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TRAVIS: My whole life, I've
been fascinated by the universe

and what's out there
beyond Earth.

It led me to obtain
advanced degrees

in astrophysics,
aerospace engineering,

and optical science.

Then I got to work
over the past three decades

with NASA, the U.S. Army,
and the Department of Defense.

Travis.

-Hey, Brandon. How you doing?
-Brandon Fugal.

TRAVIS:
Four years ago,

I got the chance of a lifetime

to join an amazing team

in their investigation
of the most bizarre place

I'd ever heard of:

Skinwalker Ranch.

At first, I was skeptical
of all the legends,

but from day one, we've
experienced things together

that I thought were only
possible in science fiction.

-What are you seeing?
-A signal?

TRAVIS: Massive energy spikes
that come out of nowhere...

TRAVIS:
1.60000.

BRYANT:
Boy that thing sounds like
it's hitting something.

TRAVIS:
...evidence of a 400-foot-long,

dome-shaped object
buried inside a rocky mesa.

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

TRAVIS:
...inexplicable animal deaths...

There's no sign of struggle,
it's just dead.

TRAVIS:
...and a ton of UAPs.

Look, look, look, what is that?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

-UAP right there!
-Yup.

TRAVIS:
Recently, some documents
were released

to the public about
a program run by the Pentagon

known as UAPTF.

The Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

TRAVIS: It was created
about four years ago

for the study of UAPs

and phenomena like what we've
experienced on Skinwalker Ranch.

These documents also revealed
that I was the chief scientist

for the UAPTF,
and I helped to author

the official report that was
presented to Congress in 2021.

However,
I wasn't permitted to disclose

any of this
to the team on the ranch.

So, now, as I'm returning
to join them once again

for what I consider to be
the most critical investigation

of the UAP phenomenon
in the world,

I'm real eager to discuss
what I can with them,

and I'm curious what
their response will be.

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, Dragon, this is,
uh, Cameron.

I have Brandon on board.

We're on the perimeter of
Skinwalker Ranch. We're inbound.

BRANDON: I'm Brandon Fugal,
the owner of Skinwalker Ranch.

I'm really excited to
pull together the team today.

Every time that
we enter the ranch,

there are new discoveries and

sometimes new dangers
that arise.

We've seen more evidence of
the reality of the phenomenon,

and we are committed
to getting the answers.

CAMERON:
Here we come in

for our landing
at the Skinwalker Ranch helipad.

BRANDON: The revelation
that Dr. Taylor

had been acting
as the chief scientist

for the Pentagon's
UAP Task Force

came as a shock to all of us.

I think we're still processing

the reality of what that means.

I found it to be intriguing.

I found it to be confirmation

that we are
truly on to something.

-Hey.
-Welcome back.

-Good to see you, friend.
-You, too.

Hey, Kaleb.
Oh, it's good to be back.

BRYANT:
We're ready to kick off another
phase of this investigation.

It's always good to see
my good friend Brandon,

and we're excited
to get him up to date

on what we've been doing.

-Is the team assembled?
-Yep.

Great.

THOMAS:
Today, we kick off

the new research investigation
this summer.

I left last year
being pretty disturbed

about some of the things
that I witnessed,

and so, I wonder,
you know, what lies ahead

and what crazy things are we
gonna experience this year?

Let's proceed. We've got
a-a big day ahead of us.

And an exciting time to kick off
this phase of the investigation.

-Great to have Dr. Taylor back.
-Thank you.

BRANDON: We had some interesting
surprises over the last weeks

with Dr. Taylor,

the former chief scientist for
the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.

Uh, it would be great to hear
you shed some light on

your role and how that has, uh,

impacted our investigation
and-and how

that may influence things
moving forward.

Sure. Uh,

well, so it started in a way

that you'd
be surprised, actually.

So, that first summer,
back in 2019, I guess it was,

there were some, uh, signals
that we had measured,

that I was concerned, uh,

was a national security
implication, and

it was this
1.6 gigahertz signal.

Really?

Erik, are you
doing something at 1.6?

I'm not broadcasting.

TRAVIS:
Over the past three years,

we've repeatedly detected
an energy frequency measuring

1.6 gigahertz...

(loud radio static)

What-what the heck is that?

TRAVIS: ...which we've
suspected could be

some kind of
communication signal.

Now, normal human technology
like cell phones and radios

don't typically operate
at that frequency.

So, with all the bizarre
phenomena we've seen out here,

I wondered who or what

could be broadcasting that
signal out here on the ranch.

TRAVIS:
I went to the Pentagon to brief,

to find out if this was us
doing it or if it was

somebody else doing it.

Foreign adversaries
that may be involved.

Yes, and-and I had--
So, I had to report it

to the right officials.

So, I went to a room
in the Pentagon,

and I, uh, I briefed, uh,

what I'd seen, and then this guy

comes into the room,
and, uh, he asks

everybody else but me to leave.

And he said, "I'm the director
of the UAP Task Force.

"This is very interesting, and
what I'd like to do is invite

"you to, uh, come on-on board
and be the chief scientist

for the Task Force."

And he presented me

to both Congress
and the White House

as the chief scientist
of the Task Force,

and, uh, and it wasn't until

he and I both retired
within the last six months,

and, uh, we were
approved to r-reveal

that we actually were a part
of that-that Task Force.

BRANDON:
Interesting. Were they able

to shed light on whether
we're dealing

with a foreign adversary
or the nature

of what we're recording here
at Skinwalker Ranch?

TRAVIS:
So, according to
the charter written

in the National Defense
Authorization Act,

they had to tell us
if they were doing something.

Turns out it's not us,
it's not anybody

that we know of, so what is it?

I know a lot of our team members
have been really concerned

that they weren't
actually privy to your role.

Yeah, well,

you know, I was bound by an oath
and legal, uh, requirements.

I could not say it.
If I would've said it,

I'd have gone to jail.

Right? I can tell you now
that, uh, I'm in

the private sector, and I see
this as a huge opportunity here.

That, uh, hopefully, we'll see
assets come available for us.

-Well, it has to be reciprocal.
-I agree.

-This has to be a give-and-take.
-Yeah.

Especially when
we're dealing with

-such sensitive material.
-TRAVIS: I agree.

TRAVIS:
It was hard for me
to keep information

from everyone
on the ranch because

it's critical that we act
and feel like a team.

But I also completely understand
why the government

needed me to keep
some things confidential.

Thankfully, now that I've left
the UAP Task Force,

there will be
no more need for secrets.

I can say from, uh, my personal,
uh, experience here,

and from, uh, what we've, uh,
uncovered and investigated,

this is a hot spot that, uh,

everybody's looking at, and-and

they wish they had the access
that we have

on the daily basis to do
the tests and measurements.

So, if I'm correct here,

it was the work that
you started doing here

that led to your opportunity

-to be part of...
-TRAVIS: That's right.

That's coming from the guy
that told us we were all nuts

when we first invited you
to come out here.

(laughs) I knew you were
gonna say that.

Just saying, I love it.

ERIK: Dr. Taylor's involvement
with the UAP Task Force,

this is of course a revelation.

It doesn't really change
my outlook

on his contributions here,

but I also welcome any insights
that may have come out

of his involvement
with the UAP Task Force.

So, Erik, what would you propose
as far as experiments?

We've got a lot
of planned activities.

Um, some of them based
in the work that we did

the last time
we were all together.

One of the big findings,
of course, was

what was inside that mesa.

Right.

And what did we pull out? Metal.

Right. It's an aerospace-style,

manufactured material,

not something
that happens naturally.

Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Last year,

while drilling horizontally
into the mesa...

Wow, look at all the metal.

TRAVIS:
...we extracted pieces of metal
from a massive,

dome-shaped object that
the drill couldn't penetrate.

You did the analysis of the, uh,

samples that we sent?

-Yes, we did.
-TRAVIS: Ah.

And when we had them analyzed
at the University of Utah,

we found out that they were
composed of a mixture

of elements that NASA used

as a protective coating
on the space shuttles.

So, one of our main goals
this year

is to determine
just what could be buried

inside that mesa.

ERIK:
I think one of the ways
we get answers to the mesa

is to do a different
kind of survey,

and I'm thinking
ground-penetrating radar.

So, we have a GPR capability
that we're going to deploy

this year, which is gonna
allow us to kind of paint

that whole area and see down
into the ground

and see if maybe
there is a big, a big void

like we've had described to us.

Excellent.

Also, I want to continue
expanding the effort

out into the homestead,
of course,

but also,
we have this opportunity

right out there at the triangle.

Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Over the past three years,

we've been perplexed by a zone

about a mile above a place on
the ranch we call the triangle.

We've got liftoff.

TRAVIS:
Oh, my God, during launch,
the electromagnetic spectrum

is going crazy, guys. I've
never seen anything like it.

TRAVIS:
We've detected
the 1.6 gigahertz signal there,

and we've seen rockets

and lasers deflected
by some invisible

force or object.

So, I'm showing radar
altimeter, it's showing

we're only 40 feet above
the ground right now.

TRAVIS:
We also took

Brandon's helicopter
up there to scan it

and had a shadowy UAP fly

back and forth
about 40 feet below us.

-TRAVIS: See that?
-BRANDON: My gosh.

TRAVIS:
And last year...

Here.

This thing's really
clipping along.

Oh, my gosh.

It disappeared.
Can you replay that?

TRAVIS:
We watched a UAP ascend
from the mesa

toward that mile-high zone

and then just vanish
into thin air.

BRANDON:
Are we seeing portals open?

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Brandon's not crazy

to mention portals.

People, including scientists,

have reported seeing
portals here for years.

I just don't know what
to make of all that yet.

There's a level of
anomalous phenomena

happening over the triangle
that, somehow,

we need a better handle on.

BRYANT:
That begs the question, then.

-How do we follow up?
-So, I'm contemplating

a new experiment, you know,
taking a-a slam scanner,

a LIDAR-based device, up into
the air with the helicopter.

TRAVIS:
That's a good idea. You know,
it would be nice to have

a really good
LIDAR measurement at altitude,

at 5,000 feet, right over
the center of the triangle.

Could we do that
with a helicopter?

How heavy is this equipment?

Well, it's-it's handheld.
It's a handheld LIDAR device.

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: So,
we'll open the doors,

and-and fly around
the perimetry of it,

holding the LIDAR
out the edge of the door

and-and mapping as we go.
It takes its own

GPS information,
which will be interesting

if it gets anomalous
behavior from that.

So, while members of the team
are out there conducting

these experiments, I think
it would be smart to have

Tom and Kandus and Jim

move out
to the community in order

to interview those who will
bring additional information

and experiences to light.

JIM:
I'm actually finding
the community,

uh, willing to embrace us.

I think a lot of it is
because of the credibility

that we bring to the table.

KANDUS:
Yeah, so we are excited.

We have a lot of leads
in the community this year.

-Yeah, so that stigma
is breaking down...
-Mm-hmm.

...like we've-we've said,

and it is easier
to get people to-to speak.

BRANDON:
Well, for you,

for Jim and you,

thank you for building
those relationships.

Yeah, thank you.
You bet. Thank you.

Thank you, everyone,
for your continued hard work.

We all have our marching orders.

Let's press onward.

-Thank you.
-Thanks, Brandon.

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

BRANDON:
Hey, fellas.

Finally meeting
the great Pete Kelsey.

-Finally meeting you.
-Thank you.

After our first meeting,
technologist Pete Kelsey arrived

to help us with
our first experiment

of the year at the triangle.

Over the last couple of years,

he's brought in numerous
scanning devices

that have detected a lot of
phenomena all across the ranch.

So, what do we have here?

PETE:
That is the Hovermap.

Um, basically, handheld LIDAR.

I'm gonna strap myself
to your helicopter

and see what we get.

Are you saying you're
going to literally hang outside

the helicopter and scan
the space with this device?

With your permission, of course.

Okay.

TRAVIS:
As Cameron Fugal
flies me and Pete Kelsey

up through the triangle,
Pete will be strapped in

and scanning the area
with a LIDAR device.

It works by emitting
infrared laser light

that we hope
will reveal anything

that can't be seen
with the naked eye,

and might help explain
all the UAPs

and other phenomena
we've detected up there.

So, that is the first part
of our exercise today.

-There's a second part.
-What's that?

TRAVIS:
Erik's gonna turn on a broadcast

of the 1.6 gigahertz
signal. Right?

Then, when we get
to 5,000 feet, these guys

are gonna launch a rocket

from here. Now, it's gonna go up

probably to about 1,500 feet,
no more than 2,000 feet.

I-I feel comfortable with that.

Now, uh, isn't-- aren't rockets

and broadcasting at 1.6
how you make things happen here?

THOMAS:
Yeah.

ERIK:
Now, the first part

of our exercise today

is an area on
the eastern side of the property

where we've seen anomalous data
in our photogrammetry,

-suggestive of something.
-THOMAS: Yeah.

Pete, you caught this
with your first scan

with the photogrammetry.

Now, you get to go hover

above it in a helicopter and see

if you can catch it
with your LIDAR.

TRAVIS:
The east field is a location

about a half a mile
from the triangle

where some of the strangest
things have happened

during our investigation.

Spinning up.

TRAVIS:
Right at the end of last year,

Pete conducted a photogrammetry
scan in the east field

near a mysterious circle
of stones

that sits up on the mesa.

According to
Navajo historian Jon Dover,

ancient Indigenous people
created the feature

to represent a portal
on Skinwalker Ranch.

Whoa.

-ERIK: Okay.
-THOMAS: In the sky.

-KALEB: Right there.
-ERIK: Yes.

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

TRAVIS:
Well, what Pete's scanner
detected just blew us away.

-ERIK: Look at this structure.
-That's nuts.

ERIK:
Well, just think
about what it would mean

if we saw the same
kind of anomaly

with two completely
different technologies.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, let's go ahead and, uh,
commence the experiment.

-What all goes? Everything?
-Everything.

ERIK:
It's generally true,
in science, that we place

the highest confidence in
results that repeat themselves.

So, as we survey

just over the east field here

and in the vicinity
of the triangle...

-Thank you.
-You bet.

ERIK:
...we want to understand

whether we're dealing
with a persistent effect

in those two regions of the
ranch because we have no idea.

TRAVIS:
All right, so let's figure out
what hardpoint we want

-to snap to.
-Okay, let's go around.

While Pete scans
with his LIDAR device

out the open door
of the helicopter,

I'll be right beside him
watching the monitor

to see if the LIDAR picks up
any structure or objects.

Let me have that rocket motor
and that igniter.

TRAVIS: Meanwhile,
Dragon, Kaleb and Thomas

will be on the ready
to launch rockets.

They'll also be broadcasting
the 1.6 gigahertz

communication signal that
we've recorded in the past...

-All right, well,
we're all set up in here.
-Great.

TRAVIS:
...which Erik and Brandon
will be monitoring

on his systems
during the experiment.

Both of these tools have been
very effective in stimulating

bizarre activity
on the ranch in the past,

so, hopefully,
by the end of today,

we'll get some answers
about these locations.

TRAVIS:
Hey, guys,

uh, we're ready to go
in the chopper.

All right, copy that.
You guys be careful up there.

We don't want to lose Pete.

We've got him tied in
with four different ways.

Everything's checked.

BRYANT:
This year, the first experiment
we're gonna try

involves having one our experts
hanging out of a helicopter.

I don't know
what's gonna happen,

but this is a pretty
dangerous experiment,

and I hope it yields
some results.

Here we go. Hang on, Pete.

TRAVIS:
First, go hit
the east field, okay?

CAMERON:
All right.

BRANDON:
Now, we're tracking.

Hopefully, we'll be able to
capture something interesting.

Yeah, every time
Pete's been out here,

something interesting
has happened.

Well, this will be good.

Activity is unpredictable
at Skinwalker Ranch.

But we've found that
there are certain methods

that you can utilize in order
to stimulate response.

This very aggressive experiment
is an important part

of this stage of the
investigation and we are

committed
to getting the answers.

Bryant, I just turned it on.

Will you radio Erik
and see if they're seeing it?

Erik,

Thomas has just
turned on the 1.6.

Just confirming if
you can see that signal or not.

Yeah, I've got good signal.

BRYANT:
Terrific.

Well, we're broadcasting
the 1.6, so...

we'll see if that
causes any reaction.

TRAVIS:
All right, the east field.

We should be about
over it right in here.

CAMERON:
Okay.

-All right,
I'm gonna start scanning.
-TRAVIS: Yup.

-All right.
-Okay.

All right,
nice and easy, Cameron.

All right, we're going.

I see the ground.

We're getting buffeted
from the wind a little bit.

But there's no freaking wind.

-Whoa! Whoa!
-Whoa!

We're getting our asses kicked.

Feel that, that's just crazy.

(grunting)

-Oh, wow! We're getting
something.
-CAMERON: What?!

TRAVIS:
We are getting an anomaly
in the air right now!

-Right there.
-You're kidding!

No, I am not kidding.

TRAVIS: We're getting
a significant anomaly

in the air right now.

It was clearly an anomaly
floating in the sky.

I've been following them.

I know, I don't see
anything either.

The helicopter is getting
buffeted out of the way

like there's a vortex or
something here.

This is crazy.

TRAVIS:
Right where we obtained
photogrammetry images

of a mysterious
column-shaped anomaly

above the east field
one year ago...

There are some very interesting
artifacts showing up.

TRAVIS:
Whoa.

TRAVIS:
Pete Kelsey's LIDAR scanner,
which emits infrared light,

detected an image of something
about 300 feet up in the air.

And what was even crazier
was that some kind

of invisible force
was literally pushing

Brandon's helicopter
around in midair.

It looks like it's
being pushed around

from the ground right now.

They're getting pushed around.

You can see the helicopter,
like, rocking.

BRYANT: And I'm picking up
nothing just visually.

Wow!

What the hell is going on?

-You see how he's moving?
-Yeah.

Oh, my gosh, you can see.
Look at that.

THOMAS: The helicopter
definitely looks like

it's rocking around down here.

TRAVIS:
The outside wind speeds

that registered on the
helicopter's instruments

were totally insignificant.

It was just this strange,
invisible force

that we couldn't see
pushing us around.

I have no scientific
explanation for it.

I just know it's where we saw

a column-shaped anomaly above
the stone circle last year

and now an object of some kind

on the LIDAR readout.

I think we're good.
We've got a really nice

3D map of the entire area.

-Cameron, I think we're good.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
I say we fly right by
the triangle.

PETE:
Yep.

TRAVIS:
I couldn't believe
what had happened to us

over the east field
and the preliminary data

we got on Pete's LIDAR scanner.

It still needed to be processed,

but based on our experiences
so far,

we were really anxious

about what we might find
above the triangle.

I mean, we're at
the triangle right now.

PETE:
All right, so give me
about ten seconds

and we'll be scanning.

TRAVIS:
Uh, it's running, it says.

PETE:
Are you seeing data then?

TRAVIS:
Nothing yet.

Holy cow, there's something
right outside the aircraft.

-You're kidding!
-TRAVIS: No, I am not kidding.

You were at 300 feet

and were detecting
an object in the air.

CAMERON:
What?!

Copy you, Cameron.

PETE:
You've got to be kidding me.

We are about 300 feet
above ground level.

You can see the green
is the ground

and the red is the thing.

-PETE: This is unbelievable.
-Unbelievable.

TRAVIS:
In the past, all the
phenomena we've detected

above the triangle has been
nearly a mile up in the air.

But as soon as Pete
started scanning

with the LIDAR, he detected
something strange

beginning at an altitude
of just about 300 feet.

We had never seen
anything at the triangle

that close to the ground before.

They're climbing.

I don't know why, but I feel
really nervous about this.

TRAVIS:
It froze up, Pete.
It's checking something.

PETE:
Nah, it's scanning.

Yeah, well, it's telling me
that it's checking.

It's not writing any more data.

PETE:
All right, stand by.

No, it says it's disconnected,
which is odd.

Disconnected? That doesn't
make any sense.

Wow, that's weird.

Hey, well, your GPS is off
from your pressure.

TRAVIS: We're-we're getting
discrepancies, right now.

Command Center, how you doing?
This is Cameron.

(static)

TRAVIS:
So the ground went away.

It was green and now
the ground's turned red.

And, uh, the anomaly
above it is-is still red.

I think we need to set down
and reset this thing.

Okay.

PETE: All right,
I'm going to stop scanning.

-(instruments beeping)
-Uh...

TRAVIS: Whoa.

Oh, my goodness.

TRAVIS: Whoa.

Why'd they land in the field?

Radio them.

Travis, do you copy?

Hey, Erik, do you copy
inside the Command Center?

Yes, I do. What's up?

BRYANT: I want to reach out
to Cameron.

They ended up landing out
in the field

for some odd reason.

ERIK:
In the field?

We're reset, we're about
to relaunch

and go do it again.

BRYANT:
Copy that.

We'll keep our eyes
on you as well.

TRAVIS: Yep.

TRAVIS:
Understood.

After we finished our LIDAR
scan above the east field,

we were eager to head
southwest to the triangle.

-All right, I'm going
to start scanning.
-Yep.

Just let me know
when you've got data.

We're getting data right now,

there is something right
outside the aircraft.

As soon as we approached
the triangle,

we started detecting
some kind of anomaly again

right around 300 feet high.

I was getting really anxious

about what was going to
happen next.

Just start spiraling up,
Cameron.

Copy you, Cameron.

-Holy cow!
-PETE: What, what, what?

Look at that.

-You see it?
-PETE: Yes.

TRAVIS:
We've got an anomaly,

a clear anomaly right beside us.

We've had eyes on it
with three sets of binoculars

and we've seen nothing.

TRAVIS:
Uh, we at 5,000 feet?

We're almost there.

Tell them to launch.

TRAVIS:
Right as we reached
the mile-high zone,

this huge mass showed up
on the LIDAR,

and with the 1.6 gigahertz
signal being broadcast,

it was time to launch a rocket

and poke this nest
as hard as we could.

Three, two, one!

There it goes!

Yeah.

TRAVIS: Which is what we've
seen before, Cameron.

Right here.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

-Whoa! Whoa!
-CAMERON: Whoa!

PETE:
There you go.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

(instruments beeping)

(beeping)

Yeah, we got a downdraft
right there.

-A little ass kick there.
-CAMERON: Yeah, yeah.

TRAVIS: As we approached
the mile-high zone

above the triangle,

where we saw a UAP literally
disappear one year ago,

really strange winds
started encircling

the helicopter like a vortex.

It really made me nervous

about what the hell
we were flying into.

Yeah, I think
it's time to abort.

Copy you, Cameron.
We will clear the helipad.

ERIK: It's exciting to see
that we're getting

interesting returns in real time

over the east field
and over the triangle.

-Pretty wild.
-Holy crap.

I really want to know are these
real features that we're seeing?

Shake my hand.

Heck yeah.

Wow, you guys.

TRAVIS: Y'all are not
going to believe this.

THOMAS: Well, Pete's face
has me thinking

you guys caught
something amazing.

What did you see?

TRAVIS:
There is an anomaly

that this LIDAR
picked up in midair!

300 or 400 feet
above the ground.

It's impossible.
It's impossible.

It remained there, too.

It wasn't a quick blip.
As we circled

and made orbits, it-it remained.

Let's process the data
as soon as possible.

Cameron and I want a full
report at earliest convenience.

Well, we got to go
crunch some data.

-Yes, we do.
-Okay.

-Yeah, let's go.
-Let's get on that data!

-Yeah.
-I want to take
this harness off!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ERIK: Well, guys, we've got
Brandon and Cameron and Pete

on the line for video call.

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah.

Hey, Brandon.

Hey, greetings.

It's good to be with you.

TRAVIS:
Pete Kelsey spent
two days processing

all the LIDAR data we collected

above the east field
and the triangle,

so we couldn't wait to review it
with him and Brandon.

We needed to figure out what
we'd encountered up there

that had affected
the helicopter's flight

and controls so dramatically.

PETE:
This is the data from
the helicopter flight.

TRAVIS:
So here we are
over the east field.

PETE:
What you're seeing,
the icon of course is us.

The magenta line
is our trajectory,

that is the direction
we're flying.

And we can see that the data
is following the aircraft.

TRAVIS:
Something about it that was--
oh, right there it did...

See how it's doing
these zigzag jumps?

Something moved the helicopter.

It-it was unbelievable.

I mean, we were all like,
"Whoa! What was that?!"

It wasn't just left
and right oscillations,

it was forward and aft,

left and right
all almost simultaneous.

It was as if you had two magnets

next to each other,
repelling each other.

Whatever it was,
it was trying to push us off.

You know, I think that has
to mean something.

PETE:
That's right.

Now I'll call
your attention to...

We have anomalous data
in the same general area.

TRAVIS:
So, here we are
over the east field.

BRANDON:
Oh, wow.

This is right where
I had the interference

-with the helicopter
as well, isn't it?
-Yes.

TRAVIS:
And-and there's where
I said you know what?

We've got an anomaly
in the spot again.

-This red feature.
-That red feature
floating in midair.

Above... And there's
no trail to it.

Be advised, I should
disclose some issues

with this first scan.

This is the incredibly
frustrating part.

I've spoken with the vendor,

I mean, we've gone
through it at length.

The vendor looked at this and
went, "Nah, you're ghosting."

And ghosting is just...

the scanner picking up
probably my feet, the skid.

THOMAS:
Well, I would just expect
consistency.

You know, if you're
picking up returns

from the blades above
or the skid below,

then I would expect to see
that through the whole thing,

-but the fact that you're only
seeing it over one point...
-Yeah.

What is it about this ranch
that continues to throw us off?

TRAVIS:
It was really sobering to all
of us to hear from Pete Kelsey

that the LIDAR data might not
have been accurate.

But there were certain
things about it

that just couldn't
be explained away.

Pete, go forward, let me...
I'll tell you when to stop.

Go forward about...
Right there, right there. Stop.

Now, when you look at that,

this is right dead center over

where the column was there

in your photogrammetry data.

And-and if you look,

there's no pathway to it,

it's not anomalous
features until that spot.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
In the exact same spot

where we identified

the column-like anomaly
one year ago,

we now have a second kind
of scanning technology

that seems to be detecting
something strange again.

If you can back up
two frames, Pete.

Stop! Perfect. Look at that.

I-I'm gonna go to the screen

So, come on, guys, we've got...

some kind of wing-like features.

I mean, you look at that,

there's three-dimensional
detail here.

There was nothing there.

We flew a helicopter
and we wouldn't fly

that close to an object
like that.

This distance right here
from there to there

is probably ten meters.

Look at it. It tends to
have a shape to it.

CAMERON:
Oh, my gosh.

That's actually pretty distinct.

That is compelling.

Now, if we were standing

in the road of the driveway
looking north,

and we took Pete's
photogrammetry data

and overlaid it on this image,

you would see the pillar

come up just like this.

Right where this spot is.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
In the same spot

where we detected a
column-shaped anomaly last year,

our LIDAR experiment

may have also identified
something strange.

And this is right near
a location

on top of the mesa

where ancient Indigenous people

built a stone monument
that's meant to represent

a portal on Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON:
What could that be?

We don't know what it is,

but there's something that was
anomalous about that spot,

and we got it on multiple
sensors now, at least two.

BRANDON:
I'm sitting here
just stunned

because, I mean, no matter what,

we're dealing with something
that is a mystery.

And that it's only over
the east field?

Oh, it happened
at the triangle, too.

PETE:
All right, guys, what
I'm going to bring up now

-is the data at the triangle.
-Yep.

PETE:
There is what appears
to be ghosting

along the trajectory
that we actually flew.

TRAVIS: But why so many
in the one spot

as we're, uh, circling
around the triangle?

Well, again, I would
expect if you're seeing, uh,

returns from either
the-the blades above

or the-the skid below,

that it would be consistent
through the whole flight.

But that's the weird part.
Why is it not?

PETE:
So, I-I'm with you, I mean,
there's no trajectory line

where this first showed up.
You see that?

-Yep.
-PETE: To cut to the chase,

I don't think this is 100%
conclusive in either direction.

I-I agree with that.

BRANDON:
Yeah, it is so frustrating,

because it seems
like we're so close

to understanding
what we are dealing with.

We're seeing these things
appearing

that have no conventional
explanation.

It-It's so damn elusive.

I... If there's any way

we can execute on
another experiment

in rapid succession to this,

to seize this moment,

and get some answers,
I say go for it.

TRAVIS:
Well, uh, first and foremost,

Pete, uh, and Cameron,

the two of you may recall,
but if I recall,

I think we were about, uh...

300, 400 feet or
something like that, right?

Seems about right.

ERIK:
There's something new here.

You know, uh, some
of the interesting returns

were happening at
much lower altitudes

than, uh, we've, uh...

-A thousand feet or more lower.
-ERIK: Right.

During previous experiments
at the triangle,

it seemed that
different phenomena

occurred about 5,000 feet high.

But now,
if the LIDAR data is correct,

it appears that something
is going on between

300 feet and that zone.

Look, you see that?

TRAVIS:
I do, did you see it bend?

Dude, did you see that?

TRAVIS:
Last year, we were stunned
to see lasers projected

up through the triangle
mysteriously bend.

There it goes.

And rockets that we
launched up there

get completely deflected
off target

by something we couldn't see.

And those things did happen
at various altitudes.

What was that bend all about?

So, could that mean
that the anomalous zone

is shifting along
a vertical plane

between 300 and 5,000 feet?

Or does it mean that it
may cover the entire space?

At this point, we don't know
if we can trust the LIDAR data,

so we're gonna have to
find another way to verify

what we found at both
the triangle and the east field.

We really need to look over
the triangle area at,

you know, 400 feet or so.

So how do you envision
that being done?

Uh, you know, you could
get a-a swarm of drones.

-Because they all fly on
GPS coordinates.
-I like it.

TRAVIS:
And fly them in a grid pattern,

and fly them around out there
and see what happens.

And, you know, the way we've
seen GPS messed up,

who knows what it would do?

You know, these people
probably go...

People that do these drone
swarms for like light shows

and stuff, they are precise.

And the patterns do all
these geometric shapes.

You get them out here and
fly them over the triangle

where the GPS messes up, there's
no telling what you would see.

BRANDON:
No pumping the brakes
at this point.

Let's just go full steam ahead.

TRAVIS:
Well, let's do it.
Let's move forward.

KALEB:
Yeah, let's go.

TRAVIS:
There's something odd
going on at this ranch.

I want to know
the answer to so many things.

Just what in the world
is going on here?

ERIK:
Every time we begin this work,

I never know what to expect.

And I've been surprised if
not shocked by the outcome

of each of our
aggressive experiments.

This year, we have
some things in mind

that might also be
considered aggressive,

but also visionary

and quite different
from what we've done before.

BRYANT:
Coming into this investigation,

we had such little information.

But now it's coming to light

that so many different
government entities

were so interested
in this place,

it makes me feel like
we're truly on to something

and all eyes are watching.

BRANDON:
My hope is to find answers.

Gain new insights,
be able to understand

the nature of what we are
dealing with at the ranch.

The deeper down
the rabbit hole that we travel,

the more complex
that it appears.

There are no easy answers
at Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS: I really don't know what
to expect here at the ranch.

Okay, we've got
a light that's moving.

TRAVIS:
There it is, right there!

That looks like
a bona fide UFO to me.

ERIK:
There is something metallic
in the mesa.

Whatever this is,
is as tall as the mesa.

We should be digging,
drilling right there.

BRANDON:
The closer that we are getting
to the answers,

the more covert
military activity.

TRAVIS:
We have a helicopter
right over the triangle!

BRYANT:
It just went dark!

It was a Black Hawk helicopter.

-THOMAS: Somebody's up
on the ridge.
-TRAVIS: Right there!

BRANDON:
We seem to be poking the
hornet's nest like never before.

There's a heat source
right above them.

Do you feel like this may be

-a dangerous area
to be working in?
-Very.

The coyotes
didn't kill this animal.

Middle of the day, an orb like
that showing up, that's crazy.

ERIK: This is the largest
scale experiment

that we've ever done
here so far.

-Fire!
-TRAVIS: We've got
a malfunction!

There's something in the sky
above the rocket!

We're maybe looking
at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

BRYANT: There is definitely
something here

on Skinwalker Ranch.

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