1 00:00:02,208 --> 00:00:03,000 {\an1}THOMAS: I've heard there's underground bases here. 2 00:00:03,125 --> 00:00:04,375 {\an1}So many stories about these... 3 00:00:04,542 --> 00:00:06,250 {\an1}caverns in the mesa. 4 00:00:06,375 --> 00:00:08,167 {\an1}AARON: I'm up against something pretty hard. 5 00:00:08,333 --> 00:00:10,125 {\an1}THOMAS: We're hoping that we can drill through it 6 00:00:10,250 --> 00:00:11,750 {\an1}and see if we hit any voids. 7 00:00:13,167 --> 00:00:14,917 {\an1}BRYANT: That looks like a big chunk of something. 8 00:00:15,042 --> 00:00:16,042 {\an1}THOMAS: What is that? 9 00:00:16,207 --> 00:00:18,042 {\an1}It definitely looks metallic. 10 00:00:18,167 --> 00:00:20,583 {\an1}BRYANT: Let's run a snake camera down the mesa. 11 00:00:20,708 --> 00:00:21,917 {\an1}Oh, there it is. 12 00:00:22,042 --> 00:00:23,250 {\an1}What is that? 13 00:00:23,375 --> 00:00:25,208 {\an1}It's as if this thing is broadcasting. 14 00:00:25,375 --> 00:00:27,208 {\an1}This thing shouldn't be broadcasting anything. 15 00:00:27,333 --> 00:00:29,000 {\an1}-Just have a listen at this. -(beeping, static crackling) 16 00:00:29,083 --> 00:00:30,375 {\an1}Hey. Are you okay? 17 00:00:30,542 --> 00:00:31,917 {\an1}No. 18 00:00:32,042 --> 00:00:32,667 {\an1}BRYANT: Tom just blacked out. 19 00:00:34,625 --> 00:00:37,708 {\an1}NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah. 20 00:00:37,875 --> 00:00:39,917 {\an1}It is considered the epicenter 21 00:00:40,042 --> 00:00:44,667 {\an1}of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth: 22 00:00:44,833 --> 00:00:47,125 {\an1}animal mutilations, 23 00:00:47,208 --> 00:00:49,375 {\an1}bizarre UFO sightings 24 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:54,375 {\an1}and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans. 25 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:57,208 {\an1}For 20 years, the federal government 26 00:00:57,333 --> 00:01:00,333 {\an1}tried to find answers and failed. 27 00:01:00,458 --> 00:01:04,625 {\an1}Now a new team of dedicated scientists, 28 00:01:04,750 --> 00:01:08,667 {\an1}researchers and experts has taken over. 29 00:01:08,792 --> 00:01:12,583 {\an1}They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal... 30 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:18,625 {\an1}...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 31 00:01:24,875 --> 00:01:27,292 {\an1}-BRYANT: Hey, guys. -TOM: Hey. -KANDUS: Hey, Bryant. 32 00:01:27,375 --> 00:01:29,042 {\an1}I wanted to check up on you. 33 00:01:29,167 --> 00:01:30,792 {\an1}-Mm. Yeah. -Thanks. 34 00:01:30,917 --> 00:01:33,083 {\an1}You had me scared to death. 35 00:01:33,208 --> 00:01:34,583 {\an1}-(chuckles) -Yeah, it was scary. 36 00:01:34,708 --> 00:01:35,958 {\an1}It was a scary experience. 37 00:01:36,083 --> 00:01:38,000 {\an1}What I remember hearing was just, like, 38 00:01:38,125 --> 00:01:41,083 {\an1}this really loud... 39 00:01:41,208 --> 00:01:43,625 {\an1}you know, static noise. 40 00:01:43,708 --> 00:01:45,000 {\an1}It sounded like... 41 00:01:45,125 --> 00:01:47,208 {\an1}maybe like a train. 42 00:01:47,333 --> 00:01:49,500 {\an1}It was, like, just... 43 00:01:49,625 --> 00:01:50,708 {\an1}noise. 44 00:01:50,833 --> 00:01:52,833 {\an1}TRAVIS: Two days ago... 45 00:01:52,958 --> 00:01:55,292 {\an1}-How deep are you? -80 feet. 46 00:01:55,375 --> 00:01:58,542 {\an1}...our team had one of the most bizarre experiences yet 47 00:01:58,708 --> 00:02:01,208 {\an1}out of all of our investigations on Skinwalker Ranch. 48 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:03,042 {\an1}You starting to get some of the fluid coming back? 49 00:02:03,208 --> 00:02:04,875 {\an1}Yeah, looks like we got it back! 50 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,667 {\an1}ERIK: Oh, yeah, I can see it. 51 00:02:06,833 --> 00:02:08,417 {\an1}TRAVIS: While we were drilling into the mesa 52 00:02:08,542 --> 00:02:11,333 {\an1}where we've discovered evidence of a cavern system 53 00:02:11,458 --> 00:02:13,792 {\an1}as well as some kind of large metallic obstruction... 54 00:02:13,917 --> 00:02:17,333 {\an1}-(beeping) -...Erik Bard detected the mysterious communication signal 55 00:02:17,417 --> 00:02:20,000 {\an1}and energy spike at 1.6 gigahertz 56 00:02:20,083 --> 00:02:21,375 {\an1}on his spectrum analyzer... 57 00:02:21,542 --> 00:02:24,875 {\an1}It's as if this thing is broadcasting. 58 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,375 {\an1}...just like we got two weeks ago 59 00:02:26,542 --> 00:02:28,083 {\an1}after digging near Homestead Two. 60 00:02:28,208 --> 00:02:30,708 {\an1}Well, just have a listen at this. 61 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:33,667 {\an1}TRAVIS: But then, when Erik played the frequency 62 00:02:33,750 --> 00:02:35,833 {\an1}for Dragon and Tom Lewis, who were over at Homestead Two 63 00:02:35,917 --> 00:02:38,833 {\an1}checking for any other strange energy readings... 64 00:02:38,958 --> 00:02:40,708 {\an1}-Are you okay? -No. 65 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:43,083 {\an1}All the blood rushed out of my... 66 00:02:43,208 --> 00:02:45,375 {\an1}-my brain. -...Tom suddenly blacked out 67 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:47,000 {\an1}and had to be rushed to the hospital. 68 00:02:47,083 --> 00:02:49,292 {\an1}♪ ♪ 69 00:02:49,417 --> 00:02:52,042 {\an1}The last thing I remember is you were 70 00:02:52,208 --> 00:02:53,667 {\an1}on the radio and you played that weird sound. 71 00:02:55,125 --> 00:02:57,542 {\an1}And I remember Bryant asking 72 00:02:57,667 --> 00:02:59,917 {\an1}what, you know-- what does this mean. 73 00:03:00,042 --> 00:03:02,167 {\an1}And then... my eyes started going black. 74 00:03:02,292 --> 00:03:04,417 {\an1}-KANDUS: Mm. -And, um... 75 00:03:04,542 --> 00:03:06,417 {\an1}So, yeah, I just kind of... 76 00:03:06,542 --> 00:03:08,417 {\an1}tried to catch my balance, 77 00:03:08,542 --> 00:03:11,042 {\an1}you know, as best I could and... 78 00:03:11,167 --> 00:03:13,000 {\an1}But I-I couldn't hear anything. 79 00:03:13,125 --> 00:03:15,042 {\an1}I couldn't see anything. 80 00:03:15,167 --> 00:03:17,208 {\an1}I really thought I was having a heart attack. 81 00:03:17,333 --> 00:03:19,750 {\an1}My feet felt like they were in blocks of ice. 82 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:23,292 {\an1}I couldn't catch my breath until I got off the ranch. 83 00:03:24,292 --> 00:03:26,083 {\an1}And my vision was kind of the same way. 84 00:03:26,208 --> 00:03:29,333 {\an1}It came back as soon as we got out of the gate. 85 00:03:29,417 --> 00:03:31,625 {\an1}That's when it cleared. 86 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:33,833 {\an1}Flew to the ER. 87 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,792 {\an1}Hooked me up to an EKG. 88 00:03:37,875 --> 00:03:40,042 {\an1}I'm wearing a heart monitor just to make sure 89 00:03:40,167 --> 00:03:41,708 {\an1}that it's not still happening. 90 00:03:41,833 --> 00:03:43,375 {\an1}ERIK: When we talk about our heartbeat, we're talking 91 00:03:43,542 --> 00:03:45,917 {\an1}about something that is e-electrically driven. 92 00:03:46,042 --> 00:03:49,333 {\an1}And it's as if there were some sort of... 93 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,208 {\an1}disturbance to that electrical rhythm 94 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:54,083 {\an1}-of your heart. -Mm-hmm. 95 00:03:54,208 --> 00:03:57,833 {\an1}BRYANT: I don't know what it is about Homestead Two, 96 00:03:57,958 --> 00:03:59,833 {\an1}but this is now three instances, 97 00:03:59,958 --> 00:04:04,250 {\an1}with Tom Lewis and Roland McCook almost blacking out, 98 00:04:04,375 --> 00:04:06,500 {\an1}as well as where Travis got radiation burns. 99 00:04:06,667 --> 00:04:08,958 {\an1}This area is a high caution area, 100 00:04:09,042 --> 00:04:10,667 {\an1}and I'm gonna make sure 101 00:04:10,833 --> 00:04:12,500 {\an1}that I'm keeping my eyes open for anything. 102 00:04:12,625 --> 00:04:15,167 {\an1}'Cause the last thing I want is more people getting hurt. 103 00:04:15,292 --> 00:04:16,875 {\an1}Well, I can think of nothing more important 104 00:04:17,042 --> 00:04:19,500 {\an1}for us to investigate than what is affecting our health. 105 00:04:19,582 --> 00:04:23,457 {\an1}-Mm-hmm. -Or affecting us neurologically, physiologically, otherwise. 106 00:04:23,582 --> 00:04:26,707 {\an1}Obviously, we want you to continue to rest 107 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:28,250 {\an1}and get to full strength so you can be back out there 108 00:04:28,375 --> 00:04:29,625 {\an1}-with us. -Yeah. 109 00:04:29,707 --> 00:04:31,167 {\an1}We're just glad that, ultimately, 110 00:04:31,292 --> 00:04:32,875 {\an1}that you're okay and you're back safe. 111 00:04:33,042 --> 00:04:34,832 {\an1}-Thank you. Thanks for everybody's help. -Yeah. 112 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,457 {\an1}-Getting me out of there. -I appreciate this. 100%. 113 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:38,332 {\an1}-'Kay. Thanks, you guys. -KANDUS: All right. 114 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:39,957 {\an1}We'll see you later. 115 00:04:40,082 --> 00:04:41,417 {\an1}THOMAS: See you later. 116 00:04:41,542 --> 00:04:43,457 {\an1}♪ ♪ 117 00:04:46,582 --> 00:04:48,125 {\an1}THOMAS: Well, you guys ready to go at it again? 118 00:04:48,207 --> 00:04:49,417 {\an1}AARON: Yeah, we're ready. 119 00:04:49,542 --> 00:04:52,667 {\an1}Aaron, you're gonna want to see this. 120 00:04:52,792 --> 00:04:54,332 {\an1}This is what came out of your tank. 121 00:04:54,457 --> 00:04:56,875 {\an1}This material here. It's-it's rather brittle. 122 00:04:57,042 --> 00:04:59,375 {\an1}Out of the spoils that we went and dumped over there. 123 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:01,292 {\an1}This came out of the pit? 124 00:05:01,375 --> 00:05:03,500 {\an1}-Yeah. -Yeah. 125 00:05:03,667 --> 00:05:05,167 {\an1}Wow. 126 00:05:05,292 --> 00:05:07,000 {\an1}TRAVIS: A couple weeks ago, 127 00:05:07,125 --> 00:05:09,292 {\an1}a former security officer that used to work for Robert Bigelow 128 00:05:09,375 --> 00:05:11,167 {\an1}showed Thomas Winterton 129 00:05:11,333 --> 00:05:13,375 {\an1}and Kaleb Bench a spot on the mesa 130 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:15,833 {\an1}where he said a large cave was located. 131 00:05:15,917 --> 00:05:18,375 {\an1}But now it's all covered by boulders. 132 00:05:18,542 --> 00:05:19,957 {\an1}Oh, yeah. This is it. 133 00:05:20,042 --> 00:05:21,417 {\an1}So, for the last few days, 134 00:05:21,542 --> 00:05:23,332 {\an1}while I've been away from the ranch, 135 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:25,667 {\an1}the guys have been conducting a drilling operation 136 00:05:25,792 --> 00:05:29,332 {\an1}to see if a large void or cavern really could be inside there. 137 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:31,082 {\an1}Come on, sweetheart. 138 00:05:31,207 --> 00:05:33,667 {\an1}TRAVIS: The plan was to drill laterally 139 00:05:33,750 --> 00:05:36,042 {\an1}from the road into the base of the mesa. 140 00:05:36,167 --> 00:05:38,667 {\an1}And so far, nearly 300 feet in, 141 00:05:38,792 --> 00:05:40,917 {\an1}they've discovered evidence of a void. 142 00:05:41,042 --> 00:05:43,417 {\an1}But the drill bit has also been scraping up 143 00:05:43,542 --> 00:05:46,332 {\an1}against a huge obstruction that it can't penetrate. 144 00:05:46,417 --> 00:05:48,000 {\an1}And a bunch of small metallic fragments 145 00:05:48,167 --> 00:05:49,957 {\an1}have come out in the spoils. 146 00:05:50,082 --> 00:05:53,332 {\an1}Any chance this could be coming off of your equipment? 147 00:05:53,417 --> 00:05:54,957 {\an1}There's no way it would come out of the drill. 148 00:05:55,042 --> 00:05:56,667 {\an1}TRAVIS: Now, we don't know 149 00:05:56,792 --> 00:05:59,332 {\an1}if Bigelow had a cave purposely covered up, 150 00:05:59,417 --> 00:06:01,375 {\an1}but given the rumors we've heard 151 00:06:01,542 --> 00:06:03,583 {\an1}about everything from an underground base 152 00:06:03,708 --> 00:06:06,333 {\an1}to even a spacecraft being hidden in the mesa, 153 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,458 {\an1}makes the drilling team really curious 154 00:06:08,542 --> 00:06:11,167 {\an1}what this obstruction or object could be. 155 00:06:11,292 --> 00:06:13,333 {\an1}Well, I say we get at it and see 156 00:06:13,458 --> 00:06:15,250 {\an1}-if we can get you past that point. -All right. 157 00:06:15,375 --> 00:06:17,792 {\an1}Yeah, let's see if we can break through there. 158 00:06:17,875 --> 00:06:19,042 {\an1}-'Kay. -All right. 159 00:06:20,332 --> 00:06:22,625 {\an1}THOMAS: Now that Tom's back on the ranch and recovering, 160 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:24,707 {\an1}we're ready to get back to drilling. 161 00:06:25,875 --> 00:06:28,292 {\an1}And speaking for myself and the rest of the team, 162 00:06:28,417 --> 00:06:30,457 {\an1}we're not stopping until we get some answers 163 00:06:30,542 --> 00:06:31,957 {\an1}about what's going on 164 00:06:32,082 --> 00:06:33,832 {\an1}with this mystery inside the mesa. 165 00:06:35,042 --> 00:06:38,207 {\an1}ERIK: The results of Bigelow's investigation 166 00:06:38,375 --> 00:06:40,125 {\an1}have never been fully released. 167 00:06:40,207 --> 00:06:41,957 {\an1}There's talk of evidence 168 00:06:42,042 --> 00:06:44,582 {\an1}having been discovered 169 00:06:44,707 --> 00:06:47,167 {\an1}to support the idea of some kind of base 170 00:06:47,250 --> 00:06:50,500 {\an1}or perhaps an ancient alien artifact. 171 00:06:50,625 --> 00:06:53,917 {\an1}I'm not sure why others have come to that conclusion, 172 00:06:54,042 --> 00:06:57,625 {\an1}but clearly something strange is going on in this mesa. 173 00:06:57,750 --> 00:06:59,542 {\an1}As we continue drilling, I'll be monitoring 174 00:06:59,707 --> 00:07:01,458 {\an1}the spectrum analyzer, the TriField 175 00:07:01,583 --> 00:07:03,583 {\an1}and other meters, looking for that strange 176 00:07:03,708 --> 00:07:07,167 {\an1}1.6 gigahertz RF signal that we've encountered 177 00:07:07,292 --> 00:07:10,292 {\an1}or for any potentially dangerous spikes in radiation. 178 00:07:10,417 --> 00:07:13,000 {\an1}No, that's going down the hill, you son of a buck. 179 00:07:15,708 --> 00:07:17,500 {\an1}THOMAS: Are you shaking your head? 180 00:07:17,625 --> 00:07:20,082 {\an1}Yeah, I'm still hitting that ledge and... 181 00:07:20,207 --> 00:07:21,500 {\an1}it keeps pushing me down. 182 00:07:21,625 --> 00:07:23,000 {\an1}How far back are we? 183 00:07:23,125 --> 00:07:27,000 {\an1}We are about 311 foot. 184 00:07:27,125 --> 00:07:29,500 {\an1}Okay. And you're still hitting up against that? 185 00:07:29,582 --> 00:07:31,667 {\an1}Yeah. Still hitting up against it. 186 00:07:31,792 --> 00:07:33,332 {\an1}'Kay. 187 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:37,792 {\an1}As far as any anomalous signals or data or anything, 188 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:39,542 {\an1}-are we seeing any of that? -No. 189 00:07:39,667 --> 00:07:41,417 {\an1}Uh, at least so far, no. 190 00:07:41,542 --> 00:07:43,542 {\an1}AARON: Come on, sweetheart. 191 00:07:45,792 --> 00:07:48,042 {\an1}Why don't you want to come up? 192 00:07:48,207 --> 00:07:50,917 {\an1}Did you ever get any kind of an idea what would make 193 00:07:51,042 --> 00:07:53,207 {\an1}your spectrum analyzer... 194 00:07:53,375 --> 00:07:55,500 {\an1}-broadcast as opposed to receive? -No. 195 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:57,542 {\an1}No, I-I want to sort that out up here. 196 00:07:57,667 --> 00:07:59,000 {\an1}You know, look, it's a bit concerning that that's happening 197 00:07:59,125 --> 00:08:02,167 {\an1}in the same time window when Tom had his episode. 198 00:08:02,250 --> 00:08:03,958 {\an1}Yeah. 199 00:08:05,042 --> 00:08:07,708 {\an1}See? There's nothing. Why won't you come out? 200 00:08:08,583 --> 00:08:10,833 {\an1}-So, uh, guys? -Yeah. 201 00:08:10,917 --> 00:08:12,833 {\an1}-Aaron's hitting a ledge. -Mm-hmm. 202 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,292 {\an1}And that ledge seems to be angled down at a slight angle, 203 00:08:16,375 --> 00:08:18,042 {\an1}and the bit's coming up at such an angle 204 00:08:18,207 --> 00:08:19,332 {\an1}-that as he's pushing, it's just kind of... -Yep. Yep. 205 00:08:19,417 --> 00:08:20,332 {\an1}-...like, skipping down. -Bouncing. 206 00:08:20,417 --> 00:08:21,832 {\an1}-Yeah. -So, 207 00:08:21,917 --> 00:08:24,417 {\an1}um, yeah, he continues to be pushed down 208 00:08:24,542 --> 00:08:26,167 {\an1}-deeper. -Yeah. 209 00:08:26,332 --> 00:08:29,000 {\an1}(grinding, creaking sounds) 210 00:08:32,332 --> 00:08:34,332 {\an1}Boy, that thing sounds like it's hitting something hard. 211 00:08:34,417 --> 00:08:35,917 {\an1}What the heck is... 212 00:08:36,042 --> 00:08:37,957 {\an1}(rattling sounds) 213 00:08:50,208 --> 00:08:52,042 {\an1}(shuts off motor) 214 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:55,500 {\an1}Hey, guys, come on down here. 215 00:08:59,708 --> 00:09:01,875 {\an1}That was quite the noise that was just making. 216 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,917 {\an1}Yeah, I'm up against something pretty hard right now. 217 00:09:06,042 --> 00:09:08,542 {\an1}So, we're coming up about 11 inches every ten feet. 218 00:09:08,708 --> 00:09:11,167 {\an1}It was-- it was directing you downward. 219 00:09:11,292 --> 00:09:14,042 {\an1}And now you're still on it but it's allowing you to go upwards? 220 00:09:14,208 --> 00:09:17,292 {\an1}-Right. -So it-- That-that tells us something about the shape 221 00:09:17,375 --> 00:09:18,917 {\an1}-of this hard layer. -Mm-hmm. 222 00:09:19,042 --> 00:09:22,042 {\an1}Or this-this... Whatever this impenetrable thing is. 223 00:09:22,208 --> 00:09:25,667 {\an1}So it sounds like you're describing kind of a "V," 224 00:09:25,833 --> 00:09:28,833 {\an1}where this hard shelf is coming down. 225 00:09:28,958 --> 00:09:31,208 {\an1}And now you're saying that it's starting to turn and go back up. 226 00:09:31,333 --> 00:09:33,542 {\an1}So we've got kind of a-a "V" 227 00:09:33,667 --> 00:09:36,000 {\an1}that your bit is sitting there bumping up against, 228 00:09:36,125 --> 00:09:38,583 {\an1}trying to find a place to start drilling up. 229 00:09:38,708 --> 00:09:40,083 {\an1}-Is that right? -Right. Right. 230 00:09:40,208 --> 00:09:42,000 {\an1}May not even be a "V." 231 00:09:42,167 --> 00:09:43,542 {\an1}It could even be... 232 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:44,792 {\an1}maybe a dome. 233 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:46,542 {\an1}♪ ♪ 234 00:09:53,125 --> 00:09:56,083 {\an1}-AARON: It could a dome the way it's going. -Oh, really? 235 00:09:56,208 --> 00:09:59,375 {\an1}'Cause you're not that sharp of a turn. 236 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:02,458 {\an1}-Wow! -How far back are we? 237 00:10:02,542 --> 00:10:06,917 {\an1}We are about 330, 340 feet. 238 00:10:07,042 --> 00:10:08,708 {\an1}Gosh. 239 00:10:09,958 --> 00:10:11,667 {\an1}ERIK: Our drilling expert, Aaron, reports that 240 00:10:11,750 --> 00:10:13,250 {\an1}he's hitting some kind of hard layer that 241 00:10:13,375 --> 00:10:16,792 {\an1}he describes as perhaps a dome inside the mesa. 242 00:10:16,875 --> 00:10:19,208 {\an1}There's no good reason for that as far as we're aware. 243 00:10:19,333 --> 00:10:23,500 {\an1}We're gonna find out what it is and why it's in the mesa. 244 00:10:23,625 --> 00:10:26,250 {\an1}How unusual is it in your experience 245 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:29,083 {\an1}to not be able to punch up through something like this? 246 00:10:29,208 --> 00:10:30,833 {\an1}The stuff that we're using right now 247 00:10:30,958 --> 00:10:33,000 {\an1}to drill up through this mesa, 248 00:10:33,083 --> 00:10:36,417 {\an1}it should go through that layer pretty easily. 249 00:10:36,542 --> 00:10:38,000 {\an1}-But it's not. -And it's not. 250 00:10:39,208 --> 00:10:41,750 {\an1}I'm gonna be really fascinated to see 251 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:43,208 {\an1}what's coming out of that hole, 252 00:10:43,375 --> 00:10:45,500 {\an1}so when you guys get ready to dump the spoils, 253 00:10:45,625 --> 00:10:47,625 {\an1}we definitely want to put a screen 254 00:10:47,708 --> 00:10:49,917 {\an1}under there and catch it. 255 00:10:50,042 --> 00:10:52,083 {\an1}-We definitely want to analyze that. -If we're doing that, 256 00:10:52,208 --> 00:10:55,083 {\an1}it should be at the bottom of that pit right there. 257 00:10:55,208 --> 00:10:56,750 {\an1}THOMAS: Okay. 258 00:10:56,875 --> 00:10:59,292 {\an1}We'll go ahead and get that sucked out for you 259 00:10:59,375 --> 00:11:00,583 {\an1}and head over there to dump it. 260 00:11:00,708 --> 00:11:01,667 {\an1}Okay. 261 00:11:01,750 --> 00:11:04,042 {\an1}(starts engine) 262 00:11:05,542 --> 00:11:07,542 {\an1}THOMAS: As we get deeper into the hill, 263 00:11:07,708 --> 00:11:10,208 {\an1}Aaron keeps hitting a hard surface. 264 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:12,125 {\an1}And so we set the screen up. 265 00:11:12,208 --> 00:11:15,042 {\an1}We have this large object that we're bumping up against, 266 00:11:15,167 --> 00:11:16,625 {\an1}and maybe there's something coming out 267 00:11:16,708 --> 00:11:18,625 {\an1}that could give us a clue as to what that is. 268 00:11:26,667 --> 00:11:28,917 {\an1}BRYANT: There we go. 269 00:11:30,083 --> 00:11:31,792 {\an1}(engine stops) 270 00:11:33,667 --> 00:11:34,792 {\an1}THOMAS: More metal. 271 00:11:36,792 --> 00:11:39,208 {\an1}Check this out. 272 00:11:40,708 --> 00:11:43,500 {\an1}BRYANT: Wow, that is a lot of metal. 273 00:11:43,583 --> 00:11:45,833 {\an1}-Look at this. -Same thing? 274 00:11:45,917 --> 00:11:48,542 {\an1}BRYANT: I cannot believe there's that much metal in this. 275 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:51,542 {\an1}I mean, look how much of it there is. 276 00:11:51,708 --> 00:11:53,167 {\an1}Wait, there's one right... 277 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:55,500 {\an1}THOMAS: And some of it's fairly... 278 00:11:55,583 --> 00:11:58,083 {\an1}Look how much of this stuff is in 279 00:11:58,208 --> 00:12:01,250 {\an1}-this little spoils pile. Right? -Mm-hmm. 280 00:12:01,375 --> 00:12:04,042 {\an1}So, there's no telling how much of this metallic crap 281 00:12:04,167 --> 00:12:06,292 {\an1}there is still in that hillside. 282 00:12:06,417 --> 00:12:08,875 {\an1}The fact that we're getting all these thin layers 283 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,167 {\an1}of this substance, and Aaron was hitting something 284 00:12:11,333 --> 00:12:14,000 {\an1}so hard with his drill rig he couldn't penetrate it, 285 00:12:14,167 --> 00:12:16,000 {\an1}are we just chipping away at something 286 00:12:16,083 --> 00:12:17,667 {\an1}much larger under the mesa? 287 00:12:17,792 --> 00:12:19,833 {\an1}I don't know, but we have to find out. 288 00:12:19,958 --> 00:12:21,542 {\an1}I mean, it's all through here. 289 00:12:21,667 --> 00:12:23,417 {\an1}-It's ground up chunks of it. -It's... it's everywhere. 290 00:12:23,542 --> 00:12:25,167 {\an1}-Big pieces. -Yeah. 291 00:12:25,333 --> 00:12:28,250 {\an1}It's almost as if it all came off the same object. 292 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:31,708 {\an1}That hard shelf that he's been hitting, 293 00:12:31,833 --> 00:12:34,125 {\an1}-trying to get up through. -Yeah. Yeah. 294 00:12:35,625 --> 00:12:37,625 {\an1}ERIK: Well, I say we bag this up. 295 00:12:37,708 --> 00:12:40,625 {\an1}THOMAS: Could this metal be coming from that hard surface 296 00:12:40,708 --> 00:12:42,125 {\an1}that we've been bumping up against 297 00:12:42,208 --> 00:12:44,500 {\an1}trying to break through for hundreds of feet? 298 00:12:44,667 --> 00:12:46,000 {\an1}I want to get in there more than ever now 299 00:12:46,125 --> 00:12:49,583 {\an1}and discover what exactly that hard surface was, 300 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:51,542 {\an1}and where is this metal coming from? 301 00:12:51,667 --> 00:12:53,875 {\an1}That's out of the last dump. 302 00:12:54,958 --> 00:12:56,250 {\an1}AARON: Wow. THOMAS: It's all metal. 303 00:12:56,375 --> 00:12:58,167 {\an1}This is the better part of what we collected 304 00:12:58,250 --> 00:13:01,625 {\an1}on our screen, and it appears to all be refined metal. 305 00:13:01,708 --> 00:13:04,125 {\an1}-Huh? -And you're how far in? 306 00:13:04,208 --> 00:13:06,125 {\an1}Right around 400. 307 00:13:06,208 --> 00:13:08,667 {\an1}That's a big metal object. 'Cause you... 308 00:13:08,833 --> 00:13:09,875 {\an1}I mean, you still can't cut through it? 309 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,292 {\an1}I still can't get through it. 310 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:13,833 {\an1}-What? -ERIK: Wow. 311 00:13:13,958 --> 00:13:17,000 {\an1}Well, I mean, I guess at this point 312 00:13:17,125 --> 00:13:19,667 {\an1}we need to figure out a course of action. 313 00:13:19,792 --> 00:13:22,417 {\an1}(scoffs) Many courses of action. 314 00:13:22,542 --> 00:13:27,125 {\an1}Well, the sample is in hand can be analyzed, 315 00:13:27,208 --> 00:13:29,292 {\an1}and we can get compositional information, 316 00:13:29,417 --> 00:13:30,708 {\an1}but it's not going to tell us the whole story. 317 00:13:30,833 --> 00:13:32,125 {\an1}THOMAS: A lot to follow up with. 318 00:13:32,208 --> 00:13:34,083 {\an1}Well, you guys have been true professionals. 319 00:13:34,208 --> 00:13:36,500 {\an1}You've done a great job, you've done everything we've asked. 320 00:13:36,625 --> 00:13:38,708 {\an1}Obviously, it's not your fault 321 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:42,167 {\an1}that we've got something really hard that's domed under there, 322 00:13:42,250 --> 00:13:45,292 {\an1}and so, yeah, we'll press pause on it for now 323 00:13:45,375 --> 00:13:46,958 {\an1}and figure out what we're going to do next. 324 00:13:47,042 --> 00:13:48,833 {\an1}But, we might have you back. 325 00:13:48,917 --> 00:13:49,750 {\an1}-All right. -Yeah, I'd call it a success, Aaron. 326 00:13:49,875 --> 00:13:51,208 {\an1}-Thank you. -Yeah. 327 00:13:51,333 --> 00:13:53,167 {\an1}Well, thank you. 328 00:13:53,292 --> 00:13:56,167 {\an1}BRYANT: Aaron has tried and tried to get his drill 329 00:13:56,292 --> 00:13:59,167 {\an1}to go up into the mesa, but whatever is in there 330 00:13:59,250 --> 00:14:01,167 {\an1}is driving it deeper into the ground 331 00:14:01,333 --> 00:14:04,667 {\an1}and we've reached the maximum 410-feet depth. 332 00:14:04,833 --> 00:14:06,125 {\an1}It's getting late in the day. 333 00:14:06,250 --> 00:14:08,292 {\an1}We'd love him to come back, but for now, 334 00:14:08,417 --> 00:14:10,500 {\an1}we need to have him get his equipment out 335 00:14:10,625 --> 00:14:12,167 {\an1}and reassess what we're gonna do next. 336 00:14:12,292 --> 00:14:14,708 {\an1}Okay. Well, I say we wrap it up, 337 00:14:14,875 --> 00:14:16,083 {\an1}clean up, and let's get out of here. 338 00:14:16,208 --> 00:14:17,667 {\an1}Okay. 339 00:14:17,792 --> 00:14:19,958 {\an1}♪ ♪ 340 00:14:22,042 --> 00:14:24,500 {\an1}-ERIK: Hey, Travis. -Hey, fellas. 341 00:14:24,583 --> 00:14:27,958 {\an1}You know, not to, to over- exaggerate or dramatize it, 342 00:14:28,042 --> 00:14:30,458 {\an1}but I think that we could have found one of the most 343 00:14:30,583 --> 00:14:32,958 {\an1}significant finds, not only on the ranch, but maybe 344 00:14:33,042 --> 00:14:35,250 {\an1}-the entire Uinta Basin. -You're kidding. 345 00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:38,667 {\an1}No. We're excited to share with you what we found. 346 00:14:38,833 --> 00:14:41,000 {\an1}-Okay. -According to Aaron, 347 00:14:41,083 --> 00:14:43,250 {\an1}who was the lead drill operator, 348 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:45,917 {\an1}We've encountered this layer that we can't 349 00:14:46,042 --> 00:14:48,000 {\an1}get the drill to come up through. 350 00:14:48,083 --> 00:14:50,875 {\an1}-Really? He couldn't penetrate it at all? -Yeah. 351 00:14:51,042 --> 00:14:54,208 {\an1}He was never able to turn that bit upwards 352 00:14:54,333 --> 00:14:57,042 {\an1}because he kept encountering this hard layer 353 00:14:57,208 --> 00:15:00,833 {\an1}-that was actually driving him deeper down. -Wow. 354 00:15:00,917 --> 00:15:02,833 {\an1}What it was doing was bumping up against that, 355 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,500 {\an1}and it just kept kind of skipping down the surface 356 00:15:05,625 --> 00:15:08,125 {\an1}and pushing him further and further underground 357 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:11,333 {\an1}until it started to come back up a little bit. 358 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,917 {\an1}And it appears to be some type of dome shaped hard surface. 359 00:15:16,042 --> 00:15:19,250 {\an1}-What? -Yeah. This makes no sense, Travis. 360 00:15:19,375 --> 00:15:22,000 {\an1}He drilled to where he put out 400 feet 361 00:15:22,167 --> 00:15:26,000 {\an1}of drill pipe and still was never able to make the turn up. 362 00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:28,625 {\an1}400 feet into the side of the hill. 363 00:15:28,708 --> 00:15:31,042 {\an1}That's insane! 364 00:15:31,167 --> 00:15:32,500 {\an1}And I want to say here, too, 365 00:15:32,625 --> 00:15:35,583 {\an1}Aaron has been drilling for 20-plus years. 366 00:15:35,708 --> 00:15:37,708 {\an1}He is recognized as one of the very, very best 367 00:15:37,875 --> 00:15:39,458 {\an1}in his field. 368 00:15:39,542 --> 00:15:41,500 {\an1}I think that if anybody could have got through this, 369 00:15:41,667 --> 00:15:43,167 {\an1}it would have been him. 370 00:15:43,333 --> 00:15:45,708 {\an1}So it's 400 feet long, uh, 371 00:15:45,833 --> 00:15:48,167 {\an1}whatever this thick material is? 372 00:15:48,250 --> 00:15:49,917 {\an1}That's what it appears to be. 373 00:15:50,917 --> 00:15:52,500 {\an1}And I want to say here, too, 374 00:15:52,625 --> 00:15:56,667 {\an1}we were able to retrieve a pretty significant quantity 375 00:15:56,792 --> 00:15:58,083 {\an1}of metal material. 376 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:00,458 {\an1}-Wow. -And there was an abundance 377 00:16:00,583 --> 00:16:05,042 {\an1}of this stuff, and it was all very uniformly wafer-thin. 378 00:16:05,167 --> 00:16:06,667 {\an1}This is really bizarre. 379 00:16:06,792 --> 00:16:08,875 {\an1}What in the world could this be? 380 00:16:09,042 --> 00:16:13,667 {\an1}If there really is a 400-foot-long, dome-shaped 381 00:16:13,792 --> 00:16:16,375 {\an1}metallic object buried deep in the mesa, 382 00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:19,125 {\an1}maybe the guys have finally pinpointed something 383 00:16:19,208 --> 00:16:20,667 {\an1}that could lead to answers 384 00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:23,417 {\an1}about why Skinwalker Ranch has been the center 385 00:16:23,542 --> 00:16:26,625 {\an1}of so many strange phenomena for all these years. 386 00:16:26,750 --> 00:16:29,708 {\an1}Well, I guess this begs the question, after everything 387 00:16:29,833 --> 00:16:32,958 {\an1}we've discovered and talked about: what do we do next? 388 00:16:33,083 --> 00:16:34,583 {\an1}We follow the data. 389 00:16:34,708 --> 00:16:37,167 {\an1}We're going to continue following the data at that site. 390 00:16:37,333 --> 00:16:39,833 {\an1}This may be the most interesting site on the ranch 391 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:40,917 {\an1}-to us at this point. -Agreed. 392 00:16:41,042 --> 00:16:43,000 {\an1}-Right. -Yeah. 393 00:16:43,125 --> 00:16:46,167 {\an1}I want to get these samples to one of the universities 394 00:16:46,292 --> 00:16:49,625 {\an1}here locally, and have them do elemental mapping 395 00:16:49,708 --> 00:16:52,208 {\an1}to see if there is something more here than meets the eye. 396 00:16:52,333 --> 00:16:55,583 {\an1}So, uh, I'll be, I'll be back out there tomorrow, 397 00:16:55,708 --> 00:16:58,875 {\an1}-and we'll go from there. -All right. Sounds good. 398 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,417 {\an1}This is weird and crazy, guys, 399 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:03,833 {\an1}all this stuff that you guys found in just a few days. 400 00:17:03,917 --> 00:17:06,125 {\an1}That's pretty amazing. 401 00:17:06,208 --> 00:17:09,125 {\an1}TRAVIS: All right. Thanks, guys. I'll see you soon. 402 00:17:22,916 --> 00:17:24,250 {\an1}Here we are, Ryan. 403 00:17:25,833 --> 00:17:28,625 {\an1}Well, so our hole is over here. 404 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:31,458 {\an1}Right when I got back to Skinwalker Ranch, 405 00:17:31,542 --> 00:17:35,000 {\an1}we were all eager to see just what the huge, dome-shaped 406 00:17:35,125 --> 00:17:37,375 {\an1}object buried inside the mesa could be. 407 00:17:37,542 --> 00:17:40,625 {\an1}So we brought out underground visualization expert 408 00:17:40,708 --> 00:17:42,417 {\an1}Ryan Marcantel 409 00:17:42,542 --> 00:17:45,708 {\an1}to feed a specialized robotic camera into the hole we drilled. 410 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:50,708 {\an1}Oh, wow. So, this goes right under the mesa? 411 00:17:50,833 --> 00:17:54,167 {\an1}-400 feet that way. -Wow. 412 00:17:54,292 --> 00:17:56,750 {\an1}When that bit got into the base of the mesa there, 413 00:17:56,875 --> 00:17:58,500 {\an1}which is about 80 feet, 414 00:17:58,625 --> 00:18:01,583 {\an1}the bit came up, it hit something hard. 415 00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:04,833 {\an1}What we have is we've got some dome-shaped hard feature 416 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,792 {\an1}under there that's dished out like this. 417 00:18:10,042 --> 00:18:11,375 {\an1}RYAN: Well, that's exciting. 418 00:18:11,542 --> 00:18:12,917 {\an1}Let's get the equipment and we can set it up. 419 00:18:13,042 --> 00:18:14,208 {\an1}Hopefully, you can just climb down, 420 00:18:14,333 --> 00:18:16,167 {\an1}-stand in that to feed it in. -Easy. 421 00:18:16,250 --> 00:18:18,500 {\an1}RYAN: The robotics that we use 422 00:18:18,583 --> 00:18:21,042 {\an1}are really designed for confined spaces. 423 00:18:21,167 --> 00:18:23,417 {\an1}Great to use in purposes like this. 424 00:18:23,542 --> 00:18:26,333 {\an1}So, we brought out a VT100, which is a robot 425 00:18:26,458 --> 00:18:28,667 {\an1}with a PTZ camera on it, 1080P readout. 426 00:18:28,792 --> 00:18:30,500 {\an1}It can be configured in many different forms. 427 00:18:30,625 --> 00:18:33,833 {\an1}Today, we're using tracks, just because we're navigating 428 00:18:33,958 --> 00:18:36,000 {\an1}over different types of terrain. 429 00:18:36,083 --> 00:18:37,583 {\an1}Everything seems to be working fine. 430 00:18:37,708 --> 00:18:40,208 {\an1}Uh, what we'll do is we'll go ahead and, 431 00:18:40,333 --> 00:18:41,333 {\an1}I'll get down there now and go ahead 432 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,000 {\an1}-and put it in the hole. -Okay. 433 00:18:43,125 --> 00:18:44,375 {\an1}And then we'll go ahead and start, and, uh, 434 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:45,792 {\an1}we'll keep a visual on everything. 435 00:18:46,917 --> 00:18:49,583 {\an1}THOMAS: With all the stories that we've heard of tunnels 436 00:18:49,708 --> 00:18:52,500 {\an1}and caverns and underground bases here in the mesa, 437 00:18:52,625 --> 00:18:55,875 {\an1}I finally feel like we're starting to make some progress. 438 00:18:56,042 --> 00:18:58,375 {\an1}With this six-inch hole drilled 400 feet into the mountain, 439 00:18:58,542 --> 00:19:00,333 {\an1}who knows what we would see 440 00:19:00,458 --> 00:19:02,333 {\an1}if we could get this camera back there? 441 00:19:02,458 --> 00:19:05,625 {\an1}We definitely need to investigate it a lot more, 442 00:19:05,708 --> 00:19:08,500 {\an1}but I do feel like maybe there's some evidence there 443 00:19:08,625 --> 00:19:11,625 {\an1}that could back up some of these stories that we've been told. 444 00:19:13,792 --> 00:19:15,833 {\an1}BRYANT: Well, looks like he's getting it down in there. 445 00:19:15,958 --> 00:19:17,375 {\an1}Oh, look at that. 446 00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:20,083 {\an1}TRAVIS: Oh, wow. 447 00:19:20,208 --> 00:19:22,250 {\an1}THOMAS: That's pretty cool. 448 00:19:26,083 --> 00:19:28,458 {\an1}That's a pretty clear picture. 449 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:32,542 {\an1}RYAN: All right, so we will start recording right now. 450 00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:38,000 {\an1}Let me, uh, at least get something here 451 00:19:38,083 --> 00:19:40,000 {\an1}so it doesn't have to work so hard. 452 00:19:40,125 --> 00:19:42,875 {\an1}Hey, Thomas, if you wouldn't mind... 453 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,125 {\an1}I'm gonna go forward, just... 454 00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:47,500 {\an1}feed it into the hole as I'm going forward. 455 00:19:47,583 --> 00:19:49,917 {\an1}Okay. (exhales) 456 00:19:50,042 --> 00:19:52,167 {\an1}Okay, go ahead. 457 00:19:59,083 --> 00:20:01,000 {\an1}Traction moving fine, Thomas? 458 00:20:01,125 --> 00:20:03,333 {\an1}Oh, yeah. 459 00:20:03,458 --> 00:20:05,000 {\an1}RYAN: Oh, there we go. 460 00:20:05,125 --> 00:20:06,500 {\an1}BRYANT: Not very far though. 461 00:20:06,667 --> 00:20:08,583 {\an1}No, it's just right at the entrance right now. 462 00:20:10,708 --> 00:20:13,708 {\an1}Everything looks like it's working properly? 463 00:20:15,917 --> 00:20:17,708 {\an1}THOMAS: Wait a second. 464 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:19,667 {\an1}It's getting hung up. 465 00:20:20,875 --> 00:20:24,042 {\an1}So we bring in this camera that sits on crawlers, 466 00:20:24,167 --> 00:20:26,292 {\an1}and it's designed to crawl up, 467 00:20:26,375 --> 00:20:28,250 {\an1}and it can go up as far as a thousand feet. 468 00:20:28,375 --> 00:20:30,125 {\an1}Unfortunately, 469 00:20:30,250 --> 00:20:32,667 {\an1}we couldn't get it to go up into the hole more 470 00:20:32,833 --> 00:20:35,208 {\an1}than two or three feet. 471 00:20:35,375 --> 00:20:37,875 {\an1}Why it's not moving, is beyond me. 472 00:20:41,250 --> 00:20:43,333 {\an1}(grunts) 473 00:20:43,417 --> 00:20:45,167 {\an1}-BRYANT: He can't get it. -RYAN: Yeah, it's not going. 474 00:20:45,292 --> 00:20:47,125 {\an1}THOMAS: It's stuck. Like, I can't even... 475 00:20:47,250 --> 00:20:49,333 {\an1}-RYAN: Okay. -...I can't even push it. 476 00:20:49,458 --> 00:20:52,000 {\an1}I'm at 100% forward right now, 477 00:20:52,125 --> 00:20:53,708 {\an1}and it's just, it's being held up. 478 00:20:56,083 --> 00:20:58,500 {\an1}That's not going anywhere. 479 00:21:01,208 --> 00:21:03,375 {\an1}That thing's not going. 480 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:04,875 {\an1}I don't think it's going to go in. 481 00:21:06,875 --> 00:21:08,250 {\an1}THOMAS: This is sophisticated equipment. 482 00:21:08,375 --> 00:21:09,875 {\an1}It shouldn't be doing this. 483 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,833 {\an1}Makes me wonder, has something shifted underground 484 00:21:12,917 --> 00:21:14,333 {\an1}by what we did? 485 00:21:14,458 --> 00:21:16,083 {\an1}Or, you know, is something else at play here 486 00:21:16,208 --> 00:21:17,708 {\an1}that's stopping it from going? 487 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:20,833 {\an1}'Cause, you know, we saw how smooth that thing was. 488 00:21:20,958 --> 00:21:22,167 {\an1}And now it's getting stopped. 489 00:21:22,250 --> 00:21:24,333 {\an1}TRAVIS: This is bizarre. 490 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,458 {\an1}This was a wide-open drill hole just yesterday. 491 00:21:27,542 --> 00:21:30,542 {\an1}There's no reason to explain how a hole 492 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:34,167 {\an1}drilled through solid rock would have closed in like this. 493 00:21:34,292 --> 00:21:35,833 {\an1}BRYANT: Well, it's frustrating. 494 00:21:35,958 --> 00:21:38,333 {\an1}As much as I wanted it, I-I don't think that this 495 00:21:38,458 --> 00:21:40,167 {\an1}is gonna get us back to that 400-foot mark. 496 00:21:40,292 --> 00:21:43,583 {\an1}No, neither do I. And I know... 497 00:21:43,708 --> 00:21:46,500 {\an1}-that we're... we have gravity on our side up there. -Yeah. 498 00:21:46,667 --> 00:21:51,000 {\an1}So I'd really like to get you and myself and Thomas up there 499 00:21:51,125 --> 00:21:52,792 {\an1}to see if we can't explore 500 00:21:52,917 --> 00:21:54,833 {\an1}and get better answers to what we found in that upper cavern. 501 00:21:54,958 --> 00:21:56,542 {\an1}RYAN: Yeah. 502 00:21:58,083 --> 00:21:59,083 {\an1}BRYANT: What is that? 503 00:21:59,208 --> 00:22:00,250 {\an1}TRAVIS: Last week, 504 00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:02,000 {\an1}during the drilling operation, 505 00:22:02,083 --> 00:22:03,667 {\an1}Dragon and Thomas Winterton 506 00:22:03,792 --> 00:22:05,292 {\an1}fed a snake camera down into one of the crevices 507 00:22:05,417 --> 00:22:06,917 {\an1}they found in the mesa, 508 00:22:07,042 --> 00:22:09,750 {\an1}and they recorded clear video of a metallic object 509 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:12,333 {\an1}with strange lines and different colors on it. 510 00:22:12,458 --> 00:22:14,167 {\an1}BRYANT: It definitely looks like 511 00:22:14,292 --> 00:22:16,000 {\an1}it's reflecting something off of there. 512 00:22:16,167 --> 00:22:17,958 {\an1}What is that? 513 00:22:20,458 --> 00:22:21,917 {\an1}Hey, Travis, I left a radio there. 514 00:22:22,042 --> 00:22:23,667 {\an1}I've got one, too, so if we need to communicate. 515 00:22:23,750 --> 00:22:25,292 {\an1}TRAVIS: Thank you. All right, I'll get it. 516 00:22:26,792 --> 00:22:29,500 {\an1}TRAVIS: Ryan also brought an additional HD camera device 517 00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:33,208 {\an1}outfitted with a claw extension designed to grab objects. 518 00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:35,750 {\an1}The hope is that if the metal Thomas and Dragon 519 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:38,375 {\an1}originally got on video was one piece, 520 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:40,333 {\an1}then Ryan's claw could retrieve it. 521 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,250 {\an1}Or we could determine if it's actually 522 00:22:43,375 --> 00:22:46,167 {\an1}a part of something much larger beneath the surface. 523 00:22:46,333 --> 00:22:48,708 {\an1}All right, guys. 524 00:22:48,833 --> 00:22:51,583 {\an1}-I've got these two. -RYAN: All right. 525 00:22:51,708 --> 00:22:53,833 {\an1}I'll take one from you, Thomas. 526 00:22:53,958 --> 00:22:55,750 {\an1}THOMAS: So our hope is, to drop our snake camera 527 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:59,125 {\an1}down at the same time and with that gripper claw 528 00:22:59,208 --> 00:23:02,167 {\an1}grab onto the metallic object we found earlier. 529 00:23:02,250 --> 00:23:03,792 {\an1}All right, we got it. We got view. 530 00:23:03,917 --> 00:23:05,333 {\an1}She's good to go. 531 00:23:05,458 --> 00:23:07,458 {\an1}The ability of this one to pan, tilt and zoom, 532 00:23:07,542 --> 00:23:09,000 {\an1}-I think will help. -RYAN: Yeah. 533 00:23:09,125 --> 00:23:11,167 {\an1}Well, let me go ahead and lower this one in. 534 00:23:11,292 --> 00:23:13,292 {\an1}RYAN: Okay. 535 00:23:13,375 --> 00:23:15,833 {\an1}-THOMAS: You are recording, right? -RYAN: Yup, we are recording. 536 00:23:17,375 --> 00:23:19,333 {\an1}We've got good view, picture looks great. 537 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,625 {\an1}THOMAS: Okay. 538 00:23:24,417 --> 00:23:26,292 {\an1}BRYANT: It's just not getting past. 539 00:23:26,375 --> 00:23:28,167 {\an1}Are you at that first ledge? 540 00:23:28,250 --> 00:23:30,083 {\an1}-At that first little ledge. -Yeah. 541 00:23:30,208 --> 00:23:32,125 {\an1}(speaking indistinctly) 542 00:23:33,375 --> 00:23:35,292 {\an1}BRYANT: Come on, baby. 543 00:23:35,375 --> 00:23:36,917 {\an1}Get down in there again. 544 00:23:38,708 --> 00:23:41,042 {\an1}Why is this being so difficult now? 545 00:23:42,208 --> 00:23:44,375 {\an1}(groans) 546 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,375 {\an1}-THOMAS: Just trying to... Gosh, I just can't get it... -RYAN: Yeah. 547 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:51,292 {\an1}...to freakin' go past that point. 548 00:23:51,417 --> 00:23:53,167 {\an1}It's so frustrating. 549 00:23:53,250 --> 00:23:55,375 {\an1}I mean, we were down 30 feet. 550 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,667 {\an1}Now we can't even get it down to what, 551 00:23:57,792 --> 00:23:59,292 {\an1}12 foot? 552 00:23:59,375 --> 00:24:01,083 {\an1}How-how far down is that? 553 00:24:01,208 --> 00:24:03,375 {\an1}RYAN: We were a little over ten foot a while ago. 554 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,708 {\an1}BRYANT: I'm actually looking right now 555 00:24:06,875 --> 00:24:09,750 {\an1}at what looks like a great big boulder. 556 00:24:09,875 --> 00:24:12,833 {\an1}It looks like it may have actually fallen 557 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,375 {\an1}right over that opening. 558 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:15,875 {\an1}You see what I'm talking about, right there? 559 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,667 {\an1}-THOMAS: Oh, yeah. -BRYANT: That's a big rock. 560 00:24:17,792 --> 00:24:19,667 {\an1}-THOMAS: That is a big rock. -That's a big rock. 561 00:24:21,542 --> 00:24:23,458 {\an1}What are the odds of one, which almost looks like 562 00:24:23,542 --> 00:24:24,792 {\an1}a perfectly round boulder, 563 00:24:24,917 --> 00:24:27,208 {\an1}going and covering up that opening? 564 00:24:27,333 --> 00:24:29,833 {\an1}-That's so odd. -Gosh, this ranch. 565 00:24:32,083 --> 00:24:34,417 {\an1}TRAVIS: We've got the elemental analysis 566 00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:36,667 {\an1}of that material you guys pulled out 567 00:24:36,833 --> 00:24:38,417 {\an1}-of the drill hole. -Really? 568 00:24:38,542 --> 00:24:40,167 {\an1}-ERIK: Yeah. -It is actually one of the most 569 00:24:40,250 --> 00:24:42,167 {\an1}rare elements on the planet. 570 00:24:42,292 --> 00:24:44,833 {\an1}-THOMAS: That's interesting. -Why the hell is it in our mesa? 571 00:24:54,792 --> 00:24:56,750 {\an1}It's odd how you say it's very cylindrical. 572 00:24:56,875 --> 00:24:58,000 {\an1}That's so odd. 573 00:24:59,167 --> 00:25:00,667 {\an1}THOMAS: It is just like it's been plugged up. 574 00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:02,125 {\an1}BRYANT: It almost looks like it was just a plug 575 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:03,125 {\an1}that was stuck in place there. 576 00:25:04,833 --> 00:25:07,500 {\an1}BRYANT: It's disappointing that we've asked Ryan 577 00:25:07,667 --> 00:25:09,500 {\an1}to come out with this special camera 578 00:25:09,625 --> 00:25:11,375 {\an1}that's on a motorized vehicle, 579 00:25:11,542 --> 00:25:14,000 {\an1}that he claims can get back inside the mesa. 580 00:25:14,125 --> 00:25:15,875 {\an1}But this vehicle couldn't even make it a few feet 581 00:25:16,042 --> 00:25:17,917 {\an1}inside the hole, so we couldn't explore 582 00:25:18,042 --> 00:25:19,667 {\an1}the lateral drill hole. 583 00:25:19,792 --> 00:25:21,833 {\an1}And now this perfectly round rock 584 00:25:21,958 --> 00:25:24,667 {\an1}is covering the entrance to the hole we want to get it down in. 585 00:25:24,792 --> 00:25:27,917 {\an1}Why is the ranch stopping us from getting in there? 586 00:25:28,042 --> 00:25:30,250 {\an1}At the end of the day, the ranch is going to do 587 00:25:30,375 --> 00:25:31,792 {\an1}what it's going to do 588 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:34,333 {\an1}and I feel like I'm almost helpless. 589 00:25:34,458 --> 00:25:36,417 {\an1}Hey, Dragon, 590 00:25:36,542 --> 00:25:38,083 {\an1}-Tom. You guys copy? -You want to get it? 591 00:25:38,208 --> 00:25:39,625 {\an1}Yeah, Travis. Go ahead. 592 00:25:39,708 --> 00:25:42,167 {\an1}Have y'all found anything up there yet? 593 00:25:42,292 --> 00:25:44,375 {\an1}THOMAS: We just found a great big boulder, 594 00:25:44,542 --> 00:25:45,875 {\an1}almost perfectly round, 595 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 {\an1}that fell down and blocked the entrance. 596 00:25:50,083 --> 00:25:52,958 {\an1}Now that's a little bit crazy and suspicious. 597 00:25:53,083 --> 00:25:54,375 {\an1}Yeah, Travis. 598 00:25:54,542 --> 00:25:55,917 {\an1}With this boulder in the way, 599 00:25:56,042 --> 00:25:57,708 {\an1}we really can't get the camera deeper. 600 00:25:57,833 --> 00:25:59,500 {\an1}There's really not any other course of action 601 00:25:59,583 --> 00:26:00,958 {\an1}we can take at this time. 602 00:26:01,042 --> 00:26:02,833 {\an1}TRAVIS: When we were first started 603 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,667 {\an1}investigating this spot, we were told 604 00:26:04,833 --> 00:26:07,292 {\an1}by former Bigelow employee Chris Bartel 605 00:26:07,375 --> 00:26:09,333 {\an1}that it used to be a cave. 606 00:26:09,458 --> 00:26:11,833 {\an1}So we wondered if someone had purposely covered it up. 607 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 {\an1}But now, seeing this drill hole in the mesa 608 00:26:15,167 --> 00:26:18,458 {\an1}and this crevice up above both getting inexplicably 609 00:26:18,542 --> 00:26:21,792 {\an1}blocked up overnight makes no logical sense. 610 00:26:21,875 --> 00:26:24,125 {\an1}Just what the hell could be in this mesa, 611 00:26:24,208 --> 00:26:26,958 {\an1}and what is preventing us from finding out? 612 00:26:28,583 --> 00:26:30,458 {\an1}BRYANT: We'll get it. It's just... 613 00:26:30,542 --> 00:26:33,833 {\an1}by these means, it's not gonna happen today. 614 00:26:35,625 --> 00:26:38,667 {\an1}Let's get this stuff cleaned up and get out of here. 615 00:26:38,792 --> 00:26:41,125 {\an1}-Thanks, Ryan. -RYAN: Oh, thank you. 616 00:26:41,208 --> 00:26:43,917 {\an1}-Appreciate it. -I appreciate you guys. 617 00:26:49,625 --> 00:26:51,125 {\an1}-ERIK: Hey, gentleman. -THOMAS: Hey, guys. 618 00:26:51,208 --> 00:26:54,750 {\an1}We've got the analysis back from the lab 619 00:26:54,875 --> 00:26:57,250 {\an1}that did the scanning electron microscope, 620 00:26:57,375 --> 00:26:58,792 {\an1}uh, elemental analysis 621 00:26:58,917 --> 00:27:00,792 {\an1}of that material you guys pulled out 622 00:27:00,875 --> 00:27:02,875 {\an1}-of the drill hole. -Really? Yeah. 623 00:27:03,042 --> 00:27:05,750 {\an1}TRAVIS: The next day, Erik received a report 624 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:07,583 {\an1}from the materials science and engineering department 625 00:27:07,708 --> 00:27:10,000 {\an1}at the University of Utah about the metal 626 00:27:10,167 --> 00:27:12,083 {\an1}that the guys drilled out of the mesa. 627 00:27:12,208 --> 00:27:14,667 {\an1}So, we all gathered in the Command Center to review it 628 00:27:14,792 --> 00:27:16,500 {\an1}and see what this huge 629 00:27:16,667 --> 00:27:18,625 {\an1}dome-shaped object might be made of. 630 00:27:18,708 --> 00:27:20,958 {\an1}The data that they gave us 631 00:27:21,083 --> 00:27:23,958 {\an1}from the elemental analysis is really interesting. 632 00:27:24,083 --> 00:27:26,750 {\an1}On one side of the material, there's, uh, tellurium 633 00:27:26,875 --> 00:27:30,333 {\an1}and on the other side of the material there's europium. 634 00:27:30,417 --> 00:27:33,333 {\an1}Tellurium is a semiconductor material 635 00:27:33,417 --> 00:27:35,792 {\an1}that is used in solar panels. 636 00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:40,917 {\an1}The europium, uh, it's been experimentally measured 637 00:27:41,042 --> 00:27:43,417 {\an1}that under certain circumstances is a superconductor. 638 00:27:43,542 --> 00:27:44,792 {\an1}-THOMAS: Really? -Yeah. 639 00:27:44,917 --> 00:27:46,792 {\an1}TRAVIS: The elements found in this metal 640 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:48,792 {\an1}from deep inside the mesa 641 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:50,958 {\an1}has properties just like those of a semiconductor 642 00:27:51,083 --> 00:27:53,417 {\an1}and a superconductor, which are both used 643 00:27:53,542 --> 00:27:54,875 {\an1}in modern-day electronics 644 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,500 {\an1}like computer processors, MRI machines, 645 00:27:57,667 --> 00:27:59,625 {\an1}electronic vehicles, radios, 646 00:27:59,708 --> 00:28:01,500 {\an1}and even smart phones. 647 00:28:01,625 --> 00:28:04,458 {\an1}But why is it here on Skinwalker Ranch? 648 00:28:04,542 --> 00:28:07,792 {\an1}Now, what's interesting is tellurium is 649 00:28:07,917 --> 00:28:10,375 {\an1}is the second, uh... 650 00:28:10,542 --> 00:28:12,750 {\an1}most rare element on the planet. 651 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:15,458 {\an1}Same goes for europium. 652 00:28:15,583 --> 00:28:17,625 {\an1}It is actually one of the most, uh, 653 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:20,500 {\an1}rare elements, uh, on the planet, also. 654 00:28:20,625 --> 00:28:22,042 {\an1}-THOMAS: That's interesting. -Wow. 655 00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:24,292 {\an1}TRAVIS: Those things have specific uses. 656 00:28:24,417 --> 00:28:27,333 {\an1}Both of those materials are used in developing 657 00:28:27,458 --> 00:28:29,333 {\an1}modern quantum computer systems. 658 00:28:29,458 --> 00:28:31,167 {\an1}ERIK: So it sounds like we're looking at a structured 659 00:28:31,333 --> 00:28:35,125 {\an1}material like as if it were perhaps deliberately structured. 660 00:28:35,208 --> 00:28:36,708 {\an1}At least that's what I'm reading into what you're saying. 661 00:28:36,875 --> 00:28:39,000 {\an1}Well, well, how-how else do you get 662 00:28:39,167 --> 00:28:40,958 {\an1}one of the elements only on one side 663 00:28:41,042 --> 00:28:43,667 {\an1}and one of the elements only on the other side? 664 00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:46,208 {\an1}Well, that's a lot of information to digest. 665 00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:49,833 {\an1}And how many pieces did you have them test? 666 00:28:49,917 --> 00:28:51,792 {\an1}I sent two samples 667 00:28:51,917 --> 00:28:53,833 {\an1}-about this-this size. -BRYANT: Okay. 668 00:28:53,958 --> 00:28:56,833 {\an1}And... and it was the same way on both pieces? 669 00:28:56,917 --> 00:28:58,500 {\an1}-One side had that element... Okay. -ERIK: Yes. 670 00:28:58,583 --> 00:29:00,917 {\an1}Yeah, in fact that's pretty consistent across ev-- all-- 671 00:29:01,042 --> 00:29:03,167 {\an1}that's interesting though-- across all the samples 672 00:29:03,292 --> 00:29:06,083 {\an1}that we've collected, there are two distinctly different sides. 673 00:29:06,208 --> 00:29:08,125 {\an1}THOMAS: Wow. 674 00:29:08,208 --> 00:29:10,500 {\an1}Tell me what the superconductor on one side, semiconductor 675 00:29:10,667 --> 00:29:12,583 {\an1}on the other side-- tell me what that would be used for. 676 00:29:12,708 --> 00:29:15,250 {\an1}TRAVIS: Okay, so I have read 677 00:29:15,375 --> 00:29:18,250 {\an1}some speculative, uh, pa-- 678 00:29:18,375 --> 00:29:21,167 {\an1}scientific papers in, like, uh, classical quantum gravity, 679 00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:23,875 {\an1}couple other papers, that suggest, uh... 680 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,667 {\an1}that if you took layers of semiconductors, conductors 681 00:29:27,792 --> 00:29:30,250 {\an1}and superconductors, 682 00:29:30,375 --> 00:29:32,958 {\an1}and you put these in multiple layers, 683 00:29:33,042 --> 00:29:36,333 {\an1}you could actually create a region, 684 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,833 {\an1}uh, that might manipulate 685 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 {\an1}the space-time metric. 686 00:29:41,125 --> 00:29:43,000 {\an1}Meaning it might bend space and time. 687 00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:45,708 {\an1}Really? 688 00:29:45,833 --> 00:29:47,500 {\an1}And in fact, it's an experiment 689 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:50,667 {\an1}that's being sort of tested at the NASA Eagleworks Lab 690 00:29:50,792 --> 00:29:52,042 {\an1}where they're trying to figure out 691 00:29:52,167 --> 00:29:53,417 {\an1}how to reproduce something like that. 692 00:29:55,875 --> 00:29:57,958 {\an1}Right now, NASA is testing a concept 693 00:29:58,042 --> 00:30:00,167 {\an1}for exploring areas in deep space, 694 00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:03,625 {\an1}whereby stacked layers of this type of material 695 00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:05,292 {\an1}that we found in the mesa 696 00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:07,792 {\an1}could be used to move a spacecraft from one location 697 00:30:07,875 --> 00:30:09,500 {\an1}in the universe to another 698 00:30:09,667 --> 00:30:11,458 {\an1}faster than the speed of light. 699 00:30:11,542 --> 00:30:14,667 {\an1}Now this is a technology that mankind hasn't proven yet. 700 00:30:14,750 --> 00:30:18,667 {\an1}So who or what might have buried it on Skinwalker Ranch? 701 00:30:18,792 --> 00:30:20,750 {\an1}I-I just, I just find it interesting 702 00:30:20,875 --> 00:30:22,833 {\an1}that on a ranch where we have so much 703 00:30:22,958 --> 00:30:26,167 {\an1}electromagnetic interreference, so many problems 704 00:30:26,292 --> 00:30:29,458 {\an1}with our, with our electronics and-and we're pulling 705 00:30:29,542 --> 00:30:32,250 {\an1}out metal that appears 706 00:30:32,375 --> 00:30:34,125 {\an1}like it could have a superconductor on one side, 707 00:30:34,208 --> 00:30:35,667 {\an1}conductor on the other side. 708 00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:38,167 {\an1}-If that was large enough... -Sure. 709 00:30:38,292 --> 00:30:40,708 {\an1}...could that be the cause of what we're seeing? 710 00:30:40,833 --> 00:30:42,750 {\an1}TRAVIS: Yeah, maybe. 711 00:30:42,875 --> 00:30:44,583 {\an1}You know, it sure is interesting 712 00:30:44,708 --> 00:30:46,917 {\an1}that just as we're getting into whatever 713 00:30:47,042 --> 00:30:49,500 {\an1}part of the mesa that bears this material, 714 00:30:49,583 --> 00:30:51,875 {\an1}we start seeing unusual things happening with the equipment. 715 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,208 {\an1}BRYANT: You know what, are we hitting something 716 00:30:54,333 --> 00:30:56,542 {\an1}that we're not supposed to be finding? 717 00:30:56,708 --> 00:30:58,292 {\an1}Is there more at play here than that? 718 00:30:58,417 --> 00:31:00,875 {\an1}Is it, gosh, do we want to go crazy, 719 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,500 {\an1}some sort of a craft or something like that, 720 00:31:03,583 --> 00:31:06,333 {\an1}that was put in there that we're finally hitting into 721 00:31:06,417 --> 00:31:08,292 {\an1}that was never supposed to be discovered. 722 00:31:08,375 --> 00:31:09,833 {\an1}I don't know. 723 00:31:09,958 --> 00:31:12,333 {\an1}Let's not forget that we have been told 724 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:15,125 {\an1}many, many stories about these deep caverns, 725 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,167 {\an1}a hill opening up and a ship flying in... 726 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:19,125 {\an1}BRYANT: There's so many questions. 727 00:31:19,250 --> 00:31:22,000 {\an1}Why only one element on one side? Why one on the other? 728 00:31:22,083 --> 00:31:25,125 {\an1}Why is it so wafer thin? Why the hell is it in our mesa? 729 00:31:25,208 --> 00:31:27,333 {\an1}-TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -300 feet in. 730 00:31:27,417 --> 00:31:30,333 {\an1}If it is manufactured, why the hell 731 00:31:30,458 --> 00:31:32,500 {\an1}is it inside the mesa, like you just said. 732 00:31:32,625 --> 00:31:37,125 {\an1}How did it get there and what was it before it got there? 733 00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:39,167 {\an1}Was it manufactured there? Was it manufactured somewhere else 734 00:31:39,292 --> 00:31:42,000 {\an1}and put there? I mean, there's so many questions that opens up. 735 00:31:42,125 --> 00:31:43,958 {\an1}ERIK: Well, looking at what we've got on our hands, 736 00:31:44,083 --> 00:31:46,125 {\an1}I want to take these samples to a metallurgist. 737 00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:47,958 {\an1}I'm hopeful that we might be able to take samples 738 00:31:48,083 --> 00:31:50,000 {\an1}like this and put them in front of someone who does 739 00:31:50,125 --> 00:31:52,500 {\an1}this work and ask, "Have you seen this stuff?" 740 00:31:52,667 --> 00:31:54,417 {\an1}TRAVIS: Good idea. Let's do that. 741 00:31:54,542 --> 00:31:57,708 {\an1}ERIK: This only deepens my interest in how this material got there, 742 00:31:57,875 --> 00:31:59,458 {\an1}how much of it is there, 743 00:31:59,542 --> 00:32:02,500 {\an1}and is it somehow participating in the phenomenology? 744 00:32:02,667 --> 00:32:05,917 {\an1}It makes sense for us to connect with a metallurgist 745 00:32:06,042 --> 00:32:07,833 {\an1}and I'm looking forward to comparing notes. 746 00:32:07,958 --> 00:32:10,125 {\an1}-Okay, let's do it. -Let's do it. 747 00:32:19,375 --> 00:32:20,875 {\an1}-TRAVIS: Good morning. -RAVI: Morning. 748 00:32:21,042 --> 00:32:22,708 {\an1}Hey. Travis Taylor. 749 00:32:22,875 --> 00:32:24,667 {\an1}-Ravi Chandran. -Nice to meet you, sir. 750 00:32:24,833 --> 00:32:27,208 {\an1}-Ravi, Erik Bard. -Nice to meet you. 751 00:32:27,333 --> 00:32:30,333 {\an1}So you did the analysis of the, uh, samples that we sent? 752 00:32:30,458 --> 00:32:32,083 {\an1}TRAVIS: Ah. 753 00:32:32,208 --> 00:32:34,167 {\an1}The day after we got the report showing 754 00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,000 {\an1}that the metal fragments from deep inside the mesa 755 00:32:36,167 --> 00:32:37,833 {\an1}were not natural, 756 00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:40,458 {\an1}Erik and I went to the University of Utah 757 00:32:40,583 --> 00:32:42,833 {\an1}to meet with Professor of Metallurgical Engineering 758 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,833 {\an1}Dr. Ravi Chandran, to get his expert opinion 759 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,833 {\an1}and help us figure out what the huge, 760 00:32:47,958 --> 00:32:50,167 {\an1}dome-shaped object could be. 761 00:32:57,625 --> 00:32:58,917 {\an1}Okay. 762 00:33:01,875 --> 00:33:03,167 {\an1}ERIK: Now that's interesting. 763 00:33:03,292 --> 00:33:05,667 {\an1}What among the rarer elements 764 00:33:05,792 --> 00:33:07,625 {\an1}did you see in the sample? 765 00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:17,250 {\an1}-Mm-hmm. -The way I understand it, 766 00:33:17,375 --> 00:33:18,875 {\an1}there was also trace elements of, uh, 767 00:33:19,042 --> 00:33:21,375 {\an1}europium and tellurium in the sample. 768 00:33:24,917 --> 00:33:26,625 {\an1}Okay. 769 00:33:28,792 --> 00:33:31,292 {\an1}This material was manufactured 770 00:33:31,375 --> 00:33:34,083 {\an1}as opposed to a natural occurrence? 771 00:33:38,458 --> 00:33:40,417 {\an1}Yeah, and, you know, the other interesting thing 772 00:33:40,542 --> 00:33:42,250 {\an1}uh, about it is 773 00:33:42,375 --> 00:33:44,917 {\an1}we do know that the drill bit that brought this thing back 774 00:33:45,042 --> 00:33:46,500 {\an1}bounced off of this stuff. 775 00:33:56,375 --> 00:33:58,333 {\an1}It's like a glass, it's like a ceramic composite. 776 00:33:58,458 --> 00:34:01,458 {\an1}Right? Yeah, so... that makes a lot of sense. 777 00:34:01,542 --> 00:34:04,500 {\an1}It reminds me of when I worked on the space shuttle program 778 00:34:04,583 --> 00:34:06,333 {\an1}with the tiles that we put on that. 779 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:07,958 {\an1}That was a ceramic material that was centered 780 00:34:08,042 --> 00:34:11,000 {\an1}and it had a huge thermal capacity. 781 00:34:16,417 --> 00:34:18,167 {\an1}Yeah. 782 00:34:20,375 --> 00:34:21,917 {\an1}-TRAVIS: Yeah. -ERIK: Well, that's interesting. 783 00:34:22,042 --> 00:34:23,792 {\an1}That's actually very interesting. 784 00:34:25,292 --> 00:34:28,167 {\an1}If this huge, dome-shaped object in the mesa 785 00:34:28,292 --> 00:34:31,292 {\an1}is covered with the same kind of materials that NASA uses 786 00:34:31,375 --> 00:34:34,000 {\an1}to protect space shuttles from burning up when they reenter 787 00:34:34,125 --> 00:34:36,542 {\an1}our atmosphere, could the rumors we've heard 788 00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:39,125 {\an1}about a spacecraft being buried on Skinwalker Ranch 789 00:34:39,250 --> 00:34:41,292 {\an1}really be true? 790 00:34:42,917 --> 00:34:44,958 {\an1}Oh. Look at that. 791 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,708 {\an1}CASEY: What's that? It's, like, pitch-black. 792 00:34:47,833 --> 00:34:49,583 {\an1}That is some dark, dark stuff. 793 00:34:49,708 --> 00:34:51,833 {\an1}TRAVIS: One year ago, when we drilled 794 00:34:51,958 --> 00:34:54,292 {\an1}almost a hundred feet deep at the triangle area, 795 00:34:54,375 --> 00:34:57,000 {\an1}we discovered a strange substance 796 00:34:57,083 --> 00:34:59,500 {\an1}made of manganese, iron, aluminum, 797 00:34:59,667 --> 00:35:01,292 {\an1}sulfur and silicon 798 00:35:01,375 --> 00:35:03,667 {\an1}that could also be related to spacecraft. 799 00:35:03,792 --> 00:35:05,833 {\an1}If you go and take any 800 00:35:05,958 --> 00:35:08,708 {\an1}modern-day fighter plane or spacecraft, 801 00:35:08,833 --> 00:35:11,375 {\an1}and you crush it up and then you take a sample of it, 802 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,458 {\an1}-you're probably gonna get these materials. -BRYANT: Oh! 803 00:35:14,583 --> 00:35:16,667 {\an1}And given the fact that the aerial experiments 804 00:35:16,792 --> 00:35:18,417 {\an1}we conducted a few weeks ago 805 00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:22,000 {\an1}above the triangle, ended up giving us GPS data 806 00:35:22,167 --> 00:35:25,000 {\an1}inside the mesa, I'm really wondering 807 00:35:25,125 --> 00:35:26,667 {\an1}just what we're getting close to finding here 808 00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:28,625 {\an1}on Skinwalker Ranch. 809 00:35:29,708 --> 00:35:32,000 {\an1}Well, I hope that we can find more samples, 810 00:35:32,125 --> 00:35:33,875 {\an1}uh, in the not too distant future 811 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,917 {\an1}and get back out here with-with more, and maybe we can get 812 00:35:36,042 --> 00:35:37,500 {\an1}some more details and more data 813 00:35:37,625 --> 00:35:39,083 {\an1}that may help us get to that answer. 814 00:35:40,375 --> 00:35:41,833 {\an1}Well, this has been real enlightening. 815 00:35:41,917 --> 00:35:44,167 {\an1}-ERIK: Fantastic, okay. -Thank you very much. 816 00:35:44,292 --> 00:35:46,375 {\an1}Thank you, thank you. You, too. 817 00:35:56,583 --> 00:35:59,500 {\an1}I'm gonna go dump this again. 818 00:35:59,667 --> 00:36:01,417 {\an1}TRAVIS: While Erik and I were making our way back 819 00:36:01,542 --> 00:36:03,500 {\an1}to the ranch, Thomas and Dragon were 820 00:36:03,625 --> 00:36:05,333 {\an1}going through the leftover spoils 821 00:36:05,458 --> 00:36:07,333 {\an1}from the drilling operation at the mesa, 822 00:36:07,458 --> 00:36:09,333 {\an1}searching for more clues and evidence 823 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,917 {\an1}of what's really going on beneath the property. 824 00:36:12,042 --> 00:36:13,792 {\an1}(over radio): Bryant, this is Kaleb. 825 00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:15,417 {\an1}Kaleb, this is Thomas. 826 00:36:15,542 --> 00:36:17,917 {\an1}Hey, Tom, can you guys come to the triangle? 827 00:36:18,042 --> 00:36:19,792 {\an1}I got a collapse over on this side. 828 00:36:21,167 --> 00:36:22,750 {\an1}A collapse? 829 00:36:22,875 --> 00:36:24,917 {\an1}All right, well, we're over here at the drill hole. 830 00:36:25,042 --> 00:36:27,208 {\an1}We're just finishing up. So we'll head over that way 831 00:36:27,333 --> 00:36:29,667 {\an1}and see you in a few minutes. 832 00:36:30,750 --> 00:36:32,500 {\an1}THOMAS: In talking to Kaleb on the radio 833 00:36:32,625 --> 00:36:35,333 {\an1}about a collapse in at the triangle, it makes me 834 00:36:35,458 --> 00:36:37,625 {\an1}wonder what could be causing this. 835 00:36:37,708 --> 00:36:39,542 {\an1}Why now? 836 00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:48,667 {\an1}What do you got? 837 00:36:48,792 --> 00:36:51,792 {\an1}It's gone down about ten feet in this section here. 838 00:36:53,208 --> 00:36:55,167 {\an1}-BRYANT: Yeah, that's recent. -THOMAS: Oh, wow, it's back there a ways. 839 00:36:55,333 --> 00:36:57,500 {\an1}This is crazy, guys. 840 00:36:57,625 --> 00:36:59,250 {\an1}This spot is the exact spot 841 00:36:59,375 --> 00:37:01,583 {\an1}that we drilled into that void last year. 842 00:37:09,042 --> 00:37:10,500 {\an1}THOMAS: That's massive. 843 00:37:10,625 --> 00:37:12,708 {\an1}BRYANT: That is a big one. 844 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:14,667 {\an1}TRAVIS: This massive collapse was not only strange 845 00:37:14,833 --> 00:37:16,542 {\an1}because it happened at the triangle. 846 00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:19,333 {\an1}It was also right where we drilled last year 847 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,000 {\an1}into another mysterious void. 848 00:37:22,125 --> 00:37:24,167 {\an1}Where we recovered metallic materials, 849 00:37:24,292 --> 00:37:26,167 {\an1}that could be related to spacecraft, 850 00:37:26,292 --> 00:37:28,625 {\an1}just like we found in the mesa. 851 00:37:28,708 --> 00:37:30,750 {\an1}You know, I wonder what's causing that. 852 00:37:32,708 --> 00:37:34,458 {\an1}Gosh, you almost have to pose the question... 853 00:37:35,833 --> 00:37:37,833 {\an1}...is this a result of the drilling we were doing 854 00:37:37,958 --> 00:37:39,167 {\an1}over there that's causing this? 855 00:37:39,292 --> 00:37:40,667 {\an1}It's interesting, you're right. 856 00:37:40,833 --> 00:37:42,333 {\an1}I mean, it didn't cave in 857 00:37:42,417 --> 00:37:44,333 {\an1}-until we started drilling over there. -Right. 858 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,333 {\an1}TRAVIS: When the team was drilling in the mesa, 859 00:37:46,417 --> 00:37:49,333 {\an1}they pumped over 2,000 gallons of water 860 00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:52,000 {\an1}that disappeared somewhere inside. 861 00:37:52,125 --> 00:37:53,292 {\an1}I just don't know where it's going. 862 00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:55,500 {\an1}Is it possible that all that water 863 00:37:55,625 --> 00:37:58,167 {\an1}made its way down to the void we discovered last year 864 00:37:58,333 --> 00:38:01,250 {\an1}below the triangle and caused a collapse? 865 00:38:01,375 --> 00:38:03,292 {\an1}-See how it's just running in? -Yeah. 866 00:38:03,417 --> 00:38:05,583 {\an1}-It's falling apart. -That is really flowing. 867 00:38:05,708 --> 00:38:08,083 {\an1}-It's like a river down there. -TRAVIS: Is this 868 00:38:08,208 --> 00:38:11,125 {\an1}an opening to a big void, and if so, 869 00:38:11,208 --> 00:38:13,292 {\an1}could that mean that a tunnel or a cavern 870 00:38:13,375 --> 00:38:15,583 {\an1}under the triangle is connected to the massive void 871 00:38:15,708 --> 00:38:18,292 {\an1}in the mesa where we've discovered evidence 872 00:38:18,417 --> 00:38:20,458 {\an1}of a huge dome-shaped metal object? 873 00:38:20,583 --> 00:38:22,250 {\an1}It's been sitting here for a year. 874 00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:23,667 {\an1}Right. So why now? 875 00:38:23,792 --> 00:38:25,625 {\an1}At what point do you have to draw the line 876 00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:27,333 {\an1}and say this is no longer a coincidence? 877 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500 {\an1}It seems like without fail, every time we put 878 00:38:29,583 --> 00:38:31,167 {\an1}a shovel in the ground, and in this case 879 00:38:31,333 --> 00:38:33,000 {\an1}I would extend it to a drilling rig, 880 00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:35,583 {\an1}things just start happening. 881 00:38:35,708 --> 00:38:38,417 {\an1}It seems the more that we do invasive drilling 882 00:38:38,542 --> 00:38:40,708 {\an1}or digging or whatever on this place, 883 00:38:40,833 --> 00:38:42,500 {\an1}other things go bad in other spots. 884 00:38:42,667 --> 00:38:45,917 {\an1}You know? Who knows what else is gonna happen? 885 00:38:46,042 --> 00:38:47,667 {\an1}-Okay, well... -Thanks, man. 886 00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:49,000 {\an1}I appreciate you bringing this to our attention. 887 00:38:49,125 --> 00:38:50,667 {\an1}It's definitely a hazard 888 00:38:50,792 --> 00:38:52,708 {\an1}-that we've got -to deal with, so... Yeah. 889 00:38:53,375 --> 00:38:54,875 {\an1}-Thanks, Kaleb. -Yep. 890 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,542 {\an1}I'll see you guys later. 891 00:39:04,292 --> 00:39:06,000 {\an1}TRAVIS (over radio): Hey, guys, you copy? 892 00:39:06,167 --> 00:39:07,500 {\an1}THOMAS: Yeah, go ahead. 893 00:39:07,625 --> 00:39:09,042 {\an1}TRAVIS: I'm gonna 894 00:39:09,208 --> 00:39:12,208 {\an1}start moving back and forth up the mesa 895 00:39:12,375 --> 00:39:15,042 {\an1}looking at holes with the spectrum analyzer. 896 00:39:15,167 --> 00:39:17,208 {\an1}Just let us know if you find anything interesting. 897 00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:18,333 {\an1}All right, sure will then. 898 00:39:18,458 --> 00:39:19,500 {\an1}Talk to you soon. 899 00:39:19,583 --> 00:39:20,958 {\an1}The day after Kaleb noticed 900 00:39:21,042 --> 00:39:22,292 {\an1}the cave-in at the triangle, 901 00:39:22,375 --> 00:39:24,417 {\an1}we wanted to see if that event 902 00:39:24,542 --> 00:39:26,542 {\an1}might have been connected to our drilling operation 903 00:39:26,667 --> 00:39:28,708 {\an1}and what we believe is 904 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:30,417 {\an1}a massive dome-shaped metal object 905 00:39:30,542 --> 00:39:32,417 {\an1}buried inside the mesa. 906 00:39:32,542 --> 00:39:34,000 {\an1}There's got to be some holes in all of that right there. 907 00:39:34,167 --> 00:39:35,167 {\an1}Has to be. 908 00:39:35,292 --> 00:39:37,667 {\an1}So while Dragon and Thomas made 909 00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:40,000 {\an1}another attempt to get around the boulder 910 00:39:40,125 --> 00:39:42,000 {\an1}with their snake camera and get a better look at that 911 00:39:42,125 --> 00:39:44,875 {\an1}metal object down inside there, I was scanning 912 00:39:45,042 --> 00:39:47,250 {\an1}other crevices near the drill site with the spectrum analyzer, 913 00:39:47,375 --> 00:39:51,667 {\an1}looking for any signs of strange energy spikes. 914 00:39:51,750 --> 00:39:54,000 {\an1}If the collapse that happened at the triangle 915 00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,750 {\an1}really was connected to the object in the mesa, 916 00:39:56,875 --> 00:39:59,250 {\an1}I wanted to see if there might be any readings 917 00:39:59,375 --> 00:40:01,708 {\an1}for the 1.6 gigahertz RF signal 918 00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:03,958 {\an1}that we keep detecting when strange things 919 00:40:04,083 --> 00:40:05,625 {\an1}happen on the ranch. 920 00:40:06,750 --> 00:40:09,042 {\an1}Yeah, there's nothing here. 921 00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:11,000 {\an1}Hey, Dragon, you copy? 922 00:40:11,167 --> 00:40:12,667 {\an1}Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Travis. 923 00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:14,833 {\an1}This is a pretty good hole over here, 924 00:40:14,917 --> 00:40:17,583 {\an1}but I'm not really getting any readings or anything out of it. 925 00:40:17,708 --> 00:40:19,833 {\an1}If you guys are, uh, gonna be going for a while, 926 00:40:19,958 --> 00:40:22,042 {\an1}-I'm just gonna start heading down. -Okay, copy. 927 00:40:22,167 --> 00:40:23,792 {\an1}Be safe going down. 928 00:40:26,208 --> 00:40:28,333 {\an1}(rumbling) 929 00:40:28,458 --> 00:40:30,042 {\an1}Is he clear? 930 00:40:30,167 --> 00:40:31,500 {\an1}What the hell's that? 931 00:40:37,250 --> 00:40:39,375 {\an1}What the hell was that? 932 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,542 {\an1}Is everything all right down there? 933 00:40:46,208 --> 00:40:48,125 {\an1}I wonder if all the activity we've been doing here 934 00:40:48,208 --> 00:40:51,292 {\an1}in the mesa has caused something to shift underneath. 935 00:40:51,375 --> 00:40:54,542 {\an1}TRAVIS: Hey, Tom, Dragon, you guys copy? 936 00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:56,417 {\an1}THOMAS: Yeah, we copy you, Travis. 937 00:40:56,542 --> 00:40:58,958 {\an1}We just heard a really loud noise up here, 938 00:40:59,042 --> 00:41:00,958 {\an1}sounded like something crashed down there. 939 00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:02,542 {\an1}Did you hear it? 940 00:41:02,708 --> 00:41:04,292 {\an1}Man, there was a serious rumble. 941 00:41:04,417 --> 00:41:05,500 {\an1}I mean, the ground shook. 942 00:41:05,625 --> 00:41:07,042 {\an1}You could feel it in your feet. 943 00:41:07,167 --> 00:41:08,500 {\an1}The way that felt, would be like 944 00:41:08,667 --> 00:41:10,417 {\an1}if you took a, you know, 945 00:41:10,542 --> 00:41:12,625 {\an1}a one-ton rock and dropped it about... 946 00:41:12,708 --> 00:41:15,333 {\an1}ten or 20 or 30 feet. 947 00:41:15,417 --> 00:41:17,500 {\an1}Well, it was really loud up where we were at. 948 00:41:17,583 --> 00:41:19,875 {\an1}We were afraid that something had crashed down there. 949 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,875 {\an1}Maybe the inside of this mountain is shifting 950 00:41:22,042 --> 00:41:23,583 {\an1}right now as we speak. 951 00:41:24,667 --> 00:41:26,375 {\an1}Whoa! What was that? 952 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,792 {\an1}Out of the corner of my eye, 953 00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:31,042 {\an1}I thought I saw something flash 954 00:41:31,167 --> 00:41:33,750 {\an1}in the sky to the west over Homestead Two. 955 00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:35,833 {\an1}What? 956 00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:46,167 {\an1}I saw something just, boom, real quick across the sky. 957 00:41:46,250 --> 00:41:49,708 {\an1}We need a much larger rocket that go up through the triangle 958 00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:52,375 {\an1}and multiple very large lasers. 959 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:56,000 {\an1}You are proposing something on a grand scale. 960 00:41:57,750 --> 00:41:59,208 {\an1}TRAVIS: There it goes! 961 00:41:59,333 --> 00:42:01,417 {\an1}-Oh, (bleep). Let's go. -Oh, my God. 962 00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:03,583 {\an1}Travis, you-you got to see this. 963 00:42:05,542 --> 00:42:07,583 {\an1}-It disappeared. -What did it disappear into? 964 00:42:07,708 --> 00:42:11,500 {\an1}CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS