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This is a dome that's 300 meters underground.

The question is, what is this bubble?

That data corruption error happened

right at the edge of that bubble.

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

I wanted to show you

what we found inside the mesa.

This could be one of the most miraculous finds

here on the ranch.

I think we need to run more lab tests

on the ceramic materials at Utah Valley University.

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

and it shows superconducting properties, then we'll know

this material is a superconductor.

And it's still warmer than the nitrogen,

so the nitrogen is boiling away.

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

That just makes

no sense to me at all.

It does if it's like

a space shuttle tile.

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.

The ceramic is still boiling in the liquid nitrogen.

That just makes no sense to me at all.

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

The ceramic materials

that came out of the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch

right where we believe a massive, metallic object

is buried are very strange.

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

to figure out what they are, and the results suggest

they could be superconductors.

Those are state-of-the-art materials

that can transfer energy without any resistance

and might one day be used to construct things like spacecraft

with gravity-defying propulsion systems

that don't require rocket fuel.

It is boiling at almost the rate

- it started boiling. - Yeah.

I just can't believe something so small

could withstand something that cold for that long.

Typically, in order to verify

if a material is a superconductor,

they have to first be cooled down

to liquid nitrogen temperatures

of about -320 degrees Fahrenheit.

But our ceramic sample has been boiling in a dish

of liquid nitrogen for several minutes,

and it isn't cooling down.

The only materials I've ever seen

with the capability to retain heat like that

are the ceramic tiles that are used by NASA

and SpaceX as protective coating for spacecraft.

But even then, those will eventually cool down.

So what is this stuff?

Can we do a control?

We just want

to see how quickly regular ceramic will cool.

It might be worth comparing that.

Yeah, those blue pieces are...

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

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

Yeah, let's do that.

Okay. Anybody looking

- at their timer? - It's running.

I'm gonna fill this up.

As the ceramic sample

from the mesa continued boiling

in the liquid nitrogen,

we wanted to see for ourselves

how fast a control sample

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

The normal blue one's cooling down.

There's a lot less bubbles than in the dish

with the mesa ceramic.

- Our ceramic is still going. - Yeah.

I'm beginning to wonder

whether this is ever going to stop boiling.

We're going to add a little bit more

just for good measure.

Make sure we get nice and cold.

It's start... It looks like

it's starting to calm a little bit.

It's slowing down, I think.

Finally. But it took several minutes longer

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

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

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

When a material that is a superconductor is cooled

to a very low temperature, it does something incredible.

It creates a kind of force field within itself

that repels any change in the magnetic field.

The superconductor will push itself away

from the magnet and possibly levitate.

This is called the Meissner effect,

and that's what we're testing for.

If the ceramic we found is a superconductor,

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

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

Now, if the sample becomes

superconducting, when it gets cool,

it will repel it.

To test for the Meissner effect,

Dr. Patchett is placing a magnet

right under the center of a dish.

Then we'll place the ceramic

in the dish right above the magnet

to see if it pushes itself away.

Here we go.

It did jump a little.

- Did you notice that? - Yeah.

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

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

Let's try it again.

All right, here we go.

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

- Did you see that? - Wow.

- Yeah. - You see it?

That is the Meissner Effect!

Yes.

When we placed the ceramic right over the center

of the dish and the magnet,

it immediately pushed itself away and to the side.

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

but it was like the ceramic levitated away.

The fact that it seemed

to levitate away from the magnetic field

suggests, potentially,

that it could be superconducting.

Fantastic.

We still have no idea

what the massive object and other anomalies

that we've detected in the mesa are yet.

But could they really be covered

with superconductive ceramic materials that can absorb heat,

like the protective coatings on spacecraft?

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

472 feet in there?

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

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

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

- Let's do it. - All right.

Next, Erik devised a test to see if another sample

of the ceramic material would repeat a crazy result

we got a couple of weeks ago

when we examined it with a scanning electron microscope.

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

a bunch of holes mysteriously appeared.

But when we turned the beam off,

the surface transformed back to its original state.

All right, let's do this thing.

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

Sure.

We want to be sure that it wasn't simply

an optical illusion in the scanning electron microscope,

and that the holes really did open

and then close back up

on the surface of the ceramic material.

So, we're going to repeat the experiment

with another ceramic sample to see

if the same thing happens again.

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

with actual gold to act as a protective coating.

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

the gold covering is distinctively different.

Yeah, yeah. I can see it.

So, I'll put this in the chamber.

We wanted to see if the electron beam

from the scanning electron microscope

would cause holes to appear in the gold-covered portion

of the sample, as well as the uncovered portion.

And if holes do appear on both sides,

we want to see what happens to them

when the beam is turned off.

So now I can turn on the electron beam

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

Yeah, there we go.

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

Wow!

It's already starting to open up.

Actively changing.

So, we've got a dramatic change,

as we've seen before,

on the uncoated portion of the sample.

Yeah. That is really interesting.

I want to move just onto the gold.

So we can clearly see the surface.

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

Well, look here.

- Are you seeing some change? - Yeah.

- Slowly. - Yeah.

It's tearing it apart.

It is definitely changing.

- Yeah. - You can tell.

We're getting through the gold

- into the surface of the material. - Yeah.

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

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

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

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

- Let's do it. - Okay.

I didn't know science could be so suspenseful.

Right? See?!

All right, here we go.

There's the spot.

- Still see the tears. - I would agree.

You can see the tears in the gold.

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

Can you bring up a screenshot of this area

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

And look at that.

I don't believe it.

So only the holes

on the uncovered side have gotten smaller.

Which suggests that the ceramic material opened up

under the gold coating,

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

And then when it went back to the ground state,

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

Wow.

This is not some optical illusion.

It fixed itself again!

This ceramic material

- really does transform. - Yeah.

You can see the disturbance of the gold layer

where it was torn apart.

Those are the tears, man.

How about that?

For the second time now,

an electron beam from a scanning electron microscope caused holes

to appear in the surface of the ceramic material

that came out of the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.

We wanted to verify that a physical change really happened,

and it wasn't an optical illusion.

So Erik coated one half of the ceramic

with a thin layer of gold

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

When the electron beam hit both sides,

holes did appear in both of them.

But when the beam was turned off,

the ceramic seemed to fix itself again

while the holes remained

in the gold-covered portion.

This proves it was no optical illusion,

and the ceramic really did transform.

So, what is this stuff?

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

Yeah, we have a standard ceramic

that we can put into the instrument.

I'll get that ready.

In order for us all to believe what we had seen,

Erik prepared another normal, everyday ceramic sample

to repeat the process in the scanning electron microscope.

We wanted to see if the same thing would happen

to this common household ceramic, as well.

What we'll be looking at is

just how does the ceramic sample respond under the beam.

So, these are kind of like

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

- Yes. - Yup.

Okay, so,

the reference ceramic is in position number five.

- All right, here we go. - Okay.

This looks like normal ceramic.

This is not what we were seeing with the samples

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

Totally different.

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

Gives us a sanity check, right?

- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah.

No holes opening up at all.

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

has, you know, different properties than these ceramics.

That's for sure.

The regular ceramic sample showed no change

from being hit with the electron beam

in the scanning electron microscope.

It's what we expected,

but it also corroborated how special

the ceramics that came from the mesa actually are.

Here's the thing. Why was it so hard

to drill through whatever this stuff is?

Is it the ceramic,

or is it something else, and this was just,

like, the outer hole layer,

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

I think these ceramics

might be covering the surface

of something pretty incredible.

Yeah.

These tests have given us more evidence

that the ceramics we pulled out of the mesa

can absorb massive amounts of heat,

may be able to conduct endless amounts of energy,

and have a strange ability to transform their surfaces.

So, what could that suggest about the massive object

that's buried inside the mesa?

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

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

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

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

Along with the ceramics we found

in our mesa drilling spoils,

we also found a bunch of strange metal pieces.

So, with this, you guys are

most interested in the elemental makeup of it?

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

So, after the test results of the ceramics,

which we believe

could be from the massive object buried in the mesa,

Erik wanted to examine a sample of the metal.

You'll see there's a region

where I've scraped the surface

so that we can get down to the material underneath

what might be a corrosive or an oxide layer.

Erik scratched the surface of the metal

so that when we examine it

in the scanning electron microscope,

we could find out the elements that made up not only

its surface, but also its interior.

That might help us figure out

what the metal would be used for.

So, this is the elemental breakdown?

It's iron and... iron.

So, that first scan, though, was really

of the cut part, right?

Yeah, that was just a point

right here where the cut was cleanest.

So let me shift up here.

Yeah, let's scan the outer layer.

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

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

A lot of aluminum.

Which suggests that there's an aluminum coating.

- All right? - Because you're seeing less aluminum

- in the cut... - Yeah.

- than you are on the surface. - Yeah.

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

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

Every one of the space experiments that I've flown

that was exposed to the vacuum of space

was coated with aluminum oxide.

- Okay. - Yeah.

The oxide of aluminum forms this clear,

nonconductive, very tough surface.

So, as we're building satellites right now,

we're getting ready to put them up,

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

Very common both for the components, for the structures.

- Yeah. - Yup.

That's interesting.

Over the past three decades, I've worked on a number

of projects in the aerospace industry involving rockets

and advanced propulsion systems for spacecraft.

The metal and the ceramic materials

we pulled out of the mesa are very similar

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

of reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.

When did they start using aluminum oxide on things?

When did you see that start to show up?

If we talked about the space program,

the Apollo missions.

But that would be in the '60s.

Yup.

So, how did this get in there,

into the mesa?

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

- Right. - And if Chris Roberts is right,

and that was a sign of an archaeological dig,

what were they digging out of there?

And it's very interesting that we're seeing

a material that could be similar

to what the space program was using at the time.

I mean, you could speculate all day long

that, something crashed there,

in the mesa, and they would have come

and taken it and covered it all up because

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

A couple of weeks ago,

archaeologist Chris Roberts found a 1964 U.S. nickel

in the drilling spoils, and informed us

that it is a common practice to leave a new coin

in the backfill as a time stamp

to indicate when an official dig was completed.

So, given the stunning test results

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

right where we believe a massive object is buried,

Thomas's suggestion that they could have been related

to our 1960s space program really makes you wonder.

Did something of ours crash there,

and the government covered it up?

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

is it possible they found something there

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

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

to uncover whatever is inside there.

You know, we really appreciate the access

to the lab today, Dr. Patchett.

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

to investigate new things.

Something new in science is always exciting.

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

than making a new observation or discovery.

- Yes, sir. - Right?

Well, we've got a final experiment

of the year to prepare for.

Yeah, I think let's

grab our stuff and let's head on back.

All right.

- Thank you very much. - Yeah.

Here they come.

Hey, fellas.

We're absolutely committed

to figuring out what's in the mesa.

But since we've stopped

our drilling operation so that we don't

damage whatever is buried in there,

we're turning our attention to another huge mystery

on Skinwalker Ranch... the bubble.

So two days after our visit to the lab,

Kevin Devoll and his pyrotechnics team

from Red Devil Pyro,

along with technologist Dave Mason,

and some high-speed camera experts from a company

called Kron, came out

to help us conduct our final experiment of the year.

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

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

We're going to be energizing the environment

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

Aside from the buried objects in the mesa,

the bubble is literally the biggest mystery

we've been working to figure out.

According to multiple infrared scanning devices,

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

and has a 2,000-foot radius.

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

including the mesa drill site,

where we've detected strange radio frequency signals,

experienced bizarre equipment failures

and seen a bunch of UAPs.

Some with our own eyes,

and some that were only visible on thermal cameras.

Our goal is to put

a lot of light, smoke, debris, energy

into these anomalous areas

and monitor them with high-speed cameras

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

So, we have several fuel mines.

They're going to have a various amount

of gasoline and really coarse,

slow-burning, black powder in them.

Okay.

For today's experiment,

Kevin and his team will place four explosive fuel mines

at the triangle and five more

at the western boundary of the bubble near Homestead Two.

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

which will then produce perfectly circular smoke rings

that will rise up through the interior

and around the exterior of the bubble.

We'll be looking for changes in the smoke rings

that might suggest they're making contact

with something invisible to the naked eye.

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

getting sensors ready, tables ready, explosives ready.

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

As all of the explosions are set off

and the smoke rings rise up...

All right, I'm getting power.

technologist Dave Mason will be recording them

with FLIR thermal cameras,

that may be able to identify

whatever is affecting the smoke rings.

In addition to thermal cameras,

the team from Kron will be using high-speed cameras

to record images of the entire experiment

at 1,400 frames per second.

The 4K cameras are doing 12 gigapixels per second.

And the older generation cameras are doing 2.1.

That's a smoking-hot data rate.

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

When the experiment is finished,

we'll have all that data

to scour through for any UAPs or other strange things.

We're going to hook the rest of these up

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

And while Erik monitors everything near the triangle,

I'm equipping my Jeep with spectrum analyzers

so if we do detect any strange radio frequency signals,

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

where they're coming from.

Well, we got the Jeep

finally rigged up to be the mobile science platform.

- We're ready to go. - Good.

We've got charges set in four fuel mines.

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

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

Let's break and get with it.

- Okay. -All right. - All right.

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

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

So, hopefully, this experiment will deliver.

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

All right, everybody, here we go in

five, four, three, two, one.

Wow.

Look at that weird figure eight it's making.

Hey, Travis, that definitely

looks more dispersed than what they normally look like.

- Isn't that strange? - Yeah.

That's definitely not your average ring.

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

It's just kind of

an ominous-looking ball of smoke.

I've shot upwards of several hundred fireballs.

Never seen the smoke look like that.

That was a pretty good distortion right there.

Yeah, it came out like a figure eight

instead of a smoke ring at first.

Any typical time

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

Here, we had no wind.

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

There could be definitely an influence on the equipment

or on the effects, but

there's no explanation of why these things happened.

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

Okay.

Everybody ready?

I'm ready.

We're good.

Ready!

In five, four, three, two, one.

There's the ring.

Yeah, that first one should have looked

just like that.

It's not at all symmetric.

No!

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

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

- It's usually not separated. - Okay.

Now this was really interesting.

The second smoke ring started off in a perfect circle,

as normally expected.

That'd be, probably right over the top

of the bubble boundary.

Yeah, that's right, Thomas.

Hey, look how it's slanting!

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

right around the top boundary of the bubble,

it was practically split in two.

Is it bumping into the bubble?

Erik, look at it!

- It just broke up. - Yeah.

Like it hit the bubble wall or something.

We couldn't see anything in the moment

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

that maybe the thermal and high-speed cameras did.

What the hell? This basically just reset itself.

Like, I didn't do that.

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

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

What's happening is, basically,

this camera is supposed to be recording

something like 65,000 frames all together.

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

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

This is weird. You would really

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

This is so crazy.

Every time we've run an experiment

in the bubble this year,

different high-tech devices have malfunctioned.

Could whatever messed up the smoke rings have also

somehow caused the high-speed cameras to glitch?

That sounds impossible.

We got a third one queued up, ready.

Okay.

But the best way to try and find out

was to trigger another explosion.

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

All right, well, here we go.

In five, four, three, two,

- one. - Holy crap!

- That is really odd. - Right?

The smoke rings are completely different

than what we normally see.

Wow.

That is really odd.

Have you ever seen anything like that happening?

No, the smoke rings are completely different

than what we normally see.

Wow.

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

We've set off three massive

fireball explosions at the triangle,

which is right in the center of the bubble.

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

seems to have caused the circular smoke rings

to lose their shape.

Is something in the bubble

or its vertical barrier making that happen?

So, should we start moving to other places,

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

is another one here, and simultaneously, one

right at the western bubble boundary.

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

We saw repeated evidence that something at the center

of the bubble might have been affecting the smoke rings.

So, next, while Erik monitored

another explosion at the triangle,

me and Kaleb planned to oversee a second one

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

That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

This year, we've had multiple drones

and even rockets seem to be prevented

from passing through the bubble's boundaries.

It's like the bubble deflected it!

We wanted to see if the smoke rings

would now be affected at both places.

And if so, would something appear

in our data that would tell us why.

So, we got everything prepared to hopefully find out.

Okay. Armed.

So, Mike, you're gonna go with me

and take the high-speed cameras

over to the western boundary of the bubble.

- Sure. - Mike, are you comfortable

that your system is now working?

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

we can work around it.

We're just into this experiment,

and we're already starting to see equipment

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

We can imagine

for a moment that setting off these detonations

could produce some kind of a ripple,

a response in this bubble

and that this disruption could result

in some kind of event that affected our equipment,

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

That implies something purposeful.

We'll be watching this very closely

throughout the course of the experiment.

Hey, Bill, y'all about ready?

- Yes, sir! - Mike,

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

So, we'll set up right here,

and you'll look between these trees.

If you give us a five-minute warning,

that should be plenty of time.

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

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

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

All right. Let's go.

Just have it point straight ahead.

All right.

We're getting a 1.2 gigahertz signal right now.

Hey, Erik, this is Travis. You copy?

Yeah, Travis. What do you got?

Yeah, we're already getting a 1.2 gigahertz signal

down here that's pulsing pretty strong.

Yeah, Travis. I see it.

We had just gotten over

to the western boundary of the bubble,

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

on our spectrum analyzers.

That's weird. Looks like

we're getting the 1.2 gigahertz signal again.

Now, we broadcasted that signal ourselves

during our first bubble experiment earlier this year.

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

It's like something in the bubble

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

Is that even possible?

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

We're set on our end.

Copy that. We'll drop the charge now.

One way to try and figure out

was to launch those next two fireballs

and see what would happen.

Okay, I'm tracking you, Jim.

Erik decided to add Jim Royston's

thermal drone to this leg of the experiment

in the hopes of capturing images of anything above the triangle

after the next round of explosions

that might be invisible to the naked eye.

And Erik and Sam Deriso

were tracking the drone's GPS data

in real time for any strange errors.

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

Start the countdown and go, Bill.

Five, four, three, two,

one.

Fire!

Whoa!

We got a great ring down here.

Did it go at that end?

We have a malfunction in the triangle.

I've never even seen that before.

I don't even know what that is.

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

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

he's never seen it before.

That sounds about right.

Over on the west side of the bubble,

these smoke rings behaved exactly the way they should,

but what's happening in the triangle is,

we had major malfunctions.

That just did not function.

Now Red Devil Pyro is telling us

they've never seen this before,

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

I don't know if they're related,

but we definitely had a lot of issues.

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

I've got a red point just now.

Jim, have you hit errors?

Yup. I'm getting satellite errors.

Wow.

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

I'm coming straight down, Erik.

Okay.

Is the bubble preventing us

from proceeding with collecting the data?

Or there may, in fact, be a connection with

the 1.2 gigahertz signal emerging

in the timeframe when we've begun detonations.

We want to keep a very close eye

on what's going on as we continue

to do these detonations.

I've got to tell you,

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

Yeah.

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

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

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

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

- Go for Kevin. - Yeah, Kevin.

Go ahead and arm your system

and let's go ahead and move ahead.

Okay, I'm going to drop the charge,

and then, as soon as I get back

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

If it really was something on the ranch

that made the last ignition at the triangle glitch,

Tom asked Kevin to arm it again.

The hope was, it would explode this time,

and maybe reveal the culprit.

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

- right at this charge. - Yeah. Yeah.

Good idea.

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

in five, four,

three, two, one.

- My God. - Man.

- Wow. - Wow.

- Look at that. - Look at that.

Wow.

That's pretty crazy.

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

Hey, Erik,

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

Wow.

That's not normal.

Hey, Erik, when that detonation went off,

we had a 1.6 gigahertz signal spike.

Yeah, copy that, Travis.

We're seeing things from the triangle all the way

at the south tower now.

What in the world is happening tonight?

We had just seen more evidence of something messing

with our equipment all across the ranch, as well

as the smoke rings near the western boundary of the bubble

by Homestead Two and over at the triangle.

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

on our spectrum analyzers.

We've detected that strange signal so many times

during our investigation,

including at the mesa drill site.

A spot that's also inside the bubble

and right between where we had our

two fire ignition stations set up.

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

We didn't know where the 1.6 gigahertz signal

or the 1.2 gigahertz signal

that we detected earlier came from.

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

along the western barrier of the bubble.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

Yeah, Travis. What's up?

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

Jim, want to get the drone up?

Yeah, Travis. That's affirmative.

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

Copy that.

While we still had our high-speed

and thermal cameras looking

for any phenomenon in and around the bubble,

we also had Jim Royston launch his thermal drone

to focus on the smoke ring and look for anything

that might alter its formation.

Bill, if you're ready,

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

All right, in five, four,

three, two,

-Here we go.

Wow.

Man.

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

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

It never formed.

It could well be

that that boundary is playing a role

in the shaping of that cloud.

Yeah.

This was the strangest result yet.

After the massive explosion,

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

Nothing appeared in Jim's thermal video,

so, was it just a glitch?

Or could the bubble's barrier have done that?

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

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

All right, let's go.

We had three ignitors left to find out.

So, we decided to position them in a line

and see what would happen with each one

as we ignited them all simultaneously.

Michael, are you setting up for the high-speed

on the explosions here?

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

All right, Travis, we got our charges dropped.

Copy that. We're ready down here.

Is Jim gonna put his drone in the air?

Drone is in the air.

The camera is on your position now.

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

In five, four,

three, two, one.

Wow!

Ha!

My God, that was awesome.

Erik, did you guys see that from down there?

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

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

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

It's kind of weird.

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

Yeah, that's really strange.

Hey, Bill, can you verify

that the third charge actually went?

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

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

did not go.

Wow! Three totally different results.

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

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

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

Could the bubble or something related to it

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

What is that?!

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

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

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

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

I don't know what it was.

Okay, there it is. There it is.

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

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

What the...? This could be two,

traveling essentially the same path.

This is really weird.

What was that?

It's something I cannot explain.

- That's amazing. - The objects I observed

in my differential FLIR look elongated,

and had a temperature above the nominal background.

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

I know what they all look like in thermal cameras.

This didn't look like any of those objects.

It was not something that can be explained

under natural phenomenon.

My God, that was weird.

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

temperature anomalies forming.

I see it. I see it.

Right at the mesa ridgeline.

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

- Yeah. - Just on the ridge.

I can clearly see that difference.

What Dave's camera showed next was even more stunning.

Right after two UAPs flew

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

a wave of thermal energy swept across the mesa ridgeline.

Something above the ridgeline appeared very hot,

and then suddenly became colder.

Were they related to the UAPs?

Could all of these things have come from the bubble

and stopped our explosions from making smoke rings

like they were supposed to?

Erik, we're going to wrap everything up

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

Yeah, we'll see you down here.

What we saw tonight

in real time with all the equipment failures,

the weird formations in the smoke rings,

strange signals and UAPs

was incredible. I just hope

that our high-speed cameras were able

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

Whoo! I tell you what.

Well, I think we just witnessed

the most energetic events we've set off

in the entire time we've worked together here.

Well, the things that we saw

when the multiple shots went off in the barrier.

I mean, they just kind of just broke apart,

as soon as they came out of the tube.

Michael had some issues with the high-speed camera.

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

some kind of phantom manipulation

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

- we've seen that. - No.

- Incredible. - So, Kevin,

typical, atypical, crazy?

What do you think?

You know, seeing the rings not act normal.

Um, also, one of the other things...

you know, our connectivity issues were a problem

with the fuel mine explosives.

Something

really has been messing with the GPS signals

around the perimeter of the bubble.

Wow.

Yeah, GPS continues to be

a great canary for whatever is going on here.

Yeah.

Dave picked up some really interesting things.

Yeah, we had a rolling

thermal anomaly along the mesa.

- Wow. - Got that on recording.

Wow, that's crazy.

Who knows what kind of data we'll see

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

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

- All right. - All right, great.

Good job, everybody, great night.

Yeah, great job.

Let's load up,

pack everything up, and head out.

Between our discoveries of the bubble

and the ceramic materials that came out of the mesa,

this year is proving more than ever

that Skinwalker Ranch is home

to a very real and surreal mystery,

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

in the data that we collected tonight.

There are some features that set the results of this year

apart from the results of previous years.

I'm talking about the ceramics, the metals,

and of course that abstract bubble structure of some kind

where we see things happening or changing

as we cross into or out of that boundary.

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

There's so much going on at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're confirming that which is unseen,

such as the mysterious bubble above the ranch,

and not only is this ceramic material manufactured,

but the properties of this material react strangely

under analysis.

We are more focused and determined than ever

to get the answers

to what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch.

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