The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020–…): Season 4, Episode 6 - What a Mesa - full transcript

We don't know what it is,
there's a big anomaly

in the ground-penetrating radar
right there.

What the heck?

What in the hell is that?

That pink rock
doesn't look natural.

We've never done a mortar shell

where it's got a big percussion.

There we go.

Whoa, what was that purple light
over there?

I'm gonna head down.
We need to know

if this is
a reaction to that rocket.



What is that?

It looks like

this thing's following Thomas.

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Skinwalker Ranch.

Clearly, um...

you guys saw
something, a purple light.

Yeah, I saw
it multiple times, right?

The way that it
correlated with the timing

of the launches
was very interesting.

- It was really bright.
- Okay.

Last night we
were hoping to zero

in on the cause of
all the energy spikes,

GPS anomalies and
UAPs that we keep seeing

in the so-called triangle
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

But instead, the rockets
and mortars that we launched

seemed to have triggered two
new phenomena that we've never

seen before hundreds of
yards away in the south field.

Whoa, what was
that purple light over there?

Thomas Winterton
saw what he described as a purple

flashing light in
the south field,

but when he went over
there to investigate it

with Tom Lewis and
Kandus Linde, it disappeared.

Neither one of us has seen

anything to account
for that purple light.

And then Kaleb Bench and I

saw a UAP above him

in our night vision
scope that seemed to be

tracking his movements,
like it was stalking him.

If you've got the, the
footage of that light,

I'd love to see
it 'cause I never

did get to actually see it.

So I've... I've got
the video up here.

So, guys, look there. We've
got our familiar landmarks.

We know what those lights are.

They're security
lights at the houses,

you know, far enough away.

Okay, I'll continue playing.

For purple.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- There, right there.
- Whoa, right.

That's it, though.

The first takeaway
for me looking at this is,

okay, it is at the
same level in our shot

as those known
terrestrial, light sources.

- Exactly.
- So it's down low.

- It was not in the sky.
- Right.

Now the question is, what is it?

So, when you compare
the size and the brightness

and the intensity of the light

to the amber yard lights
and the white ones off there,

you know, those lights
are big, big lights... bright...

and this is just as big.

And-and the fact that it's
purple, maybe I'm wrong,

but purple lights
don't carry as far as...?

No, it's, your eye
doesn't respond to purple.

In fact, your eye responds
best to a greenish yellow color.

For it to be a purple
light and you to see it,

it had to be, have
a lot of energy in it.

And so I find that
really interesting.

As an optical
scientist, I've studied

the light spectrum
that the human eye

can see for more than 30 years.

Purple is near the
edge of that spectrum.

So, for it to be as bright
as this, it had to have been

created by something
emitting a lot of energy.

I'm not sure what
that could have been.

While you're chasing
this purple light,

we've got what appears to be

something blinking
over your heads

only a couple
hundred feet above you

and following your motion.

- That is odd.
- Can you point it out to me?

- Yeah, I'll-I'll show you.
- Okay.

Kaleb and I
could tell this thing

was moving and it was
right over your head.

- I see it right there.
- Yeah, you see it right here.

It was right over your heads,

and it moved with you.
It was, like, a couple

- hundred feet, at most, above the ground.
- Okay.

- See it right there, how bright it was?
- I'm seeing it.

You can't, you can't miss it.

Why is that happening
at the exact same time

we're doing these,
stimulation experiments,

and there is a-a strange purple,

light or object
appearing on the property?

I don't like that.

- I-I don't like that either.
- I don't like the fact

that there was something
following me as I was out there.

If it was a human
doing it, it's a bad thing,

and if it wasn't a human
doing it, it's... I don't know

if that's a good thing or not.

- Yeah.
- Well, guys,

thanks for helping me
look through this today.

- Yeah, man.
- Yeah, we'll get back to work.

We got the hole
empty, so we ready to drill again?

- Yeah.
- After our meeting in the command center,

Erik Thomas and I headed out
to the mesa where Aaron Blunt

and his team from
Straight Shot Drillers

were about to continue
another major investigation

that we recently started.

Would this drill,
would it drill through

steel-reinforced concrete?

- Yes.
- It would?

Yeah, we do it
quite a few times.

Okay.

Last year...

Aaron drilled
at this location

and his bit scraped
along the bottom

of a 400-foot-long dome-shaped,

possibly metal, object...

Yeah, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.

The bit couldn't penetrate it,

but scientific
analysis that we had

conducted on small
fragments of metal

that were in the spoils showed

they were composed of
the same type of materials

that NASA uses
on the space shuttle.

That's actually
very interesting.

And then, three weeks ago,

we conducted new
ground-penetrating radar scans

in this area and found
that there appears

to be a second,

120-foot-tall vertical
anomaly sitting

just behind whatever this
dome-shaped object is.

Whatever this is is
as tall as the mesa.

So now we're having Aaron drill

from above the
dome-shaped anomaly

in the hopes that
from this angle,

he can penetrate it and reach
the vertical object behind it

to help us figure out what
in this world they could be.

I have one more question.
The, the beacon

on the end of the
drill... is it always on,

or do you guys just turn it on
when you're looking to find it?

It's always on
while we're drilling.

And you're at 33 megahertz?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

So, when we're out
drilling, we have a beacon

that you run in with the bit,

and the locator will be
up on top of the mesa.

So it'll send a signal
up to the locator

and it'll tell how deep
it is, where it's at,

what direction it's
going, so we know

where that bit is at all times.

We're gonna look for that.

- We got to look for it?
- Yeah.

Aaron's drill beacon transmits

at a frequency of 33 megahertz

in order for the rig to track

the drill bit's
progress underground.

That's good to know. We
will also monitor that signal

with the spectrum
analyzer as they drill.

Thomas, I want you
to, keep an eye

on the, the gamma ray
detector fairly periodically.

- Okay.
- In the past, when we've drilled here,

we detected strange radiation
and energy frequencies,

most notably one
measuring 1.6 gigahertz,

which I think could be some
kind of communication signal.

I just don't know
who or what could be

trying to communicate
or how it might be related

to these strange
anomalies in the mesa.

Yeah, I say
let's start drilling.

Did you get that one working?

Yeah, I got 'em all working now.

During the drilling operation

we were using our
spectrum analyzer

to detect various
energy signals...

That's the beacon.

Now, this included

the drill beacon's
33-megahertz signal,

which we were
monitoring for any changes

that might suggest some kind
of phenomena was affecting it.

Just a minor
note to let you guys know

as we're about 160 feet in.

I'm gonna head up the
mesa to where I can get eyes

on Gavin and find
out how deep they are.

Understood, copy and thanks.

I'm getting more
and more excited with every foot

that we're drilling
into the mesa.

Last year during
our drilling exercise,

we discovered
metal that was forged,

that's not natural,
300 feet into the hill.

Really, I'm most
excited about finding out

what that metal
is inside the mesa.

Right now we're
just about right here,

- right below your feet.
- The drill bit's right here?

Yep. That's where it's at.
He's trying to work it down,

but it's... it'll let
him drill forward,

but he's not able to work it
down as much as he'd like.

Okay. What-what causes that?

Um, just really tight ground

or, um, other...

objects pushing him
in certain directions.

- So...
- Okay.

Guys. You got a copy?

Go ahead, Thomas. We hear you.

I'm up here on top with Gavin.

The drill bit is
approximately 40 feet

below where we're
standing right now.

There's something that's
been pushing the drill up.

If you remember last year,

there was something
pushing it down.

So he's been trying to
turn that drill and level it out,

and it's just pushing
him up higher and higher.

Similar to what we
experienced last year.

Just other direction.

Maybe we're on top of it

instead of the
bottom of it this time.

That could be.

Think Erik's gonna
come up and, do some

experiments up there with you.

He'll be there in a few minutes.

Copy that.

Be careful.

When Thomas told us
the drill bit was being pushed up

by something inside the mesa,

Erik and I wondered
if Aaron was just

scraping along the top of
the dome-shaped object.

So Erik took a handheld
spectrum analyzer up to Thomas.

We wanted to see if any strange
energy signals could be detected

when the drill made contact
with the anomaly inside the mesa.

When we try to
approach that point,

our bit is getting pushed
down or it's getting pushed up.

So he's hitting
resistance right now?

You can hear that drill's
hitting something hard.

Yeah.

What's going on, Thomas?

After drilling more
than 270 or 280 feet

of going through
sandstone like butter,

the drill has
encountered a hard object

that it cannot penetrate.

- Wow.
- Well, if that's the case...

um, what I want to do is see
if I can pick up that beacon...

Travis, you hear me?

Copy that, Erik, I got you.

I'm looking for
the beacon signal

at 33 megahertz right now.

Copy that.

Let me go to that signal
and see... where it is.

All right. I think that's him.

See all that
activity right there?

What is that?

Something's going nuts there.

You see the small
peak in the middle,

that's the beacon
from the drill bit.

- Yeah.
- But these other...

The three peaks on
either side were not there

until the drill bit hit
whatever it can't go through.

Hey, Thomas.

Tell Erik that
when the drill bit hit

whatever you guys
hit up at the top,

that the 33-megahertz signal

coming from the drill bit
amplified and spread out

all around it like something
was rebroadcasting it.

I see the peak at 33 megahertz.

As soon as the drill bit

hit whatever stopped it,

six other peaks appeared
on the spectrum analyzer

around the 33-megahertz peak.

And we've seen this before.

What's going on here?

There's a phenomenon occurring

right now that we
don't understand.

This small peak in the middle...

That's the, that's the
beacon from the drill bit.

Yeah.

But these
other... the three peaks

on either side were not there

until the drill bit hit
whatever it can't go through.

Right after Aaron Blunt
informed us that his drill bit

couldn't penetrate what we
believed to be the top side

of the massive dome-shaped
object inside the mesa...

Erik and I noticed that the
33-megahertz radio signal

from the drill's tracking
beacon was being rebroadcast

into our spectrum analyzer.

The question was, what could
have been rebroadcasting it?

What are you thinking right now?

I'm thinking metal.

Especially what, what
we just heard from Travis.

He said that when that drill
bit contacted whatever this is

that we can't get
through, all of a sudden

that beacon signal
was coming, blasting out

to his instruments. Think
about what that means.

He said he's hitting
something that's rebroadcasting.

Well, something that
behaves like a large antenna

would do that.

So, when it pushes up
against something metal,

it would actually act like a
big antenna and amplify it out?

Yeah, or a reflector,
I don't know.

Makes me want to pull
the bit back and do it again.

Try it over and over
and see if, in fact,

that same thing happens with,

with the instruments down
there where we're set up.

Well, it sounds like a,
quick experiment.

- That something we could coordinate with you guys?
- For sure.

- Perfect, perfect.
- See if we can get Travis on board with that.

Hey, Travis.

Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.

We would like to
do an experiment

based on what you are
seeing with that amplifying.

We want to try something
where the driller goes

and pushes up against it,
let you see it, then backs off,

then pushes up against
it and then backs off.

And let you look at that
and see what you see.

I like that experiment
a lot. Let's do it.

All righty, so what we're
gonna have you do is

just pull back your bit.

Erik's idea was the perfect way

for us to test if whatever
the drill was hitting

inside the mesa
really was altering...

Or rebroadcasting...
The 33-megahertz signal.

Okay, and then

come back into contact
with what you're hitting.

Here we go.

He's going.

He should be coming back
into contact with it here right now.

Boy, it's suddenly
gotten strong as crap.

Look how strong that is.

All right, so let's back away.

All righty, Aaron,

go ahead and back
it off completely

and then hold
there for a second.

Well, I can tell you, when
they pushed the drill forward,

the peaks went really high,

and now it seems
like they've backed off

and they've dropped really low.

That is exactly what
we're looking for, Travis.

Okay, Travis, we're
going to instruct him

to bring it back into contact.

Watch for that.

Copy that.

- All right, so now look, look.
- See, there it goes.

Look, look, look, look, look!

Holy cow, look at that!

Sure enough, when
Aaron pulled his drill bit

away from the
obstruction in the mesa,

the 33-megahertz signal returned

to normal frequency on
the spectrum analyzer.

But then each
time it made contact

with whatever is inside there,

the signal would
be amplified again.

Look how strong it got.

Man, it just really
started broadcasting.

I have no idea what could
be in there that would do that.

Could it be a response?

What could cause the
RF spectrum to suddenly change

as the drill bit encounters this
apparently impenetrable object?

We want to know, is
this, is this aggression?

Is this an attempt
to communicate?

At this point it's
speculation, but it is certainly

very suggestive that we're
dealing with something

that isn't native to that mesa.

- There's something in there.
- And we hit it.

And the drill cannot
punch through it.

There is something in there.

Now, you hear that
high-pitched sound it's making?

Yeah.

So, we're just hitting

something really, really hard.

I don't know if I'm
getting through this.

See, and we're at
8,000 pounds of push.

- Yeah.
- Hardly any rotation off of it.

So either my bits
broke off or it's just

spinning on something smooth.

I've just been sitting
here, rotating on it.

- No movement?
- Nope.

And he even put his augers
down so he'd have more push.

So he can't push any harder?

Not right now, nope, not
without breaking something.

- I got to tell Travis.
- My gosh.

He's officially at the
point he cannot go any further.

Well, that's exciting. It
means there is something

different in there, and it
does match the GPR data.

We need to figure out how
to get to it and see what it is.

Precisely.

We know we're on track.

And what we didn't
know from the GPR data

was how far south
and north it went.

I think we just got our answer.

Well, I guess,
we need to look at the spoils bin

and see what's in there.

I agree with you.

I'm completely baffled
as to what it was

that was so hard, we
couldn't drill through it.

I'm eager to get this drill
bit pulled out of the hill

and see what kind of
condition the drill bit's in.

I'm also really eager
to look at this spoils pile

and see, do we have any
metal shavings in there

like we found last year?

I want to hear from
this guy right here.

I mean, you do this
every day, all day.

It's hitting something
really hard and smooth.

8,000 pounds of push,
and it wasn't budging.

That's a lot of pressure.

What could be hard enough
to be pushing back on that?

I don't know, 'cause we
cut through everything

all the way up to
the top just fine.

I didn't move even a
little bit through it, so...

That's the thing. What
in the world is that?

Well, I want to see
what's in that pit,

'cause you might have
got some chips off of it

that it'd be nice
to see what it is.

I think we ought to get this
sucked out and go look at it.

Yeah, and I'd like to
see the end of the bit, too,

to see if it dulled it or
what happened to it.

Once we were done drilling,
we vacuumed all the spoils out

of the pit where the
drill bit entered the mesa

so they could be
screened for possible clues

of what this dome-shaped
object could be.

Meanwhile, Aaron
began retracting the drill bit

so we could see what
kind of damage it incurred

after grinding away on that huge

impenetrable object for so long.

Here she comes!

Here you go, Thomas.

Getting this cleaned off...

these teeth are
all perfectly intact.

- It's not missing a single tooth.
- Yeah.

I mean, it, it looks like
it's in perfect condition.

You'd think, if you
were grinding that against

something for a half hour,
that it would dull it at least.

It should have heated up
and at least wore it down flat.

- That's crazy.
- Yeah, that is.

After all the
grinding did against

the top of the dome-shaped
anomaly inside the mesa,

it showed no sign
of damage at all.

It was like it had been
spinning on an invisible,

frictionless force field.

That's like the stuff
of science fiction.

It made no logical sense.

That's good.

Let's hope we have some.

So, as the drill
team dumped the materials

that were collected
inside the spoils tank,

we were hoping that
once we sifted them

through a screen, we'd
find evidence that might

tell us what the object
inside the mesa could be.

It doesn't look
anything like what we did

- last year.
- No.

I'm not seeing
anything like those

large flakes that
we saw last year.

It looks to me like it's
something different.

We're going to have to
do some further analysis

on that material to
compare it or differentiate it

from the material that
we pulled out of the base

of the mesa last year.

I'll scoop what's
left here in a bucket.

If there's any trace of what
we ran into that was so hard,

if we got any of it.

The spoils didn't contain any

pieces of metal like last year,

but we'll still send samples
of the muddy material to a lab

for testing just in case they
aren't natural to a rocky mesa.

Hopefully, we can still learn
something about what could be

inside there, especially
since we detected a possible

communication signal when
we were drilling up against it.

This is a head scratcher, right?

There's something in the mesa.

The drill bit won't go through
it, though. That's the thing.

So I don't know,
what in the world

could that be that
you're putting that much

pressure on and you're
not chipping pieces of it off?

- Yeah.
- There's clearly something there.

We've got three
tests now that tell us

there's something there.

We need to send these
samples out to be tested.

Appreciate you guys doing this.

This was a lot of hard work.

Thanks a lot, guys.

- Yeah, we appreciate the call.
- Well, let's do it.

I agree.

Ready to go?

Yeah, I've got the cameras.

While I was
taking care of getting

our drilling samples sent
off to the University of Utah

for testing, Erik Bard worked
with Thomas Winterton

and Kaleb Bench to help
us try to get more data

down in the south field where
the purple light and the UAP

appeared during our
experiment a couple of nights ago.

I know we've got
that whole southern portion

covered but not very
well down in the trees, so...

Not in the trees.

This will help supplement
what you've already got.

All right, I'll keep
eyes on you.

All right, sounds good.

After our experience
with this mysterious

purple light in the southeast
region of the property,

we've decided that
we need to increase

our surveillance
efforts down there.

I've instructed our team to
install additional cameras.

These are motion-triggered
cameras that should detect

anything that emerges
in the field of view

should we see any
more of these purple lights

or any other light, for
that matter, emerging

in the space over the ranch.

Let's see what we
can do with this tree right here.

So, when that flash
happened, it was hard to tell

whether it was coming from...

up in the tree level or whether,

whether it was on
the ground level.

And even though we
could capture some of this

with our other cameras, I
think having a perspective

right here at the ground,

if we, if we see
that flash again,

we're gonna know whether
it's coming from the trees

or if it really is happening
down on the ground.

The purple light's
something I just

keep reflecting back
on over and over.

What was it doing there on
the south end of the property,

and why was that UAP
we saw observing us?

If I remember right,

you were the only one
that really saw the flash.

Yeah, I was.

Is that why that UAP
was following me?

I'd really like to know
what it was doing above me.

We've been out here for years,

and it just seems like
there's always new questions.

Hey, Erik, do you, copy?

Yeah. I've got
you loud and clear.

There's an entire

big grove right
here that I don't

think that we have eyes
on from our cameras.

So we're thinking about
setting one up here,

facing the west.

That way, if anything
shows up, either tree level

or on the ground, we'll
be able to capture it.

Thomas, that is perfect

because where you're
standing, I cannot see you

from any of the assets up here.

All right, well, we're
gonna have to clean

a couple branches real
quick, and, we'll put it up

and then we'll make contact
with you when we're done.

Copy you.

We've never really
spent a lot of time

investigating on the south side.

So, at this point, it's
an area of interest

that we're definitely
gonna want to follow up on.

I think these trail cams
are gonna be the first step

in fully instrumenting
out the ranch.

I'm excited to see if
we capture anything

on these cameras down there.

Okay. Is it, all
turned on and ready?

Well, that's great.

That gets us an
entire area right here

that we couldn't see
down on the ground

from our cameras, so,

if anything happens here,
we're gonna be able to capture it.

And that light was
right over this area, so...

Yep. Okay.

Well, let's go get
the next one done.

Whoa, what is
that in front of us?

What kind of animal is that?

Looks like a deer.

Yeah, you can tell that one's
been torn apart by something.

I wonder what
the heck killed it.

This is strange.

Not seeing any cat
tracks or bear tracks.

You know, I don't, I
don't know what caused it.

Mysterious
animal deaths and mutilations

have been documented on
Skinwalker Ranch for decades.

What in the world?

Four years ago, a
healthy young cow

died under very
mysterious circumstances

not far from the south field.

Was that black object the cow?

- Yeah.
- And later,

when we reviewed
surveillance footage, Erik noticed

a UAP in the sky directly
above the dying cow.

Whoa, hey, look at that.

I don't
know. This is strange.

Hey, Erik, do you have a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.

Interesting thing.

We got up here to the fence line
and found a dead deer carcass.

Any idea how long
that carcass has been there?

I think that this animal

has been there for a long time,

but, it's really hard to tell.

Yeah. Understood.

Okay. Well, we'll
go and get this

camera up, and then
we'll check in with you.

Copy you.

Well, look at this.

We got a...

burn mark.

That's interesting.

Just that one section.

There's nothing
burned around here.

What the heck would
have burned this post?

This plant's untouched.

I mean, there's not a
burned branch on the shrub.

Pretty fresh looking.

And it's in the
weirdest spot, too.

This has me baffled.

We find a burnt post

that's raising some questions.

Just this one spot right here.

And there just so happens
to also be a deceased deer

in this exact same area.

That's definitely interesting.

Is a dead deer on the ranch

really out of place?
Not necessarily,

but it's hard to say
how this deer died,

so are they connected?

There's some circumstances here

that do raise more questions.

All right, so this is
installed. It's turned on.

So we're good.

Hey, Travis, you got a copy?

We found a dead
deer carcass, and one

fence post along

this, fence line

has got a pretty
severe burn scar on it,

about three feet off the ground.

But the plant around it
doesn't show any signs of burn.

There's no signs
of fire out here.

You probably ought
to come our way.

Copy that,
Thomas. See you in a minute.

The fact that
we're seeing this dead deer,

along with this burn mark
down on the south side,

shows we really do
need to get more eyes

down on the south side.

You can see,
there's pieces of it

strewn all over the place.

Yeah.

After the
cow died four years ago,

we detected elevated levels
of gamma rays around it.

So I immediately
wanted to scan the area

for any signs of that.

So, you picking up anything?

No higher levels of gamma rays

- than usual.
- That's good.

Now, obviously this
deer was killed a while ago,

but given the strange
UAPs we had recently seen

right in this area
of the south field,

it was only logical to wonder

if something out of the
ordinary might still be the cause.

Show me this post you
guys were talking about.

Yeah, so this burned
post is just right over here.

So here's that post.

It's really burned.

Let me look at it with
this Geiger counter.

Nothing out of the
ordinary from radiation,

but that's real interesting,
and there's no other

- signs of fire around here...
- No signs.

or nothing, right?

None of the trees
have been burned.

If you were gonna do that...

I mean, even if
we took a torch...

You'd have to torch
that for a long time.

- That'd be for hours.
- And

none of the rest of
it's touched, right?

So, just that one point.

You know what it looks
like? If something just flew

- and went right through it.
- It's very localized

in that one spot.

That looks like, whatever
it was, it was so hot,

it just went right through it.

That is just weird.

When I saw how burned

that one section
of the post was,

all I could think about was how

the purple light Thomas saw

over here the other night

must have been
emitting a lot of energy.

So, could it have
burned this post?

And could it be connected
to whatever killed the deer?

What's interesting, though,
is, we saw this strange light,

and right here the
UAP was following you,

and it led-led us

to find this burned post
that makes no sense.

So, the one
thing about this area is,

we've got a lot of cameras
up on the north side,

they're facing this
way, so we've got

great coverage
up in the sky here,

but you see this
tree line right here.

I mean, if we had
a lot of activity,

we wouldn't capture
it on our cameras

because it would be
hidden behind the tree line.

Right here in this sort of
valley between the tree lines,

- right?
- Exactly.

So who knows what's
been taking place

on this side of the ranch.

We-we know we've been
watching the sky a lot,

but we haven't been keeping
as close an eye on the ground.

Well, we've got this
camera here now.

Maybe we'll capture
something with it.

I don't know what else we can
do here. I say we head back.

Let's call a vet out
to look at this deer.

Sounds good.

- Hey, Kaleb.
- Hey, Bryant.

So, this is Haleigh.
She's one of our local vets.

- Hi, Haleigh. Nice to meet you.
- Hi.

- I'm Bryant.
- Nice to meet you.

We all know
that there's a history

of cattle mutilation
on this property.

In our investigation here
on Skinwalker Ranch,

animals we have here have
been attacked by something.

We got a deer down on
the south end of the property,

- or the remains of a deer.
- Okay.

So, given the fact we found

this mysterious burnt
post next to this dead deer,

we decided to bring
Haleigh Lundgreen out.

She's a veterinarian
that is an expert

in looking at animal remains.

Let's head out.

And it just so happens

it's in the same area where
we had this purple light.

And so we want to know,
are they related somehow?

It's really strange, so we'd
like an expert's opinion.

So, pretty much
everything's in this area.

It's really scattered?

Yeah.

Well, we'll start with the hide.

There are some
puncture holes here.

Are you thinking
that's from predators?

Or where do you
think that's from?

You know, likely from coyotes.

- They're pretty close together.
- Okay.

It wasn't
the cause of death, though.

I will say that much.

There's no, no
bruising under the skin

which would indicate
cause of death.

Okay.

And so, coyotes likely,
I mean, got after him.

- Got it after it was dead?
- Yep.

But I'm not seeing any
kind of bleeding or trauma

on the hide that would have
been while the deer was alive.

Interesting.

The puncture marks look
like they had been done

after this animal had died.

What killed this animal?

It wasn't a predator
that killed it.

The question remains,

is it something we
need to worry about?

We have the pelvis here.

The spine's actually really
intact, all things considered.

If a predator had gotten
this when it was alive,

I would have expected more
damage to the spine as a whole.

Okay. If
you had to give me

your forensic expert
opinion as to what happened,

what would you
say took place here?

We have a, a young six-month

or under, fawn
that died of something

that we're not sure of and...

- Not predator, though, correct?
- Not predator.

- Okay.
- Died of something other than a predator.

And then was scavenged
on at least by coyotes,

that we can confirm, and
possibly some other animals.

Okay.

We're gonna have to
really keep a watchful eye

on everything in this area

and try some
different experiments

to maybe see if we
can really find out

what's happening in this place.

We're really grateful
that you'd come out here,

lend your expert
opinion, and give us

- a little bit more insight.
- Sure.

Well, should we get her
back? Get her out of this heat?

- Yeah. That sounds good.
- Okay. Let's do it.

Now, this is
what you guys imaged.

So, that's the
pink rock inside the mesa.

Yep.

And I am still puzzled by...

I mean, what are
we looking at here?

A few days after we had to halt

our drilling operation
inside the mesa,

we got lab results
back for two items

that we sent off to the
geology department

at the University
of Utah for analysis.

First was a photo
of the pink rock

that Dragon and Kaleb captured
with a snake camera one week ago

in a crevice between boulders
near where the dome-shaped

and vertical
anomalies are buried.

And the second was a
sample of the spoils we obtained

while drilling up against the
top of the dome-shaped object.

The geology, geophysics
guys are-are giving us

their best guess based
upon these images.

They have a couple
of opinions on this.

So, one of the
interesting comments

was that the pink
coloring seems to be like

a deposit on the sandstone.

- Really?
- Meaning it's not a mineral

that's through and through,
like a chunk of it.

They think it's a coating.

Right.

Now, this is interesting.

"Possibly from vapor," right?

Okay.

Okay, so the rest of the
comment was that the color

reminds this individual of
elemental selenium deposits.

Yes, it does.

Selenium is, a
semiconductor material.

You find it in almost
every microprocessor chip,

every computer,
you find it in solar panels.

- Really?
- And, in fact,

if you mix selenium with
zinc, and you get zinc selenide,

it's an optical material
that-that is being used

in military experiments to
bend light around objects

to create, metamaterials
like a cloaking material

on a plane to make
them look invisible.

Wow.

What would produce a vapor

that could leave a
selenium deposit...

- I'm trying to... I...
- on a rock?

Selenium is a solid material

at room temperature and pressure.

So, you'd have to get it to
whatever its boiling point is

to create a vapor to do that,

and that-that would
have to be hot.

So what would cause
that, I don't know.

And then let's say maybe
the anomaly in the mesa

may have been what caused that.

- Really?
- Yeah.

Zinc selenide is a compound

that scientists and
researchers at DARPA,

the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency,

are currently experimenting
with for possible optical stealth...

In other words,
cloaking applications...

On a number of assets including
soldiers' gear and uniforms,

tanks and even fighter jets.

But it's a pretty futuristic
technology at this point.

So, what the heck would
similar kinds of materials

be doing inside the
mesa, especially since

they appear to have been
artificially placed there?

Is it connected to the
dome-shaped anomaly?

What would cause
that, I don't know.

And I want to go
dig the mesa out...

- I know.
- and see what's in there.

- I do, too.
- I do have another image.

You guys all remember that
stuff that we brought down

from the drill site, the
material from the,

the drill tip itself?

I think you took that off
of the, off of the drill bit...

- Yeah, off... right off the tip of the bit.
- Yeah.

I'll take you through the
elemental, analysis

that was done from
the University of Utah

- geology department.
- There's two lines here,

the drill tip mud
is the bottom one.

Is there anything that
jumps out as if it doesn't belong?

Europium shows up.

Yeah, like when we got drilling

from last year at the mesa,

where we pulled
out metal flakes.

- Wow.
- You've got sodium, magnesium

and aluminum very
abundant in the drill tip mud.

This is, like, a very metallic,
conductive kind of mixture.

Which suggests to me again

that the things that
we got out of the bottom

were part of a
manufactured something.

This mud is leached material,

over time, right at the spot

where the GPR says
there's something there,

and right where the drill
bit couldn't go any further.

So it suggests that
whatever is there,

and whatever that
GPR anomaly is,

is something highly metallic.

- Yeah.
- Jan told us that

it didn't look like a
natural-occurring anomaly.

It looked like it was
some other thing

that may be buried there or something.

So all this suggests there's a
big metal object in the mesa,

so how the heck do we get
in there to-to tell for sure?

How do we feel

about simply drilling with
some portable apparatus

from the top of the mesa down
into that 40-foot-or-so level?

That seems like the s...

the first obvious
thing, right, Erik?

I mean, we could
at least give it a shot.

Maybe we see if we can

- find us a portable drill...
- Yeah.

- that we could carry up there.
- I think... I'm sure

there's got... there's
got to be something.

Okay. Well, I guess

we have our next step,
then, is, focus on trying

to find some way to
drill down from the top.

Worth a shot.

- Yeah.
- All right.

Well, I guess we got
our work cut out for us.

- Yep. Let's go...
- And I've got my homework.

see if we can
find a drill, then,

and how to haul that
thing up the mesa.

We're seeing things that are

very hard for us to
explain inside the mesa.

This part of the ranch continues

to defy our efforts
to characterize it.

At least it's gonna make us
work for the answers we get.

You name
it, we've probably heard

a story about what's
inside the mesa here.

Underground alien bases,
UFOs crashed inside there.

If there is an asset, an object,
an artifact inside the mesa

that could be of
great importance,

we need to know what it is,
and I'm fired up to find out.

Skinwalker Ranch continues to be

the center of gravity
for high strangeness.

I believe that we've seen
more evidence than ever before

of the reality of
the phenomenon,

and we're emboldened to
move forward to get the answers

that we so desperately seek.

As we move forward,
the team is dedicated

and focused on getting
to the bottom of the truth.

I want you all to
meet Jay Stratton.

We're gonna use you today

as part of an experiment.

The word "bait" comes to mind.

This is not arson,
this is not chemical,

and this is not lightning.

So what is it, then?

It would go back to

what the ranch is named after.

We just found something

that we thought you guys
might want to look at.

Whoa.

Middle of the day,
an orb like that showing up?

That's crazy.