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-Check this out. -More metal?

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

We definitely want to analyze that.

-What the hell was that? -What the hell was that?

There was a serious rumble.

I mean, you could feel it in your feet.

Whoa! What was that?

I saw something flash in the sky to the west over Homestead Two.

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...

Hey, Erik. You in here?

Yeah, I'm back here.

So, I was out there by the drill site.

-Uh-huh. -I was standing on the road

like, right above the hole, looking up at the guys,

and the ground shook.

It didn't last as long as an earthquake, but it...

(imitates rumble) Like that. And I was like, "Wow."

And I even asked the guys if they

felt it over the walkie, and right as I held

the walkie up to call them, I saw something.

-Just boom real quick across the sky. -No way.

And it was spherical, translucent white color.

-And I mean it was fast, too. Schoomp, like that. -Okay.

Things might really be coming to a head

with our investigation here on Skinwalker Ranch.

It keeps pushing me down.

Two weeks ago, we drilled deep into the mesa...

THOMAS: I wonder if it's, like, metal flakes or something.

TRAVIS: ...and discovered what seems to be

a huge, dome-shaped metal object

buried beneath it that we believe could

measure up to 400 feet wide.

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

Now, while Thomas, Dragon and I were right in that area,

we felt the ground suddenly shake,

and I thought I saw a UAP.

Over the last three years we've been able to

record multiple UAP sightings.

I'm hoping that Erik caught the one I just

saw on his surveillance cameras.

Maybe it will give us

a better idea of where these things are coming from.

Did you happen to have any cameras looking in

the westerly direction? I was looking due west.

Yeah, we have some bullet cams that are always looking out

-that way. -Well, can you pull those up?

I'm gonna say it was at, uh, 13:45, because I checked

my phone, like, immediately when it happened.

Best one would probably be this.

-Yeah, this view. -That's exactly where--

So I would have been down here,

probably looking that way, right?

Because the drill site is right past that tree, I think.

All right. Well, I'm at about 1:44 p.m.

Let's just see if we can find it.

So, how big of a thing are we talking about here?

Well, I mean, it was like no bigger than

the spheres we've seen in the sky before,

but it would've been right in here somewhere.

-How fast was it moving? -Dude, it was moving pretty fast.

That's what I'm worried about. You may not catch it,

it was moving so fast.

Yeah, you see, there's a line looked like it had been formed.

-Keep going. -Okay, you want to do a frame advance?

-Yeah. Do frame by frame. -Okay.

Ho! Right there! There it is.

-Okay. -Look at that.

ERIK: Okay. I got it.

-Is that only in one frame? -That's a single frame. Yeah.

Go back one and go through it

to see how many frames it actually lasts.

Okay, I'm gonna center on it.

What in the heck?

TRAVIS: Look at that. I don't know if it came out of the mesa

-or from behind the mesa. -Uh-huh.

I know that others have reported that craft have been seen

going into the mesa.

Perhaps we're looking at something

coming out of the mesa,

as has been speculated by, by others.

I don't know.

There's a lot of information that's put on these rocks.

TRAVIS: Earlier this year, ranch caretakers Kandus Linde

and Tom Lewis met with retired Navajo ranger,

John Dover to look at petroglyphs

carved into rocks at nearby McConkie Ranch.

This place is amazing.

TRAVIS: They were created by local

Indigenous people centuries ago.

And John believes they depict strange phenomena

that have occurred throughout the Uinta Basin.

We've actually had stories involving

UAPs that have

entered into mesas.

And just gone right into the rock.

I couldn't say if this UAP came from the mesa,

but the massive tremor that Dragon, Thomas and I

all felt just before it appeared made me wonder if

the local beliefs are possibly founded in fact.

-How did you catch that? -Your eye integrates.

So, you know, I saw a streak go across.

But it looks just-- I mean, that looks

just like what I thought I saw.

I said it was a translucent white sphere.

I mean, look how much more translucent

-white sphere can you get? -You know, I gotta tell you,

if you hadn't seen this with the naked eye, I would

not have detected this on review of this footage.

This is such a fleeting event.

But this, this does look very solid.

-That's a great catch. -I'm excited about it.

Keep your eye on the sky, maybe you'll see something else.

After we informed Brandon about the massive tremor and UAP

incident at the mesa, we asked him to immediately come

out to the ranch to formulate a plan for what to do next.

With all the UAPs we've documented this year,

especially in the triangle area...

-How you doing? Good. -Good.

...we wanted to present him with our idea

for the biggest experiment yet.

With winter approaching, this was our last

opportunity to find some real answers.

Thanks for coming together, guys.

I'm anxious to hear what you have in store.

Yeah, so we, as you're aware, we've launched

a lot of rockets this year

than in the years past. Most of them with

instrumentation packages in them.

With payloads to measure, whether it's GPS or...

an RF or microwave signal, gamma rays and so on.

And we've also in the past

had laser beams out here that we've used for various things.

We've scanned across the sky with them in the mesa,

and we've seen some really weird stuff.

Yeah, you sure have.

And so, we thought we needed to really

get a better handle on it

with a much larger rocket that can go up through the triangle

and with a lot of instruments on it, and at the same time have

multiple, very large lasers focused on the spot,

as well as a scanning laser system focused on the spot

while we have all of our instruments

and cameras and everything looking at it.

I mean, everything we've got and used in the past

we would use in one big experiment.

It sounds like you are proposing

-something on a grand scale. -Yeah.

So, with our time about to run out this year,

the plan is to use the biggest rockets and lasers yet to

conduct a new experiment that will not only stimulate

something unmistakable to appear at the triangle, but also

reveal what that anomaly at that mile-high zone actually is.

So, we've been talking with the guys at LOC Precision

and we're gonna have a separate set of payload canisters that

come out, and one payload canister is going to deploy

chalk dust at different altitudes as the parachute

sinks back through, and it will create

a cloud all over the triangle area.

So, if there is some anomaly that's

invisible to the eye, maybe the chalk will coat it.

And, also, it will give more particulate matter

for the laser beams to reflect off of.

So, it should allow us to map that area and see it

better than we've seen it ever before.

So, not just shining a beam through the area, but rastering

a beam through that area may give us a sense of the,

of the shape and size of whatever it is that's up there.

TRAVIS: We are going into

great detail, deliberate effort

to design multiple rocket systems that we can launch.

ERIK: That says nothing of the instrument payload,

you know. We're talking about putting on

frequency generator,

gamma ray detector, of course, action cams.

This is probably the largest scale, most complex

and most expensive experiment that we've ever done out here.

Well, this is extraordinary. These are big ideas.

There's a lot of things that we, you know, wanted to

make sure we got your clearance for before we proceeded.

Well, if this leads us to better understand the origin

and the agenda of what we're dealing with,

who or what we are interacting with here at Skinwalker Ranch,

I think will, will be well worth it.

TRAVIS: Yeah, absolutely.

BRANDON: Well, given the scale

of this, this incredible experiment that

you are coordinating, I would love to be here...

-Great. -...to witness it myself.

We'd appreciate it. Thank you.

I-I really appreciate

the level of thought,

the effort and the organization that you've really brought

to the table in order to make this hopefully, you know,

some of our best experimental efforts yet.

Because anytime we initiate an experiment

that is aggressive, that-that is poking the hornet's nest,

if you will, above the ranch, something happens.

Well, and if nothing unusual happens, that's a data point.

If nothing unusual happens, that will be unusual.

-(laughs) I like that. -BRYANT: That'll be a first.

TRAVIS: Oh, somebody's here.

BRYANT: Yeah. It looks like it's the Loc boys.

TRAVIS: And the Nu-Salt guys.

TRAVIS: Two days after our meeting with Brandon,

the rocket guys from Loc Precision and the team

from Nu-Salt Laser arrived to help us conduct

the biggest experiment ever performed on Skinwalker Ranch.

Good to see you again. How are you?

TRAVIS: All of these guys had taken part in previous experiments

targeting both the triangle and the mesa,

so we were eager to poke the nest harder

than ever before, and get some definitive answers

about the weird phenomena that keep happening out here.

We're combining two really spectacular experiments

in one this time.

-Bigger and better on the rockets, and more lasers. -Yeah.

And I expect we're going to learn a lot from it.

We have measured some phenomenology here that's, uh,

actually affecting laser beams

as they propagate through the sky.

We're actually seeing lasers actually hit

a particular level and then actually bend and turn,

and so that means there is something significant,

you know, at this position.

And, we're gonna launch rockets right through that,

we're gonna release some powders that'll, you know,

create a cloud that falls through this area

to give us more visual with the laser beams.

So, what we've got to do,

we've got a lot of moving parts here today.

We've got a couple of really big rockets with

complicated payloads, while we're setting up the lasers.

And we got to figure out, make sure that we put the lasers

in such a way that they don't damage the rocket during flight,

or the parachutes on the return, because, you know, space cannons

will probably melt the parachutes.

They are pretty hot.

So, I'd love to see what you guys brought.

-I'm excited about this. -Great.

-Let's do that. -Cool. -Exciting.

So, we got three 200-watt laser space cannons and one

NSL-2000 Model Z 30-watt laser light show projector to set up.

-Wow. -Wow.

That's impressive. Can you guys top that?

-A lot of firepower. -I think we might be able to.

-(laughter) -TRAVIS: The gauntlet's been thrown down.

-Oh, my gosh. -Holy smokes.

ALLEN: So, here's what we've got for you this year.

THOMAS: How tall is that, put together?

-15 feet. -Wow.

TRAVIS: Wait till it's put together.

This right here is the most awesome right here.

Look at this, this is one of the motors.

THOMAS: Holy smokes.

This is a rocket motor right here. Look at this.

Look at that thing. It's a missile.

DAVE: So, we brought three rockets.

One 15-foot tall, 12-inch diameter rocket

that can carry more instruments.

So, it's easier to be able to help the guys

this time design the payload area around their instruments to

get a better fit and hopefully some better readings for them.

Well, I know when we talked about it in planning, you know,

we-we said it was bigger, but my gosh, standing in front

of it, I'm thinking yes, it's big.

Yes, it's beautiful, but what I see is instrument capacity.

Yep.

We have an opportunity to learn a lot

with this, with this platform.

-Yeah. -What's the safety range with this one?

With the O-motor, it's a thousand feet.

So, nobody can be within a thousand-foot

-radius of the launch pad. -Sounds to me like helipad.

Yeah. We'll be observing from the helipad.

-Yeah. -I agree.

So, we need to start getting everything together.

Get the payloads ready, and we

need to get out there and start figuring out the logistics.

Let's get to work, guys, we got a lot to do.

I'm excited, but this is going to be a lot of work.

This is going to be a big day.

-Stand the booster up here. -Yep.

Got you, sir.

♪ ♪

-Are we good? -Yeah.

BRYANT: The anticipation and hopes are so high for this experiment,

we'll be able to either stimulate or see something

that could really lead us in a direction to figuring out

what's actually going on here.

-DAVE: It's go time. -ALLEN: Yes, sir.

Ready, ready.

TRAVIS: Tonight's going to be

one of the most complicated,

biggest, most extravagant experiments

that we've actually done here at Skinwalker Ranch.

We've got three of these

giant, multi-hundred-watt laser space canons.

We've got the laser scanner.

We're going to be broadcasting a sweep across this

1.6 gigahertz part of the spectrum where we're

getting these weird signals here on the ranch.

We're going to hopefully stimulate

the biggest response so far

and get a lot of data as this rocket launches.

-TIM: Perfect. -THOMAS: Hey, Travis. -TRAVIS: Yeah?

THOMAS: At what kind of angle do you want on these?

Do you want them going straight up?

I think straight up. If we could focus maybe,

I mean, angle each one of the three beams together,

so they're hitting somewhere about 3,000 feet up in the sky.

-Pyramid format? Okay. -Yeah, yeah.

Pyramid it up to about 3,000 feet.

-Sounds good. -Does that work for you guys?

-It does work. -Okay.

TRAVIS: The laser component of our experiment

has its own multi-tier system.

First, we'll set up three high-powered

laser cannons around the triangle, and each laser beam

will be aimed upward, converging at the mile-high zone

where we've detected all kinds of radiation spikes

and obtained evidence of an invisible anomaly that has

deflected other lasers, and GPS devices in the past.

ERIK: So, there we are.

DAVE: The signal generator is up and running.

ERIK: All right. We are golden.

TRAVIS: We're also going to

broadcast that 1.6 gigahertz

communication signal that we recently

detected on the ranch.

Just a couple of weeks ago,

we broadcasted the signal at a local radio station...

(signal crackling)

-There it is. -Wow.

TRAVIS: ...and stimulated

multiple UAPs to appear in the sky.

-Look. Look, they're moving. -JIM: Yep.

So, here's our transmitter right here.

This is where we'll get the source of the audio signal

that the guys choose to run through it.

So tonight, we're going

to broadcast that 1.6 gigahertz signal up through

one of the lasers directly into the anomalous

spot above the triangle.

Hopefully, it will stimulate more UAPs,

or something else, that might explain

what is really going on in that mile-high zone.

And in addition to the lasers here,

we'll deploy another laser back on the helipad

that will be scanning up and down and through

that region in the sky above the triangle.

We'll monitor for any bends in the laser's pattern.

If we see any deviations,

it could be evidence of anomalies for us to focus on.

-DAVE: Should we put the booster on? -ALLEN: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Once we get our laser convergence system set up

at the triangle, the team from Loc Precision has

brought out the granddaddy of rockets that we are going to use

to make contact with that anomaly in the mile-high zone.

ALLEN: All right, let's bring her on in.

Down in front a little. Thank you.

BRYANT: All right. There we are. We're in.

ALLEN: All right. She's in. She's home.

TRAVIS: This 15-foot-tall rocket will be equipped with every kind

of energy, radiation, and gamma ray detector we have,

plus three payloads of environmentally safe chalk dust.

ALLEN: Y'all hold the front end, it's wanting to move.

-All right, ready? -BRYANT: Yup

This is not only an impressive piece of

equipment, it's very dangerous.

This thing looks like a missile ready to go off.

ALLEN: You're home.

TRAVIS: After it's launched

up over 5,000 feet, a parachute will deploy,

bringing it straight back down

through the anomalous zone.

The first batch of chalk dust will be released at 5,000 feet.

Then another at 4,000 feet, and a third at 3,000 feet.

It'll be like throwing flour on the invisible man.

BRYANT: Erik, are your GPS units in the bottles turned on?

-They are. -Okay. Thank you.

TRAVIS: And once we've hopefully identified where this

dang anomaly is, we're going to launch another

rocket up there equipped with more radiation

and gamma ray detectors

to collect all the data we can,

and maybe stimulate

the most awesome ranch response yet.

-ALLEN: Hold down there, Dave. -DAVE: I got it.

-ALLEN: Go. Hard push, y'all. Hold it. -DAVE: Yep. Got it.

-All right, she's set. -All right. Whew.

All right, Erik, we gotta get this payload going.

ERIK: Let's get it going.

-TRAVIS: We are running out of daylight. -ALLEN: All right, go.

DAVE: These are all level-three rockets, and these things are

gonna hit about 400 to 500 miles an hour,

so we're using an ammonium perchlorate fuel,

which just by its very nature is very hot.

-Put on a Z-clip, we're great. -DAVE: Perfect.

And it requires safer distances, there's more power,

you need a bigger areas around, larger areas to land.

So, everything is connected, we can now

pack it up and get to the safe zone?

I need to break down as fast as I can

and get back to the Command Center.

Go ahead and do that. Tell me when it's safe to

shut that generator off.

Okay. Will do.

BRYANT: So, we'll just set it up on top.

DAVE: Yup. I've got it.

TRAVIS: After our setup was complete, all we needed was

for Brandon to arrive and the sun to go down.

And then it's gonna be time to make some history

on Skinwalker Ranch.

Okay, hey, it is time for all non-essentials

to start evacuating the area.

Okay, we will see you guys back at the Command Center.

ERIK: We're about to begin an experiment

on a larger scale than anything we've attempted before.

This is the most complex and expensive

and dangerous experiment

that we have ever attempted on this ranch.

TRAVIS: After we got set up at the triangle area,

we moved back to the base of operations at the helipad,

where we could monitor everything from a safe distance.

We've also got 17 sets of eyes here.

TRAVIS: Because of the size of this experiment,

we have called the entire Skinwalker team out to help us,

including Brandon, Jim Morse,

Tom and Kandus, and also,

Casey Smith from Qual-Tec Associates,

who's here to look out

for any dangerous radiation spikes

that might show up tonight.

So, we want all 17 sets of eyes

not only on what's happening out there at the triangle,

but also on the sky.

There shouldn't be any aircraft in this space,

because we've had it cleared.

This is a restricted airspace.

If anyone sees anything in the sky when that rocket goes up

or when that payload's coming down, I want to know about it.

Right. As soon as Erik and I have finished

turning on all the instruments in the payload,

we hand it to the Loc guys, right?

Then, everybody has to be back

1,000 feet from the rocket.

Casey and Kaleb, you guys should be down by Homestead Two

or the drilling site-- keep an eye on the skies.

Kandus, Tom, if you don't mind, I'd like

you to take the east spotter position

up on the mesa, because there's going to be

things coming out of the rocket, falling out.

Try to watch and see if you can see where they land.

Casey has brought some instruments so that

we have gamma ray detection capability.

So, Travis, I got one for you.

-All right. -Erik.

Any little spike is going to trigger those.

I think between the bunch of us we're gonna be

mixed in with everybody, so if it

-starts dinging, you'll know. -ERIK: Yeah.

Given the significance of these experiments today,

and the recent acute medical episodes with Tom,

I thought it was important to bring Dr. Lee back.

So, I appreciate Dr. Lee coming in.

It is great to be here. I appreciate the focus on safety.

I know how much you have been focusing and preparing to make

sure that everything is done very safe.

BRANDON: Something is going on,

which, of course, should raise all of our

awareness and the seriousness of this exercise.

TRAVIS: You know, that's a really good point.

Let's keep an eye on each other. Hear something, feel something,

smell something, taste something, whatever that's

unusual, say something immediately.

ERIK: Hopefully we'll be able to make sense of any unusual events

that take place during the course of this.

-Let's get moving. -All right.

-Appreciate everybody's help. -Thank you, guys.

All right, this is the spot.

Kaleb and Casey are in position.

We're good to go. Over.

Copy that.

TOM: So, they're shooting from the triangle, right?

KANDUS: Yeah.

TOM: I mean, we could just go right up here.

TRAVIS: Tonight is really sort of the culmination of

everything we've done for the past three years.

We started out with some small rockets in the first year.

And then last year, we launched some slightly bigger rockets.

This year, we're doing a much bigger rocket.

Kandus. Tom. Do you guys copy?

Kandus and Tom are in position on the mesa.

Everything looks good from here.

TRAVIS (over walkie): Roger that.

All right, guys, we're all set.

Let's wait until dark and get this thing started.

TRAVIS: All right, guys. Let's go ahead and turn

the instruments on and do our first launch.

Bam. There they are!

Check it out. Now see, that is straight above us.

THOMAS: Looking at this laser cannon shooting up

in the sky for as far as I can see,

I can only imagine what the neighbors and the people

in the surrounding areas must think.

I mean, you can see this laser from miles away.

TRAVIS: Is that not crazy?

We've used lasers each summer, and each summer we've

gotten bigger or more, or spread them out more.

And what we've seen, each time we do an experiment

like this is UAP in the sky.

Or at least some sort of unknown

atmospheric or aerial phenomena.

So, who knows what's gonna happen to us tonight?

TIM: So, we're taking that file that you guys gave us,

Travis, and running it

-through this phone here. -TRAVIS: Uh-huh.

-Oh, yeah. -Oh, there it is.

-I recognize that sound. -Yeah.

So, we're gonna take this sound and we're gonna actually

put it through this transmitter that has a driver built into it,

and it's going to take that signal, and it's going to

modulate the laser beam so it's actually travelling into space.

TRAVIS: All right. Let's do it.

We recorded this weird sound here on the ranch.

(radio frequency fluctuating)

This 1.6 gigahertz frequency, or wavelength.

-Oh, yeah. I heard it. -That's crazy.

TRAVIS: Yeah, so it's modulating the laser amplitude.

We thought maybe it was a communication signal,

but we don't know what it means or where

it's coming from, and what's creating it.

So, we thought we would play it back through

the laser tonight to see if we get any kind of response.

All right so, have you got everything else set up?

-We do. -All right, I say let's clear the launch area because

-we're about to launch this rocket. -Sounds good.

Thank y'all very much.

-Good job. -BRYANT: Amazing.

We've got the lasers on and lined up,

and the rockets ready to go.

We're gonna be in launch mode

in probably about five minutes.

I gotta tell you, Travis,

the alignment looks perfect from here.

TRAVIS: The lasers were beaming up perfectly through

the mile-high zone above the triangle just as planned.

-TOM: That's amazing. -KANDUS: Wow.

TRAVIS: And with the 1.6 gigahertz

communication signal being broadcast up into that zone,

everybody was braced for anything strange

that might happen.

It was finally time to

launch our massive rocket.

All right, gentlemen.

Go ahead. Tell everybody we're launching in 30 seconds.

Okay, teams in the field.

Tom, Kandus, Kaleb, Casey, we are about

30 seconds from launch.

-Be prepared and ready. -Kaleb copy, over.

KANDUS: 10-4. Thank you. Over.

-BRYANT: We're ready to go. -Great.

-ALLEN: All right, in five. -Five? All right.

All right, you ready?

In five, four,

three, two,

one.

ALLEN: Three. Two. One.

Push and hold.

ALLEN: Uh-oh. That motor blew.

TRAVIS: It exploded. Oh, no. Oh...

DAVE: Hot greens. Hot greens. Let's go, there could be a fire.

-Yep. -Oh, my God.

What the hell just happened?

-Jump in. -THOMAS: Nobody get run over.

TRAVIS: Son of a bitch.

Hang on, Bryant!

Damn it. That sucks.

We were all set to shoot our gigantic,

main rocket up into the mile-high zone

above the triangle to identify where this anomaly is,

but it just blew up in a fireball above the launch pad.

I don't see a fire.

Right.

TRAVIS: It blew out all the payload.

-What the (bleep)? -Here's another piece right here.

-THOMAS: You found it all? -TRAVIS: That's an instrument, yeah.

Damn it, that sucks.

THOMAS: This is definitely a huge failure.

Seems like every single time we've tried to monitor that

5,000-foot mark above the ranch, something goes wrong.

Thomas, did you say that there was a GPS piece that you found?

BRYANT: We've lost a bunch of equipment.

We didn't get really anything out of

the number of hours that have gone into this.

It's like the ranch was putting its foot down

and telling us, "No."

TRAVIS: Is all the pyro out, though?

Everybody, there could still be powder somewhere,

-so everybody... -You haven't found them all yet?

-BRYANT: That blew. -TRAVIS: Yep. It blew.

BRYANT: The powder blew. It blew the payload compartment.

ALLEN: Yep. It blew. Okay, we're safe.

THOMAS: All right. Hey, guys, we're safe.

DAVE: When we launched the 15-foot rocket,

it had a forward seal failure where the motor just couldn't

contain its pressure, and the forward seal blew

straight up, which it's supposed to do upon a failure

and that basically trashed every instrument in the rocket.

Radio check. Anybody hearing me?

Erik, I hear you. Go ahead.

ERIK: Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on?

I don't know where we are.

TRAVIS: Sorry, Erik. We had a catastrophic rocket failure.

We're out here doing disaster analysis right now.

Never left the pad. All the charges went off

-and it blew it up on the pad. -Copy that.

Oh, boy.

ERIK: The outcome is a shock and a disappointment.

It's not what we expected, given all

the sophistication and the design of that rocket.

Fortunately, we have other rockets that

we can launch into the area above the triangle

in an effort to continue the experiment.

-All right, so look. We still got two rockets. -Yeah.

So, uh, we can do the final experiment that

we planned on and use the other rocket as a backup

in case something happens to that rocket.

-Hundred percent. -We're not gonna let it beat us.

Let's clean up. Let's prep the next rocket.

Let's get the lasers ready,

and let's just do what we've got to do.

-Let's do what we do. -BRYANT: That's exactly right.

TRAVIS: Hey, look, we still got the second rocket

from Loc Precision already prepared

with all of our sensors,

we still got the Nu-Salt guys

here with the lasers.

We're gonna launch another rocket and see

what we can get out of that.

TRAVIS: All right, here we go.

-Close, close, close. -All right.

-That's in. -That's in.

TRAVIS: So, how close are we?

We just got to put the igniter in

and get everybody back and we're good to go.

So, we're ready to clear the launch area?

-A hundred percent. -Okay.

The rocket is loaded on the launch pad.

We're just getting ready to clear out.

KALEB: 10-4. We just got done checking all the meters

out here, everything is 10-4.

Copy that. Thank you.

-TRAVIS: All right, let's do it. -THOMAS: Yep.

TRAVIS: All right, we need to clear the launch pad, everybody.

We're to that point.

-TRAVIS: We've got about four minutes. -DAVE: We're ready to go.

THOMAS: Do we need to radio Casey

and Kaleb, let them know our countdown?

-TRAVIS: Yep. Yes, we do. -Casey and Kaleb?

Do you guys have all

-the instruments in place? Over. -Tom, Kaleb.

Yeah. 10-4.

Everything's in place and good on our end.

Hey, Erik.

Yeah, go ahead, Travis.

So, I'm wondering about air traffic, are we clear?

We are clear.

TRAVIS: Although our second rocket

was smaller at nine feet tall,

it had plenty of power to shoot up through the anomaly,

so we packed a payload of chalk dust in that one, too,

along with our GPS and radiation sensors.

We are one minute from launching, guys, if you got

the laser about ready.

This was our last chance to get some

answers with rockets at the triangle this year,

so we were all hoping it would launch as planned,

and make a direct hit through that mysterious zone.

30 seconds and counting on your timer, Travis.

We got 30 seconds till launch.

Yeah, I like that elevation better.

Is that pointing through the middle of the beam?

-Yeah. Right there. -THOMAS: Ten seconds and counting.

-How much? -THOMAS: Ten.

All right, here we go. Do it.

Here we go. Yes.

THOMAS: Five, four, three,

two, one.

TRAVIS: There it goes!

JIM: That's fantastic.

DAVE: What was that bend all about?

It caught dramatically to the north,

so it couldn't go up through the beam.

What in the crap?

DAVE: So, there better be some upper-level winds that

would explain that out of the north.

What winds?

It launches straight up and it gets to about

2,000, maybe 3,000 feet,

and it does something really unusual.

It turned almost due north and flew away from the triangle

area and away from the anomaly that we know starts somewhere

around 2,500 to 3,000 feet

above ground level and up to about 5,000 to 6,000 feet.

It's like it got to that point

and turned away from it somehow or other.

Did you all see the smoke trail? There was no wind

in the contrail at all.

There's no wind, yet it gets deflected

-dramatically off to the north. -There's no wind.

What in the crap?

Something deflected the rocket.

I mean, what else could do it?

And if it was gonna blow up or break,

it would've not kept going straight like it did.

It would have started doing curlicues

and everything else on a structural failure.

TRAVIS: We had a perfect launch with our nine-foot-tall rocket,

and it was headed straight for the anomalous zone

above the triangle, armed with chalk dust

and all kinds of radiation scanning devices,

but something appeared to just

knock it off course in midair.

CASEY: There it is. So, we got it right here.

KALEB (over walkie): We have eyes on the rocket.

It's coming down above the mesa.

If they think it's coming down above the mesa,

it's coming down in Roosevelt.

THOMAS: That's miles out there, guys.

TRAVIS: How far north does that look like that is to y'all?

A couple miles.

It's way north of where we're at right now.

Yeah, that's what I think, too.

The rocket had so much propulsion power

that it landed miles away.

We were really anxious to find it and recover the scanning

and GPS devices inside to see if we got data at the moment

of impact with whatever it was that sent it off course.

KALEB: I swear it looked like something hit it and it shot north.

Because it was going straight up and then just, boom!

Hmm.

You can see some of the smoke floating

through the beam there, too. Beam me up, Scotty.

Yeah. So, typically when the rocket launches,

rockets always,

if they're not a guided rocket, meaning you're not steering it

somehow, if it's just what we call a dumb rocket,

when it goes up, it will turn into the wind.

Always. Always. Physics makes it do that.

And so, the way that rocket went up

and turned, it suggests there's winds

aloft somewhere at where it made the turn.

But there's smoke setting right there where it made the turn.

So, there's no wind!

It wasn't just a slight bend.

That thing went up and threw its signal on

and went straight north.

So, it doesn't appear that there is any immediate

conventional explanation from what we just observed.

-Zero. -TRAVIS: Yeah, it makes no sense to me.

THOMAS: You know, it kind of reminds me

of that experiment where we

dropped these bottles out of a helicopter

using GPS coordinates, and when they dropped those

bottles, we found some of them a mile and a quarter away.

TRAVIS: Yeah, and some of the data showed that it looked like

a bottle fell down and turned and went away from that spot.

BRANDON: Really? Okay. Wow.

-TRAVIS: All right, dropping now. -CAMERON: Dropping now.

TRAVIS: About two months ago, Dragon and I flew up above

the mile-high zone at the triangle to drop

bottles containing GPS devices down though it

to see if we could identify the anomaly's exact location.

-ERIK: Look what happens here. -TRAVIS: Holy cow. Look at that.

But when we recovered the bottles on the ground

and processed the data,

it showed that two of them

actually bounced off something

just like what happened with our rocket.

Wow.

TRAVIS: Did we just encounter

the same anomaly up there?

If so, what the heck is this thing?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hey, Travis, you copy?

TRAVIS: Yeah, Erik, go ahead.

If Brandon is nearby,

can you bring him in real quick?

TRAVIS: We'll be right there.

What's going on, Erik?

Travis, you gotta see this.

-Okay. -There's the lasers.

Yeah, I'm doing an instant playback.

-Oh! Yeah. -Do you see this?

BRANDON: Wow.

-TRAVIS: What the crap is that? -BRANDON: It's moving.

It's moving way too fast for it to be a satellite.

BRANDON: And this just appeared next to the lasers?

ERIK: Yeah, it looks like it's headed towards the apex.

TRAVIS: That's crazy.

-When did this appear? -This was just now.

-Oh, my gosh. -Okay. I want to play it back.

TRAVIS: Just after our rocket got deflected away from

the mile-high zone above the triangle,

Erik captured one of the most vivid UAPs we've

seen during our experiments.

And it was maneuvering right above

the apex of our laser beams where we were also

broadcasting our 1.6 gigahertz communication signal.

So, all I could wonder was did we cause that to appear,

and is that what deflected our rocket?

Is there any way it could be air traffic?

I mean, we still have a no-fly zone.

TRAVIS: No. It's moving so fast.

-ERIK: Yeah, there's no strobe. -Look right here.

-This thing is really clipping along. -Oh, my gosh.

It disappeared. Can you replay that, please?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, hold on. -What did it disappear into?

It's not cloudy.

-ERIK: And gone. -Look at that. Look at that.

BRANDON: That's insane.

TRAVIS: Where did it disappear into?

Oh, my gosh.

That's insane.

TRAVIS: Erik caught a UAP on surveillance cameras

that appeared directly above the apex of

our laser formation over the triangle.

But then it just vanished into thin air

right where we keep detecting massive energy spikes.

This is, like, just like minutes ago.

How did we not see that out there? How did we miss that?

I don't know, but thank goodness

the surveillance cameras picked it up.

TRAVIS: Look at that. Look at that.

We'll go back and replay this.

This is the point at which I just caught

a glimpse of this thing. It emerged from,

-I don't know if it was... -TRAVIS: That's down below the Mesa.

I don't know if I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing or not.

BRANDON: Is it a portal? Are we seeing portals open?

-Yeah. -ERIK: Okay.

Oh, wait. Back it up. All right. Back it up.

TRAVIS: It does look like it's going right

to where the lasers are pointing.

-ERIK: Okay. You want me to zoom in? -TRAVIS: Yeah.

Looks like there's some kind of structure in the middle of it.

ERIK: It has edges.

-ERIK: Do you see that? -TRAVIS: Yeah.

But the edges seem to move.

BRANDON: Check it out.

TRAVIS: It looks sort of amorphous.

Yeah, it does appear to be changing shape.

BRANDON: Unbelievable.

TRAVIS: Now, I don't know, but it looks like

the UAP we saw tonight

might have come from behind

or actually from inside the mesa.

And then it just disappeared

into the anomaly above the triangle.

BRANDON: That's crazy.

TRAVIS: Is that what messed with our rockets?

Did we cause it to appear by broadcasting

the 1.6 gigahertz signal?

And then, where did it go?

Skinwalker Ranch has been a haven for rumors about

UAPs actually entering and exiting from the mesa,

portals and all kinds of other bizarre phenomena

for decades, if not centuries.

Tonight, we may have finally captured

evidence that some of that could be true.

All right, make sure to save this right away.

What the heck is that?

BRANDON: That's insane.

TRAVIS: Many past investigators, from Robert Bigelow's team

as well as members from the Indigenous community,

have all stated that they believe portals

to other dimensions exist on Skinwalker Ranch.

Now, I'm not ready to make that my belief,

but I think it's a valid enough hypothesis

that we need to focus our investigation on.

ERIK: I don't think it's an exaggeration to say

that some of what we've seen during this exercise

ranks among the strangest events that we've witnessed.

Are we dealing with something

that is technological and even volitional?

We all want to know the answer to this.

Oh, my gosh.

We were shocked to see, right there next

to the lasers, pointing to an apex above the triangle,

a UFO, literally monitoring our efforts.

Is it a coincidence that this sighting

followed the catastrophic events of the exploding rocket before?

I don't think so.

How do we better understand

what kind of forces we are dealing with?

Are they trying to thwart our investigation?

Are they trying to harm our team?

Are we truly dealing with what many refer to

as a precognitive, sentient intelligence?

Or is there something more at work at Skinwalker Ranch?

-Spinning up. -ERIK: Pete Kelsey has brought on

-some of the most advanced technology. -That's amazing.

TRAVIS: I found a signal

that was an intelligent communication.

We want people at other facilities

to check out the signal, too.

I think it'd be a good idea to get everyone's eyes on this.

-Absolutely. -Let's do.

ERIK: This is a three-dimensional model of

the entire mesa, and look at what's sticking up in the sky.

-Wow! -Never seen it before.

I've never seen anything like it before.

How do we move forward?

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