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there really is a cave system
beneath this ranch.

TRAVIS:
This is the hole
you was talking about?

THOMAS:
Yeah. We're gonna fill it
with water

and put some dye in it.

TRAVIS:
It's draining quickly.
You guys need to get out there

and start looking
for this stuff.

I don't see any green water.

We saw 45,000 gallons
of water disappear.

It must be going
somewhere rapidly.

Yeah, I think that
it's time that we need

to get below the ground.

Every time that someone

does a major digging
on this property,

then bad things happen.

You guys should take a look
at Kaleb's phone.

I don't have
any control over it.

It just goes
right past my passcode.

Something here
is crying out for help.

KALEB:
Or is it giving us a warning?

TRAVIS:
A little more than eight hours

after digging down at the pit,
this rectangular-shaped object

instantly vanished.

It was right there. Something
yellow and goldish color.

That scared the (bleep)
out of me.

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.

BRANDON (over phone):
Hey, Dragon. What's going on?

BRYANT:
We had some crazy stuff go down

that we all want
to share with you.

Hey, Brandon.
It's Travis, uh, and, uh, Kaleb

and the other guys j--
are just gonna jump in

as we go through the story.

But just after dark,

-Kaleb actually heard something
in the bushes.
-Mm-hmm.

Like, uh, very near to us,

and it startled him enough
that he jumped up.

-Kaleb you want to...?
-I drew my pistol out

and I turned on--
the flashlight on,

and I started looking--
going in the direction

of where I was hearing this,
and it was behind

that old trailer
and the-the canal bank there.

TRAVIS: Right as we got even
with the trailer,

uh, there was something
that was rectangular-shaped,

and it was shimmering
yellowish-orange,

and when Kaleb shined
his light on it,

it instantly vanished.

It didn't run off
through the weeds,

it didn't fly off,
it didn't go through the ground,

it didn't get in the creek.

It just, I mean, just--
suddenly it was there

and suddenly it wasn't.

KALEB:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
There was this unmistakable

rectangular-shaped object

that was--
may have been about two

to two and a half feet
in length,

and maybe a foot or so
in height.

And as Kaleb brings his pistol
fully on the target,

it's like the light
comes back at us

like it was off of a mirror.

And then the thing
instantly vanished.

I find it interesting
that an object could be

that close, right inside,

close here
to the command center,

where we've got so many cameras,
and we didn't pick anything up.

It was scary as hell.

And while we were walking
back to the command center,

I say, "Okay, guys,
I'm going to go ahead

and turn my video off."
Within seconds

of me saying that,
something flies across the sky

uh, the southern--
looking due south,

over the command center porch.

And something flies across
the sky, and I'm like,

"Oh, my God,
did y'all see that?"

ERIK:
Yeah, we, uh,

looking-looking to the south,

uh, from the east field,
we caught several frames

of this thing
streaking across the sky.

TRAVIS:
At first glance you might think

it's a-a meteorite
or a shooting star.

Erik and I looked at it closely,

and it kind of has
a different trajectory.

It's going more...
almost perfectly horizontal,

uh, as opposed to coming down
like a meteorite does

when it's, when it's on
a trajectory impact course

with the Earth.

Maybe that's a telltale sign
that it's not a meteorite.

ERIK:
Sure.

Well, I would say
that we need to emphasize

on finding out
a way to get more data

on whatever this terrestrial
ground phenomena was,

that we saw.

If it's a thing in a suit,
we need to know that.

If it's a, uh,
some Mother Nature phenomenon,

we need to know that.

So, it could have been something
that was humanoid,

but we didn't see any arms,
legs, head, nothing.

All we saw was a rectangular,

shimmering
yellow-orange-ish phenomenon.

All we can say is

we felt in fear.

We felt threatened,
we felt we were in danger,

and that's what we got
to think about.

I think we've always suspected

that we're being monitored.

You know, happening upon
strange objects and phenomena

really speaks to the fact
that we're not alone

on this ranch.

-BRYANT: Ok, we'll do it.
-All right.

All right, thanks, Brandon.
We'll talk to you soon.

BRYANT: Yeah, so, I'm anxious
to get you to meet Travis.

I know that we're glad that
you'd be willing to come out

and show us some of the stuff
you found because, as you know,

it's a vast piece of property,

and trying to cover
all that area

can be a little bit daunting.

Glad to contribute to the team,

and really excited
to meet Travis.

BRANDON:
I thought it was important
that we bring in Ryan Skinner,

who has spent years researching

not only the landscape
of Skinwalker Ranch

but the surrounding area.

And he's documented in great
detail aspects of the property.

RYAN:
As a result
of exploring out here

was I became very familiar
with these mesas and hillsides.

I'd have to say the strangest
event that occurred to me was

I was out on the ranch,
a ball of light came up

over one of these hillsides

and started coming
directly towards me.

And immediately,
a feeling of terror

unlike anything I've ever
felt in my life before.

I dropped everything I had,
my expensive camera,

all of my equipment, and started
running back to the camp,

and this thing
is now trailing me.

It was real,
so I couldn't deny, I couldn't--

No matter how many times
I went back in my head,

I couldn't rationalize it away.
It really did happen.

I hope to give any kind
of help and input I can,

and I want to help solve
this mystery with the team.

-I think I know you two.
-ERIK: Ryan.

-THOMAS: Hey, Ryan.
-Hey.

-Good to see you again.
-Tom, nice seeing you again.

-ERIK: Good to see you again.
-Erik, what's going on man?

-Hey, man. Travis Taylor.
-Travis, nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you.
-What's up, guys?
-ERIK: What's up, Dragon?

THOMAS:
So, Ryan what are you
gonna show us?

RYAN:
I came across
this, uh, location.

Uh, it's up here on the mesa.

It might give us some direction
as to what's behind all this.

-Oh. Okay.
-THOMAS: Well,
let's grab the UTV

-and let's head up.
-Okay. Sounds good.

RYAN:
To me what's exciting
is the location of it.

You know, it just stood out,

and maybe it's gonna
jump out to you guys as well.

You see that big large rock
over there?

-That's where we're gonna
aim for.
-THOMAS: Okay.

TRAVIS:
So, it's on which ridge?

RYAN:
To the left of this big rock.

Right there, there's kind of
those white...

-Shapes.
-Oh, you-- the little
squiggle lines and stuff?

-Is that what
you're talking about? Huh.
-RYAN: Right. Yep.

RYAN:
I came out here a few years ago

and we did come across
a pictograph

that I couldn't interpret.

I have no idea what it meant,
but it really stood out

compared to the other rocks.

TRAVIS:
This stuff is loose, y'all.
Be careful.

RYAN:
I believe the ancient people
were aware

of whatever's happening
to us right now.

They left us clues
through their rock art

and I hope the team and myself
can contribute to that mystery

in finding out some answers.

TRAVIS:
Guys, y'all got to get
up here and see this.

THOMAS: Last summer
we had a cow that died.

No predators have touched this,
which is highly unusual.

Never seen one of those.

JANILEE:
The eyes,

the back end
of the cow were cut out.

-You witnessed this
with your own eyes?
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
How'd you find this, Ryan?

RYAN:
I've been walking all
throughout these cliffs

and looking at every-- every
rock face, looking for something

just like this,
and this one jumped out.

We're halfway up the mesa
on the northeastern corner

of Skinwalker Ranch,

and Ryan Skinner, a person
with a long history here,

has just shown us a really
interesting petroglyph

on a rock face that none of us
have ever seen before.

It looks like it may even be

a-all the way over there.

It looks like there might be
a line there.

-Are you talking this
right here?
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-TRAVIS: That right there
is where I'm thinking.
-Oh.

It pokes out-- I can't tell
if it's the rock

or if that continues on,
but it's possible.

Hey, guys.
You know what I think this is?

I think that's the Big Dipper.

This is either Cassiopeia

-or Draco.
-ERIK: Oh, wow.

TRAVIS: Dating back centuries,
this entire region

was inhabited
by indigenous people

of the Navajo
and the Ute tribes.

They were known to create
rock art such as petroglyphs

which are carved, and
pictographs, which are painted.

Now, these kinds of rock art
were typically used

to either report something

or to tell a story about
aspects of their heritage.

Now, I've been studying
outer space

for more than 35 years,
and I can't help but notice

that some of these markings
in this feature look a lot like

possible depictions
of constellations to me.

We all know the Big Dipper.

But Draco was a dragon
or a serpent creature

in Greek mythology.

So, I'm wondering,
if that's what this is,

who carved this and just what
were they trying to convey?

I don't know which one this is,

but I think it could be
a star map.

If that's north--
Look, look at this.

-There's the mesa, huh?
-It's the mesa. Look at that.

This, if you look here and
you trace all this like this,

that looks just like the mesa,
don't it?

It does, it actually has
a lot of the similarities,

even the shape.

TRAVIS:
Now we have to be very careful

not to jump to conclusions,
but suddenly,

I'm noticing that it looks
almost like someone

carved a map of the mesa
in this rock art.

Now, if that's what this is,
the question is why?

Look here. There's two spots.

Does that two spots

look like a familiar place
if this is the mesa?

BRYANT:
Oh, w-- the spot
where we had the beam

-that came up
by the homestead area?
-Yeah.

When we shined the laser
at the mesa,

that's right where
we were with the laser.

-THOMAS: You ready?
-TRAVIS: Yep.

TRAVIS: Last summer, we were
investigating a phenomenon

that has been reported where

parts of the mesa supposedly
become illuminated.

We started by shining
a laser beam at it

to see what would happen.

-There it is.
-Wait, is that--- There's two.

TRAVIS:
Look.

Do that again.

THOMAS:
How is it doing that?

TRAVIS:
That is so weird.

Then, almost immediately
afterwards,

we all witnessed
a strange glowing

across the top of the ridge.

Hey guys, we just noticed on
the screen here a second ago,

do you see the glow,
the flicker?

TRAVIS:
Yeah, it's flickering.

It's just really strange to me
to see something eerily similar

possibly being depicted
in this rock art.

Is it because whoever
made this long ago

experienced the same thing?

I-I feel like I have to ask.

So, when you happened
across this, Ryan,

what jumped out to you?

What d-- How did you interpret
this thing?

Uh, the triangle jumped out
to me a little bit.

The Shermans

on the west side of the property
would see a portal open up,

and these miniature triangles
would come out

of the portal
and go over the property.

♪ ♪

BRANDON:
The Sherman family

bought the property
in the early '90s.

It was their dream to really
farm and ranch on the property

and-and really raise
prized cattle.

The Shermans quickly found out,
unfortunately,

that, uh, they were not alone.

The Sherman family reported
all sorts of strangeness.

Anything from experiences
with giant wolf-type creatures

to their prized cattle
showing up mutilated.

They unfortunately
got chased off of this ground

by the paranormal activity

shortly after they took
possession of the ranch.

When Ryan said
the Shermans actually believed

they saw portals open
on the ranch

and strange illuminated objects
suddenly appear,

that immediately made me think

of what Kaleb and I saw
the other night.

Now, it wasn't a triangle,

but it was definitely an oddly
shaped, illuminated phenomenon

that I have
no scientific explanation for.

I can't say for sure
that there's a connection

between what this rock art
is meant to convey

and what we saw the other night,

but it does mean we have to keep
investigating and figure it out.

I wonder if there's a way
to date these things.

It could have been
10,000 years ago,

could have been 400 years ago.

But somebody drew that on there.

ERIK:
That suggests to me
we should get

a glyph expert out here
to have a look at this.

Yeah. Yeah, you don't need
a physicist up here

telling you how they did this.
You need a...

you-you need an archaeologist
or whoever does

glyphs for a living. Uh...

Ryan, this is cool, dude.
I appreciate it.

-So...
-It's enlightening to me, so...

-BRYANT: I agree.
Let's get out of here.
-Let's go.

♪ ♪

-Morning, guys.
-Hello, hello.

This is Dr. Dean Taylor.

TRAVIS: While we were arranging
for a petroglyph expert

to come out to the ranch

to examine the rock art
on the mesa,

Thomas headed up
an important investigation

related to one
of the most bizarre things

we encountered last year.

Thomas Winterton.

We decided to call in
a veterinarian

with the Utah
Department of Agriculture,

uh, Dr. Dean Taylor.

Last summer,
we had a cow that died

from rapid-onset,
stress-induced pneumonia.

TRAVIS:
What in the world?

There's no cat tracks.
There's no...

s-sign of struggle.

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

-(flies buzzing)
-It's hard to kill a cow.

-THOMAS: Look at this.
Feel-feel my phone.
-BRYANT: Look at this.

It's going vibrate to mute,
vibrate to mute like crazy.

Holy crap.

Given the history
of reported cattle mutilations

on Skinwalker Ranch,

we were all put on edge
when this otherwise normal cow

just dropped dead.

And as soon as we started
to investigate it,

Thomas Winterton's phone
started glitching

like it was being hacked.

-The meter's going nuts.
-Over there.

TRAVIS:
And out of nowhere,

we started getting
meter readings

for really high levels
of radiation all around us.

13, 14. We're at 15. 16.

THOMAS:
The day after the cow died
last year,

we were reviewing some
of the footage

and we noticed
this object up in the sky.

ERIK:
The cow is right here.

I can't help but also notice
that there's...

something happening here.

-TRAVIS: Yo. Whoa. Look at that.
-Yeah, there it is. Right there.

BRANDON:
The cow reacted

the moment
that that object appeared.

THOMAS:
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.

Cows die.

-It's part of ranching,
unfortunately.
-Right.

But the predators come in

and scavenge it
almost immediately.

And we have this particular cow
that died last year.

-Okay.
-Uh, but the strange thing is

we took the cow out
to a remote part of the property

and, uh, it sat there untouched
for almost a year.

Okay. Yeah, that is unusual.

-KALEB: Mm-hmm.
-'Cause there should be coyotes
and...

KALEB: We've got a lot
of different predators out here

-that...
-Should clean that up.

-Yeah.
-THOMAS: Well,
I'll tell you what,

I'll have you jump
in this red UTV

-and, uh, we'll head out.
-DEAN: Okay.

-All right. Sounds good.
-All right.

THOMAS:
There's something there
in this cow

that's making it undesirable.

And, uh, the birds
haven't touched it.

The predators
haven't touched it.

So, hopefully,
with Dr. Taylor coming out,

we'll be able to get
to the bottom of it.

We try to find a remote place
that's out of the way, and...

and then the predators usually
come in and take care of it.

But, uh, in this case,

as you can see, the predators
haven't done their job.

No, they haven't touched it.

Yeah, that is unusual.

You can see
that nothing's been pulling

at that.
You'd see teeth marks.

There's something about
that carcass that I don't like.

Snakes represents
two different worlds.

So it's a guardian
to the portals.

The portal is a window
into the supernatural.

haven't done their job.
THOMs

DEAN:
No, they haven't touched it.

You can see that nothing's
been pulling at that.

You'd see teeth marks.

Yeah.

Because this cow
hasn't been touched for a year,

we decided to call in
Dr. Dean Taylor.

So, hopefully, we'll be able

to get to the bottom
and identify why it is

that-that, uh, these predators
haven't wanted to eat this cow.

DEAN: Even if there's still
quite a bit of the carcass left,

you'll still find
loose rib bones.

But the bones are laying
right where you dropped them.

Had the predators
just come in and-and did

what they usually do,
which is pick it over clean

-and, within a week, you can't
tell that she was here, right?
-Right.

-And scatter the bones all over.
-Had they done that,

then it would have been
case closed.

But nothing touched her.

KALEB:
She-she was perfect...

perfectly fine,
as-as far as we knew,

-up to that point.
-DEAN: Okay.

Did any other cows
get sick after?

-No.
-No. In fact, they were all
at the other end of the field.

Ignition.

Last year, shortly before

this cow dropped dead
near the command center,

we were launching rockets,

attempting to measure
some electromagnetic anomalies

we detected
high above the ranch.

SEGALA:
Look at the cows.

-BRYANT: Never seen that before.
-(mooing)

TRAVIS:
Suddenly, the cows
all began bunching up.

Clearly, they were spooked.

And then something
even stranger happened.

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

TRAVIS:
We saw two different
unidentified objects

suddenly appear over the ranch.

They made
incredible aerodynamic moves

and then they just disappeared.

It's gone.

TRAVIS:
Not long after,

this cow died
right in the same area

and at the same time

as another UFO appeared
right above it in the sky.

So now that nothing
has touched this carcass since,

I'm wondering if all these
events are related in some way,

including what we saw
the other night.

DEAN:
The thing
that doesn't really fit

is the sudden death.

There's not...

that many things that
would cause that cow to be good

in the morning
and dead in the afternoon.

Even if it was
a rapid death from pneumonia,

I would expect that cow
to be standing off, uh,

open-mouth breathing,
uh, coughing.

With pneumonia, usually,
you're gonna have

a pretty clear indication
that that's the case.

TOM:
Now, what about specifically

a cow that doesn't...

you know, decompose right or...?

Never seen one of those.

-I'll be honest.
-KANDUS: So, the effect
of an acute pneumonia

-wouldn't be the reason...
-No.

-something wouldn't eat
this cow.
-No.

In fact, predators
probably would seek them out.

-Yeah.
-And-and that was
another one of 'em, was--

-that I noticed--
was no insects.
-Yeah.

DEAN:
There's something
about that carcass

that I don't like.

All of the entrails, uh,

are still with--
inside the body cavity,

and I don't know
what would cause animals

not to touch this cow
in a year's time.

I think I'd like to take
a sample of that hind leg

-right there,
where it's-it's still got
-THOMAS: Okay.

some covering around it
with the skin.

Looking at this animal,
there isn't

really anything that is gonna
say, "This animal died of this."

So, we're gonna sample
what we have available.

-I'm all right there, Doctor?
-Yeah. That'll be perfect.

DEAN:
So, hopefully,
with the lab diagnostics,

we can find something up there

to send us down a path
at least.

TOM:
Thanks, Dr. Taylor.

-Is this him here?
-Yup.
-Yeah.

-ERIK: Alan.
-Hey.

-Erik, how are you?
-Doing great. How are you?

-Good.
-Welcome to the ranch.

-Hey. Travis Taylor.
-Travis.

TRAVIS: Erik has invited
Dr. Alan Garfinkel

to come out to the ranch
to examine the petroglyph

that Ryan Skinner showed us

on the side of the mesa
a couple of days ago.

Now, we're all hoping
that he can shed some light

on whether or not these carved
images might be important clues

about the phenomena that we've
recently experienced out here.

So, you guys know Alan is
an archeologist, anthropologist,

and a petroglyphs expert.

And so we're going
to go out and take a look

at some of the things
we have on the ranch

-not far from where we stand.
-Honored. Love to see them.

I've been working
in the field of ethnography

and rock art studies
for 40 years.

My efforts and expertise
are on the desert west,

specifically the Great Basin,

and about the indigenous people
of the Great Basin.

Well, let's show him
some adventure, Erik.

Let's see some adventure.

ALAN:
I knew there was a lot

of supernatural activities

that have been identified
here at the ranch.

And I also understand that part
of my responsibilities are

to see how that rock art
and see how these images

and those features might have
interfingered with this

paranormal
or supernatural realm.

So, this is it?

-KANDUS: Yup. Here we are.
-ALAN: Okay.

ALAN:
Well, look at this place.

We're kind of in an amphitheater
here, aren't we?

Check this out.

(clap echoing)

-You hear that echo?
-Yeah. Sure.

Yeah. That's one of the reasons
that, uh, this area

might have been chosen to have
rock art-- because it echoes.

When I approached the location,
I immediately noticed

that it was an echo-phonic area.

The echoes would
come back to me.

Native people look
at that and say, "Ah-ha.

Here is an area of magic,
of power, of the supernatural."

-Hmm.
-It's part of the
archeo-acoustics,

-or acoustic archeology.
-I see.

And the stones are talking,

so it's communicating with us.

TRAVIS:
It's really interesting to me
how Dr. Garfinkel made

the observation
that this particular location

may have been chosen
because of the acoustics.

But the real question is,
could it have been chosen

for something more than that?

We all have our opinion
about what that is,

what it means
and what it tells.

We'd love to hear what your take
on it is without us tainting it.

-Great. Can we wander?
-TOM: Absolutely.

Interesting. Wow.

Little bit of eye candy, huh?

So, what I'm looking at
is these curves.

This is part of this
"desert varnish"

as it's called,
this blackened surface,

and it's-it's formed from water,

wind, air, sun,

and it gets darker
and darker and darker.

TRAVIS:
Then what do they use

to remove it? What is the...

-Is it an acid, or they rub it?
-No.

They usually have
a quartz hammer stone.

TRAVIS:
Ah, okay.

Now can you see pecking
happening here?

Yes. You can see if you look
very, very closely.

You can see that
this has been pecked

and incised into the rock.

But what I'm looking at
is these curves.

It's a metaphor
for a serpent or a snake.

For the Euto-Aztek people,

hailing from the Aztecs,
etcetera,

we're talking about an animal

that is a metaphor or a symbol

of life and death.

Snakes represents
two different worlds,

so it's a guardian
to the portals.

The portal is a window
into the supernatural.

He just took it upon himself
to investigate these sightings.

-There's something to this.
-JANILEE: The eyes,

the back end of the cow were

-cut out.
-You witnessed this
with your own eyes?

Yeah, right here at the ranch.

into the supernatural.
w

That right there is-is, uh...
is very interesting,

and I don't know if you'd say
important to our investigation,

but there is a lot
of mythos and legend

about portals opening up around
here for hundreds of years.

I mean, that's exactly
what this is saying.

Native people would
produce images like this,

and they would mirror
their cosmology.

They'd mirror their worldview.

And so, if they have
a belief about a portal,

if they have a belief about
the heavens and the Earth,

this could be memorialized
in the rock drawing.

TRAVIS:
If this glyph really
is a depiction

of a portal that was carved by
native people a long time ago,

my questions are,
why did they believe that?

And could it not only
help get us closer

to an explanation of what
we're dealing with,

but could it also
explain the things

that have frightened people
off this ranch

for more than a century?

The natural feature of the rock

is almost the same shape
as the mesa,

and I have hypothesized

that these are star patterns,
rising or setting

or what have you, at certain
times of the year over the mesa.

Right, there is a thing
called "asterisms,"

and so, within the rock art,

within the petroglyphs,
they depict

the celestial bodies
and the horizon.

And so, very commonly,

there are certain star patterns

and certain stars
that would be very significant.

What it actually does align
with, and I have looked at it...

-Yeah. Of course.
-And you know,
I am an astronomer.

-And, uh, this snake pattern
at the top...
-Yes.

-...looks just like
the constellation Draco...
-Okay.

-...which is a dragon
or a serpent.
-There you go.

BRYANT:
There are a lot of strange

and interesting things happening
on this ranch.

But seeing this pictograph
or this petroglyph, and

given all the stories and the
history of what have been called

"portals" opening up here
at Skinwalker Ranch,

it really has us all
taking a step back

and wondering what in the heck
really was going on

way back when on this property.

You know, this gives us a lot
of things to think about.

We really appreciate you
coming out and talking with us.

ALAN:
Thank you so much.

TRAVIS:
Hey, there's Jim.

He's got somebody with him.

-JIM: Hey, guys. How you doing?
-Hey, Jim.

I've got the lovely
Hicks family here.

Oh, hey.

While we await the lab results
that will hopefully help explain

why the cow carcass
on the ranch has gone untouched

by predators for nearly a year,

Jim Morse has brought the family

of Junior Hicks out
to meet with us.

I would love for you
to come on over and chat

-and get better acquainted.
-BRYANT: Okay.

-Yeah, I'd love to.
Go to the headquarters?
-Yes, sir.

All right, we'll see you there
in just a second.

Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.

Great. Good to see you.

Sadly, Junior recently
passed away,

but he was the preeminent
researcher of UFO phenomena

and cattle mutilations
right here in the Uinta Basin

for more than 60 years.

And it's our hope
that Mr. Hicks' research

might help us going
forward as we continue

to investigate
the same phenomena.

THOMAS:
Junior Hicks was
a science teacher here

at one of the local schools
and took it upon himself

to start documenting all
of these UFO sightings.

Anytime there was any reports,

Junior would drive out there,
interview 'em,

collect any evidence
that was left behind.

BRANDON: Shortly after
purchasing the property,

I had the opportunity
to meet with Junior Hicks.

One thing that really
piqued my interest was

that Junior had
experienced events

on the ranch predating not only
the Bigelow investigation,

but also the Shermans.

TOM:
Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch.

-Hi there.
-Good to see you. Thank you.

BRYANT:
Come on up and have a seat.

We loved,

you know, your father
and grandfather so much, and so,

we're excited
to have you guys here, too.

Sounds amazing. I hate
that I never got to meet him.

He loved the area, and he was
in... fascinated by the geology

and the terrain, and he just
took it upon himself

to, uh, investigate these...
the sightings that people had.

And there began to be a lot
in the mid-1960s,

and so, over the years,

he just kept a file
of, uh, these sightings.

TRAVIS:
Well, I noticed that y'all
brought a box of stuff.

I was curious of what you
might have brought to show us.

-WARD: Sure.
-McKAYLEE: You want
to look at it?

Something kind of interesting.

Jim-- he asked me
to bring documents

to be able to show to the team.

There were a lot of things
that I thought were fascinating,

but this one I thought really
gave a very broad perspective of

all the data that had
ever been recorded

that my grandpa had researched,
all in that small folder.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, he's even done
some statistical analysis on

all the things that people
have said they'd seen,

where they are,
how big they are, time of day.

WARD:
I mean, he just... he wanted

to look at it
from a-a scientific approach.

TRAVIS:
You know, I don't think

anybody's ever shown data
like that before.

ERIK:
What a meticulous study
he has conducted

for decades.

Material I'd never seen before
that attempts to

find some line of reasoning
through all the data.

This doesn't exist anywhere
in a place where researchers

can go look at it and then
start really throwing out

the crackpot stories
versus the stories

that, hey,
there's something to this.

This is impressive.

TOM:
So, maybe we should
take all this data

that Junior has done so well

and put it
in an actual database,

and we'll be able to pull

and see things
in different ways that,

you know, maybe
we don't even expect.

BRYANT:
Well, let me ask you this.

Did any of you get
the opportunity to go with him

and-and meet with individuals
or hear any of it firsthand?

Uh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we-we...
He-he brought us,

and he brought a compass
with him, and he says,

"Hey, look at this, watch this."

And we would watch the compass,
and it would just go wonky.

It was just...

Nothing made sense on it.

You're saying it was
right here on the property?

Yeah, yeah, right here,
here in... at the ranch.

-That's important.
-And we looked
at a cattle mutilation.

What was missing
or-or done to the cow?

-It was not an animal.
-Not a predator?

-No.
-And you witnessed this
with your own eyes?

-Yeah.
-MCKAYLEE: I'm not exactly sure

necessarily the origin
of this photo.

BRYANT:
Well, let me ask you this.

Did any of you get
the opportunity

to go with him
and-and meet with individuals

or hear any of it firsthand?

Uh, yeah.

Yeah. We looked
at a cattle mutilation.

TRAVIS:
We're meeting with the family

of the late UFO researcher
Junior Hicks,

who spent more than 60 years

documenting bizarre phenomena
in the Uinta Basin.

But what we didn't know was
that members of his family

had their own experiences
right here on Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS: Without getting
too graphic about it,

I mean, what... what was missing

or-or done to the cow?

Uh, the eyes
were-were kind of cut out,

and the back end of the cow

was very, I mean, very precise.

-It was not an animal.
-ERIK: Not a predator?

No, no, not-not anything
that we would know,

like a wolf or a dog
or anything.

You know what I'm saying?
Nothing natural.

And you witnessed this
with your own eyes?

-Yeah.
-That's amazing.

TRAVIS:
Although there have been
cattle mutilations

going back through history
for hundreds of years,

it wasn't until
around the 1970s

when enough of them
were occurring

that some people
in the scientific community

had to start taking it
seriously.

In almost all of these
cattle mutilation cases,

they find no blood,

and the cows have been mutilated
in a way

like it was done
with surgical precision

and surgical instruments
instead of what you would think

a predator would do,

like a large cat
that might tear it apart.

ERIK: Well, everything
we've discussed so far

has only piqued my interest

in what else is
inside of that box.

MCKAYLEE: So, I'm not exactly
sure necessarily

the origin of this photo,
but I do know that this is

something connected
to the ranch.

-I think I recognize this photo.
-Yeah.

He's brought that out before
and showed us.

These were rods

that the Bigelow team found
out here in this field.

Uh, he actually had
the opportunity, though,

to take and try to identify...

He tells the story
of trying to cut it.

They weren't able to cut them,
they weren't able to melt them,

and Mr. Bigelow ended up
taking them, and then...

Junior said that he followed up
with Mr. Bigelow,

and Mr. Bigelow said,
"Oh, they're nothing,"

and he said,
"Well, can we have them back?"

You know, "No."

TRAVIS:
In 1996, the Shermans sold
Skinwalker Ranch

to billionaire aerospace
entrepreneur Robert Bigelow.

He then assembled
a team of scientists

who spent the next two decades
studying and investigating it

as the National Institute
for Discovery Science,

or NIDS.

Bigelow even received
financial support

from the federal government.

Much of what they found here
has been kept a secret,

but rumors have leaked out

about some
pretty disturbing discoveries.

BRANDON:
Soon after taking possession

and occupancy of the property,
Robert Bigelow's NIDS team

actually started seeing

everything
from cattle mutilations

to UFOs
to portals that would open up

above the old homesteads.

And those events,
I think, underscored

how special this property was
as a center of gravity

for paranormal activity.

THOMAS:
They found one of those bars.

Junior told of Mr. Bigelow
having the team--

-were they
on their hands and knees?--
-Yeah, hands and knees.

...hands and knees, crawling
through this field here.

BRYANT:
And I guess
what it was explained to him

was that they thought they
were possibly used energy cells

that were dropped by, you know,

some of the UFO phenomena.

Isn't that how you recall

-the story?
-That's how he described it.

TRAVIS:
Seeing these pictures that
the Hicks family brought us

of these rods
actually makes me think

of the stories that you hear
from the NIDS team

from Bigelow Aerospace

saying that
they found metamaterials

here on the ranch.

A metamaterial is something
that has specific properties

that change the way light
and energy passes through it,

different than normal material.

It does make you wonder.

If Bigelow's actually got them,

and he's got them
hidden away somewhere,

could they really be related
to UFOs?

And will we find more of them
somewhere on the ranch?

BRYANT:
Thank you so, so much.

This has been an absolute
pleasure, and we're so grateful

that you've come spend
some time with us.

-This has been
an absolute treat.
-TRAVIS: I really appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.
-Yeah, thank you.

JANILEE:
We appreciate coming out.

TOM:
Hello, Dr. Taylor.

-Can you hear us?
-Yeah, I can. Good morning.

KANDUS:
Good morning.

I want you to meet
Dr. Travis, Taylor.

-Nice to meet you, Dr. Taylor.
-You, too.

TRAVIS: Tom and Kandus and I
are very eager to hear

Dr. Dean Taylor's analysis
of the tissue sample he took

from the cow carcass
here on the ranch.

As three people who are
actually living here right now,

day in and day out,
we're more than simply curious

as to any explanation
he can give us

as to why no predators
have touched this carcass

in nearly a year.

So, uh, I understand
you have the results of this...

-strange cow that we have on
our south end of our property.
-I do.

With that animal being dead
that long, there's...

there is gonna be
limited sampling.

So the things that became
pertinent history to me

were the fact that this animal
was untouched by predators.

So I found that unusual.

I had a conversation
with the lab,

and he indicated
that certain types

of poisons would cause predators

to stay away
from those carcasses.

Luckily, those are the things
that we could test for

with these samples, so we tested
this animal for arsenic,

cadmium, lead and then selenium.

So, when we ran
these samples, though,

all of these samples,
they were negative.

TRAVIS:
The fact that
all toxicology reports

came back negative,
it means this cow didn't die

for any mundane reasons,
like accidentally eating poison.

So what killed it?

Why other animals refuse
to go near it

still remains a big mystery.

-This is, uh...
-So, we're into the lungs.

Lungs and heart.

So, you're not seeing anything
that shows disease or...?

Just the lungs.

TRAVIS: Last year,
immediately after the cow died,

we had a vet perform
a necropsy on it

to try and determine
the cause of death.

We got a lot of consolidation
of the lungs right here.

Most of this black color is
postmortem pooling of the blood.

It's very, very possible

that it is
stress-induced pneumonia.

Cows, when they get stressed,

stress will bring on pneumonia.

You know,
we measured around the cow

right after it died--
it had to be less than an hour

-after it died.
-Mm-hmm.

High electric field measurements

and high
magnetic field measurements.

And that's one of the things
we thought that it

might have been
electrical exposure,

uh, that could have, uh,

caused whatever, you know,
killed the cow.

But have you ever seen
anything like that,

or heard weird stories out here

in the Uinta Basin where,
you know, people claim something

rapidly killed their cows,
or anything along that order?

Yeah, I've heard the stories,
but I don't...

I don't personally know, um,

how that would affect the...
the animal.

With the electricity,
they'd probably have, uh,

petechia and microhemorrhages

that you could see
throughout the body.

I asked the lab, also,
about radiation,

and they didn't feel like
that would chase predators off

by doing that.

So, I've told clients
my whole life that

sometimes a negative answer
is still information.

We still have ruled out things.

-Yeah.
-Even though
in this particular case,

given the length, the time
that this animal was dead,

uh, a definitive diagnosis why
this animal died can't be given.

TOM:
Yeah, thanks, Dr. Taylor.

We'll be in touch
if anything happens out here.

TRAVIS:
All right, nice to meet you.

-Thank you very much.
-Yeah, you, too.

-Have a good day.
-KANDUS: See you later.
-All right, bye-bye.

KANDUS:
It's still crazy that

even this veterinary
can't really say for sure

what he thinks killed this cow

-or why predators
did not eat it.
-Yeah, why it's still out there

and nothing's touching it,
and there's,

you know, dead deer carcasses
that have just been gone,

like, you know,
instantly, almost.

TOM:
Well, we got a lot
of information.

Most of it is non-information,

but that
still tells us something.

Actually, uh,
knowing sometimes what the...

the answer isn't

at least helps us look
for different

-possible answers.
-Right.

TRAVIS:
Another mystery to figure out.

I was really skeptical
when I heard

all the crazy, bizarre stories
that people told

about Skinwalker Ranch.

Now I have to admit
that I have my own.

I can't deny what Kaleb and I
saw the other night.

How is it connected
to what happened to that cow?

And what does the petroglyph
have to do with it?

Could it be a key clue that
might help reveal the truth?

THOMAS:
You know, thing with petroglyphs

is it's a big guess.

Nobody knows exactly
what story those are telling.

But to find that on the ranch
adds mystery to:

who was it that put it there?

What is it trying to tell us?

What's the story that
they were trying to leave?

BRANDON:
One of the reasons
why I acquired the ranch

in the first place
was due to the mystery,

due to, you know,
the nature of the claims

that were associated
with the property.

I want to get some answers.

I want to better understand

what is causing the phenomenon

that have not only occurred
under our watch,

but for decades
if not millennia.

-You got the trackers?
-Got the trackers.

Each cow we put on the place

becomes a biosensor.

Animals seem to have
that sixth sense.

Of all these phenomena that
happened when you were here,

-what do you think it is?
-It's a portal.

Have you ever tried
to open up a portal?

That I haven't done, but we're
gonna give it a shot tonight.

Ah, yeah!

THOMAS:
Oh, there's a light
down in those trees.

Got eyes of something over here!
Hey, hey, hey, right here!

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