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BRYANT: Boy, that thing sounds like it's hitting

-something hard. -AARON: It could be...

maybe a dome.

There is something in the mesa right there.

Whatever this is is as tall as the mesa.

THOMAS: Whoa. What was that

purple light over there?

I'm gonna head down.

We need to know if this is

-a reaction to that rocket. -What is that?

Holy crap, it looks like it's following Thomas.

-KALEB: Looks like a deer. -THOMAS: Look at this.

What the heck would have burned this post?

You know what it looks like? Like something just flew

right through it.

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.

When was the last time

you were at the ranch, Jay?

-Uh, about 11 years ago. -11 years ago.

A lot's changed in 11 years.

I bet a lot has changed.

Over the past couple of months our team

has experienced more unexplainable phenomena

on Skinwalker Ranch than ever before.

So, while we're working out a new strategy

to determine just what the two possibly metallic,

dome-shaped and vertical anomalies

we've discovered inside the mesa are,

I've decided it's time to invite a colleague of mine here

who has his own incredible history with the ranch--

Jay Stratton.

The first time you came out here,

you were probably pretty skeptical, as I was.

-I was 100% skeptical. -Me, too, man.

I didn't believe none of it.

Jay was not only

a career defense intelligence official

for the federal government,

but he was also my former boss

in the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

And, between 2007 and 2011, he helped create and run

a government program

with former Skinwalker Ranch owner Robert Bigelow

to investigate the bizarre phenomena

happening on the property.

JAY: So I came out 100% skeptical,

with the stories in mind,

but-but wanting to see something for myself,

and the ranch didn't disappoint.

Right.

JAY: I started working

this topic in 2005.

And I came into the topic because it was part of my job.

As the Chief of Air and Space Warfare

at the Defense Intelligence Agency,

I was dealing with threats to U.S. platforms

from foreign adversaries, highly technical capabilities.

I fell into a point where I had to get really smart on UFOs,

and there was nobody to turn to.

So I kind of became that guy,

not by design, not-not something I was looking for.

I've briefed and provided written assessments

all the way to the highest levels

of the executive branch and the legislative branch.

I like to think I've got a little bit

of credibility on this topic.

2007, we built this contractual relationship

with Mr. Robert Bigelow,

and the ranch became a contracted

Defense Intelligence Agency observation point.

And I came out here to see things firsthand in 2009.

Over those years, I've seen a lot of things I can't explain.

And I'm out here again to do this research

and hopefully better understand this phenomena.

It did take a lot of thought

and discussion with the family

if I would do this again,

just because of all the activity

and everything else that's out here, you know?

-Right. -There's-there's a risk,

but to me

the investigation is more important

and too important, so I really want to

continue down that path of trying to get answers.

There is an accepted risk in coming out here.

You know, no one knows what could happen.

TRAVIS: We're about to move into

-the ranch property here. -JAY: All right.

This sounds crazy, but the ranch

reacts differently to me than it does others.

Some people have a lot of reaction out here

and some have none.

I really had to consider that

and talk to my wife and talk to my kids.

You know, I feel the same.

I think that there's a moral imperative to this.

I think this is

extremely important and could be

one of the most important things

in human history.

Absolutely.

The ranch itself has been a big part of my life.

It's because of the ranch that Travis and I came together

in a small room in the Pentagon to talk about the phenomenon,

and we really accomplished a lot in a short period of time.

We see each other as-as valued teammates.

We enjoy working together.

We think we can do some really good things together.

TRAVIS: All right,

so we're going to get out and we'll take you in

-and show you the command center. -Cool.

TRAVIS: I want you all to meet Jay Stratton.

-ERIK: Good to meet you. -THOMAS: Welcome back.

TRAVIS: So, I've told them all about you, of course.

So, what I'd like to hear

is what events happened when you were here

that you can describe in as much detail as you can,

so we can determine if we've seen similar events.

Absolutely.

And have similar data that compares to what you've seen.

So, when I came out here, the first-first trip

out here, I was standing out,

uh, kind of in the triangle area,

was just randomly taking photographs and things.

Lo and behold, right over

the mesa, there was

an aircraft, craft or whatever you want to call it.

UAP, now I would say, uh, which I-I coined that term.

What? You gave us that term.

-So, I created "UAP." -Yes, you can blame Jay for that, right?

-I didn't know that. -JAY: Because I needed to

get people away from "UFO"

because of the connotations of little green men.

So, you know, standing there, looking up,

and over the mesa was this dart-like craft,

I call it like a really tight triangle,

uh, kind of, kind of coming in.

He was level the whole time,

and shot across, and I lost track of it.

TRAVIS: During our investigation

here on Skinwalker Ranch,

we've seen a number of UAPs appear

and disappear in the skies over the property.

But two years ago,

we saw one right above the mesa

that sounds a lot like what Jay witnessed.

Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What is that right there? Right... Yeah.

-ERIK: You seeing that? -Yes, yeah.

-Back up a couple frames. -ERIK: All right.

TRAVIS: You guys see? Look. Right here. See this?

-BRYANT: What is that? -TRAVIS: I don't know yet.

It appears there and then right there, right above the mesa.

BRYANT: Right above the mesa.

TRAVIS: Could we be seeing

the same kind of phenomena that Jay

and members of the Bigelow team experienced back in 2009?

The similarities are striking.

And another example,

I think it was around 11:30

at night. As we were out

on that back deck one time, I think there were four of us,

playing with a laser and doing other things.

Uh, you know it was late and, uh,

we observed a light on the mesa,

with none of us doing anything.

It was about the same spot where we had the laser.

And I don't remember

exactly who saw what, but one of us saw a circle,

one saw a triangle, one saw a square, you know.

You're seeing different shapes.

There may be a physiological explanation

for that, I don't know, but we all saw

distinctly different shapes

of that same light. It's like it's

giving a demonstration for each one of us separately.

TRAVIS: Since I joined this investigation,

the mesa has been a major hot spot

of unexplainable phenomena.

For example, back in 2018...

...Erik Bard captured surveillance footage

of some very bizarre lights moving across the mesa,

and even a beam of light emitting from it.

Again, I think it was around 11:30 at night,

and three of us were walking down a path

joking with each other.

All of a sudden, we got quiet,

and that's because we got to a point,

and we could feel the temperature change.

And as we moved forward

to Homestead Two, it got colder and colder.

There was a tree probably 300 yards or so

shy of the Homestead Two.

The moon was real bright and it was shining,

it cast a shadow across that tree,

drawing a line on the road.

Now, one of my teammates was saying

that we can't cross that line.

And we all had the attitude, you know,

"Screw that, we're going." Right?

We could not cross that line

no matter how hard we tried.

First thing we felt was fear,

and one of my teammates

looked up and he saw a dark mass

in the top of Homestead Two,

like a shadow figure or something looking back at us.

And basically, that was... We felt like

whatever was going on down there, we wanted to see it,

you know, we wanted to be there.

There is so much in this story. I have heard

a version of this story for years.

I didn't know, I couldn't know,

-that it was you. -It was, yeah.

One thing I've got to tell you,

just, uh, for academic honesty and ethics,

is that, uh,

we're going to use you today as part of an experiment.

But I'm not going to

tell you what that experiment is

until afterwards 'cause I don't want to taint

the outcome of the experiment.

Right.

I've worked with Jay for several years now,

and I've heard him say

many times how he strongly believes

Skinwalker Ranch seemed to react to his presence.

When I first came here, Thomas Winterton

also told me he believed the property reacted

more to certain people than others.

So that gave Erik and I an idea

to see if we could actually prove it.

The word "bait" comes to mind.

You won't be in any danger. We're not making you...

You're not shark bait or anything like that, right?

No, I trust you guys. Yeah.

Well, I appreciate that.

So, we're gonna go on a tour of the ranch in a little bit,

and you tell us about the things you'd seen

and so on, and we'll be

taking data while we're doing that.

And then, afterwards, we'll tell you

what type of data and that sort of thing.

Okay, yeah.

TRAVIS: Erik and I have come up

with an experiment to test

if the ranch reacts to Jay

being back here after 11 years.

And if his presence does stimulate phenomena to occur,

can we identify what it is?

That's what we'd like to find out.

Again, the investigation's important.

ERIK: Obviously it makes a lot of sense for us

to study very carefully

anything that our instruments can detect

as we bring Jay onto the property

and take him to certain points of interest

from his experience,

as well as to determine whether the ranch

would respond to the novelty of his presence.

Well, I really like this plan.

You know, we've got a course laid out for ourselves.

We've got some instruments that we want to take with us,

so we should go get the instruments prepared

and, uh, we'll head out.

TRAVIS: All right, we'll meet you at the vehicles.

TRAVIS: I figured we could put it on the hood.

Here, I've got... I've got some foam.

Yeah, we don't want to scratch it.

It's a common theory

that Skinwalker Ranch responds to the presence

of certain people.

So we're going to drive

former ranch investigator Jay Stratton

around to the hot spots

where he experienced really bizarre phenomena

when he was a part of the Bigelow investigation

more than a decade ago.

We'll see if him coming back to the property

causes strange things to happen.

-That ain't going anywhere. -That's good, yeah.

So, I've got both of these

GPS trackers running and data logging.

-Okay. All right. -We should be good to go, guys.

TRAVIS: Erik has outfitted the Jeep

with GPS sensors, gamma ray detectors,

and the spectrum analyzer

so we can continuously scan for strange energy spikes

and pinpoint the locations where anything

out of the ordinary might occur.

I'll go jump in the black.

-All right, you gonna follow behind? -Yep.

After our tour with Jay,

we'll duplicate the exact route

without him on the property.

That will allow us to compare the collected data sets

to see if there really is

a measurable difference between the two.

-You all in? -THOMAS: You are cleared for take-off.

TRAVIS: We'll start the tour

in the eastern portion of the ranch.

From there we'll head to the triangle,

travel west past the mesa drill site,

and then on to Homestead Two.

If you see something you want to tell us about

or ask us questions about,

just say something

and we'll stop and we'll do that.

THOMAS: I want to know exactly where you were at

with that apparition or whatever it was.

TRAVIS: Yeah, me, too. All right, Jay,

-now when we get to where... -Yeah.

...you think it's the spot, you just stop us.

JAY: I'm pretty sure it was that tree right there.

-You want to stop here? -Yeah, I mean,

this is about the right spot.

TRAVIS: All right.

-So, you think it's this way? -Yep.

No, I think we're right at about the spot

where we started to feel the fear.

-Right in here? -Yeah.

Where do you think the line was

-in the road... -It was at that tree.

-That tree? -Yep.

I'm pretty sure that's the tree.

The first night we were on the ranch,

it was about 11:30 at night,

and myself and my two teammates went for a walk.

So, we walked down the road,

made our way around the curve towards Homestead Two.

And as we made that turn,

there's a little tree casting a shadow,

a line across the road,

and as we pushed towards that line,

I said, "Do you guys feel that?"

And immediately one of my teammates said,

"Yeah, the hair's standing up

on the back of my neck."

Feeling the fear

about right here,

and the temperature inversion was about right here, too.

TRAVIS: Really?

JAY: As we walk closer to Homestead Two,

we felt a drastic drop in temperature.

And it was a wall.

You could put your arm through it,

and you could feel the cold versus the heat.

It was a drastic drop,

something that just didn't belong.

As soon as we come around the corner,

the feeling was, "Turn around, go back."

On the second floor of Homestead Two,

through the night vision device,

we saw what resembled a dark, shadowy figure.

I want to ask about the dark apparition.

-Can you point to where it was? -Absolutely.

Let's walk and see.

JAY: That upper area right there.

-Yeah. -KALEB: Up in there?

Yep.

We could see in the distance

what looked like a shadow figure

or, you know, a person, a dark person

standing on the second floor of this structure,

kind of in the middle,

staring right back at us.

What's really interesting is that there is no floor there.

And if you saw something standing in the middle,

that's kind of bizarre.

And you interpreted it as, basically, human form?

It would have been pretty tall, though.

Uh, yeah.

TRAVIS: Now, while no one on our team

has seen such a distinct shadowy figure

like what Jay described,

we did have a very similar

experience at Homestead Two

back in 2020.

(speaking Hebrew)

TRAVIS: When my friend

Rabbi Ariel Tzadok

performed an ancient Hebrew prayer

that was actually designed

for opening interdimensional portals,

our thermal cameras captured a temperature vortex

forming near the second floor

of Homestead Two, right where

Jay saw that shadowy figure appear.

That's... that is odd.

Focus on this part right here.

TRAVIS: Then, when Erik reviewed the thermal footage,

he spotted something small and colder than its surroundings

moving very fast across the road

in front of the homestead.

-Oh. Oh. -Ho. Whoa.

-What was that? -Right there, that.

TRAVIS: Could this be the same type of phenomena

that Jay and his colleagues witnessed here

over ten years ago?

We can't say for sure,

but we do know more investigation

at Homestead Two is an absolute must.

Kaleb, you gonna meet us down the road?

After we visited the last stop on our ranch tour

with Jay and got the data

for the first part of the experiment...

ERIK: Jay, I got to tell you, it has been fantastic

hearing what you've got to share.

TRAVIS: ...we finished up with him

and had him leave the ranch.

Then we reset the equipment

because we planned to duplicate the experiment the next day

to collect a new data set.

JAY: The investigation continues.

TRAVIS: Jay is completely off the ranch now.

Everything's there, just like when he was with us,

-right? -Yeah.

TRAVIS: Now that we've got the data

from the first part of our ranch experiment with Jay...

We'll see if we see any changes in the instruments.

...we'll drive the exact same route,

with all the same equipment as yesterday.

We'll then compare the data sets

and look for any different measurements.

KALEB: What's up, dude?

TRAVIS: While Erik, Thomas, and I

conducted the second part of the Jay Stratton experiment,

Dragon and Kaleb met with Don Mitchell.

Dragon, Kaleb.

TRAVIS: He's the local Uinta Basin Fire Management Officer and Chief

of the Wildlife Division for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

We were hoping that Don might be able

to tell us more about the burn marks

on the fence post we found last week.

You go ahead and take shotgun, Don. It's fine.

TRAVIS: But since he is a senior member

of the Eastern Shoshone tribe, we also wondered

if he could offer any insight about the recent phenomena

that we've been experiencing in the south field.

Whoa, what was that purple light over there?

KALEB: We were doing some experiments

with rockets, and Thomas saw

a purple light here in the south field.

THOMAS: What is that?

KALEB: That led us to

placing game cameras in these locations,

and as we were

coming into this particular area

to put a game camera up, we find a burnt post.

THOMAS: What the heck would have

burned this post?

KALEB: And there just so happens

to also be a deceased deer

in this exact same area.

That one's been torn apart by something.

We started looking around a little bit,

and that's where we found this post.

And you can see right there,

-it's got that little curve in it. -DON: Okay.

BRYANT: Is there anything in particular we should look for?

DON: I would look for any other burnt debris

that might have projected out.

And, Kaleb, there was no other tracks?

We didn't see any vehicle tracks,

no human tracks, nothing.

Kind of getting a-a feeling or a sense

of, kind of, heaviness.

Protecting of

an area is most crucial,

so let's hold here for just a sec.

I'm just gonna do an offering

of some tobacco

and, uh, just ask the creator, please watch over us.

(speaking Shoshone)

As a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe,

I do a cultural blessing

and give an offering of tobacco.

It's always best to give some type of offering, um,

for protection and understanding

before going in

and onto the ground to investigate.

Okay, Kaleb, Dragon, let's, uh...

Let's continue on here.

What is strikingly odd

is this line that goes up and around,

and where is the rest of it?

Our initial thought is lightning.

But I'd assume, if we had

a lightning strike here,

we'd see definitely more damage

on the ground.

DON: We would definitely see debris.

As you can see, in the smoldering phase of this,

that there's no blackening

that comes up around the post in any direction.

Like, if we put a candle here,

and it started to smolder right here,

we would get that black smoke residue of that carbon

on to the post.

BRYANT: So, if I'm understanding correctly,

based off of what you're saying,

it seems as though it was something extremely hot

that scorched it but it never

-really incinerated, correct? -Correct.

But I can tell you, this is not arson,

this is not chemical,

and this, in my opinion, is not lightning.

BRYANT: So, what is it, then?

That's the million-dollar question, Dragon.

KALEB: Have you seen anything like this before?

I have seen only

man-made of something

of this nature, 'cause of the line,

through plasma cutting.

It's hard to speculate,

but from the different areas of

spontaneous combustion that I've dealt with in my career,

and in fire investigations,

it was some type of extreme heat.

A third of that post is missing.

It is very bizarre.

When you kind of look at this,

you see that there's this curve in that post

that's been taken out.

As if something came through it

and caused this damage, and, yeah, there's no debris.

So, how hot would it have to be to just

-totally vaporize... -Vaporize it.

You're talking about 780 to 800 degrees.

BRYANT: Right, if there's that kind of a heat signature,

just the radiated heat would cause damage

to this green foliage,

and it looks like none of it

has been exposed to any of the extreme heat.

DON: Correct.

So, we know this is hot as lightning,

but it's not lightning.

It's not man-made.

-DON: Correct. -KALEB: So, what could do that?

I'll only touch on it just-just briefly

because this is definitely strange.

Speaking culturally,

it would go back to

what the ranch is named after.

-Okay. -Okay.

I'm sorry, I don't feel comfortable...

-KALEB: You're fine. -...speaking on that, on that portion.

I don't want to breach anything that is--

-that makes you uncomfortable. -But we will continue on.

KALEB: I think it's really valuable

and important that we have Native Americans

coming to the property

because there is a lot of history here

and this is a different viewpoint

that we really don't get a lot of.

It's just so strange.

Yes.

KALEB: Some Native Americans

aren't willing to speak of any kind of relation

when it comes to Skinwalker Ranch

or anything involving the word "skinwalker."

Bringing attention to

the skinwalker is very bad medicine,

and it makes them very uncomfortable

because they don't want to draw anything

of that energy into their life.

Don, I can't thank you enough for coming out here

and lending your expertise, both from

your professional side of things,

as well as your spiritual side of things,

and offering a blessing of protection.

I felt good, and hopefully this will

lend us to get more answers.

Yes, you know, 'cause how do you answer

the unanswerable?

And all we can do is, as we peel back that veil

and peel that onion a little bit

and move forward.

Thank you, Dragon.

-Thank you. -Thanks, Don.

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik,

you got Jay

-on the horn yet? -Yeah, I have him.

TRAVIS: The day after we completed the control run

of our two-part experiment

with Jay Stratton, Erik and I processed all the data

and immediately arranged a videoconference

to share the incredible results.

Hey, Jay. How's it going?

Hey, guys. How are you?

TRAVIS: All right.

So, in this experiment,

what we did, Jay, is we put

GPS sensors on the Jeep,

we had a magnetic field meter on there,

and we also had

a Geiger counter in there

that we were data logging through the entire time

you got in the Jeep and went on the tour.

And we timed and logged every step of the way

and everything you did

from the time we left the command center.

And then, after you left the ranch,

we did a control run.

And then, when we got back, Erik took the data,

compiled it all, and then overlaid the two data sets.

And you would think, well, you know,

what difference does that make?

Well, we were wondering if, since you were here

back in the Bigelow era

and you had seen some things when you were here,

if maybe the ranch would respond

or you would stimulate a response or something.

So that was the idea for the experiment.

I'm super excited to hear

if there was a response,

uh, so I think this is the perfect experiment

to try and see if there's some type of connection

that ranch or that area makes

with individuals coming out there.

TRAVIS: Well, uh,

with that said, Erik, what do you think?

Let's show him the data?

Well, I think I should probably run through

the summary at least.

You know, we have different kinds of data,

as Travis just took us through.

So, to start with, I want to look at the GPS trackers.

So, I think what I'd like to do

is a screen share...

That'd be great.

ERIK: ...and bring up

the control tour that we did.

TRAVIS: Are you seeing all that, Jay?

I see at least the, uh, the initial.

Perfect. So, of course, this follows

all of the roads that we took.

And if you look at that, it pretty much looks like

exactly what we did.

This was without you here on the ranch.

You were... You had already gone home.

This is what we expected to see, so...

Absolutely, that looks complete...

completely normal to me.

Okay. Now, I'm going to bring up the data

generated during your visit.

I've colored it red, of course.

At first glance it, you know, conforms

to the same path.

TRAVIS: Do you notice anything about the data yet?

Well, it's-it's sparse, there's a heck of a lot

of missing data points.

ERIK: That does seem to be the case,

doesn't it?

And at this spot right here,

that's the drill site.

JAY: We should be seeing a lot more

-than we're seeing. -TRAVIS: Yeah, you should be.

ERIK: Yeah, so, um,

I don't know how to, uh,

how to break it to you except to show you.

TRAVIS: But now look where the data actually is.

The data went way underground.

Wow.

Well, that's amazing.

TRAVIS: Literally the only thing

we changed in the experiment

was the occupants of the car.

And the data

goes nuts. It went way underground.

Wow.

TRAVIS: And if you look,

this spot right here,

that's the drill site.

And then, when you go to the next dip,

that's where you stopped and said this is the tree

that you saw the thing

standing up at Homestead Two,

and look how the data goes

way deep underground there.

How far is that, Erik?

ERIK: You know,

if we use the mesa

as our scale reference, we're looking at

something, like, you know, a thousand feet.

This is amazing.

TRAVIS: The GPS data

from our experiment with Jay Stratton

is just plain crazy.

It shows that Jay

went underground

just after passing the mesa drill site.

Then, once he moved closer to Homestead Two,

it says he went over a thousand feet below the surface.

And what's really interesting

is the control is completely different.

-Can you overlay 'em? -I sure can.

TRAVIS: So, if you overlay 'em now and look,

when you go underneath the ground,

none of the control data is under the ground,

but look at your path.

JAY: We're seeing something

in that area affecting the equipment,

reacting to my presence being there.

That's amazing.

What could just you being in the car

do to a GPS sensor to make it go haywire?

I mean, when I was first introduced to the ranch,

folks were referring to the ranch

as if it's a person, uh, reacting.

Obviously, I was highly skeptical of any of that.

Yet it's been in my life so long

that I'm comfortable referring to the ranch

as a... as a person now

because I have certainly seen it

react differently to different people.

TRAVIS: So, the question is,

does the ranch somehow, uh,

know you were here?

Was it coupled, entangled with you?

Right.

TRAVIS: This data strongly suggests

that the ranch really does react to individuals.

But why some more than others?

And why did the GPS sensors suddenly go underground

just after Jay passed the mesa drill site?

Could the dome-shaped object that we drilled up against

deep inside the mesa somehow be connected

to the GPS data

going a thousand feet below the surface?

At this point we don't know,

but it seems like more than just a coincidence.

Jay, this is great.

Uh, really appreciate you being in our experiment.

Oh, definitely.

ERIK: See you later, Jay.

JAY: Thanks, gents.

TRAVIS: Well, the big question still remains.

How do we get inside the mesa?

AARON: It's almost like we're hitting something

really, really hard.

TRAVIS: The last time we drilled

from the bottom of the mesa,

we weren't able to reach the vertical

and potentially metallic object inside there.

So now we're gonna brainstorm a new approach that might work.

We're gonna have to drill from the top of the mesa.

The one thing we definitely know is that it won't be easy.

Well, I sure am curious about whatever it is that we hit

that, number one, was so hard, number two, didn't produce

any friction against that-that, uh, drill head,

and, number three, caused the change in the RF spectrum.

TRAVIS: That to me is

three pieces of data

that are really

phenomenal. I mean, why did it

not grind that drill bit down?

-KALEB: Yes. -TRAVIS: That-that is amazing.

What kind of material can do that?

So, how could we look inside the mesa?

THOMAS: I haven't found

a place that we could easily do that

without completely scarring it permanently.

You know, Brandon made it clear he doesn't want that.

Personally, I don't want to do that.

So I've got

a possible solution.

I wonder if we brought a portable drill in

and tried to do just a vertical shaft down

and tried to go down on top of it, to where we could get

-a camera down there. -Yeah, and we could then maybe

find if that hole is connected to something somewhere.

ERIK: So, if we get directly above

the place where the drill head got stopped,

I'd like to know exactly

what did it encounter right there,

'cause we know we've got something really hard there.

I like your idea, Erik, of going where the drill head stopped,

'cause we know exactly

where that bit was at.

Oh, that's a great idea.

We need to do... Let's-let's do that, that's a great idea.

ERIK: Well, I say we get back

to the command center and start planning how

-we're going to pull this off. -Yeah.

KALEB: I'm going to go check the game cameras.

ERIK: Sounds like a plan.

BRYANT: After the recent incident that had Thomas

chasing off after some purple light in the south field,

we've deployed these various game cameras.

I've asked Kaleb to go out

and grab the cards from 'em

to see if there's anything that we see there

that is strange or stands out.

-Hey, Bryant. -Hey, man.

I got those cards from those cameras.

Yep. Okay, cool.

-Let's check it out. -All right.

This is us setting it up, looks like.

How long have these

-been out there? -About a week.

-Okay. -About a week now.

KALEB: This is on the east facing west.

BRYANT: Okay.

KALEB: I'm not seeing anything

-jumping out at me right now. -No.

BRYANT: I'm surprised we haven't seen any game of any kind yet.

That's what I'm wondering. What's setting off the cameras?

Right.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

-Back that up. -You see that?

Yeah, back that up. What, what was that?

KALEB: I'm just running through it

frame by frame.

What?

KALEB: It's like a silver orb.

Looked like a silver orb or something.

Well, it was something. It was really quick.

Do we have the possibility to, like, pause it

and then like scrub through it?

KALEB: Yeah.

So this...

this is gonna be frame by frame here.

Didn't you see it? It was like some little quick flash there.

-I saw it over in this area there. Yeah. -Yeah.

BRYANT: Whoa, right there. Look at that.

KALEB: So, depending on how far away that is...

Yeah. I mean, if it's back at the tree line,

that thing's pretty big.

It's massive if it's at the tree line.

BRYANT: And it's gone. It's like one frame?

KALEB: One frame.

What?

And this is like broad daylight.

Yeah.

As you can imagine, these cameras picked up

all sorts of normal things,

but there was a couple frames on one of them

that was really strange,

and at first glance it appeared

to be a silver orb-type

shaped object off in the distance.

I don't know whether it's exotic or not,

but it's still a concern.

Well, the, the hard thing is to try and determine

the size of that thing.

-Yeah. -I mean, whatever it is, it's moving fast.

And from here it looks like it's coming straight in.

Right, if I...

Okay, can I...

-So, if I pause it like this... -Mm-hmm.

...it makes me think it's big.

What I'd like to do is get Erik's eyes on it.

You know, he's got that video software

where he can analyze everything

and track everything.

So we probably need to get his eyes on this.

Yeah.

Hey, Erik, this is Bryant and Kaleb at the guard shack.

Do you copy?

So, Kaleb brought me the memory cards

from those trail cameras that we have out on the property.

But there's one thing that we'd like you to get your eyes on.

All right. Thanks, Erik.

-BRYANT: Okay? -KALEB: Okay, let's go.

See if we can get better eyes on 'em.

BRYANT: If this is some sort of orb,

that's interesting.

I think this is definitely something that Travis and Erik

need to take a look at and analyze further.

If it's not

and it's a security risk

with someone trying to damage our assets,

that falls on my plate.

So it's important for us to get eyes on this immediately.

Hey.

-KALEB: Hey, guys. -What's going on, fellas?

BRYANT: Hey. Did you get that file I sent?

-Yeah, I just got that. Um... -Okay.

ERIK: Curious to see what it is.

-It's going to be over here on this monitor. -TRAVIS: Was it a file?

-What'd y'all send? -Yeah, so just to-to preface what's going on,

um, you know we have those trail cam or game cameras

in some of the parts of the property.

Mm-hmm.

We got three just down there on the south end.

On the south side. Yeah, yeah, okay.

KALEB: We go and put these cameras out there

pretty soon after Thomas

-saw that purple light. -TRAVIS: Yeah.

You know, within a day.

So I just went down there

and grabbed those three cards,

swapped... put new ones in,

and we just were looking at the footage,

and we just found something that we thought

you guys might want to look at.

-TRAVIS: Really? -Yeah.

Okay, so, guys, will you remind me

how deep into the interior of the property this camera...

So, this camera

is really inside the property.

It's not on the fence line.

So, for someone to find this, they have to be

-on the property extensively. -ERIK: Okay.

KALEB: But on the other side of that is the camera

that's on the other side of the field

looking at this camera, it didn't catch anything.

-Oh. -Really?

-KALEB: Yeah. -ERIK: Okay.

Uh, well, you ready to take a look at it?

Yeah, sure.

All right, here we go.

-BRYANT: Go back. Right there. -TRAVIS: Yo. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

BRYANT: Right there.

TRAVIS: Holy cow.

ERIK: Well, it looks like

at least part of this thing is spherical.

Mm-hmm. Right.

THOMAS: Is this a one-frame event?

BRYANT: It is.

It's literally one frame.

That's crazy.

BRYANT: So if it's something,

like, really exotic, like,

middle of the day, an orb like that showing up,

a sphere showing up, that's crazy.

BRYANT: At first glance, what...

I mean, what are your thoughts?

Well, uh, the fact that the shape

of the dark spot is different

and it seems to have expanded relative to the rest of it

is kind of consistent with reflections

because it's in a different place.

Which suggests that it's metallic

or at least reflective of some sort.

ERIK: Mm-hmm. It does suggest that.

Travis, the first time I was looking at this,

it makes me think of the model that you made

of what we were potentially seeing

with the-the other orbs during the night.

Yeah, the orange orb that we saw with the drones.

There is a similarity.

TRAVIS: One of the things that sticks out to me about this,

Kaleb, you're right, is this dark spot in the front of it.

That orb, that-that orange orb that we saw that night

clearly had a dark spot

in the middle.

This new metallic-looking UAP

that was spotted in the south field

does resemble a model I made

of an orange orb that appeared

during an experiment with a swarm of drones

a few weeks ago.

All right, we have drones armed, guys.

Look at that.

KALEB: We got something right there.

Right where, right where?

Yeah, it is. That's it right there.

It clearly looks like it's two halves,

and looking at it, it looks like it actually

has an indention, doesn't it?

There's some dark spot to it.

From modeling that, I put this together.

And, uh, this is kind of my idea of what it looks like.

Why don't I bring that up for comparison?

TRAVIS: If you kind of compare that to that,

-there is a similarity. -KALEB: Yeah.

THOMAS: We definitely need to get to the bottom of this

because that is the direction that that burnt post is at.

Is something like that going to generate

the type of heat to do that?

THOMAS: Maybe?

BRYANT: And who's to say what this thing

looks like at night.

THOMAS: I mean, the interesting thing about

that burnt fence post is, we found it

after we saw that bright purple flash

-down there in the southern part. -Yup.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: We might have caught something here in the middle of the day.

BRYANT: Right, which is amazing.

What I find fascinating about this orb

is, it's there one second and it's gone so quickly.

It must be moving at a high rate of speed,

and it just so happens it's in the same area

where we found this strange

burnt post and a dead deer.

Are they related somehow? I don't know,

but it's really strange.

I think if this shows us anything, it's that,

look, we've had quite a few different incidents

happen down on that part of the property

in a very short period of time.

I think, if anything, that shows us

that we need to deploy

some more assets down there

and, uh, instrument that side of the property out

a little bit better.

KALEB: And I'll go poke around

out there some more and see if I can't find anything.

Yeah, we just need to up the amount of time

we spend there, at least in the short term.

Given that, I mean, if this truly is

happening in broad daylight...

-Mm-hmm. -...I mean, that's something,

definitely, we need to get more eyes on.

And, you know, if it takes it,

we could even just keep a vigil.

Physically go down there and just watch.

TRAVIS: Yeah, keep an eye on that south field.

BRYANT: I agree. I'm for it.

-Well, thanks, guys. -TRAVIS: Thank you, guys.

-Okay, thanks, guys. -All right.

Well, I'm gonna leave you with it, Erik.

THOMAS: Interesting find.

ERIK: We're dealing with things on a scale

of 512 acres of ranch here.

We have a few known hot spots,

but we have no idea

whether effects such as we've witnessed here

might play out in other regions of the property.

TRAVIS: Since I've started working on Skinwalker Ranch,

there has always been this idea

that it responds to certain individuals.

We still don't know why, who or how.

As we continue this investigation,

hopefully we'll learn more about these strange mysteries.

BRANDON: Never before

have we seen scientific equipment

and personnel dedicated to finding the answers.

There isn't another private piece of property

that has this degree of scientific research.

We don't know what lies in store.

We're in uncharted territory.

But I am more willing than ever

to take the risk, to explore the unknown,

to discover the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

Erik was telling us that you got some new equipment

that can help us identify something underneath the ground.

Multispectral.

There's some interesting stuff.

I've been itching to show it to you.

TRAVIS: By the bait pen,

there are three circles.

THOMAS: So I'll make some arrangements

and we'll get an excavator out here

and we'll go out and dig.

Oh, whoa. Wait a minute...

Hey, guys, y'all come look at this.

It's hard for me to believe

that's Mother Nature.