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There was an area
on this mesa slope,

and it led to this open cave.

Hey, I found what
looks like to be a cavern.

Oh, yeah.
I'm pretty sure this is it.

Popping smoke, popping smoke.

Look, look,
it's getting sucked in.

There is some sort of
network underneath the mesa.

I'm very curious to find out
what may be hidden in that area.

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.

-THOMAS: They're here.
-BRYANT: Awesome.

THOMAS:
I'm excited for the equipment.

TRAVIS:
After last week,
when Chris Bartel,

who worked security on the ranch
for Robert Bigelow more than

a decade ago, showed us where
a cave entrance in the mesa had

mysteriously been covered over,

we invited a team of drillers
to the ranch

to help figure out
what the Bigelow team

might have wanted
to keep hidden.

THOMAS:
Okay.

BRYANT:
Welcome to
Skinwalker Ranch, man.

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

-Erik Bard. Welcome.
-Aaron.
-Thanks for coming out.

Well, we've had
all kinds of, uh,

strange things
happening in the mesa.

I think that
there is something there

that we need
to investigate further.

Okay.

We inherited
so many different stories

about strange things
happening out there.

Yeah.

BRYANT:
The mesa has always been

a point of interest for us.

There are all sorts of rumors
and stories about things that

happened while the Bigelow team
was here on the property.

I've even heard a story of

people claiming to see
the side of the mesa open up

and a spaceship flying in
and it closing up again.

Or stories about
these openings that lead to

some sort of
an underground base or cavern.

I think there's a lot more
there to be discovered,

and we need to spend
more time over there exploring.

TRAVIS:
Hearing those kinds
of rumors makes you wonder

how anything of the sort
could be possible in a solid

sandstone mesa that covers
about three square miles.

But just last week,
after Chris Bartel's visit,

we dropped smoke bombs into
the crevices between the large

boulders covering
this supposed cave entrance.

-Orange smoke, orange smoke.
-TRAVIS: And inexplicably,

the smoke was being sucked down
inside somewhere,

like there really could be a
huge cavern system of some kind.

Look, look,
it's getting sucked in.

Yeah, the smoke's going down.

We're hoping that we can
go drill through it

and see if we hit any voids
or any type of...

You know, we really don't know
what to expect.

Well, we'll just get
the drill off the trailer

and then start walking it, so...

-THOMAS: Okay.
-You let us know
what we can do to help.

Okay. Will do.

BRYANT:
Aaron and his crew from

Straight Shot Drilling,
they're gonna do some

horizontal drilling
into the side of the mesa.

The way that this
horizontal drill works

is they're actually
gonna go down under the road,

under this canal, and then

be able to maneuver up
and hopefully

puncture up into the mesa
and see if we find a void there.

You want to just
park up here a little bit?

BRANDON:
Given the ongoing anomalies
witnessed at the mesa,

everything from smoke

being sucked into the mesa

and disappearing into an unknown

chamber or cavern system,

coupled with other anomalies...

-Is that plugging
into the USB here?
-Yeah.

BRANDON:
Considering all the evidence

that has been presented,

I've given my approval

to proceed forward,

with caution.

We're using
the RF spectrum analyzer,

which we've used on
pretty much all of these digs.

I'm data logging
for gamma radiation,

-as we've gotten
when we do digs.
-Yeah.

Also, since we've got

GPS anomalies showing up
out here in the field,

I'm doing real-time
GPS tracking,

and so we're
getting a data point

every second on those guys,
and they're data logging.

There really isn't any place
that we can go and not be

exposed to some level
of background radiation,

but when we get
gamma ray spikes during

our experiments,
that's when we become concerned.

So, before we start
disturbing the earth,

we want to make sure
that we have

all the monitoring equipment
in place

to detect anything that we might
stir up inside the mesa itself.

So, we'll, uh,

dig an exit pit
right here for the mud,

and then we'll set up
behind that pit

and drill in, and our bit
has a beacon in it,

and we have

the equipment
to locate that beacon

all the way up
to where you guys want to go.

You said you could reach
500 feet?

-Is how much rod
you've got with you?
-AARON: Right.

-I have 500 foot
of rod right now.
-ERIK: Wow.

-This is awesome.
-Yeah.

THOMAS:
Well, I think
that we, uh, get to work.

-Get you guys drilling.
-All right.

THOMAS:
Ever since I've gotten
here on the ranch,

we've been really curious
what lies underneath the mesa.

So, the guys are gonna
begin drilling

by digging a pit
on the south side of the road.

This pit allows them
to catch all of the drill mud

and the spoils
that are coming out

of the hole as they drill.

Yeah, man.

THOMAS:
I think that it may tell us

something pretty
interesting about what's

going on near the mesa.

Well, I say we get the drill
set up and get going on this.

All right.

AARON:
The rig that we're using
is a directional bore machine.

It has 30,000 pounds

of push and pull, and you can
guide the drill bit

wherever you want it to go.

It could go left,

or it could go right.

Or I can steer it to come up,
or I can steer it to go down.

It is that one, right?

Yeah. So, where that
little clay outcropping is.

If we came in at
the edge of those rocks

or just a little bit
under them, that's...

I mean, that's right
where that opening's at.

-Make sense? Okay.
-Okay. Yeah.

TRAVIS:
The drill bar requires
hundreds of gallons

of water to keep it lubricated

as it penetrates into

the sandstone rock
that the mesa's made from.

So, it's gonna be
an extra messy job

for the team to look for clues

as the water and spoils
shoot back out into the pit

they dug by the rig.

But hopefully,
by the end of the day,

they'll confirm
if there's a big void

and even obtain evidence

of an object or structure that
could be hidden inside there.

You're all good to go, huh?
Okay.

AARON:
Inside that head of that drill

is a beacon.

And the beacon
is the brains of it.

We can follow it with
the locator, and it will

tell me where I'm at,

how deep I am, what my pitch is

and what direction I'm going in.

-So, do you have to walk
along and track...
-Yeah.

...wherever that's going? So,
you'd have to hoof it up there?

Yeah. I'll be doing some hiking.

-Is it pretty soft drilling?
-No.

-Really?
-It's not in the rock.

It feels like a really tight,
sticky clay.

Have you hit the mesa yet?

No.

-Still a ways this way?
-Yeah.

Cool.

Yeah, he's up
against something hard.

Okay, well...

I think we should go up
with your safe camera idea.

All right, well, if were gonna
go for a hike, I'm gonna shed

a couple layers here.

BRYANT:
This drilling process
takes a lot of time,

so in the meantime,
Thomas and I have decided

to hike up the mesa

to where we
had previously dropped

these smoke canisters down.

I don't know what the path
of least resistance is.

You've been up there the most,
so I'll follow you.

Well, there is no path
of least resistance.

BRYANT:
We want to see if we can run

a snake camera down

and see if we can figure out
how deep this thing goes

or if we see anything strange.

-The hole's right here.
-Okay.

This one actually has

the ability
to pan, tilt and zoom,

so if we get it down in there,

we can actually, with this
little remote right here,

we can move it around.

THOMAS:
Maybe the camera will
reveal some clues to us.

Maybe we'll see
an opening or a void as we

channel this snake cam
deep into the hill.

I think we're live.

-I'm gonna hit record.
-All right.

THOMAS:
Still going down?

You're still going.

THOMAS:
I have not seen
any sign of smoke bombs.

-Neither have I.
-I thought for sure
we'd see those.

BRYANT:
Now we're down 21 feet.

I mean, that's pretty far down.

What the hell is that?

THOMAS: BRYANT:y gallons
of flui What is that?this now

It looks like metal
right there on the top.

It definitely
looks like it's reflecting

something off of there.

Those smoke canisters
we dropped down there

were basically
just paper and cardboard.

There's nothing
reflective on them.

BRYANT:
What is that?

It looks metallic.

BRYANT:
It really does look metallic.

THOMAS:
This object is sitting
about 23 and a half feet

below the entrance of this hole,

and we're trying to get
the camera

in position to see what it is,

and I can't tell what it is.

I'd definitely like to find a
way of getting it out of there.

It looks like it could go more

if we can actually
manipulate it.

-It looks like it's
almost like on a ledge.
-I want to see if I can...

THOMAS:
It appears to be pretty large.

Let me see if I can
somehow manipulate

this camera into it
with a different angle.

BRYANT:
Oh, gosh, I wish we could get

something down there
and retrieve that.

There's your canister.

-There's the smoke bomb.
-It got wedged, and there's
still even more opening.

There's the base of
the smoke bomb right there.

So, we know that that other
thing is not the smoke canister.

'Cause that other thing
didn't look anything like that.

Well, you know,
Chris Bartel talked about

a significant opening.

-Uh-huh.
-This is definitely significant.

I mean, we are 26-ish feet.

THOMAS:
There's all kinds of rumors

that have been floating
around this ranch

since the day
that I stepped foot on it.

Whether it be

the mesa opening up
and some type

of aerial craft
flying into the hill,

secret underground bases
under the mesa.

BRYANT:
I really was surprised
with what we found.

I've never seen anything
like it anywhere on the ranch.

Is this hard evidence
that there is truly

something going on
inside this mesa?

I'm really anxious
to see what we find out.

Well, I'll tell you what.
That's as far as we're going.

Okay.

Well, I think
we've got what we need here.

I'm gonna just
power this thing off.

-I'm shocked we got down so far,
actually, to be honest with you.
-I-- Honestly.

It's becoming obvious to me
that there's many,

many different channels
and-and chambers down this hole.

Some of them appear
to be very, very large.

There's definitely a lot
of empty space inside this mesa.

That was really surprising.

I want to get in there
more than ever now and discover,

where is this metal coming from?

-THOMAS: Hey, Erik.
-Hey, Tom.

I'm really interested
in what you guys found up there.

I feel like we got about a third
of the way down the mesa.

When we got down in that
20, 24-foot range,

we saw something that looks
completely out of place.

The first thought, maybe,
it might have been

the outside of one
of those smoke canisters.

-ERIK: Yeah.
-But this was not.

THOMAS:
The object appeared

to be reflecting light back,

-like it was metallic.
-Uh-huh.

It was, like, ridges and lines

of-of a metallic-looking
or reflective type stuff,

not packaging of some sort
that would be reflecting light.

ERIK:
What is this material made of,

and what is it doing

in the depths of a mesa
in eastern Utah?

We're gonna be
drilling for a while.

So, now, really, we need to

call Travis
and tell him what we found.

-Yeah. I agree.
-Let's do it.

-TRAVIS: Hey, fellas.
-ERIK: Hey, Travis.

-Hey, there.
-How you guys doing?

It-it's been
a busy time out here.

BRYANT:
Yeah.

While the drill rig
was going on,

on the side of the mesa,
Thomas and I decided

to go back up
to that hole at the top

where, you remember
the smoke vacuumed

back down into the hole.

That cavern that
Chris Bartel showed us.

Right, right. It vanished, yeah.

So, we went up there
and started running

this snake camera down
and encountered

an object that looks

like it has
a metallic quality to it.

What?

In fact, it was reflecting
our light back at us.

We found those smoke canisters,

and so we have those
to reference against.

It didn't look
anything like that.

Wow.

Travis, I want to get
your eyes on this material.

Take a look at that image.

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow.

Do you see that
shiny object there,

near the bottom of the image?

TRAVIS:
It looks like a...

I don't know, a strip
of aluminum or something.

-Is there any way to get
a sample of that?
-We couldn't pick it up.

TRAVIS:
It'd be really good
to see what it is.

Clearly, lines

and yellow,

and there's a black strip

and then other
black strips on it.

How'd it get down in that hole?

Well, it definitely looks
out of place.

And that was about
23 and a half feet down,

is where we encountered that.

TRAVIS:
And is it a single piece

or something poking out
of that rock?

THOMAS:
That's what we were wondering.

Wow.

Well, for this to be
that far down in that hole,

I mean, it didn't
get there by itself.

And to what end?

I mean, why is this thing there,
and what is it?

It sounds like there's
a significant void or something.

BRYANT:
This particular snake cam

has the ability to tilt

and zoom and pan around,
so we could see that

the opening
was quite substantial.

THOMAS:
From the camera,
it looked like that hole

could've been as much as
maybe ten foot in diameter.

You're kidding.

Wow. So, there might actually be

some caves under there, then.

TRAVIS:
The video is unmistakable.

This is clearly some type
of metallic-looking material.

I don't know how it got there,
but we immediately

need to put some sort
of robot in this hole

to see if it's a single object

or part of something
much bigger.

Well, we've got a lot to do.

Hurry up and finish
your crap in Alabama

and get the hell back here.

[laughs] All right, man.

Uh, I hear you.
This is amazing stuff.

I-I can't wait
to get back out there

and do some more drilling
into the mesa.

-That's crazy stuff.
-THOMAS: For sure.

ERIK:
All right, well,

we'll get back in touch with you

if we see anything else
like this, Travis.

TRAVIS:
All right. Thanks, guys.

-THOMAS: See you soon.
-BRYANT: All right, see you.

-How deep are you?
-80 feet.

-You're 80 feet out?
-AARON: Yup.

Right now, he said
he's drilled back 80 feet, so...

-Oh.
-Oh, wow.

He's, uh, motioning for us

-to come down there, guys.
-BRYANT: All right.

What's going on?

We can keep drilling,

but I just don't know
where it's going.

ERIK:
As we continue
drilling at this site,

that slurry of water
and bentonite clay

going into the mesa should be
coming out of the mesa,

but it's not.

How many gallons of fluid
are we into this now

that haven't come back out?

500 out of this tank,

1,000 out of the last one

and four out of the first.

THOMAS:
This fluid has to be
flowing into some

cavity along the path.

-AARON: Correct. Yeah.
-BRYANT: So, we're talking

2,000 gallons, around there?

It could be punching through
into that void.

Wow.

-So, those tanks are
1,000 gallons each.
-Okay.

THOMAS: So, you can picture
the size of that

-sitting somewhere
inside that hill.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
The drill bit
is lubricated by water

as it punches
through the base of the mesa,

and so far, more than
1,500 gallons has been used

to get nearly 100 feet inside.

You'd expect to see that water
run back out into the pit,

but it's not.

That's just like
what happened last week.

Popping smoke. Popping smoke.

TRAVIS:
When we dropped smoke bombs

in the crevices of the mesa,

-no smoke emerged.
-THOMAS: Look.

Look. It's getting sucked in.

There has to be
a massive void in there.

It's just a question of how big
it is and what it might contain.

Whoa, look at this.
That. What's going on there?

Okay, so there it is again.

Again, we're doing something
here that we've not done before.

Out here, outdoors,
with this thing running.

Yup.

ERIK:
And so,

um, there's a correlation.

-Always.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
I noticed that
the spectrum analyzer

is giving us, once again,

this mysterious
1.6 gigahertz signal,

like the one recently captured
at Homestead Two.

Erik, are you
doing something at 1.6?

I'm not broadcasting.

THOMAS:
What are you seeing?

TRAVIS:
The signal. 1.60000.

Look at that.

TRAVIS:
Two weeks ago,

just after we dug a trench

near Homestead Two,

that night, we detected

the mysterious 1.6 gigahertz
RF radiation signal.

And then, later,
Erik's surveillance cameras

caught an incredible UAP
floating around the homestead.

-What the hell is that?
-TRAVIS: You captured

a UAP on camera here, Erik.

Every time we've
seen that signal,

something really strange
has happened.

ERIK: Hey, Bryant.
If you guys are game,

I've got some
handheld instruments

that you could take out
to the homesteads.

You know, j-just wander about
and see if you get any

unusual readings out there.

Yeah, it always seems like,
it's almost,

like, a bait-and-switch
type of a thing.

You focus your energies
in one spot,

-and then, all of a sudden,
stuff happens in other areas.
-Right.

Well, do you want
to go head down

-to the homestead, then?
-Yeah.

Okay. Let's do it.

ERIK:
I've decided
to send Tom and Dragon

out to the homesteads

and see if we pick up
anything happening out there.

Erik, it looks
like we have flow back.

You starting to get
some of the fluid coming back?

Yeah, it looks
like we got it back.

Yeah. I can see that coming out.

So, after about 2,000 gallons,
we're finally starting

to see some of our water.

AARON:
Yup.

So, how's the drilling going?

As you can see,
it's a little hard still.

So, if there's a void
in there, maybe we filled it up.

Yeah. That's a possibility.

All right. Let me know
if you see anything else change.

Okay.

I guess we'll walk around
with both the Geiger counter,

and then you've got
the tri-field meter.

We'll see if anything
strange pops up

and keep in touch with them.

Yeah. So far, so good.

BRYANT:
I've also got
the lightning detector.

And right now,
it's not measuring

anything above background.

Okay. Yeah.

Let's walk around the back where
we've seen some strange stuff,

and then I guess we could
even poke around inside

-the building a little bit.
-Okay.

Yeah.

THOMAS: We're about
probably 25 feet from...

McCOY:
Wait, hold on.
Listen to that right there.

CHASE:
You can hear him.

[machinery rattling]

Come on, sweetheart.

THOMAS:
We can hear the drill bit,

-down below, punching.
-Copy you.

CHASE:
He's right here.

THOMAS:
I can feel the vibration.

CHASE:
What you're hearing,
though, over here

is like I said,
it's that paddle bit.

-THOMAS: Right.
-CHASE: And so,
every time it makes

a rotation,
you'll hear it smack.

Right.

However, considering that
he's eleven foot five,

he's pretty damn deep
for us to hear it that loud.

McCOY:
Usually when he's at 11,

-we don't hear it.
-We don't hear him.

So, guys, uh, there is
something of interest here.

That bit

is down 11 feet
from the surface,

and we can hear it really good,

like it's just six inches
below the soil.

These guys are saying, usually,

when it's that deep,
you can't hear it.

Yeah. Ten-four.

Copy you, Tom.
That's really interesting.

He must be into something
really solid

that's carrying
the vibration well.

Ten-four.

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

[computer beeping]

-Now, what am I getting?
-I don't know.

It's a lot of noise.

ERIK:
Oh, wow.

Whoa.

This doggone thing
is broadcasting.

This thing shouldn't
be broadcasting anything.

Why would a device
that's designed to receive

be broadcasting?

Hey, Bryant? Tom? You copy?

Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Erik.

ERIK:
We've got an

RF spectrum analyzer,
which is a receiver,

that seems to be broadcasting

instead of just receiving.

That's not good.

Well, just
have a listen at this.

[beeping, static crackling]

BRYANT:
Are you okay?

No.

BRYA BRYANT:getting him
the Are you okay?

No. I just, I just blacked out.

BRYANT:
Like, blacked out?

Yeah, it was, like,

all the blood rushed out
of my-my brain.

This is not okay.

Here, help me up.

Dude, you're shaking.

-You want to go?
-Yeah. Let's go.

-I can't feel my hand.
-You, like...

You can't,
you can't feel your hand?

I c-can't feel my hand.

-That's your left arm?
-It's my left arm.

That's scary, dude.
I don't... Here, give me--

Put your arm around me.

I don't want to
[bleep] around with that.

BRYANT:
Tom Lewis said that

he had no feeling
in his left arm.

I knew it had to be

something cardiac-related.

With my position on the ranch,
I made the decision

right then and there
to get him the hell out of here.

You have any chest pains?

TOM:
No, but it's hard
to keep my breath.

[bleep]

BRYANT:
I don't know what it is
about this area.

I've never felt
anything strange,

but where Tom Lewis went down
is also within feet

of where Roland McCook
almost blacked out.

-Hold on.
-Hey.

BRYANT: And it's where Travis
had his radiation burns.

I really want to find out
what's truly happening

on Skinwalker Ranch

but not at the cost of
people's health and welfare.

BRYANT [over walkie-talkie]:
Hey, you guys.

Tom is experiencing stuff.
He blacked out--

blacked out,
has pain in his arm.

KANDUS:
Are you serious? Oh.

BRYANT: I'm getting him
the hell out of here.

I'm pretty concerned.

I need my bag.
It's got my phone in it.

He's taking him straight
to the emergency room.

I think so.

ERIK:
We need to get the truck
out of the road.

[grunts]

I need to clear this
out of the way.

Let's just move it.

ERIK:
Maybe that's
the better way to go.

THOMAS:
Bryant, Kandus
is right behind you.

So, you can be watching for her.

[phone line ringing]

BRYANT:
Hey, Brandon.

I'm calling because
we had an urgent matter

that you need to know about.

We were doing
the drilling exercise,

and Tom Lewis and I
were near Homestead Two.

He started to black out,
basically collapsed,

was complaining
about pain down his arm.

So, I immediately rushed him
out of there.

And Kandus met us
at the hospital.

BRANDON:
I've known Tom Lewis
for most of my life.

We grew up together.

Having Tom collapse

in conjunction
with the drilling activity,

it leaves me

stunned and speechless.

For the time being,
I'm just gonna keep

everybody away
from Homestead Two.

-Thank you.
-Bye.

BRANDON:
I trust Dragon and his

dedication to safety.

So long as we're
implementing the right health

and safety protocols
and measures

to keep everyone safe...

THOMAS:
Looks like Bryant's back.

BRANDON:
...I am open to allowing

further exploration
of the property.

Well, I hope he's got good news.

So, uh, updates?

BRYANT:
Not yet.

ERIK:
So, I really want to know

what you think about
continuing what we're doing.

BRYANT:
So, nothing measured

at all on any
of the instrumentation.

-Right.
-BRYANT: The other thing is,

I don't feel anything,
you guys have felt

-perfectly fine.
-No.

We're a team here.
How do you feel about

continuing the exercise,
given what has taken place?

That took place over there.

Yup. It did.

THOMAS:
So, as long as the readings

are all normal
and-and we're feeling fine,

I don't know why
we would shut her down.

Yeah, I just don't want anybody,
anybody seriously hurt.

-Hey, guys, come over here.
-ERIK: You hear that?

What's going on?

Well, it looks like we're in

a ledge that's holding this
from coming up.

So, the-the ledge is
coming to where it won't let

-your bit catch and go up?
-Right.

Right. And I'm just
hitting it and riding it.

Can you tell
whether it's clay or rock?

Not really sure what it is.

So, is this something
you often run into?

We'll run into it every once
in a while, but usually,

I can get out of it.

But I've been in it
for probably,

I'd say four rods now.

Yeah, 40 feet.

-BRYANT: Really?
-Yeah.

What's your recommendation?

We just keep going
the way we're going and see

if we can get out of it.

Okay. See how far back
before you can get...

Start coming up.

Okay, well, I guess you keep

adding rod length
to it and see if

we can finally pop out.

Let us know
if you get on the back side

and you're able to come up.

I will.

Okay.

THOMAS:
So, Aaron keeps hitting
a hard surface,

and it's not allowing the bit

to penetrate
and go on up through it.

THOMAS:
You know what? I think it

might be wise
to just shut it down

for a little bit and, uh...

-Yeah.
-...regroup.

BRYANT:
Yeah, I agree.

We've got so much crap
going on right now,

given the fact that
we're hitting this thing that

they can't get through,
the episode with Tom,

the weirdness with your meters
and everything like that,

I just think that

maybe it's time
to give this a rest.

Hey, Aaron!

THOMAS:
All right, well, if that's it,
we can head back.

He[monitor beeping]
that bla

We're here at
the emergency room. Still.

The doctor finally came
with results,

and, basically,

couldn't say what
exactly happened

to cause Tom to pass out
or black out.

He said my heart
is skipping beats

every so often,

and so he's running

lots of lab tests to see
if he can figure out why.

It's very unsettling because of

the sequence of events
that led up to that radio call

for-for what I was experiencing

and the sounds that Erik
was sharing with everyone

and the way that it starts to...

It's... [sighs]

Those things
don't seem coincidental,

just like so many others.

Of course.

Once again, more questions
than answers,

but... at least I'm alive.

-[laughs]: Yeah.
-[chuckles]

It was scary,
and that's all for now.

ERIK: Aaron, I really
want to understand

what we're up against here
inside of this mesa.

I'd like to know,
how unusual is it,

in your experience,
to not be able

to punch up
through something like this?

Well, seeing the rock
that is on the ground out here,

and it's a sandstone
type of rock,

the stuff that we are using
right now to drill up

through this mesa,
it should go through that...

layer pretty easily.

And it's not.

Does that make you think that

maybe what you're up against is

something other than sandstone?

Yeah.

I wonder what that is.

THOMAS:
How far back are we?

We are about 300 feet.

THOMAS:
Now that you've got a little bit

of the mud flowing back
from here, too,

where you're hitting
some of this hard surface

and where you've been
bumping up against this,

whatever it is,

uh, I'm gonna be
really fascinated

to see what's coming
out of that hole.

So, when you guys get ready
to dump the spoils,

we definitely want to put
a screen under there

and catch it and just see

if maybe we might be able
to discern...

I mean, you're saying that
whatever you're hitting

is harder than sandstone.

-Correct.
-THOMAS: And so,

maybe you're chipping it,

or-or piece of it, kind of,
is coming out,

so I think that we
definitely want to analyze that.

And if we're doing that,
it should be

at the bottom
of that pit right there.

-THOMAS: Okay.
-So...

All right, we'll let you
get back to work.

-Thank you.
-All right.

THOMAS:
What happened to Tom,

it's serious.

The ranch
takes a toll on people.

But we need to move forward,

go back into the hole
and keep drilling.

As we get deeper into the hill,

the mud finally starts flowing.

It fills up this large hole
that they dug with the backhoe

to catch this stuff.

It becomes necessary
to vacuum it out.

I wonder what
that black stuff is.

I don't know.

-AARON: Hey, Thomas.
-Yeah.

My, uh, back's full.
I need to go dump it.

Oh, okay.

All right.

THOMAS:
You think that'll catch it?

McCOY:
Yeah.

THOMAS:
We put a screen
underneath of it

when we dumped it,
just to see if we could catch

anything that might be
coming out of that hole.

Okay.

What is that?

Hey, uh...

Look at that.

Thomas, what are you seeing?

-THOMAS: I don't know
if that's a rock...
-Looks like you're studying...

THOMAS:
...or if it's like rust or...

-Oh, my.
-THOMAS: Just rock?

-It's brittle.
-ERIK: This is really thin.

What did you think it was
when you first saw it?

THOMAS:
I wondered if it was, like,
metal flakes or something.

That's exactly
the same impression I got.

THOMAS:
Yeah, there's quite a bit
of that flake stuff in here.

ERIK:
Yeah, you got
a good eye, Thomas.

I don't know how you
spotted that in all that mess.

THOMAS:
I mean... [sighs, stammers]

-You know when a piece of metal
rusts and then flakes off?
-Uh-huh.

Yeah, that's what came
to mind as soon...

as soon as you handed me that.

I'm surprised to see that there
are pieces of material--

not rock, possibly metal--

being screened out of that
800-gallon volume of slurry

with bentonite clay.

I don't know
what this material is.

At first,
it appears to be like rust

or-or some kind of sheet metal

that has been broken
into pieces.

-You see that?
-I know what it looks like.

Bryant, you want
to have a look at this?

THOMAS:
I think this is just stuff

-that's fallen down in the...
-Mm-hmm.

...hole.

You know,
it might be interesting

to put a metal detector...

Well, there's a few things
that come to mind.

The metal detector, of course,
and then the XRF device.

We can do some elemental
analysis on it with the XRF.

You know, it-it also
wouldn't hurt to take a look

at this stuff that's coming out
and see if we get

elevated gamma readings on it.

What is it that
we're hitting inside there?

We've heard of tunnels
and caverns

and underground bases
here in the mesa.

Could what we hit in the mesa
be behind that narrative?

-So this is that really...
-Oh, that's...

That's that really large one.

That's the biggest one
we found, right?

Yeah, yeah. All right,
I-I want to rinse it off

-back here,
away from the electronics.
-THOMAS: Okay.

Let's get the other side.

All right.

-ERIK: Well, look at that.
-Does it have any...?

ERIK:
Yeah, look at this surface here.
It's all bumpy.

It's a kind of a brown,
brownish color.

And this has got streaks
of that brown in it,

but there's a black color here
on this much flatter,

smoother surface.

Well, let's find out what it is.

Does it have to be dry
to analyze it?

-Yeah, I prefer
to let the thing dry off.
-Okay.

ERIK:
In order to identify
what that material is,

at least to get a sense
of its composition,

I've decided to use the handheld
X-ray fluorescence analyzer,

or XRF instrument,
and see what elements show up.

I like to describe
the XRF device

as basically
a fancy X-ray flashlight.

We shine those X-rays at objects

and we look at what
X-ray colors come back

to identify the materials
of which they're made.

So, this is telling me, on
this first reading on this side,

we're looking at calcium, iron,
silicon, aluminum, magnesium.

-Wait, iron?
-What?

-Yeah, there's...
-And aluminum?

Yeah, it's, like, eight percent
aluminum on that shot.

How much iron is it?

Uh, th-that time, it was 26%.

So, this is
definitely metallic, then?

Oh, yeah. Let's take
a look at this other side.

THOMAS:
Aluminum. Oh, wow.

-ERIK: Guys?
-THOMAS: That number's
much different.

Yeah, this side
of this thing is showing up

at almost 72% iron.

This thing is just
straight-up metal?

This sample
is almost solid metal.

Wow.

What is metal doing coming out
of the hill 300 feet in?

-ERIK: Hey, guys.
-THOMAS: Erik.

I have Travis cued up here
to videoconference with us.

We need to bring him up to speed
on what's been going on.

Mm-hmm.

ERIK: After finding
the material in the mesa,

a deeper and more searching
analysis with an XRF device

suggests a much more
interesting composition,

potentially a much more
interesting history.

So I want
to reach out to Travis.

It's important that
we get him these findings.

TRAVIS:
Hey, fellas.

-BRYANT: Hey, Travis.
-How are you guys doing?

It-it's been a busy time
out here.

-Yeah, it's been pretty crazy.
-Oh, yeah?

-What have y'all been up to?
-I took Tom Lewis

with me down to Homestead Two,

and right then and there,
Tom Lewis fell to his knees,

basically blacked out.

And it required me getting him
to the emergency room.

-Well, is Tom okay?
-He is.

Fortunately, the doctors
checked him out and they did say

that he had a strange
heart arrhythmia,

-which he's never had before.
-What?

ERIK:
Yeah, this makes
no sense, Travis.

Now, it has been pointed out
that our drilling

had just reached what would be
below ground,

at the base of the mesa,

at the point in time
when Tom Lewis had his episode.

That's insane.

And what about the drilling?

We decided to-- the drilling,
and we would use a screen,

uh, to screen any material
coming out of that-that slurry,

in case we saw any... anything
that we think doesn't belong.

-And boy, did we find something.
-Really?

It was actually Thomas
who noticed

that there were some
unusual pieces of material,

uh, sticking out of
that bentonite clay residue.

And this material, uh, is flat.

-It is metallic.
-Have you got, uh,
pieces of it

-that you can show me?
-Oh, yes, we do.

We're talking about
anywhere from 30%

-to 72% iron.
-Wow.

And curiously, we see
aluminum in this material.

-Really?
-Yeah.

Oh, man, I wish
I could zoom in on that.

Does it look like
it's got any layering to it?

Any lamination?

My hope is that when we get
some additional processing,

we'll be able to answer
questions like that.

That's exactly the question
that we had on the ground.

But this is some
really unusual-looking stuff.

This is not something I would
have expected to encounter,

uh, you know,
hundreds of feet into the mesa.

TRAVIS:
And-and what's it doing there?

That doesn't make sense.

I would normally expect
to see iron

only in the form
of an oxide in the ground.

Yeah, this has been refined,
and it's got a-a mixture

of, uh, other, uh,
you know, metals in it.

And to what end?

Yeah, I'm perplexed
by the aluminum content,

to be honest.

I don't know why I'm seeing
as high as ten percent aluminum

in some of my measurements.

And how did it get 300 feet
underneath the mesa?

TRAVIS:
These metallic fragments
that the drill extracted

from below the base of the mesa

made me wonder
if there's a connection

to the metal-looking object that
Thomas and Dragon got video of

from the crevice above.

And how whatever
could be in the mesa

might be connected
to Tom Lewis's health episode.

We need to keep drilling

and get a detailed elemental
analysis of that material

from a university-level
laboratory

to be certain
of just what it is.

ERIK:
Well, I guess
we're done here for now.

We'll, uh, get back
in touch with you

if we see anything else
like this, Travis.

All right, thanks, guys.
I'll see you guys in a few days.

THOMAS:
Okay, see you soon.

KANDUS:
While this investigation
is important

to everyone here on the team,

everybody's physical health
is number one,

above the investigation.

We feel like we're
at a crossroads right now,

because what happened with Tom
has shaken our comfort level.

BRYANT:
As the experiments
get bigger and better,

they also get more dangerous
and more hazardous.

What are we going to trigger
with these bigger experiments?

THOMAS:
Metal flakes or something.

TRAVIS:
I don't know how this
material got inside the mesa.

Could it be
from an asteroid impact

or an alien spacecraft
or an underground base?

Who knows?

But what we do know
is whatever this is,

it's made up of rare
and unusual elements.

We need to find out what it's
doing here on Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
Well, you guys ready
to go at it again?

AARON:
Yeah, we're ready.

I'm up against something
pretty hard right now.

THOMAS:
Look how big that chunk is.

BRYANT:
Are we chipping away
at something

much larger under the mesa?

It's almost as if
it all came off the same object.

TRAVIS:
Those materials are used
in modern

quantum computer systems.

BRYANT:
Is it some sort of a craft
that was put in there

that was never supposed
to be discovered?

-[low rumble]
-What was that?

-[whooshing]
-Whoa! What was that?