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part of the day running these
magnetometry and lidar surveys.

Here is the magnetic data
of the Homestead Two.

-Whoa.
-Here's the triangle.

TRAVIS:
Oh, look at that!

I feel like we have to dig

to get to the bottom
of Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK:
Hey, guys. This thing's
hopping all over the place.

Magnetic north has been shifted.

It's pointing toward
where they're drilling.

The drill's having
some kind of effect

on the magnetic field
of the ranch.

-BRYANT: Look at that.
-CASEY: That is some dark stuff.

I don't know what
to make of that.

I got the data back
from the analysis

on that interesting black stuff.

-Take a look.
-TRAVIS: That's all the stuff

you would need to put together
modern-day electronics.

Oh.

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.

THOMAS: All right, we got stuff
crammed up in here.

Well, I guess, uh, we set up
over close to the doorway.

Thomas, why don't you
go ahead and, uh,

go in there
to where the wellhead is

and, uh, get a clean spot

-and hook the wire to it.
-Okay.

TRAVIS: After more than
two months of new investigations

on Skinwalker Ranch,

we're finally starting
to make possible connections

that might explain
some of the bizarre phenomena

that keep happening here.

BRYANT:
Oh, look at that.

TRAVIS: The highly conductive
black material

we obtained last week

about 100 feet
below the triangle area

where we've also seen a bunch
of weird things, including UFOs,

was located right where
a recent magnetometry survey

revealed a huge anomaly.

Well, that same survey showed
another, similar feature

right here
beneath Homestead Two.

We want to know if there could
be some kind of connection

between the high strangeness
we've seen

at both of these sites.

So, Erik and I have
devised an experiment

to actually measure
the conductivity,

where we're going to use
the well pipe

and a conductor grounding rod,

separated by about
50 or 60 feet,

and we're gonna
connect those to a wire

through a multimeter that will
measure voltage and current,

and then that
to a 12-volt car battery.

Now, the key here
is that the circuit is open.

The only thing
connecting them is dirt.

So, we've got that end
connected to the ground wire

and that end
is connected to the well.

TRAVIS:
So, if the dirt
is highly conductive,

then current should flow
out of the battery,

through our measuring device,
through the wire,

through the copper rod,
through the dirt,

up through the well,
back through the wire

and back to the battery.

If that's the case,
that will tell us

how conductive the dirt is.

If we do measure
a lot of conductivity

in the soil out here, do you
think that would explain

some of the crazy feelings
people have,

some of the instrumentation
going haywire, stuff like that?

Uh-- Maybe.

But here's the thing
that's missing: the battery.

-Right.
-We'd have to figure out
where the battery's coming from.

ERIK:
Yeah, we don't know what would
energize that phenomenon.

TRAVIS:
There's still
a power source somewhere

that we haven't figured out,
but we're hoping this will

help us maybe get to that.

ERIK: I've wondered
for a long time

whether there might be some kind
of underground energy source.

Some people have expressed
the belief that aliens

are somehow involved,

and we may be on to why
a conjectured alien civilization

or some ancient
Earth civilization

may have used the area
as a power storage.

-Are we ready to do this?
-TRAVIS: I'd say we are.

-Is that other end hooked up?
All right, Erik.
-BRYANT: Yep.

-TRAVIS: Hook it up.
-All right, let's go.

-TRAVIS: There-- Look at that.
Wow, significant.
-BRYANT: Oh, wow.

-That's almost
a third of an amp.
-ERIK: I am...

-BRYANT: Wow.
-TRAVIS: I was not
expecting that.

-I was expecting it to be...
-ERIK: No.

...barely one little digit move.

0.3 amps is flowing through

50, 60 feet of soil

here underneath us at Skinwalker
Ranch at Homestead Two.

I've never seen
anything like that.

There should be nothing.
It should be billionths,

maybe even trillionths
of an amp.

It's like we have
a-a transmission line,

like a power line,
running underground,

but everywhere underground.

-Mm-hmm.
-And so, what does that mean?

It means if there's
a power source or something

stimulates it, and
electrical current is flowing

all everywhere under the ground,

and anywhere
electric current flows,

a magnetic field is created.

All right.

Seeing how big that current is

makes me think I might be able
to power a flashlight off of it.

-Oh, yeah. That's a great idea.
-You have one?

So, I've got one
back here in the,

-in the, uh, pelican case.
-Nice.

It should be pretty easy
to test this out.

So, I want to--
what I want to do is...

So, what we're doing...

Oh, that was interesting.

-So that's connected
directly to...
-Oh, yeah.

This just beeped because
you just disconnected the power.

-It was this.
-Wait, what?

-THOMAS: That just went off?
-ERIK: Yeah, just as

you disconnected that,
this-this...

It set off the lightning meter.

-Yeah, now, that's interesting.
-That is very interesting.

ERIK:
When we took the battery
out of the circuit,

the lightning detector
would go off.

I don't think I have
a good understanding

of why that happened.

Do it again.

(device beeping)

TRAVIS:
Wow.

-That is...
-You're conducted...

You're conducting energy
up through the ground

that's trigg-- that somehow
is triggering that thing.

-What?
-Wh-- That's repeatable.
Look at that.

For Erik's lightning detector
to go off during this experiment

not only verified
that the ground here

at Homestead Two
is strangely conductive

just like the triangle area,
but also,

that we may have stimulated
some kind of phenomena,

or as Thomas Winterton
always says,

a "response" from the ranch.

BRYANT:
There's enough current flowing

through the ground
off of a 12-volt battery

to set the lightning
detector off?

-ERIK: That's right.
-THOMAS: This is crazy.

I'll tell you what we're seeing
here is a phenomena

that I don't think a lot of
people have a good grasp on.

I think this whole area
is acting like a power supply,

and it's storing up power,

and then we're suddenly
letting it go

when we disconnect it
from the car battery.

And as it's draining out
quickly...

-Mm-hmm.
-...it looks like
a lightning bolt.

It's like an energy
reservoir here.

Where was the power coming from
that went into the earth

that created
that lightning discharge

that made Erik's meter go off?

I have no idea about that.

But maybe the same
conductive material

we found beneath
the triangle area

is also here under
Homestead Two.

And if so, maybe this is
leading us down a path

on how to find the answer.

-THOMAS: I want to see
if the flashlight works.
-Well, I...

-Well, hook it up.
-I have a feeling
it's gonna work.

TRAVIS:
I-- With that much energy,
we're still getting

more than a quarter of an amp.

ERIK:
Well, let's see what we get
when we hook this up.

TRAVIS:
Oh. Well, it hardly
seems possible.

We've got this giant resistor,
or whatever the ground is,

of 50-something feet

that, uh, that we're running
electricity through.

We're using the earth as part
of our electrical circuit grid.

BRYANT:
I was really surprised to see

how much current can actually
flow through the ground here.

That's pretty crazy,
and that shows us that this soil

really is highly conductive

and can even possibly
store energy.

Is it possible there could be
a power source somewhere

under the ranch or above
the ranch somehow connecting?

Maybe that's why
Skinwalker Ranch is the area

of so many UFO sightings
and so many of these events.

Maybe.

TRAVIS:
Thomas's question about
UFO phenomena seemed

a lot less far-fetched
to me today

than when I first came
to the ranch last year.

I don't know if the cause
of these energy spikes

is from something
below the ground

or from something high above
like we've also seen

at the triangle area, so
I thought what we needed next

was to conduct an even more
aggressive experiment.

We just saw when we put
current into the ground

that we're seeing
phenomena, right?

I think we've got to put
power in the ground.

To see if we can stimulate
whatever this phenomena is

and see if that phenomena
shows itself.

So, how do you get enough power
into the ground?

I think we install a Tesla coil

and we turn that thing
on m-- uh, you know, high,

and maybe we can scan it across
the frequencies that it works on

and it'll resonate with
the surface and charge it up

and make it start ringing
or do whatever it does.

What you're talking about
is something

-on a much bigger scale.
-Much larger scale.

BRYANT:
Well, I think
we should call Brandon

-and talk to him about it.
-TRAVIS: Heck yeah.

I want to bring
the biggest Tesla coil I can,

plug it into the ground
and we might find

where the power source is.

CAMRERON:
Energize.

-Oh, wow.
-There's no way that coil

can produce that frequency.

BRYANT:
We've invited Brandon out here
on the ranch again

to discuss the results
of the soil conductivity test.

We had electrical current
transferring through the ground

for long ranges,

which is really, really strange.

It's good to have you back.

So, we feel like it's time
to discuss with Brandon

-the game plan
we put together...
-Hey, guys.

...and get his blessing.

This is his ranch
and I want to make sure

he knows what we're doing

and what the possible
ramifications of what we do are.

BRANDON: Well,
what do you have to show me?

We are discussing setting up

a very different
kind of experiment.

It's something that Travis
has suggested.

Well, so, we did--
We've done some experiments,

uh, down at Homestead Two,
where we created a circuit

with a 12-volt car battery
and put a flashlight

in the loop,
and part of the circuit

was 70-something feet of dirt.

-Okay.
-And the flashlight
would still come on,

uh, with dirt as-- uh,
being one of the-the "wires"

in the circuit.

BRANDON:
Wow. For-for you to be able

to power a light bulb just
by virtue

of plugging it into the land,

-that's extraordinary.
-It is extraordinary.

And that led me to, uh,
think about

how the dirt in the ranch
is highly conductive

and might be working
like a battery.

The ranch itself
could be storing energy.

Because we actually disconnected
the battery, right?

-Yep.
-THOMAS: Yeah. That was
the remarkable part.

BRANDON:
Why?

Why would the land be conducting
electricity like that?

TRAVIS:
It's got something in it

that's, uh,
layers of-of conduct--

more conductive soil
than-than normal soil,

just like the materials
that we found

in this sample underneath
the ranch out at the triangle.

And if you got
a conductive layer

and then a nonconductive layer,
then another one and so on,

that's the way a battery looks

if you take a battery apart
and look-look in it.

And the ground itself
might be acting like a battery,

and it might be charging
just due to weather

moving over the area.

Is this normal?

Is this something that you see,

-typically, in other locations?
-No.

It's one thing for the soil
to be conductive,

it's another thing for it to
have the kind of structure

that Travis was talking about
where you, actually, um,

by the arrangement of those
conductors, can store energy.

-Mm-hmm.
-Right.
-Well, and power a light bulb,

-just through our land?
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

It's very similar to the things

that, uh, Nikola Tesla
wanted to do

to send power around the world
through the earth.

Nikola Tesla was one
of the most brilliant scientists

and inventors regarding
electricity to ever live,

and as early as 1899 he began
working on an experiment

in Colorado,
attempting to figure out

how to provide power
from America to Europe,

using large energy transmitters
he invented called Tesla coils,

which had to be connected
to the soil.

Although he was able
to send energy underground

for miles, the ultimate goal
of the experiment

was never achieved.

However, I believe
that if he had been able to run

his experiment through the kind
of weirdly conductive soil

that's here on Skinwalker Ranch,
it just might have worked.

I-I think that there's something

specific about this area
that's so highly conductive.

Wow.

You start thinking about this,
maybe it would make more sense

as to why it could cause
phenomena to take place.

And then what do they say? "Bad
things happen when you dig."

TRAVIS:
You stick something
in the ground,

it'll trigger the thing
to go off.

Erik's lightning meter
goes off all the time,

especially when we're digging.

It could be charging
and discharging it.

Now, if you wanted
to get really,

y-you know, crazy with it,

you know, one of the m-more
exotic explanations

would be like, well, if you
were an advanced civilization,

you would see the Earth
as a battery,

where's the best place to go
recharge your cable in?

-BRANDON: Like
a charging station.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Just like electric car
charging stations,

-but this is happening
naturally.
-Wow.

ERIK:
It could be that
what we're seeing

is part of the explanation

for things witnessed by folks
who have lived here

or visited the property,
including UFOs, UAPs,

and even the orb phenomenology

said to frequent the ranch.

You're speaking now
to a very real,

tangible phenomena
that you've discovered

here on the property.

Yeah.

BRANDON:
The history of this property

is rich with high strangeness,

with all sorts of, uh,
reports and anomalies.

Shortly after I acquired
the ranch,

I began to see
many of the same things

that people have reported
going back not only decades,

but generations.

We've seen strange
luminescent phenomena,

we've seen strange lights,
uh, we've seen, you know,

sections of the mesa
illuminated.

Just as the Shermans, who bought
the property in the early '90s,

witnessed with their own
eyes UFO activity

over the property,
we have, surprisingly,

had the same experiences.

I can't deny it.

I've seen it with my own eyes
with multiple witnesses.

I'd like to hear, you know,
what you propose

the best course or path may be.

TRAVIS:
So, what I would like to do,
Brandon, is I would like

to call a colleague of mine
and find the biggest Tesla coil

that I can find available

and energize the ranch
as powerfully as I can.

Number one, to see how far away

we can, we can transmit energy
across the ranch,

and also, maybe it would
stimulate something.

You know, I'm most worried
that you may unleash power

that you're not prepared
to handle here on the property,

so I want to make sure
that we take proper precautions.

It's definitely something we
have to be very cautious about,

but Travis knows what
he's doing, in this regard,

and I don't think any of us
are gonna run willy-nilly

around here and take
undue risks, so...

TRAVIS:
If we reach a point

where we're seeing
a phenomena, uh,

then that'll be
where we realize,

"Okay, we need to back off
and-and observe

and-and understand this before
we really kick it too hard."

W-Well, I-I think it's both
exciting and terrifying,

at the same time, and I hope
you're all really prepared

for the potential risks
associated with that.

I trust these three guys
completely, and, uh,

and I know these two will
carry it out, uh,

the way that it should
be carried out.

And I know that
if something goes wrong,

he'll keep us safe.

BRANDON:
Okay. Travis, how soon
can you do these experiments?

TRAVIS:
Well, I've talked
to a colleague of mine

and he's ready to bring
some equipment out, like, now,

I mean, any day now.

So, uh, we're...
right now we're looking at

the triangle area
to do the experiment.

Now that we've determined
that the soil at Homestead Two

is just as strangely conductive
as it is at the triangle area,

I want to conduct
a Tesla coil experiment

in the triangle for two reasons.

One, it doesn't have
the tree cover,

so it's not as much
of a fire hazard.

And two,

I'm really curious
to see if sending

a lot of electricity
into the ground

might stimulate phenomena
either between or at both sites.

Maybe this experiment could
finally help reveal just exactly

what it is we're dealing with
on Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON:
Well, I'm very interested

to see what kind of results
come from this experiment.

So, proceed accordingly,

and, uh, be careful.

CAMERON:
Now, one thing we need to keep

in mind here is the danger.

We're running this coil
at a greater power

than I've ever ran it before.

I don't know
what's gonna happen here.

TRAVIS:
All right, let's fire
this thing up, Cameron.

Okay, coming up.

-TRAVIS: What's up, Cameron?
-Good to see you, man.

-How you doing, brother?
Good to see you, man.
-Hey.

TRAVIS: Cameron Prince
is a good buddy of mine

who's also an engineer
and an expert on Nikola Tesla,

so I arranged with him

to bring some
different-sized Tesla coils

out to the ranch so we could
see what would happen

if we shot a lot of electricity
into the ground

at the triangle area.

Now, if the ranch really does
respond to being poked,

I wanted to see what might
show up if we zapped it.

One of the things we've measured
are weird radio

and microwave signals
that we can't source,

and they bounce around.

And we've discovered
an anomaly in the soil here

that we think we can stimulate
with a Tesla coil.

Wow. You're speaking, like,
energy of some sort?

TRAVIS:
Yep, and it's really unusual.

I mean, that-that's the only way
I can explain it, right?

Yeah, and that's--
I'm excited you're here,

because maybe this will help
ease that confusion

and we'll be able
to get some answers.

Sounds really cool.

All right, well, uh,
show us what you brought, man.

-Okay. Let's do it.
-I'm-- I'd love to see it.

I know these guys
can't wait to see it.

CAMERON:
So, I brought four coils.

Two small ones that
are actually solid-state.

And we can vary
the frequency there,

so if this anomaly is sensitive
to certain frequencies

or pulse rate,

we've got a lot of versatility
to do different things.

The large coil stands about
nine foot tall, and that's what

you see here with the-the big,
uh, doughnut there.

That sits on top and that's what
collects the energy

until it breaks out, you know,

when we start hitting
the ground with it.

So, we're gonna dump
a big bucket of energy

-on the ground.
-That's exactly
what we're gonna do.

Not just on the ground,
in and through the ground.

CAMERON:
Tesla was the creator
of A.C. current,

which we use today,

but he wanted to do away
with the wires

and actually transmit
that energy wirelessly.

So the Tesla coil was created,
uh, with that in mind.

So, a Tesla coil is
an air core transformer

that takes A.C. voltage
and boosts it up,

uh, to a very high degree in
order to create the lightning.

So, what I'd like to do, guys--
I think we should, uh, load up,

cross through the triangle,
and, uh, head that way.

-Sounds good. Perfect.
-All right, man.

THOMAS:
Bringing a Tesla coil on
the ranch is a culmination

of hundreds of hours
of experiments and research

and finding magnetic anomalies
in the ground.

So, this is what we call
the triangle.

THOMAS:
The hope is by pumping
all this energy into the ground,

one, we're gonna
learn more about

the conductive properties
here at the ranch,

and two, maybe we'll wake
something up.

Well, so, uh, Cameron, then,
why don't you just, uh, pull up

down there by that yellow flag
and we'll start staging

-the equipment out.
-Sounds good.

All right, man.

ERIK:
It's like every other
experiment that we perform.

We're not sure what to expect.

Maybe when we turn
the device on,

we'll see something
in the sky above.

Or maybe we'll measure something
in the ground below.

CAMERON:
Turn it. That'll work.

TRAVIS:
We're gonna be putting so much
power through the ground,

if there's something
underground,

it's bound to feed back
into that.

-Okay.
-And-and we might
see something occur.

So, we might be
interacting with something.

-That's what I'm hoping.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
Because so many weird things
tend to happen

at night on the ranch,

like the strange lights
we've seen on the mesa

or the reports and evidence
that we've experienced ourselves

of possible portals,

we thought it would be best
to start our experiments

once the sun went down.

TRAVIS:
All right, Cameron.

Uh, I think we've got
all of our instruments set up.

This is the audio spectrum

that Erik's looking at
on this screen.

We've got a different
frequency antenna

set up here on
a spectrum analyzer.

So, we're gonna be looking
at all of these

different pieces of data
while we're running this thing

and start kind of using that
as a measurement

of the conductivity of the soil.

Okay. One thing we need to keep
in mind here is the danger.

We're running this coil
at a greater power

than I've ever ran it before.

We've-- We're talking about
a more conductive ground

than I've ever worked
with before.

So we've got to keep
safety in mind.

-I don't know
what's gonna happen here.
-BRYANT: Yeah.

Pumping this much electricity
into the ground

and into the atmosphere,

who knows what it could
possibly stimulate.

So, hopefully we're prepared
for whatever happens.

If something happens.
We don't know.

Yeah, if a portal opens up
over there, I'm going in it.

So, let's fire up the Tesla coil
and let's see what happens.

Because of the potential danger
of this experiment,

we decided to use
the smaller coils first.

Now, I also stuck some
fluorescent light bulbs

in the ground and handed
some out to the team.

Since our bodies are natural
conductors of electricity,

if we saw the bulbs light up,
it would mean that the ground

was conducting current

and it would verify
the experiment was working.

Then, it would just
be a matter of seeing

what other things might happen.

All right, let's fire
this thing up, Cameron.

Okay. Coming up.

(zapping)

TRAVIS:
There you go.

Oh, that's pretty bright
right there!

Oh, look at that.
That one's lighting up.

-THOMAS: It is lighting up.
-Yeah, you can see it,
you can see it light up.

-KALEB: Hey, Travis!
-Yeah!

The whole noise floor
is going up and down!

TRAVIS:
All right, bring it down!

Hey, wait, wait, wait. What is
that right there? Right...

Look how fast it's going.
And look at it streak--

It streaked off, right off--
That is crazy.

TRAVIS:
There you go.

Oh, look at that!

Cameron brought
two smaller Tesla coils

that he can control
with a solid-state box

that changes the tone
and frequency of them.

-Oh, it is working.
It is working.
-Look at this!

TRAVIS: Hopefully, we can
trigger whatever this phenomena

is by adjusting
the output of the energy

that we're sending out.

(whoops)
You can smell that ozone.

-CAMERON: (chuckles) That's it.
-TRAVIS: All right.

Well, I say we go back
and see what, uh, Erik saw

-on the instruments.
-THOMAS: Okay.

All right, Erik. What'd you see?

If you want,
you can take a look at this last

-screen capture.
-Nice ring.

-ERIK: Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Oh, wow.

Well, that's smacking
the bell...

-Yeah.
-...but did the bell ring back?

I didn't see anything
that I would call a response.

TRAVIS:
Erik's detecting devices
only registered

energy levels that appeared
to have been produced

by the electricity coming out
of the small Tesla coils.

So, the only thing I could
think of to do next

was to up the ante.

Maybe we needed more power.

-CAMERON: More power.
-ERIK: Okay.

Well, Cameron, I can't wait
to see what happens

to that bigger coil
when you pump it

with more power
than you've ever done.

So, let's fire up the Tesla coil
and let's see what happens.

-ERIK: Okay.
-Let's rock and roll.

TRAVIS:
It's possible we need an even
bigger Tesla coil

firing at maximum power,
and then hopefully

if there's a bigger power supply
here somewhere,

it might stimulate it.

It might trigger some kind
of communication signal

or a response.

And maybe it's something
we can detect and locate.

All right, I'm bringing up
the big coil.

-Everybody, stand back.
-BRYANT: All right.

Okay. Here goes.

Ready?

Yeah!

-Energize.
-(whirring)

(electricity crackling)

-TRAVIS: Whoa, look at that.
-KALEB: Oh, that's cool.

Oh, wow.

-Check it out.
-KALEB: Oh!

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah!

Yeah, what are we seeing here?

KALEB:
The whole floor raises
like that.

When did you notice that first?

KALEB:
It started doing it
about halfway through.

-ERIK: Okay.
-KALEB: As I was
watching the different

spectrum analyzers and some
of this different equipment,

I started seeing these strange
signals coming back.

-KALEB: Hey, Travis!
-TRAVIS: Yeah?

The whole noise floor
is going up and down!

TRAVIS:
Okay!

All right, bring it down,
Cameron.

ERIK:
So, what we're seeing over here

is-is that the noise floor is
continuing to hop up and down.

-Really?
-Yeah. Check it out.
-Across the whole spectrum.

-Oh, wow, look at that.
-Oh, that is nuts.

-KALEB: That just happened.
-Whoa.

KALEB:
That's the first time
that happened.

-That was down at 400 kilohertz.
-That is...

So, this entire thing
has just been bouncing.

-Yeah, it's going crazy.
Look at that.
-Still going.

TRAVIS:
The noise floor refers to

all the normal energy
interference

you'd expect to see on
the spectrum analyzer

coming from sources
like our cell phones

or telephone lines
or even camera equipment.

So, to see the spiking energy
fluctuations continue

even after we shut
the Tesla coil off,

well, that's evidence
that a much bigger energy source

was being detected.

Oh, crap, look at that.

A few weeks ago,
we witnessed something

very similar right after

we conducted an experiment
at Homestead Two.

Somebody-- I mean,
we're actively being

electronically attacked
right there.

That is a transmitter
somewhere doing that.

And then suddenly,

both Thomas and I
started to feel sick.

Ugh. That was-- that was
freaky weird.

Guys, I'm-I'm leaving the ranch.
I'm getting a bad headache.

I'm dead serious.

TRAVIS:
So, these sudden energy spikes

that were being detected
by the spectrum analyzer

may very well have been evidence
that we were stimulating

a response from something
on the ranch.

But what that was,
we had no idea.

At least not at that point.

There's no way that coil
can produce that frequency.

It's-it's too high.

TRAVIS:
The ground is somehow
acting like

a transformer turning
low-frequency, lower power

into higher-frequency,
higher power.

-How is that possible?
-(sighs, stammers)

It means there's a transformer
under the ground or something.

CAMERON:
We typically see

a very strong resonate frequency
of the coil

and a couple of harmonics
right near that,

but one thing that
was really odd is we saw

a much higher frequency,
up in the megahertz range,

far beyond what the coil
normally produces.

You know,
I can't explain this signal,

but it did seem
to be affected or provoked

or started by the coil.

But here's the other thing:
I can't keep

that quantum random number
generator program up.

It continues to shut down
on its own.

-Wow.
-S-So, I don't know
what's happening here.

This is unexpected
because I've had no trouble

-whatsoever with this device.
-Yeah.

But something's
turning this off.

And it doesn't
correlate necessarily

with turning this Tesla coil on.

Hmm. And you can't even
get the software to come up

-and tell you what, uh...
-Oh, it'll come up.

It'll come up for a short time,
but then what happens

is this entire interface
just shuts down.

I have tested that device
to fly in space.

-Okay.
-'Cause, I mean,
I'm about to fly

four of them on a space station
in December.

-And, uh...
-S-So, that should lay that
concern to rest right away.

That shouldn't be that.

ERIK:
Some of our instruments have
clearly been interfered with,

and I'm asking myself
whether this is an indication

of stimulus and response.

Are we dealing with something
that is technological?

Is there an other on the other
side of the interaction?

We all want to know
the answer to this.

I-I can't help wondering whether

either we've done something
to tweak this device--

in other words,
to damage it somehow...

-Right.
-Or whether something
more interesting

is shutting down
and preventing me

from being able
to use the device.

I was thinking about that, too.
I mean, we're so focused

on these instruments, something
may be happening around us.

These seem to be triggered
by outside sources.

Yeah?

Could Erik be correct,
that something

made our equipment
just shut down,

and no longer be able to detect
the strange energy signal?

I approach these experiments
from a scientific perspective,

so if he's right,

then something
with an intelligence

would have to be the culprit.

So, we did have two anomalies
that we-we can't really explain,

and that's the fact that
the signal from the Tesla coil

was amplified and transformed
into a higher frequency.

That I can't explain.

And that quantum
random number generator

quit working with this computer
for some reason.

When it comes
to Skinwalker Ranch,

there seems to be
an intelligence to it.

Which, I've always said,
you can't make this ranch

-tap-dance on command.
-Yeah.

And our hope is
by doing these projects

that we can stimulate it,
that we can... But...

-Maybe communicate with it.
-Maybe communicate with it.

But if there is an intelligence,
it seems like

there's something
about this triangle

it does not want messed with.

BRYANT: I don't know what it is,
but it seems like

when we're doing big
experiments on the ranch,

things happen to maybe
thwart our efforts

or at least throw
a wrench in things.

Without fail, we're gonna have
some equipment that malfunctions

or things that are trying
to stop us

from what we're doing.

Well, I mean, you've never
seen anything like that

with the big Tesla coil?

Uh, no, not th--
I can't explain that.

Doesn't surprise me at all
after being out here

doing research on the ranch
for two summers now.

I don't know what else
we can do here.

I'd like to go back
and look at the data,

so let's-let's start
packing up, guys, right?

Wow, look at-- look at that.

-TRAVIS: Yeah.
-That is really violent.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, look at that.

Hey, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.

What is that right there?
Right-- yeah.

-ERIK: You seeing that?
-Yes, yeah.

Look, it's-it's in the clouds,
whatever it is.

Look how fast it's going.

-And then look, it streaked off.
-Look, it streaked off.

Right off-- That is crazy.

-TRAVIS: Hey, guys.
-BRYANT: Hey.

TRAVIS: Did y'all find
that footage I text you about?

ERIK: You know, I'm looking
at the whole time interval

and I'm watching that storm
system move in, and, you know,

looking for, you know, you were
talking about there being

-some lightning strikes.
-TRAVIS: Yeah. I was watching

-on my phone
and looking due west.
-Yeah.

-TRAVIS: So pretty much
that view right there.
-Okay.

The day after our Tesla
coil experiment,

I headed home
for the weekend to think about

what we had experienced

and really just
decompress a little.

But while Erik and the team
kept analyzing

all the data we collected
from the ranch,

I was also remotely monitoring

the security cameras
mounted on my trailer

that face the triangle area.

Now, if we've learned
anything out here,

it's that phenomena
don't always happen

immediately when we experiment.

So, do you have
the sense that it would be

-in the field of view?
-It should be right there. Yeah.

-Right here?
-TRAVIS: I wasn't sure
if there was a correlation,

but I saw that a really volatile
lightning storm happened,

so when I got back,
I wanted to confirm with Erik

what his surveillance system
had recorded

just in case anything else
may have been captured as well.

ERIK:
Let's go forward
to the point in time

when you were
seeing all of that.

-Yeah, 2:31, right?
-That lighting. Let me...

ERIK:
So here we are at 2:30.

-Okay.
-TRAVIS: By this time,

there should
be lightning everywhere.

Right, so I'm-I'm playing
through at normal speed,

so we're not skipping
any frames,

we shouldn't be missing...

Well, that doesn't
make any sense.

That doesn't look at all
like what I was watching.

I mean,
I was watching a thunderstorm.

This cloud was constantly,
just one big flicker.

Okay.

TRAVIS:
That makes no sense.

We look at the exact same time
that I texted Erik

and there's not a lightning
strike or a flash of lightning,

anything, in the actual data,

and I can't understand it.

I was watching it on my phone.

Now, Erik's camera
is up on the mesa,

a couple hundred yards
from my trailer,

but it's the exact
same perspective.

Can you pull up my video
from my camera?

Uh, I can, now...

That-- I don't understand that.

I think it might be this one.

You can tell me
if this is a match.

-That's it.
That's the view. Okay.
-That it? Okay.

Wow, look at, look at that.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, so this
is what I was seeing.

I was seeing dust devils

-all up through here,
it was crazy.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
That is really violent.

-TRAVIS: Yeah, look at that.
-Okay.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna sneak up
on that 2:30 time frame.

There we go.

Okay, do you see anything
that resembles what you saw?

TRAVIS:
Nothing, because the sky
was flickering like crazy.

-Well, I don't see
any lightning.
-Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

-What was that? Right there.
Right-- Yeah.
-ERIK: You seeing that?

-TRAVIS: Yes, yeah.
Back up a couple frames.
-All right.

TRAVIS:
You guys see? Look, right here.
You see this?

-BRYANT: What is that?
-I don't know yet.

TRAVIS:
It appears there, and then right
there, right above the mesa.

-BRYANT: Right above the mesa.
-All right, so back it up

-before it and play through it.
-ERIK: All right.

Okay, so, we're at 13:42:40.

TRAVIS:
There it is.
It comes in, it's there,

and then it's,
and then it's gone.

You guys see that?

You don't generally see bugs
flying around

when it's blowing hard.

So, let's look at another
camera angle and see

if we can see
if that was a bug or not.

Sure.

Okay, I'm at about the
same timecode here.

Oh, look, look.
Right here, right here. Look.

See this?

Look, it's-it's in the clouds,
whatever it is.

ERIK:
Okay.

-TRAVIS: All right,
and then, it's diving.
-THOMAS: Is it just diving down?

TRAVIS:
Look how it just dives
straight down, now...

Now it's, like, hovering.
That's weird.

BRYANT:
Yeah, you know what's
interesting, though,

is right there
where it's hovering,

is about the perspective
where it looked like

-it disappeared above the mesa.
-Where we s-- where we saw it

on the other camera, right?

Look, it-it's got
a wake behind it

and it's going really fast.

-And look-look,
it just streaked off.
-THOMAS: It just streaked off.

What in the world?

-That is crazy.
-ERIK: Okay,
I got to see this again.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, go all the way back.

This is odd.

All right, now look how fast
it comes down.

Now watch right here.
It's like it goes behind

and through this cloud,
you see that?

-BRYANT: Yep.
-It even put--
You can see a trail behind it.

-TRAVIS: Look,
it's leaving a trail.
-ERIK: Right.

TRAVIS:
I can't understand that.

But-- And look
how fast it's going.

That's amazing.

Yeah, it goes straight down
and then it stops.

Right there. Look at that.

And that's about how long
it was stopped

in that position
in the other camera.

And then it just,
boom, look at that.

-Wow. That's something.
-Gone.

-It really does look like
it's moving fast as it exits.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

I've never seen a quadcopter,

hexacopter,
anything like that do that.

I've never seen the fixed-wing
drones do something like that.

And, you know,
airplanes don't do that.

BRYANT:
The coincidence of this
is really odd

because you were alerted to
what you thought was lightning

-going on.
-Right.

And we wouldn't have even been
looking at this footage...

-Yeah.
-...had you not made
a big deal out of the lightning.

The lightning disappears,
but then all of a sudden

-we see this thing.
-That's a weird string
of events.

That just seems like
a huge coincidence.

-Oh, yeah.
-THOMAS: Yeah.

BRYANT:
The fact that we picked
this thing up

on multiple cameras
from multiple systems,

looking from different angles
and saw this thing,

you know, it takes away a lot
of the mundane explanation

that it was a bug on the lens

or that it was a bird
or something like that.

I don't know what this was,
but it's nothing

I have an explanation for.

TRAVIS:
That's clearly, I mean,
call it a UFO if you want to,

'cause I don't know what it is.

It's flying
and it's unidentified.

-Right.
-Maybe from the two cameras

we can figure out how far away
it is and how fast it's moving.

-That will tell us
something, too.
-Right.

-So, I'll go play
around with that, too.
-Yeah, I like that.

What I find interesting
about this event

is that is correlates
with the experiment

with the Tesla coil
out at the triangle area.

So, there is room to speculate
that there might be

some relationship between this
black object

that shows up in our footage

and whatever was
taking place that night.

So, how do you feel
about taking this file

to share with Brandon, and
kind of get his eyes on this?

TRAVIS:
Yeah, absolutely. Do it.

-And let us know when
you get this thing done.
-All right. Thanks, guys.

TRAVIS:
Great. Thank you, Erik.
That's good stuff.

-TRAVIS: Hey, Brandon.
-KALEB: How's it going, Brandon?

Hey, greetings, gentlemen.
How are you?

ERIK:
So, have you received
and reviewed

the footage of the dark object

in the sky over the mesa
during the recent storm?

Yeah, I just reviewed it
and, uh,

I'm anxious to get
your perspective on it.

It-It's very intriguing.

It's definitely maneuvering
in a way

that you typically
don't see with any craft,

drone or anything
that I would call conventional.

Right. When it does
that one little,

looks like
an aerodynamic maneuver,

but then it stops and hovers,

and then just darts off
behind the mesa to the north,

uh, it's probably going
a-a thousand mile an hour

-at that point.
-Yeah. The speed
and the trajectory

and just the erratic
behavior of the object,

uh, just kind of blew me away.

Yeah, I-I agree.

The only other thing
I would say about it

that's interesting to me, also,

is that the object
was over the triangle area.

Wow.

Perhaps this object had
some kind of causal relationship

with the exercise
involving the Tesla coil.

-Yep.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Well, there appears

-to be a connection.
-Right.

BRANDON:
To see in broad daylight,
once again,

a strange object
that is not only moving

at speeds but also
trajectories that defy

all description,
following that Tesla experiment,

it just leaves you
not only baffled but also,

I think, further
emboldened to understand

what is really going on above
and below Skinwalker Ranch.

Of course, the question I have:

is anything showing up

on the avionics transponder
or any

of the other tracking services
that are monitoring

all the commercial and private
air traffic in the area?

Well, that's really the right
question, and the answer's no.

There are no
self-identifying aircraft

or at least no transponding
aircraft in-in the space

at the time of that event.

That is bizarre.

Well, given
the compelling evidence

that you guys have collected,

I think we-we, more than ever,
have an imperative

-to get to the bottom of it.
-Agreed.

-ERIK: Agreed.
-THOMAS: This-this happened
above the triangle,

and, by the way, we've taken
weather balloons up there...

We-we lost a balloon
right there.

I think we just need to come up
with a plan to get up there,

look at it closer, and, uh,

and let you know
what we come up with.

I agree. I agree.

It's something.
We got to figure out a way

-to understand
what these things are.
-Yeah.

I think you're absolutely right.

The fact that these events

continue to occur repeatedly

over the airspace
of this 512-acre ranch,

I think, is beyond coincidence.

-Right.
-I think one thing that
we've been able to verify

over the course
of the last few years

and especially with this team,

is that-that whatever
we're observing, it is unique

to this area and unique

to Skinwalker Ranch.

I think getting
to the bottom of why

and the origin and the agenda

associated with this phenomena

is going to be job number one
moving forward.

-ERIK/TRAVIS: Agreed.
-THOMAS: All right.

-Thanks for joining us, Brandon.
-THOMAS: Thanks for your time.

Hey, thank you so much.
We'll stay in touch.

THOMAS:
As our investigation
moves forward,

the one thing in my mind
that still is not resolved

is there does seem
to be some type

of intelligence aspect to this.

So many times,
the phenomena that takes place

is so perfectly correlated

with the activities
that are going on.

It makes me wonder,
what might we possibly see

up above the ranch?

TRAVIS:
The scientific method says
if there's something unknown

or you don't understand it,

you design experiments
to study it

and you report the results.

We don't know
what's happening here.

Maybe we can even
figure out what it is,

why it's here
and where it came from.

Be able to communicate with it,

if it wants to be
communicated with.

BRANDON: We truly have
a unique opportunity

to be able to prove the reality

of strange phenomena

and to be able
to prove the reality

that we're not alone
in the universe,

that we're interacting
with something

or some things
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS:
We've got a bunch
of rockets to launch

right above the triangle area
where last year

we saw a UFO appear in the sky.

There it goes. We have launch.

Oh, man, look at that.

-THOMAS: What is that?
-ERIK: What's going off?

DAVE:
Something beeping over there.
Holy buckets.

You could just feel that.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what's this right there?

TRAVIS:
We got something!
We just saw the same UFO

that we saw last year!

-There-- Look at that!
-THOMAS: Oh, wow.

What the hell
would be dropping down

-toward the rock there?
-TRAVIS: That is crazy.

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