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Hey, guys, there's a low-flying plane out here.

Look right there. Man, he's low.

I'm not showing anything.

Whoever it is, their transmitter is off.

What are they doing?

You know, I have these cameras in here and right outside.

Something happened where all of them were disabled.

And video recorded on them was captured

and sent somewhere else.

Something is hacking this device.

Yeah.

I hit something.

I'm not moving at all,

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

We had to replace the teeth. They're all in pretty bad shape.

What in the world is inside that mesa

that they can't drill through easily?

- What the hell is this? - What is that?

Space-age material, right there.

Look at the patterning. That's manufactured, guys.

What is that ceramic doing in there?

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!

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.

What's going on?

Well, you know,

I've looked at the ceramics

from the mesa under the microscope.

- Super exciting. - Yeah.

For over three years now,

we've been drilling in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch,

in an effort to identify a massive object

and several smaller anomalies

that we believe are buried inside there.

And last night, after the drill

may have hit one of these objects

about 470 feet in our borehole,

we made an incredible discovery in the drilling spoils.

Pieces of ceramics

that appeared to be highly engineered.

Let me repeat that... pieces of ceramics

that appeared to be highly engineered.

I want to show you a cross section

of one of the parts

and get your assessment

of what in the heck we're looking at here.

- Wow. - That is fantastic, Erik.

- Look at that. - Wow.

So, this image here... this isn't a picture?

This is actually under the microscope?

This is live off of the microscope.

We don't know anything

about this ceramic material for sure yet.

So, before we take them to a lab for testing,

Erik Bard gathered us in the command center

to get a closer look.

Yeah, you look at the crosshatches, right?

The preciseness of these lines looks like

they were made by laser etching or centering.

So, that is potentially

- machined. - Yes.

Let me show you

the chemical analysis of this sample

that we were just looking at.

This is from the handheld XRF system.

Erik's XRF, or X-ray fluorescence machine,

uses X-rays to determine the elements in an object.

That might help us figure out what these ceramics

could actually be used for.

So, look at what we're seeing here.

There's the nickel,

and there is the iron.

Well, and the cobalt and strontium

and thorium and all that is very interesting, too.

Everyday common ceramics wouldn't be made

- of these kinds of elements. - No.

The fact that we see cobalt

and nickel in this does hint of magnetic properties.

I have some small magnets, some rare earth magnets,

that we can use to take a look at these parts

and see if they respond in any way.

Normal ceramics are usually made of clay,

not metallic elements.

So, if this stuff is magnetic, it's another clue

of something that was engineered for a specific purpose.

- Moment of truth. - Boy.

- What? - Whoa.

Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

- What? - Can you believe that?

They're even magnetic. Like, I'm still trying wrap my head...

Ceramics aren't magnetic.

I got to see this again.

- Do the other pieces do it? - I don't know.

- Whoa. - That's no small effect.

Wait a second.

What's going on?

Now, it feels like the magnet is repelling the ceramic.

There's more going on here.

Yeah, I want you to feel this.

Watch.

Well, it's pushing against it right now.

You're right, Erik.

The ceramic has changed

to having a repulsive magnetic field.

How does that happen?

There are no naturally-occurring magnetic materials

that can both attract and repel magnets.

The fact that this ceramic is doing both is crazy,

and I'm not sure what to make of it...

other than it was engineered for some purpose.

This actually has very similar elemental makeup

that you might see from superconductors.

A superconductor is a revolutionary material

that scientists are still researching

and developing today.

It can transfer massive amounts of energy

with no resistance or energy loss.

This is really complicated science.

The superconductors interact with magnets in strange ways,

just like we're seeing with this ceramic.

What's amazing about superconductors

is that because they can repel normal magnetic fields,

they're used today for propulsion

in high-tech vehicles like magnetic levitation trains.

But some scientists have suggested

that superconductors could one day be used

in the construction of things like spacecraft.

So, if this ceramic is a superconductor,

what the hell is inside the mesa?

So, when you flip it over, does it...

does it attract?

Nope. Still pushing away.

But this shouldn't be possible at room temperature.

No, it should not.

Normally, superconductors need to be cooled

way down, like to liquid nitrogen temperatures,

so that it repels any magnetic field.

But it's not supposed to do that

until you hit to liquid nitrogen temperature.

It was insane

that the ceramic kept repelling the magnet,

like a superconductor would.

But here's the real mystery.

In order for superconductors to transfer energy

without losing any or to repel magnetic fields,

they have to be kept extremely cold.

It's like trying to skate on ice as opposed to water.

If they warm up, they stop being superconductors.

That means it's...

That might be a room-temperature superconductor.

There's no such thing

as a room-temperature superconductor.

If this is a room-temperature superconductor,

it's a breakthrough that we've been looking for decades.

Huge. Yeah.

We have a ton of more testing to do.

But right now, it seems like

there could be something in the mesa

that's way beyond our present scientific capabilities.

- Well, who made it? - Well, who or what made it?

And when was it made?

And the question to follow

yours is, what the hell did we drill into?

We got to do a lot more testing.

- We've got to let Brandon know about this. - For sure.

All right, well, let's do that.

Let's get right on with it.

Hey, Allan, go ahead and start turning it

and pulling it out nice and slow.

10-4.

After we called Brandon

to tell him about the ceramic materials,

he said he'd arrange for us to have them further analyzed

as soon as possible at Utah Valley University.

All right, pulling.

Copy that.

So, in the meantime, we headed back to the mesa

where the drillers had gotten to nearly 500 feet

inside of Borehole 2.

After we drill the last hundred feet or so

and pop out of the top of the mesa,

we'll have two identical boreholes positioned

on either side of the massive object buried in there.

Then we can insert scanning devices into both boreholes

to help us learn more about what these things could be.

All right, rotate a little bit slower

and keep pulling.

Holy crap, dude. Look at that.

Tooth is almost completely gone.

My gosh.

- The guys are gonna want to see this. - Yeah.

Hey, guys, this is Thomas. Do you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Tom.

Hey, they just pulled this bit out

to do a battery change,

and you're gonna want to look at this.

There's something pretty incredible here.

- Here we go. - Yup.

We had no idea what to expect at the drill site.

We've had so many

crazy malfunctions happen

that seem to be related to whatever's buried in there.

So, what the heck have we got going on?

Well, the first and obvious thing is the teeth here.

I mean, how many sets of teeth is this now?

This will be the third set.

And it's half of the whole tooth is missing.

How about that?

And if you want to look at this,

it's completely, like, welded shut.

It's fused...

- It's friction-welded. - Crazy.

So, something welded the... the bit to the rod.

Got it hot enough, yeah, but the weird thing is,

is the beacon stayed at 73 degrees the whole time.

It's 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit to get that hot

and weld that steel.

I'm looking at that metal,

and it doesn't look to me like it ever got that hot.

- Yeah. You usually see black and blue... - Yes.

Kind of rings and things where the weld structure is.

You'll see all the different oxidation states, you'll see

- color affected. Yeah. - Now, I don't see that.

That means it's in something

that was sucking all the heat away.

The only thing that I know of

that could do that would be a ceramic material.

Maybe it's hitting more of the ceramic stuff

that we found in the spoils.

What the hell is in this mesa?

Could what happened to this drill bit

be another clue about what's buried in the mesa?

We don't know yet,

but it makes us all the more eager

to get the ceramic material

that we found tested in a university lab.

You have another bit that you can swap out of this

and the housing, or you got to order one?

We're gonna have to order one.

So, we're down for day or so till you can get it.

Yup, we can get it overnighted.

- Wow. - All right.

Crazy operation.

All right. Let's do it, guys.

- We're down to, what, last 85 feet? - 85.

Home stretch is here.

The next day, the drillers received their new bit,

so we were hoping that they'd finally be able

to finish Borehole 2

and cut through to the top of the mesa.

Allan, go ahead and give me a little bit of water

and start pushing in.

Water's on.

All right, go ahead and start pushing.

Hell yeah. I'm hoping

that's the last time I see that drill bit

- till it comes out the top. - Me as well.

I'm right there with you.

Hey, guys.

I think everyone on the team,

certainly the drillers are anxious

to get this second borehole executed.

Of course, there is some anticipation

of perhaps running into more of this very hard material

because we're seeing the erosion of teeth.

But we're also curious as to whether we'll find more

of this ceramic material coming back out of the spoils.

It's an exciting time.

I'll leave you to it.

I'm gonna head down to the spoils.

- I'll let you take care of this. - Sounds good.

- I'll make my way up there. - Okay.

After seeing our tungsten carbide

drill teeth chewed away

and finding this ceramic material,

you better believe that we were extremely interested to see

what was coming out of the spoils pit

as the drillers continued drilling into Borehole 2.

This is a culmination of everything

- basically 500 feet and below. - Okay.

- So no telling, you know, what we'll find in here. - Yeah.

- What's that one right down there? - This one?

- No, right there. - Th... Ooh.

Let you look at that.

- Got one. - What?

- Yeah. - That-that is a...

- That's a piece of ceramic? - Yeah. That's a piece.

Look at that texture on that side, too.

That's interesting. Yeah.

Look at the other side.

It's, like, glazed.

Does it have the glaze on it?

It's a color variation.

It's got, yeah, it is.

Definitely got a color. I'm not seeing a sheen

like the first one we found had that crosshatch glaze on it.

- Yeah. - This one looks

like it's either worn off or didn't have it,

but this one has a... definitely a texture that way.

Lines and then this side, completely different texture.

My gosh.

We're not sure if Chris had found another piece

of ceramic that had been damaged by the drill,

or a different sort of ceramic material altogether.

It was another mystery,

but also another clue that we need to get tested.

Wow. Well, that's exciting that we found another piece of that.

- Found another... Yeah. - So hopefully,

as you sift, you can find some more of that.

- Yeah, I'll keep looking. - Okay.

I'm gonna go check back in with the guys and see how it's going.

- Holler if you need any help or if you find any more. - Okay.

- I'll let you know what I find. - Awesome. Thank you, Chris.

Yup.

We inherited a lot of stories and legends

from the Bigelow era

about this mesa.

Spacecraft going in it,

tunnels, caverns, underground bases.

As we get closer to getting both boreholes completed,

I feel like it's just one step closer

to actually getting into this mesa

and finding out what kind of mysteries lie inside.

I understand we're getting awfully close.

Yup. We're about 60 feet away from poking out.

Okay. What is your rate

- of progress now? - I'm able to drill

about a foot to a foot and a half a minute.

- Okay. - It's very soft.

I'm moving really good through it.

We got 35 feet in two hours,

so, it's pretty good numbers.

Wow.

It was such a relief to hear

that the drillers were making quick progress in Borehole 2.

It made us think they were finally drilling

between the strange objects in there

and just cutting through the natural sandstone.

So that rate, we could be out of the top

here in an hour or two.

- I'm hoping around there. - Awesome.

Knock on wood.

Well, I say

we get to it. Let's see

if we can get through that top.

Awesome. Well, we'll get to going.

- Okay. - All right, guys. Good luck.

Hey, Allan, let me know

when you're getting on that last rod.

10-4.

The drillers continued making great progress

for the next hour.

Everybody figured, we were past the objects

and home free to finish Borehole 2.

So, Thomas was up on top of the mesa

waiting for the drill bit to break through the surface.

How's it going?

Yeah. What's going on?

At this point, we're 540 feet into the mesa.

We're 35 feet from the top,

but I am hitting a substance

that has stopped me dead in my tracks.

I'm wondering,

what did we just stumble into?

I honestly have no clue what's going on in that mesa.

Copy that.

That's with the brand-new bit.

At this point, what we're drilling through is...

I have no answer for.

I can hear that pretty good.

Yup. You can hear it?

It's hitting something really hard.

I want to record the sound.

Yeah, it sounds different than any sandstone

and stuff we've been through before.

I wonder if it's the same substance as before.

It's making me think a little bit

of metals coming off of those teeth.

It's been pretty smooth sailing on the drilling

up until we got up to about 545 feet into Borehole 2.

The drillers hit something extremely hard.

It's apparent by all the noise coming from the drill.

I can tell that this is even harder than sandstone.

Hey, Kyle. You got a copy?

Yeah, I got a copy.

The way this is feeling, I feel like

I'm just gliding across something, a smooth surface.

I think we need to pull out

and check these teeth again.

I think that's a good idea.

I'll meet you down by the spoils pit.

Sounds like a plan.

It seems like

every time we start making progress

on this drilling,

we have to stop down for something,

and it's just driving me crazy.

Allan says it feels like he's hitting a smooth surface,

so we really need to check the drill bit.

This is disheartening because we're only 35 feet

from breaking through the top. So, it makes me wonder

if it was hitting more ceramic material.

Moment of truth, I guess.

All righty.

Hold that.

Go ahead and slow rotate.

The fact that he sat there

and drilled for 30 minutes...

Wait a minute.

- My gosh. - Yup. Look at that thing.

Half that tooth is gone.

You see that tooth?

Yeah.

You ever drill through something that will,

plow through a tooth like that?

No.

Look at that stud right there, right in the middle...

between those two teeth. That thing's worn down, too.

According to all of our previous

ground-penetrating radar scans,

there's one massive object

and a bunch of smaller ones buried in the mesa.

So, did the drill hit one of the smaller objects

just 35 feet from the top? And if so,

are they all covered with that ceramic material?

If it keeps hitting right here,

it's going weld back up again, and we're gonna be...

Back in the same boat.

Big trouble for sure.

We know from the ground-penetrating radar data

that we have something in that mesa.

So, it is essential

that we get this second hole through the mesa.

Yeah, it will take a couple days

to get that drill replacement in.

You know what I liked about this conversation...

I haven't anyone say anything about giving up.

- That's right. - No, I'm not going to.

- We're too close to the top. - That's perfect.

- Heck no. - Home stretch, man.

All right. Well,

um, we'll get out of your way.

Thank you.

Good luck, guys.

- Hey, guys. - Dr. Patchett.

- Good to see you. - Good to see you.

- Doctor. - Hey.

The next day,

ranch owner Brandon Fugal arranged for us

to meet with physicist Dr. Brian Patchett

at Utah Valley University

to examine samples of the strange ceramic material

that we found in the mesa.

- So, this is the lab. - Yes, sir.

Erik, I'll have you set your samples down right here.

If you guys want to have a seat at the SEM,

we can talk about how, hopefully, we can help you out.

For our first test, we wanted to look at the ceramics

through an SEM or "scanning electron microscope."

It's a device that bombards objects with electrons

in order to obtain magnified images of them

up to a million times their actual size.

Yeah, we're anxious to better understand the composition

of the material

that we brought to you today.

Well, it does sound like an interesting set of specimens,

so, I'm very interested to load it up and...

and see for myself what you've brought in.

All right.

We couldn't wait to see the surface

of this material in much more detail

than our microscope on the ranch could give us.

- So, I've got several samples mounted. - Sure.

- So I'm going to bring these over. - Okay.

They go inside the instrument.

All right, I'll close this up.

-I am so anxious to see... -And now we will

vacuum this down.

There we go.

All right.

Look at that surface right there.

You can see the crosshatch pattern in it.

That doesn't look like Mother Nature.

No, it doesn't.

- Now, if I zoom into the surface... - Yes.

This looks like something here.

Yeah. It's raised.

Are we looking

at a tool-marked surface?

It looks like the geometric

- patterns of it do resemble tooling. - Yeah.

This almost looks

like a circuit component.

My gosh.

We couldn't be sure, but under the SEM,

it really looked like there might be etching

on the surface of that piece of ceramic.

But if so, who or what could have created these patterns?

I'm gonna reposition this a little.

Zoom in a little bit.

I can see some clearly-defined,

- like, holes right now. - Yeah.

Are those holes getting bigger?

- Yes. I think so. - Yeah, yeah.

What?

It is. It's opening up!

Yeah.

What in the world is going on?

Holy crap. Look at that!

My initial thoughts were that we were just looking

at some simple ceramic.

However, we were able

to see pits beginning to appear on the surface.

It piqued my interest. I knew

we weren't looking at just a rock from the ground.

This was something that had a unique property

that I hadn't witnessed before.

What if it's the electron beam from the microscope

that's causing this?

Let's turn it off to see if it goes back to normal.

Yeah. We can do that.

We were stunned to see the surface of a solid,

ceramic material suddenly become porous with big holes.

All I could think was that maybe

the electron beam from the SEM was damaging it.

Let's see what happens.

Okay.

All right, here we go.

So, that does not look as porous...

- No. - As it was.

Not nearly.

I have the old screen grab.

Look at that.

This is healing.

I've never seen anything

that is capable of doing this.

This stuff is fixing itself.

Yes. It's healing. That's exactly right!

Unbelievable.

This stuff is fixing itself.

Yes, it's healing. That's exactly right!

It seems to be putting itself back together

when the E-beam is turned off.

Is that not just crazy?

Of all the unbelievable things

we've seen on Skinwalker Ranch,

this ceramic material that came from more than 470 feet

inside the mesa just raised the bar.

While being exposed to a beam of electrons

in a high-powered microscope,

a bunch of holes suddenly opened on its surface.

But when we turned the beam off,

it morphed back to its original state.

What is this stuff?

Zoom further out

and let's see if we see the crosshatches on it.

Okay. I can do that.

We'll close that.

Yeah, there we go.

Yup, the surface is closed and smooth.

That's crazy.

We seem to be opening up voids

by illuminating this surface with the electron beam.

And then when we turn the beam off and then vented the chamber,

it goes back to its original appearance.

I think that's what we've just seen.

I think that is what we've just seen.

So this is an active surface.

Yes.

What does that mean?

Like I said before,

I've worked a lot

with highly-engineered ceramic materials

for the space industry

because of their heat-absorbing

and energy-conducting properties.

But neither I nor the other two scientists in the lab

have ever seen a ceramic do this kind of stuff.

Well, can we do an elemental analysis of it?

Sure.

Well, right now, what is happening is

we're bombarding the surface with X-rays

and determining the energy levels

of the electrons in the material itself

to help define what elements are present.

Okay.

When we did our own similar scans back at the ranch,

we were surprised to see elements like nickel,

cobalt and thorium,

which you don't usually see in ceramics.

So, we wanted to confirm the content

with this lab's much more sophisticated equipment.

This is the analysis of the exterior of the sample.

So, this is just the elemental

makeup of this sample on the surface versus the interior?

Yeah.

So this shows

some more elements than what we saw on the ranch.

We got, carbon, oxygen

are the two most prevalent.

And then you've got the next most prevalent, silicon,

and then the next one is magnesium or aluminum.

They're real close to each other.

And then calcium and then iron.

The amount of carbon is really interesting.

I was not expecting that.

- I wasn't, either. - Quite a bit.

And you know

that's one of main ingredients of stealth material.

I've actually made it before.

I covered a pickup truck with it once

and made it invisible to police radar.

We used charcoal, which is your carbon,

an aluminum binding agent,

and, basically, spray glue.

And so, that's one of the main ingredients

used for radar cloaking technology by the military.

Since World War II, our military has been

developing stealth material to make our fighter jets

and other craft invisible to radar detection...

and even to the naked eye, in some cases.

Could this be same type of material?

And could that be what this material was used for?

So, what does that mean as far as

what is in the mesa?

I don't know.

Can we do an elemental interior scan?

Definitely.

Now that we know what the exterior

of this material is made of,

we need to know if those elements

will remain consistent inside of it, too,

or maybe we'll find even more surprises.

All right.

All right. So, this is a purely interior scan.

We've got oxygen, silicon,

there is some magnesium,

there's a calcium line, we've got potassium,

some iron.

A lot of aluminum this time.

No carbon this time,

so the interior doesn't have carbon in it.

I mean, the interior is clearly a different material

than the exterior.

This material is a lot like a sponge,

or maybe an umbrella...

one material on the outside for protection,

with another one on the inside for some different purpose.

How do you make this material that's hard on the outside,

but sponge-like on the inside?

- Yeah, I get it. Yeah. - And to what end?

It could be, the exterior hull

or protective layer of something you know, to...

to protect it from a harsh environment.

Yeah.

This is a lot like the ceramic tiles for the space shuttle.

I don't know yet what we've got here.

But I can't help making comparisons

between this ceramic material

and the ceramic tiles on the space shuttle

for a couple of reasons.

Space shuttle tiles are designed to protect the shuttle

from extreme heat... up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit...

when they reenter the Earth's atmosphere.

They're made of coated silica ceramics

that are very light, but able to absorb extreme amounts of heat.

There are similar elements in the makeup of the ceramics

that came out of the mesa,

but their interior is different,

and the way they responded

to the scanning electron microscope

was completely unexpected.

What that means, we just don't know yet.

Well, I have never seen anything

with this content that behaves this way

that was a naturally-occurring material.

- There's no way that's natural. - I would agree.

This is definitely something engineered.

So that means somebody built it.

- For a purpose! Yes. - And it was built for a purpose.

That's right. Now our goals are

to find out what that purpose is.

Yeah.

So, how does a manufactured piece of material

with these kind of exotic properties exist,

and what the hell was this material doing in the mesa?

I don't know, Brandon,

and how did it get there?

That's what I want to know, because I'll tell you

where it didn't come from. It didn't come

from any modern-day ceramics lab that I know of.

You know, originally, the-the intent...

and I think it made a lot of sense...

was to drill, at... essentially, at all costs,

so that we could study whatever that anomaly is.

Now we've encountered this.

I think we have to respond to the data,

change our approach,

possibly to an archaeological fashion.

- Right? - Yeah.

I want to pull the plug

immediately on any further drilling activity.

- Yes. - Absolutely.

Because we may damage

the very thing that we are trying to study.

And I think we're going

to have to take a much more disciplined, careful approach,

because what we have extracted is...

- It's unbelievable. - Yeah.

We need to find the safest way to get it out of there.

I think we need time to carefully

plot our next steps to preserve

and properly study the nature of what is in the mesa.

Yeah, 100% agree with that.

This is definitely something incredibly interesting,

something I definitely didn't expect.

So, if we find more of it, is it all right

if we bring it back here for analysis?

- Please do. - All right.

Well, after eight years

of scientific investigation at Skinwalker Ranch

under our stewardship,

I think today marks a significant turning point

that is going to take us in a whole new direction.

- Yes. Well, thank you for the time. - Thank you.

- Of course. - And I think it is time for us

- to gather up and move on. - Yeah. Let's go.

I can't wait to tell the rest of the team what we found.

Hey, guys.

What's up, fellas?

Pull up a seat.

After what we learned

about the ceramic materials at Utah Valley University,

the next morning, we met with the drillers

to let them know about our change of plans for the mesa.

So, I asked you guys to come in here

'cause we just come across some new data

that is evolving the way

that we want to tackle the mesa.

Brandon has asked us

to cease all drilling operations,

effective immediately.

- Okay. - But it's because

of the things that we have found in the spoils.

And it's paid off in a big way.

- Okay. - But...

we don't want to risk damaging

anything up in the mesa.

That's actually

a really good idea.

What's the sum total of the hard stuff

- that you've drilled through? - We were kind of talking.

And we were thinking probably around 40 feet,

- right around there. - Wow.

Yeah, but where did it all go?

Yeah. Where did it all go when you drilled through it?

Where are the pieces of it?

There were several obstructions

that we struggled to drill through in Borehole 2,

from about 130 feet up to almost 500 feet.

But we only found a few small pieces of the ceramic material.

There should have been a lot more of them in the spoils.

I was saying that to you guys,

that it's weird that we're not running into anything.

- You know what I mean? - It's almost like it was

- destroyed or something, completely. - Yeah.

You've seen that bit. It's made for taken off chunks of stuff.

Yeah, well, the destruction was mutual.

Yeah, yeah, right.

- Your bits were destroyed. - I was just thinking.

You guys went through, what, 15 teeth?

- Yeah, we went through quite a few teeth. - Yeah.

So, something's not adding up.

No. Yeah.

We've speculated that we may have been chipping materials off

of this very hard layer or object that we're running into.

So, I think it makes a lot of sense,

as we encounter this hard material, to expect

to see large individual pieces of ceramics in the spoils,

which we haven't seen.

I think reanalyzing that and going through it with a smaller

screen will definitely provide some more evidence.

I think the, the trick is,

figure out a way to non-destructively

get some data back up in there, like a camera or something.

- Absolutely. - Put a camera in a little

hemisphere dome and mounted it inside to the drill.

So, the drill's like this, right, and we mounted it here,

so we could see whatever it might be that you're hitting.

Yeah. We can try that.

Yeah. As much as we set our sights

on having these two parallel holes,

which, yes, I want, you know,

this is a different kind of success,

and we're simply pivoting to a different way

of engaging with what's in that hill.

Well, I'm excited

to go get this head and see what we got to do to modify it

and find the camera.

So, I say we get this done.

Yup.

I'm gonna go do some camera research.

That's a good idea.

Later that day, while we were working

on getting a new camera to investigate Borehole 2,

Chris Roberts was using

his smaller sifting screen

to carefully search for more ceramics

and other evidence of what's buried in the mesa.

Hey. You guys got a copy? This is Chris.

Hey, Chris. We got a copy. Go ahead.

I got something kind of curious over here.

You guys might want to come take a look at it.

All righty.

We'll head right over.

Thanks.

When Chris called us and said

he found something curious in the spoils,

we figured it must be a new clue of some kind. Hopefully,

something that would propel our investigation forward.

But no one expected what he was about to show us.

I heard about something curious.

Well, I'm going through the 496-to-498-foot level.

So, it's a really small, concise level, right?

Yeah.

Um... and then I found that in there.

Is that money?

- What on Earth? - It's money.

It's a 1964

U.S. nickel.

Wow. 1964, man.

Check it out.

Lots of things come to mind

when I hear about a coin being found in the spoils.

Is it coming from hundreds of feet within the mesa?

Could it have somehow fallen from the surface

near the spoils pit,

made its way into that slurry and gotten vacuumed out?

And ultimately, what does it mean to our investigation?

It's got really heavy wear and patina on it

that, in a way, kind of matches, you know,

the iron oxide we're finding in there and the gypsum.

So, it looks very similar with the orange and the pink colors.

So, I think what I'm reading into what you're saying...

- it's been there a long time. - Yeah.

How would a nickel even get inside the mesa that far?

'Cause there's no signs of there being an entrance,

an opening, something covered up, buried.

How did that get in there?

Something they do

archeologically, when you do an excavation,

you throw a new coin in it.

And then you backfill it so that you know when that was dug.

That suggests that somebody did

an archeological excavation

- in 1964. - Yes.

That suggests that somebody did an archeological excavation

in 1964.

That is something

you do when you backfill.

That would mean

somebody did get something out of there,

and then they backfilled it.

It would certainly seem to imply that.

According to Chris, who is a professional archaeologist,

it's been common practice for decades

that when archaeological digs are completed,

a coin with the exact year is left in the backfill.

It's a time stamp to mark the dig

in case someone else comes along later and rediscovers it.

So, who was here back in 1964?

What did they find?

And what was left behind that we're now rediscovering?

1964.

That gives us a period to look through records.

And we can also review any historic aerial photos

of the property, too.

Isn't that something?

Could there have been

an archeological or other excavation

on the mesa at the drill site?

If so, why?

What could have happened there?

Maybe there's a connection between the date on that nickel

and these unusual ceramic and metal materials coming

from hundreds of feet within the mesa.

There's got to be a story here,

and I want to find out what that story is.

How did that get in there? And why?

I still don't feel like I have the answer to that question.

I don't, either. But we do know

is we found ceramic material

- in there that shouldn't have been there. - Yes.

And we found a nickel from 1964.

This is certainly interesting.

We're gonna change our approach to this

- and look through the archives. - Yes, we are.

Keep finding crazy stuff, man.

- I'll keep looking. - Keep looking, man.

- Good stuff. Good stuff. - Thanks for this.

- All right, man. - Okay, I'll catalog this.

The fact that we're finding this 1964 nickel

and potentially some relatively modern materials,

including the ceramic and some metal fragments

at the drill site, only adds

to the puzzling nature of the mesa itself.

At this point, I think it is very clear

that what we're looking at is highly unusual.

It begs for an explanation.

So, it's very important to get our hands

and to get our eyes on whatever it is that's inside the mesa.

Did somebody find something

unbelievable in the mesa and take part of it away?

Or did they find something and decide

it was out of this world, so they covered it back up?

This mystery just got a whole lot deeper,

and we're gonna keep digging

until we get to the bottom of it.

After years of constant difficulty

with trying to access what lies within the mesa,

we are closer than ever before to getting the answers,

what may lie within the mesa

that is involved with all of the strange phenomena

that we are seeing and documenting at Skinwalker Ranch.

What the heck do we got inside this mesa?

I can't wait to run instruments

down that tube and see what we can find out.

Down in the hole.

This should go fairly easy.

- Wow. - What is it?

This thing is six

feet thick,

and then we see

other little bits and pieces further down.

That is just unbelievable.

This material is a superconductor.

That just makes

no sense to me at all.

It does if it's like

a space shuttle tile.

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