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BRANDON:
Dragon, what's going on?
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We had some crazy stuff go down.

Just after dark,
there was something that

was shimmering yellowish-orange.
Then it instantly vanished.

Within seconds,
something flies across the sky.

THOMAS:
We invited a veterinarian
to look at the cow

that died last year.

As you can see, the predators
haven't done their job.

DEAN:
No, they haven't touched it.

There's something
about that carcass

that I don't like.

This petroglyph represents
two different worlds,

so it's a guardian
to the portals.

The portal is a window
into the supernatural.

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: So, Colonel Alexander
has told us

that he's receptive to having
a conversation today.

I've actually got him
standing by.

So, why don't we
give him a call?

All right, yeah.

TRAVIS:
After the recent bizarre events

that have happened
on Skinwalker Ranch,

we really wanted to speak
with a credible investigator

with past experience here.

Luckily, Erik Bard
was able to convince

John Alexander to have
a video conference with us.

John is a retired
U.S. Army colonel,

and he was also a member of
Robert Bigelow's team known as

the National Institute
for Discovery Science.

They investigated the ranch
for over two decades.

And this is the first time
someone from that group

has been willing
to engage with us.

Colonel Alexander,
do you hear us?

-Yeah.
-Good morning, John.

This is Erik speaking.
I want to thank you

for taking our call today.

So, John, I understand
you came on very early,

as soon as Robert Bigelow
bought the property.

Um, actually, I was with him
the day he bought the ranch.

We had a number of very, uh,

phenomenal events occur.

BRANDON: After acquiring
the ranch in the 1990s,

Robert Bigelow immediately
locked the property down,

established 24-hour security
and launched

what was an unprecedented

scientific investigation
of the property.

They ended up encountering
all sorts of strangeness.

Everything from cattle
mutilations, to UFO phenomena,

to what can only be described
as poltergeist-like activity.

But most of what
Mr. Bigelow and his team

reported on the ranch remains

either classified or
confidential and is locked away.

So, John, we've been
talking about

the events that have happened
here on the ranch,

and more specifically,
out at the homestead area.

And I understand
that this is, uh,

something that you're
very knowledgeable about,

and we're hoping that
we could get your perspective

on the things that happened
out in the homestead area.

Like you, we had this
instrumented.

We had cameras
that were working, uh, 24/7.

We did a lot of monitoring.

You know, radiation and things,
uh, of that level,

and the old homestead area is

one that seemed to specifically
attract a lot of attention.

One of the things that really
stand out in my mind is that,

uh, the observers are on
the ridge line to the north,

and looking down
upon Homestead Two,

and they see
a spot of light that expands

and something came out,
about six foot tall.

Now, you know how dusty

the roads are there, right?

Well, something big came out,
ran off, and yet,

you don't find any
physical evidence of it.

Well, we've had two events
within the last three weeks

where something appeared to be
stalking us or watching us,

and when we tried to find it,
it vanished and there was not

a single track anywhere,
and-and the roads are just

as dusty now as they were then,
so it should've left tracks.

Right.

One of the things
that you did mention, though,

about being stalked--
one of our guys, he talks about

having another experience

out at the old Homestead area.

I put in, again, the very high
strangeness, high credibility.

This was in the night.

And there seemed to be something
moving across the trees...

...where, you know, you get a
distortion, but it's not clear,

that... just that something
might be there.

That's interesting. We saw
something that we described

after the fact
as looking like a predator.

It was there one second,
and then it was just gone.

Yes, we had those kinds
of experiences.

Some of our people--
they're out, uh, late at night.

This is in the winter,
and they look up,

and there's something
up in the trees.

And it looks like it's above
one of the cattle.

One of our guys had a rifle
with him and shot.

Whatever it was

fell out of the tree

and disappeared totally.

They went out the next day,

and I said it was winter,

and there was some snow
on the ground,

and the one thing we found was
this track that looked like

a gigantic raptor.

I mean, three-prong,

we're talking out of Jurassic
Park kind of raptor print.

And could not find

any other tracks,
uh, whatsoever.

I've never heard that story.

BRYANT:
So, this is

a pretty amazing story.

I don't know what to think of it

because I've never seen
anything like that,

but given his history
and his past,

I don't know why
I shouldn't believe it.

Of all these strange phenomena

that-that happened
when you were here,

and even speculate some,
what do you think it is?

I'm not even sure how to begin

addressing
the complexity of that.

Now, it's my view
that these things

are all connected in some way.

I would say
the area is a portal.

It's like
multidimensional reality.

And I think, periodically,

the dimensions overlap,

and when they do,
those sorts of things

that you see are
just as physical

as you sitting there right now.

But when it separates,
it's gone.

ERIK:
I find it both interesting

and a bit jarring to hear
Colonel Alexander state,

in such matter-of-fact terms,

that the ranch is, in fact,
a place where portals

to unknown dimensions
actually open and close.

TRAVIS:
If we're actually
dealing with a portal,

one explanation could be
that it's a wormhole,

which is theorized
to be a literal gateway

between two different dimensions
in both time and space.

Now, it might sound
like something

out of science fiction,

but not only did Albert Einstein

believe they could
actually exist,

I've had my own experiences here

that made me wonder
if it's possible, too.

It just keeps on going all the
way across the spectrum. Wow.

Last year, I was awakened
in the middle of the night

on the ranch
when my spectrum analyzer

suddenly started detecting
incredibly high energy spikes.

I'm seeing all these signals
from the microwave band,

all the way down past
the ham bands at 35 megahertz.

Now, to do that, it would be...

I don't even know
how we would do that.

That... it's almost impossible.

The question is, is this
crazy signal we're seeing

creating some type of event

that is something like
Einstein was theorizing?

What if the only way
to explain all these things

is with a wormhole?

So, we're looking at what
experiments we can do

that, uh, hopefully,

we can either detect one
of these portals...

-Mm-hmm.
-...stimulate a portal,

or something
to see what it could be.

Despite the complexity, I think

that's a good thing to do,

and I think you're adding
to the data.

And that's critically important.

John, we all offer our thanks
for your time

-and for the things
you've shared with us.
-Yeah.

Really insightful.
I look forward

to the next chance we have

to meet and talk about
what we've found.

-All right. Thank you, now.
-TRAVIS: We'll talk soon.

Bye.

Well, I think that was
a great call.

I agree.
No, he was very insightful.

What can we do to follow up on

what we learned
in the discussion?

-What would you do?
-TRAVIS: I have some ideas.

Let's first assume that somehow
there's a portal that appears.

If it is a doorway,
it's got to be something

like a traversable wormhole, so
there's gravitational anomalies.

So, if you had laser beams

scanning the area
when this occurred,

the beams would... would bend,

move or...
or maybe they're color-shifted.

-So you could see visible light
turned into something else.
-Maybe.

It's a good place
to start, for sure.

-TRAVIS: Let's do it.
-THOMAS: I agree.

-Travis and Erik are here.
-Oh.

Well, we didn't lose anything.

I think we got everything else
we need, at least for now.

While we're arranging
to get experts and equipment out

to the ranch to help us
conduct our laser experiment,

Thomas Winterton had
the idea of constructing

an observation tower
at the southernmost point

of the property to act
as a base of operation.

If we can just get
two more sheets

of plywood up there, grab these
two posts, and then we can

haul the rest of it
up with the Polaris.

-What-what do you guys think?
-Sounds good to me.

-Let's just get it done.
-Somebody getting cranky.

Go.

THOMAS:
The south side really has

the best view of the ranch,
including the mesa.

You're able to see clear back
to the Uintah Mountains.

And it really gives you
a 360-degree view

all the way around
that's just remarkable.

Let's line it up
on one side first.

Yup. Yup. Get your end flush.

THOMAS:
With all the sightings
that we've had in the sky,

and with everything that's
going on here at the ranch,

it's going to be great to have

another observation point
further away

that can give us
a different perspective

and give us another set
of eyes on

what's going on
here at the ranch.

It looks pretty close.

We need a camera on each corner,
looking in every direction.

THOMAS:
Well, I mean,
you guys can see the view.

This is the place
for observation here.

This tower is not only
going to be great

for our laser experiment,

but since we're about to bring

a new herd of cattle
onto the ranch for the summer,

it'll also help us
keep a better eye on them

and make sure they're safe.

Well, let's keep
slinging hammers.

-Okay.
-Okay. Sounds good.

TRAVIS:
We're almost there.

-Go, cows.
-TOM: We've come up with this

cattle tracking system
that we're gonna use

that might shed some light
on what happened last year.

KANDUS:
We're meeting with Kris Porritt,

and Kris has some stories
he wants to share.

KRIS:
I wouldn't appreciatate

you repeating
what I'm about to tell you.

THOMAS:
Hey, guys.

-TOM: Hey, Tom.
-KANDUS: Hey, Winterton.

THOMAS:
You got the trackers?

-Yes, we do.
-Got the trackers.

Good deal. Well, uh,

-we've got the cows
coming in here, as you know.
-Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: While the rest
of the team were doing

final preparations
for the laser experiment

at the observation tower,

Thomas Winterton
arranged to have a new herd

of cattle brought onto the ranch
for the summer.

THOMAS:
How you doing?

-Good. How are you?
-THOMAS: Good.

-Good.
-Appreciate you
bringing them out.

Well, thanks
for letting us come.

THOMAS: We're bringing cows
onto this ranch to maintain

and take care of the land

and keep it grazed
so that it stays healthy,

keeps it from becoming
a fire hazard.

(cows mooing)

Also, the second thing is,

is each cow we put on the place
becomes a biosensor.

Animals seem to have
that sixth sense.

TOM:
We want to make sure that

all the animals here
are taken care of and protected.

Because of the strangeness
of this place

and based on
what happened last year.

TRAVIS:
What in the world?

-(flies buzzing)
-There's no cat tracks.

There's no sign of struggle.
It's just dead.

TOM:
I saw her this morning,

but she was alive.

I don't know. That's weird.

Appreciate
you bringing them out.

And I was gonna introduce you
to Tom and Kandus.

They're the caretakers
that live here.

They're gonna monitor the cows,

make sure
that they're all healthy.

-GLENDON: How are you?
-Not bad, thanks.

-Nice to meet you.
-Good to meet you. Glendon Lamb.

-Nice to meet you, Glendon.
-THOMAS: They'll report to us

if, you know, if
anything strange has happened.

-Sounds good.
I think you'll do well.
-TOM: Yeah, thanks so much.

-Nice to meet you guys.
-Thank you.

-Good to meet you.
-Yeah, it was a pleasure. Yeah.

See you guys.

-So, tagging time?
-Yeah.

So, guys,
we're gonna run them through

this green squeeze chute
right here.

I'll tag them right here.

-Excellent.
-THOMAS: And so,
if the three of you can just

-keep the chute loaded...
-TOM: Mm-hmm.
-KANDUS: Okay.

...and keep pushing them up,
it-it should go really quick.

-Okay. Let's do it.
-Sounds good.

(mooing)

Come on. Come, cows.
Turn around.

-(whistling)
-TOM: Kandus and I

have been working
with Erik Bard,

and we've come up
with this cattle tracking system

that we're gonna use

so we know
exactly where the cows are.

And hopefully, that might
shed some light on anything

that happens this year.

TRAVIS:
Last summer...

Three, two, one, ignition.

...as we were launching
small rockets

high above the ranch that were
equipped with energy sensors,

suddenly, all of the cattle
started acting really strange.

Look at the cows.

BRYANT:
Never seen that before.

THOMAS:
Look, look, look. What is that?

TRAVIS:
Then, out of nowhere, we all

witnessed something
that we still can't explain.

THOMAS:
It's a plane, I think.

-It's gone.
-TRAVIS: Nah,
that wasn't a plane.

We'd still see it
if it was a plane.

(whistling)

THOMAS:
Hopefully, by tracking
the cows' movements,

we can correlate that
and-and compare it

to when we're having
events take place on the ranch.

You know, when something happens

at Homestead Two,
were the cows close by?

How soon before an event
did the cows leave the area?

You know, what kind of warning
is their biosensors giving them?

Well, that's the whole herd.

Nice work, Winterton.

-You, too.
-Well done.

TRAVIS:
Oh, here they are.

-THOMAS: Hey, guys.
-Hey. How you doing?

-Welcome to the ranch. Thomas.
-Chris. Nice to meet you.

TRAVIS: Erik Bard and I
contacted Chris Novielli

and Tim Anderson
of Nu-Salt Laser

to help us investigate

if all the strange phenomena
that's occurred

over the years
on Skinwalker Ranch

really could be due to a
possible interdimensional portal

like Colonel John Alexander from
the former NIDS team believes.

Have you ever tried
to open up a portal?

This is kind of a first, uh, one
for us here.

I'm really interested.
If you shine the laser

through it
or close enough to it,

we might see a change

in the direction of the beam.

Well, daylight's burning.
I know we kind of wanted

-to get set up
before it's completely dark.
-Yeah.

THOMAS:
I'll go grab our Jeep,
bring it over,

-and we'll transfer the gear.
-Sounds good.

BRYANT:
These guys
have really brought out

a massive array of lasers.

We want to put them out
by this observation tower,

and as soon
as the sun goes down,

we can start this and see
if we can stir some activity.

CHRIS:
I got this one.

TRAVIS: What we're going
to do tonight is deploy

a high-powered laser beam
aimed over the mesa

and the surrounding areas
to see if the light bends,

changes colors
or disappears in any way.

Any of those things happen,
it could be evidence

of a break
in the environmental plane

or, like Einstein theorized,
could be possible evidence

of an actual portal
to another dimension.

We ready, guys?
Y'all-y'all got everything set?

We're gonna
turn those lasers on, guys.

Start scanning the mesa.

Our new observation tower
is the ideal spot

for our first experiment
focusing on the mesa.

If you put the laser spot
right there,

then I'll look
right at the spot.

-There it is.
-Is that... There's two.

Last summer, while investigating
a documented phenomenon

where the top of the mesa
actually glows at night,

we focused
a single laser beam at it.

-Look.
-And strangely, the point
where the beam landed

was split into two by something.

-THOMAS: How is it doing that?
-TRAVIS: That is so weird.

TRAVIS:
For this experiment,

we're gonna use better cameras,
more instruments

and sophisticated
scanning laser systems

to see if the beams
actually split again

or bend or disappear.

I don't think the properties
of the mesa's natural features

could actually cause
or explain something like that.

It would have to be
something completely different.

So, what's gonna happen

is their big space laser cannon
is gonna come up

with a ginormous bunch of beams

going straight up.
It's gonna be huge.

And then we'll start
scanning the mesa.

We got about almost 600 watts
of-of laser power

that we're about to start
pumping into the sky here.

Well, let's see it. Let's go.

All right. In five, four,

three, two, one.

-Boom!
-(laughter)

-Oh, my gosh.
-Wow, look that.

-Look at that bird
fly through it!
-(all exclaiming)

Right up Main Street.

TRAVIS:
It would be really amazing
to prove

the existence of a portal

or possibly
one of Einstein's wormholes

with this laser experiment
tonight.

But if that does happen,
I'm a little nervous

about what else we might prove
along with it

about what's happening
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

Hey, you see that?

BRANDON:
The cattle mutilation phenomenon

has been going on
for over 100 years.

All the female organs
were removed.

The skull was removed.

The eyeballs were still there,
but the skull was gone.

I can't explain it.

TRAVIS:
Hey, you see that?

I got to tell you, this is...

amazing, the view
you can see from up here.

If there's-- something happens
over the mesa, we'd see it.

BRYANT (chuckles):
That is unreal.

TRAVIS:
You know, if light's
gonna trigger something,

you'd think it'd be that.

BRYANT:
Quite a show.

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow!

Look, you can see the mesa glow
in that camera.

THOMAS:
Now, that looks spooky.

TRAVIS:
You know, Erik,
what you're recording there

is telling us a lot about

the different color reflectivity
of the mesa.

It's strange how Erik's camera

is showing
that bizarre glowing effect

on top of the ridge
like we've seen in the past.

I'm just not sure yet
what could be causing it.

We can go back and look
at this video and analyze

so we can see
even where they're going.

And it may give us
some insight on...

on why the mesa glows sometimes.

ERIK:
Yeah, you know, I...
What I'd like

to look for when we go back

and play through this
frame by frame

is whether we can detect
any of that double reflection

-of that splitting
that we saw last year.
-Yep. Right.

BRYANT: Hey, guys,
is it possible for you to kill

all but one beam
so we can just focus on one?

-There you go.
-TRAVIS: Hey, guys?

Um, so, what I want you to do is

slowly bring it down
to almost treetop height

and then go up to the top

of the height that you're
cleared for right there.

All right, that's perfect.
That's as low as you need to go.

-Now, slowly bring it up.
-ERIK: That's exciting.

No off-axis scattering here.

Yeah, I'm not seeing anything
like we saw that one time.

Let's bring the laser back down
onto the mesa and move it

to the, uh, east
until I say stop.

-BRYANT: So, that's your right.
-TRAVIS: Keep going.

Keep going. Right there.

Now slowly bring it up.

ERIK:
Further up.

-Right there. Right there.
-TRAVIS: Stop.

You know, I think I'm seeing,
uh, some scatter around it,

uh, hitting other rocks
and stuff.

ERIK:
Perfect.

I think we do have
all the footage.

-TRAVIS: I think we have
the data we need.
-ERIK: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-BRYANT: Good.
-TRAVIS: We've illuminated

the entire ranch
with optical beams.

And we do realize
the mesa is highly reflective

in the visible light range,

but we haven't seen
what I would consider evidence

of anything strange beyond that.

BRYANT:
It's not always
an automatic reaction

when we do stuff.

You know, so,
just because we don't see

something happening
right this second,

that doesn't mean
that what we're doing tonight

couldn't trigger something
going forward.

-Yeah, I agree with that.
-Certainly... certainly likely.

It was getting really late,
and since nothing for certain

happened out at the mesa,
we decided

to end this phase
of the experiment

and have the guys plan
to come back tomorrow night

to run some laser scans
at Homestead Two.

And I was really anxious
to see what would happen there,

given all we've heard
and experienced ourselves.

So, uh, I think
we can pack everything up

and... and head back
to the command center.

I-I think it was
a very successful experiment.

I really appreciate
your help, guys.

-Yeah, thank you.
-Thanks for having us.

KANDUS:
Ryan Skinner's coming out today.

He's a ranch researcher,
and he's bringing with him

an ex-deputy sheriff from
the area named Kris Porritt.

-Hey, Ryan. Hello.
-Hey, guys.

-Kris? Kandus Linde.
Nice to meet you.
-Glad to meet you.

-Tom Lewis.
-Glad to meet you.
-Come on over.

KANDUS: Kris has some stories
he wants to share,

and he evidently was the officer

who reported one of
the cattle mutilations.

So that's pretty compelling,
considering he's around

to talk about it and wants to.

How did you become
familiar with the ranch?

I actually met Mr. Meyers when
I was working for the county,

-and he had a fascination
for horses, the same as me.
-Mm-hmm.

And, so, I'd come down
and ride with him,

and from that time on,
we became really good friends.

BRANDON:
The Meyers family

acquired the property
in the early 1900s.

They, along with the old
original homesteaders,

really started settling
the-the general area

that has now become
Skinwalker Ranch.

Uh, Kenneth and Edith Myers
ended up living

their entire lives
on the property,

and experienced unusual events
on the property.

We've heard stories about

there being a lot of locks,
some weird chains.

-Did you see any of that?
-He had everything chained down.

The fridge was locked.
The cupboards were locked.

-Yeah?
-Even his car.

Why do you think that was?

When I asked Ken
about all the locks,

he says "Kris," he says,
"I wouldn't appreciate

you repeating
what I'm about to tell you."

And I said, "Well,
your-your secret's my secret."

And he says, "I get visitors."

He says, "Alien activity."

-Wow.
-And he says,

uh, "Things come up missing.

Things come up dead."

Kenneth had actually
seen the aliens,

or knew what they looked like?

He could feel they was present.

And he says,
"I don't know exactly why

they picked my ranch,
to pick on me."

TOM:
Did he talk about
any visitations

that happened in the house?

Yeah. Like the screens
on a window being taken out.

-TOM: Really? Okay.
-Really?

And, uh, he'd tell me that,

at nighttime,
he heard something strange

-while he was sleeping.
-TOM: Right.

Kandus and I have experienced,

you know,
crazy things that happen

on this property and especially
in this ranch house.

Oftentimes, we do feel like
we're being watched.

Keep going.
You're right on top of it.

Last year, after Tom Lewis

and Kandus Linde began hearing
strange sounds and voices

coming from below their house,
we investigated a strange

concrete room in the basement
that was totally closed up.

We drilled a hole
through the wall,

and we ran a camera inside.

What we found was
really disturbing.

Just stop right there.

-See that?
-Mm-hmm.

THOMAS:
It looks a lot like bones.

TRAVIS:
What in the world?

What happened right here was
one of the biggest tricks

you ever seen in your life.

-What it do?
-Yeah? What happened?

KRIS:
Ken couldn't find three heifers,

and I got here just at sunrise

with my horse, we rode
all day long, and I says, "Ken,

I don't know what to tell you
about your heifers."

We can't find
fresh tracks, you know?

And he had a shed right here.

And Ken couldn't get
the door to open.

So, we start pushing on it,
pushing on it, pushing on it.

I pushed it open as far
as I could to the inside,

and I looked in there,
and I said,

"Ken, you ain't
gonna believe this.

Your heifers are in the shed."

And he goes, "No way. How you
gonna fit three cows in there?"

The heifers, stuffed in there
is what you're saying?

Locked in there?

They was stacked one on top
of each other like this.

-RYAN: Oh, my God.
-What?
-(chuckles)

-And he said, "They're dead."
-RYAN: They're dead?

And I said, "The snot's still
running out of their nose.

They're still alive."

And I said, "Go get a glass
of water and dump that

right over the top
of that heifer's head."

He did, and that damn thing
come to life.

-Hmm.
-Oh.

Like it had been...

-Drugged.
-Drugged.

And you actually saw this

-with your own eyes?
-I've seen it. Yeah.

That is an incredible story.

Kris, we'd like
to hear more about the cattle

and introduce you
to some more of the team.

Yeah, that'd be fine.

KANDUS:
Let's go.

So, run that tube pattern.

Travis, did you feel
that temperature drop?

-It does feel cold.
-I felt it.

Thomas has spotted

a light down
in the Russian olives

off to the west.

It should be right here.

KRIS:
Right over there by that tree.

TOM:
Yup.

TRAVIS: In addition to the
bizarre events that Kris claims

he witnessed at Homestead One,

he also reported
an actual cattle mutilation

near the command center.

And it was right near
where the cow died last year.

So what time of year was it
when this event took place?

I'm gonna say midsummer.

ERIK:
I've seen images,

I've read reports
of cattle mutilations.

It'll be nice to hear

from someone who has actually
seen those animals

and exactly
what happened to them

and get some kind of insight

as to what pattern
might exist there.

(groans)

-ERIK: So, this is the spot?
-KRIS: Yeah.

This used to be
an irrigation ditch right here.

And right in here is where
there was two black angus cows.

What did they look like
on the ground here?

Uh...

...the head was facing
toward the ditch,

and the legs were out this way.

All the female organs were
removed out of both cows.

And the back end, the tail,
and the uterus and everything

of the cows were right in here.

The skull, the neck bone,
everything was removed.

I can't explain it.

Absolutely no blood,
no burn marks, no operation.

Did you have the impression that
those cows were in the location

-where they were butchered
like that or...?
-Yeah.

Yeah.
And there was matted grass,

where something heavy
had sat in these weeds

and made an impression
in the dirt.

-In this same area?
-Well, uh,

right over here, actually.

And that sat kind
of kitty corner this way.

When I wrote the report,
I put 23 feet, tip to tip.

That could be
give or take a little.

I presume it was a spaceship.

I've said it, didn't I?

Was it square shaped,
or was it...?

-Cigar shaped, yeah.
-Kind of like the Tic Tac.

TRAVIS: Last year,
the Pentagon declassified

a video taken
by two Navy pilots in 2004.

This video's become known
as "The Tic Tac" video.

It shows some kind
of flying craft

maneuvering
with a propulsion system

much more advanced than any
human technology we know of.

At about the same time,
it came to light

that the federal government
had been funding

the Advanced Airspace Threat
Identification Program or AATIP.

It's literally a program
designed to study

unknown aerial phenomena,
like UFOs.

So, it's pretty fascinating
to me that a former sheriff

in the area is reporting what
he believed to be evidence

of a UFO craft on Skinwalker
Ranch that is eerily similar

to what our own government
has documented elsewhere.

-That's a strong statement.
-Yeah.

KRIS:
You guys put two
and two together.

-I'm just telling you
what I know...
-Sure.

...and what happened to me.

And I'm not the only person

that's experienced
this kind of stuff around here.

So there had
to have been something.

Something that we have no idea.

So, hey, where-where
did it come from?

-I would be asking
the same question.
-You got it.

-Kris, this is amazing.
-Thank you so much.

TRAVIS:
We're here.

Once the sun had gone down,

it was time for Tim and Chris
from Nu-Salt Laser to come back.

We're gonna run more experiments
down at Homestead Two.

Guys, I think
this spot over here

is, uh, kind of
the best place to set up.

Since numerous
credible witnesses

like Colonel John Alexander
have claimed that they saw

actual portals and other
mysterious phenomena here,

we're eager to see
what happens when we poke

this nest
with high-powered lasers.

What I want to do
is-is kind of raster scan

back and forth right here,
up and down

to the treetops
and then back down.

And then at some point,
I want to get hit

right in there where those--
the doors and windows are

and just kind of bounce back
and forth with it that way.

-That make sense?
-It does.
-Perfect.

All right, guys, if y'all
need anything, I'm gonna

-help them set up
the other stuff. All right.
-Sounds good.

I think the laser guys
are getting that going.

How's this going, Erik?

-Are you ready to roll
on that whenever?
-I am.

ERIK:
Some of the scientists
who have worked here before

had descriptions of balls of
light-- in other words, orbs--

as well as something that is
referred to as a "portal,"

of what would appear to be
a window opening up

and perhaps allowing
something to move in

and out of our space
through some other dimension.

All right, what about
the night vision?

-That's rolling now.
-TRAVIS: Okay.

While Chris and Tim were
deploying the lasers,

Erik was documenting everything
with a night vision camera

as well as a thermal camera.

He's looking for any anomalies
for us to focus on.

We're ready if you guys want
to come over and check it out.

-Oh, yeah! Cool.
-Absolutely.

So, Chris is gonna set the zone.

So, I'm gonna
turn it on right now.

-Test pattern right there.
-Yes.

Seeing any reflection?

Stop in the middle
of the doorway,

and go up and down. Uh, wait.
Right there, yeah, yeah.

You got it.
Now go up and... Yeah.

That's right where the phenomena
has occurred before.

ERIK:
Please be advised--

Thomas has spotted a light
down in the Russian olives.

TRAVIS:
Hey, hey, hey, hey!

-That's low power.
-Huh.

And I'll slowly bring it up.

TRAVIS:
I'm looking for it.

-Stuff everywhere.
-60.

I'm not seeing anything
coming back on anything.

With these laser patterns, we're
looking for bends in the light.

Anything that might indicate
something strange is happening.

On Skinwalker Ranch,

you always have
in the back of your mind,

"What if a portal opened up
and a monster crawled out?

What if voices start
booming down from the sky?"

-Let's do the one beam.
-One beam?

Yeah, the one beam
right through that doorway,

just to scan
through the door some.

-Okay.
-Stop in the middle

of the doorway.
Go up and down.

Oh, wait. Right there.

Yeah, yeah.
There you go. There you go.

You got it. Now go up. Yeah.

You know, is anybody watching

the-the thermographic thing
back there?

-Yeah, I gotcha.
-THOMAS: You seeing anything?

KALEB:
It's looking pretty normal
right now.

-TRAVIS: Right there,
there's not?
-Nope.

That's right where the phenomena
has occurred before, so...

light must not be the trigger.

THOMAS:
Or it's not
the trigger tonight.

-TRAVIS: Or it's not
trigger tonight.
-ERIK: Yeah.

I think, at the end of the day,
the trigger is

when it decides to open up,

-it's gonna open up.
-(chuckling)

TRAVIS:
I think you might be right.

So, I think, uh,

the-the thing to do now,
we're here,

let's, uh... let's just go ahead
and bring it down

and let's, uh,
take the laser in there

and shine across the field

and see if we can hit
Homestead Three with it.

Okay.

TRAVIS: I thought
that we should deploy the laser

from inside the old house
at Homestead Two,

pointing west
towards Homestead Three,

just to see if that might
trigger something to happen.

If the ranch really does respond
to different stimuli

like people believe it does,
then it's worth a shot.

So, if you'll take this down,
I'll get your cord

-across the canal
and over there.
-Okay.

Get rid of these.

All right, guys, as we walk down
into the homestead area,

seriously,
if you smell anything funky,

feel anything funky,

'cause this is
where funky things happen.

CHRIS:
Very good.

-TRAVIS: Right here.
-That's a nice clean shot.

If we get about right here...

-Mm-hmm.
-...I think

you'll hit
the homestead right there.

Do not turn it on yet
'cause don't know

where everybody is yet.

So, I would love to be
up high watching this.

You guys okay if I...

As long as you don't get
downrange of the laser,

-you should be fine.
-If we stay up on the north side
of the canal...

You should-- If you're
on that side of the road,

you're absolutely fine.

(beep)

Whoa! Hey! Something get you?

Lightning strike?

ERIK:
Yeah, this is the third time
this has happened today.

-Yeah.
-Since we've been out here.

I don't know
what's setting this off.

Well, there's no lightning,
that's for sure.

ERIK:
I've been keeping
the lightning detector with me.

I've been using it as
a kind of canary to let me know

whether there are
any electrostatic discharges

taking place
in the immediate vicinity

of our team.

But it was brand-new batteries,
and I reset the thing

back at the command center;
it was fine.

TRAVIS:
Wow, that's odd.

THOMAS:
Interesting.

I suppose one remote possibility

is that maybe some
of the equipment here

could be doing it, but I...

Nah, those are diode lasers.

There's no high...
high-voltage discharge there.

Hey, Kaleb,
do you copy over there?

10-4. Go ahead.

Are you seeing anything strange

or different
on the thermo image?

From what I'm seeing right now,
it looks like

you got a heat, uh, circle
right above you.

I don't know
how to explain that.

Yeah. So, if you're gonna go

-across the road, I guess...
-Right now.

...let's go ahead and do it now.

Yeah, take this radio
with you, too.

Call us when you're in place,

-and then we'll turn
the laser on.
-Okay.

Some kind of energy spike
was suddenly being detected

by Erik's meter,
so who knows what it was?

But it made me think
we might be onto something.

So, while we stayed
near the homestead,

Erik and Thomas decided
to hike up the mesa

to keep watch
above the tree line,

in case something odd
was really happening.

So, tell 'em I'm waving
my flashlight at 'em,

so they know where we're at.

ERIK:
If you look up on the ridge,

just to the west,
northwest of your position,

you should see Thomas's,

uh, light on his phone
so that you know where we are.

Yeah, we're down here
in the canopy by the homestead.

We're-- I don't think we're
gonna be able to see y'all.

Just stay-stay away
from the beam, right?

We can see them.

We are well off-axis.

All right, so, uh...

I say we put
some patterns on it.

BRYANT:
Hey, Erik, how does that look?

What are we hitting
with that beam?

ERIK:
You're hitting one of the...

Russian olive, uh, trees
out in the field,

far south
of the actual homestead.

So, run that tube pattern.

The-the vortex pattern thing.

So, what I'd do is get it
about right in there somewhere.

-Now bring it...
-Hey, Travis, did you feel
that temperature drop?

I did and I sm... (sniffing)

You smell something... funny?

It's hard to tell
if it's just...

No, but-but, literally,
I felt...

-I felt-- It felt like a--
Just instantly, right?
-Yeah.

-It does feel cold.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

-Do you all feel that?
-I feel that.

TRAVIS:
It wasn't just cooler outside.

It was colder by about

ten degrees in that one isolated
spot there at Homestead Two.

It still-- I still--
It's still going on.

-I still-- It's still...
-Oh, yeah, I can still feel it.

TRAVIS:
And coupled with the odd smell,

it wasn't something
I could explain.

Something strange
was definitely happening.

Whoa, there's a light down

-in those trees.
-Where?

There was a light down
in that...

-in the Russian olives
down there.
-Okay.

Guys, please be advised,

Thomas has spotted a light
down in the Russian olives

off to the west

at the fence line.

Down the Russian olives

to the west at the fence line.
Back here.

Yes. As if someone
turned a flashlight on

-and off.
-But where? Ask him where.

THOMAS:
In the Russian olive trees
over there

-on the west side.
-All right,

I know where he's talking about.

I had a good look at it.

I was kind of looking in
that direction when it happened.

It should be right here.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Right here!

It should be right-right there,
where he's talking.

It's over there
on the west side.

Right to the south of the tower.

Right there.

Down in the bottom,
as if someone

was standing below those trees.

Wait, wait.
I thought I saw something move.

I got eyes
of something over here, guys!

There it is, right there.

Where'd it go?

Ask if they still see it.

BRYANT:
Where-where are you
seeing the light?

I don't see it now.

So we-- Let's go south,

-see if we can get a vantage.
-Yeah, I don't know.

At this point...

They'd be gone.

BRYANT: Yeah, at this point,
I don't think...

TRAVIS:
Anything, Thomas?

Yeah, I think it's gone.

BRYANT:
Okay, well,
we don't see anything now,

so I think we'll head back
to the laser, guys.

Yeah, I don't see it either.
So I think

I'm gonna head down towards
you guys at the homestead.

I think that's a good idea.

I think we've done
what we can here,

and it's probably
getting late enough.

TRAVIS:
What was that light
that was there?

And why was it happening
while we're in there

doing an experiment
with these lasers?

-Hey, guys.
-Well, you got
my adrenaline pumping.

Well, for sure,
there was a light I saw.

I mean, it looked just like a...

kind of a yellowish,
amber-ish...

-like if someone took a
flashlight and turned it on...
-Yeah.

...and off real quick. I mean...

W-Well, I-I think
there was some-something,

somebody or something out there.

I wasn't sure if it was eyes
or if it was,

like, a-a flashlight reflector
or something.

So, from my perspective, I mean,

obviously, with the-the
distance, it's hard to say.

But from where we were standing
up by that telephone pole

down to the trees, I mean,
it probably looked

like it was
about that big around.

Travis saw something.
I saw something.

It is concerning
that somebody was down there,

or at least I hope
it was a somebody.

With all of the instruments
that we had recording tonight,

there is a mountain of data
to go through.

-Should we help these guys
get packed up and...
-Yeah.

Let's get packed up. Let's get
everything back in the Jeep

and let's head back
to the command center.

-Yeah, thank you.
-All right.
-Thanks for having us.

BRYANT:
Given the fact
that we've heard stories

of portals opening

and strange beings
opening up near Homestead Two,

I'm starting to wonder:
Could this have been

a portal opening up and
something from somewhere else

coming to see us while
we're doing this experiment?

BRANDON:
The previous scientific team
that investigated the property

ended up encountering
all sorts of strangeness.

Everything from
cattle mutilations to UFOs

to portals that would open up
above the old homesteads.

A lot of the things that we're
observing at Skinwalker Ranch

defy our current understanding
of physics.

TRAVIS: We don't know yet
if we'll find

mundane scientific explanations

for all the strange events
that keep happening

or if the truth really is
much more disturbing.

All I know for sure is
that we need to keep exploring

and experimenting
until we find the answer.

We're gonna get a 3-D model
of Homestead Two.

-PETE KELSEY: Got some
stuff to show you.
-Something odd happened here.

When you walked
inside the building,

it didn't take any data.

I do sense a presence here.

ERIK:
The temperature around
the homestead began to drop.

BRYANT:
Hey, are you guys
seeing anything?

We're looking at an eye.

This ground here is the gateway

-for skinwalkers.
-What I saw doesn't belong here.

-I'm a little nervous. Hold on.
-Hey.

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