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All right, guys, the 1.6

is coming from Homestead Two.

Let's go.

It is coming from straight overhead.

The rocket literally just stopped in midair. That's crazy!

I'm into something

fairly hard.

We got metal.

Look at this cow, guys.

Its eyes are pure white.

That's what happens when you get exposed

to microwaves.

Those eyes have ruptured.

There's no way she's seeing out of those.

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, here are the boys.

What's up, fellas?

- That was some crazy stuff, man. - What's the story?

So, the vet looked at the calf's eyes.

And you could see around the base of 'em

where it was hemorrhaging from the inside.

- The eyes were hemorrhaging on the inside? - Yeah.

Yeah, she said that there's swelling on the brain,

and it's a lot of pressure on the eyes, but, yeah,

- it's bleeding around the eyes. - Geez.

Poor thing.

We've been struggling for more than a month now to drill

an eight-inch borehole up through the mesa

where we first encountered a massive dome-shaped object

back in 2021.

According to recent ground-penetrating radar scans,

this thing is also surrounded by several smaller anomalies

and may be composed of metallic materials that are similar

to what NASA has used to protect the surfaces of spacecraft.

So we're attempting

to drill two boreholes through the mesa,

one on each side of the dome-shaped object.

Then we'll insert scanning devices

that will hopefully enable us to identify what it is.

But yesterday the drilling operation was thwarted

once again about 200 feet inside the mesa

when we believe the drill bit made contact

with the dome-shaped object.

And then a calf in the nearby field

suddenly became seriously ill

and showed symptoms of being exposed to an extreme amount

of microwave radiation.

You know, one of the symptoms of... well, of both

microwave exposure

or gamma ray radiation exposure is brain swelling

and bleeding from your eyes

from hemorrhaging behind the eyeball.

We didn't detect anything like that.

So, what happened to it?

If there's truly something

that can have an effect that quickly on an animal like that,

I mean, that's got to make you pause.

Look, we're drilling into the mesa.

We're breaking ground we never have before.

I mean, I hate to say it.

Is it some sort of a warning shot?

It's pretty crazy. It's concerning.

The only thing

we can say is, it absolutely correlates with the drilling.

And it's right here at the drill site.

That's a good point.

It's all disturbing.

We're often told

that when you dig on the ranch, bad things happen.

I have to wonder, after seeing this calf,

if the two are related.

We don't know what we're dealing with inside that mesa.

Look, I've had a lot of health issues related to this ranch.

So this definitely got me on high alert.

Well, it's important to note that

we immediately removed the calf and its mother from the property

as soon as the vet got done.

It's doing much better.

Good. Okay.

Listen, guys, I'm gonna go back up

on the mesa and check with the drillers.

All right, Thomas. Keep a walkie with you, man.

Yup.

Today

the drillers are extracting the rods

from the mesa so that we can assess

the drill bit for damage

from possible contact with the dome-shaped object.

Hey, we're down to the last two rods in this hole.

They'll have this bit out of this hole

if you guys want to head up this way

and watch it as it comes out.

Yeah, man. We'll be up there in just a minute.

We're also eager to check out the beacon in the drill bit.

This device sends a signal to a receiver on the surface

so that the drillers can keep track

of the drill bit underground.

But just when it may have hit the dome-shaped object,

the beacon stopped working.

Hold that right there.

Is it broken, or is it just

that the battery's dead in the instrument?

We haven't figured out yet.

I'll wash everything off, and I can get to that

and pull that out, change the battery,

make sure everything's calibrated,

and we can go back in.

Yeah. Let's go have at it.

Every time we've tried to drill into this site,

we've encountered roadblocks to our investigation.

- Is that the battery set up there? - Yeah.

We've run into things,

including numerous equipment malfunctions,

so it's hard for me not to speculate

about what relationship that possible dome-shaped object

was having with our equipment.

Could it be a conductor?

Could it be something even more interesting?

I guess time will tell

what it is we're dealing with at this point.

I'm gonna go measure the voltage on this thing.

What's the voltage

supposed to be on those?

They're supposed to be 3.6 volts.

I'm gonna take this now, and I'm gonna

recalibrate everything on it.

- I'll let you get to do what you need to do. - All right, man.

All right. Thanks.

The bit didn't appear to have any physical damage.

So Erik and I were eager to see if the beacon's battery had

simply died for some reason.

Look at that. 3.619 volts.

This battery is fully charged.

Hey, guys?

This battery's fine.

- The battery is fine? - Yup.

It shows brand-new.

- That's pretty crazy. - Yeah. It's definitely strange.

All right, let us know if this works,

or if it goes out again, let me know.

- Okay, we will for sure. - All right, appreciate it, guys.

- Thank you. - Good luck!

Have the drilling beacons actually been shut down

by merely making contact with

whatever that dome-shaped object is?

If so, that makes us all the more determined

to get a borehole drilled up through the mesa

so we can insert scanning devices

and figure out just what we're dealing with in there...

and how it might be related

to all the other strange phenomena

that keeps happening on the ranch.

All right, Jared.

Let's start going back in.

Only time would tell

if the drilling operation would finally succeed.

So, as Erik and I stayed to monitor the operation,

later that morning at Homestead One,

Thomas and Dragon,

along with ranch caretakers Tom Lewis

and Kandus Linde, met once again with retired sheriff

and Uinta Basin resident Kris Porritt.

- Welcome back, Kris. - Hey.

- How you guys doing? - Not too shabby.

- How are you? - Welcome back to the ranch.

- Good to see you. - You, too.

So, Kris, thank you so much for coming back out here.

I understand you have

a few more stories that you'd like

to share with us today.

- Well, yeah. - Okay.

In recent years,

Kris has shared some very bizarre stories

about cattle mutilations

that he investigated on the ranch

more than three decades ago for Kenneth Myers,

who owned the property from 1947 to 1992.

- Let's get you in the Jeep. - Okay.

- Hear some stories. - Let's see what jogs your memory.

Last time I came out here to the ranch,

I didn't get into much detail.

There's things on this ranch that's happened that I haven't

even told people yet.

Me and Ken Myers made a promise and a pact

that I'd never disclose any of the information,

and so I just kept that secret all this time.

But my family convinced me to go ahead and open up.

That's why I decided to come out here today.

Okay, right over in here.

All right, lead the way.

Is this the right spot, Kris?

Yeah, this area right here was

where one of the cows had been surgically operated on.

One day Ken Myers called me up and he said,

"You need to come up and look at what I've found."

And when I got up here,

there was mutilated or surgically-operated-on cattle.

It was quite a mystery to me and Ken.

The cow was laying on this side of the ditch,

and the head was kind of down into the ditch

just a little bit.

Okay.

From the shoulder blades forward to the tip of the nose,

every bone was gone.

There wasn't a neck bone,

there wasn't a skull, there wasn't nothing.

It was just an empty sack and an empty head.

Now you tell me,

without using a scalpel or something,

how you're going to remove that.

Right.

There was no blood, nothing.

Wow.

There's a long history of cattle mutilations on the ranch,

reports going back decades.

So having Kris Porritt here is huge.

His experiences here on the ranch

could help us gain even more information

about unexplainable events that surround these mutilations.

Is there more to the story than we know?

There was part of a wreckage.

So, when you say wreckage,

you're talking about, like,

some sort of a craft wreckage?

Yeah, s-some type of a aircraft

or some-some kind of flying saucer

or alien craft.

So, when you say wreckage,

you're talking about like some sort of a craft wreckage?

Yeah.

- Some type of alien craft. - Wow.

What has you feeling so sure that you feel like it was alien?

Well...

one of the calf's had been mutilated.

Okay.

Its head was laying down here.

And right behind it,

there was a piece of metal that looked like aluminum.

It was about ten feet wide.

We've all heard so many stories about Skinwalker Ranch,

but when Kris Porritt,

a former deputy sheriff in the area,

came back to the property again

and told us his story about this alleged

spacecraft crash, it was really shocking.

It sounds fantastic,

but if we're able to uncover something like that,

then we're onto something really big here on the ranch.

Ken Myers picked that up,

kind of crumpled it, folded it, and he said,

"Now watch," and he threw it down on the ground

and it just kind of slowly opened back up

to a sheet of metal.

So, this piece of metal...

it was malleable and it popped right back?

Yeah. Yeah.

Ken says, "Come on over here."

I was standing about where Tom's at right now.

There was an impression made right here.

- So, the... was the ground pressed in? - Yeah.

Yeah, it was an indentation in the ground.

- Okay. - Like something landed,

- made an impression, and then left, or...? - Yeah.

I'm-I'm thinking it was

close to five feet wide

- at the center, okay? - Okay.

And then tapered down to about a two-foot point.

And it was same on the front as it was on the back.

- Okay. - And, it was about

just a little over 12 feet long.

What happened to it?

Yeah, what did he do with it,

with the metal?

I don't have any idea what he done with it.

I don't know.

I was shocked when he said that Ken Myers had

retrieved part of this wreckage,

what appeared to be aluminum that could be crumpled up

and then retake its shape.

Now, that's probably one of the most spectacular claims

that have been made here on the ranch,

and, I've learned never to discount anything.

So this is pretty big.

Was there other things there?

Well, I'll tell you, he found a liquid substance.

But it wasn't liquid.

It was more of a gelatin-type stuff.

Jelly, and it was green.

It was pretty much scattered all over in here.

If I had heard

Kris Porritt say the things he did five years ago,

I'd have laughed him right off this ranch.

The interesting thing is,

this is the same area that we saw a cow die.

And we have the security footage

that shows some type of black object

up in the sky above the cow at the same time.

You know, at this point it's all speculation.

Who knows what the truth is?

Ken Myers didn't want to make it public.

He was afraid that the government would step in

and take the ranch from him.

I mean, it was his property and that's what he wanted,

but I'm glad it's getting out, the-the truth about the ranch.

Yeah.

Thank you for sharing

- this information with us. - Okay.

And, we're gonna get our scientists

- and come look at this. - Absolutely.

- What's up, guys? - Howdy.

So we just heard quite the story.

Yes, we did.

What kind of story?

Well, we had Kris Porritt come on today,

who claims Ken Myers found a crashed craft.

- Basically he said... - Are those his words?

Yeah.

What did they say they did with the crash?

Kris said that he did witness

the metal, or the-the wreckage,

but that he didn't participate in getting rid of it.

Wow.

Even if one percent of such a fantastic story

turned out to be correct,

well, it would be, fascinating.

So let's go investigate where they think the crash occurred.

Look for physical changes

that might have happened to the land itself?

That's what I think, yeah.

Erik, I think you were the one that pointed it out.

It was right after we came on the ranch for the first time,

and you pointed down to the south field

and said, "Hey, isn't that interesting?

"There's that big hole in the tree

- down there in the south." - Yeah. Yeah.

- Where Kris said this crash happened, yeah. - Yeah.

What, what are you guys talking about?

Matter of fact, I have a photo of it.

I actually emailed it to you on our way over here.

Yeah.

Take a look at this hole through the tree.

Looks unnatural, doesn't it?

After hearing Kris Porritt tell a story of a crash site,

it made me think about this tree

down in the southeast corner of the field

that has a huge hole in it, and here I am,

wondering if something crashed through the trees.

I don't know if they're connected,

but they look like they could be.

Maybe something happened

to come through the tree

when it crashed.

Erik and Thomas were right.

There is a perfectly circular hole

through the canopy of the tree

where Kris Porritt claims that a spacecraft crashed

on Skinwalker Ranch more than three decades ago.

I wasn't sure what to think,

but I was definitely intrigued.

I want to go look at that tree a little closer.

- Sure. - Right? And see if there's a way

by looking at the tree...

if it looks like something hit it.

And then it might lead us

to where it might have hit the field.

I think an arborist should take a look at it.

I like that idea, and I'm especially interested

in learning whether we can tell whether there's heat damage

or radiation damage, you know, something out of the ordinary.

Sounds good.

All right, great.

The next day, while our drilling operation

continued at the mesa...

Hey, Jon.

Hey, Thomas.

- Good to see you. - Good seeing you.

We invited arborist Jon Kammerer

out to examine the tree

and see what he might be able to conclude about

what could have caused that huge circular hole.

So, Jon, we, had an individual that told us

a story about a craft that may have crashed

out here in the field.

And the interesting thing about this crash

is, there's a tree,

in close proximity that's got a hole in it.

So we're trying to recreate

and try to piece together, any evidence

that may support that story.

And so part of this is trying to determine...

Whether the crash went through that tree.

- You got it, that's it. - Okay.

Well, probably the best thing to do

is let you get eyes on it

- and look at it. - Yeah, let me, let me grab my gear.

I'm a certified arborist

and I have 15 years' experience managing

and assessing the health of trees.

So I'm gonna climb up into the tree and look for signs

of if something went through it.

So...

the hole's actually not visible right under the tree.

You got to get back a ways from it.

- Are you seeing that? - Yeah, that top, the higher one.

- Yeah. - Okay.

Is there anything that jumps out to you right now

that tells you this is

just a normal, sort of

death and decay process,

or is there anything that would say no,

this was actually a break?

I mean, I really got to go up there and take a look.

- Okay, let's get you up there. - Let's get you up there.

This hole looks like it's perfectly cut out.

So we want to know

if this hole was created by something abnormal

or if it's just a normal occurrence in nature.

So having an arborist out here to see

if there's any broken branches, burns on the bark,

that's gonna help us a lot.

So this is the center of the hole?

Yes.

Do you see anything?

Yeah, a branch here...

is growing straight up and then curving out.

You know, something could have broke off here at some point.

Creating it to grow and bend this way.

Any sense of how recently that happened?

Yeah, either the branch died back...

or... it broke off somehow,

creating some epichoric sprout growth.

That could have been...

30 years, longer.

There you go.

Wow.

That closely aligns

with what Kris Porritt told us.

So there is indication that maybe some branches

were broke off about 30 years ago?

Yes.

Well, that's interesting.

We had no expectations that arborist Jon Kammerer

would find any evidence to support Kris Porritt's story

that an alien craft allegedly crashed near the south field

on Skinwalker Ranch back in the 1980s.

- Jon? - Yeah?

Since you're right there at it,

kind of just estimate the, geometry of the hole for us.

Yeah, I can get you some dimensions.

But when he gave his analysis

that the huge hole through this tree looked unnatural

and may have been created more than 30 years ago,

we were definitely reconsidering our skepticism.

We're about ten feet, eight inches.

Wow, yeah.

And it's pretty symmetric.

That's good to know.

Yeah, it is good to know.

I can't say

that the evidence that Jon is sighting

is any kind of proof,

but it is suggestive that possibly

something has come through the top of that tree.

Just as has been suggested by Kris Porritt.

He described to us a craft

that was ten feet in diameter,

so if we have an object about this size

possibly crashing through the top part of that tree,

I suppose it could account for that hole.

So... just your professional opinion,

there does look like there were some branches broken

30 years ago, give or take.

- Yeah. - Well, so it doesn't

throw the hypothesis out.

- Exactly. - Yeah.

After that, we will

definitely keep investigating that area

near the south field for more clues.

Thanks again for coming out.

Appreciate you having me out here.

Yeah.

But later that afternoon...

Is your signal still good?

Everything's looking good?

- Yeah, everything's picking up fine right now, so... - All right.

We were all back at the mesa

to monitor the drilling team's progress.

I can see he's just about ready to change rods

- right now. - Yeah.

They were just about to reach the spot

nearly 180 feet in

where the beacon lost its signal.

Okay, Jared.

Go in with this next rod.

I still got him, so that's a good sign.

- It's right here now. - Yeah.

He's absolutely broadcasting.

We were holding our breath,

hoping the beacon

would stay connected so the team

could complete this borehole

all the way through the mesa

and help us get some answers about the dome-shaped object.

It's getting all wonky.

And I lost him.

- You lost him? - I got him back now.

Well, that is something.

Something's making their beacon jump around in frequency.

And it shouldn't be doing that.

It is extremely erratic.

Right at about 180 feet inside the mesa,

where the beacon signal went out before,

it started losing connectivity again.

That had to be more than a coincidence.

Still got him?

No, I lost him.

So I really don't know where I'm at.

- Really? - Yeah.

It's at this point in the exercise

where I start to feel my first doubts as to whether

we're actually going to get this hole drilled or not.

- Nothing. - Wow.

Because once again Alex loses the signal of the beacon.

And then he gets it back,

but it's very unstable.

There's definitely something anomalous right here.

He's back, I got him back.

But he's into something hard right now, you can hear it.

Listen to that, he's struggling.

Yeah, he's trying to push that thing in right now.

What the hell is in that mesa?

Yeah.

Hey, guys?

Go ahead, Tom.

We have no idea where this,

drill head is up in this mesa.

We know it's in there, but we don't know

the exact location or really any other information.

Alex is saying the only time that he's ever seen this before

is when they're drilling in a roadway where they've dug

a trench and covered it with a steel road plate.

So there's some-some kind of conductive material in there.

If the drill bit was up against something conductive,

it would very likely be something metallic.

So, could this dome-shaped object

really be able to just shut down a drilling beacon?

If that was the case, then how are we ever

going to figure out what's in there?

They're gonna keep trying to push through,

see if we can get through whatever it is

that's misdirecting the signal

and see if we can pick it up.

Heck, I don't know what else we can do.

But, we just sucked out the spoils pit.

So, Jared is just bringing that spoils down to dump.

All right, see if we get any metal hits, then mark it out

- and then test for it. - Yeah, dude.

If you need me, yell, I'm right here.

Thank you.

Travis thinks it could be something metallic

under the ground that's causing these drillers

to have so many problems.

And so, because of what we found a couple years ago,

this metallic substance that came out of the mesa,

we're being very vigilant

in sifting through all of the spoils

that are coming out of this drilling exercise.

What the hell is that?

Hey, Erik!

What do you got, Bryant?

Gosh.

- What...? - I don't know what the hell that is.

- What...? - I don't know what the hell that is.

- How did you spot that? - Well, I mean, look at the color.

At first, I thought it was a green-colored rock.

Yeah, that's... that was my first impression.

And then I went to pick it up,

and the first chunk squished in my fingers.

That's the strangest thing I've seen.

Honestly, without identifying

what the hell that is, I don't know that I'd be touching it.

- Well... I picked it up. - Yeah. Yeah.

Yep, understood.

We are screening and examining

the contents of the spoils

coming out of the spoils pit from the drilling operation,

and one thing did stand out, and that's what appeared to be

a piece of some sort of gelatinous green material.

You know, it reminds me of Kris Porritt,

who did, in fact, mention green jelly.

- Hey, Travis, Kaleb. - What?

Come take a look at this.

Bryant's got something here.

These things are not at all like anything else

we're bringing out, so the question is,

what have we hit here?

It's gelatin, it's like...

But you don't want to pick it up, like...

- Look at it, it's like a... - What?

It looks like what Kris Porritt was alluding to.

Are you kidding me? It's green jelly.

It really is.

Hey, Jared, does this look

like stuff that comes from your equipment?

It's, yeah, it's like a gelatin-y...

That doesn't look like anything like I've seen before,

- out of any of our tanks. - Really? That's bizarre.

That is bizarre.

All right, I say we bag this.

- Yep, where are the bags? - Over here.

I'm gonna keep looking for more of these.

That was the last thing in the world

I'd be thinking about right now. Green jelly!

What is this material?

Is it mineralogical or is it potentially biological?

I don't think I want to put that in a bag.

- I'm gonna try to... - That's a good idea.

I don't know, I don't know.

But it has my imagination running.

- You want to just put that in there? - Sure.

And I want to have these green,

potentially organic specimens examined

by the proper means

and by those who have the ability

to discern what they are.

What the...?

All right, this is getting stranger and stranger.

Hey, Travis, will you bring a water bottle over real quick?

Tell me what color is underneath this one.

It's that jelly stuff.

What?

- But it's pink. - But it's got pink.

We got to have a sample of this.

Let me go get a... Let me go get a container.

Get another jar.

Well, let's keep a watch on it,

see if we get more of it.

- Find something, Kaleb? - No.

Finding green jelly in the drilling spoils

was weird enough.

But then the pink material

really made me wonder if these substances

might be organic or even biological.

I would never expect to find stuff like that in solid rock.

It's all just clay.

So Kaleb and I kept searching through the spoils

hoping that we'd find something more definitive

that might give us some answers.

There's a piece of wood in there.

- What? - L-Look at that.

This has been carved. I mean, this ain't like a tree.

- This is like a piece of lumber. - Yeah.

I wonder if it's like a...

- It'd be a... - Like a mine shaft?

That's what I was just wondering.

Could there be...?

Maybe there was a tunnel

or a mine shaft. That's-that's wood.

How did this get inside the mesa?

We've never heard that mining operations

took place here on the ranch.

So it was really odd that possibly machined

or hand-crafted wood came from that deep in the mesa.

We've got to uncover whatever is actually in there

and figure this out.

I'm absolutely keeping this.

Do you even have it now, or is it totally gone?

Totally gone.

So, once again, the beacon

inside the drill bit quits working.

And at this point we have no idea where the drill bit's at.

So that means we can't even tell

whether or not we're close to the anomaly.

Without having this receiver,

we're not recording any data

and we have no idea exactly where in the hole we are.

Erik, you got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

(sighs) I unfortunately have some really bad news.

We went from having a signal that was bouncing around,

to losing the signal completely.

So I think we need to regroup

and make a plan for what's next.

Copy that. Thanks.

Well, now that's not what I was expecting to hear.

I don't think any of us should be surprised

to discover that there are complications

when trying to physically engage with the mesa.

Especially here at the drill site.

I am hopeful that we will be able to continue,

but I do not take for granted that we will achieve

the 24-inch diameter borehole that we originally had in mind.

So, tell us the news.

It's not good.

Yeah, completely lost signal on the transmitter,

so it's completely gone.

How much further would you guess you need to go

- to come out of the ground? - About 260 feet.

- Wow, that's a long way to be operating blind. - Yeah.

So what do we do? Do we try to pull the thing out,

change frequency on the... on the transmitter,

or do we try and just keep going forward?

I don't know what else to do.

We can pull it out and change the signal.

Um, and if that doesn't work,

then I-I, I'm at a loss at that point.

Well, then the plan of action would be:

pull the thing out, change the signal,

see if that helps. If it doesn't help,

then I guess we got to just keep going blind

- until we get some kind of response, right? - Yeah.

It's frustrating that there was another delay in drilling.

But the team's working really hard to help us,

and it's clear that they have never experienced

these kinds of malfunctions anywhere else.

So, while they take time to assess and fix their equipment,

it'll give us a chance to test these weird discoveries

and see if it offers

more clues about what's buried inside the mesa.

- We got a plan. - Sounds like a plan.

All right, let's do it.

Hey, guys.

So, you guys obviously recognize

- the samples we have here on the table. - Yeah.

We've reached out and connected with, Dr. Power

from the University of Utah to have an analysis

prepared for us.

And so I'm going to bring him up on videoconference now.

- Okay. - That'd be great.

We had no idea

what the strange green and pink jelly substances that were found

in the mesa drilling spoils could be.

So, since we also recovered some wood pieces,

Erik sent all the materials

to be analyzed by Dr. Mitchell Power,

the curator of botany

at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Hello, Dr. Power.

Hello there.

Thanks for jumping on with us today.

We're really interested in,

in your analysis of those samples that we provided.

So, what did you think of the samples that we sent you?

So, the samples were-were, um, kind of interesting to me.

The first sample, I have it here in a,

in a small vial.

This is the piece of wood

that we pulled out of the spoils pile, correct?

That's correct. Um, we did a little bit

of preliminary analysis on it.

We put it on the microscopes.

We did some, some pretty high-resolution imagery

on it, and, um,

in fact, I can, I can show you some of those images.

So, this was the, the initial sample,

um, as it was extracted from, from your coring operation.

Um, and then we started to, play around

with some lighting and some imaging.

And as we zoom in, we start to see some structure.

You can start to see, these pore spaces showing up

in what we think is a stem.

And now, if these are indeed pore spaces,

there's-there's only a few types of plants

that can do that.

And plants that produce a lot of spores in their stem,

or-or pore holes, tend to be aquatic plants.

So our-our best guess, for this particular sample

is that it-it's likely a stem of an aquatic plant.

And if I zoom in a bit more,

you can see in these two pictures,

- you really start to pick out... - Wow.

Those-those, pore holes.

I was shocked when Dr. Power revealed

that he believed this wasn't crafted wood

but part of an aquatic plant.

But I was also confused by what it was doing

that far inside the mesa.

What is your guess of why something like that

would be inside,

a mesa about 200 feet?

Well, um, I was hoping

you guys might have some idea about that. (chuckles)

You all know better than I.

As you were drilling through,

it sounds like it was a predominantly

like a sandstone,

- very little organic matter. - That's right.

But it seems pretty clear to me that at some point

in your drilling operation, you penetrated...

I was not expecting to hear that at all.

No.

We are looking at biological specimens,

prehistoric specimens

of some kind of very porous plant material

from an ancient era

in a location that may fit the profile

of a debris field inside the mesa.

What about the, the second sample?

The second sample was the jelly sample.

And, the jelly sample, is kind of interesting.

Doesn't really match with what I see

in terms of the, the geological history of the area.

Um, so I... what I did is, I took what's called a smear sample.

And so, um, I don't know if you can see here in my video,

there's a small microscope slide.

When we sent that sample in, it had

a kind of a green coloration to it.

Do you know what could account for the green coloration of it?

Originally,

we were thinking it was,

some kind of algal material.

- You mean algae? - That's right, yeah.

I didn't see any algal structures.

So it's not

a biologically-driven color

as far as I can tell.

So it's not chlorophyll?

I don't think so.

So, I thought I'd dig in a little deeper

into this, smear slide.

So we-we washed it down to see what kind of material was left.

And so what you're seeing now is, the organic slime

or jelly sample has dissolved away,

and the particles you see are pieces of burnt plant material.

And what was surprising is the abundance

of burnt plant material in a relatively small sample size.

- Wow. Wow. - What?

You mean, like

something caused a fire deep inside the mesa?

Absolutely, yeah.

Wow.

Like something caused a fire deep inside the mesa?

Absolutely, yeah.

Wow.

In my research here at the University of Utah,

I study, um, ancient wildfires, and we look for exactly this.

We look for burnt plant material,

and this is what we'd find.

Botany expert Dr. Mitchell Power believes

that the green jelly-like substance found

in the drilling spoils that came out of the mesa is plant-based

and offers evidence of extensive burning.

So, how might they be connected to the huge, possibly metallic,

dome-shaped object, which may also

be covered with materials

that are associated with spacecraft?

If you were to take a wild stab in the dark

as to how in the world this... these two samples

got a couple hundred feet inside a mesa,

somewhere between 50 and 100 foot deep,

what would you think?

It's a tough nut to crack here.

I'm not, I'm not 100% sure on-on what, what it's doing there.

But my-my guess, if I had to, you know,

put my money on anything, would-would be some kind

of a buried wetland feature.

That is absolutely not what I was expecting to hear.

No, that was completely not what I was expecting to hear.

Did these burned jelly materials

get inside solid rock through a natural process

over thousands of years?

I can't imagine how that would be possible.

Or was there once a wetland there,

and the dome-shaped object caused the fire?

The only solid takeaway I can think of is,

we have got to keep looking for answers inside the mesa.

Well, as if the mesa wasn't already complicated enough,

thank you for making it even more complicated for us.

And bizarre.

- Yes. - Absolutely.

Thank you very much, Dr. Power.

- Yeah, thank you. - Yeah, thank you.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

If this is some ancient wetlands,

how do we account for pulling out a bunch of metal

that's even deeper than what this sample was?

A bunch of metal... we've been told

that it's similar to, aerospace materials.

Then we've got this goo in there.

And we have a wetland that was on fire.

- Yeah, you can see where we're going with that. - Yes.

- It reeks of a crash of some sort. - It does reek of a crash.

It's science fiction, but who knows?

That's really, really strange.

Can this picture get any more complicated?

I would love to see

further analysis on the green material.

Yes.

We need to know exactly what it is

- and-and-and why it's in the mesa. - Yeah.

I think we have to get back out there,

we've got to explore,

as much as we can.

Well, I-I'll tell you what,

- I think we've got work to do. We do. -Yeah, we do.

- And so we need to get at it. - Thank you, guys.

Thank you, Erik, that was awesome.

I'm gonna go get to work.

Could we actually be trying to uncover

a crashed spacecraft of some kind

deep inside the mesa?

And if so, is there something of an intelligent nature

trying to stop us from doing that?

All I can say for sure is

that only time and a lot more hard work

is gonna tell us the truth.

Taken as a whole, the stories that have been

shared with us about this region of the property

suggest that there is what some people describe

as craft disappearing into the hillside.

I can't help wondering whether what we're looking at now

has a connection to those events.

The mesa continues to be one of the most

challenging areas of the ranch to explore.

But I truly believe that it presents

such incredible opportunity.

Whatever is within the mesa

may be the key

to understanding the nature

of what is happening on Skinwalker Ranch.

Hey, guys. Welcome back.

How many drones did you bring us this time?

- Thousand. - Thousand?

Three, two, one.

These drones will help us see what's above the ranch

that's causing all this trouble.

The drone's down, lost video feed.

- It crashed. - What the hell is up there?

Did you see that?

So you hit something in the air and spiraled to the ground.

This UAP appeared just before we lost the drone.

- We got more than one. - There are so many UAPs,

it's crazy.

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