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Whoa, what was that?! I saw something,

just boom, real quick, across the sky.

We need a much larger rocket that can go up through

the triangle and multiple very large lasers.

You are proposing something on a grand scale.

-TRAVIS: There it goes. -DAVE: Oh, (bleep). Let’s go.

Oh, my God.

ERIK: Travis, you-you got to see this.

BRANDON: It disappeared.

TRAVIS: What did it disappear into?

BRANDON: Are we seeing portals opening?

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.

-Hey, Pete. -Hey, hey.

ERIK: Yeah, it’s good to have you back.

Can’t wait to see what you’re packing this time.

-(chuckles) -How’s it going?

TRAVIS: We’ve had the most incredible year yet

investigating and stimulating

all kinds of strange phenomena on Skinwalker Ranch.

But the weather is about to turn really harsh,

as fall sets in, meaning that we’re out of time

to conduct any more large-scale experiments.

PETE: I brought some goodies.

-We can do photogrammetry. -Now, that’s good.

TRAVIS: So we invited technologist Pete Kelsey back

to perform a final high-tech

3D photogrammetry drone scan of the entire ranch.

Well, I’m excited to have you out here.

-It’d be great to take you back to the mesa. -Let’s go.

All right. Let’s do it.

TRAVIS: Photogrammetry is a process

where thousands of high-definition photographs

are taken of an area of interest

and combined to create a detailed three-dimensional map,

potentially revealing features

that aren’t visible to the naked eye.

-THOMAS: About right here is good. -TRAVIS: All right.

Before we have to put our investigation

on hold until next year,

we want to get a 3D model

of every part of the ranch to see if any anomalies appear.

If something shows up,

maybe it will help us determine

what is behind all the UAPs and the other phenomena

that we’ve documented here.

-This looks great. -Uh-huh.

TRAVIS: Well, start, uh, getting set up

-and let’s do this thing. -PETE: Okay.

ERIK: Pete Kelsey has brought on some of the most advanced

technology one can get his hands on.

-PETE: Have a matching set, thank you. -BRYANT: Okay, yeah, sure.

ERIK: This drone is a robotic flying platform

that has exquisite spatial awareness.

That very precise positional awareness

is essential for reconstructing

an accurate three-dimensional model of the property.

We’re interested to find out

whether the results will bear out anything anomalous.

PETE: Well, I’m ready when you guys are.

ERIK: Great. We need to get back

to the command center to work on some stuff.

Maybe we’ll just leave you to go at it.

Yeah, I’ve got all my stuff here, so I’ll just have at it.

Okay, well, if it’s all right with you I’ll stick around.

I don’t like leaving guests out here by themselves.

So, if you’re okay with some company, I’ll stay with you.

-I... I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. -Okay, happy to.

All right. Well, we’ll load up and head back.

PETE: So, once all the data I’ve collected

is post-processed in a nice, neat package, I hand that

to Erik, and he does the heavy lifting, and that is

spending hours and hours

going through this data, because it’s all visual.

All right, I’ve got all green lights here.

Spinning up.

♪ ♪

Literally it comes down to putting eyes on the model

and looking for anything interesting.

Have a look.

BRYANT: That’s so cool.

That’s amazing.

TRAVIS: While Pete was conducting his photogrammetry scan

of the ranch, I went to my trailer

to have a videoconference with author and renowned astronomer

Seth Shostak.

Hello, Seth. How you doing?

-Travis, good to see you. -It’s been a while.

Uh, I wanted to catch up with you and...

Now, Seth is the senior astronomer

for the institute known as SETI.

Which stands for the Search

for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

I wanted to talk to him about the mysterious

1.6 gigahertz signal

that we’ve been detecting on the ranch,

which I believe could be some kind of communication signal.

As you know, I’m out here as part

of this investigation of Skinwalker Ranch.

And we’re actually finding some really weird stuff.

We’re finding optical phenomena

and all sorts of different regimes of energy.

And even a strange RF signal at 1.6 gigahertz.

And what I wanted to ask you

is, if I found a signal that I thought

was an intelligent communication,

what protocols

SETI would use

in a situation like that?

Uh, to start, you know,

verifying, validating and reporting?

Well, there is a protocol.

In fact, I was the chair of the, uh, committee

that revised those protocols

about five years ago.

First thing is, if you pick up a signal that

you think might be ET, you want to make sure it isn’t

a telecommunications satellite,

it isn’t the radar down

at a local airport or anything like that.

The second thing you do is, you tell everybody.

You would want to do that because you want people

at other facilities

to check out the signal, too.

I see.

So, let me ask you a question.

Say we have confirmed an optical, uh... signal.

And it’s repeatable.

If you go through the process and you...

rule out all of the...

potential, uh, logical culprits.

The microwave oven, an airplane...

a-a satellite, you know, those types of things.

What would be your next step in, in, uh, verifying?

Well, as to say, uh, you know, you’re really critically

dependent on being able to verify

the signal at some other facility.

So, you would insist on finding it somewhere else.

Right.

All right, Erik.

She’s about to broadcast it.

Seth’s suggestion

that we would want confirmation of the 1.6 gigahertz

communication signal at another location struck me

because that’s exactly what happened a month ago

at the Jack FM radio station

about 11 miles north of Skinwalker Ranch.

After the station manager and DJ, Jenn Rook,

told me and Erik that the same kind of signal had

infiltrated their airwaves, we decided to see what

would happen if she broadcast it back out.

-There it is. -Wow.

It really changed her waveform big-time.

Well, the next day, Jim Morse

showed us some incredible

videos of UAPs that were recorded

by people in the area later that night.

ERIK: Jim, When was this video taken?

Last night, about 8:00 p.m.

-Really? -TRAVIS: That’s just a few hours

after we played that sound on the radio, Erik.

No kidding.

Well, it sounds

as if the signal you’re picking up is

generated locally, right?

That there’s something in your immediate area

that is producing this signal.

Is that kind of what you’re suggesting here?

Yep.

So imagine,

you know, an advanced civilization

wanted to communicate

in real time,

what type of phenomenology or telltale signs

might SETI look for?

If it’s really coming from another society,

it would be in one direction.

And that’s kind of the clue,

that you would see it coming from that direction on the sky.

I think that’s exactly what I wanted to hear, Seth.

It was interesting how Seth, a highly accredited scientist

who researches the potential for ET life,

believed the type of communication signal

we’ve detected would come from

a specific direction, because that’s

exactly what happened on the ranch.

Go back the other way.

Five weeks ago, when we detected

the 1.6 gigahertz signal,

it came from a specific spot.

It’s coming back. Right there, right there, stop.

Where we had just launched a rocket near Homestead Two.

-So it’s very directional. -Yeah.

Are you kidding me?

And then, later that night,

Erik recorded an incredible UAP

moving around the homestead.

We can’t be for sure if that communication signal

we’ve detected was what led to the UAP appearing,

or if it represents more evidence

that portals could really exist

on Skinwalker Ranch, but talking with Seth

just makes me more convinced

that we are getting closer to some answers.

That helps me a lot.

I really appreciate it.

Well, any time, Travis. You know, it’s always my pleasure

-to speak with you. -Yeah, me, too, man.

If we do find something and we need to get someone

out here to verify, uh, I’ll give you a call.

-Thanks, Travis. -Uh-huh.

Buh-bye.

BRYANT: Howdy, Erik.

-Hey. -How’s it going, Erik?

That’s a pretty picture of the mesa that you got there, Erik.

Oh, you, you are gonna enjoy this.

TRAVIS: The day after Pete Kelsey conducted

his photogrammetry scan of the ranch,

he sent Erik all of his compiled data files

for us to review.

ERIK: Well, I’ve got only about a billion data points.

Of course this comes out of Pete Kelsey’s recent survey work.

This is a three-dimensional model.

It’s point-cloud data.

What it is, is individual points that

have been located through a complex algorithm

coming out of all these thousands

of pictures that he’s taken. So you take all those images,

you stitch them together and you get a three-dimensional

-model. Oh, yeah. -That’s incredible.

Yeah, so, I’ve been diving into this.

And turns out there are some

very interesting artifacts showing up.

-Whoa! I just saw one. -You might. Did you see it?

-Yeah. In the sky. -Okay.

-KALEB: Oh. Right there. -ERIK: Yes!

-TRAVIS: Oh, weird. -ERIK: Yes.

THOMAS: That looks like that’s a whole

-bunch of points right there. -Oh, it is.

Well, what would cause it to do that if that’s up in the air?

That’s the question.

Look at this structure.

This phantom structure that’s sticking up in the sky.

-TRAVIS: This is odd. I got to tell you... -ERIK: There it is.

TRAVIS: Wow, that thing is really prominent from here, it’s like,

-it’s a... some sort of big feature. -ERIK: Yeah.

ERIK: You know, it looks more than a hundred feet in the air.

That’s nuts.

ERIK: One way of interpreting this is to say

that the drone did not, uh, properly register

its correct GPS position when it took the pictures.

-Were you thinking that? -I was, I was about to suggest

that we’ve had such trouble with those drones

and their GPS coordinates being spoofed,

-hacked or jammed. -ERIK: Yes. Yes.

What if it thought it was

somewhere else when it took those pictures?

-But you’ve got tens of positions. -ERIK: Correct.

TRAVIS: That-that should cancel itself out.

Well, you’d have to have

a lingering condition in that space

that causes some sort of displacement,

some phantom displacement of the reckoned position,

the measured position of the drone in the sky.

TRAVIS: What’s so strange here is, if the GPS

was being spoofed for the whole survey,

the final photogrammetry image would be a big blur.

That’s not what’s happening at all.

This one specific spot over the ranch is confusing

the photogrammetry data and confusing it from a number

of different angles, which makes me think there’s

something really strange about this particular area.

ERIK: Another interpretation might be if you did have some kind

of translucent effect or object in the sky,

then I suppose it might also cause

the algorithm to perceive those pixels,

whose color comes from the ground, as being

you know, somewhere else, up in the air.

Has Pete seen this before? Did you ask him?

That’s the other important point. I’ve connected with Pete

and I’ve also spoken with the,

the vendor of this software,

asking, "Is this common?"

And the answer that I’ve gotten is, "No."

Really?

This is not a common thing

in the terrestrial surveys like this.

Are there any other areas in his survey

that have this sort of artifact to them?

Yes.

I want to show you something at another location

that we’ve visited that is part of this survey.

-Okay. -Okay?

TRAVIS: This is right above the petroglyph area, right?

-THOMAS: Yes. -It is.

Just on the edge of our property.

-TRAVIS: Right. -ERIK: And you’ll recognize

-the stone circle here. -TRAVIS: Yeah.

ERIK: And the feature that I want to show you

is actually very close to this stone circle.

-See what’s hap-- there you go. -BRYANT: Oh, there you go.

Right there.

ERIK: So let me spin us around.

-I noticed a couple things here. -Well, now look at this.

ERIK: And-and you may observe the same thing I have.

TRAVIS: Yeah, so line those two up,

and where are they pointing?

ERIK: This feature, this artifact,

the largest stone that was part of the, of the stone circle

and that prominent thing that’s jetting up,

you know, further to the south.

You have three points in a line.

THOMAS: Wow.

ERIK: Interestingly and somewhat mysteriously,

the anomalies to the south and to the north

of the stone circle align perfectly

with that large center stone in the stone circle itself.

Could be a coincidence, but it sure is suggestive.

-What are the odds of that? -ERIK: Right.

We’ve learned not to ignore any anomalous features

in our data even if we have no idea what to make of them.

TRAVIS: So that, to me, seems like you’ve almost

drawn a ray from the other anomaly

-through this stone... -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

...to this, this anomaly.

If we’ve got a line being drawn here,

then what is that line pointing to?

What is the line there for?

We need to mark these spots

because, you know, what if this is

somehow mapping an anomaly that we need to investigate.

You remember last year when we had that expert out,

he said that the petroglyph was depicting a portal.

So, I mean, if we’re getting way out there,

that pillar’s alignment with it kind of looks like,

in the data points, a spiraling thing, portal-type feature.

That’s interesting.

Last year we had Dr. Alan Garfinkel

come out to examine some petroglyphs we’d discovered

on the east side of the property

right by the location

of this strange aerial anomaly that we’re seeing.

What I’m looking at is these curves.

It’s a metaphor for a serpent or a snake.

Snakes represents two different worlds,

so it’s a guardian to the portals.

The portal is a window into the supernatural.

TRAVIS: Dragon is right about the petroglyphs near this area,

but this strange structure in Pete’s photogrammetry data

is right above a mysterious spiral of boulders on the mesa.

I’m thinking there’s definitely something here.

TRAVIS: And earlier this year, Navajo expert and historian John Dover

told us this feature may have been constructed by ancient

Indigenous people to represent a very specific phenomenon.

JON: Looking at this place in its entirety,

it struck me as a holy place.

We have basically a spiral right here

that’s been put into this ground here.

That spiral is indicative of...?

A portal, a dimensional rift, an opening.

THOMAS: We have so much data pointing that

there is something up in the sky going on.

And I honestly, I’m not so sure that

that petroglyph isn’t telling us that there’s

-something in the sky over the ranch, you know? -Right.

Because that’s what it looks like.

Could Pete Kelsey have actually captured visual evidence

that there really are portals on Skinwalker Ranch?

And could it help explain why we see UAPs appear

and then suddenly disappear?

Well, we owe it to ourselves to follow up

on every data anomaly that we come across,

particularly when they’re as prominent

as the ones we’re looking at here.

Erik, the data is absolutely fascinating.

We need to meet with Brandon and review this

and everything else we’ve learned this year.

I think we’ve just got to do that and follow up on this data.

-ERIK: Yep. -BRYANT: Let’s do it.

-BRANDON: Greetings, everyone. -ALL: Hey.

I think everyone would agree this past year has

been the most productive year in history,

relative to the investigation at Skinwalker Ranch.

We launched this phase of the investigation

with former Governor Herbert.

Uh, his interest

and ongoing engagement with this effort

has been an important part of really elevating

the formality of this research and how important it is.

We also have joining us today,

investigative journalist George Knapp.

Best known as the leading journalist

documenting the reality of not only

the ranch, but this type of phenomena.

I’d like to say, Governor, by the way, you have

a really beautiful state, but it’s an awfully weird state.

(laughter)

I think today will be a very eye-opening day

and briefing for our guests.

Well, I’m so excited to hear what you have to tell me,

and learn from what’s taken place.

I think it’s not only important for Utah

to find out what’s happening within our borders, by the way,

but for America and the world.

And so what it leads us to, who knows?

But I think it’s important that we find out.

TRAVIS: Yes, absolutely.

I think the best thing to do would be,

uh, let’s just start.

We’ve done so many experiments,

captured so much video, so much measurement data,

of unidentified aerial phenomena.

We’ve seen so many this summer

with the various experiments that we’ve done and so many

witnesses and instruments capturing them

that it’s undeniable that that’s what we have captured.

ERIK: Um, I do have footage that I can share.

I’m going to go ahead and play it in real time.

TRAVIS: We had just launched a rocket

over Homestead Two and fortunately we did

have a camera looking in that direction.

-HERBERT: Wow. -THOMAS: It’s unbelievable.

We saw so many this summer,

I don’t know that I could remember

accurately and go back and count how many there’s been.

TRAVIS: The experiments we conducted this year led

to some of the most compelling and confounding UAP

incidents ever documented on Skinwalker Ranch.

Using rockets, and digging

to stimulate the activity...

Whoa! What was that?

...UAPs appeared numerous times at Homestead Two...

-Hey, look, UAP right there! -Yep, I see it.

...and above the triangle area.

Look in the sky, y’all!

We’ve seen a lot of unidentified aerial phenomena.

Some that I would say even qualify

as unidentified flying objects.

Erik, if you wanna show them what it is that we saw.

You’ll notice this bright object to the center moving

in a peculiar way and exhibiting some peculiar characteristics.

This object, whatever it is,

appears brighter than Jupiter.

-HERBERT: It’s clearly moving. -TRAVIS: Yeah, and it is moving

in a different way than a satellite would be moving.

There was no air traffic in the area.

And you see no navigation lights.

And it actually came toward us,

and then it made a dogleg maneuver,

and then turned to the east.

BRYANT: We all saw with the naked eye, this thing.

I mean, for lack of a better term,

it looked almost like a flying donut.

I mean, it was bright.

And then it had a defined dark center to it.

BRANDON: This is a solid structure.

It was captured from multiple camera viewpoints.

And had eyewitnesses both on and off the ranch.

HERBERT: It looks like there’s structure to it.

And large enough and bright enough

that you could see it with the naked eye.

-Yes. -Easily. -Sure.

This one is the one that I would say

is not a UAP, that it’s a UFO.

And, Erik has captured an odd sound emanating from the ranch.

And we see it almost every time one of these phenomena occur.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it’s here!

We got that 1.6 thing.

Erik, are you doing something at 1.6?

ERIK: I’m not broadcasting.

I swear that sounds like a communication signal.

We see this

1.6 or so gigahertz signal

at times when we don’t have eyes on any kind of UAP, there’s just

some other activity as part of our investigation going on.

For example, drilling, digging.

Could this be a fingerprint?

Or at least the trace evidence

of the technology that is being utilized?

That-that is a, uh, possible speculation, Brandon,

but I would say it’s one of those correlations that

we haven’t proved that they’re definitively tied

to each other, but the statistics are really

getting hard to, uh, ignore.

I’ve heard these stories about people that pick up

radio stations on the fillings in their teeth over the years.

Uh, coming back to the idea of frequencies,

Lue Elizondo, who headed the AATIP program,

has indicated that there is a frequency that they have studied

that pops up again and again in these military

encounters with what we’d call UAP or UFOs.

I can tell you, uh, definitively that the UAPx guys,

they told us specifically that they were

looking for microwaves, so I told them,

"Just look between one and three gigahertz,"

and they came back to us and said,

"We had a sighting the other night and you were right.

We picked up something at 1.6 gigahertz."

-And this was in California. -Wow.

So, it seems that this 1.6 gigahertz is somehow

-connected to these sightings. -Yeah.

Well, uh, there’s some kind of electromagnetic effects.

It’s always been associated with the ranch.

Uh, when you think you’re ready to document it,

it goes somewhere else. It plays tricks on you.

Compasses spin, batteries die,

vehicles crap out, cameras go off-line.

And whatever this force is,

whatever the source of the intelligence,

it shows you that it’s in charge.

It reminds me of this recent experience...

...with Dragon and Tom Lewis.

I think it’s important for...

Governor Herbert to hear

of your most recent experience,

that literally brought you to your knees.

THOMAS: Yeah, it was probably,

well, probably the scariest moment,

you know, personally-- I know

-it was for you obviously, Tom. -Definitely.

Yeah, so this day we were drilling.

Dragon had this idea, maybe we should go check out

Homestead Two, see if there’s any weird

readings happening there.

We go down to Homestead Two.

Everything seems normal. We took instruments.

We’ll see if anything strange pops up and...

-keep in touch with them. -Yeah.

This doggone thing is broadcasting.

This thing shouldn’t be broadcasting anything.

Hey, Bryant? Tom?

Do you copy?

Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Erik.

TOM: Erik came on the walkie and said,

"Listen to this sound."

We’ve got an RF spectrum analyzer,

which is a receiver

that seems to be broadcasting,

instead of just receiving.

Well, just have a listen at this.

(beeping)

TOM: That sound that was broadcast over

the radio was a set of beeps.

I heard static and, like, a roaring train.

Are you okay?

No.

My eyes went black.

I couldn’t see.

-And... -Like you went blind?

Uh, yeah, I was a little bit conscious still

and so I dropped to the ground

and my whole left arm was numb.

And so, at this point, I’m scared.

I’m thinking I’m having a heart attack.

It was, I could, I could feel him

physically shaking. I mean, it was...

He’s in distress.

It was all I could do to get him to my truck.

You want to go?

Yeah. Let’s go.

(exhales) I can’t feel my hand.

You, like, you can’t... you can’t feel your hand?

I can’t feel my hand.

BRYANT: Do you have any chest pains?

TOM: No, but it’s hard to keep...

keep my breath, it’s...

TOM: And my vision really didn’t come back

until I was off the ranch.

Luckily, Bryant was there, you know, to help me.

And, uh, what had happened

is my heart, uh, was skipping beats.

And I had had EKGs before this

and I’ve never had this issue before.

And the doctor explained to me

that it, you know, there’s nothing wrong with my heart,

but it was an electrical problem.

-Really? -And, yeah.

Fortunately, you know, he’s okay but,

I mean, that’s, that’s the strange thing is

it affects people so differently and people

are tuned to whatever energy or frequency, but...

what I find, you know, interesting and also disturbing

is it occurred, like, literally right when...

we were hitting the base of the mesa where

we were trying to see what in the world is inside that mesa.

And that’s when all hell broke loose.

Which leads me to think about this material

that we pulled out of one hole...

while we were drilling into the side of the mesa.

Boy, that thing sounds like it’s hitting something.

Oh, what the heck is...?

TRAVIS: In an effort to explore a possible tunnel

or cave system beneath the mesa,

we brought in drilling expert Aaron Blunt,

who attempted to drill horizontally into the mesa.

That’s when his drill bit encountered

something hard and seemingly impenetrable.

We’re coming up about 11 inches every ten feet.

So, it sounds like you’re describing kind of a V.

It could even be... maybe a dome.

TRAVIS: Not only was this hard object dome-shaped...

What is that?

...it also appeared to be 400 feet wide

-and made out of metal. -Oh, my.

What did you think it was when you first saw it?

I wondered if it was like metal flakes or something.

That’s exactly the same impression I got.

But the biggest surprise came when we had

a piece of the metal analyzed.

There are material findings coming out of that

lateral drilling exercise, surprising.

Completely unexpected.

I have to show you this.

I want to put them on the table so...

I’m going to pass around

a few of the samples of which we have

many, uh, into the hundreds

that have been taken out of that what,

five or six-inch diameter hole?

We’re talking about a six-inch hole into the mesa.

We made it back about 420 feet.

These started coming out as we were well into

the hundreds of feet into the mesa.

But who knows how much of it

never came back out of the mountain.

Erik, uh, reached out, uh,

to the local university here and had them do

an analysis with a scanning electron microscope and do...

precise elemental analysis makeup of this material.

The interesting thing about the analysis that we got:

tellurium is only on one side

and europium, which is on the other side.

Now, tellurium and europium are two

of the most rare materials on the planet.

And it was fused.

Can that happen naturally?

If it were going to be made on Earth,

it would have to be done deep under the crust,

miles deep in a geological process.

There’s no volcanic processes happening there

on the ranch or in the Uinta Basin

that, uh, that we know of.

The only other natural,

uh, way to create this would be an asteroid impact.

But what we’re missing from this asteroid is,

uh, we’re missing nickel, we’re missing iridium,

we’re missing some other things

that would be there if it were an asteroid.

This bears a lot of resemblance

to things that were made in a furnace.

As if this is

perhaps an engineered material.

TRAVIS: You remember the space shuttle tiles

that protected it from heat on reentry?

This material makeup is very similar to that ceramic.

-Wow. -So, Governor Herbert, let me tell you,

we did another, probably the biggest,

most complicated, most expensive experiment

that, uh, has ever been done at the ranch.

We had three laser systems,

and we placed them in a triangular position

pointed up at the anomaly in the sky over the ranch.

And then we also had

a very large rocket system

uh, so that we could put a payload

into the anomaly and have it linger

as the recovery system brought it back down

with multiple instruments. Now...

we get ready to do the launch and...

Brandon, tell them what happened when we counted down

-and you pushed the button. -The second that I pushed

the button, it literally went up and exploded.

Push and hold.

Oh!

How high did it get... off the ground?

Maybe 30 feet?

-So it immediately blew up? -Yeah.

Has this ever happened before? Any of those rockets?

They’ve never had one fail like that before.

So, it’s like somebody was trying to keep us from getting

the instruments into the place we want to put it.

So thank heavens we were ready with other rockets.

-Yes. -To continue the experiment.

Do you have that second launch?

So this is, in fact, the footage of that launch,

as seen by one of our surveillance cameras.

This takes place at exactly the place

where we’ve had so many unusual things happen.

-Is that the triangle? -ERIK: That is the triangle.

Yes.

Erik was in the command center

and saw something.

ERIK: 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.

Travis, you’ve got to see this.

-Okay. -Well, there’s the lasers.

-Yeah, I’m doing instant playback. You see this? -Oh! Yeah.

-Wow. -What the crap is that?

This is through the lens of a camera that is tasked

with surveying the skies.

And I’ll draw your attention to this part of the screen.

Clearly we have an object. Something luminous moving

towards the apex of that configuration of lasers being

broadcast upward from the triangle.

TRAVIS: And it just, I mean, it just goes away.

-Yeah. -Wow.

It’s important to note that during this day,

the entire airspace

not only above the ranch, but in the general area

within the Uinta Basin was restricted.

Clearly, there’s no strobe on this,

but beyond that, the aircraft transponder data receiver

that we have at the ranch indicated no aircraft

at that location.

It’s unexplained. What is the theory

of what the explanation could be?

Well, what if some of the stories

that we keep hearing about, uh, from the ancient Native tribes,

in petroglyphs that-- from all different kinds of

folks that have been to the ranch, that there’s

a portal access on the ranch.

What if that’s true? It could be what we just saw!

This may be a particular point of interest

for a wormhole or a stargate, some type

of interstellar interaction?

One of the stories that’s been told from the Sherman

and Bigelow era that caught the attention of the DIA--

the Defense Intelligence Agency--

was about a hole in the sky.

Call it a portal.

The rancher would see these things open up,

it’s dusk here, it’s afternoon over there.

It’s like you’re looking in

through a hole in the sky to another place.

And he would report things coming in and out.

Uh, craft coming in and out from that reality to this reality.

Well, you just referenced an anecdotal experience,

one from a credible scientist,

but no visual evidence to accompany that.

Here we have potential visual evidence

of some type of interstellar activity

focused on the ranch, some type of interaction

that is not explained by any conventional means.

Never seen it before.

I-I’ve never seen anything like it before.

And, Brandon, this next one, you have yet to see

because it just happened to us.

-Really? -Yeah, it is so bizarre.

I think it would be a good idea to get everyone’s eyes on this.

-Absolutely. -Please, let’s do.

ERIK: This is a three-dimensional model

of Pete Kelsey’s recent survey work.

Pete scanned the entire mesa, and look at this structure.

HERBERT: Wow. Incredible.

Wow!

This looks like a solid structure in the sky.

ERIK: Yes.

This object, whatever it is,

uh, it’s really fascinating.

What are we looking at? We don’t know at this point.

Well, we need to talk about the reality

of what we’re dealing with in this investigation.

Based on all of these combined events,

how do we move forward?

Based on all of these combined events,

all of this data, if we are truly being led by the data,

and what we have documented, how do we move forward?

What are our next steps as a team here at Skinwalker Ranch?

TRAVIS: Well, what we can say is perhaps one of the most

amazing treasures might be under that mesa,

but it might also be amazingly fragile.

And we don’t want to destroy whatever it is,

by willy-nilly going in and-and...

-and stomping our feet around. -ERIK: Yeah, and exactly

as Travis has explained, we should probably take

a forensic approach to look at this as a biopsy.

Uh, you know, we conduct the research, uh...

very carefully, because we don’t want to destroy

the very thing we are attempting to get eyes on.

So obviously we can’t come in

recklessly and blast the side

-of the mesa. -TRAVIS: Absolutely. -Yeah.

Whatever we do must be

surgical, well-planned and precise.

Is there any way

to discover what’s inside the mesa,

short of excavation?

Is there some kind of sonar,

microimaging that we can,

you can actually X-ray the mountain?

We have used, uh, ground-penetrating radar

to the best of our ability right now.

Uh, we are pursuing some, uh, space capabilities that

are just now, new technologies coming online.

Maybe in the next year or so.

You know, there’s another thing that we need to follow up on.

We have discovered there is some sort of anomaly

over the ranch in a certain location

that is between 3,000 and 5,000 feet

in altitude above the triangle.

If this is a... atmospheric anomaly

or a gravitational anomaly,

-I think we just got to follow up on this data. -Absolutely.

BRANDON: I think everyone would agree that we move forward

having a multidisciplinary, diverse approach

to really tackling this problem set and taking the data

that drives us in the right direction

to uncover the secret of what lies on this ranch,

both above and below.

GEORGE: Well, I mean, here’s the significance for me.

You guys set up an experiment

where you have witnesses there gathered

to conduct this experiment

and hopefully generate a response.

You don’t know what the response is gonna be.

You don’t know if there will be a response.

And you get a response and you document it.

It appears we are triggering contact...

...in some way, shape or form and...

it is manifesting itself

above the ranch in a very profound way.

We’re dealing with forces.

We’re dealing with phenomena

that redefines not only

our vision of reality but potentially even history itself.

Is Skinwalker Ranch really

at the center of a lot of interesting things

-that are now being brought forward? -HERBERT: Yes, but...

it doesn’t seem to be restricted just to Utah.

-This is country-wide, worldwide? -BRANDON: Yeah.

GEORGE: Well, for the last four years,

the whole world has been on a UFO binge.

We’ve had major media coverage taking it seriously

for the first time maybe ever.

Congress has dug in.

They want to fund a permanent investigation.

A program that would look into these things.

And all of this stuff is traced directly

back to Skinwalker Ranch.

If not for a DIA scientist

visiting the property back

in 2007 and having an experience,

there would not have been an AAWSAP program,

there would not have been an AATIP program,

and the whole world would not be on this UFO binge

that it’s on right now. We don’t know where it’s gonna lead,

but at least we’ve dragged it out of the dark ages

and made this topic a little more respectable

for Congress, for media, for scientists to investigate.

It all stems back to the ranch.

Well, Brandon, let me just say, you know, I was here

at the beginning 12 weeks ago, and now I’m...

I’ve returned and you’re reporting.

And all I can say is

the phenomena is just overwhelming.

I’m very excited about the next chapter.

Uh, I think you’ve got momentum,

uh, I again like Dr. Taylor

talking about this should be a scalpeled approach.

Erik, you’ve mentioned how we’ve got to be careful

about what we’re doing here so we don’t damage

-the information we’ll find. -GEORGE: Very much so.

You guys have made breakthroughs on so many different, uh, bases,

and, uh, I can’t wait to see what comes next.

BRANDON: Well, thank you, Governor, for your time and attention.

-And thank you, George, for joining us. -Glad to be here.

I want to thank everyone at this table for your sacrifice,

for your professionalism,

for your talents, your expertise.

We are, uh, opening new doors, new paths to explore.

I look forward to the path ahead.

And, uh, we’ll be in touch

with you regarding next steps.

-Thank you. -KANDUS: All right.

-Thanks, Brandon. -Thank you.

Thank you, Governor.

-George. Yeah, yeah. -Good to meet you.

ERIK: We’ve learned a lot of things through our work this year.

Piece by piece,

we are continuing to assemble this puzzle,

showing us that not only is the ranch phenomenology real,

but we seem to be interactively engaging it.

THOMAS: I’m way past the point of no return.

I’ve had too many things happen to me

on the ranch not to continue.

It seems like the stakes have risen,

so at this point we have to push forward.

We have to get answers.

GEORGE: I’ve seen things today that I never thought I would see

and haven’t seen before, but I’d like to think

that we can figure it out, I hope we can.

Here’s the thing for sure:

you aren’t going to figure it out if you don’t try.

TRAVIS: As we wrap up this year’s investigation

at Skinwalker Ranch,

we all feel like we’re getting

much closer to finding some real answers about this place.

I mean, when I first came to the ranch,

I had never even seen a UAP.

We got something, hold on.

-Look, look, look. -What is that?

Holy (bleep)!

But we’ve witnessed and documented

phenomena up in the sky...

What the hell is that in the sky?

CHUCK: That thing is big and spherical!

...that has changed my entire outlook

on what I thought was possible.

And now...

after encountering a dome-shaped metal object

deep inside the mesa,

who knows what it could ultimately reveal.

Oh, my.

TRAVIS: We owe it to ourselves

and the entire world to figure out the truth behind this ranch.

BRANDON: It takes courage to confront these topics.

I believe as we brave that territory,

as we have the courage to delve deeper,

both literally and figuratively into Skinwalker Ranch,

we’re going to find that not only

will we come to an understanding

of the dark forces that we’re interacting with,

but also the nature of our world, and our reality.

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