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We would like to look through the anomaly

at an astronomical object

over the triangle

and see if they seem obscured.

The object I just slewed to a little while ago

is now no longer in the database.

Erik, the cattle have scattered through the entire field.

-Something's definitely scared them. -(cattle lowing)

What the hell is that in the sky?

CHUCK: That thing is big and spherical.

Yes, it is. It's got a black dot in the center of it.

There's something that I'd like to get your eyes on.

-There. There. -Oh, what was that?

That's the brightest thing in the sky!

NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth:

animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings

and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years, the federal government

tried to find answers and failed.

Now a new team of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts has taken over.

They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...

...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

So, Kaleb just came in after being out on patrol

and mentioned that it looks like

we have a downed cow out here in the field, so,

Kaleb, Thomas, myself--

we're gonna go check it out.

Oh, man, she doesn't look good, does she?

Yeah, she's not doing well... at all.

KALEB: Boy, her eyes don't look good, either.

Yeah, she doesn't look very healthy at all.

BRYANT: Hey. Oh, you're good.

You're good.

-Oh, come on up, girl. -(indistinct chatter)

Get up. Come on.

How many years did we go

without any cattle having any issues whatsoever,

and now we're drilling,

we're doing all kinds of stuff, and all of a sudden,

two out of three years, we've got cows that are in bad shape?

-How's it going? -Good. How are you, Donavon?

-Good. -Good to see you.

Good to see you, too.

Morning, Richard.

-Hey, Tommy. -How are you?

Good. How are you?

Oh, doing pretty good. Good to see you out.

Yeah, good to be out.

So, uh, we got this cow

that's down here that we called you about.

There's one cow now

that's starting to separate herself

from the group, and

appears to be struggling.

My first thought is to always notify the rancher.

These animals don't belong to us.

512 acres is a lot of ground to maintain,

and we bring the cows on to help keep the grass down.

You know, I don't... I don't know what the deal is with her,

or what her problem is, but hopefully,

you can look at her and figure out what's going on.

-Well, let's go see what she's doing. -Okay.

TRAVIS: It's not that mysterious

for a cow to get sick on a ranch,

but there were several odd coincidences about this cow

that Thomas, Dragon and Kaleb found acting bizarre

out in the south field.

One-- this happened only a couple nights

after our telescope and rocket experiment

where two different UAPs appeared in the sky.

I am getting something on the 1.6.

TRAVIS: Two-- those UAPs appeared

just after Erik detected another dangerous

RF radiation reading of 1.6 gigahertz,

and the cows got all spooked and started running around.

(cattle lowing)

Erik, the cows have pushed in on us.

TRAVIS: And three-- this cow is acting strange

in the exact same location

where a cow actually died two years ago

just as a UAP appeared in the sky above it.

This herd seems pretty docile.

Do you ever see

aggression out of cows anywhere other than here?

Well, what seems weird to me

is when you have one cow out of the whole herd

that starts going mental.

And I've never had that

-on our ranch. -Hmm.

-Only here? -Only here.

-Wow. -THOMAS: Interesting.

That's very interesting.

Just as we have many scientific instruments,

sensors and cameras deployed across the ranch,

we also speak of the animals here

as bio sensors.

And it's natural for us to wonder

whether there might be something

connected to our recent experiment.

-(cow lowing) -Well, see, there's, uh...

BRYANT: Yeah, she's starting to move.

RICHARD: Get up, get up. There. Good deal.

It's weird. It looks like she's trying to move all...

RICHARD: She's gonna go down, Donavon.

You got to get in front of her.

Wow.

-She's down, she's down. -Yeah. -She might be...

-Yup. See, now she starts... -Yes.

-getting aggressive right there. Shh. Shh. -Yeah.

-Shh. -She's got a gaze on us.

Dad, I got her, I got her. Get back!

-He's on her. -Get back! Get back!

(dog barking)

Luca, back.

-Come on. -(barking)

(panting) Ah.

RICHARD: Let her... let her lay down.

-ERIK: She's really in distress. -DONAVON: Yeah.

RICHARD: What I think we'll do, Tommy, is take her home,

and see if she acts any different at home.

She's totally agitated.

I think there's something going on. I don't know what it is.

I don't like thinking about it, I don't want to be around it.

It's a mystery.

BRYANT: Sorry this happened.

We appreciate you coming and bringing your animals out here.

Hopefully, this doesn't sour you on the place too much.

Well, we'll see.

(cow lowing)

TRAVIS: After Erik and I heard about the cow,

we decided it was time to reach back out

to someone who we know was not only

a former investigator on the ranch,

but also had his own experiences with bizarre cattle incidents--

Retired Army Colonel John Alexander.

-Thanks for coming out. We appreciate it. -Okay.

TRAVIS: Colonel Alexander was a key member

of billionaire Robert Bigelow's team,

who studied phenomena on the ranch for two decades,

starting back in 1996.

Hey, guys. You remember Colonel Alexander?

TRAVIS: So, given everything we've been experiencing

recently at the triangle,

which now seems to be affecting the cattle, as well,

we were grateful that he agreed to come back

and share information that could help our investigation.

So, is this the first time you've been back to the ranch

since the Bigelow era?

Been a couple decades.

-TRAVIS: Wow. -Looks a little different.

The topography looks the same. The rest of it

has kind of, uh... has been updated quite a bit.

I was a colonel in the Army,

I was in special operations,

and finally, as director of advanced system concepts.

The second career was Los Alamos National Laboratory,

where we did all the non-lethal weapons concepts.

I had just left Los Alamos, and in mid '95,

Bob Bigelow decided to create NIDS--

National Institute for Discovery Science--

and I was the first NIDS employee.

NIDS was formed for the purpose of looking at UFOs.

Skinwalker presented that and so much more.

TRAVIS: We would like to see

if you have some insight from your past here

that might spur us into some other experiments

that we might like to do.

So, during the time that you guys were here,

can you, uh, think of a specific

event that was the most disturbing or impactful?

-Especially something, like, with a cow? -(laughs)

I wouldn't know where to begin with that one.

Um, when NIDS was created in mid '95,

Terry Sherman was prepared to sell the ranch,

and so, Bob Bigelow made him an offer.

-After he s... bought the ranch... -So he stayed on

-as the ranch manager? -He-he stayed on

as the ranch manager.

So it was calving season. Terry went out,

found a newborn, tag it and weighed it.

Drives across, as you know, perfectly open field,

finds another newborn, tags it and weighs it, comes back.

And the mother's going berserk, and calf one is dead.

Not only is it dead, but there's about 40 pounds

of stuff is missing.

It's eviscerated, exsanguinated,

ear had been sliced off.

TRAVIS: Hearing the strange details of this calf

being mutilated in broad daylight reminds me again

of the cow that died after we first stimulated UAPs

to appear above the triangle two years ago.

What in the world?

Tom Winterton found the cow right after it died,

and alerted us to go investigate it.

The meter's just going crazy.

Almost immediately, we began detecting high readings

of RF radiation with our TriField meters,

so we got out of there.

What we'll do is go forward very slowly.

TRAVIS: But then, we reviewed the surveillance footage

that captured the moment of the cow's death

and saw a UAP in the sky right above it.

Since that day, we've wondered if we might have stopped

a mutilation from happening.

But it's also very curious

that both the Bigelow team and our team

had cows die under very inexplicable circumstances

right after we first began investigating phenomena

on Skinwalker Ranch.

It made me wonder what other similarities

we've both experienced.

What's really interesting is, a lot of times when we do have

these anomalies, we are detecting a strange signal

that we can't identify at 1.6 something gigahertz.

-Okay. -And, so,

I guess the question we would have is,

during the time that you guys were here,

did you record or see things that looked like this signal

at 1.6 gigahertz?

Well, as you know, I've dealt

with the UFO phenomena quite a bit,

and-and that is one of the perplexing aspects,

is things like these sort of signals.

And these things occur in many, many areas,

and why is it that we see things that shouldn't be there,

and don't see things that we should see?

-Yup. -For instance, we would set up cameras, and say,

"Okay, we're gonna... If it's happening here,

we're gonna watch in that location,"

but you get nothing,

and things would happen off camera.

Sometimes the most important data

are the ones we can't collect.

The fact that something is interfering, which is

-very often the case here. -JOHN: Right.

ERIK: So, the other thing I wanted to ask you is,

we've heard about opening portals.

Uh, what can you tell us about those?

The closest to what you're asking

is the incident out at... near the second homestead.

You know, something moving through

the Russian olives out there,

through the trees.

We were aware of kind of a slight distortion.

You didn't see a thing; it was more of distortions moving.

TRAVIS: After their investigation ended,

the NIDS team put forth the idea

that a portal connected to another dimension

causes the phenomena that happened on the ranch.

I don't know if that could really explain

what's happened during our experiments,

but we've seen some crazy stuff at Homestead Two as well.

Last year, we used thermal imaging

at night to capture a circular temperature vortex

that was at least 20 degrees colder

than any of its surroundings.

Oh, whoa.

And when we reviewed our footage, we saw something

moving erratically in front of the homestead.

Now, I'm still not ready to say a portal or a wormhole exists

on Skinwalker Ranch, but it is amazing

that other researchers

and scientists believe that it could.

So what I'm taking from this is that there is a long history

of unusual phenomena without an identifiable source

in this basin.

And I'm learning that there were no answers produced

as a result of the previous research here.

-That's kind of surprising. -Right.

Because that burden that we're bearing today is

that our own conclusions don't make sense to us yet.

It's been a frustration, almost become a joke.

Yes, but I think you're operating under the illusion

that you're in control.

You're not in control.

There's an "it" that's in control.

Whatever "it" was seemed to know how we would respond

before the event even occurred.

It was not responding

in a way that we would anticipate.

And every time you tried to anticipate,

it would just morph to something a little bit different.

Like I say, you like that? Try this.

I'm really interested in how you arrived at that impression,

that overall assessment of what was going on here,

from having experiments not go as you planned

to there being an "it."

When a physical event had occurred,

something would happen.

Theoretically, can some of these happen, yes,

but when you look at it practically,

it just makes no sense at all.

It was when "it" decided

to present us with something that the events occurred.

We inherited this narrative

that it's dangerous to dig on the ranch.

My question to you is,

are you aware of any exercises during the Bigelow era

where they may have done experiments

that included digging and watching?

I'm familiar with that.

The digging

was to see if some sort

of phenomena would manifest itself.

If we can do something that will cause a response.

And sometimes incidents happen.

While we've got you here,

we could take you around

and show you some places on the ranch.

-You show us where you think things happened. -JOHN: Well, yeah,

well, one of my areas of interest is revisiting

-where some of these events took place at. -That would be great

-for you to tell us that. -BRYANT: That'd be helpful to us.

-Yeah, that'd be very helpful. -So, uh,

with that in mind, I think we should load up

and head out.

-This particular area is... -This is the triangle?

-Yeah, it's been... -The infamous triangle.

TRAVIS: I'll tell you, it's really more

about phenomena in the sky above the triangle than actually

-on the triangle. -JOHN: Oh, yeah.

TRAVIS: Colonel Alexander told us a lot of different stories

about phenomena they had seen back in the Bigelow era.

So, what we thought was, him showing us

where these things happened might give us some insight

of where we might want to do some experiments

to reproduce it and maybe capture some data.

-BRYANT: This place look familiar to you, John? -Oh, yes.

BRYANT: The story that sticks with me is

your account of the portal opening up.

Oh, yes. Well, it was a little bit farther up.

TRAVIS: Back in the NIDS days, multiple eyewitnesses

have written about these phenomena.

Maybe there is some connection

with whatever these phenomena are,

what they've seen in the past, and what we're seeing today.

It was around this corner right here

where we had the radiation spikes.

Uh, near this cistern.

Well, that's interesting because this is one of the few areas

I have some old pictures from.

Y'all measured for gamma rays and stuff like that?

Yeah, what... They used the TriField meters

-and whatnot, but, uh... -You know why this is open?

THOMAS: Do you know why that's open?

I don't know why that's open, either.

-BRYANT: I wonder who opened it up. -Uh...

'Cause I don't... Someone's been here and opened this up.

It's always closed.

It usually is closed because we don't want anyone

or anything falling in there.

Yeah, somebody's opened this up.

TRAVIS: Two years ago, I was exposed to dangerous levels

of ionizing radiation coming directly from this cistern

that left burns on my hand and face.

Ever since then, we've had radiation sensors placed

all around the ranch just to be safe.

And seeing the lid off this cistern is not just curious.

It's concerning.

-I don't know why... -That...

It's heavy, too. It ain't just...

-THOMAS: It is. -TRAVIS: Yeah.

You got it, Tom?

Why is that open?

BRYANT: Somebody opened it.

I'm just trying to figure out who.

We need to get to the bottom of that.

Did y'all have weird stuff like that happen?

You know, things being one orientation,

and you come back, and it's moved?

Yeah, but it's... The problem was like this--

you notice it after the fact.

So, where do you think the, uh, portal was?

-From... out in the field. Yeah. -Oh, from out there?

Oh, show us... show us where that is.

Yeah, out in this general area.

And it's sort of moving through the treetops here.

Again, it was more of a distortion.

This was early evening. Our guys were down there,

and it was kind of a disturbance.

You didn't actually see a thing.

It was more of distortions moving.

BRYANT: Just so I'm clear, it was almost like

-the cloaked movement... -Yeah, like something moving

-through the treetops. -BRYANT: Okay.

-A disturbance... -BRYANT: Mm-hmm.

...in the visual spectrum as it goes across.

They only were able to see it through the night vision

cameras? Is that correct?

-Yeah. -Okay.

-Okay. -Well.

So, why don't we head that way?

Let's go up through here so we can avoid the water.

Okay, you lead the way, Thomas.

It's a good thing to reach out to people that have been here

and other research efforts to understand this place.

This is a strange place. Weird things happen.

Anybody that has any insight-- that's gonna be useful data.

The caretakers that were here after,

uh, the Shermans left, had indicated that

Bigelow's team-- they actually used a bulldozer,

and done some trenches here in this field.

It was more a disturbance.

The intent was not to dig, per se. It was just,

we'll screw with things and see if...

-See if you could stimulate it? -Oh, yeah.

To quote Travis, they were trying

to poke the hornet's nest?

-Yeah. -I see.

THOMAS: Do you know, did they ever feel

like they got a response from any of that?

Yeah. Well, we just discussed the one with the portal.

-Yeah. -You get something like that...

-Sure. -It wasn't like we tried

to orchestrate the response.

It was, do we get a response?

-What does that look like? -Okay.

-Yeah. -Listening to you talk about it, you know, I...

in the back of my mind I say,

"Well, if Bigelow's team dug there once,

"I want to go dig there again and see

-if strange things happen." -TRAVIS: Right.

We dig again to see if it's repeatable.

-Yup. -THOMAS: And so, do you reckon

that if we were to come in and dig again,

we would get a response?

Um... don't know.

Where you dig makes a difference.

ERIK: Well, we find support for the idea that when

we do things, we do see what we interpret as a response.

-Right. -And so, that's what we're weighing out right now.

How do we proceed with that?

Well, while we've been standing here talking,

I've been scanning over this field.

-Mm-hmm. -You know, for it being a level

field, I see a pretty good bulldozer-width indentation

right here between these two trees.

-TRAVIS: Oh, yeah. -THOMAS: I think

that that would be a great spot to come in and dig again.

TRAVIS: Oh, that would be a real good idea.

-Then see what happens with the front. -Yeah.

Well, John, thank you so much for coming out here.

I know we're losing daylight, so we want to get you back safely,

-so, if we pile in and head out? -Whenever you're ready, so...

-Yeah, let's head back. -Okay, thank you. -Yeah.

BRANDON: Colonel Alexander

and the previous team witnessed so many

stunning events that really

laid the foundation for the research

that we took forward to present day.

The information and insight that he had shared with the team

helped shape the nature of our investigation.

ERIK: Well, we all got quite a bit on our plates.

TRAVIS: After Colonel John Alexander told us

that the NIDS team dug near Homestead Two,

and stimulated what they believed

to be portal activity on the ranch,

Thomas rented an industrial-sized bulldozer

so we could dig in that exact same area

to see what might happen.

Oh, here he comes.

-what's up, Thomas? -BRYANT: How was... how was

your sports car ride over here?

-Rough. -BRYANT: Yeah, I'll bet.

TRAVIS (laughing): I'll bet it was.

So I'm thinking we just go down, what, four or five feet?

That makes sense. The height of the blade or something, right?

-Or until we hit water, I guess. -Yeah, yeah.

I don't want to bury that.

So you maybe take about a-a foot off first,

and we can look at it, and then, take another couple of feet.

-Oh, yeah. -Then maybe get down to where...

-Maybe something like that? -Yeah, that sounds good.

Well, it goes without saying,

we need to just keep an eye on ourselves.

If you start feeling anything funny,

obviously, let somebody know, because

when you dig, bad stuff actually does happens.

THOMAS: Yeah, so if you guys see

-anything start to elevate, let me know... -Yeah.

-and I'm gonna shut her down. -I'm gonna sit here and watch.

I'm gonna sit here and watch constantly

while you're doing it. I'm not gonna let you

be out here digging without this... without one us

-being out here with a Geiger counter. -Yeah.

-Yeah. What are you reading? -Right now,

we're at normal background.

-12. Yeah. -12 micro?

TRAVIS: As a precaution for this experiment, Erik had

the spectrum analyzer scanning the area

for the 1.6 gigahertz RF signal,

and we both also had Geiger counter devices

to look out for harmful spikes in gamma radiation.

When we dug last year in the south field

near where the cow died,

we detected gamma rays three times the normal level.

All right, I think, uh... I think we got it covered.

-Thomas, you ready to dig? -Yeah, I'm ready to dig.

Rolling this D8 dozer across-- this is definitely

the largest bulldozer that has ever been on Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS: Nothing unusual.

THOMAS: After seeing

some of the data that we've received

after digging other holes on the ranch,

it'll be interesting to see what happens.

That looks like that may be a little harder to dig, don't it?

KANDUS: It does.

Hey, Dragon, Erik, y'all seeing anything?

Yeah. Me, either.

(creaking)

BRYANT: Ugh. That's not good.

THOMAS: We really haven't

even gotten that deep down in the soil

when the bulldozer just bogs down and dies.

This big of a dozer should be able to handle this very easily.

It's just another event in a long list of experiments

that haven't gone the way that we planned.

So, guys, I didn't shut it off. It bogged down, and it-it died.

But, uh, it's telling me it's got a dead battery.

BRYANT: Didn't they just put two new ones in it?

-Like, an hour ago. -TRAVIS: Yeah.

ERIK: I got to tell you,

I wish I had a voltmeter out here.

So why don't we run back

-and get one just to see? -Yeah. -Yeah.

It doesn't look like that's going anywhere.

TRAVIS: It was like, here we go again.

We just get started digging to stimulate a ranch response,

and the fully-charged battery in the bulldozer dies.

THOMAS: I'm gonna keep fidgeting around with this.

-TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah. All right. -Maybe it'll...

Okay.

-Man, were you expecting that? -No.

TRAVIS: Was that the ranch responding? I don't know.

So while Erik and Dragon went back

to the command center to get his voltmeter,

and also to process the collected data

from gamma ray detector,

the rest of us hung back

just in case something even more strange would happen next.

ERIK: Hey, Bryant,

I want you to see this.

We've got a couple flavors of strangeness going here, Bryant.

-Look! What the actual hell is this? -What?

ERIK: While the guys were trying to fix the bulldozer,

I saw a massive spike in radiation

in our gamma ray detectors stationed near Homestead Two

in the area where they were digging.

It could be very dangerous for anyone in that location.

-This is not seven! -Is that 3400?

It's almost 3500.

These are very inexplicable spikes,

as if something artificial could be generating them.

-You got to get those people out of there. -Okay.

ERIK: That... that's...

What's wrong?

Erik pulled the data. There was a spike at 3400.

-3400? -3400.

Everybody out of here now! Everybody out.

Erik just picked up a gamma ray source that was 3400

micro roentgen per hour.

That's a significant dose.

That's enough dose ray that it could be dangerous.

In terms of gamma rays,

that's almost 300 times what would be normal and safe.

You guys, come on.

We had to immediately evacuate the area

and go see if we could get to the bottom of what's going on.

BRYANT: Erik was like, "Go get 'em out of there."

TRAVIS: What's going on, Erik?

ERIK: Travis, you got to see this.

You are not going to like it.

I want you to see... This is what we just logged

in that field between Homestead Two and Homestead Three.

-Okay, now, look. -Holy...

-Look what we got. -Yeah.

-And I want you to see... -Look at that.

ERIK: It's-it's almost 3,500 micro roentgens per hour.

Now get this. You've got other strange behavior here that...

-TRAVIS: Uh-oh. Zeroes. Yeah. -Zeroes.

-Something has interfered... -TRAVIS: Oh.

...with the data collection process.

-TRAVIS: There's three hours missing here. -It's gone.

It's gone.

TRAVIS: What's really weird is,

there was a big spike in the gamma rays,

and then, there was a complete hole in the data,

meaning the meter said zero radiation.

A gamma ray detector can't do that.

Even if you put it in a lead box,

it's still gonna give you some background reading, not zero.

Here's the thing. So, either we're getting

these horrible gamma rays

-at this level... -TOM: Okay. -KANDUS: Yeah.

...or something's hacking us.

Either one isn't good, but

we got to treat it like it's the gamma rays

'cause that's the most dangerous right now.

If this is saying, "Don't dig here,"

then that's the big, blinky sign that says,

we need to dig right there.

-Right. -And that's what I've said from day one.

And I guess... this only reinforces that.

My question in response is,

what is the smartest way to follow up,

and what is the safest way to follow up?

TRAVIS: Well, the smartest, safest way, the first thing

we got to do is, we need to determine

-what this is, right? -TOM: Mm-hmm.

If something was to happen

to any of us, I mean, this is bad stuff.

TRAVIS: Now that the radiation levels are back

to normal, I think we should wait until tonight,

and go back out there to see what else we can stimulate.

We'll be careful like Dragon wants,

monitoring the whole time with Geiger counters

and the spectrum analyzer,

but we need to keep poking this nest

to see what we can reveal about Skinwalker Ranch.

To be honest, I'm not worried about going back out there,

if you're there monitoring.

All right, great.

Thanks, Erik.

TRAVIS: Yeah, right in here in all these damn weeds.

We waited until nightfall

to go back out near Homestead Two

to see if we could stimulate more phenomena to appear

that might prove or disprove

Colonel Alexander and NIDS' theory

that a portal might exist on Skinwalker Ranch.

All right, I want to get where I can see the bulldozer.

THOMAS: Well, I think we can see it...

-Yeah, it's right there. -BRYANT: Yeah, there it is.

Let's get our stuff set up.

Now, the plan was to set up a safe distance

from the dead bulldozer

and use what's become our tried-and-true method

for stimulating phenomena.

Watch your hand.

TRAVIS: Launching a rocket.

We are ready to launch!

We also set up a spectrum analyzer to look out

for any strange RF energy.

Okay, so this is up and running.

And we put a Geiger counter right next

to the stalled bulldozer

to check for any more dangerous gamma rays.

-That's really, really low. -Good. That makes me happy.

TRAVIS: We also brought out

a night vision monocular scope so that

we could safely observe from a distance

if anything weird happened over there.

At this stage in the investigation,

safety was still paramount, as always.

Going hot!

But we all agree that we need

to be aggressive in order to get some answers.

-Thomas, you ready? -Yeah, whenever you are.

All right, here we go. Five,

four, three,

two,

one.

-THOMAS: Oh, got the chute. -TRAVIS: We got the chute!

It's coming down right over here.

THOMAS: Coming down fast.

The chute hasn't opened.

Boom!

TRAVIS: Now, Kaleb, you got it?

Oh, yeah, it landed right in a tree.

THOMAS: I'm looking for any UAPs.

TRAVIS: I don't see nothing.

While Kaleb's getting that, I'm gonna go over here and check

the instruments and stuff.

He may need some help. I don't know.

Kaleb, you need help?

I got it.

I can't figure out why the chute didn't open, though.

Erik, are you doing something at 1.6?

I'm not broadcasting.

THOMAS: What are you seeing?

TRAVIS: A signal?

1.60000...

When the chute failed to open,

and the rocket crashed down near the homestead,

I didn't want to jump to conclusions,

but then, right on cue,

Erik's spectrum analyzer registered that freaky,

1.6 gigahertz energy level that has coincided

with almost every phenomenon we've witnessed out here.

-You want me sweeping around? It's... -Yeah, yeah, I do.

Something was starting to happen.

Oh, whoa, whoa! Right there.

The one signal went away.

Go back the other way.

Well, it's coming back. Oh, right there, right there. Stop.

-So, it's very directional? -TRAVIS: Yes.

That's southwest.

That's right where the rocket just went.

Yeah.

Are you kidding me?

Thomas's thought to turn the antenna

connected to the spectrum analyzer

was brilliant because it clearly showed us

that the 1.6 gigahertz signal

was coming from the same direction in the sky

that the rocket had just flown through.

The question was, what the hell was it?

Let me... let me go up and down with it.

TRAVIS: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop.

Suddenly, two signals right when you did that.

So, look, we've got three peaks.

THOMAS: That means nothing to me.

Well, it doesn't mean a lot to us except,

usually, if it's a communication signal,

you'll see one big one in the middle

and then, two smaller ones on the side.

-ERIK: At equal distances. -TRAVIS: And that's kind of

what we're seeing,

but this one's coming and going, which is odd.

-Want to try and listen to it? -ERIK: Yeah.

(high-pitched static)

It's chirping in frequency.

That's a communication signal or something.

-That's... -ERIK: So all that disappears

-when you go off down here? -Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's got to be right there, and...

I mean, it's got to... It's a small, a very small cone.

ERIK: That's interesting.

So, if it were a deep sky object,

-in 15 minutes, it'd be gone. -Mm-hmm.

Because of the rotation of the Earth.

From my experience as a rocket scientist,

this sound frequency was

like the kind of communication signal you would get

from a satellite orbiting the Earth,

or even farther out in space.

Listen to that!

But the signal was coming from the area

above the ranch where we shot the rocket,

and it was pointed directly at Homestead Two.

So, what would be broadcasting a communication signal

like that, and where could it be coming from?

Okay, so you say it's pointed

to where we just shot the rocket.

So, what? That's our message,

and this is the message coming back?

I mean, I know that's a stretch, but (bleep), after everything

that's gone down today, I have no clue.

That's not a... I don't know.

I swear that sounds like a communication signal.

(high-pitched static)

(static stops)

ERIK: It stopped.

I don't know what elsep to say about it. I mean,

everything's been quiet, except for that thing.

But, yeah, the Geiger counter hadn't had a single

thing over, like, 15 or 16 all night.

-Good. -I know. (laughs)

-Good. -Right?

Uh, confusing, but good.

We've had a hell of a day.

TRAVIS: That mysterious 1.6 gigahertz

frequency sound suddenly stopped.

Now, I'm not sure, but to me, it sounded like some sort

of communication signal.

It's crazy to think about, but we need to try

and figure out what in the heck it could be

and why we're receiving it.

All right, well, let's-let's load up.

-All right. -Okay.

TRAVIS: What's going on, Erik?

-Well, I'm looking through some footage. -Yeah?

Yeah, I've got something to show you.

TRAVIS: The day after our night experiment

at Homestead Two, Erik called us in to review something

in his surveillance footage

that got him both excited and a little freaked out.

You know, we've got all these new cameras out

at the homesteads, so, you know,

I-I get plenty of critter activity.

We have a lot deer, we have a lot of...

At night, we have birds

and bats, especially.

But between all of that,

once in a while, we get some things that just don't fit in.

You know? You know what it looks like when you've got a,

you know, moth, or a, you know, some kind of insect, or

a piece of debris flying across your field of view.

But I've got something here that doesn't fit in.

-Really? -Yeah.

It happened just last night after our experiment.

I'm gonna play this real time.

BRYANT: So, what camera are we looking at specifically here?

This is out at the Carriage House.

Now, Car... That's the thing across the road

-from Homestead Two, right? -Yeah.

So, looking back toward Homestead Two? It's that one?

-Yeah. -Okay, so across the canal.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: What on Earth is that?

What the hell is that?

Okay, so, let's play this through,

and I really want your thoughts on what this might be.

TRAVIS: Oh, it's behind the tree, so it's far enough away.

ERIK: Right.

-Play that again. -ERIK: Sure.

THOMAS: You can see the other particles around.

TRAVIS: So, it's leaving a trail.

-Go back, Erik. Go back... -ERIK: Sure.

-about, um... -Sure. Yeah, point out the trail.

Is that camera lag?

-ERIK: It could be. -Stop right there.

ERIK: Uh-huh.

You can even see the trail behind it.

Now let it... watch it go.

It leaves a trail behind it as it goes.

-All right, stop. You see it? -ERIK: Sure.

TRAVIS: You see it back there?

Now, what's the frame rate of this camera?

Um, these are set, I believe, to 24. I...

-Well, that's not moving much faster than that. -No.

So it shouldn't be causing frame delay.

-ERIK: I mean, there's frame rate... -There's a black line

through the center of this thing.

-ERIK: Interesting. -TRAVIS: If you look,

there's a line going right through the center of it.

And it's like this.

So, let it play and see if it continues.

ERIK: Okay. Yeah.

TRAVIS: Yeah, it stays through it.

-Let it keep going. -ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS: So it's not a bug inside the field of view

because it goes behind this tree, right?

BRYANT: Well, it's not... Look at the bugs, Travis.

-You can see the bugs zooming by. -TRAVIS: Yeah.

BRYANT: This thing looks like a balloon

-floating around on the wind. -Yeah, and then it goes

behind the tree over here.

-ERIK: Yeah, but the movement is ver... -BRYANT: Yeah, that one.

ERIK: ...is very organic, I would say.

It's-it's irregular, it's not even just

smoothly moving through the scene.

Well, the interesting thing is, you look at the grass

and the trees.

I don't see really any wind, you know?

-ERIK: Good point. -BRYANT: And so you see it, it drifts over to the right with

no wind going that direction, and then it drifts and

just slowly-- Like I said, it almost looks like

a balloon just floating around.

THOMAS: That's not being affected by the same forces

that are carrying the rest of it.

It's not a balloon, because a balloon would have

been more stochastically, nautically moving about.

And that looks like it's moving with intent.

Comes along, decides it doesn't want to be here,

and it decides to go off this way.

This is unique.

-I... -BRYANT: You know, and it's...

I don't think I've seen anything--

You've never shown me anything close to that.

Well, it goes in front of those trees and behind

that tree, so that tells us it's at least 30 feet away.

So it's about the size of a volleyball.

Think of it this way. In one night, one span there,

we see a strange communication beam,

and then we see this thing.

Is there a connection?

What's particularly bizarre about this phenomenon

is it happened just after our rocket experiment

at Homestead Two

when we heard that really strange

1.6 gigahertz signal. It all looks to be connected.

I just don't know how or why yet.

In the beginning, it almost looks like it changes

shape a little bit to me.

THOMAS: Is it more, though, that,

looking at the end would be a circle,

but then as it turns, a cigar shape,

because you're getting more of a 3D...

Just like this, right? If you're looking at this

-end on, you think it's a circle, right? -Sure.

If you look at it like this, it's like a line or something,

you know, cigar-shaped.

I'll tell you what it reminds me of.

The Tic Tac, the UAP video.

The UAP that appeared in

the Tic Tac video that was recorded by

the USS Nimitz group in 2004

appeared to be cigar-shaped when viewed from certain angles.

But it was reported to look more spherical by the Navy pilots

when it flew straight towards them.

Do any of those objects move around so organically, like--

-as we see here? -Yes, and they amorphously

change shape, depending on the direction they turn.

So, we've measured a signal many times when we've seen

phenomena occur specifically around 1.6 gigahertz.

We're seeing whatever this thing is,

and interestedly enough,

at the same instant, we see this signal at 1.6 gigahertz.

It's pretty bizarre.

It's crazy is what it is.

I don't know what to say of this,

but I would say you've captured a UAP on camera here, Erik,

and we don't know what it is.

Well, this is just one more case of

strange activity out at the homesteads.

You know, Homestead Two is a place where we see

a lot of this stuff.

So, I'm not going to be satisfied

until I've spent some time doing

-some image processing on this. -Sure.

And I'll come back to you guys and

let you know if I find anything.

All right. Thanks, guys. Good job, Erik.

ERIK: Our fascination, our speculation about the ranch

phenomenon and about how the ranch fits into

the larger picture has only been elevated.

We realize we're not dealing with a simple

problem set, but one that is very complex.

TRAVIS: All of this new data that we have tells us there are

some really weird anomalies.

We don't know what's causing that.

There's so much data.

What is the next level of experimentation

that we need to do to determine what this is?

You can't just go dig everywhere under the ranch to find this.

We're gonna have to find a better way to look deeper

under the surface to figure out what's causing that.

BRANDON: The presence of a signal or a frequency

that seems to attend the events and the activities

on the property may be our greatest discovery yet.

I had always hoped that these activities would lead

to our ability to hopefully communicate

with the entities involved with the ranch.

Now, I believe what we may be seeing is

communication back to us

in ways that we had not anticipated

here at Skinwalker Ranch.

It looks like something's collapsed here.

That tells me that was done to hide something.

There was an area I found on this mesa slope,

and it lead to this open cave.

I'm pretty sure this is it.

What were they hiding in that mesa?

Popping smoke. Look, look, it's getting sucked in.

You guys really stirred the old hornet's nest.

-Look, they're movin'. -ERIK: I've never seen this many

mysterious lights in the sky.

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