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-TRAVIS: Whoa, what is that?
-BRYANT: Whoa.

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THOMAS:
Whoa! It's raining drones
over here!

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<i>We just had
catastrophic failure.</i>

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That's got to be
the FPV right there.

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-TRAVIS: Yeah, that's got to be.
-ERIK: Gone.

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-TRAVIS: It vanished
behind something.
-ERIK: Yeah.

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There's something there.

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We broke... somewhere.

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We got to figure out
where we broke now.

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-We broke another rod?
-We broke a rod, yeah.

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TRAVIS:
There's something blocking us
in the mesa.

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<i>NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.</i>

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<i>It is considered the epicenter</i>

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<i>of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:</i>

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<i>animal mutilations,</i>

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<i>bizarre UFO sightings</i>

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<i>and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.</i>

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<i>For 20 years,
the federal government</i>

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<i>tried to find answers
and failed.</i>

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<i>Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,</i>

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<i>researchers and experts
has taken over.</i>

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<i>They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal...</i>

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...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

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-Did you get your fishing tool?
-Got it.

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-Good deal.
-Got to put it on
and everything.

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THOMAS:
So, this little tool right here

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is what you're hoping

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to grab onto that pipe
and pull it back?

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Yeah, yeah,
it's got a cone shape

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on the inside with threads.

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So, if we can hit the end
of that pipe and thread onto it,

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we'll be able
to pull it out enough

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to where we can get
everything apart

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and get the rods put back
together.

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Okay.

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<i>TRAVIS:
For more than two months now,
we've been</i>

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struggling with an operation
on Skinwalker Ranch

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that should have been
pretty easy to complete.

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<i>The goal is
to drill two boreholes</i>

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<i>up through the sandstone mesa</i>

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<i>where ground-penetrating radar
has detected a huge</i>

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<i>dome-shaped object
that is surrounded</i>

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<i>by several smaller anomalies.</i>

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<i>We need these boreholes</i>

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so that we can insert different
scanning devices in them

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<i>to study,
and hopefully identify,</i>

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<i>what these strange anomalies
could actually be.</i>

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<i>But during this operation,
our team</i>

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from Mark Construction Drilling
has experienced crazy setbacks

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<i>just trying
to get the first hole drilled.</i>

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It's not moving very well.

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<i>TRAVIS: Their equipment
has repeatedly failed</i>

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<i>after making possible contact
with the anomalies.</i>

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<i>And just last week,</i>

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<i>after finally reaching
more than 400 feet in...</i>

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We broke... somewhere.

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<i>TRAVIS:
...their drill rods
mysteriously came apart,</i>

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<i>and one of them broke.</i>

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<i>It's like whatever is in there</i>

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is trying to stop us
from getting this done.

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So, today, Alex Swanson and his
team are using a fishing tool

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<i>to extract the drilling rods
from inside the mesa.</i>

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<i>Hopefully, we can get at least
one of these holes drilled</i>

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before
the weather gets too harsh

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and forces us to postpone our
investigation until next summer.

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Hold that right there, Jared.

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Okay, Jared, push into it.

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We're almost at the rod.

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<i>THOMAS:
If this doesn't work,</i>

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<i>I don't know how we're going
to be able get up in there.</i>

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<i>I really can't get up in there
with the excavator without</i>

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risking a rockslide
coming down on top of me.

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So, this is
a really tense moment for me.

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Hold that.

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<i>I think we're onto it, bud.</i>

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Okay, try and pull back.

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Keep going, keep pulling.

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-We got her.
-THOMAS: You got her?

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We got her.

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-Wow.
-ALEX: We got it!

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THOMAS:
Heck yeah!

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<i>We catch our first big break
of this entire job.</i>

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Although we've encountered
a lot of setbacks and obstacles,

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<i>it looks like
everything's coming together.</i>

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I actually believe now
we're going to be able

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to actually break through
the top of this mesa.

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Fingers crossed,
this is the last time

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-that we have a problem.
-Yeah.

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We certainly don't want
to stop again. That's for sure.

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THOMAS:
What do you got

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-before you break through?
-ALEX: We're thinking probably--

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-About five rods.
-Five rods, we should be out.

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Okay. So another 75 feet,
and we should be out the top.

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-Yup.
-THOMAS: Cool.

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So, how long you thinking
it's gonna take you

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to push through
that last 75 feet then?

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JARED:
Probably, say,
at least five hours.

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give or take,
if not a little longer.

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Well, I guess
we'll get to it, huh?

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-Yup.
-Okay.

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<i>It's been quite the journey.</i>

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<i>TRAVIS:
While the drilling operation
continued</i>

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<i>at the mesa...</i>

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<i>...later that afternoon...</i>

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-Hey, Cam.
-Hey.

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TRAVIS: ...Cameron Fugal arrived
to help us conduct our last,

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and most ambitious,
experiment of the year.

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Well, the lidar trucks
are coming down the road.

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<i>And we also welcomed
a whole team of lidar experts,</i>

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<i>including Pete Kelsey,</i>

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<i>John Brown, Jim Royston
and Sam Deriso.</i>

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ERIK:
Well, before we jump in
to what we're planning on doing,

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this looks like
some serious tech.

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JOHN:
It's pretty serious technology

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when it comes to lidar.

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This one is specifically used

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for long-distance collection.

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ERIK:
Okay.

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And it's incredibly accurate.

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PETE:
I hear you have something

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creative in mind for it.

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We've got a few
creative somethings in mind.

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<i>TRAVIS:
Several weeks ago,</i>

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<i>using a terrestrial
laser scanner,</i>

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<i>Pete Kelsey detected
a massive cone-shaped anomaly.</i>

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It stretched more than
a half a mile from Homestead Two

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<i>over to the east field canyon</i>

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<i>and had a 2,000-foot-high apex
directly above the triangle.</i>

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Other than the mesa,

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these are
the three main hot spots

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where we've experienced
the most phenomena

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on Skinwalker Ranch...

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We have several objects
moving in unison.

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<i>TRAVIS:
...including UAPs...</i>

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What is that signal?

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<i>...energy spikes</i>

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<i>and even possible evidence</i>

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<i>of something that resembles
a traversable wormhole.</i>

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So, our hope is that tonight's
experiment will reveal more data

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on all the anomalies we've seen
in these different locations.

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Maybe it will help us determine
how they might all be connected.

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<i>Once the sun goes down,
we'll start the experiment</i>

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<i>by launching a rocket
in the east field</i>

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<i>to see
if we can stimulate phenomena.</i>

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<i>From there,</i>

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imaging expert John Brown will
drive his mobile lidar vehicle,

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while Cameron Fugal shadows him
in the helicopter.

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<i>They'll move past
the east field, the triangle,</i>

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<i>the mesa drill site
and over to Homestead Two.</i>

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<i>John will be scanning
the entire area</i>

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<i>between the ground
and the helicopter</i>

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<i>for signs of the cone
or any other strange things.</i>

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ERIK:
We're going to have
that lidar truck platform

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running right
under the helicopter.

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Cameron, you're going
to be following along.

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That's going
to give a target, basically.

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TRAVIS:
That's right.

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Sam, you'll be
in the lidar truck

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with one
of the multi-sensor boxes

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-that is data logging.
-Okay. Mm-hmm.

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And Erik, were you going
to put a GPS tracker with him?

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-Yes, I am.
-TRAVIS: Okay.

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<i>TRAVIS:
Cameron will be wearing
night vision goggles,</i>

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<i>which may also enable him
to see aerial phenomena</i>

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<i>that's invisible
to the naked eye.</i>

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<i>Once they reach Homestead Two,</i>

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<i>Thomas Winterton will launch
another rocket</i>

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<i>from the mesa drill site,</i>

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<i>and then, they'll repeat
the scanning process</i>

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<i>back toward the east field.</i>

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Jim, I want you flying

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the lidar path with your drone,

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-and fly the in-and-out path.
-Okay.

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<i>TRAVIS:
To help us gather
even more aerial data,</i>

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<i>Jim Royston will fly
his drone-based lidar device</i>

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<i>between the triangle
and the east field.</i>

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This is where we've detected
mysterious voids in GPS data

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throughout the year.

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<i>And it's also</i>

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<i>where we captured video
back in 2022</i>

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<i>of a UAP entering,
then exiting the mesa</i>

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<i>before flying
right toward the triangle.</i>

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Kaleb, uh, you'll be down

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at the east canyon area
with Dragon.

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Use the handheld lidar scanner,
and I want you

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to paint that whole area, right?

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KALEB:
Yeah, I'm going
to be everywhere with that.

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Thomas, if anything happens
with the drill,

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then I'm not that far away,
either. You can give me a call,

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and I'll come running.

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<i>Because we're still trying</i>

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<i>to break through
the top of the mesa</i>

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to complete our first borehole,

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<i>the drillers are going
to keep on drilling tonight.</i>

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Maybe it'll cause
something strange to happen

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that we'll be able to detect,
and hopefully, identify.

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Then, after that experiment
is done, we're going

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to do an experiment
at the triangle.

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Yeah, let...
let me describe that.

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We're going to have the burner
from a hot-air balloon

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heating up that space

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where we have detected something
at an altitude of about 30 feet.

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And we'll be doing some thermal
and lidar imaging on that.

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It's a pretty interesting area

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in terms
of what we've seen to date.

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<i>TRAVIS:
One of the craziest things</i>

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<i>that we've ever encountered
on the ranch</i>

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<i>was a blob-like anomaly</i>

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<i>that may have actually
destroyed a rocket</i>

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<i>31 feet high
above the triangle in 2022.</i>

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And since then,
Erik has determined

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that he captured video of it
from a second camera,

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confirming
that it was a real phenomenon

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and not some kind
of camera artifact.

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<i>So, we'll be using
a hot-air balloon burner</i>

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<i>to blast flames
into that 31-foot region</i>

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<i>while we scan it
with lidar devices</i>

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<i>and record it with high-speed,</i>

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<i>night vision,
thermal and infrared cameras.</i>

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And all during the experiment,

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we'll be monitoring
numerous spectrum analyzers,

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radiation detectors
and GPS devices

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to collect more data
than we ever have before.

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<i>This place has been
hiding its secrets from us</i>

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<i>for more than five years now.</i>

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<i>But tonight, we intend</i>

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<i>to finally reveal
just what they truly are.</i>

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CAMERON:
So, as serious

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as this is,
this is exciting, too.

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-Oh, it's very exciting.
-Oh, yeah, very.

231
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And we have a lot of work to do.

232
00:10:15,792 --> 00:10:16,500
CAMERON: It's a super
science project tonight.

233
00:10:16,625 --> 00:10:17,667
We have a lot to do.

234
00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:19,333
Well, guys, I can see

235
00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:20,500
our shadows are getting
awfully long.

236
00:10:20,667 --> 00:10:21,500
I think it's time
to get out there,

237
00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:22,500
get set up and get ready to go.

238
00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:24,417
Yup. Let's get to work.

239
00:10:24,542 --> 00:10:26,667
-We got to go.
-ERIK: Okay.

240
00:10:33,042 --> 00:10:34,917
<i>CAMERON: Okay, we're going
to get airborne.</i>

241
00:10:37,583 --> 00:10:40,125
TRAVIS: All right,
looks like Cameron's up.

242
00:10:41,292 --> 00:10:42,875
Sam, do you copy?

243
00:10:43,958 --> 00:10:45,667
<i>SAM:
Yes, so we have just</i>

244
00:10:45,833 --> 00:10:48,292
entered the gate. We are ready.

245
00:10:49,458 --> 00:10:50,750
<i>TRAVIS:
Just after nightfall,</i>

246
00:10:50,917 --> 00:10:52,833
<i>Cameron Fugal lifted off
in the helicopter</i>

247
00:10:53,042 --> 00:10:54,875
<i>to get positioned 1,000 feet</i>

248
00:10:55,042 --> 00:10:58,708
above John Brown's mobile
lidar truck at the eastern gate.

249
00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,583
It was time to start
our ranch-wide experiment.

250
00:11:01,708 --> 00:11:04,042
THOMAS:
Guys, be advised,

251
00:11:04,208 --> 00:11:05,875
we're over here
at the drill site.

252
00:11:06,042 --> 00:11:08,708
The rig is running, and
we're monitoring the drilling.

253
00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:10,417
<i>TRAVIS:
Copy that, Thomas.</i>

254
00:11:10,583 --> 00:11:12,333
Erik, do you copy?

255
00:11:12,458 --> 00:11:14,833
<i>ERIK:
Yeah, Travis. Go ahead.</i>

256
00:11:15,042 --> 00:11:17,333
<i>TRAVIS: Yeah, I say this is
about our one-minute warning.</i>

257
00:11:17,542 --> 00:11:19,000
We're going to launch a rocket.

258
00:11:19,125 --> 00:11:21,042
<i>Be prepared to look
in that direction.</i>

259
00:11:21,167 --> 00:11:22,875
Copy you.
Thanks for the heads-up, Travis.

260
00:11:23,042 --> 00:11:24,958
<i>TRAVIS:
All right, Dragon.</i>

261
00:11:25,125 --> 00:11:27,667
<i>Good to go whenever,
as long as Kaleb's scanning.</i>

262
00:11:27,833 --> 00:11:28,875
<i>We got our scans going here.</i>

263
00:11:29,042 --> 00:11:31,458
Copy that. We are scanning.

264
00:11:31,625 --> 00:11:33,333
The rocket is hot.

265
00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,833
<i>TRAVIS:
As the drilling operation
continued</i>

266
00:11:35,958 --> 00:11:38,583
<i>and our other team members
prepared to run handheld</i>

267
00:11:38,750 --> 00:11:40,708
<i>and drone-based lidar scans</i>

268
00:11:40,833 --> 00:11:43,708
<i>in the east field
and the triangle areas,</i>

269
00:11:43,833 --> 00:11:46,250
Dragon was ready to launch
a rocket from the east field

270
00:11:46,417 --> 00:11:49,000
so we could start
our first mobile lidar run

271
00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:51,000
from the eastern end
of the ranch

272
00:11:51,167 --> 00:11:53,250
all the way over
to Homestead Two.

273
00:11:53,417 --> 00:11:55,208
<i>Cameron, are you in place?</i>

274
00:11:56,625 --> 00:11:57,917
We're going to go

275
00:11:58,083 --> 00:12:01,750
in five, four--

276
00:12:01,917 --> 00:12:05,333
<i>-BRYANT: Three, two.</i>
-Three, two.

277
00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:07,083
One.

278
00:12:09,958 --> 00:12:11,375
There it goes. Rocket's up.

279
00:12:11,542 --> 00:12:13,208
<i>BRYANT:
We had a good launch,</i>

280
00:12:13,417 --> 00:12:16,292
good chute, and you can
send them on their way.

281
00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:17,958
Tell him let's go, we're good.

282
00:12:27,208 --> 00:12:28,917
TRAVIS:
All right, here they come.

283
00:12:29,125 --> 00:12:31,625
<i>Right after
Dragon launched his rocket,</i>

284
00:12:31,708 --> 00:12:34,542
<i>John Brown began driving
his lidar truck</i>

285
00:12:34,708 --> 00:12:37,000
<i>from east to west
across the ranch</i>

286
00:12:37,208 --> 00:12:39,500
<i>while Cameron was positioned
right above him,</i>

287
00:12:39,667 --> 00:12:42,167
<i>flying at an altitude
of 1,000 feet.</i>

288
00:12:42,333 --> 00:12:45,458
Keep the lidar going
and go all the way down,

289
00:12:45,625 --> 00:12:47,667
uh, to past the drill rig,

290
00:12:47,875 --> 00:12:50,667
uh, past Homestead Two
and turn around in that field.

291
00:12:50,875 --> 00:12:53,083
<i>Hey, Erik, do you copy?</i>

292
00:12:53,250 --> 00:12:54,917
<i>Are you watching
the lidar truck?</i>

293
00:12:55,083 --> 00:12:56,792
ERIK:
Copy you, I've got eyes on that.

294
00:12:56,875 --> 00:12:58,833
<i>This is a very ambitious</i>

295
00:12:58,958 --> 00:13:02,125
<i>and complicated operation
that we are conducting, so</i>

296
00:13:02,333 --> 00:13:03,833
we don't know exactly
what to expect,

297
00:13:04,042 --> 00:13:06,333
but we are very interested
in what we might see.

298
00:13:06,458 --> 00:13:09,000
TRAVIS:
That's the lidar truck
right there.

299
00:13:09,208 --> 00:13:10,958
They're about to come around
the corner up here.

300
00:13:12,083 --> 00:13:13,542
<i>ERIK:
And I am both excited</i>

301
00:13:13,708 --> 00:13:14,917
<i>and perhaps
a little apprehensive</i>

302
00:13:15,125 --> 00:13:17,167
<i>about how the experiment
will play out.</i>

303
00:13:17,375 --> 00:13:19,000
<i>But I'm confident
that there will be</i>

304
00:13:19,167 --> 00:13:20,958
meaningful
scientific deliverables.

305
00:13:21,125 --> 00:13:24,417
Well, that lidar truck's
at the triangle.

306
00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,333
TRAVIS:
All right, Jim!

307
00:13:30,542 --> 00:13:32,500
Drone going up, Pete.

308
00:13:34,375 --> 00:13:36,167
<i>TRAVIS:
After the chopper
and lidar truck</i>

309
00:13:36,333 --> 00:13:39,708
passed the triangle, which was
the halfway point in their run,

310
00:13:39,875 --> 00:13:42,625
<i>I had Jim Royston begin
flying his lidar drone</i>

311
00:13:42,750 --> 00:13:45,042
<i>from the triangle
toward the east field.</i>

312
00:13:45,250 --> 00:13:47,833
<i>ROYSTON:
I'm going northeast.</i>

313
00:13:48,042 --> 00:13:50,958
<i>TRAVIS: That's where
he previously experienced</i>

314
00:13:51,167 --> 00:13:52,875
<i>mysterious voids
in his GPS data,</i>

315
00:13:53,042 --> 00:13:55,875
<i>as though his drone
momentarily disappeared.</i>

316
00:13:56,875 --> 00:13:59,042
<i>And of course,
it's also the path</i>

317
00:13:59,208 --> 00:14:02,000
<i>where a UAP passed
through the mesa</i>

318
00:14:02,167 --> 00:14:05,917
<i>and flew directly toward
the triangle back in 2022.</i>

319
00:14:08,042 --> 00:14:10,333
<i>SAM:
Tom, this is Sam,
confirm we are clear</i>

320
00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:12,042
<i>to pass by the drill?</i>

321
00:14:12,208 --> 00:14:14,000
<i>THOMAS:
The road is clear,</i>

322
00:14:14,083 --> 00:14:17,000
<i>you are good to go
by the drill site, over.</i>

323
00:14:17,167 --> 00:14:18,958
<i>SAM:
10-4. Thank you.</i>

324
00:14:24,417 --> 00:14:28,417
THOMAS:
This is Thomas. The lidar truck
just passed the drill site.

325
00:14:28,583 --> 00:14:29,875
We're prepping the rocket,

326
00:14:30,042 --> 00:14:32,583
it'll be ready
to go here in a minute.

327
00:14:32,708 --> 00:14:34,833
<i>TRAVIS:
After about 15 minutes,</i>

328
00:14:35,042 --> 00:14:37,375
<i>John and Cameron passed
the mesa drill site</i>

329
00:14:37,542 --> 00:14:41,250
<i>and arrived at Homestead Two
to complete their first run.</i>

330
00:14:41,417 --> 00:14:44,500
We didn't see or detect
anything unusual in the moment

331
00:14:44,708 --> 00:14:46,167
during that first scan.

332
00:14:46,333 --> 00:14:49,083
SAM:
This is Homestead Two
on your left,

333
00:14:49,208 --> 00:14:51,333
the carriage house
on your right.

334
00:14:51,458 --> 00:14:54,750
<i>Be advised, the lidar truck
has passed Homestead Two.</i>

335
00:14:54,875 --> 00:14:56,583
<i>We are turning around.</i>

336
00:14:56,708 --> 00:15:00,083
<i>TRAVIS:
So, as the chopper
and lidar truck prepared</i>

337
00:15:00,250 --> 00:15:02,375
<i>to leave Homestead Two
and head back</i>

338
00:15:02,542 --> 00:15:05,458
<i>to conduct another scan
heading toward the east field,</i>

339
00:15:05,625 --> 00:15:07,875
<i>Thomas Winterton got ready
to launch a rocket</i>

340
00:15:08,042 --> 00:15:09,625
<i>from the mesa drill site</i>

341
00:15:09,792 --> 00:15:13,292
to see if that would change
anything during that return run.

342
00:15:13,458 --> 00:15:15,333
-(alarm sounding)
-The rocket's ready,

343
00:15:15,542 --> 00:15:17,208
lights on, sirens going.

344
00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:18,625
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
All right, Thomas,</i>

345
00:15:18,792 --> 00:15:20,292
Cameron is clear,

346
00:15:20,417 --> 00:15:22,083
<i>you are good to launch
the rocket whenever.</i>

347
00:15:22,208 --> 00:15:24,583
THOMAS:
Five, four,

348
00:15:24,750 --> 00:15:28,083
<i>three, two, one.</i>

349
00:15:29,667 --> 00:15:31,167
TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah!

350
00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:49,000
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
Copy that, Sam,
go all the way to the gate</i>

351
00:15:49,125 --> 00:15:50,625
<i>and turn back around.</i>

352
00:15:58,458 --> 00:16:01,083
THOMAS:
Lidar truck just passed
the drill site,

353
00:16:01,250 --> 00:16:03,875
proceeding
to the triangle, over.

354
00:16:04,083 --> 00:16:06,042
<i>TRAVIS:
Copy that, Thomas.</i>

355
00:16:09,958 --> 00:16:11,167
TRAVIS:
Everybody, be advised

356
00:16:11,375 --> 00:16:12,917
that, uh, the lidar truck

357
00:16:13,042 --> 00:16:15,667
is passing through
the triangle right now.

358
00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:26,208
THOMAS:
Just curious,
is the helicopter, uh,

359
00:16:26,417 --> 00:16:29,500
does he think he's directly
over the lidar truck?

360
00:16:29,625 --> 00:16:32,042
'Cause he's directly over
the drill site right now.

361
00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:33,875
TRAVIS:
Yeah, that's
a good question, Thomas.

362
00:16:34,042 --> 00:16:35,833
He's way behind the lidar truck.

363
00:16:35,958 --> 00:16:38,000
I don't know--
something's going on.

364
00:16:38,125 --> 00:16:41,375
Yeah, I can confirm,
that's exactly what I saw here.

365
00:16:52,417 --> 00:16:53,625
Behind them?

366
00:16:53,833 --> 00:16:55,667
(chuckles):
There's no way.

367
00:16:55,875 --> 00:16:59,125
<i>Okay, now this was really odd.</i>

368
00:16:59,208 --> 00:17:02,250
Cameron said,
according to what he was seeing,

369
00:17:02,375 --> 00:17:05,292
<i>he was tracking directly
above the lidar truck</i>

370
00:17:05,417 --> 00:17:08,917
<i>as they headed back east
past the triangle.</i>

371
00:17:09,083 --> 00:17:10,958
<i>But we could all see
the helicopter positioned</i>

372
00:17:11,125 --> 00:17:13,042
<i>way behind the truck</i>

373
00:17:13,208 --> 00:17:15,500
<i>and much closer
to the mesa drill site.</i>

374
00:17:15,583 --> 00:17:19,458
So, were our eyes
being deceived or his?

375
00:17:19,625 --> 00:17:21,500
It made no sense.

376
00:17:21,583 --> 00:17:23,167
ERIK:
Yeah, hey,
just for what it's worth,

377
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:25,500
I have been tracking you
and the lidar truck,

378
00:17:25,667 --> 00:17:28,167
and there has been
a significant discrepancy

379
00:17:28,333 --> 00:17:30,208
between your reported positions.

380
00:17:30,375 --> 00:17:32,333
<i>TRAVIS: Yeah, Cameron, when
the lidar truck came through</i>

381
00:17:32,417 --> 00:17:34,417
the triangle, you were still
at the drill site.

382
00:17:44,250 --> 00:17:45,917
<i>ERIK: I've been tracking you
and the lidar truck.</i>

383
00:17:46,083 --> 00:17:48,083
There has been
a significant discrepancy

384
00:17:48,250 --> 00:17:50,917
between your reported positions.

385
00:17:51,042 --> 00:17:52,667
<i>CAMERON (over radio):
Oh, my goodness.</i>

386
00:17:52,833 --> 00:17:56,083
TRAVIS: What we were all seeing
with our eyeballs on the ground

387
00:17:56,292 --> 00:17:57,500
<i>was that Cameron's helicopter</i>

388
00:17:57,667 --> 00:17:59,708
<i>was nowhere near
the lidar truck,</i>

389
00:17:59,833 --> 00:18:01,500
<i>even though he was reporting</i>

390
00:18:01,625 --> 00:18:03,792
<i>that the truck
was directly beneath him.</i>

391
00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:07,917
So, something was clearly
causing an optical illusion

392
00:18:08,125 --> 00:18:11,667
for either Cameron,
us or everyone.

393
00:18:22,958 --> 00:18:26,167
<i>THOMAS (over radio):
Yeah, negative, the truck
is still to the east of you.</i>

394
00:18:26,375 --> 00:18:27,833
<i>Uh, you're not over it.</i>

395
00:18:30,958 --> 00:18:32,833
There's no way.

396
00:18:33,042 --> 00:18:34,833
Wow, Cameron,
we can tell you for a fact

397
00:18:34,958 --> 00:18:36,542
<i>that you're really not.</i>

398
00:18:36,708 --> 00:18:38,792
You need to head about 50 yards
directly to the east.

399
00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,500
Copy that.
Yep, that's very interesting.

400
00:18:57,208 --> 00:18:58,333
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
There you go. That's it.</i>

401
00:18:58,542 --> 00:19:01,250
Now you're right over the truck.

402
00:19:01,417 --> 00:19:04,000
It looked like,
for a-a good while there,

403
00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:06,833
that you were way behind
the lidar truck.

404
00:19:07,042 --> 00:19:08,167
If you thought
you were over him,

405
00:19:08,375 --> 00:19:10,833
then there's some kind of
an optical distortion

406
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,583
that's, uh, happening here.

407
00:19:12,750 --> 00:19:16,208
<i>It took about a minute
for Cameron to get reoriented</i>

408
00:19:16,375 --> 00:19:19,000
and back in the correct position
above the truck

409
00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:21,333
<i>as it headed east
of the triangle.</i>

410
00:19:21,542 --> 00:19:24,708
The question was whether or not
the massive cone-shaped anomaly

411
00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:27,958
that we previously detected
was what caused him to think

412
00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:30,958
he was over the truck
the entire time.

413
00:19:31,125 --> 00:19:35,125
Once we could process our data,
we hoped to find out for sure.

414
00:19:35,250 --> 00:19:37,583
<i>But in the meantime,
we were all on edge</i>

415
00:19:37,750 --> 00:19:40,917
<i>wondering what else
might happen in the moment.</i>

416
00:19:41,083 --> 00:19:43,167
SAM (over radio):
Travis, this is the lidar truck,

417
00:19:43,292 --> 00:19:44,750
<i>we have reached the gate.</i>

418
00:19:44,917 --> 00:19:48,125
Cameron, we've reached
the gate. We're holding.

419
00:19:56,208 --> 00:19:58,083
Yes, copy that, over.

420
00:19:58,250 --> 00:20:00,833
<i>Once they reached the end
of their second run,</i>

421
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,167
<i>the lidar truck and chopper</i>

422
00:20:03,375 --> 00:20:05,417
<i>got back into
their starting position</i>

423
00:20:05,583 --> 00:20:09,000
to make another scan
on the east-to-west route.

424
00:20:09,167 --> 00:20:12,125
<i>And this time,
we had Cameron go up</i>

425
00:20:12,292 --> 00:20:14,458
<i>to an altitude of 2,000 feet</i>

426
00:20:14,583 --> 00:20:17,417
<i>to give the lidar truck
a much higher target to track</i>

427
00:20:17,583 --> 00:20:20,500
<i>and, ultimately,
scan a much larger area.</i>

428
00:20:20,708 --> 00:20:23,125
Especially since
the first time we detected

429
00:20:23,208 --> 00:20:24,917
the cone-shaped anomaly,

430
00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:27,208
it was 2,000 feet high
at its apex

431
00:20:27,375 --> 00:20:29,167
right above the triangle.

432
00:20:29,375 --> 00:20:31,083
You ready, Cameron?

433
00:20:31,250 --> 00:20:35,250
Rocket's gonna be launching
here in a few seconds.

434
00:20:38,792 --> 00:20:41,208
All right, Dragon,
launch the rocket.

435
00:20:41,417 --> 00:20:42,833
<i>BRYANT (over radio):
Copy that.</i>

436
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,875
Five, four,

437
00:20:46,042 --> 00:20:49,208
<i>three, two, one.</i>

438
00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:03,708
Y-You should have been able
to see that, Cameron.

439
00:21:03,917 --> 00:21:05,333
TRAVIS:
Yeah.

440
00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:09,375
<i>TRAVIS:
I don't either, that's weird.</i>

441
00:21:09,583 --> 00:21:11,292
<i>Is it possible that something</i>

442
00:21:11,458 --> 00:21:13,917
<i>was blocking
Cameron's view of the rocket?</i>

443
00:21:14,042 --> 00:21:16,833
Just last week, during
a crazy drone swarm experiment

444
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,583
that we conducted between
the triangle and the east field,

445
00:21:20,750 --> 00:21:24,250
our surveillance cameras
imaged a rocket as it ascended,

446
00:21:24,458 --> 00:21:27,208
but incredibly,
the rocket vanished for a moment

447
00:21:27,375 --> 00:21:29,333
<i>about 100 feet in the air,</i>

448
00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,042
<i>and then, suddenly,
it reappeared.</i>

449
00:21:33,250 --> 00:21:36,000
We have no idea
what caused that to happen,

450
00:21:36,208 --> 00:21:38,583
but could it be the same anomaly

451
00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:40,500
that just obstructed
Cameron's view?

452
00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:43,542
<i>If so, as the lidar truck
and helicopter</i>

453
00:21:43,708 --> 00:21:46,167
<i>made their next scan
across the ranch,</i>

454
00:21:46,375 --> 00:21:48,167
<i>we hope to find out.</i>

455
00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:50,500
We've got something
here on Jim's lidar.

456
00:21:50,708 --> 00:21:52,458
What? W-What have we got?

457
00:21:54,333 --> 00:21:55,917
Oh, you do, in the air?

458
00:21:56,042 --> 00:21:59,000
ROYSTON:
That's down at the east,
right over the spire.

459
00:21:59,167 --> 00:22:00,875
TRAVIS:
Holy crap, what is that?

460
00:22:01,042 --> 00:22:04,125
PETE:
I'm going to check
the terrestrial laser scanner.

461
00:22:04,333 --> 00:22:07,667
TRAVIS:
Hey, Dragon, be advised that
on the lidar from Jim's drone,

462
00:22:07,792 --> 00:22:11,292
they did pick up something
in the air over the spire.

463
00:22:11,458 --> 00:22:13,125
<i>BRYANT:
That's good to know.</i>

464
00:22:13,292 --> 00:22:17,292
<i>TRAVIS: In 2021, Pete Kelsey
ran a photogrammetry scan</i>

465
00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:19,333
<i>in the east field and detected</i>

466
00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,708
<i>a 300-foot-high,
column-shaped spire,</i>

467
00:22:22,917 --> 00:22:25,500
<i>which is also the area
where Erik has detected</i>

468
00:22:25,708 --> 00:22:29,333
<i>GPS voids in
Jim Royston's drone scans.</i>

469
00:22:29,458 --> 00:22:33,208
It made me wonder
not only if Jim Royston's lidar

470
00:22:33,375 --> 00:22:35,458
<i>had detected
the spire anomaly again,</i>

471
00:22:35,667 --> 00:22:37,750
but also if that
was what had obstructed

472
00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:40,917
Cameron's view of the rocket
from the helicopter.

473
00:22:41,042 --> 00:22:44,625
We've documented countless
phenomena all over the ranch.

474
00:22:44,750 --> 00:22:47,375
But when we start seeing
repeated patterns in the data,

475
00:22:47,542 --> 00:22:50,000
it means we might be
getting closer to figuring out

476
00:22:50,167 --> 00:22:52,292
just what might be causing them.

477
00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:55,500
PETE:
Uh... (chuckles)

478
00:22:55,708 --> 00:22:57,583
Hey, Travis,
have a look at this.

479
00:22:57,708 --> 00:23:00,333
Now, granted,
this is just preview...

480
00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:02,583
-Right. Oh!
-...but once again...

481
00:23:02,750 --> 00:23:04,458
Another vertical feature.

482
00:23:04,625 --> 00:23:06,375
TRAVIS:
I see it.

483
00:23:06,542 --> 00:23:08,333
PETE:
That suggests
we've got another cone.

484
00:23:08,458 --> 00:23:09,958
TRAVIS:
Uh-huh.

485
00:23:10,958 --> 00:23:12,583
It will be interesting
when we post process.

486
00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:14,417
Can't wait to see that
post processed.

487
00:23:14,583 --> 00:23:17,375
<i>I was stunned when Pete
showed me the data</i>

488
00:23:17,542 --> 00:23:20,417
on his terrestrial lidar scanner
of what appeared to be

489
00:23:20,583 --> 00:23:23,917
<i>that 2,000-foot-tall,
cone-shaped anomaly again.</i>

490
00:23:24,042 --> 00:23:25,833
Steve, we're going to start
the burner experiment.

491
00:23:25,917 --> 00:23:27,000
Okay.

492
00:23:27,208 --> 00:23:28,667
<i>TRAVIS: So I immediately asked</i>

493
00:23:28,792 --> 00:23:30,792
<i>hot air balloon pilot
Steve Jones</i>

494
00:23:30,958 --> 00:23:33,875
to get ready to shoot flames
straight up at the triangle

495
00:23:34,042 --> 00:23:35,500
with his propane burner.

496
00:23:35,625 --> 00:23:37,875
All right, so, uh,
we'll run this,

497
00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:39,542
we'll run the thermal.

498
00:23:39,667 --> 00:23:42,417
And, uh, we'll start doing
the fire experiment.

499
00:23:42,542 --> 00:23:45,167
<i>If the cone, which also
covered the triangle,</i>

500
00:23:45,375 --> 00:23:46,583
<i>was showing up again,</i>

501
00:23:46,750 --> 00:23:48,667
I wanted to see
if evidence of the blob

502
00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:51,375
would also appear
at 31 feet in the air.

503
00:23:51,542 --> 00:23:54,417
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
Hey, Erik, uh, be advised
that we are going to start</i>

504
00:23:54,583 --> 00:23:56,375
the balloon burner experiment.

505
00:23:56,542 --> 00:23:57,750
<i>ERIK: Copy that,
thank you.</i>

506
00:23:57,917 --> 00:24:00,458
I've got assets trained
on the triangle.

507
00:24:00,667 --> 00:24:02,917
<i>TRAVIS: Hey, Dragon,
do you copy?</i>

508
00:24:04,292 --> 00:24:05,417
Yeah, Travis, go ahead.

509
00:24:07,042 --> 00:24:09,625
We're done with
the, uh, rocket launches,

510
00:24:09,792 --> 00:24:11,958
and so if you guys want to come
down here to the triangle

511
00:24:12,083 --> 00:24:14,542
and watch the burner experiments
with us.

512
00:24:15,875 --> 00:24:16,875
Copy that, Travis.

513
00:24:17,042 --> 00:24:18,458
<i>We'll head back that way</i>

514
00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:20,250
<i>and observe
the other experiment.</i>

515
00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:21,667
Copy that.
We'll see you in a bit.

516
00:24:21,833 --> 00:24:24,167
<i>Cameron, on the next run,</i>

517
00:24:24,375 --> 00:24:27,625
<i>uh, you need to go up
to 5,000 feet.</i>

518
00:24:30,208 --> 00:24:33,250
<i>TRAVIS:
Since Cameron's view
may have been obstructed</i>

519
00:24:33,375 --> 00:24:35,708
<i>by something in the air
at 2,000 feet,</i>

520
00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:38,000
<i>I wanted him
to climb up to 5,000 feet,</i>

521
00:24:38,125 --> 00:24:39,583
which should have been
out of the range

522
00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:41,125
of the cone-shaped anomaly.

523
00:24:41,292 --> 00:24:43,042
I really wanted to test

524
00:24:43,208 --> 00:24:45,458
if he would still have
strange optical distortions

525
00:24:45,625 --> 00:24:47,292
at a higher altitude.

526
00:24:47,417 --> 00:24:49,833
-Kaleb, how you doing, man?
-Good.

527
00:24:50,042 --> 00:24:51,792
So, get that SLAM scanner
ready to go

528
00:24:51,958 --> 00:24:53,625
'cause we're gonna
start firing this burner.

529
00:24:53,792 --> 00:24:56,208
Why don't you go ahead
and get in place, Steve?

530
00:24:56,375 --> 00:24:58,167
Taking off.

531
00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:01,500
<i>TRAVIS:
As Steve Jones prepared
to start shooting flames</i>

532
00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:03,500
<i>up above the triangle...</i>

533
00:25:03,583 --> 00:25:06,000
We're running, lidar's running.

534
00:25:06,167 --> 00:25:10,042
...we activated our stationary
and handheld lidar devices.

535
00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:11,708
-I'm live.
-Oh, you're up.

536
00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:15,167
Then, Pete Kelsey got his
thermal camera drone in the air,

537
00:25:15,333 --> 00:25:17,125
<i>and we also started recording</i>

538
00:25:17,250 --> 00:25:19,083
<i>with a FLIR thermal camera
on the ground.</i>

539
00:25:19,250 --> 00:25:21,167
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
Go ahead and do a run, Sam.</i>

540
00:25:21,375 --> 00:25:24,708
10-4, we're a-going.

541
00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:26,958
<i>TRAVIS: Steve, you copy?</i>

542
00:25:27,042 --> 00:25:28,333
Copy.

543
00:25:28,542 --> 00:25:29,917
<i>TRAVIS:
Are you ready to go?</i>

544
00:25:30,083 --> 00:25:31,833
<i>STEVE (over radio):
Yes, sir.</i>

545
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,333
All right,
we're gonna go in five,

546
00:25:35,542 --> 00:25:40,000
four, three, two, one...

547
00:25:40,208 --> 00:25:42,250
Whoa!

548
00:25:47,167 --> 00:25:51,500
TRAVIS: Three, two, one, stop.

549
00:25:51,708 --> 00:25:53,500
KALEB: That's awesome.

550
00:25:56,042 --> 00:25:58,292
Yeah, make it as hot
as you can make it.

551
00:25:58,458 --> 00:25:59,833
Okay.

552
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,875
<i>TRAVIS:
After seeing new lidar data</i>

553
00:26:02,042 --> 00:26:04,000
of what could be
the massive, cone-shaped anomaly

554
00:26:04,167 --> 00:26:08,000
<i>that was centered nearly 2,000
feet high at the triangle,</i>

555
00:26:08,083 --> 00:26:11,167
we wanted Steve Jones to blast
as much flame as possible

556
00:26:11,375 --> 00:26:13,125
up to the 31-foot mark

557
00:26:13,292 --> 00:26:15,917
to see if we could
also get the blob to reappear.

558
00:26:16,083 --> 00:26:19,625
<i>So, as Steve prepped
an even bigger blast</i>

559
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:21,417
<i>from the propane burner,</i>

560
00:26:21,542 --> 00:26:23,917
<i>we were scanning
with our lidar devices.</i>

561
00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:27,583
We also were watching our
aerial and ground-based thermal

562
00:26:27,708 --> 00:26:29,833
<i>and night vision cameras
for anything strange</i>

563
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,083
<i>that might be invisible
to the naked eye.</i>

564
00:26:32,208 --> 00:26:34,625
<i>CAMERON (over radio):
So, now, we're going to climb</i>

565
00:26:34,792 --> 00:26:37,833
up to 5,000 feet
above the triangle.

566
00:26:38,042 --> 00:26:39,833
<i>DON (over radio):
10-4, Cameron.</i>

567
00:26:40,042 --> 00:26:41,875
<i>TRAVIS:
And from the helicopter,
nearly a mile high,</i>

568
00:26:42,042 --> 00:26:43,833
<i>Cameron was looking out
for phenomena in the air</i>

569
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,417
<i>with his night vision goggles.</i>

570
00:26:46,583 --> 00:26:49,500
All right,
we're gonna go in five,

571
00:26:49,708 --> 00:26:52,333
<i>four, three,</i>

572
00:26:52,542 --> 00:26:55,083
<i>two, one, go.</i>

573
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:05,958
(static hissing)

574
00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:16,208
Three, two, one, zero, stop.

575
00:27:26,250 --> 00:27:28,042
That's a good copy, yeah.

576
00:27:28,208 --> 00:27:30,542
I like you just
following it, Dragon.

577
00:27:30,708 --> 00:27:33,250
BRYANT:
Okay. I can do that.

578
00:27:33,375 --> 00:27:36,167
Five, four, three,

579
00:27:36,333 --> 00:27:39,250
two, one, go.

580
00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:44,625
(static hissing)

581
00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:52,625
TRAVIS:
Three, two, one, stop.

582
00:28:04,917 --> 00:28:08,042
How can fire cause static
on the radio? That's crazy.

583
00:28:08,167 --> 00:28:09,875
<i>There was nothing
in the mechanics</i>

584
00:28:10,042 --> 00:28:11,417
<i>of the balloon thruster</i>

585
00:28:11,625 --> 00:28:14,792
that could have caused
Cameron's communications system

586
00:28:14,958 --> 00:28:17,708
<i>to suddenly experience
a bunch of static.</i>

587
00:28:17,875 --> 00:28:19,125
But in recent years,

588
00:28:19,292 --> 00:28:21,833
we've detected
strange energy spikes

589
00:28:21,917 --> 00:28:25,375
right around 5,000 feet
directly above the triangle.

590
00:28:25,542 --> 00:28:27,833
And we've also seen a number
of different anomalies there

591
00:28:28,042 --> 00:28:30,750
between that altitude
and the ground.

592
00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:32,375
Go.

593
00:28:32,542 --> 00:28:35,583
It made me wonder if the flames
that were directly hitting

594
00:28:35,708 --> 00:28:38,292
<i>the 31-foot blob zone
at the triangle</i>

595
00:28:38,417 --> 00:28:40,417
<i>were somehow
triggering more phenomena</i>

596
00:28:40,542 --> 00:28:43,000
<i>that was affecting
the helicopter.</i>

597
00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:45,000
<i>So, we needed Steve Jones
to shoot more flames</i>

598
00:28:45,167 --> 00:28:47,167
<i>to see if it would
keep happening</i>

599
00:28:47,333 --> 00:28:49,417
<i>or possibly stimulate
something even stranger.</i>

600
00:28:49,625 --> 00:28:51,083
Stop.

601
00:28:55,917 --> 00:28:57,667
<i>-KALEB: Whoa, what was that?
-BOBBY: I don't know,</i>

602
00:28:57,833 --> 00:28:59,833
something just went right
across the mesa like that.

603
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,833
-Yeah.
-It looked like it was
right in front of the...

604
00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:03,833
-Like a band just went across.
-Yeah.

605
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,333
<i>KALEB: I'm looking at
this monitor and I see</i>

606
00:29:06,542 --> 00:29:08,875
<i>almost like a-a fog</i>

607
00:29:09,042 --> 00:29:12,375
<i>or a field of some kind
moving across the mesa</i>

608
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:14,292
<i>and we don't know what it is.</i>

609
00:29:14,458 --> 00:29:17,417
Hopefully, Erik caught some
more video footage of it

610
00:29:17,542 --> 00:29:19,083
in his cameras

611
00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:22,375
<i>and we can figure out
exactly what that is.</i>

612
00:29:22,542 --> 00:29:25,417
<i>TRAVIS (over radio):
Hey, Steve, we're gonna do
one more burn.</i>

613
00:29:25,583 --> 00:29:26,833
STEVE:
Copy that.

614
00:29:27,042 --> 00:29:30,667
Three, two, one, go.

615
00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:31,833
<i>KALEB:
Right there,
it just did it again.</i>

616
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,667
<i>ROYSTON:
I saw it again.</i>

617
00:29:33,833 --> 00:29:36,667
(burner whooshing)

618
00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:39,833
TRAVIS:
Two, one, stop.

619
00:29:39,958 --> 00:29:42,042
Looks like a smoke ring,
like a donut.

620
00:29:42,208 --> 00:29:46,167
It looked like it was going
along the side of something.

621
00:29:47,208 --> 00:29:49,750
Yeah, there was that little
section right there on the edge.

622
00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:51,958
<i>And it looked like
it hit something and, like...</i>

623
00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:54,500
<i>-BOBBY: And it went around it.
-KALEB: Yeah.</i>

624
00:29:54,583 --> 00:29:57,708
Kaleb, did you say you saw
something in the scanner?

625
00:29:57,875 --> 00:30:00,667
Well, so, a couple things.

626
00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:04,667
When, uh, Steve was making
the flare go...

627
00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:06,500
-Mm-hmm.
-...it looked like there was,

628
00:30:06,708 --> 00:30:08,458
like, a circle
that kind of went around.

629
00:30:08,583 --> 00:30:11,000
And it almost like it followed
the edge of a bowl.

630
00:30:11,167 --> 00:30:12,167
Oh, wow.

631
00:30:12,375 --> 00:30:15,333
And Pete had
the drone come back out

632
00:30:15,542 --> 00:30:17,167
and we saw two different things

633
00:30:17,375 --> 00:30:19,792
look like they went
across the screen.

634
00:30:19,958 --> 00:30:22,000
But they, almost like
they were distorted.

635
00:30:22,125 --> 00:30:23,750
-All right.
-So...

636
00:30:23,917 --> 00:30:24,625
We'll absolutely look at that.
That's awesome.

637
00:30:24,792 --> 00:30:26,625
It was odd that the flames

638
00:30:26,792 --> 00:30:28,208
might've possibly affected

639
00:30:28,375 --> 00:30:30,583
Cameron's comms system
in the helicopter

640
00:30:30,750 --> 00:30:33,833
nearly 5,000 feet
above the triangle.

641
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,542
<i>But when the guys
saw a distorted shadow</i>

642
00:30:36,708 --> 00:30:40,167
move across the face of the mesa
on Pete's thermal camera screen,

643
00:30:40,333 --> 00:30:43,167
<i>and then the flames
appeared to wrap around</i>

644
00:30:43,333 --> 00:30:47,083
<i>an invisible object right
at the 31-foot blob level,</i>

645
00:30:47,250 --> 00:30:49,667
<i>it seemed like we were
definitely getting responses</i>

646
00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:51,208
<i>from something on the ranch.</i>

647
00:30:51,375 --> 00:30:54,125
The question was,
just what could it be?

648
00:30:54,208 --> 00:30:57,000
We reset everything
on the SLAM scanner

649
00:30:57,167 --> 00:31:00,167
and so the next experiment,
we'll... I'll try and scan again

650
00:31:00,333 --> 00:31:02,000
and I'm gonna try
and do that same pattern

651
00:31:02,167 --> 00:31:04,542
-around the triangle, so...
-Okay.

652
00:31:19,583 --> 00:31:22,125
-Isn't that bizarre?
-Yeah.

653
00:31:56,083 --> 00:31:58,583
<i>CAMERON: We had a couple
of small objects fly by.</i>

654
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:02,875
But we are at about 10,000 feet
above sea level.

655
00:32:06,667 --> 00:32:10,958
Okay, just confirming,
you did see two smaller orbs.

656
00:32:11,167 --> 00:32:12,500
Yes!

657
00:32:12,667 --> 00:32:14,542
All right.

658
00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:21,792
-That's awesome.
-Okay, Travis says it's awesome.

659
00:32:21,958 --> 00:32:23,667
And I bet you
Erik will be looking forward

660
00:32:23,875 --> 00:32:25,583
to seeing that data, Cameron.

661
00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:28,583
<i>TRAVIS: None of us could
see any signs of the UAPs</i>

662
00:32:28,708 --> 00:32:31,917
<i>that Cameron-- who was wearing
night vision goggles--</i>

663
00:32:32,042 --> 00:32:33,792
was reporting flying all around

664
00:32:33,917 --> 00:32:36,125
the helicopter nearly 5,000 feet

665
00:32:36,333 --> 00:32:38,083
<i>directly above the triangle.</i>

666
00:32:38,292 --> 00:32:40,458
But from the tone in his voice,

667
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:41,958
we could all tell he was

668
00:32:42,125 --> 00:32:43,333
definitely seeing something

669
00:32:43,542 --> 00:32:45,625
that had
no conventional explanation.

670
00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:47,958
So three different anomalies

671
00:32:48,083 --> 00:32:50,167
that, uh,
Cameron caught at that...

672
00:32:50,333 --> 00:32:52,833
-elevation.
-Well, he was directly overhead
over the triangle

673
00:32:53,042 --> 00:32:54,583
when-when I heard him call you.

674
00:32:54,750 --> 00:32:55,875
So that's-that's where it was.

675
00:32:56,042 --> 00:32:57,250
-That's great.
-And we got

676
00:32:57,417 --> 00:32:59,167
that whole array of cameras
on the bottom

677
00:32:59,333 --> 00:33:01,333
of the helicopter now, so
who knows what he couldn't see

678
00:33:01,417 --> 00:33:03,333
-that we might have
captured on those cameras.
-That's right.

679
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,083
Maybe it's just like before
when he said

680
00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:08,167
-he saw all those orbs up there.
-DON: Yeah.

681
00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:11,208
<i>TRAVIS:
Back in 2022...</i>

682
00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:17,583
...as Cameron was conducting
an aerial experiment with Erik,

683
00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:19,333
<i>Brandon and Kaleb,</i>

684
00:33:19,542 --> 00:33:22,375
he also reported seeing,
in the night vision goggles,

685
00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:25,333
a bunch of UAPs
zipping by the helicopter.

686
00:33:30,792 --> 00:33:33,292
<i>TRAVIS: And that was
the same exact night that one</i>

687
00:33:33,458 --> 00:33:35,417
<i>of the specialty cameras
mounted on the chopper</i>

688
00:33:35,583 --> 00:33:38,542
<i>caught a UAP flying
through the mesa,</i>

689
00:33:38,708 --> 00:33:41,375
<i>and then heading straight
toward the triangle.</i>

690
00:33:41,542 --> 00:33:44,000
Kaleb, do you think
that was happening

691
00:33:44,167 --> 00:33:46,042
at the same time
when Cameron seen

692
00:33:46,208 --> 00:33:48,292
those, uh, smaller orbs,

693
00:33:48,458 --> 00:33:50,333
or that, uh, strobe of light?

694
00:33:50,542 --> 00:33:52,500
Yeah, they were definitely
within the same window

695
00:33:52,708 --> 00:33:53,833
of time for sure. Yeah.

696
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,708
Hmm.

697
00:33:55,875 --> 00:33:58,375
<i>TRAVIS: It's hard to know
if those UAPs were related</i>

698
00:33:58,542 --> 00:34:00,875
<i>to the static
Cameron had on his comms</i>

699
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,542
<i>or the shadow
that moved across the mesa</i>

700
00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:05,542
<i>and the possible blob activity</i>

701
00:34:05,708 --> 00:34:08,333
<i>that were both captured
by our lidar devices.</i>

702
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:09,583
But Don was right.

703
00:34:09,750 --> 00:34:12,667
These events all happened
at roughly the same time

704
00:34:12,792 --> 00:34:15,875
when we were shooting
the flames up at the triangle.

705
00:34:16,083 --> 00:34:18,500
So who knows
what we'll see once we review

706
00:34:18,667 --> 00:34:20,500
the video
from our specialty cameras

707
00:34:20,667 --> 00:34:23,167
and crunch all the data
that we've collected tonight.

708
00:34:23,333 --> 00:34:24,333
I mean,
he was directly overhead.

709
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:26,000
-And very, very high.
-Yeah.

710
00:34:26,167 --> 00:34:28,083
At 5,000 feet above
where we're standing now.

711
00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:29,542
Yeah, absolutely.

712
00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:32,458
THOMAS:
Hey, guys, you guys got a copy?

713
00:34:32,625 --> 00:34:34,500
<i>TRAVIS:
Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.</i>

714
00:34:34,708 --> 00:34:36,333
The ground's moving.

715
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:37,958
We are minutes

716
00:34:38,083 --> 00:34:39,333
from breaking
through the surface.

717
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:41,000
Do you guys want
to head over this way

718
00:34:41,208 --> 00:34:43,000
and watch
the drill bit break through?

719
00:34:43,208 --> 00:34:44,625
<i>TRAVIS:
Copy that.</i>

720
00:34:44,750 --> 00:34:46,333
<i>Dragon, Don and me are gonna</i>

721
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,083
<i>stay down here and keep
an eye on all the equipment.</i>

722
00:34:49,292 --> 00:34:51,167
But Kaleb's gonna
head back to the helipad

723
00:34:51,375 --> 00:34:53,833
so Cameron can give him
and Erik a lift.

724
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,083
They'll be there in a minute.

725
00:34:56,208 --> 00:34:57,667
Uh, we'll wait for you.

726
00:34:57,833 --> 00:34:59,125
And, uh...

727
00:34:59,292 --> 00:35:00,708
should be any minute.

728
00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:12,833
<i>ERIK: Cameron is coming
to transport Kaleb and myself</i>

729
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,083
<i>to the top of the mesa so that
we can witness and measure</i>

730
00:35:16,250 --> 00:35:18,083
what happens
when that drill head erupts

731
00:35:18,250 --> 00:35:19,833
from the top of the mesa.

732
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,833
<i>It's a very important moment</i>

733
00:35:21,958 --> 00:35:24,292
<i>in our investigation
this summer.</i>

734
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,583
I know that everyone is anxious
to get news of that success.

735
00:35:27,750 --> 00:35:29,333
Okay.

736
00:35:33,708 --> 00:35:34,958
Yeah, he's airborne.

737
00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:37,083
I can hear it.

738
00:35:39,625 --> 00:35:41,000
<i>THOMAS:
I'm really excited</i>

739
00:35:41,208 --> 00:35:43,167
because we've been trying
to find out

740
00:35:43,292 --> 00:35:44,667
what's in this mesa

741
00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:46,167
now for several years.

742
00:35:46,292 --> 00:35:48,208
<i>And right now we're literally</i>

743
00:35:48,375 --> 00:35:50,167
<i>sitting inches away from</i>

744
00:35:50,292 --> 00:35:51,792
<i>what could be
some of the biggest answers</i>

745
00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:54,250
<i>that we've ever gotten here
on Skinwalker Ranch.</i>

746
00:35:58,042 --> 00:36:00,000
THOMAS:
It's gonna pop up over the mesa.

747
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,167
<i>We've been out here drilling
for the longest time.</i>

748
00:36:04,375 --> 00:36:07,625
<i>We've faced tons of obstacles</i>

749
00:36:07,792 --> 00:36:09,750
<i>and tons of delays.</i>

750
00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:11,917
<i>So it's fitting</i>

751
00:36:12,042 --> 00:36:13,667
that we're gonna finally

752
00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:16,500
punch through the top
of the mesa the same time

753
00:36:16,667 --> 00:36:18,542
that we're doing
our final experiment.

754
00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:21,375
-Hey, guys.
-Hey there.

755
00:36:21,542 --> 00:36:22,708
Exciting day.

756
00:36:22,875 --> 00:36:24,667
Looks like
we're gonna get through.

757
00:36:24,875 --> 00:36:26,000
Yeah.

758
00:36:26,125 --> 00:36:27,333
So, Alex, you want to show them

759
00:36:27,542 --> 00:36:29,250
right where you think
it's gonna come out?

760
00:36:29,375 --> 00:36:31,042
Yeah. I mean, we saw
these cracks starting

761
00:36:31,208 --> 00:36:32,750
to happen, and the ground
was starting to heave

762
00:36:32,917 --> 00:36:35,125
right here, so I'm guessing
somewhere in this area

763
00:36:35,292 --> 00:36:37,458
-right here.
-Oh, wow.

764
00:36:37,625 --> 00:36:40,042
THOMAS:
Oh, there's water.

765
00:36:40,208 --> 00:36:42,167
Well, go ahead
and keep drilling her, bud.

766
00:36:46,042 --> 00:36:47,833
Oh, check that out.

767
00:36:57,667 --> 00:36:59,083
<i>ALEX (over radio):
She's coming out right now.</i>

768
00:36:59,292 --> 00:37:00,292
<i>You can go ahead
and just push it.</i>

769
00:37:01,792 --> 00:37:03,375
Oh, check that out.

770
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,542
ERIK:
Travis?

771
00:37:13,708 --> 00:37:14,875
Be advised,

772
00:37:15,042 --> 00:37:16,500
<i>we have broken through.</i>

773
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:18,083
(whoops)

774
00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:20,000
All right, how about that?

775
00:37:20,208 --> 00:37:21,708
Hey! Finally.

776
00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:24,333
<i>Hey, congratulations!</i>

777
00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:27,792
Sounds like Travis is
a little bit excited.

778
00:37:27,958 --> 00:37:29,625
<i>So, uh, Travis, there's a lot</i>

779
00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:31,333
<i>of work ahead of us
once we reem this thing out.</i>

780
00:37:31,542 --> 00:37:35,375
Looks like we have got
a perfect asset

781
00:37:35,542 --> 00:37:39,208
for studying what's
going on inside of this mesa.

782
00:37:39,375 --> 00:37:40,958
<i>TRAVIS: You know,
you're absolutely right.</i>

783
00:37:41,167 --> 00:37:44,958
After all the insane setbacks
that this operation encountered

784
00:37:45,167 --> 00:37:47,292
over the past several months,

785
00:37:47,458 --> 00:37:49,292
I could hardly believe it
when the guys radioed

786
00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:52,000
to me that we finally got
one of our boreholes

787
00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:54,250
completed up through the mesa.

788
00:37:54,375 --> 00:37:56,625
And for it to happen
in the midst of everything else

789
00:37:56,833 --> 00:37:59,792
that went down tonight
was like icing on the cake.

790
00:37:59,917 --> 00:38:02,375
I'd say this was one of the best
experiments we've ever had

791
00:38:02,583 --> 00:38:06,167
during our investigation
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

792
00:38:06,375 --> 00:38:08,333
I think it's a,
a victory right there.

793
00:38:08,542 --> 00:38:11,333
We've been trying to get
through that mesa for months.

794
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:12,833
Uh, I think
it's pretty exciting.

795
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,167
<i>ERIK:
Hell yeah.</i>

796
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:16,542
TRAVIS:
Now we can actually do, uh,

797
00:38:16,708 --> 00:38:19,750
<i>a GPR through that,
uh, casing and</i>

798
00:38:19,917 --> 00:38:22,542
<i>do, uh, basically,
RF tomography</i>

799
00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:25,667
<i>of whatever
the anomaly inside there is.</i>

800
00:38:25,792 --> 00:38:27,458
-That's the name of the game.
-Yeah.

801
00:38:27,625 --> 00:38:30,542
THOMAS: Well, I think we've done
everything we can do tonight.

802
00:38:30,708 --> 00:38:33,292
I think we head down,
meet up with the guys down

803
00:38:33,417 --> 00:38:35,500
at the triangle and, uh...

804
00:38:35,625 --> 00:38:37,542
-get off the hill.
-Yeah.

805
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:39,542
All right,
let's get out of here.

806
00:38:40,542 --> 00:38:42,042
<i>THOMAS:
Seeing that six-inch</i>

807
00:38:42,208 --> 00:38:44,000
bit pop through the top

808
00:38:44,125 --> 00:38:45,917
just felt like such a victory.

809
00:38:46,042 --> 00:38:48,500
And, uh, we're gonna take
that victory lap.

810
00:38:48,625 --> 00:38:50,125
We're gonna enjoy it.

811
00:38:50,250 --> 00:38:52,250
<i>And we're gonna come back
next year.</i>

812
00:38:52,458 --> 00:38:54,500
<i>We will get our 18-inch hole</i>

813
00:38:54,708 --> 00:38:56,833
<i>from top to bottom,
because we're not gonna stop</i>

814
00:38:57,042 --> 00:38:59,542
<i>until we figure out
what's inside this mesa.</i>

815
00:39:00,792 --> 00:39:03,417
Well, uh, I guess
first of all, tell us about

816
00:39:03,583 --> 00:39:05,500
the drill getting
through the mesa.

817
00:39:05,667 --> 00:39:07,542
We were almost
exactly on our target,

818
00:39:07,708 --> 00:39:08,958
-we were just a bit
to the west...
-THOMAS: Yeah.

819
00:39:09,167 --> 00:39:10,500
...of the spot
we were shooting for.

820
00:39:10,667 --> 00:39:13,000
But, as far as north to south,

821
00:39:13,208 --> 00:39:15,333
we are almost spot-on.

822
00:39:15,417 --> 00:39:17,792
Yeah. So that, you know,
so that still keeps us clear

823
00:39:17,958 --> 00:39:20,917
of the anomaly,
according to Jan's data.

824
00:39:21,083 --> 00:39:23,375
TRAVIS: So, once they reem it,
then we should be able

825
00:39:23,542 --> 00:39:25,875
to get his ground-penetrating
radar through there, right?

826
00:39:26,042 --> 00:39:27,333
-ERIK: Oh, I think so.
-Yeah.

827
00:39:27,542 --> 00:39:29,000
ERIK:
I think we've accomplished

828
00:39:29,167 --> 00:39:33,333
just about every single one
of our objectives tonight.

829
00:39:33,542 --> 00:39:35,625
-Correct.
-TRAVIS: We did get
a lot of data.

830
00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:38,500
In fact,
what we've done tonight has

831
00:39:38,708 --> 00:39:42,500
probably generated more data
than any other data collection

832
00:39:42,708 --> 00:39:44,917
exercise that we've done
in a single evening.

833
00:39:45,083 --> 00:39:46,833
Dude, you're right.

834
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,792
We've got more data points
to go through right now

835
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,667
than we've had probably
in the entire summation

836
00:39:52,875 --> 00:39:54,792
of the five years
that I've been here.

837
00:39:54,958 --> 00:39:56,875
That's daunting
to even think about.

838
00:39:57,042 --> 00:39:59,458
That's an insurmountable task,
but hey, look, you know,

839
00:39:59,625 --> 00:40:02,167
it's late, we still got
to break down and put stuff up.

840
00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:05,500
So I say we divide and conquer
and let's get out of here.

841
00:40:05,708 --> 00:40:07,625
-Feels like it's
almost time to get up.
-Yeah, it is.

842
00:40:09,625 --> 00:40:11,292
<i>TRAVIS:
We've run experiments before</i>

843
00:40:11,417 --> 00:40:13,167
<i>where it seemed
like nothing strange happened</i>

844
00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:14,708
<i>until we reviewed the data.</i>

845
00:40:14,833 --> 00:40:16,833
Well, tonight, we all witnessed

846
00:40:16,958 --> 00:40:20,500
different things with each step
of our ranch-wide experiment

847
00:40:20,708 --> 00:40:22,167
<i>that were
completely unbelievable.</i>

848
00:40:22,375 --> 00:40:24,583
So I can't wait
to go through everything

849
00:40:24,708 --> 00:40:27,667
that we captured on
all of our devices and cameras.

850
00:40:27,875 --> 00:40:29,125
Who knows?

851
00:40:29,292 --> 00:40:31,333
<i>The answer
to what is truly behind</i>

852
00:40:31,542 --> 00:40:34,417
<i>all this crazy phenomena
here on Skinwalker Ranch</i>

853
00:40:34,542 --> 00:40:36,917
<i>just might be revealed
in tonight's data.</i>

854
00:40:38,708 --> 00:40:40,458
<i>ERIK: We often say
that we're lead by the data.</i>

855
00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:43,667
<i>But what are we to do
when the data lead</i>

856
00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:45,708
in so many different directions?

857
00:40:46,750 --> 00:40:49,750
<i>We find ourselves refining
not just what we know,</i>

858
00:40:49,917 --> 00:40:53,000
<i>but how we think about
the things that we're seeing.</i>

859
00:40:53,167 --> 00:40:55,667
I didn't come here only to revel
in the mysteries

860
00:40:55,875 --> 00:40:57,250
and to marvel
at how strange things

861
00:40:57,458 --> 00:40:59,333
can sometimes be out here.

862
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:00,875
<i>I came for answers.</i>

863
00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:04,333
<i>So our search
for a unifying explanation</i>

864
00:41:04,542 --> 00:41:06,833
<i>will continue.</i>

865
00:41:08,458 --> 00:41:10,208
<i>BRANDON: The mesa has been
holding mysteries</i>

866
00:41:10,375 --> 00:41:12,667
<i>for thousands of years.</i>

867
00:41:13,708 --> 00:41:17,208
<i>We can only guess
what will be uncovered,</i>

868
00:41:17,375 --> 00:41:19,167
as we now have access

869
00:41:19,375 --> 00:41:22,333
for the first time
to deploy technology,

870
00:41:22,542 --> 00:41:25,250
<i>sensors, and personnel</i>

871
00:41:25,375 --> 00:41:27,917
<i>in service to exploring...</i>

872
00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:31,583
<i>...really what lies beneath.</i>


