1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:02,958 ERIK: All right, guys, the 1.6 2 00:00:03,125 --> 00:00:04,375 is coming from Homestead Two. 3 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:05,667 TRAVIS: Let's go. 4 00:00:05,875 --> 00:00:08,333 It is coming from straight overhead. 5 00:00:10,208 --> 00:00:13,208 The rocket literally just stopped in midair. That's crazy! 6 00:00:13,375 --> 00:00:14,333 JARED: I'm into something 7 00:00:14,542 --> 00:00:15,708 fairly hard. 8 00:00:15,875 --> 00:00:16,833 THOMAS: We got metal. 9 00:00:17,042 --> 00:00:18,667 Look at this cow, guys. 10 00:00:18,875 --> 00:00:20,500 THOMAS: Its eyes are pure white. 11 00:00:20,625 --> 00:00:21,917 TRAVIS: That's what happens when you get exposed 12 00:00:22,083 --> 00:00:23,417 to microwaves. 13 00:00:23,625 --> 00:00:25,125 Those eyes have ruptured. 14 00:00:25,250 --> 00:00:27,500 There's no way she's seeing out of those. 15 00:00:29,542 --> 00:00:33,125 NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah. 16 00:00:33,292 --> 00:00:35,583 It is considered the epicenter 17 00:00:35,750 --> 00:00:40,500 of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth: 18 00:00:40,667 --> 00:00:42,792 animal mutilations, 19 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,167 bizarre UFO sightings 20 00:00:45,333 --> 00:00:50,250 and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans. 21 00:00:50,417 --> 00:00:52,917 For 20 years, the federal government 22 00:00:53,083 --> 00:00:56,208 tried to find answers and failed. 23 00:00:56,375 --> 00:01:00,292 Now a new team of dedicated scientists, 24 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,208 researchers and experts has taken over. 25 00:01:04,375 --> 00:01:08,375 They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal... 26 00:01:10,875 --> 00:01:14,250 ...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 27 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:21,875 TRAVIS: Hey, here are the boys. 28 00:01:22,083 --> 00:01:24,417 What's up, fellas? 29 00:01:24,583 --> 00:01:27,500 -That was some crazy stuff, man. -ERIK: What's the story? 30 00:01:27,625 --> 00:01:31,375 KALEB: So, the vet looked at the calf's eyes. 31 00:01:32,375 --> 00:01:34,958 And you could see around the base of 'em 32 00:01:35,125 --> 00:01:37,167 where it was hemorrhaging from the inside. 33 00:01:37,292 --> 00:01:40,167 -The eyes were hemorrhaging on the inside? -Yeah. 34 00:01:40,333 --> 00:01:43,000 Yeah, she said that there's swelling on the brain, 35 00:01:43,167 --> 00:01:46,083 and it's a lot of pressure on the eyes, but, yeah, 36 00:01:46,250 --> 00:01:48,833 -it's bleeding around the eyes. -BRYANT: Geez. 37 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,333 Oh, poor thing. 38 00:01:51,750 --> 00:01:54,500 We've been struggling for more than a month now to drill 39 00:01:54,583 --> 00:01:56,500 an eight-inch borehole up through the mesa 40 00:01:56,625 --> 00:01:59,083 where we first encountered a massive dome-shaped object 41 00:01:59,208 --> 00:02:00,667 back in 2021. 42 00:02:00,833 --> 00:02:03,833 According to recent ground-penetrating radar scans, 43 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,458 this thing is also surrounded by several smaller anomalies 44 00:02:07,625 --> 00:02:10,875 and may be composed of metallic materials that are similar 45 00:02:11,042 --> 00:02:15,042 to what NASA has used to protect the surfaces of spacecraft. 46 00:02:15,167 --> 00:02:16,833 So we're attempting 47 00:02:17,042 --> 00:02:19,125 to drill two boreholes through the mesa, 48 00:02:19,292 --> 00:02:22,000 one on each side of the dome-shaped object. 49 00:02:22,125 --> 00:02:23,833 Then we'll insert scanning devices 50 00:02:23,917 --> 00:02:28,458 that will hopefully enable us to identify what it is. 51 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,125 But yesterday the drilling operation was thwarted 52 00:02:32,333 --> 00:02:35,167 once again about 200 feet inside the mesa 53 00:02:35,375 --> 00:02:37,000 when we believe the drill bit made contact 54 00:02:37,208 --> 00:02:39,875 with the dome-shaped object. 55 00:02:40,042 --> 00:02:43,125 And then a calf in the nearby field 56 00:02:43,292 --> 00:02:45,500 suddenly became seriously ill 57 00:02:45,667 --> 00:02:48,125 and showed symptoms of being exposed to an extreme amount 58 00:02:48,292 --> 00:02:50,542 of microwave radiation. 59 00:02:50,708 --> 00:02:54,000 You know, one of the symptoms of... well, of both 60 00:02:54,167 --> 00:02:55,750 microwave exposure 61 00:02:55,917 --> 00:02:59,375 or gamma ray radiation exposure is brain swelling 62 00:02:59,583 --> 00:03:01,000 and bleeding from your eyes 63 00:03:01,167 --> 00:03:02,333 from hemorrhaging behind the eyeball. 64 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:04,833 We didn't detect anything like that. 65 00:03:04,958 --> 00:03:06,375 So, what happened to it? 66 00:03:06,542 --> 00:03:08,500 If there's truly something 67 00:03:08,667 --> 00:03:12,333 that can have an effect that quickly on an animal like that, 68 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:14,917 I mean, that's got to make you pause. 69 00:03:15,083 --> 00:03:16,708 Look, we're drilling into the mesa. 70 00:03:16,875 --> 00:03:18,667 We're breaking ground we never have before. 71 00:03:18,792 --> 00:03:20,250 I mean, I hate to say it. 72 00:03:20,375 --> 00:03:22,208 Is it some sort of a warning shot? 73 00:03:22,375 --> 00:03:24,167 It's pretty crazy. It's concerning. 74 00:03:24,375 --> 00:03:26,375 TRAVIS: The only thing 75 00:03:26,542 --> 00:03:29,458 we can say is, it absolutely correlates with the drilling. 76 00:03:29,625 --> 00:03:31,292 And it's right here at the drill site. 77 00:03:31,458 --> 00:03:33,167 THOMAS: That's a good point. 78 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:34,583 It's all disturbing. 79 00:03:36,042 --> 00:03:37,500 We're often told 80 00:03:37,667 --> 00:03:40,042 that when you dig on the ranch, bad things happen. 81 00:03:40,208 --> 00:03:41,667 (cow lowing) 82 00:03:41,833 --> 00:03:43,167 I have to wonder, after seeing this calf, 83 00:03:43,375 --> 00:03:46,250 if the two are related. 84 00:03:46,417 --> 00:03:48,792 We don't know what we're dealing with inside that mesa. 85 00:03:48,875 --> 00:03:52,250 Look, I've had a lot of health issues related to this ranch. 86 00:03:52,458 --> 00:03:55,000 So this definitely got me on high alert. 87 00:03:55,125 --> 00:03:56,833 Well, it's important to note that 88 00:03:57,042 --> 00:03:59,917 we immediately removed the calf and its mother from the property 89 00:04:00,083 --> 00:04:01,833 as soon as the vet got done. 90 00:04:02,042 --> 00:04:03,000 It's doing much better. 91 00:04:03,208 --> 00:04:04,667 TRAVIS: Good. Okay. 92 00:04:04,792 --> 00:04:06,208 THOMAS: Listen, guys, I'm gonna go back up 93 00:04:06,375 --> 00:04:07,958 on the mesa and check with the drillers. 94 00:04:08,125 --> 00:04:09,708 TRAVIS: All right, Thomas. Keep a walkie with you, man. 95 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:11,083 THOMAS: Yup. 96 00:04:11,250 --> 00:04:12,375 TRAVIS: Today 97 00:04:12,542 --> 00:04:14,167 the drillers are extracting the rods 98 00:04:14,333 --> 00:04:15,750 from the mesa so that we can assess 99 00:04:15,958 --> 00:04:17,833 the drill bit for damage 100 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,833 from possible contact with the dome-shaped object. 101 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,125 Hey, we're down to the last two rods in this hole. 102 00:04:24,292 --> 00:04:26,667 Uh, they'll have this bit out of this hole 103 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:28,250 if you guys want to head up this way 104 00:04:28,417 --> 00:04:30,375 and watch it as it comes out. 105 00:04:30,583 --> 00:04:33,000 Yeah, man. We'll be up there in just a minute. 106 00:04:33,125 --> 00:04:37,458 We're also eager to check out the beacon in the drill bit. 107 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:41,333 This device sends a signal to a receiver on the surface 108 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,167 so that the drillers can keep track 109 00:04:43,333 --> 00:04:45,417 of the drill bit underground. 110 00:04:45,542 --> 00:04:48,500 But just when it may have hit the dome-shaped object, 111 00:04:48,708 --> 00:04:50,792 the beacon stopped working. 112 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,292 Hold that right there. 113 00:04:56,458 --> 00:04:58,333 Is it broken, or is it just 114 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:00,042 that the battery's dead in the instrument? 115 00:05:00,208 --> 00:05:01,458 ALEX: We haven't figured out yet. 116 00:05:01,625 --> 00:05:04,000 I'll wash everything off, and I can get to that 117 00:05:04,167 --> 00:05:06,167 and pull that out, change the battery, 118 00:05:06,333 --> 00:05:07,667 make sure everything's calibrated, 119 00:05:07,833 --> 00:05:08,833 and we can go back in. 120 00:05:09,042 --> 00:05:10,833 Yeah. Let's go have at it. 121 00:05:10,958 --> 00:05:14,583 ERIK: Every time we've tried to drill into this site, 122 00:05:14,750 --> 00:05:16,500 we've encountered roadblocks to our investigation. 123 00:05:16,708 --> 00:05:18,667 -TRAVIS: Is that the battery set up there? -EASTON: Yeah. 124 00:05:18,792 --> 00:05:20,500 ERIK: We've run into things, 125 00:05:20,667 --> 00:05:23,708 including numerous equipment malfunctions, 126 00:05:23,875 --> 00:05:25,875 so it's hard for me not to speculate 127 00:05:26,083 --> 00:05:29,000 about what relationship that possible dome-shaped object 128 00:05:29,208 --> 00:05:31,000 was having with our equipment. 129 00:05:31,208 --> 00:05:32,917 Could it be a conductor? 130 00:05:33,083 --> 00:05:35,250 Could it be something even more interesting? 131 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:36,875 I guess time will tell 132 00:05:37,042 --> 00:05:39,292 what it is we're dealing with at this point. 133 00:05:41,167 --> 00:05:43,167 TRAVIS: I'm gonna go measure the voltage on this thing. 134 00:05:43,250 --> 00:05:44,875 THOMAS: What's the voltage 135 00:05:45,042 --> 00:05:46,292 supposed to be on those? 136 00:05:46,458 --> 00:05:48,125 Oh, they're supposed to be 3.6 volts. 137 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:50,083 I'm gonna take this now, and I'm gonna 138 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:52,208 recalibrate everything on it. 139 00:05:52,417 --> 00:05:54,917 -I'll let you get to do what you need to do. -All right, man. 140 00:05:55,042 --> 00:05:56,542 All right. Thanks. 141 00:05:57,542 --> 00:05:59,750 The bit didn't appear to have any physical damage. 142 00:05:59,875 --> 00:06:03,083 So Erik and I were eager to see if the beacon's battery had 143 00:06:03,292 --> 00:06:04,833 simply died for some reason. 144 00:06:06,583 --> 00:06:08,958 Look at that. 3.619 volts. 145 00:06:09,167 --> 00:06:11,125 This battery is fully charged. 146 00:06:11,292 --> 00:06:13,708 Hey, guys? 147 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:15,458 This battery's fine. 148 00:06:15,625 --> 00:06:17,250 -The battery is fine? -Yup. 149 00:06:17,375 --> 00:06:19,667 It shows brand-new. 150 00:06:19,875 --> 00:06:21,875 -That's pretty crazy. -Yeah. It's definitely strange. 151 00:06:22,042 --> 00:06:24,125 TRAVIS: All right, let us know if this works, 152 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:26,000 or if it goes out again, let me know. 153 00:06:26,167 --> 00:06:27,583 -ALEX: Okay, we will for sure. -All right, appreciate it, guys. 154 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:29,333 -ALEX: Thank you. -Good luck! 155 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,000 Have the drilling beacons actually been shut down 156 00:06:32,208 --> 00:06:34,000 by merely making contact with 157 00:06:34,208 --> 00:06:36,292 whatever that dome-shaped object is? 158 00:06:36,458 --> 00:06:39,750 If so, that makes us all the more determined 159 00:06:39,875 --> 00:06:42,167 to get a borehole drilled up through the mesa 160 00:06:42,333 --> 00:06:44,583 so we can insert scanning devices 161 00:06:44,750 --> 00:06:48,000 and figure out just what we're dealing with in there... 162 00:06:48,167 --> 00:06:50,208 and how it might be related 163 00:06:50,375 --> 00:06:52,208 to all the other strange phenomena 164 00:06:52,375 --> 00:06:54,208 that keeps happening on the ranch. 165 00:06:54,375 --> 00:06:55,917 All right, Jared. 166 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:58,000 Let's start going back in. 167 00:07:02,208 --> 00:07:03,917 TRAVIS: Only time would tell 168 00:07:04,042 --> 00:07:06,792 if the drilling operation would finally succeed. 169 00:07:06,958 --> 00:07:10,667 So, as Erik and I stayed to monitor the operation, 170 00:07:10,875 --> 00:07:13,958 later that morning at Homestead One, 171 00:07:14,083 --> 00:07:16,708 Thomas and Dragon, 172 00:07:16,875 --> 00:07:18,958 along with ranch caretakers Tom Lewis 173 00:07:19,125 --> 00:07:21,750 and Kandus Linde, met once again with retired sheriff 174 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:24,750 and Uinta Basin resident Kris Porritt. 175 00:07:28,083 --> 00:07:30,250 -Welcome back, Kris. -Hey. 176 00:07:30,417 --> 00:07:31,792 -How you guys doing? -Not too shabby. 177 00:07:31,917 --> 00:07:33,333 -How are you? -Welcome back to the ranch. 178 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:35,000 -Good to see you. -You, too. 179 00:07:35,167 --> 00:07:37,042 So, Kris, thank you so much for coming back out here. 180 00:07:37,208 --> 00:07:38,375 I understand you have 181 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:40,042 a few more stories that you'd like 182 00:07:40,208 --> 00:07:41,500 to share with us today. 183 00:07:41,667 --> 00:07:43,167 -Well, yeah. -Okay. 184 00:07:50,250 --> 00:07:51,833 TRAVIS: In recent years, 185 00:07:52,042 --> 00:07:54,167 Kris has shared some very bizarre stories 186 00:07:54,333 --> 00:07:55,583 about cattle mutilations 187 00:07:55,750 --> 00:07:57,333 that he investigated on the ranch 188 00:07:57,542 --> 00:08:00,583 more than three decades ago for Kenneth Myers, 189 00:08:00,750 --> 00:08:04,667 who owned the property from 1947 to 1992. 190 00:08:04,792 --> 00:08:07,125 -Let's get you in the Jeep. -Okay. 191 00:08:07,333 --> 00:08:10,000 -Hear some stories. -Let's see what jogs your memory. 192 00:08:11,042 --> 00:08:13,667 KRIS: Last time I came out here to the ranch, 193 00:08:13,833 --> 00:08:16,542 I didn't get into much detail. 194 00:08:16,708 --> 00:08:18,667 There's things on this ranch that's happened that I haven't 195 00:08:18,792 --> 00:08:20,500 even told people yet. 196 00:08:20,708 --> 00:08:23,042 Me and Ken Myers made a promise and a pact 197 00:08:23,208 --> 00:08:26,542 that I'd never disclose any of the information, 198 00:08:26,708 --> 00:08:29,667 and so I just kept that secret all this time. 199 00:08:29,875 --> 00:08:33,542 But my family convinced me to go ahead and open up. 200 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:37,125 That's why I decided to come out here today. 201 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:40,542 Okay, right over in here. 202 00:08:41,667 --> 00:08:44,167 KANDUS: All right, lead the way. 203 00:08:47,250 --> 00:08:49,125 Is this the right spot, Kris? 204 00:08:49,292 --> 00:08:51,875 Yeah, this area right here was 205 00:08:52,042 --> 00:08:57,083 where one of the cows had been surgically operated on. 206 00:08:59,292 --> 00:09:02,083 One day Ken Myers called me up and he said, 207 00:09:02,250 --> 00:09:04,958 "You need to come up and look at what I've found." 208 00:09:05,125 --> 00:09:06,917 And when I got up here, 209 00:09:07,042 --> 00:09:11,250 there was mutilated or surgically-operated-on cattle. 210 00:09:11,375 --> 00:09:14,917 It was quite a mystery to me and Ken. 211 00:09:15,042 --> 00:09:20,000 The cow was laying on this side of the ditch, 212 00:09:20,167 --> 00:09:23,292 and the head was kind of down into the ditch 213 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:24,833 just a little bit. 214 00:09:24,958 --> 00:09:26,042 Okay. 215 00:09:27,042 --> 00:09:32,417 From the shoulder blades forward to the tip of the nose, 216 00:09:32,583 --> 00:09:34,583 every bone was gone. 217 00:09:34,708 --> 00:09:36,458 There wasn't a neck bone, 218 00:09:36,625 --> 00:09:38,708 there wasn't a skull, there wasn't nothing. 219 00:09:38,875 --> 00:09:41,667 It was just an empty sack and an empty head. 220 00:09:42,625 --> 00:09:44,375 Now you tell me, 221 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,500 without using a scalpel or something, 222 00:09:47,667 --> 00:09:49,083 how you're going to remove that. 223 00:09:49,250 --> 00:09:50,167 Right. 224 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:52,000 There was no blood, nothing. 225 00:09:53,167 --> 00:09:54,417 Wow. 226 00:09:55,458 --> 00:09:58,583 THOMAS: There's a long history of cattle mutilations on the ranch, 227 00:09:58,750 --> 00:10:01,833 reports going back decades. 228 00:10:02,833 --> 00:10:05,208 So having Kris Porritt here is huge. 229 00:10:05,375 --> 00:10:06,833 His experiences here on the ranch 230 00:10:06,917 --> 00:10:09,000 could help us gain even more information 231 00:10:09,125 --> 00:10:12,708 about unexplainable events that surround these mutilations. 232 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:16,667 Is there more to the story than we know? 233 00:10:16,833 --> 00:10:18,708 There was part of a wreckage. 234 00:10:18,875 --> 00:10:22,042 So, when you say wreckage, 235 00:10:22,250 --> 00:10:23,667 you're talking about, like, 236 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:25,750 some sort of a craft wreckage? 237 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:30,333 Yeah, uh, s-some type of a aircraft 238 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,500 or some-some kind of flying saucer 239 00:10:32,667 --> 00:10:34,875 or alien craft. 240 00:10:41,542 --> 00:10:43,292 BRYANT: So, when you say wreckage, 241 00:10:43,458 --> 00:10:47,917 you're talking about like some sort of a craft wreckage? 242 00:10:48,042 --> 00:10:49,000 Yeah. 243 00:10:50,042 --> 00:10:53,417 -Some type of alien craft. -BRYANT: Wow. 244 00:10:53,583 --> 00:10:57,000 What has you feeling so sure that you feel like it was alien? 245 00:10:58,417 --> 00:11:00,000 KRIS: Well... 246 00:11:00,208 --> 00:11:02,333 one of the calf's had been mutilated. 247 00:11:02,458 --> 00:11:04,250 Okay. 248 00:11:04,417 --> 00:11:06,583 Its head was laying down here. 249 00:11:06,750 --> 00:11:10,833 And right behind it, 250 00:11:11,042 --> 00:11:15,250 there was a piece of metal that looked like aluminum. 251 00:11:16,542 --> 00:11:18,458 It was about ten feet wide. 252 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:22,500 BRYANT: We've all heard so many stories about Skinwalker Ranch, 253 00:11:22,708 --> 00:11:23,917 but when Kris Porritt, 254 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:25,750 a former deputy sheriff in the area, 255 00:11:25,917 --> 00:11:27,750 came back to the property again 256 00:11:27,875 --> 00:11:30,042 and told us his story about this alleged 257 00:11:30,208 --> 00:11:32,708 spacecraft crash, it was really shocking. 258 00:11:32,875 --> 00:11:34,917 It sounds fantastic, 259 00:11:35,042 --> 00:11:37,917 but if we're able to uncover something like that, 260 00:11:38,083 --> 00:11:40,667 then we're onto something really big here on the ranch. 261 00:11:40,875 --> 00:11:43,625 KRIS: Ken Myers picked that up, 262 00:11:43,750 --> 00:11:47,750 kind of crumpled it, folded it, and he said, 263 00:11:47,917 --> 00:11:49,542 "Now watch," and he threw it down on the ground 264 00:11:49,708 --> 00:11:53,667 and it just kind of slowly opened back up 265 00:11:53,875 --> 00:11:55,292 to a sheet of metal. 266 00:11:56,875 --> 00:11:58,458 TOM: So, this piece of metal-- 267 00:11:58,625 --> 00:12:00,625 it was malleable and it popped right back? 268 00:12:00,792 --> 00:12:01,875 KRIS: Oh, yeah. Yeah. 269 00:12:02,042 --> 00:12:04,875 Ken says, "Come on over here." 270 00:12:05,042 --> 00:12:08,917 I was standing about where Tom's at right now. 271 00:12:09,042 --> 00:12:12,583 There was an impression made right here. 272 00:12:12,750 --> 00:12:15,708 -So, the-- was the ground pressed in? -Yeah. 273 00:12:15,875 --> 00:12:18,833 Yeah, it was an indentation in the ground. 274 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,417 -Okay. -KANDUS: Like something landed, 275 00:12:21,542 --> 00:12:24,708 -made an impression, and then left, or...? -KRIS: Yeah. 276 00:12:25,708 --> 00:12:26,833 I'm-I'm thinking it was 277 00:12:27,042 --> 00:12:29,667 close to five feet wide 278 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:32,000 -at the center, okay? -Okay. 279 00:12:33,042 --> 00:12:36,042 And then tapered down to about a two-foot point. 280 00:12:36,208 --> 00:12:38,833 And it was same on the front as it was on the back. 281 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,750 -Okay. -And, uh, it was about 282 00:12:42,917 --> 00:12:45,125 just a little over 12 feet long. 283 00:12:46,917 --> 00:12:48,167 KANDUS: What happened to it? 284 00:12:48,292 --> 00:12:49,500 BRYANT: Yeah, what did he do with it, 285 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:51,042 with the metal? 286 00:12:51,208 --> 00:12:53,250 I don't have any idea what he done with it. 287 00:12:53,417 --> 00:12:54,958 I don't know. 288 00:12:55,042 --> 00:12:58,833 THOMAS: I was shocked when he said that Ken Myers had 289 00:12:59,042 --> 00:13:01,917 retrieved part of this wreckage, 290 00:13:02,042 --> 00:13:04,417 what appeared to be aluminum that could be crumpled up 291 00:13:04,542 --> 00:13:06,083 and then retake its shape. 292 00:13:06,292 --> 00:13:10,208 Now, that's probably one of the most spectacular claims 293 00:13:10,375 --> 00:13:12,667 that have been made here on the ranch, 294 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:16,167 and, uh, I've learned never to discount anything. 295 00:13:17,583 --> 00:13:18,667 So this is pretty big. 296 00:13:18,833 --> 00:13:21,042 Was there other things there? 297 00:13:22,792 --> 00:13:26,958 Well, I'll tell you, he found a liquid substance. 298 00:13:27,042 --> 00:13:29,000 But it wasn't liquid. 299 00:13:29,083 --> 00:13:31,167 It was more of a gelatin-type stuff. 300 00:13:32,792 --> 00:13:36,833 Jelly, and it was green. 301 00:13:36,958 --> 00:13:39,875 It was pretty much scattered all over in here. 302 00:13:40,750 --> 00:13:42,208 THOMAS: If I had heard 303 00:13:42,375 --> 00:13:45,167 Kris Porritt say the things he did five years ago, 304 00:13:45,292 --> 00:13:47,333 I'd have laughed him right off this ranch. 305 00:13:48,792 --> 00:13:50,333 The interesting thing is, 306 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,375 this is the same area that we saw a cow die. 307 00:13:54,542 --> 00:13:56,292 And we have the security footage 308 00:13:56,375 --> 00:13:58,292 that shows some type of black object 309 00:13:58,417 --> 00:14:01,125 up in the sky above the cow at the same time. 310 00:14:02,167 --> 00:14:03,583 You know, at this point it's all speculation. 311 00:14:03,750 --> 00:14:06,083 Who knows what the truth is? 312 00:14:07,125 --> 00:14:09,333 Ken Myers didn't want to make it public. 313 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,750 He was afraid that the government would step in 314 00:14:12,875 --> 00:14:14,458 and take the ranch from him. 315 00:14:14,625 --> 00:14:17,958 I mean, it was his property and that's what he wanted, 316 00:14:18,083 --> 00:14:23,625 but I'm glad it's getting out, the-the truth about the ranch. 317 00:14:23,792 --> 00:14:24,833 -Hmm. -Yeah. 318 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,208 THOMAS: Thank you for sharing 319 00:14:26,375 --> 00:14:28,167 -this information with us. -KRIS: Okay. 320 00:14:28,333 --> 00:14:29,875 And, uh, we're gonna get our scientists 321 00:14:30,042 --> 00:14:32,500 -and come look at this. -BRYANT: Absolutely. 322 00:14:36,833 --> 00:14:38,625 -TRAVIS: What's up, guys? -BRYANT: Howdy. 323 00:14:38,792 --> 00:14:40,667 So we just heard quite the story. 324 00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:41,875 Yes, we did. 325 00:14:42,042 --> 00:14:43,375 What kind of story? 326 00:14:43,542 --> 00:14:45,792 THOMAS: Well, we had Kris Porritt come on today, 327 00:14:45,917 --> 00:14:50,000 who claims Ken Myers found a crashed craft. 328 00:14:51,125 --> 00:14:52,542 -BRYANT: Basically he said... -Are those his words? 329 00:14:52,708 --> 00:14:53,833 Yeah. 330 00:14:55,042 --> 00:14:56,833 TRAVIS: What did they say they did with the crash? 331 00:14:56,958 --> 00:14:59,667 Kris said that he did witness 332 00:14:59,833 --> 00:15:02,000 the metal, or the-the wreckage, 333 00:15:02,125 --> 00:15:05,667 but that he didn't participate in getting rid of it. 334 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:07,500 ERIK: Wow. 335 00:15:08,542 --> 00:15:11,000 Even if one percent of such a fantastic story 336 00:15:11,208 --> 00:15:13,042 turned out to be correct, 337 00:15:13,208 --> 00:15:15,958 well, it would be, uh, fascinating. 338 00:15:16,167 --> 00:15:20,625 So let's go investigate where they think the crash occurred. 339 00:15:20,792 --> 00:15:23,042 ERIK: Look for physical changes 340 00:15:23,208 --> 00:15:24,500 that might have happened to the land itself? 341 00:15:24,625 --> 00:15:25,875 That's what I think, yeah. 342 00:15:27,042 --> 00:15:29,458 Erik, I think you were the one that pointed it out. 343 00:15:29,667 --> 00:15:32,875 It was right after we came on the ranch for the first time, 344 00:15:33,042 --> 00:15:34,917 and you pointed down to the south field 345 00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:37,083 and said, "Hey, isn't that interesting? 346 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:39,083 "There's that big hole in the tree 347 00:15:39,250 --> 00:15:41,000 -down there in the south." -Oh, yeah. Yeah. 348 00:15:41,208 --> 00:15:43,792 -Where Kris said this crash happened, yeah. -Yeah. 349 00:15:43,958 --> 00:15:45,667 TRAVIS: What, what are you guys talking about? 350 00:15:45,833 --> 00:15:49,042 Matter of fact, I have a photo of it. 351 00:15:49,250 --> 00:15:51,542 I actually emailed it to you on our way over here. 352 00:15:54,958 --> 00:15:56,458 ERIK: Oh, yeah. 353 00:15:56,542 --> 00:15:59,583 THOMAS: Take a look at this hole through the tree. 354 00:16:01,250 --> 00:16:03,292 ERIK: Looks unnatural, doesn't it? 355 00:16:04,333 --> 00:16:08,042 THOMAS: After hearing Kris Porritt tell a story of a crash site, 356 00:16:08,208 --> 00:16:09,875 it made me think about this tree 357 00:16:10,042 --> 00:16:11,417 down in the southeast corner of the field 358 00:16:11,583 --> 00:16:14,458 that has a huge hole in it, and here I am, 359 00:16:14,667 --> 00:16:16,458 wondering if something crashed through the trees. 360 00:16:17,708 --> 00:16:19,667 I don't know if they're connected, 361 00:16:19,833 --> 00:16:21,333 but they look like they could be. 362 00:16:21,542 --> 00:16:22,875 Maybe something happened 363 00:16:23,042 --> 00:16:24,667 to come through the tree 364 00:16:24,833 --> 00:16:26,208 -when it crashed. -Mm-hmm. 365 00:16:27,542 --> 00:16:29,000 TRAVIS: Erik and Thomas were right. 366 00:16:29,208 --> 00:16:31,667 There is a perfectly circular hole 367 00:16:31,792 --> 00:16:33,458 through the canopy of the tree 368 00:16:33,625 --> 00:16:36,583 where Kris Porritt claims that a spacecraft crashed 369 00:16:36,750 --> 00:16:40,167 on Skinwalker Ranch more than three decades ago. 370 00:16:40,292 --> 00:16:41,958 I wasn't sure what to think, 371 00:16:42,125 --> 00:16:44,083 but I was definitely intrigued. 372 00:16:44,250 --> 00:16:47,208 I want to go look at that tree a little closer. 373 00:16:47,333 --> 00:16:49,458 -Sure. -Right? And see if there's a way 374 00:16:49,583 --> 00:16:51,250 by looking at the tree... 375 00:16:51,417 --> 00:16:53,542 if it looks like something hit it. 376 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:54,958 And then it might lead us 377 00:16:55,125 --> 00:16:57,167 to where it might have hit the field. 378 00:16:57,333 --> 00:17:00,208 I think an arborist should take a look at it. 379 00:17:00,375 --> 00:17:02,500 ERIK: I like that idea, and I'm especially interested 380 00:17:02,667 --> 00:17:04,500 in learning whether we can tell whether there's heat damage 381 00:17:04,667 --> 00:17:07,917 or radiation damage, you know, something out of the ordinary. 382 00:17:08,042 --> 00:17:09,333 THOMAS: Sounds good. 383 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:11,208 TRAVIS: All right, great. 384 00:17:16,750 --> 00:17:18,458 The next day, while our drilling operation 385 00:17:18,625 --> 00:17:21,417 continued at the mesa... 386 00:17:24,083 --> 00:17:25,375 THOMAS: Hey, Jon. 387 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:27,292 Hey, Thomas. 388 00:17:27,417 --> 00:17:28,958 -Good to see you. -Good seeing you. 389 00:17:29,125 --> 00:17:31,500 ...we invited arborist Jon Kammerer 390 00:17:31,625 --> 00:17:33,208 out to examine the tree 391 00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:35,458 and see what he might be able to conclude about 392 00:17:35,667 --> 00:17:38,625 what could have caused that huge circular hole. 393 00:17:39,708 --> 00:17:41,833 THOMAS: So, Jon, we, uh, had an individual that told us 394 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 a story about a craft that may have crashed 395 00:17:45,208 --> 00:17:46,375 out here in the field. 396 00:17:46,542 --> 00:17:48,833 And the interesting thing about this crash 397 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,417 is, there's a tree, uh, 398 00:17:50,542 --> 00:17:52,958 in close proximity that's got a hole in it. 399 00:17:53,083 --> 00:17:55,208 So we're trying to recreate 400 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:57,667 and try to piece together, uh, any evidence 401 00:17:57,792 --> 00:17:59,500 that may support that story. 402 00:17:59,583 --> 00:18:02,167 And so part of this is trying to determine... 403 00:18:02,333 --> 00:18:05,167 Whether the crash went through that tree. 404 00:18:05,375 --> 00:18:06,458 -You got it, that's it. -Okay. 405 00:18:06,625 --> 00:18:08,667 Well, probably the best thing to do 406 00:18:08,792 --> 00:18:10,500 is let you get eyes on it 407 00:18:10,625 --> 00:18:12,333 -and look at it. -Yeah, let me, let me grab my gear. 408 00:18:15,042 --> 00:18:17,125 I'm a certified arborist 409 00:18:17,250 --> 00:18:20,083 and I have 15 years' experience managing 410 00:18:20,250 --> 00:18:21,708 and assessing the health of trees. 411 00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:28,042 So I'm gonna climb up into the tree and look for signs 412 00:18:28,208 --> 00:18:30,333 of if something went through it. 413 00:18:30,542 --> 00:18:32,167 So... 414 00:18:32,333 --> 00:18:35,333 the hole's actually not visible right under the tree. 415 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:37,625 You got to get back a ways from it. 416 00:18:40,708 --> 00:18:42,750 -ERIK: Are you seeing that? -JON: Yeah, that top, the higher one. 417 00:18:42,917 --> 00:18:44,375 -Yeah. -Okay. 418 00:18:44,542 --> 00:18:46,708 Is there anything that jumps out to you right now 419 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:49,000 that tells you this is 420 00:18:49,125 --> 00:18:51,500 just a normal, uh, sort of 421 00:18:51,667 --> 00:18:53,083 death and decay process, 422 00:18:53,208 --> 00:18:55,542 or is there anything that would say no, 423 00:18:55,708 --> 00:18:57,250 this was actually a break? 424 00:18:57,375 --> 00:18:59,292 I mean, I really got to go up there and take a look. 425 00:18:59,458 --> 00:19:01,250 -Okay, let's get you up there. -Let's get you up there. 426 00:19:02,292 --> 00:19:03,958 BRYANT: This hole looks like it's perfectly cut out. 427 00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:06,167 So we want to know 428 00:19:06,375 --> 00:19:09,333 if this hole was created by something abnormal 429 00:19:09,542 --> 00:19:12,625 or if it's just a normal occurrence in nature. 430 00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:16,750 So having an arborist out here to see 431 00:19:16,917 --> 00:19:19,833 if there's any broken branches, burns on the bark, 432 00:19:20,042 --> 00:19:22,667 that's gonna help us a lot. 433 00:19:28,458 --> 00:19:30,500 So this is the center of the hole? 434 00:19:30,667 --> 00:19:31,792 TRAVIS: Yes. 435 00:19:33,333 --> 00:19:35,667 THOMAS: Do you see anything? 436 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:38,667 Yeah, a branch here... 437 00:19:38,792 --> 00:19:41,625 is growing straight up and then curving out. 438 00:19:41,833 --> 00:19:45,667 You know, something could have broke off here at some point. 439 00:19:45,833 --> 00:19:49,042 Creating it to grow and bend this way. 440 00:19:49,167 --> 00:19:52,667 Any sense of how recently that happened? 441 00:19:52,792 --> 00:19:55,875 Yeah, either the branch died back... 442 00:19:56,042 --> 00:19:59,000 or... it broke off somehow, 443 00:19:59,208 --> 00:20:01,833 creating some epichoric sprout growth. 444 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,917 That could have been... 445 00:20:04,042 --> 00:20:05,792 30 years, longer. 446 00:20:05,917 --> 00:20:06,917 TRAVIS: There you go. 447 00:20:07,083 --> 00:20:08,333 Wow. 448 00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:09,833 That closely aligns 449 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,708 with what Kris Porritt told us. 450 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:20,167 JON: So there is indication that maybe some branches 451 00:20:20,292 --> 00:20:21,750 were broke off about 30 years ago? 452 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:23,167 Yes. 453 00:20:24,083 --> 00:20:25,917 Well, that's interesting. 454 00:20:26,042 --> 00:20:29,500 We had no expectations that arborist Jon Kammerer 455 00:20:29,708 --> 00:20:33,292 would find any evidence to support Kris Porritt's story 456 00:20:33,458 --> 00:20:36,500 that an alien craft allegedly crashed near the south field 457 00:20:36,625 --> 00:20:39,833 on Skinwalker Ranch back in the 1980s. 458 00:20:40,042 --> 00:20:41,792 -Jon? -JON: Yeah? 459 00:20:41,917 --> 00:20:43,708 Since you're right there at it, 460 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:47,250 kind of just estimate the, uh, geometry of the hole for us. 461 00:20:47,417 --> 00:20:50,333 Yeah, I can get you some dimensions. 462 00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:52,917 TRAVIS: But when he gave his analysis 463 00:20:53,083 --> 00:20:55,667 that the huge hole through this tree looked unnatural 464 00:20:55,833 --> 00:20:59,625 and may have been created more than 30 years ago, 465 00:20:59,833 --> 00:21:02,875 we were definitely reconsidering our skepticism. 466 00:21:04,208 --> 00:21:05,875 JON: We're about ten feet, eight inches. 467 00:21:06,042 --> 00:21:07,000 Oh, wow, yeah. 468 00:21:07,125 --> 00:21:09,042 And it's pretty symmetric. 469 00:21:09,208 --> 00:21:10,208 BRYANT: That's good to know. 470 00:21:10,375 --> 00:21:11,667 Yeah, it is good to know. 471 00:21:11,875 --> 00:21:13,208 ERIK: I can't say 472 00:21:13,375 --> 00:21:15,333 that the evidence that Jon is sighting 473 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,083 is any kind of proof, 474 00:21:17,208 --> 00:21:19,667 but it is suggestive that possibly 475 00:21:19,833 --> 00:21:22,500 something has come through the top of that tree. 476 00:21:22,667 --> 00:21:26,375 Just as has been suggested by Kris Porritt. 477 00:21:26,542 --> 00:21:28,833 He described to us a craft 478 00:21:28,958 --> 00:21:30,708 that was ten feet in diameter, 479 00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:32,792 so if we have an object about this size 480 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,417 possibly crashing through the top part of that tree, 481 00:21:36,583 --> 00:21:39,458 I suppose it could account for that hole. 482 00:21:39,625 --> 00:21:43,167 So... just your professional opinion, 483 00:21:43,333 --> 00:21:46,000 there does look like there were some branches broken 484 00:21:46,167 --> 00:21:47,417 30 years ago, give or take. 485 00:21:47,625 --> 00:21:49,833 -Yeah. -Well, so it doesn't 486 00:21:50,042 --> 00:21:51,708 throw the hypothesis out. 487 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:52,917 -Exactly. -ERIK: Yeah. 488 00:21:54,542 --> 00:21:56,042 TRAVIS: After that, we will 489 00:21:56,208 --> 00:21:57,458 definitely keep investigating that area 490 00:21:57,625 --> 00:21:59,542 near the south field for more clues. 491 00:21:59,708 --> 00:22:01,542 BRYANT: Thanks again for coming out. 492 00:22:01,708 --> 00:22:02,833 JON: Appreciate you having me out here. 493 00:22:02,958 --> 00:22:03,917 THOMAS: Yeah. 494 00:22:05,375 --> 00:22:07,292 TRAVIS: But later that afternoon... 495 00:22:07,458 --> 00:22:08,958 THOMAS: Is your signal still good? 496 00:22:09,083 --> 00:22:11,000 Everything's looking good? 497 00:22:11,208 --> 00:22:13,375 -Yeah, everything's picking up fine right now, so... -All right. 498 00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:15,500 TRAVIS: ...we were all back at the mesa 499 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:18,167 to monitor the drilling team's progress. 500 00:22:19,208 --> 00:22:21,250 THOMAS: I can see he's just about ready to change rods 501 00:22:21,375 --> 00:22:22,875 -right now. -Yeah. 502 00:22:23,042 --> 00:22:25,833 TRAVIS: They were just about to reach the spot 503 00:22:26,042 --> 00:22:28,500 nearly 180 feet in 504 00:22:28,708 --> 00:22:30,792 where the beacon lost its signal. 505 00:22:31,958 --> 00:22:33,000 Okay, Jared. 506 00:22:33,167 --> 00:22:35,542 Go in with this next rod. 507 00:22:42,542 --> 00:22:46,083 I still got him, so that's a good sign. 508 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:49,708 -It's right here now. -KALEB: Yeah. 509 00:22:49,875 --> 00:22:52,583 TRAVIS: He's absolutely broadcasting. 510 00:22:53,667 --> 00:22:55,333 We were holding our breath, 511 00:22:55,458 --> 00:22:57,208 hoping the beacon 512 00:22:57,375 --> 00:22:58,833 would stay connected so the team 513 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,167 could complete this borehole 514 00:23:00,333 --> 00:23:02,208 all the way through the mesa 515 00:23:02,333 --> 00:23:06,333 and help us get some answers about the dome-shaped object. 516 00:23:07,250 --> 00:23:09,125 It's getting all wonky. 517 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:12,333 And I lost him. 518 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,875 -You lost him? -I got him back now. 519 00:23:17,292 --> 00:23:19,667 Well, that is something. 520 00:23:19,792 --> 00:23:22,667 Something's making their beacon jump around in frequency. 521 00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:24,833 And it shouldn't be doing that. 522 00:23:24,958 --> 00:23:28,750 It is extremely erratic. 523 00:23:31,375 --> 00:23:34,667 Right at about 180 feet inside the mesa, 524 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:36,625 where the beacon signal went out before, 525 00:23:36,792 --> 00:23:39,292 it started losing connectivity again. 526 00:23:39,458 --> 00:23:42,292 That had to be more than a coincidence. 527 00:23:42,375 --> 00:23:44,333 Still got him? 528 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:45,833 No, I lost him. 529 00:23:46,042 --> 00:23:47,792 So I really don't know where I'm at. 530 00:23:47,958 --> 00:23:50,333 -Really? -Yeah. 531 00:23:50,542 --> 00:23:53,042 THOMAS: It's at this point in the exercise 532 00:23:53,208 --> 00:23:55,625 where I start to feel my first doubts as to whether 533 00:23:55,792 --> 00:23:57,333 we're actually going to get this hole drilled or not. 534 00:23:57,458 --> 00:23:59,583 -Nothing. -Wow. 535 00:23:59,750 --> 00:24:04,000 Because once again Alex loses the signal of the beacon. 536 00:24:04,167 --> 00:24:05,917 And then he gets it back, 537 00:24:06,042 --> 00:24:07,833 but it's very unstable. 538 00:24:08,042 --> 00:24:11,958 There's definitely something anomalous right here. 539 00:24:13,708 --> 00:24:15,833 He's back, I got him back. 540 00:24:17,333 --> 00:24:20,958 But he's into something hard right now, you can hear it. 541 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,958 (machinery rumbling) 542 00:24:26,042 --> 00:24:27,667 TRAVIS: Listen to that, he's struggling. 543 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:30,500 KALEB: Yeah, he's trying to push that thing in right now. 544 00:24:30,708 --> 00:24:32,542 TRAVIS: What the hell is in that mesa? 545 00:24:32,708 --> 00:24:33,917 Yeah. 546 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,208 THOMAS: Hey, guys? 547 00:24:37,375 --> 00:24:39,125 Go ahead, Tom. 548 00:24:39,250 --> 00:24:41,250 We have no idea where this, uh, 549 00:24:41,417 --> 00:24:43,500 drill head is up in this mesa. 550 00:24:43,667 --> 00:24:45,708 We know it's in there, but we don't know 551 00:24:45,875 --> 00:24:49,250 the exact location or really any other information. 552 00:24:49,417 --> 00:24:52,208 Alex is saying the only time that he's ever seen this before 553 00:24:52,375 --> 00:24:55,458 is when they're drilling in a roadway where they've dug 554 00:24:55,583 --> 00:24:58,583 a trench and covered it with a steel road plate. 555 00:24:59,875 --> 00:25:03,000 So there's some-some kind of conductive material in there. 556 00:25:03,167 --> 00:25:04,833 Huh. 557 00:25:05,042 --> 00:25:08,208 If the drill bit was up against something conductive, 558 00:25:08,375 --> 00:25:10,792 it would very likely be something metallic. 559 00:25:10,917 --> 00:25:13,375 So, could this dome-shaped object 560 00:25:13,542 --> 00:25:16,792 really be able to just shut down a drilling beacon? 561 00:25:16,958 --> 00:25:18,917 If that was the case, then how are we ever 562 00:25:19,042 --> 00:25:20,750 going to figure out what's in there? 563 00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:22,500 They're gonna keep trying to push through, 564 00:25:22,708 --> 00:25:24,167 see if we can get through whatever it is 565 00:25:24,375 --> 00:25:26,542 that's misdirecting the signal 566 00:25:26,708 --> 00:25:28,667 and see if we can pick it up. 567 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:32,000 Heck, I don't know what else we can do. 568 00:25:32,208 --> 00:25:35,250 THOMAS: But, uh, we just sucked out the spoils pit. 569 00:25:35,417 --> 00:25:38,875 So, Jared is just bringing that spoils down to dump. 570 00:25:39,083 --> 00:25:41,625 All right, see if we get any metal hits, then mark it out 571 00:25:41,750 --> 00:25:43,208 -and then test for it. -Yeah, dude. 572 00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:45,208 If you need me, yell, I'm right here. 573 00:25:45,375 --> 00:25:46,917 BRYANT: Thank you. 574 00:25:47,042 --> 00:25:49,708 Travis thinks it could be something metallic 575 00:25:49,917 --> 00:25:52,125 under the ground that's causing these drillers 576 00:25:52,292 --> 00:25:54,000 to have so many problems. 577 00:25:54,125 --> 00:25:56,667 And so, because of what we found a couple years ago, 578 00:25:56,875 --> 00:25:59,250 this metallic substance that came out of the mesa, 579 00:25:59,417 --> 00:26:00,833 we're being very vigilant 580 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,500 in sifting through all of the spoils 581 00:26:02,708 --> 00:26:04,792 that are coming out of this drilling exercise. 582 00:26:07,583 --> 00:26:09,208 What the hell is that? 583 00:26:14,083 --> 00:26:15,792 Hey, Erik! 584 00:26:18,958 --> 00:26:20,542 ERIK: What do you got, Bryant? 585 00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:25,583 Gosh. 586 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,208 -What...? -I don't know what the hell that is. 587 00:26:35,250 --> 00:26:37,208 -ERIK: What...? -BRYANT: I don't know what the hell that is. 588 00:26:37,375 --> 00:26:39,583 -How did you spot that? -Well, I mean, look at the color. 589 00:26:39,792 --> 00:26:41,792 At first, I thought it was a green-colored rock. 590 00:26:41,917 --> 00:26:43,000 ERIK: Yeah, that's... that was my first impression. 591 00:26:43,125 --> 00:26:44,583 BRYANT: And then I went to pick it up, 592 00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:46,458 and the first chunk squished in my fingers. 593 00:26:46,583 --> 00:26:48,333 That's the strangest thing I've seen. 594 00:26:48,542 --> 00:26:50,167 Uh, honestly, without identifying 595 00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:52,792 what the hell that is, I don't know that I'd be touching it. 596 00:26:54,167 --> 00:26:56,000 -Well... I picked it up. -ERIK: Yeah. Yeah. 597 00:26:56,167 --> 00:26:57,667 Yep, understood. 598 00:26:57,875 --> 00:26:59,667 We are screening and examining 599 00:26:59,750 --> 00:27:01,333 the contents of the spoils 600 00:27:01,542 --> 00:27:05,083 coming out of the spoils pit from the drilling operation, 601 00:27:05,250 --> 00:27:08,333 and one thing did stand out, and that's what appeared to be 602 00:27:08,458 --> 00:27:11,917 a piece of some sort of gelatinous green material. 603 00:27:12,083 --> 00:27:13,750 You know, it reminds me of Kris Porritt, 604 00:27:13,958 --> 00:27:16,875 who did, in fact, mention green jelly. 605 00:27:17,042 --> 00:27:18,667 -Hey, Travis, Kaleb. -TRAVIS: What? 606 00:27:18,875 --> 00:27:19,792 Come take a look at this. 607 00:27:19,917 --> 00:27:22,667 Bryant's got something here. 608 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:25,125 These things are not at all like anything else 609 00:27:25,250 --> 00:27:27,667 we're bringing out, so the question is, 610 00:27:27,833 --> 00:27:29,000 what have we hit here? 611 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:32,042 It's gelatin, it's like... 612 00:27:32,208 --> 00:27:33,917 But you don't want to pick it up, like... 613 00:27:34,083 --> 00:27:36,167 -Look at it, it's like a... -KALEB: What? 614 00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:39,458 BRYANT: It looks like what Kris Porritt was alluding to. 615 00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:42,333 Are you kidding me? It's green jelly. 616 00:27:42,542 --> 00:27:43,667 BRYANT: It really is. 617 00:27:43,792 --> 00:27:45,917 Hey, Jared, does this look 618 00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:48,250 like stuff that comes from your equipment? 619 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:50,167 It's, yeah, it's like a gelatin-y... 620 00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:53,000 That doesn't look like anything like I've seen before, 621 00:27:53,167 --> 00:27:55,875 -out of any of our tanks. -Really? That's bizarre. 622 00:27:56,042 --> 00:27:57,167 That is bizarre. 623 00:27:57,292 --> 00:27:58,625 ERIK: All right, I say we bag this. 624 00:27:58,750 --> 00:28:01,583 -Yep, where are the bags? -ERIK: Over here. 625 00:28:01,750 --> 00:28:03,542 BRYANT: I'm gonna keep looking for more of these. 626 00:28:03,750 --> 00:28:05,958 TRAVIS: That was the last thing in the world 627 00:28:06,125 --> 00:28:08,667 I'd be thinking about right now. Green jelly! 628 00:28:08,875 --> 00:28:10,167 ERIK: What is this material? 629 00:28:10,375 --> 00:28:13,958 Is it mineralogical or is it potentially biological? 630 00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:15,542 I don't think I want to put that in a bag. 631 00:28:15,708 --> 00:28:16,833 -I'm gonna try to... -Oh, that's a good idea. 632 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,333 I don't know, I don't know. 633 00:28:18,542 --> 00:28:20,208 But it has my imagination running. 634 00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:22,667 -You want to just put that in there? -Sure. 635 00:28:22,750 --> 00:28:24,500 ERIK: And I want to have these green, 636 00:28:24,667 --> 00:28:27,167 potentially organic specimens examined 637 00:28:27,333 --> 00:28:28,500 by the proper means 638 00:28:28,625 --> 00:28:29,542 and by those who have the ability 639 00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:31,333 to discern what they are. 640 00:28:33,625 --> 00:28:35,125 What the...? 641 00:28:35,292 --> 00:28:38,167 All right, this is getting stranger and stranger. 642 00:28:38,292 --> 00:28:41,667 Hey, Travis, will you bring a water bottle over real quick? 643 00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:47,667 Tell me what color is underneath this one. 644 00:28:47,875 --> 00:28:49,083 It's that jelly stuff. 645 00:28:49,250 --> 00:28:50,917 What? 646 00:28:51,042 --> 00:28:53,000 -But it's pink. -BRYANT: But it's got pink. 647 00:28:53,167 --> 00:28:54,708 We got to have a sample of this. 648 00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:56,083 Let me go get a-- Let me go get a container. 649 00:28:56,250 --> 00:28:57,542 Get another jar. 650 00:28:57,708 --> 00:28:59,292 TRAVIS: Well, let's keep a watch on it, 651 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:00,833 see if we get more of it. 652 00:29:06,792 --> 00:29:09,083 -TRAVIS: Find something, Kaleb? -KALEB: No. 653 00:29:10,125 --> 00:29:12,333 TRAVIS: Finding green jelly in the drilling spoils 654 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:13,750 was weird enough. 655 00:29:13,958 --> 00:29:15,292 But then the pink material 656 00:29:15,417 --> 00:29:18,167 really made me wonder if these substances 657 00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:21,333 might be organic or even biological. 658 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:25,250 I would never expect to find stuff like that in solid rock. 659 00:29:26,417 --> 00:29:28,042 It's all just clay. 660 00:29:28,167 --> 00:29:30,333 So Kaleb and I kept searching through the spoils 661 00:29:30,542 --> 00:29:33,500 hoping that we'd find something more definitive 662 00:29:33,708 --> 00:29:35,250 that might give us some answers. 663 00:29:38,208 --> 00:29:39,792 There's a piece of wood in there. 664 00:29:39,917 --> 00:29:42,042 -KALEB: What? -TRAVIS: L-Look at that. 665 00:29:42,208 --> 00:29:44,042 This has been carved. I mean, this ain't like a tree. 666 00:29:44,250 --> 00:29:46,292 -This is like a piece of lumber. -KALEB: Yeah. 667 00:29:46,458 --> 00:29:47,750 I wonder if it's like a... 668 00:29:47,917 --> 00:29:49,125 -It'd be a... -KALEB: Like a mine shaft? 669 00:29:49,250 --> 00:29:50,250 That's what I was just wondering. 670 00:29:50,375 --> 00:29:52,458 Could there be, uh...? 671 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:53,750 Uh, maybe there was a tunnel 672 00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:55,458 or a mine shaft. That's-that's wood. 673 00:29:55,625 --> 00:29:57,292 How did this get inside the mesa? 674 00:29:58,792 --> 00:30:00,917 We've never heard that mining operations 675 00:30:01,083 --> 00:30:02,750 took place here on the ranch. 676 00:30:02,958 --> 00:30:06,042 So it was really odd that possibly machined 677 00:30:06,208 --> 00:30:09,833 or hand-crafted wood came from that deep in the mesa. 678 00:30:10,042 --> 00:30:12,667 We've got to uncover whatever is actually in there 679 00:30:12,875 --> 00:30:14,292 and figure this out. 680 00:30:14,417 --> 00:30:16,292 I'm absolutely keeping this. 681 00:30:18,167 --> 00:30:20,833 THOMAS: Do you even have it now, or is it totally gone? 682 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,792 ALEX: Totally gone. 683 00:30:23,792 --> 00:30:25,917 THOMAS: So, once again, the beacon 684 00:30:26,042 --> 00:30:29,417 inside the drill bit quits working. 685 00:30:29,583 --> 00:30:32,750 And at this point we have no idea where the drill bit's at. 686 00:30:32,917 --> 00:30:35,333 So that means we can't even tell 687 00:30:35,417 --> 00:30:37,625 whether or not we're close to the anomaly. 688 00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:39,542 Without having this receiver, 689 00:30:39,708 --> 00:30:41,292 we're not recording any data 690 00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:43,833 and we have no idea exactly where in the hole we are. 691 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:45,458 Erik, you got a copy? 692 00:30:47,625 --> 00:30:49,167 Yeah, Thomas, go ahead. 693 00:30:49,333 --> 00:30:53,167 (sighs) I unfortunately have some really bad news. 694 00:30:53,333 --> 00:30:56,750 We went from having a signal that was bouncing around, 695 00:30:56,917 --> 00:30:59,500 uh, to losing the signal completely. 696 00:30:59,667 --> 00:31:03,042 So I think we need to regroup 697 00:31:03,208 --> 00:31:05,417 and make a plan for what's next. 698 00:31:05,583 --> 00:31:08,000 Copy that. Thanks. 699 00:31:08,208 --> 00:31:11,292 Well, now that's not what I was expecting to hear. 700 00:31:11,458 --> 00:31:14,375 I don't think any of us should be surprised 701 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:17,000 to discover that there are complications 702 00:31:17,208 --> 00:31:19,667 when trying to physically engage with the mesa. 703 00:31:19,833 --> 00:31:22,333 Especially here at the drill site. 704 00:31:22,417 --> 00:31:24,042 I am hopeful that we will be able to continue, 705 00:31:24,208 --> 00:31:27,167 but I do not take for granted that we will achieve 706 00:31:27,333 --> 00:31:32,000 the 24-inch diameter borehole that we originally had in mind. 707 00:31:33,833 --> 00:31:35,833 -(Thomas sighs) -TRAVIS: So, tell us the news. 708 00:31:35,917 --> 00:31:37,625 It's not good. 709 00:31:37,792 --> 00:31:40,500 ALEX: Yeah, completely lost signal on the transmitter, 710 00:31:40,667 --> 00:31:42,958 so it's completely gone. 711 00:31:43,125 --> 00:31:45,833 How much further would you guess you need to go 712 00:31:45,958 --> 00:31:48,667 -to come out of the ground? -Uh, about 260 feet. 713 00:31:48,833 --> 00:31:52,458 -Wow, that's a long way to be operating blind. -ALEX: Yeah. 714 00:31:52,625 --> 00:31:55,458 So what do we do? Uh, do we try to pull the thing out, 715 00:31:55,583 --> 00:31:58,125 change frequency on the-- on the transmitter, 716 00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,500 or do we try and just keep going forward? 717 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,208 I don't know what else to do. 718 00:32:01,375 --> 00:32:02,667 ALEX: We can pull it out and change the signal. 719 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:05,125 Um, and if that doesn't work, 720 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:07,917 then I-I, I'm at a loss at that point. 721 00:32:08,083 --> 00:32:10,667 Well, then the plan of action would be: 722 00:32:10,875 --> 00:32:13,167 pull the thing out, change the signal, 723 00:32:13,333 --> 00:32:14,917 see if that helps. If it doesn't help, 724 00:32:15,083 --> 00:32:16,375 then I guess we got to just keep going blind 725 00:32:16,583 --> 00:32:19,667 -until we get some kind of response, right? -Yeah. 726 00:32:19,875 --> 00:32:23,167 TRAVIS: It's frustrating that there was another delay in drilling. 727 00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:25,167 But the team's working really hard to help us, 728 00:32:25,292 --> 00:32:27,708 and it's clear that they have never experienced 729 00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:30,625 these kinds of malfunctions anywhere else. 730 00:32:30,792 --> 00:32:33,833 So, while they take time to assess and fix their equipment, 731 00:32:34,042 --> 00:32:35,917 it'll give us a chance to test these weird discoveries 732 00:32:36,125 --> 00:32:37,500 and see if it offers 733 00:32:37,667 --> 00:32:40,208 more clues about what's buried inside the mesa. 734 00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:41,667 -We got a plan. -ERIK: Sounds like a plan. 735 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,667 TRAVIS: All right, let's do it. 736 00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:52,583 TRAVIS: Hey, guys. 737 00:32:54,833 --> 00:32:56,667 So, you guys obviously recognize 738 00:32:56,875 --> 00:32:59,208 -the samples we have here on the table. -BRYANT: Yeah. 739 00:32:59,375 --> 00:33:01,333 We've reached out and connected with, uh, Dr. Power 740 00:33:01,542 --> 00:33:03,875 from the University of Utah to have an analysis 741 00:33:04,042 --> 00:33:05,708 prepared for us. 742 00:33:05,875 --> 00:33:07,917 And so I'm going to bring him up on videoconference now. 743 00:33:08,042 --> 00:33:09,542 -TRAVIS: Okay. -That'd be great. 744 00:33:09,708 --> 00:33:11,250 TRAVIS: We had no idea 745 00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:14,000 what the strange green and pink jelly substances that were found 746 00:33:14,208 --> 00:33:17,042 in the mesa drilling spoils could be. 747 00:33:17,250 --> 00:33:20,500 So, since we also recovered some wood pieces, 748 00:33:20,625 --> 00:33:21,875 Erik sent all the materials 749 00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:23,958 to be analyzed by Dr. Mitchell Power, 750 00:33:24,125 --> 00:33:26,167 the curator of botany 751 00:33:26,333 --> 00:33:29,667 at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City. 752 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,208 Hello, Dr. Power. 753 00:33:31,375 --> 00:33:32,667 Hello there. 754 00:33:32,833 --> 00:33:34,000 Thanks for jumping on with us today. 755 00:33:34,167 --> 00:33:36,917 We're really interested in, uh, 756 00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:39,250 in your analysis of those samples that we provided. 757 00:33:39,375 --> 00:33:43,333 So, what did you think of the samples that we sent you? 758 00:33:43,542 --> 00:33:48,083 So, uh, the samples were-were, um, kind of interesting to me. 759 00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:51,625 Uh, the first sample, I have it here in a, 760 00:33:51,750 --> 00:33:53,083 in a small vial. 761 00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:55,625 This is the piece of wood 762 00:33:55,792 --> 00:33:57,542 that we pulled out of the spoils pile, correct? 763 00:33:57,667 --> 00:33:59,833 That's correct. Um, we did a little bit 764 00:33:59,958 --> 00:34:01,417 of preliminary analysis on it. 765 00:34:01,583 --> 00:34:03,625 Uh, we put it on the microscopes. 766 00:34:03,792 --> 00:34:06,625 Uh, we did some, some pretty high-resolution imagery 767 00:34:06,750 --> 00:34:08,458 on it, and, um, 768 00:34:08,625 --> 00:34:10,875 in fact, I can, I can show you some of those images. 769 00:34:11,083 --> 00:34:13,750 So, this was the, the initial sample, 770 00:34:13,875 --> 00:34:17,167 um, as it was extracted from, from your coring operation. 771 00:34:17,250 --> 00:34:19,917 Um, and then we started to, uh, play around 772 00:34:20,083 --> 00:34:22,208 with some lighting and some imaging. 773 00:34:22,375 --> 00:34:25,917 And as we zoom in, we start to see some structure. 774 00:34:27,042 --> 00:34:30,000 You can start to see, uh, these pore spaces showing up 775 00:34:30,208 --> 00:34:32,083 in what we think is a stem. 776 00:34:32,250 --> 00:34:34,458 And now, if these are indeed pore spaces, 777 00:34:34,583 --> 00:34:37,750 uh, there's-there's only a few types of plants 778 00:34:37,917 --> 00:34:39,625 that can do that. 779 00:34:39,750 --> 00:34:42,333 And plants that produce a lot of spores in their stem, 780 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,167 or-or pore holes, tend to be aquatic plants. 781 00:34:47,708 --> 00:34:53,167 So our-our best guess, uh, for this particular sample 782 00:34:53,333 --> 00:34:56,833 is that it-it's likely a stem of an aquatic plant. 783 00:34:57,042 --> 00:34:59,000 And if I zoom in a bit more, 784 00:34:59,167 --> 00:35:00,333 you can see in these two pictures, 785 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:01,875 -you really start to pick out... -BRYANT: Wow. 786 00:35:02,042 --> 00:35:03,542 ...those-those, uh, pore holes. 787 00:35:04,958 --> 00:35:06,958 TRAVIS: I was shocked when Dr. Power revealed 788 00:35:07,083 --> 00:35:09,667 that he believed this wasn't crafted wood 789 00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:12,000 but part of an aquatic plant. 790 00:35:12,208 --> 00:35:14,542 But I was also confused by what it was doing 791 00:35:14,708 --> 00:35:16,667 that far inside the mesa. 792 00:35:16,875 --> 00:35:19,333 What is your guess of why something like that 793 00:35:19,542 --> 00:35:20,917 would be inside, 794 00:35:21,083 --> 00:35:24,167 uh, a mesa about 200 feet? 795 00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:27,125 Well, um, I was hoping 796 00:35:27,292 --> 00:35:29,000 you guys might have some idea about that. (chuckles) 797 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:30,667 (laughs) 798 00:35:30,875 --> 00:35:32,167 Uh, you all know better than I. 799 00:35:32,333 --> 00:35:34,000 As you were drilling through, 800 00:35:34,125 --> 00:35:34,875 it sounds like it was a predominantly 801 00:35:35,042 --> 00:35:36,375 like a sandstone, 802 00:35:36,542 --> 00:35:39,125 -very little organic matter. -That's right. 803 00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:42,167 But it seems pretty clear to me that at some point 804 00:35:42,375 --> 00:35:45,708 in your drilling operation, you penetrated... 805 00:35:50,708 --> 00:35:53,750 I was not expecting to hear that at all. 806 00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:55,500 No. 807 00:35:55,667 --> 00:35:57,917 ERIK: We are looking at biological specimens, 808 00:35:58,042 --> 00:35:59,458 prehistoric specimens 809 00:35:59,625 --> 00:36:02,125 of some kind of very porous plant material 810 00:36:02,292 --> 00:36:04,083 from an ancient era 811 00:36:04,292 --> 00:36:07,208 in a location that may fit the profile 812 00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:10,500 of a debris field inside the mesa. 813 00:36:10,625 --> 00:36:13,167 What about the, the second sample? 814 00:36:13,333 --> 00:36:15,792 The second sample was the jelly sample. 815 00:36:16,917 --> 00:36:20,167 And, uh, the jelly sample, uh, is kind of interesting. 816 00:36:20,250 --> 00:36:22,292 Doesn't really match with what I see 817 00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:25,792 in terms of the, the geological history of the area. 818 00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:29,500 Um, so I-- what I did is, I took what's called a smear sample. 819 00:36:29,708 --> 00:36:34,000 And so, um, I don't know if you can see here in my video, 820 00:36:34,208 --> 00:36:35,708 there's a small microscope slide. 821 00:36:35,833 --> 00:36:38,167 BRYANT: When we sent that sample in, it had 822 00:36:38,375 --> 00:36:40,167 a kind of a green coloration to it. 823 00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:42,708 Do you know what could account for the green coloration of it? 824 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:43,917 Originally, uh, 825 00:36:44,083 --> 00:36:46,000 we were thinking it was, uh, 826 00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:48,458 some kind of algal material. 827 00:36:48,542 --> 00:36:52,333 -You mean algae? -That's right, yeah. 828 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:54,542 I didn't see any algal structures. 829 00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:55,750 So it's not 830 00:36:55,958 --> 00:36:57,833 a biologically-driven color 831 00:36:58,042 --> 00:36:59,083 as far as I can tell. 832 00:36:59,208 --> 00:37:01,000 So it's not chlorophyll? 833 00:37:01,208 --> 00:37:02,583 I don't think so. 834 00:37:02,792 --> 00:37:05,167 So, I thought I'd dig in a little deeper 835 00:37:05,375 --> 00:37:07,000 into this, uh, smear slide. 836 00:37:07,167 --> 00:37:11,292 So we-we washed it down to see what kind of material was left. 837 00:37:11,458 --> 00:37:15,500 And so what you're seeing now is, the organic slime 838 00:37:15,667 --> 00:37:18,917 or jelly sample has dissolved away, 839 00:37:19,083 --> 00:37:22,875 and the particles you see are pieces of burnt plant material. 840 00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:27,000 And what was surprising is the abundance 841 00:37:27,208 --> 00:37:29,750 of burnt plant material in a relatively small sample size. 842 00:37:29,917 --> 00:37:31,250 -Wow. Wow. -What? 843 00:37:33,083 --> 00:37:34,458 TRAVIS: You mean, like 844 00:37:34,625 --> 00:37:37,167 something caused a fire deep inside the mesa? 845 00:37:37,375 --> 00:37:39,333 Absolutely, yeah. 846 00:37:40,208 --> 00:37:41,625 TRAVIS: Wow. 847 00:37:46,583 --> 00:37:48,792 TRAVIS: Like something caused a fire deep inside the mesa? 848 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:50,708 Absolutely, yeah. 849 00:37:50,875 --> 00:37:52,500 Wow. 850 00:37:52,667 --> 00:37:54,083 In my research here at the University of Utah, 851 00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:58,292 I study, um, ancient wildfires, and we look for exactly this. 852 00:37:58,458 --> 00:38:00,792 We look for burnt plant material, 853 00:38:00,958 --> 00:38:02,792 and this is what we'd find. 854 00:38:02,917 --> 00:38:05,833 TRAVIS: Botany expert Dr. Mitchell Power believes 855 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,208 that the green jelly-like substance found 856 00:38:08,375 --> 00:38:12,042 in the drilling spoils that came out of the mesa is plant-based 857 00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:15,125 and offers evidence of extensive burning. 858 00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:18,375 So, how might they be connected to the huge, possibly metallic, 859 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:20,125 dome-shaped object, which may also 860 00:38:20,292 --> 00:38:21,917 be covered with materials 861 00:38:22,125 --> 00:38:24,042 that are associated with spacecraft? 862 00:38:24,208 --> 00:38:27,708 If you were to take a wild stab in the dark 863 00:38:27,875 --> 00:38:30,292 as to how in the world this-- these two samples 864 00:38:30,417 --> 00:38:33,458 got a couple hundred feet inside a mesa, 865 00:38:33,667 --> 00:38:35,917 somewhere between 50 and 100 foot deep, 866 00:38:36,083 --> 00:38:38,125 uh, what would you think? 867 00:38:38,250 --> 00:38:39,958 It's a tough nut to crack here. 868 00:38:40,042 --> 00:38:43,167 I'm not, I'm not 100% sure on-on what, what it's doing there. 869 00:38:43,333 --> 00:38:45,958 But my-my guess, if I had to, you know, 870 00:38:46,125 --> 00:38:49,083 put my money on anything, would-would be some kind 871 00:38:49,250 --> 00:38:51,667 of a buried wetland feature. 872 00:38:52,708 --> 00:38:55,917 That is absolutely not what I was expecting to hear. 873 00:38:56,125 --> 00:38:59,167 No, that was completely not what I was expecting to hear. 874 00:38:59,333 --> 00:39:01,750 Did these burned jelly materials 875 00:39:01,875 --> 00:39:05,042 get inside solid rock through a natural process 876 00:39:05,208 --> 00:39:06,875 over thousands of years? 877 00:39:07,042 --> 00:39:09,208 I can't imagine how that would be possible. 878 00:39:09,375 --> 00:39:12,417 Or was there once a wetland there, 879 00:39:12,583 --> 00:39:14,708 and the dome-shaped object caused the fire? 880 00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:18,000 The only solid takeaway I can think of is, 881 00:39:18,208 --> 00:39:21,833 we have got to keep looking for answers inside the mesa. 882 00:39:21,958 --> 00:39:25,500 Well, as if the mesa wasn't already complicated enough, 883 00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:28,667 thank you for making it even more complicated for us. 884 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:29,625 And bizarre. 885 00:39:29,750 --> 00:39:31,167 -ERIK: Yes. -Absolutely. 886 00:39:31,375 --> 00:39:32,667 TRAVIS: Thank you very much, Dr. Power. 887 00:39:32,792 --> 00:39:34,000 -Yeah, thank you. -ERIK: Yeah, thank you. 888 00:39:34,167 --> 00:39:35,250 -Thank you. -KALEB: Thank you. 889 00:39:35,417 --> 00:39:37,458 If this is some ancient wetlands, 890 00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:39,583 how do we account for pulling out a bunch of metal 891 00:39:39,750 --> 00:39:42,500 that's even deeper than what this sample was? 892 00:39:42,667 --> 00:39:44,500 A bunch of metal-- we've been told 893 00:39:44,667 --> 00:39:47,458 that it's similar to, uh, aerospace materials. 894 00:39:47,583 --> 00:39:49,292 Then we've got this goo in there. 895 00:39:49,417 --> 00:39:51,833 And we have a wetland that was on fire. 896 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,083 -Yeah, you can see where we're going with that. -Oh, yes. 897 00:39:54,208 --> 00:39:57,500 -It reeks of a crash of some sort. -It does reek of a crash. 898 00:39:57,708 --> 00:40:00,167 It's science fiction, but who knows? 899 00:40:00,250 --> 00:40:02,667 That's really, really strange. 900 00:40:02,792 --> 00:40:04,542 ERIK: Can this picture get any more complicated? 901 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:06,833 I would love to see 902 00:40:07,042 --> 00:40:09,125 further analysis on the green material. 903 00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:10,542 Yes. 904 00:40:10,708 --> 00:40:11,958 We need to know exactly what it is 905 00:40:12,083 --> 00:40:15,292 -and-and-and why it's in the mesa. -Yeah. 906 00:40:15,458 --> 00:40:17,333 I think we have to get back out there, 907 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,000 we've got to explore, 908 00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:20,292 uh, as much as we can. 909 00:40:20,458 --> 00:40:22,750 Well, I-I'll tell you what, 910 00:40:22,917 --> 00:40:24,667 -I think we've got work to do. -ERIK: We do. -Yeah, we do. 911 00:40:24,833 --> 00:40:26,667 -And so we need to get at it. -Thank you, guys. 912 00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:29,292 -Thank you, Erik, that was awesome. -(overlapping chatter) 913 00:40:29,458 --> 00:40:31,958 TRAVIS: I'm gonna go get to work. 914 00:40:33,042 --> 00:40:35,542 Could we actually be trying to uncover 915 00:40:35,708 --> 00:40:37,458 a crashed spacecraft of some kind 916 00:40:37,625 --> 00:40:39,500 deep inside the mesa? 917 00:40:39,708 --> 00:40:42,417 And if so, is there something of an intelligent nature 918 00:40:42,625 --> 00:40:44,542 trying to stop us from doing that? 919 00:40:44,708 --> 00:40:47,125 All I can say for sure is 920 00:40:47,250 --> 00:40:49,292 that only time and a lot more hard work 921 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:50,917 is gonna tell us the truth. 922 00:40:52,083 --> 00:40:53,917 ERIK: Taken as a whole, the stories that have been 923 00:40:54,083 --> 00:40:57,792 shared with us about this region of the property 924 00:40:57,958 --> 00:41:00,458 suggest that there is what some people describe 925 00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:03,583 as craft disappearing into the hillside. 926 00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:07,167 I can't help wondering whether what we're looking at now 927 00:41:07,292 --> 00:41:09,625 has a connection to those events. 928 00:41:09,750 --> 00:41:13,000 BRANDON: The mesa continues to be one of the most 929 00:41:13,167 --> 00:41:17,500 challenging areas of the ranch to explore. 930 00:41:17,708 --> 00:41:20,000 But I truly believe that it presents 931 00:41:20,167 --> 00:41:22,167 such incredible opportunity. 932 00:41:22,292 --> 00:41:24,083 Whatever is within the mesa 933 00:41:24,208 --> 00:41:25,792 may be the key 934 00:41:25,958 --> 00:41:27,958 to understanding the nature 935 00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:30,750 of what is happening on Skinwalker Ranch. 936 00:41:35,333 --> 00:41:36,792 BRYANT: Hey, guys. Welcome back. 937 00:41:36,958 --> 00:41:38,417 TRAVIS: How many drones did you bring us this time? 938 00:41:38,542 --> 00:41:39,875 -Thousand. -Thousand? 939 00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:42,167 Three, two, one. 940 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:44,167 BRYANT: These drones will help us see what's above the ranch 941 00:41:44,333 --> 00:41:45,792 that's causing all this trouble. 942 00:41:45,958 --> 00:41:48,458 The drone's down, lost video feed. 943 00:41:48,583 --> 00:41:50,292 -It crashed. -BRYANT: What the hell is up there? 944 00:41:50,458 --> 00:41:52,125 TRAVIS: Did you see that? 945 00:41:52,250 --> 00:41:54,833 So you hit something in the air and spiraled to the ground. 946 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,708 This UAP appeared just before we lost the drone. 947 00:41:57,917 --> 00:42:00,042 -We got more than one. -There are so many UAPs, 948 00:42:00,208 --> 00:42:01,500 it's crazy. 949 00:42:03,958 --> 00:42:05,667 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A E NETWORKS