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TRAVIS: Our intent today
is to do an experiment

to measure a phenomena
that we call the bubble.

ROYSTON:
I can't take off.

TRAVIS:
How is putting
a balloon up in the sky

keeping you
from launching your drone?

Rocket's hot.

Something pushed
the rocket away!

ROYSTON:
Unbelievable.

Let's dive in on this part
of the video frame.

-ROYSTON: Wow.
-ERIK: That's actually not far

from the boundary of our bubble.

TRAVIS:
We need to devise experiments

at those barrier locations.

KALEB:
Maybe we need to go out

and do field markers.

ERIK:
They will indicate the boundary
of that bubble.

TRAVIS:
We've got a hole drilled.

Erik and I
both would really like to get

some scientific analysis from
instruments inside these holes.

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.

-THOMAS: New day, huh?
-ALEX: New day.

Are we ready to go
on the second hole?

Ready to go.

TRAVIS:
This morning kicked off

with a lot of excitement for
our team on Skinwalker Ranch.

After more than a year

of dealing with
strange mechanical problems,

we've finally completed
the first of two boreholes

up through the mesa,

where ground-penetrating radar
has showed evidence

of a massive object

and several smaller anomalies
buried inside there.

I would recommend that we stay

as close to the depth
as the other hole

-as we can.
-Yeah.

We can definitely do that.

-TRAVIS: Let's get to drilling.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Let us know
if anything weird happens.

-ALEX: Sounds good.
-Perfect.

TRAVIS:
So, today, the team
from Mark Construction Drilling

is getting started
on a second identical borehole

about 45 feet to the west,

which will give us
one hole on either side

of the large buried object.

-ALEX: Push it faster.
-I'll let you know

when you're about to get
into the wall.

ERIK: Our plan is to have
a pair of parallel boreholes

on either side
of the large object.

Having these two parallel
pathways through the mesa

would enable us to insert

a variety
of scientific instruments

so that we can study
whatever that anomaly is.

So it is essential
that we get this second hole

through the mesa.

THOMAS:
Hey, guys.

I want to introduce you
to, uh, Chris Roberts.

-How you doing, Chris?
-Hey, man.

-Travis.
-While the drillers got to work

on Borehole #2,

we welcomed archaeologist
Chris Roberts to the ranch.

He's going to play a critical
role in our mesa investigation.

I figure since he's got a lot
of experience of looking for,

-uh, you know, things and...
-TRAVIS: Artifacts

-in dirt.
-...looking for artifacts
in dirt,

uh, it'd be a good fit.

But we get so spread out
sometimes,

-I figure we could use
a little help.
-Mm-hmm.

-TRAVIS: That's a good idea.
-We could use a lot of help.
-Yeah.

CHRIS:
I've done a lot of historic
and prehistoric archaeology.

So I've been invited

to look at the spoils
that have come out of the mesa

from the drilling process

and determine if there are
any artifacts in those spoils.

THOMAS:
So, uh,

Chris, we're-we're
just getting ready

to start drilling our second
hole up into the mesa.

And as they're drilling,

those spoils will come out
of the-the pit

and they get sucked up
in this vacuum trailer over here

so you can sift through 'em.

So any-any insight
that you can, uh, you know,

bring is-is great.
It's another perspective.

You know, we're looking at it
more from engineering

and-and physics perspective.

To have archaeological
perspective is good.

Great. Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Three years ago...

-Look at that.
-...when we first drilled
into the mesa,

we were stunned to recover
fragments of metal

that are similar to what NASA,

SpaceX, and even Blue Origin use

to protect the exterior
of spacecraft.

Oh, my.

So as Borehole #2
goes up through the mesa,

Chris will use
specially made screens

to scour the drilling spoils
for any additional clues

that might help us figure out

just what is buried
inside there.

I can get out here
and look at anything

that's coming out of there
that's unnatural

and see what we have
for any kind of materials

that we really want
to look at closely.

And, in addition,
I do have a metal detector.

TRAVIS:
That sounds great.

Okay, well, uh, Chris,

I think I'm gonna take you up
to the spoils pit

and get you familiar with
kind of the lay of the land.

And then we'll get you going
with the spoils sifting.

Sounds great.
Let's take a look at it.

TRAVIS: Sounds great.
Good to meet you, man.

Later that day...

...while the drilling operation
in Borehole 2 continued...

All right.

...Kaleb and Thomas
went to the top of the mesa

with ground-penetrating radar
expert Jan Francke

to start our very first scanning
operation in Borehole 1.

THOMAS:
So you've got
your GPR equipment.

I've got my device.

And what's really neat
about this is,

instead of the backpack system,
this is much more compact.

THOMAS:
Perfect.

JAN:
There's an actual computer
on board.

Got the data coming in.

And when we're ready to go,
I'm just gonna press start.

We're ready.

-JAN: Awesome.
-KALEB: Yeah.

JAN:
Wi-Fi on.

TRAVIS:
In the past, Jan has used
his GPR devices

to scan from the outside
of the mesa,

which is
how we originally detected

all the things
we think are buried in there.

But now that we've completed
our first borehole,

he's going to insert a much
more specialized GPR device,

which will be scanning
all the way down and around

to hopefully give us
even more information

about the exact locations and
sizes of these believed objects.

JAN:
I want to read out the distance.

Let's do meters,
'cause if we do feet,

there's just too many feet
to read out.

THOMAS:
All right.

JAN:
Okay, let's do this.

So, one meter.

Two meters.

So, what I brought today

is a different type of GPR
than we've used here before.

In fact,

I designed it
specifically to be used

in the pyramids in Egypt

to be able to get up
into a very small crack

between some rocks.

So this is a tiny, tiny GPR.

And the idea is
get it down the borehole.

51. Wow,
we're really deep in there.

So they can at least

look around the hole 20 feet out

and see anything
that might be there.

Sixty-five.

-Oh, geez.
-All right.

Whoa.

-THOMAS: Getting tough?
-Yeah. Right there.

I'm starting to hit
something right there.

JAN:
What do you think we're hitting?

I don't know. We can't get past
where we're at.

-There's no getting by it.
-What are we at?

How many meters
are we at right now?

JAN:
We're at, uh,

72. 71, 72.

-Right? So 240 feet.
-So...

We're definitely alongside
of the anomaly,

-I think.
-I would think so.

TRAVIS:
The inside of Borehole 1

has been coated
with a gel-like cement.

So it should be totally open

for the device to move
all the way through it.

Could the massive object
or one of the smaller anomalies

that we believe are in there
have stopped it up?

If so, how?

-THOMAS: I think we pull it out.
-JAN: Okay-- Yeah.

THOMAS:
I can't wait to see
what the data says.

JAN:
I'm excited.

TRAVIS:
What's going on, man?

Well, I have some results
for you guys.

-Ready.
-Well, I'm glad.
Let's see what you got.

The next morning, Jan met
with us in the command center

to present the processed
GPR data from Borehole 1.

So, what we did was we tied
the GPR to the PVC pipe,

right, and we pushed that down
as far as you can get in there.

-And this is in Borehole 1?
-This is in Borehole 1.

-ERIK: Right.
-That's right.

And we got down
just over 200 feet.

Which is, I guess,
about a third of the way

of the entire borehole.

So I want to show you some
of the results from that,

and it showed me something
really interesting.

So, if I double-click on this,

take a look at this, guys.

So, this is the radar profile.

Remember, the left side is
the entrance to the hole.

TRAVIS:
And the horizontal axis

is how deep we are in the hole.

JAN:
Exactly right.

-Okay. Understood.
-Exactly.

And for this first bit,

there's really nothing there.
Nothing to speak of.

But you get to about,
I don't know, 20, 21 meters--

so that's about 60 feet--

and we get
this very interesting reflection

that could be metal.

-Really?
-JAN: Yeah. This device

doesn't penetrate metal.

So any reflections we get
are going to be

very, very strong if the energy
hits the metal target.

But what's interesting is

that this really shouldn't be

in a sandstone mesa out here
in the middle of nowhere.

Right.

So, this is not the only anomaly
though, right?

We see another one.

-TRAVIS: Yeah, I'm looking.
I see.
-There's a second one

-right there.
-TRAVIS: 25 meters away

from the other one
down the hole.

That's about 150 feet in.

JAN:
Isn't that interesting?

Uh, we're quite deep
into the mesa.

So I wouldn't expect
there to be metal. (chuckles)

-Right?
-Wow.

TRAVIS:
Jan's new GPR scans

definitely helped verify
that there are possible objects

buried in the sandstone mesa
and...

they're really in
close proximity to Borehole 1.

But what are these things and
how might they have been related

to whatever stopped Jan's device

from proceeding further
into Borehole 1?

I'm very hopeful that we're able
to get that second borehole up

and understand
what the shape of this thing is

-that we're dealing with.
-THOMAS: The drillers
are getting

their butts kicked out there
right now,

but they are making progress

and we are inching up
towards the top

-of Borehole 2.
-ERIK: Yeah.

-This is fantastic. Yeah.
-Well, if anything,
this makes me

-more excited than ever
to get down in that hole.
-Yeah. Yeah.

-Yeah.
-Thank you.

Awesome, Jan.
Appreciate it, man.

-My pleasure.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
All right,

well, let's get to work.

CHRIS: Let's go take a look.
See what we see.

All right, well, uh,
call down to us, and, uh,

-if we've got something,
we'll come over.
-Sounds good.

TRAVIS: The next morning,
while Erik Bard

was overseeing the drilling
of Borehole 2 in the mesa,

nearby, Thomas Winterton

was helping Chris Roberts
prep the sifting area

where Chris will search through
all the spoils for clues.

KYLE:
Hey, Allan.

Easton said he's still not
getting water in the pit.

Try blasting it some more.

Okay. I'm gonna blast it.

TRAVIS:
Everything
with the drilling operation

seemed to be going fine.

But then,

all of a sudden,

something really weird happened.

ALLAN:
Still nothing?

KYLE:
I got nothing.

Easton said there's nothing
coming out, man.

TRAVIS:
The drillers use water
to lubricate their bit

while cutting
through the sandstone,

which should then come back out
of the hole.

Well,

suddenly, all of the water
was disappearing

somewhere inside the mesa.

ALLAN:
Hey, Thomas.

This is Bearcat
over at the drill.

Yeah, this is Thomas. Go ahead.

We're not getting anything
out of the mesa.

We're pumping water in.
We're not getting anything out.

All right, I'll head up there.

This is definitely concerning
to hear

that there's no water
coming back out of Borehole 2.

I hope there isn't
a major problem here.

It's imperative that we get
these two holes finished

so we can finally get
some answers

as to what lies inside the mesa.

So how far are we into the mesa?

Should be about 85 feet.

So, at 85 feet
is when you noticed

-the fluid stopped flowing back?
-Yeah.

Yeah. 'Cause I pumped

about a quarter of my
thousand-gallon tank through it,

and all my returns stopped.

So you've pumped 250 gallons in
so far with nothing coming out?

Yeah.

Where it's going, we don't know.

Some kind of void.

TRAVIS:
Based on numerous GPR scans,

we believe we're drilling
just to the west of a massive,

possibly metallic object

and smaller anomalies
buried in the mesa.

Now we're finding evidence
of a void there, too?

Just what could that be?

So what are you guys
thinking you're gonna do?

ALLAN:
We're gonna keep drilling
forward

and hopefully we get back
into rock soon

and the water and spoils
will come out again.

I find that very interesting.

It's definitely something
I want to let Erik know about.

Okay.

Hey, Erik. You got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas, what do you got?

So, the drillers are
into the mesa 85 feet,

and, uh, the fluid has ceased
to come out of the hole,

indicating that we've got
some kind of void in there.

Uh, so far, they've lost
about 250 gallons of fluid.

Copy that.
Boy, that sure reminds me

of what happened the first time
we got into that mesa,

with the smoke bombs.

TRAVIS: All right,
we're gonna pop the smoke.

Three years ago,

after hearing rumors
about possible caves

or even some kind of secret
structure buried in the mesa,

we dropped smoke bombs
into small crevices

between some boulders

not too far from where
we're currently drilling.

We wanted to see if the smoke
would just rise back up

or come out somewhere else
and prove

that there was some kind
of void in there.

Look, look!
It's getting sucked in.

Yeah, the smoke's going down!

We should be seeing smoke
everywhere. There's no smoke.

There's nothing here.

TRAVIS:
Well, something seemed
to actually suck the smoke in,

and it didn't come out anywhere.

It was like there was
some kind of vacuum

pulling it down inside there.

It made no sense.

At this point, uh,

not much else to do
other than press on

and see how much fluid we lose.

ERIK:
Agreed.

That might be
into a much larger void.

TRAVIS:
Is it possible that some
of the objects we detected

are sitting in some kind
of large void or structure?

And could that be related to
whatever pulled the smoke down

into the mesa several years ago?

It'll be interesting to see

if the drillers keep going
through empty space

or if they hit something solid
as they continue in Borehole 2.

ERIK:
Tell them to keep us advised
as they continue

into the hillside.

THOMAS:
Copy that.

(door opens)

All right, guys.

Think we've got it
all sorted out.

TRAVIS:
While drilling continued
at the mesa,

Erik and I met with the team
outside the command center

to further investigate

another crazy mystery

that we're determined
to figure out.

ERIK:
So we're looking

at points on the perimeter
of our structure, our bubble.

We've got three locations
where we'll put markers up

-around its perimeter.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
According to
several different kinds

of infrared lidar devices,

there is a gigantic,
invisible sphere or bubble

that is centered at the triangle

and has a radius
of about 2,000 feet.

That means it covers
a huge area of the ranch

where we've encountered
all kinds of phenomena...

...like UAPs,

a mysterious cloudy blob,

and other anomalies in the air

that we can only see
with thermal cameras.

And its boundaries have
actually appeared to stop drones

and rockets from entering it.

So, I think we'll start
in the east field.

-THOMAS: Yeah, that'll be good.
-ERIK: Yeah.

-I'm ready to get started.
-Let's do it.

TRAVIS:
Using all the lidar data
that identified the bubble,

Erik has been able
to map out the GPS points

for its believed perimeter

on the ground
in a computer model.

But to help us see the perimeter
with our own eyes

so that we can investigate it,

our plan is to mark it using
wooden posts all over the ranch.

Then we can also equip
the posts with lights

and different instruments.

Erik, if you want

to give me a GPS coordinate,
I'll walk to it.

Okay. So, 40 degrees,

15 minutes, 32 seconds north,

and 109 degrees,

53 minutes, 11 seconds west.

One, two, three.

ERIK:
Let's go ahead and land a post.

TRAVIS:
Copy that.

ERIK:
These wooden posts will define

the boundary between

the interior
and exterior of the bubble,

with the intent of coming back
to those locations

and performing experiments.

TRAVIS:
Looks great now.

-We'll see you, Thomas.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Hopefully, we'll get some clues

as to what is responsible for
the nature of the phenomena here

at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're gonna go
to the tree lines.

I'm gonna go and find
where the next post would be.

-THOMAS: All right, sounds good.
-Okay.

It is thick in here.

KALEB:
Hey, Travis.

-Yeah.
-Look, look. What's over here?

TRAVIS:
You got to be kidding me.

TRAVIS:
You've got to be kidding me.

It's one of the GPS bottles
we lost?

Yeah.

It's been... three years

since we dropped them things out
of the helicopter.

That's crazy.

Holy crap. Just as we were
about to mark another spot

right at the western boundary
of the bubble,

Kaleb and I found a bottle
with a GPS device in it

that we lost back in 2021.

-I've got the triangle.
-CAMERON: Yep.

-Package away.
-TRAVIS: Package away.

After detecting some strange
radio frequency signals

high above the triangle,

we dropped bottles

with devices in them
from Brandon's helicopter,

hoping to collect data
between 5,000 feet

and the ground
to see if we could pinpoint

-the source of the signals.
-It looked like,

uh, it pulled the bottle
behind us.

-That makes no sense.
-Makes no sense.

TRAVIS: But several of them
seemed to bounce off

of something invisible
in midair,

and then we never found them
again.

Did they bounce off
of this bubble?

Look what Kaleb found!

What?

(laughing)

We dropped that three years ago,

610 meters that way
over the triangle.

THOMAS:
Three years ago.

Th-That's crazy, man.

-Good eyes.
-TRAVIS: Erik's gonna
be excited.

Hey, Erik. You copy?

Yeah, Travis. Go ahead.

Man, you ain't
gonna believe this.

Kaleb found one of
the yellow bottles

that we dropped from
the helicopter three years ago

just outside the bubble.

That's incredible.

Good find, guys.

All right, man, we're gonna head
on across to the south field now

to keep on
with the post exercise.

-Copy that.
-Okay.

I have to say,
it's almost surreal to find

this bottle that was dropped out
of the helicopter

at about 5,000 feet

years after
the actual experiment

on the edge of what
we're calling the bubble.

TRAVIS:
How are we
where we are right now, Erik?

You're right on top of it.

All right, man.

We're marking the spot.
We're gonna dig

a hole, put a post in it.

ERIK: I'm not really sure
what mechanism

would transport the bottle

from the place
where it was dropped

along that bubble
to the very edge.

-TRAVIS: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
-There we go.

I mean, it's...
(chuckles)

...it's such
an improbable outcome.

ROYSTON:
This is it. Let's crown it

and get out of here.

TRAVIS:
Hey, Erik, I think we're
gonna call it and head back.

All of you guys have done
some amazing work.

You have landed every single one
of those things

within a very tight margin.

TRAVIS:
Can't wait to see it
from the sky.

-(steady beeping)
-I'm walking now
with this GPS tracker,

so if you want to log it...

Hey, Travis!

TRAVIS:
What?!

You're not gonna believe this!

What is it?

Are you kidding me?

THOMAS:
What is it?

TRAVIS:
Kaleb just found a bottle!

Another one?

Yeah!

It's just unbelievable.

First we find one
of the missing GPS bottles

at the western boundary
of the bubble

and then another one right
outside the southern boundary.

It's like they literally hit
the top of the bubble

and then slid down its barrier
to land in these spots.

I mean, look at over there,
look how far we are

from the center of the triangle

on top of the mesa,
way over there.

How did that bottle get to here?

Look how far that is.

TRAVIS:
We put up 30 posts today

to mark the bubble's boundary
on the ground

and made
two incredible discoveries.

Now we need to do
another experiment

to see if we can figure out what
this invisible phenomenon is

and how it's able to deflect
our instruments away from it.

It's been a long day.

We'll get your drone,
we'll head back.

THOMAS: We're facing
a potential problem.

-Right?
-Yep.
-TRAVIS: Such as?

ALLAN:
I'm hitting a layer
that's almost harder

than granite.

TRAVIS:
How far in?

ALLAN:
I'm about 130 feet in.

TRAVIS:
The next day,
as we were getting ready

for a new experiment
at the bubble,

the drillers called us out
to the mesa

to see their progress
in Borehole 2.

They got past that strange void

and drilled up to
about the 130-foot level

through the sandstone.

But then,
they hit an obstruction

that didn't sound at all
like natural rock.

So, what do we do?

ALLAN:
So, I'm trying
to carve up through it,

but it's way harder
than I was expecting to hit.

TRAVIS:
All right, man.
Keep us posted on this.

-Yep.
-And Thomas, if he sees
anything in the spoils,

-make sure you let us know.
-THOMAS: Will do.

-Just wanted
to let you guys know.
-ERIK: Okay, guys.

TRAVIS:
All right, man.

THOMAS:
Look at how much
that pipe is flexing.

A lot of pressure.

TRAVIS:
After a couple hours
of grinding away,

the drillers were able
to get through the obstruction

and move forward.

CHRIS (over radio):
Hey, Thomas, it's Chris.

Uh, this is Thomas. Go ahead.

So I got something over here
you guys should take a look at

in the spoils.

All right, Chris,
I'll let the guys know.

We'll head right over.

(vehicle doors closing)

-Hey, guys,
thanks for coming over.
-TRAVIS: What's going on, Chris?

I got something
that you guys would probably

be interested in right here.

Well, I've been, uh,
sorting the spoils,

kind of looking at it
a little bit closer,

broke out my magnet,
and this is what I found.

Wait, what?

THOMAS:
Son of a gun.

CHRIS:
Yeah, it's very suspicious.

If you look closely
at this one right here...

Man, look at this.

This looks just like what
we pulled out before, Thomas.

Exactly the same.

TRAVIS:
We'll be collecting
anything strange

that comes out of Borehole 2
for thorough testing.

But these metal pieces
looked just like the ones

we found while drilling
in the mesa three years ago

when we first identified
the huge object buried in there.

And again, these metal pieces
turned out to be very similar

to what NASA and SpaceX use

to protect the surfaces
of spacecraft.

It looks layered to me.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
Like, there's multiple layers
of different things.

If it is layered,
what would that tell you?

Well, that means
it's a manufactured material.

Did we just find
more major clues

about what the drill just hit
and what's buried

inside there?

We don't know yet,
but we're dang sure glad

that we have Chris
looking through all the spoils.

Th-That's jackpot
right there, man.

That's-that's amazing, Chris.

-It's a needle in a haystack.
-Absolutely.

Thanks. I'll look for more.

All right, well, stay with it,

and let us know if you find
anything else that awesome.

TRAVIS: Pete Kelsey,
ladies and gentlemen.

-KALEB: Hey, Pete.
-How you doing, man?

Good to see you.

TRAVIS: After marking
the western boundary

of the bubble earlier in the day

and finding
those two GPS bottles,

we asked lidar expert
Pete Kelsey

to help us with an experiment

to learn more about
the western boundary

out by Homestead Two.

Yeah, what's up for tonight?

We're standing not too far from
that boundary of that bubble.

-Right.
-You know, this is a spot

where we have seen that rocket
freeze in the airspace

from the perspective
of observers on the ground.

-That was here?
-TRAVIS: That-- and it
stayed there for, like,

six or seven seconds
without moving.

Wow.

TRAVIS: Last year,
before we knew about the bubble,

we launched a rocket
in this area

where we had detected
a strange radio frequency signal

coming from somewhere
up above the ranch.

And on its way down,
the rocket froze

at a few hundred feet high
for several seconds.

-Dude, it looks like
it's stuck there. Look.
-KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
So, was that somehow related

to the western boundary
of the bubble?

All right, so we're at
the westernmost boundary

of the bubble
for this experiment.

So, we've got just a few minutes
of daylight left,

and I want to get this first
launch before the sun goes down.

You know I'll be monitoring
this part of the ranch

while we're doing all this.

So let me get out of here
and let you guys

-get to work.
-All right, let's get to work.

Let's go.

Tonight, Erik and I want
to see what'll happen

if I launch a new rocket
in that same place

near the western boundary
of the bubble,

where the other one froze
last year.

Whoa, the sun's sinking quick.

Meanwhile, Pete will run

his terrestrial lidar scanner
on the ground,

which is what first detected
the bubble earlier this year.

And Jim Royston
is going to attempt to fly

his lidar drone through
the barrier of the bubble

while looking out
for anything strange

that would otherwise
be invisible to our naked eyes.

Tracker's mounted,
and we're ready to go.

Well, let's get everything
in the air, and I'll launch

as soon as I see
the drones in the sky.

Okay, guys,
I'm gonna get up in the air.

I'm gonna do a scan.

TRAVIS:
While we work in the field

and I monitor
my spectrum analyzer

for any strange signals...

-All right.
-...Erik will be watching us

on his surveillance cameras
in the command center

and monitoring
his own spectrum analyzer.

THOMAS (over radio):
Hey, Erik, uh,

Jim's drone is in the air
and flying.

ERIK:
Copy that, Thomas.

I am data-logging
the position of his drone.

TRAVIS:
He'll also be tracking

the real-time GPS data
of Jim's drone,

looking out for any errors
like we've seen

at other spots along
the bubble's boundaries.

All right, everybody,
the rocket is going hot.

Here we go, in five,

four, three,

two, one.

ROYSTON:
Look at how fast
that thing's moving.

TRAVIS:
Beautiful!

It's going to exactly
the right place!

Wow.

TRAVIS:
Oh, it's moving fast.

Crap.

The rocket's
completely changed direction.

Hey, Thomas?
I think that the rocket

made a turn when it got to about

the, uh, the barrier wall

of the bubble,
over Homestead Two.

-Now, that's interesting.
-Yeah...

That's interesting.

It's like the bubble
deflected it.

Well, the rocket
didn't freeze this time,

but there was definitely a point
when it suddenly veered away

from the believed boundary
of the bubble,

which is something we've seen
with other rockets

that got close to it.

What in the world is this thing?

Uh, how's your-- Are you
getting good connectivity?

-No errors?
-(chuckles)

SAM:
He's got errors already.

ROYSTON:
Right when you said that.

-Look at that.
-SAM: Nice.

ROYSTON:
Uh-oh.

TRAVIS:
You getting errors?
You losing it?

Right when I asked him,
it popped up on the screen.

ROYSTON:
Oh, yeah, it's...
it lost everything.

THOMAS:
Where was it at
when you lost it?

ROYSTON:
Right over the barrier.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, it was.

Unbelievable.

TRAVIS:
That's interesting.

-THOMAS: What?
-Look,

I'm getting
a 1.2 gigahertz signal, y'all.

We're not transmitting.

-Look at that.
-Whoa.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

ERIK:
Yeah, what's up?

1.2 gigahertz
is going absolutely nuts.

Copy that.
I'm gonna tune into that range.

You know, I'm seeing
a strong 1.2 gigahertz signal.

My antennas show the signal
is coming from the west,

somewhere near your location.

Copy that.

This was so creepy.

Erik had broadcast
a 1.2 gigahertz signal

earlier this year just
to monitor it for interference

during another experiment.

Something is strange
going on here.

And then something on the ranch

appeared to clone it
and broadcast

an identical signal back at us.

Since then, we've detected
this signal over and over

while investigating the bubble.

It's like something related
to it is trying to taunt us.

We don't have anything
transmitting from on property.

-That's the middle
of dirt. (laughs)
-That's-- well, that's...

it's right down there
on the edge of the bubble.

-Right where we put those posts.
-It's right where we put
those posts.

It sure is, Thomas.

-I'll fly the drone down.
-Yes, yes. Can you?

-Yeah.
-All right, man.

-If you can fly, we'll do it.
-We'll get the thermal, yeah.

-I'm gonna go down there
and look for it. All right.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
I wanted to see if Jim's drone,

which is equipped
with a lidar scanner,

could finally get through

the western boundary
of the bubble

and pick up infrared images

of a potential invisible source
of that signal.

All right, let's go.

I want to follow
that drone over there.

THOMAS:
So, you're approaching as, uh--

-See the post right there?
-Yeah.

So you're not quite
to the bubble yet.

Uh-oh.

-THOMAS: There you are.
-Look at this.

ERIK:
Be advised, I am seeing some of
the GPS data corruption errors

as he's flown out, uh,
towards the edge of the bubble.

THOMAS:
So, right when you get
to the bubble wall,

your errors start
popping up like crazy.

ROYSTON:
Well, you see that?

Every time I try
to push through the barrier,

look what happens.

THOMAS:
It's like it's pushing you back.

ROYSTON:
So, I'm literally trying to push
through the barrier, right?

I'm right up against it.

THOMAS:
He's trying to push the drone
through the bubble,

and it won't go.

No kidding.

Yeah, look it.
It's just right there.

TRAVIS:
That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

-That's crazy, dude.
-KALEB: That's freakin' nuts.

TRAVIS:
The drone is stuck in the air.

That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

ROYSTON:
Uh-oh.

THOMAS:
I'm watching you try
to fly forward,

-and then the camera
starts shaking.
-No, it's... yeah.

THOMAS:
Like it's up against something.

TRAVIS:
We've been trying to figure out

what causes all the high
strangeness on Skinwalker Ranch,

and it really looks like
this huge, invisible bubble

could be the answer.

And its barrier
is like a physical wall

that Jim Royston's lidar drone
is bumping up against

as it tries to fly into it.

THOMAS: It's like
he's being pushed back.

He can't get it to advance
any further.

Guys, I'm seeing a pile
of GPS error messages

with this drone.

Something's corrupted
in the data, and it correlates

with what you guys
are talking about.

-That's amazing.
-That's nuts.

ROYSTON:
I'm almost out of...

communication here with it.

I'm gonna try to get it home.

THOMAS:
We lost all communication.
He's bringing it home.

Or it's bringing itself home.

ROYSTON:
That's crazy, man.

TRAVIS:
Erik, there's not much more
we can do, then.

Why don't you head down
and we'll wrap

this thing up?

ERIK: Copy you, Travis.
I'm on my way over.

Tonight is one of those nights
on the ranch

that I won't forget
anytime soon.

It showed us once again
that the bubble is real.

And somehow
it's able to stop our equipment

from going inside its boundaries

to figure out
what it actually is.

All we can hope
is that crunching the data

we collected tonight

might get us closer
to an answer.

What a night.

What do you think
about that barrier?

KALEB:
Well, you got to see a...

a recording of that drone
just stuck there.

-It was the craziest thing.
-Wow.

I think this turned out to be
a fascinating experiment, guys.

And I think we've added
more data to th-this bubble.

-This barrier is something real.
-Mm-hmm.

-Amazing. All right.
-Good night.

-Yeah, it was a good night.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Wait till you see the data

from last night's experiment.

ROYSTON:
Oh, absolutely. It was...

just like something
stopped my drone.

-(laughs): Right.
-Literally

pushing the joysticks
as far forward...

It would not move.

-TRAVIS: That's crazy.
-THOMAS: Wow.

So, I've got the GPS
tracker data for the drone.

Here we see
the entire flight path.

Blue points are GPS points
that report back good.

TRAVIS:
So, what are the orange dots?

ERIK:
So, those orange dots
represent the posts

that we've put out
at the edge of the bubble.

Right, I get it.

I'm gonna dive in.

Look at the red dots.

Let me rotate it.

Those are error points
at the edge of the bubble.

First errors is
at the frozen rocket spot,

and then the next
big bunch of errors

is right
as you enter the bubble.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
This is crazy.

The GPS data errors
from the drone

started glitching
right at about the same place

where our rocket
froze midair last year.

And then the GPS data
was completely corrupted

when Jim's drone
bumped up against

the invisible barrier
of the bubble.

It's like a literal wall

that stops both entry
and data collection.

What the crap?

ERIK:
Next, I'm gonna ask you
to walk us through

some of the video
from the drone perspective.

Yeah, let's look at it.

ERIK:
Guys, you're not
gonna believe this.

This is from right when you got
stuck along the bubble barrier.

I mean, obviously,
something looks wrong with this.

I'm seeing a horizon that's...

TRAVIS:
Why don't you
freeze it first, Erik?

-ERIK: Okay.
-Now, Jim,
why don't you go up there

-and tell us what it all means?
-Yeah.

ROYSTON:
Here, this is the indicator
right here,

though, my radio control
is having problems.

So the controller
that I'm using

is having trouble
talking to the drone.

Something's interfering
electromagnetically

with the drone.

At that same time,

we see that bundle
of red GPS error points.

All right,
and then the "H" is what?

ROYSTON:
This is my home.

Every time I leave the ground,

before I take off,
it registers a GPS home point.

And it also tracks my distance
from that point,

so it knows,
if anything happens,

how to get right to home.

ERIK:
So, Jim, is this a good time

to let this continue to play?

-Yeah. Yeah,
let's go ahead and play it.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
Look at the home,
how it's going everywhere.

-It's even up in the sky.
-ROYSTON: Oh, that's crazy.

How did home
ever get in the sky?

ROYSTON:
The drone's stuck, but yet

it's thinking
the home point's changing.

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

ROYSTON:
Yeah.

ERIK: Let me play it again,
watch this number.

This is how far
the drone currently is

from its takeoff location,
from home.

Look here, that says 850 feet.

Which is pretty accurate.

ROYSTON:
What the hell?

So he's coming backwards.

TRAVIS:
Something pushed it backwards

to 645.

It went 200 feet back.

What did we just witness here?

TRAVIS:
Something pushed the drone back.

Did it get pushed back 200 feet?

ERIK:
Yeah, so, let's play that again.

TRAVIS:
As we're reviewing
last night's camera data

from Jim Royston's drone,

it appears that the western
boundary of the bubble

pushed the drone backwards
about 200 feet

in just a couple of seconds.

That's not at all
what we saw in the moment.

Is this the dang Twilight Zone?

What pushed the dad-gum drone
200 foot backwards?

That is not wind.

THOMAS:
No. There's no way.

TRAVIS: Do we have this
on another angle by any chance?

Absolutely.

Okay, here we go.

Now we're looking
from west of Homestead Two,

looking back towards the east.

Okay.

Would you rewind it real quick
and kind of zoom in

to where you can
get some airspace

-on the left side of the drone?
-Yeah.

What?

Is anyone else seeing
something over here?

All right, let me take it back.
You point it out

when I, when I get to it, okay?

THOMAS:
There it is.

I see a green flash.

TRAVIS:
I did see it. I did see it.

Frame through it, Erik.

See how long it stays there.

ERIK:
So, I'm gonna dive in.

-TRAVIS: There it is.
-THOMAS: There it is.

-TRAVIS: Holy crap.
Look at that.
-KALEB: Yeah, there's something

right next to the drone.

There is something absolutely
right next to the drone.

A light that appeared there
kind of following the drone.

What does that mean?

ERIK:
And we have the errors
thrown by multiple systems

during the flight.

You're getting, uh, messages
coming back on your display.

I'm getting data corruption
at very specific locations

during the course of the flight.

TRAVIS:
So many crazy things happened

in a short period of time
last night

along the western barrier
of the bubble.

We had the strange 1.2 gigahertz
signal that we detected,

the rocket and GPS malfunctions,

and something pushed
the drone back 200 feet.

Could this UAP
have been connected

to all these things?

Uh, you know, I-I don't know
what else to say about it

other than we need
to keep studying this bubble.

-Right.
-I love it.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Well, if nothing else,

this certainly makes me
want to return

to that part of the ranch.

-Absolutely.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, I agree.

-Thank you, guys.
-Yep.

ERIK:
Well, that was a deep dive,
wasn't it?

ROYSTON:
It's unbelievable.

ERIK:
We have what appears
to be the confirmation

of some kind of
2,000-foot-radius structure

above the ranch.

Something that is
potentially energetic,

that can sometimes
result in data loss

on some of our equipment.

I'm still trying to sort out

what could be
responsible for that.

TRAVIS:
Every method that we've used
to study this bubble

has led us to something new
that defies expectation.

I know it sounds crazy,

but the data keeps showing
that it is real

and it correlates
with a lot of other phenomena

that makes no sense.

We need to figure out
what the hell this thing is

and what it's doing here
on Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON:
What we are seeing
shouldn't be possible.

That phenomenon
that we refer to as the bubble

continues to be mapped
with diligence.

Pressing forward with
the next series of experiments

as we enter and exit the bubble

will be more important
than ever before.

As we look to the future,

we hope to find even greater
insight and answers

about what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
Lasers are up.

I'm just hitting
the bubble barrier.

KALEB:
Dude,

it looks like you just
flew through something.

What?

KALEB: Hey, guys,
that laser just went out.

I-I don't understand it.

I took this picture.

TRAVIS:
Something flying
through the laser beam.

-Oh.
-What's beeping?

TRAVIS:
Oh, my God,
we're getting huge gamma rays.

-THOMAS: Guys, it's going off!
-Everybody out now!

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