The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s03e07 Episode Script

There was an area
on this mesa slope,
And it led to this open cave.
Hey, I found what
looks like to be a cavern.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure this is it.
Popping smoke, popping smoke.
Look, look,
it's getting sucked in.
There is some sort of
network underneath the mesa.
I'm very curious to find out
what may be hidden in that area.
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.
They're here.
- Awesome.
I'm excited for the equipment.
After last week,
when chris bartel,
Who worked security on the ranch
for robert bigelow more than
A decade ago, showed us where
a cave entrance in the mesa had
Mysteriously been covered over,
We invited a team of drillers
to the ranch
To help figure out
what the bigelow team
Might have wanted
to keep hidden.
Okay.
Welcome to
skinwalker ranch, man.
I'm bryant. Nice to meet you.
- Aaron.
Erik bard. Welcome. - Aaron.
- Thanks for coming out.
Well, we've had all kinds of,
Strange things
happening in the mesa.
I think that
there is something there
That we need
to investigate further.
Okay.
We inherited
so many different stories
About strange things
happening out there.
Yeah.
The mesa has always been
A point of interest for us.
There are all sorts of rumors
and stories about things that
Happened while the bigelow team
was here on the property.
I've even heard a story of
People claiming to see
the side of the mesa open up
And a spaceship flying in
and it closing up again.
Or stories about
these openings that lead to
Some sort of
an underground base or cavern.
I think there's a lot more
there to be discovered,
And we need to spend
more time over there exploring.
Hearing those kinds
of rumors makes you wonder
How anything of the sort
could be possible in a solid
Sandstone mesa that covers
about three square miles.
But just last week,
after chris bartel's visit,
We dropped smoke bombs into
the crevices between the large
Boulders covering
this supposed cave entrance.
Orange smoke, orange smoke.
- And inexplicably,
The smoke was being sucked down
inside somewhere,
Like there really could be a
huge cavern system of some kind.
Look, look,
it's getting sucked in.
Yeah, the smoke's going down.
We're hoping that we can
go drill through it
And see if we hit any voids
or any type of
You know, we really don't know
what to expect.
Well, we'll just get
the drill off the trailer
And then start walking it, so
Okay. - You let us know
what we can do to help.
Okay. Will do.
Aaron and his crew from
Straight shot drilling,
they're gonna do some
Horizontal drilling
into the side of the mesa.
The way that this
horizontal drill works
Is they're actually
gonna go down under the road,
Under this canal, and then
Be able to maneuver up
and hopefully
Puncture up into the mesa
and see if we find a void there.
You want to just
park up here a little bit?
Given the ongoing anomalies
witnessed at the mesa,
Everything from smoke
Being sucked into the mesa
And disappearing into an unknown
Chamber or cavern system,
Coupled with other anomalies
Is that plugging into the usb here?
- Yeah.
Considering all the evidence
That has been presented,
I've given my approval
To proceed forward,
With caution.
We're using
the rf spectrum analyzer,
Which we've used on
pretty much all of these digs.
I'm data logging
for gamma radiation,
As we've gotten when we do digs.
- Yeah.
Also, since we've got
Gps anomalies showing up
out here in the field,
I'm doing real-time
gps tracking,
And so we're
getting a data point
Every second on those guys,
and they're data logging.
There really isn't any place
that we can go and not be
Exposed to some level
of background radiation,
But when we get
gamma ray spikes during
Our experiments,
that's when we become concerned.
So, before we start
disturbing the earth,
We want to make sure
that we have
All the monitoring equipment
in place
To detect anything that we might
stir up inside the mesa itself.
So, we'll,
Dig an exit pit
right here for the mud,
And then we'll set up
behind that pit
And drill in, and our bit
has a beacon in it,
And we have
The equipment
to locate that beacon
All the way up
to where you guys want to go.
You said you could reach
500 feet?
Is how much rod you've
got with you? Right.
I have 500 foot of rod right now.
Wow.
This is awesome.
- Yeah.
Well, I think
that we, get to work.
Get you guys drilling.
- All right.
Ever since I've gotten
here on the ranch,
We've been really curious
what lies underneath the mesa.
So, the guys are gonna
begin drilling
By digging a pit
on the south side of the road.
This pit allows them
to catch all of the drill mud
And the spoils
that are coming out
Of the hole as they drill.
Yeah, man.
I think that it may tell us
Something pretty
interesting about what's
Going on near the mesa.
Well, I say we get the drill
set up and get going on this.
All right.
The rig that we're using
is a directional bore machine.
It has 30,000 pounds
Of push and pull, and you can
guide the drill bit
Wherever you want it to go.
It could go left,
Or it could go right.
Or I can steer it to come up,
or I can steer it to go down.
It is that one, right?
Yeah. So, where that
little clay outcropping is.
If we came in at
the edge of those rocks
Or just a little bit
under them, that's
I mean, that's right
where that opening's at.
Make sense? Okay.
- Okay. Yeah.
The drill bar requires
hundreds of gallons
Of water to keep it lubricated
As it penetrates into
The sandstone rock
that the mesa's made from.
So, it's gonna be
an extra messy job
For the team to look for clues
As the water and spoils
shoot back out into the pit
They dug by the rig.
But hopefully,
by the end of the day,
They'll confirm
if there's a big void
And even obtain evidence
Of an object or structure that
could be hidden inside there.
You're all good to go?
Okay.
Inside that head of that drill
Is a beacon.
And the beacon
is the brains of it.
We can follow it with
the locator, and it will
Tell me where I'm at,
How deep I am, what my pitch is
And what direction I'm going in.
So, do you have to walk
along and track - Yeah.
Wherever that's going? So,
you'd have to hoof it up there?
Yeah. I'll be doing some hiking.
Is it pretty soft drilling?
- No.
Really?
- It's not in the rock.
It feels like a really tight,
sticky clay.
Have you hit the mesa yet?
No.
Still a ways this way?
- Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah, he's up
against something hard.
Okay, well
I think we should go up
with your safe camera idea.
All right, well, if were gonna
go for a hike, I'm gonna shed
A couple layers here.
This drilling process
takes a lot of time,
So in the meantime,
thomas and I have decided
To hike up the mesa
To where we
had previously dropped
These smoke canisters down.
I don't know what the path
of least resistance is.
You've been up there the most,
so I'll follow you.
Well, there is no path
of least resistance.
We want to see if we can run
A snake camera down
And see if we can figure out
how deep this thing goes
Or if we see anything strange.
The hole's right here.
- Okay.
This one actually has
The ability
to pan, tilt and zoom,
So if we get it down in there,
We can actually, with this
little remote right here,
We can move it around.
Maybe the camera will
reveal some clues to us.
Maybe we'll see
an opening or a void as we
Channel this snake cam
deep into the hill.
I think we're live.
I'm gonna hit record.
- All right.
Still going down?
You're still going.
I have not seen
any sign of smoke bombs.
Neither have I.
- I thought for sure we'd see those.
Now we're down 21 feet.
I mean, that's pretty far down.
What the hell is that?
What is that?
It looks like metal
right there on the top.
It definitely
looks like it's reflecting
Something off of there.
Those smoke canisters
we dropped down there
Were basically
just paper and cardboard.
There's nothing
reflective on them.
What is that?
It looks metallic.
It really does look metallic.
This object is sitting
about 23 and a half feet
Below the entrance of this hole,
And we're trying to get
the camera
In position to see what it is,
And I can't tell what it is.
I'd definitely like to find a
way of getting it out of there.
It looks like it could go more
If we can actually
manipulate it.
It looks like it's almost like on a ledge.
- I want to see if I can
It appears to be pretty large.
Let me see if I can
somehow manipulate
This camera into it
with a different angle.
Gosh, I wish we could get
Something down there
and retrieve that.
There's your canister.
There's the smoke bomb. - It got wedged,
and there's still even more opening.
There's the base of
the smoke bomb right there.
So, we know that that other
thing is not the smoke canister.
'cause that other thing
didn't look anything like that.
Well, you know,
chris bartel talked about
A significant opening.
This is definitely significant.
I mean, we are 26-ish feet.
There's all kinds of rumors
That have been floating
around this ranch
Since the day
that I stepped foot on it.
Whether it be
The mesa opening up
and some type
Of aerial craft
flying into the hill,
Secret underground bases
under the mesa.
I really was surprised
with what we found.
I've never seen anything
like it anywhere on the ranch.
Is this hard evidence
that there is truly
Something going on
inside this mesa?
I'm really anxious
to see what we find out.
Well, I'll tell you what.
That's as far as we're going.
Okay.
Well, I think
we've got what we need here.
I'm gonna just
power this thing off.
I'm shocked we got down so far, actually,
to be honest with you. - I-- honestly.
It's becoming obvious to me
that there's many,
Many different channels
and-and chambers down this hole.
Some of them appear
to be very, very large.
There's definitely a lot
of empty space inside this mesa.
That was really surprising.
I want to get in there
more than ever now and discover,
Where is this metal coming from?
Hey, erik.
- Hey, tom.
I'm really interested
in what you guys found up there.
I feel like we got about a third
of the way down the mesa.
When we got down in that
20, 24-foot range,
We saw something that looks
completely out of place.
The first thought, maybe,
it might have been
The outside of one
of those smoke canisters.
Yeah.
- But this was not.
The object appeared
To be reflecting light back,
Like it was metallic.
It was, like, ridges and lines
Of-of a metallic-looking
or reflective type stuff,
Not packaging of some sort
that would be reflecting light.
What is this material made of,
And what is it doing
In the depths of a mesa
in eastern utah?
We're gonna be
drilling for a while.
So, now, really, we need to
Call travis
and tell him what we found.
Yeah. I agree.
- Let's do it.
Hey, fellas.
- Hey, travis.
Hey, there.
- How you guys doing?
It-it's been
a busy time out here.
Yeah.
While the drill rig
was going on,
On the side of the mesa,
thomas and I decided
To go back up
to that hole at the top
Where, you remember
the smoke vacuumed
Back down into the hole.
That cavern that
chris bartel showed us.
Right, right. It vanished, yeah.
So, we went up there
and started running
This snake camera down
and encountered
An object that looks
Like it has
a metallic quality to it.
What?
In fact, it was reflecting
our light back at us.
We found those smoke canisters,
And so we have those
to reference against.
It didn't look
anything like that.
Wow.
Travis, I want to get
your eyes on this material.
Take a look at that image.
Wow.
Do you see that
shiny object there,
Near the bottom of the image?
It looks like a
I don't know, a strip
of aluminum or something.
Is there any way to get a sample of that?
- We couldn't pick it up.
It'd be really good
to see what it is.
Clearly, lines
And yellow,
And there's a black strip
And then other
black strips on it.
How'd it get down in that hole?
Well, it definitely looks
out of place.
And that was about
23 and a half feet down,
Is where we encountered that.
And is it a single piece
Or something poking out
of that rock?
That's what we were wondering.
Wow.
Well, for this to be
that far down in that hole,
I mean, it didn't
get there by itself.
And to what end?
I mean, why is this thing there,
and what is it?
It sounds like there's
a significant void or something.
This particular snake cam
Has the ability to tilt
And zoom and pan around,
so we could see that
The opening
was quite substantial.
From the camera,
it looked like that hole
Could've been as much as
maybe ten foot in diameter.
You're kidding.
Wow. So, there might actually be
Some caves under there, then.
The video is unmistakable.
This is clearly some type
of metallic-looking material.
I don't know how it got there,
but we immediately
Need to put some sort
of robot in this hole
To see if it's a single object
Or part of something
much bigger.
Well, we've got a lot to do.
Hurry up and finish
your crap in alabama
And get the hell back here.
all right, man.
I hear you.
This is amazing stuff.
I-I can't wait
to get back out there
And do some more drilling
into the mesa.
That's crazy stuff.
- For sure.
All right, well,
We'll get back in touch with you
If we see anything else
like this, travis.
All right. Thanks, guys.
See you soon.
- All right, see you.
How deep are you?
- 80 feet.
You're 80 feet out?
- Yup.
Right now, he said
he's drilled back 80 feet, so
Wow.
He's, motioning for us
To come down there, guys.
- All right.
What's going on?
We can keep drilling,
But I just don't know
where it's going.
As we continue
drilling at this site,
That slurry of water
and bentonite clay
Going into the mesa should be
coming out of the mesa,
But it's not.
How many gallons of fluid
are we into this now
That haven't come back out?
500 out of this tank,
1,000 out of the last one
And four out of the first.
This fluid has to be
flowing into some
Cavity along the path.
Correct. Yeah.
- So, we're talking
2,000 gallons, around there?
It could be punching through
into that void.
Wow.
So, those tanks are
1,000 gallons each. - Okay.
So, you can picture
the size of that
Sitting somewhere inside that hill.
- Yeah.
The drill bit
is lubricated by water
As it punches
through the base of the mesa,
And so far, more than
1,500 gallons has been used
To get nearly 100 feet inside.
You'd expect to see that water
run back out into the pit,
But it's not.
That's just like
what happened last week.
Popping smoke. Popping smoke.
When we dropped smoke bombs
In the crevices of the mesa,
No smoke emerged.
- Look.
Look. It's getting sucked in.
There has to be
a massive void in there.
It's just a question of how big
it is and what it might contain.
Whoa, look at this.
That. What's going on there?
Okay, so there it is again.
Again, we're doing something
here that we've not done before.
Out here, outdoors,
with this thing running.
Yup.
And so,
Um, there's a correlation.
Always.
- Yeah.
I noticed that
the spectrum analyzer
Is giving us, once again,
This mysterious
1.6 gigahertz signal,
Like the one recently captured
at homestead two.
Erik, are you
doing something at 1.6?
I'm not broadcasting.
What are you seeing?
The signal. 1.60000.
Look at that.
Two weeks ago,
Just after we dug a trench
Near homestead two,
That night, we detected
The mysterious 1.6 gigahertz
rf radiation signal.
And then, later,
erik's surveillance cameras
Caught an incredible uap
floating around the homestead.
What the hell is that?
- You captured
A uap on camera here, erik.
Every time we've
seen that signal,
Something really strange
has happened.
Hey, bryant.
If you guys are game,
I've got some
handheld instruments
That you could take out
to the homesteads.
You know, j-just wander about
and see if you get any
Unusual readings out there.
Yeah, it always seems like,
it's almost,
Like, a bait-and-switch
type of a thing.
You focus your energies
in one spot,
And then, all of a sudden,
stuff happens in other areas. - Right.
Well, do you want
to go head down
To the homestead, then?
- Yeah.
Okay. Let's do it.
I've decided
to send tom and dragon
Out to the homesteads
And see if we pick up
anything happening out there.
Erik, it looks
like we have flow back.
You starting to get
some of the fluid coming back?
Yeah, it looks
like we got it back.
Yeah. I can see that coming out.
So, after about 2,000 gallons,
we're finally starting
To see some of our water.
Yup.
So, how's the drilling going?
As you can see,
it's a little hard still.
So, if there's a void
in there, maybe we filled it up.
Yeah. That's a possibility.
All right. Let me know
if you see anything else change.
Okay.
I guess we'll walk around
with both the geiger counter,
And then you've got
the tri-field meter.
We'll see if anything
strange pops up
And keep in touch with them.
Yeah. So far, so good.
I've also got
the lightning detector.
And right now,
it's not measuring
Anything above background.
Okay. Yeah.
Let's walk around the back where
we've seen some strange stuff,
And then I guess we could
even poke around inside
The building a little bit.
- Okay.
Yeah.
We're about
probably 25 feet from
Wait, hold on.
- Listen to that right there.
You can hear him.
Come on, sweetheart.
We can hear the drill bit,
Down below, punching.
- Copy you.
He's right here.
I can feel the vibration.
What you're hearing,
though, over here
Is like I said,
it's that paddle bit.
Right.
And so, every time it makes
A rotation,
you'll hear it smack.
Right.
However, considering that
he's eleven foot five,
He's pretty damn deep
for us to hear it that loud.
Usually when he's at 11,
We don't hear it.
- We don't hear him.
So, guys, there is
something of interest here.
That bit
Is down 11 feet
from the surface,
And we can hear it really good,
Like it's just six inches
below the soil.
These guys are saying, usually,
When it's that deep,
you can't hear it.
Yeah. Ten-four.
Copy you, tom.
That's really interesting.
He must be into something
really solid
That's carrying
the vibration well.
Ten-four.
Yeah, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.
Now, what am I getting?
- I don't know.
It's a lot of noise.
Wow.
Whoa.
This doggone thing
is broadcasting.
This thing shouldn't
be broadcasting anything.
Why would a device
that's designed to receive
Be broadcasting?
Hey, bryant? Tom? You copy?
Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, erik.
We've got an
Rf spectrum analyzer,
which is a receiver,
That seems to be broadcasting
Instead of just receiving.
That's not good.
Well, just
have a listen at this.
Are you okay?
No.
Are you okay?
No. I just, I just blacked out.
Like, blacked out?
Yeah, it was, like,
All the blood rushed out
of my-my brain.
This is not okay.
Here, help me up.
Dude, you're shaking.
You want to go?
- Yeah. Let's go.
I can't feel my hand.
- You, like
You can't,
you can't feel your hand?
I c-can't feel my hand.
That's your left arm?
- It's my left arm.
That's scary, dude.
I don't Here, give me--
Put your arm around me.
I don't want to
around with that.
Tom lewis said that
He had no feeling
in his left arm.
I knew it had to be
Something cardiac-related.
With my position on the ranch,
I made the decision
Right then and there
to get him the hell out of here.
You have any chest pains?
No, but it's hard
to keep my breath.
I don't know what it is
about this area.
I've never felt
anything strange,
But where tom lewis went down
is also within feet
Of where roland mccook
almost blacked out.
Hold on.
- Hey.
And it's where travis
had his radiation burns.
I really want to find out
what's truly happening
On skinwalker ranch
But not at the cost of
people's health and welfare.
Hey, you guys.
Tom is experiencing stuff.
He blacked out--
Blacked out,
has pain in his arm.
Are you serious?.
I'm getting him
the hell out of here.
I'm pretty concerned.
I need my bag.
It's got my phone in it.
He's taking him straight
to the emergency room.
I think so.
We need to get the truck
out of the road.
I need to clear this
out of the way.
Let's just move it.
Maybe that's
the better way to go.
Bryant, kandus
is right behind you.
So, you can be watching for her.
Hey, brandon.
I'm calling because
we had an urgent matter
That you need to know about.
We were doing
the drilling exercise,
And tom lewis and I
were near homestead two.
He started to black out,
basically collapsed,
Was complaining
about pain down his arm.
So, I immediately rushed him
out of there.
And kandus met us
at the hospital.
I've known tom lewis
for most of my life.
We grew up together.
Having tom collapse
In conjunction
with the drilling activity,
It leaves me
Stunned and speechless.
For the time being,
I'm just gonna keep
Everybody away
from homestead two.
Thank you.
- Bye.
I trust dragon and his
Dedication to safety.
So long as we're
implementing the right health
And safety protocols
and measures
To keep everyone safe
Looks like bryant's back.
I am open to allowing
Further exploration
of the property.
Well, I hope he's got good news.
So, updates?
Not yet.
So, I really want to know
What you think about
continuing what we're doing.
So, nothing measured
At all on any
of the instrumentation.
Right.
- The other thing is,
I don't feel anything,
you guys have felt
Perfectly fine.
- No.
We're a team here.
How do you feel about
Continuing the exercise,
given what has taken place?
That took place over there.
Yup. It did.
So, as long as the readings
Are all normal
and-and we're feeling fine,
I don't know why
we would shut her down.
Yeah, I just don't want anybody,
anybody seriously hurt.
Hey, guys, come over here.
- You hear that?
What's going on?
Well, it looks like we're in
A ledge that's holding this
from coming up.
So, the-the ledge is
coming to where it won't let
Your bit catch and go up?
- Right.
Right. And I'm just
hitting it and riding it.
Can you tell
whether it's clay or rock?
Not really sure what it is.
So, is this something
you often run into?
We'll run into it every once
in a while, but usually,
I can get out of it.
But I've been in it
for probably,
I'd say four rods now.
Yeah, 40 feet.
Really?
- Yeah.
What's your recommendation?
We just keep going
the way we're going and see
If we can get out of it.
Okay. See how far back
before you can get
Start coming up.
Okay, well, I guess you keep
Adding rod length
to it and see if
We can finally pop out.
Let us know
if you get on the back side
And you're able to come up.
I will.
Okay.
So, aaron keeps hitting
a hard surface,
And it's not allowing the bit
To penetrate
and go on up through it.
You know what? I think it
Might be wise
to just shut it down
For a little bit and
Yeah.
- Regroup.
Yeah, I agree.
We've got so much crap
going on right now,
Given the fact that
we're hitting this thing that
They can't get through,
the episode with tom,
The weirdness with your meters
and everything like that,
I just think that
Maybe it's time
to give this a rest.
Hey, aaron!
All right, well, if that's it,
we can head back.
We're here at
the emergency room. Still.
The doctor finally came
with results,
And, basically,
Couldn't say what
exactly happened
To cause tom to pass out
or black out.
He said my heart
is skipping beats
Every so often,
And so he's running
Lots of lab tests to see
if he can figure out why.
It's very unsettling because of
The sequence of events
that led up to that radio call
For-for what I was experiencing
And the sounds that erik
was sharing with everyone
And the way that it starts to
It's
Those things
don't seem coincidental,
Just like so many others.
Of course.
Once again, more questions
than answers,
But At least I'm alive.
Yeah.
It was scary,
and that's all for now.
Aaron, I really
want to understand
What we're up against here
inside of this mesa.
I'd like to know,
how unusual is it,
In your experience,
to not be able
To punch up
through something like this?
Well, seeing the rock
that is on the ground out here,
And it's a sandstone
type of rock,
The stuff that we are using
right now to drill up
Through this mesa,
it should go through that
Layer pretty easily.
And it's not.
Does that make you think that
Maybe what you're up against is
Something other than sandstone?
Yeah.
I wonder what that is.
How far back are we?
We are about 300 feet.
Now that you've got a little bit
Of the mud flowing back
from here, too,
Where you're hitting
some of this hard surface
And where you've been
bumping up against this,
Whatever it is,
I'm gonna be really fascinated
To see what's coming
out of that hole.
So, when you guys get ready
to dump the spoils,
We definitely want to put
a screen under there
And catch it and just see
If maybe we might be able
to discern
I mean, you're saying that
whatever you're hitting
Is harder than sandstone.
Correct.
- And so,
Maybe you're chipping it,
Or-or piece of it, kind of,
is coming out,
So I think that we
definitely want to analyze that.
And if we're doing that,
it should be
At the bottom
of that pit right there.
Okay.
- So
All right, we'll let you
get back to work.
Thank you.
- All right.
What happened to tom,
It's serious.
The ranch
takes a toll on people.
But we need to move forward,
Go back into the hole
and keep drilling.
As we get deeper into the hill,
The mud finally starts flowing.
It fills up this large hole
that they dug with the backhoe
To catch this stuff.
It becomes necessary
to vacuum it out.
I wonder what
that black stuff is.
I don't know.
Hey, thomas.
- Yeah.
My, back's full.
I need to go dump it.
Okay.
All right.
You think that'll catch it?
Yeah.
We put a screen underneath of it
When we dumped it,
just to see if we could catch
Anything that might be
coming out of that hole.
Okay.
What is that?
Hey
Look at that.
Thomas, what are you seeing?
I don't know if that's a rock
- Looks like you're studying
Or if it's like rust or
My.
- Just rock?
It's brittle.
- This is really thin.
What did you think it was
when you first saw it?
I wondered if it was, like,
metal flakes or something.
That's exactly
the same impression I got.
Yeah, there's quite a bit
of that flake stuff in here.
Yeah, you got
a good eye, thomas.
I don't know how you
spotted that in all that mess.
I mean
You know when a piece of metal
rusts and then flakes off?-
Yeah, that's what came
to mind as soon
As soon as you handed me that.
I'm surprised to see that there
are pieces of material--
Not rock, possibly metal--
Being screened out of that
800-gallon volume of slurry
With bentonite clay.
I don't know
what this material is.
At first,
it appears to be like rust
Or-or some kind of sheet metal
That has been broken
into pieces.
You see that?
- I know what it looks like.
Bryant, you want
to have a look at this?
I think this is just stuff
That's fallen down in the
Hole.
You know,
it might be interesting
To put a metal detector
Well, there's a few things
that come to mind.
The metal detector, of course,
and then the xrf device.
We can do some elemental
analysis on it with the xrf.
You know, it-it also
wouldn't hurt to take a look
At this stuff that's coming out
and see if we get
Elevated gamma readings on it.
What is it that
we're hitting inside there?
We've heard of tunnels
and caverns
And underground bases
here in the mesa.
Could what we hit in the mesa
be behind that narrative?
So this is that really
- That's
That's that really large one.
That's the biggest one
we found, right?
Yeah, yeah. All right,
I-I want to rinse it off
Back here,
away from the electronics. Okay.
Let's get the other side.
All right.
Well, look at that.
- Does it have any?
Yeah, look at this surface here.
- It's all bumpy.
It's a kind of a brown,
brownish color.
And this has got streaks
of that brown in it,
But there's a black color here
on this much flatter,
Smoother surface.
Well, let's find out what it is.
Does it have to be dry
to analyze it?
Yeah, I prefer to let
the thing dry off. - Okay.
In order to identify
what that material is,
At least to get a sense
of its composition,
I've decided to use the handheld
x-ray fluorescence analyzer,
Or xrf instrument,
and see what elements show up.
I like to describe
the xrf device
As basically
a fancy x-ray flashlight.
We shine those x-rays at objects
And we look at what
x-ray colors come back
To identify the materials
of which they're made.
So, this is telling me, on
this first reading on this side,
We're looking at calcium, iron,
silicon, aluminum, magnesium.
Wait, iron?
- What?
Yeah, there's
- And aluminum?
Yeah, it's, like, eight percent
aluminum on that shot.
How much iron is it?
Th-that time, it was 26%.
So, this is
definitely metallic, then?
Yeah. Let's take
a look at this other side.
Aluminum. Wow.
Guys?
That number's much different.
Yeah, this side
of this thing is showing up
At almost 72% iron.
This thing is just
straight-up metal?
This sample
is almost solid metal.
Wow.
What is metal doing coming out
of the hill 300 feet in?
Hey, guys.
- Erik.
I have travis cued up here
to videoconference with us.
We need to bring him up to speed
on what's been going on.
After finding
the material in the mesa,
A deeper and more searching
analysis with an xrf device
Suggests a much more
interesting composition,
Potentially a much more
interesting history.
So I want
to reach out to travis.
It's important that
we get him these findings.
Hey, fellas.
Hey, travis.
- How are you guys doing?
It-it's been a busy time
out here.
Yeah, it's been pretty crazy.
- Yeah?
What have y'all been up to?
- I took tom lewis
With me down to homestead two,
And right then and there,
tom lewis fell to his knees,
Basically blacked out.
And it required me getting him
to the emergency room.
Well, is tom okay?
- He is.
Fortunately, the doctors
checked him out and they did say
That he had a strange
heart arrhythmia,
Which he's never had before.
- What?
Yeah, this makes
no sense, travis.
Now, it has been pointed out
that our drilling
Had just reached what would be
below ground,
At the base of the mesa,
At the point in time
when tom lewis had his episode.
That's insane.
And what about the drilling?
We decided to-- the drilling,
and we would use a screen,
To screen any material
coming out of that-that slurry,
In case we saw any Anything
that we think doesn't belong.
And boy, did we find something.
- Really?
It was actually thomas
who noticed
That there were some
unusual pieces of material,
Sticking out of
that bentonite clay residue.
And this material, is flat.
It is metallic.
- Have you got, pieces of it
That you can show me?
- Yes, we do.
We're talking about
anywhere from 30%
To 72% iron.
- Wow.
And curiously, we see
aluminum in this material.
Really?
- Yeah.
Man, I wish
I could zoom in on that.
Does it look like
it's got any layering to it?
Any lamination?
My hope is that when we get
some additional processing,
We'll be able to answer
questions like that.
That's exactly the question
that we had on the ground.
But this is some
really unusual-looking stuff.
This is not something I would
have expected to encounter,
You know,
hundreds of feet into the mesa.
And-and what's it doing there?
That doesn't make sense.
I would normally expect
to see iron
Only in the form
of an oxide in the ground.
Yeah, this has been refined,
and it's got a-a mixture
Of, other,
you know, metals in it.
And to what end?
Yeah, I'm perplexed
by the aluminum content,
To be honest.
I don't know why I'm seeing
as high as ten percent aluminum
In some of my measurements.
And how did it get 300 feet
underneath the mesa?
These metallic fragments
that the drill extracted
From below the base of the mesa
Made me wonder
if there's a connection
To the metal-looking object that
thomas and dragon got video of
From the crevice above.
And how whatever
could be in the mesa
Might be connected
to tom lewis's health episode.
We need to keep drilling
And get a detailed elemental
analysis of that material
From a university-level
laboratory
To be certain
of just what it is.
Well, I guess
we're done here for now.
We'll, get back
in touch with you
If we see anything else
like this, travis.
All right, thanks, guys.
I'll see you guys in a few days.
Okay, see you soon.
While this investigation
is important
To everyone here on the team,
Everybody's physical health
is number one,
Above the investigation.
We feel like we're
at a crossroads right now,
Because what happened with tom
has shaken our comfort level.
As the experiments
get bigger and better,
They also get more dangerous
and more hazardous.
What are we going to trigger
with these bigger experiments?
Metal flakes or something.
I don't know how this
material got inside the mesa.
Could it be
from an asteroid impact
Or an alien spacecraft
or an underground base?
Who knows?
But what we do know
is whatever this is,
It's made up of rare
and unusual elements.
We need to find out what it's
doing here on skinwalker ranch.
Well, you guys ready
to go at it again?
Yeah, we're ready.
I'm up against something
pretty hard right now.
Look how big that chunk is.
Are we chipping away
at something
Much larger under the mesa?
It's almost as if
it all came off the same object.
Those materials are used
in modern
Quantum computer systems.
Is it some sort of a craft
that was put in there
That was never supposed
to be discovered?
what was that?
whoa! What was that?
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