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All right, Sam, we're just
over top of you now

at 1,000 feet.

He's way behind the lidar truck.

I don't know,
something's going on.

You should have been able
to see that.

Oh, my goodness.

Wow.

CAMERON:
Nothing should be
frickin' flying up here.

It's crazy.

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.

TRAVIS: I can't wait
to see that drill rod

poking up out of the mesa.

I bet it was a lot easier
when Cameron

just flew y'all up here
in the helicopter.

KALEB:
It was quite nice, actually.

-TRAVIS: Hey, look at that.
-THOMAS: Yeah.

I can't believe this thing
is finally out the top.

THOMAS:
This has been the strangest

and most revealing year ever

for our team
on Skinwalker Ranch.

We still have a ton of questions

about all the phenomena
that we've documented out here.

But last night,

during a high-tech
ranch-wide experiment...

Whoa. Check that out.

TRAVIS:
...the crew
from Mark Construction

was finally able to finish
the first step

of an operation
that we've struggled with

for the last several months.

-Travis, we have broken through.
-(whoops)

And that was to drill
an eight-inch borehole

all the way up
through the rocky mesa

where ground-penetrating radar

has detected a huge, possibly
metallic dome-shaped object

that's surrounded
by a debris field

of smaller anomalies.

How far is it
from here to down there?

Uh, from the drill,
it's 675 feet.

TRAVIS: Dadgum. Wow.

Once we have that hole cased,

we'll be able to study
the hell out of that question.

We'll drop beacons down there,
radio transmitters,

uh, gamma ray sources,

everything we can think of,
we're gonna put in that hole.

This drilling operation
has been plagued

with bizarre equipment failures,

so it was a huge relief
to finally get this hole done.

But now it needs to be reamed--
or widened--

several more inches,
and then cased.

After that, Erik and I can
insert some scanning devices

to hopefully identify

what these things truly are.

Whatever's inside
that mesa may be critical

to figuring out
the mystery of this place.

This is a 600-foot shaft now

that we can see
through this mesa.

Can't wait to do that,
but it's gonna

start snowing before long, Erik.

ERIK:
Talk to us about options.

Um, what we can do is,

we can pull everything out,

come back when it's summer,
and we get

right back to that hole.

What do you do to make sure

it doesn't collapse

or the weather
doesn't fill it in?

As good as the hole is,
and as many times

that we've been
in and out of it,

I-I promise you
I'll get back in that hole

when you guys want us back.

THOMAS:
While it's looking like

time's not gonna allow us

to do much more
on this hole this year,

we've at least got it drilled,

and Alex is very confident

that this hole
will stay intact, and that,

next year, when we kick
our investigation off,

they can come back
and, using the same hole,

they can begin
to bore it bigger.

I'm super excited
to get back to this spot.

We're gonna get a lot
of equipment down there

and we're really gonna
start to figure out

what's lying in this
very hard to reach spot

in the mesa at Skinwalker Ranch.

I... You know, I'm so anxious

to get some instruments
down into this hole,

trace it all the way back
to the origin.

It looks like we'll be
coming back to this.

You ready for that?

We'll fight as long
as we have to

for you guys.

We came here to do it,

and I'll be damned
if we don't finish it, so...

TRAVIS:
All right.

We're gonna get there.

This is awesome, guys.
Thank you.

Next summer,

we're gonna get
to the bottom of this.

ERIK:
Amen to that.

BRANDON: All right, everyone.

Welcome back.

It's good to have our core team

back together and joined
by Brad Crispin,

Ryan Graves,

Jay Stratton.

I'm anxious to see the data
and get your eyes

on what
we've recently discovered.

TRAVIS:
A few days after
we halted our operations

for the year on the ranch,

we gathered in Salt Lake City

to meet with ranch owner
Brandon Fugal

and review
all of our latest developments.

And joining us were retired
U.S. Intelligence official

Jay Stratton, who helped oversee

Robert Bigelow's
ranch investigation

more than a decade ago,

as well as retired Navy pilot
turned UAP whistleblower

Ryan Graves and his
business partner Brad Crispin.

They now study the UAP
phenomenon in the private sector

with their organization called
Americans for Safe Aerospace.

These are historic times.

As we all know, Skinwalker Ranch

has become ground zero

for not only studying
the phenomena,

but really the world's attention
on these topics.

JAY:
Right. Having worked this topic

so long for the U.S. government,

I think the ranch

and civilian research
into the topic

is going to break through.

It's opening up so many minds.

We're moving beyond the stigma
to actual study.

-Yes.
-BRANDON: People don't like

to have their paradigm

completely turned upside down,
but it's time.

And I think this
most recent experiment

is arguably
the most comprehensive

scientific experiment
of its kind

at our own Skinwalker Ranch.

I'd like to turn the time over
to Erik to provide an overview

and the data relative

to this most recent dramatic
experiment that has taken place.

Well, I think you put it well.
I mean,

the experiments that we've done

throughout this entire summer
have been ambitious.

Now, speaking to
the most recent experiment,

of course, in scope and scale.

We're doing things
in the sky above the ranch.

We're doing things
on the ground.

We have a tremendous amount
of data

coming out of lidar surveys.

TRAVIS:
With this experiment,
we deployed

four different,
uh, lidars running

all at one time.

So, we really covered the entire
ranch with this experiment.

We've gathered so much evidence

these past few years
that suggests

the UAPs,
strange energy signals

and other phenomena
we've detected on the ranch

are caused by things
we can't necessarily see

with the naked eye.

So, a few days ago,

during our final experiment
of the year...

...we had a mobile
infrared lidar vehicle

scanning back and forth
across the entire property

while Cameron Fugal
flew his helicopter above it

equipped with
night vision technology

and specialty cameras.

We had Kaleb Bench

stationed in the east field

with a handheld
lidar SLAM scanner...

Drone going up, Pete.

TRAVIS:
...while Jim Royston of OmniTeq

flew his lidar drone
back and forth

from the triangle to the mesa.

And finally,
technologist Pete Kelsey

was scanning near the triangle

with a terrestrial
laser scanner.

Can't wait to see that
post-processed.

TRAVIS:
Earlier this year,
using the same device,

he detected a massive,
cone-shaped anomaly

that stretched
from Homestead Two

over to the east field

and was centered
right above the triangle

nearly 2,000 feet high.

So, we couldn't wait to see
the processed data

from these scans
and find out if any of them

would reveal what causes
all the phenomena

we keep seeing
on Skinwalker Ranch.

I know that Pete Kelsey
is anxious to share

the findings, uh,
from those lidar surveys.

We've got him on video call.

I'd like to bring him up
and have him share with us

what he's found in his, uh,
post-processing of the data.

Hello, Pete.

Hey, guys.

Thanks for jumping on with us.

But we're all in suspense.

PETE:
Sure.

We'll go to

the terrestrial
laser scanning first.

I don't think you're
gonna be disappointed.

And I'll just cut
right to the chase.

We've got data
out to the northeast.

And it's probably
gonna look really familiar.

TRAVIS:
Yeah.

Pete, I can see that
there's structure

all around.

You can see lines
off in the distance

that go all the way
around the triangle.

So, Pete, do those lines appear

looking straight up?

PETE:
Travis, this is looking
straight up

from that terrestrial
laser scan.

TRAVIS:
Oh, my goodness.

So...

what we're seeing now

is the same data that
we got from the data set

prior to this that suggests

there's an invisible cone

surrounding the triangle
that the lidar is perceiving.

Correct.

Wow.

PETE:
Yes, and now we've

seen it twice.

Wow.

That... I mean, that's key.

TRAVIS:
A lot like, uh,

some invisible barrier.

-Or field.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Some type of... maybe
a force field over the ranch.

So, what in the world
are we seeing here?

Earlier this year...

...when we first
detected the huge cone,

a laser beam that was projected
straight up from the triangle

was stopped by something
that we couldn't see

2,000 feet in the air.

CHRIS:
You really don't see that
unless it's hitting

some sort of mass.

TRAVIS:
The same exact height
of the cone.

So, Brandon's suggestion
of it being

some kind of force field
isn't crazy.

But since we don't
have that technology,

then what the hell could it be?

It really makes me wonder

are we a part of an experiment?

You know,
from someone or something?

Yes, it does.

-That's a good question.
-(soft chatter)

TRAVIS:
All right.
What else you got, Pete?

PETE:
So,

this is the first look
at the mobile lidar

SUV that scanned

back and forth
from the east field.

It's well over
100 gigabytes of data.

I have not had as much time

as I would like
to go through all this data.

But I want to show you
a few interesting things.

Can you see this yellow
and red point cloud?

-ERIK: Yes.
-Yes, we can.

PETE:
Okay, so,

see these right here in the sky?

ERIK:
Yup.

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah!

That's looking back toward
the photogrammetry anomaly

that we saw two years ago.

PETE:
Exactly.

Once again, to the northeast,

to the east field,

there's data that

frankly shouldn't be there.

ERIK:
Oh, wow.

-Yup. -ERIK: Yes.
-TRAVIS: Oh, yeah!

That's looking back toward
the photogrammetry anomaly.

PETE:
Exactly.

There's data that, frankly,
shouldn't be there.

TRAVIS:
How about that.

So, now we're getting data

from multiple sensors

and witness, uh, experiments.

That's right.

Wow.

TRAVIS: We really hoped that
our final experiment of the year

would get us more data on
the wild phenomena we've seen.

And, man, did it ever.

Using multiple lidar scanners,

we not only detected
more evidence

of a 2,000-foot-high,

cone-shaped anomaly
covering a huge area

in the center
of Skinwalker Ranch,

but our mobile lidar vehicle
also captured images

of something in the east field,

right in the area
where a 300-foot-tall,

column-shaped spire was detected
by Pete Kelsey in 2021.

So, was it the same thing?

If so, what the heck
could it be?

So...

there is potentially
some correlation

with some data that we're seeing
at the same time.

-From your lidar drone?
-ROYSTON: Yup. Same area.

-Erik has a bunch of the data.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
What you're looking at here
on the screen

is some data
that was collected in real time

using a GPS tracking unit,

as Jim was flying
his lidar-enabled drone

through a pattern

that we sometimes refer to
as the "in-and-out pattern."

Based on that video footage

that we saw last year
from the helicopter,

where it appeared that something
went into the mesa over here,

and came out of the mesa
over in this area.

TRAVIS:
One of the most insane events

that our team has documented
was in 2022.

A camera on the helicopter
captured images of a UAP

flying into the mesa
in the east field,

and then out the other side
a couple seconds later

as it continued
right toward the triangle.

Since then, Jim Royston has
flown his lidar drone along

that so-called "in-and-out path"
numerous times,

and repeatedly experienced
strange voids

in his aerial GPS data,

just like the drone
was momentarily disappearing.

We've retraced that pathway
as best we can

without, obviously,
flying through the mesa itself.

But, uh, through that airspace
at an altitude

of about 300 feet
above ground level.

And what you see here,

there's this gap
in the data right here.

-TRAVIS: Down by the "in" point?
-ERIK: Yes.

TRAVIS:
So, it happened
again the other night?

Exactly.

ROYSTON:
And I think what's important
is the repeatability.

Because this wasn't one case
you're looking at.

Multiple times,
as we come through that area,

we lose the GPS.

And probably 40 flights
over the whole summer

-that we did.
-At least, right?

Yes, we have.
These are... these are 40

instrumented drone flights
where, at the very least,

we have a GPS sensor
that goes silent.

And the interesting thing,
I think,

-the best way--
-TRAVIS: Is to overlay 'em,
right?

Yup. Wait till you see this.

I have a few of those
drone flights illustrated here.

And look at the pattern
that emerges.

BRANDON:
Stunning.

ERIK:
Here's a wonderful example

where we see repeatability.

You know, what we're seeing here

are repeated interruptions
in data.

The biggest of which is
over at the "in" point.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, and that's very close

to the anomaly area
that we saw in the lidar data.

-PETER: Right.
-Yeah.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
The mobile lidar data

which captured
possible new evidence

of the 300-foot-tall
column-shaped anomaly

was right in line with
the so-called in-and-out path

the UAP took through the mesa.

So, could the column
we previously detected

in the east field be

what has also been blocking
the GPS sensor

on Jim Royston's drone
during all those flights?

You know, again and again,

we keep seeing things
right over there

where he's showing us
these anomalous points.

TRAVIS:
Oh, at drone-ageddon,

we had drones falling out of the
sky right there at that point.

-ERIK: Right there.
-And-and rockets disappearing.

KC:
Here we go.

TRAVIS:
Two weeks ago, we launched

illuminated drone swarms
in order

to simultaneously probe
the airspace above the triangle

and the east field.

And just after a UAP appeared
above the mesa...

THOMAS:
Whoa!

It's raining drones over here!

TRAVIS:
...all hell broke loose...

-Oh!
-Holy mackerel.

TRAVIS:
We got drones
dropping like crazy.

...as hundreds of the drones
at both locations

just started falling
out of the sky.

Oh, my God.

TRAVIS:
It was like

something on the ranch
had taken control of them.

And then, right after
we launched a rocket

to see if we could hit
whatever it was up there,

the rocket disappeared
for a split second.

Could the column-shaped anomaly
be what blocked our view

of the rocket and caused all
the chaos during the experiment?

And could it also be connected
to all the GPS voids

we've repeatedly detected?

I think we might be getting
close to figuring this out.

ERIK:
I mean, given the environment
that we're in,

you know, whatever it is
we're seeing,

it seems unnatural.

-Yup.
-PETE: Yeah, well,

hopefully, there's a lot more
to come, because,

as I say, we're just
at the tip of the iceberg

of diving
into all this mobile lidar data.

So, more to come.

Well, Pete, you know,
already, I'm sure you can tell

from the discussion
around the table,

as usual, you've given us a lot
to think about.

Um, dare I ask

if you found
anything else anomalous

in those scans that were
performed on your lidar systems?

Uh, yes, we have.

And this time,

in the east field,
as a result from

the SLAM scanner,
which Kaleb was running. So,

have a look at this.

TRAVIS:
Why are there data points
underneath the surface?

PETE:
Exactly. That is impossible.

Lidar can't see
through the ground.

TRAVIS:
The lidar system we're using

is infrared light technology

designed to produce
a 3D image of the environment,

as well as things

that aren't necessarily visible
to the naked eye.

But it's not supposed to be able
to see through the ground.

And like Pete said,

this is the second time
we've seen this happen.

Earlier this year,

he detected
a mysterious ring of data

directly below the triangle,

which lined up perfectly

with two different
ring-shaped anomalies

that Jim Royston previously
detected on the ground

and in the air
above the triangle.

Taken together,

those anomalies resembled
the physical structure

of what scientists
have theorized

a traversable wormhole
or portal might look like.

Now, we don't know if that's
what could be at the triangle.

But it made me really curious

to see the rest of the data
Pete captured in the east field.

PETE:
I have one other view of it
I can show you.

Right there.

Okay? Now,
we've seen that before,

but what's unique about this one

is that the anomalous data

that's underground corresponds
to anomalous data in the sky.

It has utterly astonished me.

I don't know what to make of it.

ERIK:
That is amazing.

I mean, the textbook definition
of anomalous.

KALEB:
Wow.

Is this a sphere?

It just has utterly
astonished me.

I don't know what to make of it.

TRAVIS:
That's amazing.

I mean, look how far underground
that is.

PETE:
And notice how

the returns
in the sky correspond

in a circular shape

to the returns underground.

I mean, this is nuts.

TRAVIS:
So, what you're saying

here is we have sort of a donut

above the ground and below
the ground of odd data points.

Yes.

TRAVIS:
Just like what we found

at the triangle.

We've been trying

to figure out how the triangle
and the east field

on Skinwalker Ranch
might be connected,

based on a lot of the phenomena

we've seen
between those two locations.

And this experiment
may have revealed a major clue.

Using Pete Kelsey's handheld
SLAM scanner lidar device,

Kaleb detected
ring-shaped anomalies

both below and above ground
in the east field.

And this is exactly what
we've detected at the triangle.

Are these, in fact,
two separate anomalies?

Or could it be something
that moves around

within the massive, cone-shaped
phenomena that we've detected

and encompasses both locations?

The more of this stuff I see,
the less I understand it.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

Well, and how would that
be connected to the UFOs?

To the unidentified
aerial phenomena

that we've captured on camera,

and seen,
even with our own eyes?

Is there some type
of interstellar

portal or some other

-phenomena happening?
-TRAVIS: Well, if there's

a "doorway" there, a portal,

a wormhole, whatever you want,

it's got to be
designed in a way that's

not destroying
everything around us, clearly,

so it's more advanced than

the physics we have right now.

But in order to make
the doorway transition into

normal space, you would have
bends in space and time.

And we did measure
a time anomaly

above the triangle

-with Lunasonde last year.
-Yeah.

Yeah.

CLAYTON: Go for launch.

-KIM: Off it goes.
-TRAVIS: In 2022,

a company called Lunasonde
conducted a radar scan

using a weather ballon
more than 10,000 feet

above the triangle,
and got stunning results.

TRAVIS: Really.

For data like this, that's huge.

Exactly.

According to scientists
such as Albert Einstein,

portal-like phenomena
would not only resemble

the ring-like anomalies
we've detected on the ranch,

but could also create
instantaneous shifts in time.

So, could something
like a portal or wormhole

explain the cone and
the ring-like anomalies?

Is that why we've detected
voids in our GPS scans?

And could that explain
how a UAP could fly

through a mesa that is
composed of solid rock?

I don't know,

but this is all incredible data.

This is frontier
science discovery.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

So, we have so much data,

it's going to be
weeks and months

of analyzing this data, Erik.

ERIK:
Yeah. You better believe

I'm going to dive into this.

You know, with Pete's help,
I think we're going to

be able to peel back
these very different

layers that we're seeing.

You know, the above ground,
the below ground, and I'm sure

we'll be coming back to
the table to talk about

more results like this.

Yep, I agree.

Well, Pete, I can't thank
you enough, as usual.

You've blown all of our minds.

I look forward
to connecting again.

Thanks for spending some time
with us here in the meeting.

Yeah, uh, likewise.
Thank you, guys.

-Thanks, Pete.
-Thanks again, Pete.

Bye, Pete.

ERIK:
Well, certainly, guys,

a key component of
the experiment,

this large-scale experiment
that we did

was, uh, the work
that we did with

the helicopter flight,

so this is following your flight

-directly above the triangle.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
This is actually
night vision goggle footage.

CAMERON:
This is my perspective
flying over the ranch at night.

This is interesting.

So, I'm going
to play this through

at its, uh, normal speed.

TRAVIS:
Oh, there was something.
What was that?

ERIK:
What did we just see?

Yeah, something came through

the screen, that's for sure.

What flew by here
was not a bird,

and it was also at

5,000 feet AGL,
which there's not

anything up there in
the middle of the night flying.

It's not going to be
a bug or a bird.

No.

ERIK:
I have to freeze it

and play it through
with frame advance

because it is so fast.

And it's only there
for a split second.

Okay.

ERIK:
As I'm looking at this thing,

you know, it's really
hard to make out

any kind of structure.

If I had to guess
what the shape of

this thing was...

-TRAVIS: Maybe spherical?
-A sphere. Yeah.

KALEB:
And it's at the same altitude

that we were at last year

when you reported
seeing those other objects.

That's right.

TRAVIS:
In 2022,
Cameron flew Brandon, Kaleb

and Erik nearly a mile high

to collect data above
the triangle, and through his

night vision goggles,
Cameron saw several UAPs

similar to the ones
he saw the other night.

So, what in the world
are these things?

Where do they come from,

and then, where do they go?

THOMAS:
I've been pouring over
video footage

from those cameras
that were mounted

directly under the helicopter.

Yeah.

So, one of those cameras,
as you know,

was pointed directly
straight down the ground.

Mm-hmm.

We've got one clip in particular

I think you guys are
going to find interesting,

coming from the bottom of

-the helicopter camera.
-Okay.

-Um...
-Want me to bring that up?

THOMAS:
Yeah.

There's something that happens
here near center screen.

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah. Right there.

Can you adjust
the contrast on that area?

ERIK:
I-I can, that's a good idea.

So, to give you a reference of
where we're at here,

you can see the triangle

on the right-hand side
of the screen.

-TRAVIS: Oh, yeah,
you can see the river.
-CAMERON: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
You see the river
snaking across there?

CAMERON:
Exactly.

And watch what happens.

-TRAVIS: Oh.
-BRANDON: What the hell?

TRAVIS:
There's a light

right in the middle
of the river...

-Oh, wow.
-Ouch.

TRAVIS:
...another place
where we've seen

a ton of crazy things.

What?

TRAVIS: Yeah,
what is that?

BRYANT: Right in the river.
I mean, that's so bizarre.

I'll increase the magnification.

TRAVIS:
Oh, that's a good idea.

What could that be?

TRAVIS:
During our ranch-wide
experiment a few nights ago,

just as Cameron Fugal saw

several orb-like UAPs
about 5,000 feet

above the triangle from
inside of his helicopter,

a camera mounted to
the bottom of the chopper

caught video of a strange light
in Dry Gulch Creek,

which runs through the south
field of Skinwalker Ranch.

And not just anywhere
in the river, but, uh,

I think that
this spot in the river

has special significance based
on our excursion down the river.

That's where we had
the dead zone in the equipment,

-and-and... all of that.
-TRAVIS: That's right.

THOMAS:
Remember the Russian olive?

-The tree, yeah.
-BRYANT: It's not
too far from there

that, you know,
I have to keep going back to

one of the strangest things
that we've found,

that wolf creature
that was described as

a possibility of an ancient dire
wolf or something like that.

That's not very far
around the bend from there.

No, it's not.

TRAVIS:
Over the last couple of years,

we've seen a number of strange
things in the south field,

including the mutilated
carcasses of deer,

a post with
very odd charring on it

and even an image
of a silver orb-like UAP.

So, earlier this year,
we put GPS devices in a kayak

and walked it down
Dry Gulch Creek

to see what else
we might find in that area.

According to the GPS, you're at

5,000 feet underground.

That's crazy, man.

It was worth it, because
we not only collected GPS data

that showed the kayak
appearing to go

thousands of feet underground...

THOMAS:
Look at this tree right here.

TRAVIS:
...but we also discovered

a Russian olive tree

with burns that were
very similar to those

we found on the nearby post.

-BRYANT: Oh, what is that?
-THOMAS: What is it?

TRAVIS:
And strangest of all,

we discovered a dead animal
with huge fangs...

BEN: It looks like
it is a young dire wolf.

TRAVIS: ...that according to
biologist Ben Woodruff,

might have been a dire wolf,

a predator that scientists
believe went extinct

more than 10,000 years ago.

So, could the glowing light
we saw during this experiment

be related to
all of those things?

Maybe I'm wrong, but it
looks like, from my angle,

-that it actually
leaves the river.
-CAMERON: Yeah.

THOMAS:
So, anyways,
that was the main one

that I wanted to point out,
is this one.

-Wow.
-Yes.

THOMAS:
I mean, we've been talking about

how challenging it is to observe

what's happening on the ranch,

so if I could pick one spot

that was the hardest
to try to understand,

-it would be at the mesa.
-TRAVIS: Yeah,

and that's where we saw a lot
of crazy things this summer.

While we were
struggling this year to

get the borehole drilled up
through the mesa,

a really crazy
string of events happened.

ERIK:
All right, guys. The 1.6,

measured by the Kraken,
is coming from

-Homestead Two.
-TRAVIS: I'm going.

It started when Erik detected

a radio frequency signal
at 1.6 gigahertz

on his antenna system that was

coming from Homestead Two.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, it's coming
from this direction.

Now, because we've detected
these signals many times

and suspect they could be
some form of communication,

Kaleb, Dragon and I rushed
over there to investigate.

It is coming from
straight overhead.

When we got to
the homestead, my antenna

detected the signal coming
from somewhere up in the sky,

so we launched a rocket to see
if it would make contact

with something
that we couldn't see.

-BRYANT: Great launch.
-It went straight up
like normal,

but as it descended,
it suddenly froze mid-air

for several seconds.

KALEB:
Almost looked like it stopped
right there for a second.

It looks like it's
stuck there. Look!

KALEB:
Yeah.

(calf mooing)

KALEB:
Hey, guys, you see that?

TRAVIS:
And then, later, a calf

in the nearby field

suddenly became really sick,

and its eyes turned white,

which is a symptom
of being exposed to

a high level
of microwave radiation.

So, could it possibly be
that whatever's in the mesa

could be the culprit?

Could be what's causing
all these different things

around the ranch, and it's just

a manifestation of it

somehow or other?

The GPR data
looks like something

came down at a very fast rate

and it crashes into the mesa,

creating a debris field.

Was it an asteroid,
a, you know, meteorite,

a comet, an alien space craft?

I don't know, but man,
it sure is, uh, suggestive that

something like that occurred.

How else did that stuff
get inside the mesa?

So, gentlemen,
with all of this resource

committed to delving
into the mesa,

what are the next steps,
what are the priority items,

as we move forward
with this mesa

that is aggravating?

BRANDON:
So, gentlemen,

as far as we've come,

there's so much
that has yet to be accomplished.

What are the next steps
to really get the answers

with this mesa?

THOMAS:
We now have a 600-foot-plus

drill hole going right up
the side of this anomaly.

A large portion
of that hole was drilled

through a very hard substance.

And so, that's not going
to cave in,

that's not gonna collapse.

Now...

what that means is, you know,

when we come back to this, Alex

is certain that they can go
right up that same hole,

and enlarge that hole
and get us

to that 18-inch size

that we originally
were going after.

We've got to get instruments
into that borehole.

Erik, you know there's
so many sensors we can put

-through a hole that size.
-Oh, yeah.

Now that we have
the first borehole

drilled all the way
through the mesa,

we can't wait
to widen it next year

to a foot and a half
in diameter.

This will allow us
to insert technology

like ground-penetrating radar
or tomography devices

that could give us a closer
and more defined image

of the dome-shaped and smaller
anomalies buried inside there.

We can insert gamma ray
and other kinds of scanners

to see if these objects are
emitting things like radiation.

Once we know more
about what we're dealing with,

then we can properly and safely
figure out how to uncover them.

You know, we have
a-a partial volumetric model

right now
of whatever that anomaly is.

Maybe if we can get in there
now in that borehole,

we can more
completely image this thing

that we've been talking
about as a possible dome.

-Yeah.
-Uh, or more,

or more completely image
what you've described

as a possible debris field.

Well, we have quite,

quite a task ahead of us.

When I talk about
the work that we're doing,

you know, whether it's
a given experiment or,

or the-the investigation
as a whole,

the data payload is enormous.

From data we get patterns.

From patterns,
we begin to get understanding.

And so I just want
to show you the data

that we've collected
in the form of GPS locations.

I'm going to walk you down
through the work

of just this summer.

Watch this.

So we have the in-and-out,

uh, experiments
that we initially ran.

We had rocket launches.

-Wow.
-Yes.

TRAVIS: This year, every time
we conducted helicopter

experiments...

...launched rockets...

TRAVIS (over radio): Holy crap,
look at that thing go!

...or flew drones,

Erik would attach
GPS devices to them

in order to collect data
on their flight paths.

And incredibly, during
nearly every experiment,

the GPS data
would show anomalies

such as missing data or voids...

flight paths
that were wildly different

from what we saw
with our own eyes...

What in the hell is going on?

TRAVIS:
...and even crazy GPS data

that ended up underground
or inside the mesa.

We had the dual
helicopter experiment.

Uh, there was the-the Dry
Gulch Creek uh, exploration.

-CAMERON: Yes.
-We had the-the pits plane.

You recall Kendra came over
and flew over

the ranch and of course with
that you were flying, Cameron,

as you have been for so many
of these experiments.

Okay,
so what you're looking at...

-JIM: Wow.
-...what you're seeing here,

represents but a fraction

of the actual data collected.

(exhales)

-TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.
-CAMERON: Oh, wow.

JIM:
That's incredible.

-BRYANT: That's pretty amazing.
-THOMAS: That's a lot.

ERIK: Let me back away from this
to give you some perspective

on scope and scale.

TRAVIS: So as Erik added
more and more GPS data

from all of our experiments this
year to his computer model,

it was clear
that a very complex pattern

of mysterious errors
kept appearing,

but what is it
that causes that to happen?

A-As you can see,
it's almost impossible

-to-to navigate through this.
-TRAVIS: It's too much for...

a single small group of humans

to go through
and find all of the possible

trends and connections.

We have more data
than you could possibly

imagine about this place.

It's going to require
an artificial intelligence

and machine-learning algorithm

to go through this
and find trends.

There's no telling
what nuggets are in there.

Yep.

ROYSTON:
In order to really

manage all the data,

we'll use what we call
our Athena engine,

which is our AI platform.

And then with Athena,
we can really look at

what are those patterns?

Did things change just a little?

Did things change a lot?

BRANDON: Well,
and you're gonna be using

so many different
scientific platforms.

Multi-physics
sensor platforms that

in many cases have never been...

deployed in an environment
like this.

And they're gonna be collecting
enormous amount of data.

-Yeah.
-We'll have seven fixed boxes

out there that have
multi sensors in each,

five to six sensors
in each one of those boxes.

You know, we'll probably get,
it's over a terabyte a day.

ERIK: No human mind
is going to get around

a terabyte of data a day

without the assistance of an AI
or some other tool set.

TRAVIS: We're constantly
seeking out and using

cutting-edge technology
to investigate Skinwalker Ranch,

like the AI system called Athena

that Jim Royston
and Sam Deriso of OmniTeq

are installing on the property.

This will help us
to better detect phenomena

when they happen and,
just maybe,

finally identify
exactly what they are.

Turning the algorithms on,

that's the next step.

This is a big effort,
the next step.

-Who knows what we'll find?
-Yeah.

I feel like
we're just on the cusp

of the greatest discoveries.

Ever, not just with respect

to Skinwalker Ranch,
but on the planet.

I mean, this is the new frontier

that we're embarking on here

with these experiments
with this research,

and I think it's gonna be
interesting to see

what this coming year
may end up revealing.

With that, I really want
to express my appreciation

for the experts that have joined
our effort this past year.

Would love to hear
your thoughts.

And also see
if you're willing to come back.

Even after seeing some things

that probably left you
a little disturbed.

Um, you know, Brad and I,

I think, are-are confident
that we would like

to come back next year
and be able to share data.

Uh, I'd like to learn more
about what you're seeing.

And I would like to, you know,
follow that up with some

of the other sensors that you're
using to correlate this data.

Well, I'd love to see
not only your data

but a collaborative approach
to understanding the nature

of the UAP aspect

that continues to be

a presence here
at Skinwalker Ranch.

Jay, you're a veteran.

You've been at this
for a very long time.

You came to the ranch
before I had

acquired the property and were

involved with the prior
investigation and research.

What do you suggest
as we move forward?

The ranch has been a part of my
life longer than everybody here

except for Thomas,
'cause he grew up next to it.

With that, I-I really feel like
I'm connected to the ranch.

I really think
it's trying to communicate.

-And we're trying
to understand it.
-Wow.

JAY:
And if I can come up
with new ways

to facilitate communication
and understand

what's going on out here, so...

I really appreciate
everyone coming together.

The sacrifice you've made.

This has been a grueling

series of months, I know

it has been taxing.

It has been fraught with danger.

There's been
some real hazards involved

with this activity,
and I really want to express

my deep appreciation
for all of you.

And I hope that we can
continue to move forward.

Love to pull everyone
back together and let's

take this to another level
and let's make history.

This is the new frontier.

JIML:
Yeah, this is.

Well, thank you, everyone.

Let's conclude and, uh, onward.

(overlapping responses)

No mercy.

TRAVIS:
Ever since I was a kid,

I've wanted to know
if we're alone in the universe.

I've wanted to understand
the strange encounters

and UFO sightings

that people
across the world have reported.

Maybe the truth behind these
kinds of mysteries and much more

is waiting to be revealed
right here on Skinwalker Ranch.

And I can't wait to get back
to work with this amazing team,

and hopefully
we're finally gonna get

some answers and figure it out.

THOMAS: The more data
that we get in our experiments,

the more I'm starting
to think that all these places

on the ranch
are somehow connected.

Whether it's the east canyons
and the triangle,

the triangle and
south side of the ranch,

Homestead Two.

There's no limits or bounds as
to where we're gonna search next

and trying to find answers
to the anomalous things

that are happening
here at Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK: Initially
the question concerning

the ranch was, "What if?"

Today the question is,
"What now?"

I think that
as we add new capabilities,

new instruments,
and the artificial intelligence

machine-learning platforms,

we will better understand
this phenomenology

with which we are engaging
here on the ranch.

I'm sure that new ideas
are gonna emerge

and this is gonna continue
to be a compelling problem set

for years to come.

BRANDON: As we conclude
this historic year

of experiments and research,

we're left with so much
to go back and explore.

We have more documentation
than ever

proving the reality
of the phenomena.

We are on the cusp
of discovering

the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

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