NARRATOR: Tonight on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
The investigation at Mount Wilson Ranch continues.
ANDY: If this doesn’t get to the bottom of that hole,
I will be blown away.
CARL: Drill, baby, drill.
ANDY: What is this thing?
What is it?
ROBERT: It’s a metallic object that’s shaped like this.
The manta ray.
Shape of a manta ray, but being a craft.
Something strange was either developed on Mount Wilson Ranch
or discovered.
What the heck is going on out here?
ANDY: You’ve got power.
They’ve got to be Bigelow’s.
Maybe they were trying to use these
to make contact with whatever’s in the lower meadow.
This is our first chance to really carry out
an investigation with the same technology, the same tool that
the Bigelow team may have used.
We might be reaching the manta ray 200 feet down.
PAUL: Oh, wow.
This could be far stranger than ghosts and aliens.
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?
Wow!
NARRATOR: 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.
ANDY: Look at all this activity that’s happening.
CARL: That’s unbelievable. - That is right over our heads.
That’s it. - That’s it right there!
NARRATOR: The goal?
Uncover evidence that may finally expose the truth.
ANDY: How is this happening?
PAUL: Now it’s going to get interesting.
Look, it’s moving!
Look at that!
ANDY: This is just the beginning.
Still climbing.
0.7.
That’s unbelievable.
What could be so big and so deep?
NARRATOR: Andy and Paul continue their investigation
at Mount Wilson Ranch, a property once owned
by the elusive aerospace billionaire
Robert Bigelow at the same time that he owns Skinwalker Ranch.
There are rumors that Bigelow and his team
were searching for something mysterious
buried under the lower meadow.
So you have Bigelow’s researchers following up
with you because they believe there might
be some sort of alien craft buried
in a meadow on this property.
Apparently, down in the meadow,
there’s something that emits a signal.
A lot of history in the ground around here.
NARRATOR: Andy is with Terra Exploration Group, completing
a scan of the lower meadow, and they found something that could
prove Bigelow’s team was right.
All right, here we go.
I think it’s going to peg out again.
Yeah, just switch it.
Come on, baby.
Wow.
Holy smokes.
It’s pegging off the charts.
We’re hitting some kind of material
that is highly conductive.
Highly conductive.
And that means it’s pretty thick,
because we picked it up at 100 feet,
and we’ve picked it up at 200.
Well, let’s see if it still does it.
All right, about right there.
All right, here we go.
Are you on?
Yeah.
OK, so what’s the reading?
0.34.
0.34, and we saw a drop of almost 2/3 in conductivity,
which suggests that whatever we were hitting there
in that slice is different than what
we’re hitting in this slice. - Yeah.
It’s almost like there’s something
there that’s shaped like this.
Right.
You know, you imagine like a manta ray or something like--
I don’t know.
I’ve never chased a UFO before.
Very strange, guys.
All right, start packing it up.
NARRATOR: After breaking for the day,
the team gathers in the Mount Wilson Ranch saloon
to analyze the lower meadow results
and plan their next move.
All right, fellows.
Well, welcome back to the table.
So I just-- I--
what the heck is going on out here?
That’s all I can say.
So we got good data, but it’s the weirdest thing.
The lower meadow, we used the EM34,
and it’s just an analog instrument.
It just gives us a number, no pretty pictures.
But it will reach 50 feet, 100 feet, and 200 feet.
OK.
So we’re reading conductivity, the conductivity of the soil.
Yeah.
And we did four lines at each depth.
But once we got down to the 100 feet, the meter would just peg.
So it’s hitting something very conductive.
We’ve never seen conductivity peg on that thing.
It just went like that.
And the size?
You said you had over 100 feet.
Yeah, I mean, we picked it up from 100 feet all the way down
to 200 feet.
200 feet down?
Think about this for a second, Paul, right?
Essentially, we’re looking at a 200 foot deep chunk of earth.
50 feet into that chunk of Earth, you don’t see anything.
PAUL: Right.
And then at 100 feet, you see high conductivity that
lasts all the way to 200 feet.
And so it’s hitting something very conductive.
But there was one, this line right here, it didn’t peg.
So it’s like we hit an air pocket at 200 feet.
And then he had a theory that it’s
a metallic object that’s shaped like this, And the word--
The manta ray.
Whoa.
Wow.
He said.
Are you kidding me?
That’s-- we’ve been told that there is a manta ray under here.
The exact--
Shape of a manta ray but being a craft.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Well, that’s really funny, because I had never
heard that term, but me, I’m just imagining something
like that, and it came to me that it looked like a manta
ray going through the water. - Yeah.
I mean, they even went as far as to say the one at Skinwalker
Ranch was a sport model and the one
here is more like a giant manta-- a manta ray.
They literally said manta ray.
Who said that and what technology did they use?
These are people from Bigelow’s old team
that has leaked photos and information
to us that looked through files from when they were up here.
OK.
Yeah.
CARL: How far down were you told?
Anywhere from 200 feet.
No way.
From 200 feet.
And the way you describe the shape of that
is like everything that we’ve been told to look for.
Interesting.
Of all the animals that you could relate this to,
of all the creatures that get pulled out of our imaginations
to describe an anomaly, how is it that these two gentlemen,
without talking to each other, landed on the same description
that the Bigelow team used to describe this phenomenon?
What you’re getting at, Carl, that’s so interesting to me
is that you and Jeff have been following stories.
Right.
Paul and I have been following data.
Right.
So the stories and the data are aligning.
Oh, absolutely.
Correlating almost perfectly.
If there’s something that large under this meadow,
it was either placed there and concealed,
or it’s been there for a very, very long time.
Something strange was either developed on Mount Wilson Ranch
or discovered.
ROBERT: Interesting.
It’s a matter of just following the data.
That’s what Eric always tells us to do anyways.
So we’re really just taking the same steps
that our Skinwalker team counterparts do.
Find the data, follow the data, see where it leads.
Yep.
Rock and roll.
NARRATOR: After the revelation that test results may have
confirmed a manta ray-shaped craft buried in the lower
meadow, Jeff and Carl lead Andy and Paul to inspect some items
left behind by Robert Bigelow that
may give them more insight into Bigelow’s
investigations on the ranch.
Now, this is just one of the things that was left
here when I bought this place.
Bigelow, I assume, didn’t take it with them.
There were several of them.
Maybe just take a look, see what you guys think.
ANDY: Whoa. PAUL: Yeah.
Look at this, man. ANDY: Whoa.
PAUL: This is an old school projector for sure.
JEFF: Projector? - Yep.
So how many?
There’s one, two.
There’s more.
Three so far.
Yeah, we’ve busted this one open just trying
to get one working, and we’ve got
one fired up that will turn on.
You can take a look at it and see what you think.
CARL: This might be the power button.
PAUL: But What would you be using these three
huge projectors for?
CARL: Well, We got power, Paul.
ANDY: Oh, yeah.
I mean, this is for projecting some kind of light show, right?
I mean, this isn’t just a movie projector.
These were not intended for entertainment, that’s for sure.
Not if you have three of them.
I mean, that’s redundancy.
Yeah, we had an old saying in the Air Force
that two is one and one is none, which
is our way of remembering that you
always need to have redundancy.
So to have three units would be true redundancy.
So here’s the thing, though.
What are they-- what were these here for?
Do you remember when Jack Vallee--
the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
there was a French scientist in that movie
that was projecting light and sound to try and communicate
with extraterrestrials, and that character from that movie
is based off of him.
And we have photographs of him up here with Bob Bigelow
and the rest of the team.
So we thought maybe there’s a chance that these
might have been part of that original experiment
back in the day.
It would make sense.
This would be a precursor to laser technology.
Some kind of light show or trigger
or just energy into the environment
to see if they got a response.
The place to launch this technology
would really be down in the lower meadow.
Yeah.
Because that’s where we have the most
saturated signal activity.
If we really wanted to see if we could invite or possibly
instigate a response using this kind of technology,
it would be down there. - I think that’s a good idea.
Yeah.
Meadow seems to be our hotspot.
This is our first chance to really carry out
an investigation with the same technology, the same tool that
the Bigelow team may have used.
This is a beast.
Yeah.
I can’t believe you guys got this.
We got it.
NARRATOR: For their next experiment at Mount Wilson,
the team is going to use an old school
video projector left behind at the ranch by Robert Bigelow.
They’ll project light patterns onto a cabin on the edge
of the lower meadow to see if they can elicit a response
from the possible alien craft that might
be buried 200 feet below them.
Let’s see what happens if we fire up Bigelow’s old projector
and add that energy to this environment.
Rock and roll.
NARRATOR: On Skinwalker Ranch, the team’s
conducted several light based experiments
to stimulate anomalies.
Holy cow.
Look at that.
NARRATOR: Which resulted in a correlating
UAP sighting in 2021.
- You see this? - Yeah.
What the crap is that?
MAN: Unbelievable.
NARRATOR: And in previous investigations,
Andy and Paul conducted similar experiments
that seemed to trigger unusual readings on their radio
frequency spectrum analyzer and also
coincided with orb appearances.
Right there. There it is.
Look at that. Look at that.
What is that?
This is a UAP.
There’s no question about it.
NARRATOR: Now the team will use their modern tech
to measure whether stimulating the lower
meadow with Bigelow’s old equipment
will trigger a response.
So we have a hell of a setup tonight.
We’ve got two different generations of thermal cameras
that are set on the front of this house.
We’ve got UFO daps.
That’s these two AI eyes in the sky.
They’ll scan, anything that might fly over,
so if there’s a UAP, UFO, we might catch it.
Correct.
We’ve also got our spectrum analyzer going.
That’s going to give us a really strong idea of what’s going on
in the radio spectrum, as well as the ability
to track FAA and satellites overhead to rule out
any false positive hits that we see from potential sightings
in the sky.
As soon as the sun goes down, we’ll get the show started.
Let’s do it.
It looks like we have everything set up.
I think it’s time to start the main crux of the experiment.
Jeff, you want to fire up the projector?
Let’s put power to it.
I’m going to turn on our spectrum analyzer as well,
get a sense of baseline.
Monitoring 1.611 to start.
What device is that coming in on, Andy?
Our spectrum analyzer right here is picking up
through this antenna.
Gotcha.
JEFF: You guys ready? ANDY: Ready.
PAUL: Yep. - All right, here we go.
All right.
Look at that.
Looks like it’s working, Jeff.
Amazing.
So this piece of 50-year-old tech,
and now we’ve got to roll in some test patterns here,
and we’ll just see what it does.
Yeah no changes on the FLIR.
Let me scroll through the spectrum
just so we can get a sense of baseline here.
PAUL: Super quiet.
ANDY: And the higher end of the spectrum is still steady too.
Let me go ahead and jump down to our low frequency areas.
PAUL: OK.
NARRATOR: While sending out light patterns from
Bigelow’s old projector to provoke a response and not
seeing any strange activity in the Earth to space 1.6ghz
frequency range, Andy decides to scan the lower frequencies
on the spectrum analyzer.
So here is what it looks like very, very low frequency.
What are these?
PAUL: Whoa.
JEFF: Oh, already?
Yeah.
As soon as you turned that projector,
we saw a wide spectrum response here.
We’re seeing frequencies that have some sort
of overlap with visual cues.
And look at this.
In such a low frequency band, man.
What could that be?
I don’t know.
I don’t know the answer to that.
What I do know is that this intensity zone is a zone
that we can respond back on.
Playback?
Yeah, because we have a tone generator,
and we can use a tone generator to playback the
exact same frequency in a tone.
NARRATOR: After detecting a significant incoming signal
in an ultra low frequency zone, the team
decides to call an audible and use
their tone generator to respond by broadcasting a sound.
Let me see if I can find the peak so we can try
and get as close as possible.
Looks like this is at 68.
NARRATOR: Since ultra low frequencies
are used to communicate long distances that can travel
thousands of miles through the Earth,
then sending a signal on the same low frequency
may be the best way to communicate with whatever might
be buried 200 feet below them.
I could feel that in my feet.
That’s ultra low frequency.
That’s going to be sending vibrations for miles.
PAUL: What the heck?
What is going on there?
ANDY: You can see the changing in intensity,
but it’s more focused, and there’s our wide spectrum.
Look at how strong and intense.
It’s like fire, man.
There’s absolutely something happening
that’s causing this bleed effect when we send out
an audio signal at 68 hertz.
NARRATOR: Shown as a widening of the graphic display
on a spectrum analyzer, the bleed effect
means the team is receiving an intense communication signal.
Is it a transmission?
I don’t know.
It’s a crystal clear correlation, man.
The two are related, but I don’t know why.
At 68 hertz we seem to be triggering a much wider
response in the radio spectrum.
Which is just bizarre.
The idea that an audible tone triggers a radio frequency
difference, I mean, there’s no-- there’s no
logical connection between-- - No.
Two completely different forms of energy.
Let’s turn it off, Paul, and see if it persists.
I mean, look at this.
It’s unlike anything we were seeing before,
and it started a few seconds after we turned on 68 hertz.
PAUL: Yeah.
And now it’s starting to fade away a few seconds
after we stopped it.
It’s like the sound that we’re creating
is somehow causing a reaction in whatever is producing this.
Maybe this is some kind of a communication.
Like something is hearing it and responding.
We might be reaching the manta ray
200 feet down with a vibration coming from our speaker.
Unbelievable.
Wow.
ANDY: All we’re doing right now is playing the same frequency
back that we were receiving in our RF spectrum,
and we’re seeing an actual response
in terms of radio energy.
Whatever this anomaly is that’s more than 200 underground,
it really does seem like we are engaging it somehow
with our tone generator.
I mean, think about this.
This is what Bigelow was looking for when
he came to Mount Wilson.
Are we potentially communicating with the highly conductive
mass, the rumored downed spacecraft
buried in the lower meadow?
I can absolutely see why Bigelow went crazy with this ranch.
This lower meadow is-- it’s absolutely the hottest
of hot spots on Mount Wilson.
ROBERT: There’s weird stuff going on out here.
Just baffling.
Baffling, baffling.
With all the data that we’ve been able to collect,
we are trying to come up with what we want to do next.
NARRATOR: Given the team has possibly communicated
with a large metal object buried deep in the lower meadow,
they meet in the saloon to plan how to uncover it.
I would love your thoughts on if you were in our shoes,
where would you want to dig?
Where would you want to drill?
I guess the lower meadow is out of the question to drill.
There’s no way a rig would be able to sit on there
and drill right into the side of a spaceship
because of the softness.
NARRATOR: The lower meadow is a marshy area located next
to a creek, and when Bigelow’s team tried
to dig there with a bulldozer, it sank all the way up
to the driver’s seat.
Later, he brought the same bulldozer to Skinwalker Ranch.
When you were digging, Paul, you
mentioned that you reached the extent
of what the excavator was capable of,
but did you reach solid soil?
PAUL: We literally have not gotten to the bottom
of what that collapse site is.
Whether it’s a shaft, whether it’s an entrance to a bigger
chamber, we have no idea.
NARRATOR: Last week on Mount Wilson Ranch, the team uncovered
a new collapsed area that looked like it might be a covered up
opening to a tunnel.
ROBERT: This is like an entrance to an underground vault
or a tunnel or cave system.
It’s just way too big.
NARRATOR: They excavated tons of strange metal objects,
including military vehicles.
ANDY: 2005, Bigelow still owned this place.
So Bigelow must have filled this in with some of his stuff,
potentially, right before deciding to sell it to you.
NARRATOR: Magnetometer scans of the collapsed area
showed a possible tunnel leading to the Ranch’s lower
meadow, where Bigelow reportedly believed
an alien craft is buried.
The mag data is going to blow you away.
Boom.
It would be consistent with a tunnel.
Right under the meadow.
Exactly.
ROBERT: Perfectly.
We tried to look for that tunnel, that space,
and we didn’t hit it.
And it could be anywhere from, you know,
20 feet deep to 200 feet deep.
We just have no idea.
You’re going to dig, and you might
get past where you can’t dig anymore if you get too deep.
What I would suggest is if you do have access to a drilling
rig, get as much metal out as you can
and then drill and verify it.
If you found the entrance to the tunnel
and they tunneled over to your spaceship
or whatever is down there, there’s your answer.
All right.
I really like the idea of maybe bringing Jerry back up
and having him clearing some of that metal out as much
as the bucket can reach, and then
maybe try to drill a hole in the pit and see if we can go deeper.
To me, the odds of us being able to answer a question
by focusing a drill, that could unlock some
significant information for us.
So it sounds like we’re drilling, then.
We’re going back to the hole.
ANDY: We’ve already basically knocked on whatever
hornet’s nest is here. PAUL: Exactly.
ANDY: And now we’re coming in with an even larger hammer.
Wow!
This is huge.
Look at the size of that thing.
If this doesn’t get to the bottom of that hole,
I will be blown away.
NARRATOR: To successfully reach a possible tunnel
from the collapsed area to the lower meadow,
the team is bringing in a commercial drill
that can go much deeper than the excavator could reach.
Drill, baby, drill.
Yeah, this is awesome.
NARRATOR: But after clearing most of the metal
out of the hole, they’ll need to build a ramp for the drill rig
to get down into the bottom of the excavated collapsed area.
Then, once the rig is positioned right over the dug-out target
area, the drill will bore into the ground
and hopefully break through to the possible tunnel
leading to the lower meadow.
Hey. Hi.
Good to see you again, Paul. - Great to see you.
Appreciate it.
NARRATOR: They’ve called in demolition expert Jack Peters.
In 2023, Jack attempted to help them reach
the possible tunnel system beneath the mines
by using explosives.
Fire in the hole.
[boom]
PAUL: Wow.
NARRATOR: This time, Jack will try to help them finally
strike paydirt with the drill and prove that a tunnel
system exists below the ranch.
Meet Johnny Havens, everybody, our drill operator.
Hey, Johnny.
We appreciate your help here.
We’ve got a big job.
Really going to rely on your expertise for how we’re going
to get down into this hole.
Well, this drill is capable of drilling about 60 feet.
Perfect.
We’re still excavating, trying to build a ramp for you
to get down as close as we can.
Let’s show you the site here.
Absolutely.
Are we looking for a void underneath this hole
potentially?
Either it’s filled all the way down now
that it’s collapsed completely.
Yeah.
Or there’s another ceiling or a void underneath.
Well, if there’s something under there, we’ll find it.
Perfect.
This drill, this may be the biggest thing we’ve ever done
as part of our investigation.
Now we’re finally getting really to the heart of the matter.
We’re getting into the hole.
JACK: It’s a tight squeeze, but he’s going to make it.
We’re going to go down as deep as 60 feet underground
to see if we can’t figure out what’s going on with this void
and a possible tunnel network Bigelow
and his team may have actually excavated.
All right, brother, I’m going to go up to the upper meadow
and meet with the Terra Exploration Team.
Perfect. Divide and conquer.
Absolutely.
Find us a void, man. - Yep.
All right, good luck. - See you, gents.
We’ll be in touch.
We’ll keep you posted.
You got it.
What we’re finding as we get down into the hole
is that there’s bedrock here.
So if there is a tunnel, it was very tightly
constructed into this void.
It looks like Bigelow may have repurposed
something that was here before, but this is solid rock.
It took a lot of work to get down this far.
They must have blasted this out when they made this pit.
You think they used explosives to excavate this pit?
I do, because look how hard it is.
You can’t dig through that.
That’s bedrock on both sides right there and right there.
Why would you blast here?
Because you want to get down deeper?
Whatever they were trying to do.
The fact that this was blasted open
makes it abundantly clear this was dug for a purpose.
If there is, in fact, a tunnel, that
would mean that Bigelow and his team
had the money, the time, and the reason
to build out maybe something far more extensive
than we ever imagined.
That looks like hard rock right there.
We could punch a hole, right where you’re standing.
Right through here?
What do you think, guys?
I’ll tell you what, why don’t we try and repo down here
and we’ll just get started?
NARRATOR: While Paul and the rest of the team
prepare to bring the drill down into the collapsed area
to try to bore into a possible tunnel system,
Andy meets with Terra Exploration Group
at a site in the upper part of the ranch
they investigated in 2023.
Well, you know, and this is the area in here where
we had the big drone problems.
In fact, as I remember, we launched it right
on the other side of this tree.
NARRATOR: Last winter, Terra’s drone went haywire.
MAN: That looks way off track.
That looks way off track.
NARRATOR: And it crashed.
Oh.
Dang it.
NARRATOR: They determined the reason for the crash
was a GPS anomaly that made the drone think it was somewhere
thousands of miles away.
The errant GPS data in our drone
correlates to this red line and each of these yellow placements
that connect the corner of Cuba up to the corner
of the Bermuda Triangle.
Wow.
That’s where our drone thought it was going.
NARRATOR: Andy wants to do a new test to see if the GPS anomaly
still persists on the ranch, especially
since another drone just crashed last week in the lower meadow.
Whoa!
Oh, no.
I have this guy for you.
NARRATOR: A GPS tracker strapped to the production team’s
low tech drone flown manually by a crew member
will map the route the GPS says the drone flies.
So we want to fly directly this way and then
do a U-turn about face.
You just want to keep going in that pattern.
- OK. - Basically like mowing a lawn.
Sounds good.
Ready when you are, sir.
NARRATOR: If the GPS tracker data matches the drone’s
actual flight path, it should show a series
of straight grid-like lines.
All right, so here’s the drone flight path that we took.
Holy moly.
That looks like a drunken monkey flying it.
MAN: That does not look like the drone path that we flew at all.
ANDY: Yeah, he flew 40 feet off the ground.
ROBERT: Right.
I mean, this kind of shows that there is most definitely
some significant variation in what the GPS is logging
for its actual altitude.
I mean, that would certainly make a drone crash,
because if a drone thought it was
trying to maintain the altitude and it’s just going--
NARRATOR: Because Terra’s pre-programmed drone relies
on GPS for its navigation, the persistent GPS
anomaly the team just proved is still here caused it to crash.
The problem we’ve had is when we have a programmed grid, OK?
We’re flying this today manually and it didn’t have any problems.
But whenever we have a programmed grid into there,
somehow the altitude is being messed with in the GPS signal,
and it says, oh, wait a minute, I’m at 90 feet.
I’m supposed to be way down there.
NARRATOR: The question is, who or what
is causing the GPS on Mount Wilson Ranch
to act so strangely?
It was here when you came for the first investigation
and it’s even present now.
So for sure, something is scrambling the GPS signal.
The big question is why?
How does this phenomenon in the upper meadow
relate to the phenomenon that we’re
seeing in the lower meadow, which are less than a mile away?
- Strange stuff. - Yeah.
ROBERT: More questions.
ANDY: But a fantastic thread for us to follow.
Wow, yeah, Jerry did a great job on this.
One step closer getting to the bottom of this.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Now that the ramp is ready for the drill
to descend into the excavated, collapsed area,
the moment is at hand.
PAUL: It’s going to be very interesting to watch
this piece of equipment actually drop into this hole.
Big question about everything up here
is what was Bigelow and his team--
what were they doing here?
This literally is our attempt to get to the bottom of it,
and using the biggest piece of equipment
we’ve ever had in an investigation.
This is it.
We’re going to get some answers hopefully soon.
OK, Johnny.
Let it rip.
PAUL: This is it, Jeff.
We’re about to find out.
JEFF: This is it.
[beeping]
[sputtering]
Uh-oh.
What’s cooking?
I don’t know.
The drill’s acting funny.
Uh-oh.
Is it an engine problem or is it
something with the electronics?
I can’t read the codes.
It’s just like a pickup.
So it gave me a check engine light
and then a stop engine light.
[bleep]
We run these drills like this--
JACK: All the time.
Yeah.
10, 12 hours a day.
JACK: Yeah. I’ll
Tell you what, it’s going to be incredibly frustrating
if we’re this close to the bottom of the hole
and get shut down by some kind of electronics
or equipment failure.
Yeah.
JACK: Oh, a phone.
PAUL: Is he calling tech support?
JACK: Maybe
I mean, if we hit, like, say, an engine block or something
really hard, it would sit there and spin,
but it wouldn’t stop the drill.
That doesn’t look very promising.
JOHNNY: All right.
Thanks.
Hey, Johnny.
So what do you think is going on here, man?
I have no idea.
Have you ever had anything like this happen before?
No, sir.
Nowhere else?
Can you back out?
No.
I didn’t have any power.
Oh, good. [bleep]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It’s got-- like, every code you can think of has come on.
Oh, [bleep].
OK.
Umm. Wow.
What do you think is going on here, man?
I have no idea.
Have you ever had anything like this happen before?
No, sir.
And it’s got-- like, every code you can think of has come on.
Oh, [bleep].
NARRATOR: As the team was close to possibly breaking
through the collapsed area into a tunnel entrance leading
to the lower meadow, the drill completely
malfunctioned and shut down.
What if we took the drill and limped it down the road
and rebooted it and just had a look to see if it would change?
Can you limp mode it?
Yeah, we can try it.
NARRATOR: By resetting the battery,
Johnny will attempt to start the drill in limp mode, a function
in a piece of heavy machinery to help prevent it from suffering
catastrophic damage.
I’ve got a weird feeling that if we
got this equipment out of this area, it might heal itself.
It’s worth a try, I think, because we have no other options
right now, honestly.
It’s one thing when we lose a drone.
We’ve lost a piece of equipment, the size of a tank
to some kind of electronics problem
when we’re as close as we’ve ever
been to getting literally to the bottom of whatever is in here.
This thing is taken out of commission.
JACK: Come on, Johnny.
Do your magic, buddy.
PAUL: Fingers crossed, man.
We have lights.
All right.
Got it out of the hole.
Yeah, that’s good.
Jeez.
NARRATOR: With the drill rig now running,
Johnny can drive it out of the hole
to see if he can reset its systems
and enable it to drill again.
To be right on the goal line of getting
potentially some answers to what’s going on here.
JACK: Let’s see here.
PAUL: Here he comes.
JACK: Do you have any news for us?
I don’t, really.
PAUL: We’re trying to figure out how this massive piece
of equipment, as soon as we got in the hole,
is out of commission.
It wasn’t just one fault code.
I mean, it’s showing me--
Oh, yeah.
That fault, that fault, that fault, that fault.
PAUL: Like the engine stopped.
JOHNNY: Check engine.
And there was a few more, and I just quit--
I quit taking pictures.
Has that ever happened before?
No.
I’ve been in this drill for a year,
and it hasn’t given me any problems like this.
So this is a pretty new piece of equipment?
This is one of our newer drills, yeah.
And it’s just basically giving you an error message
like, this is it?
Exactly.
The bottom line is here, we’re not
getting this thing restarted?
JOHNNY: No.
All right.
Andy’s out with the Leonards, but let me call Andy,
and we’ve got to figure out what our next move is here.
Hey, it’s Paul for Andy.
ANDY (ON RADIO): Hey, Paul.
I’m here.
Andy, do you want the bad news or the bad news?
Hey, man.
What’s going on, brother?
It’s really wild.
We got right down.
We started drilling into the pit itself.
We got, what, maybe four or five feet?
And started getting just error messages left and right.
Just a few feet?
And the drill just stopped.
So, Jack, what’s the situation?
We’ve got, what, nine codes and a check
engine light on still.
OK.
Hopefully we’ll get it on a trailer.
Yeah, hopefully.
But it doesn’t give us the RPMs needed to be
able to operate the drill.
The newer drills with emissions run off of diesel
exhaust fluid, DEF.
OK.
It’s saying it’s not getting DEF.
So when it’s not doing that, it automatically gins itself down.
But you know, it has the fluid.
JOHNNY: Yeah, correct. - So here’s--
I mean, here’s-- just, you know, in layman’s terms, something
is depowering this thing.
This thing is getting shut down.
Even more specific, what’s happening is that the system
inside is saying that the machine
is doing something it isn’t.
Right, exactly.
And then as a responds to that false code,
it is powering itself down.
Exactly.
This is literally our big gun, but this may be it, man.
Yeah.
Man.
This is the end of the line.
I mean, we’ve got a lot of data.
We’ve got a lot of information to take
back to the Skinwalker team.
I wish we had more.
We were so close.
Yeah, that’s exactly what it feels like is that we are so
close to where we need to be.
Yeah.
This place thwarted us for now.
It has been a little bit frustrating
to keep running up against these walls and these limits
here in Mount Wilson, right when we’re on the verge
of some major discovery.
But we’re a long way from giving up.
We’ve hit it with everything we’ve got.
Drones, drills, bulldozers, explosives.
Mount Wilson just keeps coming at us.
But we’re going to keep coming back at it.
There’s still just so much more to learn here.
ANDY: This isn’t over by a long shot.
PAUL: Nothing is over.
ANDY: It’s not over yet.
Well, it’s great to be back with you guys,
and we are anxious to hear what happened at the mysterious Mount
Wilson ranch.
Yeah, absolutely.
So let me start.
First, at the collapsed area.
We did excavate in that site.
This is some of the first stuff that we discovered.
BRANDON: Those are railroad rails.
Yeah.
High tension cables.
We saw military vehicles.
I mean, we pulled out such a huge volume.
You know, there was a massive pile of debris.
There was so much buried so deep
that we simply couldn’t reach it with an excavator anymore.
So in addition to excavating, we brought in a drill.
When we drove the drill, fully functioning drill,
into the actual tunnel entrance itself and we started drilling,
it started to have catastrophic failure
within the electronic system, to the point
where the drill operator wanted to leave the tunnel site.
PAUL: Yeah, almost a complete breakdown.
Let me guess, he’s been using this equipment for a long time,
never encountered these issues?
Never seen it before.
So both of those things are true,
and it is a brand new machine, recently produced.
Better yet.
We’ve had that exact same circumstance play out
here at Skinwalker Ranch over and over, year after year,
literally blocking our progress.
Anything show up that could possibly
account for the malfunctions?
Nothing that we could identify,
but there was something that occurred that we also wanted
to dig into and share with you.
We had the opportunity to collect drone-based magnetometer
data in the lower meadow specifically,
and we started to have drone malfunctions.
Whoa!
Oh, no.
Just shut down, like it was slapped out of the sky.
Yep. Came down like a rock.
Needless to say, the Terra Team was not happy about it,
but what stunned them most was that they
had never, ever seen any kind of experience like this before.
They had never had a device shut off
as if it had hit a kill switch, override
all of its own self protection overdrives and overrides.
There is technology to shut a drone down like that
and take it out of the sky just like we saw.
Yeah.
I think you guys were just hit with an RF weapon right then.
But from where?
Hell, it takes something the size of a truck to power it.
What have we stumbled on?
Yeah, it’s crazy.
I--
So there was one event in the lower meadow
that I want to share with you.
Instead of trying to go more high tech,
we tried to go back to more analog, reliable tech using
a tool called the EM34, which is a conductivity meter that gives
us a chance to look deep underground, between 100 and 200
underground.
So it’s a very indirect form of imaging, but it’s simple.
It’s elegant.
Simple, old school, and reliable
is the key, especially when we’ve seen the weirdness,
whatever the high strangeness phenomena
affect modern equipment.
Yeah.
And in that survey, what we found
is that there is some kind of highly
conductive mass with a unique shape from between 100 and 200
underground.
When we were passing under here, when we were up here,
we were hitting metal, but we were passing under the object,
and the word--
The manta ray.
Whoa.
He said.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
We’ve been told that there is a manta ray under here.
The exact--
ROBERT: Shape of a manta ray but being a craft.
- Yeah. - A manta ray.
They literally said manta ray.
Who said that and what technology did they use?
ANDY: These are people from Bigelow’s team
that’s leaked information to us that looked through files
from when they were up here.
Are you kidding?
Right.
That is such a remarkable coincidence.
What’s incredible is that we had just learned about it.
It sort of just all came together.
You got it and front loaded with that.
No, that came out of absolute nowhere.
Jeff and Carl didn’t know why it had that nickname.
We had never heard that before until this exact investigation.
This is startling.
Oh, yeah.
This is so startling.
I think the fact that a completely
independent third party conjured up the same term
is beyond coincidence.
It’s statistically impossible.
And we’ve learned not to ignore those events.
We have some sort of complex, highly
conductive, potentially metallic device
underneath the lower meadow.
Our next question became, can we find some way
to provoke a response or instigate
a reaction from that device?
So we executed an experiment using projectors
that we found on site, projectors that
were from the Bigelow era, and actually try to replicate
the sort of experimentation that the Bigelow
team would have used when they were here on the ranch.
And we are on top of whatever that is that’s buried
under the lower meadow.
ANDY: During that projection, we identified
an ultra low frequency that was emanating
from the area, 68 hertz.
We took that, turned it around, and put it back
into the environment by projecting it
out of our own tone generator.
When we did that, we actually saw a change in the RF spectrum,
where the original signal seemed to intensify.
So it’s almost as if you’re getting a response?
There is an answer, if you will, coming back.
That’s what it felt like we were doing.
We’re putting out something and we’re getting something back.
It really does look like some type of communication.
Wow.
It makes me think that there’s still an experiment going on,
something’s left on.
Somehow you stimulated it.
We’re seeing the same type of unexplainable readings.
So you take all of the equipment malfunctions, the failures, even
the high strangeness, and I think
we’re on the verge of getting answers for the first time.
Well, we certainly have data we’ve never had.
I cannot believe that there wasn’t more
things like black SUVs and helicopters showing up.
Bigelow knew there was something buried out there.
So what did he know was there and why did he leave it?
Who or what came to Bigelow and told
him to get the hell out of there and he got out of there?
What you experienced could very well be part
of a monitoring effort to watch, observe, and meddle
in the investigation.
You guys may have had a nefarious set of oligarchs
watching you or a foreign intelligence
organization watching you.
But why deploy the resources and the technology--
Unless they know something’s there.
--in the middle of nowhere.
I look at this scenario with Mount Wilson and the fact
that I know for certain that no one really anticipated
our investigation at Skinwalker Ranch advancing
to the level it has today.
Oh, yeah.
This all begs the question, could
this be some secret government installation,
or is it a crash site?
You know, what is the true nature
of the Mount Wilson property and why was it abandoned so quickly?
I need to stare at this thing again and again
until I understand it, because none of this
makes any sense to me.
It still feels like there’s more to be discovered.
Oh, Lord have mercy.
We’re not done at Mount Wilson.
There is something big right there,
and Bigelow missed it or was told to get away from it.
This could be far stranger than ghosts and aliens.
I don’t know what this is, but it’s weird.
Good stuff, guys.
Bravo.
Absolutely. All right, fellows.
PAUL: All right. Thanks, guys.
- Thank you so much. - Awesome stuff, man.
- Appreciate it. - Great stuff.
Fantastic job, guys.
- Thank you so much, Paul, - Thank you.
- Wow. - Awesome.
All right.
I was not expecting this at all.
I really don’t know what to make of it.
I’m anxious to see what Paul and Andy come up with next,
and we definitely need to get back boots
on the ground at Mount Wilson.
Let’s make a plan to do that.
BRANDON: We’re just barely scratching the surface.
NARRATOR: This season on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
PAUL: Are we ready to go? - I was born ready for this.
Right. ANDY: Oh, look at this, Paul.
Look at this.
Whoa.
PAUL: Whoa! ANDY: What was that?
We had never seen this before in any of our investigations.
Look at that.
Did you see that, right here?
I mean, it just changed direction.
The G forces on that would be ridiculous.
There’s no pilot on Earth that could handle a turn like that.
- What are you feeling? - I’m in pain.
I’m in pain. - It feels wonky over here.
Trying to keep my head on straight.
I’m having a problem with breathing.
I can’t abort.
What, so you can’t even call it back?
- No. - Whoa.
Big jump.
Everything dropped about four degrees.
This was one of the things that had us
scratching our heads for sure.
That’s not natural.
Look at that now.
Look, it’s moving!
Look at that!
I don’t know what this is, but it’s weird.
That looks like a privately-owned helicopter,
but it’s all blacked out.
MAN: Does it say 1,100?
ANDY: What?
MAN: Everybody out, everybody out, everybody out.
There’s data underground.
I’ve only seen this in two places,
Skinwalker Ranch and here.
That is a massive--
Look at that thing.
--massive rocket.
ANDY: Right on top of the trees. Tree level.
Flowing through the trees right now.
That is something we need to watch out for.
Pythons, panthers, skaters.
Isn’t there a little short line
between bravery and stupidity?
Look at that.
No question, we opened some kind of portal.
Guys, this could be one of the most
important things you’ve done.
But wonder if we’re on the verge of potentially
opening a Pandora’s Box.
This could be far stranger than ghosts and aliens.