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ALEX: And I lost signal. There's
something throwing interference

inside the mesa.

I got to try
an entirely different beacon.

PETE:
This is the terrestrial
laser scans we did.

-TRAVIS: It does go into a cone.
-KALEB: Whoa. Look at that.

TRAVIS:
We're all inside it.

How many drones
did you bring us this time?

-A thousand.
-A thousand!

(drones whirring)

They hit each other.

-Did you hear 'em hit?
-Yep.

TRAVIS:
What could be causing that?

ERIK:
There's a lot
going on here, guys.

I'm gonna play this through.

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-This is really interesting.

-Yep. I saw it. Yep.
-THOMAS:
Oh, yes! Look, it's right there!

TRAVIS:
Yeah. There you go. I'm seeing

maybe a formation flying event.

That is just unbelievable.

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:
There's a lot riding on this.

THOMAS: So, this new beacon,

supposedly able
to go deeper, then?

ALEX:
Deeper and a stronger signal.

ERIK:
That's encouraging.

Wow.

-Definitely a lot different.
-Yeah.

And so is this the component

-that goes
into the actual drilling...
-This is

-what's gonna go
into the drill head. Yes.
-Okay.

ALEX: So, a transmitter.

THOMAS: Cool. Well, I say

we get it installed
and get it back up

-in that hole.
-Yeah.

-We'll do that right now.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
This morning, the team
from Mark Construction Drilling

needed to make another repair
to the drill

that we hope
will finally help us figure out

just what is buried in the mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch.

For nearly two months,
we've been struggling to drill

the first of two boreholes
up through the mesa

on either side
of a massive, dome-shaped object

that is surrounded
by several smaller anomalies

that may all be composed
of metal.

And once these holes
are completed,

we'll insert scanning devices
to better study and determine

what these anomalies are.

ALEX:
Full battery.

Uh, calibrated.
Everything should be

-good to go on it.
-THOMAS: Awesome.

Hey, guys,
you got a copy down there?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

THOMAS:
Just letting you guys know

they're just about ready
to continue drilling.

-Copy you, Thomas.
-TRAVIS: Let's hope
this new beacon works.

During our drilling operation
in the mesa,

the drilling team has been
plagued with strange setbacks,

including drill rods breaking

after making contact
with the anomalies.

And their drilling beacon
has quit working over and over,

right when the drill bit
reaches a spot

nearly 200 feet inside the mesa.

That's perfect.

Go ahead and just
keep corkscrewing it on up, bud.

10-4.

TRAVIS:
The drilling beacon is a device
inside the drill head

that sends a signal
to a receiver on the surface.

This allows the team to track

the direction
they're drilling in,

which is critical to our plan

to further study
these anomalies.

So, hopefully,
this new beacon will work

and we can get
our first borehole completed.

Are you still showing
good connectivity?

I'm showing good signal
on it, yeah.

It's moving forward.

Yeah, I'm seeing that, dude.

ALEX:
We definitely have been
doing this a long time.

So, when we came down
to Skinwalker Ranch

with full intentions of quickly
punching through the mesa,

we sure didn't anticipate

snapping off rods and problems

with the receivers
and transmitters.

I feel there's definitely
something going on here.

I don't know exactly what it is,

but there's some activity here
that can't be explained.

(grunts) This locator's
a lot harder to carry.

THOMAS:
I'll update you guys
as soon as we get on top

and we see whether or not
he can still get a signal.

Copy you, Thomas. Thank you.
We're all encouraged down here.

We'll, uh, we'll stand by
for your word.

In recent drilling attempts,

we have lost contact
with the beacon

at close to 200 feet
inside of the mesa.

From what we've seen
in the past,

I'm tempted
to speculate that perhaps

that dome-shaped,
impenetrable object

inside of the mesa itself

is acting like some kind

of electromagnetically active
structure.

It could be interfering
with our ability

to receive the beacon's signal
and continue forward.

THOMAS:
Hey, guys.
You got a copy down there?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

We have reached
the last known spot

that they had a signal
with the other one.

They're making better progress.

They're happy with their angle.

So far, so good.

TRAVIS:
As the drilling operation inched
closer and closer to that point

about 200 feet inside the mesa

where the other beacon
just stopped working,

we were all anxious as hell
to see if this new one

would finally get us past it.

We've been able to punch past
that 240-foot mark.

It's struggling pretty hard

to, uh, drill through it.

It's real slow going right now,

but we are making progress
and inching forward.

Copy you.
That's good to know.

TRAVIS:
What a relief to finally

drill past that spot
inside the mesa.

Did we simply
have mechanical failures

with the other beacons?

Who knows?

But with the power
of this drill rig,

if this new beacon
stays connected to the rig,

we're hopeful to get through
the next 300 or so feet

and complete this first borehole
very quickly.

-THOMAS: It'd be cool to finally
punch through after all this.
-ALEX: I know.

THOMAS:
You guys have earned a victory.

ALEX:
We want it, for sure.

(loud rattling)

Hold on one sec.
My screen froze up.

Nothing's working right now.

(beeping)

-Is he being serious?
-Yep. (chuckles softly)

(whirring)

(loud rattling)

You going through something
real hard right now or what?

JARED:
Feels like we, uh,
broke a rod or something.

Hey, buddy, the head's not
moving. Are you pulling back?

Yeah, I'm about
five feet back already.

We broke somewhere.

We got to figure out
where we broke now.

-Broke a ro... another rod?
-Bro-Broke a rod, yeah.

So, we have, like,
480 feet of steel in the ground

with the head.

10-4. I'll start pulling
this rod back

and we'll see where we sit.

10-4.

THOMAS:
You probably don't have any idea
where it broke.

ALEX:
That's... Yeah, just gonna
have him pull back.

Hey, guys, you copy?

Yeah, Thomas, what's up?

Can you guys meet us
up by the spoils pit?

Yeah.

We'll be right over.

Yeah, we got problems.

TRAVIS:
This rig is designed

to drill through
solid rock with ease.

So, did it hit one
of the anomalies in there?

And if so,

how much of a setback
is this going to be?

Is that supposed
to look like that?

ALEX:
No, it is not, no.

TRAVIS:
That used to go all the way
to the other piece, right?

ALEX:
Yeah.

We were hitting
something pretty hard

somewhere right up in here.

So, the entire string
with those rods

and with the drill head
and everything

is in the mountain right now.

KALEB:
How far in
from right here are we?

ALEX:
Uh, we're about four...

480, 500 feet.
Right around there.

-So you'd have to dig a hole
or what to get to it?
-ALEX: Uh,

we have a fishing tool.

-Um...
-A fishing tool.
How's that work?

ALEX:
It's shaped like a cone,

and it's got threads
on the inside of it.

-Ah.
-So I put it on the end of that

and I can run up in there
and hopefully

catch a bite on the rod.

Assuming you can fish that bit
out with th-this fishing tool,

what do you think is the time
delay that that's creating now?

A day?

-Two days?
-It's hard to say.

Just like everything else
that's happened,

I guess we, uh, we-we wait.

But we're gonna get the steel
out. That's what we're gonna do.

-Get it out.
-JARED: We're gonna pull that
out, get that broken rod off

and then continue to drill
a hole through this mountain.

THOMAS:
The more experiments we do,

the more we realize
that whatever's in this mesa

is of extreme significance.

So, we have

more resolve than ever
to figure out

what it is
that lies inside that mesa.

Hopefully we won't be down long.

Because, at this point,

we could be on top
of discovering

a long-held secret here
at Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK:
Well,

we got some other things
we need to work on.

TRAVIS:
Yeah. We've got a major
drone experiment tonight

that we've got
to go get ready for.

All right.
Good luck.

-Thank you, guys.
-Yeah, thank you, guys.

KALEB: Hey, guys.
I've got Sky Elements down here

by the front gate.
I'm gonna be bringing 'em down

-to the triangle.
-TRAVIS: Copy that.

Dragon and I
will meet y'all over there.

While we were waiting
for the drilling operation

to get going again
at the mesa...

...Tyler Johnson,
Preston Ward and their team

from a drone-based light show
company named Sky Elements

came back out to the ranch.

-Here's Travis and Bryant.
-TRAVIS: Their equipment
was perfect

to help us with another
major experiment we designed

to collect more data

where we've experienced
a number of stunning phenomena

between the triangle
and the east field canyon,

including a UAP

entering the mesa
in the east field

and exiting moments later
near the triangle.

-Oh! Right there!
-Oh, my gosh!

TRAVIS:
A month ago,
using an infrared lidar scanner,

technologist Pete Kelsey

detected a massive
cone-shaped anomaly

that covered an area
stretching from the east field

all the way to Homestead Two

on the western side
of the property

that was centered
nearly 2,000 feet high

directly above the triangle.

Three, two, one.

And just last week,
we had Sky Elements

attempt to launch
a swarm of 1,000 drones

in a preprogrammed pattern
of straight lines

right above the triangle.

-You see that?
-BRYANT: What the hell
is up there?

TRAVIS:
But just after a UAP
appeared in the sky,

only 200 of the drones
could launch, and then struggled

-to keep their formations.
-TYLER: We got a few

on the west side
that seem to be misbehaving.

So when the sun
goes down tonight,

we want to split the drones
into two groups

and, along with
our own instruments,

see if we can
get more data on some

or all of these phenomena
and figure out

if they are somehow
related to one another.

So, I think
the game plan is that, uh,

unlike the way
we've done in the past,

where we've picked one site
and we have, uh,

all the drone, uh, experiment

in one location, either
here or in the east field,

tonight, we'd like to split it,
and do both simultaneously.

-Yeah.
-Got it. Easy.

TRAVIS:
Okay, so, tell us
what you brought for us.

TYLER:
We've got 600 drones

that we're gonna fly directly
overtop of the triangle.

Preston's gonna
be the pilot over here.

We've got 400 drones
that we're gonna take over

to the east field and we're
gonna take KC over there

and he's gonna pilot over there
and I'll be roving

back and forth
to support both teams.

TRAVIS:
Tonight,

the Sky Elements team
will launch two drone swarms

equipped with
specialized GPS tracking

above the triangle
and the east field

in preprogrammed
cylindrical formations.

Then, we plan to launch rockets

directly up through
the center of each swarm

to see if the rockets
or the drones themselves

make contact with
anything strange in the air.

To look even closer
for any anomalies,

Kaleb McEwen
will be flying an FPV drone

all around the swarms,

which is equipped
with an onboard camera.

While all that's going on,

Jim Royston will fly
his infrared lidar drone

between the triangle
and the east field

along the same path
that we witnessed

the UAP fly
in and out of the mesa

back in 2022.

And during
the entire experiment,

we'll be using infrared
and thermal cameras

which can visualize anomalies
with temperature variations

that we might not be able
to see with the naked eye.

Finally, we'll be monitoring
an array of spectrum analyzers

to look out
for strange energy spikes

and signals in the field
while Erik

does the same thing
from the command center.

Tonight, we're using
more tools than ever

to figure out
this place's secret.

So, hopefully,
the effort will pay off

with some incredible
revelations.

Well, I'm really excited.

The thought of putting that
spiral, uh, drone configuration

up in the air at the same time
at two locations that seem to,

for whatever reason,
be connected--

who knows what we're gonna see
when that takes place.

TRAVIS:
Yeah. Okay, all right, let's go.

-Great.
-All right.

I have all the drones connected,

I have their flight paths
on them.

I also was able
to set the time,

so now we have
a manual start time.

Perfect.

TRAVIS: Well, I've got
the standard kit going.

I've got my gamma ray
detector running,

I've got
the spectrum analyzers going

and we've got the FLIR.

I got it set up
on top of the Jeep.

We're-we're looking
almost due north,

a little bit east.

So we're looking at the place
on the mesa here

where we saw that UAP come in

-and go into the mesa
-Oh, yeah. Yep.

and, you know, fly out
down by the triangle.

So, I was hoping if something
flies into the-into the mesa

while we're doing this,
we'll catch it

-on the FLIR.
-Perfect.

Whoa, what is that?

BRYANT:
Whoa.

TRAVIS:
Holy cow.

Oh. We got...
Look right there, right there.

Just as we were getting ready
to start the experiment,

I saw a UAP
that looked very similar

to one that appeared in the sky

right before
everything went haywire

with our drone experiment
at the triangle last week.

BRYANT:
I think it's gone now.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

Hey, we just saw

kind of the same UAP
fly across the sky

from, uh, west to east

right over the mesa here,

uh, as we saw the last time
we were with these guys.

I was wondering if you had
anything on the ADSB

or if you saw anything
on any of the cameras.

Okay, let me tell you
what we got on the ADSB. Um...

The closest aircraft
would be about

24 nautical miles out
at 35,000 feet.

And, uh...

I doubt that's a good match
for what you're describing.

ERIK:
Our ADSB transponder
data receiver

receives the signals directly

from the aircraft
in our airspace.

This object, whatever it is,
is not broadcasting a signal.

In other words, it doesn't
appear to be an airliner.

It is, in fact, at least,
for the moment, unidentified.

Yeah, I-I don't think that's it,

and, uh, we don't see
any other aircraft, either.

All right, well, uh,
just letting you know.

Hey, we're getting close
to, uh, getting started.

I'll let you know when
we, uh, turn the trackers on

and, uh, when we're ready
to launch rockets and drones.

Copy you. Thank you, Travis.

PRESTON: We are all set up
and ready to go on this end.

KC: Copy.

I take that back.
As soon as I said that,

I lost 168.

TYLER:
And we just lost 200 drones
at the east field as well.

What the hell?

TRAVIS: It's like a repeat
of our last experiment

with the Sky Elements
drone team.

Just as we were about to start
our dual drone experiment

between the triangle
and the east field,

a UAP suddenly appeared
over the east field mesa,

and just vanished into thin air.

And literally,

right after that,
hundreds of drones

in both locations malfunctioned.

Did the UAPs that appeared
tonight and last week

interfere with the drones?

If so, what were they,
how did they do it,

and then,
where the heck did they go?

THOMAS: The fact that
we fought through this

last time you were here,
and then, tonight,

the closer that
we're getting to launch time,

the more unstable it's becoming

and the harder that it is
to-to keep these connected--

yeah, i-it's just...
it's-it's interesting to me.

PRESTON:
Yeah, it's weird.

THOMAS:
I don't know what's going on,

but it makes me wonder
if what we're seeing

is electromagnetic interference
or some type of radio frequency

that's jamming the signal
at both locations.

These sights have shown
that they could

possibly be connected
through some of our experiments,

and they're both sights

where we've seen a lot
of anomalous activity.

If these two locations
are connected,

we're gonna have to get
to the bottom of it.

Hey, Travis?

We can only get 200
of our drones connected

over here at east field.

Copy that. Okay.

When Tyler said that only 200
of the drones in the east field

were staying connected
to the system,

I couldn't believe it.

The same thing happened
last week at the triangle.

What could possibly explain
only 200 drones-- exactly--

staying connected
while the others went haywire?

KC, this is Preston.
Do you have a copy?

-KC: Go for KC.
-We reconfigured some things,

I put more access points on,
that seemed to solve it.

They're slowly coming back.

So, we should be good, though.

Okay, so we still good to go?

PRESTON:
Gonna go ahead and arm.

Thomas, Kaleb,
can you guys hear me?

Uh, Travis, we hear you.

TRAVIS:
We've only got 200

of the 400 drones connected.

How are the 600
that you guys have

over there
at the triangle doing?

THOMAS:
Uh, he is arming the drones now.

Kaleb's over
at the launchpad, uh,

ready with the rocket,
and we're all systems go.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

ERIK:
Yeah, go ahead, Travis.

They're a matter of minutes
from starting the drone launch.

We've got a rocket
on the pad ready to go.

Hey, everybody,
keep clear of the grid.

KC:
Clear the field.

Arming, arming, arming.

Good arm on 200 drones.

TYLER:
Good arm, 200 drones,
east field.

Good arm, 200 drones.

Okay, we're going hot here.

Ten seconds.

Ten seconds, ten seconds.

TRAVIS:
My rocket is hot.

Rocket is hot.

TYLER:
Three, two, one.

KC:
Here we go.

Solid...

grid forming.

PRESTON:
We are ready to go on this end.

THOMAS:
Whoa!

What...

What the heck's going on?

It's raining drones over here.

Heads up! Heads up!
They're coming down!

THOMAS: Heads up! Heads up!
They're coming down!

Holy crap.

PRESTON:
FPV drone is in the sky.

THOMAS:
When these drones got
30 feet off the ground,

they just started
to drop out of the sky.

We got them coming right down
on top of the tents.

For these brief moments,

everything is complete chaos.

It's raining drones over here.

Raining drones.

Raining drones?
Is that what he said?

Raining drones in the...
at the triangle.

BRYANT:
We're raining drones here, too.

TRAVIS:
We're raining drones here, too.

We've had strange
equipment failures

on Skinwalker Ranch before,

but it was insane
that so many of the drones

were dropping out of the sky

just after both swarms
launched at the triangle

and the east field.

KC:
Cylinder forming.

Two more dropped.

TRAVIS:
Several seconds later,
our swarm in the east field

finally started to move
into its cylinder formation,

but then, more drones continued
to fall

every couple of seconds.

KC: Look at 'em.

-TRAVIS: It's raining drones.
-BRYANT: We got drones
dropping like crazy.

TRAVIS:
We've had several fall,
we got several

that are missing
out of the formation.

Look at that!

PRESTON: Everybody stay back.

Everybody get back
behind the vehicle.

-THOMAS: Oh, (bleep)!
-PRESTON: Holy mackerel.

We have a massive amount
being lost.

Oh, my God.

THOMAS: We just had
catastrophic failure.

They're gonna hit the tent.

THOMAS:
Holy crap.

It looks like we're
having major problems.

-No, won't work.
-Here, let me get...

We have one drone
that literally comes down

and starts to come
inside the tent towards us.

So I took my coat off,

and as this drone
was coming down,

I had to swat it to the ground

to keep it from hitting us.

Stay under the tent.
Stay under the tent.

Holy crap.

Still got one right there.

Yeah, we still have...

-They're coming down behind us.
-Yeah, yeah.

THOMAS:
Where-where the hell's
that one going?

TRAVIS:
They're just coming out of...

They're fall... There's...
Look at that one!

That one just fell
right out of the sky.

-BRYANT: -Oh, my God.
-TRAVIS: Oh, it hit hard, too.
Heads up!

-Heads up! You see that?
-I don't want to be
underneath this.

TRAVIS:
Was the massive cone
causing all this,

or something else
that we couldn't see?

There was no way to tell
in the moment,

so I wanted to start

launching rockets
to see if it would reveal

whatever was affecting
the drones.

BRYANT:
Dude, it could clobber us, dude.

Just keep a watch,
just keep a watch.

I'll watch, you launch.

If I say run, we're running

to the west, okay?

We're about to launch.

-BRYANT: Dude, I don't...
I don't know
-TRAVIS: Get ready, get ready.

-if this is gonna
be a good idea.
-TRAVIS: Get ready.

-Do not let me get clobbered.
-Get ready, get ready,
get ready.

So we prepped our rocket
at the east field as a cylinder

formation moved into position
directly above our launchpad,

while Kaleb prepped another one
over at the triangle.

TYLER:
Travis, I'll let you know

as soon as we're centered
over top.

-Show me 2D, please.
-2D's up.

We're set. Almost in position.

-TYLER: Travis,
I got five, four,
-Almost there.

-three, two, one.
-Almost there.

TYLER:
You're good, send it.

TRAVIS:
Do it, Dragon! Do it!

BRYANT:
We just blew our igniter out.

TRAVIS:
Crap!

Oh, heads up! Let's get out!
Get out! Get out!

Look, you can see over there,
they are, like,

dropping like flies.

KALEB:
I'm gonna send our rocket in

three, two, one.

(device beeping)

Malfunction
on our rocket as well.

Give me a couple minutes.

Their rocket didn't go either.
Grab an igniter.

TRAVIS:
When the rockets failed
to launch in both locations,

as drones were still
falling out of the sky,

it honestly seemed like
the ranch--

or something on the ranch--

was completely shutting us down.

Nothing made any sense.

We're too close,
we're too close.

BRYANT: I don't know if I want
to run over there

-and put another...
-I'll do it.

Give me an igniter.
Give it, give it.

I'll do it.

TRAVIS: But while what was left
of the drone swarm cylinder

was still directly
over the launchpad

in the east field,

I wanted to get a rocket

launched up through there
before the swarm began

its preprogrammed flight
back to the landing area.

You go, I'll watch.

Let's go.
Move, move, move!

You go, I'll watch. Let's go.

After our first attempt to
launch rockets at the triangle

and the east field
ended with inexplicable,

simultaneous rocket
malfunctions,

I wanted to make
another attempt

to launch a rocket up through

the drone swarm cylinder

in the east field.

After all these crazy
drone failures, I wanted to see

if the rocket would hit
or be affected by whatever

might be up in the air
causing these things to happen.

Watch out--
another one coming down!

It's gonna take us
ten seconds, 20 seconds.

We were quickly
running out of time before

the cylinder would move away
from its position

and complete
its preprogrammed flight

back to the landing area.

we got to move, got to move.

BRYANT:
Dude, I'm working on it.

I know, I know.

-TYLER: Let me know as soon as
it starts to move off, KC.
-KC: Copy.

TYLER: Travis, they're starting
to move out of position now.

-BRYANT: They're moving
out of position.
-TRAVIS: It's okay.

You good?

Go, go, go, go, go.

Don't count down.
Don't count, just launch.

Don't count, just launch.

TRAVIS: We'll go up the side.

Even though the cylinder
had moved away

from its position
directly above the launch tower,

we still wanted to get
a rocket up into the air

close to the drone swarm
to see what would happen.

Uh, it's coming down.
Something's wrong!

It's coming down!

I don't see a chute yet.

Looked like it was
in two pieces, though.

What the hell happened there?

I don't know! We just rebuilt
that rocket!

It broke apart.
How?

'Cause the chute came out.
There's another piece somewhere.

I have no idea
what caused the rocket

to break up in the air.

It sure didn't appear
to hit anything.

So, did it collide
with something

that just wasn't visible?

BRYANT:
Oh, my hell,
what just happened?

Oh, man.

-What happened?
-Look.

There's a nose cone with a chute
attached to it somewhere.

Yeah, look.

TRAVIS: It just blew...
it broke through the line.

They're coming down.

Now that all the drones
are on the ground,

we finally have time
to come out of the tent

and start examining.

And I have to say it looked
like a battlefield

out on the triangle.

-Look at that-- pulverized.
-PRESTON: Yeah.

THOMAS:
There are crashed drones
everywhere.

Honestly,
I'm in shock right now.

I can't believe
what I just witnessed.

Look-- you've got 'em
in the tents.

I mean, this is like mass chaos.

Landing now, yes.

All down.

TYLER: This year
we thought we were ready.

We brought out some
new technology,

but even with all the experience
we have, and all the shows

we do, I just couldn't
believe what I was seeing.

We've never seen drones fall out
of the sky like that,

and drones start to return
to home in random waves.

We're clear over here.

Everything looks good
on our end.

Copy.

PRESTON: We do shows
all over the country.

We never have these
kind of issues that we get

here at Skinwalker Ranch.

There's definitely
something going on here

that's unexplained,
so once we can get the data,

I can't wait to see
what actually happened.

-Hey, guys.
-What a night.

What a night, huh?

So, there was a really odd...

phenomenon taking place today.

RF, electromagnetic,
uh, maybe software.

You know, uh, who knows what?

I can't wait to see, though,
how all this pans out.

Man, we got a bunch of data,
we got to wrap up.

-I say we pack it up
and get out of here.
-TRAVIS: Let's do it.

-I'm 100% percent ready.
-Let's get out. All right.

TRAVIS:
Great work, guys. Thank y'all.

-TRAVIS: Hey, guys.
-ERIK: Come on in, have a seat.

I've got, uh, Preston
and Kaleb from Sky Elements.

-Oh, wow.
-Good.

For a video call.

TRAVIS: Two days later,
after scouring through all

the video that we collected
during the drone experiment,

Erik called us into
the command center

for a video conference
with Preston Ward

and Kaleb McEwen
from Sky Elements

to review what he found

and to compare data.

You know, I... I've been
thinking about this day

a lot, and we've got a ton
of stuff to share with you guys.

We've learned a lot.
So, we took

the-the logs,
and we were able to plot where

the drones
thought they ended up.

So, this is from the triangle.

Uh, you're gonna see them
lift off here in a second.

And, ultimately, what happened

is the GPSs were spoofed, right?

So, they lift up,
and then, immediately,

they thought
they were over here.

-ERIK: What?!
-TRAVIS: Whoa!

ERIK:
Gosh.

That's the in...
that's the in spot.

TRAVIS:
That is the in point.

What are the odds that
the GPS devices in the drones

at the triangle would reveal
messed-up data

that showed the swarm

literally teleported

over to the east field canyon,

right at a spot
we call the in point?

That's the exact spot where
we witnessed a UAP entering

the mesa before exiting it
near the triangle back in 2022.

It made no sense.

Except that it pointed,
once again,

to a place on the ranch

where strange things
keep happening.

Of all the places on the ranch
for them to think they were--

exactly over the spot
that we think is the possible

-in spot.
-TRAVIS: Well, but
here's-here's... Wait, here's

the important question.

At what height were these drones

when they immediately jumped
to the other location?

So, it was right after
they started moving

from that 30-feet mark is when

they really
started to have issues.

-ERIK: Whoa.
-THOMAS: Incredible.

TRAVIS:
Unbelievable. That's

right where we detected the blob

31 feet in the air
above the triangle.

Dude, you cannot make this up.

TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.

Preston, we got to go
through this one more time.

So, the drones' GPS show
they basically teleported

over to the east field mesa
when they got

30-something feet?

Correct, correct. They instantly
thought they were over here.

-Instantly.
-The ranch is 512 acres.

If it was gonna be random,
it could have put 'em anywhere.

Why did it put it there?

And at the exact same height

where we had the rocket blow up
and we see the blob

-in the high-speed camera.
-TRAVIS: That's right.

This is one for the books.

Two nights ago,

when the drone swarm
that was launched

at the triangle reached
an altitude of 30 feet,

which is right where we detected

a blob-like anomaly in 2022,

the drones' GPS data shows
that they instantly moved

to a location
more than half a mile away

in the east field
near the so-called in point.

The spot where we recorded video

of a UAP passing
through the mesa

and flying toward the triangle.

This is fantastic data.
Absolutely fantastic.

ERIK:
Yeah. So, Preston,

we have some additional material

that we want to share with you.

Let's check it out.

ERIK:
Okay.

This is footage from the camera
that's positioned

at the east field
looking off towards the west.

PRESTON:
All right.

TRAVIS:
There goes the rocket.

BRYANT:
Yep.

KALEB:
Why did it disappear?

It went off of the camera angle.

No, no, no,
in the middle of its flight.

-Oh, I didn't see that.
-Go back.

ERIK:
I'm gonna play through this.

So, watch the rocket, guys.

Watch its path.

-TRAVIS: Oh, crap.
-KALEB: Why does it disappear?

TRAVIS:
Where did it go?

And look at where that's at.

It's right in that same area
above the petroglyph.

Well, that's actually
right above

-the photogrammetry anomaly.
-Yes.

TRAVIS:
I couldn't believe it.

The rocket that was launched
in the east field

disappeared for a moment
right near the in point too.

And as Kaleb
and Dragon pointed out,

this is also where we detected

a strange column-shaped
spire in 2021

using photogrammetry,

which is right near

an ancient petroglyph
on the mesa

that's meant to depict
an interdimensional portal.

I'm not sure yet what
the heck any of this means,

but holy crap, we got incredible
data from this experiment.

Why does it disappear
right there?

What did it go behind?

Where did the light go?

-Yeah, where did
the light go? Yes, right.
-ERIK: Mm-hmm.

So, walk it through there.

ERIK:
Yeah, so I'm frame-advancing.

TRAVIS:
Right there-- it's just gone.

This is fascinating.

It's a-a... a kinetic projectile

going through a spot

and it's blacked out
so that we can't see it

and the light from it is
redirected to who knows where.

ERIK:
I'm gonna show you something
that gives us a chance to get

an additional perspective
on what we just watched.

This is the camera perspective
from the triangle

looking back over
the drone swarm on the ground

and here we have
the cylinder in the air.

TRAVIS:
Ah, yeah. I see, okay.

The rocket goes.

The rocket vanished.

And it comes back.

That's really weird.

Okay, back up
down through that, Erik.

All right, I'm gonna
take us backwards.

Gone. Comes back.

TRAVIS:
It vanished behind something.

ERIK:
Yeah.

There's something there.

-(chuckling) What the hell?
-TRAVIS: Play it again.

ERIK:
Yeah.

TRAVIS: Oh, what is that?
Is that a drone?

-That's got to be
the FPV right there.
-Yeah, that's got to be

Kaleb's FPV drone
flying right there.

ERIK:
Watch-watch... watch the drone.

Gone and comes back.

It-it vanished behind something.

ERIK:
Yeah. I'm going
to look at that again.

I want to see
what's happening here.

BRYANT:
Look where it's going.

-Right above the launch tower.
-TRAVIS: Over the launch tower.

It is right over
the launch tower.

Oh, my God.

And I'd bet you anything
that's about

-that 30-feet mark, too.
-Oh, yeah.

-I'm gonna zoom in.
-Yes.

-ERIK: Okay.
-TRAVIS: Oh, my God.

ERIK:
Let me manipulate
the brightness controls.

-Gone.
-TRAVIS: It looks like...
Wait, wait, wait.

There was something
up right there.

TRAVIS:
Something flashed
when you did it, but

play it through again,

'cause I swore I saw something.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
right there.

-That was real time?
-ERIK: Yeah.

-Where it went like this?
-Yes.

What did we just see?

THOMAS:
Oh, my gosh!

TRAVIS: Wait, wait, wait.

I swore I saw something.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
right there.

-That was real time?
-ERIK: Yeah.

-Where it went like this?
-Yes. What did we just see?

TRAVIS: We may have
documented our best evidence

of high strangeness yet
on Skinwalker Ranch

during our drone experiment
two nights ago.

Right after a rocket
disappeared from site

for several seconds near
the mesa in the east field,

the Sky Elements FPV drone
did the same thing

at about 30 feet high above
the center of the triangle,

right where we captured images

of the blob-like anomaly
in 2022.

Did these devices pass behind
invisible aerial phenomena?

Or did they disappear
into them for brief moments?

And then, just seconds later,
we captured a flash coming out

and then going back
into the mesa.

What could explain all of this?

Especially given that
these things happened

within the area
where we recently detected

a massive cone-shaped anomaly

that encompassed the triangle
and stretched all the way

from Homestead Two
over to the east field.

-I got to take it backwards
so I don't miss it.
-Yeah, sure.

There's so much going on
right now.

-ERIK: Something here.
-TRAVIS: Keep-Keep going,

see what direction
it's going in.

There's something coming out of
and going back into the mesa.

Yeah, it looks
like the out point.

TRAVIS:
It is... Yes.

That is at the out point.

Just when you think
it can't get stranger out here,

right as our rocket
and the FPV drone disappeared

for a split second, a UAP--
or some kind of light--

jumped out of the mesa
and then immediately back in

right at the out point
where the UAP exited the mesa

and flew toward the triangle
in 2022.

That's crazy.

So, the rocket goes up.

KALEB:
Disappears.

TRAVIS:
Right, and then
it gets to apogee,

got a motor burn out then.

That's probably
the chute charge.

KALEB: The drone disappears
right there.

The drone disappears
right there.

Then, boom, look at that,
how fast that is.

-That's at the exit point.
-It is the exit point.

That is absolutely
the exit point.

What in the hell are we seeing?

Something's obscuring objects
in both locations.

And while that's happening,
we have drones

that suddenly appear over there.

-Or think they do.
-ERIK: Yeah.

Preston, I think
this is absolutely amazing.

And, uh, Kaleb,
you flew your drone

right behind whatever it was.

You didn't see anything
in the virtual goggles?

I didn't see anything
through the goggles.

Everything was
on that flight to normal.

Wow. Wow.

PRESTON:
Yep.

It's very interesting.

ERIK:
I did not expect

anything quite like this.

Not at all.

This was pretty spectacular.

-Yeah.
-Thanks, guys. Thanks a lot.

-This was amazing.
-PRESTON: Absolutely. Anything

we can do
to help you guys out

and test and improve
our safety systems,

we're always ready to do it.

-Fantastic.
-Awesome.
-Amazing.

Okay, well,
we'll be in touch, guys.

PRESTON:
Sounds great.

Thanks, guys.

ERIK:
Gosh. There was so much in that.

-BRYANT: Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Yeah. What if we're

seeing something here
that is a doorway for signals

to go through,
like blinky lights,

right?

Or communication signals
or GPS signals.

ERIK:
Exactly. The things
we've seen this year

have, you know, convinced me

there's a connection between
east field canyon and triangle.

I think we have to
follow up on that.

TRAVIS:
That's a great point, Erik.

And I would include
Homestead Two

and the mesa drill site as well.

ERIK:
You know, I'm thinking,

given the possible
connectivities

between different regions
of the ranch,

you know, we really need
to put something together

that spans as much
of the ranch as possible.

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

If the east field's
connected to the triangle,

if the drill site's somehow
connected to all of this,

the homesteads, everything,

then, uh, that's-that's
a great idea

to do a complete
east to west experiment.

-I like it.
-THOMAS: I like
the logic of that because

as the weather turns and our
investigation for the year

starts coming down
to the... to the wire,

how would you pick
one spot to really study?

And we've seen so much
ranch-wide.

Well, that means we've got a lot
of work to do in the meantime.

So I say we get to it.

-Let's do it.

♪ ♪

THOMAS:
No matter how you look at it,

the data that we got
from this exercise

is definitely strange
and, so far, unexplainable.

What took place to make those
drones just fall out of the sky?

We definitely need
to find some answers.

But I will tell you that
we've witnessed and experienced

some of the most
incredible things

I've ever seen
on Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS:
As riddled with malfunctions
as this drone experiment was,

it produced some of the most
incredible data yet

that suggests there may be
a connection between

all these hot spots where
we keep documenting phenomena.

So, if we can incorporate
all of these locations

into one grand experiment,

we might be able
to finally reveal

just what that connection is.

ERIK: As we continue to witness

and to document
these unusual phenomena,

these outlier events,

our search
for a unifying explanation

will also continue.

We're operating
under time constraints.

So, hopefully,
our final experiment

will help us to put all
of these different phenomena

under one umbrella, if you will,

and help us finally get
some better informed answers.

TRAVIS:
Three...

There it goes, rocket's up.

...two...

THOMAS:
He's airborne.

-BRYANT: Another drone going up.
-TRAVIS: ...one. Go.

ERIK:
This experiment
is one of the biggest,

if not the biggest,
that we've ever attempted.

Cameron, you need to go up
to 5,000 feet.

THOMAS:
Does he think
he's directly over the truck?

Something's going on.

TRAVIS:
Holy crap. What is that?

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