05x05 - The Flash

[bunniefuu]

ERIK: Our ambition is
to survey the triangle.

JAN:
Right here, there is a target.

TRAVIS: Right where the
data pointed to a tunnel.

JAN: Yeah, something's
going on there.

THOMAS: We need
to get our drill out there.

As they're hitting, you can
see it just turned to pure liquid.

That would imply a void.

I'm getting, like, a
really bad metallic taste.

Shut it down, shut it down.

We have a safety issue
we need to address.

ERIK: That could be
exposure to radiation.

I'm starting to taste metal.

I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding you.

Everybody needs to
vacate this area now.

TRAVIS: Oh, yeah,

there is absolutely
electricity built up on this thing.

There shouldn't be
any, should there?

TRAVIS: No.

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.

-ERIK: Hey, guys.
-TRAVIS: What's going on, man?

THOMAS: Good to see you
back. How are you feeling?

-ERIK: Heck of a lot better.
-Good.

TRAVIS: Yesterday, our team had

one of the strangest
experiences ever

during our investigation
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

Right after we
drilled into a void

where previous magnetometry
and radar surveys

have detected evidence of

a possible underground tunnel

between the triangle
and the mesa,

drill operator Brady
Davis and Erik Bard

both started to taste metal.

And after those guys
left for safety reasons,

something else happened
that made me wonder

if it was caused by
whatever we hit underground.

Right after you left, Erik,

we're trying to figure out

what is it about this drill
that's causing people to

have this metallic taste.

And so, we went
over to the drill rig,

and we took a voltmeter

and we touched
one lead to the metal

drill bit and the
other to the ground.

And we should have
measured, you know, nothing,

because there's no current
path for anything to flow there

-that we know of.
-Okay.

And we measured
an electrical field

between the ground
and the drill bit.

And who knows how
high that voltage got,

while they were standing
there beside it and it was drilling.

ERIK: Wow.

I really wish I had
stayed around.

Well, you know, I think
you are going to be

very interested in what
I'm about to show you.

So, you recall,

on the drilling
rig, we put one of

-the data-logging GPS sensors.
-Oh, yeah, right.

ERIK: I'm going
to bring this up.

Watch this. Right there.

-TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.
-ERIK: Now, correct me if I'm wrong,

but that drilling rig did
not go into the mesa.

-TRAVIS: Lord, no.
-No.

ERIK: Right. That drilling
rig didn't move at all.

Nevertheless, what we
see happening here is

the GPS data are showing

a track that runs basically...

TRAVIS: Underground
and into the mesa.

ERIK: Yeah, northwest.

Now, these are

the Lunasonde radar points.

TRAVIS: Look at that.

ERIK: Look at the
correspondence between these.

TRAVIS: One year ago,
we conducted a radar survey

with a company named Lunasonde,

which detected a
possible metallic tunnel

underground between
the triangle and the mesa.

And the GPS data
from a device that

Erik attached to
the drill rig yesterday

shows that the rig
somehow moved northwest

and then went into the mesa

along the exact line
where this possible tunnel

that we were drilling
for was detected.

What in the world
could have caused that?

You-you know, it's almost
as if we've got something,

whether it's natural or not,

we've got something
under the surface

that is influencing the data

that we've collected in
several different ways,

completely different
technologies,

and they're lining up.

TRAVIS: This is
really fascinating,

that there could be something
under the ground right there

that's causing these phenomena.

ERIK: Yes, it makes
me want to keep drilling

-down into that hole.
-Yes.

Yes.

ERIK: So, I want
to get your eyes on

the high-speed video footage.

-TRAVIS: Oh, there's more?
-Oh, yes.

TRAVIS: During the drilling
operation, we also had

a high-speed camera
pointed at the sky

directly above the triangle,

taking hundreds
of shots per second,

looking for anything strange,

so we were on the edge
of our seats to find out

what the camera
had actually captured.

ERIK: Let's dive in.

I'm gonna look at it
with the enhanced view.

This is the footage
from out at the triangle.

Um, as we play this,

you probably see
the, uh, the lens flare

that we're used to looking at.

But there's some things in here

that I cannot readily dismiss.

-Let's see it, all right?
-All right.

Watch what happens here.

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-ERIK: We have several objects

moving in unison.

TRAVIS: Look how
fast they're moving.

And it looks like
it sped up, even.

-Did you see that?
-ERIK: Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: They-- those
are moving in a straight line.

-ERIK: And see this guy here?
-TRAVIS: Yeah, look at that one.

And it's moving way
faster than an airplane

in a straight-- Here's
another. Look at this.

ERIK: Yes.

That's not natural.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: Erik was right.

These UAPs were definitely

nothing natural,

and were the most

we've ever captured

in a single setting.

So, what were they?

Where did they come from?

And how might
they be connected to

whatever we drilled into

underground between
the triangle and the mesa?

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-This is cool stuff.

Yeah, so, you know, out
of all these observations,

you know, I feel like we've
got some-some action items.

Well, I think, as
soon as possible,

we need to get that
drill rig back out here

and see what's in that--
the bottom of that hole.

ERIK: Yep.

Well, guys, this has
been a great discussion.

I... I appreciate getting
your minds, obviously,

your eyes and your
minds on this problem set.

-BRYANT: Yeah.
-TRAVIS: All right.

-THOMAS: Yeah. Eventful day.
-TRAVIS: Good stuff, Erik.

ERIK: Yeah.

JAN: Okay, let's do it.

Grab that.

TRAVIS: While Thomas Winterton

was arranging for the
drillers to come back

and help us figure out what's
underground by the triangle...

We're going to want to
go on this side right here,

up this path.

You'll kind of see where
we've kind of gone before,

-but...
-Okay.

TRAVIS: ...Kaleb
Bench was helping

ground-penetrating
radar expert Jan Francke

scan the mesa with a new device

where he's previously
detected evidence of

something very strange
buried deep inside there.

-All right.
-So, Jan,

I'm assuming we would just

-want you to go back and forth...
-Yeah.

...as much as we can,
and really see how far back

and how deep this
anomaly is by chance.

-Let's give it a go, for sure.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS: If all the UAPs
we've seen in the skies

above Skinwalker Ranch
weren't strange enough,

for the last three years,

we've been trying to
identify a 400-foot-long,

dome-shaped object that
we detected inside the mesa.

During previous
drilling operations,

we've been unable
to penetrate it,

but we have recovered
metal fragments

in the spoils that,
believe it or not,

are composed of
similar materials

to what NASA uses to protect

the outside of our spacecraft

for re-entry into
the atmosphere.

-JAN: Here we go.
-So, Jan has come back to

scan the top of the mesa

with a new, specialized GPR unit

that he believes can get
better images of this thing

and help us plan for
an even more advanced

drilling operation
in the coming weeks

to finally figure out

just what the heck
is really inside there.

-KALEB: Is it good?
-JAN: It's good, everything's working.

KALEB: We'll just
kind of go slow.

JAN: Yeah, yeah. I'll
let you lead the way.

-ADDY: Hi.
-KANDUS: Hey, there.

How's it going?

-TOM: Hi, Addy.
-Hello.

TRAVIS: While Jan and Kaleb

conducted the GPR
survey on the mesa,

over at Homestead One,

ranch caretakers Kandus
Linde and Tom Lewis

met once again with Addy
Diaz and her brother Bubba.

They live very close
by and wanted to share

more information with us

about cattle mutilations that
took place on Skinwalker Ranch

back when the previous
owner, Robert Bigelow,

investigated the
property with the help of

the federal government
more than a decade ago.

-Look at these tooth marks.
-Yeah.

It would have to be
larger than a wolf.

TRAVIS: We recently
found a dead cow

on the property
with teeth marks in it

that biologist Ben
Woodruff told us

may have actually been
caused by a dire wolf,

an animal that went extinct
about 10,000 years ago.

Since there have been
legends of dire wolves

attacking and mutilating cattle
on Skinwalker Ranch in the past,

we really wanted to find out

what Addy and
Bubba had to tell us.

So, you basically
grew up here, right?

-ADDY: Yeah.
-KANDUS: Can you tell us

a little bit more about
cattle mutilations

-in the area?
-BUBBA: Oh, yeah.

ADDY: Yeah, it was probably
around September of 1997,

my grandpa was
driving out, you know,

in the field over this way

and he found his
cattle on the fence line.

-TOM: Okay.
-Hmm.

The cow's, you know,
body there had no nose,

no tongue, no eyes,
its ears were cut off.

Everything inside
of the cow was gone.

There was, like,
no blood around it,

and the liver was perfectly
placed on a log next to it.

-What?
-TOM: Really?

ADDY: But, like, it
didn't have no opening

right here, and if it was
coyotes, there'd be tracks,

there'd be blood everywhere.

Right.

They had a team
come out and look at it.

TOM: Do you know if
the people they called in

to look at the cow were
part of the Bigelow team

or if it was a vet or...

ADDY: Yeah, it was a vet first,

and then Bigelow's team came.

-TOM: Bigelow's team came.
-KANDUS: Uh-huh.

BUBBA: What is that?

ADDY: Oh, yeah.
It's over there. Look.

TOM: Oh, that's huge.

BUBBA: Oh, man.
Big, giant plane.

I've never seen a
plane fly that low.

TOM: Yeah.

-That's like a military...
-Oh, man.

-ADDY: Yeah.
-BUBBA: That's way low.

TOM: Wow.

TOM: That's like a military...

-KANDUS: Oh, man.
-ADDY: Yeah.

BUBBA: That's way low.

Wow, that was a
military plane, wasn't it?

TRAVIS: In the past few years,

numerous military
helicopters and planes

have flown back and forth

over the ranch during
our investigations.

Helicopter, helicopter!

TRAVIS: Like they were
trying to conduct surveillance

of what we were doing.

When Tom and Kandus alerted
us about the aircraft they saw,

Erik checked the
surveillance cameras

and confirmed that it
was, indeed, a C-17,

which are used by the
United States Air Force.

We could tell
because of the shape

of the rear rudder
and its cargo tailgate.

So, was this a military
plane trying to spy on us

just as we were looking deeper

into what could be
inside the mesa?

And if so, for what purpose?

Have you noticed
any other military craft,

especially low-flying craft?

Oh, yeah. All the time
throughout here in the Basin.

Wow.

BUBBA: You know,
like, helicopters

and planes flying really low.

-Yeah.
-[laughs] Yeah.

And they'll have a big dome

underneath the plane,
like a camera-like thing

-or whatever it is.
-KANDUS: Oh, yeah.

-Yeah.
-BUBBA: One day,

I did see a big
white plane that had,

like, a satellite dish thing
on the very top of the plane.

-Yeah.
-BUBBA: We've seen quite a few of those, actually.

-KANDUS: Like a radar or what?
-BUBBA: Like a radar, yeah.

-That's what it sounds like.
-KANDUS: Huh.

And then, over
here on Highway 40,

we did spot two of those

helicopters with two propellers.

-Okay, yeah. Like a Chinook.
-BUBBA: What are they called?

A Chinook, pretty much, yeah.

TOM: Yeah, we saw them fly,

basically, around the ranch.

-And then just take off again.
-That's pretty weird.

Yeah. You've spent
your childhood here,

grew up in these hills,
grew up on these roads.

What was it like?

ADDY: It's
definitely not normal.

-Mm-hmm.
-ADDY: But, to me, it's the only place I know.

-Yeah.
-KANDUS: And were you warned

to stay away from this area?

Um, no, not really.

Until Bigelow came.

Mm.

-So, late '90s?
-Yeah.

Yeah, so what was it
like? Do you remember

back then, when-when
Bigelow's team was here,

what was going on?

Like, did you see

any crazy stuff happening

when he had his
team stationed here?

I'd hear stories, you
know, from my grandpa.

And, you know, just the traffic
that go up and down the road.

I used to see military Humvees
come up and down the road.

They had a cargo
thing in the back.

ADDY: Yeah.

So, these Humvees,
they had cargo area?

Yeah, they were
pulling, like, little trailers

in the back of them, you
know, like big spotlights.

You know, like the kind you
haul around when you want to

-light up an area.
-And they were coming into the ranch?

BUBBA: They were
coming in and out.

They would be carrying
something on their flatbed,

but it'd be in a
cargo container.

I don't know what it would be,

but it would be a
military truck, too.

TOM: Robert Bigelow
dumped considerable money

into this place researching,

and the problem with Bigelow

is he hasn't released
most of the data that he has.

Right now, hearing
all these stories,

Addy provided us
with some information

about the Bigelow
era, which is interesting.

Considering our investigation

around the triangle
and the mesa,

I can't help wonder,

maybe the Bigelow
team found something.

So, thank you for
sharing and, you know,

having the courage to
share these experiences

that you've had and
your families had with us.

And if there's anybody
else that you can think of

that might want to share
their experiences with us,

we'd really appreciate it.

-Yeah. All right. [grunts]
-All righty, sounds good.

-Thanks so much, Bubba,
-Oh, it's good to see you.

-Good to see you, too.
-All right, yup, you're welcome.

TOM: We will talk to you soon.

ERIK: Hey, Jan.

Hey, Erik.

Well, thanks for
jumping on with us.

We are all so anxious to find
out what you've discovered

from the latest GPR survey
there above the drill site.

TRAVIS: Based on our
previous GPR scans,

we believe that
there's a massive,

dome-shaped object in the mesa.

And we've also
recovered metal fragments

made up of the same materials

that NASA uses to
protect spacecraft.

So, we're hoping like hell that
Jan Francke's new GPR data

will reveal additional
details about this thing

and also help us make a plan

to get inside the mesa

and figure out what
in the world it could be.

JAN: If you recall,
from last year,

the last time we did the survey,

we did about 300 meters

along the very top of the slope,

and we detected that
really strange anomaly.

ERIK: The dome feature.

JAN: Absolutely, yes, exactly.

What I wanted to
understand is how far back

into the mesa
does that continue?

So, let me share
my screen with you,

and I'll show you
what we've actually

been able to gather here.

So, guys, these black lines
represent where we collected

the GPR data as we
scanned back and forth

across the mesa.

So, we did a total of 12 passes,

starting at the edge of the
mesa and going backwards.

Now, on the first pass,

I got a hit on my
device right here,

and on the GPR screen,
this is what it looked like.

It was the exact same
area where we detected

the large anomaly last year.

So, on my second pass,
a little bit further back,

I got another hit right here,

and it happened to be in
line with the previous one.

Again.

JAN: So I kept going backwards.

On my third pass, yet again,

I got a hit that was also
in line with the others.

And this kept happening

on the remaining nine passes.

So, in total, I got 12 hits

for the same anomaly as I
went further and further back.

-Yes.
-So, it is repeatable.

Whoa.

JAN: What this all adds up to

is probably a metallic object

that could be
buried inside there,

measuring, well, at
least 300 feet long,

and it might be even larger.

Wow.

Erik and I loved
that Jan compared

multiple scans that confirmed

we do indeed have a
massive object inside the mesa.

We've also been able to
speculate about it based on

our drilling operations, so
it was very helpful to have

new data to back up
our previous findings.

JAN: So, what we did is,

being able to now create

a three-dimensional
shape around it...

So, let me show you
what that looks like in 3D.

This is our target
in the same space,

so we can really
see how that lines up.

-Really? -JAN: But, remember,

this is not the
shape of the object,

this is just what
the radar sees.

The main target
is very, very clear.

But as we look at this,

there is an absolutely
obvious target

that extends across
this entire area.

-Wow.
-It looks a lot like

you would think a
debris field would be.

ERIK: Just think about
what circumstances

would produce a debris field

inside of a mesa.

ERIK: Just think about
what circumstances

would produce a debris
field inside of a mesa.

TRAVIS: Our investigation

has to be objective,
and we have to follow

where the scientific
data takes us.

Jan Francke's new
ground-penetrating radar scans

of the inside of the mesa,

where we've been investigating
a massive dome-shaped object

for several years,
is showing evidence

of a possible
debris field around it.

So, what in the heck
could be inside there?

Could it be something man-made?

Perhaps. But why in
the middle of nowhere?

I can't see

a natural phenomenon
that we could

explain easily causing
this sort of anomaly.

KALEB: It reminds
me of when we had,

uh, Jake Huffman out

in that same area right there.

Well, that's interesting.

I believe, at some point,

there was blasting done.

Perhaps that was
done to hide something.

TRAVIS: A couple years ago,

demolition expert
Jake Huffman inspected

all the boulders covering
this area of the mesa,

and he gave us his opinion

that a huge expl*si*n
may have caused it.

So, now that Jan

has detected new images
of what we believe to be

a massive dome-shaped object

and a possible
debris field around it,

we have to figure out
how to get inside there

and find out what this is.

So, this could
be multiple things.

Right now, it's all speculation,
but here's what we know.

There's a very large volume
of different material makeup

in the mesa right there,

and it could be metallic.

It would really
behoove us to drill there

and see if we can find
any material in those spots.

You know, I feel
like this has become

the center point
of our research.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

Well, Jan, thank you
for sharing the data.

I know we're gonna
be in touch again

and soon on the follow-up.

Well, thanks for having me
on, guys. Really appreciate it.

-We'll be in touch.
-Thanks, Jan.

JAN: All right, take care.

TRAVIS: All right,
Kalista, we're getting close.

H-How you feeling about that?

KALISTA: A little nervous.

-TRAVIS: Yeah?
-Don't know what to expect.

TRAVIS: While we were
getting our ducks in a row

for how to get inside the mesa,

the next day, we were
ready to continue drilling

near the triangle to find out

if there really is a metallic
tunnel beneath Skinwalker Ranch.

Here you are, at
the command center.

-KALISTA: I'm excited to meet them.
-Here are the guys

waiting to meet
you, look at that.

And to help us collect
more scientific data

as we continue
our drilling exercise,

I brought my favorite
future scientist out

to work with the team--

my daughter, Kalista Taylor.

I got somebody I
want y'all to meet.

-Nice to meet you.
-Kalista.

This is my daughter, Kalista.

-Good to meet you, finally.
-You, too.

-Nice to meet you.
-You, too.

-Hey, how are you?
-Good.

KALEB: The new and
improved Travis 2.0?

Yeah, Travis 2.0,
that makes sense.

Nice to meet you.
Heard so much about you.

-So, I see you're carrying something.
-Yes.

She's been wanting
to build a sensor

that would help us. She
put it together, tested it,

-got it working, wrote the code.
-Yeah, it's multiple sensors

on two different
microcomputers, so...

Yeah, it's got the GPS
altitude, the pressure altitude,

and then, you can
map the trajectory

by the accelerometer data,

so, many different
mapping possibilities.

That's perfect.

KALISTA: I'm a sophomore
electrical engineering student.

My dad asked me to build
a multiple sensor package

that could detect GPS,

pressure, temperature
and humidity data

to help decipher
what's going on here.

-Well, let's go test it out.
-ERIK: Yeah.

THOMAS: Kaleb and I
will meet you out there.

-All right. Sounds good.
-Let's get out there.

No time like the present.

KALISTA: I wanted to be able

to contribute something to help

read and decipher through
some of those things

by collecting data through
different types of sensors.

Oh, yeah.

TRAVIS: While the
drillers were getting ready

to find out if there
really could be

an underground tunnel
near the triangle...

I think that's good.
All right, let's load it.

...we wanted to run an
additional experiment to collect

more data in the air where we've
recently seen several UAPs and

experienced a bunch
of odd GPS errors

with our instrumented drones

between the triangle
and the east field.

-Oh, that's gonna work great. Perfect.
-Nice.

TRAVIS: So, just a few
feet away from the drill site,

we attached Kalista's
multi-sensor device

to Jim Royston's lidar drone

so he could fly it
toward the east field

and scan for anything strange
between these two locations.

Who knows if there
could be a connection

between the anomalies
that we've detected in the air

as well as underground.

We hoped this experiment
would help us find out.

Okay. Here we go.

-KALISTA: Yes!
-TRAVIS: There it goes.

-Look at that.
-How cool.

-[laughs] You built that.
-Yup.

-TRAVIS: Maiden flight of your sensor, Kalista.
-Yeah.

-TRAVIS: Ain't that cool? Can't beat that.
-Yeah.

ERIK: I'm looking forward

to the scientific deliverables

that come out of
flying this payload.

Hopefully, we'll
get more insights

about what is happening
above the triangle.

So we can see it's on its way.

We're gonna look
for that typical error...

TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.

ROYSTON: ...once it
gets to the east canyon.

TRAVIS: Right.

It'll be really good to see
what your sensor says...

-Yeah.
-...compared to the accelerometers

and all the other sensors.

So, whenever we have
good GPS, this is green.

See right here?

-It went red.
-ROYSTON: So we just got it,

-right where we expected.
-Okay. Yeah.

So you guys are seeing
it on the screen, right?

-Oh, wow.
-SAM: We've lost the connection to the controller.

-KALISTA: So it happens every time?
-SAM: Yup.

TRAVIS: Yes, in that
same spot every time.

That's so weird.

-It makes no sense, man.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS: It was crazy that Jim's
lidar drone lost its GPS signal

right as he flew over
the east field, because

during other recent
experiments between that area

and the triangle, the
exact same thing happened.

It's like there's just
this void in the sky

where we can't collect data.

So, what could that be?

And how might it be related

to those UAPs we
saw a few days ago?

ROYSTON: Here we go, we're
back, we're right in that area,

and we're green again.

Yup, there we... there
we go again. Yep.

Well, hopefully, your
sensor will give us some more

-information about what's happening there.
-Yes, yes.

Yes. Perfect.

KALISTA: That would be awesome.

-THOMAS: You're at 35, right?
-JEREMY: Uh-huh.

-I think that...
-Keep going?

Yeah, I think we
go another five feet

-and see if we get out of it.
-Okay.

TRAVIS: While Jim Royston
started processing the data

from the aerial survey
that he and Kalista ran,

the drilling operation
continued near the triangle

to look for evidence of a
possible underground tunnel.

JONATHAN: Okay.

We're not having much
luck with getting any deeper.

THOMAS: It seems like
we've hit just a hard surface

-that's not letting it go down any further.
-Yeah.

THOMAS: Is this hard surface
what the GPR was picking up?

Or could it be a ceiling or
some type of surface layer

to a void that lies below?

Either way, I'm eager

to get back to drilling.

JEREMY: We got
to get that sample.

JONATHAN: Okay.

[whirring]

JONATHAN: It
won't let me pull up.

MASON: That's not good.

JONATHAN: How are we
going to get that out of there?

JEREMY: If it's okay, I'd like

to just see if our center
rod is wedged in there.

Yeah, you do what you got to do.

If there is, we can
get that out of there.

JONATHAN: Feels free.

Coming up.

JEREMY: It stayed down there.

THOMAS: It stayed down?

Yup.

THOMAS: Unfortunately,
the drill rod is stuck

down in this hole, and
we can't get it back up.

It's going to make it impossible

for us to drill any
deeper in this same hole.

These guys have drilled
thousands of holes,

but we're here on
Skinwalker Ranch,

and just trying to
get a single hole

seems to be a herculean task.

Hey, guys. You got our copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Thomas.

Go ahead.

THOMAS: So, uh,

we cannot go down any
further, and that center rod

that goes down
through the drill casing

and takes the core sample
has fallen down the hole.

So, at this point,
we're going to have

to leave that center
rod down in there

and then, figure out
a way to fish it out.

Understood, Thomas.

Thanks for that update.

Um, well, I got a
much simpler idea

if you guys are
on board with it.

-Go ahead.
-Let's move to the center

of the triangle and
try drilling there.

Definitely. I'd love
to get out of this hole.

Definitely. Uh, drillers said

they would love to
get out of this hole.

So, we can just move it
over a little bit and do it again.

Okay, understood.
Thanks for the update.

I would

normally expect a drilling
rig to have no difficulty drilling

into the kind of soil that we
at least think we have here.

So, clearly, this is
kind of frustrating.

The next step is to
move to another location.

Okay. Coming up. Watch yourself.

ERIK: In the past, we've
seen things that are suggestive

of tunnels or some other
structure beneath the triangle,

so I want us to
continue drilling

at the center of the
triangle. There's always

the possibility that we'll
find something unexpected.

MASON: Keep going
a little bit, a little bit.

That's perfect,
then, looks great.

MASON: Start spinning her.

JONATHAN: Spinning.

TRAVIS: Given all
the phenomena that

we've experienced here,

who knows what we could find?

Hopefully, the
entrance to a tunnel.

Let's launch this thing.

We decided to launch
some rockets to see

if we could stimulate
anything strange to happen.

At the same time,

Erik got set up in
the command center

to keep a watch on
the spectrum analyzer,

signal detectors and
the surveillance cameras.

BRYANT: Hey, guys?

THOMAS: Yeah, go ahead.

BRYANT: We're gonna go
ahead and launch a rocket,

so just be advised.

Copy that.

THOMAS: All right,
we'll, uh, watch for it.

TRAVIS: Go ahead and
go hot with that thing, Kaleb!

[high-pitched tone]

KALEB: Five, four,

three, two, one.

TRAVIS: Holy crap,
look at that thing go.

THOMAS: Yup, going north.

-[high-pitched tone] -TRAVIS:
Hold up, hold up. Wait.

What is that?

Straight up, it's right there.

BRYANT: It's right here.
It's right above our heads.

-TRAVIS: Right there!
-KALEB: Right there, right there.

-Right there, right there.
-TRAVIS: That is flashing,

-whatever that is.
-BRYANT: Oh.

-Oh, right over there.
-TRAVIS: I see it, I see it!

BRYANT: Is it an airplane?

KALEB: That's not a plane.

TRAVIS: I don't know what
that flash up in the sky was,

but it definitely was nothing
like an aircraft or a satellite

or anything that made any sense.

It was pulsing bright and
then fading out over and over.

Disappearing and
reappearing in the same spot

in the southwestern sky.

TRAVIS: Give me a walkie,
give me a walkie! Somebody!

Walkie, walkie, walkie,
walkie, walkie, walkie.

Hey, Erik, are you
anywhere to hear a walkie?!

It's not flashing anymore.

Uh, I still see
it. It's real faint.

TRAVIS: We have
a flash in the sky.

It's, uh, straight up
from the drill site,

a little bit south,
a little bit west.

-Uh...
-It got real faint.

I think there's a little bit of
cloud between us and it now.

ERIK: Copy that, Travis.

I'm watching.

Yeah, that was a definite flash.

And it was right there,
and it was flashing...

-bright, at us.
-Yup.

That wasn't something
that was just a flare.

No.

Well, should we launch another
rocket and see if it comes back?

-Damn right we should.
-Okay, let's do it.

TRAVIS: After that flash,

I couldn't wait to
launch another rocket,

but also wanted to
check in with the drillers

to see what they were
finding underground.

How deep are they now, Thomas?

We're at 35, but
we're at bedrock, so...

-Oh, really?
-Yeah, we're-we're at bedrock.

So what I told 'em to
do is let's get a core,

make sure that's
what we're really into.

And, uh, if it is bedrock...

-Then you can't do nothing else, right?
-We've gone

-as far as we can go, so...
-All right.

That's interesting. You
didn't hit anything like that

over there, did you?

JEREMY: No, no. We hit

hard stuff, but it was gravel.

This is smooth, and...

we're getting through
it but very, very slow.

TRAVIS: You are
cutting through it?

Mm-hmm. So far.

Well, I'd like to
see a sample of it,

see what it is. Who knows?

-Who knows?
-Yeah.

-Few more minutes, we'll have one, so...
-All right.

Let me know.

Got it.

[whirring, rattling]

Hey, did you see that?

KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS: You see the UFO?

Holy crap.

Look at that thing.

ERIK: It looked just like

a large, circular object.

What is going on?

BRYANT: What
the hell is up there?

KALEB: Erik, something just went

behind the mesa to the north.

I don't know if you can see it.

ERIK: 'Kay, I'll let you know

if we've got anything
on the ADS-B.



west to east.

BRYANT: We were doing
this core drilling exercise.

We were launching some rockets.

And then, all of a sudden,

off to the south, we
saw a flash in the sky

that persisted for
several minutes.

And then we saw
a UAP in the sky.

I don't know what's going
on, but it's blowing my mind.

ERIK: I do not have any
aircraft in the airspace,

uh, to the north of the
mesa moving west to east.

THOMAS: We don't have visibility
now, but I did see something.

Well, I'm not seeing it anymore.

We do have the core
sample from-from down there

-where it's hard.
-What does it look like?

Well, we-we
actually just got it out.

We're just gonna
break it open right now.

Let's go look and see what,
uh, they pulled out of the drill

on this last, uh, core sample.

THOMAS: Let's get the ends off.

All right, well, this is

the sample off of the...

What would this
be, about 36 feet?

Yeah, 35 to 36 and a half.

TRAVIS: This is where you said
you were hitting something hard?

-Yeah.
-THOMAS: You guys pounded

the crap out of this
to get it to go down.

Yeah. Yeah, we hit it



♪ ♪

-It's empty.
-THOMAS: Uh, what?

TRAVIS: Why is it empty?

THOMAS: What was so hard

that it was taking so many hits

to get it to go down?

To my shock, the whole
bottom part of it is...

is empty.

This is not what
any of us expected.

What is that?

It's clay-ish, whatever that is.

It just broke it up enough
that it just fell right back out

or didn't go up in the sample.

THOMAS: Picture putting
it on a sandstone rock

-and hitting it.
-TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.

Rather than it
making a perfect core

that went up there that
just shattered the rock...

-Turned into gravel.
-Turned into gravel when they pulled it up.

-Interesting.
-So what we have now

is more questions than answers.

Right.

TRAVIS: This core should
have been full of something,

since they broke through
a really hard surface.

We've now drilled two holes
where this possible tunnel is

in the area of the triangle.

But the only thing we've
come up with is more questions.

We'd have to drill


to really kind of make
a profile of what's there.

We got to think this
through a little bit better.

I think we go ahead and pull up.

-They can't go any further with this.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah.

Great idea. Let's do it.

And Erik's probably
gonna hear...

hear about this, too, so...

Well, guys, I appreciate it.

-Thank y'all.
-[chuckling] -[chuckles] Yeah.

Our pleasure.

All right.

♪ ♪

TRAVIS: Hey, fellas.

BRYANT: Hello.

ERIK: Got some data collected

during the core
drilling exercise

out there at the triangle.

TRAVIS: The next morning,

we were really excited
that Erik and Jim Royston

had processed our data

and already reviewed
the surveillance footage.

Of course, I was
especially interested

to find out what
Kalista's sensor

might have actually detected.

You flew all the way

to the east field and
back with the drone.

-Multiple times. Yeah.
-Multiple times

with the-- Kalista's sensor.

I actually have imported that

into the three-dimensional
framework,

and we can look at that.

If you guys are ready
to look at some data,

I'd love to get
it on the screen.

So, what you're seeing
is the GPS position

as data-logged by
Kalista's instrument.

And I'd like to know

whether anything
that you see here

-jumps out right away. -Boy, jump-jumps out at me.
-ROYSTON: Right away.

-[chuckles] You go ahead.
-Yeah. No, you flew the drone. You say it.

The start point,

which is at the triangle.

-ERIK: Let's zoom in on that.
-Yeah.

That's off.

-For sure.
-ERIK: That's exactly what jumped out at me.

You know, Jim, I know
you did not fly it this way.

-No. No.
-TRAVIS: That looks like it's, you know,

half the height

-or even less.
-Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: And, you know,
what's interesting to me,

if you look right here,

the data appears to jump down.

Now, where is that?

Is that over the east canyon?

It's where we've been seeing,

time and time again,

those anomalies.

TRAVIS: Just like the other
recent drone experiments,

the GPS data on
Jim's lidar drone

did not match the
actual flight path

we all saw it make.

And then Kalista's
sensor data showed

some kind of interference
near the east field,

where we've seen UAPs
fly through the mesa

and then head
towards the triangle.

ERIK: This is exactly where we've
seen dropouts in the data before.

-Absolutely.
-TRAVIS: And this is a different sensor

than the ones we've used before.

So, again, we're seeing

the same anomaly
in the same location.

We're at a point now

where what we can say is,

we know there is some sort of
anomalous phenomena here.

Now, following on the timeline,

the collection of this data,

we also have a video record
that I want to share with you guys,

uh, taken the-- taken the night.

TRAVIS: So that's after we moved

-from this hole...
-Yes.

...to the one that was
closer to the triangle.

Right. Still in the
same general vicinity,

but, yeah, there
at the triangle.

And I think you're gonna
find these clips interesting.

'Kay, this is a flash

-that occurs in the sky.
-BRYANT: Oh. Yeah.

ERIK: You'll-you'll
remember this.

Uh, we have

the actual video
record of it here.

TRAVIS: Wow! Look at that.

BRYANT: Oh.

TRAVIS: Wow! Look at that.

-And, you know, if you zoom in on it, Erik...
-Okay.

I think we can dive into it

and take a
frame-by-frame approach

to-to really see
what's happening.

-Yeah, there it is.
-That's it right there.

Look at that.

That is very spherical.

-ERIK: Well-defined.
-Well-defined.

The flashing UAP that appeared

while we were drilling
at the triangle last night

was one of the most
incredible phenomena

we've ever documented
on Skinwalker Ranch.

But what could it have been
and where did it come from?

And then the next frame.

TRAVIS: Oh,
there-- Still, it's there.

It's fading.

And what's really interesting is

that it's still very
bright in the middle.

ERIK: Yes.

Now, I know, Erik,

that we saw this
for several minutes.

The video you got,
is there multiple?

-We do have multiple instances of the flash.
-[clears throat]

-So here's the next one.
-Okay.

ERIK: And...

it's instantly on,

and then it fades
off. So that...

That one didn't look as bright.

TRAVIS: That didn't look
near as bright that time.

One of the things that
comes to mind, of course,

every time we see
flashes like this is

-what we saw in Orion.
-Yeah.

-It was two years ago, right?
-Yeah.

Okay.

-There. There. Right.
-Oh!

-What was that?
-Okay, that's what I'm trying to figure out.

TRAVIS: That's the
brightest thing in the sky.

ERIK: So here it is.

It did have certain
things in common with it.

TRAVIS: It looked just like it,

and, uh, it looked
like the same color.

-ERIK: Okay.
-Weird.

And so what in the world is
doing that and to what end?

And why are we only
seeing it here at the ranch?

Not that anything on this
ranch makes sense anyway,

but why do we keep
experiencing stuff like this?

We launch rockets
above the triangle

and we see GPS data
show up underground

where a possible tunnel
has been detected.

Then we drill for a tunnel

and we see multiple
UAPs in the sky.

It's like the old Masonic adage,

"as above, so below."

There has to be a connection,

and we have to
find out what it is.

Well, you know, we need
to put our heads together

on how to follow up on this.

Jim, I appreciate
the data review.

Fascinating material.

-Yeah.
-ERIK: Like you to tell Kalista

thanks for the data.

-Thank you.
-TRAVIS: All right.

ROYSTON: All right, guys.

ERIK: So our attention is being
drawn again and again to the triangle,

both to the airspace above

and to what may
lie in the subsurface.

I'm convinced that, as
we continue this research,

we're also going to...

broaden and deepen

the kinds of things
that we're doing here

to get to the answers.

TRAVIS: Thomas Winterton
told me on my first day here

that Skinwalker Ranch
reacts to certain people.

Well, it dang sure
seems to react to us.

So we're gonna keep
poking it with hard science

until it finally reveals
its long-held secrets.

BRANDON: We have
observed acute medical episodes

occurring simultaneously
with drilling activity.

The concept

that digging brings with it

other disruption
and other danger...

...is a reality.

The data proves it,

and the team
is more motivated than ever

to get the answers.

In some ways,
we have accomplished so much.

On the other hand,
we are just getting warmed up.