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PRESTON:
You're there, Javier, right?

JAVIER:
We're there. We're there.

We're gonna trigger
the pyro now.

But they're not
anywhere near the triangle!

What in the world is going on?

MATTY:
What could possibly explain

the high strangeness
on Skinwalker Ranch?

There's something
falling right there.

JIM:
Black thing flying by the lens.

MATTY:
Is it something
that lurks in the sky?

TRAVIS:
Put that thing in there
and see what we can see.

MATTY:
Or is the secret...

Oh! Back up, back up, back up.

MATTY:
...hiding deep below ground?

TRAVIS:
What is that?

MATTY:
I'm back to meet

with the team
in order to find out.

Is whatever's
in the mesa actually

communicating with this team?

And it seems that the answer
could be yes in both cases.

Are we dealing
with a nonhuman intelligence?

Incredible.

♪ ♪

Congratulations, again,
on an incredible hour.

That was... Oof.

If-if there's
one singular question--

and this ranch has
a lot of questions--

but the one singular question

that maybe is looming
over everybody

every time we're here is
what is in the mesa?

And tonight,
we go back to the mesa.

Let's talk about that.
But Brandon,

this isn't the first time
I've said this to a team,

but given what you've
taken out of the mesa,

why aren't we just digging?

Yeah. We get that question
all the time.

Why aren't you blowing it up?

Why aren't you going in
more aggressively?

Well, we don't want
to destroy or damage

the very exotic or unusual thing

that may be in that mesa
that may hold all the answers.

With the drilling exercises,
I think we have

to proceed with great caution.

ERIK:
You know, we-we don't know
what we will unleash

if we are not careful
with whatever this object is.

Yeah. Imagine
if it's like, say, uh,

-some strange device in there...
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
...from science fiction.

And-and, or what
if it's just a toxic material?

Well, we don't know
what could be unleashed

from this mesa
when we finally make access

to what really is behind
some of this exotic material

that we're, uh, extracting.

It's funny when you
frame it like that.

You look
at that strange ceramic material

and you think, "Oh my gosh.
You found this in the mesa,"

you must dig.

But in a sense, finding that

is a great reason not to dig
in an aggressive manner.

Yeah, our quarry is not
just a physical object.

It is information.

We want to learn
as much as we can

from whatever's in there.

Well, yeah, you know half
of the exercise here has been

what we've observed

as the drillers have tried
to go up through there.

We would have missed out
on all of that data

-if we had just gone
straight to digging.
-ERIK: Exactly.

So let's take inventory
of our experience out there.

So initially, when we went in,

we ended up hitting what was
described to us as a dome

pushing
the directional drill head

downwards and allowing it
to travel upwards.

Um, so that's physical.

Then we also have
the ground-penetrating radar,

the GPR data
that we got from the top

that indicated
that there is, in fact,

some kind of a mass there,

something that is unlike
the surrounding material.

And don't forget
the first drilling exercise

where we found
those metal flakes.

Oh, yeah.

Those metal flakes
we had analyzed

by experts in the field.

It was interesting to look
at what they were made of

but also how
they may have been made.

The methodology was
compared to, uh,

the methods used to create
space shuttle heat shield tiles.

This stuff
doesn't belong in there.

By the way,
I'd like to make a motion

to the team that we stop
calling those things

metal flakes and start
calling them UFO tiles.

(laughter)

Well, I wouldn't go,

I wouldn't go
that-that far yet.

Okay. They seem to be
more than metal flakes, though.

-Fair?
-BRANDON: Yeah.

They're definitely out of place

and not naturally occurring.

Uh, y-you couple with that
the interference

that we're seeing
with the digging activity,

and it's,
it's time to be cautious.

ERIK:
So the approach
that we've decided on

as a team is to create

parallel boreholes
through the mesa

on either side of that anomaly.

So with those two pathways
up through the mesa,

we can put scanning devices
into those shafts

and actually send a signal
from one to the other

and see what's going on
in between.

So once we determined
that we have something there

that the drill
couldn't drill through,

then the next option is to try
to get as close to it as we can

and see what it is.

MATTY:
This week, your first move was

to put a camera down Borehole 1
that you had drilled last year.

Talk about what you found
and what we know

about what you found
now sitting here.

Have we learned anything else?

THOMAS:
Well, yeah, you know,

we wanted to get
a camera up there and see

and just really make sure

that it hadn't
collapsed in on itself

over the course of the winter.

MATTY:
And you see--

not for the first time
but again--

this anomalous green gel,
possibly, like, substance,

what do we make of that?

ERIK:
It looked like there might be

a lot of this material
scattered within the, uh,

within that drill shaft.

Is this just an isolated piece
of this material here and there?

Or is it in fact integral
to what we're drilling into?

You know, going back
to our first,

our first, um, encounter
with this green material,

when we had it analyzed,

it appeared to contain
materials, plant materials,

very old plant materials.

-Like 50 million years old.
-50 million years old.

And-and interestingly,
with that report

is the observation that it
appears to have been burned.

(stammers)
What burned in the mesa

50 million years ago?

Got to be really hot,
whatever it is.

-And-and...
-Like a crash.

(Travis grunts)

It's possible. It's possible.

But what we really noticed
that was repeatable

was as we got about 200 feet
or so into the hole,

there was suddenly
interference with the camera.

Now, this isn't
a wireless camera.

This is a camera that's
got a wire connected to it

all the way back to us
to a monitor.

When we would pass the camera
through that spot,

the screen would get
all flickery and fuzzy,

and then when it'd get
past it, it'd be fine.

And we'd pull it back
through it, it would repeat.

And we repeated it
several times.

So there's something

in that spot, 200 feet in there,

that causes
electromagnetic interference.

ERIK:
That's some pretty
strong evidence that there is

something energetic
going on in the mesa.

Well, one of
the crazy things is,

is we've looked
at that 200-foot mark

as a measurement point

in the mesa because we've had

other things happen
with equipment

in the years previous.

And then, I want to say
this is where

Thomas had some really
crazy stuff happen

with the-the drilling beacon.

Yeah. Beacon, communication,

this is exactly what
I want to drill down on--

pun intended--

because is this an example
of whatever's in the mesa

because is this an example
of whatever's in the mesa

actually potentially
communicating with this team?

And I want to get
your thoughts on that next.

Definitely.

Is there something buried
inside the mesa

on Skinwalker Ranch
that is trying to actively

stop this team
from identifying what it is?

Or are there a number
of forces at work

trying to thwart
their investigation?

Tom, I want to come to you,
because we're talking about

right now you guys drilling

to be able to look
at whatever this anomaly is

that is in the mesa.

And to do that,
you have to be able

to track those drills, correct?

-Correct.
-But then, things didn't go
exactly according to plan.

Right. Well, you know,
we have this beacon,

which has been spoken of before.

And the beacon is critical
to the drilling exercise

because it's what gives us
all of the information

as to what's happening
with that drill bit.

And to do this, they have

the beacon, which goes
inside the drill bit,

and then they've got
what they call the locater.

And the beacon transmits
all of that data to the locator,

and then sends it
to the drill rig.

And interestingly enough,

the drillers arrive and they're
trying to get it calibrated

and linked up,
and it will not link.

Well, that's when
you guys had an idea

that maybe the location
of where we were trying

to sync that up at
had something to do

with the interference
that they were experiencing.

-You know?
-MATTY: And we're talking about

-this bubble area, correct?
-ERIK: Exactly.

That would be
inside this-this bubble.

-Right.
-Yeah.

Remind me again about
the dimensions of this bubble

in terms of where
this is happening.

Well, based on our lidar scans,

we've got a structure
that's centered on the triangle,

as best we can tell.

TRAVIS:
I remember
looking at Erik saying,

"You know, the drill is
inside the bubble."

We had the collective,
uh, direction to Thomas

to, "Hey, take that thing
outside the bubble and,

and see if it syncs up outside."

So we jumped in the truck,

we drove the locator
and the beacon

outside of the bubble
towards the west.

This right here puts us
well outside the bubble.

It will be interesting
to see if you can, uh,

get it to sync here.

ALEX:
Powering back up.

It's linked up.

-MIKE: First try.
-First try.

That's interesting.

Hey, guys. You got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.

THOMAS:
First try,
it synced up beautifully.

There you go. There you go.

That's just unbelievable.

It got even stranger
from that point.

We're driving back
to the drill site,

and right when we get

to the boundary of the bubble,

we see the signal strength

just drop significantly.

As if that locator is
transmitting

through 60, 70, 80 feet of mesa.

But here they are in the truck,

and there's nothing
between them.

It's clear to the eye.

There was as if there was
an invisible barrier

that was blocking the signal.

MATTY:
I mean,
that's the scientific method

in its best application
in the field, right?

That's validation
that there's something to that.

Yeah, ultimately, everything's
gonna come down to experiment.

TRAVIS:
Right.

So drilling is proving
difficult with challenges,

as it often does,
but yet yielding

-incredible potential evidence.
-ERIK: Data rich.

Data rich, thank you.

And you guys then
now decide to conduct

another visually
stunning experiment

involving drones,
but not just drones:

smoke and all kinds of things.

How did you set it up?
What were you looking to find?

We're studying, as part of this,

the-the apparent void
or the disruption

in GPS signals
there at the triangle

and the region
inside of the bubble.

You know, there's something
special about that space.

We've had RF, uh, devices

and measurements disrupted
there at the triangle.

We've had
mechanical interactions

with our rocket platforms.

And now, we're watching
pyrotechnic-equipped drones.

They go up and form the, uh,

sort of Christmas tree
formation.

Also looking at what will happen
with the smoke itself.

Almost like a-a bubble
when you're a kid,

and those people
who make bubbles

blow smoke inside the bubble.

TRAVIS:
We-we often refer to this

as, uh, throwing paint
on the invisible man.

-I love it.
-TRAVIS: So this was
one of those experiments.

We would get these drones
up there around the anomaly,

they would fire off the pyro,

and then we would see the smoke
hopefully fill in this bubble.

And then we also thought
that it might show a path.

That if we launched
a rocket through there,

it would explain why
we continue to see rockets

make strange maneuvers
in that location.

Well, don't-don't forget the,
the numerous drone exercises

that have resulted in,
in some cases,

drones falling out of the sky,
malfunctioning.

PRESTON: We are ready to go
on this end.

Grid forming.

THOMAS:
Whoa!

Heads up! Heads up!
They're coming down!

What the heck's going on?

It's raining drones over here.

Raining drones.

TRAVIS:
Raining drones at the triangle.

BRYANT:
We're raining drones here, too.

TRAVIS:
We're raining drones here, too.

We've had several fall,
we got several

that are missing
out of the formation.

Look at that!

It's very suggestive
of some kind of interface,

a very well-defined disruption

inside of what we're
calling the bubble.

I mean, even trying to get the
drones into the air this year,

they had problems
getting them to connect up

like they have in the past.

And then, because of
the problems they were having,

they used their software
that could tell them

where all the satellites
are at up in the air,

they can see all of it
and see the signals,

and for some reason,

they were not seeing
any satellites or-or anything.

It was like
a big black hole of data.

There's something going on
in that space.

-Something is blocking the data.
-We-We've tried to put
everything into that spot.

And, uh, even this experiment,

the drones were supposed to go
directly over the launch pad.

And we had extreme difficulty
making that happen.

I'm glad you brought that up

because I was
on the edge of my seat

during that whole thing,

during that whole thing,

and I want to get
your thoughts on that

because you were there
on the ground

and you could see it.

And we'll do that next.

-Yeah.
-Sounds good.

Every experiment
that this team conducts

on Skinwalker Ranch yields
important new data.

But as we saw
in tonight's episode,

these experiments can also yield
wildly unexpected results.

Gentlemen, you had a plan,
you executed it,

and once again, things went
not quite as you had planned.

and once again, things went
not quite as you had planned.

Yeah.

Yeah, initially,
we wanted to get

this drone constellation
directly over the center

of the triangle,
over the launch tower.

THOMAS: Yeah, we wanted
to really make sure

that we hit our target
and that...

Well, it's gonna be critical
that we hit our target

because we're shooting a rocket
up through the middle of it.

And if we're off
even just a little bit,

it could hit the drones
and damage

both the rocket and the drones.

Yeah. And-and that's not at all
what we saw, was it?

That's cool.

JAVER:
All right. Looks
like we are ready to go.

The drones are over
the center of the triangle.

THOMAS:
You ready to trigger it?

Yep.

We're gonna trigger
the pyro now.

They're not over the triangle.

Go ahead and hit.

There goes the pyro,

but they're not anywhere
near the triangle.

Hey, Thomas.
They are not over the triangle.

They're over the, uh, road
that goes into the south field.

Not over the triangle at all.

So on the map over here, Travis,

it shows them right
over top of the launchpad.

What in the world is going on?

Kaleb and I were out there, uh,

with the rocket and
Pete Kelsey also, right?

Yeah. The idea was
I'd be there to help spot.

Pete and I both look up, like,
"Dude, are you seeing this?"

TRAVIS:
So the drones never made it
to the launch tower.

They never made it over.

They got close, maybe about
40 or 50 yards away.

But they never went
to the center of the triangle.

And you could see this
with your naked eyes,

they were nowhere near
where they needed to be.

Yet, you're being told

by your instrumentation,

that they're right
where they should've been.

They, the, in fact,
we called on the radio,

and-and
the Sky Elements guy said

"It's right over
the-the GPS point."

And we're standing
under it, looking up,

saying, "No, it's not."

MATTY:
So could that be
some sort of, I don't know,

almost like when you see
a mirage

and things are waving
inside that bubble?

Could weird things be
being manipulated

and that's what you're seeing?

It's possible
that it's some sort of optical,

uh, issue there,
an optical, uh, illusion.

ERIK:
T-There's a key fact here.

This was an outright mismatch.
A physical displacement.

Again, not unlike
the things we've seen with GPS

historically across the ranch,

but especially at the triangle.

-Mm.
-ERIK: It's almost
as if there's something stirring

the space there,
or the GPS reception there

at the, uh, at the triangle.

MATTY:
And then so that-that bubble
might be causing

this interference
or these anomalies?

-Like a snow globe.
-And-and indeed it may account
for the optical effects.

Again, another point
in your experimentation

where it doesn't seem
outlandish to think,

is the ranch actively
interacting with you

and trying to stop
what you're doing,

or to somehow misdirect
what you're doing?

Yeah, are we dealing with
a nonhuman intelligence?

ERIK:
Well, we're definitely
interacting with something

that is quite complex.

And it seems to respond
to our interaction with it.

You know, that-that doesn't
necessarily mean

it has to be intelligent.

But sometimes, though, it seems

very intuitive
in how it responds

in-in-in a way that, that, uh,
hinders our-our original intent.

And selective. Targeted.

-Yeah. Very.
-Very targeted.

ERIK:
Yeah, and another key
to this, that--

and this is recurring--

is that we very often see

the emergence
of strange RF signals,

strange energy showing up
during the experiments,

as well as things in the sky,

some of which
we've labeled as UAPs.

Things in the sky, again.

That's what I want
to talk about next.

What are they?
What do you think they are?

Why are they
interacting with you?

Where are they coming from
and what's their purpose?

Let's drill down on that next.

-Good questions.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.

What does cause this team's
scientific equipment to fail

only when it's being used
on Skinwalker Ranch?

And could the answer
to that question

have been seen
in tonight's episode

in the sky?

UAPs.

Again, you guys are trying
to get something done

Again, you guys are trying
to get something done

and we see anomalies in the sky.

What are we thinking
about these?

You know, honestly, Matty,
I think we're dealing

with several, as you said,
different kinds of things.

But one that really got
my attention is something

apparently falling down, uh,
through that drone swarm.

Definitely not a drone.

ERIK: As-as best we can tell,
it's...

All the drones were
accounted for.

All of the pyrotechnics are
accounted for.

-That was a key, a key point.
-That was, yep.

TRAVIS:
And there was no material

in that space
that-that could be falling.

There was nothing on the drones
that could account for it.

It wasn't an animal or an insect
or something like that.

It-it was on the order
or scale of the drone size

and it was completely black,

And-and it came
down through the pyro,

through the drone constellation.

And we can't figure out
what it is.

Well, one of the craziest
things that I remember is,

you, Pete and I were
standing there,

and we heard something
hit the ground.

-You did?
-Yeah. We all did.

And we all were like
"Did you hear that?"

And we start looking
and that's--

-We thought a drone fell.
-Yeah.

-And nothing's there, obviously?
-KALEB: Nothing was there.

We looked around and we came
back to Erik and was like,

"Hey, is there
something in the footage

that accounts for this?"

MATTY:
Something else happened.

Again, if I didn't see it
myself on these shows,

it strains credulity,

but you have a rocket
that seems to,

for not the first time,

disappear for a time.

Where's it going?
What's happening?

So, you know,
as we're launching rockets,

there have been
a few instances, like this one,

in which it disappears
for a time, and then reappears.

Which, of course,
invites the question,

"Where's the light going?"
Right?

Is there something
obscuring our view

from the cameras of the rocket.

And Erik can tell you,
the-the rocket motors are

extremely bright in the cameras.

It'll saturate them out.
And so, it's not

that there's not enough light
to stimulate the camera.

Uh, what was there
that blocked the light between

the rocket motor and the camera?

Any one of these things
on its own could be

some just unexplainable
anomaly, who cares?

But it keeps happening
over and over again,

now you got to pay attention.

Once again, repeatability is

one of the-the footholds
of the scientific method.

And when we launch
a rocket that seems

to vanish
at a certain region, you know,

probably 50 to 300 feet,
somewhere in that area,

uh, and that's not
the first time we've seen it,

that-that tells us
there's something

to this phenomenon, and we got
to figure out what that is.

THOMAS:
If anything,
I leave this experiment

just with, uh,
even more confirmation

that there is absolutely
something there

in the triangle that is real.

Brandon, your team's
getting it done and then some.

-Yeah.
-And the ranch is active
and then some.

What's next?

Well, what we've seen
above the ranch has taken

many of us from being
skeptics to experiencers.

-Mm.
-It's gonna be interesting,
as we probe the space

above the ranch
to see if there are

other interactions
or revelations

that lie below
that give us a better hint

at what is really happening.

Matty, we're, we're,
we're creating an ocean

-one raindrop at a time.
-MATTY: Ah. Well done.

Congratulations, guys.
Incredible stuff.

Do it again next week?

-Sure.
-Yeah.

-All right.
-You bet.

Well, there you have it.

No matter how high
or how low this team has to go,

they will not stop
until they solve

the secret of Skinwalker Ranch,

even if they have
to smoke it out themselves.

Thanks for watching,
we'll do it again next week,

right here
from the command center.

Have a good night.

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