NARRATOR: 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, an ex-CIA agent and a veteran journalist
have been recruited by the Skinwalker team
to go on a high-stakes mission across America.
Look at all this activity that’s happening.
- That’s unbelievable. - Oh, my gosh.
Look at that. Look at that, look at that.
NARRATOR: The goal: uncover evidence
that may finally expose the truth.
- [boom] - What is that thing?
It’s getting more intense. You ever seen
- anything like this before? - No.
♪
This is just the beginning.
♪
ERIK: Gentlemen, welcome back to the ranch.
I’m looking forward to finding out what we’ve got lined up
for the next part of our investigation.
Well, we’re happy to be back, and we think we’ve got
a really interesting story this time.
This is a ranch where not only do we have
a really interesting physical location,
but we’ve got a great human story.
Yeah, we’ve got a pretty good lead here.
It came out of the book The Hunt For The Skinwalker.
TRAVIS: You’re talking about Kelleher
and George Knapp’s book?
- PAUL: Right. - ANDY: Right.
So what part of it is this from? What is the story?
There’s a whole section in that book called "Other Hot Spots,"
- right? - Mm-hmm.
Inside that book, they reference a ranch in Colorado.
PAUL: And the story in the book references a family and
a series of strange events over the years,
but keeps the names involved completely hidden.
They’re pseudonyms. No name of the location.
That is kept concealed.
They called it Rocky Mountain Ranch.
We reached out to MUFON, Colorado MUFON,
and the head of Colorado MUFON is a woman named Katie Paige.
So this is a real puzzle to put together,
and Katie really is the keystone.
Turns out Katie Paige is part of that family living on the ranch
and has firsthand knowledge of this whole story.
- So she is an experiencer. - Correct.
Katie herself was an experiencer at age nine
on the ranch referenced in the book.
And when we got in contact with her, she actually turned us
on to a very little-known report that was filled out at the time
by a group called the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization,
the actual precursor to MUFON.
NARRATOR: In 1978,
the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, or APRO,
did a thorough investigation at an undisclosed location
in Colorado they code-named Rocky Mountain Ranch.
And the APRO report from the late ’70s documents
- a lot of this phenomena. - And the ranch itself
actually has a lot of the same strange phenomenon
that you have here on Skinwalker Ranch.
Now, going through this APRO report,
we find really detailed multi-witness accounts
of everything from orbs to electronic voices coming in
through technology that’s got no power,
humming sounds, multiple cryptid sightings.
Really, really strange phenomenon that was vetted
when the report was originally published in the 1970s,
but then somehow this report has gone unnoticed.
Nobody’s paid attention to it. It was mostly lost
until we connected with Katie,
and then Katie actually brought it to light for us.
And now Katie, reconstructing her own history,
has agreed to go back to the ranch with us.
’Cause she has never been back to the ranch.
This is gonna be her first time setting foot on that property
since she was eight, nine, ten years old.
- Oh, that’s fantastic. - And we have some
open questions, right? First, the current ranch owners.
What have they experienced? Have they seen anything strange
on the ranch? And records show that they’ve owned this ranch
for almost 30 years. And then what’s going to happen
to the ranch when we take Katie, a known experiencer,
back to the ranch? Will the ranch react?
If so, how will it react,
and what can we do to measure that reaction?
Yeah, that is the right question.
Yeah, and I’m really excited about there being a new place
that has almost identical-- reporting, anyway--
of phenomenology, so I’d really like to see what commonalities
there are and what data you collect. So good luck, guys.
Yeah. Well, it’s go time.
TRAVIS: Can’t wait to hear back from you.
ANDY: All right.
NARRATOR: Due to the sensitive nature of this investigation,
the current owners of Rocky Mountain Ranch have asked
for their names and location to be kept anonymous.
PAUL: I am so excited about this story here
at Rocky Mountain Ranch because this place was sort of
Skinwalker before Skinwalker even happened, right?
I think Katie’s reaction to this is gonna be key for us, right?
Because, again, this is something she experienced
as a child, and over time, it’s sometimes hard to sort out
those memories, especially if it was something traumatic.
There might be a lot of stuff that she’s repressed.
- ANDY: Yeah. - Going through this process
with her, combined with the data that we hopefully can gather
with, you know, new instrumentation that wasn’t
available could really open up some new information about this.
ANDY: Now, Paul, we are in a little bit of a race
against the clock, ’cause we have a limited time to be here.
We’ve got a lot of ground to cover too, right?
So, I think, let’s go at it this way.
I can talk to Katie. You can go out to the ranch
and meet with the current owners and sort of see
what their experience has been, and then we’ll,
you know, try to regroup and see what’s going on.
- ANDY: Yeah. Absolutely. - Good luck. Talk to you soon.
♪
Tell me about your connection to the ranch.
Yeah, it’s kind of interesting. I mean, this is the mid-70s,
so my mom, she met a gentleman at work,
and that gentleman owns the ranch.
- How old were you at the time? - I’m nine to 12 years old.
Nine to 12. So you spent a lot of time out here?
Yeah, a little bit. Every time that
either my sister or I spent time on the ranch,
unusual things happened.
What I recall the most was,
it was, like, this heavy feeling of just being uneasy,
being watched.
♪
ANDY: Hi, there. Thanks so much for having me.
GREG: No problem, absolutely.
This is a really interesting place. I’m sure you know
some of the history about the property that you’re on.
Um, a little bit from what we were looking up online,
just some people talking about it.
You know, sometimes they see some lights in the sky.
I mean, we haven’t seen too much.
I mean, I think Dad has seen some before.
Yeah, I’ve seen some strange things in the sky.
You have? What have you seen?
Well, what it was, it was a whole string of lights.
- There was 27 of ’em. - Twenty-seven?
I was in the back porch,
and they were all in a perfect line.
- Wow. - GREG: And then they just--
They came from south to north, and then they made a curve,
and then they straightened back out
and then they just went out of sight.
ANDY: Wow. How long ago was that?
Uh, about five years ago.
And when you first saw that, what did you think?
[chuckles] I didn’t know what to think.
I was like, "Well, that’s-- that’s a UFO,
"because I don’t know anything that looks like that."
ANDY: So, when you took over in the ’80s, did you take ownership
from the previous owners, or was it abandoned at the time?
It was abandoned. Nobody was living here.
But the fella, we just bought it from him.
But it was empty when we moved here.
- GREG: Yeah. - That’s interesting.
KATIE: The scariest night at the ranch,
the adults were in the front room.
They were playing board games, as I recall.
It was, like, really late at night, to my memory,
and the three boys, my sister, and I were hanging out
in the boys’ bedroom.
So, all of a sudden, we hear, like, a--
- [humming] - PAUL: Right.
KATIE: Just like that. Just a hum.
And any time that hum sound would come,
you know something’s gonna happen.
Like-- like, so everybody’s on edge.
So when the hum would happen, other things would happen?
Other things would happen. So everybody’s like,
"Oh, hold on, here we go." And when that humming started,
all the lights in the house went out.
And at that moment-- and it was like a window
kind of like this-- the bright, brighter than the sun light
comes through that window. Everybody’s freaking out,
but here’s the thing. It was, like, from every orifice
of the house, this electronic-sounding voice
comes out of the house, and it basically stated, you know,
"We have allowed you to remain.
"We’ve interfered with your lives very little.
"Your friends will be instructed to remain silent concerning us."
- "Concerning us." - "Concerning us."
- That must’ve been terrifying. - It was terrifying.
This has stayed with me and affects me still to this day.
I believe now that something connected to me then,
that night at that ranch.
♪
NARRATOR: In the 1978 APRO report,
the water cistern was one of the key areas on the ranch
where multiple strange anomalies were documented.
ANDY: And this is the original cistern?
- GREG: Yes. - I’m actually gonna take
a few measurements here. I can walk you through everything.
- Sure. - Nothing secret.
We are gonna look for organic radiation,
and this is often a sign for us of whether or not
there could be something more happening around us.
All right, here we go. Oh, this is an interesting--
this is interesting right out of the gates, actually.
So you’re showing
150% higher radiation levels here
than what we would expect anywhere else.
It says 26.6 micrograms.
That is very, very elevated.
Not elevated to the place where you have to be afraid
of anything in terms of, like, you know, radiation poisoning
or radiation damage, but this is much higher than
what you would expect to see in any other
kind of natural forest or open place.
NICOLE: What is that noise?
- [faint humming] - Did you hear a noise?
NICOLE: I heard this, like, humming noise.
Well, that is a humming noise. I hear that too.
GREG: It’s coming from...
Have you heard that noise before?
Not that particular one, no.
You’ve never heard that before?
Does that guy still fly those planes anymore?
- GREG: No. - ANDY: That doesn’t sound like
a plane or a drone.
That’s a pitched hum.
I don’t know what to make of that.
[tense music playing] Whoa.
It’s kind of mind-boggling to me that in all the time that
you’ve been here, you haven’t heard that humming sound.
Your ranch is actually one of the best-documented locations
for strangeness that we’ve come across.
And one of those reports actually talks about
a specific phenomena that happened right here,
- right at this cistern. - Really?
There was noise coming from in this area at night,
in the evening, and then they came out here to investigate,
and the strange noises actually were so intimidating that
they ran back to the house and felt the phenomenon
- follow them back to the house. - GREG: Really? Wow.
ANDY: We just started researching the cistern,
and now, out of nowhere, a humming sound starts
that the current ranch owners have never heard before.
The only difference between the APRO report and what’s happening
right now is that we’re running high-quality microphones,
and we’re actually capturing and recording
the sound that’s happening right now.
So I get to package this up
and send it back to Travis and Erik to take apart.
I think the next step is really just to connect with
my partner Paul and then start getting
the wheels rolling on the experiments.
- GREG: Great. - NICOLE: Let’s do it.
♪
PAUL: How are you feeling now? This is a big step.
You know, I’m feeling more emotional
- than I thought I would feel. - Right.
KATIE: You know, I think the culmination of years
and years and years of research and wanting to find answers,
and that’s kind of all culminated to this very moment.
NARRATOR: After almost 50 years, investigator Katie Paige is
returning to Rocky Mountain Ranch
for the first time since she experienced
terrifying strangeness there as a young girl.
KATIE: Oh, my gosh.
- Oh, my goodness. - PAUL: You look very excited.
KATIE: Okay, so here’s the house.
PAUL: I think maybe let’s pull up over here.
- KATIE: Here. Okay. - PAUL: We’ll start our tour.
KATIE: All right.
ANDY: Katie went through something really intense
when she was a kid. I’m actually amazed that
she is willing to come back out here and face it head-on.
I mean, you can really see the courage in this woman,
even as you still see this flicker of terror
in the ten-year-old girl inside her.
Katie, can you give me a sense of
what experiences you had out here personally?
Yeah. I mean, it’s interesting what we remember, because
I remember that night in the house and that humming sound.
So they would always hear hums and bangs underground.
ANDY: So if you can believe it, we were just here earlier today
- and the hum came up. - Really?
A loud hum that the owners who have been here
for the last 30 years had never heard before.
You’re kidding me.
We were on site at the original cistern,
and I’ll take you there and show you exactly where we were.
[suspenseful music playing]
I do recall that there was, you know, sounds and bangs
and other activity that would occur near the cistern up here.
ANDY: As we were taking readings and measurements here,
we then heard a hum, a maddening, long-term,
frustrating hum that just seemed to fill up the entire area.
As if they knew we were back investigating.
♪
What I’m feeling right now is that fear of everything,
’cause this isn’t a distant memory
that we were forbidden to talk about.
- Like, it’s physically here. - ANDY: Right.
PAUL: All right. So, Andy, do you wanna show us the silo?
Yeah. Sure. We can go that direction.
KATIE: Okay. Yeah, I remember the silo
always gave me the creeps.
ANDY: Why was it creepy to you?
KATIE: You know, you were always feeling watched
and things were hiding behind things
and it’s always, like, a little unnerving.
PAUL: All right, well, we got some weather coming in now, huh?
ANDY: Katie, did you ever have anything happen
around the silo?
KATIE: Not around the silo, but I just remember
always wanting to stay away from it.
[unsettling music playing]
This just was always an eerie place back here
behind the ranch house,
and the closer you got into the woods,
the creepier it got.
Is that empty in there now?
PAUL: Yeah, it’s sort of fallen into disuse.
KATIE: Oh, wow. Just saw an animal run that way.
- ANDY: Really? - KATIE: Yeah, I did.
It just ran right that way, so I don’t know what it was.
It wasn’t that large.
PAUL: You’re sure you saw something?
KATIE: I’m positive. 100%.
Where are the tracks?
There should be tracks, ’cause I just saw it.
ANDY: Let’s just make sure we stay close together.
KATIE: Yeah.
You see the tracks in the snow?
- PAUL: Yes, look at that. - KATIE: Yeah, look at that.
- PAUL: Look at those. - KATIE: Do we wanna
follow ’em for a little way?
PAUL: Look at how they just end!
KATIE: They just stop. They just end right here.
Just, boom. Right here, they end.
PAUL: It goes right to a dead spot of snow.
- There’s nothing there. - KATIE: No, that’s weird.
I see ’em there, and then nothing.
PAUL: So this is maybe the last one, and then it just...
KATIE: It’s just gone. There’s nothing.
Let’s walk this way to the tree line.
Do we see any tracks?
Definitely getting a little creepier back in here.
Seeing those footprints is a little unnerving.
NARRATOR: As the team approaches another hotspot
of high strangeness in the 1978 APRO report,
the tree line on the northern part of the ranch,
Andy wants to test the radio frequency spectrum
for any anomalies.
Katie, what we’re looking for here are
some very specific frequencies that seem to pop up
time and again whenever we’re in
these areas of concentrated strangeness.
NARRATOR: When the Skinwalker team encounters
strange phenomena, they often detect a 1.6 gigahertz signal
on a spectrum analyzer.
1.6 gigahertz is in a privileged radio frequency zone
that’s reserved for Earth-to-space
and space-to-Earth communication.
Paul, you gotta see this, man. Look at this.
- PAUL: What we got? - ANDY: Look at this activity.
- KATIE: Oh, my gosh. - PAUL: Wow.
ANDY: We’re seeing readings at 1.6, 1.7, and 1.9.
Look at that. Look at that spike at 1.7
- and then back to 1.9. - KATIE: That just went way up.
ANDY: So something is causing these huge energy spikes.
If this was a man-made signal...
- KATIE: There it goes again. - ...we would expect the energy
to be very consistent.
We’ve seen spikes at 1.6 before, but we’ve never seen
this much activity across this whole range.
Exactly right. This is a ton of radio energy in a remote area.
After seeing these radio frequencies so active
and so intense, it absolutely confirms in my mind
that we need to do some kind of radio test while we’re here.
There is something on this ranch
that seems to be trying to communicate.
What happens if we communicate back?
♪
ANDY: Jares, I really appreciate you coming out
and helping us with this. We have a lot of equipment that
we’ve already been able to set up, but I can tell that
- you’ve brought some new stuff. - JARES: Oh, yeah.
I can see you already have a spectrum analyzer over there,
and this one’s gonna be significantly more sensitive.
NARRATOR: To test the idea that some kind of phenomenon
at Rocky Mountain Ranch might be trying to communicate
with Katie and team, Andy and Paul have brought in
engineer and ham radio specialist, Jares Doverspike,
to help them try to communicate back.
I brought this receiver here, and I know that you’re
wanting to be able to transmit on the 1.6 gigahertz frequency,
so I also brought this one.
- PAUL: This is a transmitter? - JARES: Correct.
NARRATOR: For this experiment, they are going to broadcast
on the 1.6 gigahertz frequency
that is correlated with high strangeness at Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS: We’re gonna be broadcasting a sweep across
this 1.6 gigahertz part of the spectrum
where we’re getting these weird signals here on the ranch.
We’re going to hopefully stimulate
the biggest response so far.
NARRATOR: The only way to legally transmit a human voice
at 1.6 gigahertz all the way into space
is to use a ham radio.
Since I am a ham radio operator, I have to follow the law.
However, there’s this thing that I can take advantage of
called harmonics, which means that whenever you transmit at
a specific frequency, there’s some energy that will be
translated to every single multiple of that.
So what this is gonna allow us to do is essentially, like,
shout into a cave and create an echo that does echo
- at the frequency we want. - Yes.
PAUL: I’m really excited about the new direction
we’re gonna be taking things here. I mean,
location after location, we have gotten strange readings
on the spectrum analyzer in this 1.6 gigahertz bandwidth.
For the first time, we’re gonna try and talk back
on that bandwidth, and I am really wondering what--
you know, what kind of results we’re gonna get.
I mean, the piece of the puzzle here is that back in 1976
when Katie was here with her family,
there was some kind of broadcast that came through
stereo equipment that was essentially turned off.
So if we can do anything to trigger that kind of signal,
we wanna pick it up with this kind of equipment.
And this is the physical place
where voices were heard through radios during the blackout.
So we’re gonna recreate that situation.
So what we’re gonna do is set up these old AM radios,
and we will have them tuned to basically just static,
to an empty band, to an empty channel.
[static crackling]
NARRATOR: The plan is after they broadcast a voice
at 1.6 gigahertz into the atmosphere,
they will use multiple radios placed inside the house
to monitor for any audio anomalies
coming through the radio speakers.
They’ve also placed a highly sensitive microphone
next to the radios to capture
and graphically display any response.
So Jares, here’s where we’re actually porting in from
that microphone. So if we start to see significant variation
in the amplitudes of these, then we’ll know that
there’s something that’s being transmitted through
those AM radio channels.
I think we have everything that we need
set up for tonight’s experiment.
All we need to do now is grab Katie and Nicole.
The real objective that we have here is if this ranch
is trying to communicate, then this is our chance
to knock on the wall and see if it knocks back.
- Okay. - Let’s see.
We’re gonna split up into teams.
Katie, if you’ll stay here with me and and Jares.
We’re gonna monitor everything on this side.
And then Paul, you’re taking Nicole?
We’ll be out behind the house scanning these skies.
And then we’ll be in touch on walkies.
If you guys see anything of significance, let us know.
And if we see anything on our side, we’ll call you back.
- Sounds good. - KATIE: All right.
NICOLE: Let’s do it.
All right, Jares. You wanna turn this guy up
and see if we’re picking up any incoming transmissions?
JARES: Absolutely.
ANDY: All right, Paul, we are set and ready to go,
getting ready to send a signal at 1.6 gigahertz.
I’m gonna count down from five for you. Is that good?
Copy you. We are eyes on the sky.
All right, stand by. Here we go. Five, four, three, two, one.
KN4[bleep], CQ-CQ-CQ.
[static crackling]
So far I have nothing.
[tense music playing]
I got nothing.
So if we want to, or what I’d like to do, is,
Katie, how do you feel about sending a transmission?
KATIE: Yeah.
KN4[bleep] having a secondary person operating under my station.
Do you remember me, my sister, and the three boys?
We’re back, and we’d like to talk to you.
[static crackling]
[high-pitched electronic droning]
Oh, my gosh! Did you see that reaction?
- Yeah, it just went "Whoo!" - Holy smokes!
♪
We just had a massive reaction from the house
when Katie sent that transmission.
- Get out of here. - Look at this.
ANDY: No, man. I can’t-- I’m not even making it up.
Look at this!
What kind of reaction?
Tons of energy coming from the house.
I’ve got goosebumps up and down my body right now.
- Oh, my God. - ANDY: Oh, my God.
The house is absolutely reacting to Katie’s voice.
It is amazing to see.
So I’m communicating with something in the house?
Do you have any explanation for that?
I do not have any explanations.
ANDY: Hey, we better get you and Nicole in here.
You gotta see this for yourselves.
- We’ll head in. - All right,
we’re waiting for you, man,
before we do anything next.
- PAUL: We’re on our way. - Unbelievable.
That’s unbelievable. Nicole, you live here...
- Uh, yeah. - ...so I want you to see it.
And then Paul, this is, I mean, this is what we’ve been chasing.
- Yeah. - I’d like to transmit
the exact same way when Katie starts talking.
Okay.
Remember me, Katie, my sister, and the three boys
that were on this ranch?
We are back and we want to talk to you.
[static]
[high-pitched electronic droning]
ANDY: Whoa, whoa!
There’s definitely...
I don’t know what kind of response it is,
but there is a response.
I’m just sitting here with my mouth open.
- [laughing] - What is that?
I don’t understand it. I don’t understand it at all.
Jares, if you have an explanation--
I have zero explanations. None whatsoever.
Well, I’m just wondering, does this correlate--
Could this correlate with that disembodied
electrical voice that we heard in the house?
The original structure seems to consistently respond to Katie.
- She’s the trigger right here. - She’s the trigger.
Like, there’s a connection.
Like, it attached decades ago
and it’s never left me and that’s always what I’ve felt.
It’s just never left me.
♪
ANDY: Man, this ranch is weird.
What’s so striking to me is just the layer upon layer
of evidence that we’re seeing here, right?
And they seem to be compounding and proving each other true.
Right? We’re not only able to confirm
what the original APRO report said with our own experiences,
I heard humming right there at the cistern.
- Did you hear a noise? - I heard this humming noise.
Well, that is a humming noise. I hear that too.
We’re sitting here watching massive radiation readings,
talking to the current residents here, hearing humming
right there along with them. This place is absolutely proving
to be everything that was reported in the 1970s.
And, you know, the radio experiment.
Yeah, I mean, I have never seen anything like what we did
with that radio experiment.
We are back and we want to talk to you.
[high-pitched electronic droning]
Whoa, whoa!
I can’t get it out of my head, man.
It certainly seems like this ranch reacts.
What I’m trying to figure out is where best to go next.
This ranch is absolutely trying to communicate.
We’ve taken some very gentle approaches
to try to communicate back.
I wonder what happens if we get more intense.
One thing we might want to think about
is what they’ve done on Skinwalker is use rockets
and see if somehow we can trigger any further activity.
You know, a rocket experiment is a great next step.
We know the team at Skinwalker was able to use rockets
to trigger UAP activity.
- We are ready for launch in... - Three, two, one. Ignition. Go.
All right, team. Keep your eye on it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, what’s this right here. What’s this?
- What’s this? - We got something!
We got something! We got something right here.
Guys, we just had a UAP appear.
We want to use some basic rockets that just launch up
to altitude and see if we can’t use those rockets to trigger
some kind of reaction.
I mean, just go right at it head on.
Yeah, I mean, head on is exactly what the rockets do.
We’re basically gonna go from trying to knock on the door
to trying to kick the door in.
Just barge right through it.
You know, that might be poking at it enough
to get some kind of reaction.
Yeah. I think we’ve got a plan.
Yeah, absolutely.
♪
- ANDY: Hey, guys. - DAVE: Good morning.
- ANDY: Good morning. - How are you?
Great day to launch some rockets.
Yes, sir. Thank you.
Let’s see if we can get something out there for you.
NARRATOR: Paul and Andy are meeting with Skinwalker Ranch’s
rocket experts from Loc Precision to conduct experiments
at Rocky Mountain Ranch, where Katie Paige experienced
high strangeness as a young girl.
Their first rocket launch will be near the tree line
where Katie, Andy, and Paul found mysterious tracks
to nowhere.
PAUL: Look at this trail.
It goes right to a dead spot of snow.
- There’s nothing there. - KATIE: No.
NARRATOR: And received strange radio frequency spikes.
We’ve seen spikes at 1.6 before, but we’ve never seen
this much activity across this whole range.
This is a ton of radio energy in a remote area.
Greg and I will be on stand by as the retrieval team,
so we’ll have a second set of eyes seeing what behavior
the rockets show on the way up and on the way down
and then we’ll be able to pick up anything
- that’s left on the ranch. - Katie and I will
stay here with you, and we’ll be in touch
with these guys the whole time, spotting and tracking.
All right, time to go to work.
NARRATOR: The first medium sized rocket should reach
an altitude of 2,500 feet.
The team will watch for anything
out of the ordinary over this hot spot,
such as a failed takeoff or changes in the flight path,
which could signify an unknown force or object in the sky.
DAVE: All right, skies are clear, pads armed,
and we are going in five, four, three, two, one.
[rocket whooshing]
ANDY: Wow.
ALLEN: All right, everybody keep your eyes out.
- Yep. - Definitely a straight flight.
DAVE: Yeah, still holding at about 22 degrees north,
right above the tree line.
Okay. I just lost it.
Can’t see it.
- There it is. - I see it too.
She’s trucking still dead north.
- All right, good luck, guys. - Thanks, man.
All right. Probably 100 yards.
Yeah, it’s coming down right in line over these trees
to the left of that smaller red barn.
[suspenseful music playing]
I’m not seeing it, Greg.
All right, Paul. We are not seeing it yet.
So this one has drifted quite a bit to the north
and to the east, so we’re gonna have to go hunting
a little bit more.
This rocket, it’s nowhere near the last heading
that was reported. This is starting to look
a lot like the rocket that went off course
at Skinwalker Ranch.
- There it goes, there it goes.
Wow!
What was that bend all about?
It cocked dramatically to the north so it couldn’t go up
through the beam.
What in the crap?
So there better be some upper-level winds
that would explain that out of the north.
What wind?
Why don’t we take all this stuff and we’ll start
getting it so we can get the next launch site set up
while they’re out recovering
while we still got some daylight?
Greg, is that it? Is that it?
- Yeah, there it is. - Holy [bleep].
What’s it doing over here? This is way off course.
Yeah, that’s it right there. Look at that. Look at that.
- GREG: I’ll come with you. - ANDY: Yeah, come on out, man.
All right. We got eyes on the package, Paul.
I am in route to retrieve it.
PAUL: Great news. Thanks, Andy.
All right. I was getting worried about you guys.
I was worried, man. We had just given up the hunt
and then we found it in some place
we just didn’t expect to see it.
So was it just totally off course?
- Way off course. - ’Cause, I mean,
I had a clear view until it disappeared.
You know, I thought I had a clean line of sight.
- Where was it? - It took a hard right turn
after you guys saw it pass over the horizon.
I don’t know how it did that.
That just doesn’t make any sense.
It’s not that windy, it didn’t go that high.
How did we get two miles out?
I’m glad that we found it because it gives us
the data point that we need to confirm
that there was something strange about that launch.
-Absolutely. - So, yeah,
this is our second location.
Cistern is where all kinds of weird things have happened.
Absolutely, I mean, Greg and I experienced the humming noise
here at the cistern.
- Did you hear a noise? - I heard this humming noise.
Have you heard that noise before?
Not that particular one, no.
You’ve never heard that before?
NARRATOR: Now the team is prepping
a six-foot pitbull rocket
that’s large enough to carry a payload,
including a Trifield meter,
spectrum analyzer, and altimeter.
For this launch, they will fire the rocket from the cistern
where Andy and the current ranch owners witnessed a strange hum.
- Let’s get to it. - Absolutely.
ANDY: All right. Should we head to the Jeep?
Yes, we should.
Pads armed and going.
Five, four, three, two, one.
[rocket whooshing]
KATIE: Wow!
ANDY: It’s like-- it’s like it hit a wall up there.
DAVE: She’s dropping.
ALLEN: All right, guys, heads up, heads up.
- Backsliding. - Whoa.
[bleep]. What is going on?
No delay, no delay.
[tense music playing]
We have eyes on it. We are en route.
Yeah, the rocket is probably trashed,
but I think your equipment will be all right.
You think? So did the chute just not deploy?
The motor didn’t pop a charge.
Wow. Why would the chute not deploy?
- Is it just engine failure? - Look at that.
That’s it right there.
The one time that we’ve got gear on board, it fails.
Correct.
Hey, Paul. This is Andy. We have the rocket retrieved.
Andy, we’re gonna come down and meet you at the shop.
Thank you, sir.
PAUL: So the black powder just didn’t go off at all?
It doesn’t look like it at all.
Is that unusual? I mean--
- Very. - Very unusual?
All right. Here’s your stuff. Well, okay. Light’s on.
PAUL: That’s good news.
- Here we got... - Okay.
- Yep, everything’s-- - My Trifield took a nosedive.
We should still have recording
all the way to impact before impact.
I’d be curious to see how that works out.
ALLEN: Altimeter recorded no flight.
- No flight? - NICOLE: What?
How would that happen?
I mean, that’s a pretty basic piece of equipment.
I mean, you turn it on and it should just--
Yeah, I mean, it’s basic as they come.
Like, you turn it on, it records.
When there’s altitude, it just realizes it.
- 100%. - Maybe it didn’t really fly.
It really fell.
Well, the Trifield proves that part.
Sounds like we need to analyze the footage,
we need to record what data we can
and then ship it off to Erik and Travis.
All right, let’s just break it all down.
Paul and Andy, I’m very anxious to have your return report
on the Rocky Mountain Ranch experience.
Brace yourselves for what we’ve got here.
Yeah, this place was wild.
On top of everything that we were prepared for
when we arrived at Rocky Mountain Ranch,
it just got stranger after we actually started putting
boots on the ground, and we even had experiences ourselves.
So, one of the known areas of anomalous activity
on the ranch is actually centered around the cistern.
So, we wanted to launch rockets from the cistern
with a payload inside to measure radio spectrum energy,
Trifield energy, and altimeter and see if we can’t
get some meaningful data out of a launch in an anomalous area.
Well, and the rocket itself is also a sensor
in that if there’s some kind of atmospheric anomaly
or something that will push the rocket around,
you can watch its trajectory and see things happen. Right?
- Absolutely. - So we used a pitbull rocket
provided by Loc Precision because Loc Precision
- has worked here on Skinwalker. - Those guys are great.
And we asked Loc Precision what can we do here
to as closely as possible replicate
the same type of process that you use here
- on Skinwalker Ranch. - That’s great.
That is very good. I like it.
So this is what happened.
- PAUL: Yeah. - KATIE: Wow.
It’s like-- it’s like it hit a wall up there.
Give me a pop sideways.
Yeah, no rejection of it.
No delay.
[crashing]
It reached an altitude of 1,800 feet and then seemed to die.
We had the rocket actually fail to deploy its shoot,
so it didn’t work according to its operating procedures.
We also were able to capture footage from inside.
So the rocket launched, which showed very steady readings.
So I’ve paused it just after it reaches apogee
and right before it appears to start.
Jumped up suddenly to a spike in voltage
up to 100-something volts per meter.
- ANDY: Yes. - Wow.
ANDY: And we do not know what to make of this.
You’ve encountered a region
of high electric field very briefly.
Either you went through it or you were hit by it.
One or the other.
ANDY: So the secondary explosive
that was supposed to launch the parachute also failed.
So what that means is something happened
to keep the igniters from setting off the charge.
Was there a camera on the outside of the rocket?
- ANDY: Yes, sir. - BOTH: There is.
[rocket engine rumbles]
Wait. Stop, back it up a little bit.
- [clanking] - Right there.
So we just heard something mechanical.
I think there was an impulse hit.
I interpreted that as the beginning of the turbulence
of the tumble. You’re saying that could have been--
That was an impulse response. That was that.
Something created a huge spike in the electric field.
What could it have been?
The rocket was ground and something--
Like lightning to an airplane, but there was no lightning,
there was no cloud. So what?
This is really a key piece of data.
- I’m glad we have it. - Now going through this,
I want to show you a result that’s specific to Katie.
Our plan was to go out and execute a radio test
where we would try to transmit a 1.6 gigahertz frequency
using a harmonic within the ham radio bands.
When we were transmitting, we were also measuring energy
coming back to us through a set of AM radios
that were set to open channels.
So effectively, what we have is a discrete spectrum analyzer.
We have a multi spectral sensor.
- There we go. - All right. So at this point,
we’re letting Katie transmit on the transmitter.
We are back and we want to talk to you.
[high-pitched electronic droning]
- Whoa! - [laughing]
You know, guys, I get the real sense that this space
is responding to Katie’s return.
It’s like the ranch recognizes her.
You know, we’ve seen things like that here on Skinwalker
where it’s as if the phenomenon is familiar with someone
as they come back and things start to happen.
We absolutely want to follow up on this.
So now let me show you what happened
when I took a walk about with the family that’s there now.
We actually went to one of the known hot spots
from the APRO report. According to the APRO report,
that cistern was known for having humming noises
and underground vibrations. A metallic hum turned on.
What is that noise?
- Did you hear a noise? - I heard this humming noise.
Oh, that is a humming noise. I hear that too.
In the distance, it seemed to envelop
everything in the environment.
Do you have an audio recording?
- We do. - Let’s hear it.
All right, Erik, I just sent you the audio file of the humming.
Oh, wow. We’re looking at both the time domain
and the frequency domain. I’m going to play the recording
and we’re going to listen for that hum that you’ve described.
[humming]
It’s clear.
There is a very clearly audible tone.
Is that the tone that you were telling?
Okay, so if we do the analysis of this portion here,
here is the frequency content and right here,
one thing that jumps right out at me,
is around 400 Hertz we have this peak.
ANDY: Yeah, very distinct.
ERIK: That is in fact what we’re hearing.
So what we’re hearing is a hum at 400 Hertz.
Here’s one thing that I can’t help but notice.
I’ve heard this before.
It’s what the sound of the power systems and aircraft
and spacecraft make because we run them at 400 Hertz
and it is exactly at the right frequency
and it sounds-- I mean, I’ve heard it before
and that’s exactly what it sounds like.
That’s typically something you see from the Air Force,
from the Intelligence community, or from NASA.
So just so I understand this, in layman’s terms,
what we’re hearing here is the sound of either
advanced aircraft electronics or spacecraft electronics?
Not electronics, power systems.
And that’s the main power system frequency.
I don’t know what this is,
but it sounds exactly like the main frequency sound
that you get from spacecraft.
Yes. However, there are other features in the frequency domain
way out here on the high end.
Do you have any thoughts on why we’d be seeing 17.16?
You know, that’s so high.
That’s right on the edge of what I can hear.
There’s frequencies are right above what you can hear.
It can cause irritation, it can cause sleeplessness.
Imagine this. What if, for some reason,
somebody doesn’t want people looking into this place
and they want to drive you nuts and run you away. Right?
And if you had something like a high altitude aerial asset
that could broadcast a frequency that drives you nuts.
And the 400 Hertz could be the power system
for whatever that thing is.
Well, that’s an interesting thought.
I mean, this is almost a sonic weapon.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
This could very well be something that could be used
to make people not feel good while they’re at this location
and to leave.
Rocky Mountain Ranch seems to give off the vibe
and have all of the tell tale signs that it could possibly be
like another Skinwalker Ranch.
And to find other locations that are part of this class
of special places where we get to see
this kind of phenomenology,
especially when we have the attached history
such as we had here at the Rocky Mountain site,
that is invaluable.
All right. Well, we’re just getting started.
Stay with it, fellas.
- Let’s start a revolution. - Thanks for joining us.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you, man.
Always a pleasure.
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