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Look at this. What is that?

Let's get out there. Come on!

[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X...

my team continues to unravel the mysteries

-of the Uinta Basin... -[wolves howling]

[Phil] Hmm?

[Jessica] What the [bleep]?

Why is that happening right when we're about to do this?

...home to a shocking spectrum of paranormal reports.

I swear to God I saw somebody standing right there.

-Where? -Right there.

Couldn't even see a face. It was all gray.

[Josh] And as we shift our focus

to reports of unidentified aerial phenomenon...

So tell me about UAPs.

We see a lot of them over the ridge.

Gosh, everywhere in between.

[Josh] ...they use cutting-edge technology

to uncover jaw-dropping evidence...

[Jessica] All right, we should be able to track any movement in the sky.

...of out-of-this-world activity.

We were monitoring incoming frequencies.

And when they were in the area,

those frequencies were much stronger.

-Did we actually get a hit? -Look at this.

[Phil] Exactly 532 Hz coming in in radio frequency.

What the... What is happening here, Phil?

[phone ringing]

[Phil] Oh. Getting a call from Josh.

[Jessica] All right. Here, let me pull over.

-Hey, Josh. -Hey.

Hey, guys. How's the winter wonderland?

[Jessica] Cold.

It's very cold.

Look at you two agreeing on something.

That warms my heart at least.

Ugh. Not helpful.

But, yes, we do agree on something,

basically that everything that you could possibly have

to do with the paranormal

is going on here in the basin.

So, our first witness, Manny,

described a terrifying skinwalker encounter.

I see something come over this little hump right here.

Arms were almost touching the ground.

It was all black.

And the face looked like a hyena.

[Jessica] And then, following his footsteps,

we actually heard an eerie call.

[howling]

Anybody else hear that?

[Jessica] And then we caught a glimpse

of some creature from our thermal drone.

-We got something! -Oh, my God!

What is that?

We tried tracking it,

but it seemed to disappear into thin air.

Could be a skinwalker.

So they look almost as if they disappear?

Yeah. But they're still there.

-But they're still watchin'? -Right.

[Jessica] We got another tip about a skinwalker sighting

off Highway 40.

I see like this wolf-like-looking thing

come out from the field.

[Jessica] And that's where we encountered the strangest thing yet.

We were driving in the middle of the night

down a remote road

when, all the sudden, we see this strange-looking figure.

-Oh. -Holy.

And we've heard skinwalkers sometimes present themselves as hitchhikers.

So we quickly U-turned.

But moments later,

when we got back to the spot we'd seen it,

it was gone.

What?

[Phil] The legs, to me, almost looked like they were...

covered in fur.

I'm sorry. This is coming from you, Phil?

This is unprecedented.

Enough.

Send the video footage over.

We'll see if we can enhance it digitally.

And while I'm doing that,

I want you guys to start looking into the UFO reports

that Uinta is notorious for.

I've connected with this expert,

this guy James Keenan,

and he is a former law enforcement investigator

who's been researching the skies over Uinta.

And he says these long winter nights

are the peak time for UFO activity

and that this season has been the wildest yet.

He thinks he's even found a way

to communicate with the UFOs.

Wow.

You gotta go make contact with James.

And, who knows,

maybe he could help you make contact with them.

-All right. Bye, Josh. -See ya, Josh.

Good luck.

[Josh] UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomenon,

are being investigated by governments

all over the world.

Multiple branches of the US government

have issued reports on UAPs,

testifying to congress with their disturbing findings.

UAP are airborne objects that cannot be immediately identified.

We are committed to a focused effort

to determine their origins.

[Josh] Many of those sightings come at night.

And given the brutal temperatures of the basin,

I've made sure Phil and Jess have a set of wheels

that'll keep them somewhat warm

during their grueling all-night investigation.

-Hey hey. -Okay.

This is a bit of a size upgrade.

Nice and fancy.

So we got a long drive ahead.

Do you need a potty break?

I'm just saying.

Might as well do a little mini road trip

while we're at it.

-Have you driven anything this big before? -Never.

Great.

Ah, just sit back and relax.

I'll get us there eventually.

There are reports of UFOs in the area

from all of these people that come out here to study this.

So, this guy James,

I mean, it sounds like he has some type of technology

and a way that he approaches this

that he's able to bring them in.

But it sounds amazing.

I'll tell you this.

I'll keep an open mind,

but a very skeptical open mind.

That's fine with me.

-Hey, James. -Hi.

-How are you doing? -Good.

Thanks for meeting us.

[Jessica] James Keenan has a background in law enforcement.

But for the last decade,

he's been investigating strange sightings

in the skies over the Uinta Basin.

Hopefully he has some insights that can increase our chances

of experiencing the same.

I've been out here for about eight years,

looking into a lot of, uh, different types of phenomenon that's occurring.

And one of those is the unidentified aerial phenomenon

in the area.

And we've been able to, what we believe,

is calling them in

by using certain type of technology.

So you're telling me that you have, uh,

kind of like a secret recipe

to bringing in phenomena that you can't explain in the sky?

I would hope that that's what it ends up being.

Last year, we ended up seeing an event occurring

in the sky by the mesa,

which is just north of where we're at.

And all this UAP activity was starting to occur.

What we ended up doing was

we were using certain type of technology.

Uh, we used a high-powered laser.

And we also used a signal generator

at specific frequency.

Which the UAP seemed to be more attracted to.

-Hmm. -And we were also monitoring

incoming frequencies.

And it appeared that, when they were in the area,

those frequencies were much stronger.

So we're transmitting

and then we're suddenly receiving...

-Ah. -...a signal.

And those frequencies,

there's a possibility of two things.

Is it just an atmospheric anomaly

just naturally occurring?

Or does it have design?

And if it's designed,

who or what is creating that design?

[Jessica] So where do you recommend that we go

if we wanted to see UAPs?

Yeah, you definitely need to go to the mesa

and get up as high as you can on it.

[Phil and Jessica] Okay.

[Phil] If we wanna see something tonight,

we need to be in the right place,

we need to have a high-powered laser,

we need to have a frequency generator

and a loudspeaker.

And with that secret recipe pointed towards the sky,

we may get something interacting with us?

You may very well.

Awesome.

I like your whole UAP cookbook angle here.

Well, let's see what's for dinner tonight.

[exclaims] Oh!

Mwah!

[laughing] Awesome.

-Thank you so much. -Pleasure.

-Thank you. -Take care.

[Jessica] Okay, so...

what do you think about his theories?

In the end, I actually kind of like his theory

of trying to communicate with aliens,

to show our intelligence

by using the same frequency,

but just in different bandwidths, essentially.

So, one is RF and one is audio,

both at 1,600 Hz,

to tell these aliens that,

"Hey, this is the same number."

And math is relatively universal,

and maybe they will say,

"Oh, this person's trying to talk to us right now.

Let's talk back."

Yeah, so it's kind of like some sort of an intelligent signal

so that they're like...

their interest is piqued.

Do I think it's gonna work?

I don't know.

Do I want it to work?

You betcha.

We're cutting southwest across the 7,000 square-mile Uinta Basin to the mesa

where James recorded a strange UAP interaction.

Mesas, which are common in the area,

are flat-topped elevated land masses

with steep sides that have been shaped

over thousands of years through erosion.

The high elevation atop this mesa

should serve as an excellent site

for us to conduct our experiment

and closely monitor the skies.

-[Jessica sighs] All right. -[Phil] I think this mesa seems manageable.

Oh, me too.

How's that lookin'?

[yawns]

Check it out. The sky's cleared up.

Yeah, it's lookin' good.

What do you think? Setting up right in this direction

facing the highest part of the mesa?

-That works for me. -All right.

I got our stuff. Here, I'll take that camera.

You know, Jess, if we don't call in any aliens with these speakers,

we can always do a karaoke night.

[Jessica] I mean, I'm into it.

[Phil] In order to replicate James' experiment,

which he claimed actually called in UAPs to the area,

we're setting up a soundboard and speakers,

high-powered lasers and infrared cameras

to monitor any activity in the sky.

[Jessica] Here, we got some power?

There's the outlet right on the other side of this guy.

-All right, it's plugged in. -Okay.

Crank it to 11, yeah?

Moment of truth.

[wolf howling]

[Jessica shushes]

Hmm?

[Jessica] What the [bleep]?

Why is that happening right when we're about to do this?

Listen to that howl.

I mean, they're going off.

Right as we were about to play.

Uh-huh.

[wolves howling]

[Jessica] Man, they are going at it.

[howling continues]

Right as I was about to press play.

That scared me a little bit.

This is the weirdest place we've ever investigated.

So weird.

-All right. You wanna-- -Should we see if this thing works?

Yeah, let's do a little test run.

[tone playing]

[Jessica] Perfect. Perfect.

[Phil] There we go.

Nice!

[Phil] As far back as the 1980s,

organizations like NASA and the SETI Institute

have pioneered research aimed at detecting patterns in radio waves

that may indicate they are intentional signals

from intelligent beings.

Based on this previous research

and recent attempts by James Keenan,

we're attempting our own experiment.

First, we're sending a specific wavelength

of laser light into the sky

while playing a tone from our speakers

with a matching frequency.

Our hope is that any intelligent beings out there

can interpret these corresponding numbers

and respond back in a different spectrum

in the form of radio waves.

[Jessica] So, what are we utilizing here

with his, uh, theory?

So, the laser that we have is 532 nanometers...

-Mmm-hmm. -...so I'm wondering if we play 532 Hz.

So even if they can't quite recognize that we're intelligent,

maybe they'll say, "Hey, they like this 532 number.

Let's, uh, send it back."

And if they send it back...

-Uh-huh? -...we have this.

This is a RF receiver.

-Mmm-hmm. -And it will ping us

and show us different little peaks here.

And there's a certain code that tells you a certain number.

And so 532 is C8.

An RF receiver measures radio frequencies,

a form of radiation emitted by many electronic devices,

everything from cell phones to satellites.

Our hope is that any UAPs out there

will have the same technology

to send frequencies in the spectrum

which we can then measure on this device.

So the goal then is to send out the 532 number,

both audibly and through wavelength...

-Correct. -...and then, hopefully,

if there's something out there, it will get that.

And in order to say, "We see you,"

they send back a 532 signal onto the receiver.

Yeah. Do you know how I came up with this idea?

Um, I've been watching a lot of Star Trekrecently.

And they use something like this

to communicate with a hyper-intelligent species.

And it's borrowing a little bit of James' logic here

of just sending out something that is uniform into the air.

Yeah, no, I'm into it.

Well, while you're doing this,

'cause this looks very complicated,

I'm gonna go ahead and just let the IR camera run.

I'm gonna have eyes to the sky with the night vision goggles.

-Okay. Do you wanna be in charge of that laser? -And...

I'll be in charge of the laser?

Don't point it at the ice.

Of course not.

All right.

Are all four on?

All four are on.

We're all set. Let's hit the tone.

I'm going to stand over here...

Cool.

-...and look up. -All right.

It's time to play 532 Hz.

All right, go ahead.

[tone playing]

I'm gonna turn on the RF receiver

and see if we get anything interesting coming in.

Okay, sounds good.

Yeah, I'm not picking up any flashes.

I just saw a green flash up there.

-You did-- -Did you see that?

No. Up here?

-Yeah. -By where? By the laser?

Um... far to the right of the laser.

[Jessica] To the right of the laser.

We got some hits on RF.

-Oh, really? -Yeah.

Does it match?

Let me go through. Right in this area.

-So you see all those little peaks? -Mmm-hmm.

So those are the different hits.

And scrolling through...

that tells me what we're actually receiving here.

So a couple of those peaks,

my guess is that is our...

-uh, microphones. -Okay.

So that might be all us if we haven't gotten the C8 back.

-Yeah. -Do you wanna try one more time?

[sighs]

You know, if 11-year-old me could see me now

just trying to see that diamond in the sky again.

You don't know until you try.

[Phil] This isn't exactly the first time I've been drawn to the skies

questioning what else is out there.

[Josh] You saw something hovering in the sky,

a diamond rhombus-like shape.

"Suddenly it disappeared."

And it is signed "a true story."

I know how witness testimonies can change over time,

and I wanted to remember

exactly what happened that night.

So I went home, wrote it all down

and, I mean, like I said,

it is a true story.

And do you think it was a true UFO?

I saw, by definition, an unidentified flying object.

I don't know what it was.

All right, I'm gonna hit it one more time.

[tone playing]

You seeing anything?

There's the different peaks.

So we're looking for...

C8.

Oh, [bleep].

Is that C8?

-Oh, my God! Jess, get over here. -What?

-Did we actually get a hit? -Look at this.

Exactly 532 Hz coming in in radio frequency.

So there's no way this got confused by the sound.

-We got the number! -So that's the response?

[Phil] So each one of those bars...

-Yeah? -...is a different frequency that it's picking up.

So I scrolled through to say, "What is it encountering?"

Oh, and it's like, "Not this one. Not this one. Not--

-You got C8"? -Yeah.

Do it again. Do it again.

Send out another signal so you can get another response.

Okay.

Okay, I'm gonna play the tone one more time.

We are scanning.

[tone playing]

Getting a bunch of readings coming in.

-There it is! We got it again. -No way!

We got it again.

[Jessica] Holy crap!

It was that small peak right there.

We got it again.

-So-- [exhales] -So...

that means something's responding to us.

I have to try to be skeptical of a single datapoint

and say maybe it happens to be

that something in all of our electronics

or the RV

happens to give off 532 Hz.

That one particular frequency...

out of how many frequencies are there?

Out of thousands of potential frequencies this could receive.

Out of all these potential frequencies

that we could have used...

you're telling me

that the one that we're actually getting a response on

is maybe because the RV is using it?

No. Mmm-mmm. I don't think so.

I would love for this to be some alien craft out there...

-Uh-huh? -...but there's probably military around here.

There's aircraft overhead.

Who knows what's just naturally in the air around here

that this happened to receive

that happened to be in that perfect frequency

that we were putting out? So.

That is cool.

What if it's the ship that came to you at 11 years old

and it's like, "Hey, bud. What's up?"

"Thanks for being persistent. We came back."

"We're back for you."

Maybe they'll beam you on your ship,

and your dream of becoming a real-life Star Trekcharacter

will come true.

Oh, great. Starfleet, I'm ready for you.

[chuckles]

[Phil] After several more hours of sending out signals,

we didn't have any sightings of UAPs

to accompany the RF activity.

It's uncertain if the frequency we received

was actually a message or just a strange coincidence.

But if we are going to prove the existence of extraterrestrials,

we'll need something more concrete.

So I reached out to one of Josh's contacts

named Ryan Burns.

Ryan claims that the skies above his ranch

have been inundated with unexplained objects,

and the air itself seems electrically charged.

-Ryan? Jessica. -Yeah. Hi.

-Good to meet you, Jessica. -And I'm Phil.

[Jessica] So I've gotta admit, I've heard a lot about you

and this ranch.

So, but you get constant hits

and things showing up in the sky, huh?

It's pretty common.

Um, there's a lot seen by people here for generations.

And especially in this area in particular,

there's a lot of activity,

both on the ground and in the sky.

There was a black budget military program

investigating a lot of the UAPs

and the things that people were seeing.

They were out here testing a lot of high-level technologies,

high-energy technologies,

non-lethal weaponry.

But what they ran into

is this bidirectional mimicry, is what they called it.

And that is the phenomenon would basically mimic whatever they were doing

and sometimes to the tenth degree,

even giving them more of a spectacle than they were causing.

It really confused everybody involved.

[Josh] According to reports in 2019,

a group of air force personnel

are conducting a training exercise

in the Uinta Basin

when they observe an unidentified object

flying nearby.

Upon inspection,

the object begins to impossibly mimic

the movements of their planes,

simultaneously following and evading the military group with ease,

something impossible for any known aircraft.

This alleged UFO phenomenon

of so-called bidirectional mimicry...

-Oh, my God! Jess, get over here. -What?

...could be related to what my team experienced last night...

[Phil] Exactly 532 Hz.

...with the echoing of their frequencies.

So the government was doing top-secret tests

of brand-new, modern military equipment

that we probably, if we saw, wouldn't understand.

But then they started seeing things

that they didn't understand in the sky. Is that right?

Exactly. Yeah.

So I guess one of the main reasons that we came out here

is because we've heard that there's a lot of recent incidences

that have been happening.

Can you walk us through some of them?

We used to have an RV back there.

It got vaporized by a daytime lightning bolt.

It was just vaporized,

which was strange because they're insulated

and usually not hit by lightning.

Well, I put a container in the same spot

to see if the lightning is really what it was.

People had wild theories of direct energy weapons

and other things,

so I put a big steel box back there

to see if it ever got hit by lightning.

It hasn't yet.

And the thing that did happen, though, is the box popped up,

or was airlifted,

and it moved from east to west to north to south

and about 30 feet out of the way.

Wait. Sorry. Walk us through that again.

-[laughs] It's crazy. Yeah. -Your container,

did it slide?

No. There was not even a blade of grass, no tire tracks,

no dirt moved at all.

It's almost as if something just picked it up

moved it and placed it in another location.

One strange thing about it is it was magnetized.

The entire container, you could take metal of any sort

and it would just stick to the container.

Something I wanna show you is there does seem

to be magnetism there,

enough to hold an old tent post.

-[Jessica] That's weird. -And those levels have since been coming down.

There's just trace levels now.

But it was completely magnetized.

And we'll have like rolling-- I wouldn't call 'em blackouts,

but electromagnetic pulses

where the power will just go out.

Batteries will be drained.

And even your phone in your pocket,

even if it's fully charged, it'll go to zero.

And it's just hard to explain.

What about UAPs?

We see a lot of them up over these trees here,

-this little grove. -Uh-huh.

Uh, there's a waterway that goes through there.

We see a lot of them over the ridge.

Gosh, everywhere in between.

They're usually silent.

Sometimes they have lights on 'em.

Sometimes they don't.

And you just never know what you're gonna end up with.

Hmm. Do you have anything that you have been able to capture on tape

or pictures?

You bet.

Sure. Yeah, I can show you some.

[Phil] I would love to see 'em.

So there's a...

-Yeah, check it out. -[Jessica] Whoa. Whoa! Okay.

-There the tree line and there's one. -[Phil] Wow.

You can see kind of turning around there.

And that's just right over those trees right there.

Out of personal curiosity,

have you seen any diamond-shaped UFOs around here?

I have not, personally.

Because I know a guy who saw diamond-shaped ones.

I know a guy, yeah.

I mean, you got so many amazing spots here on the ranch.

Do you mind walking us through

-so we can check this out? -Yeah, for sure.

[Phil] Yeah, let's go to the container.

Wait. That is the container that moved?

Yeah, that's it.

That thing is huge.

Yeah.

So...

where was this originally?

It was literally right here, facing east to west.

So then that was kind of in the same spot.

It was just turned so that the back end

was where you're standing.

Yes.

And it got picked up and turned that way.

[Phil] Did you look for any signs of it getting struck by lightning

or any hooks that could have been clamped onto it

or anything?

Yeah, nothing.

Nothing. No drag marks, no hooks.

I mean, and the way it was like...

placed so close to there.

Oh, yeah.

You mean up here against this shed?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

[Phil] Oh, wow.

[Jessica] Huh. That's super-weird.

I mean, yeah, even its final resting position

-seems like it's almost touching the roof of the shed. -It is.

East to west one moment,

and then directly north to south the next.

Did you hear it getting moved at all?

Silent.

So strange.

[Phil] Always are.

You said there's a lot of lights that are seen

over in the creek this way.

Yeah, all over through this grove and these trees.

-We should-- -What the--

What? Did you just see something?

I swear to God I saw somebody standing right there.

-Where? -Right there at that--

Right there.

-[Phil] That sign? -Where the sign is.

-Right there. -Oh.

I swear to God I just saw somebody standing there.

[Phil] I don't see anyone over there.

All right, we gotta check for footprints.

Hello?

Right here. Right in between these two posts,

standing on the opposite side of the fence

staring like this.

[Phil] That's creepy.

Yeah, this is a little strange.

And it wasn't just one of the fence posts

and we're hearing a lot of scary stories

-and your mind playing tricks on you? -No.

'Cause it was gray.

-Gray? -It was gray.

-The whole person was gray? -The whole thing.

I couldn't even see a face. It was all gray.

Standing right here. Our size.

Standing that way like this.

Well, there are zero footprints here.

[Jessica] That was super-weird.

[Phil] Did either camera have an angle of this corner, do you think?

Nothing?

Probably the strangest property, too, I've ever gotten.

[Jessica] All of it's kind of lining up.

[Phil] Yeah.

I mean, has anybody else ever reported

seeing anything like that?

Yeah. I had a very close friend,

an investigator camping out,

and he saw a person

that was standing there and watching him

for 20-30 seconds at a time, multiple times.

And they just show up and watched him for like a couple seconds

-and then just disappeared? -Yup.

I mean, that is exactly what just happened.

Yeah. Do you mind if we spend some time here

and investigate and see what we can come up with?

You bet. Just be safe.

-Will do. -We'll try.

All right.

[Phil] So maybe you're not crazy.

[Jessica] Maybe not.

[Phil] Ryan's ranch is already living up to its reputation

for strange occurrences.

But if we're gonna prove anything beyond doubt,

we're gonna need hard data and video evidence.

So Jess and I are setting up a makeshift control room

in the shed next to the shipping container,

which seems to be the epicenter for anomalies

and UAP sightings on the ranch.

How's that lookin', Phil?

Are you seeing those two fence posts

where I saw the gray man?

I sure am. Looks like a good shot.

All right, copy. Heading back.

All right, that was the last one.

All right. Take a look.

How's it lookin'?

[Phil] It looks good. We got...

basically covering all the sky plus your gray man spot.

[Jessica] Nice! Okay.

Now that that's set up, do you want to, uh,

go explore where that RV got vaporized?

I think we need to.

All right. I'll take the metal detector.

You got a bag for samples?

We got a bag for samples. We got a shovel.

Perfect. Okay.

[Phil] Ryan said that a daytime lightning strike

completely destroyed his RV,

which had been sitting next to the shed.

So we're checking the area where it occurred

to see if any remnants of the vehicle

might remain in the snow.

[Jessica] So right around here, he said, yeah?

Yeah, right here.

[Phil] If we can find any scraps of metal remnants from the fire,

we might be able to analyze them

and figure out what's causing all this strange activity.

What do you think? Should I clear out a bunch of snow?

Maybe clear some of it out, yeah.

[metal detector beeps]

[Jessica] Oh, wait.

-Did you just get something? -Well, I got something over--

Right here.

Come right over here.

I think maybe we were just a little off.

All right, let me try again.

[Phil] Yeah.

[metal detector beeps]

Right here.

All right, there's something there.

Ooh.

[metal detector beeps]

It's definitely that rock is definitely what's setting it off.

You wanna see if you can pull that up?

-Oh! -There we go. There's the rock.

Well, let's see if that one lights up.

[metal detector beeps]

[Jessica] I mean, that'll work. That one's going off.

-[Phil] So you wanna bag it? -Might as well.

-Sure. -Yeah. I mean, it's got char marks on it,

or what looks like char marks.

I don't know if this is just mineral makeup of this rock

or if this is pieces of that charred RV

that kind of melted with the rock.

Lightning can get to 50,000 degrees.

So if you think of what that could do to an RV...

Yeah.

If it hits the right part of electronics

or ignites part of the fuel,

like, in my mind,

yes, it is a bit of a fluke

that the entire thing burned down,

but it's not completely unexpected.

Especially when it's kind of an isolated hilltop like this.

He also said that was burning too.

So I wonder if it's actually closer over here somewhere.

Let me just go check that area one last time.

-We've got samples over here. -Yeah.

I'll get one last little bit of soil here.

[Jessica] I just wanna see.

[metal detector beeps]

Ooh!

[Phil] Got a big hit?

[Jessica] Ooh, yeah. Right here.

Right here.

I just had it.

-[metal detector beeps] -Ooh!

There's a big hit right...

-Right there. -[Phil] Oh, yeah.

Right around here.

Going in.

-Ooh, there's the grass. -There's the grass.

[Jessica] He said it happened over the burnt grass.

And this is obviously burnt. Look.

That's what he said it was on.

Come on.

I'm feeling good about this spot.

[Jessica] Ooh, that might be one.

-[Phil] That looks like a little bit of char. -Yeah.

-Would you like me to... -Yeah, it does.

[Jessica] Perfect. I think that might be metal.

[Phil] Moment of truth.

[metal detector beeping]

-Oh, yeah! -Oh, yeah!

-[Jessica] Big-time. -Okay.

Nice.

We got our samples.

-Success. -Yeah.

Nice.

[Phil] With samples in hand from Ryan's RV,

we're going to send them off to a lab

to test for any residue that could indicate

whether his RV burning down was a natural occurrence

or something else entirely.

I don't know. In my mind, the RV burning down alone isn't...

too unusual.

-Yeah? -But when you take RV burning down

plus this fricking thing moving,

that's when it just kind of makes you wonder

what the heck is going on in the soil here

or in this area.

[Phil] Whoa.

Thought I just saw something moving up there.

-Some light's moving in the corner of my eye. -What? Like eye shine?

No, up in the sky.

I mean, maybe it was just still the stars.

But we have cameras facing this way, right?

[Jessica] Yeah. Let's go check 'em out.

See if anything's moving.

All right.

Oh, [bleep]! Phil, come here.

What's going on?

Look at this.

Look at that.

What is that?

Which one is that?

That's-- Oh! That's the...

-That's, uh, facing back-- -That's the fence.

[Jessica] Let's get out there. Come on!

-Nothing. -[Phil] Which camera was it?

[Jessica] It was this one towards the fence.

-Towards the fence. -Where I saw that gray man.

[Phil] Um, I'm checking for any heat signatures

of air trapped in the sky.

I'm not seeing anything.

-There's definitely-- -Oh, [bleep]! What is this?

-[Jessica] Do you see that blue light? -That blue...

Yeah, and it's pulsing.

Just outside of Cedar City is the site of Utah's first

and most infamous UFO encounter.

On a cold night in February, 1959,

soldier Gerry Irwin was driving to his army base

when he saw a blazing object flying toward the ground.

Thinking it might be a stricken plane,

the young man ran on foot to find it.

An hour later, police found Irwin unconscious in the snow.

He was taken to the hospital,

and when he finally came to,

he didn't remember anything

beyond setting out after the plane.

But police told him there was no evidence of a plane crash.

Irwin later reported to duty

only to have a series of fainting spells.

After each, he woke up shocked to learn

that it was not still the night of his sighting.

To this day, Irwin can't recall what happened

in those lost hours,

a moment he both can't remember

and, disturbingly, will also never forget.

-But I don't see it in real life. -No.

[Phil] It's right up that--

[Jessica] Okay, wait. But hold that up.

Yeah. Here, let me see if I can pick up anything on this.

Uh-uh.

Here, let's go over by the fence line

and see if we can see it.

Yeah, it's still there.

[Phil] If that is a blinking blue light,

I don't know why we can't see it with the naked eye.

Bottom line is we're already getting lights in the sky.

I think we need to set up the DAP cam.

Where do you wanna do it?

Why don't we cross over into that area

where Ryan was saying the most activity is,

and then just find a clear space

and shoot straight up and see what we can get?

[Phil] Yeah, 'cause the DAP cam would know what that is.

So, we're gonna have to haul it out there.

-All right. -Let's do it.

[Phil] The DAP cam is a specialized camera unit

developed specifically for tracking and identifying aerial phenomenon.

[Jessica] Oh, this is perfect.

[Phil] By ruling out satellites,

commercial flight paths and other known aircraft,

the DAP cam software should be able to narrow our search

by identifying what's moving in the skies.

And we're on.

We can basically leave it here all night

and as long as the equipment doesn't freeze,

we should be able to capture anything that flies over us.

Yeah.

-Work for you? -Yeah.

-It's up. -Oh, it was just tracking something.

It's tracking something right now.

[Jessica] What's it say it is?

-[Phil] It's a plane. -Oh, that's a plane.

All right. Let's leave it runnin'.

Okay.

All right, let's see what the DAP collected last night.

-Are you ready? -[Jessica] Yup. Hit it.

[Phil] There's a few files on here.

-Okay. -Okay. First one up.

All right, well, that-- Okay, blinking light.

-Yeah. DAP-- -Going steady.

DAP cam's ID'ing it as a plane.

-Plane. All right. -Looks like a plane.

-[Jessica] All right, next one. -Okay.

[Jessica] Ooh!

That's moving steady.

That looks like a satellite to me.

[Jessica] I would agree.

-Yeah. -What's the DAP cam say?

It agrees. Satellite.

Okay.

Okay, two for two. Okay, let's keep going.

We got...

[Jessica] Ooh! What is that?

Go back, go back, go back.

[Phil] What the hell is that?

Look at it jump!

[Phil] What is that thing?

[Jessica] That's weird.

That movement is crazy.

That movement is wild.

There is a lot of military activity out here,

but that type of a hook...

I can't imagine aircraft being able to do.

Ooh, that's a good one.

Okay, well, so what does the computer say?

It's saying "unknown."

Oh-ho! That one's perfect.

It's a UAP, UFO.

Of all the places we've been,

I am a believer in the Uinta Basin.

-Mmm-hmm. -And, clearly,

a special sky up there, too.

I consider this a major win.

All right!

[Josh] The Uinta Basin is said to be the home of high-strangeness,

an alleged nexus of skinwalkers,

UFOs and ancient energies.

My team searched for the truth behind these tall tales.

We analyzed the call Phil and Jess heard

on their first night searching for skinwalkers.

[howling in distance]

[Phil] Anybody else hear that?

[Josh] And it seems to match up with a coyote howl.

-I got something. -Oh, my God! What is that?

[Josh] After studying the footage

from the accompanying thermal drone,

the signature detected appears to be a creature

moving on all fours.

[Phil] These are huge tracks!

[Josh] Also perhaps a very large coyote.

[Jessica] That was terrifying.

[Josh] But the potential hitchhiker Phil and Jess saw

was much more troubling.

After my teams disturbing roadside sighting...

I just saw his leg!

...we analyzed the video in greater detail

and can see what looks like

an unusual bend in the figure's legs.

After an exhaustive search of the area,

no heat signatures or footprints were identified.

I don't know how this guy did it, disappeared.

[Josh] And with no homes or structures in walking distance,

it certainly begs the question,

"Where did it go?"

According to Larry Cesspooch,

the tribal expert we worked with...

But if they want you to see 'em,

they let you see 'em.

And they're gone again.

[Josh] This sudden disappearance

certainly matches reported skinwalker behavior.

But all this supposed skinwalker activity

wasn't the only reason we came to Uinta.

At Ryan's ranch, analyzing the remains of the incinerated RV...

Perfect. I think that might be metal.

...we discovered a mixture of of carbon and iron oxide.

Basically, soot and rust

typically found after a lightning strike.

But what we witnessed in the skies

was not so easily explained.

Ooh, [bleep]! Do you see that blue light?

[Josh] The lights caught on our UFO DAP cam

did not match with any planes or satellites in the area.

EMF readers, which were running concurrently...

[Phil] It's lighting up.

...also recorded sudden spikes of electromagnetic radiation

at the exact moment the lights appeared,

evidence that whatever we captured up there

likely has a very high energy output.

We submitted these findings

to the National UFO Reporting Center

in hopes it will aid in unraveling this global mystery.

So, with remarkable evidence in the sky...

Look at this.

...and a truly strange sighting on the ground,

the only thing we can say with confidence...

Phil, you copy?

[Phil] Oh, my God!

...is whatever's happening in Uinta...

[Jessica] Something's responding to us.

...really does seem to be out of this world.

For more information on Expedition X,

head to discovery.com/expeditionx.