648 --> 00:05:02,476 Thank you, Brandon, for the invitation to come out 110 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:04,434 and spend a day with you. 111 00:05:04,521 --> 00:05:05,740 GARY: What's happening here at Skinwalker Ranch 112 00:05:05,827 --> 00:05:07,481 is important. 113 00:05:07,524 --> 00:05:10,440 Government has a role to play in this issue, 114 00:05:10,484 --> 00:05:13,225 if for no other reason than for national defense. 115 00:05:13,269 --> 00:05:15,663 I think a lot of people 116 00:05:15,706 --> 00:05:17,969 are fascinated by what you all are doing here. 117 00:05:18,013 --> 00:05:21,843 The fact that you had so many different unexplained phenomena. 118 00:05:21,886 --> 00:05:24,411 What I like about what you're doing here is 119 00:05:24,498 --> 00:05:26,543 it's based on science, 120 00:05:26,587 --> 00:05:29,590 uh, things that we can do with the scientific method 121 00:05:29,677 --> 00:05:31,809 and do the research and try to understand 122 00:05:31,853 --> 00:05:33,898 what is taking place. 123 00:05:33,942 --> 00:05:35,900 I know I'm really anxious to hear what you have to say 124 00:05:35,987 --> 00:05:38,729 and-and see what I can learn here today. 125 00:05:38,816 --> 00:05:41,863 Which begs the question, what is the main 126 00:05:41,950 --> 00:05:43,908 objective as we move forward? 127 00:05:43,952 --> 00:05:47,303 There are a number of things that we want to follow up on. 128 00:05:47,390 --> 00:05:49,914 We've done various events down at Homestead Two 129 00:05:49,958 --> 00:05:53,309 and have had phenomena occur that we've captured on... 130 00:05:53,396 --> 00:05:54,615 on various instruments. 131 00:05:56,486 --> 00:05:58,270 TRAVIS: Over the course of the last two years, 132 00:05:58,314 --> 00:06:01,099 Homestead Two has been a bona fide hot spot 133 00:06:01,143 --> 00:06:02,927 of unexplained phenomena. 134 00:06:02,971 --> 00:06:06,540 It is freezing cold right here in front of the homestead. 135 00:06:06,583 --> 00:06:08,629 TRAVIS: We've seen crazy energy readings, 136 00:06:08,672 --> 00:06:10,326 radiation spikes... 137 00:06:10,413 --> 00:06:12,372 We were just exposed to ionizing radiation. 138 00:06:12,415 --> 00:06:14,939 TRAVIS: ...and thermal imaging anomalies 139 00:06:14,983 --> 00:06:17,289 that might even be explained scientifically 140 00:06:17,333 --> 00:06:20,597 as wormholes, like Albert Einstein described. 141 00:06:20,641 --> 00:06:24,384 It remains a location that we need to put more focus on. 142 00:06:25,776 --> 00:06:29,693 I would propose that we work to engage the phenomena, 143 00:06:29,737 --> 00:06:33,958 that we work to interact with whatever 144 00:06:34,002 --> 00:06:36,700 intelligence is here, 145 00:06:36,744 --> 00:06:38,659 on or above the property. 146 00:06:38,702 --> 00:06:40,965 We've talked about some things over the... in the past 147 00:06:41,009 --> 00:06:42,532 about how we might, 148 00:06:42,576 --> 00:06:45,230 if there is something that will respond to stimulus 149 00:06:45,317 --> 00:06:47,929 to first get it to respond, we've kind of done that. 150 00:06:47,972 --> 00:06:50,932 Now, the next thing is trying to understand what the response is. 151 00:06:50,975 --> 00:06:52,890 GARY: You know, there's a lot 152 00:06:52,977 --> 00:06:55,110 that I'm learning, there's a lot that we don't know. 153 00:06:55,153 --> 00:06:56,677 Certainly, there's a lot of phenomena here 154 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,069 that is occurring 155 00:06:58,113 --> 00:07:00,332 that we don't have explanation for. 156 00:07:00,376 --> 00:07:03,118 Governor, I doubt whatever this phenomena is, 157 00:07:03,161 --> 00:07:05,599 is stopped by the barbed wire fence along the property line. 158 00:07:05,642 --> 00:07:09,864 Well, a key aspect of our 159 00:07:09,951 --> 00:07:12,388 investigation has been community engagement. 160 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:15,304 Working with the surrounding residents 161 00:07:15,347 --> 00:07:17,219 in order to determine 162 00:07:17,262 --> 00:07:19,526 whether these events are confined to the property 163 00:07:19,569 --> 00:07:22,746 or whether it-it involves other points of interest 164 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:24,269 within the-the basin. 165 00:07:24,313 --> 00:07:27,534 Jim, Tom Lewis, Kandus. 166 00:07:27,577 --> 00:07:29,753 You're in a unique position 167 00:07:29,797 --> 00:07:32,756 to work with the community, help document 168 00:07:32,843 --> 00:07:35,498 what is happening, not only on the property but also 169 00:07:35,585 --> 00:07:37,500 - in the expanded area. - Yeah, absolutely. 170 00:07:37,587 --> 00:07:39,502 Yeah, nothing I'd rather be doing. 171 00:07:39,546 --> 00:07:42,026 Hopefully, you can open some doors for us, Governor, 172 00:07:42,113 --> 00:07:44,376 even going back to Washington, D.C., 173 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:47,336 that, uh, may be able to bring resource 174 00:07:47,379 --> 00:07:49,251 and insight 175 00:07:49,338 --> 00:07:51,166 that'll help us advance the investigation. 176 00:07:51,209 --> 00:07:53,473 I do know people, and so keeping me informed 177 00:07:53,516 --> 00:07:55,213 will help us maybe expand 178 00:07:55,257 --> 00:07:57,041 the circle here of people we can get engaged. 179 00:07:57,128 --> 00:07:59,653 TRAVIS: Uh, Governor, we have a spot 180 00:07:59,740 --> 00:08:02,351 that's above the ranch, in what we call the Triangle, 181 00:08:02,394 --> 00:08:04,092 that we think is right at about a mile high, 182 00:08:04,135 --> 00:08:05,789 uh, from the surface. 183 00:08:05,833 --> 00:08:09,010 And we think that we're getting, uh, 184 00:08:09,053 --> 00:08:11,752 anomalous energy readings coming from that spot 185 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:13,536 in the sky above the ranch that we measured 186 00:08:13,580 --> 00:08:15,146 with all these different scientific instruments. 187 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:19,281 TRAVIS: The triangle has been a mystery to us 188 00:08:19,368 --> 00:08:20,891 since the very early days 189 00:08:20,935 --> 00:08:22,850 of our investigation here at Skinwalker Ranch. 190 00:08:26,331 --> 00:08:28,812 We've stimulated UAP activity 191 00:08:28,856 --> 00:08:29,944 when we fire rockets up through it. 192 00:08:29,987 --> 00:08:31,162 CASEY: What's this? What's this? 193 00:08:31,206 --> 00:08:32,773 TRAVIS: We got something. We got something. 194 00:08:32,816 --> 00:08:33,991 We got something right here. 195 00:08:34,035 --> 00:08:35,645 We drilled down below 196 00:08:35,689 --> 00:08:37,429 and found a strange substance. 197 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:41,085 Take any modern-day fighter plane or spacecraft, 198 00:08:41,129 --> 00:08:43,610 and you crush it up, and then you take a sample of it, 199 00:08:43,653 --> 00:08:45,612 you're probably gonna get these materials. 200 00:08:45,655 --> 00:08:50,268 We triangulated a phantom signal from directly one mile up. 201 00:08:50,312 --> 00:08:52,488 And last year, when we tried to get a closer look, 202 00:08:52,575 --> 00:08:55,186 something was tracking us under Brandon's helicopter. 203 00:08:55,230 --> 00:08:56,971 [alarm blaring] 204 00:08:57,014 --> 00:08:59,103 So, I'm showing radar altimeter 205 00:08:59,147 --> 00:09:01,192 showing we're only 40 feet above the ground right now. 206 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:04,065 That's not good. 207 00:09:04,108 --> 00:09:06,546 CAMERON: So, something could be under us. 208 00:09:06,633 --> 00:09:08,330 40-something feet under us? 209 00:09:08,373 --> 00:09:11,028 It showed something under us, 40 feet below us. 210 00:09:11,072 --> 00:09:13,030 Holy crap. 211 00:09:14,423 --> 00:09:17,557 So, it lends you down various paths 212 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,168 of imagination as to what that could be. 213 00:09:20,255 --> 00:09:24,346 Uh, was it some advanced, uh, stealth vehicle? 214 00:09:24,389 --> 00:09:26,653 I'm sorry to interrupt. Um... 215 00:09:26,696 --> 00:09:28,829 I'm getting some unusual air traffic. 216 00:09:28,872 --> 00:09:30,744 I want to go check it out inside. 217 00:09:30,831 --> 00:09:32,267 - I'll be right back. - What? 218 00:09:36,271 --> 00:09:38,229 Erik's got a built-in system where he can track 219 00:09:38,273 --> 00:09:40,580 all of the air traffic above the ranch. 220 00:09:40,623 --> 00:09:42,364 So, when he jumped up and ran inside, 221 00:09:42,451 --> 00:09:44,453 we're all wondering, like, what's going on? 222 00:09:46,934 --> 00:09:48,936 Travis, you-you got to see this. 223 00:09:48,979 --> 00:09:50,154 Hang on. 224 00:09:50,198 --> 00:09:51,286 One second. 225 00:09:57,684 --> 00:09:59,163 What's going on, Erik? 226 00:09:59,207 --> 00:10:00,425 See, check this out. 227 00:10:00,512 --> 00:10:01,078 TRAVIS: That's crazy. 228 00:10:02,340 --> 00:10:04,908 Looks to me like we've got 229 00:10:04,952 --> 00:10:07,519 a Gulfstream G5. 230 00:10:07,563 --> 00:10:09,696 Look at that. 231 00:10:09,739 --> 00:10:12,220 BRANDON: So, this is a National Science Foundation. 232 00:10:12,307 --> 00:10:14,222 National Science Foundation United States 233 00:10:14,265 --> 00:10:16,485 Gulfstream Aerospace G5. 234 00:10:16,528 --> 00:10:20,097 He's doing some sort of a grid survey pattern 235 00:10:20,141 --> 00:10:22,317 right over us, and we're right here. 236 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,145 TRAVIS: Right in the middle of our team meeting 237 00:10:24,188 --> 00:10:25,973 with former Governor Gary Herbert, 238 00:10:26,016 --> 00:10:27,757 Erik suddenly detected 239 00:10:27,801 --> 00:10:31,282 a government aircraft flying a very distinct pattern 240 00:10:31,326 --> 00:10:34,155 about 45,000 feet above Skinwalker Ranch. 241 00:10:35,417 --> 00:10:37,898 This pattern is shifting to the northwest. 242 00:10:37,941 --> 00:10:39,943 Without instrumentation, without an autopilot coupled, 243 00:10:40,030 --> 00:10:41,118 you cannot do it. 244 00:10:41,162 --> 00:10:43,077 And then furthermore, to do it at 245 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,035 45,000 feet, it will mess with air traffic control. 246 00:10:45,079 --> 00:10:47,908 They have to get specific permission to do this grid. 247 00:10:47,951 --> 00:10:49,779 You're in controlled airspace. 248 00:10:49,866 --> 00:10:52,216 So, what type of survey 249 00:10:52,260 --> 00:10:54,871 could they be doing at that sort of elevation, 250 00:10:54,915 --> 00:10:56,568 in that sort of a pattern? 251 00:10:56,612 --> 00:10:58,222 Would it be lidar? Would it be... 252 00:10:58,309 --> 00:11:00,572 This looks to me like 253 00:11:00,616 --> 00:11:04,141 a pattern you would do if you were doing very detailed 254 00:11:04,185 --> 00:11:07,101 3D mapping and lidar imagery, 255 00:11:07,144 --> 00:11:08,972 like reconnaissance. 256 00:11:10,234 --> 00:11:11,932 TRAVIS: The National Science Foundation 257 00:11:12,019 --> 00:11:13,890 is an independent federal organization 258 00:11:13,934 --> 00:11:15,457 created by Congress. 259 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,981 Why would the federal government 260 00:11:18,025 --> 00:11:21,202 be flying a reconnaissance mission above Skinwalker Ranch? 261 00:11:21,289 --> 00:11:23,160 What are they trying to collect? 262 00:11:23,204 --> 00:11:25,380 That's not a sightseeing tour in a grid pattern like that. 263 00:11:25,423 --> 00:11:27,077 And why were they doing it right here? 264 00:11:27,164 --> 00:11:28,339 - Well, right above the ranch. - Yeah. 265 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:31,865 It's not a coincidence. 266 00:11:31,908 --> 00:11:33,867 I mean, this has been preplanned and predetermined 267 00:11:33,954 --> 00:11:35,651 to do this for whatever purpose. 268 00:11:35,738 --> 00:11:38,872 It may be that there's some interest in the federal level, 269 00:11:38,959 --> 00:11:41,439 which we knew happened way before you got the ranch. 270 00:11:41,483 --> 00:11:43,137 Is someone listening to what we're doing? 271 00:11:43,180 --> 00:11:46,140 And if so, for what purpose? 272 00:11:46,183 --> 00:11:48,359 That's the weird part, yeah. 273 00:11:49,578 --> 00:11:52,059 BRANDON: Between 2008 and 2013, 274 00:11:52,102 --> 00:11:54,888 when Robert Bigelow was the owner of Skinwalker Ranch, 275 00:11:54,931 --> 00:11:58,326 there was a black-budget Pentagon-funded program 276 00:11:58,369 --> 00:12:02,591 that studied many of the claims associated with the ranch. 277 00:12:02,678 --> 00:12:04,462 I have a hard time believing that, 278 00:12:04,506 --> 00:12:06,464 following the government investigation, 279 00:12:06,508 --> 00:12:08,075 that they just simply lost interest. 280 00:12:08,162 --> 00:12:09,772 TRAVIS: Well, I got to tell you that, 281 00:12:09,816 --> 00:12:12,166 uh, it gives us some things to think about. 282 00:12:12,253 --> 00:12:14,385 Yeah, please, let's-let's get back to it. 283 00:12:14,472 --> 00:12:17,998 BRANDON: I don't believe it was a coincidence 284 00:12:18,085 --> 00:12:20,914 that in the midst of briefing Governor Herbert 285 00:12:20,957 --> 00:12:23,525 on the next phase of our investigation, 286 00:12:23,612 --> 00:12:25,832 Erik Bard discovered 287 00:12:25,875 --> 00:12:28,225 a strange craft above 288 00:12:28,269 --> 00:12:31,402 the property conducting surveillance. 289 00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:33,970 I believe this is potential evidence that 290 00:12:34,057 --> 00:12:35,493 we're-we're not only being monitored, 291 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,060 but there are other active programs 292 00:12:37,104 --> 00:12:38,888 that may involve 293 00:12:38,932 --> 00:12:41,630 what we're doing here right now. 294 00:12:41,673 --> 00:12:44,328 Which begs the question, what are our next steps? 295 00:12:44,415 --> 00:12:46,983 Well, the consensus among us is that 296 00:12:47,027 --> 00:12:49,594 we want to be able to use the helicopter to return 297 00:12:49,638 --> 00:12:52,336 to that 5,000-foot point over the mesa, 298 00:12:52,423 --> 00:12:54,556 you know, over the... what we call the triangle. 299 00:12:54,599 --> 00:12:56,384 - Okay. - ERIK: And we want to find the right way 300 00:12:56,471 --> 00:12:58,516 to engage that spot, 301 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:00,867 - take additional measurements. - BRANDON: Sure. 302 00:13:00,910 --> 00:13:02,694 TRAVIS: And I think we need to drop packages 303 00:13:02,738 --> 00:13:05,132 with payloads on them from the helicopter. 304 00:13:05,219 --> 00:13:06,916 Uh, what-what would you like to drop? 305 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,223 What do you have in mind to drop through that-that area? 306 00:13:09,266 --> 00:13:12,922 Well, you know, I have an idea of involving GPS, uh, you know, 307 00:13:13,009 --> 00:13:16,099 coming through, perhaps on descent down through that area. 308 00:13:16,186 --> 00:13:18,580 Any kind of measurement payload 309 00:13:18,623 --> 00:13:20,930 that we can either take with us up there, fly through the area, 310 00:13:20,974 --> 00:13:22,889 above the area, drop through it, 311 00:13:22,932 --> 00:13:25,108 I think... I think that's worth our time. 312 00:13:25,152 --> 00:13:26,893 I think it warrants effort on our part. 313 00:13:26,936 --> 00:13:28,155 - Yeah. - BRANDON: That's exciting. 314 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:32,289 TRAVIS: We're going up to 6,000 feet 315 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,161 so we can drop GPS trackers 316 00:13:34,204 --> 00:13:36,772 down through that 5,000-foot region 317 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:38,861 where we've detected all this anomalous energy 318 00:13:38,905 --> 00:13:40,210 and seen the UAPs. 319 00:13:40,297 --> 00:13:42,517 Now, if there's anything unusual in the data, 320 00:13:42,604 --> 00:13:45,128 that could be just what we need to pinpoint 321 00:13:45,172 --> 00:13:47,957 the exact spot where these anomalies are occurring. 322 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:50,307 Cameron, are you willing 323 00:13:50,351 --> 00:13:53,528 to reengage with the helicopter to 324 00:13:53,571 --> 00:13:55,747 conduct further experiments above that area? 325 00:13:55,791 --> 00:13:58,533 Of course, if we can do it safely, I'm okay with that. 326 00:13:58,576 --> 00:14:00,448 At any point, any of us feel uneasy, 327 00:14:00,491 --> 00:14:01,884 uh, we need to call it off, 328 00:14:01,971 --> 00:14:03,364 we need to terminate that experiment. 329 00:14:03,407 --> 00:14:06,497 I think we should proceed with urgency, 330 00:14:06,541 --> 00:14:08,586 and I-I'd like to immediately schedule 331 00:14:08,673 --> 00:14:10,675 really engaging with the helicopter 332 00:14:10,719 --> 00:14:13,113 and conducting this experiment. 333 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,030 That's uh, I think, the logical next step. 334 00:14:17,073 --> 00:14:18,422 CAMERON: Okay. Yeah. 335 00:14:18,466 --> 00:14:19,859 We can plan that. 336 00:14:19,902 --> 00:14:21,948 We... we're proud of this effort. 337 00:14:22,035 --> 00:14:25,429 This is truly a multidisciplinary effort. 338 00:14:25,516 --> 00:14:27,170 So, thank you for your commitment. 339 00:14:27,257 --> 00:14:28,171 THOMAS: Onward. 340 00:14:29,912 --> 00:14:32,828 - Erik, guess we got stuff to do. - We do. 341 00:14:45,145 --> 00:14:47,190 All right. 342 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:49,453 TRAVIS: We've got a lot of work to do 343 00:14:49,497 --> 00:14:52,195 to get set up for this experiment over the triangle. 344 00:14:52,239 --> 00:14:54,328 With our first experiment taking place 345 00:14:54,371 --> 00:14:56,417 in the sky above the ranch, 346 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:58,332 we called in the guys from LiveView Technologies 347 00:14:58,419 --> 00:15:00,029 to set us up with some high-tech camera systems 348 00:15:00,116 --> 00:15:01,639 around the property. 349 00:15:01,683 --> 00:15:03,685 They'll give us the ability to film 350 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:06,035 in high definition, 360 degrees 351 00:15:06,079 --> 00:15:09,647 all around the ranch 24/7, and they also have thermal 352 00:15:09,691 --> 00:15:11,780 and night vision technologies for total coverage. 353 00:15:11,823 --> 00:15:13,434 You want to hand me the center camera? 354 00:15:13,477 --> 00:15:15,436 When the experiment is over, we'll be able to 355 00:15:15,479 --> 00:15:17,568 keep the cameras up and running indefinitely 356 00:15:17,612 --> 00:15:20,310 so that they'll be able to cover the ranch and the sky 357 00:15:20,354 --> 00:15:22,051 during all of our future experiments. 358 00:15:22,095 --> 00:15:23,879 THOMAS: We got several more to go, so, uh, 359 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:25,359 I suggest we head down and go 360 00:15:25,446 --> 00:15:27,622 - put those other ones up. - Okay, sounds good. 361 00:15:29,189 --> 00:15:30,799 BRYANT: So, these are the actual ones. 362 00:15:30,842 --> 00:15:33,367 I'll leave it to you and Erik to figure out the foam 363 00:15:33,410 --> 00:15:35,151 and the packing, but I think we can just 364 00:15:35,238 --> 00:15:37,806 put 'em back together just like that and wrap it 365 00:15:37,849 --> 00:15:39,460 - with some packing tape. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 366 00:15:39,503 --> 00:15:41,505 - If you think that works. - I think that's great. 367 00:15:41,592 --> 00:15:43,333 TRAVIS: While Erik and the LVT team 368 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:45,292 are installing our new camera system 369 00:15:45,335 --> 00:15:47,381 across the ranch, Dragon and I are preparing 370 00:15:47,424 --> 00:15:49,383 for the GPS experiment. 371 00:15:49,426 --> 00:15:51,776 All right, so this will go here. 372 00:15:51,863 --> 00:15:53,430 TRAVIS: We've painted the tubes different colors 373 00:15:53,517 --> 00:15:56,085 so that we can be sure to see them on the descent. 374 00:15:56,129 --> 00:15:57,478 Depending on the clouds 375 00:15:57,521 --> 00:15:59,654 and the sun, we won't know which color's 376 00:15:59,697 --> 00:16:02,265 most visible until we start to drop them. 377 00:16:02,309 --> 00:16:05,616 And I'm real excited because I know there's something up there, 378 00:16:05,660 --> 00:16:07,967 and I've been dying to get a closer look, 379 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:10,404 so, hopefully, with this experiment, 380 00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:12,972 we'll solve the mystery of the anomaly above the triangle. 381 00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:14,408 - All right, man. - Okay, thanks, Trav. 382 00:16:14,451 --> 00:16:16,062 Yeah. Thank you. 383 00:16:19,021 --> 00:16:22,242 This is a perfect location for this thing. 384 00:16:22,285 --> 00:16:24,026 You know, if there's any spot 385 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,115 I'm interested in locating one of these units, 386 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:28,726 it's on top of this mesa, on this ridge line, 387 00:16:28,813 --> 00:16:31,686 - and this would be the spot. - Yeah. Okay. 388 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:38,127 TRAVIS: We now have thermal, night vision 389 00:16:38,171 --> 00:16:40,651 and daylight cameras positioned along the north, 390 00:16:40,695 --> 00:16:43,437 south, east and west perimeters of the ranch. 391 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,047 All our cameras will be focused 392 00:16:45,134 --> 00:16:46,788 on the triangle for this experiment. 393 00:16:46,875 --> 00:16:50,052 We're ready to go. All we need now is Cameron. 394 00:16:50,096 --> 00:16:52,620 - Good job, guys. - All right. This is awesome. 395 00:16:52,663 --> 00:16:54,578 To have this up here, 396 00:16:54,622 --> 00:16:57,146 I mean, who knows what we're gonna catch? 397 00:16:57,233 --> 00:16:59,018 ERIK: I'm confident that if something happens, 398 00:16:59,061 --> 00:17:01,107 we're going to detect it with this new system. 399 00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:02,891 This is the eye in the sky. 400 00:17:19,734 --> 00:17:21,649 TRAVIS: Hey, Erik. Cameron's here. 401 00:17:21,692 --> 00:17:23,520 Great. Bring him on in. 402 00:17:25,174 --> 00:17:27,133 ERIK: What happened during last year's exercise 403 00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:28,830 was frightening, quite honestly. 404 00:17:28,917 --> 00:17:30,962 Before we ask Cameron to go up to the triangle, 405 00:17:31,006 --> 00:17:33,791 we want him to see the video from last year's experiment. 406 00:17:33,835 --> 00:17:35,924 He needs to know what we're seeing. 407 00:17:35,967 --> 00:17:39,623 - Hey, Erik. How are you? - Hey, buddy. How you doing, man? 408 00:17:39,710 --> 00:17:42,017 - Good. Good to see you, brother. - Good to see you again. Good to see you. 409 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:44,541 ERIK: Before we go back into the sky for this experiment, 410 00:17:44,628 --> 00:17:46,978 I do want to get your eyes on some things that we caught 411 00:17:47,022 --> 00:17:48,632 during last year's exercise. 412 00:17:48,676 --> 00:17:50,373 I'd love to see it. 413 00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:51,809 I'm going to show you a few clips that I've put together, 414 00:17:51,853 --> 00:17:53,028 and then we'll look at some still frames 415 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:54,290 - taken out of these clips. - CAMERON: Okay. 416 00:17:54,334 --> 00:17:55,683 I just want to see if you notice anything. 417 00:17:55,726 --> 00:17:57,598 Okay. 418 00:18:03,647 --> 00:18:04,953 Has anything jumped out at you? 419 00:18:04,996 --> 00:18:06,346 - No. - Would you like to see it again? 420 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:07,651 - Yeah, I'd like to see it again. - ERIK: All right. 421 00:18:07,695 --> 00:18:09,436 Let's go, let's go take a look at some frames. 422 00:18:09,479 --> 00:18:11,612 Well, so watch, watch very carefully 423 00:18:11,655 --> 00:18:13,527 for a change in the blue background. 424 00:18:13,570 --> 00:18:15,224 Okay. 425 00:18:17,444 --> 00:18:19,228 - CAMERON: Oh. Oh, my gosh. - TRAVIS: You see that? 426 00:18:19,272 --> 00:18:21,622 - Yeah, look at that. - God. 427 00:18:25,713 --> 00:18:27,280 I'd like to show you another sequence. 428 00:18:29,847 --> 00:18:31,110 ERIK: So, as you can imagine, 429 00:18:31,197 --> 00:18:33,373 I've been searching frame by frame 430 00:18:33,416 --> 00:18:34,287 through anything we've got. 431 00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:37,420 Wow. 432 00:18:37,464 --> 00:18:39,422 Look at that. 433 00:18:39,509 --> 00:18:40,728 - That's just crazy right there. - CAMERON: Oh, yeah. 434 00:18:40,771 --> 00:18:41,772 Right under the helicopter. 435 00:18:41,816 --> 00:18:44,253 - That's crazy. - ERIK: That's... 436 00:18:44,297 --> 00:18:45,472 - that's very suggestive. - We were in there. 437 00:18:47,865 --> 00:18:49,215 TRAVIS: Could this explain what happened last year 438 00:18:49,258 --> 00:18:50,694 with Cameron's altimeter? 439 00:18:50,781 --> 00:18:53,349 I don't know, but something flew under 440 00:18:53,393 --> 00:18:56,265 the helicopter back and forth multiple times. 441 00:18:57,919 --> 00:19:00,400 - Velocity changes, it starts climbing. - Mm-hmm. 442 00:19:00,487 --> 00:19:03,142 And it was faster than the helicopter as well. 443 00:19:03,185 --> 00:19:05,753 It got way too close to the helicopter. 444 00:19:05,796 --> 00:19:07,972 - ERIK: Way, way too close. - CAMERON: It concerns me. 445 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:11,889 Whatever it is, if it happened 446 00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:13,064 to pass through our rotor system, 447 00:19:13,108 --> 00:19:15,545 it could be catastrophic. 448 00:19:15,589 --> 00:19:18,113 - Oh, yeah. - Um, but it seemed to stay outside 449 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:19,593 of the helicopter's boundary. 450 00:19:19,636 --> 00:19:21,290 TRAVIS: Which suggests that 451 00:19:21,377 --> 00:19:22,596 it didn't want to collide into us, either. 452 00:19:22,683 --> 00:19:23,814 CAMERON: No. 453 00:19:23,858 --> 00:19:26,382 Yeah, I was staring out the window 454 00:19:26,426 --> 00:19:28,819 looking as far down as I could from the inside 455 00:19:28,863 --> 00:19:31,431 - and saw nothing. - TRAVIS: I never saw anything. Yeah. 456 00:19:31,474 --> 00:19:33,084 CAMERON: It was concerning that something could 457 00:19:33,128 --> 00:19:34,608 be right underneath the aircraft. 458 00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:36,914 As a pilot, you've got to be ready for anything. 459 00:19:36,958 --> 00:19:40,004 But they don't train you for things that you can't see. 460 00:19:41,658 --> 00:19:44,487 ERIK: So, that's what I wanted to share with you, Cameron, 461 00:19:44,531 --> 00:19:45,836 and going into this, I was asking, 462 00:19:45,923 --> 00:19:48,404 you know, if you're comfortable 463 00:19:48,448 --> 00:19:50,189 conducting another experiment with us. 464 00:19:51,755 --> 00:19:54,889 Now that you've seen this, what do you think? 465 00:19:57,108 --> 00:19:59,067 You-you do what you think is the safest thing to do. 466 00:20:03,027 --> 00:20:06,117 Well, it's all about risk mitigation. 467 00:20:06,161 --> 00:20:08,337 - Risk versus reward. - Mm-hmm. 468 00:20:08,381 --> 00:20:10,383 I think there's a lot that we need to still discover 469 00:20:10,426 --> 00:20:11,732 or research here. 470 00:20:11,819 --> 00:20:14,387 As long as safety is our first concern 471 00:20:14,474 --> 00:20:16,693 and we always prioritize that, I'm okay with this experiment. 472 00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:20,349 - Let's get up there. - Sounds good. 473 00:20:20,393 --> 00:20:21,350 We've got to get those instruments 474 00:20:21,437 --> 00:20:22,525 packed and ready to go. 475 00:20:22,569 --> 00:20:23,831 - Let's do it. - Hey, let's go. 476 00:20:23,874 --> 00:20:25,746 All right. Thanks, Erik. 477 00:20:25,833 --> 00:20:27,748 ERIK: You got it. 478 00:20:33,971 --> 00:20:36,800 All right, guys. I think this is it. 479 00:20:36,844 --> 00:20:39,542 TRAVIS: We need another bite at this apple, and Cameron knows 480 00:20:39,629 --> 00:20:42,850 this airspace better than anyone, hands down, period. 481 00:20:42,937 --> 00:20:45,461 Now we just got to get up there and get to work 482 00:20:45,505 --> 00:20:48,159 and hope this time we get to finish our experiment 483 00:20:48,203 --> 00:20:50,466 before something else happens to shut us down. 484 00:20:50,510 --> 00:20:52,207 Load this up. 485 00:20:52,294 --> 00:20:53,948 THOMAS: Last time we had the helicopter 486 00:20:53,991 --> 00:20:55,732 up above the triangle, it was saying 487 00:20:55,776 --> 00:20:57,386 that there was something underneath of it. 488 00:20:57,473 --> 00:20:58,866 Sometimes as close 489 00:20:58,909 --> 00:21:00,563 as 38 feet when it was up 490 00:21:00,607 --> 00:21:02,261 at this 5,000-foot mark. 491 00:21:02,304 --> 00:21:05,307 So I'm gonna be watching carefully. 492 00:21:05,351 --> 00:21:08,223 We've got a telescope set up. We've got cameras set up. 493 00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,703 I'm gonna take this up the ladder. 494 00:21:09,746 --> 00:21:10,878 THOMAS: And our hope is 495 00:21:10,965 --> 00:21:12,619 that if Cameron 496 00:21:12,662 --> 00:21:14,534 encounters any of the same anomalies 497 00:21:14,577 --> 00:21:16,492 he did last time he was flying, 498 00:21:16,536 --> 00:21:19,103 that we'll be able to capture it and see it. 499 00:21:19,147 --> 00:21:21,584 We are all ready. Uh, take off. 500 00:21:21,628 --> 00:21:22,803 Erik says the sooner the better. 501 00:21:25,458 --> 00:21:28,025 Fuel pump on. Check, check, check. 502 00:21:28,069 --> 00:21:30,419 Pulse lights, check, and engines start. 503 00:21:31,986 --> 00:21:35,032 ERIK: Bryant and Travis will be on board the helicopter 504 00:21:35,076 --> 00:21:37,905 releasing the GPS trackers into the air. 505 00:21:37,948 --> 00:21:40,560 Thomas and I will be observing 506 00:21:40,603 --> 00:21:42,388 from down on the ground at the observation point 507 00:21:42,431 --> 00:21:43,693 in the east field. 508 00:21:43,737 --> 00:21:45,260 Do you want me to hand that up to you? 509 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:47,088 - ERIK: Yeah, go for it. - I will be monitoring 510 00:21:47,175 --> 00:21:49,220 the GPS units 511 00:21:49,264 --> 00:21:51,484 as they broadcast their positions. 512 00:21:51,527 --> 00:21:53,921 We're going to allow the tracking devices 513 00:21:54,008 --> 00:21:57,925 to log their positions on an internal SD card. 514 00:21:57,968 --> 00:22:00,710 There's a light blinking pattern when things are working right. 515 00:22:00,797 --> 00:22:02,582 - Okay. - And we're also going to try 516 00:22:02,625 --> 00:22:05,454 to measure the signals coming from those 517 00:22:05,498 --> 00:22:07,543 GPS trackers in real time 518 00:22:07,587 --> 00:22:09,676 as they broadcast their positions 519 00:22:09,763 --> 00:22:12,853 and see if any interesting features show up as they fall. 520 00:22:14,245 --> 00:22:16,552 Okay, I've got the triangle location set. 521 00:22:16,596 --> 00:22:19,468 All the warning systems look good. We're set. 522 00:22:19,512 --> 00:22:20,513 We're ready to head up. 523 00:22:21,992 --> 00:22:23,820 TRAVIS: There have been a lot of theories 524 00:22:23,864 --> 00:22:27,171 and ideas tossed out about what could be above the ranch. 525 00:22:27,215 --> 00:22:29,173 Could it be a portal or a wormhole 526 00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:33,047 or some massive energy source or even a gravitational field? 527 00:22:33,090 --> 00:22:35,745 Those sound like far-off ideas to me, 528 00:22:35,789 --> 00:22:37,921 but we know that there's something strange 529 00:22:37,965 --> 00:22:40,446 going on up there, and we need to get more data 530 00:22:40,489 --> 00:22:42,056 to determine what it is. 531 00:22:44,624 --> 00:22:47,366 CAMERON: We're 1,600 feet above the ground. 532 00:22:47,453 --> 00:22:50,064 Winds are just up to five knots out of the southeast. 533 00:22:53,850 --> 00:22:56,549 And you can see the triangle off to the side there, Travis. 534 00:22:56,592 --> 00:22:58,202 TRAVIS: Yup. Yeah, I'm watching it. 535 00:22:58,289 --> 00:22:59,900 - I've got eyes on it. - CAMERON: All right, perfect. 536 00:22:59,943 --> 00:23:01,728 Erik, this is Cameron. 537 00:23:01,815 --> 00:23:04,252 We're through 10,000 feet above sea level, 538 00:23:04,295 --> 00:23:06,602 5,000 foot over the ranch. 539 00:23:06,646 --> 00:23:09,388 Approaching 6,000 foot over the ranch. 540 00:23:09,475 --> 00:23:11,912 We're about ready to drop that whenever you're ready. 541 00:23:11,999 --> 00:23:14,088 We have eyes on you, and we are ready. 542 00:23:17,047 --> 00:23:18,832 Okay, Thomas, we're right at the spot over the triangle. 543 00:23:18,875 --> 00:23:21,443 TRAVIS: Cameron had the exact GPS coordinates 544 00:23:21,487 --> 00:23:23,445 of the triangle from last year's experiments 545 00:23:23,489 --> 00:23:25,273 that he locked onto. 546 00:23:25,316 --> 00:23:28,711 His instruments all said we were right over the triangle. 547 00:23:28,755 --> 00:23:31,584 Here we go on a countdown. Five. 548 00:23:31,627 --> 00:23:33,237 - BRYANT: Well, wait, are we over the... - CAMERON: Four. Three.. 549 00:23:33,281 --> 00:23:34,369 - Are we over the triangle? - No, we're not. 550 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,502 THOMAS: Uh, that's a negative. 551 00:23:36,545 --> 00:23:37,938 We have eyes on you, 552 00:23:37,981 --> 00:23:39,940 and you're not anywhere close to the triangle. 553 00:23:41,550 --> 00:23:42,899 TRAVIS: That's not good. 554 00:23:44,161 --> 00:23:46,207 Huh. 555 00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:48,383 Stand by. Stand by on that drop. 556 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:51,212 TRAVIS: This makes absolutely no sense to me. 557 00:23:51,299 --> 00:23:53,432 The GPS had us locked to the triangle, 558 00:23:53,475 --> 00:23:56,086 saying we were right above it, 559 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:58,306 then all a sudden, we weren't. 560 00:23:58,349 --> 00:24:00,264 It's like something pushed us off course 561 00:24:00,351 --> 00:24:01,657 without us even realizing. 562 00:24:01,744 --> 00:24:03,442 - That's crazy. - CAMERON: Makes no sense. 563 00:24:11,362 --> 00:24:13,669 GPS said we were right over the triangle, 564 00:24:13,713 --> 00:24:16,019 but Dragon and I could see we were 565 00:24:16,063 --> 00:24:17,804 way off the mark. 566 00:24:17,847 --> 00:24:20,459 Cameron's GPS has never malfunctioned like this, 567 00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:23,723 and it just doesn't happen in this kind of helicopter. 568 00:24:23,766 --> 00:24:27,030 It's as if something was messing with our GPS 569 00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:29,772 and telling us we're somewhere we're not. 570 00:24:29,816 --> 00:24:32,732 Stand by. Stand by on that drop. 571 00:24:32,819 --> 00:24:36,562 CAMERON: This helicopter has the latest in technological advances. 572 00:24:36,605 --> 00:24:40,000 It's got top-of-the-line avionics and instrumentation. 573 00:24:40,043 --> 00:24:41,567 To have something like this happen 574 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:44,091 is very, uh, untypical. 575 00:24:44,134 --> 00:24:45,309 We don't see anything here. 576 00:24:45,353 --> 00:24:47,529 Nothing on the radar. Altimeter is blank. 577 00:24:47,573 --> 00:24:50,532 I think if you get where I can see the triangle. 578 00:24:50,619 --> 00:24:52,447 CAMERON: Okay let's do that. 579 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,581 You'll go slightly northeast. 580 00:24:55,624 --> 00:24:57,626 - CAMERON: Northeast? - Slightly. All right, there. 581 00:24:57,670 --> 00:24:58,627 - Now, hold that heading right there. - CAMERON: Okay. 582 00:24:58,671 --> 00:25:00,411 TRAVIS: Since we couldn't rely 583 00:25:00,455 --> 00:25:02,370 on the instruments to get us over the target, 584 00:25:02,413 --> 00:25:04,415 we had to go old-school on this one 585 00:25:04,459 --> 00:25:06,635 and just eyeball the drop site. 586 00:25:06,679 --> 00:25:08,768 I-I think we're... No, keep going. 587 00:25:08,855 --> 00:25:10,160 Keep going east. 588 00:25:10,204 --> 00:25:11,640 Yeah, I've got the-the triangle 589 00:25:11,727 --> 00:25:13,033 immediately beneath us 590 00:25:13,076 --> 00:25:15,209 - on the-the left side. - CAMERON: Yup. 591 00:25:15,252 --> 00:25:17,559 I actually look straight down my leg 592 00:25:17,603 --> 00:25:19,430 and use it sort of as a barrel sight, 593 00:25:19,474 --> 00:25:21,389 and I'm right over the triangle. 594 00:25:21,432 --> 00:25:23,086 All right, so we should contact Erik 595 00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:24,740 and tell him that we're getting close 596 00:25:24,784 --> 00:25:27,134 to, uh, launching one of the bottles. 597 00:25:27,177 --> 00:25:28,309 Hey, Thomas, this is Cameron. 598 00:25:28,352 --> 00:25:29,832 We're through 10,000 feet 599 00:25:29,876 --> 00:25:31,878 above sea level, 5,000 foot over the ranch. 600 00:25:31,921 --> 00:25:33,270 We're about ready 601 00:25:33,314 --> 00:25:34,968 to drop that test bottle whenever you're ready. 602 00:25:35,011 --> 00:25:36,230 Are we ready? 603 00:25:37,579 --> 00:25:39,755 Yeah, I'm getting nothing. There's no data. 604 00:25:39,842 --> 00:25:42,062 And I'm not getting the raw signal. 605 00:25:42,105 --> 00:25:44,891 So, we are not picking up telemetry signals. 606 00:25:44,934 --> 00:25:48,285 The light that's supposed to be blinking green... 607 00:25:48,329 --> 00:25:50,940 This is telling me we're getting no data. 608 00:25:50,984 --> 00:25:54,509 I can't lock on to them. 609 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:56,642 Clearly, something is interfering with the signals. 610 00:25:56,685 --> 00:25:58,121 All right, we've copied on that. 611 00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:00,863 - It messes with GPS. - How about that? 612 00:26:00,907 --> 00:26:03,039 TRAVIS: It's like something was jamming us 613 00:26:03,083 --> 00:26:05,302 or blocking our signal, and we needed to start tossing 614 00:26:05,346 --> 00:26:07,000 these sensors out the door 615 00:26:07,087 --> 00:26:09,263 before something else happened that would shut us down. 616 00:26:09,306 --> 00:26:11,657 They should be landing right in the triangle, 617 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,746 so we'll just have to go collect them after the experiment 618 00:26:13,789 --> 00:26:15,530 in order to get the data. 619 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:17,619 CAMERON: We're willing to try, 620 00:26:17,706 --> 00:26:19,099 maybe if it got away from the helicopter, 621 00:26:19,186 --> 00:26:20,535 it'll pick up some telemetry, 622 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:22,885 but it's up to you, Erik. Your call. 623 00:26:22,929 --> 00:26:25,192 Yeah, at some point, we're just gonna have to make the call. 624 00:26:25,235 --> 00:26:26,759 All right, so it sounds like 625 00:26:26,802 --> 00:26:28,978 Erik's willing to go ahead and just drop, 626 00:26:29,022 --> 00:26:31,198 even without a signal, to see if we can pick it up 627 00:26:31,241 --> 00:26:32,678 as it tumbles down to earth. 628 00:26:32,765 --> 00:26:34,723 All right, so I'm gonna drop this GPS right now. 629 00:26:34,767 --> 00:26:37,683 Three, two, one, package away. 630 00:26:37,726 --> 00:26:39,293 TRAVIS: Package away. 631 00:26:43,384 --> 00:26:44,603 I have eyes on the package. 632 00:26:46,648 --> 00:26:48,694 CAMERON: Okay, here comes the next drop. 633 00:26:48,737 --> 00:26:50,913 Counting five, four, 634 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,003 three, two, one. 635 00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:55,309 Cargo away. 636 00:27:05,145 --> 00:27:08,539 The majority of the packages are landing north of the mesa. 637 00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:11,978 Drop the rest of them further to the south. 638 00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:15,024 I think there is a headwind, uh, aloft here. 639 00:27:15,111 --> 00:27:16,765 - Cameron, is that right? - That is incorrect. 640 00:27:16,809 --> 00:27:19,768 We've actually got a tailwind pushing us right now. 641 00:27:19,812 --> 00:27:23,206 Wow, 'cause it looked like, uh, it pulled the bottle behind us. 642 00:27:23,250 --> 00:27:25,687 Still doesn't match where those things are flying east. 643 00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:28,298 - TRAVIS: Yeah, right? - BRYANT: Yeah, that's strange. 644 00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:30,431 CAMERON: Why would they drift that way when the wind... 645 00:27:30,474 --> 00:27:33,390 It's a pretty good wind out of the east blowing to the west. 646 00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:35,958 TRAVIS: All right, I am right over the target. 647 00:27:36,002 --> 00:27:37,743 - Tell them I'm ready to drop. - We're ready to drop 648 00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:39,309 - if you're ready. - THOMAS: Ready when you are. 649 00:27:39,353 --> 00:27:41,311 CAMERON: Five, four, three, 650 00:27:41,355 --> 00:27:42,965 two, one. 651 00:27:43,052 --> 00:27:43,966 Bottle is dropped. 652 00:27:49,493 --> 00:27:52,627 Erik, it's in the air somewhere. Are you picking up data? 653 00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:54,585 I'm getting nothing. 654 00:27:54,629 --> 00:27:57,676 We are not picking up telemetry signals from packages. 655 00:27:59,025 --> 00:28:00,940 We know that Erik's GPS trackers 656 00:28:00,983 --> 00:28:03,072 were working when we put them in the helicopter. 657 00:28:03,116 --> 00:28:04,900 Uh, roger. Copy on that. 658 00:28:04,944 --> 00:28:06,423 Let's start throwing these others out. 659 00:28:06,467 --> 00:28:07,511 TRAVIS: Yeah. Just tell them let's try it. 660 00:28:07,598 --> 00:28:08,948 We're gonna throw the others out. 661 00:28:08,991 --> 00:28:11,037 TRAVIS: The GPS units still weren't 662 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,125 transmitting data, and that was making me 663 00:28:12,168 --> 00:28:13,430 a little bit nervous, 664 00:28:13,474 --> 00:28:14,693 so I wanted to get these 665 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:17,565 tubes out the door as fast as we could 666 00:28:17,608 --> 00:28:19,698 and hope we could find them later. 667 00:28:19,785 --> 00:28:21,700 Dropping multiple payloads. Let us know what you get. 668 00:28:32,623 --> 00:28:34,060 I'm getting no data. 669 00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:38,107 We've got to retrieve those cards or we've got nothing. 670 00:28:38,151 --> 00:28:40,066 We have eyes on them. 671 00:28:40,109 --> 00:28:42,242 Yeah, we're right over it. I'm right over it. 672 00:28:42,285 --> 00:28:43,983 TRAVIS: We were dropping multiple bottles, 673 00:28:44,026 --> 00:28:46,333 one after another after another, 674 00:28:46,376 --> 00:28:48,291 just to try and get as many of them out the door 675 00:28:48,378 --> 00:28:49,728 as we possibly could. 676 00:28:49,771 --> 00:28:50,990 Chuck them. 677 00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:52,600 Oh, I'm chunking. I ain't stopping. 678 00:28:52,643 --> 00:28:55,255 TRAVIS: We threw out the last 20 GPS trackers 679 00:28:55,298 --> 00:28:57,779 just hoping that we'd be able to get good data 680 00:28:57,823 --> 00:29:00,695 even though Erik couldn't track them. 681 00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:02,305 You guys have any more to drop? 682 00:29:02,349 --> 00:29:04,133 When you are in position, go ahead and drop. 683 00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:07,876 CAMERON: Five, four, three, two, one. 684 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,051 Dragon's drop. 685 00:29:09,095 --> 00:29:10,226 Package is away. 686 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:15,231 All right, Cameron, what elevation 687 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:17,407 are you at at this present moment? 688 00:29:17,451 --> 00:29:19,453 We're 5,000 feet above the surface. 689 00:29:20,889 --> 00:29:22,282 I'm getting raw signal. 690 00:29:22,325 --> 00:29:23,849 Come on. 691 00:29:23,892 --> 00:29:25,676 Copy that. Thank you. 692 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,375 Erik just started receiving data. 693 00:29:28,418 --> 00:29:30,203 Uh, we say go ahead with it. 694 00:29:30,290 --> 00:29:32,248 All right, we're gonna drop this last bottle 695 00:29:32,292 --> 00:29:34,511 right over the triangle. Are you ready? 696 00:29:34,555 --> 00:29:35,861 Go ahead when you're ready. 697 00:29:35,948 --> 00:29:38,777 - All right I'm dropping now. - Dropping now. 698 00:29:40,256 --> 00:29:42,258 Look how it went back. 699 00:29:43,912 --> 00:29:46,001 - Yeah, it went way backwards. - CAMERON: What the heck? 700 00:29:46,045 --> 00:29:47,655 It's in the air. 701 00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:53,008 - They're going behind us. - It's moving backwards from where we're at. 702 00:29:53,052 --> 00:29:54,531 TRAVIS: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 703 00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:57,099 THOMAS: I lost it. 704 00:29:57,143 --> 00:29:59,972 Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? 705 00:30:00,059 --> 00:30:03,062 You know, I had eyes on it until it got probably a couple hundred 706 00:30:03,105 --> 00:30:04,803 feet above the ground, and then I lost eyes on it. 707 00:30:07,066 --> 00:30:08,763 They're throwing out this tube 708 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:11,418 with this long 20-foot red ribbon. 709 00:30:11,461 --> 00:30:13,202 I'm getting eyes on this package, 710 00:30:13,246 --> 00:30:15,161 then all of a sudden, I can't see it from the ground. 711 00:30:15,204 --> 00:30:17,554 It disappeared. 712 00:30:17,641 --> 00:30:19,513 - That's interesting. - TRAVIS: Finally, 713 00:30:19,556 --> 00:30:21,341 we get a good GPS signal 714 00:30:21,428 --> 00:30:23,691 for the first time in this dang experiment. 715 00:30:23,734 --> 00:30:26,868 But as the GPS tube was dropping through the zone 716 00:30:26,912 --> 00:30:29,523 of the triangle, we were tracking it and tracking it, 717 00:30:29,566 --> 00:30:32,787 and then it just disappeared, along with its signal. 718 00:30:32,874 --> 00:30:35,137 It was there one minute, and then it was gone. 719 00:30:35,181 --> 00:30:36,704 Thomas had eyes on it, too, 720 00:30:36,747 --> 00:30:38,401 and he said it just disappeared out of thin air. 721 00:30:38,445 --> 00:30:40,621 That makes no sense. 722 00:30:40,664 --> 00:30:42,928 - Where did it go? - I lost it. 723 00:30:42,971 --> 00:30:45,365 It just... it disappeared. 724 00:30:53,808 --> 00:30:57,464 So all packages have been delivered, correct? 725 00:30:57,507 --> 00:30:58,900 All-all packages have dropped. 726 00:30:58,987 --> 00:31:00,467 We can, uh... we can return to base. 727 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:02,077 Can you guys see some of 728 00:31:02,164 --> 00:31:03,600 the packages on the ground up there? 729 00:31:03,644 --> 00:31:05,559 Tell him we'll look. 730 00:31:05,646 --> 00:31:07,039 CAMERON: We'll look here, 731 00:31:07,082 --> 00:31:08,388 and then they'll-they'll pick them up. 732 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:10,738 Erik would like to make it clear that if we 733 00:31:10,781 --> 00:31:12,479 do not retrieve any of the packages, 734 00:31:12,566 --> 00:31:14,611 we have zero data. 735 00:31:14,698 --> 00:31:16,352 THOMAS: On the surface, this seems like 736 00:31:16,396 --> 00:31:20,356 a very simple and straightforward experiment. 737 00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:22,402 And yet, here we are once again 738 00:31:22,445 --> 00:31:24,404 baffled because the packages that are dropped 739 00:31:24,447 --> 00:31:26,319 out of the helicopter, one, are not landing where 740 00:31:26,406 --> 00:31:29,757 we think they should, and we're not even finding them. 741 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,585 And I'm sitting here just shaking my head thinking 742 00:31:31,628 --> 00:31:33,369 here's another experiment in the triangle 743 00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:34,762 that just didn't go as planned. 744 00:31:38,853 --> 00:31:40,594 Uh, think we had any go this far south? 745 00:31:40,637 --> 00:31:41,987 No, I don't think so. 746 00:31:42,074 --> 00:31:44,293 CAMERON: Guide me where we ought to go, 747 00:31:44,380 --> 00:31:45,904 and we'll, uh, let's start looking. 748 00:31:45,947 --> 00:31:48,950 I think some of them went north and east, too, 749 00:31:48,994 --> 00:31:51,039 so we should, uh, go a little bit that way. 750 00:31:59,439 --> 00:32:01,267 Red. Red. Right below us. 751 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,792 BRYANT: Okay, why don't we grab that one. 752 00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:05,924 Yeah, I need to find a flatter spot. 753 00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:10,276 BRYANT: I'll go. 754 00:32:13,627 --> 00:32:14,845 CAMERON: From the triangle, 755 00:32:14,889 --> 00:32:18,501 we're about, uh, 2,800 feet. 756 00:32:18,545 --> 00:32:20,547 That's crazy. 757 00:32:20,590 --> 00:32:22,810 CAMERON: There's no reason it should've drifted over here. 758 00:32:22,853 --> 00:32:24,855 The winds aloft were not doing that. 759 00:32:24,899 --> 00:32:26,640 And the wind was coming out of the north. 760 00:32:26,683 --> 00:32:28,598 - CAMERON: Yeah, it makes no sense. - That makes no sense. 761 00:32:28,685 --> 00:32:30,818 TRAVIS: When we dropped the payload packages, 762 00:32:30,861 --> 00:32:33,777 they actually moved against the wind. 763 00:32:33,821 --> 00:32:35,562 These packages have no propulsion. 764 00:32:35,605 --> 00:32:38,391 They should've gone with the wind like a kite. 765 00:32:38,478 --> 00:32:39,827 How about that? 766 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,263 It makes no sense. 767 00:32:44,266 --> 00:32:46,225 Do you copy? This is, uh, Cameron. 768 00:32:46,268 --> 00:32:47,878 Anybody on the ground copy? 769 00:32:47,922 --> 00:32:50,490 - Uh, I hear you. - CAMERON: Hey, Thomas, 770 00:32:50,577 --> 00:32:52,274 we've got, uh, one package. 771 00:32:52,318 --> 00:32:54,842 We're looking for others. We're doing a search grid up here. 772 00:32:54,885 --> 00:32:56,409 Yeah, they've only found one package. 773 00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:58,324 Maybe that's all we need. 774 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,067 - Right here. - Straight ahead to your right. 775 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:03,285 - Right there in front of us. Right... - BRYANT: Right... Yeah. 776 00:33:03,329 --> 00:33:04,634 Set down here. We need to set down here. 777 00:33:13,339 --> 00:33:15,167 So, there's two. This is a start. 778 00:33:21,173 --> 00:33:22,478 CAMERON: We're coming back to land at this time. 779 00:33:22,522 --> 00:33:23,697 THOMAS: Copy that. 780 00:33:23,784 --> 00:33:25,699 We'll, uh, meet you at the helipad. 781 00:33:25,786 --> 00:33:28,310 All right. Let's head back. 782 00:33:28,354 --> 00:33:31,052 TRAVIS: I know that I saw the triangle right below us, 783 00:33:31,096 --> 00:33:33,533 and for these bottles to land so far off target, 784 00:33:33,576 --> 00:33:36,971 it's like some invisible force just pushed them away. 785 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:38,973 I don't know what that could be, 786 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:41,715 but I hope the data gives us some answers. 787 00:33:41,758 --> 00:33:42,933 Hey, guys. 788 00:33:42,977 --> 00:33:44,935 - Hey, there. - Hey, Trav. 789 00:33:44,979 --> 00:33:46,328 That was a fun flight. 790 00:33:46,372 --> 00:33:47,503 - It was. - I'll bet. 791 00:33:47,590 --> 00:33:49,897 Did, uh, you guys get any data? 792 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:51,725 That remains to be seen. 793 00:33:51,812 --> 00:33:54,771 The answer is in that bottle. 794 00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:57,339 The weird thing is, from our perspective, 795 00:33:57,426 --> 00:33:59,646 the bottles didn't land where they were supposed to 796 00:33:59,689 --> 00:34:02,257 according to the wind indication from the instrument. 797 00:34:02,301 --> 00:34:05,521 - CAMERON: That's crazy. - ERIK: That's really odd. 798 00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:07,828 That just makes the data on that card-- 799 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:09,830 if we have any-- that much more interesting. 800 00:34:09,873 --> 00:34:11,832 Well, actually, we've got some work cut out for us, 801 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:13,486 'cause there's still a bunch of them scattered out 802 00:34:13,529 --> 00:34:16,054 across up there, and there's some down on the south end. 803 00:34:16,141 --> 00:34:18,926 So we're gonna have to go do some, uh, you know, expeditions 804 00:34:18,969 --> 00:34:21,059 to find them, right? 805 00:34:21,146 --> 00:34:22,843 But first and foremost, we should get 806 00:34:22,930 --> 00:34:25,889 as much of the data crunched and looked at. 807 00:34:25,976 --> 00:34:28,588 Yeah. I'm-I'm getting impatient just standing here. 808 00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:30,198 I want to get that... I want to get that data 809 00:34:30,242 --> 00:34:32,026 - out of that bottle. - TRAVIS: This is gonna be 810 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,289 amazing data and very useful data. 811 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:35,856 Excellent. I've got more flights I've got to go on today, 812 00:34:35,899 --> 00:34:37,597 so I've got to head back out. 813 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,121 - All right, thanks. Thank you. - Appreciate you. 814 00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:41,905 Hopefully, we will be able to retrieve 815 00:34:41,949 --> 00:34:44,299 the onboard data intact 816 00:34:44,343 --> 00:34:47,563 and get our first real glimpse at what might be happening 817 00:34:47,607 --> 00:34:50,610 with GPS in the skies above the ranch. 818 00:34:58,792 --> 00:35:00,750 You guys ready to look at some GPS data 819 00:35:00,794 --> 00:35:02,448 from that helicopter drop? 820 00:35:02,491 --> 00:35:03,797 Heck yeah. 821 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,104 TRAVIS: So, we had, uh, two bottles 822 00:35:06,147 --> 00:35:08,106 - that we recovered so far, right? - Yeah. 823 00:35:08,149 --> 00:35:10,020 We've retrieved two of them so far. 824 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:12,022 And we're lucky to have what we've got. 825 00:35:12,066 --> 00:35:14,590 Of the GPS trackers that we released 826 00:35:14,677 --> 00:35:17,027 from the helicopter, we managed to retrieve two of them, 827 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,987 and it appears the data are intact. 828 00:35:20,030 --> 00:35:22,163 At this point, we don't know the location of the others. 829 00:35:22,207 --> 00:35:24,731 I've had a preliminary look at the data, 830 00:35:24,818 --> 00:35:28,126 and there are some interesting discrepancies. 831 00:35:28,169 --> 00:35:29,649 What I want to show you 832 00:35:29,736 --> 00:35:33,653 are the two separate GPS data payloads. 833 00:35:34,828 --> 00:35:36,612 All right. Now, 834 00:35:36,656 --> 00:35:38,266 let me explain what you're looking at here. 835 00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:40,181 You can probably guess. 836 00:35:40,268 --> 00:35:42,792 These, uh, blue cubes that I'm using 837 00:35:42,836 --> 00:35:46,579 represent the position of the GPS payloads. 838 00:35:46,666 --> 00:35:49,016 This is where things start getting strange. 839 00:35:51,975 --> 00:35:54,674 These blue cubes appear to be 840 00:35:54,717 --> 00:35:58,504 50 feet, 70 feet below the surface of the mesa. 841 00:35:58,547 --> 00:36:00,897 Looks like you smashed into the mesa. 842 00:36:00,941 --> 00:36:02,334 What the heck? 843 00:36:03,422 --> 00:36:04,640 How? 844 00:36:11,125 --> 00:36:13,910 TRAVIS: The blue cubes that represent the GPS sensor 845 00:36:13,954 --> 00:36:16,957 as we were on our way up to the 5,000-foot point 846 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,134 show that the helicopter actually went into the mesa 847 00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:21,962 and came back out again. 848 00:36:22,049 --> 00:36:24,356 Obviously, that didn't happen, 849 00:36:24,399 --> 00:36:27,968 but something made our GPS think that it did. 850 00:36:28,011 --> 00:36:31,754 How far below ground are those points there in the mesa? 851 00:36:31,798 --> 00:36:33,713 - Do you have that information? - ERIK: Um, sure. 852 00:36:33,756 --> 00:36:35,323 We can actually look below the mesa. 853 00:36:35,410 --> 00:36:38,021 These blue cubes that I'm using 854 00:36:38,065 --> 00:36:40,328 to represent the GPS data payloads 855 00:36:40,372 --> 00:36:44,724 appear to be 50 feet, 70 feet below the surface of the mesa. 856 00:36:44,767 --> 00:36:47,074 How? 857 00:36:47,117 --> 00:36:49,859 And I got to tell you, you were hundreds of feet above the mesa. 858 00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:54,255 It looks like the GPS data is inside 859 00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:56,562 the mesa in that location. 860 00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:00,218 But now here's something else 861 00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:02,568 that just staggers my mind. 862 00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:06,267 Like, look where we are when we throw the bottle out. 863 00:37:06,354 --> 00:37:09,357 We were right over the triangle when we threw the bottle out. 864 00:37:09,401 --> 00:37:11,881 - BRYANT: Mm-hmm. - THOMAS: Are you looking straight down 865 00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:14,797 - at this point? - Looking straight down. So this is crazy. 866 00:37:14,841 --> 00:37:17,365 - BRYANT: You're right here. - TRAVIS: You're looking straight down. 867 00:37:17,409 --> 00:37:20,847 We're quarter mile north of the triangle. 868 00:37:20,890 --> 00:37:23,415 The GPS data also shows us 869 00:37:23,502 --> 00:37:25,678 that when we were dropping the bottles over the triangle, 870 00:37:25,721 --> 00:37:27,984 we weren't anywhere near the triangle 871 00:37:28,071 --> 00:37:30,944 even though, to us in the helicopter, 872 00:37:30,987 --> 00:37:32,946 it looked like we were right over it. 873 00:37:32,989 --> 00:37:34,948 So what caused that? 874 00:37:34,991 --> 00:37:36,036 And when we were in the helicopter out, 875 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:37,124 we looked straight down. 876 00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:39,169 Literally. My feet... 877 00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:40,519 My foot was right on the edge of the helicopter, 878 00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:41,998 and I'm using my leg as sort of a sight, 879 00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:43,565 and I looked straight down, and I was lined up 880 00:37:43,609 --> 00:37:45,132 to the center of the triangle. 881 00:37:47,787 --> 00:37:50,137 ERIK: Well, if you find all of that confusing... 882 00:37:52,008 --> 00:37:54,272 ...wait till I show you what happens when we lay 883 00:37:54,315 --> 00:37:56,796 our second data set on top of this. 884 00:37:58,101 --> 00:38:00,365 - THOMAS: Look at that. - ERIK: These paths 885 00:38:00,408 --> 00:38:02,584 should be identical up to a certain point in time. 886 00:38:02,671 --> 00:38:04,586 Look what happens here. 887 00:38:04,630 --> 00:38:06,588 TRAVIS: Right, but look how they're overlaying 888 00:38:06,632 --> 00:38:09,417 - each other for a minute up there. - ERIK: They're right on top. 889 00:38:09,461 --> 00:38:10,853 - TRAVIS: Right on top. - ERIK: Where you see white 890 00:38:10,897 --> 00:38:14,553 is where the two tracks are essentially identical. 891 00:38:14,596 --> 00:38:17,207 TRAVIS: Holy cow, look at that. 892 00:38:17,251 --> 00:38:19,079 When we drop the payload... 893 00:38:19,122 --> 00:38:20,559 So, we threw it out right there. 894 00:38:20,602 --> 00:38:22,952 And then look, it goes upwind. 895 00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:25,085 As if things aren't weird enough. 896 00:38:25,128 --> 00:38:28,175 First, the GPS thought we went into the mesa. 897 00:38:28,218 --> 00:38:31,221 Now we pinpointed an exact location 898 00:38:31,265 --> 00:38:32,788 above the triangle where we've measured 899 00:38:32,832 --> 00:38:34,442 strange energy readings in the past, 900 00:38:34,486 --> 00:38:36,749 and it looks like the GPS units 901 00:38:36,836 --> 00:38:39,839 bounced off something we couldn't see. 902 00:38:39,882 --> 00:38:41,406 I wonder if that's the same thing 903 00:38:41,493 --> 00:38:43,973 that went under Cameron's helicopter last year. 904 00:38:44,017 --> 00:38:46,411 All right, so, holy crap. 905 00:38:46,454 --> 00:38:47,803 Now, look. So, we have... 906 00:38:47,847 --> 00:38:51,111 now have a region 907 00:38:51,154 --> 00:38:54,593 and altitude that tells us there's some kind of phenomena 908 00:38:54,636 --> 00:38:58,292 taking place right here that's messing with the GPS. 909 00:38:58,336 --> 00:38:59,946 That's important right there. 910 00:38:59,989 --> 00:39:04,124 That is something else. I was not expecting to see that. 911 00:39:04,211 --> 00:39:06,474 How many people have said 912 00:39:06,518 --> 00:39:08,389 in stories, in books, 913 00:39:08,433 --> 00:39:11,566 that there's a portal above the ranch? 914 00:39:11,653 --> 00:39:13,960 - Yeah. - TRAVIS: Now, I don't know 915 00:39:14,047 --> 00:39:16,049 that I believe any of that, but what I do know 916 00:39:16,136 --> 00:39:18,094 is that experiment tells us 917 00:39:18,138 --> 00:39:21,184 that there's some anomalous something right there 918 00:39:21,228 --> 00:39:23,361 above the mesa, over the triangle. 919 00:39:25,058 --> 00:39:28,366 - Right. - TRAVIS: This is so exciting, 920 00:39:28,453 --> 00:39:32,021 it-it warrants us doing something even grander on scale, 921 00:39:32,065 --> 00:39:34,284 - so... Let's get to work. - Agreed. 922 00:39:34,328 --> 00:39:36,591 Erik, that's amazing stuff. Great work, Erik. 923 00:39:36,678 --> 00:39:40,508 We've just started investigating again, and already, 924 00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:42,728 there's a spot over the ranch that may be a key 925 00:39:42,771 --> 00:39:44,947 to finding the answers we're looking for. 926 00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:48,995 The question is: How far do we have to go to find out? 927 00:39:49,038 --> 00:39:53,391 ERIK: This year, we will be carrying our investigation deeper 928 00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:55,262 and higher 929 00:39:55,305 --> 00:39:57,395 and further than in previous years. 930 00:39:57,482 --> 00:40:00,180 THOMAS: As we move into this year's investigation, 931 00:40:00,223 --> 00:40:02,051 the ranch is a dangerous place. 932 00:40:02,095 --> 00:40:03,662 What's in store for us? 933 00:40:03,705 --> 00:40:05,272 When we start pushing further 934 00:40:05,315 --> 00:40:07,405 and poking the hornets' nest harder 935 00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:09,189 than we've ever poked before, 936 00:40:09,232 --> 00:40:11,147 how's the ranch gonna kick back? 937 00:40:11,191 --> 00:40:13,062 BRANDON: Our journey with the investigation 938 00:40:13,149 --> 00:40:15,151 at Skinwalker Ranch continues 939 00:40:15,238 --> 00:40:18,590 and not only continues to escalate 940 00:40:18,633 --> 00:40:21,810 but continues to reveal new secrets. 941 00:40:21,897 --> 00:40:25,988 This is not just a scientific experiment 942 00:40:26,032 --> 00:40:27,947 or research project out in the middle 943 00:40:27,990 --> 00:40:31,080 of a remote location in the Uinta Basin. 944 00:40:31,124 --> 00:40:33,126 The world is watching. 945 00:40:37,826 --> 00:40:40,786 TRAVIS: You never know what's gonna happen here at Skinwalker Ranch. 946 00:40:40,829 --> 00:40:42,396 THOMAS: What the hell was that? 947 00:40:42,483 --> 00:40:43,571 TRAVIS: Right, right there. We got something! 948 00:40:43,615 --> 00:40:45,181 What the hell is that? 949 00:40:45,225 --> 00:40:46,618 We captured a UAP on camera. 950 00:40:48,663 --> 00:40:50,578 ERIK: We need to see what's underground. 951 00:40:50,622 --> 00:40:52,537 THOMAS: There's something underneath this entire mesa 952 00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:53,929 that's connected somehow. 953 00:40:53,973 --> 00:40:55,670 That looks like a big chunk of something. 954 00:40:55,714 --> 00:40:57,324 Definitely looks metallic. 955 00:40:57,367 --> 00:40:59,152 ERIK: What scenario could put fine metal 956 00:40:59,195 --> 00:41:00,762 300 feet into this mesa? 957 00:41:00,806 --> 00:41:04,418 That tells me that was done to hide something. 958 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:08,509 This area is used to keep the evil on that side. 959 00:41:08,553 --> 00:41:10,206 BRYANT: We're getting a spike of radiation. 960 00:41:10,250 --> 00:41:11,817 There was a spike at 3,400. 961 00:41:11,904 --> 00:41:13,645 Everybody out of here now. 962 00:41:13,688 --> 00:41:14,863 - Hey. - Are you okay? 963 00:41:14,907 --> 00:41:16,299 No. 964 00:41:16,343 --> 00:41:17,213 BRYANT: Tom just blacked out. 965 00:41:17,257 --> 00:41:19,259 Someone or something 966 00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:22,175 doesn't want us to collect data from the triangle. 967 00:41:22,218 --> 00:41:23,437 TRAVIS: Hey, look! UAP right there! 968 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:24,786 ERIK: Oh, I see it! 969 00:41:24,830 --> 00:41:26,309 We are not in control. 970 00:41:26,353 --> 00:41:27,528 ERIK: What is that solid light? 971 00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:29,225 It's got a black dot in the center of it. 972 00:41:29,312 --> 00:41:30,836 What? 973 00:41:30,879 --> 00:41:33,142 - Oh, [bleep]. Let's go. - Oh, my God. 974 00:41:33,186 --> 00:41:35,623 BRANDON: Something malevolent is here. 975 00:41:35,667 --> 00:41:37,364 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS