The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s04e13 Episode Script

BRANDON:
We have had another incident
that shows military surveillance
over our property.
- Really?
ERIK: We know there's
something going on up there
over the triangle.
We're gonna launch a lot
of rockets.
Wait, Thomas, look.
Right-right there.
I want you to watch what happens
over the landscape itself.
TRAVIS: Oh! Right there.
- CAMERON: Oh, my gosh!
Did it come out of the mesa?
Yeah.
♪
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.
BRYANT:
The guests are here.
TRAVIS:
Copy that.
Hey, Senator.
- How are you?
Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch.
- Thank you.
Thank you for coming out
for this briefing.
TRAVIS: It's well-known
that Skinwalker Ranch
has been on
the federal government's radar
for at least 30 years now.
- Welcome, Senator.
Hi. Mike Lee.
- TRAVIS: So after all
the stunning phenomena
we've experienced this year
during our investigation,
when Brandon Fugal alerted us
that he was bringing
Senator Mike Lee of Utah
out to meet with us,
we were really eager
to share information with him
and get his thoughts in return.
Well, gentlemen,
it's good to be with you again.
Senator Lee,
thank you for joining us.
- Thank you.
It's very nice
to meet all of you.
Thanks for having me out here.
One of the things
that comes up in Washington
when members of the Senate
discuss things
that are observed, uh,
in the sky
that they can't explain is
we need to know what's there.
If there's something that's
moving that can be observed
and we don't know what it is
and if we know
that it's not ours,
that could be
a national security issue.
Absolutely.
Over the last four years,
we've seen numerous UAPs.
Some have been orbs of light,
while others looked
and maneuvered
like possible
nuts-and-bolts craft.
But one of the strangest things
was a blob-like anomaly
about 31 feet in the air
above the triangle
that destroyed a rocket.
And it may also be related
to GPS and time-shift anomalies
that we've detected up
to 10,000 feet above the ranch.
MIKE: So, there anything
you want to tell me about
that you've observed?
We've measured
an electromagnetic anomaly
with various instruments
above this spot on the ranch
that we call "the triangle."
And, in fact, we've even had
something appear over the spot
at 31 feet above ground level.
Very often anomalous things
happening with our equipment,
our surveillance assets
and all our
all the things we measure with.
Well, and that seem to correlate
with unidentified aerial phenomena.
- Oh, yeah.
THOMAS: And we've caught
things on our camera before
that's been brought
to our attention by the locals.
And some of the neighbors here
have-have seen the same things
that we have seen.
MIKE:
There any possibility
that some of the UAPs
that you've observed on-site
could be
surveillance operations?
Somebody curious?
Well
Well, we know
we're being monitored.
That's right.
- MIKE: If it's equipment owned
by foreign government,
that-that's of concern.
TRAVIS:
Earlier this year
when we first encountered
the anomaly
31 feet above the triangle
Helicopter! Helicopter!
Helicopter coming right over!
a Blackhawk
military helicopter
suddenly circled above the ranch
for several minutes.
And then, just a week ago,
two Chinook military helicopters
also appeared
to be surveilling the ranch.
BRYANT: Well, it's not like
they're trying to be sneaky
in any way, shape or form.
TRAVIS: Now,
maybe they were looking for evidence
that foreign adversaries
are linked
to at least some
of the phenomena that happens
on Skinwalker Ranch.
But given that many of the UAPs
we've seen
have traveled much faster
and maneuvered
in more advanced ways
than known U.S. technology
and even vanished in some cases,
as a scientist, I have
a hard time believing that.
So if this is
our foreign adversaries,
then they have leapfrogged
physics by 50 to 100 years
and haven't told
the rest of the world.
One thing we noticed
in the recent months
is GPS is completely spoofed
out here.
ERIK: That is the most
interesting aspect of it.
Disparities between
where we know things are
and where they think they are.
TRAVIS:
What's really interesting is,
a lot of times when we do have
these GPS anomalies,
we are detecting a strange
signal at 1.6 gigahertz
that has no known source
or purpose.
Right. Sometimes you hear
about GPS signals being jammed
near military installations.
BRANDON:
So, something or someone
has the technology,
the capability
to meddle with our systems.
MIKE:
Have any working theories
on what it could be?
- TRAVIS: We have
no data that tells us
who could have done this.
Hey, look! UAP right there!
MIKE: Things that have
been observed here
have been observed elsewhere
and might involve technology
that we're not familiar with.
If there are things moving
in U.S. airspace
that, uh, we can't,
uh, fully explain,
if there's technology
that isn't ours,
that, you know, could have some
potential military applications.
These are things
we need to know about.
Thanks for letting me visit.
I have appreciated
hearing your stories.
Please keep in touch with me.
And
if you come across anything
that, uh, you'd like me to see
or share with my colleagues,
uh, please reach out.
BRYANT:
That'd be great.
We appreciate your time.
We know it's precious.
So we better get going.
- Great.
Thank you.
BRANDON:
Well, gentlemen,
keep your eyes on the skies.
TRAVIS:
We've got a lot to do.
(indistinct chatter)
BRYANT: You ready for this?
- KALEB: I am ready.
Well, just follow us in, we're
just gonna go all the way down
to the triangle, all right?
- Perfect. Will do.
TRAVIS: After our meeting
with Senator Lee and Brandon,
they needed to head back
to Salt Lake City.
But the rest of us welcomed
an army of familiar experts
back to the ranch
in order to help us
with our most ambitious
experiment ever at the triangle.
The weather is about
to turn really harsh
in the Uinta Basin,
so this is our last opportunity
of the year
to finally figure out
just who or what
can explain the UAPs, the blob
and all the other
strange phenomena
we've detected at this spot.
Hey, Dragon.
So, Thomas and, uh, Erik and I
have been, uh, mapping out this
out here based on
the lidar picture
Oh, yeah.
- from OmniTeq.
So, this is the shadow part?
- So, this is the shadow part
Or the outside?
- This is the shadow part.
TRAVIS:
Two weeks ago
representatives from
a company called OmniTeq
conducted a lidar scan
above the triangle
while we fired rockets
up through the anomalous zone.
BRYANT: We got a good chute.
- Oh, good chute.
ERIK: Look at that.
- That's interesting.
TRAVIS: We were stunned
when that detected
a perfectly circular phenomenon
with a black void
right in the center
of the triangle.
For years, we've heard legends
that interdimensional portals
or traversable wormholes
actually exist
on Skinwalker Ranch.
It's a claim that's been made
not only by
the Indigenous tribal elders,
but also,
former ranch investigators
who worked with
the federal government.
I'm excited to see
how it correlates
with what we do tonight.
- Oh, me, too.
So l-let's get them all out
and let's see what they got
and let's figure out
where we're going to put them.
So, tonight we're gonna try
to stimulate phenomena
above the triangle
all through the anomalous zone
by having the team
from LOC Precision
launch multiple rounds
of rockets
with ever-increasing
power levels
Hey, fellas.
How are y'all doing?
while deploying a number
of other cutting-edge
technologies
that we've used in the past.
The hope is that
combining them all
into one big experiment
will help us determine
once and for all if this
incredible legend is true.
Well, I want to welcome
everybody back out.
We're at a familiar site.
As all of you gentlemen know,
this has become an epicenter
of study, as well as of
anomalous readings and results.
Historically, I don't think
anyone's been out here
to the triangle
where they haven't seen
some kind
of really pathological,
really strange things
happening with their equipment.
So, I'm so grateful
to have all of you guys out here
at the same time, bringing
your tech and your personnel.
We've got a lot of work to do,
we got a lot of things
to set up.
So, you guys start
getting your stuff out
and let's figure out
where you got to be
and let's get to moving.
For tonight's experiment,
the teams will be situated
all around the triangle.
The guys from Nu-Salt Laser
will have three Space Cannons
positioned at each corner
of the triangle
projecting high-powered beams
that will encompass
the anomalous zone.
And they will reach
all the way into outer space,
so if anything strange
moves through there,
disrupting or bending
the lasers,
we should be able to see it.
And as a secondary way
to detect anything strange,
they will be scanning
with two rastering lasers
all through that zone as well.
So, if we stimulate
phenomena here,
hopefully,
these two laser technologies
may be able
to detect and confirm
the actual shape and exact
location of any anomalies.
But that's just the beginning
of what we're doing tonight.
We're also going to scan
the nearby mesa
with a projection laser.
KALEB: You're good.
- TRAVIS: It will be broadcasting
audio that we recorded
during a recent
sound ritual experiment
with an Indigenous organization
named Blazing Bear.
And now look at this.
TRAVIS:
There Whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa.
- BRYANT: There it is.
Go back. Go back.
TRAVIS:
A sound experiment
that captured
thermal images of two UAPs
flying into the surface
of the mesa.
What is that?
Finally, the team
from Sky Elements has returned
to fly 250 illuminated drones
equipped with GPS sensors
in preprogrammed formations
about 300 feet
above the triangle.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- CAMERON: Whoa, whoa!
Yeah, we got a downdraft
right there.
TRAVIS:
It was at that exact height
where, earlier this year,
Brandon's helicopter
got pushed around
Holy cow.
just as we detected
something strange
with the lidar scanner.
We've got a clear anomaly
right beside us.
Dude, that is awesome.
So, tonight, if anything alters
the drone swarm's formation
or flight patterns, hopefully,
it will further help us
pinpoint and identify
what the phenomena
we've detected there
actually could be.
- All right.
The temperature is about to
start dropping, so I'm gonna put
on some bigger clothes.
- And there's not a lot of daylight here,
so, uh, I say we get on it.
TRAVIS:
And all through the night,
Erik will be monitoring
for strange energy spikes
and the 1.6 gigahertz signal
with his spectrum analyzer
and radiation detectors,
while recording
the entire experiment
with a FLIR
thermal imaging camera.
We've never had
this much technology
operating at once on the ranch.
So, hopefully tonight,
we'll cut through
the legends about this place,
and finally reveal the truth
of what's really
happening out here.
All right, well, I got to get
to setting stuff up,
and you guys, if you need
anything, yell at me.
All right, let's go wait
for the sun to go down.
Guys, we are rolling.
ERIK:
Travis, I'm set up over here.
So, how are you doing
over there?
TRAVIS:
Uh, everything's set up here.
Tim, I say we go ahead
and bring the lasers up.
TIM: Lasers up.
- Lasers are up.
TRAVIS: We're conducting the
most extensive experiment ever
on Skinwalker Ranch.
To try to pinpoint and identify
the anomaly at the triangle,
LOC Precision is going to launch
the first six rockets
simultaneously
while Sky Elements will fly
a swarm of 250 drones.
In the past,
just a single rocket
has gotten strange things
to happen at the triangle.
So, let's see what six might do.
Everyone, be advised.
Uh, clear the launchpad.
We are about to launch.
Clear the area!
PRESTON:
Drones are armed.
Oh, hold up.
System just crashed.
TYLER:
Malfunction, guys. Malfunction.
Hey, uh, Tyler,
what's our ETA
on the first drone swarm?
Hey, Travis, we had
a really strange thing
going on over here.
We're having
an interference issue right now.
We're not really sure
what's doing it.
We're having trouble getting
all the drones to connect.
Copy that. I understand.
That is really odd.
We're gonna go ahead and, uh,
do our first six
rocket launches.
Let us know when you're ready.
Will do.
Let's get this up and down.
All right, we are going hot
with the rockets.
ALLEN:
We got all six hot.
TRAVIS:
Here we go, in five,
four, three,
two, one.
How Where are the others?
(stammers)
What's going on?
THOMAS: Well, that was weird.
Weren't they supposed
to go off simultaneously?
So, what happened with that?
- That's a good question.
You tell me.
- And the rockets didn't go
at the same time, but they're
all hooked to the same wire.
Same wire.
That doesn't make any sense.
Did you notice, none
of the rockets went straight up.
Wh Yeah, I did notice that.
Every All five of them
They all got pulled out.
- went-went different ways.
ERIK: So,
have the winds aloft changed?
TRAVIS:
Uh, there,
there's I-I don't think
there's any wind.
ALLEN:
You still got one on the pad.
All right,
everybody stay clear of the pad.
There's still one
hot rocket on the pad.
Everyone clear.
ALLEN: I'm gonna go check it.
- TRAVIS: Yep.
DAVE: You got it off?
- TRAVIS: Yep.
TRAVIS:
We weren't sure
what was going on, but just
before we launched the drones,
they all inexplicably
malfunctioned,
and then,
immediately after that,
the rockets
malfunctioned as well.
Our rockets were on one circuit,
meaning they should have
launched together,
but instead, only five took off
and they all launched
at random intervals
in really odd directions.
Hey, Tyler, uh,
h-how's your progress?
TYLER (over walkie): Yeah we're
having some network issues.
Drones just seem to be
falling off and not connecting,
and the methods we usually
use to resolve those issues
don't seem to be working.
KALEB:
This is the exact same thing
they had happen last time.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
Isn't that something?
- They tested all these drones
before they brought them
out here and said that
they were, like,
their best ones and that - Yeah.
they brought out
all their best stuff.
ERIK: I think it's too
early for us to declare
that there is
an assignable cause here
for the drone malfunctions
and this rocket failure.
However, when we have
events like this,
the attention of our entire team
is more intently focused
on what is going on,
why are we experiencing these
equipment and other failures?
TRAVIS: What happened?
- Six is great, the continuity is fine.
There's no reason it shouldn't
fly. Everything says go.
Well, see if it'll launch now.
Yeah.
Everyone be advised,
we're gonna try to launch
rocket number six that failed.
Here we go. Be ready.
Clear the launchpad.
You ready?
- Yeah.
TRAVIS:
In five,
four, three,
two, one.
THOMAS:
That was, like, going south.
That's crazy.
I d I don't understand that.
THOMAS:
There's no wind out here.
Why is it just
going off that way?
I know. Every one of them did.
It looks like there's something
pushing it out of the way,
right at the 31-foot level.
It was not only weird
that the rockets
were veering off course,
but it looked like
they were all redirected
at about 31 feet high
where we first saw the blob.
It just told me we needed
to launch our next round
of more powerful rockets
to see if they would make it
through that zone
or be deflected, too.
Let's see where these guys are,
and, uh, maybe, uh,
they're ready to go, and-and
Why don't you guys go load
the next six rockets?
Yeah.
- So we'll be just be ready.
Hey, Tyler,
how close are you guys?
TYLER: How we looking network-wise?
Are we ready?
No.
- The drones are not staying
locked on, so we are having
to recycle the whole network.
ERIK:
Oh, God.
TRAVIS:
All right. Un-Understand.
You guys just keep working.
Let us know when you're ready.
TYLER:
Will do.
So, we're gonna have
to take it down.
Hey, guys, unplug all drones,
unplug all drones.
Every all hands on deck.
PRESTON: The issues that
we had after setting up
the first 250 were
network connectivity issues.
So instead of 250 drones
connected at a time,
it would be 230 drones
or 206 drones.
It just was a struggle to
get them all connected at once.
All right, Preston,
reboot the network.
PRESTON
We've done hundreds of shows
across different venues
and different countries,
and it's definitely something
that's just happening here
at Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS: All right.
So, uh, let's just get ready
to do the rocket launch.
- Okay.
Want them here?
- Yeah, just, uh, ground it here.
Just keep the metal
off the metal.
Yeah, put it on the bottom side.
BRYANT:
Given the high-tech nature
of all of this equipment,
I'm really anxious
to see what it shows.
But as crazy as it sounds,
the ranch just keeps
throwing roadblocks
in front of us.
We've had so many
experiments thwarted
by little things that we had
no idea were even possible.
And so, I just hope
it lets us get some answers.
Great, golden.
ERIK:
Okay, I've got eyes on the FLIR.
All right, everybody be advised,
we are about to launch
the next set of rockets.
Here we go in five,
four, three,
two, one.
Only two or three of them went.
Three rockets went.
What happened to the other two?
They're still sitting there.
Oh.
Watch out.
Wow, watch There we go!
BRYANT:
And that one
should have gone straight.
- Yeah, that should have
been straight as an arrow.
But at 30 feet up,
that thing took a major detour.
TRAVIS:
Anything in the FLIR?
ERIK:
Oh, wow.
Uh, yeah.
TRAVIS: You did see something in the FLIR?
- Yeah, moving up here
from the center up towards
the upper left-hand corner
of the screen.
Oh, what is that?
ERIK: A thermal signature
shows up in the sky
and is visible in the real-time
data streaming in
from the thermographic
FLIR camera.
So, there's the rocket
coming down with the chute.
TRAVIS:
It's gone.
What It's weird,
it shouldn't have been
apart from the rocket,
they'd have been flying off
on a ballistic trajectory.
- Right.
Uh, we need to go back
and look at the footage
because I think
when we get more eyes on this,
they're gonna be impressed.
This is an experiment that can
really only be interpreted
after having pored over
all the data
that we are recording.
There are some things that we're
going to witness in real time,
but there are other things that
we will only detect on review.
That's often
where my work begins.
TYLER: Travis,
we have all drones showing on-line.
Copy that.
Guys, we are rolling.
TRAVIS: All right, drones are
going, the drones are going.
Oh, fantastic.
TRAVIS:
Here we go.
The drones have clicked on,
they're about to go up.
Drones armed,
stay clear of the grid.
Ten, nine,
eight, seven,
six, five,
four, three,
two, one.
TRAVIS:
Wow, look at that.
They're going up in,
uh, two layers.
ERIK:
That's just spectacular.
We got one
that's hung out over here.
ERIK:
Look at that.
I don't know.
He's locking in.
BRYANT:
Look at that one.
KALEB:
Oh, right there.
Oh, one of them's going nuts.
It almost ran
into the other one.
The drone swarm launched up
through the anomalous zone
in two groupings
almost perfectly
to the 300-foot level,
except for one that just
started flying erratically.
One that's really moving,
Preston.
TRAVIS: So,
did it run into the same thing
we encountered with Brandon's
helicopter earlier this year?
We may have just confirmed
the location of another anomaly
above the triangle.
TYLER: He's going, he's
going, he's going, he's going.
Erik, are you seeing this?
- I yeah, I'm seeing it.
TRAVIS:
Look at it moving. That's crazy.
TRAVIS:
Erik, are you seeing this?
ERIK:
Yeah, I'm seeing it.
TRAVIS:
One's fallen out.
The drone swarm may
have just helped to pinpoint
another anomaly about
300 feet above the triangle.
Almost all 250 drones
ascended perfectly
in two stages above 31 feet,
but then, one suddenly
flew away from the group
like something
was pushing it around.
TYLER: Drones should be
moving into a new position
right now, into four stacks.
Four stacks. Okay, that's
what's happening in there.
ERIK: Okay, so,
they're just coming into position.
TRAVIS:
That's a lot of drones, man.
BRYANT:
That is a lot of drones.
TRAVIS: As the drone swarm continued
their preprogrammed flight,
they shifted into the shape
of a massive cube
to cover more volume
within the anomalous zone.
TYLER: Preston,
I've got one coming down.
All the way down.
ERIK:
Travis, how many have fallen
out of position?
- TRAVIS: Well, one so far,
and one is on its way down,
so we got
That'll be two total.
- ERIK: Okay.
TRAVIS:
Look at that.
Now a third one's fallen out.
A fourth one.
PRESTON:
Hey, guys, stay out
of the grid and out
from under the show,
uh, just in case
there's a collision or two.
DAVE: Whoa. There's another one.
- TRAVIS: This-this line
right here is crooked.
- DAVE: Right over here.
Hey, they're
they keep falling out.
That was in the same spot.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
Right ov
- So that means they're
TRAVIS:
Look at that one.
DAVE:
What's with the blue fellers?
Oh, okay.
TRAVIS:
Oh, they hit! Those two hit.
ERIK:
Yeah, that was a collision.
TRAVIS: Yeah,
well that one's falling out of the sky.
That one is.
- BRYANT: Looks like they're done.
They said it was
five and a half minutes.
TRAVIS: Copy that. It was amazing.
- BRYANT: Absolutely.
TRAVIS: Once the drones started
changing colors and colliding,
it was clear
that they needed to land
so they could
be assessed for damage.
The hope was we could
send them up again.
But what caused these devices
that we're told never
malfunction like this
to go so haywire?
It made me want to immediately
launch our next round
of even more powerful rockets
to see if we could
get something to appear
and give us an answer.
All right, rocket guys,
go reload the launch rails.
TYLER:
We're clear.
TRAVIS:
Great job, guys. Great job.
Can't wait to, uh,
see the next set.
Sounds good. We'll get it turned
around and ready to roll again.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead, Travis.
Hey, man, uh,
we're gonna do another, uh,
series of rocket launches
if, uh
while you guys
are getting ready.
Yeah, we're, uh,
we're fine with that.
Uh, what's your ETA for
when you'll be ready
for the next set of drones?
We'll call it 15 minutes
if everything goes well.
15 minutes
if everything goes to plan.
Understood, thank you.
So, be advised,
we are gonna go ahead
with the next set of rockets.
Hey, team, they're about to roll
the next set of rockets as well.
TRAVIS:
It was also time
to start beaming
the projection lasers
with the audio file at the mesa.
Erik, you want to play the, uh,
audio file through the laser?
Yeah, I've got it queued up.
One moment.
TRAVIS:
Three weeks ago,
we were stunned
when Blazing Bear
performed a drumming ritual
that was designed
to stimulate portal phenomena
and actually led
to a thermal anomaly
appearing on top of the mesa,
followed by two UAPs that flew
into the mesa's surface.
So, in addition to the tools
we're already using,
Nu-Salt is going to operate
a projection scanner
that will broadcast a recording
of the Blazing Bear song ritual
through a modulated laser beam
up, down and across the mesa
near the triangle to see
if we can provoke any more
unusual anomalies to appear.
So, we're gonna again
do the green raster
on the mesa, but, uh,
at the same time,
we're gonna modulate it
with the sound
from the Native American
drum circle ceremony.
Then you guys hit the go
on the rockets.
ALLEN:
Yep, we got all six hot.
All right, so let's go ahead
and bring the lasers up.
Okay.
TIM:
We got the rasters up.
So, Erik,
are you ready to play that?
ERIK:
All right, you got it.
I'm rolling.
All right, here we go,
let's see if we hear it.
(ritual song playing)
(buzzing)
(humming)
TRAVIS:
What is that sound?
Where is that coming from?
That's-that's not
coming from here.
That's not it. - That Are you
playing it again? Is it stopped?
I am playing.
- I'll go out there and listen.
Okay.
(ritual song playing)
- (humming)
Nah, that ain't it.
TRAVIS:
Just as the laser started
broadcasting the song ritual,
we could suddenly hear
a different,
mysterious signal
interfering with it.
But where was it coming from?
(ritual song playing)
- (humming)
It's in there, I hear it, but
- THOMAS: I can hear the drums.
It's-it's in there, but it's
been overwhelmed by something.
KALEB:
I can hear it.
You hear it?
- I can hear it.
It's playing,
but it's being overwhelmed
with some other, some other
frequency, I don't know
where it's coming from.
- ERIK: Yeah, there's some other modulation
going on there. - Yeah, there's
something, something else in it.
TRAVIS: All right, let's clear
out, let's get ready.
TIM:
Okay.
TRAVIS:
Everybody, clear the launchpad,
clear the launchpad!
All right, watch the FLIR, Kaleb.
- KALEB: Yep.
Okay, here we go.
All right, everybody,
be advised,
we are about to do
a rocket launch.
DAVE:
We are clear. Clear, clear.
TRAVIS:
You ready?
All, right, this is gonna
be a staggered launch
in five, four,
three, two,
one.
Get it.
- Wow.
Those crisscrossed
right through the middle.
That one went way north.
KALEB: Hey,
do we have an airplane up north?
I'm looking, I don't see it.
'Cause I got something
in the FLIR right here.
What? Something in the FLIR?
- Right here.
Yeah, there is something
in the FLIR.
KALEB: The moment we launched
it, popped up right in here.
TRAVIS:
We have an object in the FLIR.
I-It's, uh,
a hot object in the sky,
probably 100 feet over the mesa.
Yeah, there is something
in the FLIR.
We have an object in the FLIR.
I-It's, uh,
a hot object in the sky,
probably 100 feet over the mesa.
It's hovering and moving
slowly to the north,
maybe northwest.
Now, that is so cool,
right there.
This was amazing.
Just after another set
of rockets that we launched
mysteriously veered off course
above the triangle
That's crazy.
a strange heat anomaly
showed up
in our FLIR thermal camera
that we had pointed at the mesa.
Where'd he go? Where did it go?
And right above
where we were broadcasting
a sacred Indigenous
drumming song
that many believe
can stimulate portal phenomena.
Travis, do you still
have eyes on that object?
No, uh, it moved outside
of the field of view
of the FLIR camera, Erik,
and it literally appeared
in the middle of the screen
over the launchpad
when we launched
the first two rockets
and then it moved, uh,
off of the, uh, field of view.
Copy that. Well, I know
you got a time stamp,
so we'll definitely
look at that on review.
Copy that.
- KALEB: The moment we launched,
both those rockets
came straight up
and it appeared right here
in the middle of the screen
and got brighter.
- TRAVIS: It literally appeared
in the middle of the screen.
- Yep.
KALEB:
And this is in the same area
that we saw the UAP during
the previous experiment.
Yeah, it's what it looks like.
- Yep.
Things are really getting crazy
out here on Skinwalker Ranch.
It came right out of the mesa.
BRANDON:
Oh, my gosh.
Well, what the hell was it?
- TRAVIS: Just last week,
during an aerial experiment
over the triangle,
a camera mounted
on Brandon's helicopter
captured a UAP
disappearing into the mesa
near the east field
and then exiting it
a few seconds later
right at the triangle.
Does it look like
it comes from right there?
TRAVIS: It came out
of the mesa right there.
BRYANT: And travels across.
- BRANDON: Wow.
This is stunning.
TRAVIS:
Is it possible
that what we just saw
appear above the mesa
is connected to that event?
And if so, what was it?
We don't know yet, but
we might be close to an answer.
Well, we had an object that
going across there.
That was not an airplane.
Not in the FLIR. - KALEB: No.
This guy is coming in hot
right here.
Oh, that's a rocket coming down.
That is so cool, right there.
Look how the wind grabbed it.
Look how the wind grabbed it
right here.
Here comes the second one.
That one's gonna land
in the triangle.
KALEB:
So, get some more rockets up,
see if it comes back.
Yep. All right, so, uh,
did all our rockets go?
I didn't count them.
- ALLEN: No, we had one
that didn't fly, but it-it
- So, we got one hot on the pad?
Yeah. - Why don't you guys
go load the next rockets?
Yeah.
All right. Let's do it.
Hey, Tyler, uh,
how's the drones?
TYLER:
Hey, Travis.
We are rebooting
our systems now.
They're coming back on-line.
I should have
a status update for you here
in the next five minutes.
Copy.
DAVE:
All right.
TRAVIS: If this thing was
stimulated by the rockets
and the song ritual
- That looks good.
then all I could think was,
"Let's keep poking the nest
"with everything we've got,
and see if we can solve
the mystery
of this place tonight."
So, uh, let's-let's go ahead
and bring the lasers up,
and then we'll, uh,
get the sound going.
Okay.
- Hey, Tyler?
Are you guys ready to go?
TYLER: Everything's looking
good on our end, Travis.
We're just slowly
working them down here.
TRAVIS:
Copy that. I understand.
PRESTON:
So, during the first show,
we had four drones return to
home because of the batteries.
They hit
that low-battery threshold,
which is something that's never
happened anywhere else.
Looks good.
- So, I hope
that during the second flight,
we see if there's any anomalies
that are repeatedly
occurring here at the ranch.
All drones clicked on,
all drones clicked on.
TRAVIS:
Copy that.
The drones are ready.
The drones are clicked on.
They're about to go up.
- ERIK: Oh, fantastic.
So, leave the lasers up.
- Okay.
As soon as drones
clear out of the airspace,
we'll launch the rockets.
The rocket's ready to go, right?
Yeah, we're-we're armed and ready.
- All right.
I'm rolling.
- TRAVIS: We are playing the drums
through the laser.
Uh, everything's ready.
Drones are armed.
TRAVIS:
All right, here we go.
TYLER:
Liftoff.
TRAVIS:
There they go. There they go.
All right, drones are going,
the drones are going.
Wow, look at that.
I'm gonna lay down on the ground
and watch them this time.
I got dizzy last time
looking straight up, and then
I was kind of getting vertigo.
It made me, like, dizzy.
DAVE: Look at that.
They're all lined up now.
TRAVIS:
Oh, they are perfectly
organized right now.
We got holes, though.
One, two, three, four,
five holes.
DAVE: Whoa.
- TYLER: What the hell happened?
TYLER: Should have been two
that didn't go, only two.
There's way more than that.
Oh, we're gonna have
a lot of fail-safes.
TRAVIS: Look at the
lines, look at the lines.
Right there,
how-how they're breaking up.
THOMAS: Oh. There they go.
- Yeah.
Battery levels are
not looking great, team.
Keep your heads on a swivel.
TRAVIS:
I think they are coming down.
Yeah.
TRAVIS:
Holy cow! Look at that.
TRAVIS:
Holy cow! Look at that.
Whoa. - TYLER: Battery levels
are not looking great, team.
Keep your heads on a swivel.
We got one that's kind of,
look like it's gonna fail on us.
Two, we got two.
TYLER:
Got another one.
Hey, team, we may have
a lot of these coming down.
Everybody, keep your heads up.
TRAVIS:
Keep your heads up.
Drones are coming down.
DAVE:
Oh, losing another.
Third down four down.
TRAVIS: Uh, yeah, maybe. Maybe.
- Five? Six.
THOMAS:
Oh, they're coming down.
TRAVIS:
I think they are coming down.
I think it's six of them.
DAVE:
I think we got seven now.
Seven. Yeah, seven.
KALEB:
Hey, there's some more
coming down after that one.
TYLER: Splitting into that
cube again here, guys.
TYLER: Gonna have a lot of
these returning to home.
Preston, can you give me a count
on fail-safes there?
- PRESTON: Yep.
PRESTON:
So during the second flight,
we immediately had ten batteries
that entered the fail-safe
condition and returned to home.
THOMAS: Boy, there's a lot
of them coming down.
TRAVIS:
A lot of them coming down.
PRESTON:
Having batteries return to home
almost immediately upon takeoff,
that is just something t-totally
crazy, totally unexpected.
And it just seemed to be
isolated here to the ranch.
It's just raining drones.
- Right?
TRAVIS: Hey, Tyler,
why are the ones coming down?
Are the batteries failing?
The batteries are failing, yes.
TRAVIS: Once again,
something in the skies
above the triangle area
is causing the drone batteries
to drain extremely fast.
Some of them
even lost all battery life
at the moment of liftoff.
TYLER:
There goes another one.
The battery levels
should have been fine.
PRESTON: Yeah,
the lowest was like, 85 to 88%.
So far, ten drones
are returning to home.
Everything else looks good.
So, ten of them
had batteries fail already.
Okay.
TYLER:
Pattern looks really stable.
TRAVIS:
Copy that.
This is pretty epic, looking
at it from this perspective.
A-And the, and the colors.
- ERIK: Yeah.
TRAVIS:
Wow, look at that.
Everything looks perfect
right now.
THOMAS:
Yeah, I mean, they look like
they're holding tight
pretty good.
All right,
the rotation's starting now.
THOMAS:
Oh, that is cool.
TRAVIS:
Yeah, that is cool.
Anything on the FLIR over there?
Has anybody looked?
No objects in the FLIR
this time.
Yeah, no. I don't see any
I don't see anything
coming through the space.
TRAVIS:
Thankfully, most of the drones
stayed in the air
above the triangle
and began performing
their preprogrammed light show.
So, we forged ahead
with the experiment
to see what might appear
in the FLIR camera
or right before our eyes to
hopefully give us some answers.
TYLER: Drones should be clear
enough to send those rockets
if you want to.
- Launch the rockets, Allen!
Yeah, I think the drones
are coming down.
All right, I'm getting up.
DAVE: The sky is clear,
range is clear, Allen.
All right.
We ready, ready?
- DAVE: Ready, ready.
All right, pads are armed.
TRAVIS:
Pads are armed.
KALEB: Hey, hey,
we got something on the FLIR.
We got something on the FLIR.
- What do you got?
KALEB:
It looked like a thin line
appear in this area right here.
ERIK:
Yeah? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Time stamp.
TRAVIS:
Five, four,
three, two,
one, liftoff.
Holy
- 133. 133.
When one of the rockets
went right there,
it went from a line
into many bright lights.
ERIK:
Wow.
I think there may be
three or four of them.
Yeah, they were spread out,
and then they come together.
ERIK:
Oh, wow.
KALEB: I'm blown away by what
we're catching with these cameras.
Multiple objects were flying
in very close
formation together,
and moving in ways
that didn't seem natural.
This is probably
one of the most exciting,
biggest things I've seen
on Skinwalker Ranch.
ERIK: Hey, Travis?
- TRAVIS: Yeah?
ERIK:
I want to get your eyes on this.
TRAVIS:
What-What's going on?
So, we had a
it looked like a thin line
appear in this area right here,
and it was coming
across the screen.
And the moment
they launched the rockets,
you could see
all of them come up
and that turned into, like,
a group of three lights,
three or four of them
from a single line.
ERIK: You know, I could be
convinced that we're looking at
something formation-flying.
Really?
ERIK: I mean, it was
actually quite interesting.
You know, I could be convinced
that we're looking at
something formation-flying.
Seriously?
- Yeah, you know so what
what Kaleb pointed out to me
originally looked like a line
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- but then after the launch,
there were distinct points
I could be convinced
it's either three or four
separate things,
then coalesced back into
a single thing and continued.
And so, I definitely want
to review that.
KALEB: When it came over
to the side over here,
it all four of those lines
elongated out
into a single line.
TRAVIS: The UAP that split
into multiple UAPs
and then maneuvered
in a patterned formation,
was incredible, and may be
one of the biggest developments
we've documented out here.
It really made us all anxious
to keep going
with the experiment
and see what might happen
or show up in the sky next.
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
look what we got here.
What do we got here?
ERIK: Uh-huh.
- We got something.
ERIK: You know,
that's moving at a rate that is
That's real.
I'm looking for that.
I'm going out looking for that.
- Yeah, that
That doesn't look like an aircraft.
- We got something
moving through
the FLIR right now
Yep.
- and it ain't an aircraft.
TRAVIS:
It's a fairly clear night.
If there's something there,
you'd think we'd see it.
TRAVIS: Was that warmer or colder?
- What's that?
What you saw on the FLIR.
- Oh, well, it was wh
Erik, is white hot or red hot?
White: hot.
- So, then,
it was hotter than everything else.
- Okay.
Hey, I don't see it now.
I don't see anything.
- I don't see it.
And so, it must not be visible
to the naked eye.
For a UAP to emit a lot of heat,
it really made me wonder
why we couldn't see it
with the naked eye.
Was it, and the ones
Erik and Kaleb just saw,
being masked or cloaked
by something?
Or could they have
possibly vanished
into the anomalous zone
above the triangle?
You guys are about ready here?
- DAVE: Yep.
Quick two-minute operation here.
You got it. All right.
To find out,
the LOC Precision team prepped
the most powerful rocket
we've ever had on the ranch.
The big one's hot
if you want it.
All right, we're gonna
launch the big rocket.
DAVE: There's some data
that points to an anomaly
right there from
the 30-foot mark,
all the way up to about 10,000
feet as far as we can figure.
So the big rocket was, uh,
something we concocted
to push a few boundaries
out here.
We're expecting to hit
about 10,000 feet
and Mach 1.5.
All right, everybody, be advised
that we're about
to launch the big rocket
in just a couple of seconds.
DAVE: So, we're really
hopeful that this rocket
will just get the job done
in hopefully finding, um,
whatever's up above
the triangle.
Well, are we ready to go?
Ready when y'all are.
- All right, we got all the lasers
working again, we're good to go.
All right,
the launchpad's clear?
DAVE:
Sky's clear, range is clear.
You ready, Dragon?
We're gonna do it?
BOTH: Yep.
- Here we go,
in five,
four, three, two,
one.
ALLEN:
Get it.
Oh, my goodness!
Holy cow!
- KALEB: Whoa.
TRAVIS:
Wow, it went
one and a half times
the speed of sound.
That thing was moving fast.
THOMAS:
Oh, shoot.
I don't know where
I'm not seeing anything.
Is anybody seeing the rocket?
- I'm looking.
TRAVIS: Where, you uh,
anybody got the rocket?
TYLER:
Does anyone see the rocket?
ALLEN:
Hey, where's that night vision?
Yeah, night vision,
night vision!
Thomas, you should be able
to see it in the night vision.
BRYANT:
Are you seeing anything?
ALLEN:
Watch the FLIR.
ERIK: Yeah, I'm not seeing
anything on the FLIR.
KALEB:
Yeah, FLIR is clear.
TRAVIS: Did anybody ever see
the chute pop?
DAVE:
I didn't see a single
ounce of it, no.
- I didn't hear any pop.
I didn't hear a pop,
I didn't see anything.
THOMAS: I'm not seeing it
in the night vision, either.
BRYANT:
Neither am I.
THOMAS:
It's gone.