‐TRAVIS: Hello? ‐THOMAS: Travis.
‐TRAVIS: Hey, Thomas. ‐Hey, I'm not sure
where you're at on the property,
but, uh, there's something going on out here.
Come over here and check it out.
(panting)
Hey, y'all. I'd recommend not to touch it
till we see if it's radioactive or not.
Too late.
THOMAS: Tom and I rolled it over just to see
if we could see any animal markings on it.
‐No sign of trauma... ‐TRAVIS: What in the world?
There's no cat tracks, there's no sign of struggle.
‐KANDUS: Middle of the day. ‐It's just dead.
TRAVIS: It's hard to kill a cow.
Check it with the Geiger counter, Dragon.
TOM: I saw her this morning, but she was alive.
That late morning?
(Geiger counter whirring)
TRAVIS: Lookit, the meter's just going crazy, man.
Jumping high, then it jumps back to zero.
13, 14, we're at 15‐‐ 16.
‐Is it still doing... ‐Lookit‐‐ hey,
it's at, it's at five‐‐ it's 18.
It just jumped to 18 just then.
Jim, are you seeing anything on the spectrum analyzer?
Actually, I am.
You are? What are you seeing?
Something down in the lower areas.
So, I'm getting some pretty high spikes.
‐Some of the stuff like you saw yesterday. ‐See that?
‐What does this mean? ‐Well, uh, we don't know what it is,
but we're seeing it with multiple instruments.
‐So this is something... ‐Something could be happening right now
out of the ordinary.
We need to get out of here, guys.
THOMAS: Is there really a safe place on this ranch?
We're quickly losing places
that are safe to go on this ranch.
RECEPTIONIST: Gentlemen,
I'd like to introduce Travis Taylor.
‐I'll let Brandon know you're ready. ‐Thank you.
‐You're welcome. ‐Hey, Travis. Jim Morse. ‐Hey.
TRAVIS: I'm Dr. Travis Taylor.
I'm a scientist and a physicist,
and I've got 25 years or more, uh, experience
in the aerospace and defense industry working with NASA,
the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
‐Travis? ‐I have degrees in electrical engineering,
aerospace engineering, astronomy,
physics, optical sciences.
And I was invited to come out here
to work with this team to investigate this area
known as Skinwalker Ranch.
‐Where'd you fly in from? ‐From Huntsville, Alabama.
‐All right. ‐Yeah, it's where
the rockets that went to the Moon were built.
‐Hi, Travis. ‐Hey, Brandon. How you doing?
‐Brandon Fugal. I'm... ‐Yeah, nice to meet you.
...the new owner of Skinwalker Ranch.
I see you've been able to get acquainted
‐with our team. ‐Yeah.
BRANDON: Erik Bard is our principal investigator.
Dr. Segala has been the scientist.
Tom Winterton, our ranch superintendent.
Jim Morse is our ranch manager
and Bryant Arnold, otherwise known as "Dragon,"
head of security.
Thank you for coming together.
This is the most unique science project of its kind
because we've verified and documented
that some of the most disturbing, unexplained events
in the past decades, if not hundreds of years,
have occurred on this property.
That sounds exciting and a litt‐‐
‐maybe even a little bit scary, right? ‐Right.
BRANDON: I'm Brandon Fugal, chairman and owner
of the largest commercial real estate enterprise here in Utah.
I'm also an investor and cofounder
of other enterprises involving technology.
I grew up middle class,
with a very strong religious upbringing.
And that upbringing has only helped strengthen my belief
that there is more to our existence than meets the eye.
And I am still looking for the nature of the universe
and asking some of these core questions:
Where did we come from? Why are we here?
Where are we going?
I truly believe that Skinwalker Ranch is a place
where some of the these questions may be answered,
or at least better understood.
So this shows, from an aerial view, the ranch.
Our 512 acres lies in the center of the Uinta Basin.
TRAVIS: The Uinta Basin.
I mean‐‐ is that, like, one of the Indian tribes or something?
‐The Uintah tribe? ‐Yes. And it is named
‐after the Ute tribe. ‐Okay.
And the entire property is surrounded
by, uh, Ute tribal properties.
Well, so, one question I have is why
is it called Skinwalker Ranch?
What is the‐the lore of it, right?
Well, it's a phenomenon, is what it is.
‐It goes back hundreds of years. ‐BRANDON: Native Americans
talk of shape‐shifting demonic entities called skinwalkers
that take on the form of a, of a large werewolf‐like creature
‐and also a number of other shapes. ‐Wow.
BRANDON: The Native American people, for generations, referred
to this property as being in the path of the skinwalker.
And they called the mesa
that runs the expanse of this property Skinwalker Ridge.
So that's really the namesake of the property.
I see, I see.
As early as 1911,
newspaper reports profiled strange noises in the basin
and the homesteaders started seeing unexplained phenomena.
And by 1979,
there were a lot of UFO sightings
in the basin being documented.
People had really acute medical episodes.
Everything from incidents of nausea,
perception‐altering experiences,
vertigo, temporary paralysis.
And then the Sherman family, in 1992,
acquired the property and were witness
to some of the most disturbing events on record.
Cattle mutilations.
These were daylight cattle mutilations.
We're talking very surgically precise dissections
of these cattle.
They were drained of their blood.
And there was no blood to be found underneath them.
As much as 25% of the herd at that time were lost.
Wow.
BRANDON: In 1996,
the reports of the Sherman family
led billionaire Robert Bigelow to acquire the property
and to commence an unprecedented scientific study.
Bigelow came in with his team,
National Institute of Discovery Science, or NIDS,
that transitioned
to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies,
which was funded by the U. S. government
and kept highly confidential.
It was a very aggressive effort.
And as part of that,
it was staffed at one time by dozens of professionals.
Many of those professionals to this day
refuse to ever set foot on this ranch ever again
for the rest of their lives.
‐Really? ‐Literally.
‐That's right. ‐Wow.
BRANDON: That brings us to present day.
In 2016, I purchased Skinwalker Ranch
and assembled our team to carry this investigation
forward into the next level.
‐And what is that? ‐We've started deploying technology
devised by Erik Bard, our principal investigator,
related to monitoring
and recording the events happening on the ranch.
Right, that makes sense.
One of the first things that we captured:
a 500‐foot section
of the mesa became totally illuminated.
That's‐that's wild.
We have seen several instances of compact light pillars,
these columns of light that have appeared above the mesa.
TRAVIS: I'm looking at this picture, and I believe
I'm seeing scatter off of the lower cloud cover,
which implies that it's going upward.
And there's no used car lot on the other side,
where they're having a spotlight
‐shining up? ‐Nope.
‐That's interesting. ‐There is also
a bright luminous object
that came into view in the western sky
and disappeared behind the mesa.
And it travelled at a speed
that was not consistent with typical aircraft.
Plus, at that time,
there was no historical flight data
showing commercial or private air traffic.
That's intriguing.
Indeed.
I‐I really am curious as to why exactly am I here?
What is it I'm supposed to be figuring out?
Right. I think, you, as an experimentalist,
you would bring to the table a lot more
stringent protocols than what's here now.
‐Okay. ‐We want your perspective.
THOMAS: We've noticed that when we bring new people
onto the ranch,
the ranch behaves differently than it normally does.
It's just a place, right? I mean, and...
And you guys think that it's going
to behave when I show up there, right?
Where there's smoke, there's fire, and there's things
that go on that ranch that I cannot get my head around.
That ranch can push back.
BRANDON: We'd like to fly you out
to the property tomorrow.
My brother will be escorting you,
so you can see the ranch firsthand.
I'm not sure what we're gonna find,
but I can't wait to see what we're gonna find.
Great.
(horn honking)
BRANDON: So, Travis,
tell me honestly, do‐do you think I'm crazy?
(laughs) Well,
I think some of the stories are crazy,
but just because the stories sound crazy
doesn't mean that there's not something to it.
So, no, I don't think you're crazy, Brandon.
I think it's intriguing, is what I can say.
There has to be something more to it.
Yep. Are we truly alone in the universe?
Welcome to Aero Dynamic.
‐So this is the hangar? ‐Yep.
‐CAMERON: Hey, Brandon. ‐These are my brothers.
‐How are you? ‐This is my brother Cameron.
‐Travis Taylor. Yeah. ‐Good to meet you, Travis.
‐My brother Matt. ‐Nice to meet you too, man.
Nice to meet you.
So we're going to be in this helicopter today?
Yep, this is the Airbus H130.
‐TRAVIS: H130, Okay. ‐We'll be flying
‐at 10,000 feet. ‐Aw, that sounds awesome.
Safe flight, uh, and good luck at Skinwalker Ranch.
Go with engine startup.
All systems are check.
We'll proceed on our way.
You probably want to get down there
‐and get boots on the ground, don't you? ‐Yep, I do. Absolutely.
I want to get down and start walking.
I want to cover every inch of the place.
What do you think about the ranch?
‐Those are some strange stories. ‐Oh, yeah.
What do you think about all that?
Well, it's interesting.
I originally went from believing
that it was just kind of all foo‐foo
to thinking there might be something, uh, to this, based on
what I've experienced personally.
Stuff has happened. There's times where I've felt
I don't really want to be there.
Not knowing what's, what's causing some of the anomalies
that are out there.
My main concern is just to make sure that we're safe
going in and out of the property.
‐Oh, I agree with that. ‐Especially in aviation,
you do the best you can
‐to minimize any danger or risks. ‐Yeah.
You do your preflight checks,
you make sure the maintenance is right;
but even then, there's still some things
that you don't have control over.
And so for every flight I go on,
I always say a little prayer, just try to keep it simple.
‐Okay. ‐And so I'd love to do that if you are open to that.
‐Absolutely, sure. ‐All right.
Heavenly Father, we're grateful
for this opportunity to fly today,
and to do some exploring and‐and research,
and explore the sciences.
We ask for safety today.
Protect us as we come into this ranch.
And we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Amen.
CAMERON: We're approaching the ranch.
We're going to go low level down over the entrance
to show you the guard shack.
All systems are check, we're descending
down onto the property now.
Below you'll see the gate, the concrete barriers,
‐and the signage. ‐Right. Yeah, I see that.
And then the guard shack.
TRAVIS: As Cameron flew me into Skinwalker Ranch,
my first impression is
it's in the middle of nowhere.
It's not anything unusual to look at
from any of the other land around it;
it's the things that are supposedly happening here
that makes it unusual.
Now, where is it where the mountain
is glowing in the video
‐that they showed me? ‐So I'll show you the ridge.
Skinwalker Ridge.
It's over in this area that I don't typically fly over
based on reports they had of light originating in the area.
So we'll kind of skirt around this.
So, right there at your one o'clock, the mesa plateau.
‐And it's this, this ridge here that's glowing? ‐Yeah.
‐Yep. ‐Huh.
CAMERON: It's where they detected it on the cameras.
‐TRAVIS: Wow. ‐The scientists have cautioned me to‐‐
to be careful here,
uh, due to the potential for any energy
or any other disruption of the helicopter. I stay away.
I just, I felt uneasy flying over that
with what I saw in the video.
‐Really? ‐Just to make sure.
TRAVIS: Well, you know,
if it's some kind of electromagnetic phenomena,
‐it could affect the avionics, right? ‐Yeah. Yeah.
TRAVIS: Make it unsafe. So, I can understand that.
‐CAMERON: My primary goal is safety. ‐TRAVIS: Oh, yeah.
CAMERON: So there's Homestead 1 here.
This is the primary homestead down below in the trees.
Then along the ridge, there's Homestead 2...
...and then, uh, Homestead 3 will be down
‐on the western side of the property there. ‐Okay.
A lot of the activity, for whatever reason,
seems to be centered around the old homesteads.
These over‐100‐year‐old structures.
And that activity is not only UFO‐related,
it involves the full gamut of unexplained phenomena
that we continue to monitor.
Really intriguing.
I hope not to leave here more perplexed
than when I came in, right?
‐(both chuckling) ‐That's right.
TRAVIS: One of the things that excites me the most
about this ranch, and, uh, the investigation team,
and doing this, uh, research, is... what if?
That's the big thing.
What if some of it's real?
What if this really is an answer
to one of the big questions that Brandon had?
Maybe we'll get some insight.
‐TRAVIS: Hey, guys. ‐TEAM: Hey, Travis.
‐THOMAS: You made it. ‐Yeah. It was a great flight coming in.
‐It was beautiful. ‐JIM: Good to see you. Welcome.
‐TRAVIS: How you doing? ‐Nice to have you.
TRAVIS: Yeah, it's good to see you guys.
Welcome to Skinwalker.
Yeah, thanks, man. Glad to be here.
‐What's going on, Dragon? ‐Hey, Trav.
How you doing, buddy?
‐Let me introduce you to Kaleb here. ‐Hey, Kaleb. How you doing?
This is my right‐hand man.
We'll be taking good care of you while you're here.
BRYANT: My name is Bryant Arnold.
And my main role is the head of security here.
The reason that we take security so seriously is
we need to protect the scientific integrity of things
going on, and protect the people that live here.
Skinwalker Ranch piques people's interest,
and so with that we get a lot of people
that try to sneak onto the property.
We carry weapons because
we don't know what we're dealing with,
and it's a dangerous place,
between the natural things that are here
and then also the unknown.
Well, it's nice to meet you.
‐I got to get back to it, so... ‐TRAVIS: All right,
‐thank you, man. ‐Yep. Have a good one.
I'm excited to be here, man.
I can't wait to start looking around.
Well, let's show you the command center,
real quick, and, uh, start the tour.
TRAVIS: Let's do it.
So this is the command center.
This is the command center.
A few things that we've collected
over the last couple years as we've been here.
Ah, cool. I like all the pictures.
Erik, you ought to show him the control room.
Sure. Travis, come take a look.
Is this where all the instruments are piped into?
‐ERIK: That it is. ‐The nerve center.
This is our inner sanctum.
TRAVIS: Inner sanctum, I love that.
So it's a work in progress, but you can see...
‐Yeah... ‐Surveillance assets;
see the systems that we've got online right now.
ERIK: My name is Erik Bard.
I've been acting as principal investigator
at the Skinwalker Ranch site since 2016.
Brandon has entrusted me with the first phase
of the investigation under his watch.
That phase is a phase of...
observational science.
We're observing the property,
primarily looking for phenomena,
and real evidence that there's something here on site.
The idea of building a control room
was born out of necessity, so that I can observe
what's happening at all hours.
We have surveillance assets allowing us to see
in various directions across the property.
We have thermographic imaging cameras,
night‐vision equipment.
And so we've got the weather data.
Always important. Temperature, humidity.
‐TRAVIS: The daily rain... ‐ERIK: Right.
‐And what have we got here? ‐You're looking at the output
from the SATAN platform, which is actually right there.
‐TRAVIS: Okay. ‐ERIK: We also have a platform that I designed,
to which I've given the name SATAN; it's an acronym
for Sentinel Assignment, Telemetry and Notification.
It's a device that allows us to measure
vibrations in the ground and to record sounds
that are below the frequency range of human hearing.
The device is constantly measuring,
and whenever we get a signal of interest,
‐it lets me know about it. ‐Okay.
‐This is the transponders for the airplanes? ‐Right, so this
is air traffic over the ranch right now.
We also have an avionics receiver
that receives the signals being emitted by aircraft
identifying them by their tail numbers.
The purpose of the avionics receiver
is to help us discern between
things of known origin‐‐ aircraft‐‐
and bright light sources
that have no identifying information.
And we've seen things that are actually quite unexpected
and confusing.
But I'm not here to believe,
I am not here to disbelieve, I'm here to observe.
Well, what'd you think?
TRAVIS: Oh, it's the inner sanctum. That was awesome, man.
We got a lot to see. I think we ought to get you out
‐and get going. ‐Yeah, I'd love to.
THOMAS: Okay. Let's go get started.
So, are we driving or walking?
THOMAS: It's more than a walk,
so why don't we take the UTV?
TRAVIS: I got shotgun!
This is great.
SEGALA: All right, you're about to see some really cool stuff.
‐TRAVIS: Yeah? ‐THOMAS: We're gonna go see the mesa.
THOMAS: You know, on our way over to the mesa,
there's something I want to show you real quick.
‐You want to see it for just a second? ‐TRAVIS: Yeah! Heck, yeah.
My hope for being out here at Skinwalker Ranch
is to get some answers.
There's so many stories about, you know,
boogeymen and aliens and whatever else.
If there is something happening out here
that's unusual, I want to find out.
So, Travis, a lot of interesting things.
So this used to be a very operational ranch,
where they had the cattle, they would process right here.
They had calves in this area. They had bulls in this area.
You mean when the‐the Shermans owned the place...
When the Shermans occupied the, uh, the ranch here.
BRANDON: Everything that I have researched
relative to the Sherman family leads me to believe
that they were subjected to such an intense amount
of disturbing activity.
They experienced everything from UFO sightings
to countless cattle mutilations.
They had beasts or entities
that would appear to them.
I don't blame them for selling the property.
They were terrorized.
There's a story where
a very large wolf
came in off the plains.
And a group of calves were in this pen right here.
The wolf put his head through,
and started pulling one of the calves out of the fence.
The Shermans, seeing that, the father then went inside,
got a weapon, and came out and started shooting at it.
Point blank, you know, right here.
Shooting at the wolf.
BRYANT: Right, like a .357,
and then that didn't do anything,
so apparently, it let them go back in
and a bigger gun, and I guess
that's what it took to let it‐‐ to make it drop the calf.
And the story goes that this animal
was strong enough to withstand, allegedly,
six shots from a .357
and a couple shots from a .30‐06 rifle.
So they pursued after it,
and as they got to the part of the ranch
where the river bisects the property,
they could see tracks going down the mud
and starting up the side of the bank on the other side
and then disappearing into nothing,
as if the thing had just vaporized.
And so, there are rumors and stories that have come out
about all sorts of really fantastic happenings here.
I‐I know, uh,
the stories of the skinwalker,
the shape‐shifter thing, isn't one of the things
that it's supposed to turn into is like a big wolf?
‐That's correct. ‐That's strange, right?
So to the mesa?
‐Yeah, let's head over to the mesa. ‐All right.
I'm not entirely convinced
that this stuff can't be explained.
So I'm really eager to see for myself
what's happening on this ranch.
THOMAS: Okay, ready?
TRAVIS: Yup.
So this is it? Skinwalker Ridge.
‐THOMAS: Yeah. ‐ERIK: That's right.
TRAVIS: They call it the Skinwalker Ridge.
Has any of you ever seen it?
The skinwalker shape‐shifter thing walking the ridge?
Well, I haven't.
Have y'all talked to anybody that claims to have seen it?
Jim Morse has seen it.
That's right.
When they talk about the curse of the skinwalker,
um, back in the mid‐1800s, 1860,
uh, the Utes and the Navajo, um, they crossed each other.
Unfortunately, the Utes were utilizing
the Navajos as slaves.
So the Utes and the Navajo
got into a skirmish,
and because of that
the Navajos cursed this land,
which now is the, uh, path of the skinwalker,
this shape‐shifting spirit.
I didn't want to believe this phenomenon is real,
but then there was one evening
that we were combing the ground,
and one of the guards that I was with
carries, like, an infrared lamp,
and as he was combing the rocs
he pointed out two big red eyes.
It looked at me, and then it left.
Call me what you will,
but I, personally, am not comfortable out here‐‐
even with my security background
as a military police officer‐‐ to be out here alone,
uh, in‐in the, in the dark of the night.
THOMAS: Let's stop right here.
This is probably the easiest place
to access the top of the ridg.
Climb the rest of the way.
TRAVIS: So is this where the glow was from the video?
That's right, there's about a 500 to 600
foot long section of this mesa
that appears to pulsate in some of our night footage.
I'm gonna check my compass and see if it's acting crazy.
That's... that's west, right?
So it seems like it's doing fine.
You ought to check your TriField meter, see what it's doing.
I'm getting a little tone from it.
‐A little tone? ‐Whoa.
‐Let me see that thing. ‐Sure.
TRAVIS: Out on the mesa,
we're using these electric field measurement devices
called TriField meters.
‐Get out of the way, make sure it ain't your radio. ‐Okay.
TRAVIS: And they measure three fields: magnetic field,
static electric field, then it measures radio frequency
and microwaves, which is electromagnetic dynamic fields.
Whoa, whoa, it's gone up.
Hold on, let me step back.
TRAVIS: There are always radio waves
and microwaves bouncing around everywhere.
We use that for Wi‐Fi,
for your cell phone communications, everything.
The biggest thing that piqued my interest
was the amount of energy in these microwaves
we were measuring was getting close to dangerous levels.
That's significant.
And the direction
continued to change.
It's coming from that direction.
What is doing that?
Look at that.
Sounds like it might be getting
louder as we get higher.
Let's go up the mountain and see what happens.
Skinwalker Ranch is in the middle of nowhere,
and I couldn't see a cell phone tower as far as I could see.
I barely was getting a signal on my phone,
and there were no Wi‐Fi routers.
‐Whoo. Man, that was a nice walk. ‐Man. That's a climb.
‐(chuckles) ‐Hey, hand me that meter.
What's yours saying, Erik?
‐So we're at four and a half. ‐Which way?
This way.
Yeah, this one's pegging out.
Along‐‐ It's kind of a‐along the ridge line.
Yeah, I mean, it's‐it's a real strong signal.
THOMAS: What's it saying?
TRAVIS: Dude, it's‐it's in the milliwatts per meter squared.
And, I mean, that's a significant
amount of energy right there.
We went to the top of the mesa, and what we found
was even more electromagnetic radiation
that shouldn't be there.
That's a real strong signal.
And at dangerous levels
that could be harmful to humans.
Oh!
And it's shifted now.
Now it's coming from that direction.
‐And it's all radiation. ‐TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah, it's all RF.
Wow.
TRAVIS: The level of microwaves there
that we detected were much stronger than
what you get from your cell phone
or your Wi‐Fi routers,
and microwaves like that just don't exist in nature.
So where was this microwave radiation coming from?
Because I'd never seen that.
I don't know. We've‐we've been here, what,
an hour and already found something
that I don't have any idea what's going on.
I‐I‐I don't understand it.
TRAVIS: Well, I have no idea fo what we just saw, e,
but we did see something.
Not bad for your first few hours on the ranch, huh?
Yup, wasn't bad.
Wasn't a monster or an alien
or a UFO, but it was still something weird.
At least it was something.
TRAVIS: I certainly didn't expect
to see anything the first day I got here,
much less the first hour,
but when we walked up on Skinwalker Ridge,
we saw microwave radiation at levels
that were close to dangerous.
Hey, guys, welcome back.
TRAVIS: And I wasn't expecting that.
I can't explain it,
but we're gonna get to the bottom of it.
There was some sort of source of‐of electromagnetic radiation
hitting the bottom of the mountain,
and as we moved up the mountain, it seemed
to get a little worse, and it was random, though,
'cause we'd point the meter in one direction, and it'd peg out,
then it'd stop. Then we'd point it in another direction,
and it'd peg out again. Held my cell phone up to it,
‐it wasn't the cell phone. ‐THOMAS: Yeah, electronics weren't‐‐
didn't seem to be the source of it, which is...
Well, and there was two of them reacting the same way,
so it wasn't a bad meter or anything like that, we had both.
And one time, Erik was holding his pointed
completely opposite direction,
and both of them were pegging out.
‐It was just‐just strange. ‐BRYANT: Well, and that sort of thing
doesn't just happen on the mesa or in the bowl like that.
We'll come across times where we'll be carrying that equipment
and all of a sudden it'll peg out for no reason.
Yup.
That's why we need to be measuring this stuff
over a long period of time.
‐Right. ‐BRYANT: Exactly.
‐Right. ‐Exactly.
So I'd like to get about 50
of those TriField meters
and put them in known locations around the ranch,
like, up on the hill where we just measured the crazy stuff,
whatever that was,
and‐and have it real‐time, right there, being recorded.
‐Yeah. Oh, yeah. ‐Right?
'Cause if something like that
is happening like we just saw,
I want us to capture date and time
'cause that way we might‐‐ can figure out
where it's coming from, what it's doing,
‐and what's happening to it. ‐Yeah.
Beyond that, I would like to have
a complete sweep of the radiation spectrum
over the entire ranch.
THOMAS: And that reminds me, when they were doing
the nuclear tests down in Nevada...
‐Are you talking about the atomic bomb testing? ‐Yes.
When they were doing that down in Nevada,
uh, the Uinta basin was actually
‐a hot spot for the downwind. ‐Oh, really?
Some of the highest concentrations measured,
if I understand right, were just
30 miles north of here.
Well, we should look into that as well.
We‐we know what the decay products are
from those particular tests
and that's all documented really well. We should
look in to see how that may have affected the ranch.
‐Right? ‐That's a great idea. ‐Yup.
TRAVIS: Back during the Manhattan Project,
as, uh, long ago as 1945 and on through the early '50s,
a few hundred miles away,
at the Nevada Test Site,
there were aboveground nuclear tests,
meaning atomic bombs were set off.
Nuclear fallout was thrown up into the sky,
this is radioactive dirt,
dust particles, that then fly around with the air currents,
and a lot of those winds brought this radiation
over the Uinta Basin where Skinwalker Ranch is.
So back in the '50s,
it's highly likely that radioactive fallout
fell on this ranch,
and some of it should still be there today.
It's possible that exposure
to radioactive fallout
could cause people to have strange symptoms,
maybe even hallucinations, and see things, hear things,
and maybe even do things that would seem abnormal.
There might be uranium or something
‐in the dirt here. ‐Right.
So we need to have a complete radiation sweep,
‐so we'd have a map. ‐Sure.
‐That's right. ‐TRAVIS: We need to look for radon gas
'cause that's a by‐product of uranium decay.
We should look for, uh, gammas and betas and alpha
‐particles even. ‐Mm‐hmm.
We need to look for radioactive trace
or something in the ground, so we should see
what happens when we do something like digging a hole.
And we create
a precisely controlled experiment where
we're digging to this depth,
and to this size, and this volume.
And every five feet, you do a gamma test.
TRAVIS: Right.
We can be looking at the electromagnetic spectrum
while we're doing it in case there is some kind of strange
microwave phenomena that's occurring.
BRYANT: Look,
scientists by nature want to explain everything.
‐Well... ‐See, here's‐‐ The problem is,
those of us that don't think in a scientific mind all the time,
talk about a feeling or, you know,
something‐‐ the heebie‐jeebies, whatever you want to call it...
‐Right. ‐...in us laypeople terms.
I mean, I'm not a scientist, but I've spent a ton of time here,
I know for a fact,
crap goes down when people start disturbing the earth.
If we start digging, that's the trigger.
You know, if you're gonna be a part of this,
I have to unequivocably say "No digging."
When you guys talk about every W time somebody digs out here
on the ranch without asking about
where to and where not to dig, it seems to me
like that's‐that's a big blinking sign saying
"if you want to create the phenomena to manifest itself,
‐you go and dig somewhere." ‐BRYANT: I'm not
the type that wants to go looking for trouble.
There's enough going on around this place
where I‐I'm not looking to stir up trouble.
‐Yeah, I mean, I‐I hear you... ‐Great.
BRYANT: The history of the place
has said that when you dig, bad stuff happens.
I heard about not digging
as soon as I came onto the property.
It goes back to previous owners of the property.
They said that when you dig or disturb the earth,
that is what seemed to trigger whatever phenomenon is here
and caused harm, and that's not what I'm looking to do here.
Well, how about you, Erik?
Well, do you want to go out and start digging holes?
You're the eyes and ears of the place.
ERIK: I'm doing my very best
not to be superstitious about this.
I am intensely curious
about what might be below this‐this ranch.
But I do not consider
my own curiosity an entitlement to knowledge.
There are some contexts in which perhaps even I shouldn't know
about what's going on on the ranch.
But until I'm advised to that end,
I'm proceeding as if this is an observational,
‐experimental undertaking. ‐TRAVIS: Well,
I think that's what it has to be.
My grandmother used to always say,
"A hornet's nest isn't interesting
until you poke it with a stick."
‐Right? And... ‐BRYANT: Okay, well,
what kind of hornets were you dealing with?
Well, hornets that sting, so you use a really long stick
‐and then you drop the stick and run really fast. ‐Okay, so...
who's gonna do the digging, then?
Well, that's a good question. I don't know the answer to that.
Maybe we get volunteers that don't mind the risk?
It's impossible to explain the risk.
There's one person that knows the risk,
and he's sitting right there. Right?
Having been a person that's done a lot of digging on this ranch,
the more serious of digging I do,
the more serious of consequences that follow.
I didn't believe in the paranormal
when I came out on this ranch.
And I paid a pretty hefty price.
When they told me not to dig, I just thought it was ridiculou.
And so, one day, I decided to do some digging.
And then, three days after, I noticed that I had
a goose egg on the back of my head.
By the time I let my wife
finally take me to the emergency room,
the goose egg had actually spread through my entire head.
My scalp separated from my skull.
The pain is so excruciating, I've never felt anything
like it before in my life.
The doctors had no idea what caused it.
They didn't know how to fix i.
Basically they're telling me what happened to me
was medically impossible, and it caused me a severe injury
that to this day I'm still having some repercussions with.
I know that I was warned, "Hey, don't do digging."
I didn't have this preconceived idea in my mind that if I dug,
something bad was gonna happen, because I‐I didn't believe it.
Enough things have happened to myself, to the equipment,
it is a possibility that they are correlated.
This is real stuff.
This is nothing to take for granted.
You're talking about health and wellbeing.
T‐This is no nonsense.
TRAVIS: I get it.
These guys are nervous.
When they've dug, they've seen things happen.
Tom's injury was real serious.
It scares them a little bit and they want to be careful.
And I get that.
I don't want anybody to get hurt.
But I'm not sure what caused the injury.
And I think we're only gonna find that out
by doing a lot more experimentation.
We are interacting with this somehow or other,
and so we need to calibrate what we're doing to the experiment.
THOMAS: Look, if we're gonna dig,
if we're gonna test this, let's just do it in a way
that we're keeping the possibility
that it may be dangerous and let's put some safety nets up,
just in case.
Jim, what do, what do you think about it?
I think we should dig because I want to learn more
about what it means to dig.
I don't see an anomaly happening as a warning,
I see it as an invitation.
BRYANT: Look,
it's not my piece of property.
You've been brought here obviously for a purpose.
If the owner of the property says, "I want this to happen,"
then I'm on board.
We ought to see if we can get Brandon on the line
and talk to him about some of the stuff
that we've talked about.
Erik, do you think we can get him on video chat
‐or something like that, see if we can give him an update? ‐Sure.
‐Sure, I'll bring him up now. ‐All right.
(line ringing)
(chimes)
‐TRAVIS: Hey, Brandon. ‐Greetings, team. How are you?
‐Doing well. ‐Doing great, how are you?
I am glad that you patched me in
and I'm wondering how the investigation is progressing.
Well, it's been an eventful day.
As the ranch usually does when we bring new people on,
it seems to, uh, liven up a little bit.
And we, uh, caught some pretty interesting things today.
TRAVIS: Yeah, Brandon, when we were up
on the mesa, the TriField meters
were measuring really strong transient microwave fields
and‐and the power that, uh, we were picking up
was on the verge of being dangerous levels.
So, I'd like to get some more precise measurements made.
Yeah, that's‐that's disturbing, and that is also consistent
with what we've experienced in the past.
What are the priority items going forward
as we launch into this phase of the investigation?
BRYANT: So, one of the first things the guys want to do
is get some surveys and some testing done.
They want to do some RF testing.
They want to do radiological testing,
some thermography and...
they want to dig.
Hmm.
You know, I...
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.
Uh, w‐which part are you not comfortable with, uh, Brandon?
The digging. I think that once we commence digging,
it opens up a whole Pandora's box,
and there are certain risks
that I think you just aren't privy to
and haven't been properly briefed on.
TRAVIS: When Brandon said
there was no digging on the ranch, I was stunned.
How are we gonna get to the bottom of things
happening on this place,
if we can't investigate in every way we can?
TRAVIS: Well, we need
to be briefed on that data, then,
so we can understand the phenomena
that we're being exposed to or trying to uncover.
I understand. Erik,
do you happen to have the, uh, the case?
I do. I've been saving it
until the right point in the discussion to bring it up.
TRAVIS: My first reaction when Brandon tells me
that they haven't showed us everything,
that we haven't seen all the information they have...
Well, how can I help them
if they don't give me all the information?
And I was a little bit concerned about that.
This is not to be taken lightly,
and that's why we've kept the material
under lock and key.
I think you'll understand soon why.
This is a matter of, really,
the highest level of seriousness and sensitivity.
‐Hmm. ‐BRYANT: These are hornets that you've never
had to deal with before.
Hornets. All right.
Well, I want to see them.
BRANDON: Erik, with that,
proceed to show them what is in the case.
Regrettably, I have to go to a meeting,
so I'll look for your update later.
‐Thanks, gentlemen. ‐OTHERS: Thanks, Brandon.
TRAVIS: I came into this saying, look, guys,
we're gonna follow the scientific method.
You can't keep data
away from the experiment and not show the rest of the team,
in order for it to be a good experiment.
I've got a U. S. government clearance,
and I don't see why Brandon and the team
feel like they have to keep anything from me.
Now, I'm beginning to wonder what the heck
they've got in store for me.
So what I am going to show you
may offer an explanation for some
of what we've been seeing on the property.
You'll understand as soon as I open this up.
TRAVIS: Wow.
TRAVIS: The legend is that things happen on this ranch.
SEGALA: Okay, that's spiking.
‐That could be dangerous. ‐It's coming from up there.
ERIK: The signal was coming from the sky.
‐What is that? ‐TRAVIS: Do you guys see that?
It flew from behind the mesa. Foom.
‐There it is. ‐There it is again.
Whoa. That's a definite beam.
The moment that object appeared, the cow reacted.
HOWE: We are dealing with some kind of intelligence
that has the ability to paralyze.
KANDUS: It felt like someone was knocking from under the floor.
‐What is that? ‐THOMAS: Is that a fragmented bone?
ERIK: It could be human remains.
We have something active beneath this property.
‐TRAVIS: It stinks in here. ‐THOMAS: I don't want to stay in here very long.
TRAVIS: We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.
‐My head is killing me. ‐JIM: This is serious.
SEGALA: I think it's time to go to the hospital.
BRANDON: I wanted to get out here as soon as I could.
Who or what could we be dealing with?
BRYANT: There is something of significant size down there.
‐JIM: Is it saucer‐shaped? ‐Yes.
TRAVIS: Let's dig it up.
‐BRYANT: Look at that. ‐THOMAS: What is that?
SEGALA: Why is that rocking like that?
‐TRAVIS: Oh! ‐(cows mooing)
What we saw tonight was real.
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