-We're approaching the ranch. -I want to cover every inch
Of the place. I've spent more than three decades
Working on projects
For nasa and the department of defense
In the fields of aerospace engineering, physics.
Cameron: Below you'll see the gate.
Travis: Even some classified programs
To study the mysteries of the universe.
I never thought I'd find a place on earth,
Let alone in the utah dessert,
That just might hold some of the answers.
It's like walking on mars or something.
Over the past three years, I've been part of a team
Investigating a 512-acre property
-Known as skinwalker ranch. -That's a definite beam.
-Travis: From strange objects in the sky... -Thomas: What is that?
Travis: Do you guys see that?
Whoa! We got something! We got something!
...To unexplained structures deep underground...
Erik: There is an unnatural structure
-Beneath this property. -Travis: ...To incidents
That have made some of us afraid for our safety...
-I'm leaving the ranch. I'm getting a bad headache. -Travis: Are you serious?
-Hey. -Are you okay?
-No. -Bryant: Tom just blacked out.
Travis: ...We've been baffled by some extraordinary phenomena...
What in the world?
...Many of which have been reported in the area
For more than a century.
I'm dr. Travis taylor, and tonight,
I'm looking back on the most bizarre incidents
Our team has experienced,
And the most shocking revelations
We've made so far on skinwalker ranch.
Wow!
Narrator: There is a ranch in northern utah.
It is considered the epicenter
Of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on earth:
Animal mutilations,
Bizarre ufo sightings
And unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years, the federal government
Tried to find answers and failed.
Now a new team of dedicated scientists,
Researchers and experts has taken over.
They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...
...The secret of skinwalker ranch.
Hi, travis.
-Hey, brandon. How you doing? Yeah. -Brandon fugal.
Travis: In 2019, brandon fugal,
The owner of skinwalker ranch,
Invited me to meet with him
And his team in salt lake city, utah,
To see if I would be interested in joining
Their investigation of the property.
Brandon: Thank you for coming together.
This is the most unique science project of its kind.
Travis: I was intrigued by all the crazy rumors
About paranormal and ufo activity there,
But I was also struck
That someone like brandon would be involved
Given his background.
That sounds exciting
-And maybe even a little bit scary, right? -Right.
I'm brandon fugal, chairman and owner
Of the largest commercial real estate enterprise
Here in utah.
I'm also an investor and cofounder
Of other enterprises involving technology,
But I am looking for the nature of the universe
And asking some of these core questions.
Are we alone?
I truly believe that skinwalker ranch
Is a place where some of these questions
May be answered
Or at least better understood.
Well, so, one question I have is
Why is it called skinwalker ranch?
What is the-the lore of it, right?
Well, it's a phenomenon is what it is.
-It goes back hundreds of years. -Brandon: Native americans
Talk of shape-shifting demonic entities
Called skinwalkers that take on the form
Of a-a large werewolf-like creature
And also a number of other shapes.
Wow.
It turns out that in the 19th century,
Members of the indigenous ute and navajo nations in the region
Had a bitter feud,
And the navajo cursed the land,
Giving rise to the legend
Of evil, wolflike shape-shifters known as skinwalkers.
But that was only the beginning
Of what people have claimed to experience
On and near the ranch.
As early as 1911,
Newspaper reports
Profiled strange noises in the basin,
And the homesteaders
Started seeing unexplained phenomena.
And by 1979,
There were a lot of ufo sightings
In the basin being documented.
And then the sherman family,
In 1992,
Acquired the property and were witness
To some of the most disturbing events on record.
Cattle mutilations.
We're talking
Very surgically precise dissections
Of these cattle.
Wow.
Brandon: In 1996,
The reports of the sherman family
Led billionaire robert bigelow to acquire the property
And to commence an unprecedented scientific study.
Bigelow came in with his team,
National institute of discovery science or nids,
That transitioned
To bigelow aerospace advanced space studies,
Which was funded by the u.S. Government
And kept highly confidential.
In 2016, I purchased skinwalker ranch
And assembled our team to carry this investigation forward
Into the next level.
The team members I met that day
Are great guys
And are very diversified in their skill sets.
Bryant arnold, also known as dragon,
Runs security
And was initially quite a skeptic
Of all the phenomena.
Jim morse, the ranch manager, does a lot of community outreach
To those who've also had strange experiences.
Erik bard serves as the principal investigator
At skinwalker ranch, and he has
A wide variety of scientific knowledge.
-We want your perspective. -Thomas: We've noticed
That when we bring
New people onto the ranch,
The ranch behaves differently than it normally does.
It's just a place, right? I mean...
And then there's the ranch superintendent,
Thomas winterton.
Back in 2016,
He found out firsthand
That a legend warning never to disturb the ground
On skinwalker ranch might have some merit.
I had been warned not to dig on this ranch,
Which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.
So I paid zero attention to it,
And I ended up
Getting very, very sick, hospitalized.
I had fluid that separated the fatty tissue from my skull,
And to this day,
My doctors still haven't come up with an explanation.
-Hey, guys. -Hey. -How you doing, travis?
Travis: I was intrigued enough to accept brandon's invitation.
But I got to tell you, I figured there had to be
A logical, scientific explanation
For all the reported phenomena.
Within my first hour there,
The guys took me to see the three-square-acre mesa
Known as skinwalker ridge.
So, is this where the glow was from the video?
That's right. There's about a 500 to 600-footlong section
Of this mesa.
Travis: It was a spot
Where erik had previously captured video
Of a possible uap
And a large section mysteriously illuminated
In the middle of the night.
You ought to check your trifield meter,
See what it's doing.
I'm getting a little tone from it.
(whirring)
-A little tone? -Erik: Whoa.
Travis: Let me see that thing.
Whoa, whoa, it's gone up.
Incredibly, we suddenly detected
Potentially dangerous spikes of rf radiation
At the ground level...
Let's go up the mountain and see what happens.
...And then even more up on top of it.
-(whirring continues) -oh!
And it's shifted now. Now it's coming from that direction.
So, I get my biggest readings when I'm like this, looking up.
Travis: We continued detecting more rf radiation spikes
Across the ranch.
It's coming from up there.
Travis: And incredibly,
They all pointed to one spot:
A zone about a mile above the ranch
At a location that has come to be known
As the triangle.
So, we are ready to launch.
To find out what could be going on up there,
We fired rockets containing radiation and gps sensors
Up at the triangle from the helipad
Right by the command center. Ignition.
-Holy smokes! -Oh, yeah!
Segala: Look at the cows.
(mooing)
Bryant: That's crazy.
Never seen that before.
-Thomas: Look! Look, look, look! -Erik: What is that?
-What is that? -Travis: We got... We got something. Hold on.
It was stunning.
A uap not only appeared in the sky
But the cattle on the ranch
Seemed to sense it before we did.
-Thomas: It's gone. -And then just a few weeks later,
Something truly disturbing happened.
-(flies buzzing) -what in the world?
There's no cat tracks.
There's no sign of struggle.
-Kandus: In the middle of the day. -It's just dead.
Tom: I saw her this morning, but she was alive.
Travis: Right near that same area,
One of the young, healthy cows
Suddenly died.
-Look at this. Feel-feel my phone. -Look at this.
It's going vibrate to mute, vibrate to mute like crazy.
Holy crap.
When we went to investigate,
Both thomas's and kaleb bench's phones went haywire.
My phone starts freaking out
Whenever your trifield goes off.
I don't have any control over my phone right now.
-Gee, look at that. Look at this. Hey, is it... -Is it still doing it?
Is it five? It's 18.
It just jumped to 18 just then.
And another dangerous spike of radiation
Registered on our meters.
Oh, wow.
We need to get out of here, guys.
Let's get out of here.
We had no explanation for what happened to the cow
Or what caused the radiation.
But then we met with linda moulton howe
To review surveillance footage that captured the cow's death.
We were shocked by what we saw.
Thomas: Is that black object the cow?
Erik: Yeah, that's it, tom.
The cow is right here.
What we'll do is
Go forward very slowly and watch what happens with her.
-Now, you see the cow starts to get up. -Howe: Yeah.
Erik: So, here,
I can't help but also notice
That there's something happening here.
-Travis: Oh, whoa. Look at that. -Brandon: Yeah, there it was. Up there.
Travis: Look at that.
The moment that that object appeared
Above the cow,
The cow was reacting.
Yes.
Thomas: What was this craft
Doing out there,
And why at the very time this cow was dying
Was this craft seen in the sky?
Brandon: We very well could have prevented
A full-blown cattle mutilation from occurring.
-Yeah, it's a possibility. -It's a possibility.
Howe: I feel strongly
Where there are mutilations,
Where there are ufos,
You're going to find
That there are magnetic anomalies. They go together.
Wow.
I think we're dealing with portals.
I think we are dealing with advanced technology
That has been hidden.
Travis: I didn't know what to think of linda's theory
That the cow's death, the radiation spikes or the ufo
Could be related to portals.
But we experienced much more along those lines
At a location known as homestead two.
And there, we didn't have to worry about the cows.
We had to worry about us.
-Erik, are you doing something at 1.6? -(static crackling)
Travis: Over the past three years, one of the places
On skinwalker ranch where we've seen and felt
The most bizarre phenomena happen
Is at homestead two.
It was built in 1905 by john and emma myers,
Who lived there and raised cattle,
But it's been abandoned since the 1930s,
And I've come to understand why.
I was looking around the homestead
With a fellow scientist, dr. Jim segala,
And became very curious about an old covered cistern.
What the crap is that?
It's filled with something.
Segala: Seriously polluted.
I don't know, I got a little bit of a headache
Or something happening.
I don't know where it came from,
But as soon as I lifted that lid,
I was overcome with dizziness and a headache.
Maybe we should check our dosimeters or whatever.
Segala: Yeah.
-(beeping) -travis: Holy cr... Mine's beeping.
-Your max dose rate is about 120? -Yeah.
-It's 120-something. -That's pretty high.
Travis: Turns out
I got hit with radiation that was equivalent
To about 20,000 airport security x-rays
All at once that left burns on my hand and my face.
Tom: So, how does it feel right now
To be back here?
It's a little... I'm a little nervous,
-Not, not... You know, to be honest. -Tom: Yeah.
Travis: Another disturbing incident happened in 2020
When a local resident named roland mccook
Told jim morse and ranch caretakers
Tom lewis and kandus linde
About an experience he had
Many years ago at homestead two while hunting on the property.
Roland: We were looking for tracks.
We noticed there were human footprints.
And I followed
The tracks, and then all of a sudden it turned
From human footprints to a big dog tracks.
Like a wolf.
And it came out. Red eyes.
Probably, like, eight feet tall.
Whatever it is doesn't belong here.
Roland's story sounded incredible,
But he was so sincere about it.
Did he really encounter a skinwalker?
We don't know, but what happened moments later
Was definitely real.
Hold on.
-Yeah. You okay? Hey. -Mm.
Travis: Just like what happened to me and others,
Roland was clearly affected by a strange energy spike
Or something we still don't understand
At homestead two.
Around that same time,
Retired army colonel john alexander,
One of the principle investigators
Who worked for robert bigelow,
Not only shared a crazy story of his own
But also offered a theory
Of what is causing the phenomena at homestead two.
John: One of the things that really
Stand out in my mind
Is that, uh,
The observers are on the ridgeline,
Uh, to the north
And looking down upon homestead two,
And they see a-a spot of light
That expands.
And something came out, about six-foot tall.
I would say
The area is a portal.
Pete: This piece of gear I have with me is
A slam-based scanner called a hovermap.
Travis: To test colonel alexander's theory, we invited
Technologist pete kelsey out
To help us conduct an infrared lidar scan
Of homestead two.
Erik: Okay, I'm gonna go inside of this.
I'm gonna poke my head back here.
I don't mind telling you this place is creepy.
Travis: Well, let's kind of walk through it
And see if we see anything.
-Oh, wow. -Whoa, what is that?
Thomas: I mean, that's not a data point, right?
There should be a lot more data points right there
With the two rooms. I mean, you walked in there.
Travis: Something odd happened here.
What happened to all this data right here?
Where is it?
Can't explain it.
Travis: It's like there's data missing.
The slam scan lidar data is showing
The foliage and the outlines of the buildings,
But where we should be seeing
The inside of the main house,
It's just a black hole.
-How you doing, ariel? Good to see you. -How you doing, brother?
Travis: When the scientific approach
Left us with only more questions about homestead two
And the theory of a portal existing there,
We invited rabbi ariel tzadok
To try a more unorthodox experiment.
(ariel praying)
Travis: While rabbi tzadok performed an ancient prayer
That was supposed to open portals
To other realms, we monitored
With our spectrum analyzer
And a thermal night vision camera.
(finishes prayer)
Travis: Erik, come here a minute.
Thomas: You seeing something?
Erik: I have not seen this do this before.
Travis: It shouldn't have changed that drastically
All of a sudden.
The flir imagery completely changed.
It's like the canopy of the trees was superhot.
And then everything underneath it where the house is...
Look at it. It's just completely cold.
A circular vortex
With a 20-degree temperature drop
Appeared in front of the abandoned house
Right where pete kelsey's data showed that black hole.
And then when erik further analyzed
The thermal data, we saw something even more startling.
I don't know what to make of it,
But I want you to see this thing.
It only happens once. It's very fast.
-I want to see if you notice it. -Thomas: Okay.
-Whoa. -Oh! Whoa.
-What was that? -Right there. That.
Bryant: Why is it cold?
Yeah, if it were an animal,
-It would be hot. -Bryant: It would be hot.
I don't know what to make of that.
Travis: It's one thing to hear stories of portals
And strange entities at homestead two,
But what we saw just didn't make scientific sense.
Could it really be possible to open a portal there?
So, maybe take about a foot off first,
And we look at it.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Yeah.
Travis: Well, just this year,
As I like to put it, we poked the nest
A little bit harder to find out.
First, thomas winterton moved
Some earth with a bulldozer near the homestead.
Erik: Hey, bryant.
I want you to see this.
We've got a couple flavors of strangeness going here, bryant.
-Look. What the actual hell is this? -Bryant: What?
Travis: And suddenly, erik detected a dangerous spike
In gamma rays.
-We got to get those people out of there. -Okay.
Erik: That-that's not good.
-Thomas: What's wrong? -Travis: What's up?
Erik pulled the data. There was a spike at 3,400.
-3,400? -Bryant: 3,400.
Everybody out of here now!
Everybody out.
All right, here we go.
Later that night,
We launched a rocket
To see what else we could stimulate
And again were stunned by what happened.
(static crackling)
Erik, are you doing something at 1.6?
I'm not broadcasting.
Thomas: What are you seeing?
Travis: A signal.
1.60000.
For the past three years, we've often detected
An rf radiation signal of 1.6 gigahertz,
But this time, it was accompanied
By a weird audio signal.
That's a communication signal or something.
It wasn't a satellite that we were picking up,
So the question was
What might have been trying to communicate with us?
What's going on, erik?
Erik: Yeah, I've got something to show you.
Travis: Several hours later,
Erik captured something near homestead two
With a surveillance camera
That might have offered an answer.
Bryant: What the hell is that?
-Erik: It could be... Uh-huh. -Stop right there.
You can even see the trail behind it.
Now let it... Watch it go.
It leaves a trail behind it as it goes.
All right, stop. You see it?
Erik: Sure.
Travis: In one night, one span there,
We see a strange communication beam,
And then we see this thing.
Is there a connection?
You've captured a uap on camera here, erik,
And we don't know what it is.
The mystery of homestead two continues.
We're not sure what to make of the uap, harmful radiation
And possible portal activity there,
But it almost pales in comparison
To what we've seen at the biggest uap hot spot
On the ranch: The triangle.
Travis: Of the numerous locations on skinwalker ranch
Where our team has seen uap
And detected the highest radiation spikes,
The most compelling and unsettling
Is that zone a mile high above the so-called triangle.
The triangle is right in front of us.
Cameron: We should be approaching
A point for the first turn to the west.
Travis: In 2020, erik and I wanted to take extended measurements
Of gps, gamma ray
And rf radiation data in that zone,
So we convinced brandon fugal's brother cameron
To fly us in brandon's helicopter up through it.
All right, I've got the six o'clock position
At 2,500-foot radius.
So, I'm showing radar altimeter.
Showing we're only 40 feet above the ground right now.
That's not good.
But as we approached our target,
Something really scary happened.
(alert beeping)
Travis: Whoa, weird.
Cameron: So something could be under us.
40-something feet under us.
It showed something under us, at 40 feet below us.
What the hell is 40 feet under us?
-I don't get it. -Holy crap.
I'm going to show you a few clips that I've put together.
Okay.
We didn't know what the heck cameron's radar
Was sensing below us, but then later
We reviewed the footage recorded during the experiment.
Cameron: Oh.
-Travis: You see that? -Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, look at that. God.
Travis: Some kind of shadowy uap buzzed
The helicopter from multiple angles.
It made us all wonder just how much our safety was
In jeopardy while we were up there.
That only made us more intrigued about what the triangle had
To reveal to us, so in 2021,
We invited former u.S. Military veterans
Jeremy mcgowan, gary voorhis and jason turner
To the ranch.
Gary and jason had been eyewitnesses
To the infamous tic tac uap encounter
That was documented by the u.S. Navy in 2004.
And today, all three guys are members
Of an investigative team known as uapx,
Which privately studies
The phenomena all over the world.
You guys want to shoot some rockets off with us,
See what we can find?
-Oh, yes. For sure! -(laughs)
Well, their visit got bizarre from the start.
Just as we were getting
-A plan together... -(jason groans)
I'm hurting. I just got a (bleep) headache, bro.
Uh, his head is starting to hurt.
Travis: Jason was suddenly stricken with a severe headache.
Let's get to the spectrum analyzer.
Yeah, we got to get to the spectrum analyzer.
Come with me.
Thomas: Having experienced something similar, obviously
The first item is to get him to safety,
And see if we can stop what is happening.
Jump in here real quick.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's here!
We've got that 1.6 thing.
Yeah, but we're clearly getting that signal.
I don't know if it was the ranch
Responding to those guys, but we detected
The 1.6 gigahertz rf spike at the same time.
All right, jason, everything is running right now.
All right, everything's running. We're good.
Roger that.
Travis: Thankfully, jason recovered.
So we headed out to the triangle where the plan was to launch
Rockets equipped with scanning devices up
Through the mile-high zone
While the uapx guys monitored the skies with
Their specialized uap detection vehicle
Known as osirus.
All right, here we go. Rocket is going hot!
Smoke to pop.
Five, four...
Three, two, one...
You got to be kidding me.
Oh, (bleep).
Travis: The rockets functioned just fine,
But during each launch, osirus inexplicably shut down.
It was like something was purposely
Preventing them from collecting data.
But what could do that?
-Hey, look, uap right there! -Yep.
-I see it! -Yep, there it is. You got one.
Yep, there it is right there, right there!
Travis: The uapx guys all said they hadn't
Seen anything like it since the tic tac.
You got to be (bleep) me.
Travis: The triangle would remain our target
In the following weeks, and while it would
Continue to reveal possible answers,
It also presented a lot more questions.
Dragon and I are gonna take a rocket
Out there and set it up in-in this spot,
And launch it right underneath where we are.
You guys try and capture it through the telescope.
-That make sense? -Yeah. -Yes, sir.
-Okay. -All right. Let's go!
After the uapx experiment,
We invited a team of astronomers
Out to focus high-powered
Telescopes up through the mile-high zone at the triangle.
The plan was to launch rockets to stimulate something
Above the triangle,
While the telescopes zeroed in
On the anomaly's exact location.
Hey, bryant, travis.
-You guys ready for launch? -Yeah, we are, erik.
-Please stand by. -Chuck: Give me a moment.
I'm having trouble getting my, uh, computerized mount aligned.
What is the function that you're trying
To do that it's not doing?
Uh, when we, when I first set up the mount,
-I have to aim it at a couple of stars. -Uh-huh.
And that builds the model of the sky in the computer.
It's not letting me do that.
Travis: But just like with the uapx team, the telescopes
Wouldn't function and only when they were aimed at the triangle.
We need to launch this rocket now.
Three, two,
One, ignition.
I thought that could mean
Something was happening so we launched the rocket.
All right.
(cattle mooing)
Uh, the cattle are acting
Very abnormal.
I'm getting something on the 1.6.
Travis: Sure enough, the cows started acting up, erik detected
The 1.6 gigahertz rf signal on the spectrum analyzer...
-Look at this one right here. -What the hell is that in the sky?
-To the south. -There it is!
Chuck: That thing is big and spherical!
Travis: Yes, it is! It's got a black dot in the center of it.
What in the crap?
And then we saw the biggest and most clear uap to that point.
The triangle showed once again that it might
Hold a key to the secret of skinwalker ranch.
-Wow. -And, of course,
We soon revealed even more compelling clues
And possible answers.
As you're aware, we've seen some really weird stuff.
-Yeah, you sure have. -And so...
We thought we needed a much larger rocket that can
Go up through the triangle
And with a lot of instruments on it.
And at the same time have
Multiple very large lasers focused
On the spot, uh, as well as a scanning laser system
Focused on the spot while we have all of our instruments
And cameras and everything looking at it.
I mean, everything we've got and used
In the past, we would use in one big experiment.
It sounds like you are proposing something on a grand scale.
Yeah.
-Stand the booster up here. -Yep.
Travis: In 2021, we threw everything
But the kitchen sink at the triangle
In an effort to find out what the secret
Of the mile-high zone was.
We projected three high-powered laser beams
And broadcast the 1.6 gigahertz communication signal
Up through the anomalous zone.
And then launched a nine-foot tall rocket
Equipped with gps and all kinds of energy sensors.
Bryant: The anticipation and hopes are so high
For this experiment,
We'll be able to either stimulate or see something
That could really lead us in a direction
To figuring out what's actually going on.
All right, here we go, okay. Do it. Here we go.
-Yes. -Five, four...
Three, two, one.
Travis: There it goes!
Jim: That's fantastic.
What was that bend all about?
It caught dramatically to the north,
So it couldn't go up through the beam.
What in the crap?
The launch was perfect and the rocket was heading right
For the target zone above the triangle, but suddenly,
Something up there we couldn't see
Deflected it way off course.
I swear it looked like something
Hit it and it shot north.
Because it was going straight up and then just, boom!
Hmm.
Hey, travis, you copy?
Yeah, erik, go ahead.
If brandon is nearby,
Can you bring him in real quick?
We couldn't believe what we had just seen with the rocket,
But then erik showed me and brandon something
He captured on his surveillance camera
That was even more perplexing.
Travis, you, you got to see this.
-Okay. -Well, there's the lasers.
-Yeah, I'm doing an instant playback. Do you see this? -Oh! Yeah!
Brandon: Wow!
It's moving way too fast for it to be a satellite.
This thing is really clipping along.
Oh, my gosh.
It disappeared. Can you replay that?
-Please. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, hold on.
Travis: What did it disappear into?
It's not cloudy.
Brandon: That's insane.
Erik clearly captured a uap ascending
From the direction of the mesa
That approached the mile-high zone
Above the triangle and then simply vanished.
That's down below the mesa.
I don't know if I'm seeing what I think
I'm seeing, or not.
Brandon: Is it a portal?
Are we seeing portals open?
Travis: I didn't know if brandon could have been onto something
Given all the bizarre energy and visual anomalies we had
Documented above the triangle.
And I wasn't sure what
The connection to the mesa might be.
But earlier in 2021,
Me, dragon and cameron fugal conducted another
Experiment in brandon's helicopter above the triangle...
Cameron: We're 1,600 feet above the ground.
Travis: ...That showed another possible correlation
Between the two sites.
Winds are just up to five knots out of the southeast.
And you can see the triangle off to the side there, travis.
Travis: Yep, yeah. I'm watching. I've got eyes on it.
Keep going, keep going east.
Yeah, I've got the-the triangle
Immediately beneath us on the left side.
Yep.
All right, so I'm gonna drop this gps right now.
Three, two, one, package away.
Travis: Package away!
Hoping to pinpoint the anomaly
In the mile-high zone, dragon and I dropped several
Gps devices down through the triangle.
Dropping multiple payloads, let us know what you get.
Yeah, we're right over, I'm right over it.
We were dropping multiple bottles,
One after another after another.
-Chuck 'em. -Oh, I'm chucking. I ain't stopping.
Travis: We threw out the last 20 gps trackers
Just hoping they'd be able to get good data.
Packages dropped. Packages away.
What I want to show you are the two separate
Gps data payloads.
All right, now let me explain what you're looking at here,
You can probably guess.
These, uh, blue cubes that I'm using
Represent the position of the gps payloads.
This is where things start getting strange.
These blue cubes appear to be 50 feet,
70 feet below the surface of the mesa.
It looks like you smashed into the mesa.
What the heck?
How?
It was incredible.
The gps devices that we dropped from more
Than a mile up in the air,
Showed data at a specific spot inside the mesa.
None of us knew what that might mean at the time,
But a few weeks later, a former investigator returned
To the ranch and gave us a possible answer.
What's it like coming back?
It's pretty surreal actually, you know.
It's kind of like being back home a little bit, you know?
'cause I have a lot of experiences out here.
You know, I lived and breathed this property for six years.
Travis: In 2021, chris bartel, an airforce veteran
Who once ran security for robert bigelow on skinwalker ranch,
Paid us a visit that would lead our investigation
Of the mysterious mesa in a shocking new direction.
So, October of 2010, I found some big prints
On top of the mesa, canine prints.
Here, take a look at this. You can see here.
Look at those, look how deep those go down.
-Look at that. -Oh, my gosh.
So that's about three feet between step?
Chris: Mm-hmm. That's a very big canine.
Seeing this picture, you can tell by both
The size and the stride that we're
Talking about a very large animal.
It makes me think about the legend of the skinwalker.
I'll never forget this.
Because it has been replaying in my mind forever, since this day.
Out of that ditch I hear
A god-awful guttural howl growl.
The animal jumps out of the ravine
Over the berm and travels west.
This thing was probably the size of a donkey, black.
We get around that corner there,
It's-it's gone.
-Wow. -The next day we came back.
There was an area I found on this mesa slope
And it led to this open cavity, uh, it looked like a cave.
Travis: Now we had heard all kinds of rumors about caverns
Leading to underground bases
And even spacecraft being hidden in the mesa.
So, when chris said he tracked this terrifying creature
To a massive cave,
Thomas and kaleb were eager to check it out.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
I'm pretty sure this is it. Or it looks like it.
Thomas: You can tell that at one time it was a lot larger,
And it's collapsed down in on itself.
You can tell that this whole area,
-It looks like a sunken-in area. -Like it was all caved in.
-Chris: Yeah. -Thomas: Yeah.
Travis: The massive cave entrance that chris said
Was there more than ten years earlier during the bigelow era
Was now covered by huge boulders.
It seemed fishy to us, so after confirming
With a demolition expert that the cave-in seemed
To have been created on purpose,
We wondered what could be in there
That someone might have tried to keep hidden.
So we decided to drill and find out.
-Come on, sweetheart. -(machinery clacking)
Thomas: We can hear the drill bit, down below, punching.
Copy you. They must be into something
Really solid that's carrying the vibration well.
10-4.
Yeah, I'm up against something pretty hard right now.
Travis: We hit an obstruction that the drill
Could not penetrate.
(rapid beeping)
Now, what am I getting? What is all that?
I don't know, it's a lot of noise.
Oh, wow.
Travis: And at the same time,
Erik began detecting the mysterious 1.6 gigahertz
Rf communication signal.
Hey, bryant, tom, you copy?
Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, erik.
We've got
An rf spectrum analyzer, which is a receiver,
That seems to be broadcasting
Instead of just receiving.
That's not good.
Well, just have a listen at this.
(beeping)
Are you okay?
No.
Travis: Whatever the drill hit seemed to stimulate
The rf signal and then caused tom lewis to become so sick,
We had to rush him to the hospital.
Thankfully, he recovered.
But the mystery of what could be inside
The mesa was about to become even stranger.
Check this out.
Wow, look at all the metal.
I cannot believe there's that much metal in this.
I mean, look how much of it there is.
Travis: The obstruction turned out to be a 400-foot wide
Metallic object... And shaped like a dome.
The possibilities of what that meant seemed unbelievable.
So erik and I had the metals tested
At the university of utah.
Erik: Now that's interesting.
We understand that there was trace elements
Of, uh, europium and tellurium in the sample?
Yeah.
-Travis: Yeah. -Erik: Well, that's interesting.
That's actually very interesting.
Knowing that there is a huge, dome-shaped,
Metal object made from the same materials used
On spacecraft buried deep in the mesa
Means our investigation of that spot is far from over.
But believe it or not, that might not be the strangest
Thing we've discovered in that area on skinwalker ranch.
I think he said he was gonna meet us
Just at the trail head up here.
-Hello. I'm up here. -Tom: John!
Kandus: Hello.
Travis: I'll admit that the evidence of uaps,
Strange creatures and even interdimensional portals
On skinwalker ranch, is still hard to believe.
In 2021, navajo historian john dover
Met with ranch caretakers tom lewis and kandus linde
At a nearby location known as mcconkie ranch
To explain that the indigenous people of the region have been
Documenting these types of phenomena for centuries.
This is one place of a whole bunch of places
That have petroglyphs that were put on these rocks
-A thousand years ago or even earlier than that. -Tom: Mm-hmm.
Here is the most interesting one that I've found so far,
Is this spiral right here.
Some archeologists tell me that
This spiral could refer to some kind of a portal.
-A portal? -Yeah, a portal.
The ancient pictographs john showed tom and kandus
At mcconkie ranch were incredible,
Especially the one he believed to depict a portal.
Because there is a megalithic formation
Of boulders on the mesa next to skinwalker ranch
That looks eerily identical.
So this spot is some sort of mound.
John: Absolutely amazing.
We have basically a spiral that's been
Put into this ground here.
And as we've seen today at mcconkie
And maybe here, that spiral is indicative of...
A portal, a dimensional rift, an opening.
It was definitely intriguing that john dover
Believed a portal might be what that formation
On the mesa was meant to represent...
Spinning up.
...But later in the year, when we had technologist pete kelsey
Perform an aerial photogrammetry scan of the ranch,
The feature he detected right above
That spiral of boulders was beyond incredible.
Erik: Look at this structure.
This phantom structure that's sticking up in the sky.
What would cause it to do that if that's up in the air?
That's the question.
I want to show you something
At another location that we've visited
That is part of this survey.
-Okay. -Okay?
Travis: This is right above the petroglyph area, right?
-Erik: Yes, it is. -Just on the edge of our property.
-Right. -Erik: And you'll recognize the stone circle here.
Travis: Yep.
Erik: And the feature that I want to show you is
Actually very close to this stone circle.
-Bryant: Oh, there you go! -Erik: There you go.
Bryant: Right there.
Erik: So let me spin us around.
-I notice a couple of things here. -Oh, now, look at this.
Erik: And you may observe the same thing I have.
Travis: Yeah, so line those two up and where are they pointing?
Erik: This feature, this artifact,
The largest stone that was part of the stone circle
And that prominent thing that's jetting up,
You know, further to the south.
You have three points in a line.
Thomas: Wow.
Erik: Well, we owe it to ourselves
To follow up on every data anomaly that we come across,
Particularly when they're as prominent as
The ones we're looking at here.
Travis: We still have a lot of questions
About what is truly behind all the phenomena
We and many others have experienced on skinwalker ranch.
So this team is only more determined to keep investigating
The key sites on the property
Including homestead two...
The triangle...
And the mesa to finally get some answers.
Erik: Frankly, everything about this ranch baffles me.
We may have begun to penetrate the surface
Of the mystery at the ranch, but we've also discovered
That the mystery is potentially infinitely deep.
As mysterious events continue, so also will this investigation.
Brandon: Our team has demonstrated
An unequaled dedication
To finding the truth at skinwalker ranch.
We may be embarking on some of the most
Important work of our time.
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