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- Look at that. - What is that?

THOMAS: There's a helicopter coming in.

That dude's hovering right there.

THOMAS: I think somebody's watching us right now.

There's something going on out here.

TRAVIS: What in the world? There's no sign of struggle.

It's just dead.

- (beeping) - The meter is going nuts.

All the frequencies are excited.

Mankind doesn't know how to do that.

LINDA: You all may have the first consistent data

here at the Skinwalker Ranch.

We're dealing with something

that doesn't want us to understand.

ERIK: The cow is right here.

I can't help but also notice that

there's something happening here.

BRANDON: The cow reacted

the moment that that object appeared.

NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth:

animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings

and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years, the federal government

tried to find answers and failed.

Now a new team of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts has taken over.

They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...

...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK: So here, you can see

she starts to get up.

The cow is trying to get up on her feet.

- The object is here. - LINDA: Wow.

- The cow reacted. - TRAVIS: Right.

The moment that that object appeared

above the cow, the cow was reacting.

Yes.

TRAVIS: Yesterday, on the ranch, we found

that a two-year-old cow

that had gotten completely separated

from the rest of the herd just suddenly died.

And for no apparent reason.

Jim, are you seeing anything on the spectrum analyzer?

So, I'm getting some pretty high spikes.

TRAVIS: Oh, wow!

Later, we had a veterinarian come out

and perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

But his findings only served to confirm our suspicions

that something really out of the ordinary

must have happened to it.

SEGALA: I just want to verify something,

that the animal was going about her business,

doing her thing, got stressed by something

that lowered her immune system,

which allowed pneumonia to set in.

Exactly, yeah.

All the signs I've seen point toward

stress-induced pneumonia.

TRAVIS: Luckily, one of Erik Bard's surveillance cameras

actually captured the moment that the cow died.

It also captured something else.

Something that appears to be a UFO

in the sky directly overhead.

Go back and show them where you first see it, Erik.

Okay, so this is our first shot of it.

And I'm going to go single-stepping

one frame at a time.

LINDA: And it actually popped.

So, is that 1/30th of a second video?

- It's 1/15th. - This is, this is 1/15. - LINDA: 1/15.

TRAVIS: And so, clearly, it's behind the trees.

And... you know,

the distance from the camera to the trees is how far?

It's about 75 feet between the-the tree

that you see on the far right and the next tree.

So, if it's directly over the tree line,

it moved 75 feet in a 15th of a second.

So, you multiply that,

that means it moved about a thousand feet in a second.

That's... That's as fast as a high-powered rifle bullet.

I was sitting here this whole time

just thinking it was a bird, but you watch that real-time,

- I mean, that's fast. - Yeah, there's no bird moving that fast.

Not at a thousand feet per second.

I have no idea what that is.

And you're saying a thousand feet per second,

- assuming it's right above the trees. - It's right over the trees.

- Right. - If it's just beyond the tree,

- it could be moving even faster. - TRAVIS: Even faster.

There's an interesting thing that I noticed

when we were looking at it earlier. Erik,

if you could pull the one where it's directly over the cow.

- And zoom in on the thing. - Sure.

- You want to go in tighter? - TRAVIS: Yup.

Uh, if you look around

the spot, there's an area

that looks a little bit different.

- LINDA: Halo-ish. - TRAVIS: Yeah.

And I noticed it when I did an analysis

of the Tic Tac video that the Navy has.

Recently, it's come to light that there's been this program

that the Pentagon has been funding called

the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

A- A-T-I-P or AATIP.

And this program was actually put in place

to look at unknown aerial phenomena: UFOs.

And there's a Gimbal video that was released,

uh, and a Tic Tac video.

And all these videos show a vehicle that's flying

with some type of propulsion that we don't know of.

We can't understand what it is by looking at the video.

When we looked at it on a FLIR,

that told us that it was cold and the craft was warm.

And then you got ambient air around it.

During my first meeting with the Skinwalker team,

Brandon showed me a photo of a UFO

that was taken above the ranch.

One of the first things that we captured

on the property

was an interesting object

just over the mesa.

TRAVIS: And it looked to have

that same kind of halo around it,

something that I believe is caused

by a temperature differential.

And that's something I've seen

in a number of other UFO videos.

It could be a highly, highly classified thing.

But here's the thing. If there's a project

that's that classified, that level of technology

so far advanced

from the rest of the technology we have on the planet,

that-that's h... that's real hard to swallow.

Two things we don't know.

Are we dealing with a craft that is moving point to point

and has influence

on the brain of that cow?

And the fact that the herd is not around.

I don't know that I have seen them pushed up

to that side of the ranch since we brought them on,

so that behavior by itself was unusual.

LINDA: I saw the cow,

and it's not a mutilation.

But somehow that animal was sick enough

or affected enough or manipulated enough,

it was left behind all the herd.

And it is that that has been reported over and over

in animal mutilation cases.

Is it related in some way?

I think we're seeing a reaction

to something in its environment

- at the very end. - Right.

And it's enough of a reaction that it's making

- a deathly ill cow want to move. - Want to get out of there.

BRANDON: We very well could have prevented

a full-blown cattle mutilation from occurring.

- That's a possibility. - That's a possibility.

It's oddly serendipitous.

You know, it's one of those things.

We continue to hit home

that correlation isn't causation,

but we have two really interesting phenomena

occurring at exactly the same time

very near the same spatial location.

It really makes you want to look deeper to see

can we prove the cow moved because of that thing?

Man, you just got to wonder.

If this object appeared at just the same time

this cow is dying its last breath

and then just after the fact, we're measuring

all these weird electromagnetic signals,

is that a coincidence?

BRANDON: We're out in the middle of nowhere.

So, which begs the question. Linda,

have you seen with other cases you have investigated

these type of phenomena attend

cattle mutilations and other events?

LINDA: The sudden separation

of a herd that goes completely as far

as they can go in a pasture,

leaving the animal that is found mutilated?

That's happened many, many times.

What about the electromagnetic type of anomalies?

LINDA: I feel strongly

where there are mutilations,

where there are UFOs, you're going to find

that there are magnetic anomalies.

They go together.

And that includes the running down of batteries.

Wow.

TRAVIS: That's...

We get that all the time.

It's really weird that when strange things seem to happen,

we seem to find something in the sky at the same time.

LINDA: I think we are dealing

with point to point.

I think we're dealing with portals.

I think we are dealing with advanced technology.

See, you've got the combination

of just about every high strangeness going on here

at Skinwalker Ranch.

But after being here for a day,

I think the chapter has just simply turned.

And what I think gives me a new confidence

that maybe we're going to get some more data

is because of the work you're doing.

So, hooray, you guys.

Keep doing this,

because this is maybe the only way we're really going

to learn some of the truth that has been hidden.

BRANDON: Absolutely.

I think we're just starting to pull back the curtain

with our investigation here at Skinwalker Ranch.

And, uh, we'll look forward

to further updates in the future.

- Thank you. - (overlapping chatter)

(wind whistling)

JIM: It's good to see everybody.

- It's good to have you back, Travis. - Yeah, man.

I missed you guys.

After being out there with y'all for so long,

it was strange going home.

And I kept looking

over my shoulder for crazy stuff to happen, but...

- (laughter) - Brandon

has instructed Tom, Erik and the team

to continue their surveillance of all the activities

on the ranch.

But after the death of the cow, we decided

to put a pause on experimentation out there,

at least until we've had a chance to analyze

all the data that we collected over the summer.

Hey, gentlemen. I'd like you to meet

attorney general for the state of Utah,

- Sean Reyes. - TRAVIS: Wow!

- Dragon, how's it going? - Hey.

- Good to see you again. - Good to see you, too.

- Sir. - Travis Taylor.

Mr. Taylor. Pleased to meet you.

Attorney General Reyes has been briefed

over the course of the last several years.

He's been very well aware and kept up on the events

that have occurred on property with you.

And I thought it was important today,

at his request, for him to be briefed

on some of the more disturbing

and interesting incidents that we've

most recently had out on the... on the property.

- Great. - JIM: Yeah, thank you so much.

- Appreciate your time. Thanks very much. - Glad you're here.

TRAVIS: The fact that our activities

at Skinwalker Ranch have merited the attention

of the state's attorney generl

shows me how seriously the state of Utah is taking

everything that we're doing out there.

I mean, let's face it, if just some of our suspicions

turn out to be correct,

the national security implications could be huge.

Thanks very much.

Brandon's been keeping me updated.

Because you all shepherd

the public now in a much more visible way

into the exploration

of what Skinwalker Ranch represents.

- Yeah. - And, um,

on behalf of the citizens of the state of Utah,

I think it'd be important that this isn't viewed

as just, you know, this mysterious project

that these outsiders are conducting.

These are important issues for our state.

I'm happy to be a part of it.

I'm honored that you all

would brief me and let me participate.

So thank you all, each and every one of you.

- Appreciate it. - Thank you. - Thank you.

You know, as we come back together after a month,

I thought it was important to evaluate the events

that happened on that ranch.

- Yeah. - Because now you have hard data

- Right. - that helps us hopefully understand

what is at play at Skinwalker Ranch.

- Right. - ERIK: There's so many points here,

very good important points, for us to discuss,

and, really, sifting information,

trying to understand, you know, what is significant

and what may just be coincidental.

And also, if there are connections,

what are they?

Well, what have you taken from the events

that have occurred over the last few months?

Let's take this recent

disturbing incident with the cow.

The cow died, and we have, at the time of it dying,

measured strange microwave activity.

- He was getting gammas. - Yeah, and microwaves.

TRAVIS: Hey, y'all?

I'd recommend not to touch it

till we see if it's radioactive or not.

THOMAS: No sign of trauma.

TRAVIS: What in the world?

There's no cat tracks, there's no sign of struggle.

- Middle of the day. - It's just dead.

Jim, are you seeing anything on the spectrum analyzer?

I'm getting some pretty high spikes.

TRAVIS: Oh, wow!

Look at... the meter's going crazy.

My phone starts freaking out whenever your TriField goes off.

I don't have any control over my phone right now.

TRAVIS: Dude, look at that.

SEGALA: We had an actual autopsy done

by a veterinarian, a local veterinarian, and...

what they found out is that it died of pneumonia

brought on by stress.

BRANDON: What we did record is, we did record

some anomalous object

in the sky above the cow before it died

that it was reacting to.

So you have a biosensor,

in essence, that reacted immediately to the event.

- Absolutely. - Something scared it to death.

- TRAVIS: That's a really good way to put it. - Yep.

- Something scared it to death. - THOMAS: It gets even stranger,

because after this cow died, we do what most ranchers do,

and you drag it off to a corner, and you let the body decompose.

- And let the-the scavengers... - And-and yeah,

and the typical thing is, the coyotes

and the scavengers come in,

and they pick it clean. I was just up there a week ago,

on a patrol, and I went over there where that cow's at,

and it has not been touched.

To this day, not a single scavenger has touched that cow.

SEAN: Highly irregular.

TRAVIS: One of my graduate students

grew up working on a cattle farm in Alabama,

and he told me that if lightning ever struck one of the cows,

that the predators

would not eat it.

Maybe something happened to this cow.

We know it wasn't struck by lightning,

'cause there was no storms at the time.

But we did measure really high microwaves.

And maybe whatever these signals are

is affecting this cow in such a way that it tainted it.

And it's still sitting there.

No... nothing has touched it.

So there's something to that.

And there was another day where

we were launching rockets, for example, when...

suddenly we see so many phenomena

across so many different regimes of measurement.

While we were launching these rockets,

the entire herd of about 40 cows

come over to the area where we are.

You might think that they would be, um...

- Skittish. - ...frightened of our activity.

You'd think they'd go away from us.

Instead, during that activity,

we watched the cattle come

- to the east field. - Actually,

- they didn't come, they ran. - Well, that was exactly the point.

- They ran. - And...

some of them behaved as if they were in a panic.

It was nearly stampeding behavior.

Yeah, yeah.

SEGALA: Look at the cows.

That is the strangest thing.

- (cows bellowing) - BRYANT: Never seen that before.

SEGALA: They all grouped together

so tight, they started fighting.

THOMAS: They started to fight among each other,

head-butting each other, they were mooing, they were...

BRYANT: I thought they were gonna take down the east fence.

Something that gave them more concern

than the sound of the rockets.

TRAVIS: Well, and it's at the same time

that the unidentified aerial phenomena

- start appearing in the sky. - Really?

TRAVIS: Ignition!

Look, look, look, look!

- What is that? - We got something. Hold on.

THOMAS: Oh, wait, wait, it's a plane, I think.

TRAVIS: No, that wasn't a plane.

- Oh, there it is again! - There it is again!

THOMAS: It's gone.

SEAN: It's one thing to have

a light in the night or some random sighting,

but when livestock start to literally fall over...

It's not unheard of to have them die from time to time,

but not under these kinds of circumstances,

not with this many questions.

Or, our bigger concern, uh, beyond livestock,

when this starts to potentially impact human beings.

BRANDON: Yes.

You found out firsthand,

surprisingly, how dangerous this ranch can be.

TRAVIS: Absolutely. While we were out there,

we were in a... in a cave, and, uh,

I was exposed to something that made me, uh, nearly pass out.

TRAVIS: Let me ask a question, guys.

- Do any of y'all feel a little swimmy-headed at all? - ERIK: You feeling it?

TRAVIS: I don't know. Slightly, I felt

like I was not holding my balance well

for a second there-that's why I put my hand over on the rock.

And I'm feeling it now, too.

TRAVIS: And then, a few days later,

I was exposed to a fairly high dose of gamma ray radiation.

Heck, it could be a tunnel entrance for all we know.

I'd like to know what's in this thing.

Don't lift it up.

TRAVIS: I feel like, uh,

I got a little bit of a headache or something happening.

- Holy... Mine's beeping. - SEGALA: Your total dose

- is way up there. - Oh, my God.

We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.

So, did you end up going to the hospital

- as a result of these injuries? - TRAVIS: Yes.

I had surgery as a result of those injuries.

TRAVIS: Maybe a week, maybe two weeks at most,

after I got exposed to the radiation,

I started getting a knot forming here, a bump,

coming out of my knuckle there.

And then another bump started forming.

And on into the summer,

it kept getting bigger and bigger and started hurting.

That's... that's nasty, man.

So then I went and had it X-rayed,

and my doctor looked at it, and he says, "Well, uh,

you've got two bone spurs in there."

They said, "Well, you're gonna have to have it removed,

'cause it's just gonna keep getting bigger and worse."

And so they went in, and they took out a cyst

that was almost as big as an M&M.

There was, like, 18 stitches in there.

JIM: Mm, that's unreal.

And, uh, and it still feels like it's a broken finger.

It's still a little bit painful, but it's,

you know, it's healing fine.

Wow.

TRAVIS: I believe that whatever

this phenomena is that we've measured,

every time we've measured it,

we do get high energy levels and microwaves,

and we've measured gamma rays.

And so it's possible that whatever this is

that's occurring is what's causing the injuries.

But you're not the only one, right?

- Mr. Winterton had... - Thomas had... serious ones, yeah.

I know, at least for my injury,

and-and if I'm under the correct understanding

of some of the other injuries, they couldn't explain it away.

- That's what... - That particular one, they couldn't.

They never came to conclusion of what caused it,

and they couldn't find what it was.

- TRAVIS: Right. - Yep. - BRYANT: Well,

to your point, Thomas, too,

when you talk about ranching injuries,

we're not talking about broken bones and smashed hands.

We're talking about radiation exposure.

The injuries that Tom Winterton experienced back two years ago

were of the nature that he had a neurological episode,

and he had a big swelling in the back of his head.

And his injuries was consistent with a radiation beam

that entered his body from a specific angle,

back behind his head.

So Thomas's injury

really reinforces that this ranch could be very dangerous.

Somehow, all of this is coupled; we just don't know how.

Yeah.

ERIK: Obviously, we're experiencing things

of a subjective nature.

Something in our physiology is responding

to something on the property,

- Yeah. - but we also see...

devices of many different kinds malfunctioning on the ranch.

We're talking about the,

uh, disruption of a handheld or a mobile device.

- Like the phones, right? - Right.

My phone's freaking out.

It's just been doing this for the last,

you know, couple minutes.

I just ran up here so you could see it.

It was in my contacts, it tried calling a couple people,

and then it's been messing around in my camera.

Dude, that is crazy.

ERIK: We are continuously dealing

with some kind of interference that takes our systems down.

And it's not one type of device; it's many kinds of devices.

- Right. - Uh, you know,

very often batteries are... are discharged,

- Yeah. - or things don't work correctly.

Yeah.

PHIL: Oh, my gosh.

I completely charged these four batteries

last evening, and now they're into the yellow section.

ERIK: When have you seen that before?

I quite frankly have not seen that before.

TRAVIS: You name it,

if it had electronics in it, somehow or other,

it malfunctioned while we were out there this summer.

It either turned itself off, uh, it w-just wouldn't function.

Its electronic control software didn't work.

We had drones that worked fine one second,

then move it ten feet over and it wouldn't work at all.

DERRICK: All right, let's do this.

No connection.

TRAVIS: Huh, that's weird.

DERRICK: Yeah, I'm not connecting to the remote.

I don't know what's happening with it.

T- That makes no sense.

I don't think this is a coincidence.

I think what happened is that because we were all there,

we were concentrated, we were doing experiments

on a daily basis...

Look, it is going nuts.

It's coming from up there.

And we were doing lots of experiments that no one

has ever really done on the ranch.

Oh, you see that? Look, look, look.

SEGALA: That caused the entity, the phenomena,

whatever you want to call it, to actually show itself

on a more frequent basis.

THOMAS: That's a definite beam.

It is clearly a beam going across there.

What we're seeing might not just be

the reactions of the phenomena.

The phenomena might actually be trying to tell us something

or show us something or lead us to something.

As you've seen unidentified aerial phenomena

appear simultaneous with other events,

does that constitute contact?

So, we didn't, as far as I can tell, try and talk back to them,

but we don't know that we didn't.

We were launching rockets, for example,

when, uh, a lot of them appeared over us.

- Right. - Yeah.

TRAVIS: After having a month to reflect on, uh,

all the things we did,

the one thing that I just can't seem to, uh,

quit thinking about, really,

is while we were launching those rockets,

we had all these experiences,

saw all these UFOs appearing in the sky.

- THOMAS: Look, look, look! - ERIK: What is that?

TRAVIS: And we measured it with all these instruments.

I wonder, were we communicating with whatever

this phenomenon is by launching these rockets and it said,

"Hey, we're here," and they said, "Hey," back?

- Oh, there it is again! - There it is again!

- It's still in the same spot. - BRYANT: Right there.

There's some communication possibly taking place

in response to the experiments that you launched.

- Right. - ERIK: And also,

if there are connections, what are they?

Are we intelligent enough, are we intuitive enough, perhaps,

to-to understand if, in fact, we're being communicated with?

- Yep. - Do any of the things that we've observed

constitute communication?

Well, there's absolutely no disputing the fact

that we launched rockets, phenomena occurred.

I mean, within seconds and minutes of each other.

It would be interesting to say it's just serendipitous,

but never before on the ranch

have you guys reported a- this much activity at one time.

JIM: Not to this level.

- It's unexplainable. - Yep.

SEGALA: We've never had physical evidence

that we actually saw with our own eyes.

We've never had recorded, electronically recorded data

that we took with instruments. I mean, this is amazing.

- Yeah. - SEAN: And for those of us who look at

- a lot of evidence, that's the most credible type of evidence. - Yep.

The stuff that's happening right in front of your eyes, right?

No-no chance for someone's memory to-to fade or to distort,

um, so that's im- that's impressive.

TRAVIS: So-so, what it tells us is,

by-without- beyond a shadow of a doubt,

there is some phenomena occurring

and we have measured the phenomena.

The phenomena is real.

Now the question is: what is this phenomena?

- Fascinating. - SEGALA: So,

technologically now, we've advanced this whole thing,

very, very high- to a high level.

Which means that we can take the next level.

- Right. - Why can't we communicate with them?

So, now that brings up all these moral issues,

that falls on your shoulders.

TRAVIS: Whatever these are,

are saying, "Hey."

Do we have permission to say hi back?

- Yeah. - SEAN: There are government agencies

and divisions for interactions.

Uh, we had them when we flew to the Moon.

We had to prepare just in case,

even in a one in a million chance

that we made first contact.

How do we interact? Who's gonna interact?

What-What's the message?

- Yeah, what are the protocols? - Yeah, that's right.

- That's it. Exactly. - Right.

Maybe that's what we do, is just follow, uh,

what's in that particular guidance.

Yeah.

- Right. - ERIK: You know, as I've been listening,

you know, my head is swimming with-with ideas

about what it all means.

Do you have something you'd like to share

and illustrate for us?

I do have something, if we're ready for that.

ERIK: Recently, I've been preparing,

I guess, we'll call it a model

prompted by, uh, measurements of RF,

in particular microwave frequencies,

we've observed this summer.

For example, if there were a source

projecting energy downward, towards the ground,

then what we see in the model represents how

it would be reflected by the terrain into the space above.

TRAVIS: One of our theories is

that the Uinta Basin looks like a very large, uh, radio antenna.

It's a-a dish, 'cause it's shaped

- parabolically. - Right.

TRAVIS: And so, if that's the case,

whatever these weird signals we're seeing,

they're bouncing off of it and being focused to somewhere,

just like a dish focuses the energy.

ERIK: So, Attorney General Reyes,

what we're doing is we're-we're fleshing out a hypothesis.

Okay?

We have some measurements.

We have some data that are very suggestive,

that maybe what Travis just described

is relevant somehow to what's going on.

And so, to visualize that problem,

I decided to build this model.

So, what I'd like to do is to share

some of the results of the modeling.

So, the data that we used to build this model comes from

the United States Geologic Survey.

This is terrain data that tells us what the lay of the land is.

And we plugged that into the model

and then turn it into a reflector.

So we should all recognize this geography.

- BRANDON: Wow. - That's awesome.

ERIK: So we're going to focus on

the things that may happen that intersect

with the ranch property.

We are located

where you see that graphic.

TRAVIS: Right-Almost dead center.

ERIK: Yes.

So, what I did was construct a...

60,000-square-kilometer mirror.

And then producing a line

of what you just described as radiation coming down

from above, okay?

So, we're going to look at how those rays,

uh, interact with and reflect from this surface,

which is what this next visual shows us.

- BRANDON: Wow. - JIM: Geez, Louise.

ERIK: This represents measurements

of microwave frequencies that we had in the summer.

We are looking at

parallel rays of energy coming down from above.

Primarily for long wavelengths,

not necessarily visible light.

- BRYANT: Incredible. It's really cool. - Yeah.

If you'll look at the ones right in the center,

they're being focused.

And the ones at the edge,

you can see there is a significant focus,

where these things are being brought to a point

and there's mu- a big concentration of energy

up here somewhere.

If you think about it, that is amazing.

Erik, this is so cool.

Impressive.

TRAVIS: Based on Erik's visualization,

I believe that the Uinta Basin

could be acting almost like a satellite dish,

one that both collects

and directs energy from somewhere out in space.

Big question.

What could be causing this energy?

TRAVIS: That's the big question.

That is the question of the day.

TRAVIS: So, there's two possibilities.

Right now, we're thinking, "Okay, it's a-

it's a- it's a reflective dish."

And so maybe the energy's coming from space

and it hits and it's being focused up. Or...

the other possibility is

this could be acting like a lens and not just a dish.

The source could be down here, inside the Earth,

and coming up through it and focusing.

But to what end, we don't know.

And-and we've got to come up with other measurements

to figure out where the energy's coming from.

Hmm.

BRYANT: So, we've had the debate of whether

it's below the Earth or coming from above. I mean,

it could be a combination of the two.

Absolutely. I agree. I agree 100%.

There's a source and a destination,

- whether, you know... - Yeah. Yeah, there's-

One of them's a-There's a source and-and to what end.

We got to find out where they're coming from.

Yeah.

ERIK: Now, this also reminds me

of something that-

what I found kind of troubling during the summer.

You recall, you did an exercise

where you seemingly located a source,

uh, a concentration of signals,

uh, fairly low.

At about 5,000 feet. And I was just thinking about that.

ERIK: Right, and could you point

in the-in the vicinity of where you think that was?

TRAVIS: Yeah.

So, right in here,

you can see there is some convergence right there.

There was a local focus,

and we launched a weather balloon with radio frequency

and microwave instruments on it.

And when it got to about that height,

the instruments started failing.

You guys ready?

- Yep, we're good. - Yep. Good to go.

TRAVIS: All right, here we go.

All right, slowly let it up.

All right, keep going. You're good.

- THOMAS: Okay, we're clear. - TRAVIS: All right.

THOMAS: Man, that's a big balloon.

Yeah, ain't that cool?

THOMAS: Man, that's a long ways up.

TRAVIS: Heck yeah.

It failed right there,

which suggests maybe the power was so high

that it burned out the instruments.

Wow.

BRYANT: And whether it's just bad luck or not,

we never recovered the balloon, even.

- SEAN: Interesting. - BRANDON: You never recovered

- the balloon? - BRYANT: No. No.

TRAVIS: And we had GPS trackers on it.

So, you lost it. When it hit that point,

all of the instruments failed?

All the other instruments failed.

What?

Wow.

TRAVIS: You know, it's really intriguing

and, um, actually kind of startling a little bit

is I've been contacted by, uh,

some folks in the intelligence community

that are really interested in what we've found.

BRYANT: So,

is it they approached you?

How have they heard about...

They approached us.

Wow. So we're being monitored?

Yep.

So we're being monitored?

There are people interested in what we are doing.

I find that really intriguing.

They're gonna tell us something, I don't know what.

But my suspicion is they've measured a similar phenomenon,

don't know what it is, and they want to compare notes.

And I find that really intriguing.

It's very strange.

Hmm.

So what this tells us though is

there are real government organizations,

who are interested in this phenomena

and-and are taking it seriously.

BRANDON: Wow.

TRAVIS: After being contacted

by representatives of the government,

including some folks in the intelligence community,

it was clear to me that someone had

been following our progress on the ranch.

THOMAS: Look at that-what is that?

- There's a helicopter right up there. - Yeah, sure is.

THOMAS: You can hear it.

TRAVIS: That dude's hovering right there.

I think somebody's watching us right now.

That's exactly what it looks like.

TRAVIS: I think they're-they're watching us, guys.

ERIK: So, guys, I'm gonna try to go in,

and look at the transponder data.

See if I can figure out who it is.

Yeah, that's a good idea, Erik.

They should by law, right, be transponding.

What we got, Erik?

They didn't show up at all.

BRYANT: So do you have a fear

that there's the possibility of them shutting us down or...?

- TRAVIS: No, you know... - I don't think so, I think it's

more they're gonna encourage us to go in a direction.

But do they want

the world to know what's happening?

They won't tell anybody.

They may not, but, I mean...

I doubt they will acknowledge that they

ever had the meeting with us.

Uh, but they will know

what we know at that point.

Yeah, the fact that we're being monitored,

that our efforts have received a higher level

of attention and awareness within those channels,

I think speaks to the reality of this ranch.

Absolutely, I agree.

I agree 100%.

BRANDON: As we have obtained

all of this data and evidence,

I think now

it is our responsibility to take this forward.

But I'd like to hear

from the team, you know,

what do we need to implement

that will help us advance this research

to the next level?

ERIK: So, naturally, I'm interested

in increasing our instrumentation bandwidth.

Our virtual presence on the property.

I mean, we can't always be present.

At the same time, I have a feeling-

more than a feeling- I have the data

that suggests that there are things taking place

all the time that are part of this puzzle,

and we want to collect as much of that as possible.

BRYANT: That's a great idea.

TRAVIS: So another experiment that we really should do,

also, is that we should design

and construct a very good, small satellite platform

that we can get launched as a secondary payload,

uh, pretty much for free- NASA has projects-

especially if we involve a university.

They'll launch it for you for free.

You don't have to pay to get it launched.

And-and we would put it in an orbit

that goes over the ranch.

BRANDON: Wow.

TRAVIS: And so that we would

continually get data from it.

Wow.

TRAVIS: I want to try and

reproduce stimulating the phenomenon.

Like the rocket test day, where we were

doing measurements with the rockets,

and then, suddenly, we see so many phenomena.

I want to see if we can reproduce that.

Thomas has-has said before, maybe the ranch

gets immune to it and we have to bring it up a notch each time.

You know, do we do twice as many rockets the next time?

Or do we do one bigger rocket?

- That is something we should really look at. - Right.

SEGALA: So what I would propose,

I think that it's important that we have a medical program

with protocols in place before anybody

steps back on that ranch in a significant way.

BRANDON: Yeah, health and safety

is going to be important, especially given the fact that

Tom and Travis

both went to the hospital as a result

of the activities over the last few months.

TRAVIS: It would've been great to have had

my vitals and all that

being recorded when the dosimeter went off,

and said I was exposed to radiation.

SEGALA: There is something going on.

It seems to emanate from the ground.

How can we learn more about it?

TRAVIS: That's what I want to know-how can we get

a really deep core sample?

Like, like, can we dig really, really, really deep?

BRYANT: How do you feel about

doing that digging, though, or would you want to hire somebody?

Because even when we did the core drilling,

you know, you chose to position yourself away.

And you're the one that has suffered

the ramifications of the digging

and this goes way back to what we talked about

when we first began this exercise.

I don't want to put you in harm's way.

YANT: How do you feel about doing that digging?

I don't want to put you in harm's way.

I don't want you to feel like you're pushed into that.

THOMAS: Well, the points

that we identified are not that deep.

They're not that far down.

15, 20 feet is not a big deal.

I'm just gonna wear my tinfoil hard hat.

(laughter)

THOMAS: I do have a lot of people around me

that think, without a doubt,

my injury was tied to the digging.

Well, it's not conclusive that it was the digging.

So that's why there's part of me that said,

"Yeah, I would, I'd just be very cautious."

I have a question for you guys, though.

For the first time since you've owned the ranch,

this is the largest group of people to be on that ranch.

And I know, you know, you were,

you were giving me a hard time at the beginning

'cause you said it's almost like

you guys talk as if this ranch has a personality.

Because we talked about how when you introduce...

- It responds, yeah. - ...somebody new, the ranch responds.

- It's not a person. - It's a place, it's not a, it's not a, an entity.

But it responded.

- Yeah. - I have to tell you guys,

when Brandon first invited me in,

the first day I came in here,

I honestly didn't know what to expect.

But I didn't think you guys were really onto

what you were onto because I don't believe

99% of the things that people claim they've seen, right?

I think this is in that one percent

of the unexplainable weirdness- the "what is it?"

And now we've

got indisputable evidence

that there is a real phenomenon that's happening

that is unexplainable.

Whatever you want to call it.

High strangeness?

It's real and it's there.

And I think the ramifications of it is world-changing.

Agreed.

And I'll tell you what I told you

when we started on this adventure.

I truly believe now more than ever,

if this ranch can help us better understand

the nature of the universe,

and perhaps confirm that we're not alone,

this will indeed be

the greatest science project and endeavor of all time.

- Right. - And...

as we move forward and take next steps,

we appreciate you coming in and spending the time.

Well, you have my personal interest, Brandon.

And I just want to make sure you all understand,

I take this very seriously.

And so, as you all continue

to validate, replicate, uh...

and investigate, uh, even more, I am anxious to see

what the next... step brings.

And I think that only helps the entire state.

- So thanks very much. - Thank you very much.

- We appreciate that endorsement. - BRANDON: Thank you.

We'll continue to keep you informed,

as to what we continue to observe.

And, ultimately, what we discover as we move forward.

- Let's go. - BRANDON: Thank you, gentlemen.

Great, looking forward to it.

BRANDON: Given the extraordinary events that have been observed

and recorded over the last several months,

I believe that we

have a responsibility to take this forward

in a, in a more aggressive fashion.

It's not a matter of if

something is going to happen.

It's a matter of when that will happen

and if we are truly prepared.

- There it is! - There it is again.

It is clearly a beam.

SEGALA: This was an amazing summer.

Ignition!

I think the pinnacle

was that we actually saw UFOs.

- Look, look, look! - What is that?

Now that we know exactly what they look like

in the sky, we can start tracking these things.

We can actually set up a system

that can communicate with them

in some regard, by sending them signals

to see if they respond.

- There it is again! - SEGALA: That would be

the next step in this evolution of trying

to figure out what they are doing here,

and why they picked this ranch

or this area to do it.

BRYANT: When I first came to the ranch,

I was kind of an agnostic, when it came to the place.

It's not that I didn't believe that things were happening,

but they sounded pretty amazing and outlandish to me.

Oh-oh, right here, over here!

- Right there. - That's it.

But after experiencing what I did this summer,

there's no doubt in my mind that there's a phenomenon

or something taking place there

that has completely shaken my understanding

on what reality really is.

You got to see a UFO, dude.

Dumbfounded, yeah, it's crazy.

As we move forward, I think that we could really

uncover something that could

make people like myself see the world differently.

Tom, you all right?

Well, let's get you the heck out of here, man.

THOMAS: Well, as they say,

we've opened up a can.

And we have just begun

to scratch the surface of what's happening here.

For every answer that we're getting in our investigation,

we're creating ten more questions.

What in the world? It's just dead.

THOMAS: And who knows

what crazy and amazing things are in store.

- Audio beacon is on. - Let it rip.

Ain't that cool.

It's absolutely inconceivable...

- Oh! - ...the amount of things

that we experienced and saw and measured over the summer.

This looks like there's something a thousand feet long.

We have indisputable proof that there is an unusual phenomenon

that is not a normal occurrence.

I'm excited about it.

I can't wait to go back and do more experiments.

I can't wait to see what is out there.

Skinwalker Ranch may hold secrets to the universe

that we've yet to uncover.

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