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TRAVIS: Why was it so hard
to drill through

whatever this stuff is?

I think these ceramics
might be covering the surface

of something pretty incredible.

-Ooh. That was warm.
-Wow!

TRAVIS:
Look at that weird figure eight
it's making.

KEVIN:
That definitely looks

more dispersed than what
they normally look like.

Isn't that strange?

ERIK:
Oh, wow.

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

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

ERIK:
It could well be
that that bubble

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

DAVE:
What is that?

Look at that. There it goes.

That's what I'm talking about.

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

NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings
have never been made public.

TRAVIS:
Right there! We got something!

NARRATOR:
Now a new team

of independent scientists
and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

...of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

UAP right there!

...bizarre energies...

It looks like there's
a heat source right above 'em.

...and portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe looking
at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

...might actually be true.

They will stop at nothing
to reveal...

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON: I want to take a moment
to thank everyone

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

to come together today
for this very critical briefing,

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

relative to the reality

of what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.

Jay, I appreciate you
pulling together a team

of esteemed experts
to help us better understand

what we have documented
at the ranch.

Well, I appreciate it.

I think this is gonna be
a really good review

because the folks
we've brought together.

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

we can solve Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS:
As the strangest year yet

in our team's investigation

on Skinwalker Ranch
comes to an end,

Brandon Fugal gathered us

in Salt Lake City
to review the results

of our latest experiment

and discuss all the incredible
discoveries we've made.

And joining us were
several high-profile guests,

including my former boss

from the UAP Task Force,
Jay Stratton.

Jay is a retired army
intelligence officer

who oversaw
Robert Bigelow's investigation

of Skinwalker Ranch
for the federal government

in the early 2000s.

A good leader brings
and surrounds themselves

with the experts that can
answer the questions, right?

And so, I brought in
Dr. Eric Davis,

who was part of EarthTech

and part of the original
DIA UFO program.

BRANDON:
Your work, Dr. Davis,

laid the foundation,
in many respects,

for what we are doing today.

Thank you.

Dr. Eric Davis is
an astrophysicist

with 40 years of government
and private sector experience

in space exploration
and military intelligence.

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

JAY:
Along with him,

I've got Dr. Garry Nolan,
who participated

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

...and into the UAP Task Force.

TRAVIS:
Dr. Garry Nolan

is a professor
at Stanford University

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

to investigate
unidentified aerial phenomena

that many
of our military members

have reported encountering
in recent years

across the globe
and even on Skinwalker Ranch.

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

one of those guys I call
when I need some help

when it comes
to advanced technologies.

ERIC:
I have a 30-plus-year background

in the development
of advanced aerospace systems.

And I'm really excited
to be here today

and see what all
we can find out.

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

ROYSTON:
And to have General Lord here

from the Space Command side
of it is,

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

Lance Lord, former commander
of Air Force Space Command.

My background as commander

of Air Force Space Command
comes from

the intercontinental
ballistic missile missions, uh,

nuclear strategy work
in the Pentagon.

And my job as the chairman
of OmniTeq and with support

of Brandon Fugal
and the whole team is

to make sure
we drive the resources

to help
the investigative process.

So, uh, it's great to be here.

BRANDON:
Appreciate that. I think

bringing together

a multidisciplinary team
of experts

will help us
carry the investigation forward.

Well, with that, Erik Bard,

I'm going
to turn the time to you.

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

we're talking about particularly

interesting data where
we're seeing things happen with

our instrumentation
that has indicated

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

We've been calling that
"the bubble."

I've created a conceptual model
of the bubble.

Let me bring it up.

This is derived from lidar data

from Pete Kelsey's
terrestrial laser scanner.

GARRY:
Wow.

-LANCE: Hmm.
-GARRY: How big across?

And how far above the ranch?

610-meter radius.

It's about 2,000 feet.

Okay.

TRAVIS: Of all the crazy
things we've discovered

over the past six years,

a massive, invisible bubble,

which we have
repeatedly detected

with infrared lidar devices,

covering a huge area
of the ranch

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

It encompasses
several hot spots

where we've seen tons of UAPs...

-You seeing this?
-Yes.

...and detected strange
radio frequency signals

that may actually be
communication signals.

Whatever this thing is,
it appears to have stopped

numerous instruments,
including drones and rockets,

from entering its barriers
to collect data.

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

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

has prevented our devices
from collecting GPS data

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

One of the questions
that keeps coming up is,

what happens
if we attempt to energize

the interior
and the barriers of this bubble

with a lot of thermal energy?

Would it respond
to something that we do?

Particularly,
if it's very energetic?

Well, that was our target
for the final experiment.

-KALEB: Holy crap.
-TRAVIS: A few days ago,

we welcomed a team
of pyrotechnic experts

to create massive fireballs

that produced mushroom clouds
followed by perfect smoke rings

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

As the smoke rings rose
from the ground

up to as much as 300 feet high,

thermal camera expert Dave Mason

used his specialized cameras

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

KEVIN:
The smoke rings are

completely different
than what we normally see.

TRAVIS:
During the experiment,

a number
of the smoke rings seemed

to have been affected
by strange things

we couldn't see
with the naked eye.

So we were eager to share
surveillance and drone videos

with our guest experts
while we assessed other data

that we captured
during the experiment.

So, I'm gonna show us
one of those

detonations
there at the triangle.

Let's watch what happens

to a detonation
that should produce

a mushroom cloud

and a fully formed ring
but does not.

-CAMERON: Wow.
-ROYSTON: Look at that.

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

TRAVIS:
It's really strange.

It should be a perfect circle,

but something turned it
into a figure eight.

And this completely shocked
the explosives crew.

ERIK:
It's certainly suggestive that

that explosion,
or that mushroom cloud,

was interacting
with something on the way up.

-Yeah.
-Right.

ERIC:
So, did you notice

another type of phenomena
somewhere else

at the same time
these were going on?

Yes.

ERIK:
This is a great segue because

I have an example of
a surveillance camera positioned

east of the triangle
that captured

something above the bubble.

Let's watch this.

-GARRY:
That thing in the middle?
-ERIK: Yes.

-BRANDON: There it is.
-ERIC: Wow.

TRAVIS:
Where did it go?

'Cause those are the only clouds

-in the sky right there.
-ERIK: Right.

I'll play it again.

TRAVIS:
Immediately after
the fireball explosion,

a bright white UAP showed up
out of thin air.

Is that what caused
the smoke ring

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

to an odd figure eight?

And if so,
did it come from the bubble?

So we did some of this
in the day

so we could watch
the smoke ring easily

and then again at night

with, uh, you know,
infrared instruments.

ERIK:
Let's watch what happens.

Two simultaneous detonations.

TRAVIS:
Now look how

they look completely different
as they form.

CAMERON:
Fascinating.

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

to sweep across
the ridgeline of the mesa

in what we call a differential
FLIR camera system.

And I want to put
your eyes on this.

This is a thermographic system

that is looking
at temperature changes

in the field of view
of the camera.

And you'll see areas
of brightness

moving across
the ridgeline of the mesa.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, you can see it.

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

It moves across, right?

ERIK: Yes. That yellow line
indicates increased heat.

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

This is really interesting.

It's-it's fascinating.

Uh, yeah, interestingly enough,

right before, we saw two UAPs

headed west
towards Homestead Two.

DAVE:
Hey, Erik, come here

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

TRAVIS: Seconds before
the thermal energy appeared

to sweep across the mesa,

two UAPs showed up
in one of our thermal cameras

and flew west
across the top of the mesa

and over the drill site
towards Homestead Two.

They were stunning.

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

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

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

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

We call them
the multiphysics boxes.

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

that shows you the positions
of the fixed GPS sensors

set up at each
of these locations.

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

is Homestead Two.

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

-I see.
-SAM: Now watch what appears

to happen to this GPS sensor

while we were experiencing
that thermal anomaly.

-JIM: Oh, wow.
-THOMAS: Wow.

ERIK:
So, remember, these are
stationary GPS trackers.

-What?
-Look at that.

BRANDON:
And this is happening

in tandem
with this thermal anomaly?

Yes.

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

-a couple miles.
-THOMAS: That's at least

-three miles due north.
-Yeah.

Oh. Oh, it keeps going, guys.

Just watch.

TRAVIS:
Where is it taking us?

TRAVIS:
Where's the GPS going?

ERIK:
About 20 miles to the north.

JIM:
Geez.

It looks like
it was being pushed away

-from something.
-Mm-hmm.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS: Just after we set off
two explosions last week

near the western boundary
of the bubble,

one of our thermal cameras
picked up two UAPs flying

over the mesa
towards Homestead Two.

But then the data
from a stationary GPS sensor

near Homestead Two
inexplicably began moving north

for nearly 20 miles.

The sensor never actually moved.

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

Did the UAPs
we saw heading that way

somehow move the GPS data?

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

ERIK: Yeah, so,
we're encountering these

exceptional events in and around
this bubble structure.

Uh, let me just put it back up.

TRAVIS:
When we take instruments
through this bubble boundary,

the instruments act up.

Sometimes we get corrupted data.

Sometimes
we get strange measurements

that the instrument
shouldn't be giving us.

For example, with GPS,

it thinks it's miles away

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

about something
that is repeatable.

Yes.

ERIK:
Every time we do

uh, any kind of experimentation,

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

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

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

And in this region
that you see here

colored in red
in the western bubble boundary,

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

very strange things happen.

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

I'll talk about one incident.

Flying the drone from
the west side of Homestead Two

through the western side
of the boundary,

the drone gets to this,
you know,

boundary or this membrane,

and it was just like
something stopped it.

KALEB:
Yeah. It's as if it was caught

by something in midair.

Uh-oh.

TRAVIS:
What happened
to Jim's drone this year

when he tried to fly it through

the western boundary
of the bubble

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

ROYSTON:
You see that? Every time I try

to push through the barrier,
look what happens.

THOMAS:
It's like it's pushing you back.

TRAVIS:
The drone stayed frozen
there in the air.

But when we reviewed the video,

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

just like what happened
with the GPS data

from our smoke ring experiment.

That is not wind.

THOMAS:
No. There's no way.

Okay, so now I want
to show you another place

where our anomalies tend
to cluster.

The location you see here

bordering
on the Dry Gulch Creek

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

TRAVIS:
The south field is
one of the strangest places

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

of disturbing phenomena.

Whoa! What was that purple light
over there?

TRAVIS:
Like UAPs...

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

TRAVIS:
That's crazy, man.

...erroneous GPS data...

THOMAS:
Look at those fangs.

TRAVIS:
We got a dead animal right here!

...and even the carcass of a
mysterious wolflike creature

that we found
in Dry Gulch Creek.

But this year,

when we investigated
the southern boundary

of the bubble near the creek,

we were totally stunned
by what we found.

ERIK:
So, Travis, I think
it would be appropriate

to talk
about what we've experienced

-this year with the river walk.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Well, you know,
we started right there

where the bubble, uh,
crosses Dry Gulch Creek.

We took kayaks
and instrumented them with GPS,

gamma ray detection equipment,
we had a sonar,

TriField meters,
and as we moved down

the creek, those TriField meters
went to zero

and maintained that measurement
without fluctuating at all.

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

-THOMAS: What?
-Zero, zero.

As we approached the barrier
of the bubble, first,

the gauges on our radiation
detectors went to zero.

Any normal environment
should yield small readings

for radiation.

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

And then the data

from our GPS sensors
dove deep below the ground.

ERIK:
Jim, I'd like
to have you comment

about the experiences
that you've had

in this part of the,
uh, the ranch.

ROYSTON:
Yeah, and in particular,

the day you were doing
the river walk, I was

ten feet outside the bubble
with my base station,

flying the drone
just outside of it.

And we got just enormous amounts
of anomalous activity.

(drone playing
indistinct automated message)

TRAVIS:
After what we experienced

with the instruments
in our kayaks,

we had Jim see
if he would be able

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

-(beeping)
-Okay, this is
an interesting one, everybody.

It thinks
there's an aircraft approaching

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

TRAVIS:
It was just unbelievable.

The drone was reporting
a warning signal

that some kind of aircraft
was nearby.

But there was nothing
that we could see.

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

or maybe an invisible UAP
that came from the bubble?

How many, uh,
different instruments

have exhibited an anomalous
response to the bubble?

-Lord.
-(laughter)

-All of 'em.
-Uh, every one we have.

Every single instrument
we've got, I think.

ERIK:
That's not an exaggeration.

Anything technological seems
to respond

to this membrane
or bubble boundary.

GARRY:
So, how tight

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

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

or it may be
rippling irregularly.

So we really don't know.

BRANDON;
Also, there is

some correlation, it appears,

between the bubble
and the potential

unidentified aerial phenomena
or UFO activity

that seems
to appear above this ranch

simultaneous
with experimental activity.

TRAVIS:
Yes, like what we saw during

the laser experiments
with Nu-Salt, right?

Absolutely.
We've literally energized

the bubble
with this laser beam current,

-and we see a reaction.
-Wow.

ERIK:
Okay, so let's take a look.

ERIK:
Okay, so let's take a look.

TRAVIS:
This is from

the laser experiments
with Nu-Salt, right?

Yes. We talked
about energizing the bubble.

You know, dump some energy
into this thing,

like we did with
those explosive detonations.

And the idea is
that we may see changes.

TRAVIS:
We had six sets of

red, blue and green
two-kilowatt lasers

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

beaming up through
and across the bubble.

And we actually
had something fly through

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

TRAVIS:
In order to see how
different colored laser beams

might be affected when they were
projected through the bubble,

a team from Nu-Salt Lasers

set up 18 laser cannons
all around the ranch.

We're going
to turn the lasers on.

-Whoa.
-TIM: Right there.

ROYSTON:
Whoa. We got something moving.

TRAVIS:
After a UAP appeared right

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

started malfunctioning
and shutting off

for no explainable reason.

But then a member
of the Nu-Salt team,

who was stationed
at the drill site, snapped

one of the most
incredibly timed photos

we've ever seen
on Skinwalker Ranch.

Oh, what is that?

A UAP actually flying
through one of the lasers.

So, did the UAPs
we saw that night come

from inside the bubble

and cause all
those equipment malfunctions?

BRANDON:
We are documenting

technology and

manipulation of our systems

that really has
no easy explanation.

-Correct?
-Right.

We better hope
it's aliens, right?

-Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
-'Cause if it's our near peers,

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

LANCE:
These are serious questions.

-TRAVIS: Yep.
-I mean, really serious.

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

ERIK:
So, let's go

to the eastern boundary
of this bubble structure

and talk about
what we've experienced

in our engagement here.

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

It's a, a helium ballon

that's also affixed
to a kitelike fixture.

DILLON:
Little bit more.

TRAVIS:
The helikite was an attempt

to take a sustained
collection of data

in the barrier of the bubble.

Thomas towed it
on a UTV and parked it

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

There,
it was collecting GPS data

and transmitting
a radio frequency signal

at 1.2 gigahertz for us
to monitor for interference.

ERIK:
Oh, oh, oh. Oh.

TRAVIS: Well, first,
our GPS data somehow got pushed

several hundred feet
underground,

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

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

Wow. Look at that.

...as if something
had cloned our signal

and sent it back at us.

Who or what
could have done that?

That was unbelievable.
You know, just...

The behavior
was completely crazy.

TRAVIS:
During this experiment,

we set rockets up there
and launched them

due west
to fly through the barrier.

ROYSTON:
It really looked

like there is some kind
of shield there.

TRAVIS:
We could hardly believe it

when the bubble's barriers
seemed

to stop Jim Royston's drone
from entering it.

But during
this helikite experiment,

it appeared to do the same thing
to our rockets.

The first one that we launched
at the bubble

turned and flew north
around the perimeter.

Rocket's hot.

Oh, look out!
It went the wrong way!

And the second rocket
looked like it was deflected

in the opposite direction
and flew to the south.

What is this thing?

ERIK:
I got some interesting hits

in the high-speed cameras.

TRAVIS:
We still don't know that answer.

But when we checked
our high-speed camera video

taken during the experiment,
once again

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

That is just unbelievable.

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

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

I say, either there is something

about this bubble
that is affecting the rocket,

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

that affect the rocket.

I think
poking the hornet's nest,

which we all kind of
chuckled about initially,

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

-Yeah.
-...documenting the reality

of what we're seeing.

TRAVIS:
You know,

we've taken so many data points

around the periphery,
inside, outside the bubble.

Uh, I can't wait
till you guys really

see us start painting that more.

BRANDON:
Well, we're using

some of the most advanced
scientific equipment

in service
to mapping this anomaly,

and something is happening.

GARRY:
What's the next set

of preliminary data that needs
to be created moving forward?

So, where the boundary crosses

the driveway
on the east side here,

we started right there
placing poles

every 42 and a half meters
from each other.

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

And the idea,

at least for future reference,

is that each one of these posts

that are numbered
has a sensor packet on it,

real time, always monitoring.

ERIK:
Gentlemen, I mentioned
at the outset of our meeting

that, you know,
there were basically two kinds

of deliverables coming out
of our work this year.

There is the measurement side
of things,

the observational side
of things,

but also a very physical side.

There is one location
in particular

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

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

BRANDON:
The drilling activity

has been a key aspect
of our investigation

and our focus, spanning years,

to unearth what really lies
beneath the mesa.

We inherited a narrative

of all kinds of underground
features below the ranch.

Everything
from vast tunnel systems

to even as far
as underground bases.

And we have gone exploring,
looking for something

that might fit

this description.

And what happened instead was

our drill ended up
hitting a hard object

that we didn't anticipate.

THOMAS:
At the mesa drill site,

our drill ended up hitting

a hard object
that we didn't anticipate.

ERIK: I could actually
bring up a visual

of that ground-penetrating
radar data.

So, if you look
right at this picture

that Erik's got up here,

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

ERIC:
Hmm. Wow.

THOMAS: We determined
the best route would be,

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

to study,
it would be better to go

up each side of it.

TRAVIS:
For the last three years,

we've been drilling
into the mesa,

where we detected what appears
to be a massive object

that's surrounded by a number
of smaller anomalies.

And after finding
manufactured metal flakes

in the drilling spoils
back in 2021,

we devised a plan to create
two boreholes on either side

of the large object

that would run all the way
up through the mesa.

Then we could insert
scanning devices to better study

what these buried things
actually are.

Check that out.

TRAVIS: Despite a lot of
strange drilling malfunctions,

we were able to complete
Borehole 1 last year.

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

as we drilled Borehole 2.

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

what we found this year
and see what they think.

We ended up finding, uh,
metal flakes in the spoils

that came out of the mesa.

ERIK: You know,
the analysis of these flakes

suggests that they have
some very interesting

trace elements in them.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, the material

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

Also, there's vanadium in it.

And what's interesting is,

the metals appeared to be

most likely manufactured
in a blast furnace.

So how did those things get

hundreds of feet
inside the mesa?

How far inside the mesa?

THOMAS:
As best as we can gauge,
somewhere between

200 and 300 feet
into the mesa horizontally.

That's remarkable.

-Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
And it's almost

like something crashed

there in the mesa

and created all these
little debris chunks.

That's what this
GPR data looks like.

ERIC:
So, what you're finding

makes absolutely no sense.
It is truly anomalous.

-Yeah.
-THOMAS: Well,

as we continue
those drilling exercises,

we hit something
that actually broke the drill

-in Borehole 2.
-That's right.

The drill rod hit something,

and they couldn't move forward,

and they put, like,

15,000 pounds of pressure

against it for 30 minutes

and it didn't move.

ERIK:
Frankly, we don't know

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

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

into this, or I should say this.

Wow, that thing is damaged.

KYLE:
Holy crap, dude.

Tooth is almost completely gone.

TRAVIS:
As the team from
Mark Construction Drilling

worked on Borehole 2,

at several different
spots, they hit

obstructions that
destroyed their drill bits.

These bits are designed to
cut through steel and granite.

KYLE:
It's completely

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

-Mm-hmm.
-That's crazy.

And when Borehole 2 finally

reached almost 470 feet in,

the drill hit something

that actually caused
the bit to wear down

and fuse to the drill rod

like they were welded together.

But the weird thing is,
is the beacon

stayed at 73 degrees
the whole time.

TRAVIS:
But here's
the really crazy thing.

The friction needed to
cause that kind of damage

should have heated the drill bit

up to over 2,000 degrees,

but it came out
completely cool to the touch.

Something very strange
had absorbed all that heat.

Take a look at these.

The drillers have never
seen anything like this.

They said they've
never seen that, ever.

Did anything interesting

come out of the sludge
of the drill when it was

impacting that
at that point in time?

TRAVIS:
Yes, it did. We hired

an archaeologist
to set up professional

sifting areas.

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

Uh, my name's Chris Roberts.
I'm an archaeologist,

local archaeologist
in the Uinta Basin area.

Right in the 472 mark,

they had hit a really hard spot,

and once I got
those spoils cleaned up,

then I actually noticed

ceramics that are
undeniable material evidence

that something is in the mesa
that is not natural.

Wow.

Very interesting.

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

Uh, some of
the ceramic materials.

I've, I've enclosed them

in these coin holders,

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

In certain respects,
it appears to be

a rather normal

-ceramic composition.
-TRAVIS: Yep.

BRANDON:
What led you to believe
that this material

is indeed manufactured?

TRAVIS:
Well, when you measure

the thickness, it's almost exact

over the entire volume
of the material,

which suggests it was machined,

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

-It's mind-blowing.
-ERIK: Yes.

So, let me bring up an image.

This is, of course, a scanning
electron microscope image

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

TRAVIS:
So, if you look at the image,

you can see what appears
to be a crosshatching pattern.

And under the scanning
electron microscope,

there seems to be
even more detail.

Now, this is
the interesting thing.

ERIK:
This is a live recording.

It's been accelerated a bit.

This area here
was the area exposed

to the electron beam
for an extended time.

TRAVIS:
See how, with the exposure,

you see the change
in the surface?

-ERIC: Wow.
-TRAVIS: Almost instantly,
you start seeing holes

open up.

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

and you put it in water.

It expands and opens up.

-JIM: Wow.
-BRANDON: This is amazing.

Now, when we turned
the electron beam

off and let it set
for several minutes,

it goes back
to the exact same state

that it is at
the beginning before exposure.

ROYSTON:
Look at that.

Oh, my gosh.

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

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

on its surface.

-It can transform.
-BRANDON: Wow.

I have a great deal
of experience

in materials characterization,

and I have never seen
anything like this.

It's very unusual.

GARRY:
Are there any

materials in the last

few hundred years that would

look like this,
especially from the local basin?

No, there's nothing
like this, uh,

in the area or anywhere
that would match it.

ERIC:
This is real, tangible evidence

of a physical thing,
and you have

several pieces of it, right?

TRAVIS:
Yes. There's even more.

ROYSTON: We're just
scratching the surface

of the material, literally.

TRAVIS:
We did a lot of

testing with this material,
as you can guess.

Yes.

TRAVIS:
After all the incredible results

our team has gotten

from testing
the ceramic materials

that came out of
the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch,

it was pretty validating
to see the reactions

of other renowned scientists.

But we were just getting
to the most fascinating part.

We still aren't sure
what it means.

We ran some other experiments

which were even more surprising.

We dropped the ceramic

over a magnet after
freezing it in liquid nitrogen,

and it did hover

like the Meissner effect.

That suggests this could be
a superconductor.

So you're gonna freeze
the sample?

-Yes.
-Yes.

A couple weeks ago,

while running
additional lab tests

on the ceramic material
at Utah Valley University,

we placed a sample in a dish

of -320 degree Fahrenheit
liquid nitrogen.

Notice how
it's still boiling off?

TRAVIS:
Now, a normal ceramic

would have cooled down
almost immediately.

But this stuff wouldn't
cool down at all,

and the liquid nitrogen kept
boiling for several minutes.

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

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

-BRIAN: Here we go.
-TRAVIS: See it?

-Oh, wow.
-TRAVIS: You see it?

-It did drift.
-It did drift.

When it did finally cool down,

we put a magnet
under another dish

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

It literally pushed itself away,

meaning it repelled
the magnetic field.

This is called
the Meissner effect

and suggests that these ceramics
could be superconductors.

Superconductors are
cutting-edge materials

that scientists are
researching and developing

because they have the ability
to conduct energy

without any resistance.

Because of that
and their ability to repel

a normal magnetic field,

some scientists believe
that one day superconductors

could be used to make vehicles

and even spacecraft
with advanced propulsion systems

that don't require rocket fuel.

Is it possible
that the ceramics we found

in the drilling spoils
are superconductors

and are covering whatever
the objects are inside the mesa?

BRANDON:
Gentlemen,

what would this
mean for science?

It could have very, very
wide-reaching implications.

It could possibly unlock
new methods of propulsion

and energy that
we haven't understood yet.

We get the majority
of our energy

from burning things,

and something like this
could really set us

on a completely different
course for the future,

which I think
is one of the things

that's so exciting about it.

Yeah.

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

but I can essentially say that
this type of material would

contribute advancements
to photonic

and electronic materials
technologies and

take us into new directions

that we haven't imagined yet.

TRAVIS:
Well, it's an amazing find.

When we took the samples

and had them analyzed,

we did a scanning electron
microscope elemental analysis

and based on
the materials that is in it,

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

That's remarkable.

ERIK:
In fact,

whatever it is that's

concealed within that mesa,

all of our fragments that
have been retrieved indicate

that they may once
have been part of a structure.

TRAVIS:
So, hopefully

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

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

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

damage that which
may lie within the mesa.

Chris,

do you have any advice

or direction for us

as we protect
the integrity of this dig site

and prepare for this next year?

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

at what I would propose
for an excavation.

The actual artifacts

seem to start right about where

we get to that intact
bedrock level.

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

...make it safe,

and then we can go
and excavate that way

right in through
the front of the mesa.

I do believe
we'll find plenty more

ceramics in there
and then we'll find

whatever else might be
in the mesa as well.

BRANDON:
We've not only seen physical,

tangible evidence
of something unusual

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

for the first time some
of the anomalies that confirm

the existence of the bubble
above the property.

Now we need to find
the answers to why it exists

on Skinwalker Ranch.

Well, gentlemen, in light
of the incredible discoveries

that have been made at
Skinwalker Ranch most recently

and the direction
that we're heading,

we have engaged

with a sister company
to OmniTeq.

A sister company who is

a SpaceX integrator...

Oh, wow.

...that will aid us
in our investigation

and take this research
to the next level.

BRANDON:
This coming year

we'll place
a satellite in orbit.

A satellite
that will specifically

focus on the ranch

and take our investigation

to the next level.
So, with that,

I'd like to introduce

Chad Brinkley,
the CEO of SEOPS, in.

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

CHAD:
Thank you, Brandon,
for having me.

Gentlemen.

TRAVIS:
Now, this is pretty awesome.

Ranch owner
Brandon Fugal, Jim Royston,

Sam Deriso, and their
colleagues at OmniTeq

have arranged with
a space exploration company

known as SEOPS

for a satellite to be
launched into orbit

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

And it's going to be
dedicated to helping us

in our investigation
on Skinwalker Ranch.

CHAD:
I got the call from Brandon

and Jim on this
exciting opportunity

to fly a satellite to space

under a very
aggressive timeline.

ROYSTON:
Yes. From space

to ground and air,
we have a capability

to push data up, pull data down.

That's our goal.

CHAD:
Yes. So, this is

a Skinwalker Ranch satellite.

This will be a 6U spacecraft.

While small, you can put a lot

of capability
in a 6U spacecraft.

TRAVIS:
A 6U CubeSat

is a class
of miniaturized satellites.

These compact units are designed

to carry various
instruments, cameras,

and other
space-related technologies.

ROYSTON:
Over the next several months,

we will put together

what each component
we could squeeze onto this thing

and have mission success with.

ERIK:
Pretty amazing.

TRAVIS:
We've detected so many strange

energy signals, anomalies,

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

But using rockets,
drones and helicopters

to try and pinpoint
where they're coming from

is very limited.

Having a 6U satellite in space

that will pass over
Skinwalker Ranch once every day

will give our team
incredible capabilities

to search for the source
of all the phenomena

that we keep
encountering on the ranch.

Now we can send
all kinds of signals,

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

scouring the entire range
in an instant.

This could lead to major
revelations about the bubble

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

BRANDON:
Well, we'll look forward

to the weeks ahead, planning

and making this a successful

addition to our

expanded scientific
platform and effort.

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

-BRANDON: Thank you so much.
-Yes, sir.

Really excited about how
the next year's investigation

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

a year from now,

I'm confident that we will

achieve some great things.

I'm excited.
I look forward to it.

And it's going to be unfolding

some more information,
and hopefully we'll have

some questions answered,
and I know, in science,

we'll have
more questions unanswered,

so...

I mean, this summer's
investigation was amazing.

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

What's the ranch
going to show us?

ERIC:
Well, I think we grow

as a society

from a technological standpoint

when we directly confront
the unknown.

GARRY:
What I find
so fascinating about

Skinwalker Ranch is that

all of the people who are here

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

have created this environment
where science has taken root.

What you guys-- Travis, Erik,

and everybody else--
uh, have done

is you've created data
that allows us to start

to think about conclusions,
and that really excites me.

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

look forward

to, uh, our future discussions

and collaboration in carrying
this investigation forward.

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

BRANDON:
Onward.

ERIK:
With each season,
we see an evolution

of our understanding
of the ranch phenomenon.

Our thoughts about
what we're engaging with

change sometimes radically,

even with the results
of just one experiment.

I think it would be
an understatement to say

that our findings this year
indicate that we have

a lot more ground
and sky to cover.

TRAVIS:
I've spent most of
my life studying science

and theory around
the kind of phenomena

that we keep encountering
on Skinwalker Ranch.

Heck, I've even
written a bunch of

science fiction novels
about this crazy stuff.

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

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

of our investigation
is going to reveal.

BRANDON:
Skinwalker Ranch is different
than any other investigation

in history, simply because we've

brought together
a diverse group of experts

and scientists to aid

the investigation beyond

what anyone could have
imagined in years past.

As we conclude
this historic year,

more than ever before,
the world's attention

is focused on Skinwalker Ranch.

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