The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

BRYANT: Something's caused
so much interference that
a $35,000 drone couldn't
connect to his controls.
Means there's a transmitter
here somewhere.
Where is this transmitter?
I get my biggest readings
looking up.
TRAVIS:
It's coming from the sky.
The measurements
lead us to a spot
one-mile high over the ranch.
Start letting it go.
So, we can tether
a weather balloon,
raise it up and see
if we see something there.
SEGALA: So,
what's disturbing is it has to come
from something off planet;
it's not something
that humans have created
on the face of the Earth.
THOMAS:
This is homestead one.
- Hey there.
- Come on in.
THOMAS:
Two weeks ago, Tom and Kandus
reported strange noises
coming from the basement.
I was able to punch a
small hole through the wall
- What is that?
- ..and we discovered that there was
possibly a room there.
I don't know
what the black stuff is.
TRAVIS: It looks like
there's been a fire in there.
- TOM: It does.
- Well, yeah, it almost looks
- like a cremation.
- It looks like ash.
TRAVIS:
Hey, hold on a minute.
What are those white pieces
right there?
THOMAS:
It looks a lot like bones.
TRAVIS:
Bones?
NARRATOR: There is a
ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:
animal mutilations,
bizarre UFO sightings
and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years,
the federal government
tried to find answers
and failed.
Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,
researchers and experts
has taken over.
They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal
The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS:
Right there, perfect.
Don't-don't move.
Just stop right there.
There's actually
something on the concrete
that looks like bones.
- Do you see that?
- TOM: Mm-hmm.
I mean, it could be remains,
cremation remains.
TRAVIS:
That's what I'm thinking.
KANDUS:
That's what it looks like.
What in the world?
Tom, see if you can lower it.
Thomas Winterton asked me
to come with him
over to what they call
Homestead One.
Homestead One is right next
to the command center,
and it's where
the two caretakers,
Kandus Linde and her boyfriend,
Tom Lewis, live.
Keep going.
You're right on top of it.
Kandus and Tom have been
hearing a series
of strange noises
coming from the basement,
where there's this room
completely walled off
with concrete
several inches thick.
So, Thomas and I got
this snake cam,
and we're putting this camera
down in there to see whatever
this box was built for.
A little bit. Yeah, go that way.
You're going the right way.
- Stop! Right there, stop!
- KANDUS: Oh, wait, the
TRAVIS:
At about three feet in,
there was a pile,
and it looked like ash,
and maybe it even looks
like remnants of bones.
That's just downright spooky.
All the ash around that
and the-the burnt.
TRAVIS: It looks like
there was a fire in there.
- What in the world would?
- TOM: Mm-hmm.
THOMAS:
Yeah, that is weird.
Yeah, and with
all the crazy things
that have happened
in this house.
There are so many things
about this house
that just don't add up.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yep.
TOM: We moved to the ranch
about three months ago
to be caretakers.
And the house we live in
is pretty spooky.
We've heard some strange things.
We've heard strange noises
coming from the basement.
We've heard strange vibrations
from the ground.
The sounds have
mostly been at night.
There's been knock sounds
in the house,
- like the
- (knocking)
One time, it was coming
from under the floor
in the kitchen,
like from the basement.
It was the triple knock,
and I was standing
I could feel it,
the vibration of it.
TOM: People that lived
in the house before us,
the Shermans,
I have heard some strange things
about their experience.
They had UFO sightings,
very strange light orbs,
cattle mutilations.
There's been
so many strange things
that have happened here.
Well, the big question is
why the hell they built
the thing to begin with.
- KANDUS: It makes no sense.
- It makes no sense.
THOMAS:
I've wondered
what the need was for
such thick-- I mean, this is,
- this is almost two feet thick.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
THOMAS: That tells you
just how strong it is.
That's heavy-duty something.
So, it makes me wonder,
what are the purposes
you build a concrete,
you know, rectangular box for?
- Yeah.
- So, we need to
knock that hole out right there.
And then we can get in and see
what's really in there.
THOMAS:
Yeah, I think we ought to
just saw through that,
open that up.
- Yeah.
- All right.
(saw buzzing)
TRAVIS:
Now, at first, seeing something
like tiny bones
just makes me think
some kind of animal died,
but how could anything
get inside a completely
sealed-up concrete room?
And what explains the pile
of what looks like ashes?
This wall was not
coming down easy.
Whoever did this wanted
to either seal something in
or keep something out.
(saw buzzing)
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TRAVIS: One thing I have
to say about Tom Winterton
is this guy is tough as nails.
I mean, even with all
the health scares he's had
on the ranch, it doesn't
stop him from jumping in
feet first and doing what
it takes to get stuff done.
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(grunts)
TRAVIS:
Normally, dealing with
this kind of stuff
wouldn't seem unusual to me.
But the three weeks
I've been up here,
I've seen everything from
strange glowing lights
at night
THOMAS:
That's a definite beam.
It is clearly a beam
going across there.
to RF radiation spikes
that are extreme.
It is going nuts.
It's coming from up there.
TRAVIS: It seemed to be coming
from high above the ranch
with no apparent
scientific explanation.
We all still don't have a clue
what we're dealing with here.
TRAVIS: One of the weirdest
things about this chamber
underneath
Tom and Kandus's house,
it's perfectly clean
inside this box.
There are no water lines,
there's no mold,
there's no dirt on the floor.
There's nothing.
It looks like it's brand-new.
And we found this pile
in just a tiny spot.
How did those things
get in there?
ERIK: So, when you first
looked through that hole,
I understand that
we thought we were looking
at a pile, one pile in the,
basically in the middle
of this
- That's right.
- THOMAS: Yes.
So the room was almost
completely clean.
It was pristine.
- KANDUS: And sealed
- Yeah.
- for a long time, yeah.
- So, what would've,
what would've organized it
into a pile like that?
- I don't know.
- It's a good question.
Yeah.
After we finally managed
to poke a hole big enough
that we could crawl
into this chamber
in the basement
of Tom and Kandus's house
You got a spoon?
I'll scoop some out.
We got a Petri here.
TRAVIS:
I used a dustpan
and some, uh, plastic bags
to sweep up a sample
of some of this material.
Now we can look at it
under a microscope
and see what it is.
What the heck is all this stuff?
TRAVIS:
All right, so just kind of
scroll around, Erik, just
Right about
somewhere in there.
You're slightly out of focus.
ERIK:
Yeah.
TRAVIS:
Stop right there.
- Whoa.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - What?
- THOMAS: Whoa.
- TRAVIS: Oh, wow, look at that.
TOM:
Do you think that's a tooth?
It's either a tooth or a rib.
TRAVIS TRAVIS:'s get
Yeah, look at that.
That's a bone, man.
That's clearly a bone.
So is this a bone
right here, this?
- Yeah, that's a bone.
- And that is.
THOMAS:
It's definitely hair, you know?
Yeah, that's hair.
Yeah, right here.
- Can you push the
- ERIK: I can.
TRAVIS: Or can you translate
the microscope? Whichever.
Stop right there.
- Oh, those are bone fragments.
- KANDUS: Well,
- and it looks like gnaw marks, too.
- TRAVIS: Ugh.
- It's either a tooth or a rib.
- ERIK: This thing here?
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
- TOM: Yeah.
THOMAS:
I don't know.
Hard to tell what kind
of bone that is, I mean.
TRAVIS:
Move it around some more, Erik.
Okay, if you see anything
you want to dive into,
- this is as low a magnification
as we can - Oh, really?
Yeah, we can actually go much,
much further in if you want.
Uh, why don't we look
at that black piece
- right there.
- ERIK: All right.
TRAVIS:
That right there.
Let's see what that is.
I wonder if that's, like, um,
flesh or skin.
- That's what it looks like.
- TOM: Looks like
it's been in there a while,
though, right?
- TRAVIS: Yeah, for a long time.
- KANDUS: Yeah.
- TRAVIS: That's like a tomb.
- KANDUS: Mm-hmm. - TOM: Yeah.
TRAVIS:
Right? And the-the air's dry,
and so it could be desiccated
and pretty much mummified.
I mean, that could have been
there for years, and we
and you wouldn't know it.
I mean, if it was recent,
you would've
- smelled it.
- Yeah.
THOMAS:
Lots and lots of bone fragments.
ERIK: The fact that it's
fragmented is interesting
because what would have had
to play out
in that cellar
in order for these bones
to be crushed up like this?
- What in the world?
- THOMAS: Talk about
- a crime scene.
- TOM: Yeah. - KANDUS: Mm-hmm.
(exhales)
THOMAS: Somebody or something
could have done this?
- It has to be a possibility.
- TOM: Yeah,
- but that thing was sealed.
- But how? But how?
- How would they get in?
- How? Right?
KANDUS:
Well, and that reddish stuff
looks wet still, like if it's
- Blood.
- TOM: Blood.
THOMAS: What does that
look like to you, Erik?
ERIK:
Would it be reasonable
to interpret this as animal,
or could you interpret it
as possibly being human?
Uh you know what?
- I don't think so.
- KANDUS: No.
- TRAVIS: I-I mean
- KANDUS: They're too small.
They're way too small
to be anything in a human.
What's really strange
about these bone fragments
is that there's not enough
of them
to make a complete skeleton.
I mean, if some small animal
was able to crawl in
and die in there,
why are there only
bone fragments?
And why do they look
like they've been burned?
And none of this explains why
Tom and Kandus have been hearing
strange knocking sounds
at night.
I say let's move forward.
Let's keep moving.
Okay.
Another mystery to figure out.
Today's a pretty big day
on the ranch.
We have a couple trucks
bringing some cattle on,
probably around 40 head.
Cattle play quite a role
in the history
of Skinwalker Ranch,
and with tales of UFOs
and paranormal,
it does get a little bit spooky.
It's a known fact
that there have been
numerous cattle mutilations
on this property.
You know,
daylight cattle mutilations
going back to the 1930s.
We're talking very
surgically precise dissections
of these cattle.
They were drained
of their blood,
and there was no blood
to be found underneath them.
Shortly after Mr. Bigelow
purchased the property,
they installed observation
towers and bait pens.
They are quite ominous-lookin.
There are three
that span the entire property.
These towers
and the enclosures around them
with razor wire
were really installed
for the purpose of using
livestock as biosensors.
With UFO activity
over the property coupled with
constant cattle mutilations,
they felt there would be
an environment
that would exist that would
allow them to, I think,
more closely capture
the phenomena at work.
Most of what Mr. Bigelow
and his team
studied and reported
on the ranch remains
either classified
or confidential
and is locked away.
- Hey, Kelly.
- How are you, Mr. Tom?
- Good to see you.
- Good to see you today.
Looks like you got
a couple trailers, huh?
Yes, sir.
If you can take
and swing around the pole
- Okay.
- and then back straight in,
does that look like
it would work for you?
- We'll make her work.
- Okay.
You know,
each cow we bring on is another
biosensor that we can use
for science purposes.
Animals seem to have
that sixth sense to them,
and when we observe an anomaly
here on the ranch,
we can monitor
their behavior patterns
before and after that occurre.
Okay, so, back up a little bit.
We'll be able to see
exactly where they are,
if there's any strange behaviors
in the cattle,
and see if they react
any differently to the land.
But also we're keeping
a close eye on things
because there has been
cattle mutilations.
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh!
KELLY:
Got it.
I think that'll work.
- Yeah, I think
- You ready to let 'em go?
I think that'll be perfect.
Uh, Kelly, this is, uh,
Tom and Kandus.
- Kandus. - Kandus. - Tom.
- Tom.
- So, uh, Tom and Kandus
are actually the ones
that live here on-site,
and, uh, they're kind of
our eyes and ears.
BRANDON: I've known Tom
Lewis and Kandus Linde
for most of my life.
We grew up together.
Kandus went on to become
a very accomplished
and published anthropologist,
and Tom is
a recognized technologist
that works with a number
of large companies.
THOMAS: So, this summer we're
gonna have Tom and Kandus
helping monitor
the behavior of the cows,
which is gonna be nice.
They're here on the ranch,
and they're gonna be able
to keep much closer track
on exactly what
these cattle are doing.
- KELLY: Get them out?
- Yeah, you know what?
Let's take these first 15,
and we'll put them back
in this back corral.
And then, uh,
that way we can get 'em
in the squeeze chute
and get the trackers on 'em.
And then we'll just run the rest
of 'em straight on through.
- You got it.
- So
One of you guys want
to make sure the gate's open
- in that far back corral?
- You got it.
Before I came to the ranch,
I had done some research
on the place.
Heard some very strange storis
about cattle being shoved
inside this trailer
back when the Shermans
lived here.
ERIK:
The Sherman family
were ranchers
who lived on the ranch.
They were out in the area
where the cattle were corralled.
They walked away.
And minutes later, they retur.
The cattle were nowhere
to be found.
After a search, they found thm
inside a trailer, penned up,
standing perfectly still,
nonresponsive,
catatonic.
Okay. So we're good to go ahead
and let 'em
- KELLY: Let 'em roll.
- THOMAS: Let 'em go.
KELLY:
Come on, sis.
- (whistling) Yeah. Get on.
- (mooing)
Huh!
- Come on, girls.
- Come on. Huh!
Huh! Come on.
(mooing)
TRAVIS:
If the history of this property
is any guide,
I'm very interested
to see how these cattle
will behave on this ranch
and, more importantly,
how this ranch will behave
with these cattle here.
THOMAS:
Okay.
JIM:
Good job.
William, come on. (whistles)
Come on, William.
SEGA Think we're all good. rted
We just need rockets. .
BRYANT:
It's gonna be interesting.
- Gonna be awesome.
- TRAVIS: Last week,
after we determined
that some kind
of intense RF radiation
is coming from about a mile
above the ranch
All right. You guys ready?
- Yep, we're good.
- Yeah, good to go.
the team and I
devised an experiment
where we sent up
a weather balloon
outfitted with a TriField meter
and a GPS tracker
- to try and identify the source.
- (beeps)
THOMAS:
Oh, that is perfect.
I say we pack up
and go back and try
and track it on the Internet.
But suddenly,
just when it reached
the target area,
- the balloon stopped transmitting data.
- Wow.
TRAVIS: The whole thing
just seemed to disappear.
- Hey, fellas.
- Did you bring us our rockets?
Yes, we did.
So, now we're gonna try
and repeat
the experiment,
but this time using rockets.
Guys, I want y'all to meet
Miss Kaitlin Russell.
So, she's a rocket builder
extraordinaire,
so I got her to help us out.
- Well, welcome to Skinwalker Ranch.
- Thanks.
TRAVIS: Kaitlin is one of
the interns who works with me
at the University of Alabama
in Huntsville.
She's been studying
aerospace engineering
and rocketry,
so I thought she'd be helpful
working with us
on this experiment.
So, I'm really fascinated
to see what you guys are using
and how we're fitting
this stuff inside.
- That's gonna be cool.
- Yeah.
So I'm thinking we're gonna have
an SDR in one,
maybe the spectrum analyzer,
maybe a gamma ray detector.
- That sound good to y'all?
- THOMAS: I love rockets.
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
All right, well,
let's unload this stuff
- and get it over there.
- Okay. Go.
TRAVIS: Just grab
something, and-- here--
we'll bucket brigade it.
You know, take that.
Why don't you go ahead
and lay out the motors.
Jim said he's gonna want to use
my phone for something.
SEGALA:
Hey, guys?
All the cows
just happened to come and look.
Is that the craziest thing?
TRAVIS: They wanted to see
the rocket launch, too.
THOMAS: Explain to me
how you've got this
- set up.
- So, we have
spectrum analyzers, which read
electromagnetic energy
and reports it back
in what we call a spectrum.
And the way it works is
that you hook up a phone to it,
you run a special app,
you put it in the nose cone
and pray that it comes back,
- and you take that reading.
- Cool.
TRAVIS: The data on
the spectrum analyzer
will be recorded
directly into a cell phone.
And if our earlier data's
correct,
it'll show that the higher
the rocket travels,
the more intense
the RF radiation levels
will become.
Right there.
- You ready to go? Let's do it.
- TRAVIS: We're ready to go.
Look at that wind sock
and see if it's changed any.
THOMAS:
It's coming from the south.
TRAVIS:
Give this a little more angle.
When I first came here
to Skinwalker Ranch, I found
that some of the members
of the team had been
so spooked by all the
strange things going on here,
they were really reluctant
to do any experiments
that might trigger
some kind of negative energy.
I have to say no digging.
My-my grandmother
used to always say
a hornets' nest
isn't interesting
until you poke it with a stick.
- Right?
- BRYANT: Okay, well,
what kind of hornets
were you dealing with?
All right, we're hot here.
TRAVIS: But now,
given all the information
we've been gathering lately,
they're not only willing
to poke the hornets' nest.
They're eager to do it.
So, we are ready to launch.
Inserting the safety key.
It's good.
So, let's do a launch
in three, two,
one, ignition.
- Oh, yeah!
- Holy smokes!
TRAVIS:
There it goes!
(chuckles):
Here we go.
ERIK:
Uh-oh.
TRAVIS:
Watch your head!
Watch your noggin!
This rocket hasn't gone as high
as it was supposed to.
And so it didn't reach a point
where the chute could pop.
That's what you call a missile.
- I'll go get it.
- TRAVIS: All right.
Radios on!
It's gonna land in the canal.
(Thomas panting)
BRYANT:
You got eyes on it, Tom?
It's
over here a ways.
TRAVIS:
Hey, Dragon, Tom,
you guys find it yet?
Oh, there she is.
(Thomas panting)
BRYANT:
Yep, we're almost to it.
(pants)
That's destroyed.
Hey, Travis,
we're certainly not taking
this rocket up again.
SEGALA:
Oh, man.
TRAVIS: Our first test
was a complete bust.
SEGALA:
Oh, this thing is hosed.
TRAVIS: The spectrum
analyzer's all banged up,
and the on/off switch
is missing. It's had it.
SEGALA: Did we record, though?
I want to see if
Well, that'd be great
if we got some data.
I sure hope
the spectrum analyzer
got enough data to the phone
before it hit the ground,
and maybe we can get some data
off of it.
Let's get the next rocket going,
and we'll launch it.
Hey, rockets fail.
That's why we have more of 'e.
So we just have to do
another test.
That's how it works.
Erik, you're up.
We're gonna do
your instrument next.
This is a gamma ray detector,
and we've outfitted it to be
as light as it can be
and as small as it can be.
TRAVIS:
For our second launch,
we decided to go forward
with Erik's idea to test
not only for RF radiation
but also for gamma rays.
After RF, there's infrared,
visible, ultraviolet,
and, finally, gamma rays.
Now, gamma radiation
is very dangerous to humans,
so if the test
comes back positive,
it could mean
we're all in real danger
just being out here
on Skinwalker Ranch.
So, if we have gamma rays
detected during flight,
it'll show up
in a sound recording.
So, what would it sound like?
(clicking)
Oh. Sounds
just like a Geiger counter.
- Exactly.
- But we'll be able to get the waveform.
So we can analyze it and see
if we can find out what
TRAVIS: If it changes with
altitude or whatever, right?
I'm really interested
in comparing
the readings that we get
down here at ground level
with those that we get
at altitude to see if, in fact,
we are getting gamma rays.
If they're coming from altitude,
the amount should increase
the higher we get.
- But if they're coming from the ground
- If they're coming
from the ground, it'll decrease.
This will tell us something.
- Right?
- ERIK: That's right. Sure.
- All right. Let's go.
- All right.
SEGALA: Yeah,
this is a very fragile setup.
So we need to really protect it.
(whirring)
TRAVIS: We are about ready to
go launch another one, folks.
SEGALA:
Look at the cows.
(mooing)
That is the strangest thing.
Just before we started
to fire the rockets,
the cows
are acting very strangely.
They were running
across the field,
grouping together, fighting.
BRYANT:
That's crazy.
ERIK:
Here they've crammed themselves
into the northeast corner
of the ranch.
They couldn't possibly get
any closer to one another.
And they're behaving
as if they've been agitated
by something.
BRYANT:
Never seen that before.
- Look, look, look, look!
- ERIK: What is that?
- What is that? - TRAVIS: We
got-- we got something. Hold on.
THOMAS:
It's a plane, I think.
- It's gone.
- Nah, that wasn't a plane.
We'd still see it
- if it was a plane.
- SEGALA: What the hell was that?
TRAVIS:
Was that not crazy?
TRAVIS:
I don't know what that was,
but it wasn't an airplane,
and it wasn't something that
would be easily explained away.
It was this really, really
bright translucent ball.
And then it just-- shoop--
just disappeared
into a single point,
like it vanished off
into the sky or something.
- SEGALA: What was that?
- It was a bright
- THOMAS: What time is it?
- SEGALA: Kaitlin, did you see that?
TRAVIS: The guys want to stand around
and keep looking for these UFOs
popping up in the sky,
but I'm telling 'em,
"Look, if it's happening now,
we need to get the instruments
in the sky so we can really
measure what's going on."
All right, well, let's launch
and see what happens.
Three, two,
one, ignition.
- BRYANT: Oh, yeah!
- THOMAS: Holy smokes.
BRYANT:
Uh-oh.
- Oh, man. - Uh-oh.
- One, two, three,
four, five.
- Perfect.
- TRAVIS: Good chute!
- Yes! - Yeah! - (chuckling)
Man, we may have real data
while we saw a UFO.
This is our hero rocket
right here.
- Awesome.
- BRYANT: All the time I've spent
on this ranch, I've
never really seen anything.
But right now
I, I actually saw
what I would consider a UFO.
TRAVIS: It's right on the other
side of the bush, I think.
THOMAS:
Right there!
TRAVIS:
Oh, Tom found it!
For years,
I've heard hundreds of stories
about UFO sightings
at Skinwalker Ranch,
but-- I have to admit--
I thought they were
all just products of someone's
overactive imagination.
I never thought I'd
actually see one in person.
We saw a UFO.
BRYANT:
Dude, that was incredible.
- Did you see it?
- I did.
Well,
what do you make out of it?
It wasn't an airplane,
or we'd've still been seeing it.
ERIK:
Well, there was no contrail.
No sound.
I'm hopeful
that we can evaluate it
frame by frame
and perhaps understand better
whether it's something
of mundane origin
or something very different.
Guys,
we may have just got
some real data
while we saw a UFO.
Is that not crazy?
Seriously,
this is all fine and dandy,
but I'm still dumbfounded
that, looking up in the sky,
I see this thing.
It turns,
it glints in the sunlight
and then, basically,
without going anywhere,
just vaporizes into nothing.
Who knows?
We may have caused that.
We may have caused whatever
to react and show itself.
Well, you know what, too?
I think everybody tells us
don't dig
because something bad's
gonna happen.
Well, who's been poking
the hole up in the air?
- Yep, we're digging up.
- Maybe it causes the same
- phenomenon.
- Stick.
Hornets' nest.
Hey, if that's your stick,
feel free.
We just saw a UFO, dude.
Well, look at the cows.
They're all crammed
in the corner
as far away from that area
where that thing was
as they can possibly get.
And their behavior this entire
afternoon is very abnormal.
TRAVIS:
Now I'm starting to wonder--
did our rocket experiments
simply get our eyes
looking upwards so that we saw
the UFO by coincidence?
Or did the rocket
actually do something
to cause the UFO
to become more visible?
If so, maybe we can get the UFO
to show itself again.
Know what I say we do?
Launch another rocket.
SEGALA:
I would say put it back up,
just as it is.
It records for 300 hours.
Oh, it's still recording?
300 hours, it'll record for.
Well, let's just put
another motor in, repack it,
- and launch it again.
- Absolutely.
THOMAS:
Hey, it's back.
BRYANT:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- I don't see it.
- SEGALA: What the hell is it?
TRAVIS:
Where is it?
Right there.
TRAVIS:
That might be a jet.
- Oh, there it is again.
- There it is again! There it is again!
- It's in the same spot.
- THOMAS: It's still in the same spot.
TRAVIS:
It's still in the same spot!
- KAITLIN: Oh. Wow.
- BRYANT: Right there.
- Yeah. - Right there.
- ERIK: There you go.
THOMAS: Is that another plane
flying to the side?
TRAVIS: It's like
it's tracing it or tracking it.
Now it's kind of veering off
of it a little.
- Oh! Look at that, look at that!
- KAITLIN: Oh, my gosh! - (gasping)
What is that?
TRAVIS:
This one phenomena--
whatever you want to call it--
looks like it's following
a commercial airliner.
- I'm gonna go inside and look.
- It's fading out. - Yeah.
- It's fading out. It's gone.
- All right.
What the heck?
ERIK: As quickly as I could
get into the control room,
I looked
at the flight transponder data
for all nearby aircraft,
and I wasn't able to identify
a particular aircraft
with the bright objects
that we see off to the west.
- There's no other traffic there.
- There's no other traffic?
THOMAS:
There's no object on the radar
showing up next to that plane.
Did we just have
two UFO sightings
in a period of ten minutes?
ERIK: It was in
approximately the same part
of the sky as the first time.
There's absolutely no cloud
cover to block anything.
There's nothing in the way.
So, to go in and out is,
- like, why would it do that?
- Yeah, that--
In the same spot.
I mean, if it's flying,
it's got to be moving.
- We're gonna need this.
- Fine.
Uh, you got the ignitor.
We're good to go.
- Yeah.
- Does anybody feel any queasiness
or anything like that?
THOMAS:
Are you feeling queasy?
Almost like motion sick,
a little bit.
What does that thing say?
Wait, what is that?
Heart rate's high.
Your blood pressure's
a little bit elevated, dude.
Yeah, you're-you're--
You got so much adrenaline and
stuff going through your body,
probably, but your heart rate
and your blood pressure's
a little bit high.
It's not hot out. You haven't
really traveled that much
or climbed that much, so I think
whatever you're feeling,
it's-- you don't normally feel
this way.
It's very possible
that something induced that,
which could be a function
of what we just saw.
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Really curious if something shows up.
- You okay? - Yeah, I'm okay.
- I just I'm okay.
- All right, well, let's do this.
Let's get out there
and launch this rocket
before the phenomena goes away.
- Okay, sorry about that.
- No, no, no, no.
No, don't apologize.
Let's just do let's just go.
I'm glad you spoke up.
TRAVIS:
A couple of weeks ago,
I experienced the same queasy
feelings that Dragon just had.
Tom Winterton's
been hospitalized twice
due to something that causes
his scalp to literally swell up
and separate from his skull.
What kind of
energy can cause this?
I mean, we're really
playing with fire here.
Three,
two, one. Ignition!
- THOMAS: Oh, that's beautiful!
- Come on, baby.
TRAVIS: As long as we're
here and all set up,
I want to get this experiment
launched one more time.
This way, we can monitor
if there are consistencies
in the data we're collecting,
or if there are anomalies.
So far, all the data
has been pretty consistent.
Some kind of intense
RF radiation is coming at us
from somewhere
high above the ranch.
- TRAVIS: Boom!
- BRYANT: Yeah!
Good chute!
Awesome, right?
I can't wait to get in and let's
start looking at the data.
BRYANT:
I know what I saw today.
And I would love to see it,
if we have it on camera.
Did you? Let's look at the
surveillance footage and see
- if there's something in it.
- ERIK: Sure.
This camera is in
the east field,
basically to the southwest.
TRAVIS:
Okay.
ERIK:
What we saw should appear,
if it was recorded,
in this part of the sky.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, if we're gonna see it,
this is a great angle.
Based on my recollection,
it was no higher
than that in the sky.
I'm really curious
if something shows up before
Oh, oh, oh, over here.
Over here.
Right there.
- You guys see that up there?
- TRAVIS: Yup, yup, yup, yup.
- Yup.
- THOMAS: If we can zoom in
(computer chirping)
TRAVIS:
Well, I mean, it's right there.
BRYANT: This doesn't do it
justice, though,
- because it was
- TRAVIS: Well
It seemed like
it was so brilliant in the sky.
- SEGALA: Yeah.
- TRAVIS: Yup.
- Let it play real time.
- ERIK: Play real time.
- TRAVIS: There it is.
- There it is.
SEGALA:
One, two, three, four, five,
- six, seven, eight, nine.
- BRYANT: Yup.
- Ten. Ten seconds.
- That's it.
The speeds that it was traveling
to get from point
to point for ten seconds--
this thing could have gone
all the way across our screen,
- but it didn't. It stayed still.
- Yup.
BRYANT:
I'm still blown away
by the fact that Erik,
you were able to have
camera footage of it. That way,
I know for a fact I wasn't
- just imagining it.
- You got to see a UFO, dude.
Like, dumbfounded.
Yeah, it's crazy.
We had some things
that we have yet to interpret.
Well, we've got
to see this data.
- Yeah, so - ERIK: We ready?
- BRYANT: Yeah, let's move on.
So, to begin with, we're looking
at the Geiger counter data.
We're looking at gamma hits.
- Here?
- Yeah.
Each of these vertical lines--
gamma hit.
What we see before launch
can be compared
to what we see
during the flight,
and then again,
to what we see on the ground.
So, I would ask you.
What do you see?
It looks very concentrated
right here.
At the apogee,
this thing was screaming.
TRAVIS:
Holy cow!
What it means is there was
an immense amount of energy
for some reason
that was suddenly on
and then suddenly off.
- Yeah.
- And then, when we got up
to about 1,000 feet, we measured
an increase
in the electromagnetic radiation
that was there.
We measured an increase in
the gamma rays that were there.
But I want to point out
that this is at altitude,
at 1,000 feet up in the air,
which says
that as you increase altitude,
you get much more energy
than we have down here.
- Yup.
- Just to be clear,
normally,
anywhere else in the world,
if you increase in altitude,
you should see a decrease.
That's right.
So, that does suggest there are
more gammas at altitude.
Right, it implies something
about the location
of the source.
We got closer
to a gamma ray source
as we flew into the sky.
- Yeah.
- So, there is
a concentration
of energy above the ranch.
SEGALA:
And I want to just
point out that a lot
of these readings took place
when we started to see
the strange objects in the sky.
Wow.
At a high enough concentratio,
gamma radiation can be deadly.
But where is it coming from?
And could it be connected
in some way
to this UFO we just saw?
Do y'all realize
what we are looking at here?
Not only do we see the event
with our eyes.
We catch it on video, the cows
apparently felt something.
- Yes.
- 'Cause they moved.
And we have scientific
instruments corroborating
that there is an anomaly
in energy at the same time.
I don't believe in UFOs, period,
but we were all there,
and our eyes saw this.
THOMAS:
Yeah, that's the thing, yes.
We all saw this
with the other instruments.
- That's right.
- Every little men-in-black thing
you can come up with
to explain it away, just
It just is vanishing.
I mean, this is like
a breakthrough, guys.
That is very important data
right there.
ERIK: I know that every time we
get exceptional footage like this,
Brandon wants
to see it immediately.
- I'm sending it off now.
- Yeah, do that,
and then,
let's give him a shout,
see what he has to say.
BRANDON:
Dragon.
- Hey, Mr. Fugal.
- How are things going?
TRAVIS: Erik just sent you
some files, Brandon.
You should see if you can
get 'em and open 'em up.
- All right.
- Watch in the upper
right-hand corner
of the video closely.
BRYANT:
This is the second of the
unidentified object sightings
that we saw today.
All five of us, without a doubt,
saw the same thing.
We also measured
simultaneous anomalies.
We measured gamma rays.
We measured, uh, anomalies in
the RF and microwave spectrum.
- Cows.
- Oh, and-and all the cows--
that's right--
ran from one side of the field
and got as far east
as they could get.
No, it's not following, uh,
orbital motion at all.
BRYANT: Well,
the fact of the matter that
all five of us, looking out,
and we see this object.
It appeared
to move a little bit,
and then get either larger
or just more vibrant,
and it stayed there
for a moment,
and then basically dissipated
and disappeared into nothing.
Shortly thereafter,
I started to get nauseous,
almost like I was motion sick.
You know, I don't know
if I was maybe affected
by some of the energy
that was in the area
that we picked up
on the other instruments.
You know, I appreciate
you asking that question.
I actually feel really good.
I'm profoundly just shaken
by the whole experience
because I don't even know what
to do to make sense of it.
BRANDON: Growing up,
I never saw a ghost.
I really never had a paranormal
or supernatural experience.
It wasn't until
being involved with the ranch
that I had my first experience
that I could not deny.
It was a couple of years ago,
right above the mesa.
We saw in broad daylight
what could only be described
as a UFO.
40, 50-foot-long,
silver or grayish
disc-like craft
that moved
in the blink of an eye
from one position to the other.
And then, within 20 seconds,
was completely gone.
None of us were expecting it.
BRANDON: The fact
that the entire team saw this
and have camera surveillance
footage-- this changes
our investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch.
- All right, thank you.
- SEGALA: Good evening.
- Thanks, Brandon.
- Thanks, Brandon.
BRYANT:
I am emotionally and physically
- just wiped out.
- Yeah.
I'm so excited,
but I'm also exhausted.
Stories out there claim
that when Robert Bigelow owned
the ranch,
one of the more incredible
theories that they considered
was that all
of the strange phenomena
that happened here was
the result of some kind
of interdimensional
or trans-dimensional portal
that exists somewhere
on the property.
Now, I'm pretty skeptical
about most things.
But after today,
I'm beginning to wonder.
I mean, could we have just
all seen
firsthand physical evidence
that something like that
could really be true?
- You guys get out of here.
Go get some rest. - Great work.
I'm so excited about this.
THOMAS:
There's so much activity
going on at this exact moment
of seeing this UFO.
It really makes me think
that there is something
associated with this craft
and the things that we're
seeing here on the ground.
BRYANT:
After years of seeing nothing,
in a matter of minutes,
I've seen two UFOs that
are undeniable
and seen by many witnesses.
- What the hell is it?
- BRYANT: This is insane.
- TRAVIS: Oh, yeah.
- It's right where the sky transitions.
SEGALA:
This is the first time that
we visually saw a UFO,
and at the same time,
on our instruments,
recorded the effects of the UFO.
Now I'm at the point
where I'm saying,
"This is more than just
some anomalous activity."
This is something
that's happening
that's much, much bigger.
BRANDON:
Are we alone?
Do we live in
a multidimensional universe?
Are we being visited, or
are we being interacted with?
Skinwalker Ranch,
I believe, is an incredible
living laboratory or place
where some of these questions
may be answered,
or at least better understood.
- My phone's freaking out.
- ERIK: It's as if someone was
pushing the buttons and
switching between applications.
TRAVIS:
There is a bunch of energy,
and the source could be
under Skinwalker Ranch.
We need to do
ground-penetrating radar
to see what's down there.
So, this is a big anomaly here.
This looks like
a two-story facility.
I'd like to know
what's in this thing.
- Don't lift it up.
- TRAVIS: I had burn spots
coming up on my skin.
We were just exposed
to ionizing radiation.
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