The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s04e05 Episode Script

THOMAS: I've arranged
for a crane
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 cow.
BRANDON: There's something
following the helicopter.
REYES:
What the heck is flying
around in my state?
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.
AARON:
You guys cleared out a spot.
KALEB:
Yeah.
THOMAS:
Made it out, huh?
Yeah, we made it.
TRAVIS:
Over the past four years,
it's been extremely challenging
for our team to determine
what is actually causing
all the bizarre phenomena
that happens
on Skinwalker Ranch.
THOMAS:
So, uh, looks a little different
from the last time
you were here.
TRAVIS: But now,
we've invited Aaron Blunt
and his team
from Straight Shot Drillers
back to the ranch to begin
a new drilling operation
at a very specific location
on the mesa
where we hope to finally
get some answers.
Do you think you'll be able
to get the drill
actually up in here,
in an area right there
where he's been cleared out?
- AARON: Yep.
We can get her up in here.
You guys have done a good job.
BRYANT: Boy, that thing sounds
like it's hitting something.
Hard.
TRAVIS:
It's right in this spot
where, last year,
we drilled up against
a massive 400-foot-long
dome-shaped object.
We're coming up about
11 inches every ten feet.
So, it sounds like you're
describing kind of a V.
It could even be
maybe a dome.
THOMAS:
What is that?
TRAVIS:
The drill didn't penetrate it,
but we did obtain
metallic fragments
that could be from its surface.
BRYANT:
There's no telling how much
of this metallic crap there is
still in that hillside.
TRAVIS: Scientific
analysis revealed to us
that those fragments were
made up of materials
that are similar to what's used
on the exterior
of the space shuttle
for protection from extreme heat
during reentry
into the Earth's atmosphere.
I know you did another survey.
- We did quite a few more.
That's actually got some data, right?
- Absolutely.
I would love to see that.
TRAVIS:
So then, three weeks ago,
we continued new
ground-penetrating radar scans
over the mesa
at that exact location.
PETE:
Hello.
Look at that.
- JAN: Look at that.
TRAVIS: And that operation detected a
second, possibly metallic
vertical anomaly
behind the dome-shaped object
that's almost as tall
as the mesa.
I can't tell you what that is,
but it is highly anomalous.
TRAVIS:
I mean, we've got, uh,
ground-penetrating radar
data now
indicating that there might be
another vertical object in there
that's a hundred feet high.
Wow. - TRAVIS: The data
suggests that it was, uh,
about 20 feet wide this way,
uh, so hopefully we'll--
we can get in there and hit it.
THOMAS:
So, last year,
we hit that hard object
about the bottom of that mesa,
and we've-- you were never able
to get that drill bit
to push up through it.
So, this year, the hope is,
by coming up
a little bit higher,
get in at that point.
Start in up above it
this time, huh?
THOMAS:
Mm-hmm.
Maybe we'll have a better chance
of pushing through
whatever that is.
AARON:
Okay.
TRAVIS: Since we couldn't
penetrate the underside
of the dome-shaped object
when we drilled last year,
this time, we want
to drill into it from above.
Hopefully, we can
not only get better evidence
of what that is
but also figure out
whatever the vertical anomaly
behind it is, too.
ERIK:
So, we're talking about
300 feet in,
and about 2.5 degrees
off of north.
Now, I don't know how precisely
you can direct that thing.
Is that a reasonable target?
AARON:
Yeah, it-it seems reasonable.
Okay. - TRAVIS: I think
that's everything.
We just need
to start getting set up.
That works for me.
- THOMAS: Okay.
TRAVIS:
All right, let's get going.
Thanks, guys.
(engine starts)
Let's use this table to stage.
ERIK: Yep.
- Erik, you want to set up on that side
with the monitors and everything?
- Okay.
ERIK: We're accustomed
to seeing signals
in the vicinity of 1.6 gigahertz
when we're making changes
to the landscape.
Even small changes
like drilling.
TRAVIS: Right there is perfect
if you can get it to stay up.
We got to run cables now.
ERIK: I've got a spectram device
connected to the antennas,
the Yagis that are
out in the field with us
and we'll be looking especially,
of course,
in that 1.6 gigahertz
frequency range,
and to see if there is
an increase in activity here.
THOMAS: You guys gonna
be okay if I go up there
and watch him drill
for a little bit?
That's actually a good idea.
- Okay.
AARON: Perfect.
I think we're good there.
(engine starts)
BRYANT:
Given the fact that we've heard
so many different stories
about the mesa,
whether it be
underground caves, bases,
even spaceships flying into it.
I don't know
what we're gonna uncover,
but I hope
it's something important,
and I'm anxious to find out.
THOMAS:
Let's get drilling.
AARON:
It's going now.
Hey, guys, they've started
pushing the drill in.
TRAVIS (over radio):
Okay.
Yell if they hit
something interesting.
THOMAS:
Absolutely.
We'll keep you posted the minute
we see anything unusual.
TRAVIS: As excited as
we were for answers,
we knew it might be
a day or more
to reach our targets
inside the mesa.
So, while we were
overseeing the operation
TOM:
You guys want to sit here?
MIKEY:
All righty, thank you.
TRAVIS:
over at Homestead One
TOM:
Thank you so much for coming.
I'm glad this worked out.
- KANDUS: I know.
TRAVIS:Kandus Linde and
Tom Lewis met with Mikey Rivers
and Peter Yount,
two local Ute tribal members
who reached out to share
personal and potentially
valuable information
about Skinwalker Ranch.
TOM: Now, it's amazing
that you're here.
Why don't you give us
some background
on where you're from,
where you grew up?
I grew up in Neola, Utah.
Way by the mountains up there.
Growing up, I always heard
stories of the ranch
and this area,
this Skinwalker Ranch,
has always been cursed,
evil, whatever
you want to call it.
Was it some place
that you were scared to go?
Yeah, most definitely.
Yeah.
We were told not to go.
- Yeah.
We were told not to go.
There was a lot of phenomena
that we would see.
But if you did
experience something,
you kept it to yourself because
you didn't want to get shunned
by the other tribes
or other tribal members.
TRAVIS: The Ute people have
been handing down accounts
of strange phenomena
and mysterious, shape-shifting
creatures in the area
that are known as skinwalkers
dating back centuries.
Usually, they won't talk
about it with anyone
outside their tribe,
so whenever members
are willing to open up
to us, our team takes it
very seriously and listens
with the utmost respect.
KANDUS:
Do you think it's changing now?
Like, the generations are
more open to talk about it?
In my opinion, I think this
investigation is opening
a lot of doors.
Those who keep quiet are
slowly coming forward.
Yeah.
- TOM: I think, throughout
the Uintah Basin, the majority
of people out here have
experienced something strange
Yeah.
- they cannot define,
and it's extremely important
for brave people like yourselves
to-to come out
and just-just talk about it.
MIKEY:
Mm-hmm.
TOM:
Have you ever seen anything
you couldn't describe or?
Well
have you guys heard
of the path of the Skinwalker,
by any chance?
- Yes. Oh, yes.
BRANDON: The ridge of the mesa that
runs the expanse of this property
has always historically
been known as Skinwalker Ridge.
And the Utes and the Navajo
had always, for generations,
referred to this
property as being
in the path of the Skinwalker,
the shapeshifting demonic
figure from a curse
that was placed on the property.
MIKEY: My grandmother used to say
that, um, skinwalkers
use these old pathways to get
from one area to another.
- Okay.
And many paths
would converge back into
the Skinwalker Ranch area.
One night,
we were driving south,
and we came up to the south end,
way down there on the road,
and we seen the skinwalker.
Literally, maybe from
from me to the-the gate
right here,
the-the fence line.
What was odd about it was
it was, like, almost-- it looked
human, but almost feline.
It literally crawled
on all fours
from one end
of the road to the other.
Looked up once at us,
and it was as if it was startled
and crawled
even faster away from us.
Really?
- MIKEY: Yeah.
Yeah, that would be one example.
Other experiences include,
one night,
around the year
2013, it was about July,
if I remember correctly.
We saw these fluorescent
lights coming up the highway.
I was stupid enough to park
the car and watch these lights.
About a dozen of them,
in that south field over there.
They were, like, blue, green,
and maybe purple.
Until, uh, one of them, like,
kind of started
going towards us.
Came toward you?
- Yeah.
Yeah. - It did feel like
they were threatening us.
TOM:
Wow.
MIKEY: We got so scared.
- TOM: Wow.
MIKEY:
Right after that, we took off,
but we all got sick that night.
TOM: Sick how?
- Like a, like nausea-feeling, headache.
KANDUS: How long
did that sickness last?
Eh, I'd say just a few hours.
So, once
you were gone from here
MIKEY: Yeah,
once we got home up in Neola,
we
we all got better. (laughs)
That's something
that I've experienced,
and others on the ranch
have experienced.
TRAVIS: In recent years,
members of our team,
as well as people
who we've invited
to the ranch to help
in our investigations,
have suddenly had really strange
and disturbing health episodes.
THOMAS:
My head is killing me.
BRYANT: That's not all right.
- It's just throbbing.
Hold on. Hey.
Are you okay?
- No.
BRYANT (over walkie):
Tom is experiencing stuff.
He blacked out.
- KANDUS: Are you serious?
TRAVIS:
So it was even more intriguing
that Mikey had
similar experiences.
And it was really incredible
that he believed
he saw numerous orbs,
or UAPs, in the south field,
and that one of those orbs
had even stalked him.
It's very interesting
because that's a-a common
phenomenon that happens here,
um, people will feel ill
when they're on the ranch,
but once they get away,
you know, that's when
they start to feel better, so
Now, is that 'cause of the
Uh, like, uh
Is it almost like
a-an electric, uh, field
around here, or is
That's a great question,
and that's-that's something
the physicists
are trying to figure out.
You know,
the strangeness is the--
just the variability of it.
We don't know
when it's gonna happen,
where it's going
to happen, and
Who it's gonna affect?
KANDUS: Yeah.
- Who it's going to affect.
I've-I've gone through
many reservations
and talked to many Natives, and
they all,
we all, have the same thing.
When you see something
like that, you stay away
because, usually, things attach
to our spirits
or our bodies, and
you never know,
you just never know.
TOM: Well,
thank you for your courage,
and thank you so much
for coming to the ranch
Oh, thank you for having us.
- and making time for us. - KANDUS: Anytime.
Anything you need, just ask.
PETER:
Sounds perfect.
THOMAS:
How far in are you, Aaron?
60 feet.
Sixty?
He's 60 feet
into the mesa so far.
Well, let us know
if you see anything.
THOMAS (over radio):
Copy that.
TRAVIS:
Later that afternoon,
the drilling process
was well underway,
but since we were still more
than a couple hundred feet from
our targets inside the mesa
BRYANT: Unfortunately,
there's only one way to the top.
TRAVIS:
Dragon and Kaleb hiked over
a hundred feet up
above the drill site
with a snake camera
to see if they could find
the opening between
some of the boulders
that we discovered last year.
Let me go ahead
and lower this one in.
TRAVIS: It was there that Dragon
and Thomas fed a camera
down nearly 30 feet
below the surface and
got footage of some kind
of metallic object.
BRYANT:
It definitely looks like
it's reflecting something
off of there.
THOMAS:
What is that?
TRAVIS:
We weren't able to figure out
what it was or if it was related
in some way
to the dome-shaped anomaly,
but since we recently removed
some boulders
off the face of the mesa,
we wanted to see
if we could find it again
and maybe get
a better look at it.
(grunts) There looks like
a lot more debris
than there used to be.
Or it's a different spot,
and we just--
there's more of it down there.
- BRYANT: Maybe. I mean, every time
Thomas and I tried to
drop it down in there
last time, it was, like,
it almost went down
a different channel each time.
There's so many different
little openings, gosh dang it.
Oh, you're going
a little bit more.
No, no, it's that rock
right there,
I get to that point
and then it
it just stops right there.
You know what? There's a few
other openings around here.
We'll stop the recording
on this one, wrap this up,
and then we'll poke around
and see if we can
find somewhere else to do it.
Awesome. - All right.
BRYANT:
Ever since last year,
when Thomas and I noticed
this crazy metal object
that seemed to be out of place,
I've wanted to get back and
see if we can reidentify that
and find it
and possibly get a sample.
BRYANT:
Where you thinking?
KALEB: So, right there,
it's not gonna go very far.
BRYANT: But the backside?
- On this side
Yeah.
- Yeah.
If you get the right angle,
that's always the key.
BRYANT: Okay, hey, we can try it.
We got it here.
Let me get this sucker up again.
Let's see if we run
into any critters.
All right, let me try
something here real quick.
Whoa, look at that pink stuff,
What in the hell is that?
You see that, right there?
- Oh, yeah, right there.
BRYANT:
That doesn't look natural
or like it should be there.
Look at that.
I mean, it's just
a completely different color.
Should I keep going?
- Yeah.
Or should I mark this first?
Oh, mark it first and then
Okay, so we're basically
Right there
is where it's at.
BRYANT:
It was a bit disappointing
that we couldn't find
a metal object,
but it's very interesting
to see this pink rock,
and Travis and Erik need to get
their eyes on it as well.
Well, I'd call this success
with finding
the pink rock.
- Yep, I agree.
BRYANT: Now that we've got these
amazing images of this pink rock,
we're gonna go ahead
and send those off for analysis,
and I know Erik and Travis
will be extremely curious
to see what happens
with them, and so am I.
All right, let's roll.
DAVID: What's up, Kaleb?
- Oh,
hey, David.
- Hey there.
How you doing, man?
- Yeah.
Good to see you.
- Good to see you, man.
TRAVIS:
Later that evening,
after we wrapped up
our drilling operation
for the day
THOMAS: Yeah, welcome to the ranch.
- Yeah, thank you.
TRAVIS:we welcomed
a colleague of mine
to the ranch named David Mason.
He's a UAP researcher
who I thought
would be perfect to help us
with a new nighttime experiment
that Erik and I have been
wanting to conduct.
We brought you out here
because we have
an anomaly that's over
a spot just-just to the west
here that we call
the triangle.
- Yes.
TRAVIS:
Two weeks ago
There's something in the sky
above the rocket right here.
TRAVIS:
we used a high-speed camera
to capture an image about
31 feet high above the triangle
of some kind of
blob-like phenomena that
caused a rocket to explode
right after launch.
We may be looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
TRAVIS: So, if that blob is
the cause of all the phenomena
we've encountered
at the triangle
over the past three years,
I believe David Mason
and his equipment
can help us make it reappear
and possibly figure out
what it could be.
I hope you brought some
good stuff for us to use.
I sure did.
I brought a triple spectrum
light wave transmitter.
Oh, yeah.
- We can, we can send data
on it and transmit it
into the atmosphere to see if
we can provoke a response.
That sounds cool.
It'd be really interesting
to see what happens
if we pump that, uh,
1.6 gigahertz signal through it.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Well, let's get this stuff out
and start setting up,
'cause it's gonna be dark
before long.
Yeah.
- All right.
TRAVIS: David Mason
has actually invented
a device he calls a triple
spectrum light wave transmitter.
It's designed to project
infrared and ultraviolet lasers,
which the naked eye can't see.
DAVID:
All right, that'll work.
TRAVIS:
But it also projects
a fully visible laser, too.
What we plan to do tonight
is use it to broadcast
the mysterious 1.6 gigahertz
communication signal
that we've previously recorded
on the ranch
through all three lasers aimed
straight up at the triangle
to see if that will stimulate
the blob-like anomaly
to reappear.
I'm gonna do
some rocket surgery.
TRAVIS:
At the same time,
Kaleb and I are gonna launch
rockets and mortars,
which are
high-powered fireworks,
right up through the triangle
to see if that will also help
trigger the phenomena.
We need to know
what this thing is,
so, hopefully tonight,
we'll get an answer.
You know what? Kaleb, take the Omni
- KALEB: Uh-huh.
and take it all the way off the helipad.
- KALEB: Yeah.
ERIK: This is the first time
that David Mason has been on
the property, and as far as
I know, this is the first time
that any equipment of the kind
that he has brought out
has ever been used
on the property,
and I'm really anxious to see
what's going to happen.
Well, I've pretty much
got everything ready to go.
David, you about done?
- Just about.
TRAVIS: Let's go wait
for the sun to go down.
THOMAS: Looks like we got
some stars out tonight.
I think we're ready to go.
All right, good.
TRAVIS:
Once darkness fell
over Skinwalker Ranch,
we were ready
and anxious to begin
our experiment at the triangle
with UAP investigator
David Mason.
And so, you got, uh,
three different,
uh, optical bands, you got ultraviolet.
- Ultraviolet.
Correct. - TRAVIS: And then
this is the visible light,
right? And then this is infrared?
- DAVID: Right.
Infrared, correct.
Okay, well, that's pretty cool.
DAVID: On this light wave
transmitter, we're going to be
transmitting data
in the form of, uh,
what we have as recordings.
TRAVIS: The 1.6 gigahertz?
- DAVID: Yeah.
Erik has provided me
his 1.6 gigahertz signal,
and then I will be
transmitting that on
the light wave transmitter,
and this light wave transmitter
covers between infrared,
visible spectrum,
and ultraviolet,
so we can take
our own data or information
and transmit it
on this transmitter,
hopefully to provoke a response.
We've got a lot of equipment
here, we got a lot
of moving parts.
Now, I know that earlier
you and Erik were planning
a lot of things
that are gonna be taking place
out at the triangle.
We've never done, uh, something
like a mortar shell before,
where it, where-where it's got
a big percussion, right? - No.
TRAVIS:
Nobody's done it.
THOMAS: I guess we'll keep
our eyes open because
who knows what kind of reaction
it'll cause,
if anything.
- Right, sure.
ERIK:
For tonight's activity,
we are firing rockets
and mortars. I'm going to be
directing our cameras
from a distance
on the triangle area.
I hope this experiment
will shed a lot of light
on the strangeness that happens
in the airspace
just above the triangle.
We're gonna take off
to the south side
and just watch.
Just see what we can
That's a great idea, Tom.
So, if you're gonna do that,
you guys, he's got
some night vision goggles down there.
- TOM: Oh, that'd be excellent.
TRAVIS:
And so, you guys get one each,
so you can, you know,
both be looking
and keep a walkie, if you
see something let us know.
TOM: Perfect, we will.
- That's awesome.
THOMAS: You guys have
a laser or something?
So, if you see something
in the sky, you could
alert us,
and we'd know where to look.
We do. - Yeah.
I'm holding laser in pocket.
All right, well,
let's divide and conquer.
Okay. - Okay. - Let's do it.
TRAVIS: While everyone
got to their positions
around the ranch
to begin the experiment
Erik prepped his scanning
equipment in the control room
to monitor
all the ranch activity
and look for any strange
signals or frequencies
that might arise.
DAVID:
Okay, these are working.
Just making sure
that we're getting a signal.
THOMAS: So,
everything looks quiet right now.
DAVID:
Okay, we're sending out the 1.6
gigahertz signal that, uh,
Erik had-had decoded.
- Oh.
All right, we're ready to go.
I think, to start with,
we stay in this back
eastern corner.
- TOM: Okay.
TRAVIS: You got it?
- KALEB: Yep.
TRAVIS:
Ignitor one is connected.
Hey, why don't you
call them and tell them
we're gonna fire off a mortar.
KALEB:
Hey, everybody. Be advised,
we're gonna be shootin' the
mortar off in about one minute.
Yeah, copy you, Kaleb.
One minute till mortar.
TRAVIS (over walkie):
Thomas, you copy?
We are ready to go.
So, David is currently
broadcasting that 1.6 signal
that we recorded last year
up into the triangle,
so who knows
what that'll stimulate.
Whenever you guys are ready,
we will be, uh, watching.
I'll give you a countdown
when we're ready to go.
We're seeing
everything crystal clear.
TRAVIS:
We have power to the ignitor.
Okay, here we go, guys.
We're on a 15 second countdown.
Five,
four, three,
two, one.
Oh, (bleep).
All right, we've got an ignition
malfunction on the rocket.
Stand by.
(grunts)
- Yeah.
TRAVIS: The mortar went
off just as planned,
but for some strange reason,
the rocket failed to launch.
With us broadcasting
that 1.6 gigahertz signal,
and the ranch being the ranch,
it's hard to tell
if you simply have
an equipment malfunction
or if some kind of phenomena
is actually happening.
So, all we could do
was to try again.
All right, everybody,
we're gonna try
another round on this rocket.
We're gonna go
in about 15 seconds.
THOMAS (over walkie):
Copy that.
TRAVIS (over walkie):
Tom, Kandus, keep your eyes out.
10-4. Will do.
TRAVIS:
Five,
four, three,
two, one.
Nothing.
Dang it.
That's the second
malfunction, Travis.
Is, uh, are you being
thwarted over there
from launching that rocket?
Well, if you can say
that it didn't launch
as being thwarted, then yes.
I'd say one failure is typical,
but two in a row,
uh, this is starting
to be strange.
We'll see.
THOMAS:
I don't know that I remember
having problems twice in a row.
- (indistinct walkie chatter)
All right, we're gonna
launch this rocket.
Er, make it
attempt number three.
Copy that, we'll get ready
with David's instruments.
Five, four,
three, two, one.
There we go.
And the thing went straight up.
KALEB:
I have eyes on it.
TRAVIS: It's gonna
come right back to us.
Looked like a perfect launch.
Good job.
Yeah, it was a good launch.
All right, tell him we're gonna
pr-- uh, prepare another one,
and we'll be ready to go in
about five minutes. - Okay.
Whoa! What was that
purple light over there?
Did anybody else see
a purple light over there?
Hey, I just saw a purple light
over there in the tree.
- Purple light?
TRAVIS:
Purple light?
Uh
- THOMAS: Oh, there it is!
TOM (over walkie):
E-East of our location?
THOMAS:
Looks like there's a black light
or a purple light out there.
Kind of southwest
of us a little bit.
Still flashing.
What is that?
Is that you, Tom and Kandus?
Do you guys have a purple light?
That's negative. We do not.
After finally getting a rocket
to launch at the triangle,
following two failed attempts,
Thomas Winterton saw what
he described as a purple light
over in the south field.
That's the same place where
we recently heard stories about
orb-like UAPs
from local Ute tribal members.
Be advised, we're about
to launch another mortar.
Give us just a second
to get in position, Travis.
It made us really eager
to get another rocket
launched and mortar fired
to see if we could
make it appear again
and figure out what it was.
So, I think if you've got
a camera pointing south, Erik,
uh, that can watch
for a flash down there.
We'll have David keep
his instrumentation
pointed towards the anomaly
and the triangle, and I'll be
looking down towards
the rocket launch.
To me, that sounds
absolutely perfect.
So, I've got eyes
on the spectrum.
I've got eyes
on the southern sky,
uh, from the vantage point
of the east field.
I think, between us,
we should be able
to spot it if that, uh,
if that flash happens again.
All right, Travis,
we have all of our cameras
and instrumentation ready.
Uh, it's on your go.
TRAVIS:
Five, four,
three, two,
one.
There's the rocket. All right.
Oh, got it again.
Be advised, we got another
purple flash to the south.
Purple flash
to the south, Thomas?
Kind of southwest of us
a little bit.
Hey, Erik, do you have
the ability to-to
focus the camera?
We got a flashing purple light
down on the south end
of the property.
I don't know what it is.
I'm not seeing any flash
here to the south.
THOMAS: It looks like it's
going across the canal road.
I'm wondering
what exactly that is.
I don't have eyes on it
from where we're at.
THOMAS: Canal road
down on the south, uh,
the one that runs along
by where the south tower is.
TRAVIS:
You see it?
KALEB:
No, I'm not seeing anything.
Do you want us to go try to see
if we can put eyes on it?
Possibly. Let's see if Erik can
pick it up with the cameras.
Yeah, Thomas, I'm moving
one of the O.P. cameras
over that way.
We really need to know
whether that was
human interaction
or if we were seeing
a response to the rocket launch.
ERIK (over walkie):
I'd have to agree.
For what it's worth,
just be advised,
it's very suggestive
we are being
surveilled and
directly interfered with.
TRAVIS:
Two weeks ago
We may be looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
TRAVIS:right after we saw the
blob appear over the triangle
Helicopter, helicopter!
a Black Hawk
military-style helicopter
suddenly flew over the ranch
and hovered above
for several minutes.
Why-why right now?
Why right now?
It made us really wonder
if we're being monitored
out here by the government while
we conduct our investigation.
So the immediate concern
was whether this purple light
was some other kind
of surveillance
or is it some kind
of new phenomenon.
I'm scanning
that part of the property
with OP1-SW, but I don't see it.
Dave, I'm gonna
head down and try
to come around the back side.
We need to know whether
we've got people down there or
if this is an actual reaction
to that rocket.
(engine starts)
- Uh, I'm taking the UTV
and I'm gonna roll down
through the dark forest
and try to come up
from the other direction.
This time, I'm staring straight
at the south, and I see
that purple flash again,
and I'm wondering if we've got
trespassers down there or
something else.
Is this a response
to our experiments?
Be advised, guys.
That flash looked like
it was occurring
several hundred yards
to the west of the south tower.
Any more signs
of that flash, Erik?
I am watching for that,
and I do not see the flash.
Anyone else see it?
We never picked it up visually
from where we're sitting.
Well, I would say
it's coming from the ground
to the west of the south tower.
Tom, Kandus, if you guys
could head out there.
We are on our way.
THOMAS (over walkie): Uh, Tom and
Kandus, where are you guys at right now?
TOM: We're about 800
yards past the tower,
heading towards you, Tom.
THOMAS: All right,
imagine we'll be running
into you here in a minute.
Thomas, where are you?
So, we've just rendezvoused
with Tom and Kandus here.
They came from the east,
we came from the west.
Uh, neither one of us has seen
anything that accounts
for that purple light.
TRAVIS:
Look at that.
We're recording this. That is
flashing, whatever that is.
You see it?
What is that?
KALEB:
It's been just sitting there.
TRAVIS:
It's sitting there.
All right, hey, Thomas, Erik.
With our night vision, there's
something right over
Thomas down there
in the sky blinking
at about ten degrees up.
THOMAS:
We're not seeing it.
There it-- It is still there,
it is still there.
That is right over them.
TRAVIS:
That is right over them.
It is clearly something there.
KALEB (over radio):
Hey, Tom, we saw something
in the NVG, and it was a light
that was flashing rapidly
and it was staying in one spot
right above you.
THOMAS: Did it have
a purple light on it?
TRAVIS: You know, in the night
vision, everything's green,
so I don't know
what-what color it was.
Right after Thomas Winterton
went to the south field
to investigate a mysterious
purple light near the ground,
Kaleb and I saw a flashing UAP
appear in the sky
above that same area.
What is that?
- It was crazy
to have two different kinds
of possible phenomena
appear simultaneously.
That's never happened before.
THOMAS: I'm gonna climb up
on the side of the hill
where we have
a great vantage point.
Is that you guys over there,
to the east of us?
KALEB:
That's me and Travis.
That is flashing,
whatever that is.
You see it? Look at that thing.
Holy crap, it looks like
this thing's following Thomas.
KALEB:
There's this light above Tom.
It's directly over him,
and it's almost as if
it's following him.
All I can see
is that it's a light,
it's strobing.
It's pretty disturbing
to see something
following one of my team members
out here
and we don't know what it is.
ERIK: I am watching for that,
and I do not see the flash.
Anyone else see it?
It's not there now.
And with the lights
in your eyes
I've lost it.
So, I'm up here
on the high point.
Not seeing any signs
of activity.
There's not a way
that we could launch
one more rocket, is there?
With some of us
positioned down here?
TRAVIS:
We could.
You launched the first time
and almost immediately after
the rocket hit the ground,
we saw the purple light.
I'm just curious,
if we do it again,
would we see that flash again?
All right, well,
we're not seeing anything
right here, right now, guys,
so we're gonna wander
back that way
and we're going to launch
a rocket.
After the light
that Thomas reported,
and the UAP above him
that Kaleb and I saw
had disappeared,
Thomas's idea to launch
another rocket was a good call.
Oh.
It's changed a little bit,
feels like.
Maybe another poke
at the nest will give us
the perfect opportunity to get
both phenomena to reappear
and get a better look
at what they are.
All right, I'll tell you
what I'd like to do.
I want to make sure
that I've got all the cameras,
uh, in the right position
to catch both the rocket launch
and the part of the sky where
we've seen that purple light.
We're all on the lookout
for something unusual,
and that is the appearance
of some kind
of purple, pulsating light
in the distance,
and that UAP,
or whatever that was,
that we spotted in the sky
above Thomas.
The best we can do
is just keep our cameras trained
on that part of the property
and see if it happens again.
I'm on a really high point
out here on the south.
Yeah, David's got his instrument
trained on you,
and I think he's picking you up.
I need a piece about that long.
All right.
Hey, Thomas, can you see
our position now?
TRAVIS: All right, I can
get, I can go from here
if you want to load the mortar.
KALEB: No, it's good to go.
- Okay. Well, hold on
Good. All right, we're good.
- Cool.
(grunts)
THOMAS:
Uh, Tom Lewis and
Kandus are in position.
I'm in position.
Just want to make sure
that Erik is ready.
Copy that. Erik, we're waiting
on you to give us the go-ahead.
ERIK:
All right, guys,
I'm in position,
Dave's is in position.
We are ready for launch.
All right, Erik, copy that.
We're gonna go in 15 seconds.
Five, four,
three,
two, one.
KALEB:
We're watching.
TRAVIS:
Keep your eyes out.
I guess watch
for that purple thing.
Hey, guys, did you see
any of the purple stuff?
David, I'm not seeing
any flash here to the south.
DAVID:
Uh, I'm not seeing it, either.
ERIK: Are you picking up anything?
- No.
TRAVIS:
We were all frozen in suspense,
scouring the skies
along the south field
for any new signs of whatever
Thomas had seen, and also
the UAP that was above him,
tracking his movements.
I'm not seeing-- Hey, scan
around with the night vision,
see if you see that blinking
light again like you saw before.
Hey, guys,
anybody got eyes on any flash
in the southern sky?
THOMAS: I have not
seen anything so far.
TOM: We haven't seen anything
at the south tower.
TRAVIS:
I'm not seeing anything.
Copy that.
We also have no new features
showing up in the spectrum.
Maybe whatever it is
went to bed.
THOMAS: Just seems like
every time we find, uh,
an exotic feature and start
focusing on it, it goes away.
Yeah, that seems about right.
THOMAS:
All right.
Well, I guess if it's not
gonna show itself,
then we can all migrate back
to the helipad.
Okay, we'll make
our way back as well.
TRAVIS: Tonight was a night like
no other here on Skinwalker Ranch.
It seems
we definitely stimulated
strange phenomena to appear,
but as if on cue,
after we launched
that last rocket
and mortar, though,
everything was suddenly
still and quiet on the ranch.
Luckily, Kaleb and I were able
to record the UAP
that we saw above Thomas
with our night vision,
so once we organize
all that data,
we can review it as a team
and see if we can figure out
just what we encountered
in the south field.
Thomas, while you were
cranking out,
trying to catch up to them, um,
there was a blinking light
hovering over y'all,
and I caught it on the NVG
and recorded it with my phone.
It was just sitting there.
- THOMAS: Above us?
Above you.
It was just sitting there.
David, thanks a lot for coming
out and bringing all the stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
There's something going on here.
The phenomenon, we don't
really know what it is,
we just know we can see
the effects it has
on our instrumentation,
and it could be something
that's an-an atmospheric
phenomenon,
it could be something
from the ground level.
It just takes
more data gathering
and corroborative data
to figure out
what's going on here
at Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS: Well,
we've got a lot of data to compile.
We've got all this recorded
we got to go back
and look through.
All right, well,
I say we break everything down,
Let's call it a night.
All right. - Let's do.
ERIK: The description
that I've received
of this bright, purple,
shimmering object or effect
over the southern portion
of the ranch
is distinct from things
that have been reported
during previous exercises.
Could this be some kind
of UAP phenomena
that we've witnessed during
some of our other exercises?
Now, that would be interesting.
TRAVIS:
We've got so many spots
to focus our attention on
right now:
the triangle, the east field,
the mesa,
and now the south field.
They may all hold keys
to getting some answers,
so we'll process
and review all this data,
and, of course,
continue drilling,
to get to the bottom
of what's really happening here
at Skinwalker Ranch.
BRANDON:
I continue to be shocked
by the UFO and UAP activity
that attends these experiments.
The fact that Dr. Taylor's
advanced rocketry
continues to stimulate
the phenomena--
to poke the hornets' nest,
if you will--
is something
that none of us expected.
THOMAS:
The drill has encountered
a hard object
that it cannot penetrate.
Wow. There's something in there.
Oh, what is that?
KALEB:
It looks like a deer.
THOMAS: I wonder what
the heck killed it.
The coyotes didn't
kill this animal.
TRAVIS: That's the pink
rock inside the mesa.
ERIK:
This material
is elemental selenium.
TRAVIS:
Selenium is used to create
cloaking devices.
- Oh, wow.