ANNOUNCER: Tonight on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch...
JACK: According to the weather,
we got maybe two hours before full blizzard,
so we gotta move fast.
It looks like it's trying to fly through a force field.
ROBERT: It's a huge magnetic disturbance.
That's typically gonna be indicative of a void.
There might be a UFO buried
somewhere on the mountain and underground.
JACK: There's something under there
and it's trying it's darndest not to be found.
Oh, my gosh.
Hopefully, this is enough to breach the tunnel.
ANDY: So we're not just kicking the hornet's nest,
we're just blowing the [bleep] out of it.
Fire in the hole.
[explosion blasting]
ANNOUNCER: For years, scientists have been working
to reveal the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.
But is it possible that the clues to unlock the mystery
are located beyond the borders
of this hub of high strangeness?
-Now-- -Whoa!
ANNOUNCER: ...an ex-CIA agent and a veteran journalist
have been recruited by the Skinwalker team
to go on a high stakes mission across America.
PAUL: Look at all this activity that's happening.
-That's unbelievable. -ANDY: My gosh. Look at that!
ANNOUNCER: The goal, uncover evidence
that may finally expose the truth.
-What is that thing? -It's getting more intense?
You ever seen anything like this before?
[man] No.
ANDY: This is just the beginning.
TRAVIS: Guys, welcome back to Skinwalker Ranch.
I know when you left, you had some exciting things
that you wanted to go and explore
and we're really excited to see what you may have come up with.
This one's a little bit different because Brandon
has actually set us up with an outside investigator.
PAUL: Yeah, an investigator named Carl Andreasen.
Carl is the guy who's been working
on a place called Mount Wilson Ranch in Nevada,
and he's really been trying to dig into
the high strangeness going on there
-and there's a lot. -So where is Mount Wilson Ranch?
ANDY: So, we're about 80 miles from Area 51.
TRAVIS: And near the Nevada Test Range?
-ANDY: Yes, sir. -PAUL: Right on top of it.
ANDY: And we're not quite sure exactly where the boundary is
'cause it's a very rural part of Nevada.
Well, that brings me to the question then.
What can you tell us about the interest?
Like, what's the commonality with the--
with the research that's gone on here?
PAUL: The connection between Mount Wilson and this place
is pretty extraordinary.
It's another property that Bob Bigelow owned,
really at the same time as Skinwalker.
ANNOUNCER: Aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow
owned Skinwalker Ranch before Brandon Fugal.
BRANDON: In 1996, Robert Bigelow,
bought Skinwalker Ranch.
When his team conducted
a very aggressive scientific investigation,
the Bigelow team ended up
having all sorts of strange things happen.
They started seeing everything
from electromagnetic anomalies, cattle mutilations.
It involves the full gamut
of unexplained phenomena that we continue to monitor.
ANNOUNCER: It has only recently been learned
that Robert Bigelow was conducting
a similar investigation at Mount Wilson Ranch.
Yeah, so we've got some archival images
that show Bigelow on this ranch.
The main thing that was of interest to Bigelow
was that he suspected there was a crashed
or downed UFO underground a portion of the ranch.
-Okay. -PAUL: Yeah, what we don't know
is what kind of testing Bigelow carried out there
or-- or what they found.
We don't have any of their results or research.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that problem.
ANDY: But then what we've heard from Carl
who actually investigates and explores the ranch,
is that there is a potential existence
of some sort of top secret tunnel system on Mount Wilson.
There's all kinds of reports of strange lights,
noises underground, vibrations.
You know, there are voids
and potentially, spaces underground,
but we don't know the extent of that network
or how much of it may be manmade
and how much of it is naturally occurring.
ANDY: One of the most interesting things about this
is that the current property owner, Jeff MacBurnie,
actually bought the property from Bigelow.
Yeah, what we don't know is what Bigelow may have told
or not told Jeff when he bought the property.
So, we've got a couple of field realities
that we're also trying to work through here.
We only have a few days that we can be on site
and our weather reports are showing that there is a storm
that is due to hit about six days after we land.
PAUL: It's gonna be-- it's gonna be tight.
And you-- and you don't know how much property
you have to-- to investigate.
Yeah. And it's just a big remote place.
We're gonna be trekking around out there
trying to figure it out.
But what we do know is that we wanna make sure
that our efforts in Mount Wilson
help the Skinwalker investigations
that you guys are carrying out here as well.
Who knows? Maybe you'll find something large,
something significant.
If you do find a buried UFO,
you better call me at that moment.
[all laughing]
'Cause I'll be there-- I will be there instantly.
Yes, all right, stay in touch
and let us know what you find out.
-We'll see you in a week. -All right, guys.
-ERIK: Stay in touch guys. -All right, man.
-Thanks guys. -TRAVIS: Be safe.
[pensive music playing]
ANDY: We have been driving for hours, man,
-and look at what greets us. -It's just amazing.
I can't believe we're in the desert right now.
I know, well, high desert and winter, right, this is it.
ANDY: Yeah.
You know, I'm not surprised that Robert Bigelow
would buy a place out here to do experimentation
because it fits his MO, right?
Find a place way off the map
where you're not gonna be bothered,
you're not gonna be disturbed,
carry out whatever research you want.
And we know that Bigelow was here with his team
for more than a decade.
That's a lot of time to be researching--
-Yeah, that's true. -A plot of land.
Ten years up here in the mountains.
I mean, they must have been
-on the trail of something. -Something big.
PAUL: Something that still is a secret.
ANNOUNCER: From the 1960s through the '80s,
Mount Wilson Ranch was a Wild West themed hotel
and resort property
before being purchased by Robert Bigelow in 1996.
-ANDY: All right. Wow. -PAUL: Look at this.
ANDY: This place looks like genuine old West.
PAUL: Absolutely. Right out of the movies, man.
ANDY: I'm excited to meet Jeff.
PAUL: Yeah.
Hello there, gentlemen.
Hey, Jeff. Andy.
-Andy. You got it, man. -Nice to meet you.
-Great to finally see you. -Welcome to the ranch.
-ANDY: This is amazing. -JEFF: Thank you.
Tell us the story of this place.
My whole goal was to basically buy a big chunk of property,
build a center building,
let my family and relatives live around me.
Got it.
JEFF: So, I was looking for property
and I read this little listing in the back
of a 25 cent newspaper article.
PAUL: No way.
And I purchased the ranch directly
from Mr. Robert Bigelow.
It was in 2007.
-And you've been here since? -Yes.
And what has been your personal firsthand experience?
You see a lot of things in the sky around here.
I hear 'em explained as orbs, but they're just lights.
Whether they're orange or they're white,
almost like a haze.
And the lights just... [imitates whooshing]
...and, you know, some of them are fast
and you look and it's...
Others are just slow.
And they all seem to go right towards
the actual Mount Wilson.
And they just... ...and just poof, disappear.
Wow.
Did you know about that beforehand?
Did you buy this place because...
-No, not at all. -...of the stories?
-Not even at all. No. -Got it.
PAUL: One of the things that interests me the most
is that when Jeff was looking into buying a ranch,
he didn't know anything about this place.
Not until he got very close to actually closing the deal
did he find out just the beginning
of the lore of what had happened here.
So, he didn't come here with a predetermined notion
of what was out here.
What has happened to him is-- is authentic.
Bigelow bought this place in '96.
-Yes. -Sold it to you in 2007.
-Yes. -So, he had it
-for more than a decade. -Yes.
That's about the same time
as he owned Skinwalker Ranch, isn't it?
Within two weeks, he purchased both of these ranches.
PAUL: As sort of two sites for
an experiment or two sites of research?
It makes perfect sense because you can compare results
in real time on two separate locations.
You can have two real time teams
running experiments, even the same experiment.
I'm contacted pretty often by former people
that were related to this property, scientists.
You have scientists calling you?
-I do. -To find out what exactly?
If I've found something.
You know, they believe down in our meadow
there's an object, something buried.
ANDY: What kind of object?
JEFF: There's a UFO buried there.
ANDY: Wow.
ANDY: Jeff's telling these stories
that are almost unbelievable,
but there's this incredible connection,
this connection that can't be ignored
between Skinwalker Ranch,
which was owned by Robert Bigelow
and Mount Wilson Ranch,
which was also owned by Robert Bigelow.
At this point, I have to find more information
to come up with a really informed opinion
of what's happening here.
I cannot help, but just
right now I feel like I'm on Skinwalker Ranch.
I was gonna say, we've heard this-- Seen this movie before.
And I-- and I-- I can't-- It's-- I'm losing my words.
So, you have researchers following up with you
because they believe there might be sort of alien craft
buried in a meadow on this property.
Apparently, down in the meadow,
there's something that emits a signal.
PAUL: Interesting.
There's a lot of-- a lot of history
in the ground around here.
-Can we go check it out? -Let's do it.
-Please. Thank you. -You got it.
Great. This is super exciting.
If you guys want, I do have Carl here,
-if we wanna split up possibly. -Okay.
[tense music playing]
ANNOUNCER: While Paul splits off to investigate
with researcher Carl Andreasen,
Andy and Mount Wilson Ranch owner, Jeff MacBurnie,
head down to the lower meadow,
which was once a focus of Robert Bigelow's investigation.
Right here, we have a lot of pictures
of the NIDS team actually out researching.
History has it that there's a tractor
that's located at Skinwalker Ranch now.
That tractor was buried to the sea right here.
It was stuck here for two years.
This whole meadow here...
is a fault line filled with sediment.
Craw Creek runs down it here.
-ANDY: This is the wash up here? -JEFF: Yes.
-ANDY: This is Craw Creek? -JEFF: Yes.
Is this also the area you were mentioning in the saloon
where they suspect there's
some kind of energy source buried?
Yes. This is it.
Everything south of here, all Nevada Test Site.
ANDY: I find it really interesting on this location,
we have a different kind of soil.
We have a fault line and that this is an area
that is also suspected of having high energy readings.
So, let me take a look and see what we've got here.
This is a simple Trifield meter.
It's gonna give us measurements of
magnetic and electrical activity in this area in real time.
-[Trifield meter beeping] -ANDY: All right.
So, if you'll come over here with me, Jeff,
I wanna take a look at the creek bed
because if there is some sort of cavity under here,
this would most likely be what feeds it.
And if there is something buried here,
it's most likely that this would be the entrance
to make that hole.
Still consistent with the rest of the meadow.
Wanna drop down into that creek bed itself?
Let's check it out.
Whoa! We just saw it increase. Look at this, Jeff.
1.7.
Those are significantly above
what you would see in other parts of the country.
If 0.4 MGOs is high, 1.7 is four times as high,
that's 400% higher.
There's something in this area
that's creating that change in magnetic activity.
And the reason magnetic activity is important, Jeff,
is because what does magnetic activity always follow?
Electrical activity.
So this means there is an electrical energy source
of some sort that's creating a magnetic field around it.
This is interesting for sure.
PAUL: So we're headed out toward the mountain now?
CARL: Yes, we're going up to where
these abandoned mines are
that could be tunnels and cave systems.
-PAUL: Wow. -ANNOUNCER: Paul heads out
with veteran Mount Wilson researcher, Carl Andreasen
to two abandoned mine entrances
that his investigation suggest could be keys
to the ranches' secrets.
CARL: This is the first one that Jeff actually showed me.
Some kind of an access point.
PAUL: So this isn't just a depression,
-there's an opening? -CARL: Yes.
So there's potential.
This whole side of the mountain could be, like,
a honeycomb, a network of tunnels and cave systems
that lead all the way into the mountain and underground.
Right. This is all connected.
-CARL: Yeah. -PAUL: It's obvious.
You can see all over this hillside
that people have been trying to get underground here.
And the question is why?
Like, are these just simply mines
or is there something much more mysterious?
Is there something out of this world down there?
And all of that then funnels,
it flows down right in the meadow
where supposedly the craft is buried
-and transmitting the signals. -PAUL: Got it.
PAUL: Brandon Fugal connected us with Carl and--
and Carl has a really deep knowledge base.
I mean, not only has he researched the ranch itself
here on the ground, he has been in touch
with a lot of the members of Bigelow's team.
So when Carl says that these mines
may be part of some kind of tunnel network
that leads all the way to a buried UFO,
I mean as wild as that sounds,
he's got that from the scientists
who were here researching before us.
So, I mean, that's a lead
that we've gotta try to run down.
We would have to either dig it out
or find a way to access
and figure out which one of these entrances
is the best point to go in
and see if they actually lead somewhere.
ANNOUNCER: In order to thoroughly test Carl's theory
that the abandoned mine entrances connect
to a possible underground tunnel system,
Andy and Paul are bringing in a new team
of geophysical survey experts, Terra Exploration Group.
-ANDY: Hey, morning, guys. -BOB: Hey, morning.
-How's it going, sir? -How are you?
Look at this clear sky, wide open terrain.
It's gonna be a great day to collect.
BOB: Beautiful.
Well, we'll see if we can pick up
with a magnetometer, [indistinct].
ROBERT: All right, so we gotta get this sucker
up in air real quick before it gets too cold.
These things are a little picky.
ANNOUNCER: In 2020, the Skinwalker Ranch team
used a magnetometer drone that identified
something significant hidden underground next to the mesa.
ERIK: It's telling us there's something going on
in the ground,
particularly there at the homestead area.
I mean, it's clearly a magnetic anomaly there.
ANNOUNCER: Now, the team is conducting
the same experiment on Mount Wilson Ranch.
The potential for these caverns
to be connected underground, it's very logical.
There's something here underground,
we just don't know what it is.
ANNOUNCER: Terra's drone flies in a pre-programmed grid pattern
using GPS coordinates for navigation.
The attached magnetometer will look for evidence
of possible void spaces
and tunnels below the mine entrances.
It will also try to pinpoint an underground source
for the high electromagnetic readings
Andy saw in the Lower Meadow.
ROBERT: All right, here we go.
[drone whirring]
ROBERT: Beautiful. There it goes.
All right. We're gonna let it run a little grid.
ANDY: So Robert, the grid, I wanna make sure
we cover this entrance here and the other up the ridge.
So, what's our range?
ROBERT: We got probably a couple acres.
-ANDY: How long is this flight? -ROBERT: It's eight minutes.
ANDY: Eight minutes.
ROBERT: I tell you, it does not like flying over here.
Does anything weird ever happen over here?
Because it-- it-- it's-- See how it's kind of squirrely?
PAUL: I was gonna say, it's making the grid,
but it seems to be flying erratically.
Is that-- is that normal?
ROBERT: It-- No, it should fly straighter than that.
It doesn't like something over here, that's for sure.
It's swinging that magnetometer all over the place.
ANDY: Look at that oscillation. You see that?
I'm gonna pause it just for a second.
ANDY: Hey, Robert, do you need to-- Is that safe?
ROBERT: There's some kind of disturbance over here
-that it's not liking. -PAUL: Sure looks like it.
ROBERT: I'm gonna bring it home real quick.
It looks like it's trying to fly
through a force field or something.
ANDY: Yeah, it's bouncing all over the place.
Come on.
ANDY: Did you lose control of it?
PAUL: That is way off track. That is way off track.
[all exclaim]
ROBERT: There it goes.
Dang it.
-PAUL: I heard it hit wood. -ROBERT: Oh, yeah.
ANDY: It's stuck in a tree or something?
It's in here somewhere.
-ANDY: Found it. -ROBERT: You got it?
-Oh, no. -PAUL: Oof.
[drone beeping]
Did we lose a prop or a motor?
Yeah, you lost a little bit.
PAUL: That's unfortunate.
This came off, um, looks like we lost a motor.
-This snapped. -I wonder where that motor went.
And it ripped the wires off.
So, Robert, do you know what happened?
Something weird, I've never seen it fly all erratic like that.
We do this, you know, we do this all the time.
Yeah, there's no wind. It's not that cold.
I mean, it's almost like it was being jammed or--
That was the same thought that went through my head.
ANDY: With our proximity to the Nevada Test Site,
this is a known area of high strangeness
and a known research facility for NIDS
and that was performance from a piece of equipment
that we did not expect to perform in that way.
It's consistent with anomalous activity
we've seen in Skinwalker Ranch
and what we've seen in our previous investigation.
What I saw play out was not natural.
There is something happening here
that brought that drone down.
If there is some sort of downed aircraft
emitting a signal, emitting energy,
it could be enough to scramble a satellite signal.
It could also be enough to confuse an electronic device
as sophisticated as a drone.
Well, what we'll have to do
is old school like we used to do all the time.
We can walk it, but it's a lot of walking.
Can you pull the data that you got so far?
I'd say we got at least half of it.
We can put the young buck walking a grid.
PAUL: And then follow that down to the Lower Meadow as well.
Brogan, I'll help you get set up for the ground survey.
-Sounds good. -Great. All right.
Let's do it.
ANDY: All right.
ROBERT: Zig zag back and forth.
And you can just carry that by itself.
Well, you would hang it a foot off the ground,
something like that, and just walk with it.
PAUL: Let's go, man.
ANNOUNCER: The team pulls the magnetometer device
off the crashed drone
to finish the void survey by hand and foot.
ANDY: So, we're just gonna cut back and forth
and we'll make maybe three passes across here?
ANNOUNCER: Although it's a slower process,
they'll still be able to scan the rest of the mine area.
-ANDY: And back up the hill? -BROGAN: Yes, sir.
Right down the middle.
ANNOUNCER: They will also do a magnetometer survey
of the entire lower meadow by hand,
where Andy earlier recorded strange magnetic readings
and Robert Bigelow was reportedly searching
for a buried UFO.
ANDY: Right here on the lower meadow,
it all kinda connects.
Just that it's so different from the area around it, you know?
And then our last path will take us
right in front of the barn?
That should be good.
ANNOUNCER: Later that day,
the team gathers at the lower meadow
to reveal the magnetometer results.
ROBERT: All right guys, we got something interesting here.
Check that out.
PAUL: So this is the scan of the Lower Meadow?
Yes, this is the bottom of the field here, correct.
-We're walking up the meadow. -PAUL: Yes. Okay.
ROBERT: But now this to me looks like something
is interrupting the mag signal.
So it's like-- It's an even pulse.
I mean, look how evenly apart they are.
There's something that's just stopping it.
Like, the mag is turning on and off.
-Right. -ROBERT: And it could be that
something else is disturbing the regular magnetic field
and it's confusing the magnetometer.
Have you seen anything like this before?
No. That's very strange.
ANDY: Look at how straight these lines are.
The dark lines where the pulsations happen,
where the lack of signal comes through.
This does not look like a natural, organic anomaly.
I am blown away because of Jeff said
Robert Bigelow was digging here
trying to find some sort of unexplainable energy source
under the ground, and now we actually have evidence
that shows there is something there.
We just don't know how deep it might be.
ANNOUNCER: With intriguing results at the lower meadow,
but no definitive target identified,
Robert Leonard will now merge the data from the crashed drone
with their handheld magnetometer survey at the mines.
ROBERT: I'm sorry it took me so long.
ANDY: No, no. This is great.
PAUL: What do we have?
Well, I'll explain what took me so long
and it's just-- just gonna blow you away.
Okay, so here's the overview of the ranch.
These little pins is where we did our--
Kind of our survey areas.
This area over here around that first mine,
this was where we had trouble with the drone.
But I'll show you what-- what we ended up with here.
And so we'll go over this 3D view.
-These are quite significant. -PAUL: Wow.
ROBERT: It's a huge magnetic disturbance
that's typically gonna be indicative of a void.
So mine one has two voids?
ANDY: There's multiple entry points.
-You can see them all. -ROBERT: Yeah.
And this one down here, the one that had
that significant drop is the second one.
PAUL: Because this is a magnetic void,
would that suggest possibly that one and two
and possibly something else that we couldn't see are connected?
-ROBERT: Exactly -PAUL: Right?
You know, this can connect to the lower field.
So, for all I know, this is a way to get in.
If you guys want something
to actually explore further, this-- this is the place.
That'd be the place to do it 'cause it's a shallowest.
I mean, what it sounds like we need to do is--
is uncover what's below the surface.
The question is how do we do that?
ANNOUNCER: In 2021, the Skinwalker team
found an opening in the mesa
that they believe leads to an underground tunnel system.
MAN: Hey, I found what looks like to be a cavern.
MAN 2: Oh, yeah. Pretty sure this is it.
We're hoping that we can go drill through it
and see if we hit any voids.
MAN 3: This drilling process takes a lot of time.
ANNOUNCER: To investigate, they brought in
a boring machine to drill into the rock.
We could have found one of the most significant finds,
not only on the ranch, but maybe the entire Uintah Basin.
ANNOUNCER: But with a storm rolling in,
Andy and Paul won't have enough time
to bring in a heavy duty drill of their own.
ANDY: Our weather reports are showing
that there is a storm that is due to hit tomorrow.
We can't drill, that's-- The time and effort
it would take for that kind of infrastructure.
BOB: What about explosives? What about that?
Just blast our way in?
Plant a little dynamite in there and blow it out.
That's an alternative.
ANDY: It's got a lot of benefits to it.
It's cheaper, it's faster.
We have access points right here in the mining area.
With the mine results,
we finally have something that we can pursue,
something that we can take action on,
an experiment that we can really set up,
but we have to work against the weather
and against the clock.
And the fastest way to get underground
isn't through digging or drilling,
it's through blasting.
What hornets' nest might we be kicking
when we blast these mines?
If you want answers, you gotta do it.
Jeff, could we actually use explosives
to get deeper into these caves?
I would say let's do it.
We happen to know a guy pretty close by
that's an explosive expert.
This guy blows stuff up for a living
-and he loves doing it. -Sounds good.
Sounds like we've got a big day ahead of us.
Get to blow some stuff up.
ANDY: And if we're lucky, we're gonna crawl inside.
BOB: Yeah, exactly.
JACK: We have a trailer full of explosives.
We have a lot of gear.
My understanding is that our spot
is over in that direction.
PAUL: We're looking to open up what we think
are some mine entrances.
We've got a lot of evidence,
and we've done a lot of research up here.
We've run a lot of numbers that
-there's something underground. -Excellent.
How much dynamite do we have here today?
JACK: Well...
we've got about 500 of these sticks.
-PAUL: 500 sticks of dynamite. -ANDY: Oh, man.
Plus some extra materials like boosters
that actually make these go even harder.
What I wanna do is surgical blasting.
We don't wanna blow the side of the mountain up.
We just want to carefully cut into that tunnel
so we can get into it safely
and not have rocks fall on us once we're in there.
PAUL: So let's clear it out and then we'll set the charge.
-Let's pack it up. -CARL: Let's go.
MAN: I brought the shovel.
-PAUL: This is my number one. -JACK: Okay.
PAUL: The more of this we can get out
before we set the charge, the better.
ANNOUNCER: With the impending storm closing in
and time drawing short, the team decides to use
Jeff's excavator to dig down as far as possible
prior to blasting.
JACK: That's a lot more than we could do
with our shovels, that's for sure.
ANNOUNCER: This will not only increase their chances
of reaching the potential tunnel entrances
with single targeted blasts.
We gotta crack that open
and try to get in there and take a look today.
ANNOUNCER: But will also reduce the chance of injury
from deadly rock projectiles.
PAUL: Let's take a look. Jack, you tell me.
JACK: You got a nice hole there to put a charge into.
PAUL: Oh, look at that crack right there.
-Yep. -JACK: It almost looks like
there's almost a front edge.
-PAUL: Yeah. Right there. -That might go underneath there.
PAUL: Right underneath that much ledge right there.
Jack and I hit it with the probe?
Absolutely.
PAUL: All right.
Step down here.
You can see that whole chunk of rock
is cracked off the top there.
CARL: You got a lot of loose material.
ANDY: Wait. Listen to that, guys. Listen.
[clanking]
PAUL: Sounded hollow for a minute.
It did sound hollow for a minute.
-Just be careful down there. -PAUL: Yeah.
I mean, that-- This might not be stable,
so I'm not gonna poke around
under there anymore right now.
Let's check out number two.
[tense music plays]
BRANDON: So, this is the big one.
Hole number two is where we have the largest readings
of open void space.
PAUL: This is the deepest anomaly we've found.
Right? As far as we can tell.
-CARL: Wow. -JACK: Look at all the sawdust.
PAUL: Somebody filled this in.
It's not solid yet, though. It's still loose.
Look at all this wood.
ANDY: And the difference between the contents
of this mine and the first mine are totally different.
All dirt and rock over there.
This is just, this was filled with lumber.
I don't know how that wood would get in there, honestly.
ANDY: Yeah, cut wood, like, this has been covered back up.
So, there's evidence that people have filled this back in.
JACK: And I'm not seeing any of the ash--
-Whoa. Look at that. -CARL: Whoa. Look at that.
JACK: That's pretty deep. That's going way in there.
PAUL: Whoa. I'm not hitting rock here.
I did not expect this much sawdust.
I mean, look at this.
ANDY: While there's always been a tradition
that we've known of where miners might put wooden planks
on top of an abandoned hole, that does not result
in this level of pulverized wood pulp.
Who would put that much effort into filling a hole
with timber and for what reason?
PAUL: So the question is, what are they hiding?
-This could be it. -This is what we've been
looking for, man.
We're gonna find out, right?
CARL: That's right.
PAUL: It feels like the wind is picking back up.
-Maybe we should just blast. -All right.
Yeah, we just don't have much time.
CARL: Get the rope around the tree and try to
get the charge against the base there
against that rock and maybe get
-a good push up and out. -JACK: Yep.
So, we're not just kicking the hornets' nest.
We're just blowing the [bleep] out of it.
-[all laughing] -That's a good way to put it.
JACK: According to the weather, we got maybe two hours
before full blizzard, so we gotta move fast.
CARL: Okay.
ANNOUNCER: Andy, Paul and the team
at Mount Wilson Ranch have one chance
to try to blast their way into two abandoned mine entrances
that might connect to an underground tunnel system
leading to what is rumored to be a buried UFO.
But a winter storm is moving in
and could shut them down any minute.
PAUL: It looks like this may be our last crack at this.
-We gotta go big today. -JACK: We do.
I made a little plan for that.
I built a charge that is about 24 pounds.
ANDY: Oh, my gosh!
Hopefully, this is enough to breach the tunnel.
PAUL: This is our last shot at this.
After this storm, this is gonna be buried for months.
ANDY: There's something under there
and it's trying it's damndest not to be found.
It feels like it. We just gotta clear it out.
JACK: We've got a live hole here.
-Let's get outta here. -ANDY: All right.
I want this network, brother. I wanna find this thing.
PAUL: Wow, this weather.
-Unbelievable. -JACK: Yeah.
Mother nature had an opinion about today, man.
-This is the second explosive. -CARL: Yeah.
JACK: That looks like ACME dynamite, if ever I saw it.
X marks the spot right here.
PAUL: All that loose mulch and wood.
You ever see anything like this before?
A hold this deep filled in for no apparent reason?
JACK: No, I haven't.
Let's give that a go, shall we?
-PAUL: Let's do it. -JACK: All right.
All right. Let's clear out our gear.
All right, we got a live charge here, guys.
-PAUL: All right. -JACK: Let's go.
PAUL: Let's go. We're ready to roll.
What's the plan here, sir?
-One, then two? -One's first.
[horn blaring]
-You ready? -Yeah, brother, you kidding?
ANDY: Safety up.
-Get in position. -This is gonna be the big one.
ANDY: Yeah, with the wind trying to blow us off here.
PAUL: I know. It's gonna be crazy.
JACK: Five, four, three, two, one.
Fire in the hole.
[charge explodes]
ALL: Wow.
JACK: Shot fired successfully.
-ANDY: Look at this wind. -PAUL: Wow.
That storm is here. We are officially out of time.
-You ready? -I'm ready.
Stand by for shot number two. Take good cover, all right?
Y'all ready for a countdown?
-ANDY: Ready. -PAUL: Let's do this.
JACK: Five, four, three, two, one.
Fire in the hole.
[charge explodes]
-Whoa. -ANDY: Whoa.
PAUL: Wow. That was something else.
-CARL: Beautiful. -That looked like a good hit.
We gotta get out there, right?
Storm's worse. Let's have a look.
-We gotta go. -PAUL: Go ahead, man.
Go. Go.
JACK: Looking forward to seeing what we did.
-Wow. -Look at this size of this.
-Look at that boulder in there. -PAUL: Take a look at that.
JACK: Did you see this ledge underneath?
-ANDY: Yep. -Paul, you see what I'm saying?
-PAUL: Yep. -JACK: Is that a hole?
That looks like the opening to something.
-PAUL: That big boulder. -That looks like a pocket
-blocking something. -PAUL: Yeah.
JACK: I think there's something behind that rock.
That's what I think.
-Careful of those boulders, man. -JACK: Are you guys ready?
PAUL: Okay.
Oh, wow, guys.
So, there's more loose soil back there, but it goes back.
-Give me the probe. -CARL: There you go.
PAUL: Look at that.
JEFF: That goes in there pretty good.
PAUL: It's just loose stuff in there.
-See? Look at that. -ANDY: You're a good
four feet in there, yeah.
Oh, the storm's not gonna give us a chance to get in today.
PAUL: I'm dying to know what's right behind the boulder,
but we just don't have the ability to get down there.
We're gonna have to leave this for now.
We don't have any more time. We gotta check number two.
-JACK: Frustrating. -Yeah.
CARL: But very compelling at the same time.
PAUL: Okay. All right.
-Let's check number two. -ANDY: Number two.
JEFF: There's the hole right up ahead.
PAUL: Yep. Right ahead.
-CARL: Hole two. -JACK: Oh, man.
-Wow. -CARL: We got here.
JACK: Wow. We just gouged it down deeper.
I think we got past our sawdust problem.
Yeah. For sure. Yep.
JACK: That is just like a crater.
Tell you what though. It really did get cleared out.
ANDY: It did.
CARL: Let's just hope that bottom's loose.
-Careful boss. -ANDY: Got it.
-JACK: Pretty soft there still. -ANDY: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-JACK: Careful. -Thank you.
JACK: That's right. That's our--
ANDY: Unstable ledge.
-PAUL: Yeah. -CARL: Watch it.
-ANDY: Paul? -Yeah, what do you think, man?
ANDY: We got some softness in this area.
I can feel it under here.
We're just compacting it more.
All right.
[sighs] Where does this leave us, man?
Ah. Frustrated.
The data told us there were voids.
Someone used this void to get deeper underground.
-ANDY: Filled it in. -PAUL: But for what?
And then filled it back in.
The potential for an underground tunnel,
a large antechamber that connects
these two holes together, the potential's still there.
We haven't been able to rule it out at all.
-Yeah. -When I put it all together,
it blows my mind that there is an energy source
of some sort emitting constant energy
in the lower Meadow.
And then, we come out here to our
two best opportunities to get underground
and we've been able to get close, but not--
not close enough to get in.
This is it. This is as far as we can go
with what we've got today
and with these kind of conditions.
We've come at this every way we can.
We've been all over it on foot,
we've flown drones in the air above it,
we've blown holes to get underground
to get as far as we possibly can.
I don't know how else to say it.
Mount Wilson Ranch is keeping a secret.
All the evidence that we have gathered
points to there is some kind of energy source underground
and that we are as close maybe as anyone has ever been
to figuring out what it is.
This is just the beginning.
-Yeah. -ANDY: We've opened the door.
Nothing's been closed.
PAUL: All right, man. Let's get you up out of there.
ERIK: Well, gentlemen, welcome back.
-Good to be back. -We wanna hear
about your experience at Mount Wilson.
I cannot believe...
-PAUL: Seriously. -...how crazy this place is.
Well, I feel like we're lucky to be back.
That we're not just snowed in up there
because there was a blizzard.
-TRAVIS: Really? -PAUL: Flat out.
Didn't shut us down entirely,
but we had a lot more work to do
and there was no way.
We had to basically retreat.
ANDY: And the ranch owner actually made a point
to tell us how outside of normal the storm was.
The intensity, the amount of snow, the cold.
Now as you recall, we went to this location
specifically following a Bigelow lead
about a potential underground UFO.
-TRAVIS: Yeah. -ANDY: And we were able
to confirm and find a number of correlative data sets
that align with what you've had here on Skinwalker Ranch.
We started with a very comprehensive
magnetometer survey.
We called in a set of professionals
called Terra Exploration Group.
They had a custom-built drone
that was built for carrying a magnetometer.
TRAVIS: Sounds perfect.
And with the Terra team, we had some locations
that we were gonna target, right?
So, we knew where we wanted to focus our energies.
The lower meadow and the mine area.
ANDY: So we've been very focused on the mine area,
which is where we saw these potential entrances
into the tunnels that we suspected in the area.
So with both mine one and mine two,
we actually turned to blasting.
We actually started using shaped charges
to blast both mines.
TRAVIS: In the middle of a snowstorm?
-ERIK: Was it snowing in it? -TRAVIS: How did that go?
ANDY: We could not get deep enough,
but with all of our blasting
and all of our excavating, mine one looks like
it was the older of the two mines,
potentially the less interesting mine,
'cause it looks like it was naturally filled.
Mine two gave us a lot of pause
because it looked like it was intentionally filled.
-Okay. -ANDY: And our question became,
why would anyone take the time to fill a hole?
If it was a non-productive mine?
PAUL: You would just leave it.
And who filled it in?
-PAUL: Who and why? -Did Bigelow do it?
Or was it done 100 years ago?
-1,000 ago? -PAUL: Right.
ANDY: Now, all of this, like I said,
is at the mines themselves.
But the same land mass actually flows down
to something called the lower meadow.
And then we took it to the magnetometer,
and this is what our magnetometer showed us.
ERIK: Oh, look at that.
ANDY: This square area here, this is the Lower Meadow.
That's clearly artificial.
That looks like a phased array.
Sure does.
Looks like a phased array antenna system
built under the ground.
You see where I'm going with this, Erik?
We've heard rumors that certain low frequencies
in that range could be used to not only detect UAPs,
but possibly even take them down.
But I never knew 'em to bury them.
They were always on-- on the surface.
ERIK: Like, a low frequency beam of some kind?
TRAVIS: Well, just a phase array radar.
The rumors that array is actually a radar
that brought down the Roswell thing,
assuming it was real.
I don't have any evidence one way or the other.
But my point is, that's just another one of the stories
we've heard that kinda fits in the--
in the why Bigelow would've been interested.
-Right. Right. -But if he--
if Bigelow would've found that, he would've stayed.
-That's what I thought too. -Yeah.
Unless somebody told him to get, you know, to get out.
PAUL: I mean, it makes me wonder now.
I mean, I hadn't thought about it this way.
What test did he carry out in the lower meadows specifically
since that's where we got such intense--
-intensely strange readings. -ANDY: Right.
It's hard for me to believe that he would sell this ranch
if he found this type of data.
Yeah.
Another thing that was strange is that we actually--
Another unique instance when we were there,
in the mining area, the GPS data in our drone
became so confused that the drone actually ended up
fighting itself and crash landing.
TRAVIS: That's no-- We've had that happen hundreds of times.
It's interesting that it's happening like this
somewhere else.
We also were able to do some post analysis
on the GPS anomalies
that actually ended up bringing down our drone.
-Oh. -ERIK: That's very interest.
-TRAVIS: Very interesting. Yes. -And at first
we thought that we might just dismiss
the GPS data as corrupt
until we actually looked at it.
And then when we actually looked at it to see
does it correlate to anything,
the errant GPS data in our drone
correlates to this red line
in each of these yellow placements
that connect the corner of Cuba
up to the corner of the Bermuda Triangle.
-TRAVIS: Wow. -That's where our drone
thought it was going.
I mean, we've seen anomalies
that were 60 something miles away.
-Yes. -But this is 1,000 miles.
ERIK: 1,000 miles away.
TRAVIS: None of our data points to Cuba.
It's disturbing to me.
-Yeah. -ANDY: We knew we're on the edge
of the Nevada Test Site
and it literally seemed like what happened
is that the drone had crossed some sort of barrier.
It had hit something
that intentionally seemed to misguide it.
And you watched it come down with your eyes?
Absolutely. What struck me about this
is that it's very clean, but inaccurate data.
-It's not garbled. -ERIK: Yeah.
My training at CIA
immediately made me think that this wasn't corrupted data,
it was intentionally made errant.
-Yes. -What we would call spoofed.
-Yes. -This is highly suspicious
of spoofing to me and to what end and why there?
I mean, if you're gonna spoof something,
you don't put something nonsensical into it.
You put something that's believable, right?
-Right. -This means something.
It implies something deliberate.
TRAVIS: It absolutely does, Erik.
ANDY: It sounds like what you're saying is
this could potentially not be a spoof at all.
It could be some sort of communication effort?
Yeah. This is jumping out at us.
It's a calling card. It's a message.
It's saying something about that location in Nevada
and these locations in the Gulf of Mexico.
I am surprised. I'm not-- I was not--
I was not expecting this at all.
No, I wasn't expecting this.
I didn't know what to expect, honestly,
but I'll tell you, this really invites follow-up.
Yeah, especially the lower meadow where Bigelow
had carried out his investigations,
that's where we wanted to focus more of our efforts.
I'd really like to know if Jeff would be receptive
to leaving data logging instruments
on a long-term basis in this location.
ANDY: I think he absolutely would.
-We could potentially connect... -Pull a cable.
...that site for study here.
-TRAVIS: Yes. -And you know
what's even cooler about that?
Now, not only is it connected potentially
through whatever the phenomena is,
we're actually putting a hard line connection
-between the two ranches. -Oh, wow.
And then now that in-- Sort of doubles down
on whatever's going on there.
The power of correlative data.
Right, I mean, I was not expecting
to come back with a report like this.
TRAVIS: You guys did a thorough job
in the amount of time you had
and I imagine, kinda the way you guys were
once all that four feet of snow hit,
I mean, what are you gonna do in that, nothing, you know?
Travis, listening to Paul and Andy,
you and I shouldn't complain.
We haven't dealt with four feet of snow.
You guys deal with the heat and we deal with the snow.
Maybe at some point, we'll have to flop our seasons around.
And I gotta tell you, if you guys continue
to find things like this, we're not gonna have
enough time in the day to-- to investigate all this.
-This is fantastic. -PAUL: Well, thanks.
I feel like this was, yeah, this was a productive one.
-I really-- I-- Like I said-- -I wanna go there now.
-Yeah. -Yeah, We're gonna reach out
to the same teams that we worked with,
-get their raw data. -Yeah. We'll pull some more.
And then we're back here in just a few days
to set up the next trip with you guys.
I think collectively we owe it to ourselves
-to do that follow up. -ALL: Yeah.
-Yeah. Thank you so much. -ANDY: Great.
-Well, thank you guys. -TRAVIS: Thanks.
-Excellent. -Absolutely, man.
That was awesome. Thanks.
ERIK: All right, gents. We'll see you soon.
TRAVIS: All right. See you. Can't wait 'til the next time.