06x04 - Bursting the Bubble

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TRAVIS: All right, Thomas,
I say we light this thing.

There it goes.

Our goal is to build
some large fires at the triangle

and fill this bubble
with a lot of smoke,

map it and watch what it does.

DAVE: In the FLIR we're
picking up these dark zones.

These cold vortexes in the heat.

That doesn't make any sense.

KALEB: It stopped.

TRAVIS: It's floating
right over the triangle.

It's not coming down.

Once again returns
going well up into the sky.

- TRAVIS: Is that the edge of the bubble?
- PETE: Yes.

TRAVIS: Wow.

THOMAS: We are really
close to punching out

through the top up here.

The drill bit is
through the top.

ALEX: We'll get to
opening this hole for you.

THOMAS: I'm excited.

NARRATOR: There is
a ranch in northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings have
never been made public.

TRAVIS: Right there!
We got something!

NARRATOR: Now a new team

of independent
scientists and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

Of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

- UAP right there!
- KALEB: Yep.

Bizarre energies...

It looks like there's a heat
source right above 'em.

And portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe
looking at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

Might actually be true.

They will stop at
nothing to reveal...

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

KYLE: I don't even
think it's moving that fast.

- THOMAS: We're crawling at inches.
- ALEX: Yeah.

THOMAS: Have you
seen any kind of, uh, hint

that it might speed up, or is...

I mean, are we looking
at this pace for a while?

There's honestly no telling.

THOMAS: Why don't you,
uh, shut him down for now

- and let's get with the guys.
- Okay.

Okay, hold that right there.

THOMAS: Hey, guys, you copy?

Oh, there's Thomas.

Yeah, Thomas. What's up?

I need you guys to come
up here and meet us.

Uh, we need to have a
discussion about the progress

on this drilling.

TRAVIS: Are you kidding?

ERIK: That sounds
ominous. We'll be right over.

TRAVIS: Nothing in our
investigation on Skinwalker Ranch

has gone the way we expected.

Especially the bizarre
struggles we keep having

to complete the
first of two boreholes

that we've drilled
up through the mesa.

What's the news?

Heard the drill rig shut off.

Yeah. So, these guys
are making progress,

but, uh, it's inches an hour.

And there's no telling if it's
gonna soften up or free up.

What do you reckon
could be doing that?

It's like there's some
kind of phenomena

or something
inside the mesa here

that's harder than anywhere
else you've ever drilled.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: Last year, we
drilled a 600-foot borehole

just east of where a
ground-penetrating radar scan

detected a huge object
and several other anomalies

buried inside the mesa.

A few days ago, we started
widening the borehole

by pulling an 11-and-a-half
inch diameter reaming bit

back down through
it from the top.

But then, something
inside there was preventing

the reaming bit from
making much progress.

So we decided to try a
slightly smaller reaming bit

to see if that would be
able to get the job done.

Ultimately, we want to
drill two identical boreholes

on either side of
these buried objects

and then case the inside of
them with a gel-like cement.

That will allow us to insert
specialized scanning devices

to better study and
hopefully identify

just what these
objects could be.

What we're seeing is we're
gonna have to make a choice.

We either continue with
that ten-inch or 11-inch hole

to the bottom, and
that's what we get,

or we go another route
and get a second hole.

Well, let me put
something out there.

You know, everything we've
been told about the instrumentation

says that what
we've got right now

is perfectly adequate

for doing the science
we want to do out here.

What do you think?

Yeah so, I-I
agree, Erik. Uh, I...

We don't really have any
instruments that are bigger

than, uh, you know,
an eight-inch hole, right?

- We could get everything through there we want to.
- ERIK: Mm-hmm.

And so maybe just trying to
get that extra couple of inches

is just wasting time
that we could be using,

uh, to do something else.

G-Get a second
hole in there, right?

And this casing is gonna
make the outside layer hard,

so hopefully we won't
have any collapses?

- Yeah, it should harden.
- A clear hole all the way from the top to the bottom?

Yep.

TRAVIS: Well, that's great.

Erik and I both
would really like to get

some scientific, uh, analysis

from instruments inside
these holes that we're drilling.

So, we've got a
hole drilled, right?

I say we quit trying
to make it bigger.

ERIK: Yeah.

So, can we just
case what we've got,

- stabilize it and call it good?
- ALEX: Yep.

I mean, it's gonna
take a little time

- to case that all the way down, right?
- Yeah.

Um, it'll definitely move
a lot quicker, though.

So, I'm guessing
maybe a day or two.

ERIK: The size of that
borehole, it's not at all ideal.

However, we can just
stabilize the hole as it is

and use the channel that
we've already cut into the mesa

to insert all kinds
of instrumentation

to study whatever
this anomaly actually is.

THOMAS: You've got
us a workable size hole

that you'll be able to get
instruments in and out of,

so I call that a huge success.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, absolutely.

All right, man. Good stuff.

ERIK: Hi, Ben. Hi, Brandon.

- Hello.
- Greetings, gentlemen.

It is so good to be with you.

TRAVIS: While the drilling
operation continued at the mesa,

we went back to
the command center

for a video conference
with ranch owner

Brandon Fugal and
biologist Ben Woodruff.

In the wake of the discovery
of the wolf-like creature

in the Dry Gulch Creek,

I actually engaged
Colossal Biosciences,

which is the leading genetics
and life sciences company

on the planet right now

for studying this
type of material.

And we got back

some really
interesting DNA data.

I'm on the edge of my seat here.

BRYANT: Whoa, what is that?

- THOMAS: What is that?
- TRAVIS: One year ago,

we found the decayed
carcass of a wolf-like creature

that had a freakishly
large jawbone and teeth.

So, given the legends
about wolf-like creatures

that Skinwalker Ranch
is actually named after,

Erik asked biologist
Ben Woodruff

to examine the jawbone.

And, believe it or not, the
closest match he could find

was a juvenile dire wolf,

a predatory animal that
supposedly went extinct

more than 10,000 years ago.

BRANDON: Ben, I'm
gonna turn it over to you,

since you've been
reviewing the analysis

provided by Colossal

and can provide greater context

to why this is truly, I
think, earth-shattering.

Certainly. We knew this animal
was some species of canine,

and so what we did is we
had Colossal test this DNA

against the DNA of
other species of canines,

like wolves and coyotes
and foxes and domestic dogs.

Looking over this pie chart

that has all the genetic
results from Colossal,

it shows that 11%
of this species

is Canis lupus, the
modern-day gray wolf.

But it matches specifically
with the Eurasian gray wolf

and a Greenland gray wolf.

These are modern species,
but the strange thing is,

they're species
that don't cross over

in their range with each other,

and they're not found
here in the United States.

- Interesting.
- BEN: But that's only 11%.

The other 89% is a mystery.

It is some sort of wolf,

but a wolf we that do not have
any genetic record of anywhere.

So, if this is showing
that 89% of this

is unknown material,
that's really exciting.

It means it's a nine
out of ten chance

that it's not a standard
gray wolf, right?

BEN: Correct.

This wolf creature kind of
rewrites the history books.

Whatever this animal is,

it's either a new species,

or it's an old species
that we did not know

was running around this region.

The Utah Division
of Wildlife Resources

claims that there are no
wolves or wolf packs in Utah.

So, there should be no
wolves on the ranch at all.

At the end of the day,

there's a lot of mystery
about the DNA results

from this sample.

And because this
is inconclusive,

we have to give extra weight

to the physical
evidence we collected

and what the evidence shows us

is that the jaw and
the teeth in the jaw

perfectly match those
of a juvenile dire wolf.

Well, I-I think this has been

a fascinating
discussion, you know?

The, I...

No, it's not exactly conclusive,

but boy, do we
have a lot to go on.

I'd like to get more
cameras in the south field

and-and other areas of the ranch
where we've been doing our work.

Ben, I really want to get
you back out to the ranch

and talk about the
ways to follow up on this.

BEN: Yeah, I'd love to.

Look, you know, this is where
that history meets evidence.

And so, let's go
get the evidence.

You know, we'll
be in touch soon.

BEN: Sounds good.

RICH: Kaleb, nice
to see you again.

KALEB: You too.

I'm excited to see
what you brought us

and maybe help the process.

Yeah, I've got some new
stuff, happy to try it out.

We'll get an idea of
what's lurking around here.

- Hey, all right.
- That's what we're looking for.

Fantastic.

Well, I'm excited to
get out there, let's...

Yeah, let's do it.

TRAVIS: The next day,

while the drilling team
was working on casing

the inside of borehole
one in the mesa,

Kaleb met with Ben Woodruff,

along with Rich
Howell from Trailcampro

to install the new game
cameras in the south field

and other areas of the ranch.

RICH: So what's the
first place we're going to?

To the south side of the ranch.

One of the interesting things
that we've found out here

was the carcass
of the wolf last year.

TRAVIS: After that incredible
DNA report on the wolf creature

that we found, Erik
wanted to start collecting

more possible video evidence

that might help us identify

any more strange animals

that could be roaming
around the property.

Gonna show you where we
found, uh, this carcass down here.

Snagged up on this
tree just right here.

- Hmm. I think we can cover this whole area with one camera.
- KALEB: Yeah?

Well, that's great.

I think we could
hammer one in right here.

Yeah, I-I think
it's a great spot.

- Let's get to work.
- KALEB: Yeah.

Dry Gulch Creek
is another location

we're trying to
focus on this year

where we not only
found remains of a wolf

that possibly has
dire wolf DNA in it,

but we've also caught
some other phenomena.

Last year during one
of our large experiments,

we saw a light actually
moving through the river.

So we're really hopeful

were gonna catch
some interesting things.

RICH: It is set and
on and ready to go.

Awesome.

These game cameras
serve a dual purpose...

they're a major
asset to security

and also to the
scientific investigation

here on Skinwalker Ranch.

I am excited to see
what they're gonna catch.

- RICH: We are set.
- That's great.

Awesome.

Yeah, I'm excited that
we've got this asset

looking at this area right here.

BEN: Well, this is gonna
give enough range, too.

You're gonna be
able to see not only

what could be here, but
how the animals behave.

- How the ranch makes them interact.
- Yeah.

You're covering a
huge swath of ground.

KALEB: Mm-hmm, no, I
think it's gonna be a huge help

- for the investigation this year.
- Yeah.

Who knows what we'll pick up?

- TRAVIS: Oh, hey, fellas.
- THOMAS: Welcome back, guys.

- Good to see you.
- TRAVIS: How y'all doing, man?

- How you doing, boy?
- Good to see you, man.

TRAVIS: While we were waiting
for the casing of borehole one

to get done in the mesa,

we welcomed back the
guys from LOC Precision

to help us conduct our most
advanced rocket experiment yet:

to figure out one of
the craziest anomalies

we've ever encountered
on Skinwalker Ranch.

You know, we've
been following up on

what appears from
our view through lidar

- to be an invisible
bubble - Yep.

That is about 600
meters in, uh, radius,

centered on the triangle here.

TRAVIS: Based on
numerous infrared lidar scans,

a gigantic sphere
that we call the bubble

sits above and below ground,
and it covers a huge area,

including the mesa drill site,

the east field

and even Dry Gulch Creek.

Basically, where
we've documented

all kinds of phenomena.

From UAPs to strange animals,

and even possible
communication signals

around the radio
frequency 1.6 gigahertz.

We show directly
over the triangle,

exactly 1,000 feet
above ground level.

ERIK: Look what
just happened there.

You see those red points?

TRAVIS: Another weird thing
about the center of this bubble,

which is right at the triangle,

is that Erik has been
unable to obtain GPS data

at various altitudes, all
the way up to its barrier

at about 2,000 feet in the air.

It's like something
that we can't see

exists all through that zone

and displaces or
swallows the data.

So, today, we're gonna
use high-powered rockets,

equipped with
specialized devices,

to see if we can collect
some accurate data

up in that space.

So, guys, tell us about
everything you've brought out.

What new tech?

Yeah, so, we've got
Kate, that we'll be putting

on board some of the
larger diameter rockets,

um, and that's real-time
data, GPS readings.

With the smaller rockets,
we can get around 1,000 feet,

and then the larger unit
with the advanced tracking,

- we can probably get that around 5K.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: All right, uh, I
think we need to get to work.

- ALLEN: Let's do it. Love it.
- TRAVIS: Let's do it.

ALLEN: Okay. Yeah,
let's hook her up.

- DAVE: We're in good shape.
- ALLEN: You got it?

TRAVIS: First, we're going
to launch a smaller rocket

up to 1,000 feet, where
it will deploy chalk.

We're hoping this will
help us further identify

anything strange
inside of the bubble

that can't be seen
with the naked eye.

- This is gonna be the big one with Kate.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: Then we'll launch
the larger, high-powered rockets

up to 5,000 feet.

Now, these will be equipped
with a specialized tracking system

known as Kate that the
guys from LOC brought.

ALLEN: Here's
your Kate receiver.

TRAVIS: These rockets will
obtain GPS, speed and altitude data

all the way up through
the center of the bubble

and beyond to probe
the space above it.

We want to collect
and compare data

inside and outside of the bubble

to see if we get
different or similar results.

And if there are strange
things up there that we can't see,

hopefully the rockets will
make contact with them

and help us figure out
what they really are.

You got the RTK up and running?

Yeah, you want to fire it up?

TRAVIS: Meanwhile, Jim
Royston and Pete Kelsey

will be flying their
thermal and lidar drones

back and forth
through the bubble

to look for any anomalies

that might also be
invisible to the naked eye

that occurred during
these rocket launches.

Yeah, make them as flat
as you can. Thank you.

And while I monitor
my spectrum analyzer

out in the field for any
strange radio frequency signals,

Erik will be doing the same

and watching everything
with his surveillance cameras

and tracking system
inside the command center.

We're ready. Are y'all ready?

- Yeah.
- All right.

Well, I say do this...
uh, let's do this first one.

- Sounds good. - It's on.
- TRAVIS: All right, good.

Erik, do you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Travis, go ahead.

We're starting the
first rocket launch.

Copy you. I've got eyes on that.

Did you hear that? On the lidar?

Yeah, we're good to go.

TRAVIS: T-minus one
minute and counting.

Hey, guys, look what happened
after you launched the drones.

I'm detecting a 5.5
gigahertz signal.

This was the absolute
first time we ever detected

a signal at 5.5
gigahertz on the ranch.

And it happened right when Jim
and Pete launched their drones.

Now, I have no idea what
could've been broadcasting it,

but since we often see
strange radio signals

when other phenomena
occur, like UAPs,

we'll have to check Erik's
high-speed surveillance cameras

and our lidar data to see if
they captured what this was.

Pad's armed. The rocket's ready.

At any rate, it made
me think that it was time

to launch the first rocket
to see what we might reveal

once it deployed the chalk


Five, four,

three, two, one.

ALLEN: Come on.

- PETE: Whoa.
- ALLEN: Whoa.

DAVE: Wow. That's pushing.

THOMAS: All right.
Oh, there's the powder.

TRAVIS: Good chute
deployment. Powder is out.

Straight over the triangle.

The powder's just
sitting there, ain't it?

DAVE: Yup.

ERIK: Travis, what can you
tell me about the powder charge?

TRAVIS: It's sitting
still and it is not moving,

probably at about


ERIK: Copy that.

Y'all got some
weird mojo out here.

TRAVIS: The winds up at that
altitude should have dispersed the chalk

into a much bigger and
wider plume or cloud.

But instead, it just sat still

in a tight formation
for several seconds.

One week ago...

- There it is.
- KALEB: It stopped.

TRAVIS: after we launched
one of our standard rockets

through the strange void
zone above the triangle,

on its descent, it froze midair
a couple hundred feet high,

in the same general area where
this chalk was acting strange.

TRAVIS [on radio]: It's
very faint and diffused, Erik.

It's probably at,
uh, 400 feet now.

So, is there something invisible

inside the bubble
that made the rocket

and now the chalk
plume freeze in midair?

And could it be
what's blocking us

from collecting GPS data
right above the triangle?

We needed to
launch a bigger rocket

armed with the Kate
system to find out.

ALLEN: Hey, we're
going to the pad.

TRAVIS: Be advised, Erik,

we are preparing
the next rocket launch.

Okay, Travis, while we're
setting up for the next launch,

uh, I'd like to know if
you've got eyes on 1.6.

TRAVIS: Holy... There's a


JIM: Incredible.

TRAVIS: This is insane.

TRAVIS: There's a 1.6
gigahertz signal now.

Wow.

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik.

We just had a flood
of 1.6 gigahertz signals.

And looking at the
spectrum analyzer,

it's coming from the antenna
pointed right at the triangle.

ERIK: Sounds like
a target acquired.

TRAVIS: These 1.6 gigahertz
signals were much more familiar.

We detect them a lot when
UAPs appear in the sky.

And they possibly could be
some form of communication.

Well, I'll keep an eye on it.

We've got the big
rocket on the pad,

are the cameras in position?

ERIK: Cameras are in position.

TRAVIS: The signals were
coming from right above the triangle.

Right where the chalk cloud

appeared to cling to
something about 800 feet high.

So, could that be where
it was coming from?

This will be the first
Kate sensor package test.

That is perfect. Keep me posted.

TRAVIS: It was time to launch
one of LOC's larger rockets

equipped with the Kate system,

to hopefully find out.

THOMAS: Hey, guys. Be advised,

we are ready for launch
whenever you guys are.

Travis, I'm going up.

- Go, go.
- JIM: Yep.

PETE: Taking off.

TRAVIS: Countdown starting.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

Now that's a rocket!

- Wow.
- THOMAS: Holy crap.

ALLEN: She's still going.

ERIK: Travis, can you
confirm good chute?

TRAVIS: Erik, be advised,

it is straight up over
the tents right now

at about 4,000 feet
above the triangle.

Copy that, Travis.

THOMAS: Looks
like it's going north.

It'll come down over the mesa.

ALLEN: She's dropping quicker.

Now it just got into free fall.

ALLEN: Right. What happened?

THOMAS: What elevation
was it at when it hit the free fall?

- ALLEN: About 3,200 feet.
- KATE: 3,000.

ALLEN: Look at it coming
down now all of the sudden.

TRAVIS: Wow, it's
dropping like crazy.

Erik, when this thing
got to 3,200 feet,

it started dropping like a rock.

It doubled in descent speed.

The rocket seemed to fly up
all the way through the bubble

to about 5,000 feet
high without incident.

But then, as it descended,

it was like something pushed
it to the north of the bubble

all the way over to the mesa.

When it should have
just fell straight back down

to the triangle,
collecting more data.

And the Kate tracking
system showed

that for some strange reason,

at about 3,200 feet,

the rocket just
plunged to the ground

much faster than it should have.

What in the world is up there?

And could it have
purposely pushed our rocket

away from the bubble?

It was gonna take us some time

to get the biggest rocket that
LOC brought set up for launch,

but we couldn't wait to see

what this experiment
might reveal next.

So, Jim, what is your plan
with the drone this time?

So, I'm gonna fly thermal,

and I'm gonna go
down by the south field.

- TRAVIS: Yeah. So, you'll be outside of the bubble, right?
- JIM: Yep.

- And then fly through it.
- JIM: Okay.

TRAVIS: All right, so let's
get the drones warmed up

- and the terrestrial laser scanner ready.
- JIM: Okay.

Man, I'm excited.

All right, so let's get
a small rocket ready

on the pad and ready to go.

Let's do another launch
and be prepping the big one.

- Okay. Sounds good.
- All right, let's do it.

- All right, so you got to pull the pin?
- ALLEN: Yes.

- THOMAS: So, right there.
- ALLEN: Okay.

- Okay, we're good.
- JIM: Okay.

- ALLEN: Bring her down.
- THOMAS: Come down...

ALLEN: Okay.

- We're good.
- All right.

We're gonna launch a rocket

in less than two minutes.

So, be prepared.

SLAM scanner's up

and terrestrial
laser scanner's up.

TRAVIS: In the hopes of capturing
more data during the next launch

that could help us identify
anything in that strange zone

at the center of the bubble,

Kaleb was operating

two different kinds of
lidar scanning devices.

Drone's going up. Look out.

PETE: Okay, I'm taking off.

So, I'm-I'm sitting right
over the top of the river

in the south field.

Whoa. What the hell?

Whoa.

- So I'm gonna cut...
- We just...

We just lost it.

I lost complete
control of the drone.

What is doing this, I wonder.

Oh, for Pete's sake.

Hey, Travis, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, uh,
Erik. What's going on?

There is a new form
of data corruption

in the GPS tracking data
coming from Jim's drone.

I've never seen it before,

it's as if something
is not just corrupting,

but actually
inserting characters

that cannot be read
into the data stream.

That sounds like, uh,

that something's hacked
into your system wirelessly

and is changing
the code in real time.

Well, at the very least,

it's a new form
of data corruption

that we haven't seen before,

and it is happening right now

in the middle of
our rocket activities.

What we are seeing are
not only positional errors

in the GPS trackers,

but data corruption errors.

It's as if something
is rewriting

portions of the data string

being transmitted
from the tracker

down to the base station.

Are we dealing
with something real

within this bubble

that could account for
deliberate interference?

ERIK [over radio]: I've done
some things with the code

that I hope will prevent
that from crashing

the real-time tracking.

TRAVIS: Keep me posted on that.

Copy that.

All right, everybody,
ready for launch

in five, four,

three, two, one.

Rocket's straight overhead.

I don't see the light.

There it is.

I saw the chute charge,
but I didn't see any lights.

TRAVIS: I think I just
heard it crash on the ground.

- JIM: Hey, Travis.
- Yo.

- You're not gonna believe it.
- What am I not gonna believe?

- So I get over Dry Gulch Creek...
- South of it?

Yeah. When I get up near
that barrier of the bubble,

I started losing all
communication on the drone.

Could not move the drone.

So, you had GPS errors,
you had communication errors.

Yeah, yeah.

That's crazy, man.

Hey, Travis? This is Pete.

Do you want to walk over here

to the terrestrial
laser scanner?

TRAVIS: I'm headed right there.

Jim's drone issues
sounded like, once again,

the barrier of the bubble

was somehow stopping
us from collecting data.

So, that made me wonder
what Pete was about to show me

on the lidar scanner

that we had right in
the center of the triangle.

What's up, Pete?

- Just look at it - What
do you want me to look at?

And tell us what you see.

All right.

PETE: There's where the
rocket was launched from.

TRAVIS: Right.

PETE: But way over here

is where the lidar
shows its smoke trail

after the launch.

They should line up.

TRAVIS: The rocket
is displaced by...

PETE: Ten, 12...

TRAVIS: Ten... ten or 12 feet.

That makes no sense.

TRAVIS: That is
just absolutely insane.

TRAVIS: That is
freakin' incredible.

This lidar system thinks
that the rocket launched

from over here and went up.

Well, that leaves the
perfect image of the rocket,

but it's not on the launchpad.

That's interesting.

KALEB: That's crazy.

TRAVIS: Uh, let's set up
again for this next launch

- and we'll see if it happens again.
- Yeah. Yeah, man.

- All right.
- PETE: We're gonna have to hustle.

TRAVIS: lidar technology
uses infrared light

to map out detailed
images of an environment.

But once again, something
at the center of the triangle

either fooled or displaced

Pete Kelsey's
terrestrial lidar data

to make it seem like
our last rocket launch

was several feet away

from where we
knew it actually was.

This was more possible evidence

that something right in
the center of the bubble

is corrupting our
data collection.

But what on earth could do that?

Erik, we're a couple
of minutes from launch.

Copy that.

Huh. That is so strange.

Dude, at one point...

Hey, Erik?

The 1.2 gigahertz
range is absolutely lit up.

Are you seeing that?

ERIK: Uh, yeah.

I'm seeing a ton of activity.

Copy that.

I don't know what's
going on tonight,

but we're getting flooded
with strange frequency signals.

First, we got the


which we had never seen before.

Then we got the


which we often get right
before UAPs appear in the sky.

Look at all these
bumps right here, Kaleb,

And now we're getting
this 1.2 gigahertz signal?

Of all the signals
we detected tonight,

the 1.2 gigahertz
signal was the one

that really freaked me
and Erik out the most.

ERIK: Hey, Pete, can you
turn on the 1.2 gigahertz signal?

Yes, sir.

TRAVIS: During a
recent bubble experiment,

Erik broadcast a 1.2 gigahertz
signal on a mobile transmitter

so that we could track it as
it moved across the property.

PETE: We're gonna
launch this time.

TRAVIS: He chose that frequency

because we had never detected it

on Skinwalker Ranch ever before.

Look right here.

But then something on the ranch

started broadcasting a
duplicate signal back at us.

It was like it copied
the dang thing

to communicate with us.

But if so,

is it a friendly message
or a hostile one?

How we doing out there, guys?

Good. About ready
to arm it all up here.

Okay, I'm gonna check Kate.

- JIM: Okay.
- TRAVIS: Either way,

now that something at
the center of the bubble

seemed to be once
again stopping us

from collecting data there,

we needed to launch
that last big rocket

to see if we
could figure it out.

All right, let's do it.

Hey, guys, don't forget to start
all the lights and everything.

- JIM: Look at that.
- TRAVIS: We got-we got something

on the mesa! Erik,
we got something

on the-on the mesa.

Just west of the tower.

Erik, if you got any
eyes on top of the mesa

that can look north
just over the mesa,

- behind the launch tower.
- I am watching now.

Travis, uh, please be advised

I do show a
moving point of light

that is to the north
and west of the triangle.

Quite interestingly,
Travis reports spotting

a prospective UAP over the mesa.

Immediately, my
thoughts are turned

to the very peculiar timing
of when it showed up.

This happens to coincide
with the emergence

of a 1.2 gigahertz signal.

We don't know
where it's coming from,

but I would really like to know,

and I think we
would all like to know

what relationship there is
between these emergent signals

and some of the
other phenomenology,

like the UAPs that
we sometimes see.

- ALLEN: Kate says launch is a go.
- All right.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

Ooh.

PETE: Wow.

TRAVIS: Chute has deployed.

We see the rocket, straight up.

ERIK: Travis, do we have eyes

on the strobe?

TRAVIS: Yes, we do,
Erik. It is straight up.

ERIK: Copy that.

TRAVIS: 2,400
feet right now, Erik.

Copy you, Travis.

I've got eyes on the rocket.

THOMAS: Gosh.

TRAVIS: This one's falling
way off course. Y'all see that?

MIKE: Kind of whipping
around up there a little bit.

TRAVIS: How far?

ALLEN: Half a mile.

TRAVIS: Half a mile
away right now to the north.

ALLEN: It's going
to the same place.

TRAVIS: Yep.

These huge rockets are
designed to go straight up

and come straight back down.

There were no high winds,

but both large rockets
fell way off course

to the same spot,

like something pushed
them away from the bubble.

Again, it was like
something was stopping us

from collecting data
above the triangle

and inside the bubble.

So, what could do that?

ALLEN: She's on the ground.

Hey, Erik, uh, I think you
and Sam can head back over

as far as we're concerned.

Copy that.

Man, we had a bunch of things...

uh, good stuff...
happening tonight.

I don't know what to make
of all the strange things

that happened
during this experiment,

both inside and
above the bubble.

But we have a ton
of incredible new data

to scour through,
to hopefully find out.

- Uh, Kate was fantastic.
- Oh, yeah.

I'm gonna be excited to
bring all of this together,

take a look at it.

So, I think we
need to wrap it up.

- TRAVIS: Yup. Let's load up.
- ALLEN: All right.

JIM: All right.

- ERIK: Hey, guys.
- TRAVIS: Hey, hey.

- ERIK: Come on in, have a seat.
- What's going on?

- KALEB: Hey, guys.
- We are gonna look at the data

from the, uh, rocket
launches with LOC.

THOMAS: That was
a very active night.

- I remember there was just a lot going on.
- Mm-hmm.

After spending
most of the next day

crunching all the data

from our rocket experiment,

Erik called us into
the command center

to review everything.

It definitely makes me curious
about what you've got for us.

ERIK: You know, there
were a lot of points of interest

for this experiment.

Like that powder
release from the rocket.

Mm-hmm, yeah.

ERIK: But I found much more
in the data I want to show you.

To start with, we've got
high-speed video footage.

- TRAVIS: Oh.
- Yeah, I'm anxious to see that.

Yeah, so, this
particular sequence

was taken during the day,

looking out towards the mesa,

right before you
launched the first rocket.

And, uh, I want you to tell me

if you see anything
here before I prompt you.

- Oh! Right there.
- Oh, it's right there.

ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS: I don't see it.

THOMAS: Yeah,
it's-it's right here.

ERIK: Yeah. Yeah, that's it.

See that, uh, light?

Well, I barely see that, Thomas.

That was a good eye.

Was that maybe why we
detected that first signal?

That's a very good question.

Yeah, so let me dive in.

TRAVIS: Right before we
launched our first rocket yesterday,

we detected that strange


on our spectrum analyzers.

We didn't see
anything in the moment,

but could this UAP
that Erik captured

with a high-speed
camera be the source of it?

So, let me move
us back just a bit.

Now look, see what's
happening if we scrub through it?

- KALEB: There, yeah.
- ERIK: See what I'm... See what's happening here?

THOMAS: There's
definitely movement.

So, we're looking
west here, right?

ERIK: Yeah. So,
this is west-facing.

When we play this forward,
I interpret the movement

as being basically
from east to west.

TRAVIS: And it's, uh,
it's fading in and out,

it's not like any-anything
that we-we can...

we've seen before
and we know what it is.

Yeah, I don't know
how to classify this thing.

I...

ERIK: We're seeing
a possible UAP.

We don't know
where it's coming from.

But we're also seeing
mysterious signals

that are showing up on
the RF spectrum analyzer.

And then there are

all the other strange
things that are happening,

like interference with
our communications.

I can't help wondering...

maybe there's a relationship

between all of these
glitches and the bubble.

So, what else did
you... did you get?

ERIK: So, what I'm gonna show us

is the positional GPS
data for all the events

that go along with,
uh, rocket launches.

So, this is the Kate data, then?

Yeah.

Which was the computer
inside of the rocket?

Yeah. Watch this.

So, you're gonna see the launch.

- We are at the triangle.
- THOMAS: Mm-hmm.

Center of, uh,
center of our bubble.

And look what happens here.

- TRAVIS: Wow.
- JIM: Whoa.

- THOMAS: Oh, wow.
- TRAVIS: That's crazy.

ERIK: Yeah, so, I mean, look,

you guys were standing
right down there at the tent,

you saw this launch.

Do we all agree
it didn't do this?

- Yeah, that's strange.
- Yeah, it did not do that.

It went straight.

Yeah, nevertheless,
according to a very sophisticated

rocket tracking system,

that's the path that
that rocket took.

There's an abrupt
change of direction.

TRAVIS: That
rocket did not do that.

Now, look at this.

Green coloration
means that we have

a stronger link between

the Kate system
aboard the rocket

and the receiver on the ground.

The red end is
as weak as it gets.

But, so what means
is, uh, the Kate system

was-was affected by
whatever this phenomenon is.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: We all saw that rocket

go straight up
above the triangle.

But according to the
Kate GPS tracking system,

right after the
rocket was launched,

it flew at a very hard angle
for several hundred feet

before suddenly turning
and then going straight up.

So, could the bubble have
fooled this rocket's GPS tracker

to think it made
these maneuvers?

Now, the weird thing is, uh...

Zoom out all the way to the...

- So we get the whole thing.
- Uh-huh.

TRAVIS: And let's see if there
are other kinks in the flight.

ERIK: Yeah, let's have a look.

I would say that
this part here...

that looks like a
regular rocket trajectory.

Right here, there's
clearly a kink.

And it's possible that
somewhere in here...

We've got missing data here,

and you got missing data here

and missing data here and here.

Inside the bubble, right?

We've consistently seen
missing data inside the bubble.

But then, look up here.
There's more missing data.

Somewhere...
somewhere in here, right?

That's about 3,200 feet.

That's where the rockets

got pushed off course
on their descent.

The bubble is 2,000 feet high.

But the missing
data is at 3,200 feet.

JIM: Whoa.

So there's something in the
sky above the bubble, too.

That's pretty crazy.

The top of this bubble is
at about 2,000 feet, right?

So that would be somewhere
in this circle, right here.

- Uh-huh.
- TRAVIS: Right? Is where the top of the bubble would be.

So, now, if we draw,

figure out where the
bubble is right there...

Look, we got rocket data
missing above the bubble

at about 3,200 feet high.

So, now, we got something else
going on above the bubble, too.

That's pretty damn interesting.

TRAVIS: That's real interesting.

There's a gap of
missing data points

about 3,200 feet
high above the triangle

right where the
rockets fell off course.

So, is there another
anomaly above the bubble

that is related to
the countless UAPs,

strange signals and
voids in our data?

And if so, how are
these things connected?

We don't know how
thick the bubble is, right?

So that's the question
we need to find out.

ERIK: This brings
something back to mind.

Jim, I know you've got a
payload of data to share.

Yeah. Had some really
crazy stuff happen.

ERIK: Okay, so I think
I've got the right file here.

JIM: Yeah, so you'll see this.

This is right in
Dry Gulch Creek.

So, I'm going out to the
south boundary of the bubble.

- So, you'll start seeing the bend.
- THOMAS: Uh-huh.

JIM: See, there's
the... there's the corner

where we saw the light
going through the water.

ERIK: Yes, yes. From last year.

So, as I'm sitting right over
the top of that bend now,

you'll see that everything's
frozen right now.

Like, I cannot get the
drone out of this position.

THOMAS: This isn't paused?

JIM: No, it stopped there.

TRAVIS: This is crazy.

So, not only did things
inside and above the bubble

appear to stop us
from collecting data

with the rockets,

the southern
barrier... which is also

near where we found
the dead wolf creature...

seemed to physically stop
Jim's drone from entering it.

That is a really
interesting moment,

when you're right
against this boundary.

- Yeah.
- THOMAS: From the very first experiment

to-to all the way up to now,

we just keep collecting
more and more data

to suggest that there is
actually some type of boundary

that's interfering with stuff.

TRAVIS: Yeah, I think
you're right, Thomas.

I think we need to
scientifically probe

where we think
the barrier wall is...

this bubble of wall is...

with as many different
things as we can.

ERIK: Well, we can do
things at ground level.

We can do things, you know,
at low level, like with a drone.

You know, with a
helikite, for example.

THOMAS: What's a helikite?

It's basically a-a
helium balloon

with a structure on it
that helps to orient it.

So we can put a payload on it?

- ERIK: Yes, yes.
- JIM: Yeah.

A-And one of the reasons
I'm bringing up the helikite

is that it gets us
something that's missing

from these rocket exercises,
and that's dwell time.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ERIK: You know, we
can position this thing

more or less exactly
where we want it,

and we can dwell there for,
you know, minutes to hours.

I like the helikite idea.

I think we secure one
a-and go forward with that.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

- THOMAS: All right, awesome.
- Let's do it.

THOMAS: Okay.

ERIK: Thanks, guys.

A lot of our efforts
are focused on judging

whether we're dealing
with something real

or simply, uh,
artifactual within our data

when we're talking
about this bubble.

We need to employ
everything we've got

to give us even more
accurate data to find out.

Between the UAPs, the
repeated missing data

and the weird signals
we detected this week,

it feels like something
on Skinwalker Ranch

is trying to discourage
our investigation.

Well, let me tell you,

it's all having the
opposite effect.

And we're not gonna give up
until we have all the answers.

BRANDON: The GPS malfunctions,
the electromagnetic anomalies,

the equipment malfunctions

that continue to persist
at Skinwalker Ranch

all point to the bubble.

As we charge forward,
we're more anxious than ever

to better document and
characterize the nature

of this strange region
on Skinwalker Ranch.

We've not yet had these
helikite platforms out here.

This GPS tracker in the helikite

is nearly 800 feet
into the ground.

What's so special
about Dry Gulch Creek?

There's something there
that causes problems.

TRAVIS: We need to
walk sensors through it.

- What is that stuff right there?
- What is that?

Whatever it is, it ate a coyote.

- TRAVIS: Ate?
- THOMAS: Ate?

What the hell
is walking around out here

- eating coyotes?
- Yeah, wow.