‐Look at that. ‐What is that?
THOMAS: There's a helicopter coming in.
That dude's hovering right there.
THOMAS: I think somebody's watching us right now.
There's something going on out here.
TRAVIS: What in the world? There's no sign of struggle.
It's just dead.
‐(beeping) ‐The meter is going nuts.
All the frequencies are excited.
Mankind doesn't know how to do that.
LINDA: You all may have the first consistent data
here at the Skinwalker Ranch.
We're dealing with something
that doesn't want us to understand.
ERIK: The cow is right here.
I can't help but also notice that
there's something happening here.
BRANDON: The cow reacted
the moment that that object appeared.
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ERIK: So here, you can see
she starts to get up.
The cow is trying to get up on her feet.
‐The object is here. ‐LINDA: Wow.
‐The cow reacted. ‐TRAVIS: Right.
The moment that that object appeared
above the cow, the cow was reacting.
Yes.
TRAVIS: Yesterday, on the ranch, we found
that a two‐year‐old cow
that had gotten completely separated
from the rest of the herd just suddenly died.
And for no apparent reason.
Jim, are you seeing anything on the spectrum analyzer?
So, I'm getting some pretty high spikes.
TRAVIS: Oh, wow!
Later, we had a veterinarian come out
and perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
But his findings only served to confirm our suspicions
that something really out of the ordinary
must have happened to it.
SEGALA: I just want to verify something,
that the animal was going about her business,
doing her thing, got stressed by something
that lowered her immune system,
which allowed pneumonia to set in.
Exactly, yeah.
All the signs I've seen point toward
stress‐induced pneumonia.
TRAVIS: Luckily, one of Erik Bard's surveillance cameras
actually captured the moment that the cow died.
It also captured something else.
Something that appears to be a UFO
in the sky directly overhead.
Go back and show them where you first see it, Erik.
Okay, so this is our first shot of it.
And I'm going to go single‐stepping
one frame at a time.
LINDA: And it actually popped.
So, is that 1/30th of a second video?
‐It's 1/15th. ‐This is, this is 1/15. ‐LINDA: 1/15.
TRAVIS: And so, clearly, it's behind the trees.
And... you know,
the distance from the camera to the trees is how far?
It's about 75 feet between the‐the tree
that you see on the far right and the next tree.
So, if it's directly over the tree line,
it moved 75 feet in a 15th of a second.
So, you multiply that,
that means it moved about a thousand feet in a second.
That's... That's as fast as a high‐powered rifle bullet.
I was sitting here this whole time
just thinking it was a bird, but you watch that real‐time,
‐I mean, that's fast. ‐Yeah, there's no bird moving that fast.
Not at a thousand feet per second.
I have no idea what that is.
And you're saying a thousand feet per second,
‐assuming it's right above the trees. ‐It's right over the trees.
‐Right. ‐If it's just beyond the tree,
‐it could be moving even faster. ‐TRAVIS: Even faster.
There's an interesting thing that I noticed
when we were looking at it earlier. Erik,
if you could pull the one where it's directly over the cow.
‐And zoom in on the thing. ‐Sure.
‐You want to go in tighter? ‐TRAVIS: Yup.
Uh, if you look around
the spot, there's an area
that looks a little bit different.
‐LINDA: Halo‐ish. ‐TRAVIS: Yeah.
And I noticed it when I did an analysis
of the Tic Tac video that the Navy has.
Recently, it's come to light that there's been this program
that the Pentagon has been funding called
the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
A‐A‐T‐I‐P or AATIP.
And this program was actually put in place
to look at unknown aerial phenomena: UFOs.
And there's a Gimbal video that was released,
uh, and a Tic Tac video.
And all these videos show a vehicle that's flying
with some type of propulsion that we don't know of.
We can't understand what it is by looking at the video.
When we looked at it on a FLIR,
that told us that it was cold and the craft was warm.
And then you got ambient air around it.
During my first meeting with the Skinwalker team,
Brandon showed me a photo of a UFO
that was taken above the ranch.
One of the first things that we captured
on the property
was an interesting object
just over the mesa.
TRAVIS: And it looked to have
that same kind of halo around it,
something that I believe is caused
by a temperature differential.
And that's something I've seen
in a number of other UFO videos.
It could be a highly, highly classified thing.
But here's the thing. If there's a project
that's that classified, that level of technology
so far advanced
from the rest of the technology we have on the planet,
that‐that's h... that's real hard to swallow.
Two things we don't know.
Are we dealing with a craft that is moving point to point
and has influence
on the brain of that cow?
And the fact that the herd is not around.
I don't know that I have seen them pushed up
to that side of the ranch since we brought them on,
so that behavior by itself was unusual.
LINDA: I saw the cow,
and it's not a mutilation.
But somehow that animal was sick enough
or affected enough or manipulated enough,
it was left behind all the herd.
And it is that that has been reported over and over
in animal mutilation cases.
Is it related in some way?
I think we're seeing a reaction
to something in its environment
‐at the very end. ‐Right.
And it's enough of a reaction that it's making
‐a deathly ill cow want to move. ‐Want to get out of there.
BRANDON: We very well could have prevented
a full‐blown cattle mutilation from occurring.
‐That's a possibility. ‐That's a possibility.
It's oddly serendipitous.
You know, it's one of those things.
We continue to hit home
that correlation isn't causation,
but we have two really interesting phenomena
occurring at exactly the same time
very near the same spatial location.
It really makes you want to look deeper to see
can we prove the cow moved because of that thing?
Man, you just got to wonder.
If this object appeared at just the same time
this cow is dying its last breath
and then just after the fact, we're measuring
all these weird electromagnetic signals,
is that a coincidence?
BRANDON: We're out in the middle of nowhere.
So, which begs the question. Linda,
have you seen with other cases you have investigated
these type of phenomena attend
cattle mutilations and other events?
LINDA: The sudden separation
of a herd that goes completely as far
as they can go in a pasture,
leaving the animal that is found mutilated?
That's happened many, many times.
What about the electromagnetic type of anomalies?
LINDA: I feel strongly
where there are mutilations,
where there are UFOs, you're going to find
that there are magnetic anomalies.
They go together.
And that includes the running down of batteries.
Wow.
TRAVIS: That's...
We get that all the time.
It's really weird that when strange things seem to happen,
we seem to find something in the sky at the same time.
LINDA: I think we are dealing
with point to point.
I think we're dealing with portals.
I think we are dealing with advanced technology.
See, you've got the combination
of just about every high strangeness going on here
at Skinwalker Ranch.
But after being here for a day,
I think the chapter has just simply turned.
And what I think gives me a new confidence
that maybe we're going to get some more data
is because of the work you're doing.
So, hooray, you guys.
Keep doing this,
because this is maybe the only way we're really going
to learn some of the truth that has been hidden.
BRANDON: Absolutely.
I think we're just starting to pull back the curtain
with our investigation here at Skinwalker Ranch.
And, uh, we'll look forward
to further updates in the future.
‐Thank you. ‐(overlapping chatter)
(wind whistling)
JIM: It's good to see everybody.
‐It's good to have you back, Travis. ‐Yeah, man.
I missed you guys.
After being out there with y'all for so long,
it was strange going home.
And I kept looking
over my shoulder for crazy stuff to happen, but...
‐(laughter) ‐Brandon
has instructed Tom, Erik and the team
to continue their surveillance of all the activities
on the ranch.
But after the death of the cow, we decided
to put a pause on experimentation out there,
at least until we've had a chance to analyze
all the data that we collected over the summer.
Hey, gentlemen. I'd like you to meet
attorney general for the state of Utah,
‐Sean Reyes. ‐TRAVIS: Wow!
‐Dragon, how's it going? ‐Hey.
‐Good to see you again. ‐Good to see you, too.
‐Sir. ‐Travis Taylor.
Mr. Taylor. Pleased to meet you.
Attorney General Reyes has been briefed
over the course of the last several years.
He's been very well aware and kept up on the events
that have occurred on property with you.
And I thought it was important today,
at his request, for him to be briefed
on some of the more disturbing
and interesting incidents that we've
most recently had out on the... on the property.
‐Great. ‐JIM: Yeah, thank you so much.
‐Appreciate your time. Thanks very much. ‐Glad you're here.
TRAVIS: The fact that our activities
at Skinwalker Ranch have merited the attention
of the state's attorney generl
shows me how seriously the state of Utah is taking
everything that we're doing out there.
I mean, let's face it, if just some of our suspicions
turn out to be correct,
the national security implications could be huge.
Thanks very much.
Brandon's been keeping me updated.
Because you all shepherd
the public now in a much more visible way
into the exploration
of what Skinwalker Ranch represents.
‐Yeah. ‐And, um,
on behalf of the citizens of the state of Utah,
I think it'd be important that this isn't viewed
as just, you know, this mysterious project
that these outsiders are conducting.
These are important issues for our state.
I'm happy to be a part of it.
I'm honored that you all
would brief me and let me participate.
So thank you all, each and every one of you.
‐Appreciate it. ‐Thank you. ‐Thank you.
You know, as we come back together after a month,
I thought it was important to evaluate the events
that happened on that ranch.
‐Yeah. ‐Because now you have hard data
‐Right. ‐that helps us hopefully understand
what is at play at Skinwalker Ranch.
‐Right. ‐ERIK: There's so many points here,
very good important points, for us to discuss,
and, really, sifting information,
trying to understand, you know, what is significant
and what may just be coincidental.
And also, if there are connections,
what are they?
Well, what have you taken from the events
that have occurred over the last few months?
Let's take this recent
disturbing incident with the cow.
The cow died, and we have, at the time of it dying,
measured strange microwave activity.
‐He was getting gammas. ‐Yeah, and microwaves.
TRAVIS: Hey, y'all?
I'd recommend not to touch it
till we see if it's radioactive or not.
THOMAS: No sign of trauma.
TRAVIS: What in the world?
There's no cat tracks, there's no sign of struggle.
‐Middle of the day. ‐It's just dead.
Jim, are you seeing anything on the spectrum analyzer?
I'm getting some pretty high spikes.
TRAVIS: Oh, wow!
Look at... the meter's going crazy.
My phone starts freaking out whenever your TriField goes off.
I don't have any control over my phone right now.
TRAVIS: Dude, look at that.
SEGALA: We had an actual autopsy done
by a veterinarian, a local veterinarian, and...
what they found out is that it died of pneumonia
brought on by stress.
BRANDON: What we did record is, we did record
some anomalous object
in the sky above the cow before it died
that it was reacting to.
So you have a biosensor,
in essence, that reacted immediately to the event.
‐Absolutely. ‐Something scared it to death.
‐TRAVIS: That's a really good way to put it. ‐Yep.
‐Something scared it to death. ‐THOMAS: It gets even stranger,
because after this cow died, we do what most ranchers do,
and you drag it off to a corner, and you let the body decompose.
‐And let the‐the scavengers... ‐And‐and yeah,
and the typical thing is, the coyotes
and the scavengers come in,
and they pick it clean. I was just up there a week ago,
on a patrol, and I went over there where that cow's at,
and it has not been touched.
To this day, not a single scavenger has touched that cow.
SEAN: Highly irregular.
TRAVIS: One of my graduate students
grew up working on a cattle farm in Alabama,
and he told me that if lightning ever struck one of the cows,
that the predators
would not eat it.
Maybe something happened to this cow.
We know it wasn't struck by lightning,
'cause there was no storms at the time.
But we did measure really high microwaves.
And maybe whatever these signals are
is affecting this cow in such a way that it tainted it.
And it's still sitting there.
No... nothing has touched it.
So there's something to that.
And there was another day where
we were launching rockets, for example, when...
suddenly we see so many phenomena
across so many different regimes of measurement.
While we were launching these rockets,
the entire herd of about 40 cows
come over to the area where we are.
You might think that they would be, um...
‐Skittish. ‐...frightened of our activity.
You'd think they'd go away from us.
Instead, during that activity,
we watched the cattle come
‐to the east field. ‐Actually,
‐they didn't come, they ran. ‐Well, that was exactly the point.
‐They ran. ‐And...
some of them behaved as if they were in a panic.
It was nearly stampeding behavior.
Yeah, yeah.
SEGALA: Look at the cows.
That is the strangest thing.
‐(cows bellowing) ‐BRYANT: Never seen that before.
SEGALA: They all grouped together
so tight, they started fighting.
THOMAS: They started to fight among each other,
head‐butting each other, they were mooing, they were...
BRYANT: I thought they were gonna take down the east fence.
Something that gave them more concern
than the sound of the rockets.
TRAVIS: Well, and it's at the same time
that the unidentified aerial phenomena
‐start appearing in the sky. ‐Really?
TRAVIS: Ignition!
Look, look, look, look!
‐What is that? ‐We got something. Hold on.
THOMAS: Oh, wait, wait, it's a plane, I think.
TRAVIS: No, that wasn't a plane.
‐Oh, there it is again! ‐There it is again!
THOMAS: It's gone.
SEAN: It's one thing to have
a light in the night or some random sighting,
but when livestock start to literally fall over...
It's not unheard of to have them die from time to time,
but not under these kinds of circumstances,
not with this many questions.
Or, our bigger concern, uh, beyond livestock,
when this starts to potentially impact human beings.
BRANDON: Yes.
You found out firsthand,
surprisingly, how dangerous this ranch can be.
TRAVIS: Absolutely. While we were out there,
we were in a... in a cave, and, uh,
I was exposed to something that made me, uh, nearly pass out.
TRAVIS: Let me ask a question, guys.
‐Do any of y'all feel a little swimmy‐headed at all? ‐ERIK: You feeling it?
TRAVIS: I don't know. Slightly, I felt
like I was not holding my balance well
for a second there‐‐ that's why I put my hand over on the rock.
And I'm feeling it now, too.
TRAVIS: And then, a few days later,
I was exposed to a fairly high dose of gamma ray radiation.
Heck, it could be a tunnel entrance for all we know.
I'd like to know what's in this thing.
Don't lift it up.
TRAVIS: I feel like, uh,
I got a little bit of a headache or something happening.
‐Holy... Mine's beeping. ‐SEGALA: Your total dose
‐is way up there. ‐Oh, my God.
We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.
So, did you end up going to the hospital
‐as a result of these injuries? ‐TRAVIS: Yes.
I had surgery as a result of those injuries.
TRAVIS: Maybe a week, maybe two weeks at most,
after I got exposed to the radiation,
I started getting a knot forming here, a bump,
coming out of my knuckle there.
And then another bump started forming.
And on into the summer,
it kept getting bigger and bigger and started hurting.
That's... that's nasty, man.
So then I went and had it X‐rayed,
and my doctor looked at it, and he says, "Well, uh,
you've got two bone spurs in there."
They said, "Well, you're gonna have to have it removed,
'cause it's just gonna keep getting bigger and worse."
And so they went in, and they took out a cyst
that was almost as big as an M&M.
There was, like, 18 stitches in there.
JIM: Mm, that's unreal.
And, uh, and it still feels like it's a broken finger.
It's still a little bit painful, but it's,
you know, it's healing fine.
Wow.
TRAVIS: I believe that whatever
this phenomena is that we've measured,
every time we've measured it,
we do get high energy levels and microwaves,
and we've measured gamma rays.
And so it's possible that whatever this is
that's occurring is what's causing the injuries.
But you're not the only one, right?
‐Mr. Winterton had... ‐Thomas had... serious ones, yeah.
I know, at least for my injury,
and‐and if I'm under the correct understanding
of some of the other injuries, they couldn't explain it away.
‐That's what... ‐That particular one, they couldn't.
They never came to conclusion of what caused it,
and they couldn't find what it was.
‐TRAVIS: Right. ‐Yep. ‐BRYANT: Well,
to your point, Thomas, too,
when you talk about ranching injuries,
we're not talking about broken bones and smashed hands.
We're talking about radiation exposure.
The injuries that Tom Winterton experienced back two years ago
were of the nature that he had a neurological episode,
and he had a big swelling in the back of his head.
And his injuries was consistent with a radiation beam
that entered his body from a specific angle,
back behind his head.
So Thomas's injury
really reinforces that this ranch could be very dangerous.
Somehow, all of this is coupled; we just don't know how.
Yeah.
ERIK: Obviously, we're experiencing things
of a subjective nature.
Something in our physiology is responding
to something on the property,
‐Yeah. ‐but we also see...
devices of many different kinds malfunctioning on the ranch.
We're talking about the,
uh, disruption of a handheld or a mobile device.
‐Like the phones, right? ‐Right.
My phone's freaking out.
It's just been doing this for the last,
you know, couple minutes.
I just ran up here so you could see it.
It was in my contacts, it tried calling a couple people,
and then it's been messing around in my camera.
Dude, that is crazy.
ERIK: We are continuously dealing
with some kind of interference that takes our systems down.
And it's not one type of device; it's many kinds of devices.
‐Right. ‐Uh, you know,
very often batteries are... are discharged,
‐Yeah. ‐or things don't work correctly.
Yeah.
PHIL: Oh, my gosh.
I completely charged these four batteries
last evening, and now they're into the yellow section.
ERIK: When have you seen that before?
I quite frankly have not seen that before.
TRAVIS: You name it,
if it had electronics in it, somehow or other,
it malfunctioned while we were out there this summer.
It either turned itself off, uh, it w‐‐ just wouldn't function.
Its electronic control software didn't work.
We had drones that worked fine one second,
then move it ten feet over and it wouldn't work at all.
DERRICK: All right, let's do this.
No connection.
TRAVIS: Huh, that's weird.
DERRICK: Yeah, I'm not connecting to the remote.
I don't know what's happening with it.
T‐That makes no sense.
I don't think this is a coincidence.
I think what happened is that because we were all there,
we were concentrated, we were doing experiments
on a daily basis...
Look, it is going nuts.
It's coming from up there.
And we were doing lots of experiments that no one
has ever really done on the ranch.
Oh, you see that? Look, look, look.
SEGALA: That caused the entity, the phenomena,
whatever you want to call it, to actually show itself
on a more frequent basis.
THOMAS: That's a definite beam.
It is clearly a beam going across there.
What we're seeing might not just be
the reactions of the phenomena.
The phenomena might actually be trying to tell us something
or show us something or lead us to something.
As you've seen unidentified aerial phenomena
appear simultaneous with other events,
does that constitute contact?
So, we didn't, as far as I can tell, try and talk back to them,
but we don't know that we didn't.
We were launching rockets, for example,
when, uh, a lot of them appeared over us.
‐Right. ‐Yeah.
TRAVIS: After having a month to reflect on, uh,
all the things we did,
the one thing that I just can't seem to, uh,
quit thinking about, really,
is while we were launching those rockets,
we had all these experiences,
saw all these UFOs appearing in the sky.
‐THOMAS: Look, look, look! ‐ERIK: What is that?
TRAVIS: And we measured it with all these instruments.
I wonder, were we communicating with whatever
this phenomenon is by launching these rockets and it said,
"Hey, we're here," and they said, "Hey," back?
‐Oh, there it is again! ‐There it is again!
‐It's still in the same spot. ‐BRYANT: Right there.
There's some communication possibly taking place
in response to the experiments that you launched.
‐Right. ‐ERIK: And also,
if there are connections, what are they?
Are we intelligent enough, are we intuitive enough, perhaps,
to‐to understand if, in fact, we're being communicated with?
‐Yep. ‐Do any of the things that we've observed
constitute communication?
Well, there's absolutely no disputing the fact
that we launched rockets, phenomena occurred.
I mean, within seconds and minutes of each other.
It would be interesting to say it's just serendipitous,
but never before on the ranch
have you guys reported a‐‐ this much activity at one time.
JIM: Not to this level.
‐It's unexplainable. ‐Yep.
SEGALA: We've never had physical evidence
that we actually saw with our own eyes.
We've never had recorded, electronically recorded data
that we took with instruments. I mean, this is amazing.
‐Yeah. ‐SEAN: And for those of us who look at
‐a lot of evidence, that's the most credible type of evidence. ‐Yep.
The stuff that's happening right in front of your eyes, right?
No‐no chance for someone's memory to‐to fade or to distort,
um, so that's im‐‐ that's impressive.
TRAVIS: So‐so, what it tells us is,
by‐‐ without‐‐ beyond a shadow of a doubt,
there is some phenomena occurring
and we have measured the phenomena.
The phenomena is real.
Now the question is: what is this phenomena?
‐Fascinating. ‐SEGALA: So,
technologically now, we've advanced this whole thing,
very, very high‐‐ to a high level.
Which means that we can take the next level.
‐Right. ‐Why can't we communicate with them?
So, now that brings up all these moral issues,
that falls on your shoulders.
TRAVIS: Whatever these are,
are saying, "Hey."
Do we have permission to say hi back?
‐Yeah. ‐SEAN: There are government agencies
and divisions for interactions.
Uh, we had them when we flew to the Moon.
We had to prepare just in case,
even in a one in a million chance
that we made first contact.
How do we interact? Who's gonna interact?
What‐What's the message?
‐Yeah, what are the protocols? ‐Yeah, that's right.
‐That's it. Exactly. ‐Right.
Maybe that's what we do, is just follow, uh,
what's in that particular guidance.
Yeah.
‐Right. ‐ERIK: You know, as I've been listening,
you know, my head is swimming with‐with ideas
about what it all means.
Do you have something you'd like to share
and illustrate for us?
I do have something, if we're ready for that.
ERIK: Recently, I've been preparing,
I guess, we'll call it a model
prompted by, uh, measurements of RF,
in particular microwave frequencies,
we've observed this summer.
For example, if there were a source
projecting energy downward, towards the ground,
then what we see in the model represents how
it would be reflected by the terrain into the space above.
TRAVIS: One of our theories is
that the Uinta Basin looks like a very large, uh, radio antenna.
It's a‐a dish, 'cause it's shaped
‐parabolically. ‐Right.
TRAVIS: And so, if that's the case,
whatever these weird signals we're seeing,
they're bouncing off of it and being focused to somewhere,
just like a dish focuses the energy.
ERIK: So, Attorney General Reyes,
what we're doing is we're‐we're fleshing out a hypothesis.
Okay?
We have some measurements.
We have some data that are very suggestive,
that maybe what Travis just described
is relevant somehow to what's going on.
And so, to visualize that problem,
I decided to build this model.
So, what I'd like to do is to share
some of the results of the modeling.
So, the data that we used to build this model comes from
the United States Geologic Survey.
This is terrain data that tells us what the lay of the land is.
And we plugged that into the model
and then turn it into a reflector.
So we should all recognize this geography.
‐BRANDON: Wow. ‐That's awesome.
ERIK: So we're going to focus on
the things that may happen that intersect
with the ranch property.
We are located
where you see that graphic.
TRAVIS: Right‐‐ Almost dead center.
ERIK: Yes.
So, what I did was construct a...
60,000‐square‐kilometer mirror.
And then producing a line
of what you just described as radiation coming down
from above, okay?
So, we're going to look at how those rays,
uh, interact with and reflect from this surface,
which is what this next visual shows us.
‐BRANDON: Wow. ‐JIM: Geez, Louise.
ERIK: This represents measurements
of microwave frequencies that we had in the summer.
We are looking at
parallel rays of energy coming down from above.
Primarily for long wavelengths,
not necessarily visible light.
‐BRYANT: Incredible. It's really cool. ‐Yeah.
If you'll look at the ones right in the center,
they're being focused.
And the ones at the edge,
you can see there is a significant focus,
where these things are being brought to a point
and there's mu‐‐ a big concentration of energy
up here somewhere.
If you think about it, that is amazing.
Erik, this is so cool.
Impressive.
TRAVIS: Based on Erik's visualization,
I believe that the Uinta Basin
could be acting almost like a satellite dish,
one that both collects
and directs energy from somewhere out in space.
Big question.
What could be causing this energy?
TRAVIS: That's the big question.
That is the question of the day.
TRAVIS: So, there's two possibilities.
Right now, we're thinking, "Okay, it's a‐‐
it's a‐‐ it's a reflective dish."
And so maybe the energy's coming from space
and it hits and it's being focused up. Or...
the other possibility is
this could be acting like a lens and not just a dish.
The source could be down here, inside the Earth,
and coming up through it and focusing.
But to what end, we don't know.
And‐and we've got to come up with other measurements
to figure out where the energy's coming from.
Hmm.
BRYANT: So, we've had the debate of whether
it's below the Earth or coming from above. I mean,
it could be a combination of the two.
Absolutely. I agree. I agree 100%.
There's a source and a destination,
‐whether, you know... ‐Yeah. Yeah, there's‐‐
One of them's a‐‐ There's a source and‐and to what end.
We got to find out where they're coming from.
Yeah.
ERIK: Now, this also reminds me
of something that‐‐
what I found kind of troubling during the summer.
You recall, you did an exercise
where you seemingly located a source,
uh, a concentration of signals,
uh, fairly low.
At about 5,000 feet. And I was just thinking about that.
ERIK: Right, and could you point
in the‐‐ in the vicinity of where you think that was?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
So, right in here,
you can see there is some convergence right there.
There was a local focus,
and we launched a weather balloon with radio frequency
and microwave instruments on it.
And when it got to about that height,
the instruments started failing.
You guys ready?
‐Yep, we're good. ‐Yep. Good to go.
TRAVIS: All right, here we go.
All right, slowly let it up.
All right, keep going. You're good.
‐THOMAS: Okay, we're clear. ‐TRAVIS: All right.
THOMAS: Man, that's a big balloon.
Yeah, ain't that cool?
THOMAS: Man, that's a long ways up.
TRAVIS: Heck yeah.
It failed right there,
which suggests maybe the power was so high
that it burned out the instruments.
Wow.
BRYANT: And whether it's just bad luck or not,
we never recovered the balloon, even.
‐SEAN: Interesting. ‐BRANDON: You never recovered
‐the balloon? ‐BRYANT: No. No.
TRAVIS: And we had GPS trackers on it.
So, you lost it. When it hit that point,
all of the instruments failed?
All the other instruments failed.
What?
Wow.
TRAVIS: You know, it's really intriguing
and, um, actually kind of startling a little bit
is I've been contacted by, uh,
some folks in the intelligence community
that are really interested in what we've found.
BRYANT: So,
is it they approached you?
How have they heard about...
They approached us.
Wow. So we're being monitored?
Yep.
So we're being monitored?
There are people interested in what we are doing.
I find that really intriguing.
They're gonna tell us something, I don't know what.
But my suspicion is they've measured a similar phenomenon,
don't know what it is, and they want to compare notes.
And I find that really intriguing.
It's very strange.
Hmm.
So what this tells us though is
there are real government organizations,
who are interested in this phenomena
and‐and are taking it seriously.
BRANDON: Wow.
TRAVIS: After being contacted
by representatives of the government,
including some folks in the intelligence community,
it was clear to me that someone had
been following our progress on the ranch.
THOMAS: Look at that‐‐ what is that?
‐There's a helicopter right up there. ‐Yeah, sure is.
THOMAS: You can hear it.
TRAVIS: That dude's hovering right there.
I think somebody's watching us right now.
That's exactly what it looks like.
TRAVIS: I think they're‐they're watching us, guys.
ERIK: So, guys, I'm gonna try to go in,
and look at the transponder data.
See if I can figure out who it is.
Yeah, that's a good idea, Erik.
They should by law, right, be transponding.
What we got, Erik?
They didn't show up at all.
BRYANT: So do you have a fear
that there's the possibility of them shutting us down or...?
‐TRAVIS: No, you know... ‐I don't think so, I think it's
more they're gonna encourage us to go in a direction.
But do they want
the world to know what's happening?
They won't tell anybody.
They may not, but, I mean...
I doubt they will acknowledge that they
ever had the meeting with us.
Uh, but they will know
what we know at that point.
Yeah, the fact that we're being monitored,
that our efforts have received a higher level
of attention and awareness within those channels,
I think speaks to the reality of this ranch.
Absolutely, I agree.
I agree 100%.
BRANDON: As we have obtained
all of this data and evidence,
I think now
it is our responsibility to take this forward.
But I'd like to hear
from the team, you know,
what do we need to implement
that will help us advance this research
to the next level?
ERIK: So, naturally, I'm interested
in increasing our instrumentation bandwidth.
Our virtual presence on the property.
I mean, we can't always be present.
At the same time, I have a feeling‐‐
more than a feeling‐‐ I have the data
that suggests that there are things taking place
all the time that are part of this puzzle,
and we want to collect as much of that as possible.
BRYANT: That's a great idea.
TRAVIS: So another experiment that we really should do,
also, is that we should design
and construct a very good, small satellite platform
that we can get launched as a secondary payload,
uh, pretty much for free‐‐ NASA has projects‐‐
especially if we involve a university.
They'll launch it for you for free.
You don't have to pay to get it launched.
And‐and we would put it in an orbit
that goes over the ranch.
BRANDON: Wow.
TRAVIS: And so that we would
continually get data from it.
Wow.
TRAVIS: I want to try and
reproduce stimulating the phenomenon.
Like the rocket test day, where we were
doing measurements with the rockets,
and then, suddenly, we see so many phenomena.
I want to see if we can reproduce that.
Thomas has‐has said before, maybe the ranch
gets immune to it and we have to bring it up a notch each time.
You know, do we do twice as many rockets the next time?
Or do we do one bigger rocket?
‐That is something we should really look at. ‐Right.
SEGALA: So what I would propose,
I think that it's important that we have a medical program
with protocols in place before anybody
steps back on that ranch in a significant way.
BRANDON: Yeah, health and safety
is going to be important, especially given the fact that
Tom and Travis
both went to the hospital as a result
of the activities over the last few months.
TRAVIS: It would've been great to have had
my vitals and all that
being recorded when the dosimeter went off,
and said I was exposed to radiation.
SEGALA: There is something going on.
It seems to emanate from the ground.
How can we learn more about it?
TRAVIS: That's what I want to know‐‐ how can we get
a really deep core sample?
Like, like, can we dig really, really, really deep?
BRYANT: How do you feel about
doing that digging, though, or would you want to hire somebody?
Because even when we did the core drilling,
you know, you chose to position yourself away.
And you're the one that has suffered
the ramifications of the digging
and this goes way back to what we talked about
when we first began this exercise.
I don't want to put you in harm's way.
YANT: How do you feel about doing that digging?
I don't want to put you in harm's way.
I don't want you to feel like you're pushed into that.
THOMAS: Well, the points
that we identified are not that deep.
They're not that far down.
15, 20 feet is not a big deal.
I'm just gonna wear my tinfoil hard hat.
(laughter)
THOMAS: I do have a lot of people around me
that think, without a doubt,
my injury was tied to the digging.
Well, it's not conclusive that it was the digging.
So that's why there's part of me that said,
"Yeah, I would, I'd just be very cautious."
I have a question for you guys, though.
For the first time since you've owned the ranch,
this is the largest group of people to be on that ranch.
And I know, you know, you were,
you were giving me a hard time at the beginning
'cause you said it's almost like
you guys talk as if this ranch has a personality.
Because we talked about how when you introduce...
‐It responds, yeah. ‐...somebody new, the ranch responds.
‐It's not a person. ‐It's a place, it's not a, it's not a, an entity.
But it responded.
‐Yeah. ‐I have to tell you guys,
when Brandon first invited me in,
the first day I came in here,
I honestly didn't know what to expect.
But I didn't think you guys were really onto
what you were onto because I don't believe
99% of the things that people claim they've seen, right?
I think this is in that one percent
of the unexplainable weirdness‐‐ the "what is it?"
And now we've
got indisputable evidence
that there is a real phenomenon that's happening
that is unexplainable.
Whatever you want to call it.
High strangeness?
It's real and it's there.
And I think the ramifications of it is world‐changing.
Agreed.
And I'll tell you what I told you
when we started on this adventure.
I truly believe now more than ever,
if this ranch can help us better understand
the nature of the universe,
and perhaps confirm that we're not alone,
this will indeed be
the greatest science project and endeavor of all time.
‐Right. ‐And...
as we move forward and take next steps,
we appreciate you coming in and spending the time.
Well, you have my personal interest, Brandon.
And I just want to make sure you all understand,
I take this very seriously.
And so, as you all continue
to validate, replicate, uh...
and investigate, uh, even more, I am anxious to see
what the next... step brings.
And I think that only helps the entire state.
‐So thanks very much. ‐Thank you very much.
‐We appreciate that endorsement. ‐BRANDON: Thank you.
We'll continue to keep you informed,
as to what we continue to observe.
And, ultimately, what we discover as we move forward.
‐Let's go. ‐BRANDON: Thank you, gentlemen.
Great, looking forward to it.
BRANDON: Given the extraordinary events that have been observed
and recorded over the last several months,
I believe that we
have a responsibility to take this forward
in a, in a more aggressive fashion.
It's not a matter of if
something is going to happen.
It's a matter of when that will happen
and if we are truly prepared.
‐There it is! ‐There it is again.
It is clearly a beam.
SEGALA: This was an amazing summer.
Ignition!
I think the pinnacle
was that we actually saw UFOs.
‐Look, look, look! ‐What is that?
Now that we know exactly what they look like
in the sky, we can start tracking these things.
We can actually set up a system
that can communicate with them
in some regard, by sending them signals
to see if they respond.
‐There it is again! ‐SEGALA: That would be
the next step in this evolution of trying
to figure out what they are doing here,
and why they picked this ranch
or this area to do it.
BRYANT: When I first came to the ranch,
I was kind of an agnostic, when it came to the place.
It's not that I didn't believe that things were happening,
but they sounded pretty amazing and outlandish to me.
Oh‐oh, right here, over here!
‐Right there. ‐That's it.
But after experiencing what I did this summer,
there's no doubt in my mind that there's a phenomenon
or something taking place there
that has completely shaken my understanding
on what reality really is.
You got to see a UFO, dude.
Dumbfounded, yeah, it's crazy.
As we move forward, I think that we could really
uncover something that could
make people like myself see the world differently.
Tom, you all right?
Well, let's get you the heck out of here, man.
THOMAS: Well, as they say,
we've opened up a can.
And we have just begun
to scratch the surface of what's happening here.
For every answer that we're getting in our investigation,
we're creating ten more questions.
What in the world? It's just dead.
THOMAS: And who knows
what crazy and amazing things are in store.
‐Audio beacon is on. ‐Let it rip.
Ain't that cool.
It's absolutely inconceivable...
‐Oh! ‐...the amount of things
that we experienced and saw and measured over the summer.
This looks like there's something a thousand feet long.
We have indisputable proof that there is an unusual phenomenon
that is not a normal occurrence.
I'm excited about it.
I can't wait to go back and do more experiments.
I can't wait to see what is out there.
Skinwalker Ranch may hold secrets to the universe
that we've yet to uncover.
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