06x05 - Pushing Boundaries

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ERIK: We've been
following up on what appears,

from our view through lidar,

to be an invisible bubble.

TRAVIS:
We've got something on the mesa!

PETE:
That makes no sense.

DAVE:
Y'all got some

weird mojo out here.

JIM:
Hey, Travis, I get over

Dry Gulch Creek, start
losing all communication

- on the drone.
- That's crazy.

BEN: We had Colossal
test this DNA of the animal

we found on the ranch

against the DNA of other species

of canines. 89% is a mystery.

That's really exciting.

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.

DYLAN: Hey, guys.
How's it going?

ERIK: Welcome to the
ranch, guys. I'm Erik Bard.

I'm Dylan. Nice to meet you.

Dominique. Nice to meet you.

ERIK: Gentlemen, we're so glad

to have you out to help
with our investigations.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS: For six years,

our team's been
working to figure out

all the strange things we've
encountered on Skinwalker Ranch.

So today, we brought a
team from US Kites out

to help us learn more
about one phenomenon

that's pretty much
at the top of that list.

Our intent today is
to do an experiment

to measure a particular
phenomena that we've discovered

here recently that
we call the bubble.

- Erik, you want to tell them about it?
- Yeah, sure.

As abstract as it sounds,

we seem to have detected
some kind of a structure.

You know, at first, we got the
impression that we might be

dealing with something
like a very large sphere,

not unlike a bubble,

and we're standing
right inside of that bubble,

where there's an
effect, it may be

something electromagnetic
we have yet to determine.

TRAVIS: According to
the data we've collected

from numerous lidar instruments,

we believe that
there is a gigantic

bubble-shaped
feature on the ranch

that is invisible
to the human eye.

It's centered at the triangle

and encompasses a
huge area of the property,

both above and below ground,

where we've seen
all kinds of things,

such as possible evidence of
a black hole-like phenomenon

and tons of UAPs.

ERIK: We've had
just about everything

out here, you know?
We've had helicopters,

you know, fixed-wing aircraft,

of course, drones, rockets.

- TRAVIS: Plenty of rockets.
- ERIK: Plenty of rockets.

But we've not yet had

one of these Helikite
platforms out here.

Okay.

TRAVIS: We don't know how,

but whatever this bubble
is, it seems to have thwarted

almost every investigative
tool that we've used

to figure out what
the heck it could be.

Last week, Jim
Royston's lidar drone

even seemed to get stopped

right at its southern boundary.

So today, we're
hoping to figure out

how it could do that

by using a specialized
piece of equipment

known as a Helikite.

ERIK: Now, why do
we call it the Helikite?

Well, it's a combination between
a helium balloon and a kite.

How long can we stay aloft?

As long as there's
helium in that balloon.

-Oh. -ERIK: Okay.

DOMINIQUE: It's actually a
piece of military equipment.

Wow. Well, we've got some
instruments that we want

to attach to this Helikite.

TRAVIS: What excites us about

the Helikite is that we can

attach our instruments
to it and then let it

hover in the air right
inside the bubble's barrier

to help us collect data on it
while we run a new experiment.

ERIK: Yeah, I want to get out
there to the east field canyon

- and get started.
- All right.

- TRAVIS: I say we get with it.
- DOMINIQUE: Yeah, let's go.

TRAVIS: Since we first
detected evidence of the bubble,

we've been running experiments

inside of it to verify
its dimensions

and see what other strange
things it might contain.

But today, we want
to see what happens

when we attempt to penetrate

its boundary with
different instruments.

So, Thomas is going
to tow the Helikite

out to the east field

using a UTV,

where it will hang
several hundred feet high,

right in the eastern
wall of the bubble,

collecting data with
several of our instruments

that are attached to it.

JIM: This is a good setup.

TRAVIS: These will
include a GPS tracker,

high-speed cameras
and a signal generator

that will continually
broadcast a frequency

at 1.2 gigahertz.

All right.

Yeah, good.

ERIK: So,

I think I've got everything
just about set up.

TRAVIS: 1.2
gigahertz is a signal

that none of our other
equipment broadcasts,

so Erik can easily monitor it

for unusual interference
with his Kraken system.

We've recently detected

strange 1.2 gigahertz
signals on the ranch.

The Kraken system can
also pinpoint the direction

of any of those 1.2 gigahertz
signals that might pop up.

THOMAS: All right,
so here's your line.

DYLAN: All right, yep.

And then, this is
how it's gonna fly,

- right up from here.
- THOMAS: Okay.

[air hissing]

DYLAN: Little bit more.

All right.

And that's about good.

TRAVIS: Once the
Helikite is in place,

Jim Royston will
launch his lidar drone

from outside of the bubble,

and then fly it
through the barrier.

Meanwhile, I'll be positioned

to the east of the bubble.

From there, I'm
going to launch rockets

in a westward
direction into the bubble

to see if anything
strange happens

once they pass through
its eastern barrier.

Okay, Erik, we're
going to turn on the 1.2

gigahertz transmitter
on the payload board.

Copy.

Boom.

Okay, Travis,

I do have the Kraken

locating that 1.2
gigahertz transmitter.

Copy that. I'm seeing it
on my spectrum analyzers

as well.

I am about to

turn on the GPS.

ERIK: Copy you, Travis.

ERIK: We are seeing the signal.

ERIK: Oh, oh, oh.

Oh.

Look at that.

SAM: That's crazy.

This GPS tracker took a
deep dive underground.

Interesting.

Hey, Travis, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Erik.

ERIK: Just FYI, I've been

monitoring the position
of our GPS tracker,

and several of the data points

there at your location
have indicated

that they've gone
deep below ground.

TRAVIS: That's
really interesting.

You know, we're
outside the bubble here,

down near the boundary.

ERIK: I think it's
significant that we're seeing

the GPS tracker
diving below ground.

And what are we near?

We're near that
boundary of the bubble.

We've seen

these errors, these
erratic behaviors

in experiments in the
past, all around the ranch.

Is it possible

that the bubble
could be responsible

or somehow involved
in all of the strange

energetic events
that we're seeing?

TRAVIS: Keep an eye on
it, let me know what goes on.

Copy that.

So, I'm keeping my eyes
on this GPS tracking system

to see if, when we bring
it over to the Helikite

and attach it to the platform,
will the reported altitudes

get above-ground results?

DYLAN: All right. With
that, we should be good.

THOMAS: Helikite is
ready to receive the payload.

The cameras are rolling.
All right, we're good to go,

I'm going to take this.

After hearing that the GPS data

was already getting
messed up near the bubble...

we couldn't wait to have
Thomas tow the Helikite

with the UTV
over to its position

at the eastern
boundary of the bubble

so we could get the
experiment started.

ERIK: Okay, Thomas, be advised,

you are approaching the boundary

- of the bubble.
- THOMAS: Copy that.

ERIK: Okay if you'll stop

right there, let's
see what we've got.

Copy that.

ERIK: You are now right at

the inside boundary
of the bubble.

Leave it in that
position for the duration.

THOMAS: Copy that.

TRAVIS: Once the
Helikite was positioned

right in the eastern
barrier of the bubble,

we wanted to get
Jim's drone launched

before I started firing rockets.

All right Jim, have at it.

JIM: Hold on.

- TRAVIS: It's telling you errors?
- JIM: Yeah, hold on.

I can't take off.

How is putting a
balloon up in the sky

keeping you from
launching your drone?

JIM: Who knows?

I'm resetting everything.

It's crazy.

TRAIS: Wow, look at that.

Something's happening.

Oh, dude! I'm... This is crazy.

One of my receivers
is picking up

- a 1.2 gigahertz signal...
- JIM: Whoa.

That we are not broadcasting.

This is just insane.

This is the signal
we're transmitting,

and suddenly, this
line to the right of it

appeared right as

the Helikite passed right into

- the barrier wall.
- JIM: And that's where I got my error.

TRAVIS: That's insane.

ERIK: That is very interesting,

'cause we've been talking
about what may happen whenever

a physical object passes
through that boundary.

That's really interesting.

TRAVIS: That's crazy.
Right when we get

the Helikite up in the
air in the bubble barrier,

we detect another
duplicate 1.2 gigahertz signal,

and Jim's drone won't even fly.

Did the Helikite making
contact with the bubble

trigger all of these things?

All right, I am going to
go get that rocket ready.

If that was the case,
we wanted to see

what would happen
when I launched a rocket

through its eastern barrier.

Hey, Erik, Thomas,

I am ready to do the
first rocket launch.

Copy that. We're watching.

We will be watching, too.

Rocket's hot.

In five,

four, three,

two, one!

ERIK: It's going the wrong way.

Looks like it's going north.

TRAVIS: Something
pushed that rocket away.

It just veered off in a
totally different direction

away from the
bubble to the north.

I think it went around it.

ERIK: Wow.

TRAVIS: The rocket never
made it through the bubble wall.

No, it did not.

It shot north, towards the mesa.

TRAVIS: I don't understand that.

We're trying to
penetrate the bubble

with rockets and Jim's
drone. But somehow,

whatever this thing
is, it appears to

stop them from going
through its eastern barrier.

But how can it do that?

Hey, Erik, you copy?

Yeah, Travis. What do you got?

That last rocket
trajectory was so weird,

I'm gonna launch another
one into the bubble,

but I'm gonna aim it
where I think it should land

at the triangle.

Copy that, Travis.

TRAVIS: So, with the
Helikite still hovering

right in the eastern
barrier of the bubble...

- All right, let's go.
- I like it.

I wanted to launch
another rocket to see

if it would get deflected

like the one I'd just fired.

Rocket's hot.

Three,

two, one, liftoff!

Look out! It went the wrong way!

- What the crap?
- Unbelievable.

TRAVIS: Did y'all see that?
That one deflected to the south,

like it went around
the bubble, too.

- JIM: Yeah.
- I think we just saw evidence

-of this bubble -Yeah. Crazy.

THOMAS: Well, neither
one of those launches

- went as planned.
- No.

There's absolutely no
reason we should be seeing

any of these malfunctions
with the rocket launches.

I don't know what
it is, but it all lends

credence to the fact
that there is something

about this bubble boundary

that is causing interference.

ERIK: Hey, Travis? Thomas?

Yeah, Erik. Go ahead.

I say we get

everything wrapped
up and, uh, reconvene

once I can review the GPS
and camera data on the Helikite.

TRAVIS: Copy that.
We'll see you in a bit.

ERIK: Naturally, after seeing

this real-time GPS
data take a deep dive

below ground, I
can't wait to start

crunching the data to see if

we see any indications
of unusual activity.

TRAVIS: Thomas, they
can start bringing her down.

THOMAS: Copy,
we're bringing her down.

ERIK: You ready to
discuss our experience with

the maiden voyage
of our Helikite?

Yes.

TRAVIS: The next
day, after processing

the Helikite data,

Erik called us into the
command center for a debrief

on everything that happened
during the experiment.

ERIK: This is a really

interesting and new way
for us to probe the bubble

that we've been talking about.

TRAVIS: Yeah. I mean, remember

how the one rocket turned
north and went around

this "barrier"

to the north, and
the other one went

to the south and went around it.

- I know.
- TRAVIS: Right?

Yes. You know, we have
a few things to discuss,

but I want to start
with some information

that you have to share,
Jim. I guess this is

- your display, right?
- Yeah.

ERIK: It's my understanding that
you experienced some difficulties

with some interference
with the drone itself

during the experiment
with the Helikite.

Yeah, let me jump up there.

We're looking at this boundary

that's kind of somewhere
in this range, right?

That's the bubble.

So, Thomas, this is
where the Helikite was

before you started moving it

to the barrier of the bubble.

Mm-hmm.

So, this is the actual
home point of the drone.

We get ready to go,

and as we start
moving the Helikite

down into the
boundary, all of a sudden,

we're seeing this
weak satellite signal.

Which to me is
very interesting data

because I get 21 satellites,

so that's plenty enough

GPS satellites, if you will,

to take off and fly, no problem.

But the actual satellite
signals are so low, the drone

- can't take off.
- Wow.

TRAVIS: That's crazy.
As soon as the Helikite

got into position at the
barrier of the bubble,

Jim lost connection
to 21 satellites.

That kept his drone
from taking off.

Was it the
Helikite's interaction

with the barrier of the
bubble that triggered it?

Did you see any of these
issues prior to moving

- the Helikite?
- No.

Something about
the Helikite going in

that barrier inside the bubble

stimulates it or
something, 'cause then

I'm having problems
once it's in there.

Got it.

TRAVIS: I think whatever this

bubble or barrier or dome is,

that it's blocking the
external signal somehow.

And adding to your point,
blocking and possibly

responsive to what we're doing.

That duplicate


showed up when that Helikite

was exactly on that boundary
that we're talking about.

That's a good point. Yep.

ERIK: Okay, I have
some things to share.

I was, uh, doing
some GPS monitoring

on the Helikite platform.

Let me bring it up.

TRAVIS: Oh.

THOMAS: Wow.

Again, data that's
appearing to be underground.

ERIK: Yeah. Here in
the east field canyon,

we saw GPS locator points

nearly 800 feet into the ground.

- THOMAS: That's crazy.
- ERIK: Isn't that nuts?

But this really rings
some bells for me.

Now, just reflect on
some of our experiences

at the creek.

ERIK: According to the GPS,

you're at 5,000
feet underground.

TRAVIS: That's crazy, man.

When we were
investigating Dry Gulch Creek

in the south field last
year, which is very close

to the southern
border of the bubble,

Erik's GPS tracker
reported its position



During a lot of our
experiments all over the ranch,

we've seen the data
from our GPS devices

go deep underground.

We never knew
what to make of it.

But did the Helikite experiment

help us figure out that it was

the barrier of the
bubble doing that?

So, as if this isn't weird
enough, I've got some

other things that
happened during the...

- Hey, there's more?
- Oh, there's more.

-[chuckling] -There are
some... some interesting hits

in the high-speed
cameras that we mounted

to our science
platform on the Helikite.

Okay, so here we have
the embossed effect

being used to help
bring out any movement,

anything going through the
field of view of the camera.

To be clear, this is high speed,



Let me know if you see anything.

- SAM: Oh, yeah.
- THOMAS: Looked translucent.

What did you see?

- Movement in the upper middle...
- Okay.

- To the side.
- So, let's go back.

SAM: Right there.

ERIK: Okay. We are
looking at at least four...

TRAVIS: At least
four dots, maybe five.

Yeah. Okay, so, let's dive
in on this part of the, uh,

video frame.

And so, I'll back us up.

Okay, now I'll play
through at the normal rate.

All right.

There it is.

TRAVIS: Okay, so
if it's moving really

damn fast, if it's
anywhere further than

right next to the camera lens.

THOMAS: Can you
frame advance just

- a couple frames?
- Okay.

There's one, two, three.

THOMAS: It goes behind it.

ERIK: Wow.

THOMAS: So, we
know it's not a bug...

- That's important.
- In front of the camera.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

That string is out

- away from the platform.
- ERIK: Absolutely.

That is just unbelievable.

After what happened
with the GPS data,

the rockets and Jim's drone,

we have several
more reasons to believe

that the bubble
is actually real.

So, if that's the case,

then is that where
the UAPs came from?

And could they also be
related to the duplicate


that we keep detecting?

Clearly, there's some
follow-up called for.

- Yeah.
- TRAVIS: Yep, I agree.

THOMAS: And it would
be interesting to do that

down near Dry Gulch Creek.

- TRAVIS: Yeah, Thomas.
- ERIK: Yes, that's actually

not far from the
boundary of our bubble.

So, we need to
devise experiments

at those barrier locations.

We need to drive, walk sensors

through it, people,

and fly a drone back
and forth between it

with as many sensors
as we can put on it

so we can look
through that barrier wall

and start pinpointing
what's triggering it.

That would tell us
a lot of information.

- ERIK: Yep.
- Yeah.

ERIK: Well,

sounds like we've got
the makings of a plan

for another experiment.

- Let's do it.
- All right. -All right.

ERIK: Thank you, guys.

THOMAS: Yep.

TRAVIS: How's it going, Ben?

Doing good. How you
doing? Good to see you, man.

TRAVIS: After the wild results

of our Helikite
experiment yesterday

at the eastern boundary
of the so-called bubble...

You ready to do some
trekking down by the creek

and into the bubble?

Yeah, absolutely.
Let's go check it out.

We got our buddy,
biologist Ben Woodruff,

to help us see what would happen
when we try to put our equipment

through its southern
boundary at Dry Gulch Creek.

ERIK: Ben,

having you on-site to
immediately inspect anything,

I think is the perfect plan.

BEN: I'm excited to see
what else we can find.

Let's load up.

TRAVIS: Over
the past five years,

we've documented
a lot of strange things

in the south field
and the creek...

like GPS data that also
went deep underground,

several different UAPs,
including one in the water

that we captured
on video last year,

and the decayed carcass
of some kind of wolf

that Ben can't seem to identify

as a known
species for this area.

In fact, based on his research,

he believes it
could be a dire wolf,

a predator that
supposedly went extinct

more than 10,000 years ago.

- You want to do this one first, Thomas?
- Yes, this one's on top.

- All right.
- THOMAS: Now, one of these is the lead.

All these instruments
have, uh, fresh batteries.

TRAVIS: All right.

Who knows if any of
these things are related

to the bubble, or its boundary,
but we want to find out.

So, starting from
several yards outside

of the believed southern
boundary of the bubble,

we're going to walk two
kayaks loaded with instruments

down the creek. We want to see

if we get different readings
outside of the bubble

versus inside the bubble.

Here's the sonar, Thomas,

that's gonna be clamped
to that PVC pipe right there,

and that orange piece
has to be in the water.

ERIK: The equipment we're using

as part of the river
walk includes the sonar.

This is something
that allows us to image

the bottom of the
creek beneath the water.

We're carrying
the TriField meter,

measuring the radiation
in the environment.

Also, a GPS tracker to
observe whether we see a repeat

of some of the mysterious
results that we got last year.

I'm going to set
the drone up there,

I'm going to get my
base station set up here.

TRAVIS: Once we reach the
southern boundary of the bubble,

Jim Royston is
going to attempt to fly

his lidar drone through it

to see if something
stops it again.

Hey, Erik, it's
Kaleb. Do you copy?

Loud and clear.

We just put the GPS on
and we are transmitting.

ERIK: Copy that, Kaleb.

I will be in the command
center monitoring.

In the past, it has
been really fascinating

to see how the bubble

interfered with our
scientific instruments,

electronic devices,
so if we see data errors

going on today,

the real question here

is whether the
errors cluster around

the border of what
we're calling the bubble.

We'll also be
looking into the sky,

looking for returns
off of the lidar system

indicating the presence of any
kind of effect or phenomenon.

TRAVIS: Here we go.

- Careful, guys.
- THOMAS: Got it.

- All right.
- TRAVIS: You got it?

- I've got it.
- All right.

All right.

Oh, guess what the
dadgum TriField meter's

- reading right now?
- THOMAS: What?

Zero, zero.

THOMAS: It doesn't do that
anywhere but here, you know.

TRAVIS: There's always
a little bit of radiation

in any environment,

so it's really weird
for the TriField meter

to read exactly zero.

We hadn't reached the
bubble's southern boundary yet,

but we were pretty close,

so was it possibly
messing with this device?

KALEB: Just so you're aware,

our TriField meter's
reading zeros.

I find that interesting
because I just looked over

and I also do show some
of the latest GPS points

are, in fact, beneath
ground level.

I'm closely monitoring.

We're seeing very
strange readings

from the TriField meter
and the GPS tracker.

It raises the question
as to whether

the instruments themselves
are being interfered with,

and if so, what
could be the source

of that inference
in a creek bed?

THOMAS: How
deep is it right there?

TRAVIS: The sonar

lost the connection.

It keeps doing that.

KALEB: So, the sonar

- is not connecting to your phone?
- Yep.

This close.

Something is k*lling
the connection to it.

What's the TriField meter doing?

- Zero.
- Something's k*lling the signal.

Something's k*lling
signals, period.

Let's just keep-keep

moving as best we can, guys.

THOMAS: We found a lot of
strange things around the creek

down on the center
part of the ranch.

These things include finding
a wolf carcass in the river,

burnt wood and a UAP.

Now, as we're
walking down the creek

towards the direction
of the bubble boundary,

none of our
equipment was working,

so it makes me
wonder, is it all related?

I... I have no idea.

How's it going down there?

Still zeros on TriField.
Hadn't read a thing.

THOMAS: I wonder how
close we are to the boundary.

- Boundary's right here.
- Yep.

Boundary marker's right here.

- Are you serious?
- JIM: Yeah.

We'll get the drone up
within the next five minutes.

Okay, let's see what's going on

- with lidar.
- Yeah.

Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb, You copy?

Yeah, Kaleb. Go ahead.

So, we are

maybe about 20 feet from
the bubble at this point.

We just wanted to let you
know we're about to cross it.

Copy that.

How are we looking, Sam?

Yeah, it looks like
everything's ready.

JIM: All right, I'm
good on the controller.

We're getting good GPS signal,

so I think we're ready to go.

All right. Well, let's
get her launched.

Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb.
We're through the barrier.

ERIK: Copy you, Kaleb.

Thanks for that.

We are ready to get it going.

[drone playing indistinct
automated message]

- [drone beeping]
- JIM: All right.

[indistinct automated
message playing]

Okay, this is an
interesting one, everybody.

- So, look where we are.
- BEN: Uh-huh.

JIM: It thinks there's
an aircraft approaching,

and doesn't want to
go do its flight plan.

There is no aircraft
around us right now.

- No, there's nothing.
- It's pretty sophisticated.

It thinks there's an
aircraft right around it.

BEN: That's wild.

[drone beeping]

JIM: It thinks
there's an aircraft

approaching and doesn't
want to go do its flight plan.

- BEN: That's nuts.
- JIM: And we don't see one, right?

No, there's nothing.

I mean, it does not
want to let me go.

I have to override it.

TRAVIS: Yesterday, Jim
Royston couldn't get his lidar drone

to fly through the eastern
boundary of the bubble.

But now, as he was about to fly

through the southern boundary,

the drone's warning
system detected

an aircraft right in front of
it that stopped it from flying.

There was nothing in the
airspace that we could see,

so was it something invisible

that might have
come from the bubble?

And if so, what was it?

ROYSTON: Hey, Erik?

ERIK: Yeah, Jim, go ahead.

We got that "Cannot take
off, aircraft in the area,"

so I did just kind
of force it to go.

So we got this
drone up in the air.

It's going to actually
start the mission.

Copy that, Jim. Thanks.

Here we go.

TRAVIS: After manually
overriding the drone's controls,

Jim was able to get
the drone to take off.

He flew it directly
toward the bubble barrier

and began lidar-scanning
in a push-broom pattern

back and forth across
the southern boundary.

We just hoped
he'd finally be able

to get us some
data on this thing.

How far are we from where
we found the dire wolf?

Still up a ways.

KALEB: We got
a ways to go still.

TRAVIS: Dang. We need

- to pick up the pace, I guess, huh?
- Yup.

ROYSTON: It's
coming right over us

on its pass, and it's
going to cross the...

It's getting really
close to that barrier.

ROYSTON: Yeah.

See what happens here.

All right, I'm monitoring
Jim's position.

He is flying straight...
Oh! Look, right there.

Straight into the boundary.

And we did get an error point.

I'm seeing

data corruption errors from
an attached GPS tracker,

just as we go into

the membrane or the
border of the bubble.

Okay, guys, I just hit
another data corruption error.

That's pretty much at
the... the bubble barrier.

- Yup.
- Yeah.

So he might get a couple more.

We're come... We're
going to come in here.

Okay, here we go again.

ERIK: Okay, we
just hit an error point.

It's right on the border.
He just got the error point.

- Can you believe that?
- Hmm.

ROYSTON: I
mean, it's right there.

- Right there.
- ROYSTON: The one we just crossed.

How nuts is that, man?

TRAVIS: As Jim was flying
his drone back and forth

across the boundary
of the bubble,

every time he crossed through,

Erik was getting data
corruption in the GPS signal.

Every single time.

- Well, we got one more set.
- Yeah.

ROYSTON: Oh, no!

I'm red. I'm red!

If it gets too nervous,
it will abort the mission.

Oh, will you look at
the errors? Look at this.

Aah, it's aborting.

Oh, bad enough
where it's coming home.

Yeah, it's bad enough

that it's coming home, it's
aborting the mission on its own.

Are you kidding me? I mean,

these things are
so tightly correlated,

it's unbelievable.

The timing is very suspicious.

There's definitely
a pattern to this,

and when I see patterns,
that makes me very interested.

I'm looking forward
to looking at the data

and looking for
meaningful correlations.

BEN: That drone's going all
over the place. We're gonna try

- to land it manually.
- Go... go left a little.

Okay, hold on.

Yeah, you should be good.

ROYSTON: All right,
we're on the ground.

SAM: Oh, my God.

TRAVIS: We got
to be getting close

to where the... the wolf was.

Oh, look right
there on the bank.

What's that brown
stuff right there?

THOMAS: We got some scat.

Maybe we ought to get
Ben to tell us what that is.

KALEB: Hey, Ben, it's
Kaleb. Do you copy?

Yeah, Kaleb, what's up?

KALEB: Yeah, we've got

two different piles of scat

that I think you'd be
interested in looking at.

Okay, um, are you guys

in a position where you
could take those as samples

and bring 'em up with?

Yeah, we're doing that now.

BEN: Sounds good. I'll test
them and see what I can find out.

TRAVIS: You might not think

that animal droppings would be
worth much to our investigation.

But since the strange carcass
we found last year was also

inside the bubble, Ben
Woodruff needs to look

at every possible clue that
could give us some answers.

And in the meantime, we
have a bunch of other data

from today that we'll be
examining along with it.

ERIK: It's been a good
run. We're losing daylight.

I'd say we reconvene back
over at the command center.

KALEB: Great. Thanks, Erik.

- ERIK: Hey, Ben.
- TRAVIS: Hey, Ben.

KALEB: How's going, Ben?

Hey. How you guys doing?

So, Ben, thanks again
for jumping on with us.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS: Two days after

the crazy drone and
kayak experiment,

when we crossed into the bubble

from the southern boundary,

biologist Ben Woodruff joined us

on a video conference
to review all of the data.

ROYSTON: I mean,
it was... it was crazy.

Go to launch the drone,

and it won't launch.

It actually says,

"There is an aircraft
immediately in your area,

or approaching."

TRAVIS: That's crazy.

- Yes.
- TRAVIS: We know there wasn't

aircraft anywhere
transmitting ADS-B, right?

Yeah, there were no aircraft
in the airspace at that time.

THOMAS: Uh, I do
think it's interesting

that for the first part of this,

our instruments measured
approximately zero,

- as far as the TriField.
- Oh, yeah?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yes.

It was as if they
were not working.

Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: So let's think of
all the instruments we have.

We got Jim's drone,
we've got the sonar,

uh, we got the TriField meter.

- Yeah.
- TRAVIS: So, that's a lot

of instruments using different
technologies that are being

affected right at that spot.

- Yup.
- KALEB: Does this mean that

this potential bubble that we're

maybe finding here is putting
off some kind of energy, or...

or something that is
messing with our equipment?

Well, it's doing something

that's messing
with our equipment.

ERIK: Between the
data from this experiment

and the Helikite
one earlier this week,

we've done enough
work on the boundary

- to support that general idea.
- Yeah.

One hundred percent.

ERIK: Yeah, it seems like
an appropriate time to bring up

the GPS data from Jim's drone

in the 3D model, and of course,

we have the
representation of the bubble.

So, these red points correspond

to the data corruption
errors from the drone.

TRAVIS: Okay.

They're kind of
right on the bubble.

- THOMAS: Oh, my gosh.
- ERIK: Mm-hmm.

Now, we can go look at
the other GPS data set

from the kayak on its own here.

- So, these are just purely the sensor...
- Yes. Yes.

- We had on the kayak?
- On the kayak, yeah.

ERIK: Yup, and some of
those went up in the air.

Some data as high as 2,000 feet.

And when I reposition,

you can see that, you
know, some of these points

are below ground
by tens of feet.

- That's very interesting.
- Yeah. -TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: How in the
heck did our GPS data

from a kayak in the creek
appear way up in the air

and also underground?

It really seems like the barrier
of whatever this bubble thing is

deflected it in
different directions.

ERIK: So, I've got
one more thing.

In your lidar survey,

there seems to be an anomalous
strip of missing data, too.

- Yes. Yup.
- Um, let me bring that up.

- Here.
- ROYSTON: There you go.

ERIK: This is what
caught my attention.

TRAVIS: What?

So, there's an entire
swath that's missing?

That's right. Yes.

THOMAS: What the heck?

KALEB: It's like
a whole segment.

TRAVIS: Jim's lidar
drone emits laser light

that is designed to
image an environment

and also detect things

that might be invisible
to the naked eye.

So what did it detect right
by the southern boundary

of the bubble that simply
appeared in the data

as a black strip or void?

I want to point something out

because, uh, this is
kind of fascinating to me.

Um...

All right.

So, right here is where the
missing strip of lidar data is.

Right?

Look where we are right here.

So, Thomas, two years ago...

right there is where
you saw the purple light.

- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, it was right in this area

- near the southern boundary of the bubble.
- Yeah.

KALEB: That's
way down, kind of by

where we saw the silver orb.

THOMAS: Yes, exactly.

TRAVIS: Over the
last couple of years,

we've had some of our
most creepy UAP encounters

in this same area
of the south field

where Jim's lidar
data was missing.

That is flashing,
whatever that is.

One was a purple
orb that looked like

it was following Thomas.

All right, here we go.

TRAVIS: And another
was a silver UAP

that we captured on
a surveillance camera.

All of these events took place

right near the southern
barrier of the bubble.

So, are they
connected in some way?

So, that seems to me like
there's a bunch of different

interesting things
about this general area,

and we've lost all this data.

And it's all happening
around the southern barrier

of the bubble.

ERIK: What's so special about

that location, if anything is?

ROYSTON: There's something there

that causes this.

THOMAS: After all this,

I wonder if it
could be affecting

the wildlife in
that area, as well.

ERIK: So, Ben,

I can't help but
wonder whether any

of the biological
samples bear out

that there's some
strange connection.

BEN: Absolutely.

I'm going to show you

the scat samples you found.

Let me pull these up here.

Uh, these were really strange.

So, what we're looking at here
is these are some of the samples

of the scat that you brought me.

First of all, whatever it is,

it ate a coyote.

- Ate?
- Ate?

- What?!
- It ate... Whatever it is,

- it ate a coyote.
- That's pretty freaking interesting.

- Yeah.
- ERIK: It's crazy.

ERIK: What would do that?

BEN: It ate a coyote.

It ate a coyote?

- Yes.
- What?!

Now, we've never seen large
predators on Skinwalker Ranch.

So, when Ben told us
that the scat we found

in the south field,

right where we may
have found the carcass

of a dire wolf last year,

was from something that actually

ate a coyote, it
got our attention.

BEN: What I want to draw

your attention to
on this is the hair.

This is a guard
hair from a coyote.

And there's no
predator around here

that should be hunting
and eating coyotes.

Not even wolves.

Wolves don't eat coyotes.

They k*ll them
out of competition,

but they just leave them dead.

Whatever this is ate a coyote.

That's crazy.

Um, this next picture,
we're gonna take a look

at the scat more itself.

The bone was partially digested,

and you can see that,
whatever this predator was,

it had a strong enough
digestive system to start

to break down the bone
itself and chemically alter it.

That's not normal, and I...
and there is no predator here

in northern Utah that
should be able to do that.

- KALEB: Wow.
- THOMAS: Yeah.

BEN: But whatever
it is, it's big,

and it has a stronger
digestive system

than is normal for any
predator in the area,

and it k*lled and ate a coyote.

Hmm.

But what could that be? Like...

I mean, it could be a
cougar or a mountain lion.

No, uh, a cougar
would k*ll a coyote,

but it would not eat one.

A mountain lion's
digestive system

is not meant to break down
the bones of larger animals.

You would still have
bone fragments.

Whatever this is has a much
more powerfully digestive,

uh, enzymes in its stomach.

So, I think what you're,
what you're telling us is

the most logical explanation

is some species that
isn't typical of Utah.

Correct.

- Wow.
- KALEB: What the hell

is walking around out here
eating and k*lling coyotes?

ERIK: Ben, we've
been talking about

the subject of dire
wolves, you know,

in some of our conversations.

We have to ask the question,

would a dire wolf
consume a coyote?

Yes.

If a dire wolf saw a coyote,
it would instantly k*ll it.

♪ ♪

Nothing out here
makes any sense.

UAPs, GPS data in
the air, underground

and unknown predators
roaming the south field of the ranch

eating coyotes.

And what do they have in common?

Maybe it's a huge bubble.

I don't know what to say except
the investigation continues.

All right, well, on that note,
we need to keep an eye out

and try to get more
evidence of whatever this is

so we can figure out
where it came from.

Yeah, the idea of sharing
this space with a predator

that eats a coyote is chilling.

Yeah.

- Wow.
- Ben, as always, exciting.

Appreciate it, man.

Absolutely. Happy to help.

Thank you for
jumping on with us.

This has been very
enlightening and disturbing.

Thank you.

THOMAS: Lot of activity on this

supposed "bubble boundary."

- Yeah.
- Beats me.

TRAVIS: We need to plot

more of the bubble's
boundary on the ground

and see what we
find at other areas of it.

KALEB: Maybe we
need to go out and do,

like, actual, like,
field markers.

Things like, uh, posts.

ERIK: You know,
that's a good idea.

Having markers as
a reference is helpful.

They will indicate the
boundary of that bubble.

- That would be fantastic.
- Yeah.

- Let's go.
- That sounds like a plan.

Let's go. Let's go do it.

- Let's do it.
- All right.

ERIK: It makes a lot
of sense to us to study

the boundary layer of what
we are calling the bubble.

I want to know if this structure

could be responsible
or somehow involved

in all of the strange energetic
events that we're seeing,

the disruptions
to our equipment,

all the unusual
activity at ground level

and even in the skies above.

TRAVIS: Science fact is looking
a lot like science fiction out here.

But between the data
we keep collecting

on this massive bubble

and the progress we're
making in the mesa,

we're not going to quit

until we get to the bottom
of this crazy mystery.

BRANDON: As we have explored
some of the more mysterious,

darker regions of the ranch,
we've identified animal life

that does not conform to
any conventional explanation

and leaving
biological evidence...

what could be preying
on the other animal life,

even consuming full coyotes?

This begs the question,

what is lurking in the
darkest corners and regions

of Skinwalker Ranch?

TRAVIS: Let's get to drilling.

I'm hitting a layer that's
almost harder than granite.

So, I got something over
here you guys should take

a look at in the spoils.

Wait a minute, what?

KALEB: Hey, Travis,
look what's over here.

TRAVIS: You got
to be kidding me.

Wow. Look at this.

THOMAS: Right when
you get to the bubble wall,

it's pushing you back.

At this point, the drone doesn't
know where the hell it is.

There's something
right next to the drone.

Holy crap. Look at that.

What did we just witness here?