The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s04e03 Episode Script

TRAVIS: Oh, wow.
- We've been wanting
to fly a pattern of drones over
the triangle and the east field.
TRAVIS (over radio):
There are several drones
out of line we can see
from my perspective.
They're clearly out of place.
Yeah, we've got eyes on that.
I have 80 disconnected.
They're coming home.
Three, two, one!
KALEB:
We got something right there.
TRAVIS: There's a thing
hovering over the launch site!
PETE: So there's a gap
in the data from the triangle
at the top of the mesa.
Somehow we've got
to get inside the mesa.
NARRATOR: There is a
ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:
animal mutilations,
bizarre UFO sightings
and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years,
the federal government
tried to find answers
and failed.
Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,
researchers and experts
has taken over.
They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal
The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.
Pete!
- Hey, Pete.
I want you to meet
some friends of mine.
All right.
- (Pete chuckling)
TRAVIS: After our experiment
at the triangle last week
actually revealed that
there might be a connection
to the mesa, we invited
Pete Kelsey and his colleague,
ground-penetrating radar
expert Jan Francke
to help us with a new
investigation of that area.
Well, welcome to the ranch.
Thank you. Happy to be here.
TRAVIS: So, uh,
Pete tells us that you've
got some interesting technology
that might help us out
at the mesa.
Yeah, I make deep
ground-penetrating
radar systems and I've got
one that I made
for you guys that's a really,
really small one.
It can get up over
some of that really rough
rocks, rock face
that you wouldn't be able
to drag a normal radar on.
And I've got one
that's a really deep
penetrating ground-based system
that looks
like a snake actually.
We use this for the mining industry.
- Okay.
JAN: What is it you're
actually expecting to see?
What are you looking for here?
We've heard about caves
inside of the mesa. - Okay.
We're actually looking for
also a-a structure that was
impenetrable to our drilling.
You know, as we went back
into that mesa,
we were using a directional
drilling technique
that should have been
able to turn upward
but could not,
we couldn't get through
that layer,
so it was a dome shape there.
And of course we'll
be especially interested
if we see anything
that looks unnatural.
Absolutely.
- Beneath that surface.
In our ongoing efforts
to find the answers behind
all the strange phenomena
that occur on Skinwalker Ranch,
we're now getting
focused back on the mesa.
Oh, wow, look at that!
We were all baffled one week ago
when the drone swarm
we launched over the triangle
to pinpoint an anomaly
between 300 and 5,000 feet
began malfunctioning.
Look at that one!
- One's falling, one's falling!
They're running into each other!
- THOMAS: They're going crazy!
Almost all of them
are disconnected right now.
PETE: What I'm going to
bring up now is the data
from the terrestrial
laser scanner.
TRAVIS: And then the lidar
data that Pete recorded
was missing a big chunk of data
that somehow appeared right over
that same spot where we drilled
into the mesa last year,
and discovered a 400-foot-long
dome-shaped metal object.
Wow.
- A metal object made of
the same kind of material
that NASA uses to protect
the outside of space shuttles.
So, now we're hoping that Jan,
who is a world-renowned expert
in ground-penetrating radar,
has the technology
that can help us figure out
just what's inside the mesa
and how it might be related
to the strange things
that keep happening
at the triangle.
So, uh, how deep
of a-a penetration can you get?
Usually we get down to 200,
300 feet with this,
so it's pretty exciting.
TRAVIS:
GPR works by sending
radio waves into the ground
that reflect off anomalies
like buried objects or voids
to reveal an image of their
shape as well as their depth.
If there's a discontinuity
or a void,
we definitely should
be able to see that.
What about metal?
- (chuckles) Well,
yeah, metal's
a great target for radar,
so if there's
something metal there,
we'd certainly
be able to see that as well.
BRYANT: Sounds like
we've got a lot to do.
We should probably get to it.
- Let's do it.
All right, we'll see you.
Y'all just follow us down there. - Okay.
TRAVIS: Even before we discovered
this mysterious metal object,
there were all kinds of rumors
about the mesa going back
to when Robert Bigelow
and the federal government
investigated here from
the 1990s to the early 2000s.
X marks the spot, Pete.
- X marks the spot.
THOMAS: I've heard all kinds of
crazy stories about this mesa.
Spacecraft going in it, tunnels,
caverns, underground bases.
What kind of mysteries
lie inside?
BRANDON: For decades, there have
been reports of underground chambers
or tunnels beneath the mesa.
That may hold
the key to understanding
the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.
The deeper we can see
into that pile of rocks,
into that mesa
- JAN: Sure.
Uh, the more we're
gonna understand
what it is we're
messing with out here.
Okay. It'll be interesting
to see what's underground.
TRAVIS:
So that's the antenna?
JAN:
Well, it's the entire radar.
These are the antennas
right here,
this is just a separator.
It's all fiberglass, keep it
as light as possible.
We can't use carbon fiber
because it's conductive,
of course.
TRAVIS:
Jan has brought two devices
that we'll use to scan the mesa.
One is a unit that Tom Winterton
will actually wear
while he hikes over the area
where we drilled
against the dome-shaped
object last year.
And meanwhile, Jan and Kaleb
will run the other device
back and forth
on top of the mesa
to see if anything else
might be hidden inside there
like we've heard about
in the past.
Well, it looks like
we're just about set up
so, uh, talk us through
what you're going to do.
Okay, there's a couple
of GPR systems here.
So, this one here,
what's really nice about it,
it's a very long wavelength
which means we're
gonna get good penetration.
And because it's handheld,
it gives us, uh, the ability
to get into areas that are really
difficult terrain. - ERIK: Okay.
So, we're set up over here.
JAN: Yep. - ERIK: We're gonna
be doing the usual data logging.
We've got the SDR,
we've got the, uh,
Geiger counter running.
Okay. - All right, man,
well, let-let's get going.
Okay, sounds good.
ERIK: With all that
we have going on
and to the extent possible,
I'm keeping a close eye
on the RF spectrum analyzer
to see if any
unusual signals show up.
Are you centered on 45?
That would be 44.5 something.
- Good enough.
TRAVIS: Nearly every time
we run experiments on the ranch,
we detect mysterious
energy spikes,
especially one
measuring 1.6 gigahertz,
which I think could be some
kind of communication signal.
Go ahead and turn it on.
I've turned it on.
Okay, I've got the transmitter
and receiver
working right now.
- Okay.
And it creates
its own little website.
It's like a little access
point, so - Okay.
even though we're
not on the Internet here,
I'm gonna talk to it
with my phone.
Okay.
And you are good
good to go.
Um Um
Are you guys transmitting something?
- BRYANT: No.
No.
- Hey, Erik. Travis.
Are you guys transmitting anything?
- Are you transmitting something?
TRAVIS: No. - ERIK: No.
We're not transmitting at all.
What are you seeing?
- JAN: Uh
Uh, I've never seen
this signal before, uh
What the hell?
This waveform is not supposed
to be happening right now.
TRAVIS:
Where's it coming from?
JAN: Yeah, that's a good question.
Where's it coming from?
Let's-let's Way back
from the truck here
just to be absolutely certain.
Uh Okay.
Do you have a cell phone
on you or something?
Well, I mean, I got one in my
back pocket but I got it on
Yeah, let's just take that out
if you don't mind.
Turn it off.
- Here, I'll turn it off.
Yeah. Okay.
That ain't it.
JAN: See, so that's a normal wave-
form there just for a second.
Right?
- Mm-hmm, yeah, I see it, yep.
But it's freaking out.
TRAVIS: Jan actually built the
systems he brought out here,
he understands them completely.
He is the guy for
ground-penetrating radar.
As soon as we got one
of his systems off the truck
and turned it on,
it was instantly detecting
a signal that Jan
had never seen before.
In thousands of experiments
using this device,
he was baffled and confused.
I find that really interesting.
So you've not seen that before?
Uh, no, actually, I have not.
And I tested it
this morning, so
I'm gonna go scroll through the
spectrum analyzer over here.
You tested it this morning
and it was working? - I did.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a little strange.
Um, there's nothing
I can do about it.
I think we're just
gonna run with it and
see if we can filter it out.
- Understood.
When I first came on this ranch,
I-I just thought, "Look, there's
a lot of hype around it
and I'm sure everything
can be explained, right?"
Then weird things
started happening.
I-I had that weird interference
that just has no simple
geological explanation.
I'm gonna start recording this.
Okay, well, I'm gonna head up the mesa so
- JAN: Okay. Careful.
THOMAS: Having pulled metal
400 feet inside the mesa
and now strongly suspecting
that there could've
actually been a cavern
that went deep into the mesa,
I'm praying that the information
that we get from this GPR
is finally going to answer
some of the questions
we have as far as what
was this object
we were bumping up against
with the drill last year?
TRAVIS:
Man, he's up there. Look at him.
What you're gonna do for me
is drag this
and it doesn't have to be
a straight line
because we're tracking
exactly where you are
at all times, right?
- Mm-hmm.
And, uh, this is going
to be taking
an image of the ground
essentially.
It's a representation of
what's in the ground. - Yep.
So, one's a transmitter,
one's a receiver
and it's gonna stretch
out behind you
about five, six meters.
- Okay.
KALEB: As Thomas is
going up the mesa there,
I've been tasked
with escorting Jan.
He's got a very powerful
GPR system that's been
used all over the world.
So, this is a very
deep-penetrating radar.
In fact, it's probably
the world's deepest GPR system.
I'm excited to see
what kind of results we get
and I'm here to help him out
with scanning as much as we can.
All right, let's hope
the GPS works.
TRAVIS: There are so many questions
I have about Skinwalker Ranch.
I want to know the answer
to so many things.
If I had to pick one
that I wanted the answer to
like right now, it would be:
what's inside the mesa?
We're just gonna
have to see what we've got.
THOMAS: Hey, guys.
- TRAVIS: What's going on, guys?
So, what you got here?
THOMAS:
I'm really interested
in what you found, Jan.
Absolutely.
- Yeah, I can't wait.
TRAVIS: The day after we ran
ground-penetrating radar scans
over the spot on the mesa
where we discovered the massive
dome-shaped metal object
last year and also up on top
of the ridge of the mesa,
Pete Kelsey and Jan Francke
joined us to present
the processed data
of what they had found.
We'll start off with the, uh,
small lightweight one.
This is the This is my walking path?
- This is your path, yes.
Now, do you recall
when we were out in the field
we were getting
a lot of interference.
Mm-hmm.
I've not seen that before.
The data is almost unusable.
There's just a huge amount
of interference in this area.
Right, interference from?
What?
- Yes. What?
TRAVIS:
Usually good GPR data
looks like a slightly
textured surface
that might show subtle waves
that represent natural
ground features.
So any stark changes
or bizarre shapes that stand out
could be things that aren't
natural like voids or objects.
But most of the GPR data
that Thomas got
over the drill site
was a checkered mess
of strange shapes
that didn't make any sense.
Which Jan believed were caused
by the mysterious interference
that his device detected
even before we ran his scans.
So we were all at a loss
as to what the interference
could have been caused by.
Could this signal be
coming from the ground?
It could be coming
from anywhere.
We don't know, right?
It is something that's strong
enough to overwhelm the radar.
ERIK: What exactly is responsible
for this interference?
I can't help but wonder
is there something actually
within the mesa generating
radio frequency signals
that could be
causing interference?
THOMAS:
What would be the cause
of this kind of interference?
Do you think it's
an environmental thing?
Well, the weird part
is it works now.
When I take it away
from the ranch.
That's what
I was going to ask you.
JAN: I know you were
going to ask that.
I wanted to know if
we could do a control.
And it sounds like you've
already done it. - I can't
I can't replicate it.
ERIK:
That is such a
That is such
an interesting observation.
We can actually recover
a little bit of the data,
literally like ten percent
of it, okay?
Ten percent of this data is usable.
- And that's what we're seeing.
TRAVIS: We've detected a number
of weird frequencies and signals
during our experiments
on the ranch,
but never like the one
that interfered
with Jan's GPR machines.
And hearing that he was
only able to recover
ten percent of what was recorded
on the mesa made us
all pretty nervous that we
wouldn't get any new information
about just what may
be buried inside there.
JAN: What we can make out of
that remaining ten percent
I'm trying to see
if there are any
hyperbolic shapes, or things
that look like horseshoes.
That would indicate
that that could be a void
or something discrete
in the ground.
TRAVIS: And where do you
see something like that?
Well, well, there's subtle hints
of things that pop out
like here.
There's another one here.
There's quite a few of them
that are just scattered around.
So, what that tells us,
uh, there's a series
of discrete anomalies.
These are something that's
different than rock, right?
TRAVIS: I was amazed that
the GPR data over the area
where we've encountered
the dome-shaped object
showed numerous, and distinct
other objects or voids
that might not be natural.
Now, I'm nowhere near ready
to buy into the rumors
that an alien base
is buried in the mesa,
but could there be a bunch
of metal objects,
or tunnels of some kind
in there?
If so, what could they be?
And who put them there?
I know you did another survey.
- We did quite a few.
That's actually got some data, right?
- Absolutely.
BRYANT: I would love to see that.
- JAN: Right.
Okay, let me switch to that.
In addition to the stuff
that I did
at the toe of the mesa,
we climbed up to the top,
and what I used is an even
deeper penetrating radar,
so this is a lower frequency
and this is actually the deepest
penetrating GPR in the world.
Wow.
JAN: It's a very sensitive radar.
- Okay.
So, when we look at
the cross-section there,
you can see where I am
on the, uh,
on the map at the top
of the screen there
and you can see
where the cursor is.
Okay? So, as we're scrolling
along, everything's fine
and, uh, it keeps going
fine until we get to
PETE:
Ooh.
Hello.
Look at that.
- JAN: Look at that.
This is highly anomalous.
And this is a good six,
seven meters across.
It starts at about six, seven
meters from the surface
where I was and it extends down
to about 40 meters which I guess
about the height of the mesa.
Approximately, right?
- To the base?
JAN:
To the base.
The height of the mesa.
JAN: Right, so
- Whatever this is, is as tall as the mesa.
JAN:
Right.
ERIK: What in the hell
are we looking at here?
This is six or seven
meters across
and the depth
From the surface, I mean,
there is a bit
of surface expression
but it's about five, six meters.
And we know
that it's about 120 feet deep,
maybe 20 feet wide, and at least
12 feet north and south. - At least.
All right?
So it could be bigger.
So, I can't tell you
what that is,
but it is highly anomalous.
What's also interesting is,
you know, we did
300 meters of line,
we don't see anything else like that.
No. - You don't see it anywhere else?
So it's coincidental
where your drill site is.
TRAVIS:
What in this world could Jan
have detected
with his GPR device?
It was right next
to where we previously detected
the dome-shaped metal object
and it was at least 20 feet wide
by 120 feet tall.
Are they connected
or related in some way?
We have to figure out
how to get inside
the mesa to know for sure.
I'll tell you right now
we know exactly
which boulders we need to be
moving out of the way. - JAN: Yep.
We've got a map right now
of where there is an anomaly
and it's only
tens of feet into the mesa.
We should be digging,
drilling, moving rocks
right there
to find out what that is.
ERIK: We did horizontal
drilling last summer
into the mesa.
Collecting strange
material fragments.
Check this out.
ERIK:
Curious flakes of metal
from within the mesa itself.
These are materials
of unknown origin.
Wow, look at all the metal.
ERIK: It's my ambition,
and all of our ambition,
to determine what
this material really is,
what it's doing there.
BRYANT: There's no telling
how much of this metallic crap
there is still in that hillside.
ERIK:
We have to continue searching
into the depths of the mesa.
We know we've got a lot
of iron-bearing material
coming out of there with those
other elements,
tellurium, europium
That seems artificially
manufactured,
not a natural process creating it.
- Yeah. Yeah.
It's even been described
as something
having been made in a furnace.
- Yeah.
ERIK:
It's not natural.
THOMAS: I could line up a
crane company to come out
and start moving
those boulders off.
Uh, gonna have a little bit
of site prep
that needs to happen to
get the crane back there.
But I really think
it would be beneficial
to-to pull those boulders off
and then let's bring
in a drilling rig
and let's try to pierce
the mesa a little bit higher.
I mean, if we do that,
maybe that gets us up
above that hard metal
disk that's underneath.
I'm I'm all for it.
Yes.
- And, uh, so I mean,
we got our work cut out for us
and we've got some spots
that we didn't have before.
And, Jan, I really appreciate
the work that you've done.
My pleasure.
- It's absolutely amazing.
I want to get out there
and start throwing rocks.
TRAVIS: Let's go get a
shovel and pick and start.
BRYANT:
Hey, Jake.
How are you?
- Good to see you.
Good to see you.
Hey, how you doing? - Hey, man.
TRAVIS: A couple of days
after Jan Francke presented us
with the GPR data showing
numerous anomalies in the mesa
near the dome-shaped
metal object
we discovered last year
Getting ready to move some dirt.
TRAVIS:Thomas Winterton
brought local contractor
Jake Huffman back out to the
ranch to help prep the area
for a major excavation
so we can find out
what could be buried in there.
THOMAS: So, uh, Jake and I
can bring this crane in.
Obviously, we've got to get it
across the canal,
so we're just going to put
a temporary
little culvert in there.
Then we can get the crane across
and start moving some rocks.
The crane needs
30 feet to be able
to spread its outriggers out
and we need
to get him as close to
those rocks as possible.
Because we're estimating
some of these rocks
are going to weigh
as much as 50,000 pounds.
TRAVIS:
Oh, I believe it, yeah.
So, we're going to build
a 30-foot by 30-foot pad
back in there so we can get him
right up next to those rocks.
TRAVIS:
Sounds good.
In order to get
the giant, 175-ton crane
over to where we need
to lift boulders off the mesa,
it's going to be
a massive project.
First, Tom and Jake will have
to move tons of earth
to form a bridge over the canal
between the road and the mesa.
Then, they have to clear
and level off a good-sized pad,
where they can park
the crane close enough
to remove many
of the huge boulders.
THOMAS: I think it's going
to take us a couple days
to get the pad ready.
So I think we start
slinging some dirt.
Sounds good to me.
Okay, we'll get out of your way.
THOMAS:
Watch yourself.
ERIK:
In preparation
for our surgical
examination of the mesa,
there's a lot of work
that needs to be done.
Thomas is having to
put a culvert in place.
THOMAS: How does that look?
- JAKE: Good to me.
BRYANT: What we're doing
here with these excavators
and this massive crane
is by far the largest scale
that we've ever done
here on Skinwalker Ranch.
ERIK:
I'll try to get across.
BRYANT: This is a lot of work,
it involves a lot of digging,
but we need to get after it
and I'm anxious to find out
what's inside that mesa.
It'll hopefully help us
with some answers
as to what truly is going on,
on Skinwalker Ranch.
BURDETTE: I'm going to
take the color camera
and we're going to put it
right up here.
TRAVIS: I think just pull in
right in here.
Yeah, that'll be good, yeah.
Since it was going to take
several days to complete
the prep work at the mesa
Hey, Burdette. Everything okay?
Yeah, so, who wants
to operate the camera
while I tell them what to do back there?
- I can do it.
You want to do it?
TRAVIS:later that evening,
we welcomed Burdette Anderson
from a company
called Photron Cameras
to help us with a new
experiment at the triangle.
Just hit the green button.
TRAVIS: He specializes in
a high-speed camera system
that can shoot
thousands of frames per second.
Everything's talking correctly.
Our eyes basically detect
somewhere between
24 and 30 frames per second.
The advantage of using
a high-speed camera out here
is if you have things
that are moving
that you're just
not quite catching,
if you're ready for it,
you can get
a very good look at it.
My camera will shoot at 100,000
or a million frames per second.
Let's load a rocket.
Red one first?
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
Our plan was to launch rockets
up through the triangle
where we've seen numerous UAPs
and detected what we believe
to be some kind of anomaly
between 300 and 5,000 feet.
Okay, it's on?
- Yeah.
TRAVIS: While Burdette
photographed each launch
at a thousand frames per second,
with both color
and infrared cameras.
Whoa, whoa, wait,
what's this right here?
What's this? What's this?
TRAVIS: We got something!
We got something!
When we've seen UAPs
here in the past
A UAP appeared and vanished.
we've gotten
quick glimpses of them.
Hey, look, UAP right there!
- Yep.
TRAVIS: But then they tend
to just disappear
before we can really see
what they are.
Are they always that bright?
- And it's gone.
Here we go.
Let's go straight up.
Tell me when you're good.
That's fine.
So we're hoping
that Burdette's cameras
will help us get a much better
look at anything
that might appear in the sky
during our rocket launches
tonight.
I hope that works. All right.
I learned
about the investigations
at Skinwalker Ranch
through, uh, Travis
and some of the things
they hadn't done yet
is tried to catch things
in high-speed,
because there's
so many fast-moving things
that happen here
that you don't get
to grasp with your eye.
And that's kind of
where our Photron cameras
come into play.
We got it.
BURDETTE:
They slow down reality.
So anything you
can't see with your eye,
we can catch with the cameras.
And anything you just
kind of saw with your eye,
we can slow it down so you can
get a very good look at it.
TRAVIS:
The rocket, it's ready to go.
All right, um
- Are you good?
Yeah, it's on.
We're good, yep.
- Hey, Erik, do you copy?
All right, copy you.
TRAVIS: Erik was stationed
in the command center
during the experiment,
so he could monitor
for any strange energy spikes
out at the triangle
and keep a close eye on
the ranch surveillance cameras
pointed in this direction.
All right, here we go,
here we go.
Okay. We're hot.
- All right, everybody ready?
Is everybody ready?
Erik, be advised the rocket's
hot. We're going hot now.
Copy you, Travis.
All right, here we go.
In three
two, one
Hey, did you see that?
It turned before it could get
to wherever the anomaly is.
How many times have we
seen that happen? - Yeah.
It's going to land
right here behind us.
Right after the first
rocket launched,
I noticed that in midair,
it suddenly veered
a little off course
like it ran into something
invisible that deflected it.
Now, we've also seen
that happen numerous times
with other rockets
and GPS devices at the triangle,
so I was really eager
to immediately launch
another rocket to see
what would happen next.
Isn't that crazy?
Gosh, if it ain't
one thing, it's another.
TRAVIS: Hey, Kaleb,
why don't you pull the Jeep around
and shine a light over here.
- KALEB: Yep.
♪
Let me download
this image real quick
and then we can
look at it again later.
Won't take long because
there's not much in there.
Okay, we're as good
as we're gonna get.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
Yeah. Go ahead, Travis.
We good?
- Yes, sir.
TRAVIS:
All right.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
THOMAS:
That is cool.
TRAVIS:
Oh, that one was awesome.
Boy, that went up pretty high.
That one may end up
in the east field.
KALEB: Hey, we got a light
that's right there that's moving.
Where, where?
- Right there, right above us.
What? Really?
- Right there.
Where?
TRAVIS: Yeah! We got it!
There it is, right there.
Nah, this one's
moving pretty fast.
What is that?
KALEB:
That's not a plane.
KALEB: That's not a plane.
Erik. We've got an orange light
across the river
on the, uh, southwest side.
Moving pretty fast
about treetop high.
Look at that,
it's still plenty bright.
TRAVIS: Dang.
Yes, I do, Travis.
I will take a look.
TRAVIS:
I don't know where it came from,
but just after
we launched our second rocket
at the triangle area,
probably the most prominent UAP
I've ever seen
appeared over Skinwalker Ranch.
Erik, we got something moving
right overhead of us right now.
It's moving slightly
northeast, it's orange.
And it doesn't look
like a satellite.
Do you see it in the cameras?
I'm going to try to track it.
TRAVIS:
You see it?
Hey, come, hey,
it looks like it's sped up.
Does it look like
it just sped up to y'all?
TRAVIS: It just sped up.
Erik, it's almost
right over you now
and it's moving really fast.
All right.
I'm not seeing it.
Travis, I don't have it.
Ask Erik if he's got anything
on the ADS-B.
Erik, is there anything
on the ADS-B?
It would be going
east-northeast right now
directly over the ranch.
TRAVIS: I've never seen an
aircraft maneuver like this thing,
but Thomas was right
to have Erik check his
Automatic Dependent Surveillance
Broadcasting tracker.
It monitors the signals
that airplanes and jets
are required by law to emit.
I've got eyes on the ADS-B map.
ERIK: You know,
I get aircraft as far out as 130 miles.
There's nothing over us,
there's nothing near us.
It was clearly going due north
and then it dog-legged
and it sped up.
Yeah, it came across and
then it like turned. - Yeah.
It's still going, look at it.
THOMAS:
So, if that was a satellite,
you'd expect it
to start fading out.
TRAVIS:
By now, it'd be fading out.
THOMAS:
That's no satellite.
TRAVIS: Did it just?
It just vanished.
That thing stayed bright
and just went away.
Well, I don't see it anymore.
THOMAS: Well, I think we
got to get that rocket up
and see if we can make it
TRAVIS: Yep, I hear you.
- THOMAS: Replicate it.
That was not a satellite.
So what was that?
Right here over the ranch.
Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.
We're good? Okay.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
One more sparky rocket.
Okay, perfect.
We couldn't wait to see
if launching another rocket
would evoke the UAP to reappear
or stimulate another one
or who knows what else.
And also, I hoped that Burdette
was getting great pictures
that would help us
figure out what it was.
Hook the wires up.
Uh, make sure it's off, hang on.
Are we good here?
- Yeah, yeah, we're good.
Lights on?
- Lights on.
Hey, Erik, be advised:
in about 15 seconds.
Are you ready?
I am ready. Go ahead.
Are you ready, Burdette?
BURDETTE: Yes, sir.
- KALEB: Yeah, we're good to go.
All right. Going in five,
four, three,
two, one.
Oh, we got a malfunction.
Everybody watch out.
Oh. Oh. Oh, it's on fire.
TRAVIS: We got a fire.
We got a fire.
Oh, dang.
TRAVIS:
We shoot the rocket up
and we-we're ready
to launch this thing.
And as the launch starts,
it looks like
a perfect launch
from the beginning,
and what we see is that
the rocket takes off,
clears the tower,
gets to somewhere
I'm estimating
between 30 and 50 feet,
and then suddenly there's
a big flash of light
and, uh, what sounded
like a pop,
maybe even an explosion.
It-It's burned out.
- The motor burned out.
Holy crap.
I've yet to see that. - Yeah.
What the heck?
- What would cause that?
What would cause that?
The motor blew up.
It-it deflagrated
inside the rocket.
Wow.
- Hey, Erik, you copy?
Well
- It was worse than that.
At about 30 feet
off the launch pad
And started a fire.
Well, let's go look
at the high-speed
because it should be
right in that view.
TRAVIS:
We recovered it.
Holy crap.
- Right? What a night.
What What
That motor blew up.
It literally it exploded.
I've never seen, uh,
I've seen experimental
motors do that, Kaleb,
but I've never seen
a store-bought motor
deflagrate like that.
Right there.
- Got it.
Hey, Travis.
- Yeah?
We caught the malfunction
on the high-speed.
Oh, really?
- Yeah.
Hey, check this out.
There's something on the camera.
BURDETTE: It's something I've
never seen before. Check this out.
So, as it's going,
look what you've got
TRAVIS:
There's something in the sky
above the rocket, right here.
KALEB: Yeah, look at that,
look at the light
No way.
- Look at that (bleep)!
That's crazy.
- There is literally something
We may be looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
BURDETTE:
That's crazy.
TRAVIS:
Oh, my God.
TRAVIS:
There is literally something.
We may be looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
Yeah, look at that.
Look at the light.
TRAVIS: All right, now
the rocket gets there.
THOMAS: Look how it veers
to the side.
TRAVIS: And then
the rocket blows up
right when it hits it!
- THOMAS: Oh, my God!
(cheering and shouting)
Right on!
Right here. Look at that.
Yeah!
TRAVIS:
Holy crap.
All right, Burdette, could
you play it one more time?
I want to make sure I saw
what I think I just saw.
After four years
of investigating
Skinwalker Ranch as a team,
we finally got good visual
evidence of something
incredible at the triangle.
Just as we launched a rocket,
Burdette Anderson captured some
kind of blob-like feature
on his high-speed camera
that literally appeared
out of nowhere and caused
the rocket to explode.
It was something that none of
us could see with the naked eye.
That cloud remained intact.
The whole thing.
This isn't an anomaly in
the lens because it didn't move.
TRAVIS:
Could this be the phenomenon
that causes the energy spikes
we've detected?
And is it related
to the UAPs we've seen?
All I know is
we may finally be getting
closer to possible answers.
Think about all
the rockets that hit
about that same spot
and veered off.
So you can see it right there,
there's something in the sky.
KALEB: It's already illuminated
by the light. - TRAVIS: Yeah.
THOMAS:
There's not a cloud in the sky.
TRAVIS: There's not a cloud
in the sky. So what is it?
THOMAS:
And there's no dust.
And then, look,
it's almost there.
Right there it's like it hits
right on something
or zap or whatever.
Boom.
- Boom!
And it is exactly
- Oh, my God.
TRAVIS: You can't make it up.
- BURDETTE: Oh, yeah.
Usually I can explain
everything I've seen
in a high-speed camera
when I record it.
But when we shot
the third rocket,
as soon as that rocket
started illuminating,
we saw something that wasn't
there in the second shot.
I can't explain what it is.
I've never seen anything like
that come off a Photron camera.
Holy crap.
- Oh, my God.
Well, Travis, that's only 30
30, 40 feet above us.
Oh, my God. 40 feet high.
What are the odds
of that happening
right there with other
rockets in that same spot?
Last year,
we attempted to launch
a 15-foot tall rocket
through the anomaly,
above the triangle.
- Push and hold.
ALLEN:
Uh-oh. That motor blew.
TRAVIS: And it exploded
in nearly the same spot.
Oh, no. Oh
TRAVIS:
Shortly after that,
we saw a UAP
appear over the triangle
Look at that. Look at that.
which then vanished
into thin air.
But what did it disappear into?
BRANDON: Is it a portal?
Are we seeing portals open?
Yeah.
I couldn't possibly know
what this phenomenon was,
but we now have a clear location
to focus our investigation.
Okay, we caught something cool.
(laughter)
(cheering)
(laughter)
TRAVIS:
That's just more validation.
We got to call Erik
and tell him this.
Erik, you are not
going to believe
what the high-speed caught,
there is a thing in the sky,
the rocket hits it and explodes.
That is unbelievable.
I want to see that footage.
My gosh! (laughs)
(helicopter whirring)
Helicopter, helicopter!
Helicopter coming right over!
Erik, we got
a helicopter right over
the ranch right now,
are you getting it?
ERIK: I am getting
no helicopter above the ranch
on the ADS-B receiver here.
TRAVIS: We have a helicopter
right over the triangle.
KALEB:
Hey, it just went dark.
And it just vanished,
but we still hear it.
Ah, now it's there again.
There's its light right there.
- It went behind the anomaly!
THOMAS:
That's a bigger helicopter.
Why? Why right now?
Why right now?
(helicopter whirring)
Erik, it came over us.
We lost the lights for a second
and then it turned
away from the anomaly
and turned southeast.
Well, whoever they were,
they weren't transponding.
A helicopter that size
not transponding?
Well, did you see
- TRAVIS: Right after we did this!
KALEB: The helicopter
looks like it's
TRAVIS: The helicopter is turning around.
- KALEB:coming back around.
Helicopter's turning
back around, Erik.
I've got eyes on him.
THOMAS:
Where did that just come out of?
It's coming back
Erik, that helicopter is coming
back at us. Do you see that?
Yeah, I've got him.
All right, now you're mine.
The aircraft
is not transponding
And it's slowing down.
And it's-it's doing
It-It's orbiting the ranch.
It's doing surveillance
right now of the ranch.
We have a helicopter
right over the triangle
right now right overhead.
It's doing surveillance
right now of the ranch.
(helicopter whirring)
They're definitely watching.
They're definitely over
the ranch looking at us.
THOMAS: Shortly after this UAP sighting
and after this rocket blows up,
all of a sudden a helicopter
comes flying directly over us.
Look at 'em,
they're turning again.
TRAVIS: Yeah, they are clearly
- They are watching.
KALEB: And then we also had that
other light that we saw, earlier.
Yep.
As that helicopter is
sitting there hovering,
my mind is immediately
trying to figure out
who this could be
that's watching us.
Hey, Erik, uh, are you sure
that there's nothing
on the ADS-B?
Travis,
this helicopter
is not transponding
as far as I can tell.
Because I'm getting aircraft
100 miles to the south of here.
So, it's not
a connectivity issue.
And he's staying right over us
and orbiting and orbiting.
Well, someone's taken
an interest in what we're doing.
There's nothing over us.
There's nothing near us.
And he has not shown up at all.
This is an aircraft that is
deliberately not transponding
while flying over the ranch.
All I know is there's
an aircraft flying after night,
which means they got
night vision.
TRAVIS: There are not any
commercial helicopters
around here with
night vision capability.
The only thing this could be
then is a military helicopter.
What is the military doing
flying over Skinwalker Ranch
while we're doing
this experiment,
and while we find something
that we've never seen before?
I don't like
the feeling of that.
TRAVIS:
I don't like that crap either.
Hey, Erik? Uh
Are you, do you have any
of the ranch cameras
on that helicopter?
Yeah, I've got multiple
of the ranch cameras on him.
He is sitting still
and hovering, watching us.
ERIK:
That is exactly right.
TRAVIS:
It's really spooking us
and, uh, pissing us off
at the same time.
I'm right there
with you, Travis.
Well, Travis, it's pretty
clear somebody has taken
an interest in what we're doing.
It-it really
It's a little bit scary.
THOMAS:
They're leaving.
How long did they stay there,
like four or five minutes?
Oh, ten minutes.
THOMAS:
What the heck?
And now they're headed back towards, uh
Roosevelt. - Roosevelt.
They are all but gone now.
TRAVIS: It-it came by
to show us that it knew
we were doing something,
I don't know.
It's possible somebody
saw rockets
and they called, you know,
the ATF or something
and that was an ATF
ATF has a helicopter
in the Uinta Basin?
Uh, they could have
hired somebody, right?
There are no helicopters out
here equipped with night vision.
TRAVIS:
That's a good point.
I mean, there's not
a military base nearby.
No. - I mean right here
that has helicopters.
We're talking minutes.
- Yeah.
Who alerted them that fast?
And where was that helicopter?
Where did it come from?
How did it get here so quick?
It's well known
that the federal government
investigated Skinwalker Ranch
in the past.
But I'm not aware of any
current government
investigations here.
So are we being spied on
while we conduct our operations?
I don't know,
but I want to find out.
THOMAS:
What a night!
Hey, look, uh, we've got
a lot of equipment here,
it's getting late.
Well, let's get
cleaned up, shall we?
Yes.
- All right.
TRAVIS:
All right, well, let's pack up.
THOMAS:
Let's get wrapped up.
ERIK: What the heck is going on
in that space above this area?
What are we seeing?
Is there in fact
exotic physics playing out
in the space
just above the triangle?
That's what we hope to find out.
TRAVIS: We may have found a
real unexplained phenomena
above the triangle
that nobody
has ever seen ever before.
Could this new anomaly,
this blob,
be the cause of each
of these incidents
over the triangle?
BRANDON: We are on the verge
of getting the very answers
that we've been
seeking for years.
We've made incredible
progress in documenting
the reality of the phenomenon.
We are just getting started
in scratching the surface of
what we are really dealing with
here at Skinwalker Ranch.
THOMAS: I've arranged for a crane
to come in and to lift a lot
of these big rocks
at the bottom of the mesa.
This 1.6 gigahertz signal
seems to be coming
from right there
where that big crane is.
ERIK: We're going to probe that
space down at the triangle.
Kaleb will be releasing
projectiles.
Holy crap.
This is a video recording
taken from the triangle.
Right there.
- Holy cow!
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