1 00:00:01,460 --> 00:00:02,920 -We've got metal. -Hey! -Oh, okay. 2 00:00:03,086 --> 00:00:04,630 I think the right thing for us to do is 3 00:00:04,796 --> 00:00:07,257 to get this material into a more powerful microscope in a lab. 4 00:00:07,466 --> 00:00:10,552 That could tell us what elements these are made of. 5 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:12,763 -Fantastic. -I've got some movement 6 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:14,765 on a light source near Homestead Three. 7 00:00:14,890 --> 00:00:17,226 [Thomas] Kaleb and I are going to go check it out. 8 00:00:17,392 --> 00:00:20,187 [Royston] Approaching Homestead Three with the drone. 9 00:00:20,354 --> 00:00:22,940 [Thomas] There is no signs of any human presence. 10 00:00:23,148 --> 00:00:25,275 [Pete] Look at the heat coming out of the homestead. 11 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:27,402 It's like somebody's got a furnace on. 12 00:00:27,569 --> 00:00:29,404 What in the world? 13 00:00:29,571 --> 00:00:33,075 -[Erik] So watch what happens here. -Oh. 14 00:00:33,242 --> 00:00:34,451 [Erik] Clearly, we've got a light source. 15 00:00:34,618 --> 00:00:36,286 -And you can see the movement. -Wow. 16 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:37,788 The question is, do we have someone 17 00:00:37,955 --> 00:00:40,082 or something moving through that area? 18 00:00:40,249 --> 00:00:42,292 [Royston] And if that's not a person we're seeing, 19 00:00:42,459 --> 00:00:45,546 -what's out there? -I don't know what that is. 20 00:00:46,672 --> 00:00:50,008 [Narrator] There is a ranch in Northern Utah. 21 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:52,678 It is considered the epicenter 22 00:00:52,844 --> 00:00:57,808 of the strangest and most disturbing occurrences on Earth. 23 00:00:57,975 --> 00:00:59,309 For two decades, 24 00:00:59,476 --> 00:01:00,978 the federal government 25 00:01:01,186 --> 00:01:03,146 investigated the property. 26 00:01:03,313 --> 00:01:06,650 Their findings have never been made public. 27 00:01:06,817 --> 00:01:08,151 [Travis] Right there! We got something! 28 00:01:08,318 --> 00:01:10,112 [Narrator] Now a new team 29 00:01:10,279 --> 00:01:14,074 of independent scientists and researchers are taking over. 30 00:01:14,575 --> 00:01:15,993 They are uncovering evidence 31 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:17,953 that the countless stories... 32 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,913 It came right out of the mesa. 33 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,416 ...of unidentified aerial phenomena... 34 00:01:22,583 --> 00:01:23,959 -UAP right there! -Yep. 35 00:01:24,084 --> 00:01:25,669 ...bizarre energies... 36 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:27,588 It looks like there's a heat source right above 'em. 37 00:01:27,754 --> 00:01:30,340 ...and portals that lead to other dimensions... 38 00:01:30,549 --> 00:01:31,800 We're maybe looking at the anomaly 39 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:33,135 for the first time, guys. 40 00:01:33,302 --> 00:01:35,721 ...might actually be true. 41 00:01:35,846 --> 00:01:38,515 They will stop at nothing to reveal... 42 00:01:41,184 --> 00:01:44,688 ...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. 43 00:01:50,235 --> 00:01:51,570 [Erik] Tammy. 44 00:01:51,737 --> 00:01:54,364 -Nice to see you. -Good to see you again. 45 00:01:54,489 --> 00:01:57,951 [Travis] Today, Erik, Jim, Thomas and Chris are returning 46 00:01:58,118 --> 00:01:59,953 to Utah Valley University 47 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,123 to run new lab tests on all the strange materials 48 00:02:03,290 --> 00:02:05,584 we found in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch. 49 00:02:05,751 --> 00:02:07,127 We're going to head into the chemistry lab 50 00:02:07,294 --> 00:02:08,961 -over here today. -All right. 51 00:02:09,128 --> 00:02:10,380 -Hi, Brian. -Good morning, gentlemen. 52 00:02:10,589 --> 00:02:12,174 -Welcome back. -[Erik] Dr. Patchett, 53 00:02:12,341 --> 00:02:13,759 -good to see you again. -Good to see you. 54 00:02:13,925 --> 00:02:15,427 [Travis] We're pretty frustrated 55 00:02:15,594 --> 00:02:17,220 that our vertical drilling operation this year 56 00:02:17,429 --> 00:02:19,890 didn't solve the mystery of the huge object 57 00:02:20,057 --> 00:02:23,393 and the smaller anomalies that we've detected with GPR 58 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,480 and even hit while drilling in the past. 59 00:02:26,605 --> 00:02:29,066 But we did bring up more metal fragments 60 00:02:29,232 --> 00:02:31,360 from about 60 to 70 feet deep 61 00:02:31,485 --> 00:02:34,988 that have no business being inside solid sandstone. 62 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:39,034 And then we've got the Type A and Type B ceramic materials 63 00:02:39,201 --> 00:02:41,912 that were extracted last year at different depths. 64 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:44,164 We've only been able to test Type A so far, 65 00:02:44,331 --> 00:02:46,083 but the results suggested 66 00:02:46,249 --> 00:02:48,752 they could be related to spacecraft technology. 67 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:50,879 We've got a new member of our team here 68 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:52,381 for the first time, Chris Roberts. 69 00:02:52,589 --> 00:02:53,882 -Chris. -This is the gentleman 70 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:55,509 responsible for the samples 71 00:02:55,676 --> 00:02:57,219 that we brought in to date. 72 00:02:57,427 --> 00:02:59,805 [Travis] So we're hoping that Dr. Clark and Dr. Patchett 73 00:02:59,971 --> 00:03:01,973 can help us learn more about all of this stuff 74 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:04,976 and what it could mean about what's buried in the mesa. 75 00:03:05,143 --> 00:03:07,479 So I understand that we have the opportunity 76 00:03:07,604 --> 00:03:09,690 to use a technique called FTIR... 77 00:03:09,856 --> 00:03:12,150 -Yep. -...in our analysis of some of the materials. 78 00:03:12,317 --> 00:03:14,820 Now, I haven't spent a lot of time in a science lab, 79 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:16,905 so I'm not familiar with these terms. 80 00:03:17,072 --> 00:03:19,074 What's FTIR? What does it mean 81 00:03:19,241 --> 00:03:20,867 and what does it do? 82 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:24,246 FTIR is Fourier-transform spectrophotometer. 83 00:03:24,413 --> 00:03:26,665 And basically, it can tell us 84 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:28,333 if there's a carbon-oxygen bond 85 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:30,961 or a carbon-hydrogen bond. 86 00:03:31,086 --> 00:03:33,004 -What does that mean? -[Chris] Well, it means 87 00:03:33,171 --> 00:03:34,506 we could possibly date it. 88 00:03:34,673 --> 00:03:36,758 [Tammy] With the FTIR, 89 00:03:36,925 --> 00:03:38,218 we will take a beam 90 00:03:38,427 --> 00:03:40,137 of infrared light, 91 00:03:40,345 --> 00:03:42,514 and we will point it at the sample. 92 00:03:42,681 --> 00:03:47,978 This will help us determine what kinds of bonds are in a sample. 93 00:03:48,186 --> 00:03:50,897 If we see carbon-hydrogen bonds, 94 00:03:51,106 --> 00:03:53,692 we might be able to use the samples found at the ranch 95 00:03:53,859 --> 00:03:55,360 for radiocarbon dating 96 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:58,321 to find out exactly how old they might be. 97 00:03:58,447 --> 00:04:00,615 So at headline level, we're looking for insights 98 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:04,202 into how is this material made and maybe when. 99 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:07,080 -Yes, when would be great. -Okay. 100 00:04:07,205 --> 00:04:08,874 Okay. All right. 101 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,792 Well, what do you say we get some samples under test? 102 00:04:10,959 --> 00:04:12,627 I was going to say, we've got precious minutes 103 00:04:12,794 --> 00:04:14,004 here at the lab. Let's make use of them. 104 00:04:14,171 --> 00:04:15,922 Yeah, let's make use of it. 105 00:04:16,047 --> 00:04:18,591 That's fantastic. Well, I will leave you guys with Dr. Clark. 106 00:04:18,757 --> 00:04:20,844 -Right. -[Travis] Earlier this year... 107 00:04:21,011 --> 00:04:22,846 Guys, Chris has been looking 108 00:04:23,013 --> 00:04:24,681 at the properties of these materials 109 00:04:24,806 --> 00:04:26,057 that we've brought out of the mesa. 110 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:27,768 ...Chris found organic buildup 111 00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:29,811 on both types of the possible ceramics, 112 00:04:29,978 --> 00:04:34,232 which is caused by being buried a very long time. 113 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:36,902 He estimated more than a thousand years. 114 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:39,738 Now, if that's true, it's crazy because they appear 115 00:04:39,946 --> 00:04:41,490 to have been machine-made. 116 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:45,535 But when we recently had experts from Artemis Labs in Colorado 117 00:04:45,702 --> 00:04:47,621 analyze a sample of Type A, 118 00:04:47,829 --> 00:04:49,122 they were unable to date it 119 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:52,334 and couldn't even identify what it was. 120 00:04:52,501 --> 00:04:56,129 So, Chris, which of the samples, uh, will we begin with? 121 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,089 I'd like to start with Type A. 122 00:04:58,256 --> 00:05:00,509 -Okay. -And then we'll go to Type B. 123 00:05:00,675 --> 00:05:01,968 Okay. 124 00:05:02,135 --> 00:05:04,179 -So now we're ready to go with the sample? -Yep. 125 00:05:05,347 --> 00:05:07,390 I got to get this case open. 126 00:05:09,351 --> 00:05:11,436 This is the Type A. 127 00:05:13,939 --> 00:05:16,733 So that's a nice flat piece. 128 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:18,985 So we're just gonna... 129 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:21,196 bring that nice and snug. 130 00:05:21,363 --> 00:05:23,198 -I'm in suspense. -Okay. 131 00:05:23,365 --> 00:05:26,243 Well, let's try it. We'll see what happens. 132 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:30,914 You can see that we do have little absorbances there. 133 00:05:31,081 --> 00:05:33,375 They look like little peaks, upside down peaks. 134 00:05:33,542 --> 00:05:34,835 [Thomas] So that means there is some carbon in it? 135 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:36,211 [Tammy] It could be. 136 00:05:36,378 --> 00:05:38,338 So, would we estimate 137 00:05:38,547 --> 00:05:41,842 that we have enough carbon-dating information? 138 00:05:41,967 --> 00:05:43,218 [Tammy] Yeah, it looks like it does have 139 00:05:43,426 --> 00:05:45,262 carbon-hydrogen bonds there. 140 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:47,889 So depending on the sensitivity of that procedure, 141 00:05:48,056 --> 00:05:50,559 -it should work. -Mm-hmm. Wow. 142 00:05:50,725 --> 00:05:52,811 [Travis] When Dr. Clark told the guys that 143 00:05:52,978 --> 00:05:54,688 the Type A sample might be able 144 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:57,440 to be carbon-dated, that was pretty awesome news. 145 00:05:57,566 --> 00:06:00,318 The only bummer is that carbon-dating these samples 146 00:06:00,443 --> 00:06:03,488 will need to be done elsewhere and it'll take more time. 147 00:06:03,655 --> 00:06:05,866 But at this point, we're happy with anything 148 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:07,367 that feels like progress. 149 00:06:07,534 --> 00:06:09,202 I feel like we should look at another sample 150 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:11,413 -while we have the opportunity. -Yeah, while we can. 151 00:06:11,580 --> 00:06:13,039 [Chris] It's right here. 152 00:06:13,164 --> 00:06:14,833 This is the Type B. 153 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,960 Under a black light, it actually seems to absorb light 154 00:06:17,085 --> 00:06:19,170 so it goes darker than it is there. 155 00:06:19,337 --> 00:06:21,464 And this is the only piece we have of this material. 156 00:06:21,631 --> 00:06:23,842 [Tammy] Okay. I will be very gentle with it. 157 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:25,760 I'm anxious. 158 00:06:27,721 --> 00:06:30,140 -[overlapping exclamations] -[Chris] What is that? 159 00:06:30,348 --> 00:06:32,267 [Erik] That's not the same. 160 00:06:32,434 --> 00:06:35,228 [Tammy] It's not absorbing any infrared wavelength. 161 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:36,938 It's just reflecting the light. 162 00:06:37,147 --> 00:06:39,649 [Erik] You said it's effectively reflecting all the light back? 163 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:41,776 -[Tammy] Mm-hmm. -So there's no carbon? 164 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:45,322 -Right, for... Yep. -Interesting. 165 00:06:45,447 --> 00:06:46,990 Can you bring up Type A 166 00:06:47,157 --> 00:06:50,410 -for comparison? -Yeah. Okay. Okay. 167 00:06:52,871 --> 00:06:55,457 -[Royston] Whoa. Look at that. -[Thomas] It's huge. 168 00:06:55,665 --> 00:06:57,208 -Wow. -[Erik] This is 169 00:06:57,375 --> 00:06:59,669 qualitatively different. 170 00:06:59,836 --> 00:07:02,130 [Thomas] Yeah, this doesn't look anything like the same. 171 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:05,216 This proves that this is a-- definitely a different material? 172 00:07:05,383 --> 00:07:07,260 -Yeah. Definitely. -[Erik] All right, guys. 173 00:07:07,469 --> 00:07:09,137 That piece of material definitely goes into 174 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:10,597 the scanning electron microscope. 175 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:11,973 -[Royston] Oh, yeah. -Okay. 176 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:13,767 High priority. This was great. 177 00:07:13,933 --> 00:07:15,310 -Yeah. -[Tammy] Very interesting. 178 00:07:15,477 --> 00:07:16,686 Thank you for doing this analysis, Tammy. 179 00:07:16,853 --> 00:07:18,563 -Thanks for coming out. -Yeah. -Yeah. 180 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:20,774 -So, are we ready to head over to the SEM? -[Erik] Yeah. 181 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:23,276 -Good. -All right. -Okay. 182 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:24,778 [Erik] We need to take these materials, 183 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:26,279 put them under the SEM. 184 00:07:26,404 --> 00:07:27,989 I'd really like to understand 185 00:07:28,156 --> 00:07:30,533 what the materials are and do more elemental analysis 186 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:31,993 and elemental mapping. 187 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,620 -Dr. Patchett. -Erik, hello. 188 00:07:33,828 --> 00:07:34,788 [Erik] Because I feel like there are a lot 189 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,206 of unanswered questions 190 00:07:36,373 --> 00:07:37,666 after our first examination 191 00:07:37,832 --> 00:07:40,960 of these ceramic-like samples. 192 00:07:41,086 --> 00:07:42,754 Well, we've got quite an ambitious agenda. 193 00:07:42,921 --> 00:07:44,673 We've got a lot of samples to look at. 194 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:47,258 So I think it's important that we start with the Type A sample 195 00:07:47,467 --> 00:07:48,843 and get that back on the stage 196 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:50,804 -into the instrument. -Yeah. 197 00:07:50,970 --> 00:07:54,474 I remember, last year it looked like the ceramic was opening up, 198 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:57,394 physically, and creating large voids in it. 199 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:58,770 Yeah. 200 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:01,648 [Travis] Are those holes getting bigger? 201 00:08:01,815 --> 00:08:03,274 [Erik] Yes. I think so. 202 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:05,276 [Travis] When we examined the Type A sample 203 00:08:05,443 --> 00:08:08,613 last year under the scanning electron microscope, 204 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:10,990 we got some pretty amazing results. 205 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,450 The beam of electrons the device emits 206 00:08:12,617 --> 00:08:14,327 to analyze the object 207 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:18,456 appeared to make holes open on the sample's surface. 208 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:21,376 Let's turn it off to see if it goes back to normal. 209 00:08:21,543 --> 00:08:23,962 And even more crazy, the holes looked like 210 00:08:24,129 --> 00:08:27,298 they closed up after we shut the electron beam off. 211 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:29,134 [Brandon] Look at that. 212 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:31,636 [Brian] This stuff is fixing itself. 213 00:08:31,803 --> 00:08:34,304 Yes. It's healing. That's exactly right. 214 00:08:34,472 --> 00:08:36,599 We want to see if that'll happen again. 215 00:08:36,725 --> 00:08:38,768 -Are we set to go? -Yeah. 216 00:08:38,934 --> 00:08:40,562 -I think so. -Yeah. 217 00:08:40,729 --> 00:08:43,565 All right, so let's turn on our beam, 218 00:08:43,732 --> 00:08:46,151 get a big-picture view really quick. 219 00:08:46,317 --> 00:08:48,361 Okay. 220 00:08:48,486 --> 00:08:51,614 [Erik] The responsible thing to do is to repeat the exercise 221 00:08:51,781 --> 00:08:55,076 in the scanning electron microscope on this Type A 222 00:08:55,243 --> 00:08:56,786 ceramic-like material. 223 00:08:56,953 --> 00:08:59,456 That will allow us to confirm whether or not 224 00:08:59,622 --> 00:09:03,168 the beam really is making topological changes, 225 00:09:03,334 --> 00:09:06,337 or if it was just an instrument artifact in the machine. 226 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:08,131 [Brian] There we go. 227 00:09:08,298 --> 00:09:09,883 [Erik] I can see the cross-hatching. 228 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:12,135 -[Chris] Yeah. -[Royston] Look at that. 229 00:09:12,302 --> 00:09:14,429 Let's zoom in here. 230 00:09:14,596 --> 00:09:17,599 [Erik] All right, you can tell you've got charging already. 231 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:19,392 [Brian] Yeah. 232 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,811 [Erik] Okay, now, notice also the difference. 233 00:09:21,978 --> 00:09:23,271 Already you're seeing, 234 00:09:23,438 --> 00:09:26,024 it takes on a very porous appearance quickly. 235 00:09:26,191 --> 00:09:29,319 [Brian] Yeah, this is all effects we saw last year. 236 00:09:29,444 --> 00:09:31,279 -Yep. -[Erik] This just validates 237 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:34,491 that we're getting exactly the same behavior qualitatively. 238 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:36,493 -Yeah. -Okay. 239 00:09:36,659 --> 00:09:40,580 I'm seeing the same contrast changes that we saw last year. 240 00:09:40,789 --> 00:09:44,167 Consistency is good, and I'm more convinced than ever 241 00:09:44,334 --> 00:09:46,669 that we are seeing significant effects 242 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:49,047 of the electron beam on the surface. 243 00:09:49,214 --> 00:09:51,800 All right. Should we move on? 244 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:53,384 -Mm-hmm. -[Erik] Yes, let's move on 245 00:09:53,551 --> 00:09:55,887 -to the Type B sample. -Yeah. 246 00:09:56,054 --> 00:09:57,764 Now, the really interesting question 247 00:09:57,931 --> 00:09:59,641 is whether the Type B material 248 00:09:59,766 --> 00:10:03,728 would be comparable to the Type A changes that we saw last year. 249 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:08,733 -[Brian] It's a little dark. -[Erik] Yeah. 250 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,277 You know what I'm not seeing yet? 251 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:14,948 I'm not seeing any of those conspicuous sort of openings. 252 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:19,327 [Brian] Yeah. It doesn't seem to be changing. 253 00:10:19,494 --> 00:10:22,122 Clearly, they are different materials. 254 00:10:22,247 --> 00:10:24,165 -Right. -[Erik] Maybe they're from two 255 00:10:24,332 --> 00:10:26,876 different buried objects? 256 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:36,803 [Brian] Clearly, they are different 257 00:10:36,928 --> 00:10:38,179 materials. 258 00:10:38,388 --> 00:10:41,808 This is the first sample surface. 259 00:10:41,975 --> 00:10:44,394 [Erik] Maybe they're from two different buried objects. 260 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:46,813 Yeah, the two look very distinct. 261 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:48,898 Yeah, I agree. 262 00:10:49,941 --> 00:10:51,776 [Erik] The behavior of this Type B ceramic 263 00:10:51,985 --> 00:10:53,486 under SEM analysis 264 00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:56,322 is quite different than the Type A ceramic. 265 00:10:56,489 --> 00:10:58,241 We're not seeing any of the changes 266 00:10:58,366 --> 00:10:59,659 that we might have expected to see 267 00:10:59,868 --> 00:11:01,369 based on our previous results. 268 00:11:01,536 --> 00:11:03,246 I think it's pretty clear, 269 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:05,081 we're dealing with materials that are completely different. 270 00:11:05,206 --> 00:11:08,376 But what are they doing inside of the mesa? 271 00:11:08,543 --> 00:11:10,962 [Royston] So this is one we might look 272 00:11:11,087 --> 00:11:12,964 -at elemental analysis on? -[Brian] Yeah, we can do that 273 00:11:13,131 --> 00:11:14,465 -right now. -Yep. 274 00:11:14,632 --> 00:11:16,217 [Erik] Let's start with the Type B. 275 00:11:16,426 --> 00:11:18,011 [Brian] Sure. We're going 276 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:20,847 to take a spectrum of the elements 277 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:24,309 -that are on the surface. -[Erik] Okay. 278 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:26,060 It's one thing to see the physical differences 279 00:11:26,269 --> 00:11:27,520 in these materials. 280 00:11:27,645 --> 00:11:29,522 But we need the elemental analysis 281 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,691 of this stuff to make sure they truly are 282 00:11:31,858 --> 00:11:33,318 different from one another. 283 00:11:33,484 --> 00:11:36,905 [Brian] Okay. So we're starting to see 284 00:11:37,071 --> 00:11:39,199 there is some oxygen, 285 00:11:39,324 --> 00:11:43,578 quite a bit of calcium, some phosphorus, 286 00:11:43,786 --> 00:11:45,705 and then trace amounts 287 00:11:45,872 --> 00:11:50,752 of silicon, aluminum, iron, sulfur, potassium, 288 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:53,630 and all these things are present in the Earth's crust. 289 00:11:53,796 --> 00:11:55,798 -Mm-hmm. -Okay. 290 00:11:55,965 --> 00:11:58,593 [Travis] Well, this isn't the answer we hoped for, 291 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,554 but it might give us the bottom line on Type B. 292 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:05,058 These are the exact elements that make up the Earth's crust. 293 00:12:05,266 --> 00:12:06,976 So Type B was likely made 294 00:12:07,143 --> 00:12:10,188 from materials that naturally occur in the mesa. 295 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:11,856 But what about Type A? 296 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:14,901 We still don't know who made it or how they made it. 297 00:12:15,109 --> 00:12:17,237 [Erik] Can we compare that to the composition 298 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:18,655 of the Type A sample? 299 00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:20,240 Yeah. 300 00:12:21,241 --> 00:12:24,285 Yeah, let me zoom in here. 301 00:12:26,746 --> 00:12:29,791 Okay. There is a stronger magnesium 302 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:33,461 -that is multiple times higher. -[Erik] Okay. 303 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:35,630 And a lot more aluminum than iron. 304 00:12:35,797 --> 00:12:37,298 -[Erik] Mm-hmm. -[Brian] Yeah. 305 00:12:37,507 --> 00:12:39,634 -[Erik] Mm-hmm. -[Brian] Far less calcium. 306 00:12:39,801 --> 00:12:41,970 They're significantly different from each other. 307 00:12:42,136 --> 00:12:43,513 Okay. 308 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:44,973 [Erik] This just makes me more convinced 309 00:12:45,139 --> 00:12:46,391 that we're looking at engineered materials 310 00:12:46,557 --> 00:12:48,434 -with Type A. -Right. 311 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:50,478 [Erik] I think the most important takeaway 312 00:12:50,645 --> 00:12:52,605 from all the Type A materials we found in the mesa 313 00:12:52,772 --> 00:12:55,733 is that they were likely manufactured by someone. 314 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:58,194 But who? And for what purpose? 315 00:12:58,361 --> 00:13:00,863 By continuing to study them, we might 316 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:03,366 bring some kind of understanding 317 00:13:03,533 --> 00:13:06,828 if not closure to the mystery of this anomaly in the mesa. 318 00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:08,371 I want to take a look 319 00:13:08,538 --> 00:13:11,124 at that layered metal piece that we found 320 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,209 -in the mesa this year. -Yeah. 321 00:13:13,376 --> 00:13:14,669 Yeah, it looks like it was manufactured that way 322 00:13:14,836 --> 00:13:17,338 -intentionally. -[Brian] Okay. 323 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,382 [Travis] Ceramics in solid rock is just plain weird. 324 00:13:19,549 --> 00:13:22,969 And metal in solid rock is even weirder, so, 325 00:13:23,136 --> 00:13:25,722 if the metal is another part of the object or objects 326 00:13:25,847 --> 00:13:27,181 buried in the mesa, 327 00:13:27,390 --> 00:13:30,476 maybe figuring out what it's composed of is the key 328 00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:32,228 to solving this whole mystery. 329 00:13:37,525 --> 00:13:39,610 -Wow. -So there's a stronger... 330 00:13:39,777 --> 00:13:42,155 prevalence of iron in this sample? 331 00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:43,865 -Am I reading that right? -Yeah. 332 00:13:44,032 --> 00:13:45,658 [Erik] Can you zoom in to get more precise data? 333 00:13:45,867 --> 00:13:47,201 [Brian] Sure. 334 00:13:52,957 --> 00:13:55,460 Yeah, so what did I just see happen here? 335 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:57,045 -It just went dark. -Lost, uh... 336 00:13:57,211 --> 00:13:58,755 -We've lost the image. -[Thomas] Yeah, it was on there, 337 00:13:58,921 --> 00:14:00,631 -and then it just went black. -[Erik] Yeah. 338 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:03,593 Um, I'm checking the filament integrity, 339 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,637 uh, because in order to produce an image, we need 340 00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:08,973 a source of electrons. Uh... 341 00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:10,933 -[beeping] -Yeah. 342 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:14,854 We have just blown our filament. 343 00:14:15,021 --> 00:14:17,231 This particular filament was actually only 344 00:14:17,398 --> 00:14:18,858 about halfway through its lifespan, 345 00:14:19,067 --> 00:14:20,568 according to the software. 346 00:14:20,735 --> 00:14:22,945 -[Thomas] Is that a big repair? -[Brian] Yes, it is. 347 00:14:23,112 --> 00:14:24,655 Which means 348 00:14:24,822 --> 00:14:28,785 we're dead in the water until I can get that replaced. 349 00:14:28,951 --> 00:14:30,870 Interesting. 350 00:14:31,037 --> 00:14:35,374 The electron source, the filament itself has burned out. 351 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:37,168 I don't know why this has happened. 352 00:14:37,335 --> 00:14:38,669 The timing couldn't be worse. 353 00:14:38,836 --> 00:14:40,421 This is another one of those situations 354 00:14:40,630 --> 00:14:44,092 where things go exactly wrong at exactly the wrong time. 355 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:45,885 Is it just a coincidence? 356 00:14:46,052 --> 00:14:48,805 Do we assign special cause to that? I don't know. 357 00:14:48,971 --> 00:14:52,016 The good news is, we've only made our way 358 00:14:52,183 --> 00:14:54,393 through a small fraction of the spoils 359 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,521 that have come out of our recent drilling. 360 00:14:56,646 --> 00:14:58,940 So by the time we come back, 361 00:14:59,148 --> 00:15:00,483 there could be a lot more of this material up there 362 00:15:00,608 --> 00:15:03,194 to be collected and analyzed. 363 00:15:03,361 --> 00:15:05,988 Dr. Patchett, thanks again for the analysis. 364 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:07,865 It's always a pleasure to have you guys on campus. 365 00:15:08,032 --> 00:15:10,535 All right. I think it's time to pack it up. 366 00:15:10,701 --> 00:15:12,870 [Thomas] All right. 367 00:15:25,466 --> 00:15:27,093 All right. 368 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:28,761 [Travis] So, I think this is a pretty good spot, y'all. 369 00:15:28,886 --> 00:15:30,763 I mean, we've got a good view in here 370 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:33,224 -looking at Homestead Three. -[Erik] Mm-hmm. 371 00:15:33,391 --> 00:15:35,601 The following day, we set up for a new experiment 372 00:15:35,726 --> 00:15:39,772 at Homestead Three, located near the western property line 373 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:41,566 of Skinwalker Ranch. 374 00:15:41,732 --> 00:15:45,194 [Erik] I've not heard a lot of history from this site. 375 00:15:45,361 --> 00:15:47,113 But we do have our own experience. 376 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,992 And we've seen lights out here when we were doing experiments. 377 00:15:53,202 --> 00:15:55,538 Homestead Three is one of the abandoned 378 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:58,666 early 20th-century dwellings on the ranch. 379 00:15:58,833 --> 00:16:02,628 There's very little hard documentation of the property, 380 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,964 but its previous owners, the Locke family, 381 00:16:05,131 --> 00:16:07,884 reported witnessing all sorts of strange events 382 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:09,468 while living here, 383 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:11,846 from unexplained cattle mutilations 384 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:13,848 to UAP sightings. 385 00:16:14,015 --> 00:16:17,768 In 2016, just after Brandon Fugal purchased the property, 386 00:16:17,935 --> 00:16:20,563 he and Erik led a group of scientific experts 387 00:16:20,730 --> 00:16:23,774 and private security on a tour of Homestead Three. 388 00:16:23,941 --> 00:16:26,402 There, a security guard was overcome 389 00:16:26,527 --> 00:16:30,114 by something that made him go catatonic. 390 00:16:30,281 --> 00:16:33,075 He ended up being okay, but over the past six years, 391 00:16:33,242 --> 00:16:35,828 our team hasn't had any other encounters there. 392 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:37,496 That is, until last week. 393 00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:40,249 Thomas is starting to pump smoke now. 394 00:16:40,416 --> 00:16:43,711 We were several hundred yards to the east at Homestead Two, 395 00:16:43,878 --> 00:16:46,464 investigating a recent UAP sighting 396 00:16:46,631 --> 00:16:48,174 and possible communication signals 397 00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,884 that we detected in one of the buildings. 398 00:16:50,051 --> 00:16:51,761 [Erik] What is that all the way over there? 399 00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:54,055 [Travis] Suddenly, Erik saw a strange light 400 00:16:54,222 --> 00:16:57,558 on a surveillance camera appear over Homestead Three. 401 00:16:57,725 --> 00:16:59,268 When Jim Royston tried to track it down 402 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:03,105 with his thermal drone, the light disappeared. 403 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:05,148 But then we were all shocked 404 00:17:05,316 --> 00:17:08,069 to see a massive heat anomaly filling the main building. 405 00:17:08,236 --> 00:17:09,444 [Pete] Oh, look at the heat 406 00:17:09,612 --> 00:17:11,739 -coming out of the homestead. -I know. 407 00:17:11,948 --> 00:17:14,532 [Travis] It was like it was on fire in the thermal camera. 408 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:16,035 But with the naked eye, 409 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:18,579 we couldn't see anything in there. 410 00:17:18,788 --> 00:17:22,208 So tonight we want to figure out just what the heck that was. 411 00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:24,042 What I was thinking is, kind of 412 00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:26,378 repeat what we did at Homestead Two with the laser grid. 413 00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:28,589 Maybe put it in this window on the north side? 414 00:17:28,756 --> 00:17:30,424 -Mm-hmm. -And the smoke 415 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:32,510 through the door? Thomas, what do you think? 416 00:17:32,635 --> 00:17:34,053 Yep. 417 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:35,888 [Travis] Just like last week's experiment, 418 00:17:36,055 --> 00:17:38,641 we're going to use lasers to project a grid of light 419 00:17:38,766 --> 00:17:40,434 inside of Homestead Three. 420 00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:42,812 Then we'll fill the building with smoke. 421 00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:44,897 The lasers and smoke combined will allow us 422 00:17:45,106 --> 00:17:47,567 to look for anything passing through the grid 423 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,319 that might be invisible to the naked eye. 424 00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:51,988 [Erik] Now, to add to that, 425 00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:53,614 I'd like us to try something between Homestead Two 426 00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:55,658 and Homestead Three. I'm convinced that there's 427 00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:57,493 some kind of connection between 'em. 428 00:17:57,660 --> 00:18:00,454 So I want to try transmitting a 1.2-gigahertz signal here 429 00:18:00,621 --> 00:18:03,040 and see if it shows up at Homestead Two. 430 00:18:03,165 --> 00:18:05,543 All right, I say we get to it. 431 00:18:07,003 --> 00:18:09,922 While the rest of the team began setting up the laser grid, 432 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,882 Erik and I wanted to run a little test 433 00:18:12,049 --> 00:18:13,593 to see if there's a connection 434 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,137 between Homestead Three and Homestead Two. 435 00:18:16,345 --> 00:18:18,347 During last week's experiment, 436 00:18:18,514 --> 00:18:20,808 after I broadcast a 1.6-gigahertz signal, 437 00:18:20,975 --> 00:18:23,769 something seemed to clone the signal 438 00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:26,647 and send it back to us from inside Homestead Two. 439 00:18:26,814 --> 00:18:29,025 Where's that signal coming from? 440 00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:34,030 It was another case of something unexplained cloning our signals. 441 00:18:34,196 --> 00:18:36,657 So Erik will broadcast a new test signal 442 00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:39,243 at 1.2 gigahertz from Homestead Three 443 00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:42,079 for a few minutes and then turn it off. 444 00:18:42,204 --> 00:18:44,123 At that point, Kaleb and I will be monitoring 445 00:18:44,290 --> 00:18:46,876 our own spectrum analyzers at Homestead Two 446 00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:49,086 to see if something clones that signal 447 00:18:49,253 --> 00:18:51,047 and starts broadcasting it again. 448 00:18:51,213 --> 00:18:52,632 All right, we're good to go. 449 00:18:58,554 --> 00:19:01,849 Hey, Erik. We're all set up here at Homestead Two. 450 00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:03,434 Yeah, copy that. 451 00:19:03,601 --> 00:19:06,979 All right, let's see here. 452 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:09,273 I don't know what's happening right there. 453 00:19:11,484 --> 00:19:13,694 That's some kind of 1.2-gigahertz signal. 454 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:16,322 See the peak right there. 455 00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:18,240 Erik, did you just turn on the signal generator 456 00:19:18,366 --> 00:19:20,159 at 1.2 gigahertz? 457 00:19:20,284 --> 00:19:21,494 No, Travis, 458 00:19:21,661 --> 00:19:22,995 we haven't done that yet. 459 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:24,664 What in the world? 460 00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:28,000 So where is this signal coming from? 461 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:33,756 Ah, man, that's just weird. 462 00:19:36,384 --> 00:19:38,094 [Travis] What in the world? 463 00:19:38,260 --> 00:19:41,013 So where is this signal coming from? 464 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,599 Look at it. It's just... I... 465 00:19:43,724 --> 00:19:45,309 I don't know what's going on. 466 00:19:45,476 --> 00:19:47,228 That's a pretty strong one. 467 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:50,147 [Travis] All right, man. That signal went away. 468 00:19:50,314 --> 00:19:53,192 -It's not there anymore. -Huh. 469 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,736 [Travis] That was the strangest thing. 470 00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:59,407 Before Erik even had the chance to broadcast his test signal 471 00:19:59,573 --> 00:20:02,076 at 1.2 gigahertz from Homestead Three, 472 00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:04,745 I picked up that same frequency for a few seconds 473 00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:06,831 over at Homestead Two. 474 00:20:06,997 --> 00:20:08,499 Before, we thought 475 00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:10,835 something was cloning the signals that we broadcast. 476 00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:13,754 Now it's like it's reading our minds 477 00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:15,214 and beating us to the punch. 478 00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:18,134 What in the world could do that? 479 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,844 That's really interesting. 480 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:22,012 I wonder what that was. 481 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:25,558 Ooh. Something weird has happened 482 00:20:25,725 --> 00:20:28,185 to this gamma ray detector. Check this out. 483 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:31,272 [Kaleb] Is that, like, damage to the screen? 484 00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:32,815 [Travis] Yeah. Something's fried it. 485 00:20:32,982 --> 00:20:35,443 What the crap? 486 00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:37,403 We always carry gamma ray detectors 487 00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:39,697 to look out for radiation spikes on the ranch, 488 00:20:39,864 --> 00:20:43,033 because they occasionally appear out of nowhere. 489 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,996 Well, right after that 1.2-gigahertz signal showed up, 490 00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:48,873 I suddenly noticed that the screen 491 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:51,000 on my gamma ray detector was busted 492 00:20:51,125 --> 00:20:53,377 and the device was fried. 493 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:56,505 Was this caused by whatever sent that signal? 494 00:20:56,672 --> 00:20:58,424 That made me want to see if Erik and I 495 00:20:58,591 --> 00:21:00,092 could get something else to happen 496 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:02,803 by broadcasting his 1.2-gigahertz signal 497 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:04,555 from over at Homestead Three. 498 00:21:04,722 --> 00:21:07,641 Hey, Erik. It's Travis. You copy? 499 00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:08,976 [Erik] Yeah, Travis. 500 00:21:09,143 --> 00:21:10,811 Go ahead. 501 00:21:10,978 --> 00:21:13,522 If you want to do a test on that 1.2-gigahertz transmitter 502 00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:15,816 from the table, that would be good. 503 00:21:15,983 --> 00:21:17,276 Yeah, Travis. 504 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,403 Let me turn that on. Stand by. 505 00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:28,370 All right. You should be seeing it. We've got it 506 00:21:28,537 --> 00:21:30,956 on the spectrum analyzers here. 507 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:34,084 Hmm. Well... 508 00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:37,046 -No. -[Kaleb] Not seeing it. 509 00:21:37,213 --> 00:21:38,798 [Travis] Nope, nothing. 510 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:43,260 I'm tuned up to 1.2, but I'm not seeing any spikes. 511 00:21:43,469 --> 00:21:45,304 [Erik] Are you seeing it down there? 512 00:21:45,471 --> 00:21:47,097 Negative. 513 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:49,558 I... As close as that is, we shouldn't have any difficulty. 514 00:21:49,725 --> 00:21:51,101 I mean, look, I've picked that thing up 515 00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:54,146 all the way from, you know, a mile from here. 516 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:55,898 [Travis] There's only about 517 00:21:56,106 --> 00:21:59,777 700 feet between Homestead Two and Homestead Three. 518 00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:03,239 Our range on spectrum analyzers is several times that. 519 00:22:03,364 --> 00:22:06,325 Let me double-check the gain one more time. 520 00:22:06,492 --> 00:22:09,662 So, was something blocking it here at Homestead Two? 521 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,413 Or was it being blocked by something 522 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,332 over at Homestead Three? 523 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,334 Or something in between? 524 00:22:15,501 --> 00:22:18,045 [Erik] Travis, we've got an idea down here at the table 525 00:22:18,212 --> 00:22:20,047 that we want to give a try. Um... 526 00:22:20,214 --> 00:22:22,299 we're going to take the transmitter your way. 527 00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:24,385 All right, copy that. 528 00:22:24,552 --> 00:22:26,720 I think we ought to see how close 529 00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:29,390 we have to get to your location before you start picking it up. 530 00:22:29,557 --> 00:22:30,808 With that high-gain antenna, 531 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:33,352 you should be seeing it perfectly. 532 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,813 Yeah, well, we're watching, so head our way. 533 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:40,067 [Thomas] Travis, 534 00:22:40,234 --> 00:22:41,777 we're just about a quarter of the way right now. 535 00:22:41,986 --> 00:22:44,530 Are you seeing the signal yet? 536 00:22:44,697 --> 00:22:46,949 I'm not seeing it at all down here. 537 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:52,580 [Royston] That is strange. 538 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:54,623 [Thomas] I wonder if they're still picking it up 539 00:22:54,790 --> 00:22:56,542 over at Homestead Three. 540 00:22:58,961 --> 00:23:02,673 Hey, Erik, are you still seeing the signal? 541 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,842 [Erik] Strong as can be. 542 00:23:04,967 --> 00:23:07,428 [Thomas] Copy that. Well, we'll continue. 543 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:08,762 [Erik] All right. 544 00:23:08,929 --> 00:23:11,557 [Royston] That makes no sense. 545 00:23:11,724 --> 00:23:15,644 He literally has no antenna, and he's picking us up fine. 546 00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,771 Right. I'd say we're more than halfway. 547 00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:20,482 -Yeah. -We are still transmitting, 548 00:23:20,649 --> 00:23:22,276 and we're more than halfway 549 00:23:22,443 --> 00:23:24,028 to you. I mean, we're closer to you now 550 00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:26,530 than we are the science tent. 551 00:23:26,697 --> 00:23:28,198 [Travis] Keep walking toward me, Thomas. 552 00:23:28,324 --> 00:23:30,284 We got to figure this out. 553 00:23:33,537 --> 00:23:36,206 That is just bizarre to me. 554 00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:39,919 [Thomas] Travis, we're just about to walk up on you now. 555 00:23:40,044 --> 00:23:42,296 [Travis] Come on to us, Thomas. I want to see if we can-- 556 00:23:42,463 --> 00:23:44,048 I mean, I don't even need the walkie now. 557 00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:45,883 -I can hear you. -[Travis] I know. 558 00:23:46,008 --> 00:23:47,718 If I can hear you, I should be picking up that signal 559 00:23:47,885 --> 00:23:49,637 like crazy. 560 00:23:49,803 --> 00:23:51,138 [computer beeps] 561 00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:52,640 -[Kaleb] What was that? -[Travis] What was that? 562 00:23:55,017 --> 00:23:57,436 [Thomas] You've got to be sh... 563 00:23:58,395 --> 00:24:00,648 What was that signal? 564 00:24:01,732 --> 00:24:03,442 [Travis] It's some kind of weird signal. 565 00:24:05,027 --> 00:24:06,320 [computer buzzes] 566 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:09,949 Wowie. What in the crap? 567 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,201 My computer's locking up on me. 568 00:24:12,326 --> 00:24:14,328 I'm gonna restart this thing. 569 00:24:14,495 --> 00:24:15,955 Something's going on here, 570 00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:18,123 like with the gamma ray detector earlier. 571 00:24:18,248 --> 00:24:21,543 Thomas, can you and Jim go check the dosimeter out back? 572 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,128 [Royston] Let's go out and look. 573 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,214 [Travis] I wondered if the same thing 574 00:24:25,381 --> 00:24:27,883 that fried the gamma ray detector is what caused 575 00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:30,761 my computer to freeze up. And if it was, 576 00:24:30,886 --> 00:24:33,806 I wanted to see if our detector out back could verify 577 00:24:33,973 --> 00:24:36,684 that a strange spike had indeed occurred. 578 00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:40,729 [Royston] Showing anything? 579 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:43,482 [Thomas] It says "dosimeter alarm." What's that? 580 00:24:44,525 --> 00:24:49,738 [Royston] That means it spiked if it went over threshold. 581 00:24:49,947 --> 00:24:52,449 [Thomas] "Dosimeter mode dose alarm." 582 00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:53,993 -[Royston] Yeah. -So it has spiked, then. 583 00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:57,162 [Royston] Yep. Now the readings are normal. 584 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:59,957 -[Thomas] All right. -[Kaleb] It's like 585 00:25:00,124 --> 00:25:01,333 -we got nuked by something. -It was working-- 586 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,835 Yeah, you guys did. 587 00:25:03,002 --> 00:25:04,378 [Thomas] I don't know what 588 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,714 could be there to account for that spike 589 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,717 on the instrument, but the fact that the dosimeter showed 590 00:25:09,883 --> 00:25:13,679 dangerously high counts of gamma radiation is concerning. 591 00:25:13,804 --> 00:25:17,474 We definitely need to find some answers for what took place. 592 00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:19,935 So, uh, we've got 593 00:25:20,102 --> 00:25:21,937 -the dosimeter alarm going off. -Really? 594 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:23,522 Well, it spiked 595 00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:25,774 -enough to trigger the alarm. -Yeah. 596 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:27,443 Makes me not even want to be over here. 597 00:25:27,568 --> 00:25:29,611 -[Royston] I know. -[Travis] I know. Why don't we 598 00:25:29,778 --> 00:25:31,613 get out of here and join the others back at Homestead Three? 599 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:33,240 -Not a bad idea. -Yeah. 600 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,409 [Travis] None of us felt sick 601 00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:37,828 or like any radiation physically affected us. 602 00:25:37,995 --> 00:25:40,706 But since my gamma ray detector clearly got hit 603 00:25:40,873 --> 00:25:42,374 by something earlier, 604 00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:45,669 and now the stationary dosimeter is showing an alarm, too, 605 00:25:45,836 --> 00:25:47,963 we needed to hedge our bets, get out of there, 606 00:25:48,088 --> 00:25:50,591 and rejoin the others over at Homestead Three. 607 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:54,678 Look at this. Here's the gamma ray detector. 608 00:25:54,803 --> 00:25:56,722 [Erik] Oh, wow. 609 00:25:56,889 --> 00:25:58,807 It was working in my pocket. We drove down there, 610 00:25:58,974 --> 00:26:01,226 I pulled it out and set it on the table. 611 00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:03,604 -I watched the screen just go... -[Erik] I got you. 612 00:26:03,771 --> 00:26:05,981 Well, I'm telling you, I think it's fried. 613 00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:08,067 I-I mean, I think something hit it. 614 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:09,401 [Erik] Yeah. 615 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:11,195 [Travis] Well, look, that's a... 616 00:26:11,361 --> 00:26:13,530 This has been an interesting, bizarre thing already. 617 00:26:13,697 --> 00:26:15,032 And we ain't even got started 618 00:26:15,199 --> 00:26:16,492 on the experiment with Homestead Three. 619 00:26:16,658 --> 00:26:18,869 I say we go get the laser grids going 620 00:26:19,036 --> 00:26:21,121 and get the smoke machines in there. 621 00:26:21,246 --> 00:26:23,957 -What do y'all think? -I am ready for it. 622 00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:25,459 [Travis] All right. Let's go in there. 623 00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:30,631 [Travis] All right, Thomas, 624 00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:32,049 how are y'all setting it up back here? 625 00:26:32,216 --> 00:26:35,511 -Right there. -Oh, that's perfect. Yeah. 626 00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:37,930 Well, I'm gonna head back to the tables. All right. 627 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:39,473 After everything that happened 628 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,225 earlier tonight at Homestead Two, 629 00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:43,519 we can't wait to see what will happen 630 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:45,813 during our smoke and laser grid experiment 631 00:26:45,979 --> 00:26:47,523 inside of Homestead Three. 632 00:26:47,689 --> 00:26:48,690 They're about to come get the smoke machines 633 00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,192 and start smoking it up. 634 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:51,777 Yeah. Perfect. 635 00:26:51,985 --> 00:26:54,113 So, we're gonna hit that front room first, yeah? 636 00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:57,032 Yeah, we'll see the beams going across. 637 00:26:57,199 --> 00:26:59,743 Using a smoke gun, we're gonna fill both rooms 638 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:01,495 of the building completely, 639 00:27:01,662 --> 00:27:03,413 so if anything strange passes through our laser beams, 640 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:06,208 it'll be easier to see on our thermal cameras. 641 00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:08,836 There was something moving through the laser beam. 642 00:27:09,002 --> 00:27:11,588 -[Royston] Oh, yeah, I see it. -[Travis] You see that? 643 00:27:11,755 --> 00:27:13,632 Last week, this method helped us 644 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:16,176 see something moving through Homestead Two. 645 00:27:16,343 --> 00:27:18,762 So, we're hoping this experiment will help identify 646 00:27:18,929 --> 00:27:21,682 whatever caused the heat anomaly we spotted here 647 00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:23,308 with Jim's thermal drone. 648 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,191 -Yeah. -Oh, look. 649 00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,693 -You seeing the smoke in there? -[Erik] Yeah, it's... 650 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:34,111 -Yeah, look at it go. -[Erik] It's going in. 651 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:35,863 -[Travis] That's awesome. -[Erik] All right. 652 00:27:37,281 --> 00:27:38,824 So now we're seeing the beams. 653 00:27:40,284 --> 00:27:42,703 -[Travis] Yep. -[Erik] That's perfect. 654 00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:44,454 All right, guys. 655 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,335 Dude, I can see the beams real good through there. 656 00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:51,962 Let's watch and see if any-- 657 00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:54,464 if any anomalous behavior happens there. 658 00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,386 [Erik] I'm not seeing anything yet. 659 00:27:59,553 --> 00:28:00,846 Thomas, any chance 660 00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:03,140 of hitting the front room anymore with some smoke? 661 00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:04,683 [Thomas] All right. 662 00:28:11,982 --> 00:28:13,400 [Erik] All right. Here I can see it 663 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:15,360 kind of painting the space. 664 00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:21,158 -How's that? -[Travis] That's good, Thomas. 665 00:28:21,325 --> 00:28:22,576 Thank you. 666 00:28:22,743 --> 00:28:24,953 Hadn't seen anything anomalous in it yet 667 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,371 that I can understand. 668 00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:27,956 Jim, you about to get the drone up? 669 00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:29,833 -[Royston] Yeah. -[Travis] Why don't you see 670 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,919 if we have anything going on at Homestead Two? 671 00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:33,712 Yep. 672 00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:35,464 [Travis] It's disappointing that we weren't seeing anything 673 00:28:35,631 --> 00:28:38,133 in real time on our monitors at Homestead Three. 674 00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:41,261 But since that weird heat anomaly showed up here, 675 00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:43,555 when we were running this same experiment last week 676 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:45,057 at Homestead Two... 677 00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:46,892 Look at the heat coming out of the homestead. 678 00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:49,561 It's like somebody's got a furnace on. 679 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:50,812 [Travis] ...we wanted to see if maybe 680 00:28:50,979 --> 00:28:52,314 we'd have the reverse happen 681 00:28:52,481 --> 00:28:53,774 and capture something strange 682 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:55,567 over there with Jim's drone. 683 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,694 [Royston] Drone going up. 684 00:28:57,861 --> 00:28:59,071 [Travis] Maybe he'll see something 685 00:28:59,237 --> 00:29:00,739 that might help explain that possible 686 00:29:00,948 --> 00:29:03,367 radiation spike we had earlier. 687 00:29:11,458 --> 00:29:13,669 Yeah, I'm over Homestead Two. 688 00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:19,383 And it's going red. 689 00:29:19,549 --> 00:29:22,260 Look, I just lost RC... 690 00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:23,762 -See the controller? -Look at that. 691 00:29:23,929 --> 00:29:25,722 "Controller signal weak" right over Homestead Two. 692 00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:27,808 How about that? 693 00:29:27,975 --> 00:29:29,643 [Royston] There's the broadcast error. 694 00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:32,813 Yeah, yeah. "Failed to obtain remote control." 695 00:29:32,980 --> 00:29:35,691 As soon as Jim reached Homestead Two, 696 00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:38,151 his drone glitched. But why? 697 00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:40,570 [Royston] Look at that. 698 00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:43,198 Why is it saying, "Unable to take off"? 699 00:29:43,365 --> 00:29:45,951 [chuckles] It thinks you're on the ground, dude. 700 00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:48,203 [Royston] How bizarre is that? 701 00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:54,418 Man, there is something over Homestead Two, I'm telling you. 702 00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:57,713 Well, so, your drone's messed up, my computer was messed up. 703 00:29:57,879 --> 00:30:00,716 The gamma ray detector was nuked. It's crazy. 704 00:30:00,841 --> 00:30:02,509 Aye. 705 00:30:02,676 --> 00:30:04,136 [Travis] Could the culprit be whatever sent 706 00:30:04,302 --> 00:30:06,763 that 1.2-gigahertz signal at the start of everything? 707 00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:08,890 And was it caused by something that was trying 708 00:30:09,057 --> 00:30:11,101 to stop us from investigating Homestead Three? 709 00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:13,562 These are the kind of questions we now have 710 00:30:13,729 --> 00:30:15,814 to legitimately ask ourselves. 711 00:30:15,981 --> 00:30:18,608 [Royston] All right, I'm coming right back towards us. 712 00:30:22,237 --> 00:30:23,697 And look at that. 713 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:26,283 When I got out away from Homestead Two, 714 00:30:26,408 --> 00:30:27,659 -I got better. -[Travis] Yeah. 715 00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:29,828 [Erik] Wow. That's crazy. 716 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:33,832 [Travis] All right, Thomas and Kaleb, let's smoke it 717 00:30:33,999 --> 00:30:36,918 -and do this one more time. -Yeah, copy you. 718 00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,920 -Go. -[Travis] All we could do at that point 719 00:30:39,046 --> 00:30:42,049 was blast one more round of smoke into Homestead Three 720 00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,717 and hope to see if anything would register 721 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,385 on our thermal cameras. 722 00:30:49,431 --> 00:30:51,600 That's good. That's good. 723 00:30:51,725 --> 00:30:54,269 Well, I'm not seeing anything that is saying 724 00:30:54,436 --> 00:30:57,814 unusual phenomena or anything. 725 00:30:57,981 --> 00:31:01,359 I don't see anything unexpected here. 726 00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:03,487 [Travis] We gave it almost another hour, 727 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:06,323 but we weren't seeing anything odd on our monitors. 728 00:31:06,490 --> 00:31:09,785 I think we've got all the data we can collect for tonight. 729 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:11,203 And who knows? 730 00:31:11,328 --> 00:31:12,579 -When we process it... -[Erik] Yeah. 731 00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:14,039 ...we might see something different. 732 00:31:14,164 --> 00:31:15,582 Yeah. Yeah. 733 00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:17,000 [Travis] All right, guys, you can turn it off 734 00:31:17,125 --> 00:31:19,920 -and come on back. -[Kaleb] Moving. 735 00:31:21,213 --> 00:31:23,298 [Erik] After all the problems that we encountered, 736 00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:24,841 all the vexing results that we got, 737 00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:26,635 it invites speculation as to whether 738 00:31:26,802 --> 00:31:28,553 the connection between Homestead Two and Homestead Three 739 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,473 would be the cause of these kinds of events. 740 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,308 I think we're all looking forward to reviewing 741 00:31:33,475 --> 00:31:35,560 the video data, which often lends more insight 742 00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:37,771 than we observed in the moment. 743 00:31:37,938 --> 00:31:39,898 I don't-- I don't know what to think 744 00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:41,608 about what we've done so far tonight, 745 00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,361 other than the Homestead Two thing's got me baffled. 746 00:31:44,486 --> 00:31:45,946 -Yeah, that's for sure. -Um... 747 00:31:46,113 --> 00:31:48,156 [Kaleb] Well, that's kind of more concerning, 748 00:31:48,323 --> 00:31:50,033 especially with what happened to that. 749 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,744 [Travis] Yeah. That gamma ray detector's just fried, dude. 750 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:54,454 And my computer, I think it's fried. 751 00:31:54,621 --> 00:31:56,373 I don't know what to do about it. 752 00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:58,375 Well, we'll certainly review everything that we've recorded, 753 00:31:58,542 --> 00:32:00,710 but this has been very interesting, guys. 754 00:32:00,877 --> 00:32:03,004 -Yeah. -Yep. All right. 755 00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:05,423 -Let's just call it a night, guys. -Yeah, let's do. -Okay. 756 00:32:10,220 --> 00:32:11,596 -[Kaleb] Hey, guys. -[Thomas] Hey, there. 757 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,598 Very interesting set of events 758 00:32:13,723 --> 00:32:14,975 that played out last night. 759 00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:16,601 [Travis] Late the next morning, 760 00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:18,270 we all gathered at the command center 761 00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,689 to review the processed data from our experiment. 762 00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:23,191 So, my computer was completely dead this morning. 763 00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:25,026 -Yeah. -[Thomas] Wow. 764 00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,320 [Travis] Something corrupted it so badly 765 00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:31,825 that I had to completely do a factory reset 766 00:32:31,992 --> 00:32:33,618 on the operating system, 767 00:32:33,827 --> 00:32:35,996 and get new spectrum analyzers 768 00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,415 and radio receivers connected 769 00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,000 to it before it would work again. 770 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:42,544 [Erik] Did the original 771 00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,588 radio receivers get damaged by whatever happened? 772 00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:45,922 Yes, the original radio receivers 773 00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:47,924 that were connected to it were fried. 774 00:32:49,092 --> 00:32:50,594 [Royston] The display 775 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,470 -on the... -[Travis] The gamma ray detector? 776 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:54,890 ...the gamma ray detector bothers me. Like... 777 00:32:55,056 --> 00:32:57,517 It was also connected to the laptop. 778 00:32:57,642 --> 00:32:59,853 This is a very specific, 779 00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:01,771 complicated kind of interference. 780 00:33:03,106 --> 00:33:05,734 -Yeah. What did that? -[Erik] Whew! No kidding. 781 00:33:05,901 --> 00:33:07,485 You know, we're still trying to sort out, 782 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:09,362 are we dealing with something intelligent 783 00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:12,699 out there at Homestead Two? It affected specific hardware 784 00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:14,701 connected to your computer. 785 00:33:14,910 --> 00:33:16,536 -Yeah. It's selective destruction. -[Travis] Yeah. 786 00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:18,038 It really feels like we were targeted. 787 00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:19,414 Good point, Kaleb. 788 00:33:19,581 --> 00:33:22,751 Yeah, I'm 100% convinced that it's targeted. 789 00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:25,045 [Travis] The craziness at Homestead Two 790 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:28,215 still has us wondering what in the hell was going on out there. 791 00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:31,718 In recent years, we've had so many freaky experiences, 792 00:33:31,885 --> 00:33:33,637 from possible communication signals, 793 00:33:33,762 --> 00:33:35,680 to people suddenly becoming ill. 794 00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:39,643 Heck, I was hit by a radiation spike in 2018 795 00:33:39,768 --> 00:33:42,562 that left burns on my hand and face. 796 00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:45,065 It's all adding up to make us think 797 00:33:45,232 --> 00:33:47,275 these things aren't random at all. 798 00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:50,904 They only happen to us when we investigate there. 799 00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:52,530 So, what is it? 800 00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:56,159 This is the right point to bring up what we saw 801 00:33:56,284 --> 00:33:57,619 -inside of Homestead Three. -[Travis] Yeah. 802 00:33:57,827 --> 00:33:59,287 [Erik] We saw no strange activity in the moment, 803 00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:00,789 so I want to review the video together 804 00:34:00,956 --> 00:34:02,749 and see if we notice anything. 805 00:34:02,916 --> 00:34:04,918 Yeah. Let's look at that. 806 00:34:05,085 --> 00:34:08,338 Okay. Um, so here, we're gonna be seeing the... 807 00:34:08,545 --> 00:34:11,257 you know, the room on the west side. 808 00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:12,967 -Yep. -And I'll just 809 00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:14,678 let it play through. 810 00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:19,431 Okay, let me stop there. 811 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:20,850 So was there anything in particular 812 00:34:21,016 --> 00:34:22,310 that caught your attention? 813 00:34:22,476 --> 00:34:23,728 [Travis] The one question I have, Thomas, 814 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:27,065 is where was the laser beam 815 00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:28,525 in this particular point? 816 00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:30,150 [Thomas] We had it in the window 817 00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:32,152 pointed straight at the wall. 818 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,531 That's the one thing that's getting me confused, is 819 00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:36,324 why do the beams look like they're at an angle here, 820 00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,284 -and they shouldn't be? -[Erik] Yes. Exactly. 821 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:41,036 [Royston] They'd have to be mounted at the ceiling almost. 822 00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:43,123 [Kaleb] The camera and 823 00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:45,375 the laser were literally right next to each other. 824 00:34:45,542 --> 00:34:48,003 [Travis] This doesn't add up. 825 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:49,420 They should be going out like that. 826 00:34:49,629 --> 00:34:50,880 [Kaleb] They should be more straight on 827 00:34:51,005 --> 00:34:52,340 -from the camera. -Yeah. Be flat. 828 00:34:52,549 --> 00:34:54,217 It looks like these lasers are coming like-- 829 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:55,802 From the corner. It looks like they're coming from the corner 830 00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:57,596 -over there. -Yes. 831 00:34:57,762 --> 00:34:59,389 [Travis] Right now, we're seeing these lasers 832 00:34:59,556 --> 00:35:01,600 like they're coming down at an angle from the right. 833 00:35:01,725 --> 00:35:04,853 But based off the position of the laser where we placed it, 834 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:08,440 we should be seeing these beams projected almost straight on 835 00:35:08,565 --> 00:35:11,192 and a little from right next to the camera. 836 00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:13,069 What the heck is going on? 837 00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:16,698 [stammering] Yeah, now this doesn't make any sense. 838 00:35:16,906 --> 00:35:19,242 [Erik] All right. I'll play this through to the end. 839 00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,828 If you do see a feature, call it out. 840 00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:25,248 [Travis] Now, once again, 841 00:35:25,415 --> 00:35:27,334 the beams coming from the wrong direction. 842 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:28,793 [Erik] And where are the dots that should be 843 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,379 on the left-hand side of the wall? 844 00:35:31,588 --> 00:35:34,883 [Kaleb] Yeah, when we set it up, the beams were 845 00:35:35,050 --> 00:35:37,344 hitting this... the entire wall over here, 846 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:38,803 even part of that window. 847 00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:40,764 They absolutely were hitting the entire wall. 848 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,475 The grid was covering the entire wall. 849 00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:45,518 A hundred percent. 850 00:35:45,644 --> 00:35:47,270 And we were looking at it in real time. 851 00:35:47,437 --> 00:35:48,730 -[Erik] Yeah. -[Travis] So, if it moved 852 00:35:48,897 --> 00:35:50,190 or something bumped it, we would've seen it. 853 00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:52,150 Then this picture is just wrong. 854 00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:54,110 -It's wrong. -[Travis] The beams 855 00:35:54,277 --> 00:35:55,695 that we're seeing in this room 856 00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:57,614 do not match where the laser was. 857 00:35:57,739 --> 00:35:59,407 No. 858 00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:02,160 [Travis] I feel like we're in the Twilight Zone. 859 00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:05,205 First, we've got lasers going in directions 860 00:36:05,372 --> 00:36:07,332 that don't match where they were positioned. 861 00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:11,378 And now, a whole part of the grid is completely missing. 862 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:13,755 So, what the heck could have altered our video 863 00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:16,549 between the time we recorded it and now? 864 00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:18,927 Could it be connected to whatever fried my computer 865 00:36:19,094 --> 00:36:20,762 at Homestead Two? 866 00:36:20,887 --> 00:36:24,474 Nothing I've got to volunteer at this point can account 867 00:36:24,641 --> 00:36:27,602 for missing light over here. 868 00:36:27,769 --> 00:36:29,020 Let's look to see if there's any other images 869 00:36:29,229 --> 00:36:30,522 that don't make sense. 870 00:36:30,647 --> 00:36:32,148 All right, I'll continue to the next one. 871 00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:34,359 Now this one's gonna take us into the other room. 872 00:36:34,484 --> 00:36:35,985 [Royston] Okay. 873 00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:37,904 [Travis] Now that looks more like what I was... 874 00:36:38,071 --> 00:36:40,281 -I would expect. -[Kaleb] Yes. 875 00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:42,075 [Erik] The first thing that jumps out to me is, 876 00:36:42,242 --> 00:36:45,120 we can see the laser grid in the room we were just looking at. 877 00:36:45,245 --> 00:36:46,621 [Travis] Yes, right! 878 00:36:46,830 --> 00:36:48,289 [Erik] And this confirms it was right where 879 00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:50,542 -we thought it was. -Which is completely not where 880 00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:53,712 the dadgum thing was coming from in that other video. 881 00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:56,256 So what changed the appearance of the laser beams? 882 00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:58,133 [Erik] I don't know what's going on here. 883 00:36:58,299 --> 00:37:01,594 -That's weird. -[laughs] How could that 884 00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:03,513 -happen? -Ah. [scoffs] 885 00:37:06,182 --> 00:37:07,475 [Travis] So, what changed the appearance 886 00:37:07,642 --> 00:37:09,436 -of the laser beams? -Right. 887 00:37:10,437 --> 00:37:12,772 [Erik] This is our positioning of the laser 888 00:37:12,939 --> 00:37:16,151 relative to the window. To the top of the window here. 889 00:37:16,317 --> 00:37:19,112 [Travis] It's like the image on the other camera 890 00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:21,030 -was hacked and changed. -Yep. 891 00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:22,741 [Travis] Last night, 892 00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:25,118 when we watched the camera feed live at Homestead Three, 893 00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:27,287 the lasers that we projected against the walls 894 00:37:27,454 --> 00:37:29,539 looked straight and level, but now, 895 00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:31,249 as we watch it back, 896 00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:33,543 the lasers look like they're on an angle, 897 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:36,129 and some are even missing. 898 00:37:36,296 --> 00:37:38,381 So, did something on the ranch hack our video 899 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:41,718 after the fact to make it look messed up? 900 00:37:41,843 --> 00:37:43,845 Or here's another idea. 901 00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:45,764 Did something hack it in real time 902 00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:47,932 to make it look normal in the moment, 903 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:50,685 to stop us from investigating it right then and there? 904 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:54,522 [Erik] There's one more thing I want to review. 905 00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:56,483 This has to do with the thermal camera. 906 00:37:56,649 --> 00:37:58,735 This is the stationary camera facing the front door 907 00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:01,279 -of Homestead Three. -Okay. 908 00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:03,198 It'll jump right out at you. 909 00:38:04,532 --> 00:38:06,367 -That. -Oh. 910 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:08,161 [Erik] Did you see that flash? 911 00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,288 Wow. That's wild. 912 00:38:10,455 --> 00:38:13,333 That is really odd and bizarre. 913 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:15,960 [Erik] I've backed up by one frame. 914 00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:20,548 -[Travis] Oh! -[Kaleb] There it is. 915 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:23,218 -[Erik] Yeah. -[Travis] It's like the surface 916 00:38:23,426 --> 00:38:26,346 of the homestead flashed. 917 00:38:26,513 --> 00:38:28,765 This suggests it was illuminated suddenly 918 00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:31,059 with a bright, infrared source. 919 00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:34,312 This was "boom!" Like a flashbulb on a camera. 920 00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:36,648 It's not a software glitch. 921 00:38:36,815 --> 00:38:38,149 That looks to me like it actually happened, 922 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:39,567 whatever it was. 923 00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:41,402 There are flashes like that 924 00:38:41,569 --> 00:38:43,822 that are in the infrared range of light. 925 00:38:44,030 --> 00:38:45,824 They wouldn't be visible to the naked eye, 926 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,576 and they could go all the way down to maybe even 927 00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,162 -the radio waves. -Radio waves? 928 00:38:51,287 --> 00:38:52,831 -[Travis] Yeah, you could-- -Like maybe 929 00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:54,332 frying circuit radio waves? 930 00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:56,084 -Yeah. Sure. -Yeah. 931 00:38:56,251 --> 00:38:58,086 Same type of radio waves that could mess up 932 00:38:58,253 --> 00:39:00,088 -a spectrum analyzer? -Exactly that. 933 00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:01,548 [Thomas] That's interesting. 934 00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:03,216 [Travis] What if this is a catch, 935 00:39:03,424 --> 00:39:05,176 another piece of the phenomenon, 936 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:07,512 whatever it was that damaged my computer. 937 00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:09,180 Radio frequency waves 938 00:39:09,389 --> 00:39:12,016 can cause the illusion of flashes of infrared light, 939 00:39:12,225 --> 00:39:15,270 like the one our thermal camera picked up in Homestead Three. 940 00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,522 So, could Thomas be right 941 00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:19,691 that it's related to my computer's meltdown 942 00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:21,150 over at Homestead Two? 943 00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,444 If so, where did it come from? 944 00:39:23,611 --> 00:39:26,447 And could it also be connected to the warped laser videos 945 00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:28,867 and the other things we've recently encountered? 946 00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:31,995 Well, I think what this shows us is that 947 00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:34,289 the connectivity between the homesteads-- 948 00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:36,165 Homestead Two and Homestead Three-- 949 00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:39,294 have a strange interaction, 950 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:42,297 electromagnetically and even thermally, 951 00:39:42,505 --> 00:39:44,799 doing something to our equipment. 952 00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:47,302 Screwed up your drone and fried the software in the computer. 953 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:49,971 We had the laser beam that 954 00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:52,724 appeared in the camera in a place it wasn't. 955 00:39:52,891 --> 00:39:54,267 So many data points 956 00:39:54,434 --> 00:39:56,811 from different events that are telling us, 957 00:39:56,978 --> 00:39:58,605 there's something weird going on here. But what? 958 00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:03,318 So, given what we've seen, we need to keep investigating 959 00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:05,361 both Homestead Two and Three. 960 00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:08,489 This has been yet another fascinating discussion. 961 00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:10,658 A bit confusing, but, uh, we're used to that. 962 00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:12,619 -It's been a great review. -[Royston] Oh, I agree. 963 00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,162 Okay. 964 00:40:14,287 --> 00:40:15,747 [Erik] Sounds good, guys. 965 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:19,208 What do we know about the connection 966 00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:21,044 between Homestead Two and Homestead Three? 967 00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:23,922 This intervening space between these two locations 968 00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:26,341 continues to draw our attention. 969 00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:28,843 Unexpected RF signals. 970 00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:30,720 Strange things happen with our rockets 971 00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:33,598 and our drone platforms, unexpected interference. 972 00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:35,558 What could be going on beyond the bubble boundary 973 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:37,018 that could account for some 974 00:40:37,226 --> 00:40:38,686 of the strange phenomena that we've seen? 975 00:40:38,853 --> 00:40:41,230 I would really like to know. 976 00:40:42,565 --> 00:40:46,027 [Brandon] Homestead Three has been a mystery, 977 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:49,280 but these new findings, as unexplained 978 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:51,741 and mysterious as they may be, 979 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:53,868 are key puzzle pieces 980 00:40:54,035 --> 00:40:57,330 to help us understand the evolving picture 981 00:40:57,497 --> 00:41:00,875 of what is behind the rich history 982 00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,878 and the strange anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch. 983 00:41:05,129 --> 00:41:08,299 [Travis] I don't know what could be lingering inside 984 00:41:08,508 --> 00:41:09,926 decaying old buildings 985 00:41:10,093 --> 00:41:12,261 that would explain what we experienced this week. 986 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,847 But it's clear that from the homesteads 987 00:41:15,014 --> 00:41:16,849 to the mesa to the bubble, 988 00:41:17,016 --> 00:41:19,268 this ranch is loaded with phenomena 989 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:22,021 that keeps testing our mettle to identify it. 990 00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:25,858 And all I can say is, "Game on, Skinwalker Ranch." 991 00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:28,319 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A E NETWORKS 992 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:32,156 -[Ellis] Drones are going up. -[Travis] Sky Elements is gonna 993 00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:34,325 help us scan not only inside the bubble 994 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,035 but much higher above it. 995 00:41:36,202 --> 00:41:37,578 We're at 3,000 feet. 996 00:41:37,787 --> 00:41:39,580 -[Brian] Whoa. -[Thomas] Drones coming down! 997 00:41:39,789 --> 00:41:41,249 Drones coming down! 998 00:41:41,416 --> 00:41:42,542 [Travis] We arranged for Doppler radar 999 00:41:42,709 --> 00:41:44,335 to hopefully see strange things. 1000 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:46,212 Wow. Look at this. 1001 00:41:48,047 --> 00:41:49,549 Where? 1002 00:41:52,468 --> 00:41:54,470 [Travis] Holy crap.