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Make some dust and put some metal in the air.

This is our most advanced technology.

What we're doing is taking an X-ray of the ranch.

This hotspot here, over the triangle,

this is about 10,000 times above the normal level

in the environment.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What is this?

Here we have an object that certainly is moving fast.

Look at that!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We got metal.

It's layered, Erik. Look like

the same stuff that we found before?

Yes.

Took me about two and a half hours

to get through that 45 inches.

So, it was about four-foot thick

of something so hard that it destroyed this bit?

- Yeah. - God!

There is a ranch in Northern Utah.

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!

Now a new team

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! - Yep.

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.

Hey, guys, you copy down there at the tent?

That's Thomas.

Yeah, Thomas. What do you got?

They're drilling pretty good right now.

Almost 340 feet into Borehole 2.

We're gonna head up to the mesa

and monitor their progress.

Copy that. Just keep us posted.

This morning,

things on Skinwalker Ranch appeared to be going

a lot better than usual

with our drilling operation out at the mesa.

The team had gotten more than halfway up through the second

of two boreholes that are positioned

on either side of a massive, potentially metallic object,

which is surrounded by several smaller anomalies.

So, once Borehole 2 is finished,

we can insert scanning devices into both boreholes,

and hopefully, identify

what these potential objects could be.

Hey, guys, you seeing this?

There's a low-flying plane out here.

Well, look right there.

- There's a plane? - Yeah, Chris.

I thought I just heard it.

Man, he's low!

What have they got?

I think it's like a single-engine, civilian plane.

What are they doing?

You getting anything on the ADS-B?

I'm not showing anything.

Whoever it is, their transmitter's off.

How far out is it?

I mean, it's right over the mesa.

Couple hundred feet.

Okay.

Definitely watching us,

- whoever he is. - Yeah, the question is,

is it lookie-loos, or is it somebody

doing something more nefarious?

It was really suspicious that this small, civilian plane

was not only circling very low over the ranch,

but also had their identifying transmitter turned off.

I got it on camera.

It's definitely changing course.

Over the past few years, we've seen

not only private planes but also numerous military aircraft

that showed up out of nowhere

during our experiments and drilling operations.

Helicopter coming right over!

They'd circle really low for several minutes

and then just bug out.

And they would never have their identifying transmitters on,

which they are legally required to broadcast.

What? What is that signal?

And just last year,

while we were monitoring the drilling

of Borehole 1 with our spectrum analyzers,

Erik and I detected a signal

near 900 megahertz,

which is the same frequency signal emitted

by LoRaWAN devices.

That stands for "Long Range Wide Area Network."

And these are tiny instruments that are used

for conducting secret surveillance operations

and could easily be dropped

from a low-flying plane just like this one.

Looks like it's headed out.

Are you able to still see it?

I see it leaving, heading west.

Yeah, thanks for the heads-up, Chris.

Not a problem.

Hey, guys, do you guys have a copy down there at the tent?

Yeah, man. Go ahead.

Kyle and I are going to head up

to the top of the mesa and check on the status of the drill.

Copy that. Just keep us posted.

Based on this plane's maneuvers,

it really made us wonder if we were being spied on.

But if that's the case, is it because

we're investigating what's buried inside the mesa?

Do you guys copy?

Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.

Up here on top with Kyle.

Drill bit's hit something extremely hard again.

And for some reason, the beacon signal started to spread.

The data's grossly inaccurate,

telling him that the bit is far left or far right

of where he knows it's at.

At this point, they're pretty much drilling blind.

Yeah, Thomas. I was beginning

to wonder about that because,

I'm watching the beacon signal on the spectrum analyzer,

and it's spread completely out from what it usually is.

So, I bet it's having a hard time

figuring out where they are.

The way that this beacon and receiver work is,

the beacon's in the drill bit transmitting a targeted signal,

and the signal strength allows the operator

to know exactly where that drill bit is at.

But the signal on this beacon is spreading across the mesa.

What this does is make it almost impossible

for him to track this beacon signal.

Whatever it is inside the mesa continues

to give us so many problems

as we try to get this second hole completed.

That's weird though, man, that...

I mean, I'm seeing it. The signal's spread way out,

and usually it's just one peak there in the middle.

During the drilling of both boreholes,

hard obstructions have been hit multiple times

that caused the drilling beacon to malfunction.

Look at that.

And even crazier is that

we've found manufactured metal fragments

in the drilling spoils that are similar in design

to the ceramic heat tiles that are used

to protect our spacecraft.

So, what in the hell is in that mesa?

And is that why we keep seeing strange civilian

and military aircraft buzzing around the ranch?

I'm gonna go...

check in down below.

- Keep at it. - We'll keep pressing forward.

Yeah, come on in, guys.

We had hoped that would be the end

of the unsettling weirdness of the day...

Y'all are not going to believe what I've got to tell you.

This is very chilling.

But it was only the beginning.

So, you know

I have these cameras in here

in case something were to happen here,

and right outside, there are cameras.

- Sure. - Well, um,

something happened

at a specific time where all of them were disabled.

And video recorded on them was captured,

but it was sent somewhere else, and...

we didn't do it.

I keep surveillance cameras running outside

my trailer near the command center to document

anything out of the ordinary

on this part of the ranch, and they are hardwired

to a computer in my trailer.

They're not on Wi-Fi or linked to any kind of external network.

So, the only way I could think this was possible,

was if someone did it manually

from inside my trailer.

How much data was on there?

A lot.

Look at this page here.

Fortunately, we had a screen capture

of the data as it was happening.

Okay.

There you can see the cameras outside, right?

- Sure. - And then...

they start going out.

Right there.

Look right here.

All of them just quit at this time stamp.

Now, look right here.

The hard drive was recording,

currently working,

then suddenly, it got a reboot flag.

Then it shut down.

And then, channels five, six,

two and three

were user logged out.

And look at this.

They've made these changes four seconds apart.

You can't physically open the menu

and do that in four seconds.

Yeah, okay.

You have to go through this box

and download the video from this box

with a thumb drive right here.

Which means somebody had to do what I'm doing

to this thing, connect to it with a computer,

hardwired connect it, to log out.

Whoever this user was that logged out

those cameras, went in and disabled those cameras.

Something is hacking this device.

Something is hacking this device.

Whoever this user was that logged out those cameras,

went in and disabled those cameras.

What you're telling me, there's like deliberate

choices being made here.

There's a mode change that requires

intelligent interaction

- with the device. - That's my guess.

I have no idea how someone could have

hacked into the cameras watching my trailer

since they aren't connected to the internet.

But somehow, that's exactly what happened.

That's not all.

This is the part that really freaks me out.

You see this is the current working hard drive,

- right? - Yup.

So, while all the things

were user logged out,

the data was sent somewhere else.

Somebody is

recording the video from these cameras.

When you have a surveillance system that is

potentially being hacked into,

the question is what kind of technology,

what level of sophistication is required

in order to gain access to an air-gapped,

otherwise completely secure, isolated surveillance system?

It's very methodical.

Somebody had to use

a device to talk to this

- while it's sitting in here. - Now that is chilling.

Could be a LoRaWAN device.

We have...

suspected that things are being dropped

from a low-flying plane, helicopter...

Yeah.

There was a plane that just came over the ranch.

Yeah, we've had a few.

What if somebody dropped

LoRaWAN sensors on the ranch,

hack into it and take over the software?

I know you guys

weren't expecting to hear this

- when you came over here. - No.

But, um, I mean, I think this could

be extremely important from one or two ways, right?

One,

if somebody's spying on us, who and why?

And how?

Two, if it's

some thing is spying on us...

Then what is that

something and how and why, right?

And what else is it doing?

- And what else is it doing? - Yeah.

Even if someone figured out a way

to remotely hack into this system,

the speed at which all this took place is beyond

any technology that any of us could think of.

So, seriously, who or what could have done this?

You know, I'd like to leave this in a configuration

where, if it happens again, we might get those fingerprints.

We might be able to trace those fingerprints

back to a finger,

and the finger back to its owner.

Yeah. I'm really creeped out about this.

Yeah.

We've really got to get to the bottom of

is this... is this a hacker

or something else?

Yeah, that's a lot to think about.

All right. Great, guys.

Thomas, you got a copy?

I do, Alex. Go ahead.

Running into, some issues over here.

I'm going to have to pull out.

10-4.

The next day,

as the drilling operation continued at the mesa,

Thomas Winterton was dealing with another strange problem

in Borehole 2.

You say you're pulling out?

- Yeah. - What's the problem?

Yesterday, I was cutting through this hard spot

around 380 feet in.

- Right. - And then I hit this spot,

470 foot in,

and I hit something.

Took me every bit of two and a half hours

to get 67 inches, and I'm not moving at all now.

And it's not even biting, it's just rotating smoothly.

Well, shoot.

I'll... I won't delay you anymore,

I'll let you get the pipe out.

I'm going to go over to the spoils pit

and see if that bit is damaged

- when it comes out of the hole. - Okay.

The drillers experienced so many issues drilling

on our second hole.

And now, whatever we're running up against is extremely hard.

It really makes me wonder, what's making it

so hard for them to drill into the mesa?

There it is.

My gosh.

Only one tooth on that bit is worn down.

The way that you guys were describing it,

I thought the teeth would have popped off

or been wore down to a nub.

That's exactly

what should have happened.

That's got all the teeth.

That cutting side one,

the inside's off of it a little bit.

Well, I don't know what I could have been into.

I was not moving at all.

And it was acting almost bald.

It felt like I didn't have any teeth on the end at all.

It makes kind of a screeching noise,

like if you're rubbing a knife on a plate or something.

Something smooth.

And that would usually be

when there's no teeth on the end of that bit.

I am absolutely shocked.

Because this drill bit isn't seriously damaged,

it leaves me with a lot of questions

as to what was so hard that this drill bit

couldn't drill through?

Is he drilling up against

those anomalies that the GPR data shows buried in the mesa?

Does this mean

that we're drilling into

some type of metallic object?

Or is it something else that's causing

this strange behavior with the drill?

I'll get out of your way and let you guys get this changed out.

Yeah, we'll change out these bits and I'll keep you updated.

Okay. Thanks, guys.

Hey, guys.

Hey, how you doing?

Later that day, while

the drilling operation continued,

we all met with biologist Ben Woodruff

in the command center.

Well, I understand you guys have had a chance to review

the trail cam footage.

Yeah.

We are set.

- That's great. - Awesome.

Earlier this summer,

Ben helped us install some new game cameras

around the ranch

to look out for anything strange.

I've sent the files over to Erik,

so we can pull those up.

- Sure. - So, given all

the crazy UAP phenomena we regularly

see out here,

and the recent hack of my trailer cameras,

we couldn't wait to check out

what Ben found in the game cam videos.

You've got to understand, actually,

that this area is in a drought,

and it has been for a number of years,

and there has not been a lot of life on this ranch.

And all of the sudden, this year, it's exploded with life.

Lots of animals pass through here.

- Okay. - Let's, start off

- with looking at the turkeys. - Okay.

There are so many turkeys on this ranch,

and they're second clutch turkeys,

which means, they've raised a full clutch of young

that have reached sub-adulthood,

and then they have gone ahead and had a second clutch.

Let's take a look

at the next one.

So, this is a pretty standard coyote.

It's very long, very skinny,

very narrow-faced. It's what you'd expect.

- Okay. - So, this one's strange.

Really blows my mind.

This is video recorded in the field

- south of the drill site? - Yeah.

So, the elk on the ranch,

and some of the other animals, too...

Look at the face of this elk.

There's these white spots all over the face.

These look like boils or burns

where the skin has just died.

Yeah. You can see them then.

- Yeah, see that? - Yeah.

What about any kind of diseases or anything like that?

It's possible.

The things that I researched,

I couldn't find anything that would

correspond with that, 'cause they all look

- really healthy otherwise. - Yeah.

It's not chronic wasting disease, it's nothing like that.

There's these patches where, all over the face,

it just looks like burn marks.

I don't know what could cause that sort of a burn.

I haven't seen

anything like this before.

Could that be from radiation?

Wow.

I don't know

what could cause that sort of a burn.

I haven't seen anything like this before.

Could that be from radiation?

You know, who knows?

This new game camera video that Ben Woodruff

showed us was pretty disturbing.

Some elk that were in the field just to the south

of the drill site had strange white marks on their faces.

If it wasn't a natural skin condition,

could they have been burn marks from radiation exposure?

And if so, what the heck could have caused that?

So, this is another clip, and you can see

this is another elk,

but whatever this is,

it's only impacting the face.

That's really strange.

We really need to find out where this radiation

is coming from, if that's what caused this.

See, you talked to me about that area where

the calf was spinning around in circles.

It was kind of acting like it had,

you know, some sort of a radioactive reaction.

Yeah. This calf

certainly had some sort of trauma.

Yeah.

Last year, while we were drilling

in Borehole 1, the drill bit made contact

with what we believe

was the massive object in the mesa.

And then, all of the sudden,

a calf in the nearby field started spinning

in circles and its eyes

turned solid white.

Check out what's going on with those eyes.

A local vet examined the calf and discovered

that it was suffering from microwave radiation exposure.

Now, we're seeing elk in the same general area

that also might have been exposed to radiation.

Could this all be connected to the hard objects

we keep drilling up against in the mesa?

If I could take a look at that field

and take some plant samples,

that'd be great.

So, I say we...

- Immediately. - Head out there

and we start collecting some samples

and making some measurements.

- Let's do it. - I'll take you out there

- right now, Ben. - Perfect.

- Yeah. - All right, man.

After our meeting,

Tom, Sam and I went out to the mesa

to monitor the drilling operation in Borehole 2.

Erik, Kaleb and Jim took Ben

to the field directly south of the drill site

where the calf was exposed to the radiation,

and not far from where our trail camera picked up

the disturbing video of the elk.

We wanted to see if Ben could find any more evidence

of possible radiation contamination

on the plant life.

You can kind of see almost like, in the vegetation right here?

- Yeah. - That's where the calf was.

And you can see where it lines up

- with the mesa. - It does.

Let's go take a look.

This is where I want to follow your lead, Ben.

So, this whole area,

especially right over here, is really strange.

It almost looks like it's been mowed.

And this hasn't been mowed, but...

Yeah, those lines.

I don't know what is that, 30, 40 feet wide?

There's something making the plants grow different

on either side.

So, let's get a sample from each side,

and then some directly in.

Just get some of the actual plant material

and I'll get some soil samples.

- Okay. - All right, well, lead the way.

All right, sounds good.

What could account for such a well-defined

area in which the plant growth is so distinctly different?

Why are we seeing taller plants to the north and the south,

and this stunted plant growth

in the center of this affected area?

- That's enough, here? - Yeah.

Okay, good.

Kaleb,

look at this. This has been out here

for at least a year.

Maybe even two years ago.

I'm more than just a little concerned

about radiation transience there south of the drill site.

And I can't help but wonder whether there's a relationship

between what we're seeing here

and what is in fact known to exist inside of the mesa.

Of course, I'm talking about that large anomaly

that shows up in the GPR data.

Do you suppose the differences

that you're seeing could be accounted for

by exposure to radiation?

Let's take these samples back and I'll test them,

see what I can find out. Sounds good?

- All right. - Okay.

- Hey, guys. - How's it going?

I see you've got your teeth out.

- Yeah. - Did you guys

hit something else?

Yeah, right around that 470-foot mark,

- we hit something. - Wow.

We got through it,

I got another rod in,

and then, something again, so...

The next morning, we were all

shaking our heads when the drillers hit

another hard obstruction that damaged

another one of their drill bits.

We got through it.

We had to replace the teeth.

They're all in pretty bad shape.

They're all pretty much flat.

That's entirely mangled.

God.

These bits are designed to cut through steel plates

and solid granite, if necessary.

So, what is in there that could cause this kind of damage?

How's that happen, Alex?

That's kind of what we were trying to figure out is,

I don't know if I deflected off of something,

hit something else?

The biggest question to me is what in the world

is inside that mesa that they

can't drill through easily? I don... What is it?

It don't make any sense.

When I pulled out, it absolutely felt smooth.

I was expecting no teeth on it at all.

I was stacking up to 15,000 pounds of pressure

and couldn't get a bite at all.

- Wow. - Holy smokes.

And it was showing, like, the same temperature thing

- where it wasn't... - Temperature did not change.

The metal bit absorbed the heat?

That thing should have gotten up to

1,000 degrees high from the friction.

- Right. - The only thing that

you can really drill into that's that hard

that wouldn't change the temperature would be a ceramic.

It would be like a modern-day super hardened

ceramic that you would use

for heatshields.

We use it on the exterior of space shuttles

and hypersonic missiles to protect them

from the extreme heat

of reentry from space.

Yeah, and,

I'll be really excited to see

what comes out of the spoils here.

- Yeah. - Hopefully, that'll give us a clue

as to what's so hard that it's, I mean,

demolishing a drill bit.

- Let's let y'all get back to it. - Alrighty.

Let's scour through these drilling spoils.

Sounds good.

- Good luck, guys. - All right.

Hey, I've put a rod on.

Yeah. I'll grab the shovel.

Later that day,

while the drilling operations continued at the mesa,

and our team archaeologist Chris Roberts

started searching for clues in the drilling spoils...

Hey, Ben. Thanks for jumping on with us.

- Hey, how are you doing? - Doing well.

We're all very anxious to find out

what you've discovered from those samples

- that you collected. - Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

In the command center,

biologist Ben Woodruff

met with us over video conference to give his analysis

on the plant samples we collected from the field

just south of the drill site.

You know, that field, um,

just had that very clear delineation

between growth and lack of growth.

I know not only was there a calf

spinning there, but some of the elk

that had been filmed in the area

had, like, blisters and boils on their face.

And there was an interest and wonder

if there was a radioactive element to this.

There's a plant growing in this field

called a Golden Aster

and we took some samples from the center

of that area, as well as both sides of

that area, to the north and the south of it.

This is what they looked like on the outside.

To the north of the area, and the south of the area,

the leaves were normal, they were photosynthesizing.

This is what it should look like.

The next picture is what they look like

in that region, directly in that area.

It's the same plant, it's still the Golden Aster,

but this is very similar to what one would expect

if you had radiation damage.

- Wow. - Whoa.

Radiation breaks apart the cells,

not only in mammals,

but it does it in plants as well.

It alters the very DNA of the plant,

and the cells grow incorrectly.

And you can see similar burns,

almost like what we saw on the faces of those elk.

That's crazy.

Right.

- Yeah. - It was freaky as hell

that Ben found evidence of radiation damage

on the plants to the south of the drill site,

right where we've now seen multiple animals

exposed to high levels of radiation.

Because back in 2018,

we commissioned experts to sweep the entire property

for harmful levels of radiation.

And their findings in that field south

of the drill site were completely different.

In the open area and the ranch and so forth,

nothing of concern.

So, what could have caused the possible

radiation spikes that may have hit the animals

and the plants in this field?

Interesting.

- Wow. - Hey, Ben,

when you see the effects on the leaves

like you saw, and it could be

radiation, is that typical

surface-level radiation or could that come from the roots

or things that are happening below the surface?

It looks

more like something transient.

It looks like... more like an external event

rather than in the ground.

Well, it's odd to me that it's

a long swath, you know, hundreds of feet long

that's in the middle of the field and only,

you know, a few tens of feet wide.

And it didn't affect anything

around it. That seems a very localized

and specific pattern of radiation.

Well, when you think about things like in terms of X-rays,

you know, they have special plates and stuff

to cover certain areas

so that only certain areas get radiated.

You don't have that naturally.

If you have any sort of radioactive development,

it's going to spread.

And the fact that there is that

very distinct line on both sides,

that's what's unusual, because that's not natural.

That seems, um, intelligent.

So, what you're saying is,

this looks like it was purposefully put there.

Correct.

- Wow. - Crazy.

The fact that we're seeing marks on animals

as well as burned vegetation close to the drill site,

and that this could possibly be caused by radiation

is really concerning.

This really feels targeted,

and I want to know how and why these things are happening.

You know, something that comes to mind is look what we've done

in the past with the drilling aspect.

- Yeah. - So, is this somehow

connected to what we're getting out of the mesa,

or is this something separate?

It creeped me out to hear Ben suggest

that there might be an intelligent entity

that targeted that field with radiation,

which is only a 100 yards south of the mesa drill site.

Could it really be related to whatever is buried in the mesa?

And could it also be connected to whatever...

or whoever... messed with the cameras watching my trailer?

I-I think we need to devise experimental techniques to go

and get to the bottom of whatever it is.

Yeah.

Well, we are very fortunate to have Ben's expertise,

so, Ben, thanks again for jumping on with us.

Always great to have you.

Absolutely. Happy to help.

- See you soon. - Thanks, Ben!

Is it moving at all?

I don't think so.

Yeah, it's a pretty hard layer I'm in right here.

After we wrapped up our meeting with Ben Woodruff,

we spent the next few hours out at the mesa.

After the drill bit was damaged when it hit an obstruction

more than 470 feet in Borehole 2,

Alex Swanson and his crew stayed late

to see if they could break through it

and finish the hole.

So, we were closely monitoring the process

with our spectrum analyzers

and radiation detectors.

Thomas to Erik,

do you copy?

Yeah, Thomas. What do you got?

They're drilling through something

- extremely hard right now. - Copy that.

We're going to monitor down here.

Copy that.

And while drilling continued,

archaeologist Chris Roberts was still methodically

sifting through the drilling spoils for any clues

that might help explain just what's buried inside the mesa.

Look at that right there.

My God.

What the hell?

I've got the drill beacon frequency pretty steady,

but it's something happening to it.

Look how it's modulating.

It should have one peak.

But there's a bunch, it's jumping all over the place.

Look at that.

Crap. Look at this.

The 1.6 gigahertz is going nuts.

- What the hell? - Look at this.

Is that a communication

- signal? - It could be.

Wow.

Crap. Look at this.

The 1.6 gigahertz is going nuts.

- Absolutely. - This signal

freaking me out over here.

I'm not seeing any of that

at the south tower and I'm not seeing

any of it at the black box.

- That's all local. - Yeah.

Right as the drillers hit

another obstruction in Borehole 2,

around 477 feet inside the mesa,

a 1.6 gigahertz signal started spiking

on my spectrum analyzer.

My device was tracking the immediate area,

while Erik's was tuned into locations

at other parts of the ranch.

He wasn't seeing it on his spectrum analyzer,

which meant the source of the signal was close to us.

So, was it coming from whatever the drill

just hit inside the mesa?

Look at this.

The 33 megahertz beacon signal,

it's spread out like we've seen before.

- Hey, guys. - Hey, what's up?

- What is that? - That's coming out of the drill.

From the beacon, coming out of the drill,

whatever they're hitting is spreading that signal

all the way across and modulating it.

It's taking that one signal

and distributing it across that range.

Yep.

It was getting stranger by the second.

Right as the 1.6 gigahertz signal was spiking,

the 33 megahertz signal coming from the beacon

inside the drill bit was spreading all over the place.

When that signal spreads, the drillers can no longer track

the direction of the drill underground,

and our borehole could veer off the course needed

to get up through the top of the mesa.

So, is the obstruction

that the drill is hitting right now

triggering not only the 1.6 gigahertz signal,

but also causing the beacon signal to go crazy?

Maybe this update will

add something to this.

Right now, we're at 480 feet in,

but he's hitting a hard layer

every two to three inches.

The hard layer itself

is two to three inches thick.

Then he breaks through, it's a couple inches of space,

and another layer of two or three inches,

and it's just repeating that.

What I get out of this is we are

interacting with something structured.

Yes.

We're seeing things happen

with the drilling operation itself

that says there's something highly unusual there.

These layers of material are in no way

like the mesa itself.

This is not sandstone, this is not naturally occurring.

I think it makes a lot of sense,

as we encounter this hard material,

to expect to see something coming back

into the spoils that would give us clues

as to what the material composition is.

Hey, guys. You got a copy?

Yes. Go ahead.

Yeah, I got some things over here

I think you're gonna want to take a look at.

You want to come over here to the spoils site?

Absolutely. We'll head right over.

Sam, Jim, if y'all don't mind, keep an eye on this

and let us know if it changes dramatically or whatever.

- Yeah, absolutely. - All right, we'll be back in a bit.

Okay.

- Hey, Chris. - Hey, guys.

- Thanks for coming over. - Yeah, man.

Something I wanted to show you that I really

can't believe that we found inside the mesa.

What the hell is this?

What is that?

It's ceramics.

What?

Travis, flip it over. Flip it over.

Do you see the two different colors?

- Yeah. - We've got a glazed surface

- and we have a porous surface here? - Yes.

L-Look at the patterning.

Yeah. It's like a crosshatch pattern in it.

Yes, absolutely.

That's manufactured, guys.

Yeah, that-that is absolutely pressed

into place and then baked.

Could this really be a manufactured ceramic material?

How did it get deep in the mesa?

Is this what damaged the drill

and made the beacon signal spread?

And is it connected to the 1.6 gigahertz signal

we just detected?

This right here is a edge fragment

right there.

That... so that's a finished edge.

- Yes. - My gosh,

- look how perfect it is. - It's beveled.

Holy crap.

That's beveled for something... it fits into something else.

It's flat, it really doesn't have a curve to it.

It's not a vessel, it's not a, a plate, a cup.

Basically, it's a tile, right?

But it's too thin for a floor tile,

too thin for a roof tile.

You said "tile," and that's ringing some bells for me.

- Think about what we were told at the University of Utah. - Yeah.

Right? It's a lot like the space shuttle tiles.

Holy smokes.

Three years ago,

we had the metal pieces that were extracted from the mesa

examined at the University of Utah.

Okay.

And there, metallurgy expert Dr. Ravi Chandran

helped us conclude that they had a manufactured design

that was similar to the protective coating

used on spacecraft.

It's like a glass, it's like a ceramic,

composite, right?

Yeah, so, that makes a lot of sense.

So, could this ceramic material be what the drill was hitting,

and is it what kept the bit from heating up?

If so, what the heck is buried in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch?

Have we punctured through

something that's coated with this ceramic?

What is that ceramic doing in there?

So, that's the question is like,

what would you use metal

and-and ceramic like this in conjunction?

I don't know.

A spaceship?

You said it.

I got chills, dude.

This is a designed,

engineered material.

- It's high-tech, one way or the other. - Yeah.

If it can absorb that much heat from that drill head,

then it is like the space shuttle tiles.

And it's chewing up their bit.

And it's chewing up their bit,

'cause it's hard ceramic.

We knew something unnatural was in the mesa

when we detected the massive object

and smaller anomalies buried in there.

But now, after hitting an obstruction

more than 470 feet in Borehole 2,

we've found pieces of ceramic tiling

that appears to be engineered.

This is starting to sound like

it's out of The X-Files or something,

Could it be similar to the protective coating

on spacecraft?

I just don't know what to think of that.

- There's space-age material right there. - Yeah.

Yeah. 470 feet

- into a mesa in the middle of the desert. - Yeah. Yeah.

How did it get in there?

Well, we do have a video of a UAP

flying through the mesa.

Who knows?

Was this some kind of high-tech vessel

that maybe didn't make it all the way through

and got stuck in there?

I smiled at it when you said it,

but I got to tell you, I'm taking it more seriously now.

Watch how this thing emerges,

and watch the path that it takes.

In 2022,

we captured unbelievable video of a glowing UAP

flying into the mesa in the east field

and then reemerging on the other side,

like it flew right through solid rock.

So, knowing that there's a massive object in the mesa

and seeing these strange materials in the drilling spoils

really makes you wonder what might have happened here.

Well, guys, the sum total

of everything that we've seen up there,

we're seeing signals spread.

You couple that with the metal we're pulling out of there.

You've got ceramic material, you got metal,

- you got magnetic rocks. - Right.

- Yeah. - All these things could be related

to what's in there, right?

I think it's a hundred percent connected.

I want to take a radiation measurement.

I'll-I'll get the gamma ray detector.

No, that's freakin' awesome, though.

Let me get a control measurement here.

Okay, so...

37.

So, I'm seeing 37 to 68.

- Okay. - Yeah, that's a normal reading.

Seems like it got a little more excited.

- It is more radio... 105. - 105.

Whoa.

Whoa.

It is radioactive.

- What in the hell is this stuff? - Wow.

Wow, on top of everything else,

this stuff has given off

unusually high amounts of radiation.

So, could that be a clue that whatever's in the mesa

might have caused the radiation damage to the plants

and animals in the nearby field?

We've got to figure out exactly what this really is.

Dude, what's going on in there?

- Unbelievable. - It's fantastic.

All-all thanks to our archeologist

- who knows what he's looking at. - Heck yeah, dude.

- That's a hell of a job. - Heck yeah.

We got to get this thing to a lab and get it tested.

I want to sit down with this

and get some quality time with an S.E.M...

scanning electron microscope... and figure out what this is.

Hey, well, let's get to it.

- Immediately. All right. - Let's go. Let's go.

Thanks, Chris.

Absolutely. I'll keep looking.

After three years of trying to figure out

what could be in that mesa,

this is a major discovery for our team.

But now we need to find out if this material

is as profound as it appears to be,

and will it lead us to the truth about Skinwalker Ranch?

The discovery of that engineered ceramics

may be one of the most important deliverables

from this entire investigation.

I think it is very clear

that what we're looking at is highly unusual.

It begs for an explanation.

It deepens the mystery of the drill site

and of the ranch overall,

and there may yet be another mystery material

to be discovered inside the mesa.

One of our most shocking discoveries

came in the wake of the most challenging drilling season yet.

We were given a gift,

a discovery of ceramic material of unknown origin

recovered from deep within the mesa.

We hope to get the answers

to what is the nature of this material?

Why would it be located from deep within the mesa?

This material may hold the answers

to what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch.

Holy crap, dude.

The tooth is almost completely gone.

- How about that? - And it's completely welded shut.

That's crazy.

Ooh. Another piece.

Just look at that texture on that side.

I got several samples mounded.

I can see some clearly defined holes.

What if it's the electron beam from the microscope

that's causing this?

Let's turn it off.

This stuff is fixing itself.

It's putting itself back together.

It's healing.

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