All language subtitles for Hunt for the Skinwalker 2018 eng

[Jeremy] I often wonder
about the nature of reality.

About our relationship
to the creative force

that forged
the particles of our stars

entwined them
with the molecules
of our bodies.

Who are we?

And where are
we actually sitting

within the architecture
of our universe?

Are we alone?

Or is the answer simply
stranger than we can think?

My name is Jeremy Corbell.

I seek to weaponize
your curiosity.

And if you're ready to suspend your own prejudice,

welcome to the world
of extraordinary beliefs.

[Jeremy] Explosive stuff
is coming out of here.

Something's going on right now.

Can you talk about that?

If everything
goes as planned,

I think we are on the Eve
of something momentous

that will change,
on a tectonic level,

the UFO subject.

[Jeremy] It's gonna
be really big.

I think it changes the tone
of how other media would treat

the UFO topic from here on now.

I hope so, anyway.

And it's gonna reveal some
things that have been going on

for a long time.

[Jeremy] Government
involvement in studying

the phenomenon itself.

Yes, beyond just lights
in the sky or radar returns,

they've been investigating

and looking
into associated phenomenon.

Things that occur
in proximity

with, what we call, UFO.

[Knapp] Things that
you would think

the government
would find too far out.

[Jeremy] Will any
of the fingers
be pointing toward

Skinwalker Ranch?

[Knapp] Hopefully,
this opens it up.

It changes everything.

Declassified videos,

authentic Department
of Defense footage

published by theNew York Times in December.

[newscaster] The program received more than $20 million.

for it's work.

[man] For nearly
the last decade,

I ran a Sensitive Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

People I think have conflated
the concept of a UFO

with whether
we're visited by aliens.

[man] The program
produced documents

that describe
sightings of aircrafts

with no visible
signs of propulsion.

We're talking about unidentified
flying objects, UFOs.

[man] We have something here
but don't know what it is.

We sure don't know how it works

and either way there's
nothing we can do about it.

Nobody gives a [beep]
about aliens.

Yeah. They're looking for things
that might possibly be...

[man] This is a potential
threat and a grave one
to our country.

What is DOD doing about it?

[man 2] The so called
Tic Tac UFO

was detected over
several days in 2004

by personnel with the
USS Nimitz battle group

off the coast of San Diego.

It didn't attack
but it demonstrated

vast superiority over America's most advanced defense systems.

These observations match

with previous observations
going well before that.

We have something
coming into our airspace.

When it continues
to happen as a pattern,

we know, become
increasingly concerned.

Because it's not an anomaly.
No, it's a trend.

This video was recorded off
the coast of Florida in 2015.

That is in our airspace.
It shouldn't be here.

You DOD, you CIA, you DHS,

had the responsibility
of protecting us.

How did this happen?

And yet it's crickets.

Nobody wants
to have a conversation.

My job in the government
at the time, it was two fold.

To determine what it was
and how it worked.

But I figured if we can answer at least those two first things

then every thing we would be
able to explain later.

The technology of these crafts

is beyond anything
known on Earth.

[intense music playing]

[Jeremy] This is
the story of a place.

It's been shrouded in secrecy

for more than 20 years.

There've been whispers,

but most likely you've never
seen or heard the real dance.

I guarantee you
that was the plan all along.

That's exactly
what they wanted.

Imagine a place between
shadow and substance.

A place where
the world is thin.

To most, the location
that invokes the darkest

and most hidden
corners of terror.

Something prowls here,
something lurks.

And if you hunt it,
it's gonna hunt you back.

It's elusive,

manipulative,

and violent.

It's haunting more
than haunted.

We don't really understand it.

Even after the largest
scale scientific study

in history
of the paranormal hotspot,

there are more
questions than answers.

However, we do
have some answers.

And that's what
this story is about.

This is a hunt.

A hunt for answers
to unformed questions.

A hunt for the unknown.

And the answers
have been hiding at a ranch

at the center of it all.

I was like you until I wasn't.

[Knapp] When you're trying

to study something
like the Skinwalker Ranch,

you gotta cast
a really wide neck

Cause ultimately this mystery,

we don't know
what the hell it is.

[Jeremy] We know there's
more to a story

when you are not allowed
to talk about it.

That's a human burden.

[Knapp] Yeah, I mean it was
frustrating in the beginning

because Colm and Bob Bigelow
would tell me the stories

about what was
going on in the property

and I couldn't tell anyone.

I couldn't write about it
and it drove me crazy.

And I kept pestering him

and eventually, they thought,

"What the heck?
We'll give it a try.

maybe we'll find out if there
are other places like it.

The publicity will
do us some good.

Maybe some other witnesses
will come forward."

So, they allowed me to write
those newspaper articles.

And we got a heck
of a lot of attention.

[Jeremy] There's a lot.
I'm covering all this, huh?

[Knapp] Oh, my God.

There's some of this stuff
I haven't seen in a long time.

[Jeremy] It's overwhelming.

This is stuff, material
that's specific to the ranch.

I've saved every
scrap of paper ever since

Dr. Colm Kelleher
and Bob Bigelow, sort of,

brought me into the loop
about what was going on there.

I've been hearing
about it for a couple of years

but wasn't allowed
to say anything

and then eventually I talked to
Bob Bigelow

to give me the permission
to go to the ranch

and Colm Kelleher
gave me a tour.

A couple of times.

And people forget, you know,
they're familiar with the book

but they forget that my interest
in it started this documentary.

[Jeremy] Plenty
of fresh book reviews.

[Knapp] Yeah.

Like a mustachioed and debonair
Fox Mulder.

George Knapp wants to believe.
So do I actually."

We got that reaction a lot.

"You guys didn't convince me."

Convince you of what?

We weren't trying
to convince anyone.

We're trying to tell the story
and asking people,

"Hey, help us figure this out."

'Cause we don't know
what their explanation is.

[Jeremy] Is there
more to tell now?

[Knapp] There's a lot
more to tell.

There's so many things that
have happened on the property

since the book came out that
have not been made public.

There's all kinds of people,
hundreds of people

who have visited the property.

And it's like a Rorschach test.

They go there
thinking they're

gonna see
Skinwalkers or Bigfoot

and sure enough they do.

So, you take those accounts
with a grain of salt.

Other times, people have had
some pretty dramatic encounters

that they keep to themselves.

And some accounts have happened

to people who are very credible,

who had very dramatic encounters

and their stories
have not been told

for reasons that
I cannot explain right now.

But, um, those
are the spookiest of all

because the consequences
go beyond the property.

[Jeremy] You could explain.

You won't explain.

I, I can't.
I can't at this point.

It leads to a much bigger place
and a much bigger understanding

of what we're dealing
Without there.

It's not simply a haunted ranch.

It's not an activity that stays

confined to this particular
piece of property.

It moves. It travels.

[Jeremy] And there
were actual events?

Yeah. I mean,
you know, I don't remember

if we talked
about it in the book

but the family,
the Gorman family,

had experiences
that followed them.

After they left the property
it followed them for a while.

They're not the only ones
that's happened to.

Since the book came out,

there have been other people
who've been on the property.

They've seen stuff
on the property.

They've had encounters
where they were, basically told,

"Stop. You're not welcome here."

And then, it followed them.

And that's all
I can say about it.

It's hard to find anybody
in the Uintah Basin

who doesn't have
some kind of an experience

with the UFO or Bigfoot
or some other strange phenomenon

or somebody in their family.

So, we recorded a lot of
that stuff on multiple trips.

That footage was recorded
on different kinds of formats.

We collected information

and tapes
from some of the witnesses

who had made
their own recordings

and all of that material
was saved with the idea

of producing a documentary
or a series of documentaries

and then, we were
asked to not proceed.

So, I basically canned it.
Put it all in a box.

Most of the footage has never
seen the light of day.

[Jeremy] That's a mountain
of tapes. What's on
these tapes?

[Knapp] These are
interviews we did.

We had tours
of the property several times.

Robert Bigelow comments
about the ranch,

cattle mutilations,

interviews with neighbors
who had lost cattle.

[shuffling tapes]

[Knapp] Trying to get
Mr. Bigelow to go on camera

to talk about it was difficult.

At the time I thought
they got him to sit down

and open up about it.

It was the first interview

he had ever done
on the subject.

Eventhough I had
known him for 20 years

it was really tough
to get him sit down

and talk about it.

[Jeremy] So most of this
video footage in this box

the world has never seen?

[Knapp] Yeah. This is
30 or 40 hours of material

that the public has never seen
before.

[Jeremy] This topic is deep.

It requires
serious investigation.

It requires people
to look at the evidence.

My curiosity became
so overwhelming

that I could no longer
be a passive observer

but I had to become
an active participant.

The original story
never seen by the public

can now be told.

And it's weaved into a tapestry

of new ongoing
phenomenon and events.

This is a moment in time
that can't be replicated.

This will never happen again.

The access to the ranch during the investigations

that will never happen again.

The time is right and the time is definitely now.

Notoriety of Skinwalker ranch
exploded in 2005

with the publication of the book

Hunt for the Skinwalker
which was written by

George Knapp and Colm Kelleher.

That book exploded this area
on to the map.

George's documentation
was exclusive.

It was happening while
investigators were on the ranch.

I mean, there are no images
from Skinwalker ranch.

There's no video.

There's no footage
during these investigations.

The only footage of this

is in these archived
boxes of George Knapp.

It was like Raiders
of the Lost Ark,man.

Documents, and paperwork
and footage, it's everything

that George Knapp
has accumulated

over 20 something years.

He's the only journalist ever

allowed to be on the ranch
and to document and film.

So, it's this
incredible opportunity.

The footage was held back.
It was embargoed.

It was shut off.
So to be able to pull tapes

from that archive
of those boxes,

it's really rare footage.

It's incredible that
we are at the point

where it can
be shown to the public.

Skinwalker ranch,
this is like the Area 51

of the paranormal.

If any of this is true,

this is game changing.

Go public now.

So this is officially
the second homestead

Down here, yes,
the middle homestead

This is where this pretty
hairy stuff has happened.

[narrator] In the middle
of the night,

in what looks like
the middle of nowhere,

we slice into inky darkness

in the company of investigators

who've taken a bouncy ride
down the same rugged road

hundreds of times.

They remember
every barbed wire gate,

every curve and dip

and they remember,
all too well,

the location
of every bizarre encounter

they've documented since 1996.

The dirt trail is the only path through the property.

Seemingly, the only way
anyone or anything

can get in or out.

Though there maybe other
less obvious points of entry,

on moonless nights,
the darkness hangs
like a heavy blanket

smothering beams
of artificial light.

Beyond 20 feet, it's blackness.

We stop at what's called
the middle homestead,

where the gangly branches
of towering cottonwoods

engulf stark weather beaten
structures.

Rustic homes
that have been empty

for 50 years or more.

Seriously,
it's like the backdrop

for a slasher movie

except this wasn't created
by a set designer.

This is the throbbing heart
of Skinwalker ranch.

What is it about this place?

Not merely the ranch
but the entire Uintah Basin.

It is a grand central station.

A place where everything
from cattle mutilations

to Bigfoot to UFOs,
flying objects,

they all seem to be congregated

on a 480 acre ranch
in north-eastern Utah.

[man] A lot of people,
we understand,

have seen these things
over the years in this area.

-Is that fair to say?
-Uh...

Hundreds, hundreds of people,
in my opinion.

I had some girlfriends
that I kinda ran around with

back in '77, '78 and

they told me experiences that happened out by Bottle Hollow.

Lights that... forms
that'll be above them

and they were scared.

At the ranch,
as you all know,

it was not a single phenomenon.

It was not go out
and watch a UFO.

Go out and watch, uh,
you know,

the lights, like
the Mur full lights or something

[John] There were a host of things that happened.

When and where
were quite unpredictable

except that they happened
within a

relatively small
geographic area.

[man] The UFO
manifestation activity here

ranges all over this country
its...

The basin is a very,

I don't know what
the square mileage is

but it's huge
in northeastern Utah,

and to the Uinta mountains
to the north of us.

The same type
of paranormal activity

is demonstrated
in many case histories
up there as well.

[narrator] For as long
as humans have lived

in this part
of northeastern Utah,

they reported
strange things in the sky,

in and around their homes,

and sometimes,
inside their heads.

A byzantine smattering
of unusual phenomena.

A paranormal stew.

It's as if some other reality

occasionally bleeds
into our world

giving us glimpses
of the Universe next door.

On our first visit
to the ranch,

we tried to get the attention
of whatever it is

that lives here.

Sometimes, merely the arrival
of outsiders is enough.

So, we hiked around,
made noise, disturbed
the earth.

And at night, we built a fire

out in the middle homestead

which has been a focal point

of dramatic
and unexplained events.

We did everything short
of painting a bull's eye

on our foreheads
and then, we waited.

On the other side of the fire,

a man who spent 27 years

as a law enforcement officer
in the Uintah Basin

he asked that we
not use his real name.

So, we'll call him Preston.

[Preston] There was one
of the local newspapers
who did a...

I guess you should call
like a poll in this area.

Asked several people
the question that

do you believe
that there are...

in UFOs

and we believe that
the Uintah Basin
is a hotspot for it.

And, it was
like four out of five,

the answer was yes.

And the majority of them
said that they was undecided.

I don't know one individual

that absolutely said,
"No, I do not believe them.

Or that they even exist."

And I'm referring
to long time residents

of the Basin that had...

That was born
and raised here
in the Basin.

[narrator] Preston remembers
when the waves of reports

started pouring in
to local police.

I think it was 1971,
when I first started
in law enforcement.

There were several reports
of UFO sightings

that was put out to

like law enforcement
officers in the field.

As I recall, there was three
to four of those reports

that I received where
I actually witnessed it

what I believed to be
an unidentified flying object.

[narrator] His wife also
had multiple sightings.

One that coincided
with a mutilated cow

on Preston's property.

And another, in 1995,

directly over Skinwalker ranch.

Preston interviewed
his own wife in 1998

and wrote this report for a private research group.

The object his wife reported
was shaped like a hexagon.

Aluminum colored
with multiple lights.

What she described was four
lights like connected to a bar.

They were just
four large lights

that appeared over the ridge

and I was some distance away
from her when she'd seen it.

She called it to my attention.

But before I could get there,
they had disappeared.

[man] This is probably
the most studied real estate

in the history
of the UFO phenomenon.

There has never been,
to our knowledge,

a place that has had
the same kind of focus

in terms of studying.

[narrator] Uintah Basin
isn't the middle of nowhere.

It's far removed
from big cities

but that's how
the locals like it.

The landscape
is stark and beautiful.

The dirt and rocks
rich in hydro carbons

and dinosaur bones.

But something here seems to be a magnet for the unknown.

It's been that
way for a long time.

In the Uintah Basin
unknown aerial objects

became so commonplace
in the '60s and '70s

that locals became
used to seeing them.

And outside investigators
were drawn to the area.

One of them, Utah State
University scientist
Dr. Frank Salisbury

wrote a highly regarded book,

The Utah UFO Display.

After reading out that
90 percent of sightings

which were likely
misidentifications

of known objects,

he focused on
four hundred or so

well documented cases

involving unknown
structured craft

of many shapes and sizes.

Salisbury obtained
most of the case files

from life long resident
Joseph Junior Hicks,

a local science teacher

who had educated generations
of Uintah residents.

Hicks spent years driving
the back roads of the Basin

to meet
and interview eye witnesses.

Many of them
were his former students.

And I said, "Can you see that?
Look at that. That's amazing."

It was a round
gray metallic looking thing.

[narrator] In January 1999,

an oil company
executive Gregory Todd

was driving home from work

talking on the phone
to a co-worker

headed
in the opposite direction

for the town of Vernal.

Todd noticed an object
that looked like this.

Roundish, gray, metallic

with no wings or tail

traveling at a high rate
of speed toward the ground.

And I say, "This is amazing."

And it came down
and went behind some clouds

that were just kind
of on the horizon.

I said, "That had
to be humongous."

Then I thought, "Okay,
explosion. Something." you know.

And I never did.
There was nothing.

[narrator] The next day he
spoke to a group of friends.

And I said, "Okay, guys.
I'm gonna ask you something.

Did you guys see
something weird last night?"

And they just happen to be

coming down the Bluebell Road
facing south.

And they say, "Yeah,
we saw this round thing."

You know, and it wasn't
even a big deal to them.

It's like, "Yeah, we just saw
this round thing in the sky."

I thought, "Well, you know,
think about it."

You know,
and I said, then I said,

"Okay, that thing is big.

That was big.
Whatever it was, it was big."

Cause Bluebell's 20 miles away.

I was five miles
away from Roseville.

And three different
groups saw it.

[narrator] Few places
in the world have had

so many sightings over

such a long
period of time.

Not just decades
but centuries.

The earliest report is from

the journal
of Father Escalante,

the Spanish
missionary who in 1776

led the first European party
across the Basin.

But Uintah is much more
than a UFO hotspot.

The objects seen in the skies

are benign distractions

compared to the bizarre
events on the ground.

In particular, on this strip of green pasture

that's said to be in the path of the Skinwalker.

[Preston] They believed that,

like you talk
about the Skinwalker,

is extra terrestrial.

This is something
that's in their culture.

It has been forever.

[Jeremy] But this story is bigger than just the ranch.

This story is
an ever pervasive river

churning and leeching

seemingly paranormal ooze

throughout
the surrounding area.

It creeps to the edges.

If there is an unofficial
UFO capital in Utah,

it's the northeastern corner.

Quietly and secretly

there's been a current
that runs through this area.

Throw a rock in any direction

in the small town
of the Uintah Basin

and you're likely
to hit someone who's seen

anomalous aerial object.

The Basin is a UFO hotbed.

The locals are reluctant
to talk about it
with outsiders.

But the number of sightings

easily ranges in the thousands

The artificial consensus

is that more
than half of the people

who live in the Basin
have seen them

over the mountains,
above the towns,

on roadways and oil fields.

Anomalous lights,
manoevuring orbs,

and metallic crafts.

Objects, things, which are not easily explained.

Why so many and why here?

Roosevelt, Ballard,
Fort Duchesne,

Uintah County.

For some
the phenomenon provides

a Mecca for curiosity.

But for those
that experience it,

it's corrosive.

Like an acid.

And it's been here a long time.

Stories of UFOs,
poltergeist like occurrences

and creatures of all kinds

have popped the landscape

and residents
throughout generations.

Normal people,
hardworking people,

they're having
extraordinary encounters

of every shape and shadow.

It's just part
of life out here.

[background music playing]

[man] We purchased the property

as a living laboratory.

It's been
a phenomenal laboratory.

I feel humbled.
We did get a good education.

and I think
we're still learning.

[narrator] The NIDS guys
used dogs as biosensors.

The dogs would be able to sense

that something was near and give them advanced warning.

They were uncannily accurate.

It's close to a hundred
different incidents.

We've trained
like hell to deal with this.

Animal mutilations,

red lights in the sky,
animals being moved

into different locations.

No two incidents
ever repeated themselves.

Training is meaningless
and nothing was repeated.

And that has
happened consistently.

It's still consistent.

This is a lot more than
a human story, if you learn.

Consciousness plays
a significant role

in this topic.

It's something
that's completely

outside of our
normal physics

and understanding.

This is something that is

beyond our normal means
of calibrating.

It became obvious that we
were along for the run

and not the ones in control.

[interviewer] Did you have
an experience on the ranch?

My first visit there,
it had been a down period.

Colm Kelleher told me,

"Look, the activity is, sort of,
gone underground."

That's why I was
allowed to go.

Because, maybe,
they'd figured I can...

My own inherent
weirdness quotient

I can stir something up

or I can, at least,

tell the world a little bit
about the stories.

So, that we can find out

if there are other
places like that.

So, I went to the property

and there was a couple
of things that would happen

that would stimulate activity.

Historically, there's
an arrival of a stranger.

That was me.

If you make a bunch of noise,

in particular,
digging up the earth.

So, we did all that.

We, you know,
I made a bunch of noise.

We built a fire out there.

We danced around it.

And then we got an earth mover

and dug a bunch of holes.

So, if there was
something to be disturbed,

we did our best to disturb it.

And then they took me
and put me on a chair

in the middle homestead

where some really
bad stuff had happened.

And they left me there.

It was a pitch black middle
of the night, middle of nowhere,

at a place that
where the monster,

the predator type
of monster had appeared,

where giant dark cloud had
invaded a physicist mind,

where several cattle
had been mutilated,

where a ball of light

to a dimentional
warmhole had appeared.

I'm right there.

And they said, "See ya."

And they went
a couple of hundred yards away

and put a camera on me to see
if something came and got me.

And I'd like to tell people that

I was brave.
I'm not afraid of this stuff

but I was. I was on edge waiting
to see what would happen.

I'm thinking to myself,

"Look, okay, I'm fine
with flying saucers coming here.

I'd like to see a ball of light,
or orb or something like that.

That'd be really great.

But I don't really wanna come

face to face
with predator monster.

The only thing that came
to get me were mosquitoes.

So, I have had no anomalous experience on the ranch myself.

But I've interviewed
all the people,

all the key players,
every single one of them,

the people who'd
been there for years.

The only people
I haven't interviewed

is the Gorman family themselves.
The Sharmans.

But I have all these
transcribed interviews

that the NIDS folks
had done.

And in all the material
they collected

during the height of the study,

so I feel like I know.

And I've talked
to the neighbors.

I've talked to people in town.

This stuff is real.

It's been going on a long time.

And everybody who
lives there knows about it.

[Jeremy] So George Knapp
investigative reporter

and bait for Skinwalker ranch.

I was bait.

It's a good story to tell now.

It wasn't pleasant at the time.

It wasn't.

[indigenous cry]

[narrator]
To indigenous locals,

this stretch of red
sandstone is special

because it is quote "in the path of the Skinwalker,"

according to the members
of the Ute tribe.

The first time we heard
that phrase the reaction was,

"What's a Skinwalker?"

It's a touchy subject for many tribes including the Utes

whose sprawling nation covers

1.3 million acres
in this country.

The Utes were
ordered to move here

around the end
of the civil war.

US Army built and staffed a fort to keep an eye on them.

Today, the Utes co-exist
with their neighbors

while retaining their
own government,

police force,
businesses and culture.

[Preston] This is something
that's in their culture.

It has been forever.

[narrator] Preston worked
as a tribal police officer

for several years.

But says few of his Ute friends

are willing to talk
about Skinwalkers.

Or you can compare it

to the myth that you hear
of werewolves.

Like an individual that turns
into an animal type being.

Most of them are very
reluctant to talk about it.

[narrator] In tribal lore,

a Skinwalker
is an evil presence.

A sorcerer, and shape-shifter

who steals lives and souls.

Even mentioning
the word is considered risky.

And this ridge said to be
in the path of the Skinwalker

is a borderline of sorts.

It overlooks an island
of private ranch property

surrounded by tribal lands.

The tribe
doesn't prohibit members

from visiting the ranches,

but strongly warns against it.

In part because strange things seem to be concentrated here.

Skinwalker is sort
of a blanket explanation

for a range
of inexplicable events.

There does seem
to have been a change

between the '70s and the'90s.

And they certainly
have the effects

of the phenomenon
on different people.

Where in the '70s,
you didn't get the scary stuff

even in the Uintah Basin.

And we're going mostly
on the testimony of Junior Hicks

and probably, a couple
of dozen other witnesses.

Whereas, in the '90s,

most of the activity
that we have

is centered around this ranch.

And that was
all kind of very scary

poltergeist kind of stuff

that, it seems
to have changed in character.

Eventhough the same silver disks
have been seen.

Mexican hat type
UFOs have been seen in the area.

But overlaid on that

you've got these multiple kind

of poltergeist
psychic type stuff.

[narrator] Biochemist Dr. Colm Kelleher didn't expect

to be sitting
at a dark cow pasture

talking about Skinwalkers
and poltergeist

when he signed on with NIDS.

The National Institute
for DiscoverY Science

founded in the mid '90s

by Las Vegas billionaire
Robert Bigelow.

Bigelow's life long interest
in UFO research led to NIDS.

And to the ownership
of this 480 acre ranch.

It's a somewhat twisted tale.

The property had been
vacant for seven years

when in 1994,
a family bought it.

It was their dream to raise

high end simmental cattle here

There's only one entrance.

A gate that displayed
an eerie sign.

A single dirt road
leads into the property

which is made up
of three parcels.

The first homestead
on the east side

is where the ranch
house is located

along with the corral.

A second middle homestead

contains long
abandoned buildings.

The third homestead is ringed
by tall trees and underbrush.

A river flows on the south side of the ranch.

And on the north,
the sandstone ridge.

The family of four
had a startling encounter

on their very first
weekend there.

From out of the brush,

on the south edge
of the property,

they saw a huge canine
walking towards them.

And they had put a couple
of calves in this corral here.

And in this one here.

And they saw this wolf

was just trodding
across the field here.

From this direction.

And it stopped occasionally.

There was a light rain.

It was a misty kind of a day

with light rain.

And so they were
watching this wolf

as it was coming towards them.

And seemingly
kind of unconcerned.

[narrator] The family assumed the wolf must be someone's pet.

It was huge, but seemed tamed.

One of the calves

made the mistake
of sticking it's snout

through the bars of the corral.

The wolf stuck his head
into the corral

grabbed at the muzzle
of the calf

in full view of these, tried
to drag it out of the corral.

The calf, you know,
was going wild.

So, Terry and his dad went over
with, you know, stout sticks

and started beating on the wolf
to try to let... get it.

Make sure that it
let go of the calf.

Several times
they beat on the wolf

without any affect whatsoever.

So, Terry asked his son to go
in to get a 357 Magnum.

The son came out.
The wolf was still dragging,

trying to drag the calf
through the corral.

And Terry, sort of,

pointed the Magnum
at the animal and shot it.

Now, as far as I remember,

he shot it either
three or four times.

And it was from like
increasingly close range.

First of all,
it was from several feet

and then it was
closer and closer.

On the fourth shot the animal,
I believe, let the calf go.

But the animal was... didn't...
the wolf,

didn't let out
any yelps of pain.

There was no sign of blood.

There was no sign of distress.

The animal let the calf go
and looked at Terry.

[narrator] The rancher's son
had run to the house

to retrieve a hunting rifle.

He handed it to his father.

Terry gets the 30 all six which,
you know, can bring down an elk,

you know,
from relatively long distance.

He shot
at a distance of 20 feet.

And this time there was
a big recoil from the animal.

You know, the animal,
kind of recoiled

but still didn't give out any
pain or anything like that.

But kind of backed off
for maybe 10 feet 15 feet.

And Terry shot at it.
It was actually a sixth time

with the 30 odd six.

And this time he saw a bunch
of flesh that the bullet exited

from the animal with flesh.

And this time the animal just
kind of turned on it's heel

and just troded off.

You know, almost casually.

And exactly where it
had come from across

in that direction.

Now, you know,

the piece of flesh
was lying on the ground

and they examined it later.

[narrator] The father and son
both armed with rifles

went after the wolf

catching glimpses as it
moved through thickets

and following the deep tracks
it left on the wet ground.

Well, what they did was
they tracked the animal

all the way across to the creek.

There's a creek about
half a mile in that direction.

They tracked the animal,

you know,
they went after the animal

and they found that it's tracks
just stopped suddenly

in a muddy bank
right by the creek.

It just seemed to...
The tracks went nowhere.

You know, they were
going to a specific area.

They should not have vanished
but they vanished.

But they came back then

and they found the piece
of tissue from the animal

that had been blown off
by the 30 odd six.

And to them it looked old,
it looked almost like

the beginnings of decay,
decayed flesh.

It blew them.
This instance blew them away

because even a single shot

from a 357 Magnum

should have brought
that wolf down.

Now, should remember
that this wolf initially

was very friendly to them.

It actually walked
right up to the dad

and the dad
patted it on it's head.

I mean, so we're not talking
about some kind of mirage.

We're not talking about
some kind of hallucination.

This was a physical animal.

He patted him.
He smelled like wet dog.

[Knapp] Think about it,
I mean, where do you,

how do you characterize that?

There really is no context
to even put that in

because it was a physical animal

that looked like it
was flesh and blood.

[Kelleher] They chalked it off
as being totally bizarre.

They talked about it
for weeks afterwards.

Because this was
really the first incident

that they had encountered

just after moving on the ranch.

As I said they were just
moving into the general area.

They were thinking about
putting furniture to the house.

And this animal was between
two and three times the size

of a normal wolf.

You know normal wolf
would kind of come up to there,

well this thing was huge.

[narrator] Later
at the gate entrance,

the rancher's wife
had another encounter

with the huge wolf
as she entered the property.

The wolf was in the company
of two black dogs

with over sized heads.

Months later when the family was asked to describe the wolf

by looking at a line up
of different types,

they pointed to this beast

as the one closest
to what they had seen.

It's a dire wolf.

And it's been extinct
for 10,000 years.

[Knapp] We live in the middle

of some other
kind of intelligence.

The secrecy begins with them.

Whoever they are.

These visitors, these entities that interject themselves

into our lives.

Who they are, why they're here, what their interest is in us

long term.
We don't know the answers.

We can surmise
but we don't know

the answers
to any of the big stuff.

But we can say, I can say
with certainty that

there is some kind of intelligence operating here.

That it shows us glimpses
of itself from time to time

on it's own agenda.

But it is the architect
of the secrecy.

[Jeremy] I believe that there
are aspects of consciousness

that associate
with the UFO phenomenon.

That we
have not addressed fully.

[man] The global
public is not ready

to have global
confirmation on this.

A lot of disturbing things
will occur.

They are just too powerful.

[Knapp] People have
ignored these facts.

They like it to go away.

It's not going away.

It's not going away
because the phenomenon itself

doesn't go away.

It's been with humans, every continent, every culture,

throughout human history.

It's here whether
we like it or not.

And it's here today.

[Jeremy] According
to tribal lores,

some of the unusual events
in and around the ranch

are believed
to be the handiwork

of a shape-shifting entity
known as a Skinwalker.

The Utes also believe that
lights seen on the property

could be the spirits
of long departed ancestors

that enter this world
from under the ground.

But tribal members also
see the same metallic UFOs

witnessed elsewhere
in the Basin.

These objects
appear to be

technological
and not spiritual.

And the few of the encounters,

occur right in front
of their faces.

That morning, when I noticed,
when I did my rounds,

I usually go out
the front door where I came.

Then go back all
the way around the building.

That's when this voice
appeared in my head

and said,
"Hey, get back inside.

You shouldn't
be seeing this."

[alien voice] "You shouldn't
be out here.

And you shouldn't
be seeing this."

[Corey] "Go back inside. You're gonna miss your family."

The hull of the ship
was like this.

I don't know if you've
ever seen like the...

The Star Trek enterprise.

You know how
the round shape of that.

It was like that.
But like a black and dark gray.

[Jeremy] And you were
standing right here?

No, actually,
I was standing right here.

And we're looking out
this door here.

We didn't see the ship
per se right there.

But, we saw
the lights and like,

"Okay, now what
the hell is going on?"

So we walked out here,
me and a few more client,

looking up here
and seeing this object

and we're like," What?"
Then, we noticed that

it started kinda
moving back a little bit.

I'd say we probably got about

close to right here

just looking at it and you can
see it just like right there.

And the cloud
and everything and the light

and that was so intense and
you're just like this looking.

And then I was talking to Herb

and I was being like,
"Hey, that's a UFO.

That's a fucking UFO."

And I remember swearing
at the time too.

Now, we're standing and looking
and I was looking like this

and, you know, something just
going in through my head saying,

"Hey, you shouldn't be out here.
You shouldn't be seeing this."

You know, and I was like,
"Oh, shoot."

And I was like, "Hey lets
go back inside."

So we started going back in
and we were looking still.

That's why I said,

I wish people could have
been awake at the time.

During that Sunday morning
to see what I saw.

And I had people that seen it
all the way up to Right rocks,

all the way down
towards Fort Connor,

Randlett,

that were up at that time.

And those that
were here, you know,

had that feeling like
everything was dead silent.

There was just
an eerie quiet silence.

No dogs were barking,
no noise or anything like that.

And people at the store
during the time of the blackout,

they opened
the doors just to see

and they could see the colors.

[alien voice]
"Hey, get back inside.

You shouldn't be seeing this.

Go back inside. You're gonna
miss you're family."

I kind of stopped in my tracks

and I was like, well, you know,
thinking in my head,

"Fuck this shit.
I'm gonna go back inside."

I ain't gonna get abducted.

So, you're standing there.
Where did it leave?

When you went back in,

was it still here
when you went back in?

Yeah, it was slowly
moving back that way

and just making
it's way towards the south.

And then I got back in,

and then right
when we got inside,

that's when
the female house manager said,

"Hey, look." And that's when
I was right outside like this.

Just like this. Looked outside
through the window

and there's this flash [swoosh]
That's it.

Lights out.

Just like a light switch.
It's lights off.
[clicks]

[Corey] It gives me the chills

and I just don't...
It's just stuck in my head.

I mean it wasn't
a very big ship

but it was big enough
I guess you could say.

It was pretty close though.

It was too close for comfort.

[narrator] The incident
with the bullet proof wolf

was only the beginning
for the ranch family.

During their mind-numbing
20 months on the property,

the ranch morphed

from a seemingly
idyllic setting

into a mental and emotional torture chamber.

Why, the rancher wondered,

that the previous owner
insist on being notified

before any digging
was done on the land.

Soon enough, he understood.

At different times
of the day and night,

the family felt
the ground shake.

And heard the sound of metal
on metal coming from below.

As if a steel mill or rail road operated under their feet.

And there was clear evidence
from what they felt

was that there was some kind of,
a lot of machinery,

noises of machinery,
noises of technology,

that seemed to come
from either underground

or deep in the ridge.

Just to the north of here.

They also found that anytime
there was a disturbance,

for example, sometimes
they dynamited tree stumps

from the ground.

They noticed that there was
a big increase in the activity

immediately following
dynamiting these stumps.

In other words,
large holes in the ground.

They couldn't figure out why.

[narrator] On some nights large sections of the pasture

would light up,
illuminated

by an unknown
source in the sky.

Other times, the family
witnessed beams of light

shoot out of the ground.

Vehicles would stall,
batteries would die

while crossing particular
points on the property.

Equipment would
vanish into thin air.

On a few nights, family members heard mocking voices

speaking an unknown language

seemingly emanating
from the sky

a few feet above their heads.

So many of the events
on the ranch were palpable

but fleeting.

It meant the credibility

of the rancher
and other witnesses

would eventually be evaluated.

He was a expert marksman,

tracker, hunter, horseman,

cattle breeder and he
didn't really touch farming

but he had a college education
and degrees and certifications

that, I believe, attested
to the fact that he had a lot

of tidy technical training
in animal husbandry.

So he was scientifically astute
to some extent.

[narrator] Eric Davis
is a PhD physicist

who would later spend
four years on the ranch.

Just part of a wide-ranging investigation

looking not only
at the property

and the events
that occurred

but also conducting
extensive background checks

into the family, their history, their neighbors.

[Knapp] He is not
the only witness.

This has been going on.

Not only the Indians
have been seeing it

but a lot of people.

Right. It wasn't just him.

It was his wife,
his two children, his neighbors.

The whole Uintah valley
has a 50 year history

of phenomenon that
the Mormon community

and all the other non-Mormon
members of the community

have been experiencing
since the 1950s.

This includes County Woods
supervisor members,

judges, the sheriffs
of the various county
Sheriff Departments.

[Knapp] Tell me
about the rancher.

When you came up here,
you got to know him.

You had beers and barbecues.

Excellent, excellent.

At first, you thought maybe
this guy is off his rocker.

Well, because due
to the fact that

480 acre parcel

of paranormal Disneyland
down there

had so much phenomena
experienced by him
and his family.

You know,
different aspects of it.
The mutilations,

the opening up of the sky,
the holes in the sky,

to the different craft
to the poltergeist

to the different entities

including UFOs on the ground,

voices in the air and so on
and so on and so on,

I thought this is...
There was just too much
expression here.

I had some doubts there

upon visiting
with him the first time.

[narrator] Ryan Layton
has chased Uintah UFO story

since the '80s.

He introduced himself to the rancher whose real name

has been reported elsewhere.

We'll call him Tom Gorman.

[Knapp] When did you
come to believe

about his truthfulness,
his character.

I believed he was
being extremely truthful

and I think his character
is outstanding.

And I could see that he was,
indeed, affected emotionally.

As you know, he was
also angered because of it.

This wasn't a joyful thing
for him, as you know.

[narrator] Layton visited
Gorman on the ranch
four times

and was told about many but
not all of the bizarre things

that were still unfolding.

One incident was
distinctly physical.

It happened
in the third homestead.

Someone dug large dibbits
into the pasture.

A photo was included
in the 1996 newspaper story.

The scoop marks were just
an oddity in the pasture there.

Some were three
to four feet in diameter.

And there were scoop...
dozens of them in there.

Not a natural type
of occurrence.

[narrator] During one
of our visits, Colm Kelleher

showed us where it happened.

Each of the scoops would have weighed hundreds of pounds

meaning some kind
of heavy equipment

would have been needed.

But how did it occur
without the rancher noticing?

The rancher came out one morning

and was checking down
in this area with his cattle.

He noticed this scoop mark here

and another one just down here.

And a third one
further down here.

Well, they'd have to take down
a series of gates for one

and [stutters] what would
be the reasoning

for taking such a large
massive soil sampling

out of that particular
section of that...

I mean, what is to be gained
by scooping out dozens of

odd scoop marks in the pasture?

[narrator] That incident came in the middle of a wild period

for the family.

From the first day they
moved on to the ranch,

they felt like they
were being watched.

At night, they would hear
the sounds of heavy footsteps

outside their windows

and would see the outlines

of black faceless
figures peering in.

Eventually, the footsteps and the figures entered the house.

There were dozens
of unexplained events.

Locked doors would
open and slam shut.

Objects would vanish
then reappear somewhere else.

The Utes might
describe all this

as the work of a trickster.

We would more
likely call it a poltergeist.

Eventually, the family would
help investigators

to compile this list
of incidents they remembered.

Three young men
including the rancher's son

spent four hours moving
a pile of heavy corral poles

to a spot near the canal.

Later in the day, the entire
pile had been moved

back to its original spot.

But just an inch off.

In another instance,
a ton of port wood

stacked on one side of a field

somehow appeared on the other side of the field

in a space of about 30 minutes.

Tools, pliers, gloves,
even a chainsaw

vanished while being used.

The chainsaw reappeared
a hundred yards away.

A post hole digger
vanished from a field

during the rancher's
brief lunch break.

After he bought a new digger,

the next day,
the first one reappeared

delicately balanced
up in a tree.

The rancher placed a new flea collar on his dog's neck.

It disappeared within a day.

Twenty four hours later,
it was back on the dog.

Kitchen utensils
would go missing

while the rancher's wife
was cooking meals.

And would later
turn up in the fridge,

or freezer, or microwave.

The wife would
lock the bathroom

door when she
took a shower.

When she got out of the shower,

her towel
and hairbrush were gone

though the door
was still locked.

Weeks worth of groceries
would be unpacked

and put away in cupboards.

Minutes later the groceries were back in the shopping bags.

Ryan Layton was
present on the ranch

while some of the incidents
were still happening.

[Knapp] Did Terry ever describe
to you seeing the beings

and things of that sort?

Or any of the poltergeist
trickery kinda things.

Yes, he did describe some
of the trickery things.

[Knapp] What did he
tell you about it?

Oh, particularly his fence post,

-His, um,
-Post hole digger?

Post hole digger, yes,

where he looked long and far
became extremely frustrated,

looked for it and there it was
Approximately to 40 feet
up the tree

a couple of days later.

-[Knapp] Things in the house--
-[Layton] Yeah, things
in the house would

move around and also I do
remember the story about,

which stands out in my mind,

or when you mention
the poltergeist activity.

His son... I should tell you
the high strangeness

of this type of objects,

His son had cut,
with some friends,
a cord or two of wood,

and placed it in some distance.

Maybe a hundred yards
away from the location

and it had been moved.

He came in to get
a drink of water

and it was moved.

[Knapp] The whole
quarter of wood?

Yeah, the whole quarter wood,
you know, in just a few moments.

I believe it was
about a hundred yard distance

or something of that nature.

[narrator] Junior Hicks,
the science teacher,

who investigated
UFO cases said,

"These trickster incidents were common among other witnesses

who'd encountered UFOs.

But it often took a long time
for them to open up

about their
unusual experiences."

The family needed help.

And help was on its way.

[Jeremy] Bob Bigelow
is one of the most

enigmatic individuals

that we hear about.

The guys got two private

orbiting space stations
for study.

He's an individual connected
through government contracts.

Skinwalker ranch,
he's allowed you

to be there a number of times.

He's really let you in.

Bob Bigelow is probably
the most misunderstood person

in the entire field of ufology.

He's not an ufologist.

He's a wealthy businessman

who happens to have
an interest in the topic.

He has spent more money
trying to pursue UFO truth,

than any person
in the history of the world.

[Jeremy] What is Bigelow's
end game?

What is his curiosity?

What is his interest?
Why is he doing this?

The interest is personal.

It comes
from family experiences.

It's what got him hungry
about the topic to begin with.

People have this craziest
ideas about Bob Bigelow.

I've seen
the descriptions of him.

He's shadowy,
he has a drug business,

he is in the tea business,

he is a gun runner,
he is a casino owner.

Crazy stuff.

He's only interested in this

so he can capture the technology

and build his own spacecraft

and take the elite
off this planet.

All he's done
is give his resources

to trying to find out
what's going on.

You know, for example,
he gave a million dollars

to the UFO organizations

and told them,
"Here's a million dollars.

You don't have any resources,

you're always bitching
about not having any money,

here's a million bucks."

You just gotta find
a way to get along

and divvy it up and make
sure it goes to actual research.

Of course, they fucked it up.
They fucked it up.

Cause they couldn't get along.

He said, "I wanna establish
a training program

where we have a strike force kind of a rapid response team.

So, when you got a UFO flap,

you've got a big case,

you can, you got the money
to jump on a plane,

send some people there,
have boots on the ground
and investigate it.

And of course
he was pilloried for it.

[Knapp] He created NIDS.

National Institute
for Discovery Science.

He was so disgusted by

MUFON, by the UFO organizations

and their lack of progress,

he created his own
UFO organization.

There's never been
a gathering of great minds

as great as these

in one pursuit of UFO truth

in the history of the world.

This board that he put together,

the make up of this board,
some of their names

still are not public.

They don't want it
to hurt their careers

But, man, it's an amazing
group of people.

And I've been there.

And they don't come in
with an agenda.

They weren't there to create
their own flying saucer fleet.

The idea was

they devout their time,
their own time,

to pursuing the UFO truth.

Because they thought

there's something important
going on here.

It's worth spending our time

to pursue this.

And they gave a lot.

Volunteered a lot.

And no one gave
more than Bigelow.

And no one has been
beaten up more than Bigelow

because of it.

It's ridiculous.

[Jeremy] Is there something
that has shaken Bigelow?

Or shaken you about the ranch?

Bob's interest in the ranch was
primarily an interest in UFOs.

He bought the place

because people
had been seeing UFOs.

You know, the flying saucers,
traditional UFO stuff.

That was his interest.

But, of course, as he learned,

as he and his team learned,

there's a lot more
to it than that.

They had no idea
what they were getting I think.

When they bought the place,

they heard bits and pieces,
here and there.

They interviewed the family
and heard these stories

But, I don't think,
they could possibly imagine

how far it would go.

Have there been experiences
there that have shaken

the people involved?

Absolutely.

And I think Bob Bigelow
would be included in that.

I can't tell you.

I can't tell you what it is

but I can tell you, he's had,

he's had some dramatic episodes

that have convinced him
that something is real.

And his team has
had those episodes.

I mean, these are
PhD level guys

who have worked for

every three letter agency
you can imagine.

Who are there because
they wanna know what's going on.

They've worked for the Pentagon,
and CIA, and other agencies,

and in scientific think-tanks.

Bright, PhD level people

who are there
investigating this mystery

and it has scared
the shit out of them.

I mean, it's confronted
them directly.

It's one thing
to be reading about UFOs

or other realities
or interdimensionals in a book.

It's another thing,

to be staring at it
right in the face

and for it to be communicating
with you and telling you,

"Get out. You're not welcome."

And that's happened there.

[Jeremy] In 1978,
a local newspaper

reported high activity
in the Uintah Basin.

Silver dome shaped
objects were seen.

Flying saucers.

Some witnesses
observing the display

from close proximity.

From underneath the craft.

UFOs were buzzing the locals

with jagged
green lights like fire.

Nothing really changes.

It's constant.

The phenomenon
is engaging people.

It's a pattern
of close encounters.

It's commonplace.

People hunt because scientists investigate the carnage.

The NIDS team tried
to quantify the performances.

They created controlled
studies for plant growth.

They monitored the environment.

They calculated
the barrier rules.

They analyzed every event.

But mostly, they waited

for the phenomenon
to express itself.

And the phenomenon
seemed to toy with them.

To play games with them.

Silence followed
by dramatic displays
of control.

It did what it wanted.

It does what it wants

to anybody.

-[Jeremy] What's your name?
-My name is Janice Poowegup.

And where do you live
in relation to Skinwalker ranch?

[Janice] I just live
west of Skinwalker ranch.

[Jeremy] What was
that exact moment

when you transitioned
from being skeptical

and a non-believer
to being a believer?

[man] Yeah. Describe
the incident itself.

The four Heifers were in
the north field and I could
hear them bellowing

But we couldn't figure out
where they were.

My bright idea was,

well, let's get the spotlight...
At nighttime,

let's get that spotlight

and we'll go
through the tree line like this.

You have to see eyes.

That'll give us a general idea
of where they're at at night,

so we can set up panels

and run them back over
to the house.

So we're going...
They were bellowing,

but I could see nothing.

So I turned it on,
I said, okay, let's listen.

When I went let's listen,
that's when that light

it came clear from the sky.

And then hit,
like this.

And it lit up the whole truck.

[Interviewer 1]
And it physically
hit you, the light?

Yeah, it literally
came down in,

and lit up everything.

I was like, "Wait a minute."

And I turned back, and I said,
"That's not possible.

That is not possible."

And that's when
I started, like,

"Something's here,
and it's real."

And I just got
a eyeopener.

'Cause I was
a non-believer
before that.

So that was the experience
that changed it for you,

-where you realized...
-Mm-hmm.

[sobbing]

I'm sorry. [sniffles]

[Woman]
I just couldn't go on
for a minute.

Forgive me.
[EXHALES]

Thank you.
[SNIFFLES]

What's overwhelming?

'Cause my neighbor,
um, Charlie Wynn...

[sniffles]

After that

big mothership,
or whatever
you wanna call it, or,

I don't know.
[sniffles]

He'd stop by, every day,
on his way home from work.

His face was so red.

I couldn't believe it.

When I looked up,
he said that

light hit me,
it scared the shit
out of me so bad,

he said, "I was
crawling in the ditch,"

to get that water to...

cool him off.

He got cancer,
and it killed him,

[stuttering] and I was...
I wonder if it
was from that.

'Cause, I mean,
you could...

It was like, you know
how somebody has like
a real bad burn, and it's just,

so red and deep.

[Interviewer 1] This is
something that is
really important

for this whole story.
This phenomena.

So, can you just
tell me what that
wave of emotion was?

My son was diagnosed
just last year, and,

it's hard to deal with it
because that's your baby,
you know, and...

when it first
started out,
it was like,

I was hitting
brick walls.
[sniffles]

And I'm like, "Lord,
you know I'm not
the perfect person."

[sniffles] But, why?

-[Interviewer 1] Do you fear
that the phenomenon...
-[sniffles]

has something to do
with these illnesses?

Like, with your son
and your friends?

It kind of makes me
believe because,

like I said, my son
was strong as a bull.

[Interviewer 1] So there is
a element of fear
for the ones you love.

Yeah.

[Interviewer 1] That there
is a, a malevolence to it,
you know,

and evil, that seems
to be attacking

-the health
of those you love.
-Yeah.

That... That is something
you believe to be true?

Yes.

[Interviewer 2]
Have all the people,
have been exposed

-to some kind
of experience?
-Yeah.

[Interviewer 1]
What question is it
that you would like answered?

What answer
are you looking
to find?

Is it really real
or is it some kind of,
the government's building?

Is it really

like an entity
or beings or...

Is it real or is it
government made-up?

[Interviewer 2]
What do you think?

I think it's real.

[Narrator] A beast
prowls the darkness
outside of Skinwalker ranch.

It's Lucy,
the wonder dog.

She made the long drive
with us to the Uintah Basin

in part because Lucy
can see and hear things
that we can't.

The same reason as the NIDS
team relied on dogs during
the long study of the ranch.

Dogs were considered to be friends as well as biosensors,

able to detect unusual activity beyond the range of human sensors.

Soon after Robert Bigelow
purchased the property,

the NIDS team built
observation towers
in three pastures,

with sturdy metal fences
around each tower.

On many nights,
dogs were stationed
inside the fences.

The construction of those,
uh, dog runs on the...
on the, um,

the viewing platforms
also was kind of like
a communication thing.

The idea was to put
dogs in the dog runs

who... who are
extremely good biosensors.

They would alert the humans,
but at the same time,

um, during the construction
of these dog runs,

there was a whole bunch
of anomalies happened
at these dog runs.

[Narrator] An unknown trickster kept opening the gates and letting the dogs loose.

Perplexed, NIDS
secured the gates
with thick wire.

The wire vanished.
Then they installed
strong padlocks.

The padlocks disappeared.

Gates were left open.

Um, the...
the locks
were gone.

[stuttering] There was a whole,
there was like, eight,
I think seven or eight

separate incidents that happened
at several of these dog runs
just after construction.

And if you wanted
to read a message
into that,

you could say the same
sort of thing that,
you know, these,

these measures are
essentially useless.

They can be
interfered with.

They can be compromised,
they can be screwed with.

And there's nothing
that you can do
about it.

[Narrator]
Kelleher and the NIDS team
were initially optimistic

after Robert Bigelow
bought the so-called
UFO Ranch,

the team brought in
its own double-wide
command center,

installed surveillance
cameras and other sensors

and tried to find
prosaic explanations
for the wild stories.

They surveyed the basin
for geomagnetic anomalies,

searched the property
for hallucinogenic plants,

interviewed the family,
their neighbors and a wide
circle of other eyewitnesses.

There's a lot of people
interested in this stuff
and you get a lot of calls.

[Narrator] The scientists
on the team were not there
to confirm local myths.

NIDS was designed
to be a high-risk,
high-payoff institute.

Quite a high risk
for the topic
we were after.

That ranch, uh, I think
was the epitome of what
we were after.

Like I said, it was
a living laboratory, uh,

that we could set-up
and control the conditions.

We can rigorously monitor
the environment.

We can rigorously
attempt to monitor
the phenomenon

as it moved within
that environment
out there at that ranch.

[Narrator] Physicist
Dr. Eric Davis,

who has worked for military think-tanks and prominent labs,

was skeptical
about UFO tales
and spooky stories

until he made his
first visit to the ranch.

That's when he and others
witnessed an orange globe

that turned blue,
then landed.

There happened to be
a clear orange ball,

and then a mist would appear
and it'd be blue again,

and so forth.
And it alternated
this way until finally,

uh, descended below
the background mountains
and it descended in...

Now, when I mean below,
I mean the mountain tops.

It didn't descend
behind the mountains.

It descended in front
of the mountains.

[Narrator] That sighting occurred before NIDS installed its camera system.

But even with cameras
positioned around
the property,

the phenomena proved elusive.

We had cameras
that were recording data
on a continuous basis.

Uh, frequently,
things would happen
just off the camera.

Like it knew
where you're looking,

says, "Okay, we'll do this
where you're not looking."

[Narrator] The cameras
did catch perplexing
images over the years.

Darting orbs that seemed
under intelligent control.

A fan-shaped ray of lights
recorded more than once
near the bottom of the ridge.

Something resembling an aircraft contrail that emanated from the ground.

And this, the ghostly
silhouettes of structures

that reminded the team
of New York's Twin Towers.

The images
are evidence,
but of what?

By 1998, the NIDS team already had 78 incidents from the vicinity of the ranch.

Including 11 nuts and bolts
structured craft reports.

As well as a few dozen
orbs of different colors.

And another that sliced
the tops off several trees
in the third homestead.

The ranchers showed the damage to Ryan Layton, and joked,

it must have been
a case of pilot error.

Uh, the top part
of the trees were
kind of, almost squared out.

Almost like in a square.

And those are probably

well, maybe 80 to 100 feet tall
cottonwood trees, and uh,

the branches were probably
say, 40 to 50-60 feet.

Some of the branches,

very lengthy, and they were
on the ground, and they
had broken off.

[Narrator] That same
section of the property

is where the rancher
saw his first UFO.

He initially thought
it might be
a wayward Winnebago

that somehow
got onto
his property.

It was shaped like
a refrigerator,
like box-shaped,

with a light on
one end of it.

When he first saw it
in the distance, he was
with his nephew.

And, um, it was,

it was dark
but he saw the light

and he presumed that
they were hunters,

or they were somebody
trespassing on his property.

So, he and his nephew
started walking towards it.

It started moving slowly
away from where they
were walking,

and, um, this all happened
further, further east of here.

But the thing started
clearing a fence,

and that's when they,
they began to think
something unusual was happening.

And they couldn't actually
see the shape of it until

they kept on pursuing it,

and then it went
over a tree line.

[Interviewer]
So an RV that goes
over a tree line?

Yeah, it actually went over
the tree line, and as it was
silhouetted against the sky,

they saw the shape of it.

It was like a, like
a refrigerator,
flying refrigerator.

And it was completely silent.

[Narrator] Ground zero
for odd sightings was
always the middle homestead.

At nights, lights and orbs could be seen floating through the creaky old buildings.

It's also where the rancher
had multiple sightings
of the most puzzling object.

An orange, glowing
hole in the sky.

Gorman told Kelleher
and others the orange ball
seemed to be a portal.

And on the other side, was a quote "different sky."

On at least one occasion,
the rancher saw
a smaller object

fly out of the orange orb,
into the sky
over his property.

The exotic possibility that
the ranch might be a portal
to another world

has occurred many times
to the NIDS team.
But how to prove it?

In August 1996,
the portal theory
erupted again

in a stark demonstration.

The rancher and an investigator were conducting a night surveillance atop the ridges.

They spotted
a hovering ball of light
in the middle homestead.

An object that was seen
four feet off the ground.

Um, it looked like
a, a dull yellow light.

I mean, it was innocuous.

hovering over the road,
it just appeared
out of nowhere.

And then it begins to expand
and grow and then it opens up
into about approximately

three-foot wide opening.

As they turned on
the night vision
equipment they had,

and lo and behold,
everything from
a dull yellow light

became like a three-dimensional,
looked like a three-dimensional
tunnel.

That was just, you know,
hovering over the ground.

Where there's a light shining
from, coming out from within
of this opening.

On the other side of the opening
it's just a natural background
of the ranch.

They see the road, they see
the grass from the pasture,
and so forth.

Slowly, this
incident unfolded,

where they saw this,
what looked like
a humanoid creature

crawling and literally elbowing

his or her way
through this,
this tunnel.

Hovering four feet
above the ground.

And out of this opening
crawls a very large,

what I understood to be
an eight-foot tall

black creature with a head
and no neck, and a torso,
arms and legs.

No details or features
noted on it.

There was a second witness
standing right beside

the other guy with
the infrared technology.

All he could see
was a dull yellow light

that expanded to about
four feet in diameter.

It just, literally, grabbed
the outside edges
of this opening,

pulled itself through,
came out, stepped on
to the dirt road,

and ran off
into the darkness.

The creature stood up,

once it got out onto
the ground, and walked
away into the darkness.

I mean, can you imagine
two people on the top
of a cliff,

or, a, sort of a, a bluff,
150 feet off the ground,
and in the middle of nowhere.

And, uh, then the opening
began to shrink and collapse
in on itself,

and turned into a brilliant
light that just faded away.

That's a perfect description
that was given by Matt Vizer
and John Kramer

and Bob Forward and other
colleagues of theirs

in a physical review paper
on the optical nature
of wormholes.

I mean, that is not,
I would say,
military technology.

That's some kind
of a phenomena,

that has, it smacks
of inter-dimensional phenomena.

[Narrator] Tribal elders
believe this ridge is a path
used by the Skinwalker

as it moves
from one place
to another.

The question becomes,
where does it live?

The answer, according
to the tribe, is Dark Canyon.

A place steeped in legend
and superstition,

dominated by tall pines
and spirits from
other realities.

With the help
of our Uintah friends,

we obtained something
rarely given.

Permission from the tribe
to bring our cameras

into the heart
of Dark Canyon.

We soon found
that the name fits.

While there, we heard
encounter tales

from a young woman
named Shelby.

[Shelby] It was reflective,
and the reflection over light
was what caught my eye.

As we were watching the hikers
come up and over
the mountain,

up in the corner,

like in the crook
of the mountain,

there was a saucer
that had come up

and over and down
and back down,

and I tried
pointing it out to her

and she was too late, but,

-[Interviewer 1] The saucer?
-Yeah.

Yeah, it was pretty
significant in size.

[Interviewer 1]
Classic flying saucer?

[Shelby] I don't think
there was anyone else
in my family

who was willing to admit
what goes on.

[Interviewer 1] Is this
the kind of thing
that runs in the family?

For me
and my mother,
it does.

You think it's because
you and your mother
are open to this?

I don't necessarily think
we're open to it.

I think that it
comes to us.

[Interviewer 2] Is this
your first time talking
about it publicly?

Yeah.

Are you worried
about the reaction?

I am, just because
of my profession.

I... I worry that it's
gonna follow me, and...

[Interviewer 1] You work
in public education.

So I guess you have to worry
what will my employer
think about it?

Yeah.

[Interviewer 2] You ever told
your... Anybody you work with
that you had experiences

-that we'll discuss?
-I have.

Everybody has a...
Their story.

A lot of the times,
with my experiences, I've,

I put them on a shelf
and I don't like
to think about them

or revisit them
because they've,

impacted, or I try
not to let them
impact me.

I'm so disassociated
with it that I don't,
I don't think about it.

[echoing] I think
that's something
that I've repressed.

[Interviewer 2]
You have a missing
time experience?

[Shelby] I do.

[Interviewer 2]
Can you share that?

I woke up
around 1 o'clock,
and I remember

that I sat up.
I remember being
aware of what I was doing,

but not having control
over what I was doing.

And I got out of bed,
and I walked into
the living room dining area,

and I looked to their,
um, to their,

their window that was,
that oversaw their
dining room table,

and I remember seeing
two bright spot lights.

And, next thing I remember
was, I was facing
the opposite direction,

more towards their stove,
looking at their clock.

And, at that time, it was
8 o'clock, and I went
back to bed, and...

-[Interviewer 2] So five or six
hours had passed?
-Yeah.

And you're standing,
looking at a stove?

Yeah.

-And you don't know how--
-I don't know
how I got there.

[Interviewer 1] Tell us
a little bit about the nature
of the light, how bright?

I remember it illuminating
the entire area.

[Interviewer 1] How bright?
What was the nature
of the light?

Undescribable.

-It was--
-[Interviewer 1] How would you
describe as bright?

It was brighter.
It was, I can't even,

describe to you.
Like, no LED,
no flashlight

nothing can compare
to the brightness
of those lights,

and to the whiteness
of the lights.

[Interviewer 1] Brighter
than the sun, it's like nothing
we've seen before.

These experiences,
have they changed you?

I think so.

[Interviewer 1] What's it
about this area, the basin?

Or is it the tribe?
Is it the people
who live here

that attracts all this
different stuff?

-I don't know.
-Or is it everywhere?

I don't know.
I don't have a clue.

[Interviewer 1] Some people
call them, they were referred
to as hitchhikers.

That these things
follow you around.

[Shelby] From my own
experiences, if you
invite something,

it will come and it will
become attached to you.

And it'll stay attached
until you tell it to leave.

The unfortunate thing is,
this weird phenomena

is not amenable
to laboratory testing.

Where we can control
the conditions.

We thought we could.
We attempted to.

We tried as much as we could
within the boundaries
of our budget,

to control conditions,
and it turned out,

the phenomenon controlled us,
and controlled itself.

It basically did everything
it could to avoid us,
absolutely.

It did not want to engage in
or interact with that much

after the first
year and a half.

That we were there
working on that property.

That phenomena,
I am sure was cognizant
of our presence there.

And basically did not want
to allow us to detect it.

Put... Record it and film it
in any form or fashion.

[Narrator] Like
the investigators
who tried to crack

the mysteries
of the ranch,

physicist Dr. Eric Davis
became frustrated

by the elusive nature
of the target.

Dr. John Alexander,
the former Army
intelligence officer,

coined the term
precognitive
symbiant intelligence

to describe the entity
on the ranch.

Precognitive because
it could anticipate
what came next.

One of the things
that happened

in Uintah, at the ranch,
that was very perplexing,

was it seemed like
whatever was presenting
the phenomena to us,

knew what we
were going to do,

and what was gotta
be a response.

And we would do
something different.

The family that lived
on the property

felt from the beginning
that it was being watched.

That something was pulling
strings, playing tricks.

Of all the strange incidents
that were reported
on the ranch,

one in particular
stands alone.

[Man] that there's
a trickster element
to it.

Yeah, there's a trickster
element to it.

And I think the, the biggest
one that really would

blow most people's minds,

scientists or anybody
trying to analyze this,

'course it's the account
of the bulls in the trailer.

There were four 2,000-pound
bulls, in this, uh, in this

little corral here.

[Narrator] 1999,
earlier in the day,

the rancher had come
across strange tracks

in the dense brush
on the edge of
the middle homestead.

Tracks unlike anything
he'd ever seen.

The family was on edge
because by that point,

they'd lost a dozen or more
head of expensive cattle.

They couldn't afford
to lose anymore.

About two o'clock
in the afternoon,

um, the rancher and his wife,
uh, were driving past

on their way down to the west
end of the property to check
on their other animals.

So, these were their
four best thoroughbred

uh, registered, um,
Black Angus and Simmental bulls.

They were, like, very valuable
animals, thousands
of dollars each.

And, you know,
Terri and Gwen are
the rancher and his wife.

As they were driving past,
remarked on how devastating
it would be

to them, financially,
if they lost those animals.

[Narrator] It was as if
someone overheard
their concerns.

When they returned
to the corral
an hour later...

and they were driving past
the corral here on this track,
when they realized,

no bulls. The bulls
were gone from the corral.

So they panicked, you know.
They, they ran over here,

um, searching, and,
the entire corral
was empty.

And then, just out of,
out of, kind of, instinct,

the rancher climbed over
into the corral,
into this corral here,

and walked over
to this trailer.

[Narrator] Trailer
was used to store tools
and other equipment.

There was only
one way into it.

And the only latch was
still secured by heavy wire.

Just as the rancher
had left it.

The door was still locked.

This latch was actually
pulled way down here.

It was obvious
it had never
been opened.

Um, it was pulled
down here.

This was locked.

Um, this doorway
here was open.

And, um, he looked in,
and all four animals

were, were standing there,
like totally dazed.

And, to work with
even a single bull,

getting them into
an enclosed space
like this,

would be
almost impossible.

To get four
2,000-pound
bulls into

a tiny, tiny enclosed
space where they were

squashed up against
each other,

uh, would be
completely impossible.

But anyway, Terri yelled,
or the rancher yelled
to his wife

that he had found
the animals.
And his yell

just seemed to wake them up
out of this catatonic trance
or daze they were in.

And suddenly, they just went ape
when they realized they were
in this cramped space.

They went crazy.
They started kicking down
the sides of this thing.

And they kicked
one of the doors.

There is a boarded door
at the other end there.

They kicked the door open
and they, and they just
went absolutely wild.

They destroyed the inside
of this, uh, trailer
in like, minutes.

[clears throat] Eventually,

it took the rancher
and his wife
about four hours

to herd the animals back,
back through here,
and in here.

And, in the space of an hour,

um, something
had induced
or forced

or persuaded those
four extremely
aggressive animals

[clears throat] to cram
themselves into this trailer.

Without opening this door.
This door was not opened.

Uh, because we actually
checked that, to see.

There was cobwebs
and all of that
on the inside of the door.

And it was quite obvious
from this, uh, from this
set-up here,

that this had not
been moved at all.

We've moved it back and forth
when we've examined this

since then, but, um,

these animals, in response
to what Terri or, the rancher
and his wife had said,

obviously had been put
in there, some kind
of a prank, whatever.

Again, to underline anxiety,
to create anxiety,

in the rancher and his wife
that they had lost
their animals.

[Narrator] This is a photo of the bulls taken a few hours after they were released.

And they were still
in a surly mood.

The NIDS team wasn't on
the property at the time
of the incident,

but arrived soon after.

Almost as strange
as the treatment
of the bulls

was the physical evidence
left at the scene.

The bars of the corral
had been magnetized.

Examining this
metal structure,

all along the length
of the metal structure,

it was extremely
highly magnetized.

The entire, uh,
corral here,

there was a magnetic field
deviation for several hours
on this corral,

and then it just
kind of dissipated.

But, um, very strong
magnetic field,

along this entire
length of corral.

That was the only clue
that was found to what
happened here,

and it doesn't even tie into
how exactly it happened.

So, you can't just say
it was teenagers

who came into the corral
and got these bulls
into this thing?

No, you need to be extremely,
even to get one bull
into this, this corral,

I mean, forcing a bull
to climb, even climb up this,

into an enclosed space,
it's just impossible,
you know.

And, and the fact is,
it was verified pretty
well convincingly,

that this door
had not opened.

-In the...
-I thought that's
the only way in.

-Huh?
-But that's--

That's the only way in
from the corral.

I mean, it's another one
of these brain teasers,
you know.

How exactly was it done?
Why was it done?
All of that.

[Interviewer 1]
In the Uintah Basin,
you were being visited

by something that appears
to be non-human.

-Mm-hmm.
-Yes.

What is your full name?

[Garrie] My name is Garrie
Walking Leeback Poowegup.

[Interviewer 1] I got to talk
with your mom and kind of
hear her perspective

over months and months
on the phone, and finally
we had a interview.

The moment that changed
your mom's ideas.

-Do you know the one
I'm talking about?
-Mm-hmm.

-What happened?
-It was dead night.

We had just stepped
out of our truck.

I'm just walking my own way,
and she's walking this way,

then outta nowhere,

and it just lit up,
bright as this, this,
as you see in the windows,

that's how bright it was,

just went back to black.

[Interviewer 1] That's what
I hear from so many people,
they always said,

-it was, it was brighter
than the sun.
-Mm-hmm.

We've had a lot of reports
of lights from the sky
coming down and hitting people.

And some people
have gotten sick
from that.

Uh, like birds,
and you described
one experience of that.

Yes.

There have been negative
health effects on the birds.

So, just to get personal,
let me ask you first.

You have a medical condition.

Uh, yes.

Can you tell me
about that?

That is, uh, MNS.
I got MNS.

I'm only
30 years old.

First one in family history,
I'm the only one.

It's, it's hard for your mom.
I can see she is...

It's hard for her, right?
I mean, any family.

Yeah.

One thing she asked,
is, she was curious if

these lights had any negative
impact on your guy's health.

Um, do you feel there's
any connection to that?

Or do you feel
it's just not that?

Not feeling
like it's not.

[Interviewer 1] These things
you're seeing.

I remember I was just
hearing that ringing again,

but it was only
on one side.
On my left side.

I used my cane
and I walk around
and get right here.

I saw the moon,
as bright it was.

Then I just see this object,
a white object,

circling, uh, and it came
back around, and it did again.

Then it just went,
and then went,

backwards towards it,
and I can remember
seeing it just jolt

and just see
that weird flash.

Then I guess it probably
noticed me or something,
then it just took off.

-You're talking about a craft--
-[indistinct]

-a craft with unusual,
uh, propulsion.
-Yes.

So it's not just the ranch,
it's all around you
at the basin.

It's around your home,
around your property,

-Mm-hmm.
-whatever this phenomenon is,

it's all around you here.

-Mm-hmm.
-Yes.

Some people
have been harmed by these.
Their lives have been changed.

Once you see something
like this, you can never
see the world the same again.

It just has to happen to you.
Something is here.

Is it real?

Oh, yes, and I believe
it is much real.

All those deniers, you know,
can just come out here.

I don't care
how many numbers.

They just gotta have that
kind of, the experience,
but it's a gamble.

Some days they're here,
some days they're not.

They'll be taking days,
weeks, months,
just to,

have just one real experience.
I think, just one.

Even just seeing
a light or a UFO
just coming by.

Just once. Just get
that one image.

Just like that, and that
will just be with them
for the rest of their lives.

Just that one
little piece.

Why does this area
have so many things
so concentrated?

I think there's
a main portal
somewhere here.

There are big displays,
and the cops
are called out,

something is coming
over this area,
beaming lights.

Your concern
last time was,

is this having negative
effects on the people
I love,

-and is it
government...
-Mm-hmm.

or is it entities,
other beings?

Mm-hmm.

-You're both nodding
your heads.
-Yeah.

So, what is it?
What does that mean?

What can it be? Is it from here
or is it from somewhere else?

The other side?
Or a different world
or somewhere?

Different solar system,
just visiting?

The universe is wild,
there's many planets.

I don't know.
I really would
like to know.

Maybe find out
at least something.

If people wanted to come
and visit this place,

-Mm-hmm.
-your area,

um, would you advise them
to do that or to not do that?

If you're curious,
come and see
yourself, you know?

'Cause I can sit here
and tell you forever,
all my experiences, but...

that's me.

But there are risks.

But they are...
Yes, there is risks.

You might see something
you can't handle,
or you might experience, uh...

entity, I'm gonna say.
That you can't handle.
And so,

yeah, the... I don't know.
It's hard. Yes or no?

[stuttering] It'd be
up to that individual.

[Narrator] The Gormans were especially sensitive to the incident with the bulls

because of the losses
they had already suffered.

Out of a herd
of 80 cattle,
they lost 14 head

prior to the arrival of NIDS.
Some disappeared.
Others were sliced up.

12 more cows and calves
were killed while NIDS
was on the ranch.

Their neighbors, the Garcias,
lost several animals as well.

Some of their cattle
appeared to have been killed

by being dropped
onto the pasture
from a great height.

The cattle mutilation mystery
has been reported
in at least 15 states,

dating back to the 1960s.

Thousands of animals
have been sliced up
with surgical precision,

mostly under the cover
of darkness.

If humans are doing it,
not a single suspect
has ever been caught.

For the Gormans,
the livestock losses
were devastating

both financially,
and psychologically.

And then, things got worse.

On March 10, 1997,
Tom Gorman and his wife

walked out of their home
and into the pasture,

planning to tag the ears of
several calves that had been
born in the preceding days.

It was a bright, clear morning. Snow was on the ground.

50 yards from their house,
they found the first calf.

[Kelleher]
They were
with their dog.

Uh, the two of them, um,
tagged and weighed
this animal.

They, they checked it out.
I believe it was 84 pounds.

Or 87 pounds.
And they left
the animal there.

With... With the mother.
Everything seemed to be fine.

Although, they did detect
an odor in the air.

Around this area,
they, they detected
a strong musk smell.

Um, they took note of it,
and then they headed west.

And they went
about 300 yards west.

Beyond the... The dog run
wasn't... Was not there
at the time.

But about 300
yards beyond,

um, towards where
that incline is.

Um, and they were
tagging a second animal,

[Narrator]
Only 30 to 40 minutes
had passed,

the Gormans had
an obstructed view

of everything
in the field.

But didn't see or hear
anything unusual.

Until their dog focused
its attention back toward
the house,

and the first calf.

The dog with them,
down here at this stage,

began to act really strangely.

It started growling.
The hair on the back
of its neck went up.

And it started facing
back towards here,

growling and snarling.

And then, it just took off
west, away from this spot.

It just took off,
was never seen again.

[Narrator] The Gormans
were curious and walked
back across the field.

First thing they saw
was the mother
of the animal,

was running back and forth,
kind of [stuttering]
in a sort of half circle.

From about this area
to the fence line.

Just running back and forth,
and it was limping.

I mean, it was
dragging its foot.
It was limping.

They met the animal, um,
and they noticed that it was
just totally out of breath.

It was panting.
It was obviously
in deep stress.

and it was
dragging one leg.

And then they noticed
the calf, or what
was left of it.

[Kelleher] ...lay spreadeagled on the ground, just about here.

With, um, it was lying
with all four limbs
just spread on the ground.

All of its internal
body cavity was gone.

Um, it was completely
pretty well, all of its
muscles was gone

from the torso.

The legs were
still intact.

But the, one of the ears
was also gone.

So, they called NIDS.

[Narrator] The rancher placed
a call to the NIDS
investigators

who'd returned to Las Vegas

for a rare weekend off.

Within a few hours,
a four man team,
including a veterinarian,

was on the scene.

Necropsy started,
and the first thing
the veterinarian noticed

during the necropsy
was that the ear
of the animal

had been sliced off
with a very sharp
instrument.

Possibly a scalpel.

And the ear had contained
a very large plastic yellow,
um, tag.

Like, an ear tag,

that they had just put on,
and it was gone.

So, uh, the necropsy proceeded.

Um, about ten feet
away from the animal,
there was a femur.

One of the femurs had been
forcibly ripped out of a ball
and socket joint,

which is extremely
difficult to do.

I mean, in terms
of strength.

It looked, initially,
you know, superficially,

like a massive predator
had just lain waste
to this animal.

Removed, you know,
60 pounds of meat
in 45 minutes.

Which, we don't know
if any predator that
could have done that.

[Narrator] And how
could a predator inflict
such carnage

without being seen
or heard by the rancher,
his wife or his dog?

Over a few hundred yards away, in the same field,

on what was a quiet
Sunday morning?

No four-legged predator
known to science
could do it.

The team gathered
tissue and bone samples

which were sent to three
independent pathology labs.

The results arrived later,
but confirmed what
seemed obvious

in the pasture that day.

The calf had been carved up
by someone wielding
sharp, metallic instruments.

A heavy machete-like object
had slammed into the bones.

A smaller scalpel-like knife
had sliced the hide
and muscle.

Closer inspection revealed
that it was definitely
sharp instruments.

There was no
sign of blood.

There was no sign
of entrails around.
It was perfectly clean.

Uh, not a drop
of blood on the grass,

We went even as far
as doing an experiment
by pouring blood on the grass

to see how fast
it would
seep through.

Videotaped the grass,
showed, you know,
even two days later.

you could still see the stain
on the grass, so, there was
no blood, whatsoever.

Not a single drop, either,
underneath the animal,
on the animal,

or on the grass.
It was just
completely clean.

A professional tracker
was brought in.

He's covered every inch
of ground in and around
the field.

Looking for traps, humans,
animal or vehicle,

Nothing. Eventually,
the investigators reached
an unsettling conclusion.

The bottom line is,
this animal must have
been killed elsewhere.

Because there was no blood.
There was no blood on
the scene,

and that... the animal
must have been
brought back

Laid down carefully,
almost, you know,

really almost richfully,
on the spot. Where
I had been tagged.

[Narrator] The NIDS team

investigated dozens
of mutilation cases
across the country.

Many of the tissue
samples were analyzed
in NIDS' own lab,

in Las Vegas. And then I doubled check by independent labs they hired.

The Uintah calf was
in a category all its own.

It seemed akin
to psychological
warfare,

intended to shock
and frighten
the witnesses.

The following night,
there was another scare

in the darkness
of the first homestead.

Shots were fired at something
that had rattled the herd.

Eventually, Colm Kelleher surmised that the perpetrators

responsible for the calf
were mechanical.

Like an assembly line
in a meat packing plant.

A machine was involved
with this carnage.

[Kelleher] Whatever
happened to that calf, um,

was an extraordinarily
skillful job.

[Man] Mutilations are clearly
one aspect we can put
our finger on.

That we can quantify
to a degree.

Physical evidence remains
after the event.

And we grasp to it,
in search of answers.

Who is performing
these horrific acts
of violence?

Are they meant
to unsettle us? Why?

And are there even
answers to be found
in these questions?

During the time
of the NIDS
investigations,

the phenomenon recorded
and documented was
more than elusive.

It never actually
repeated itself.

From creatures to craft.

From disembodied voices
to trickster-like
paranormal activity,

it was a cosmic game
of cat and mouse.

Dark, shadowy
beams observed

climbing out of orange,
glowing geometric portals.

Silent craft carving out
chunks of tree branches

as they traverse
the landscape.

Geomagnetic anomalies
sending compasses
into tailspins.

Events indicating
a precognitive ability

by the phenomenon
to know the next move
of the investigators.

This area has been described
as a paranormal Disneyland.

If its weird, it's happened
in the Uintah Basin.

But by far, the most
constant theme in the area

has always remained
focused on UFOs.

Ships. Ships that appear
without discrimination.

But not just passive
UFO sightings.

Sightings that
are participatory.

Experiences that tend
to communicate
with observers,

interact with them.

It's been happening
in the area since
humans settled there.

And it continues
to this day.

[Interviewer] Why are you
keeping your identity secret?

[Confidential] [Voice distorted]
I have chosen to keep
my identity confidential

to not only protect
the integrity
of our efforts,

and to avoid distractions

that would potentially
compromise our efforts.

And also to maintain
a level of professionalism

in my other business
activities and enterprises.

I have a vast empire
of business interests

that I cannot allow
to be compromised

by virtue of any disclosure
of my involvement
in this effort.

[interviewer] Everybody
wants to know what is going on
at the ranch now?

Have you continued
the research, and have you
amplified it?

We have entered
an entirely new
and expanded era

of scientific investigation
at Skinwalker Ranch.

Since acquiring the property
three years ago,
from Mr. Bigelow,

we've installed significant
security enhancements

in addition to scientific
instrumentation that
has allowed us

to not only better understand,
but also to better document

the high strangeness
and the anomalies

that have been reported
for decades, if not millennia.

[Kelleher] And wh...
that's right here
in the field.

[Confidential]
A solid craft.

[Kelleher] Wow.

[Confidential] And then,
this look familiar? Corral?

-We're looking
right up--
-[Kelleher] Where we're sitting.

[Confidential] Yep.

[Kelleher] Wow.
Millennium Falcon.

[Confidential] Exactly.
It looks, yeah,
the closest thing to it.

And this was one
of the most surprising
things that we recorded

right after I purchased
the ranch, was this image,

and again, according to all
of the flight data,

for the Uintah Basin
and Utah during that day,

There was no other,
commercial or private,
flight traffic.

Here's another craft
that was captured
over the ranch.

We've been recording
both seismic and infrasonic
activity in the area.

One thing we found
from our infrasonic studies,

there are unexplained signals.

Our chief scientist, it's like
nothing he's ever recorded,

the patterns he's found
on the ranch.

What I am most interested in
is what is so unique
about this property?

Why is this the center
of gravity for,
for the unexplained,

all sorts of high strangeness.

And, how far back?

So this is the first
of three observation towers.

Twenty years ago, Bob Bigelow
built them, and he built them
as big pens

and observation towers.

They put cattle, livestock
in the big pens,

to see if they would react,
as biosensors

to unseen activity,
because the scientists

were noticing things
that were more what
we would call predator-like,

they were camouflaged
to the helio effect.

This is a disturbing
part of the ranch.

It is the historic record
that really attests to the fact

that for some reason,
there have been
strange activities

recorded in this area.

Strange lights in the sky,
unidentified aerial craft.

Probably relations going back
to as early as 1920, 1930.

You see how remote
this is to a degree
out here, right now.

You can imagine
back in the 1920s, 1930s.

I still, and powerful,
I believe that
we're'e not alone.

And I don't think
there are any coincidences.

And that's the thing that
is scary about what we're
seeing here on the ranch.

When you have craft
turning about in the sky,

that are not showing up
on any radar,

that are not
accounted for,

and things happening
to people,

that are beyond
their control,

you think of the national
security implications.

It really does speak to the fact
that we don't, we don't
have any idea

really, what the true
nature of reality is--

If I had one right above
my head, then I could
hit it with a tennis ball.

-Yeah.
-And it was
a solid...

Yeah, it was solid.

So you don't, you don't,
get anything
while you're here?

[Man] I feel great.
I'm impervious
to evil, man.

It's a thing
I got going.

-Oh, really?
-[laughs]

How'd you, how'd you
get that going for yourself,
being impervious to evil?

Genetics.

[Interviewer] What do you
have to say to people who think
this is not a real phenomenon?

They're delusional.

Anyone who does
their due diligence,

anyone who's a sincere
seeker of truth,

that actually will
listen to this,

will find that there is
absolute truth to what
is happening.

There is legitimacy,
and it is perhaps,

the most important
scientific effort
of our time.

The game has changed.

Does this bring back memories
to your first trip to the ranch?

Well, yeah, I mean,
the only other time
we did this was the first trip,

that we ever made here,
and we built the fire

and made a bunch of noise,
and did kind of, kind of things
that this group has been doing

today and yesterday
and tried to, uh,

attract the attention
of something.

It didn't work,
and you know, uh,

whatever that's here,
it plays by its own rules.

It shows you
what it wants to,
when it wants to.

And for NIDS, when they came in,
they came in like gang-busters.

They end up bringing
a lot of technical expertise
and equipment,

scientific measuring equipment,
to try to figure out
what's out here,

But the phenomena itself
always seemed to be one step
ahead of, of the team

that was trying
to figure it out.

Whatever is here,
it toys with whomever
is trying to figure it out.

I mean, it plays games
and messes with your mind.

It seems to know
what you're gonna do
before you do it.

And it gives you glimpses
only when you don't expect it,
and you're not ready for it.

There's a suggestion
from what's here, is,
all this different phenomena,

that you wouldn't normally
associate with each other,

UFOs and poltergeists,
poltergeists and Big Foot,

Big Foot and cattle mutilations,
all those things in one place,

it's almost like it's telling us
they're all related
on some level,

and it's up to you
to figure it out.

I've been out here,
you know, a number
of times with you,

and I wanted to have
an experience that was not good,
to be honest with you.

I did, because I wanted to see
for myself, but I've only had
really good experiences.

So I tried to trick myself
into feeling, like, "Ooh,
something's terrifying."

But, I've just
felt good.

You didn't expect
to see anything,
but be cool if you did.

If it was just scary,
I can deal with that.

But I have a hitchhiker,

that comes on
and takes me over,

I... I couldn't deal with that.
So I'm scared of that.

But we do have
a saying in England,

and it's "In for a penny,
in for a pound."

I'm here, so, I might as well,
and I survived the last one.

I don't know if I can afford
any more hitchhikers.

So, say that
out loud,

-to the hitchhikers
of the galaxy.
-[man laughing]

Don't come home
with me.

We all talk about evidence.

What is evidence to you?

Is evidence a photograph?
Is it a video?

A lot of what I have
is witness testimony.

Witness testimony
is evidence.

So, my question is,
does there become
a point where,

testimony becomes so weighty
that it just has value?

Well, witness testimony
is what got me into this.

I mean, Admirals,
Generals, pilots,

I mean, that's what
initially got me
into this stuff.

So, yes, that
has weight.

But, what I'd love to see,
you know, a portal open up,
right there.

Yeah, I really would.

It's just, I've got
the point where
I don't have the luxury

of disbelief anymore.

I don't know what that means.
It doesn't mean I know anything.

I just don't have
the luxury of disbelief.

[Williams] If I'm honest,
I should not have the luxury
to disbelieve, either.

I believe this other stuff.
There, I've said it.

You know, I always try
and qualify that with,
"But I'm not sure,

'cause I might be crazy,
and don't worry about me,
I'm just an idiot," you know.

Uh, but you know,
I do believe.

So I guess I just wanna
hear a little bit, you know,
from George.

Why do you want
this out, now?

The universe is more mysterious,
and wondrous and complicated
than we imagined.

Reality is more complicated
than what it might seem.

Full stop?

Yeah.

I thought that coming in
about six years ago,

that if we
essentially threw

personnel and equipment
at this problem,

on this property
as well as elsewhere,

and if we, you know,
we really pulled out
the stops

in terms of chemical analysis, that we'd probably would get answers.

But, any answers
that we've got

don't seem to fit
the overall thinking.

And I'm thinking
mostly of the kinds
of chemical analysis

that have been carried out
on the UFO artifacts,

as well as some
of the preliminary
chemical analysis

we've done on
the mutilations.

I don't think that there's
an iota of evidence

from any of that stuff
that really nails
the extraterrestrial thing.

Um, there's really
no strong evidence
that it's extraterrestrial.

That has kind of,
that's the fly
in the ointment.

It's really against
the predictions,
that's counter-intuitive.

If anything, that has
created more questions

than I originally had
coming into this
whole thing.

Essentially, the ranch
became a testing ground,

a proving ground, if you will,
applying the scientific method.

This team, this group of multidisciplinary scientists,

both on the staff
and the science
advisory board,

do attempt to solve the problem using the scientific method.

And we couldn't do it.

The scientific method
is not amenable
to these kind of problems.

It is not
that malleable.

It's not that flexible
to be able to apply easily
to a problem such as this,

which is non-repeatable.

Everytime a phenomena occurs,
it's not always same one
as before.

It's always something new, and always something different.

The phenomena
was playing with us.

Giving us only a taste
here and there,
of various things.

An opportunity to see
things that were abnormal.

Uh, opportunity to cause
examinations upon
performances of things

that were very unique,

through certain pathological
kinds of investigations.

The performances
didn't repeat themselves.

[stuttering] Each time
there would be a performance
of a sort,

there was always
some unique pattern

There was something
that was always changed.

So we would be prepared,
that if this thing, this type
of event happened again,

we know what to do.
Well, that exact same event
never happened again.

It would always
be something
completely different.

Everytime we would
come up with, uh...

some method
of observation
or calibration,

it seemed that, uh,
we were always
out-guessed.

It became obvious that
[clears throat] we obviously
weren't the ones in control.

We were along
for the ride.

And that a lot of these
exhibitions were,
exhibitions.

For gamesmanship
or instruction, um...

you know, in that
kind of context.

[Man] People say
secrets can't be kept.

They're full of shit,
as secrets can be kept.

Secrets are kept.
Big secrets.

[Man 2] It took two decades
for this story to even begin
to open up.

And what's most interesting
is, how it relates
to what's happening now.

[radio static]

[Man speaking]

[indistinct chatter
and cheering]

Oh, my gosh!

[Interviewer] What is the link
between the current releases
by the Department of Defense

using the New York Times
to get out two videos,
now three.

What is the connection
between that and the ranch?

So, it's kind of a long
and winding road.

With a lot of acronyms
involved, but here's
the basics.

December 2017,
the New York Times
breaks a story

about the existence
of a secret UFO program
in the Pentagon.

And while many of us
have long suspected
they had something going,

we didn't know
exactly what it was.

Well, turns out,
its something
called ATIP.

Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program.

A guy named Luis Elizondo
comes forward, he says he's
the point man for this program.

In addition, we learned that
there was a contract given out,
and it involved BAASS.

Bigelow Aerospace
Advanced Space,

within Bigelow Aerospace
here in Las Vegas.

And that a study
had been conducted,
$22 million,

and that part of that study
focused on Skinwalker Ranch.

A lot of people assumed
that ATIP and BAASS
were almost synonymous.

That the money for ATIP
and BAASS came from
the same pot.

That it was the same program.
Fact is, it wasn't.

What was, BAASS
was involved with
something else.

BAASS was under
a much larger program,

the existence of which
has not been made
public yet.

But BAASS was not
part of ATIP.

ATIP did communicate
with BAASS.

There was exchange
of information
back and forth.

But it wasn't ATIP
that went to the ranch.
It was somebody else.

BAASS investigators
went to the property,
investigated it,

interviewed witnesses,
collected evidence,

much like NIDS had done before.

National Institute
for Discovery Science,

which while many people
suspected it was a government
program, was not.

It was completely funded
by Bob Bigelow.

He bought the property.
He hired the people
to be there.

Uh, he conducted studies
for more than a decade.

He owned the ranch
for 20 years, and sold it
in 2016.

NIDS was private.
BAASS was public.

And that it was funded
by taxpayer money.

And that came from a program
whose name has not yet
been made public.

[Interviewer speaking]

If you're asking,
did we crack the mystery?
The answer is no.

No, it's very frustrating
for the scientists,

both the NIDS guys
and the BAASS guys.

And I think any other agency
that's been involved
in the study.

We don't have an answer
to how it works.

We know that it is real.

And it's mysterious,
and it's documentable.
And it's physical.

And sometimes,
it's not physical.

Sometimes it appears
almost like a hologram,
and, uh,

and it's a, it's
a trickster,
and it's elusive.

And is clearly
intelligent.

But we don't know
what it is.

Or where it's from,
or what its intentions are.

Does it mean to harm us?
Sometimes, it does harm us.

Part of what the BAASS study did, it evaluated, uh,

databases from around the world,

including some very dramatic
cases from other countries

where humans were,
faced significant harm.
Physical harm.

And there have been some
reports about it
in the Uintah Basin as well,

where people were harmed
after encountering
these things.

Could some of them
be government?
I think the answer is yes.

Are all of them government?
I'd say the answer is no.

You know, I try to prepare
myself for these trips
that we make,

and I'm respectful
of whatever it is
that's there,

and I don't want to take
anything home to any
loved ones, but,

most of the people
who've gone there
as many times as we have,

have taken something
with them. And, uh,
I don't want that to happen.

[Corbell] We still
don't know what
we're dealing with.

And that's the truth of it.

Big questions,
disturbing answers.

It sounds crazy,
but, in reality.

these events happen.

It's hard. [stuttering]
It's your problem.

You have to grapple
with that.

These events happen.

And so, that's
everybody's challenge,
is to,

try to absorb
and integrate
that information

or deny it.
Or ridicule it.

That's what people
like to do.
But these events happen.

There is a real mystery here,
and I believe mysteries

have solutions.
I believe we can get
at least closer to the truth.

I don't know, man.

Are we alone
in the universe?

This intelligence
that seems to be
interacting with humanity,

what is it?
What... What
is its purpose?

These are real, tangible,
physical events.

But sometimes,
it's, it's like
a mirage.

Nobody knows
what we're
dealing with.

That's the bottom line.
Nobody knows.

It's our job
to investigate
the unexplained.

Not to explain
the uninvestigated.

[indistinct background chatter]

[woman]
Could a truck do that?
I don't think it...

[man] Oh, it's
not a truck.

[woman]
There's no
road up there.