The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s01e05 Episode Script

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Look at that jumping. Look-it,
it is going nuts.
Radiation spikes keep occurring
across the ranch.
I get my biggest readings
looking up.
It's coming from the sky.
The measurements lead us
to a spot one mile high.
Ignition.
The team and I sent up rockets
to try and identify the source.
- We got something. Hold on.
- Look, look, look! - What is that?
That wasn't a plane.
- Oh, there it is again!
- There it is again!
- It's still in the same spot!
- Right there.
Let's look
at the surveillance footage
and see if there's
something in it.
There it is. We saw a UFO.
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.
Gol' dang it, William.
What are you barking at?
So, William just woke me up.
It's, like, 4:51 a. m.
in the morning,
and he's barking like crazy,
and he took off running
out across the field.
I'm gonna go see
if I can see what it was.
All right, William,
what are you barking at?
For the past few days,
I've been staying overnight
on the ranch.
That way, I can catch strange
things as they're happening,
but I wasn't expecting
those things to happen so soon.
Sounds like there's something
just screeching
in the background.
I I don't know what that is,
but I'm gonna go look
on the spectrum analyzer
and see if maybe
maybe it's something on it.
Maybe this sound
has something to do
with the crazy microwave signals
we've been seeing.
Turn this computer on.
Um
All right,
let's turn this thing on.
What is that?
I'm not sure what I'm seeing.
Wow!
I mean, the-the there's
a signal oscillating up and down
between, like,
20-something meg
26-ish megahertz
all the way up to two gigahertz.
This is crazy.
I'm getting
a huge and constant level
of radio waves across the
entire frequency spectral band.
It's like turning on a radio
and having every single station
playing the exact same song
at the exact same level.
Now, if I move it across,
look at the signal.
It's extremely sinusoidal,
and it has a lot of structure.
I've never seen
anything like it.
It just keeps on going
all the way across the spectrum.
Wow!
That's just insane.
I don't I don't know
what to think about this.
I've never seen anything
like it in my life.
I called you guys here 'cause
I wanted to talk to you about
what happened to me
this morning.
You know, at, uh, 4:51,
William woke me up barking,
and I went outside
to see if I could figure out
what he was barking at, and-and
I hear off in the distance
this weird "wah, wah, wah."
So I figured I'd go in and look
on the spectrum analyzer,
and I'm seeing all these
signals, from the microwave band
all the way down past
the ham bands at 35 megahertz.
Now, to do that, it would be
I don't even know
how we would do that.
That's
it's-it's almost impossible.
Since I've been here
with the team
investigating Skinwalker Ranc,
a lot of strange
and bizarre things
have been happening.
- Look, look. Did you see that?
- What is that?
We've seen strange lights
and glowing effects
coming off the mesa.
My head is hurting bad.
Well, let's get you
the heck out of here, man.
We've had people
suddenly getting lightheaded
or, in the case
of Tom Winterton,
getting severe pain
and swelling in their scalp.
Look-it, it's going nuts.
We've discovered that dangerous
levels of transient radiation
are coming from an area
about a mile above the ranch.
It's coming from up there.
And when we tried
to investigate it
with a weather balloon, it just
disappeared without a trace.
- Where the hell is it?
- Oh, wow.
And then, just one week ago
- Ignition.
- we launched a series
of rockets
up into that same spot
- Look, look, look.
- What is that? - and suddenly
- There it is again!
- the entire team
witnessed two UFOs,
clear as day.
It's gone.
So, here's one thing
that it could possibly mean.
This might sound crazy,
but what if the only way
to explain
all these things is
with a wormhole?
Now, although the existence
of wormholes
hasn't been proven yet,
Albert Einstein theorized
that they do exist,
and assuming you have
a massive amount of energy
to cause one,
they could connect
two different points
in space and time.
I know it's a far-fetched idea,
but it's about the only thing
that I can think of that could
be responsible for everything
that's been reported
to have happened up here.
So, imagine you've got
a bowl
that's the Uinta Basin.
- Okay.
- And it's roughly
70 miles
in diameter across, right?
Well, and it's gonna focus
like this big satellite dish.
Whatever energy hits it,
it's gonna be focused back up
to a single point.
So, what does that mean?
Is this the spot where
something weird is happening,
where all this energy
is being created
where there was events
happening?
Are you thinking
of this location
as-as a place where the energy
is emanating from
or a place
where it's being harvested?
That's a good question.
What if the Uinta Basin-
it's got jaggies and things
in it-
it could be looking like a lens,
and the source
could be beneath it,
and it could be underground
from the center of the Earth
coming up
and then being focused
to a point.
But the point is,
there is a bunch of energy
being focused
into a single, tiny spot.
And the question is:
Is this crazy signal
we're seeing
doing that?
Is it creating
some type of event
that is something like Einstein,
you know, theor
was theorizing, and then
is like you see
in science-fiction movies?
So, in other words,
what we're saying is that
to us, standing here, this
could look like an orb to us.
Or it could look like
a portal to us.
We have all these
crazy gamma and neutrons.
It could also create
some of the weird other
RF signals that we're seeing.
That's a really good point.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
In 2016,
I purchased Skinwalker Ranch
from Robert Bigelow.
Prior to transfer of ownership,
Bigelow cautioned me that
we were dealing with forces
that are very powerful,
that are not easily understood
or characterized.
There are amazing stories
claiming that one of the most
interesting observations
made by not only
Bigelow's team but others
is the presence of portals
that have appeared
in the area of the homesteads.
Literally midair,
they've seen truly a window
into what appeared to be
another world-
other skylines
or other landscapes
that they could see
through those portals
that-that are difficult
to describe.
You realize how
- outlandish this whole thing
- It sounds crazy and nuts.
Absolutely crazy and nuts,
and this is the only theory
- we've come up with yet.
- That encompasses all of
That-that-that everything
we've measured, heard, seen,
stories, craziness,
it all can be tied
into this explanation.
But it's interesting that we've
got at least a hypothesis.
Energy's coming from the Earth,
and it's getting focused
- to a spot up there, but
- Yeah.
a hypothesis
isn't worth anything
unless you can create
an experiment
to test that hypothesis.
So we understand the hypothesis.
I think we go and figure out
if the energy source
may be coming
from inside the Earth.
That's here
under Skinwalker Ranch.
We should go and see
if we can measure
these weird signals down there.
We need to do
ground-penetrating radar.
We've got to do resistivity
measurements out in the field.
Now, there's
an experiment we could do.
Yeah. It gives us
a place to start looking.
So maybe that's it.
Maybe the tremendous
energy source
we would have to have
to produce this portal effect
is located deep underground.
That would validate
what Eric suspected all along.
All right, so I say we quit
talking about it,
and then we get up
and go start figuring out
- what we got to do to do it.
- I agree.
- All right, let's do this.
- Okay, cool. - Okay.
Because we don't know
if the strange radiation surges
we've been getting are coming
from high above the ranch
or below it,
we've invited a team of experts
to come up here
and conduct a series
of noninvasive tests.
- How's it going?
- Good. How are you?
- Good.
- That way,
if there really is
something dangerous
or life-threatening underground,
we might be able to find out
what it is
before we start digging.
We haven't done experiments yet
to look beneath the surface.
- Okay.
- So, we've been doing
some measurements
with these signals
that we've been picking up,
and we've kind of triangulated
a few hot spots,
and this is the starting line.
And anywhere there's a roadway,
flat surface along all the way
from the gate on the east end
to the fence on the west end,
just start mapping it out.
Then we'll go from there
to the mesa,
and then maybe out into the
field and around the homesteads.
Okay.
Since there is so much
varied area
of Skinwalker Ranch to cover,
we decided to use
two different methods
to search below the surface.
One is GPR,
or ground-penetrating radar,
which works by sending
radio waves down into the earth
that will bounce off of any
solid objects or structures.
And soil resistivity,
which does pretty much
the same thing,
but it uses metal stakes
and wires
to send electrical currents
down into the ground.
So, what we should do
is kind of divide and conquer.
I think, uh,
half of us will work
on the ground-penetrating radar,
and the other half
will do the resistivity
measurements.
Truck's right here,
it's a good place to start.
So just pull the equipment out,
and let's-let's just get going.
- All right, sounds good.
- Let's get her out.
- Let's get to it.
- Here on the ranch,
we have seen a correlation
between digging activities
and some injuries
to individuals.
So I've taken the position
that invasive activities
like digging
should be first justified
by less invasive methods.
Come on back. Ho, ho, ho.
A good example of
that is the GPR survey
and the resistivity
measurements.
Those are the kinds of things
that put exercises like digging
or drilling
on a more firm foundation.
Particularly in view
of the fact that human safety
and life is held in the balance.
We've got everything loaded to
do the resistivity measurements.
So, uh, why don't we take it
over there, and you guys
are gonna continue
with the GPR, right?
- Correct.
- All right.
I gave them the flags.
Mark the spots
if you find anything weird.
All right. Let's load up.
- Sounds good.
- Let's roll.
I got shotgun.
So, guys,
what we'll be doing now
is we're gonna be pulling this.
Uh, this is our GX160.
we're gonna be pulling it
behind this ATV.
And we'll figure out
a suitable way to pull that.
I think I've got an idea
of how we can do it
- so it doesn't slide around.
- Right.
Okay, and then we'll use
the dual-frequency system
to do the homestead work.
- Sounds great.
- Cool. All right.
What we're going to do
is pull this latch up.
And then what we'll do here
is we've got two power buttons.
We've got a power button
on the monitor,
and we have one down here
on the antenna,
and that will fire
the system up.
Oh, my gosh.
This was fully charged,
so I'm it's-it's a mystery.
So, we can't start now?
We actually can't start
with this system.
At least with the-the battery
this low.
Why would it be
down in the red now?
That's a good question,
because it
the system has to be on
in order for it to utilize
those lithium-ion batteries.
Uh, why don't we check
the other system?
It was completely powered, too,
and let's just see
- what the batteries look like on that.
- Yeah that's a good idea.
It's not uncommon
that we experience problems
with battery-powered systems
on this property.
Everything from mobile devices,
including our cell phones,
our tablets, uh,
laptop computers,
audio/video equipment,
have experienced
some kind of an anomaly,
as a result of some influence
that is prevalent on the ranch.
Dude, I will tell
my phone battery just went
- - Your
battery's dead on your phone?
Yeah.
Your battery's dead, too, ain't it?
It shut off.
- Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch, right?
- Right.
I completely charged
these four batteries
last evening,
and now they're into the
to the yellow section.
When have you seen that before?
I, quite frankly,
have not seen that before.
Hey, Bryant?
Come here, check this out.
So, Phil, would you like
to explain what you just
Right, we were getting
some highly unusual
battery level there.
Uh, we should be seeing
full power there,
and we're seeing
about 50%, so
It's another damn
battery that's getting trashed.
I guess we'll just
keep an eye on it.
I guess you go
until it goes off.
- All right.
- Yep.
We've decided
to proceed by dragging
one of the instruments
behind the UTV.
So, what I did is I ran
a wire underneath here,
attached to the body,
to hold this tight.
- Looks very solid to me.
- All right.
- Let's go drag this thing.
- Yeah?
Just want you to see it.
- What is it doing?
- I don't know.
It's just been
it's just been doing this
for the last, you know,
couple minutes.
I just ran up here
so you could see it.
It was in my contacts, it tried
calling a couple of people,
um, and then it's been
messing around in my camera
the last couple minutes.
- When did this start?
- About two, three minutes ago.
It's as if someone
was pushing the buttons
and, uh, switching
between applications
and sending messages
and making phone calls
as fast as anyone
could possibly do it.
Dude, that is crazy.
We're laughing at it, but
I'm not sure that we should be.
While Erik and Dragon
are working with Phil Oviatt
to run GPR from the command
center to the old homesteads,
Jim, Tom and I are heading out
with Zach Zyla
to do a soil resistivity survey.
So, Zach, we're interested
in this field out here.
There's some rumors
and stories and myths
and all sorts of things.
There might be
underground facilities
or bases or other stuff
inside this field out here.
- Yep.
- So, if there's something
besides a field in it,
let us know.
All right.
All right,
so what do we need to do to get started?
All right, well let's, uh,
get the gear out of the truck
and, uh, start
laying out the lines.
All right.
All right, so what goes first?
So, every six feet, we're gonna
- place one of these into the ground.
- All right.
And then you're gonna start.
And you're gonna want
to pound it in
about three-quarters of the way
so we get good contact
into the ground.
- All right.
- Next,
you're gonna take one of these
connector cables
and connect it to the base.
And we're gonna keep moving it
along all the way to the end.
You know what, you drive stakes,
I'll clip wires. How's that?
I could do that.
All right,
so let me get started.
How quick will it take us
to actually see something, Zach?
Hopefully, not more
than about ten minutes.
Okay.
All right.
The line is hot,
so everyone please be careful.
It's about to start measuring,
and hopefully
we can get some, uh, good data.
All right, well, good.
Uh, I guess we just wait.
Am I holding a speed
that you like there?
- Yeah, you're good.
- Okay.
It's gonna get
a little bumpy here.
Yeah,
I think it goes without saying
just be careful
going through the dips.
Yeah.
That thing works like a champ.
It does.
Well, I'm anxious
to get up by the homestead.
- Well, we're just about
- I know, I know,
we're getting close.
What was that?
I don't know.
Could be
I don't know what that is.
I mean, we certainly see
a difference
than this garbage
we've been seeing the whole way.
- Right.
- Yeah, yeah.
- That is unusual.
- Yeah, it is.
So, as we're dragging
the device behind us,
Phil noticed
that there was a structure.
Could have been
something mundane.
Could have something to do with
the utilities on the property.
So, for Phil's benefit,
- you see that roof over there?
- Yes.
Right in this grove
of trees up on the left.
We call it Homestead Number Two.
Okay, got it, got it.
Now, uh,
look at this right here.
Okay.
Whoa! I see that, I see that.
How do you interpret that
that feature?
Well,
it looks like a dome feature.
Then we see another
interesting anomaly
in the Homestead Two area,
and we don't know
what the origin of those
structures really is.
Look.
Oh, wow!
- What-what does this?
- I cannot tell you
what's causing that.
Man, it could be
it could be something buried,
you know, metal.
- Really?
- Yes.
All right,
let's halt the vehicle. I
- Another dome, you think?
- Another dome.
All right.
I'm looking laterally
in the data,
- Uh-huh.
- and it's been fairly consistent
- through this whole area,
- Uh-huh.
except we've seen features at
several different depths.
But you say it could just be
- a geological feature?
- It could be,
but it-it
doesn't look like it to me.
It looks anomalous.
We'll see
if we can duplicate that
- on the way back.
- Okay.
It'll be interesting
to have a look
- at all of these.
- Sure. Okay.
- Every one of the patterns.
- Okay.
You want to reshoot it
all the way back?
- Right. Just to-to verify what we've seen.
- Okay.
You know, I was really excited
just to get any data at all.
You know, when we're talking
about the possibility
of metal structure,
of course it's very exciting.
But we need to go back
in the other direction
to verify that we're not
just seeing some artifact
but that what
we're seeing is real.
So, right here is
one of the domes we measured.
- Oh, yeah.
- It's not quite as evident
as it was.
But you can sure see it.
And we had another one
of those up here, too.
That's right.
- Okay.
- Uh yeah.
- There it comes. There it is.
- You seeing it?
There it is. Oh, my gosh.
- That-that's exactly what we saw before.
- Okay.
- Perfect.
- Very distinct.
It's always exciting
when you have anomalous data
and you go back and take it
a second time,
and you get the same thing.
And that's
exactly what we've seen.
We're seeing very interesting
multilayer structures
at depths of anywhere from
eight feet below the surface
to 24, 25 feet
below the surface.
All right.
Stop right here, Erik.
- Interesting.
- Oh, wow.
- I can see a couple of parallel
features right here. - Uh-huh.
We saw this in both directions.
I- I mean, you may be seeing
the top and the base
of a possible tunnel.
And it opens up as you move
this direction.
So, we're looking at something
quite large in here.
Oh, wow. I hate to point it out,
but, you know, this is exactly
where we were
when we had the difficulty
with the drone survey.
- So, let's get going.
- Yeah.
This is an area where we did try
drone thermography measurements,
but we were not successful,
due to some mysterious
electromagnetic interference.
No connection.
We are in one
of the most interesting
and notorious regions
of the ranch.
This is Homestead Two.
I'm wondering
if this is coincidence.
Clear as mud, Erik.
It's what this place is.
Here we go.
So, this is the raw data
plotted over, you know,
a 2-D grid.
So, blues are going to be
more conductive,
and reds are going to be
more resistive.
More resistive
might mean a hole.
Yep.
- So, that-that could be a cave?
- Potentially.
We really need
to post-process it,
um, and run it through
an inversion
so that we can really say
what's going on.
Once you do the post-processing,
- then we'll know more about it.
- Yep.
Hey, Tom, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead.
Hey, we're getting some
really interesting readings
out here at Homestead Two.
I'd like to ask you to just
drop whatever you're doing
and bring some
of Phil's extra gear out here
so we can take
a closer look at it.
Okay, I'll grab the guys,
and we'll grab the equipment
and head that way.
Copy.
Okay, just leave this,
and we'll just head over?
Yeah, we'll
I'll pack this in,
and you guys can head over now.
I don't know, man.
- It-it's
- Interesting area.
It's too much of a coincidence
all the time.
Mm-hmm.
There they are.
That was quick.
See what they got.
- What's up, fellas?
- Hey.
You said if you come across
anything in-interesting
or intriguing,
we should call you.
- Yeah? You find something?
- So, that's what we did, plus
We-we found some dome features,
anywhere from eight to 25 feet,
that are almost parallel
with this structure over here.
When you say "dome,"
are you talking a formation
- or an opening or what?
- Yes, like a like a
It almost looked
as though there was
the top of the of a tunnel
and the base of a tunnel.
- Oh, a tunnel?
- Yes, and it's interesting
that it's parallel to this
structure right here, as well.
That's why we called you guys.
We wanted you over here and
and to check this area out.
See if we can see
any correlation.
Does it appear jagged,
or does it appear smooth?
It's smooth.
So so, we're-we're seeing
almost a domal-type feature,
and then it pinches
into a almost a point.
It looks more like
a hollow opening than anything.
What I would suggest is to
is to scan this area
with the wide range
and see if we see
any correlation
between the between this area
- and that area.
- Yeah.
Well, let's get the equipment
out and let's do it, right?
- Grab the wheels.
- You got it? - I got it.
For a very long time,
there's been a lot
of strange things
going on at Homestead Two.
And what I want to do
is dig around the place
because I believe
there's a possibility
that there's something unknown
under the ground
that seems to be seeping up
or causing different
causing different, uh,
phenomena to happen.
- So, let's turn it on.
- But there's been
a lot of pushback
on digging on the property.
So, of course, with GPR,
that gives us
an idea of what
might be under there
without really
disturbing the ground
and bringing up anything
that might be toxic underneath.
Okay, we're ready.
Hey, Phil?
Sorry to interrupt you,
but, I mean, I know
we want to get up
on the mesa and do that.
I mean, we're getting late
in the day,
and I want to make sure
that we utilize all the time
we have with you gentlemen.
Can we split up teams here?
- Like, Zach go with one of us and
you go with one group? - Absolutely.
- Okay. - Yeah, Phil,
why don't you go up to the mesa?
- Sounds good.
- You guys okay with that?
- Yeah, I'm good with that
- All right.
'cause I want to see
what you guys have
- already seen here, so
- That makes sense.
- Let's take it and and get it going.
- All right.
Now that the wide-range
system has been recharged,
Jim, Zach and I are going to
run GPR scans at Homestead Two.
That's where a lot of very weird
phenomena have been reported.
And while we're doing that,
the rest of the guys
are going to run
some scans
up on top of the mesa.
Erik loves this mesa.
I do, I guess.
Once I get to the top.
Well, so, guys,
what I think is,
if you can get right there,
kind of hug the tree line
and go due south
toward that dead tree
I think we can go through
over here.
Hug this bush right here
the best you can.
The ground-penetrating
radar device we're using
was more mobile, so we started
pushing it through the woods
and around the homestead.
Just kind of use the house
as a guide for the line.
And that allows us to do
a much deeper investigation.
That's probably far enough.
- Yeah.
- Did you see anything on that run?
Uh, let me check.
Oh, holy Look at this.
Oh, wow.
There's this big
Oh, wow.
That's crazy.
What this looks like is
anything on that run? e
Uh, let me check.
- Oh, holy Look at this. See?
- Oh, wow.
While conducting
a ground-penetrating
radar test here
at Homestead Two,
Jim, Zach and I have just found
more evidence of some kind
of large object or structure
buried several feet underground.
So,
there's this big anomaly here.
- Oh, wow.
- That's maybe
- at five feet, four feet?
- Yeah, it's
So, this is
the structure, right?
But look there, right there.
It's like a-an entrance
or a pipe or something going up.
It's on the same line
as the well.
And who's to
say it's really a well?
Heck, it could be a tunnel
entrance, for all we know.
I'd like to know
what's in this thing.
Don't lift it up.
- Why not?
- Because the incident
that happened with Brandon Fugal
was right here.
There was this guy
that came in with him.
He lifted this up, and that's
when he went catatonic.
Several years ago,
we were escorting
some visitors on the site,
and when we entered
the old homestead area,
we all piled out of the UTV
to circle around the front
of one of the old homesteads.
And I looked around and found
that one of the visitors
was absent.
As I circled around
the back end of the homestead,
I saw this person
fully upright
with his eyes closed.
- Hey!
- And as I yelled his name
to somehow get his attention
and see what was happening,
his eyes fluttered open.
He says,
"Well, that was strange."
I said, "Well,
what do you mean?"
He says, "I was paralyzed
and then went to sleep.
How long have I been out?"
And I said,
"Well, it's-it's probably
been about ten minutes."
He was shocked.
- And he did what now, Jim?
- He lifted it up.
But I think,
before you open that up
or do anything like that,
I would definitely
Or maybe not.
What the crap is that?
It's filled with something.
All right, well, look, if you
want to look down in there.
It's just filled
with crappy water.
I mean, muddy water or whatever.
Maybe it's a septic tank.
Seriously polluted.
Well, it looks pretty bad.
It stinks, though. Ooh!
So, there's something in there.
You know, I don't know
if I want to say it or not,
but I-I feel like a,
I don't know,
I've got a little bit of a
headache or something happening.
So, why-why don't we
get out of here?
Maybe the smell,
maybe some mildew
or mold or something here.
So, let's, uh,
I say let's get back out
to the road
where there's more air flow.
I started getting this headache
and this nausea feeling.
I wasn't sure what it was,
but I realized, you know,
I've got this dosimeter
in my pocket.
All right, well, maybe we should
check our dosimeters
or whatever.
Yeah.
Holy Mine's beeping.
Your max dose rate's about 120?
Yeah, its 120-something.
That's pretty high.
That's pretty high.
This is really scary.
My dosimeter device,
which measures exposure
to ionizing radiation,
is showing that I just got hit
with 120 millirads per second.
That's like getting 20,000
full-body X-ray scans
at an airport,
which is five times more
than the legal limit
allows in a year.
So, I just accumulated
a semi-dangerous dose.
So, we're reading
the exact same amount of rate,
but this thing accumulated more.
Well, and I was the one
that stood over
- that hole when we opened it up.
- Yep.
We were just exposed
to ionizing radiation.
- Wow!
- Now, I got to tell you that
- it's not a lethal dose.
- It's not a lethal dose.
But it's an accumulated dose
that you're not gonna see
out in the middle of nowhere,
guaranteed.
Yep. And, well, and it's enough
that they're saying,
"Hey, it's dangerous.
Get out of that place
- and don't say in that place"
- Yeah.
So we need to stop the GPR.
Let's load the stuff up.
- All right.
- Cool.
What happened at
Homestead Two really shook me up.
And then, the next day,
I noticed weird red marks
on my hand and my head.
I went to my doctor
to get checked out,
and he confirmed
they were radiation burns.
I'm okay now,
but I'm really anxious to get
to the final results
of our GPR scans to find out
if it's something
in the ground that caused this.
Okay, we're here to,
uh, discuss the processing
of the GPR data that
we collected out in the field.
Uh, I took a look
at all the data,
and I'm really gonna concentrate
in and around Homestead Two.
So, that's what we're gonna be
looking at on the screen today.
Okay. Well, let's see it.
All right, let's take a look
at the data here.
See, here's where we started
again from west going east.
- Right.
- It's just noisy data.
And now were seeing
these features in more detail.
- Oh, wow!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Basically, looks like para
upside down parabolas.
Right, they're-they're
hyperbolas.
Now, what creates the hyperbolas
are objects.
A lot of things can cause those.
Uh, boulders can cause
those types of features.
Tunneling can cause
that type of feature.
Gosh, it goes
all the way as far down
- as 25, 30 feet.
- Right.
Well, it's clearly an anomaly.
Yes.
I'll tell you
what it looks like to me.
Look at this.
Here's the top point.
Right there. Right?
Here's another point.
There's one here.
And then you could say maybe
it kind of starts over here.
And so there's
your connecting the dots.
Connect all these peaks,
and it looks to me
like you got a football shape.
Well, give me a pen, then.
All right.
Actually, tear me off
about three more
pieces of paper.
So, there's the spot
for the peak,
probably here,
and down here on the bottom.
It's, like, here, here, here.
There's another one
kind of down here, lower.
So now let's lay it
on the table,
and we'll draw
we're gonna connect the dots.
All right.
So, guys, if we look,
there's something that has
surface points.
Something
along those lines.
Wow.
I marked the high
and the low points
of the parabolas
that we saw on the screen.
And once I connected
all the dots,
the size and shape of
the object we found underground
became clear-
it looked like a giant football
or a saucer.
- I like the shape of it.
- And
it's almost at the start
of Homestead Two
to the end of Homestead Two.
This thing is
a thousand feet long.
Wow. I wasn't expecting
to see that today.
What this looks like
is a two-story facility.
This thing is
a thousand feet long.
That's huge.
That's significant.
We have a thousand-foot-long,
oval-shaped object
that appears to be buried
underground at Homestead Two.
Now, this is the same place
where a lot
of bizarre happenings
and even UFO sightings have
been reported over the years.
So the question obviously is:
Are they related?
Right here
that's "X" marks the spot.
That's-that's, like, 15 feet
below the surface or something.
And we drill into that,
and we'll know, is it rock,
is it metal, is it whatever.
And so we got to
we got to dig there.
Or drill, at least,
take a core sample.
Well, you're gonna have to get
Brandon to sign off on that.
- Well, I-I understand that.
- I-I always get painted as
the guy that's
the anti-digging guy,
and look, I'm interested
to know what's there, too,
but at the end of the day,
that was one of Brandon's
big mandates to me.
Looking at that
interesting shape we found,
the knee-jerk reaction is
we need to dig
and find out what that thing is.
It could be amazing or whatever.
My first reaction is,
"Wait a minute."
We have radiation in the area,
and we don't know what this is,
and you pile that on top
of the whole "don't dig" lore
about this place.
I mean,
Thomas had a major injury
that almost took his life.
Travis was exposed to radiation.
The last thing I'm gonna do
is just say, "Hey, yeah,
"let's head out there
and start digging up the road
and see what's down there."
I'm extremely sensitive
to what's going on right now,
between what happened to you
the other night
when we were camping again,
what Travis experienced.
Certainly, I don't see the data
the same way you do.
I'd like to see
what your opinion is.
- I think there's
- You're the professional in this.
- Right. I think, from what
- I don't have an opinion, Jim?
- Is that what this is?
- I think,
from what I see here,
I would absolutely see this
as being an anomalous area,
is what I would say.
Just being When you say
"anomalous," different than
- the rest of the area.
- Different than the rest
of the area,
that we didn't see, or
nine-tenths of the road
that we went down.
Well, I think we take this
to Brandon
and tell him the whole story,
Dragon, and say
You guys better take it,
'cause apparently,
because I'm not a PhD,
I don't have a opinion
at the table.
Look, I care about you guys.
You know, I care about you.
If if I didn't like you,
I would just say,
"Fine, you know what,
I'll be at the front gate.
You guys go dig. Just keep me
the hell away from this"
I'm sorry that I kind of
blew up there a little bit,
but it's just
because I'm sensitive,
especially now
that all this stuff
has started happening.
And I'm sorry,
going back to your analogy,
I don't want to poke
a hornets' nest
that has radioactive hornets
come flying out.
- I already been stung once by it, right?
- Yeah, I know.
To that point, if we're going
down two feet and we're testing,
and two feet and we're testing,
if that is the case,
- those levels are gonna be going
up, and we can stop. - Absolutely.
- We'll see it every time.
- And if Brandon
looks at the data and says,
"Okay, I will sign off on this,"
you're good with it,
then, Bryant?
- Is that what you're saying?
- He's-he's my boss.
But I'm-I'm just trying
to get a read
for where you are personally.
If he signs off on it,
are you comfortable with it?
'Cause you're
ultimately responsible
Look, I like I said,
I just answer to him.
- No, but you're - So,
if that's what he wants to do, then
You know, I had my points,
those guys had their points.
You know, we weren't totally
in agreement,
so it was time
to get on the phone
and get Brandon up to speed
with what we found
and get his take on things.
Zach, Phil, thank you so much
for coming out.
- These are fantastic data.
- Thank y'all.
- Thanks, guys.
- Thank you. - Appreciate it.
All right, let's call Brandon
and let Brandon make
the decision.
- Hey.
- Hey, Brandon.
It's, uh,
Bryant and Travis here.
Hey, guys.
What-what's happening
out at Skinwalker Ranch?
We've got interesting things,
and then we've got things
that lend me to pause and
have me concerned.
And I'll let Travis explain,
you know, what we found
with-with the folks doing
the GPR, or ground-penetrating
radar work.
Right in front
of Homestead Two
there is an anomaly underground
that ranges from about
12 or 13 feet
all the way down to 35 feet,
and it's kind of,
uh I would say
maybe football-shaped,
about a thousand-foot long.
If I were gonna say that there's
any place on the ranch
where "X" marks the spot,
it's right there
in the middle of the road
right in front of Homestead Two.
That-that leads
into the not so good news.
Travis and Dr. Segala
were exposed to a dose
of toxic radiation.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I'm-I'm okay, uh,
and I've had my doctors talk
to me about it and everything.
There's not-nothing
to worry about.
Yeah. It's crazy.
Look, this is your property,
and, you know,
I'm gonna defer to you,
because you're the boss.
So, what-what
How do you feel about it?
Yeah, I think we don't have to
dig in a major excavation way.
What we do is take, like,
auger core samples.
And so, you know, if something
is a few inches in diameter,
we drill down until we get
to that first layer
of what the boundary
of this thing is
and we'll do, uh,
safety measurements
every couple of feet
to make sure it's not
pulling back a toxic chemical or
a or something radioactive.
I agree with that.
Or it could halt it
in its tracks, Brandon.
All right.
Thanks again for the time.
- We'll talk to you soon.
- All right.
See you later, Brandon.
We're always concerned
about disturbing the earth,
because we've seen
in past history
that bad things happen.
I do feel the
weight of responsibility.
I wonder whether I have covered
all the appropriate bases
prior to doing
this unprecedented exploration
on the property.
I'm as curious as anybody
to find out
what the heck that big thing
in the ground
by Homestead Two is,
but it really makes me
take a step back,
because I don't want anybody
to get hurt,
especially the people
I care about.
Ground-penetrating radar said
there's something here under
the road that's anomalous,
and the only way to get
down there and look at it
is to dig a hole.
So that's exactly
what we're gonna do.
- Let's get to it.
- GPR has given us
an "'X' marks the spot."
They're hitting
something hard now.
Man, they're on something.
There is an unnatural structure
beneath this property.
- That whole thing's shaking.
- Look at that.
- What is that?
- Why is that rocking like that?
- Oh!
- There we go.
I'm hoping that bringing in
an exotic animal on the ranch
will stimulate
whatever is mutilating
these cattle.
The
alpacas have been torn apart.
- What is that?
- If that's a dog, it's a big dog.
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