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This is a dome
that's 300 meters underground.

The question is,
what is this bubble?

That data corruption error
happened

right at the edge
of that bubble.

Correct. I've lost
complete control of the drone.

I wanted to show you

what we found inside the mesa.

This could be one
of the most miraculous finds

here on the ranch.

on the ceramic materials
at Utah Valley University.

So, if we cool this to about
- 320 degrees Fahrenheit

and it shows superconducting
properties, then we'll know

this material is
a superconductor.

And it's still warmer
than the nitrogen,

so the nitrogen is boiling away.

This is taking a lot longer
than I was expecting, right?

That just makes

no sense to me at all.

It does if it's like

a space shuttle tile.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings
have never been made public.

Right there! We got something!

of independent scientists
and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

...of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

UAP right there!

...bizarre energies...

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

...and portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe looking
at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

...might actually be true.

They will stop at nothing
to reveal...

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

The ceramic is still
boiling in the liquid nitrogen.

That just makes no sense
to me at all.

It does to me if it's like
a space shuttle tile.

The ceramic materials

that came out of the mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch

right where we believe
a massive, metallic object

is buried are very strange.

We've been running tests on
them at Utah Valley University

to figure out what they are,
and the results suggest

they could be superconductors.

Those are
state-of-the-art materials

that can transfer energy
without any resistance

and might one day be used to
construct things like spacecraft

with gravity-defying
propulsion systems

that don't require rocket fuel.

It is boiling at almost the rate

- it started boiling.
- Yeah.

I just can't believe
something so small

could withstand something
that cold for that long.

if a material is
a superconductor,

they have
to first be cooled down

to liquid nitrogen temperatures

of about
- 320 degrees Fahrenheit.

But our ceramic sample
has been boiling in a dish

of liquid nitrogen
for several minutes,

and it isn't cooling down.

The only materials
I've ever seen

with the capability
to retain heat like that

are the ceramic tiles
that are used by NASA

and SpaceX as protective
coating for spacecraft.

But even then,
those will eventually cool down.

So what is this stuff?

Can we do a control?

We just want

to see how quickly
regular ceramic will cool.

It might be
worth comparing that.

Yeah, those blue pieces are...

- They're roughly
the same size, right?
- Yeah.

Let's-let's...
Why don't we do that?

Yeah, let's do that.

Okay. Anybody looking

- at their timer?
-It's running.

I'm gonna fill this up.

from the mesa
continued boiling

in the liquid nitrogen,

we wanted to see for ourselves

how fast a control sample

of a normal, everyday piece
of ceramic tile would cool down.

The normal blue one's
cooling down.

There's a lot less bubbles
than in the dish

with the mesa ceramic.

-
Our ceramic is still going.
-Yeah.

I'm beginning to wonder

whether this is ever going
to stop boiling.

We're going to add
a little bit more

just for good measure.

Make sure we get nice and cold.

Oh, it's start...
It looks like

it's starting
to calm a little bit.

It's slowing down, I think.

Finally. But it took
several minutes longer

than it should have for the
mesa ceramic to cool down.

I say we give it a shot and
set the ceramic over the magnet

- to see if it shows
the Meissner effect.
-All right.

to a very low temperature,
it does something incredible.

It creates a kind
of force field within itself

that repels any change
in the magnetic field.

The superconductor
will push itself away

from the magnet
and possibly levitate.

This is called
the Meissner effect,

and that's what
we're testing for.

If the ceramic we found
is a superconductor,

we expect to see it push itself
away from the magnet.

He's going to set this over
that magnet right there.

Now, if the sample becomes

superconducting,
when it gets cool,

it will repel it.

To test for the Meissner effect,

Dr. Patchett is placing a magnet

right under the center
of a dish.

Then we'll place the ceramic

in the dish right
above the magnet

to see if it pushes itself away.

Here we go.

It did jump a little.

- Did you notice that?
-Yeah.

- It did drift.
- It did, it did drift.

- Yes, it did.
- When I set it down,
it drifted to the side.

Let's try it again.

All right, here we go.

-It did it again.
-It did it again.

-Did you see that?
-Oh, wow.

- Yeah.
- You see it?

That is the Meissner Effect!

Yes.

When we placed the
ceramic right over the center

of the dish and the magnet,

it immediately pushed itself
away and to the side.

If anything, you'd expect it
to stick right to the magnet,

but it was like
the ceramic levitated away.

The fact that it seemed

to levitate away
from the magnetic field

suggests, potentially,

that it could be
superconducting.

Fantastic.

what the massive object
and other anomalies

that we've detected
in the mesa are yet.

But could they really be covered

with superconductive ceramic
materials that can absorb heat,

like the protective coatings
on spacecraft?

If so, what the hell are they,
and how did they get

472 feet in there?

Boy, watching this makes me want
to do all kinds of follow-up.

We're going to have to. If we're
ever going to figure out

what it is, we're gonna have
to do lots of follow-up.

- Let's do it.
- All right.

Next, Erik devised a test
to see if another sample

of the ceramic material
would repeat a crazy result

we got a couple of weeks ago

when we examined it with
a scanning electron microscope.

As a beam of electrons
hit the ceramic's surface,

a bunch of holes
mysteriously appeared.

But when we turned the beam off,

the surface transformed back
to its original state.

All right,
let's do this thing.

All right, Dr. Patchett, I'll go
ahead and prepare the samples.

Sure.

We want to be sure
that it wasn't simply

an optical illusion in the
scanning electron microscope,

and that the holes
really did open

and then close back up

on the surface
of the ceramic material.

So, we're going
to repeat the experiment

with another
ceramic sample to see

if the same thing happens again.

But this time, Erik has covered
half of the ceramic sample

with actual gold to act
as a protective coating.

So, you can, you can see the...

the gold covering
is distinctively different.

Yeah, yeah. I can see it.

So, I'll put this
in the chamber.

We wanted to see
if the electron beam

from the scanning
electron microscope

would cause holes to appear
in the gold-covered portion

of the sample, as well
as the uncovered portion.

And if holes do appear
on both sides,

we want to see
what happens to them

when the beam is turned off.

So now I can turn on
the electron beam

and get a picture of what we're
looking at inside the chamber.

Yeah, there we go.

Look at that.
You can tell where the gold is.

Wow!

It's already starting
to open up.

Actively changing.

So, we've got a dramatic change,

as we've seen before,

on the uncoated portion
of the sample.

Yeah. That is
really interesting.

I want to move just
onto the gold.

So we can clearly see
the surface.

Let me get a good contrast
so I can see where I'm at here.

Well, look here.

- Uh-huh.
Are you seeing some change?
- Yeah.

- Slowly.
-Yeah.

It's tearing it apart.

It is definitely changing.

-Yeah.
-You can tell.

We're getting through the gold

- into the surface
of the material.
-Yeah.

Yeah, it looks to me
like we charged the ceramic,

and it's opening up,
and it's tearing the gold loose.

Yeah, so, in principle,
the changes should persist,

- even if we turn
that electron beam off.
-Yes.

- Let's do it.
- Okay.

I didn't know
science could be so suspenseful.

Right? See?!

All right, here we go.

There's the spot.

- Still see the tears.
-I would agree.

You can see the tears
in the gold.

Let's move down to look
at the uncovered portion.

Can you bring up a screenshot
of this area

- from before
we turned the beam off?
-Sure.

And look at that.

I don't believe it.

So only the holes

on the uncovered side
have gotten smaller.

Which suggests that
the ceramic material opened up

under the gold coating,

and when it did, it tore loose,
it tore a rip in the gold paint.

And then when it went back
to the ground state,

the normal state, you can still
see the tear in the paint.

Wow.

It fixed itself again!

This ceramic material

- really does transform.
- Yeah.

You can see the disturbance
of the gold layer

where it was torn apart.

Those are the tears, man.

How about that?

For the second time now,

an electron beam from a scanning
electron microscope caused holes

to appear in the surface
of the ceramic material

that came out of the mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch.

We wanted to verify that a
physical change really happened,

and it wasn't
an optical illusion.

So Erik coated one half
of the ceramic

with a thin layer of gold

to see if holes would appear
on that side, too.

When the electron beam
hit both sides,

holes did appear
in both of them.

But when the beam
was turned off,

the ceramic seemed
to fix itself again

while the holes remained

in the gold-covered portion.

This proves
it was no optical illusion,

and the ceramic
really did transform.

So, what is this stuff?

You know, Erik, let's look
at a standard ceramic sample.

Yeah, we have a standard ceramic

that we can put
into the instrument.

I'll get that ready.

Erik prepared another normal,
everyday ceramic sample

to repeat the process in the
scanning electron microscope.

We wanted to see
if the same thing would happen

to this common
household ceramic, as well.

What we'll be looking at is

just how does the ceramic sample
respond under the beam.

So, these are kind of like

common, off-the-shelf
ceramics then, right?

-Yes.
-Yup.

Okay, so,

the reference ceramic is
in position number five.

- All right, here we go.
-Okay.

This looks like normal ceramic.

This is not what we were
seeing with the samples

- we brought in from the mesa.
-No, not at all.

Totally different.

Yeah, now that's what
I'm used to seeing.

Gives us a sanity check, right?

- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah.

No holes opening up at all.

So, it's clear that whatever
that is out of the mesa

has, you know, different
properties than these ceramics.

Oh, that's for sure.

The regular ceramic
sample showed no change

from being hit
with the electron beam

in the scanning
electron microscope.

It's what we expected,

but it also corroborated
how special

the ceramics that came
from the mesa actually are.

Here's the thing.
why was it so hard

to drill through
whatever this stuff is?

Is it the ceramic,

or is it something else,
and this was just,

like, the outer hole layer,

when they punched through that
and then hit the hard stuff?

- Hmm.
-I think these ceramics

might be covering the surface

of something pretty incredible.

Yeah.

These tests have given us
more evidence

that the ceramics
we pulled out of the mesa

can absorb massive amounts
of heat,

may be able to conduct
endless amounts of energy,

and have a strange ability
to transform their surfaces.

So, what could that suggest
about the massive object

that's buried inside the mesa?

So, I think there's nothing else
really to see

with these ceramics.
We know what we're getting.

I think you're right,
I think we got our answer.

- But I want
to see the metal sample.
- Sure.

Along with the ceramics we found

in our mesa drilling spoils,

we also found a bunch
of strange metal pieces.

So, with this, you guys are

most interested
in the elemental makeup of it?

- Yeah, what is it?
- Yes. Yes.

which we believe

could be from the massive object
buried in the mesa,

Erik wanted to examine a sample
of the metal.

You'll see there's a region

where I've scraped the surface

so that we can get down
to the material underneath

what might be a corrosive
or an oxide layer.

so that when we examine it

in the scanning
electron microscope,

we could find out the elements
that made up not only

its surface,
but also its interior.

That might help us figure out

what the metal
would be used for.

So, this is
the elemental breakdown?

It's iron and... iron.

So, that first scan, though,
was really

of the cut part, right?

Yeah, that was just a point

- right here
where the cut was cleanest.
- Oh.

So let me shift up here.

Yeah, let's scan
the outer layer.

Oh, yeah, look at this.
There's a lot of stuff in it.

We got zinc, we got, uh,
carbon, iron, silicon.

A lot of aluminum.

Which suggests that
there's an aluminum coating.

- All right?
- Oh, because
you're seeing less aluminum

- in the cut...
- Yeah.

- ...than you are
on the surface.
-Yeah.

So, could it give us clues
as to what it was,

- based on what we're seeing?
- I can tell you this, Thomas.

Every one of the space
experiments that I've flown

that was exposed
to the vacuum of space

was coated with aluminum oxide.

- Okay.
-Yeah.

The oxide
of aluminum forms this clear,

nonconductive,
very tough surface.

So, as we're building satellites
right now,

we're getting ready
to put them up,

- that is the coating,
right, that we use.
- Yup.

Very common both for the
components, for the structures.

- Yeah.
- Yup.

That's interesting.

of projects in the aerospace
industry involving rockets

and advanced propulsion systems
for spacecraft.

The metal
and the ceramic materials

we pulled out of the mesa
are very similar

to what's used to protect them
from the extreme heat

of reentry
into the Earth's atmosphere.

When did they start using
aluminum oxide on things?

When did you see that start
to show up?

If we talked
about the space program,

the Apollo missions.

But that would be in the '60s.

Yup.

So, how did this get in there,

into the mesa?

Well, I mean, we pulled
a 1964 nickel out of the hill.

- Right.
- And if Chris Roberts is right,

and that was a sign
of an archaeological dig,

what were they digging
out of there?

And it's very interesting
that we're seeing

a material that could be similar

to what the space program
was using at the time.

I mean, you could speculate
all day long

that, uh,
something crashed there,

in the mesa,
and they would have come

and taken it
and covered it all up because

it was all... they were trying
to keep everything secret.

A couple of weeks ago,

archaeologist Chris Roberts
found a 1964 U.S. nickel

in the drilling spoils,
and informed us

that it is a common practice
to leave a new coin

in the backfill as a time stamp

to indicate when
an official dig was completed.

So, given
the stunning test results

of the metal and ceramic
that came out of the mesa,

right where we believe
a massive object is buried,

Thomas's suggestion that
they could have been related

to our 1960s space program
really makes you wonder.

Did something
of ours crash there,

and the government
covered it up?

Or, given all the crazy UAPs
we've seen on the ranch,

is it possible
they found something there

and took part of it away
to try and reverse engineer it?

Who knows? That's why
we're going to keep working

to uncover
whatever is inside there.

You know,
we really appreciate the access

to the lab today, Dr. Patchett.

Well, I'm happy to help you,
I'm definitely happy

to investigate new things.

Something new in science
is always exciting.

I agree, 100%.
There's nothing more exciting

than making a new observation
or discovery.

- Yes, sir.
- Right?

Well, we've got
a final experiment

of the year to prepare for.

Yeah, I think let's

grab our stuff
and let's head on back.

All right.

-Thank you very much.
-Yeah.

Here they come.

Hey, fellas.

We're absolutely committed

to figuring out
what's in the mesa.

But since we've stopped

our drilling operation
so that we don't

damage whatever
is buried in there,

we're turning our attention
to another huge mystery

on Skinwalker Ranch--
the bubble.

So two days
after our visit to the lab,

Kevin Devoll
and his pyrotechnics team

from Red Devil Pyro,

along with technologist
Dave Mason,

and some high-speed
camera experts from a company

called Kron, came out

to help us conduct our final
experiment of the year.

Well, gentlemen,
it's good to have you out today.

We've got a very large and
ambitious experiment planned.

We're going
to be energizing the environment

of what we've been calling
"the bubble."

the bubble is literally
the biggest mystery

we've been working
to figure out.

According to multiple
infrared scanning devices,

it's an invisible sphere
that's centered at the triangle

and has a 2,000-foot radius.

Whatever it is, it contains
a huge area of the ranch,

including the mesa drill site,

where we've detected strange
radio frequency signals,

experienced bizarre
equipment failures

and seen a bunch of UAPs.

Some with our own eyes,

and some that were only visible
on thermal cameras.

Our goal is to put

a lot of light, smoke,
debris, energy

into these anomalous areas

and monitor them
with high-speed cameras

and RF equipment, gamma ray
detection, you name it.

So, we have several fuel mines.

They're going
to have a various amount

of gasoline and really coarse,

slow-burning,
black powder in them.

Okay.

Kevin and his team will place
four explosive fuel mines

at the triangle and five more

at the western boundary of
the bubble near Homestead Two.

On cue, they'll be detonated,
creating massive fireballs,

which will then produce
perfectly circular smoke rings

that will rise up
through the interior

and around the exterior
of the bubble.

We'll be looking for changes
in the smoke rings

that might suggest
they're making contact

with something invisible
to the naked eye.

I say we divide and conquer.
Let's go start

getting sensors ready,
tables ready, explosives ready.

-Let's get it done.
-We have a lot to do.

As all
of the explosions are set off

and the smoke rings rise up...

All right, I'm getting power.

with FLIR thermal cameras,

that may be able to identify

whatever is affecting
the smoke rings.

In addition to thermal cameras,

the team from Kron
will be using high-speed cameras

to record images
of the entire experiment

at 1,400 frames per second.

The 4K cameras are doing
12 gigapixels per second.

And the older generation cameras
are doing 2.1.

That's a smoking-hot data rate.

Yeah, that's a lot
of data flying around here.

When the experiment is finished,

we'll have all that data

to scour through for any UAPs
or other strange things.

We're going to hook
the rest of these up

and just wait for the fuel,
and then we're ready to shoot.

I'm equipping my Jeep
with spectrum analyzers

so if we do detect any strange
radio frequency signals,

like we have in the past,
I can try to pinpoint

where they're coming from.

Well, we got the Jeep

finally rigged up to be
the mobile science platform.

- We're ready to go.
-Good.

We've got charges set
in four fuel mines.

- We're good to go.
-All right.

We'll get in place and get ready
to do these explosions.

Let's break and get with it.

- Okay.
- All right.
- All right.

This is our last chance
of the year to get some answers

about what the bubble contains
and maybe what the heck it is.

So, hopefully,
this experiment will deliver.

We're going to go hot
and get armed. We're ready.

All right, everybody,
here we go in

five, four, three, two, one.

Wow.

Look at that weird figure eight
it's making.

Hey, Travis, that definitely

looks more dispersed than what
they normally look like.

- Isn't that strange?
-Yeah.

That's definitely not
your average ring.

The first charge
didn't come out in a ring.

It's just kind of

an ominous-looking
ball of smoke.

I've shot upwards
of several hundred fireballs.

Never seen the smoke
look like that.

That was a pretty good
distortion right there.

Yeah, it came out
like a figure eight

instead of a smoke ring
at first.

that I've seen them not form,
we're talking wind.

Here, we had no wind.

They've talked about there being
the bubble around the ranch.

There could be definitely
an influence on the equipment

or on the effects, but

there's no explanation
of why these things happened.

Well, let's do another one
and see what happens.

Okay.

Everybody ready?

I'm ready.

We're good.

Ready!

In five, four, three, two, one.

There's the ring.

Yeah, that first one
should have looked

just like that.

It's not at all symmetric.

No!

It's usually concentric,
right? It's even

- all the way around.
-
Even all the way around?

- It's usually not separated.
- Okay.

Now this was really interesting.

The second smoke ring
started off in a perfect circle,

as normally expected.

That'd be,
probably right over the top

of the bubble boundary.

Yeah, that's right, Thomas.

Hey, look how it's slanting!

But as it got up
to about 2,000 feet,

right around the top boundary
of the bubble,

it was practically split in two.

Is it bumping into the bubble?

Erik, look at it!

-It just broke up.
-Yeah.

Like it hit the bubble wall
or something.

We couldn't see anything
in the moment

that made contact with the
smoke ring, so our hope was

that maybe the thermal
and high-speed cameras did.

What the hell? This basically
just reset itself.

Like, I didn't do that.

That's not what's supposed
to be happening.

Wait. What's happening?
What's happening?

What's happening is, basically,

this camera is supposed
to be recording

something like 65,000 frames
all together.

But what is actually recording
is only 15,000 frames.

Essentially, they're resetting
to, like, a factory default.

This is weird.
You would really

have to go out of your way
to set that setting.

Every time
we've run an experiment

in the bubble this year,

different high-tech devices
have malfunctioned.

Could whatever messed up
the smoke rings have also

somehow caused the
high-speed cameras to glitch?

That sounds impossible.

We got a third one
queued up, ready.

Okay.

But the best way
to try and find out

was to trigger
another explosion.

- The other two are rolling?
- Yeah, we're rolling.

All right, well, here we go.

In five, four, three, two,

- one.
- Holy crap!

-That is really odd.
- Right?

than what we normally see.

Oh, wow.

That is really odd.

Have you ever seen
anything like that happening?

No, the smoke rings
are completely different

than what we normally see.

Wow.

When they come out of the tube,
they should roll the whole time.

fireball explosions
at the triangle,

which is right
in the center of the bubble.

And each time, something
between 50 and 2,000 feet high

seems to have caused
the circular smoke rings

to lose their shape.

Is something in the bubble

or its vertical barrier
making that happen?

So, should we start moving
to other places,

- and see what happens?
-Yeah.
The next thing to do

is another one here,
and simultaneously, one

right at the western
bubble boundary.

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

of the bubble might have been
affecting the smoke rings.

So, next, while Erik monitored

another explosion
at the triangle,

me and Kaleb planned
to oversee a second one

at the same time over at the
western boundary of the bubble.

That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

This year,
we've had multiple drones

and even rockets seem
to be prevented

from passing through
the bubble's boundaries.

It's like
the bubble deflected it!

We wanted to see
if the smoke rings

would now be affected
at both places.

And if so,
would something appear

in our data
that would tell us why.

So, we got everything prepared
to hopefully find out.

Okay. Armed.

So, Mike,
you're gonna go with me

and take the high-speed cameras

over to the western boundary
of the bubble.

- Sure.
- Mike, are you comfortable

that your system is now working?

Yeah, it's been acting up,
but, um...

we can work around it.

We're just into this experiment,

and we're already starting
to see equipment

doing things it's not supposed
to do, never done before.

We can imagine

for a moment that setting off
these detonations

could produce some kind
of a ripple,

a response in this bubble

and that this disruption
could result

in some kind of event
that affected our equipment,

the likes of which we haven't
seen in any other exercise.

That implies
something purposeful.

We'll be watching this
very closely

throughout the course
of the experiment.

Hey, Bill, y'all about ready?

- Yes, sir!
-Mike,

that's what you're going
to want to look at.

So, we'll set up right here,

and you'll look
between these trees.

If you give us
a five-minute warning,

that should be plenty of time.

All right. Well, we're going
to get to work setting up,

and we'll yell at y'all
in about five or ten minutes.

All right. Sounds good.
I'll be ready.

All right. Let's go.

Just have it
point straight ahead.

All right.

We're getting a 1.2 gigahertz
signal right now.

Hey, Erik, this is Travis.
You copy?

Yeah, Travis.
What do you got?

Yeah, we're already getting
a 1.2 gigahertz signal

down here
that's pulsing pretty strong.

Yeah, Travis. I see it.

to the western boundary
of the bubble,

and boom! Erik and I both detect
a 1.2 gigahertz signal

on our spectrum analyzers.

That's weird. Huh. Looks like

we're getting
the 1.2 gigahertz signal again.

Now, we broadcasted
that signal ourselves

during our first bubble
experiment earlier this year.

And ever since, we've repeatedly
detected the same signal.

It's like something
in the bubble

cloned it and has been sending
it back just to taunt us.

Is that even possible?

- Hey, Bill. You copy?
-Yeah, go for Bill.

Copy that.
We'll drop the charge now.

was to launch
those next two fireballs

and see what would happen.

Okay, I'm tracking you, Jim.

thermal drone
to this leg of the experiment

in the hopes of capturing images
of anything above the triangle

after the next round
of explosions

that might be invisible
to the naked eye.

And Erik and Sam Deriso

were tracking
the drone's GPS data

in real time
for any strange errors.

- Travis, we're ready
when you guys are.
-Okay.

Start the countdown
and go, Bill.

one.

Fire!

Whoa!

We got a great ring down here.

Did it go at that end?

I've never even
seen that before.

I don't even know what that is.

So, Kevin's got flashing lights
on his panel.

He-he doesn't even know
what it is,

he's never seen it before.

That sounds about right.

Over on the west side
of the bubble,

these smoke rings behaved
exactly the way they should,

but what's happening
in the triangle is,

we had major malfunctions.

That just did not function.

Now Red Devil Pyro is telling us

they've never seen this before,

and this time in conjunction
with us seeing the 1.2 signal.

I don't know if they're related,

but we definitely had
a lot of issues.

Okay, so, I just got
a data corruption error.

I've got a red point just now.

Jim, have you hit errors?

Yup. I'm getting
satellite errors.

Oh, wow.

That's a lot of things
going wrong at the same time.

I'm coming straight down, Erik.

Okay.

Is the bubble preventing us

from proceeding
with collecting the data?

Or there may, in fact,
be a connection with

the 1.2 gigahertz signal
emerging

in the timeframe
when we've begun detonations.

We want to keep a very close eye

on what's going on
as we continue

to do these detonations.

I've got to tell you,

it's pretty clear we've got
something going on site-wide.

Yeah.

-So, are we good
to go ahead...
- Yeah.

- ...and let them arm that?
- Yeah, let's not,

- let's not delay things
any further.
- All right.

- Hey, Kevin. Do you copy?
-10-4.

- Go for Kevin.
-Yeah, Kevin.

Go ahead and arm your system

and let's go ahead
and move ahead.

Okay, I'm going
to drop the charge,

and then,
as soon as I get back

- to the table, we'll shoot it.
- Sounds good.

that made the last ignition
at the triangle glitch,

Tom asked Kevin to arm it again.

The hope was,
it would explode this time,

and maybe reveal the culprit.

Erik, I'll stay on the ground
and point the thermal camera

- right at this charge.
- Yeah. Yeah.

Good idea.

Okay. We got the 15-gallon
fuel mine at the triangle

in five, four,

three, two, one.

- Oh, my God.
-Oh, man.

- Wow.
- Wow.

- Look at that.
- Look at that.

Wow.

That's pretty crazy.

- It's a pretty big signal.
-Yeah.

Hey, Erik,

when that went off, we had
a 1.6 gigahertz signal spike.

Oh, wow.

That's not normal.

Hey, Erik,
when that detonation went off,

we had a 1.6 gigahertz
signal spike.

We're seeing things
from the triangle all the way

at the south tower now.

What in the world
is happening tonight?

We had just seen more evidence
of something messing

with our equipment
all across the ranch, as well

as the smoke rings near the
western boundary of the bubble

by Homestead Two
and over at the triangle.

And then, out of nowhere,
a 1.6 gigahertz signal showed up

on our spectrum analyzers.

We've detected that
strange signal so many times

during our investigation,

including
at the mesa drill site.

A spot
that's also inside the bubble

and right between
where we had our

two fire ignition stations
set up.

Yup, that's good. That's good.

We didn't know
where the 1.6 gigahertz signal

or the 1.2 gigahertz signal

that we detected earlier
came from.

But in the hopes of finding out,
we prepared another explosion

along the western barrier
of the bubble.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

Yeah, Travis. What's up?

Yeah, man. We're about ready
to go with our next detonation.

Jim, want to get the drone up?

Yeah, Travis.
That's affirmative.

Jim's going
to put the drone in the air.

Copy that.

While we still had
our high-speed

and thermal cameras looking

for any phenomenon
in and around the bubble,

we also had Jim Royston launch
his thermal drone

to focus on the smoke ring
and look for anything

that might alter its formation.

Bill, if you're ready,

give us a countdown,
and let's do this thing.

All right, in five, four,

three, two,

Here we go.

Oh, wow.

Oh, man.

It didn't do the ring,
though, guys.

- I'm looking at it right now.
-Nope, there's no ring.

It never formed.

It could well be

that that boundary
is playing a role

in the shaping of that cloud.

Yeah.

This was
the strangest result yet.

After the massive explosion,

the smoke didn't even
come close to forming a ring.

Nothing appeared
in Jim's thermal video,

so, was it just a glitch?

Or could the bubble's barrier
have done that?

Okay, so, now,
we're going to get three

- simultaneous explosions
in one field of view.
- Sounds good.

All right, let's go.

We had three ignitors left
to find out.

So, we decided
to position them in a line

and see what would happen
with each one

as we ignited them
all simultaneously.

Michael, are you setting up
for the high-speed

on the explosions here?

- We're ready to go.
- All right.

All right, Travis,
we got our charges dropped.

Is Jim gonna put his drone
in the air?

The camera is
on your position now.

All right, we're all
clear on our end, Bill.

In five, four,

three, two, one.

Wow!

Ha!

Oh, my God, that was awesome.

Erik, did you guys see that
from down there?

We sure did.
We're watching it right now.

We're watching the ring and
cloud in the infrared camera.

Yeah, we see one that was a ring
and one never made a ring.

It's kind of weird.

And it looks like that third
charge didn't go off at all.

Yeah, that's really strange.

that the third charge
actually went?

I saw a fire down there,
but we didn't see the fireball.

That is correct, charge number
two, the one in the middle,

did not go.

Wow!
Three totally different results.

On one end, we had an explosion,
and a perfect smoke ring formed.

On the other end, a great
explosion, but no ring at all.

And right in the middle,
the ignitor didn't even go off.

Could the bubble
or something related to it

have caused all these glitches
and odd formations in the smoke?

What is that?!

- Hey, Dave,
are you getting anything?
-Come here and, uh,

- take-take a look at this.
- Yeah, sure.

So, it's on the top
of the ridgeline of the mesa.

I saw something going from right
to left, going up in altitude.

I don't know what it was.

Okay, there it is.
There it is.

Yeah, see, there it is.
Look at that.

Here it goes.
That's what I'm talking about.

What the...?
This could be two,

traveling essentially
the same path.

This is really weird.

What was that?

It's something
I cannot explain.

- That's amazing.
-The objects I observed

in my differential FLIR
look elongated,

and had a temperature
above the nominal background.

I've seen plenty of bird flocks,
birds and bugs and aircraft.

I know what they all look like
in thermal cameras.

This didn't look like
any of those objects.

It was not something
that can be explained

under natural phenomenon.

Oh, my God, that was weird.

Take a look at this.
I just saw this kind of

temperature anomalies forming.

I see it. I see it.

Right at the mesa ridgeline.

And now, now we're getting
the-the colder one.

-Oh, yeah.
-Just on the ridge.

I can clearly
see that difference.

Right after two UAPs flew

in a streak right over the mesa
and the drill site,

a wave of thermal energy swept
across the mesa ridgeline.

Something above the ridgeline
appeared very hot,

and then suddenly became colder.

Were they related to the UAPs?

Could all of these things
have come from the bubble

and stopped our explosions
from making smoke rings

like they were supposed to?

Erik, we're going
to wrap everything up

and we'll head that way,
and we'll close this thing up.

Yeah, we'll see you down here.

in real time
with all the equipment failures,

the weird formations
in the smoke rings,

strange signals and UAPs

was incredible. I just hope

that our high-speed cameras
were able

to get us some clues as to what
was behind all these things.

Whoo! I tell you what.

Well, I think we just witnessed

the most energetic events
we've set off

in the entire time
we've worked together here.

Well, the things that we saw

when the multiple shots
went off in the barrier.

- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, they just
kind of just broke apart,

as soon as they came out
of the tube.

Michael had some issues
with the high-speed camera.

- Exactly.
-It's as if there's

some kind
of phantom manipulation

of your devices,
and that's not the first time

- we've seen that.
-No.

- Incredible.
-So, Kevin,

typical, atypical, crazy?

What do you think?

You know,
seeing the rings not act normal.

Um, also,
one of the other things--

you know, our connectivity
issues were a problem

with the fuel mine explosives.

Something

really has been messing
with the GPS signals

around the perimeter
of the bubble.

Wow.

Yeah, GPS continues to be

a great canary
for whatever is going on here.

Yeah.

Dave picked up
some really interesting things.

Yeah, we had a rolling

thermal anomaly along the mesa.

- Wow.
- Got that on recording.

Wow, that's crazy.

Who knows what kind
of data we'll see

- on that when we pull it up?
- Yeah.

- Right, I agree, I agree.
- Yeah.

- All right.
-All right, great.

Good job, everybody,
great night.

Yeah, great job.

Let's load up,

pack everything up,
and head out.

Between our discoveries
of the bubble

and the ceramic materials
that came out of the mesa,

this year is proving
more than ever

that Skinwalker Ranch is home

to a very real
and surreal mystery,

and I can't wait to see
if some answers will be revealed

in the data
that we collected tonight.

There are some features that set
the results of this year

apart from the results
of previous years.

I'm talking about the ceramics,
the metals,

and of course that abstract
bubble structure of some kind

where we see things happening
or changing

as we cross into
or out of that boundary.

Following up on this will be one
of our priorities going forward.

We're confirming
that which is unseen,

such as the mysterious bubble
above the ranch,

and not only is this ceramic
material manufactured,

but the properties
of this material react strangely

under analysis.

We are more focused
and determined than ever

to get the answers

to what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.

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