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TRAVIS:
There's something in the sky.

Our team has detected
something really strange

on Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
Wow.

TRAVIS:
It may not only have
destructive powers...

ERIK:
Whoa. You can feel it.

...but it's also

invisible to the naked eye.

Oh!

Something literally
split the flames in two.

It seems to occupy the airspace

above a location that
we call the triangle.

BRYANT: Rocket's going up.

TRAVIS:
So, tonight, we're looking back

at some of the best evidence

we've collected so far...

ERIK:
What is that red circle?

...that just might explain
what it really could be.

TRAVIS:
It's a shadow of something.

-What-what are we looking at?
-THOMAS: A black hole?

(laughs)

ERIK: The triangle

is an epicenter

of high activity,
high strangeness.

It only stands to reason
we got to follow up on that.

TRAVIS:
As our team works to
reveal the true secret

of a 512-acre property

in Northern Utah
known as Skinwalker Ranch...

-THOMAS: Look, look, look, look.
-ERIK: What is that?

THOMAS:
It's a plane, I think.

It's gone.

TRAVIS:
What the heck?

...one place that may

hold a key to the answer
is the triangle,

and we've been working
to figure it out

since the start of
our investigation.

So, real quick, I'll show y'all
what we're going to do.

Right now, I'm not sure
when we're holding

these meters any particular way,

which direction
the signal's coming from.

That's what these are for.

We put this in the can,
turn it on...

-SEGALA: Right.
-...that's going to allow us to

do directional measurements,
and that will tell us

which direction
the signal is coming from.

SEGALA:
Oh, my God, that's huge.

There's a huge peak here
right now, 900 megahertz.

In 2019,

we zeroed in on the triangle

as the source of
mysterious energy signals

that were coming from
nearly one mile up in the air.

All right, so,

that is our next measurement,

and the way we could do that is

we tether a weather balloon

and raise it up
through that region

that has equipment on it.

We get it up there and see
if we see something there.

Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

MATT:
All right, so,

with this balloon,
we should be able to

go to that altitude and measure
with the TriField meters.

Nice.

With the help of aerospace
engineer Dr. Matt Turner,

we launched a weather balloon

equipped with energy detection

and GPS devices

to pinpoint and identify

the source of the mysterious
energy signals.

Okay.

(beeping)

Look how fast it's going.

Hey, I love how it's go--

And it's going right through
the spot, too.

That is awesome.

THOMAS:
Oh, that is perfect.

I say we pack up and go back,

try and track it
on the Internet.

MATT:
Sounds good.

MATT:
What does it look like so far?

Yeah, so, um,

we've got
a few good hits already.

TRAVIS: However,
as we tracked the balloon

while it passed through
the so-called "mile-high zone"

above the triangle from
Erik Bard's control room...

It's not...
This is not updating.

Something happened.

...it suddenly disappeared
from the radar

and was never seen again.

All right, Cameron,
what elevation

are you at
at this present moment?

We're 5,000 feet
above the surface.

I'm getting raw signal.

Come on.

CAMERON: All right,
we're going to drop this

right over the triangle.
Are you ready?

TRAVIS:
In 2021, we made
an even bolder attempt

to pinpoint and identify
the mysterious anomaly

by dropping canisters
that contained GPS devices

out of a helicopter
straight down through

the mile-high zone.

Three, two, one, package away.

TRAVIS:
Package away.

I have eyes on the package.

CAMERON:
Excellent.

Okay, here comes the next drop.

Counting five,

four,

three, two, one.

Cargo away.

TRAVIS:
I think there is
a headwind aloft here,

Cameron. Is that right?

That is incorrect,
we've actually got a tailwind

pushing us right now.

Wow, cause it looked like, uh,

it pulled the bottle behind us.

CAMERON:
Yeah, that's strange.

TRAVIS:
Incredibly, some of
the canisters appeared to

bounce off of an invisible
object midair between

the mile-high zone and several
hundred feet above the triangle.

All right, we're going to
drop this last bottle

right over the triangle.
Are you ready?

Go ahead when you're ready.

All right, I'm dropping now.

CAMERON:
Dropping now.

THOMAS:
It's in the air.

-TRAVIS: They're
going behind us.
-CAMERON: It's moving backwards

-from where we're at.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah.

THOMAS:
I lost it.

TRAVIS:
Then something
really unbelievable happened.

The final canister
that was dropped

simply vanished a few
hundred feet above the ground.

That left us wondering

if this invisible phenomenon

might actually change
positions above the triangle.

That's interesting.

TRAVIS: Make sure it's off.
Hang on.

-Are we good here?
-Yeah, we're good.

-Lights on.
-Lights on.

Hey, Erik, be advised...

...in about 15 seconds.
Are you ready?

I'm ready. Go ahead.

TRAVIS: That idea

may have been confirmed in 2022

as we conducted a rocket
experiment at the triangle.

Are you ready, Burdette?

-Yes, sir.
-KALEB: Yeah, we're good to go.

That night, we may have finally
captured a glimpse of it

just 31 feet in the air.

TRAVIS:
Look at that.

There is literally something--
We may be looking at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

BURDETTE:
That's crazy.

pull in right in here.
TRAVIS: t

Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah.

Let's load a rocket.

-Red one first?
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

In 2022, our investigative team

planned a new strategy
involving rocket launches

and a high-speed camera
in the hopes of stimulating,

and then identifying,

the mysterious phenomenon

above the triangle
on Skinwalker Ranch.

The rocket, it's ready to go.

-All right, um...
-Are you good?

Yeah, it's on.

TRAVIS: Our plan was to
launch rockets

up through the triangle
where we've seen

numerous UAPs

and detected
what we believe to be

some kind of anomaly

between 300 and 5,000 feet.

-Okay, it's on?
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
While Burdette Anderson

photographed each launch

at a thousand frames per second.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

All right, copy you.

TRAVIS:
Erik was stationed in

the command center
during the experiment

so he could monitor for

any strange energy spikes
out at the triangle

and keep a close eye on
the ranch surveillance cameras

pointed in this direction.

TRAVIS:
All right, here we go,
here we go.

-Okay, we're hot.
-All right, everybody ready?

Is everybody ready?

Erik, be advised,

the rocket's hot.
We're going hot now.

Copy you, Travis.

TRAVIS: All right,
here we go, in three...

Three, two, one!

TRAVIS:
Hey, did you see that?

It turned before
it could get to wherever

-the anomaly is.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Right after the first
rocket launched,

I noticed that in midair,

it suddenly veered
a little off course like it

ran into something invisible
that deflected it.

So, I was really eager to

immediately launch
another rocket

to see what would happen next.

All right.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

-THOMAS: That is cool.
-TRAVIS: Oh, that one
was awesome.

TRAVIS:
The second rocket
shot straight up

more than 1,000 feet
with no sign

of any interference
like the previous launch.

KALEB:
Hey, we got a light

that's right there
that's moving.

TRAVIS:
Yeah! We got it!
There it is, right there.

KALEB:
That's not a plane.

TRAVIS:
However, just
a few seconds later,

an orb-like UAP
appeared in the sky

right above us.

Ask Erik if he's
got anything on the ADS-B.

TRAVIS:
Erik, is there
anything on the ADS-B?

In the control room, Erik Bard's

Automatic Dependent
Surveillance Broadcast system,

or ADS-B, tracks all commercial
and government aircraft

in the skies within hundreds
of miles of the property.

ERIK:
You know, I get aircraft
as far out as 130 miles.

There's nothing over us.
There's nothing near us.

THOMAS:
That's no satellite.

TRAVIS:
Did it just--
It just vanished.

That thing stayed bright
and just...

(exhales sharply)
went away.

-I don't see it anymore.
-THOMAS: Well, I think

we got to get that
rocket up and see if

-we can make it, replicate it.
-TRAVIS: Yep, I hear you.

One more sparky rocket.

We couldn't wait to see

if launching another rocket
would stimulate

more phenomena
or who knows what else.

All right.

Going in five,

four, three,

two, one.

Oh, we got a malfunction.

Everybody watch out.

THOMAS:
Oh.

-Oh!
-KALEB: Oh.

THOMAS:
Oh, it's on fire.

TRAVIS:
We got a fire! We got a fire!

After the third rocket exploded,

we immediately thought
that it simply malfunctioned.

-KAELB: Hey, Travis.
-Yeah?

We caught the malfunction on

-the high-speed.
-Oh, really?

-Yeah.
-TRAVIS: But then, we found out

that Burdette Anderson's
high-speed camera

caught images of something

right where the rocket
exploded above the triangle,

just 31 feet
in the air above us.

There's something in the sky
above the rocket right here.

KALEB:
Yeah, look at that.
Look at the light.

(laughs)

No way.

We may be looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.

After four years

of investigating
Skinwalker Ranch...

...our team finally captured

some kind of blob-like feature
on a high-speed camera

that, literally,
appeared out of nowhere

and seemed to cause
the rocket to explode.

It was something that none of us
could see with the naked eye.

That cloud remained intact,
the whole thing.

This isn't
an anomaly in the lens

because it didn't move.

TRAVIS:
Could this be
the phenomenon that causes

the energy spikes
we've detected,

and is it related
to the UAPs we've seen?

Are all of the phenomena
that we've experienced as high

as 5,000 feet
above the triangle related

to the so-called blob

that was imaged
just 31 feet in the air?

If so, then what could it be?

It wasn't long
before we discovered

a possible answer.

Does something that defies
all scientific explanation

hover above the so-called
triangle on Skinwalker Ranch?

All right, sounds good.

Let's reset
for the flamethrower.

All right.

(engine starts)

TRAVIS: In 2022,

several weeks after our team
obtained an image

of a cloudy, blob-like thing

just 31 feet in the air...

BURDETTE:
That's 31 feet.

TRAVIS: ...we invited
pyrotechnical specialist

Nathan Whitehead out
to bombard that same area

with a flamethrower

while a high-speed camera
recorded the experiment

at 5,000 frames per second.

So if something happens,
hopefully, we're gonna catch it.

Well, if there was
ever a circumstance

where this tech
is gonna shine, this is it.

-Yeah.
-BURDETTE: I'm ready.

I'm rolling
and ready to trigger.

All right, Bryant. I'm gonna
give you a countdown from five.

-On five.
-Five.

-ERIK: Four.
-BRYANT: Four.

ERIK:
Three.

-BRYANT: Three.
-Two.

BRYANT:
Two.

-ERIK: One.
-One.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

♪ ♪

ERIK:
Wow. You can feel it.

TRAVIS:
Look at, look at that.

Oh, wow.

BRYANT:
Perfect, Nathan.

I might have something

-that might look
a little strange.
-What? What?

Okay. Let me call the guys over
and we'll take a look together.

TRAVIS:
As the 2,000-degree flames
shot into the 31-foot zone...

Look at this.

TRAVIS:
...directly above
the center of the triangle...

Whoa!

...the high-speed camera
captured

another inexplicable event.

Yeah, there's clearly
some empty spots.

NATHAN: I'll tell you guys,
we've, you know,

we've seen a lot of,
a lot of footage

of our-our flame shooting out,

and it's not typical

that we have this separation.

TRAVIS: Yeah, it's like
it's hitting something.

DON:
Something that, it seems
to be going around it.

TRAVIS:
The flame was
split into two by something

at that exact spot
where we saw the blob appear.

Could this have been
the same phenomenon?

If so,

why was it invisible
during this experiment?

Check that out, Erik.
Real-time lidar point cloud.

-ERIK: That is impressive.
-TRAVIS: That's amazing.

To find out,

we quickly implemented
a new strategy.

-You hot over there?
-Yep.

We're hot there.

TRAVIS:
Because launching rockets

above the triangle seemed
to have triggered

the appearance of the so-called

blob anomaly
earlier in the year,

we decided
to repeat the exercise

to see if we could get
the same result.

But, this time,
we were simultaneously

scanning the triangle area
with a drone-based lidar device,

which uses infrared light
to capture images of things

that might not be visible
to the naked eye.

Launch in five,

four, three, two, one.

-We got a good chute.
-Ah, good chute!

Dude, that was
a beautiful launch.

Unlike previous launches,

this rocket ascended
straight up,

hundreds of feet,

without any apparent disruption.

We caught it.
It was amazing.

Really?

But, according to the lidar,

instead of imaging
the rocket's path,

something strange scattered
all of the data points

above the triangle.

So I-I'll show you.

I thought we would see
just a tight little line

going up as the rocket.

It dispersed
all the points out really wide.

Meaning that the lidar points
around it moved out of the way.

ROYSTON:
Yeah.

What?

Do you know what elevation
you were looking at

when you saw the dispersion?

Yeah, so we were seeing it
probably about

20 feet off the top there.

-That would be about 30 feet
above ground level.
-ROYSTON: Maybe 30.

-Yeah.
-Wow.

That is so in line
with what we've seen.

Yeah. At 30 feet.
At-at 30 feet, that's crazy.

We might really want
to get back over there

to the command center and review
the high-resolution lidar data.

Absolutely. Let's get over
there and take a look at it.

-ERIK: All right.
-ROYSTON: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
After the experiment,

Jim Royston and his colleagues
from OmniTeq spent several hours

processing their lidar data
to a much higher resolution,

so we couldn't wait to see
if that data would reveal

just what caused
the anomaly that we witnessed

31 feet above the triangle.

-Here.
-There we go.

THOMAS:
Oh. Oh.

So, Sam is an optical expert,

electronic warfare guy,
looks at all kinds

of radar images, and everybody's

kind of scratching their head
to say the least

over what this is.

TRAVIS:
Can you zoom way out?

Whoa!

-ERIK: Look at that.
-That's interesting.

ERIK:
Yeah.

What is that red circle?

What is this whole area?

-Yeah, what is that?
-You got a perfect circle
around it.

It's-it's a shadow of something.

What, what are we looking at?

Just what did the lidar data
reveal at the triangle?

And how might it explain

all the phenomena
that we've witnessed there?

The following year,

we would finally find
a possible answer.

TRAVIS:
In 2023,

our team continued
investigating the triangle

on Skinwalker Ranch.

We documented
a bunch of new phenomena

between the ground

and several thousand feet
in the air.

I found something in here

I want to show you
at about 8:56.

-KALEB: Oh, right there.
-ERIK: Right there.

It's moving really fast,
whatever it is.

-That's right over the triangle.
-ERIK: Right.

TRAVIS:
After seeing
another UAP maneuvering

in the airspace
above the triangle...

...lidar experts Jim Royston
and Sam Deriso

conducted a new scan
above the area

to see if they could identify
a possible explanation.

ROYSTON (over radio):
Erik, you copy?

Yeah, Jim. Go ahead.

ROYSTON:
Hey, we've been out
at the triangle,

and I've got to tell you,

we just picked up some
really strange lidar up there

that we're trying to figure out.

What do you mean by strange?

We got this weird anomaly
over the triangle.

TRAVIS:
Holy crap!

What Jim and Sam documented

left Erik Bard and I
in total disbelief.

-ROYSTON: This is my controller.
-TRAVIS: For the lidar?

ROYSTON:
Yes.

I called Sam over
and had him go ahead

and pull out his cell phone,

it's what he's
capturing this on.

So if you play this,
that's right in the center,

right above the triangle.

You'll see,
as I turn this around,

you'll see, one,
this weird symmetry.

TRAVIS:
Looks like a doughnut
floating there.

Turn it, keep it going
and let's look

at the different views
you give us.

Okay, so what the hell is
generating these returns?

ROYSTON:
And look how clean
the lines are around it.

That's what
just kind of blew my mind.

TRAVIS: You know,
the interesting thing to me is,

it looks kind of funnel-shaped.

ERIK:
Whoa.

You know, the-the really
crazy piece to this is,

this looks like
it could be an extension

of whatever that is
you saw last year.

That bright circle,

perfect circle you measured
last year on the ground.

-It's in the same location.
-Yeah. Yeah.

That is just tantalizing, guys.

It looks like a dadgum hourglass

or the, you know, the pictures
that you see on papers

and graphics of traversable
Lorentzian wormholes.

I mean, think about it.

Wow.

Following
Albert Einstein's research,

for the last century,

many scientists have
theorized that wormholes,

which are passageways
between two distant points

in space and time
could actually exist.

And what Jim and Sam have
captured on their lidar device

appears to have
the very structure

of a theoretical
traversable wormhole.

Could that be what exists
above the triangle?

THOMAS:
There's a long history
of these stories

denoting some type of portal

here on Skinwalker Ranch.

So based on the evidence
that we have,

I think we have
to leave open the possibility

that some of these tales
that we've heard

about this area
and portals could be true.

ERIK: We've had so many
anomalous results

here at the triangle.

It begs the question,

what could be causing
these anomalies?

We're going
to dig into this further.

BRANDON:
What is above the triangle?

We are proving
the reality of the phenomenon.

We're on the cusp

of discovering
the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

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