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Why was it so hard to drill through

whatever this stuff is?

I think these ceramics might be covering the surface

of something pretty incredible.

- Ooh. That was warm. - Wow!

Look at that weird figure eight it's making.

That definitely looks

more dispersed than what they normally look like.

Isn't that strange?

Wow.

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

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

It could well be that that bubble

- is playing a role in the shaping of that cloud. - Yeah.

What is that?

Look at that. There it goes.

That's what I'm talking about.

- It's something I cannot explain. - That's amazing.

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.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone

for their engagement, for taking the time out of their busy lives

to come together today for this very critical briefing,

as we dive into, I think, the most compelling evidence

relative to the reality

of what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch.

Jay, I appreciate you pulling together a team

of esteemed experts to help us better understand

what we have documented at the ranch.

Well, I appreciate it.

I think this is gonna be a really good review

because the folks we've brought together.

We're trying to get the experts in their fields so that

we can solve Skinwalker Ranch.

As the strangest year yet

in our team's investigation

on Skinwalker Ranch comes to an end,

Brandon Fugal gathered us

in Salt Lake City to review the results

of our latest experiment

and discuss all the incredible discoveries we've made.

And joining us were several high-profile guests,

including my former boss

from the UAP Task Force, Jay Stratton.

Jay is a retired army intelligence officer

who oversaw Robert Bigelow's investigation

of Skinwalker Ranch for the federal government

in the early 2000s.

A good leader brings and surrounds themselves

with the experts that can answer the questions, right?

And so, I brought in Dr. Eric Davis,

who was part of EarthTech

and part of the original DIA UFO program.

Your work, Dr. Davis,

laid the foundation, in many respects,

for what we are doing today.

Thank you.

Dr. Eric Davis is an astrophysicist

with 40 years of government and private sector experience

in space exploration and military intelligence.

He was also part of Robert Bigelow's ranch investigation.

Along with him,

I've got Dr. Garry Nolan, who participated

- through the DIA program years... - Yeah.

And into the UAP Task Force.

Dr. Garry Nolan

is a professor at Stanford University

and worked with me and Jay on the government's UAP Task Force

to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena

that many of our military members

have reported encountering in recent years

across the globe and even on Skinwalker Ranch.

And Mr. Eric Schrock, who is an aerospace expert and

one of those guys I call when I need some help

when it comes to advanced technologies.

I have a 30-plus-year background

in the development of advanced aerospace systems.

And I'm really excited to be here today

and see what all we can find out.

- Well, we appreciate your insights. - Thank you.

And to have General Lord here

from the Space Command side of it is,

- you know, it's just amazing. - Thank you, Jim.

Lance Lord, former commander of Air Force Space Command.

My background as commander

of Air Force Space Command comes from

the intercontinental ballistic missile missions,

nuclear strategy work in the Pentagon.

And my job as the chairman of OmniTeq and with support

of Brandon Fugal and the whole team is

to make sure we drive the resources

to help the investigative process.

So, it's great to be here.

Appreciate that. I think

bringing together

a multidisciplinary team of experts

will help us carry the investigation forward.

Well, with that, Erik Bard,

I'm going to turn the time to you.

You know, just to set the stage for the discussion,

we're talking about particularly

interesting data where we're seeing things happen with

our instrumentation that has indicated

what I would say is a structure in the data itself.

We've been calling that "the bubble."

I've created a conceptual model of the bubble.

Let me bring it up.

This is derived from lidar data

from Pete Kelsey's terrestrial laser scanner.

Wow.

How big across?

And how far above the ranch?

610-meter radius.

It's about 2,000 feet.

Okay.

Of all the crazy things we've discovered

over the past six years,

a massive, invisible bubble,

which we have repeatedly detected

with infrared lidar devices,

covering a huge area of the ranch

above and below the ground is at the top of the list.

It encompasses several hot spots

where we've seen tons of UAPs...

- You seeing this? - Yes.

And detected strange radio frequency signals

that may actually be communication signals.

Whatever this thing is, it appears to have stopped

numerous instruments, including drones and rockets,

from entering its barriers to collect data.

And we've speculated that the area at its center,

which is right at the strange spot we call "the triangle,"

has prevented our devices from collecting GPS data

inside the bubble and even above it up to about 3,200 feet.

One of the questions that keeps coming up is,

what happens if we attempt to energize

the interior and the barriers of this bubble

with a lot of thermal energy?

Would it respond to something that we do?

Particularly, if it's very energetic?

Well, that was our target for the final experiment.

- Holy crap. - A few days ago,

we welcomed a team of pyrotechnic experts

to create massive fireballs

that produced mushroom clouds followed by perfect smoke rings

at the center of and along the bubble's barriers.

As the smoke rings rose from the ground

up to as much as 300 feet high,

thermal camera expert Dave Mason

used his specialized cameras

to see how the smoke rings were affected by the bubble.

The smoke rings are

completely different than what we normally see.

During the experiment,

a number of the smoke rings seemed

to have been affected by strange things

we couldn't see with the naked eye.

So we were eager to share surveillance and drone videos

with our guest experts while we assessed other data

that we captured during the experiment.

So, I'm gonna show us one of those

detonations there at the triangle.

Let's watch what happens

to a detonation that should produce

a mushroom cloud

and a fully formed ring but does not.

- Wow. - Look at that.

Look at... look at the shape of this.

It's really strange.

It should be a perfect circle,

but something turned it into a figure eight.

And this completely shocked the explosives crew.

It's certainly suggestive that

that explosion, or that mushroom cloud,

was interacting with something on the way up.

- Yeah. - Right.

So, did you notice

another type of phenomena somewhere else

at the same time these were going on?

Yes.

This is a great segue because

I have an example of a surveillance camera positioned

east of the triangle that captured

something above the bubble.

Let's watch this.

- That thing in the middle? - Yes.

- There it is. - Wow.

Where did it go?

'Cause those are the only clouds

- in the sky right there. - Right.

I'll play it again.

Immediately after the fireball explosion,

a bright white UAP showed up out of thin air.

Is that what caused the smoke ring

to go from a perfect circle, as it normally should,

to an odd figure eight?

And if so, did it come from the bubble?

So we did some of this in the day

so we could watch the smoke ring easily

and then again at night

with, you know, infrared instruments.

Let's watch what happens.

Two simultaneous detonations.

Now look how

they look completely different as they form.

Fascinating.

And then here, during this moment, we saw something seeming

to sweep across the ridgeline of the mesa

in what we call a differential FLIR camera system.

And I want to put your eyes on this.

This is a thermographic system

that is looking at temperature changes

in the field of view of the camera.

And you'll see areas of brightness

moving across the ridgeline of the mesa.

Yeah, you can see it.

- So, it's that yellow? - Kind of snaking across?

It moves across, right?

Yes. That yellow line indicates increased heat.

And just as curiously, it's moving from left to right.

This is really interesting.

It's-it's fascinating.

Yeah, interestingly enough,

right before, we saw two UAPs

headed west towards Homestead Two.

Hey, Erik, come here

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

Seconds before the thermal energy appeared

to sweep across the mesa,

two UAPs showed up in one of our thermal cameras

and flew west across the top of the mesa

and over the drill site towards Homestead Two.

They were stunning.

But they may have been connected to another even stranger event.

Okay, so, Sam, I'm going to bring up your data,

- and I want you to talk us through it. - Sure.

So, we have multiple data sensor locations throughout the ranch.

We call them the multiphysics boxes.

And if you see the map in the upper left-hand corner,

that shows you the positions of the fixed GPS sensors

set up at each of these locations.

What you're seeing in the upper left-hand corner

is Homestead Two.

Right now we're just talking about these GPS sensors.

- I see. - Now watch what appears

to happen to this GPS sensor

while we were experiencing that thermal anomaly.

- Wow. - Wow.

So, remember, these are stationary GPS trackers.

- What? - Look at that.

And this is happening

in tandem with this thermal anomaly?

Yes.

This is... That's-that's

- a couple miles. - That's at least

- three miles due north. - Yeah.

It keeps going, guys.

Just watch.

Where is it taking us?

Where's the GPS going?

About 20 miles to the north.

Geez.

It looks like it was being pushed away

from something.

Absolutely.

Just after we set off two explosions last week

near the western boundary of the bubble,

one of our thermal cameras picked up two UAPs flying

over the mesa towards Homestead Two.

But then the data from a stationary GPS sensor

near Homestead Two inexplicably began moving north

for nearly 20 miles.

The sensor never actually moved.

So how did the GPS data think it was moving away?

Did the UAPs we saw heading that way

somehow move the GPS data?

Or was it the bubble or its boundary that caused this?

Yeah, so, we're encountering these

exceptional events in and around this bubble structure.

Let me just put it back up.

When we take instruments through this bubble boundary,

the instruments act up.

Sometimes we get corrupted data.

Sometimes we get strange measurements

that the instrument shouldn't be giving us.

For example, with GPS,

it thinks it's miles away

- from where it is. - Yeah, and we're talking

about something that is repeatable.

Yes.

Every time we do

any kind of experimentation,

we have our standard set of equipment, sensors and so forth.

And we've really been pressing drone platforms into service.

And, you know, Jim Royston is very often piloting the drone.

And in this region that you see here

colored in red in the western bubble boundary,

that being Homestead Two, you know, we've had

very strange things happen.

- Would you like to describe that, Jim? - Yeah, so,

I'll talk about one incident.

Flying the drone from the west side of Homestead Two

through the western side of the boundary,

the drone gets to this, you know,

boundary or this membrane,

and it was just like something stopped it.

Yeah. It's as if it was caught

by something in midair.

What happened to Jim's drone this year

when he tried to fly it through

the western boundary of the bubble

was one of the most bizarre events we've ever witnessed.

You see that? Every time I try

to push through the barrier, look what happens.

It's like it's pushing you back.

The drone stayed frozen there in the air.

But when we reviewed the video,

somehow it thought it got pushed more than 200 feet away,

just like what happened with the GPS data

from our smoke ring experiment.

That is not wind.

No. There's no way.

Okay, so now I want to show you another place

where our anomalies tend to cluster.

The location you see here

bordering on the Dry Gulch Creek

in the south field near the southern boundary of the bubble.

The south field is one of the strangest places

on the ranch and is where we've encountered all kinds

of disturbing phenomena.

Whoa! What was that purple light over there?

Like UAPs...

According to the GPS, you're 5,000 feet underground.

That's crazy, man.

Erroneous GPS data...

Look at those fangs.

We got a dead animal right here!

And even the carcass of a mysterious wolflike creature

that we found in Dry Gulch Creek.

But this year,

when we investigated the southern boundary

of the bubble near the creek,

we were totally stunned by what we found.

So, Travis, I think it would be appropriate

to talk about what we've experienced

- this year with the river walk. - Yeah.

Well, you know, we started right there

where the bubble, crosses Dry Gulch Creek.

We took kayaks and instrumented them with GPS,

gamma ray detection equipment, we had a sonar,

TriField meters, and as we moved down

the creek, those TriField meters went to zero

and maintained that measurement without fluctuating at all.

Guess what the dadgum TriField meter's reading right now.

- What? - Zero, zero.

As we approached the barrier of the bubble, first,

the gauges on our radiation detectors went to zero.

Any normal environment should yield small readings

for radiation.

It was like we were in some kind of dead zone.

And then the data

from our GPS sensors dove deep below the ground.

Jim, I'd like to have you comment

about the experiences that you've had

in this part of the, the ranch.

Yeah, and in particular,

the day you were doing the river walk, I was

ten feet outside the bubble with my base station,

flying the drone just outside of it.

And we got just enormous amounts of anomalous activity.

After what we experienced

with the instruments in our kayaks,

we had Jim see if he would be able

to fly his drone through the southern barrier of the bubble.

Okay, this is an interesting one, everybody.

It thinks there's an aircraft approaching

and doesn't want to go do its flight plan.

It was just unbelievable.

The drone was reporting a warning signal

that some kind of aircraft was nearby.

But there was nothing that we could see.

So, was it the bubble's barrier that the drone detected,

or maybe an invisible UAP that came from the bubble?

How many, different instruments

have exhibited an anomalous response to the bubble?

Lord.

- All of 'em. - Every one we have.

Every single instrument we've got, I think.

That's not an exaggeration.

Anything technological seems to respond

to this membrane or bubble boundary.

So, how tight

- is the boundary? - We don't know.

And we don't know that it's not fluctuating,

or it may be rippling irregularly.

So we really don't know.

BRANDON; Also, there is

some correlation, it appears,

between the bubble and the potential

unidentified aerial phenomena or UFO activity

that seems to appear above this ranch

simultaneous with experimental activity.

Yes, like what we saw during

the laser experiments with Nu-Salt, right?

Absolutely. We've literally energized

the bubble with this laser beam current,

- and we see a reaction. - Wow.

Okay, so let's take a look.

Okay, so let's take a look.

This is from

the laser experiments with Nu-Salt, right?

Yes. We talked about energizing the bubble.

You know, dump some energy into this thing,

like we did with those explosive detonations.

And the idea is that we may see changes.

We had six sets of

red, blue and green two-kilowatt lasers

that put beams up into the air from east to west,

beaming up through and across the bubble.

And we actually had something fly through

- one of the lasers. - That's right.

In order to see how different colored laser beams

might be affected when they were projected through the bubble,

a team from Nu-Salt Lasers

set up 18 laser cannons all around the ranch.

We're going to turn the lasers on.

- Whoa. - Right there.

Whoa. We got something moving.

After a UAP appeared right

at the start of the experiment, a number of the laser cannons

started malfunctioning and shutting off

for no explainable reason.

But then a member of the Nu-Salt team,

who was stationed at the drill site, snapped

one of the most incredibly timed photos

we've ever seen on Skinwalker Ranch.

What is that?

A UAP actually flying through one of the lasers.

So, did the UAPs we saw that night come

from inside the bubble

and cause all those equipment malfunctions?

We are documenting

technology and

manipulation of our systems

that really has no easy explanation.

- Correct? - Right.

We better hope it's aliens, right?

'Cause if it's our near peers,

then they've got a capability that we don't have.

These are serious questions.

- Yep. - I mean, really serious.

Even more reason why we need to do what we're doing.

So, let's go

to the eastern boundary of this bubble structure

and talk about what we've experienced

in our engagement here.

So, we had a... what we call helikite.

It's a, a helium ballon

that's also affixed to a kitelike fixture.

Little bit more.

The helikite was an attempt

to take a sustained collection of data

in the barrier of the bubble.

Thomas towed it on a UTV and parked it

at an altitude of about 200 feet right in the eastern barrier.

There, it was collecting GPS data

and transmitting a radio frequency signal

at 1.2 gigahertz for us to monitor for interference.

Well, first, our GPS data somehow got pushed

several hundred feet underground,

just like we've seen at other parts of the bubble's barrier.

And then we detected a second 1.2 gigahertz signal...

Wow. Look at that.

As if something had cloned our signal

and sent it back at us.

Who or what could have done that?

That was unbelievable. You know, just...

The behavior was completely crazy.

During this experiment,

we set rockets up there and launched them

due west to fly through the barrier.

It really looked

like there is some kind of shield there.

We could hardly believe it

when the bubble's barriers seemed

to stop Jim Royston's drone from entering it.

But during this helikite experiment,

it appeared to do the same thing to our rockets.

The first one that we launched at the bubble

turned and flew north around the perimeter.

Rocket's hot.

Look out! It went the wrong way!

And the second rocket looked like it was deflected

in the opposite direction and flew to the south.

What is this thing?

I got some interesting hits

in the high-speed cameras.

We still don't know that answer.

But when we checked our high-speed camera video

taken during the experiment, once again

we captured images of something that may be connected to it.

That is just unbelievable.

The bubble... it's bizarre. Extremely bizarre.

Let me tell you how I get my head around this.

I say, either there is something

about this bubble that is affecting the rocket,

or it is affecting the things, like, perhaps UAPs,

that affect the rocket.

I think poking the hornet's nest,

which we all kind of chuckled about initially,

has led us to having hard, actionable data...

- Yeah. - Documenting the reality

of what we're seeing.

You know,

we've taken so many data points

around the periphery, inside, outside the bubble.

I can't wait till you guys really

see us start painting that more.

Well, we're using

some of the most advanced scientific equipment

in service to mapping this anomaly,

and something is happening.

What's the next set

of preliminary data that needs to be created moving forward?

So, where the boundary crosses

the driveway on the east side here,

we started right there placing poles

every 42 and a half meters from each other.

We start at the driveway. That's post one.

And the idea,

at least for future reference,

is that each one of these posts

that are numbered has a sensor packet on it,

real time, always monitoring.

Gentlemen, I mentioned at the outset of our meeting

that, you know, there were basically two kinds

of deliverables coming out of our work this year.

There is the measurement side of things,

the observational side of things,

but also a very physical side.

There is one location in particular

that we've been focusing on, as you know,

and this is what we refer to as the drill site.

The drilling activity

has been a key aspect of our investigation

and our focus, spanning years,

to unearth what really lies beneath the mesa.

We inherited a narrative

of all kinds of underground features below the ranch.

Everything from vast tunnel systems

to even as far as underground bases.

And we have gone exploring, looking for something

that might fit

this description.

And what happened instead was

our drill ended up hitting a hard object

that we didn't anticipate.

At the mesa drill site,

our drill ended up hitting

a hard object that we didn't anticipate.

I could actually bring up a visual

of that ground-penetrating radar data.

So, if you look right at this picture

that Erik's got up here,

this is what the GPR data tells us is in the mesa.

Wow.

We determined the best route would be,

rather than trying to destroy the object that we're trying

to study, it would be better to go

up each side of it.

For the last three years,

we've been drilling into the mesa,

where we detected what appears to be a massive object

that's surrounded by a number of smaller anomalies.

And after finding manufactured metal flakes

in the drilling spoils back in 2021,

we devised a plan to create two boreholes on either side

of the large object

that would run all the way up through the mesa.

Then we could insert scanning devices to better study

what these buried things actually are.

Check that out.

Despite a lot of strange drilling malfunctions,

we were able to complete Borehole 1 last year.

But things got a lot crazier and even more amazing this year

as we drilled Borehole 2.

So it's great to be able to show other scientific experts

what we found this year and see what they think.

We ended up finding, metal flakes in the spoils

that came out of the mesa.

You know, the analysis of these flakes

suggests that they have some very interesting

trace elements in them.

Yeah, the material

was mostly tellurium on one side and europium on the other.

Also, there's vanadium in it.

And what's interesting is,

the metals appeared to be

most likely manufactured in a blast furnace.

So how did those things get

hundreds of feet inside the mesa?

How far inside the mesa?

As best as we can gauge, somewhere between

200 and 300 feet into the mesa horizontally.

That's remarkable.

Yeah.

And it's almost

like something crashed

there in the mesa

and created all these little debris chunks.

That's what this GPR data looks like.

So, what you're finding

makes absolutely no sense. It is truly anomalous.

- Yeah. - Well,

as we continue those drilling exercises,

we hit something that actually broke the drill

- in Borehole 2. - That's right.

The drill rod hit something,

and they couldn't move forward,

and they put, like,

15,000 pounds of pressure

against it for 30 minutes

and it didn't move.

Frankly, we don't know

what the heck it is that's turning this...

see, this is a brand-new drill bit...

into this, or I should say this.

Wow, that thing is damaged.

Holy crap, dude.

Tooth is almost completely gone.

As the team from Mark Construction Drilling

worked on Borehole 2,

at several different spots, they hit

obstructions that destroyed their drill bits.

These bits are designed to cut through steel and granite.

It's completely

- welded shut. - It's friction-welded.

That's crazy.

And when Borehole 2 finally

reached almost 470 feet in,

the drill hit something

that actually caused the bit to wear down

and fuse to the drill rod

like they were welded together.

But the weird thing is, is the beacon

stayed at 73 degrees the whole time.

But here's the really crazy thing.

The friction needed to cause that kind of damage

should have heated the drill bit

up to over 2,000 degrees,

but it came out completely cool to the touch.

Something very strange had absorbed all that heat.

Take a look at these.

The drillers have never seen anything like this.

They said they've never seen that, ever.

Did anything interesting

come out of the sludge of the drill when it was

impacting that at that point in time?

Yes, it did. We hired

an archaeologist to set up professional

sifting areas.

And so, he actually, can tell us all about it. Chris?

My name's Chris Roberts. I'm an archaeologist,

local archaeologist in the Uinta Basin area.

Right in the 472 mark,

they had hit a really hard spot,

and once I got those spoils cleaned up,

then I actually noticed

ceramics that are undeniable material evidence

that something is in the mesa that is not natural.

Wow.

Very interesting.

So, these are some of the specimens that we've collected.

Some of the ceramic materials.

I've, I've enclosed them

in these coin holders,

and we'll just pass those down so you can have a look.

In certain respects, it appears to be

a rather normal

- ceramic composition. - Yep.

What led you to believe that this material

is indeed manufactured?

Well, when you measure

the thickness, it's almost exact

over the entire volume of the material,

which suggests it was machined,

molded, or pressed or something because it's very uniform.

- It's mind-blowing. - Yes.

So, let me bring up an image.

This is, of course, a scanning electron microscope image

of the feature that I think stood out the most to us.

So, if you look at the image,

you can see what appears to be a crosshatching pattern.

And under the scanning electron microscope,

there seems to be even more detail.

Now, this is the interesting thing.

This is a live recording.

It's been accelerated a bit.

This area here was the area exposed

to the electron beam for an extended time.

See how, with the exposure,

you see the change in the surface?

- Wow. - Almost instantly, you start seeing holes

open up.

It's almost like if you take a really dried sponge

and you put it in water.

It expands and opens up.

- Wow. - This is amazing.

Now, when we turned the electron beam

off and let it set for several minutes,

it goes back to the exact same state

that it is at the beginning before exposure.

Look at that.

My gosh.

Now, since this is a reversible process, it does suggest

it's a topology, a geometry that's changing

on its surface.

- It can transform. - Wow.

I have a great deal of experience

in materials characterization,

and I have never seen anything like this.

It's very unusual.

Are there any

materials in the last

few hundred years that would

look like this, especially from the local basin?

No, there's nothing like this,

in the area or anywhere that would match it.

This is real, tangible evidence

of a physical thing, and you have

several pieces of it, right?

Yes. There's even more.

We're just scratching the surface

of the material, literally.

We did a lot of

testing with this material, as you can guess.

Yes.

After all the incredible results

our team has gotten

from testing the ceramic materials

that came out of the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch,

it was pretty validating to see the reactions

of other renowned scientists.

But we were just getting to the most fascinating part.

We still aren't sure what it means.

We ran some other experiments

which were even more surprising.

We dropped the ceramic

over a magnet after freezing it in liquid nitrogen,

and it did hover

like the Meissner effect.

That suggests this could be a superconductor.

So you're gonna freeze the sample?

- Yes. - Yes.

A couple weeks ago,

while running additional lab tests

on the ceramic material at Utah Valley University,

we placed a sample in a dish

of -320 degree Fahrenheit liquid nitrogen.

Notice how it's still boiling off?

Now, a normal ceramic

would have cooled down almost immediately.

But this stuff wouldn't cool down at all,

and the liquid nitrogen kept boiling for several minutes.

It's still boiling away, man. Look at that.

We couldn't believe the heat capacity of this thing.

- Here we go. - See it?

- Wow. - You see it?

- It did drift. - It did drift.

When it did finally cool down,

we put a magnet under another dish

and placed the ceramic right over the center of the magnet.

It literally pushed itself away,

meaning it repelled the magnetic field.

This is called the Meissner effect

and suggests that these ceramics could be superconductors.

Superconductors are cutting-edge materials

that scientists are researching and developing

because they have the ability to conduct energy

without any resistance.

Because of that and their ability to repel

a normal magnetic field,

some scientists believe that one day superconductors

could be used to make vehicles

and even spacecraft with advanced propulsion systems

that don't require rocket fuel.

Is it possible that the ceramics we found

in the drilling spoils are superconductors

and are covering whatever the objects are inside the mesa?

Gentlemen,

what would this mean for science?

It could have very, very wide-reaching implications.

It could possibly unlock new methods of propulsion

and energy that we haven't understood yet.

We get the majority of our energy

from burning things,

and something like this could really set us

on a completely different course for the future,

which I think is one of the things

that's so exciting about it.

Yeah.

I can't say that much better than he did,

but I can essentially say that this type of material would

contribute advancements to photonic

and electronic materials technologies and

take us into new directions

that we haven't imagined yet.

Well, it's an amazing find.

When we took the samples

and had them analyzed,

we did a scanning electron microscope elemental analysis

and based on the materials that is in it,

it looks a lot like the ceramic tiles on the space shuttle.

That's remarkable.

In fact,

whatever it is that's

concealed within that mesa,

all of our fragments that have been retrieved indicate

that they may once have been part of a structure.

So, hopefully

we'll get to the bottom of it and we'll learn more

about what's-what's in the mesa.

I'm wanting to be cautious that we don't

damage that which may lie within the mesa.

Chris,

do you have any advice

or direction for us

as we protect the integrity of this dig site

and prepare for this next year?

Um, you know, preliminarily, I've been looking

at what I would propose for an excavation.

The actual artifacts

seem to start right about where

we get to that intact bedrock level.

So I propose we come from the top of the mesa...

make it safe,

and then we can go and excavate that way

right in through the front of the mesa.

I do believe we'll find plenty more

ceramics in there and then we'll find

whatever else might be in the mesa as well.

We've not only seen physical,

tangible evidence of something unusual

going on inside the mesa, but we're also documenting

for the first time some of the anomalies that confirm

the existence of the bubble above the property.

Now we need to find the answers to why it exists

on Skinwalker Ranch.

Well, gentlemen, in light of the incredible discoveries

that have been made at Skinwalker Ranch most recently

and the direction that we're heading,

we have engaged

with a sister company to OmniTeq.

A sister company who is

a SpaceX integrator...

Wow.

That will aid us in our investigation

and take this research to the next level.

This coming year

we'll place a satellite in orbit.

A satellite that will specifically

focus on the ranch

and take our investigation

to the next level. So, with that,

I'd like to introduce

Chad Brinkley, the CEO of SEOPS, in.

- Hey, Chad. Welcome. - Thank you, Brandon.

Thank you, Brandon, for having me.

Gentlemen.

Now, this is pretty awesome.

Ranch owner Brandon Fugal, Jim Royston,

Sam Deriso, and their colleagues at OmniTeq

have arranged with a space exploration company

known as SEOPS

for a satellite to be launched into orbit

on one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets in the coming months.

And it's going to be dedicated to helping us

in our investigation on Skinwalker Ranch.

I got the call from Brandon

and Jim on this exciting opportunity

to fly a satellite to space

under a very aggressive timeline.

Yes. From space

to ground and air, we have a capability

to push data up, pull data down.

That's our goal.

Yes. So, this is

a Skinwalker Ranch satellite.

This will be a 6U spacecraft.

While small, you can put a lot

of capability in a 6U spacecraft.

A 6U CubeSat

is a class of miniaturized satellites.

These compact units are designed

to carry various instruments, cameras,

and other space-related technologies.

Over the next several months,

we will put together

what each component we could squeeze onto this thing

and have mission success with.

Pretty amazing.

We've detected so many strange

energy signals, anomalies,

and even UAPs between 30 feet and 10,000 feet in the air.

But using rockets, drones and helicopters

to try and pinpoint where they're coming from

is very limited.

Having a 6U satellite in space

that will pass over Skinwalker Ranch once every day

will give our team incredible capabilities

to search for the source of all the phenomena

that we keep encountering on the ranch.

Now we can send all kinds of signals,

GPS data, and more from the ground to space and back,

scouring the entire range in an instant.

This could lead to major revelations about the bubble

and all the things we've seen across the ranch.

Well, we'll look forward

to the weeks ahead, planning

and making this a successful

addition to our

expanded scientific platform and effort.

Yeah. Well, we appreciate you having us, Brandon.

- Thank you so much. - Yes, sir.

Really excited about how the next year's investigation

will come about, and when we're sitting around this table

a year from now,

I'm confident that we will

achieve some great things.

I'm excited. I look forward to it.

And it's going to be unfolding

some more information, and hopefully we'll have

some questions answered, and I know, in science,

we'll have more questions unanswered,

so...

I mean, this summer's investigation was amazing.

I'm thinking, okay, what's next, right?

What's the ranch going to show us?

Well, I think we grow

as a society

from a technological standpoint

when we directly confront the unknown.

What I find so fascinating about

Skinwalker Ranch is that

all of the people who are here

and the people before... Bigelow, et cetera...

have created this environment where science has taken root.

What you guys... Travis, Erik,

and everybody else... have done

is you've created data that allows us to start

to think about conclusions, and that really excites me.

Well, with that, let's open a new chapter,

look forward

to, our future discussions

and collaboration in carrying this investigation forward.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

Onward.

With each season, we see an evolution

of our understanding of the ranch phenomenon.

Our thoughts about what we're engaging with

change sometimes radically,

even with the results of just one experiment.

I think it would be an understatement to say

that our findings this year indicate that we have

a lot more ground and sky to cover.

I've spent most of my life studying science

and theory around the kind of phenomena

that we keep encountering on Skinwalker Ranch.

Heck, I've even written a bunch of

science fiction novels about this crazy stuff.

So being a part of this team is absolutely a dream come true,

and I can't wait to see what the next chapter

of our investigation is going to reveal.

Skinwalker Ranch is different than any other investigation

in history, simply because we've

brought together a diverse group of experts

and scientists to aid

the investigation beyond

what anyone could have imagined in years past.

As we conclude this historic year,

more than ever before, the world's attention

is focused on Skinwalker Ranch.

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