The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s03e01 Episode Script

As an astrophysicist,
aerospace engineer
and an optical scientist
with over 30 years
of experience working with NASA
and the Department of Defense,
I've always been
intensely curious about
the unknowns in the universe.
So, in 2021,
when our own government
acknowledged that unidentified
aerial phenomena--
or UAPs-- are real
it was no surprise to see
how the media, the public
and Congress
wanted answers.
Right now,
I'm headed back
to a place called
Skinwalker Ranch
to rejoin the team
as we begin our third year
investigating
a number of
unexplained phenomena.
It is going nuts.
We've experienced
everything from dangerous spikes
in radiation
- It just jumped to 18.
We need to get out of here, guys.
- Let's get out of here.
evidence of mysterious
underground structures
This thing
is a thousand feet long.
to inexplicable
equipment failures.
Something's turning this off.
North is that way,
and it's pointing south.
- This is crazy.
But the most extraordinary thing
we've witnessed so far
are numerous UAPs.
Look. Look. Look.
- What is that?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's something here.
Just like the public,
our team wants answers, too.
And this 512-acre property
just might have them.
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most
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.
Skinwalker command center,
Dragon, this is Cameron.
We're entering the airspace
of the Skinwalker Ranch
at this time.
I'm Brandon Fugal,
the owner of Skinwalker Ranch.
One of the reasons
why I acquired the ranch
in the first place
was due to the mystery.
With Skinwalker Ranch,
truth is stranger than fiction.
And the reality of the phenomena
at Skinwalker Ranch
has become even more compelling.
Governor Herbert,
it is a privilege to be entering
Skinwalker Ranch with you today
to meet with the team
and to be fully briefed.
Well, Brandon,
thank you very much.
We're honored
to be here with you.
As our investigation
has progressed,
I felt it important
to bring in a higher level
of oversight.
Governor Herbert
has very real interest
in what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch
and is committed to assist us.
You can see ahead of us,
you know, what many refer to
as Skinwalker Ridge, which is
a main point of interest
that runs the entire expanse
of the property.
We're also, you know, flying
over the infamous triangle area
that, seems to also be
a center of gravity for
strange activity and events.
Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch,
I think the greatest
scientific investigation
of our time.
Our team has reassembled
to resume our investigation
for the summer,
and our plans are as ambitious
as any we have ever formed
together as a group.
I really am excited
about this work.
Well, looks like they're here.
I can't wait to get
this investigation underway.
Not only is there so much
unfinished business
from last year,
but the world has literally
changed overnight,
and now we have
even more to uncover
with the connection
between the ranch
and UAPs from around the world.
And with government officials
involved,
it's going to be
an exciting summer.
Here we go.
This year, we're gonna push
experiments beyond
anything that's ever happened
here on Skinwalker Ranch.
Dragon, how's it going?
Good. How are you?
- Good to be with you.
I will tell you
that each one of us
is more determined than ever
to understand
what's truly happening
on this crazy ranch.
Team, it's good to see
everyone assembled
and good to welcome
Dr. Taylor back.
Thanks, Brandon.
- I'd like to introduce
everyone to former
Governor Gary Herbert and also
his former
Chief of Staff Derek Miller.
Thank you, Brandon,
for the invitation to come out
and spend a day with you.
What's happening here
at Skinwalker Ranch
is important.
Government has a role
to play in this issue,
if for no other reason
than for national defense.
I think a lot of people
are fascinated by what
you all are doing here.
The fact that you had so many
different unexplained phenomena.
What I like about
what you're doing here is
it's based on science,
things that we can do
with the scientific method
and do the research
and try to understand
what is taking place.
I know I'm really anxious
to hear what you have to say
and-and see what
I can learn here today.
Which begs the question,
what is the main
objective as we move forward?
There are a number of things
that we want to follow up on.
We've done various events
down at Homestead Two
and have had phenomena occur
that we've captured on
on various instruments.
Over the course
of the last two years,
Homestead Two has been
a bona fide hot spot
of unexplained phenomena.
It is freezing cold right here
in front of the homestead.
We've seen crazy
energy readings,
radiation spikes
We were just exposed
to ionizing radiation.
and thermal imaging anomalies
that might even be explained
scientifically
as wormholes,
like Albert Einstein described.
It remains a location that
we need to put more focus on.
I would propose that we work
to engage the phenomena,
that we work
to interact with whatever
intelligence is here,
on or above the property.
We've talked about some things
over the in the past
about how we might,
if there is something
that will respond to stimulus
to first get it to respond,
we've kind of done that.
Now, the next thing is trying to
understand what the response is.
You know, there's a lot
that I'm learning, there's
a lot that we don't know.
Certainly, there's a lot
of phenomena here
that is occurring
that we don't have
explanation for.
Governor, I doubt
whatever this phenomena is,
is stopped by the barbed wire
fence along the property line.
Well, a key aspect of our
investigation has been
community engagement.
Working with
the surrounding residents
in order to determine
whether these events
are confined to the property
or whether it-it involves
other points of interest
within the-the basin.
Jim, Tom Lewis, Kandus.
You're in a unique position
to work with the community,
help document
what is happening, not only
on the property but also
in the expanded area.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, nothing
I'd rather be doing.
Hopefully, you can open
some doors for us, Governor,
even going back
to Washington, D.C.,
that, may be able
to bring resource
and insight
that'll help us advance
the investigation.
I do know people,
and so keeping me informed
will help us maybe expand
the circle here of people
we can get engaged.
Governor, we have a spot
that's above the ranch,
in what we call the Triangle,
that we think is right at
about a mile high,
from the surface.
And we think that we're getting,
anomalous energy readings
coming from that spot
in the sky above the ranch
that we measured
with all these different
scientific instruments.
The triangle has been
a mystery to us
since the very early days
of our investigation
here at Skinwalker Ranch.
We've stimulated UAP activity
when we fire rockets
up through it.
What's this? What's this?
We got something.
We got something.
We got something right here.
We drilled down below
and found a strange substance.
Take any modern-day
fighter plane or spacecraft,
and you crush it up, and then
you take a sample of it,
you're probably
gonna get these materials.
We triangulated a phantom signal
from directly one mile up.
And last year, when we tried
to get a closer look,
something was tracking us
under Brandon's helicopter.
So, I'm showing radar altimeter
showing we're only 40 feet
above the ground right now.
That's not good.
So, something could be under us.
40-something feet under us?
It showed something under us,
40 feet below us.
Holy crap.
So, it lends you down
various paths
of imagination
as to what that could be.
Was it some advanced,
stealth vehicle?
I'm sorry to interrupt. Um
I'm getting some unusual
air traffic.
I want to go
check it out inside.
I'll be right back.
- What?
Erik's got a built-in system
where he can track
all of the air traffic
above the ranch.
So, when he jumped up
and ran inside,
we're all wondering,
like, what's going on?
Travis, you-you got to see this.
Hang on.
One second.
What's going on, Erik?
See, check this out.
That's crazy.
Looks to me like we've got
a Gulfstream G5.
Look at that.
So, this is a National
Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
United States
Gulfstream Aerospace G5.
He's doing some sort
of a grid survey pattern
right over us,
and we're right here.
Right in the middle
of our team meeting
with former
Governor Gary Herbert,
Erik suddenly detected
a government aircraft flying
a very distinct pattern
about 45,000 feet
above Skinwalker Ranch.
This pattern is shifting
to the northwest.
Without instrumentation,
without an autopilot coupled,
you cannot do it.
And then furthermore,
to do it at
45,000 feet, it will mess
with air traffic control.
They have to get specific
permission to do this grid.
You're in controlled airspace.
So, what type of survey
could they be doing
at that sort of elevation,
in that sort of a pattern?
Would it be lidar?
Would it be
This looks to me like
a pattern you would do if you
were doing very detailed
3D mapping and lidar imagery,
like reconnaissance.
The National Science Foundation
is an independent
federal organization
created by Congress.
Why would the federal government
be flying a reconnaissance
mission above Skinwalker Ranch?
What are they trying to collect?
That's not a sightseeing tour
in a grid pattern like that.
And why were they
doing it right here?
Well, right above the ranch.
- Yeah.
It's not a coincidence.
I mean, this has been
preplanned and predetermined
to do this for whatever purpose.
It may be that there's some
interest in the federal level,
which we knew happened
way before you got the ranch.
Is someone listening
to what we're doing?
And if so, for what purpose?
That's the weird part, yeah.
Between 2008 and 2013,
when Robert Bigelow was
the owner of Skinwalker Ranch,
there was a black-budget
Pentagon-funded program
that studied many of the claims
associated with the ranch.
I have a hard time
believing that,
following the government
investigation,
that they just simply
lost interest.
Well, I got to tell you that,
it gives us some things
to think about.
Yeah, please,
let's-let's get back to it.
I don't believe
it was a coincidence
that in the midst of briefing
Governor Herbert
on the next phase
of our investigation,
Erik Bard discovered
a strange craft above
the property
conducting surveillance.
I believe this is
potential evidence that
we're-we're not only
being monitored,
but there are other
active programs
that may involve
what we're doing here right now.
Which begs the question,
what are our next steps?
Well, the consensus
among us is that
we want to be able to use
the helicopter to return
to that 5,000-foot point
over the mesa,
you know, over the
what we call the triangle.
Okay.
- And we want to find the right way
to engage that spot,
take additional measurements.
- Sure.
And I think we need
to drop packages
with payloads on them
from the helicopter.
What-what would
you like to drop?
What do you have in mind
to drop through that-that area?
Well, you know, I have an idea
of involving GPS, you know,
coming through, perhaps on
descent down through that area.
Any kind of measurement payload
that we can either take with us
up there, fly through the area,
above the area, drop through it,
I think I think
that's worth our time.
I think it warrants effort
on our part.
Yeah.
- That's exciting.
We're going up to 6,000 feet
so we can drop GPS trackers
down through
that 5,000-foot region
where we've detected
all this anomalous energy
and seen the UAPs.
Now, if there's anything
unusual in the data,
that could be just
what we need to pinpoint
the exact spot where
these anomalies are occurring.
Cameron, are you willing
to reengage with
the helicopter to
conduct further experiments
above that area?
Of course, if we can do it
safely, I'm okay with that.
At any point,
any of us feel uneasy,
we need to call it off,
we need to terminate
that experiment.
I think we should
proceed with urgency,
and I-I'd like
to immediately schedule
really engaging
with the helicopter
and conducting this experiment.
That's I think,
the logical next step.
Okay. Yeah.
We can plan that.
We we're proud
of this effort.
This is truly
a multidisciplinary effort.
So, thank you
for your commitment.
Onward.
Erik, guess we got stuff to do.
- We do.
All right.
We've got a lot of work to do
to get set up for this
experiment over the triangle.
With our first experiment
taking place
in the sky above the ranch,
we called in the guys
from LiveView Technologies
to set us up with some
high-tech camera systems
around the property.
They'll give us
the ability to film
in high definition, 360 degrees
all around the ranch 24/7,
and they also have thermal
and night vision technologies
for total coverage.
You want to hand me
the center camera?
When the experiment is over,
we'll be able to
keep the cameras up
and running indefinitely
so that they'll be able
to cover the ranch and the sky
during all of our
future experiments.
We got several more to go, so,
I suggest we head down and go
put those other ones up.
- Okay, sounds good.
So, these are the actual ones.
I'll leave it to you and Erik
to figure out the foam
and the packing,
but I think we can just
put 'em back together
just like that and wrap it
with some packing tape.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you think that works.
- I think that's great.
While Erik and the LVT team
are installing
our new camera system
across the ranch,
Dragon and I are preparing
for the GPS experiment.
All right, so this will go here.
We've painted the tubes
different colors
so that we can be sure
to see them on the descent.
Depending on the clouds
and the sun, we won't know
which color's
most visible
until we start to drop them.
And I'm real excited because I
know there's something up there,
and I've been dying
to get a closer look,
so, hopefully,
with this experiment,
we'll solve the mystery of
the anomaly above the triangle.
All right, man.
- Okay, thanks, Trav.
Yeah. Thank you.
This is a perfect location
for this thing.
You know, if there's any spot
I'm interested in locating
one of these units,
it's on top of this mesa,
on this ridge line,
and this would be the spot.
- Yeah. Okay.
We now have thermal,
night vision
and daylight cameras
positioned along the north,
south, east and west perimeters
of the ranch.
All our cameras will be focused
on the triangle
for this experiment.
We're ready to go.
All we need now is Cameron.
Good job, guys.
- All right. This is awesome.
To have this up here,
I mean, who knows
what we're gonna catch?
I'm confident that if
something happens,
we're going to detect it
with this new system.
This is the eye in the sky.
Hey, Erik. Cameron's here.
Great. Bring him on in.
What happened during
last year's exercise
was frightening, quite honestly.
Before we ask Cameron
to go up to the triangle,
we want him to see the video
from last year's experiment.
He needs to know
what we're seeing.
Hey, Erik. How are you?
- Hey, buddy. How you doing, man?
Good. Good to see you, brother.
- Good to see you again. Good to see you.
Before we go back into
the sky for this experiment,
I do want to get your eyes
on some things that we caught
during last year's exercise.
I'd love to see it.
I'm going to show you a few
clips that I've put together,
and then we'll look
at some still frames
taken out of these clips.
- Okay.
I just want to see
if you notice anything.
Okay.
Has anything jumped out at you?
No.
- Would you like to see it again?
Yeah, I'd like to see it again.
- All right.
Let's go, let's go
take a look at some frames.
Well, so watch,
watch very carefully
for a change
in the blue background.
Okay.
My gosh.
- You see that?
Yeah, look at that.
- God.
I'd like to show you
another sequence.
So, as you can imagine,
I've been searching
frame by frame
through anything we've got.
Wow.
Look at that.
That's just crazy right there.
- Yeah.
Right under the helicopter.
That's crazy.
- That's
that's very suggestive.
- We were in there.
Could this explain
what happened last year
with Cameron's altimeter?
I don't know,
but something flew under
the helicopter back and forth
multiple times.
Velocity changes,
it starts climbing.
And it was faster
than the helicopter as well.
It got way too close
to the helicopter.
Way, way too close.
- It concerns me.
Whatever it is, if it happened
to pass through
our rotor system,
it could be catastrophic.
Yeah.
- Um, but it seemed to stay outside
of the helicopter's boundary.
Which suggests that
it didn't want to collide
into us, either.
No.
Yeah, I was staring out
the window
looking as far down
as I could from the inside
and saw nothing.
- I never saw anything. Yeah.
It was concerning
that something could
be right underneath
the aircraft.
As a pilot, you've got
to be ready for anything.
But they don't train you
for things that you can't see.
So, that's what I wanted
to share with you, Cameron,
and going into this,
I was asking,
you know, if you're comfortable
conducting another
experiment with us.
Now that you've seen this,
what do you think?
You-you do what you think
is the safest thing to do.
Well, it's all about
risk mitigation.
Risk versus reward.
I think there's a lot
that we need to still discover
or research here.
As long as safety
is our first concern
and we always prioritize that,
I'm okay with this experiment.
Let's get up there.
- Sounds good.
We've got to get
those instruments
packed and ready to go.
Let's do it.
- Hey, let's go.
All right. Thanks, Erik.
You got it.
All right, guys.
I think this is it.
We need another bite at
this apple, and Cameron knows
this airspace better than
anyone, hands down, period.
Now we just got to get
up there and get to work
and hope this time we get
to finish our experiment
before something else
happens to shut us down.
Load this up.
Last time we had the helicopter
up above the triangle,
it was saying
that there was something
underneath of it.
Sometimes as close
as 38 feet when it was up
at this 5,000-foot mark.
So I'm gonna
be watching carefully.
We've got a telescope set up.
We've got cameras set up.
I'm gonna take this
up the ladder.
And our hope is
that if Cameron
encounters any
of the same anomalies
he did last time he was flying,
that we'll be able
to capture it and see it.
We are all ready. Take off.
Erik says the sooner the better.
Fuel pump on.
Check, check, check.
Pulse lights, check,
and engines start.
Bryant and Travis will be
on board the helicopter
releasing the GPS trackers
into the air.
Thomas and I will be observing
from down on the ground
at the observation point
in the east field.
Do you want me
to hand that up to you?
Yeah, go for it.
- I will be monitoring
the GPS units
as they broadcast
their positions.
We're going to allow
the tracking devices
to log their positions
on an internal SD card.
There's a light blinking pattern
when things are working right.
Okay.
- And we're also going to try
to measure the signals
coming from those
GPS trackers in real time
as they broadcast
their positions
and see if any interesting
features show up as they fall.
Okay, I've got
the triangle location set.
All the warning systems
look good. We're set.
We're ready to head up.
There have been
a lot of theories
and ideas tossed out about
what could be above the ranch.
Could it be a portal
or a wormhole
or some massive energy source
or even a gravitational field?
Those sound like
far-off ideas to me,
but we know that there's
something strange
going on up there,
and we need to get more data
to determine what it is.
We're 1,600 feet
above the ground.
Winds are just up to five knots
out of the southeast.
And you can see the triangle
off to the side there, Travis.
Yup. Yeah, I'm watching it.
I've got eyes on it.
All right, perfect.
Erik, this is Cameron.
We're through 10,000 feet
above sea level,
5,000 foot over the ranch.
Approaching 6,000 foot
over the ranch.
We're about ready to drop that
whenever you're ready.
We have eyes on you,
and we are ready.
Okay, Thomas, we're right
at the spot over the triangle.
Cameron had the exact
GPS coordinates
of the triangle
from last year's experiments
that he locked onto.
His instruments all said
we were right over the triangle.
Here we go on a countdown. Five.
Well, wait, are we over the
- Four. Three..
Are we over the triangle?
- No, we're not.
That's a negative.
We have eyes on you,
and you're not anywhere close
to the triangle.
That's not good.
Stand by. Stand by on that drop.
This makes absolutely
no sense to me.
The GPS had us locked
to the triangle,
saying we were right above it,
then all a sudden, we weren't.
It's like something
pushed us off course
without us even realizing.
That's crazy.
- Makes no sense.
GPS said we were right over
the triangle,
but Dragon and I
could see we were
way off the mark.
Cameron's GPS has never
malfunctioned like this,
and it just doesn't happen
in this kind of helicopter.
It's as if something
was messing with our GPS
and telling us
we're somewhere we're not.
Stand by. Stand by on that drop.
This helicopter has the latest
in technological advances.
It's got top-of-the-line
avionics and instrumentation.
To have something
like this happen
is very, untypical.
We don't see anything here.
Nothing on the radar.
Altimeter is blank.
I think if you get where
I can see the triangle.
Okay let's do that.
You'll go slightly northeast.
Northeast?
- Slightly. All right, there.
Now, hold that heading right there.
- Okay.
Since we couldn't rely
on the instruments
to get us over the target,
we had to go old-school
on this one
and just eyeball the drop site.
I-I think we're
No, keep going.
Keep going east.
Yeah, I've got the-the triangle
immediately beneath us
on the-the left side.
Yup.
I actually look
straight down my leg
and use it sort of
as a barrel sight,
and I'm right over the triangle.
All right, so we should
contact Erik
and tell him that
we're getting close
to, launching
one of the bottles.
Hey, Thomas, this is Cameron.
We're through 10,000 feet
above sea level,
5,000 foot over the ranch.
We're about ready
to drop that test bottle
whenever you're ready.
Are we ready?
Yeah, I'm getting nothing.
There's no data.
And I'm not
getting the raw signal.
So, we are not picking up
telemetry signals.
The light that's supposed to
be blinking green
This is telling me
we're getting no data.
I can't lock on to them.
Clearly, something is
interfering with the signals.
All right, we've copied on that.
It messes with GPS.
- How about that?
It's like something
was jamming us
or blocking our signal,
and we needed to start tossing
these sensors out the door
before something else happened
that would shut us down.
They should be landing
right in the triangle,
so we'll just have to go collect
them after the experiment
in order to get the data.
We're willing to try,
maybe if it got away
from the helicopter,
it'll pick up some telemetry,
but it's up to you, Erik.
Your call.
Yeah, at some point, we're just
gonna have to make the call.
All right, so it sounds like
Erik's willing to go ahead
and just drop,
even without a signal,
to see if we can pick it up
as it tumbles down to earth.
All right, so I'm gonna drop
this GPS right now.
Three, two, one, package away.
Package away.
I have eyes on the package.
Okay, here comes the next drop.
Counting five, four,
three, two, one.
Cargo away.
The majority of the packages
are landing north of the mesa.
Drop the rest of them
further to the south.
I think there is a headwind,
aloft here.
Cameron, is that right?
- That is incorrect.
We've actually got a tailwind
pushing us right now.
Wow, 'cause it looked like,
it pulled the bottle behind us.
Still doesn't match where
those things are flying east.
Yeah, right?
- Yeah, that's strange.
Why would they drift
that way when the wind
It's a pretty good wind out
of the east blowing to the west.
All right,
I am right over the target.
Tell them I'm ready to drop.
- We're ready to drop
if you're ready.
- Ready when you are.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
Bottle is dropped.
Erik, it's in the air somewhere.
Are you picking up data?
I'm getting nothing.
We are not picking up telemetry
signals from packages.
We know that Erik's GPS trackers
were working when we put them
in the helicopter.
Roger. Copy on that.
Let's start throwing
these others out.
Yeah. Just tell them
let's try it.
We're gonna throw
the others out.
The GPS units still weren't
transmitting data,
and that was making me
a little bit nervous,
so I wanted to get these
tubes out the door
as fast as we could
and hope we could
find them later.
Dropping multiple payloads.
Let us know what you get.
I'm getting no data.
We've got to retrieve those
cards or we've got nothing.
We have eyes on them.
Yeah, we're right over it.
I'm right over it.
We were dropping
multiple bottles,
one after another after another,
just to try and get as many
of them out the door
as we possibly could.
Chuck them.
I'm chunking.
I ain't stopping.
We threw out
the last 20 GPS trackers
just hoping that we'd
be able to get good data
even though Erik
couldn't track them.
You guys have any more to drop?
When you are in position,
go ahead and drop.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Dragon's drop.
Package is away.
All right, Cameron,
what elevation
are you at
at this present moment?
We're 5,000 feet
above the surface.
I'm getting raw signal.
Come on.
Copy that. Thank you.
Erik just started
receiving data.
We say go ahead with it.
All right, we're gonna drop
this last bottle
right over the triangle.
Are you ready?
Go ahead when you're ready.
All right I'm dropping now.
- Dropping now.
Look how it went back.
Yeah, it went way backwards.
- What the heck?
It's in the air.
They're going behind us. - It's
moving backwards from where we're at.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
I lost it.
Where'd it go? Where'd it go?
Where'd it go? Where'd it go?
You know, I had eyes on it until
it got probably a couple hundred
feet above the ground,
and then I lost eyes on it.
They're throwing out this tube
with this long
20-foot red ribbon.
I'm getting eyes
on this package,
then all of a sudden,
I can't see it from the ground.
It disappeared.
That's interesting.
- Finally,
we get a good GPS signal
for the first time
in this dang experiment.
But as the GPS tube was dropping
through the zone
of the triangle, we were
tracking it and tracking it,
and then it just disappeared,
along with its signal.
It was there one minute,
and then it was gone.
Thomas had eyes on it, too,
and he said it just disappeared
out of thin air.
That makes no sense.
Where did it go?
- I lost it.
It just it disappeared.
So all packages
have been delivered, correct?
All-all packages have dropped.
We can
we can return to base.
Can you guys see some of
the packages
on the ground up there?
Tell him we'll look.
We'll look here,
and then they'll-they'll
pick them up.
Erik would like to make it clear
that if we
do not retrieve
any of the packages,
we have zero data.
On the surface, this seems like
a very simple
and straightforward experiment.
And yet, here we are once again
baffled because the packages
that are dropped
out of the helicopter,
one, are not landing where
we think they should,
and we're not even finding them.
And I'm sitting here just
shaking my head thinking
here's another experiment
in the triangle
that just didn't go as planned.
Think we had any
go this far south?
No, I don't think so.
Guide me where we ought to go,
and we'll, let's start looking.
I think some of them
went north and east, too,
so we should,
go a little bit that way.
Red. Red. Right below us.
Okay, why don't we
grab that one.
Yeah, I need to find
a flatter spot.
I'll go.
From the triangle,
we're about, 2,800 feet.
That's crazy.
There's no reason it
should've drifted over here.
The winds aloft
were not doing that.
And the wind was coming
out of the north.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
- That makes no sense.
When we dropped
the payload packages,
they actually moved
against the wind.
These packages
have no propulsion.
They should've gone
with the wind like a kite.
How about that?
It makes no sense.
Do you copy?
This is, Cameron.
Anybody on the ground copy?
I hear you.
- Hey, Thomas,
we've got, one package.
We're looking for others. We're
doing a search grid up here.
Yeah, they've only found
one package.
Maybe that's all we need.
Right here.
- Straight ahead to your right.
Right there in front of us. Right
- Right Yeah.
Set down here.
We need to set down here.
So, there's two.
This is a start.
We're coming back to land
at this time.
Copy that.
We'll, meet you at the helipad.
All right. Let's head back.
I know that I saw
the triangle right below us,
and for these bottles
to land so far off target,
it's like some invisible force
just pushed them away.
I don't know what that could be,
but I hope the data
gives us some answers.
Hey, guys.
Hey, there.
- Hey, Trav.
That was a fun flight.
It was.
- I'll bet.
Did, you guys get any data?
That remains to be seen.
The answer is in that bottle.
The weird thing is,
from our perspective,
the bottles didn't land
where they were supposed to
according to the wind indication
from the instrument.
That's crazy.
- That's really odd.
That just makes the data
on that card--
if we have any--
that much more interesting.
Well, actually, we've got
some work cut out for us,
'cause there's still
a bunch of them scattered out
across up there, and there's
some down on the south end.
So we're gonna have to go do
some, you know, expeditions
to find them, right?
But first and foremost,
we should get
as much of the data
crunched and looked at.
Yeah. I'm-I'm getting impatient
just standing here.
I want to get that
I want to get that data
out of that bottle.
- This is gonna be
amazing data
and very useful data.
Excellent. I've got more flights
I've got to go on today,
so I've got to head back out.
All right, thanks. Thank you.
- Appreciate you.
Hopefully,
we will be able to retrieve
the onboard data intact
and get our first real glimpse
at what might be happening
with GPS
in the skies above the ranch.
You guys ready
to look at some GPS data
from that helicopter drop?
Heck yeah.
So, we had, two bottles
that we recovered so far, right?
- Yeah.
We've retrieved
two of them so far.
And we're lucky
to have what we've got.
Of the GPS trackers
that we released
from the helicopter, we managed
to retrieve two of them,
and it appears
the data are intact.
At this point, we don't know
the location of the others.
I've had a preliminary look
at the data,
and there are
some interesting discrepancies.
What I want to show you
are the two separate
GPS data payloads.
All right. Now,
let me explain
what you're looking at here.
You can probably guess.
These, blue cubes that I'm using
represent the position
of the GPS payloads.
This is where things
start getting strange.
These blue cubes appear to be
50 feet, 70 feet
below the surface of the mesa.
Looks like you smashed
into the mesa.
What the heck?
How?
The blue cubes
that represent the GPS sensor
as we were on our way up
to the 5,000-foot point
show that the helicopter
actually went into the mesa
and came back out again.
Obviously, that didn't happen,
but something made our GPS
think that it did.
How far below ground are
those points there in the mesa?
Do you have that information?
- Um, sure.
We can actually look
below the mesa.
These blue cubes that I'm using
to represent
the GPS data payloads
appear to be 50 feet, 70 feet
below the surface of the mesa.
How?
And I got to tell you, you were
hundreds of feet above the mesa.
It looks like the GPS data
is inside
the mesa in that location.
But now here's something else
that just staggers my mind.
Like, look where we are
when we throw the bottle out.
We were right over the triangle
when we threw the bottle out.
Are you looking straight down
at this point?
- Looking straight down. So this is crazy.
You're right here.
- You're looking straight down.
We're quarter mile north
of the triangle.
The GPS data also shows us
that when we were dropping
the bottles over the triangle,
we weren't
anywhere near the triangle
even though,
to us in the helicopter,
it looked like
we were right over it.
So what caused that?
And when we were
in the helicopter out,
we looked straight down.
Literally. My feet
My foot was right on the edge
of the helicopter,
and I'm using my leg
as sort of a sight,
and I looked straight down,
and I was lined up
to the center of the triangle.
Well, if you find
all of that confusing
wait till I show you
what happens when we lay
our second data set
on top of this.
Look at that.
- These paths
should be identical
up to a certain point in time.
Look what happens here.
Right, but look
how they're overlaying
each other for a minute up there.
- They're right on top.
Right on top.
- Where you see white
is where the two tracks
are essentially identical.
Holy cow, look at that.
When we drop the payload
So, we threw it out right there.
And then look, it goes upwind.
As if things
aren't weird enough.
First, the GPS thought
we went into the mesa.
Now we pinpointed
an exact location
above the triangle
where we've measured
strange energy readings
in the past,
and it looks like the GPS units
bounced off something
we couldn't see.
I wonder
if that's the same thing
that went under
Cameron's helicopter last year.
All right, so, holy crap.
Now, look. So, we have
now have a region
and altitude that tells us
there's some kind of phenomena
taking place right here
that's messing with the GPS.
That's important right there.
That is something else.
I was not expecting to see that.
How many people have said
in stories, in books,
that there's a portal
above the ranch?
Yeah.
- Now, I don't know
that I believe any of that,
but what I do know
is that experiment tells us
that there's some
anomalous something right there
above the mesa,
over the triangle.
Right.
- This is so exciting,
it-it warrants us doing
something even grander on scale,
so Let's get to work.
- Agreed.
Erik, that's amazing stuff.
Great work, Erik.
We've just started investigating
again, and already,
there's a spot over the ranch
that may be a key
to finding the answers
we're looking for.
How far
do we have to go to find out?
This year, we will be carrying
our investigation deeper
and higher
and further
than in previous years.
As we move into
this year's investigation,
the ranch is a dangerous place.
What's in store for us?
When we start pushing further
and poking
the hornets' nest harder
than we've ever poked before,
how's the ranch gonna kick back?
Our journey
with the investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch continues
and not only continues
to escalate
but continues
to reveal new secrets.
This is not just
a scientific experiment
or research project
out in the middle
of a remote location
in the Uinta Basin.
The world is watching.
You never know what's gonna
happen here at Skinwalker Ranch.
What the hell was that?
Right, right there.
We got something!
What the hell is that?
We captured a UAP on camera.
We need to see
what's underground.
There's something
underneath this entire mesa
that's connected somehow.
That looks like
a big chunk of something.
Definitely looks metallic.
What scenario could put
fine metal
300 feet into this mesa?
That tells me
that was done to hide something.
This area is used
to keep the evil on that side.
We're getting a spike
of radiation.
There was a spike at 3,400.
Everybody out of here now.
Hey.
- Are you okay?
No.
Tom just blacked out.
Someone or something
doesn't want us to collect data
from the triangle.
Hey, look! UAP right there!
I see it!
We are not in control.
What is that solid light?
It's got a black dot
in the center of it.
What?
Let's go.
- My God.
Something malevolent is here.