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ERIK: We've been
following up on what appears,

from our view through lidar,

to be an invisible bubble.

TRAVIS:
We've got something on the mesa!

PETE:
That makes no sense.

DAVE:
Y'all got some

weird mojo out here.

JIM:
Hey, Travis, I get over

Dry Gulch Creek, start
losing all communication

-on the drone.
-That's crazy.

BEN:
We had Colossal test
this DNA of the animal

we found on the ranch

against the DNA of other species

of canines. 89% is a mystery.

That's really exciting.

NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings
have never been made public.

TRAVIS:
Right there! We got something!

NARRATOR:
Now a new team

of independent scientists
and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

...of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

-UAP right there!
-KALEB: Yep.

...bizarre energies...

It looks like there's
a heat source right above 'em.

...and portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe looking
at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

...might actually be true.

They will stop at nothing
to reveal...

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

DYLAN: Hey, guys.
How's it going?

ERIK: Welcome to the ranch,
guys. I'm Erik Bard.

I'm Dylan. Nice to meet you.

Dominique. Nice to meet you.

ERIK:
Gentlemen, we're so glad

to have you out to help
with our investigations.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS:
For six years,

our team's been working
to figure out

all the strange things we've
encountered on Skinwalker Ranch.

So today, we brought
a team from US Kites out

to help us learn more
about one phenomenon

that's pretty much
at the top of that list.

Our intent today
is to do an experiment

to measure a particular
phenomena that we've discovered

here recently
that we call the bubble.

-Erik, you want to tell
them about it?
-Yeah, sure.

As abstract as it sounds,

we seem to have detected
some kind of a structure.

You know, at first, we got
the impression that we might be

dealing with something
like a very large sphere,

not unlike a bubble,

and we're standing
right inside of that bubble,

where there's an effect,
it may be

something electromagnetic
we have yet to determine.

TRAVIS:
According to the data
we've collected

from numerous lidar instruments,

we believe that
there is a gigantic

bubble-shaped feature
on the ranch

that is invisible
to the human eye.

It's centered at the triangle

and encompasses
a huge area of the property,

both above and below ground,

where we've seen
all kinds of things,

such as possible evidence of
a black hole-like phenomenon

and tons of UAPs.

ERIK:
We've had
just about everything

out here, you know?
We've had helicopters,

you know, fixed-wing aircraft,

of course, drones, rockets.

-TRAVIS: Plenty of rockets.
-ERIK: Plenty of rockets.

But we've not yet had

one of these
Helikite platforms out here.

Okay.

TRAVIS:
We don't know how,

but whatever this bubble is,
it seems to have thwarted

almost every investigative
tool that we've used

to figure out
what the heck it could be.

Last week,
Jim Royston's lidar drone

even seemed to get stopped

right at its southern boundary.

So today, we're
hoping to figure out

how it could do that

by using a specialized
piece of equipment

known as a Helikite.

ERIK:
Now, why do
we call it the Helikite?

Well, it's a combination between
a helium balloon and a kite.

How long can we stay aloft?

As long as there's
helium in that balloon.

-Oh.
-ERIK: Okay.

DOMINIQUE: It's actually
a piece of military equipment.

Wow. Well, we've got some
instruments that we want

to attach to this Helikite.

TRAVIS:
What excites us about

the Helikite is that we can

attach our instruments
to it and then let it

hover in the air right inside
the bubble's barrier

to help us collect data on it
while we run a new experiment.

ERIK:
Yeah, I want to get out there
to the east field canyon

-and get started.
-All right.

-TRAVIS: I say we get with it.
-DOMINIQUE: Yeah, let's go.

TRAVIS:
Since we first detected
evidence of the bubble,

we've been running experiments

inside of it
to verify its dimensions

and see what other strange
things it might contain.

But today, we want
to see what happens

when we attempt to penetrate

its boundary
with different instruments.

So, Thomas is going
to tow the Helikite

out to the east field

using a UTV,

where it will hang
several hundred feet high,

right in the eastern wall
of the bubble,

collecting data with
several of our instruments

that are attached to it.

JIM: This is a good setup.

TRAVIS: These will include
a GPS tracker,

high-speed cameras
and a signal generator

that will continually
broadcast a frequency

at 1.2 gigahertz.

All right.

Yeah, good.

ERIK:
So,

I think I've got everything
just about set up.

TRAVIS:
1.2 gigahertz is a signal

that none of our other
equipment broadcasts,

so Erik can easily monitor it

for unusual interference
with his Kraken system.

We've recently detected

strange 1.2 gigahertz
signals on the ranch.

The Kraken system can
also pinpoint the direction

of any of those 1.2 gigahertz
signals that might pop up.

THOMAS:
All right, so here's your line.

DYLAN:
All right, yep.

And then, this is how
it's gonna fly,

-right up from here.
-THOMAS: Okay.

(air hissing)

DYLAN:
Little bit more.

All right.

And that's about good.

TRAVIS:
Once the Helikite is in place,

Jim Royston will launch
his lidar drone

from outside of the bubble,

and then fly it
through the barrier.

Meanwhile, I'll be positioned

to the east of the bubble.

From there, I'm going
to launch rockets

in a westward direction
into the bubble

to see if anything
strange happens

once they pass through
its eastern barrier.

Okay, Erik, we're going
to turn on the 1.2

gigahertz transmitter
on the payload board.

Copy.

Boom.

Okay, Travis,

I do have the Kraken

locating that
1.2 gigahertz transmitter.

Copy that. I'm seeing it
on my spectrum analyzers

as well.

I am about to

turn on the GPS.

ERIK:
Copy you, Travis.

ERIK:
We are seeing the signal.

ERIK:
Oh, oh, oh.

Oh.

Look at that.

SAM:
That's crazy.

This GPS tracker took
a deep dive underground.

Interesting.

Hey, Travis, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Erik.

ERIK:
Just FYI, I've been

monitoring the position
of our GPS tracker,

and several of the data points

there at your location
have indicated

that they've gone
deep below ground.

TRAVIS:
That's really interesting.

You know, we're
outside the bubble here,

down near the boundary.

ERIK:
I think it's significant
that we're seeing

the GPS tracker
diving below ground.

And what are we near?

We're near that boundary
of the bubble.

We've seen

these errors,
these erratic behaviors

in experiments in the past,
all around the ranch.

Is it possible

that the bubble
could be responsible

or somehow involved
in all of the strange

energetic events
that we're seeing?

TRAVIS:
Keep an eye on it,
let me know what goes on.

Copy that.

So, I'm keeping my eyes
on this GPS tracking system

to see if, when we bring it
over to the Helikite

and attach it to the platform,
will the reported altitudes

get above-ground results?

DYLAN:
All right. With that,
we should be good.

THOMAS:
Helikite is ready
to receive the payload.

The cameras are rolling.
All right, we're good to go,

I'm going to take this.

After hearing that the GPS data

was already getting
messed up near the bubble...

...we couldn't wait to have
Thomas tow the Helikite

with the UTV
over to its position

at the eastern boundary
of the bubble

so we could get
the experiment started.

ERIK:
Okay, Thomas, be advised,

you are approaching the boundary

-of the bubble.
-THOMAS: Copy that.

ERIK:
Okay if you'll stop

right there,
let's see what we've got.

Copy that.

ERIK:
You are now right at

the inside boundary
of the bubble.

Leave it in that position
for the duration.

THOMAS:
Copy that.

TRAVIS:
Once the Helikite
was positioned

right in the eastern barrier
of the bubble,

we wanted to get
Jim's drone launched

before I started firing rockets.

All right Jim, have at it.

JIM:
Hold on.

-TRAVIS: It's
telling you errors?
-JIM: Yeah, hold on.

I can't take off.

How is putting
a balloon up in the sky

keeping you
from launching your drone?

JIM:
Who knows?

I'm resetting everything.

It's crazy.

TRAIS:
Wow, look at that.

Something's happening.

Oh, dude! I'm-- This is crazy.

One of my receivers
is picking up

-a 1.2 gigahertz signal...
-JIM: Whoa.

...that we are not broadcasting.

This is just insane.

This is the signal
we're transmitting,

and suddenly, this line
to the right of it

appeared right as

the Helikite passed right into

-the barrier wall.
-JIM: And that's where
I got my error.

TRAVIS:
That's insane.

ERIK:
That is very interesting,

'cause we've been talking
about what may happen whenever

a physical object
passes through that boundary.

That's really interesting.

TRAVIS:
That's crazy. Right when we get

the Helikite up in the air
in the bubble barrier,

we detect another duplicate
1.2 gigahertz signal,

and Jim's drone won't even fly.

Did the Helikite making
contact with the bubble

trigger all of these things?

All right, I am going
to go get that rocket ready.

If that was the case,
we wanted to see

what would happen
when I launched a rocket

through its eastern barrier.

Hey, Erik, Thomas,

I am ready to do
the first rocket launch.

Copy that. We're watching.

We will be watching, too.

Rocket's hot.

In five,

four, three,

two, one!

ERIK:
It's going the wrong way.

Looks like it's going north.

TRAVIS:
Something pushed
that rocket away.

It just veered off in
a totally different direction

away from
the bubble to the north.

I think it went around it.

ERIK:
Wow.

TRAVIS: The rocket never made it
through the bubble wall.

No, it did not.

It shot north, towards the mesa.

TRAVIS: I don't understand that.

We're trying
to penetrate the bubble

with rockets and Jim's drone.
But somehow,

whatever this thing is,
it appears to

stop them from going through
its eastern barrier.

But how can it do that?

Hey, Erik, you copy?

Yeah, Travis. What do you got?

That last rocket trajectory
was so weird,

I'm gonna launch
another one into the bubble,

but I'm gonna aim it
where I think it should land

at the triangle.

Copy that, Travis.

TRAVIS:
So, with the Helikite
still hovering

right in the eastern
barrier of the bubble...

-All right, let's go.
-I like it.

...I wanted to launch
another rocket to see

if it would get deflected

like the one I'd just fired.

Rocket's hot.

Three,

two, one, liftoff!

Look out!
It went the wrong way!

-What the crap?
-Unbelievable.

TRAVIS:
Did y'all see that?
That one deflected to the south,

like it went around
the bubble, too.

-JIM: Yeah.
-I think we just saw evidence

-of this bubble
-Yeah. Crazy.

THOMAS:
Well, neither one
of those launches

-went as planned.
-No.

There's absolutely no reason
we should be seeing

any of these malfunctions
with the rocket launches.

I don't know what it is,
but it all lends

credence to the fact
that there is something

about this bubble boundary

that is causing interference.

ERIK:
Hey, Travis? Thomas?

Yeah, Erik. Go ahead.

I say we get

everything wrapped up
and, uh, reconvene

once I can review the GPS and
camera data on the Helikite.

TRAVIS:
Copy that.
We'll see you in a bit.

ERIK:
Naturally, after seeing

this real-time GPS data
take a deep dive

below ground,
I can't wait to start

crunching the data to see if

we see any indications
of unusual activity.

TRAVIS:
Thomas, they can
start bringing her down.

THOMAS:
Copy, we're bringing her down.

ERIK: You ready to discuss
our experience with

the maiden voyage
of our Helikite?

Yes.

TRAVIS:
The next day, after processing

the Helikite data,

Erik called us into
the command center for a debrief

on everything that happened
during the experiment.

ERIK: This is a really

interesting and new way
for us to probe the bubble

that we've been talking about.

TRAVIS:
Yeah. I mean, remember

how the one rocket
turned north and went around

this "barrier"

to the north,
and the other one went

to the south and went around it.

-I know.
-TRAVIS: Right?

Yes. You know, we have
a few things to discuss,

but I want to start
with some information

that you have to share, Jim.
I guess this is

-your display, right?
-Yeah.

ERIK:
It's my understanding that you
experienced some difficulties

with some interference
with the drone itself

during the experiment
with the Helikite.

Yeah, let me jump up there.

We're looking at this boundary

that's kind of somewhere
in this range, right?

That's the bubble.

So, Thomas, this is
where the Helikite was

before you started moving it

to the barrier of the bubble.

Mm-hmm.

So, this is the actual
home point of the drone.

We get ready to go,

and as we start
moving the Helikite

down into the boundary,
all of a sudden,

we're seeing
this weak satellite signal.

Which to me is
very interesting data

because I get 21 satellites,

so that's plenty enough

GPS satellites, if you will,

to take off and fly, no problem.

But the actual satellite signals
are so low, the drone

-can't take off.
-Wow.

TRAVIS:
That's crazy.
As soon as the Helikite

got into position
at the barrier of the bubble,

Jim lost connection
to 21 satellites.

That kept his drone
from taking off.

Was it
the Helikite's interaction

with the barrier of
the bubble that triggered it?

Did you see any of
these issues prior to moving

-the Helikite?
-No.

Something about
the Helikite going in

that barrier inside the bubble

stimulates it
or something, 'cause then

I'm having problems
once it's in there.

Got it.

TRAVIS:
I think whatever this

bubble or barrier or dome is,

that it's blocking
the external signal somehow.

And adding to your point,
blocking and possibly

responsive to what we're doing.

That duplicate
1.2 gigahertz signal

showed up when that Helikite

was exactly on that boundary
that we're talking about.

That's a good point. Yep.

ERIK:
Okay, I have
some things to share.

I was, uh, doing
some GPS monitoring

on the Helikite platform.

Let me bring it up.

TRAVIS:
Oh.

THOMAS:
Wow.

Again, data that's appearing
to be underground.

ERIK: Yeah. Here in
the east field canyon,

we saw GPS locator points

nearly 800 feet into the ground.

-THOMAS: That's crazy.
-ERIK: Isn't that nuts?

But this really
rings some bells for me.

Now, just reflect on
some of our experiences

at the creek.

ERIK: According to the GPS,

you're at
5,000 feet underground.

TRAVIS:
That's crazy, man.

When we were investigating
Dry Gulch Creek

in the south field last year,
which is very close

to the southern
border of the bubble,

Erik's GPS tracker
reported its position

5,000 feet underground.

During a lot of our experiments
all over the ranch,

we've seen the data
from our GPS devices

go deep underground.

We never knew
what to make of it.

But did the Helikite experiment

help us figure out that it was

the barrier of the bubble
doing that?

So, as if this isn't
weird enough, I've got some

other things
that happened during the--

-Hey, there's more?
-Oh, there's more.

-(chuckling)
-There are some...
some interesting hits

in the high-speed cameras
that we mounted

to our science platform
on the Helikite.

Okay, so here
we have the embossed effect

being used to help
bring out any movement,

anything going through
the field of view of the camera.

To be clear, this is high speed,

120 frames per second.

Let me know if you see anything.

-SAM: Oh, yeah.
-THOMAS: Looked translucent.

What did you see?

-Movement in the upper middle...
-Okay.

-...to the side.
-So, let's go back.

SAM:
Right there.

ERIK:
Okay. We are looking at
at least four--

TRAVIS:
At least four dots, maybe five.

Yeah. Okay, so, let's dive in
on this part of the, uh,

video frame.

And so, I'll back us up.

Okay, now I'll play
through at the normal rate.

All right.

There it is.

TRAVIS:
Okay, so if it's moving really

damn fast, if it's
anywhere further than

right next to the camera lens.

THOMAS:
Can you frame advance just

-a couple frames?
-Okay.

There's one, two, three.

THOMAS:
It goes behind it.

ERIK:
Wow.

THOMAS:
So, we know it's not a bug...

-That's important.
-...in front of the camera.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

That string is out

-away from the platform.
-ERIK: Absolutely.

That is just unbelievable.

After what happened
with the GPS data,

the rockets and Jim's drone,

we have several more
reasons to believe

that the bubble
is actually real.

So, if that's the case,

then is that where
the UAPs came from?

And could they also be
related to the duplicate

1.2 gigahertz signal
that we keep detecting?

Clearly, there's some
follow-up called for.

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Yep, I agree.

THOMAS: And it would be
interesting to do that

down near Dry Gulch Creek.

-TRAVIS: Yeah, Thomas.
-ERIK: Yes, that's actually

not far from
the boundary of our bubble.

So, we need
to devise experiments

at those barrier locations.

We need to drive, walk sensors

through it, people,

and fly a drone
back and forth between it

with as many sensors
as we can put on it

so we can look through
that barrier wall

and start pinpointing
what's triggering it.

That would tell us
a lot of information.

-ERIK: Yep.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Well,

sounds like we've
got the makings of a plan

for another experiment.

-Let's do it.
-All right.
-All right.

ERIK:
Thank you, guys.

THOMAS:
Yep.

TRAVIS: How's it going, Ben?

Doing good. How you doing?
Good to see you, man.

TRAVIS:
After the wild results

of our Helikite
experiment yesterday

at the eastern boundary
of the so-called bubble...

You ready to do some
trekking down by the creek

and into the bubble?

Yeah, absolutely.
Let's go check it out.

...we got our buddy,
biologist Ben Woodruff,

to help us see what would happen
when we try to put our equipment

through its southern boundary
at Dry Gulch Creek.

ERIK:
Ben,

having you on-site
to immediately inspect anything,

I think is the perfect plan.

BEN: I'm excited to see
what else we can find.

Let's load up.

TRAVIS:
Over the past five years,

we've documented
a lot of strange things

in the south field
and the creek...

...like GPS data that
also went deep underground,

several different UAPs,
including one in the water

that we captured
on video last year,

and the decayed carcass
of some kind of wolf

that Ben can't seem to identify

as a known species
for this area.

In fact, based on his research,

he believes
it could be a dire wolf,

a predator that
supposedly went extinct

more than 10,000 years ago.

-You want to do this one
first, Thomas?
-Yes, this one's on top.

-All right.
-THOMAS: Now, one of these
is the lead.

All these instruments have,
uh, fresh batteries.

TRAVIS: All right.

Who knows if any of
these things are related

to the bubble, or its boundary,
but we want to find out.

So, starting from
several yards outside

of the believed southern
boundary of the bubble,

we're going to walk two kayaks
loaded with instruments

down the creek. We want to see

if we get different readings
outside of the bubble

versus inside the bubble.

Here's the sonar, Thomas,

that's gonna be clamped
to that PVC pipe right there,

and that orange piece
has to be in the water.

ERIK:
The equipment we're using

as part of the river walk
includes the sonar.

This is something
that allows us to image

the bottom of the creek
beneath the water.

We're carrying
the TriField meter,

measuring the radiation
in the environment.

Also, a GPS tracker to observe
whether we see a repeat

of some of the mysterious
results that we got last year.

I'm going to set
the drone up there,

I'm going to get my
base station set up here.

TRAVIS:
Once we reach the southern
boundary of the bubble,

Jim Royston is
going to attempt to fly

his lidar drone through it

to see if something
stops it again.

Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb.
Do you copy?

Loud and clear.

We just put the GPS on
and we are transmitting.

ERIK:
Copy that, Kaleb.

I will be in
the command center monitoring.

In the past, it has been
really fascinating

to see how the bubble

interfered with our
scientific instruments,

electronic devices,
so if we see data errors

going on today,

the real question here

is whether the errors
cluster around

the border of what
we're calling the bubble.

We'll also be
looking into the sky,

looking for returns
off of the lidar system

indicating the presence of any
kind of effect or phenomenon.

TRAVIS:
Here we go.

-Careful, guys.
-THOMAS: Got it.

-All right.
-TRAVIS: You got it?

-I've got it.
-All right.

All right.

Oh, guess what
the dadgum TriField meter's

-reading right now?
-THOMAS: What?

Zero, zero.

THOMAS:
It doesn't do that anywhere
but here, you know.

TRAVIS:
There's always
a little bit of radiation

in any environment,

so it's really weird
for the TriField meter

to read exactly zero.

We hadn't reached the bubble's
southern boundary yet,

but we were pretty close,

so was it possibly
messing with this device?

KALEB:
Just so you're aware,

our TriField meter's
reading zeros.

I find that interesting
because I just looked over

and I also do show
some of the latest GPS points

are, in fact,
beneath ground level.

I'm closely monitoring.

We're seeing
very strange readings

from the TriField meter
and the GPS tracker.

It raises the question
as to whether

the instruments themselves
are being interfered with,

and if so,
what could be the source

of that inference
in a creek bed?

THOMAS:
How deep is it right there?

TRAVIS:
The sonar

lost the connection.

It keeps doing that.

KALEB:
So, the sonar

-is not connecting
to your phone?
-Yep.

This close.

Something is killing
the connection to it.

What's the TriField meter doing?

-Zero.
-Something's killing the signal.

Something's killing
signals, period.

Let's just keep-keep

moving as best we can, guys.

THOMAS:
We found a lot of strange
things around the creek

down on the center part
of the ranch.

These things include finding
a wolf carcass in the river,

burnt wood and a UAP.

Now, as we're
walking down the creek

towards the direction
of the bubble boundary,

none of our equipment
was working,

so it makes me wonder,
is it all related?

I... I have no idea.

How's it going down there?

Still zeros on TriField.
Hadn't read a thing.

THOMAS:
I wonder how close
we are to the boundary.

-Boundary's right here.
-Yep.

Boundary marker's right here.

-Are you serious?
-JIM: Yeah.

We'll get the drone up
within the next five minutes.

Okay, let's see what's going on

-with lidar.
-Yeah.

Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb, You copy?

Yeah, Kaleb. Go ahead.

So, we are

maybe about 20 feet from
the bubble at this point.

We just wanted to let you know
we're about to cross it.

Copy that.

How are we looking, Sam?

Yeah, it looks like
everything's ready.

JIM:
All right,
I'm good on the controller.

We're getting good GPS signal,

so I think we're ready to go.

All right.
Well, let's get her launched.

Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb.
We're through the barrier.

ERIK:
Copy you, Kaleb.

Thanks for that.

We are ready to get it going.

(drone playing
indistinct automated message)

-(drone beeping)
-JIM: All right.

(indistinct automated
message playing)

Okay, this is
an interesting one, everybody.

-So, look where we are.
-BEN: Uh-huh.

JIM:
It thinks there's
an aircraft approaching,

and doesn't want to
go do its flight plan.

There is no aircraft
around us right now.

-No, there's nothing.
-It's pretty sophisticated.

It thinks there's
an aircraft right around it.

BEN:
That's wild.

(drone beeping)

JIM:
It thinks
there's an aircraft

approaching and doesn't want
to go do its flight plan.

-BEN: That's nuts.
-JIM: And we don't see one,
right?

No, there's nothing.

I mean, it does not
want to let me go.

I have to override it.

TRAVIS:
Yesterday, Jim Royston
couldn't get his lidar drone

to fly through the eastern
boundary of the bubble.

But now,
as he was about to fly

through the southern boundary,

the drone's warning system
detected

an aircraft right in front of it
that stopped it from flying.

There was nothing in
the airspace that we could see,

so was it something invisible

that might have come
from the bubble?

And if so, what was it?

ROYSTON:
Hey, Erik?

ERIK:
Yeah, Jim, go ahead.

We got that "Cannot take off,
aircraft in the area,"

so I did just kind of
force it to go.

So we got this drone up
in the air.

It's going to actually
start the mission.

Copy that, Jim. Thanks.

Here we go.

TRAVIS:
After manually overriding
the drone's controls,

Jim was able to get the drone
to take off.

He flew it directly toward
the bubble barrier

and began lidar-scanning
in a push-broom pattern

back and forth
across the southern boundary.

We just hoped
he'd finally be able

to get us some data
on this thing.

How far are we from where
we found the dire wolf?

Still up a ways.

KALEB:
We got a ways to go still.

TRAVIS:
Dang. We need

-to pick up the pace,
I guess, huh?
-Yup.

ROYSTON:
It's coming right over us

on its pass,
and it's going to cross the...

It's getting really close
to that barrier.

ROYSTON:
Yeah.

See what happens here.

All right, I'm monitoring
Jim's position.

He is flying straight...
Oh! Look, right there.

Straight into the boundary.

And we did get an error point.

I'm seeing

data corruption errors
from an attached GPS tracker,

just as we go into

the membrane
or the border of the bubble.

Okay, guys, I just hit
another data corruption error.

That's pretty much
at the... the bubble barrier.

-Yup.
-Yeah.

So he might get a couple more.

We're come...
We're going to come in here.

Okay, here we go again.

ERIK:
Okay, we just hit
an error point.

It's right on the border.
He just got the error point.

-Can you believe that?
-Hmm.

ROYSTON:
I mean, it's right there.

-Right there.
-ROYSTON: The one
we just crossed.

How nuts is that, man?

TRAVIS:
As Jim was flying his drone
back and forth

across the boundary
of the bubble,

every time he crossed through,

Erik was getting data corruption
in the GPS signal.

Every single time.

-Well, we got one more set.
-Yeah.

ROYSTON:
Oh, no!

I'm red. I'm red!

If it gets too nervous,
it will abort the mission.

Oh, will you look
at the errors? Look at this.

Aah, it's aborting.

Oh, bad enough
where it's coming home.

Yeah, it's bad enough

that it's coming home, it's
aborting the mission on its own.

Are you kidding me? I mean,

these things
are so tightly correlated,

it's unbelievable.

The timing is very suspicious.

There's definitely a pattern
to this,

and when I see patterns,
that makes me very interested.

I'm looking forward
to looking at the data

and looking
for meaningful correlations.

BEN:
That drone's going all over
the place. We're gonna try

-to land it manually.
-Go-- go left a little.

Okay, hold on.

Yeah, you should be good.

ROYSTON:
All right, we're on the ground.

SAM:
Oh, my God.

TRAVIS:
We got to be getting close

to where the...
the wolf was.

Oh, look right there
on the bank.

What's that brown stuff
right there?

THOMAS:
We got some scat.

Maybe we ought to get Ben
to tell us what that is.

KALEB:
Hey, Ben, it's Kaleb.
Do you copy?

Yeah, Kaleb, what's up?

KALEB:
Yeah, we've got

two different piles of scat

that I think you'd be
interested in looking at.

Okay, um, are you guys

in a position where you could
take those as samples

and bring 'em up with?

Yeah, we're doing that now.

BEN:
Sounds good. I'll test them
and see what I can find out.

TRAVIS:
You might not think

that animal droppings would be
worth much to our investigation.

But since the strange carcass
we found last year was also

inside the bubble,
Ben Woodruff needs to look

at every possible clue
that could give us some answers.

And in the meantime,
we have a bunch of other data

from today that we'll be
examining along with it.

ERIK:
It's been a good run.
We're losing daylight.

I'd say we reconvene back over
at the command center.

KALEB:
Great. Thanks, Erik.

-ERIK: Hey, Ben.
-TRAVIS: Hey, Ben.

KALEB:
How's going, Ben?

Hey. How you guys doing?

So, Ben, thanks again
for jumping on with us.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS:
Two days after

the crazy drone
and kayak experiment,

when we crossed into the bubble

from the southern boundary,

biologist Ben Woodruff joined us

on a video conference
to review all of the data.

ROYSTON:
I mean, it was... it was crazy.

Go to launch the drone,

and it won't launch.

It actually says,

"There is an aircraft
immediately in your area,

or approaching."

TRAVIS:
That's crazy.

-Yes.
-TRAVIS: We know there wasn't

aircraft anywhere
transmitting ADS-B, right?

Yeah, there were no aircraft
in the airspace at that time.

THOMAS:
Uh, I do think it's interesting

that for the first part of this,

our instruments
measured approximately zero,

-as far as the TriField.
-Oh, yeah?

-Mm-hmm.
-Yes.

It was as if
they were not working.

Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
So let's think of all
the instruments we have.

We got Jim's drone,
we've got the sonar,

uh, we got the TriField meter.

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: So, that's a lot

of instruments using different
technologies that are being

affected right at that spot.

-Yup.
-KALEB: Does this mean that

this potential bubble that we're

maybe finding here is putting
off some kind of energy, or...

or something that is messing
with our equipment?

Well, it's doing something

that's messing with
our equipment.

ERIK: Between the data
from this experiment

and the Helikite one
earlier this week,

we've done enough work
on the boundary

-to support that general idea.
-Yeah.

One hundred percent.

ERIK:
Yeah, it seems like
an appropriate time to bring up

the GPS data from Jim's drone

in the 3D model, and of course,

we have the representation
of the bubble.

So, these red points correspond

to the data corruption errors
from the drone.

TRAVIS:
Okay.

They're kind of
right on the bubble.

-THOMAS: Oh, my gosh.
-ERIK: Mm-hmm.

Now, we can go look
at the other GPS data set

from the kayak on its own here.

-So, these are just purely
the sensor...
-Yes. Yes.

-...we had on the kayak?
-On the kayak, yeah.

ERIK: Yup, and some of those
went up in the air.

Some data as high as 2,000 feet.

And when I reposition,

you can see that, you know,
some of these points

are below ground
by tens of feet.

-That's very interesting.
-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
How in the heck did our GPS data

from a kayak in the creek
appear way up in the air

and also underground?

It really seems like the barrier
of whatever this bubble thing is

deflected it
in different directions.

ERIK:
So, I've got one more thing.

In your lidar survey,

there seems to be an anomalous
strip of missing data, too.

-Yes. Yup.
-Um, let me bring that up.

-Here.
-ROYSTON: There you go.

ERIK:
This is
what caught my attention.

TRAVIS:
What?

So, there's an entire swath
that's missing?

That's right. Yes.

THOMAS:
What the heck?

KALEB:
It's like a whole segment.

TRAVIS:
Jim's lidar drone emits
laser light

that is designed
to image an environment

and also detect things

that might be invisible
to the naked eye.

So what did it detect
right by the southern boundary

of the bubble that simply
appeared in the data

as a black strip or void?

I want to point something out

because, uh, this is
kind of fascinating to me.

Um...

All right.

So, right here is where the
missing strip of lidar data is.

Right?

Look where we are right here.

So, Thomas, two years ago--

right there is where
you saw the purple light.

-Mm-hmm.
-I mean, it was
right in this area

-near the southern boundary
of the bubble.
-Yeah.

KALEB:
That's way down, kind of by

where we saw the silver orb.

THOMAS:
Yes, exactly.

TRAVIS:
Over the last couple of years,

we've had some of
our most creepy UAP encounters

in this same area
of the south field

where Jim's lidar data
was missing.

That is flashing,
whatever that is.

One was a purple orb
that looked like

it was following Thomas.

All right, here we go.

TRAVIS:
And another was a silver UAP

that we captured
on a surveillance camera.

All of these events took place

right near the southern barrier
of the bubble.

So, are they connected
in some way?

So, that seems to me like
there's a bunch of different

interesting things
about this general area,

and we've lost all this data.

And it's all happening
around the southern barrier

of the bubble.

ERIK:
What's so special about

that location, if anything is?

ROYSTON:
There's something there

that causes this.

THOMAS:
After all this,

I wonder
if it could be affecting

the wildlife in that area,
as well.

ERIK:
So, Ben,

I can't help but wonder
whether any

of the biological samples
bear out

that there's some strange
connection.

BEN:
Absolutely.

I'm going to show you

the scat samples you found.

Let me pull these up here.

Uh, these were really strange.

So, what we're looking at here
is these are some of the samples

of the scat that you brought me.

First of all, whatever it is,

it ate a coyote.

-Ate?
-Ate?

-What?!
-It ate... Whatever it is,

-it ate a coyote.
-That's pretty
freaking interesting.

-Yeah.
-ERIK: It's crazy.

ERIK:
What would do that?

BEN: It ate a coyote.

It ate a coyote?

-Yes.
-What?!

Now, we've never seen large
predators on Skinwalker Ranch.

So, when Ben told us
that the scat we found

in the south field,

right where
we may have found the carcass

of a dire wolf last year,

was from something that actually

ate a coyote,
it got our attention.

BEN:
What I want to draw

your attention to on this
is the hair.

This is a guard hair
from a coyote.

And there's no predator
around here

that should be hunting
and eating coyotes.

Not even wolves.

Wolves don't eat coyotes.

They kill them
out of competition,

but they just leave them dead.

Whatever this is ate a coyote.

That's crazy.

Um, this next picture,
we're gonna take a look

at the scat more itself.

The bone was partially digested,

and you can see that,
whatever this predator was,

it had a strong enough
digestive system to start

to break down the bone itself
and chemically alter it.

That's not normal, and I--
and there is no predator here

in northern Utah
that should be able to do that.

-KALEB: Wow.
-THOMAS: Yeah.

BEN: But whatever it is,
it's big,

and it has a stronger
digestive system

than is normal
for any predator in the area,

and it killed and ate a coyote.

Hmm.

But what could that be? Like...

I mean, it could be a cougar
or a mountain lion.

No, uh, a cougar
would kill a coyote,

but it would not eat one.

A mountain lion's
digestive system

is not meant to break down
the bones of larger animals.

You would still have
bone fragments.

Whatever this is has a much
more powerfully digestive,

uh, enzymes in its stomach.

So, I think what you're,
what you're telling us is

the most logical explanation

is some species
that isn't typical of Utah.

Correct.

-Wow.
-KALEB: What the hell

is walking around out here
eating and killing coyotes?

ERIK:
Ben, we've been talking about

the subject of dire wolves,
you know,

in some of our conversations.

We have to ask the question,

would a dire wolf
consume a coyote?

Yes.

If a dire wolf saw a coyote,
it would instantly kill it.

♪ ♪

Nothing out here
makes any sense.

UAPs, GPS data
in the air, underground

and unknown predators roaming
the south field of the ranch

eating coyotes.

And what do they have in common?

Maybe it's a huge bubble.

I don't know what to say except
the investigation continues.

All right, well, on that note,
we need to keep an eye out

and try to get more evidence
of whatever this is

so we can figure out
where it came from.

Yeah, the idea of sharing
this space with a predator

that eats a coyote is chilling.

Yeah.

-Wow.
-Ben, as always, exciting.

Appreciate it, man.

Absolutely. Happy to help.

Thank you
for jumping on with us.

This has been very enlightening
and disturbing.

Thank you.

THOMAS:
Lot of activity on this

supposed "bubble boundary."

-Yeah.
-Beats me.

TRAVIS:
We need to plot

more of the bubble's boundary
on the ground

and see what we find
at other areas of it.

KALEB:
Maybe we need to go out and do,

like, actual, like,
field markers.

Things like, uh, posts.

ERIK:
You know, that's a good idea.

Having markers
as a reference is helpful.

They will indicate
the boundary of that bubble.

-That would be fantastic.
-Yeah.

-Let's go.
-That sounds like a plan.

Let's go. Let's go do it.

-Let's do it.
-All right.

ERIK:
It makes a lot of sense
to us to study

the boundary layer of what
we are calling the bubble.

I want to know if this structure

could be responsible
or somehow involved

in all of the strange energetic
events that we're seeing,

the disruptions
to our equipment,

all the unusual activity
at ground level

and even in the skies above.

TRAVIS:
Science fact is looking a lot
like science fiction out here.

But between the data
we keep collecting

on this massive bubble

and the progress
we're making in the mesa,

we're not going to quit

until we get to the bottom
of this crazy mystery.

BRANDON:
As we have explored
some of the more mysterious,

darker regions of the ranch,
we've identified animal life

that does not conform
to any conventional explanation

and leaving
biological evidence--

what could be preying
on the other animal life,

even consuming full coyotes?

This begs the question,

what is lurking in the darkest
corners and regions

of Skinwalker Ranch?

TRAVIS:
Let's get to drilling.

I'm hitting a layer that's
almost harder than granite.

So, I got something over here
you guys should take

a look at in the spoils.

Wait a minute, what?

KALEB:
Hey, Travis,
look what's over here.

TRAVIS:
You got to be kidding me.

Wow. Look at this.

THOMAS:
Right when you get
to the bubble wall,

it's pushing you back.

At this point, the drone doesn't
know where the hell it is.

There's something
right next to the drone.

Holy crap. Look at that.

What did we just witness here?

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