The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020–…): Season 3, Episode 10 - Photo Finish - full transcript
Whoa, what was that?!
I saw something,
just boom,
real quick, across the sky.
We need a much larger rocket
that can go up through
the triangle
and multiple very large lasers.
You are proposing
something on a grand scale.
- TRAVIS: There it goes.
- DAVE: Oh, (bleep). Let's go.
Oh, my God.
ERIK:
Travis, you-you got to see this.
BRANDON:
It disappeared.
TRAVIS:
What did it disappear into?
BRANDON:
Are we seeing portals opening?
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.
- Hey, Pete.
- Hey, hey.
ERIK: Yeah, it's
good to have you back.
Can't wait to see what
you're packing this time.
- (chuckles)
- How's it going?
TRAVIS: We've had the
most incredible year yet
investigating and stimulating
all kinds of strange phenomena
on Skinwalker Ranch.
But the weather is
about to turn really harsh,
as fall sets in, meaning
that we're out of time
to conduct any more
large-scale experiments.
PETE:
I brought some goodies.
- We can do photogrammetry.
- Now, that's good.
TRAVIS: So we invited
technologist Pete Kelsey back
to perform a final high-tech
3D photogrammetry drone scan
of the entire ranch.
Well, I'm excited
to have you out here.
- It'd be great to take you back to the mesa.
- Let's go.
All right. Let's do it.
TRAVIS:
Photogrammetry is a process
where thousands
of high-definition photographs
are taken of an area of interest
and combined to create a
detailed three-dimensional map,
potentially
revealing features
that aren't visible
to the naked eye.
- THOMAS: About right here is good.
- TRAVIS: All right.
Before we have to put
our investigation
on hold until next year,
we want to get a 3D model
of every part of the ranch
to see if any anomalies appear.
If something shows up,
maybe it will help us determine
what is behind all the UAPs
and the other phenomena
that we've documented here.
- This looks great.
- Uh-huh.
TRAVIS:
Well, start, uh, getting set up
- and let's do this thing.
- PETE: Okay.
ERIK: Pete Kelsey has brought
on some of the most advanced
technology one can get
his hands on.
- PETE: Have a matching set, thank you.
- BRYANT: Okay, yeah, sure.
ERIK: This drone is a
robotic flying platform
that has
exquisite spatial awareness.
That very precise
positional awareness
is essential for reconstructing
an accurate three-dimensional
model of the property.
We're interested to find out
whether the results will
bear out anything anomalous.
PETE: Well, I'm ready
when you guys are.
ERIK:
Great. We need to get back
to the command center
to work on some stuff.
Maybe we'll just
leave you to go at it.
Yeah, I've got all my stuff
here, so I'll just have at it.
Okay, well, if it's all right
with you I'll stick around.
I don't like leaving
guests out here by themselves.
So, if you're okay with some
company, I'll stay with you.
- I... I appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
- Okay, happy to.
All right. Well, we'll load up
and head back.
PETE: So, once all
the data I've collected
is post-processed in a nice,
neat package, I hand that
to Erik, and he does
the heavy lifting, and that is
spending hours and hours
going through this data,
because it's all visual.
All right, I've got
all green lights here.
Spinning up.
♪ ♪
Literally it comes down
to putting eyes on the model
and looking
for anything interesting.
Have a look.
BRYANT:
That's so cool.
That's amazing.
TRAVIS: While Pete was
conducting his photogrammetry scan
of the ranch,
I went to my trailer
to have a video conference with
author and renowned astronomer
Seth Shostak.
Hello, Seth. How you doing?
- Travis, good to see you.
- It's been a while.
Uh, I wanted to catch up
with you and...
Now, Seth is
the senior astronomer
for the institute known as SETI.
Which stands for the Search
for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
I wanted to talk to him about
the mysterious
1.6 gigahertz signal
that we've been detecting
on the ranch,
which I believe could be some
kind of communication signal.
As you know,
I'm out here as part
of this investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch.
And we're actually finding
some really weird stuff.
We're finding
optical phenomena
and all sorts of
different regimes of energy.
And even a strange RF signal
at 1.6 gigahertz.
And what I wanted to ask you
is, if I found a signal
that I thought
was
an intelligent communication,
what protocols
SETI would use
in a situation like that?
Uh, to start, you know,
verifying,
validating and reporting?
Well, there is a protocol.
In fact, I was the chair
of the, uh, committee
that revised those protocols
about five years ago.
First thing is,
if you pick up a signal that
you think might be ET,
you want to make sure it isn't
a telecommunications satellite,
it isn't the radar down
at a local airport
or anything like that.
The second thing you do is,
you tell everybody.
You would want to do that
because you want people
at other facilities
to check out the signal, too.
I see.
So, let me ask you a question.
Say we have confirmed
an optical, uh... signal.
And it's repeatable.
If you go through the process
and you...
rule out all of the...
potential, uh, logical culprits.
The microwave oven,
an airplane...
a-a satellite,
you know, those types of things.
What would be your next step
in, in, uh, verifying?
Well, as to say, uh, you know,
you're really critically
dependent
on being able to verify
the signal
at some other facility.
So, you would insist on
finding it somewhere else.
Right.
All right, Erik.
She's about to broadcast it.
Seth's suggestion
that we would want confirmation
of the 1.6 gigahertz
communication signal
at another location struck me
because that's exactly
what happened a month ago
at the Jack FM radio station
about 11 miles
north of Skinwalker Ranch.
After the station manager
and DJ, Jenn Rook,
told me and Erik that
the same kind of signal had
infiltrated their airwaves,
we decided to see what
would happen
if she broadcast it back out.
- There it is.
- Wow.
It really changed
her waveform big-time.
Well, the next day, Jim Morse
showed us some incredible
videos of UAPs
that were recorded
by people in the area
later that night.
ERIK:
Jim, When was this video taken?
Last night, about 8:00 p.m.
- Really?
- TRAVIS: That's just a few hours
after we played that sound
on the radio, Erik.
No kidding.
Well, it sounds
as if the signal
you're picking up is
generated locally, right?
That there's something
in your immediate area
that is producing this signal.
Is that kind of what
you're suggesting here?
Yep.
So imagine,
you know,
an advanced civilization
wanted to communicate
in real time,
what type of phenomenology
or telltale signs
might SETI look for?
If it's really coming
from another society,
it would be in one direction.
And that's kind of the clue,
that you would see it coming
from that direction on the sky.
I think that's exactly
what I wanted to hear, Seth.
It was interesting how Seth,
a highly accredited scientist
who researches
the potential for ET life,
believed the type
of communication signal
we've detected would come from
a specific direction,
because that's
exactly what
happened on the ranch.
Go back the other way.
Five weeks ago, when we detected
the 1.6 gigahertz signal,
it came from a specific spot.
It's coming back.
Right there, right there, stop.
Where we had just launched
a rocket near Homestead Two.
- So it's very directional.
- Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
And then, later that night,
Erik recorded an incredible UAP
moving around the homestead.
We can't be for sure
if that communication signal
we've detected was
what led to the UAP appearing,
or if it represents
more evidence
that portals could really exist
on Skinwalker Ranch,
but talking with Seth
just makes me more convinced
that we are getting closer
to some answers.
That helps me a lot.
I really appreciate it.
Well, any time, Travis. You
know, it's always my pleasure
- to speak with you.
- Yeah, me, too, man.
If we do find something
and we need to get someone
out here to verify, uh,
I'll give you a call.
- Thanks, Travis.
- Uh-huh.
Buh-bye.
BRYANT:
Howdy, Erik.
- Hey.
- How's it going, Erik?
That's a pretty picture of the
mesa that you got there, Erik.
Oh, you, you
are gonna enjoy this.
TRAVIS: The day after
Pete Kelsey conducted
his photogrammetry scan
of the ranch,
he sent Erik all of his
compiled data files
for us to review.
ERIK: Well, I've got only
about a billion data points.
Of course this comes out of Pete
Kelsey's recent survey work.
This is
a three-dimensional model.
It's point-cloud data.
What it is,
is individual points that
have been located through
a complex algorithm
coming out
of all these thousands
of pictures that he's taken.
So you take all those images,
you stitch them together
and you get a three-dimensional
- model. Oh, yeah.
- That's incredible.
Yeah, so, I've
been diving into this.
And turns out there are some
very interesting artifacts
showing up.
- Whoa! I just saw one.
- You might. Did you see it?
- Yeah. In the sky.
- Okay.
- KALEB: Oh. Right there.
- ERIK: Yes!
- TRAVIS: Oh, weird.
- ERIK: Yes.
THOMAS:
That looks like that's a whole
- bunch of points right there.
- Oh, it is.
Well, what would cause it to
do that if that's up in the air?
That's the question.
Look at this structure.
This phantom structure
that's sticking up in the sky.
- TRAVIS: This is odd. I got to tell you...
- ERIK: There it is.
TRAVIS: Wow, that thing is
really prominent from here, it's like,
- it's a... some sort of big feature.
- ERIK: Yeah.
ERIK: You know, it looks more
than a hundred feet in the air.
That's nuts.
ERIK: One way of interpreting
this is to say
that the drone did not,
uh, properly register
its correct GPS position
when it took the pictures.
- Were you thinking that?
- I was, I was about to suggest
that we've had such trouble
with those drones
and their GPS coordinates
being spoofed,
- hacked or jammed.
- ERIK: Yes. Yes.
What if it thought it was
somewhere else
when it took those pictures?
- But you've got tens of positions.
- ERIK: Correct.
TRAVIS: That-that
should cancel itself out.
Well, you'd have to have
a lingering condition
in that space
that causes
some sort of displacement,
some phantom displacement
of the reckoned position,
the measured position
of the drone in the sky.
TRAVIS: What's so
strange here is, if the GPS
was being spoofed
for the whole survey,
the final photogrammetry image
would be a big blur.
That's not
what's happening at all.
This one specific spot
over the ranch is confusing
the photogrammetry data
and confusing it from a number
of different angles,
which makes me think there's
something really strange
about this particular area.
ERIK: Another interpretation
might be if you did have some kind
of translucent effect
or object in the sky,
then I suppose
it might also cause
the algorithm
to perceive those pixels,
whose color comes
from the ground, as being
you know, somewhere else,
up in the air.
Has Pete seen this before?
Did you ask him?
That's the other important
point. I've connected with Pete
and I've also spoken with the,
the vendor of this software,
asking, "Is this common?"
And the answer that
I've gotten is, "No."
Really?
This is not a common thing
in the terrestrial surveys
like this.
Are there any other areas
in his survey
that have this
sort of artifact to them?
Yes.
I want to show you
something at another location
that we've visited
that is part of this survey.
- Okay.
- Okay?
TRAVIS: This is right above
the petroglyph area, right?
- THOMAS: Yes.
- It is.
Just on the edge
of our property.
- TRAVIS: Right.
- ERIK: And you'll recognize
- the stone circle here.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
ERIK: And the feature
that I want to show you
is actually
very close to this stone circle.
- See what's hap... there you go.
- BRYANT: Oh, there you go.
Right there.
ERIK:
So let me spin us around.
- I noticed a couple things here.
- Well, now look at this.
ERIK: And-and you may
observe the same thing I have.
TRAVIS:
Yeah, so line those two up,
and where are they pointing?
ERIK:
This feature, this artifact,
the largest stone that was part
of the, of the stone circle
and that prominent thing
that's jetting up,
you know, further to the south.
You have three points in a line.
THOMAS:
Wow.
ERIK: Interestingly and
somewhat mysteriously,
the anomalies
to the south and to the north
of the stone circle
align perfectly
with that large center stone
in the stone circle itself.
Could be a coincidence,
but it sure is suggestive.
- What are the odds of that?
- ERIK: Right.
We've learned not to ignore
any anomalous features
in our data even if we have
no idea what to make of them.
TRAVIS: So that, to me,
seems like you've almost
drawn a ray from
the other anomaly
- through this stone...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
...to this, this anomaly.
If we've got
a line being drawn here,
then what is
that line pointing to?
What is the line there for?
We need to mark these spots
because, you know,
what if this is
somehow mapping an anomaly
that we need to investigate.
You remember last year
when we had that expert out,
he said that the petroglyph
was depicting a portal.
So, I mean,
if we're getting way out there,
that pillar's alignment with it
kind of looks like,
in the data points, a spiraling
thing, portal-type feature.
That's interesting.
Last year we had
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
come out to examine some
petroglyphs we'd discovered
on the east side of the property
right by the location
of this strange aerial
anomaly that we're seeing.
What I'm looking
at is these curves.
It's a metaphor for
a serpent or a snake.
Snakes represents
two different worlds,
so it's a guardian
to the portals.
The portal is
a window into the supernatural.
TRAVIS: Dragon is right about
the petroglyphs near this area,
but this strange structure
in Pete's photogrammetry data
is right above a mysterious
spiral of boulders on the mesa.
I'm thinking there's
definitely something here.
TRAVIS: And earlier this year,
Navajo expert and historian John Dover
told us this feature may have
been constructed by ancient
Indigenous people to represent
a very specific phenomenon.
JON: Looking at this place
in its entirety,
it struck me as a holy place.
We have basically
a spiral right here
that's been
put into this ground here.
That spiral is indicative of...?
A portal,
a dimensional rift, an opening.
THOMAS: We have
so much data pointing that
there is something up
in the sky going on.
And I honestly,
I'm not so sure that
that petroglyph isn't
telling us that there's
- something in the sky over the ranch, you know?
- Right.
Because that's
what it looks like.
Could Pete Kelsey have actually
captured visual evidence
that there really are portals
on Skinwalker Ranch?
And could it help explain
why we see UAPs appear
and then suddenly disappear?
Well, we owe it to
ourselves to follow up
on every data anomaly
that we come across,
particularly
when they're as prominent
as the ones
we're looking at here.
Erik, the data is
absolutely fascinating.
We need to meet
with Brandon and review this
and everything else
we've learned this year.
I think we've just got to do
that and follow up on this data.
- ERIK: Yep.
- BRYANT: Let's do it.
- BRANDON: Greetings, everyone.
- ALL: Hey.
I think everyone would
agree this past year has
been the most
productive year in history,
relative to the investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch.
We launched this phase
of the investigation
with former Governor Herbert.
Uh, his interest
and ongoing
engagement with this effort
has been an important
part of really elevating
the formality of this research
and how important it is.
We also have joining us today,
investigative journalist
George Knapp.
Best known
as the leading journalist
documenting
the reality of not only
the ranch,
but this type of phenomena.
I'd like to say, Governor,
by the way, you have
a really beautiful state,
but it's an awfully weird state.
(laughter)
I think today will be
a very eye-opening day
and briefing for our guests.
Well, I'm so excited to hear
what you have to tell me,
and learn
from what's taken place.
I think it's not
only important for Utah
to find out what's happening
within our borders, by the way,
but for America and the world.
And so what it leads us to,
who knows?
But I think it's important
that we find out.
TRAVIS:
Yes, absolutely.
I think the best thing to do
would be,
uh, let's just start.
We've done so many experiments,
captured so much video,
so much measurement data,
of unidentified aerial
phenomena.
We've seen so many this summer
with the various experiments
that we've done and so many
witnesses
and instruments capturing them
that it's undeniable that
that's what we have captured.
ERIK: Um, I do have
footage that I can share.
I'm going to go ahead
and play it in real time.
TRAVIS:
We had just launched a rocket
over Homestead Two
and fortunately we did
have a camera looking
in that direction.
- HERBERT: Wow.
- THOMAS: It's unbelievable.
We saw so many this summer,
I don't know
that I could remember
accurately and go back
and count how many there's been.
TRAVIS: The experiments
we conducted this year led
to some of the most
compelling and confounding UAP
incidents ever documented
on Skinwalker Ranch.
Using rockets, and digging
to stimulate the activity...
Whoa! What was that?
...UAPs appeared numerous
times at Homestead Two...
- Hey, look, UAP right there!
- Yep, I see it.
...and above the triangle area.
Look in the sky, y'all!
We've seen a lot of
unidentified aerial phenomena.
Some that I would say
even qualify
as unidentified flying objects.
Erik, if you wanna show them
what it is that we saw.
You'll notice this bright
object to the center moving
in a peculiar way and exhibiting
some peculiar characteristics.
This object, whatever it is,
appears brighter than Jupiter.
- HERBERT: It's clearly moving.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, and it is moving
in a different way than
a satellite would be moving.
There was no
air traffic in the area.
And you see
no navigation lights.
And it actually came toward us,
and then it made
a dogleg maneuver,
and then turned to the east.
BRYANT: We all saw with
the naked eye, this thing.
I mean,
for lack of a better term,
it looked almost
like a flying donut.
I mean, it was bright.
And then it had
a defined dark center to it.
BRANDON:
This is a solid structure.
It was captured from
multiple camera viewpoints.
And had eyewitnesses both
on and off the ranch.
HERBERT: It looks
like there's structure to it.
And large enough
and bright enough
that you could see it
with the naked eye.
- Yes. - Easily.
- Sure.
This one is
the one that I would say
is not a UAP, that it's a UFO.
And, Erik has captured an odd
sound emanating from the ranch.
And we see it almost every time
one of these phenomena occur.
Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, it's here!
We got that 1.6 thing.
Erik, are you doing
something at 1.6?
ERIK:
I'm not broadcasting.
I swear that sounds
like a communication signal.
We see this
1.6 or so gigahertz signal
at times when we don't have eyes
on any kind of UAP, there's just
some other activity as part
of our investigation going on.
For example, drilling, digging.
Could this be a fingerprint?
Or at least the trace evidence
of the technology
that is being utilized?
That-that is a, uh,
possible speculation, Brandon,
but I would say it's one
of those correlations that
we haven't proved
that they're definitively tied
to each other,
but the statistics are really
getting hard to, uh, ignore.
I've heard these stories
about people that pick up
radio stations on the fillings
in their teeth over the years.
Uh, coming back
to the idea of frequencies,
Lue Elizondo,
who headed the AATIP program,
has indicated that there is a
frequency that they have studied
that pops up again and again
in these military
encounters with
what we'd call UAP or UFOs.
I can tell you, uh,
definitively that the UAPx guys,
they told us
specifically that they were
looking for microwaves,
so I told them,
"Just look between
one and three gigahertz,"
and they
came back to us and said,
"We had a sighting the other
night and you were right.
We picked up
something at 1.6 gigahertz."
- And this was in California.
- Wow.
So, it seems that this
1.6 gigahertz is somehow
- connected to these sightings.
- Yeah.
Well, uh, there's some
kind of electromagnetic effects.
It's always been
associated with the ranch.
Uh, when you think
you're ready to document it,
it goes somewhere else.
It plays tricks on you.
Compasses spin, batteries die,
vehicles crap out,
cameras go off-line.
And whatever this force is,
whatever the source
of the intelligence,
it shows you
that it's in charge.
It reminds me
of this recent experience...
...with Dragon and Tom Lewis.
I think it's important for...
Governor Herbert to hear
of your most recent experience,
that literally
brought you to your knees.
THOMAS:
Yeah, it was probably,
well, probably
the scariest moment,
you know, personally... I know
- it was for you obviously, Tom.
- Definitely.
Yeah, so this day
we were drilling.
Dragon had this idea,
maybe we should go check out
Homestead Two,
see if there's any weird
readings happening there.
We go down to Homestead Two.
Everything seems normal.
We took instruments.
We'll see if anything
strange pops up and...
- keep in touch with them.
- Yeah.
This doggone
thing is broadcasting.
This thing shouldn't
be broadcasting anything.
Hey, Bryant? Tom?
Do you copy?
Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Erik.
TOM: Erik came
on the walkie and said,
"Listen to this sound."
We've got
an RF spectrum analyzer,
which is a receiver
that seems to be broadcasting,
instead of just receiving.
Well, just
have a listen at this.
(beeping)
TOM: That sound
that was broadcast over
the radio was a set of beeps.
I heard static and,
like, a roaring train.
Are you okay?
No.
My eyes went black.
I couldn't see.
- And...
- Like you went blind?
Uh, yeah, I was
a little bit conscious still
and so I dropped to the ground
and my whole left arm was numb.
And so, at this point,
I'm scared.
I'm thinking
I'm having a heart attack.
It was, I could,
I could feel him
physically shaking.
I mean, it was...
He's in distress.
It was all I could do
to get him to my truck.
You want to go?
Yeah. Let's go.
(exhales)
I can't feel my hand.
You, like, you can't...
you can't feel your hand?
I can't feel my hand.
BRYANT:
Do you have any chest pains?
TOM:
No, but it's hard to keep...
keep my breath, it's...
TOM: And my vision
really didn't come back
until I was off the ranch.
Luckily, Bryant was there,
you know, to help me.
And, uh, what had happened
is my heart, uh,
was skipping beats.
And I had had EKGs before this
and I've never had
this issue before.
And the doctor explained to me
that it, you know, there's
nothing wrong with my heart,
but it was
an electrical problem.
- Really?
- And, yeah.
Fortunately, you know,
he's okay but,
I mean, that's,
that's the strange thing is
it affects people
so differently and people
are tuned to whatever
energy or frequency, but...
what I find, you know,
interesting and also disturbing
is it occurred,
like, literally right when...
we were hitting
the base of the mesa where
we were trying to see what in
the world is inside that mesa.
And that's
when all hell broke loose.
Which leads me
to think about this material
that we pulled
out of one hole...
while we were drilling
into the side of the mesa.
Boy, that thing sounds
like it's hitting something.
Oh, what the heck is...?
TRAVIS: In an effort to
explore a possible tunnel
or cave system beneath the mesa,
we brought in drilling expert
Aaron Blunt,
who attempted to drill
horizontally into the mesa.
That's when his drill bit
encountered
something hard
and seemingly impenetrable.
We're coming up about
11 inches every ten feet.
So, it sounds like
you're describing kind of a V.
It could even be...
maybe a dome.
TRAVIS: Not only was this
hard object dome-shaped...
What is that?
...it also appeared to
be 400 feet wide
- and made out of metal.
- Oh, my.
What did you think it was
when you first saw it?
I wondered if it was
like metal flakes or something.
That's exactly
the same impression I got.
But the biggest
surprise came when we had
a piece of the metal analyzed.
There are material
findings coming out of that
lateral drilling exercise,
surprising.
Completely unexpected.
I have to show you this.
I want to put them
on the table so...
I'm going to pass around
a few of the samples
of which we have
many, uh, into the hundreds
that have been taken
out of that what,
five or six-inch diameter hole?
We're talking about
a six-inch hole into the mesa.
We made it back about 420 feet.
These started coming out
as we were well into
the hundreds of feet
into the mesa.
But who knows how much of it
never came back
out of the mountain.
Erik, uh, reached out, uh,
to the local university here
and had them do
an analysis with a scanning
electron microscope and do...
precise elemental analysis
makeup of this material.
The interesting thing
about the analysis that we got:
Tellurium is only on one side
and europium,
which is on the other side.
Now, tellurium
and europium are two
of the most rare materials
on the planet.
And it was fused.
Can that happen naturally?
If it were
going to be made on Earth,
it would have to be
done deep under the crust,
miles deep
in a geological process.
There's no volcanic
processes happening there
on the ranch
or in the Uinta Basin
that, uh, that we know of.
The only other natural,
uh, way to create this
would be an asteroid impact.
But what we're
missing from this asteroid is,
uh, we're missing nickel,
we're missing iridium,
we're missing some other things
that would
be there if it were an asteroid.
This bears a lot of resemblance
to things
that were made in a furnace.
As if this is
perhaps an engineered material.
TRAVIS: You remember
the space shuttle tiles
that protected it
from heat on reentry?
This material makeup
is very similar to that ceramic.
- Wow.
- So, Governor Herbert, let me tell you,
we did another,
probably the biggest,
most complicated,
most expensive experiment
that, uh, has ever
been done at the ranch.
We had three laser systems,
and we placed them
in a triangular position
pointed up at the anomaly
in the sky over the ranch.
And then we also had
a very large rocket system
uh, so that we could
put a payload
into the anomaly
and have it linger
as the recovery system
brought it back down
with multiple instruments.
Now...
we get ready
to do the launch and...
Brandon, tell them what
happened when we counted down
- and you pushed the button.
- The second that I pushed
the button, it literally
went up and exploded.
Push and hold.
Oh!
How high did it get...
off the ground?
Maybe 30 feet?
- So it immediately blew up?
- Yeah.
Has this ever happened before?
Any of those rockets?
They've never had
one fail like that before.
So, it's like somebody was
trying to keep us from getting
the instruments into
the place we want to put it.
So thank heavens we were
ready with other rockets.
- Yes.
- To continue the experiment.
Do you have that second launch?
So this is, in fact,
the footage of that launch,
as seen by one
of our surveillance cameras.
This takes place
at exactly the place
where we've had
so many unusual things happen.
- Is that the triangle?
- ERIK: That is the triangle.
Yes.
Erik was in the command center
and saw something.
ERIK:
Hey, Travis, you copy?
TRAVIS:
Yeah, Erik, go ahead.
If Brandon is nearby,
can you bring him in real quick?
TRAVIS:
We'll be right there.
Travis, you've got to see this.
- Okay.
- Well, there's the lasers.
- Yeah, I'm doing instant playback. You see this?
- Oh! Yeah.
- Wow.
- What the crap is that?
This is through the lens
of a camera that is tasked
with surveying the skies.
And I'll draw your attention
to this part of the screen.
Clearly we have an object.
Something luminous moving
towards the apex of that
configuration of lasers being
broadcast upward
from the triangle.
TRAVIS: And it just, I mean,
it just goes away.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
It's important
to note that during this day,
the entire airspace
not only above the ranch,
but in the general area
within the Uinta Basin
was restricted.
Clearly,
there's no strobe on this,
but beyond that, the aircraft
transponder data receiver
that we have at the ranch
indicated no aircraft
at that location.
It's unexplained.
What is the theory
of what the explanation
could be?
Well, what if
some of the stories
that we keep hearing about, uh,
from the ancient Native tribes,
in petroglyphs that...
From all different kinds of
folks that have been
to the ranch, that there's
a portal access on the ranch.
What if that's true?
It could be what we just saw!
This may be
a particular point of interest
for a wormhole or a Stargate,
some type
of interstellar interaction?
One of the stories that's
been told from the Sherman
and Bigelow era that caught
the attention of the DIA...
The Defense
Intelligence Agency...
Was about a hole in the sky.
Call it a portal.
The rancher would
see these things open up,
it's dusk here,
it's afternoon over there.
It's like you're looking in
through a hole in the sky
to another place.
And he would report
things coming in and out.
Uh, craft coming in and out from
that reality to this reality.
Well, you just referenced
an anecdotal experience,
one from a credible scientist,
but no visual evidence
to accompany that.
Here we have
potential visual evidence
of some type
of interstellar activity
focused on the ranch,
some type of interaction
that is not explained
by any conventional means.
Never seen it before.
I-I've never seen
anything like it before.
And, Brandon, this next one,
you have yet to see
because it just happened to us.
- Really?
- Yeah, it is so bizarre.
I think it would be a good idea
to get everyone's eyes on this.
- Absolutely.
- Please, let's do.
ERIK: This is
a three-dimensional model
of Pete Kelsey's recent
survey work.
Pete scanned the entire mesa,
and look at this structure.
HERBERT:
Wow. Incredible.
Wow!
This looks like
a solid structure in the sky.
ERIK:
Yes.
This object, whatever it is,
uh, it's really fascinating.
What are we looking at?
We don't know at this point.
Well, we need
to talk about the reality
of what we're dealing with
in this investigation.
Based on all
of these combined events,
how do we move forward?
Based on all of
these combined events,
all of this data, if we
are truly being led by the data,
and what we have documented,
how do we move forward?
What are our next steps as
a team here at Skinwalker Ranch?
TRAVIS: Well, what we can say is
perhaps one of the most
amazing treasures
might be under that mesa,
but it might also be
amazingly fragile.
And we don't want to
destroy whatever it is,
by willy-nilly
going in and-and...
- and stomping our feet around.
- ERIK: Yeah, and exactly
as Travis has explained,
we should probably take
a forensic approach
to look at this as a biopsy.
Uh, you know,
we conduct the research, uh...
very carefully,
because we don't want to destroy
the very thing we are
attempting to get eyes on.
So obviously we can't come in
recklessly and blast the side
- of the mesa.
- TRAVIS: Absolutely. - Yeah.
Whatever we do must be
surgical,
well-planned and precise.
Is there any way
to discover
what's inside the mesa,
short of excavation?
Is there some kind of sonar,
micro imaging that we can,
you can actually X-ray
the mountain?
We have used, uh,
ground-penetrating radar
to the best
of our ability right now.
Uh, we are pursuing some, uh,
space capabilities that
are just now,
new technologies coming online.
Maybe in the next year or so.
You know, there's another thing
that we need to follow up on.
We have discovered
there is some sort of anomaly
over the ranch
in a certain location
that is between 3,000
and 5,000 feet
in altitude above the triangle.
If this is a...
atmospheric anomaly
or a gravitational anomaly,
- I think we just got to follow up on this data.
- Absolutely.
BRANDON: I think everyone would
agree that we move forward
having a multidisciplinary,
diverse approach
to really tackling this problem
set and taking the data
that drives us
in the right direction
to uncover the secret
of what lies on this ranch,
both above and below.
GEORGE: Well, I mean,
here's the significance for me.
You guys set up an experiment
where you have
witnesses there gathered
to conduct this experiment
and hopefully
generate a response.
You don't know
what the response is gonna be.
You don't know
if there will be a response.
And you get a response
and you document it.
It appears
we are triggering contact...
...in some way,
shape or form and...
it is manifesting itself
above the ranch
in a very profound way.
We're dealing with forces.
We're dealing with phenomena
that redefines not only
our vision of reality but
potentially even history itself.
Is Skinwalker Ranch really
at the center
of a lot of interesting things
- that are now being brought forward?
- HERBERT: Yes, but...
it doesn't seem to be
restricted just to Utah.
- This is country-wide, worldwide?
- BRANDON: Yeah.
GEORGE:
Well, for the last four years,
the whole world
has been on a UFO binge.
We've had major media coverage
taking it seriously
for the first time maybe ever.
Congress has dug in.
They want to fund
a permanent investigation.
A program that
would look into these things.
And all of this stuff
is traced directly
back to Skinwalker Ranch.
If not for a DIA scientist
visiting the property back
in 2007
and having an experience,
there would not have been
an AAWSAP program,
there would not
have been an AATIP program,
and the whole world would not
be on this UFO binge
that it's on right now. We don't
know where it's gonna lead,
but at least we've dragged it
out of the dark ages
and made this topic
a little more respectable
for Congress, for media,
for scientists to investigate.
It all stems back to the ranch.
Well, Brandon, let me just say,
you know, I was here
at the beginning
12 weeks ago, and now I'm...
I've returned
and you're reporting.
And all I can say is
the phenomena
is just overwhelming.
I'm very excited
about the next chapter.
Uh, I think you've got momentum,
uh, I again like Dr. Taylor
talking about this should be
a scalpeled approach.
Erik, you've mentioned how
we've got to be careful
about what we're doing here
so we don't damage
- the information we'll find.
- GEORGE: Very much so.
You guys have made breakthroughs
on so many different, uh, bases,
and, uh, I can't wait
to see what comes next.
BRANDON: Well, thank you,
Governor, for your time and attention.
- And thank you, George, for joining us.
- Glad to be here.
I want to thank everyone at
this table for your sacrifice,
for your professionalism,
for your talents,
your expertise.
We are, uh, opening new doors,
new paths to explore.
I look forward
to the path ahead.
And, uh, we'll be in touch
with you regarding next steps.
- Thank you.
- KANDUS: All right.
- Thanks, Brandon.
- Thank you.
Thank you, Governor.
- George. Yeah, yeah.
- Good to meet you.
ERIK: We've learned a lot of
things through our work this year.
Piece by piece,
we are continuing to
assemble this puzzle,
showing us that not only
is the ranch phenomenology real,
but we seem to be
interactively engaging it.
THOMAS: I'm way past
the point of no return.
I've had too many
things happen to me
on the ranch not to continue.
It seems like
the stakes have risen,
so at this point
we have to push forward.
We have to get answers.
GEORGE: I've seen things today
that I never thought I would see
and haven't seen before,
but I'd like to think
that we can figure it out,
I hope we can.
Here's the thing for sure:
You aren't going to figure it
out if you don't try.
TRAVIS: As we wrap up
this year's investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch,
we all feel like we're getting
much closer to finding some
real answers about this place.
I mean,
when I first came to the ranch,
I had never even seen a UAP.
We got something, hold on.
- Look, look, look.
- What is that?
Holy (bleep)!
But we've
witnessed and documented
phenomena up in the sky...
What the hell is that
in the sky?
CHUCK:
That thing is big and spherical!
...that has changed
my entire outlook
on what I thought was possible.
And now...
after encountering
a dome-shaped metal object
deep inside the mesa,
who knows what
it could ultimately reveal.
Oh, my.
TRAVIS:
We owe it to ourselves
and the entire world to figure
out the truth behind this ranch.
BRANDON: It takes courage
to confront these topics.
I believe
as we brave that territory,
as we have
the courage to delve deeper,
both literally and figuratively
into Skinwalker Ranch,
we're going to find
that not only
will we come to
an understanding
of the dark forces
that we're interacting with,
but also the nature
of our world, and our reality.
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I saw something,
just boom,
real quick, across the sky.
We need a much larger rocket
that can go up through
the triangle
and multiple very large lasers.
You are proposing
something on a grand scale.
- TRAVIS: There it goes.
- DAVE: Oh, (bleep). Let's go.
Oh, my God.
ERIK:
Travis, you-you got to see this.
BRANDON:
It disappeared.
TRAVIS:
What did it disappear into?
BRANDON:
Are we seeing portals opening?
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.
- Hey, Pete.
- Hey, hey.
ERIK: Yeah, it's
good to have you back.
Can't wait to see what
you're packing this time.
- (chuckles)
- How's it going?
TRAVIS: We've had the
most incredible year yet
investigating and stimulating
all kinds of strange phenomena
on Skinwalker Ranch.
But the weather is
about to turn really harsh,
as fall sets in, meaning
that we're out of time
to conduct any more
large-scale experiments.
PETE:
I brought some goodies.
- We can do photogrammetry.
- Now, that's good.
TRAVIS: So we invited
technologist Pete Kelsey back
to perform a final high-tech
3D photogrammetry drone scan
of the entire ranch.
Well, I'm excited
to have you out here.
- It'd be great to take you back to the mesa.
- Let's go.
All right. Let's do it.
TRAVIS:
Photogrammetry is a process
where thousands
of high-definition photographs
are taken of an area of interest
and combined to create a
detailed three-dimensional map,
potentially
revealing features
that aren't visible
to the naked eye.
- THOMAS: About right here is good.
- TRAVIS: All right.
Before we have to put
our investigation
on hold until next year,
we want to get a 3D model
of every part of the ranch
to see if any anomalies appear.
If something shows up,
maybe it will help us determine
what is behind all the UAPs
and the other phenomena
that we've documented here.
- This looks great.
- Uh-huh.
TRAVIS:
Well, start, uh, getting set up
- and let's do this thing.
- PETE: Okay.
ERIK: Pete Kelsey has brought
on some of the most advanced
technology one can get
his hands on.
- PETE: Have a matching set, thank you.
- BRYANT: Okay, yeah, sure.
ERIK: This drone is a
robotic flying platform
that has
exquisite spatial awareness.
That very precise
positional awareness
is essential for reconstructing
an accurate three-dimensional
model of the property.
We're interested to find out
whether the results will
bear out anything anomalous.
PETE: Well, I'm ready
when you guys are.
ERIK:
Great. We need to get back
to the command center
to work on some stuff.
Maybe we'll just
leave you to go at it.
Yeah, I've got all my stuff
here, so I'll just have at it.
Okay, well, if it's all right
with you I'll stick around.
I don't like leaving
guests out here by themselves.
So, if you're okay with some
company, I'll stay with you.
- I... I appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
- Okay, happy to.
All right. Well, we'll load up
and head back.
PETE: So, once all
the data I've collected
is post-processed in a nice,
neat package, I hand that
to Erik, and he does
the heavy lifting, and that is
spending hours and hours
going through this data,
because it's all visual.
All right, I've got
all green lights here.
Spinning up.
♪ ♪
Literally it comes down
to putting eyes on the model
and looking
for anything interesting.
Have a look.
BRYANT:
That's so cool.
That's amazing.
TRAVIS: While Pete was
conducting his photogrammetry scan
of the ranch,
I went to my trailer
to have a video conference with
author and renowned astronomer
Seth Shostak.
Hello, Seth. How you doing?
- Travis, good to see you.
- It's been a while.
Uh, I wanted to catch up
with you and...
Now, Seth is
the senior astronomer
for the institute known as SETI.
Which stands for the Search
for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
I wanted to talk to him about
the mysterious
1.6 gigahertz signal
that we've been detecting
on the ranch,
which I believe could be some
kind of communication signal.
As you know,
I'm out here as part
of this investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch.
And we're actually finding
some really weird stuff.
We're finding
optical phenomena
and all sorts of
different regimes of energy.
And even a strange RF signal
at 1.6 gigahertz.
And what I wanted to ask you
is, if I found a signal
that I thought
was
an intelligent communication,
what protocols
SETI would use
in a situation like that?
Uh, to start, you know,
verifying,
validating and reporting?
Well, there is a protocol.
In fact, I was the chair
of the, uh, committee
that revised those protocols
about five years ago.
First thing is,
if you pick up a signal that
you think might be ET,
you want to make sure it isn't
a telecommunications satellite,
it isn't the radar down
at a local airport
or anything like that.
The second thing you do is,
you tell everybody.
You would want to do that
because you want people
at other facilities
to check out the signal, too.
I see.
So, let me ask you a question.
Say we have confirmed
an optical, uh... signal.
And it's repeatable.
If you go through the process
and you...
rule out all of the...
potential, uh, logical culprits.
The microwave oven,
an airplane...
a-a satellite,
you know, those types of things.
What would be your next step
in, in, uh, verifying?
Well, as to say, uh, you know,
you're really critically
dependent
on being able to verify
the signal
at some other facility.
So, you would insist on
finding it somewhere else.
Right.
All right, Erik.
She's about to broadcast it.
Seth's suggestion
that we would want confirmation
of the 1.6 gigahertz
communication signal
at another location struck me
because that's exactly
what happened a month ago
at the Jack FM radio station
about 11 miles
north of Skinwalker Ranch.
After the station manager
and DJ, Jenn Rook,
told me and Erik that
the same kind of signal had
infiltrated their airwaves,
we decided to see what
would happen
if she broadcast it back out.
- There it is.
- Wow.
It really changed
her waveform big-time.
Well, the next day, Jim Morse
showed us some incredible
videos of UAPs
that were recorded
by people in the area
later that night.
ERIK:
Jim, When was this video taken?
Last night, about 8:00 p.m.
- Really?
- TRAVIS: That's just a few hours
after we played that sound
on the radio, Erik.
No kidding.
Well, it sounds
as if the signal
you're picking up is
generated locally, right?
That there's something
in your immediate area
that is producing this signal.
Is that kind of what
you're suggesting here?
Yep.
So imagine,
you know,
an advanced civilization
wanted to communicate
in real time,
what type of phenomenology
or telltale signs
might SETI look for?
If it's really coming
from another society,
it would be in one direction.
And that's kind of the clue,
that you would see it coming
from that direction on the sky.
I think that's exactly
what I wanted to hear, Seth.
It was interesting how Seth,
a highly accredited scientist
who researches
the potential for ET life,
believed the type
of communication signal
we've detected would come from
a specific direction,
because that's
exactly what
happened on the ranch.
Go back the other way.
Five weeks ago, when we detected
the 1.6 gigahertz signal,
it came from a specific spot.
It's coming back.
Right there, right there, stop.
Where we had just launched
a rocket near Homestead Two.
- So it's very directional.
- Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
And then, later that night,
Erik recorded an incredible UAP
moving around the homestead.
We can't be for sure
if that communication signal
we've detected was
what led to the UAP appearing,
or if it represents
more evidence
that portals could really exist
on Skinwalker Ranch,
but talking with Seth
just makes me more convinced
that we are getting closer
to some answers.
That helps me a lot.
I really appreciate it.
Well, any time, Travis. You
know, it's always my pleasure
- to speak with you.
- Yeah, me, too, man.
If we do find something
and we need to get someone
out here to verify, uh,
I'll give you a call.
- Thanks, Travis.
- Uh-huh.
Buh-bye.
BRYANT:
Howdy, Erik.
- Hey.
- How's it going, Erik?
That's a pretty picture of the
mesa that you got there, Erik.
Oh, you, you
are gonna enjoy this.
TRAVIS: The day after
Pete Kelsey conducted
his photogrammetry scan
of the ranch,
he sent Erik all of his
compiled data files
for us to review.
ERIK: Well, I've got only
about a billion data points.
Of course this comes out of Pete
Kelsey's recent survey work.
This is
a three-dimensional model.
It's point-cloud data.
What it is,
is individual points that
have been located through
a complex algorithm
coming out
of all these thousands
of pictures that he's taken.
So you take all those images,
you stitch them together
and you get a three-dimensional
- model. Oh, yeah.
- That's incredible.
Yeah, so, I've
been diving into this.
And turns out there are some
very interesting artifacts
showing up.
- Whoa! I just saw one.
- You might. Did you see it?
- Yeah. In the sky.
- Okay.
- KALEB: Oh. Right there.
- ERIK: Yes!
- TRAVIS: Oh, weird.
- ERIK: Yes.
THOMAS:
That looks like that's a whole
- bunch of points right there.
- Oh, it is.
Well, what would cause it to
do that if that's up in the air?
That's the question.
Look at this structure.
This phantom structure
that's sticking up in the sky.
- TRAVIS: This is odd. I got to tell you...
- ERIK: There it is.
TRAVIS: Wow, that thing is
really prominent from here, it's like,
- it's a... some sort of big feature.
- ERIK: Yeah.
ERIK: You know, it looks more
than a hundred feet in the air.
That's nuts.
ERIK: One way of interpreting
this is to say
that the drone did not,
uh, properly register
its correct GPS position
when it took the pictures.
- Were you thinking that?
- I was, I was about to suggest
that we've had such trouble
with those drones
and their GPS coordinates
being spoofed,
- hacked or jammed.
- ERIK: Yes. Yes.
What if it thought it was
somewhere else
when it took those pictures?
- But you've got tens of positions.
- ERIK: Correct.
TRAVIS: That-that
should cancel itself out.
Well, you'd have to have
a lingering condition
in that space
that causes
some sort of displacement,
some phantom displacement
of the reckoned position,
the measured position
of the drone in the sky.
TRAVIS: What's so
strange here is, if the GPS
was being spoofed
for the whole survey,
the final photogrammetry image
would be a big blur.
That's not
what's happening at all.
This one specific spot
over the ranch is confusing
the photogrammetry data
and confusing it from a number
of different angles,
which makes me think there's
something really strange
about this particular area.
ERIK: Another interpretation
might be if you did have some kind
of translucent effect
or object in the sky,
then I suppose
it might also cause
the algorithm
to perceive those pixels,
whose color comes
from the ground, as being
you know, somewhere else,
up in the air.
Has Pete seen this before?
Did you ask him?
That's the other important
point. I've connected with Pete
and I've also spoken with the,
the vendor of this software,
asking, "Is this common?"
And the answer that
I've gotten is, "No."
Really?
This is not a common thing
in the terrestrial surveys
like this.
Are there any other areas
in his survey
that have this
sort of artifact to them?
Yes.
I want to show you
something at another location
that we've visited
that is part of this survey.
- Okay.
- Okay?
TRAVIS: This is right above
the petroglyph area, right?
- THOMAS: Yes.
- It is.
Just on the edge
of our property.
- TRAVIS: Right.
- ERIK: And you'll recognize
- the stone circle here.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
ERIK: And the feature
that I want to show you
is actually
very close to this stone circle.
- See what's hap... there you go.
- BRYANT: Oh, there you go.
Right there.
ERIK:
So let me spin us around.
- I noticed a couple things here.
- Well, now look at this.
ERIK: And-and you may
observe the same thing I have.
TRAVIS:
Yeah, so line those two up,
and where are they pointing?
ERIK:
This feature, this artifact,
the largest stone that was part
of the, of the stone circle
and that prominent thing
that's jetting up,
you know, further to the south.
You have three points in a line.
THOMAS:
Wow.
ERIK: Interestingly and
somewhat mysteriously,
the anomalies
to the south and to the north
of the stone circle
align perfectly
with that large center stone
in the stone circle itself.
Could be a coincidence,
but it sure is suggestive.
- What are the odds of that?
- ERIK: Right.
We've learned not to ignore
any anomalous features
in our data even if we have
no idea what to make of them.
TRAVIS: So that, to me,
seems like you've almost
drawn a ray from
the other anomaly
- through this stone...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
...to this, this anomaly.
If we've got
a line being drawn here,
then what is
that line pointing to?
What is the line there for?
We need to mark these spots
because, you know,
what if this is
somehow mapping an anomaly
that we need to investigate.
You remember last year
when we had that expert out,
he said that the petroglyph
was depicting a portal.
So, I mean,
if we're getting way out there,
that pillar's alignment with it
kind of looks like,
in the data points, a spiraling
thing, portal-type feature.
That's interesting.
Last year we had
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
come out to examine some
petroglyphs we'd discovered
on the east side of the property
right by the location
of this strange aerial
anomaly that we're seeing.
What I'm looking
at is these curves.
It's a metaphor for
a serpent or a snake.
Snakes represents
two different worlds,
so it's a guardian
to the portals.
The portal is
a window into the supernatural.
TRAVIS: Dragon is right about
the petroglyphs near this area,
but this strange structure
in Pete's photogrammetry data
is right above a mysterious
spiral of boulders on the mesa.
I'm thinking there's
definitely something here.
TRAVIS: And earlier this year,
Navajo expert and historian John Dover
told us this feature may have
been constructed by ancient
Indigenous people to represent
a very specific phenomenon.
JON: Looking at this place
in its entirety,
it struck me as a holy place.
We have basically
a spiral right here
that's been
put into this ground here.
That spiral is indicative of...?
A portal,
a dimensional rift, an opening.
THOMAS: We have
so much data pointing that
there is something up
in the sky going on.
And I honestly,
I'm not so sure that
that petroglyph isn't
telling us that there's
- something in the sky over the ranch, you know?
- Right.
Because that's
what it looks like.
Could Pete Kelsey have actually
captured visual evidence
that there really are portals
on Skinwalker Ranch?
And could it help explain
why we see UAPs appear
and then suddenly disappear?
Well, we owe it to
ourselves to follow up
on every data anomaly
that we come across,
particularly
when they're as prominent
as the ones
we're looking at here.
Erik, the data is
absolutely fascinating.
We need to meet
with Brandon and review this
and everything else
we've learned this year.
I think we've just got to do
that and follow up on this data.
- ERIK: Yep.
- BRYANT: Let's do it.
- BRANDON: Greetings, everyone.
- ALL: Hey.
I think everyone would
agree this past year has
been the most
productive year in history,
relative to the investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch.
We launched this phase
of the investigation
with former Governor Herbert.
Uh, his interest
and ongoing
engagement with this effort
has been an important
part of really elevating
the formality of this research
and how important it is.
We also have joining us today,
investigative journalist
George Knapp.
Best known
as the leading journalist
documenting
the reality of not only
the ranch,
but this type of phenomena.
I'd like to say, Governor,
by the way, you have
a really beautiful state,
but it's an awfully weird state.
(laughter)
I think today will be
a very eye-opening day
and briefing for our guests.
Well, I'm so excited to hear
what you have to tell me,
and learn
from what's taken place.
I think it's not
only important for Utah
to find out what's happening
within our borders, by the way,
but for America and the world.
And so what it leads us to,
who knows?
But I think it's important
that we find out.
TRAVIS:
Yes, absolutely.
I think the best thing to do
would be,
uh, let's just start.
We've done so many experiments,
captured so much video,
so much measurement data,
of unidentified aerial
phenomena.
We've seen so many this summer
with the various experiments
that we've done and so many
witnesses
and instruments capturing them
that it's undeniable that
that's what we have captured.
ERIK: Um, I do have
footage that I can share.
I'm going to go ahead
and play it in real time.
TRAVIS:
We had just launched a rocket
over Homestead Two
and fortunately we did
have a camera looking
in that direction.
- HERBERT: Wow.
- THOMAS: It's unbelievable.
We saw so many this summer,
I don't know
that I could remember
accurately and go back
and count how many there's been.
TRAVIS: The experiments
we conducted this year led
to some of the most
compelling and confounding UAP
incidents ever documented
on Skinwalker Ranch.
Using rockets, and digging
to stimulate the activity...
Whoa! What was that?
...UAPs appeared numerous
times at Homestead Two...
- Hey, look, UAP right there!
- Yep, I see it.
...and above the triangle area.
Look in the sky, y'all!
We've seen a lot of
unidentified aerial phenomena.
Some that I would say
even qualify
as unidentified flying objects.
Erik, if you wanna show them
what it is that we saw.
You'll notice this bright
object to the center moving
in a peculiar way and exhibiting
some peculiar characteristics.
This object, whatever it is,
appears brighter than Jupiter.
- HERBERT: It's clearly moving.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, and it is moving
in a different way than
a satellite would be moving.
There was no
air traffic in the area.
And you see
no navigation lights.
And it actually came toward us,
and then it made
a dogleg maneuver,
and then turned to the east.
BRYANT: We all saw with
the naked eye, this thing.
I mean,
for lack of a better term,
it looked almost
like a flying donut.
I mean, it was bright.
And then it had
a defined dark center to it.
BRANDON:
This is a solid structure.
It was captured from
multiple camera viewpoints.
And had eyewitnesses both
on and off the ranch.
HERBERT: It looks
like there's structure to it.
And large enough
and bright enough
that you could see it
with the naked eye.
- Yes. - Easily.
- Sure.
This one is
the one that I would say
is not a UAP, that it's a UFO.
And, Erik has captured an odd
sound emanating from the ranch.
And we see it almost every time
one of these phenomena occur.
Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, it's here!
We got that 1.6 thing.
Erik, are you doing
something at 1.6?
ERIK:
I'm not broadcasting.
I swear that sounds
like a communication signal.
We see this
1.6 or so gigahertz signal
at times when we don't have eyes
on any kind of UAP, there's just
some other activity as part
of our investigation going on.
For example, drilling, digging.
Could this be a fingerprint?
Or at least the trace evidence
of the technology
that is being utilized?
That-that is a, uh,
possible speculation, Brandon,
but I would say it's one
of those correlations that
we haven't proved
that they're definitively tied
to each other,
but the statistics are really
getting hard to, uh, ignore.
I've heard these stories
about people that pick up
radio stations on the fillings
in their teeth over the years.
Uh, coming back
to the idea of frequencies,
Lue Elizondo,
who headed the AATIP program,
has indicated that there is a
frequency that they have studied
that pops up again and again
in these military
encounters with
what we'd call UAP or UFOs.
I can tell you, uh,
definitively that the UAPx guys,
they told us
specifically that they were
looking for microwaves,
so I told them,
"Just look between
one and three gigahertz,"
and they
came back to us and said,
"We had a sighting the other
night and you were right.
We picked up
something at 1.6 gigahertz."
- And this was in California.
- Wow.
So, it seems that this
1.6 gigahertz is somehow
- connected to these sightings.
- Yeah.
Well, uh, there's some
kind of electromagnetic effects.
It's always been
associated with the ranch.
Uh, when you think
you're ready to document it,
it goes somewhere else.
It plays tricks on you.
Compasses spin, batteries die,
vehicles crap out,
cameras go off-line.
And whatever this force is,
whatever the source
of the intelligence,
it shows you
that it's in charge.
It reminds me
of this recent experience...
...with Dragon and Tom Lewis.
I think it's important for...
Governor Herbert to hear
of your most recent experience,
that literally
brought you to your knees.
THOMAS:
Yeah, it was probably,
well, probably
the scariest moment,
you know, personally... I know
- it was for you obviously, Tom.
- Definitely.
Yeah, so this day
we were drilling.
Dragon had this idea,
maybe we should go check out
Homestead Two,
see if there's any weird
readings happening there.
We go down to Homestead Two.
Everything seems normal.
We took instruments.
We'll see if anything
strange pops up and...
- keep in touch with them.
- Yeah.
This doggone
thing is broadcasting.
This thing shouldn't
be broadcasting anything.
Hey, Bryant? Tom?
Do you copy?
Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Erik.
TOM: Erik came
on the walkie and said,
"Listen to this sound."
We've got
an RF spectrum analyzer,
which is a receiver
that seems to be broadcasting,
instead of just receiving.
Well, just
have a listen at this.
(beeping)
TOM: That sound
that was broadcast over
the radio was a set of beeps.
I heard static and,
like, a roaring train.
Are you okay?
No.
My eyes went black.
I couldn't see.
- And...
- Like you went blind?
Uh, yeah, I was
a little bit conscious still
and so I dropped to the ground
and my whole left arm was numb.
And so, at this point,
I'm scared.
I'm thinking
I'm having a heart attack.
It was, I could,
I could feel him
physically shaking.
I mean, it was...
He's in distress.
It was all I could do
to get him to my truck.
You want to go?
Yeah. Let's go.
(exhales)
I can't feel my hand.
You, like, you can't...
you can't feel your hand?
I can't feel my hand.
BRYANT:
Do you have any chest pains?
TOM:
No, but it's hard to keep...
keep my breath, it's...
TOM: And my vision
really didn't come back
until I was off the ranch.
Luckily, Bryant was there,
you know, to help me.
And, uh, what had happened
is my heart, uh,
was skipping beats.
And I had had EKGs before this
and I've never had
this issue before.
And the doctor explained to me
that it, you know, there's
nothing wrong with my heart,
but it was
an electrical problem.
- Really?
- And, yeah.
Fortunately, you know,
he's okay but,
I mean, that's,
that's the strange thing is
it affects people
so differently and people
are tuned to whatever
energy or frequency, but...
what I find, you know,
interesting and also disturbing
is it occurred,
like, literally right when...
we were hitting
the base of the mesa where
we were trying to see what in
the world is inside that mesa.
And that's
when all hell broke loose.
Which leads me
to think about this material
that we pulled
out of one hole...
while we were drilling
into the side of the mesa.
Boy, that thing sounds
like it's hitting something.
Oh, what the heck is...?
TRAVIS: In an effort to
explore a possible tunnel
or cave system beneath the mesa,
we brought in drilling expert
Aaron Blunt,
who attempted to drill
horizontally into the mesa.
That's when his drill bit
encountered
something hard
and seemingly impenetrable.
We're coming up about
11 inches every ten feet.
So, it sounds like
you're describing kind of a V.
It could even be...
maybe a dome.
TRAVIS: Not only was this
hard object dome-shaped...
What is that?
...it also appeared to
be 400 feet wide
- and made out of metal.
- Oh, my.
What did you think it was
when you first saw it?
I wondered if it was
like metal flakes or something.
That's exactly
the same impression I got.
But the biggest
surprise came when we had
a piece of the metal analyzed.
There are material
findings coming out of that
lateral drilling exercise,
surprising.
Completely unexpected.
I have to show you this.
I want to put them
on the table so...
I'm going to pass around
a few of the samples
of which we have
many, uh, into the hundreds
that have been taken
out of that what,
five or six-inch diameter hole?
We're talking about
a six-inch hole into the mesa.
We made it back about 420 feet.
These started coming out
as we were well into
the hundreds of feet
into the mesa.
But who knows how much of it
never came back
out of the mountain.
Erik, uh, reached out, uh,
to the local university here
and had them do
an analysis with a scanning
electron microscope and do...
precise elemental analysis
makeup of this material.
The interesting thing
about the analysis that we got:
Tellurium is only on one side
and europium,
which is on the other side.
Now, tellurium
and europium are two
of the most rare materials
on the planet.
And it was fused.
Can that happen naturally?
If it were
going to be made on Earth,
it would have to be
done deep under the crust,
miles deep
in a geological process.
There's no volcanic
processes happening there
on the ranch
or in the Uinta Basin
that, uh, that we know of.
The only other natural,
uh, way to create this
would be an asteroid impact.
But what we're
missing from this asteroid is,
uh, we're missing nickel,
we're missing iridium,
we're missing some other things
that would
be there if it were an asteroid.
This bears a lot of resemblance
to things
that were made in a furnace.
As if this is
perhaps an engineered material.
TRAVIS: You remember
the space shuttle tiles
that protected it
from heat on reentry?
This material makeup
is very similar to that ceramic.
- Wow.
- So, Governor Herbert, let me tell you,
we did another,
probably the biggest,
most complicated,
most expensive experiment
that, uh, has ever
been done at the ranch.
We had three laser systems,
and we placed them
in a triangular position
pointed up at the anomaly
in the sky over the ranch.
And then we also had
a very large rocket system
uh, so that we could
put a payload
into the anomaly
and have it linger
as the recovery system
brought it back down
with multiple instruments.
Now...
we get ready
to do the launch and...
Brandon, tell them what
happened when we counted down
- and you pushed the button.
- The second that I pushed
the button, it literally
went up and exploded.
Push and hold.
Oh!
How high did it get...
off the ground?
Maybe 30 feet?
- So it immediately blew up?
- Yeah.
Has this ever happened before?
Any of those rockets?
They've never had
one fail like that before.
So, it's like somebody was
trying to keep us from getting
the instruments into
the place we want to put it.
So thank heavens we were
ready with other rockets.
- Yes.
- To continue the experiment.
Do you have that second launch?
So this is, in fact,
the footage of that launch,
as seen by one
of our surveillance cameras.
This takes place
at exactly the place
where we've had
so many unusual things happen.
- Is that the triangle?
- ERIK: That is the triangle.
Yes.
Erik was in the command center
and saw something.
ERIK:
Hey, Travis, you copy?
TRAVIS:
Yeah, Erik, go ahead.
If Brandon is nearby,
can you bring him in real quick?
TRAVIS:
We'll be right there.
Travis, you've got to see this.
- Okay.
- Well, there's the lasers.
- Yeah, I'm doing instant playback. You see this?
- Oh! Yeah.
- Wow.
- What the crap is that?
This is through the lens
of a camera that is tasked
with surveying the skies.
And I'll draw your attention
to this part of the screen.
Clearly we have an object.
Something luminous moving
towards the apex of that
configuration of lasers being
broadcast upward
from the triangle.
TRAVIS: And it just, I mean,
it just goes away.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
It's important
to note that during this day,
the entire airspace
not only above the ranch,
but in the general area
within the Uinta Basin
was restricted.
Clearly,
there's no strobe on this,
but beyond that, the aircraft
transponder data receiver
that we have at the ranch
indicated no aircraft
at that location.
It's unexplained.
What is the theory
of what the explanation
could be?
Well, what if
some of the stories
that we keep hearing about, uh,
from the ancient Native tribes,
in petroglyphs that...
From all different kinds of
folks that have been
to the ranch, that there's
a portal access on the ranch.
What if that's true?
It could be what we just saw!
This may be
a particular point of interest
for a wormhole or a Stargate,
some type
of interstellar interaction?
One of the stories that's
been told from the Sherman
and Bigelow era that caught
the attention of the DIA...
The Defense
Intelligence Agency...
Was about a hole in the sky.
Call it a portal.
The rancher would
see these things open up,
it's dusk here,
it's afternoon over there.
It's like you're looking in
through a hole in the sky
to another place.
And he would report
things coming in and out.
Uh, craft coming in and out from
that reality to this reality.
Well, you just referenced
an anecdotal experience,
one from a credible scientist,
but no visual evidence
to accompany that.
Here we have
potential visual evidence
of some type
of interstellar activity
focused on the ranch,
some type of interaction
that is not explained
by any conventional means.
Never seen it before.
I-I've never seen
anything like it before.
And, Brandon, this next one,
you have yet to see
because it just happened to us.
- Really?
- Yeah, it is so bizarre.
I think it would be a good idea
to get everyone's eyes on this.
- Absolutely.
- Please, let's do.
ERIK: This is
a three-dimensional model
of Pete Kelsey's recent
survey work.
Pete scanned the entire mesa,
and look at this structure.
HERBERT:
Wow. Incredible.
Wow!
This looks like
a solid structure in the sky.
ERIK:
Yes.
This object, whatever it is,
uh, it's really fascinating.
What are we looking at?
We don't know at this point.
Well, we need
to talk about the reality
of what we're dealing with
in this investigation.
Based on all
of these combined events,
how do we move forward?
Based on all of
these combined events,
all of this data, if we
are truly being led by the data,
and what we have documented,
how do we move forward?
What are our next steps as
a team here at Skinwalker Ranch?
TRAVIS: Well, what we can say is
perhaps one of the most
amazing treasures
might be under that mesa,
but it might also be
amazingly fragile.
And we don't want to
destroy whatever it is,
by willy-nilly
going in and-and...
- and stomping our feet around.
- ERIK: Yeah, and exactly
as Travis has explained,
we should probably take
a forensic approach
to look at this as a biopsy.
Uh, you know,
we conduct the research, uh...
very carefully,
because we don't want to destroy
the very thing we are
attempting to get eyes on.
So obviously we can't come in
recklessly and blast the side
- of the mesa.
- TRAVIS: Absolutely. - Yeah.
Whatever we do must be
surgical,
well-planned and precise.
Is there any way
to discover
what's inside the mesa,
short of excavation?
Is there some kind of sonar,
micro imaging that we can,
you can actually X-ray
the mountain?
We have used, uh,
ground-penetrating radar
to the best
of our ability right now.
Uh, we are pursuing some, uh,
space capabilities that
are just now,
new technologies coming online.
Maybe in the next year or so.
You know, there's another thing
that we need to follow up on.
We have discovered
there is some sort of anomaly
over the ranch
in a certain location
that is between 3,000
and 5,000 feet
in altitude above the triangle.
If this is a...
atmospheric anomaly
or a gravitational anomaly,
- I think we just got to follow up on this data.
- Absolutely.
BRANDON: I think everyone would
agree that we move forward
having a multidisciplinary,
diverse approach
to really tackling this problem
set and taking the data
that drives us
in the right direction
to uncover the secret
of what lies on this ranch,
both above and below.
GEORGE: Well, I mean,
here's the significance for me.
You guys set up an experiment
where you have
witnesses there gathered
to conduct this experiment
and hopefully
generate a response.
You don't know
what the response is gonna be.
You don't know
if there will be a response.
And you get a response
and you document it.
It appears
we are triggering contact...
...in some way,
shape or form and...
it is manifesting itself
above the ranch
in a very profound way.
We're dealing with forces.
We're dealing with phenomena
that redefines not only
our vision of reality but
potentially even history itself.
Is Skinwalker Ranch really
at the center
of a lot of interesting things
- that are now being brought forward?
- HERBERT: Yes, but...
it doesn't seem to be
restricted just to Utah.
- This is country-wide, worldwide?
- BRANDON: Yeah.
GEORGE:
Well, for the last four years,
the whole world
has been on a UFO binge.
We've had major media coverage
taking it seriously
for the first time maybe ever.
Congress has dug in.
They want to fund
a permanent investigation.
A program that
would look into these things.
And all of this stuff
is traced directly
back to Skinwalker Ranch.
If not for a DIA scientist
visiting the property back
in 2007
and having an experience,
there would not have been
an AAWSAP program,
there would not
have been an AATIP program,
and the whole world would not
be on this UFO binge
that it's on right now. We don't
know where it's gonna lead,
but at least we've dragged it
out of the dark ages
and made this topic
a little more respectable
for Congress, for media,
for scientists to investigate.
It all stems back to the ranch.
Well, Brandon, let me just say,
you know, I was here
at the beginning
12 weeks ago, and now I'm...
I've returned
and you're reporting.
And all I can say is
the phenomena
is just overwhelming.
I'm very excited
about the next chapter.
Uh, I think you've got momentum,
uh, I again like Dr. Taylor
talking about this should be
a scalpeled approach.
Erik, you've mentioned how
we've got to be careful
about what we're doing here
so we don't damage
- the information we'll find.
- GEORGE: Very much so.
You guys have made breakthroughs
on so many different, uh, bases,
and, uh, I can't wait
to see what comes next.
BRANDON: Well, thank you,
Governor, for your time and attention.
- And thank you, George, for joining us.
- Glad to be here.
I want to thank everyone at
this table for your sacrifice,
for your professionalism,
for your talents,
your expertise.
We are, uh, opening new doors,
new paths to explore.
I look forward
to the path ahead.
And, uh, we'll be in touch
with you regarding next steps.
- Thank you.
- KANDUS: All right.
- Thanks, Brandon.
- Thank you.
Thank you, Governor.
- George. Yeah, yeah.
- Good to meet you.
ERIK: We've learned a lot of
things through our work this year.
Piece by piece,
we are continuing to
assemble this puzzle,
showing us that not only
is the ranch phenomenology real,
but we seem to be
interactively engaging it.
THOMAS: I'm way past
the point of no return.
I've had too many
things happen to me
on the ranch not to continue.
It seems like
the stakes have risen,
so at this point
we have to push forward.
We have to get answers.
GEORGE: I've seen things today
that I never thought I would see
and haven't seen before,
but I'd like to think
that we can figure it out,
I hope we can.
Here's the thing for sure:
You aren't going to figure it
out if you don't try.
TRAVIS: As we wrap up
this year's investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch,
we all feel like we're getting
much closer to finding some
real answers about this place.
I mean,
when I first came to the ranch,
I had never even seen a UAP.
We got something, hold on.
- Look, look, look.
- What is that?
Holy (bleep)!
But we've
witnessed and documented
phenomena up in the sky...
What the hell is that
in the sky?
CHUCK:
That thing is big and spherical!
...that has changed
my entire outlook
on what I thought was possible.
And now...
after encountering
a dome-shaped metal object
deep inside the mesa,
who knows what
it could ultimately reveal.
Oh, my.
TRAVIS:
We owe it to ourselves
and the entire world to figure
out the truth behind this ranch.
BRANDON: It takes courage
to confront these topics.
I believe
as we brave that territory,
as we have
the courage to delve deeper,
both literally and figuratively
into Skinwalker Ranch,
we're going to find
that not only
will we come to
an understanding
of the dark forces
that we're interacting with,
but also the nature
of our world, and our reality.
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