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Hey, we got something
on the FLIR.
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We got something on the FLIR.
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ERIK: I could be convinced
that we're looking
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-at something formation flying.
-Really?
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Our team keeps witnessing
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shocking phenomena in the skies
above Skinwalker Ranch.
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Yeah, that don't look
like an airplane.
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What the hell is up there?
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TRAVIS:
But as our investigation
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of this 512-acre property
continues...
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That thing is moving fast!
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...we've encountered something
buried in solid rock...
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-THOMAS: Look at that.
-BRYANT: This thing
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-is just straight-up metal.
-Oh, yeah.
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TRAVIS:
...that just may be the key
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to solving
a centuries-old mystery.
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It looks a lot like you would
think a debris field would be.
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So, tonight,
we're taking a good, hard look
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at some of the most compelling
discoveries we've made so far...
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What the hell is that?
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ERIK:
What do you got, Bryant?
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I don't know
what the hell that is.
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TRAVIS:
...deep inside the mesa.
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BRANDON: In 2016,
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I purchased Skinwalker Ranch
and assembled
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our team to carry
this investigation forward
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into the next level.
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And what is that?
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We've started
deploying technology
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devised by Erik Bard,
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our principal investigator,
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related to monitoring
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and recording the events
happening on the ranch.
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TRAVIS:
In 2019, I accepted
Brandon Fugal's offer
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to join his team's investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch
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because I was intrigued
by all the eyewitness reports
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of UAPs that had been made
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in recent decades
on the 512-acre property.
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After all, the federal
government partially funded
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a previous investigation
that was led
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by billionaire
aerospace mogul Robert Bigelow
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from the late 1990s
to the early 2000s.
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One of the first things
that we captured--
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a 500-foot section
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of the mesa became
totally illuminated.
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That's-that's wild.
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But I was equally stunned
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by the surveillance images
they captured
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of a large section of the mesa
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appearing to glow
in the middle of the night.
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BRANDON:
We have also
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seen several instances
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of compact light pillars.
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TRAVIS: That's interesting.
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ERIK: The results of
Robert Bigelow's investigation
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have never been fully released.
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There are rumors
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about some kind of base
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or perhaps an alien artifact
beneath the property.
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TRAVIS:
We searched, but couldn't find
any large openings
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or underground entrances
leading into the mesa
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to help us investigate
that incredible legend.
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CHRIS: So, it's gonna be
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in this little area right here
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where I was walking down
from the top of the mesa,
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and I found a cave.
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Then I suggest maybe
we just all climb up there
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-and see if we can find it.
-Yeah.
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TRAVIS:
But then, in 2021,
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retired Air Force veteran
and former Bigelow team
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security officer Chris Bartel
came to the ranch and showed us
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where he claimed to have
actually found a cave entrance.
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CHRIS:
Oh, yeah.
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I'm pretty sure this is it.
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THOMAS:
You can tell that at one time,
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it was a lot larger, and it's
collapsed down in on itself.
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You can tell
that this whole area
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looks like a sunken-in area.
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-Like it was all caved in. Yeah.
-CHRIS: Yeah.
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Yup. This is the area
we're looking at.
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THOMAS: After our meeting
with Chris Bartel,
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we brought Jake Huffman out
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who has spent his career
building oil well sites,
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and as part of that, uh,
has used a lot of explosives
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and done a lot of blasting.
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We wanted to get his eyes
on the mesa
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and see if he could tell
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if this was a natural cave-in
or a purposeful one.
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Looking at it,
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do you see anything
that would indicate to you that
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this was collapsed on purpose?
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JAKE:
Actually, yeah.
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-Hmm.
-Usually, if you have a slough,
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then you're gonna have material
that's built up somewhere,
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you know,
and I'm not seeing anywhere
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where softer material
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-or mud or anything...
-That was pushed out?
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...pushed out
from underneath it.
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THOMAS:
That's a good point.
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JAKE:
I believe, at some point,
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there was blasting done, and
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-perhaps that was done
to hide something.
-Hmm.
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TRAVIS:
We don't know what or who
might have purposely covered
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that reported cave entrance,
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but after Jake Huffman's
stunning assessment...
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You're all good to go, huh?
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Okay.
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TRAVIS:
...Thomas arranged
for Aaron Blunt
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and his team from Straight Shot
Drilling help us investigate
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if something important
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that's related
to all the ranch phenomena
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might be buried inside there.
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-What's going on?
-Aaron: Well, it looks like
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we're in a ledge that's
holding us from coming up.
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And I'm just hitting it
and riding it.
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TRAVIS:
After drilling with ease
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for nearly 300 feet
inside the mesa,
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the drill bit hit an
impenetrable object of some kind
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and was just scraping
along its surface.
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THOMAS:
Okay.
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TRAVIS:
So, we decided
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to search
through the drilling spoils
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for any clues
that might help us figure out
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what the obstruction could be.
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What is that?
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Oh, my.
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THOMAS:
I wondered if it was, like,
metal flakes or something.
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TRAVIS:
We had no idea where
metal flakes would come from
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nearly 300 feet inside the mesa.
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We just knew for sure
it wasn't anything natural.
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-(high-pitched whirring)
-BRYANT: Boy, that thing sounds
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like it's hitting
something hard.
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ERIK:
What the heck is...?
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TRAVIS:
So, in order to find out,
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Aaron kept drilling
to see if he could penetrate
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the obstruction.
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Uh, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.
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So, we're coming up
about 11 inches every ten feet.
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It was directing you downward,
and now,
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you're still on it, but
it's allowing you to go upwards?
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Right.
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So, we've got kind of a V
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that your bit is sitting there
bumping up against,
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trying to find a place
to start drilling up.
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-Is that right?
-Yeah. May not even be a V.
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It could even be...
maybe a dome.
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TRAVIS:
A massive, possibly
dome-shaped, metal object?
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Given the legends we'd heard
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about what might be hidden
below the ranch,
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we didn't know what to think.
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I know it sounds crazy.
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But that was just the beginning
of strange things to come
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But that was just the beginning
of strange things to come
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as our investigation
of the mesa continued.
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THOMAS: So, are we ready
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-to drill again?
-Yeah.
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TRAVIS:
In 2022, we conducted
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ground-penetrating radar scans
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that confirmed a large, possibly
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metallic, dome-shaped object
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was buried in the mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch.
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Would this drill--
would it drill
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through
steel-reinforced concrete?
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-Yes.
-It would?
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Yeah, we do it
quite a few times.
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TRAVIS:
So, we had Aaron Blunt
and his team
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from Straight Shot Drilling
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return
with an even more powerful rig
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to see if they could penetrate
the top of the object
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and figure out
just what it could be.
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Did you get that one working?
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Yeah, I got 'em all working now.
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And as the drilling operation
progressed,
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Erik and I were using
our spectrum analyzer
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to monitor
the 33-megahertz signal
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coming from the drilling beacon.
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That's a device inside
the drill head that communicates
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with a receiver on the surface
that enables the drillers
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to track its location
underground.
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When we try
to approach that point,
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our bit is getting pushed down
or it's getting pushed up.
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ERIK:
So, he's hitting resistance
right now.
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THOMAS:
You can hear that.
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-Drill's hitting something hard.
-Oh, yeah.
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What's going on, Thomas?
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After drilling more
than 270 or 280 feet
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of going through sandstone
like butter,
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the drill has encountered
a hard object
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-that it cannot penetrate.
-Wow.
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Once, again,
the drill bit couldn't penetrate
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the dome-shaped object,
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and was just spinning
on its surface,
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several hundred feet
inside the mesa.
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I'm looking
for the beacon signal
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at 33 megahertz right now.
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Whoa. What is that?
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Something's going nuts there.
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And then our spectrum analyzer
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showed that every time
the bit made contact
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with the dome-shaped object,
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something was amplifying
the drill beacon's signal
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and rebroadcasting it
back at us.
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There's a phenomenon
occurring right now
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that we don't understand.
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ERIK:
What could cause
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the RF spectrum
to suddenly change
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as the drill bit encounters
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this apparently
impenetrable object?
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Is this an attempt
to communicate?
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It is certainly very suggestive
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that we're dealing
with something
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that isn't native to that mesa.
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AARON:
See, and we're at 8,000 pounds
of push.
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-(high-pitched whirring)
-Hardly any rotation off of it.
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So, either my bit's broke off,
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or it's just spinning
on something smooth.
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TRAVIS:
We retracted the drill bit
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so that we could find out
how damaged it was
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from grinding on the surface
of the dome-shaped object.
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THOMAS:
Getting this cleaned off,
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these teeth
are all perfectly intact.
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-It's not missing
a single tooth.
-Yeah.
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It looks like
it's in perfect condition.
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TRAVIS:
You'd think if you were
grinding that against something
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for a half hour that
it would dull it, at least.
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It should have heated up
and at least wore it down, flat.
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-TRAVIS: That's crazy.
-AARON: Yeah, that is.
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TRAVIS:
It was as if
the drill bit had been spinning
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on a protective force field,
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like something
out of science fiction.
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Erik and I were
in total disbelief.
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Ultimately, even with
this more powerful drilling rig,
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we weren't able
to uncover any more answers
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as to what we were dealing with
inside the mesa.
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KALEB: All right, so, Jan,
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I'm assuming we would just
want you to go back and forth
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-JAN: Yeah.
-as much as we can,
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and really see how far back
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and how deep
this anomaly is, by chance.
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-Let's give it a go, for sure.
-Yeah.
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TRAVIS:
To help us change our luck,
in 2023,
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ground-penetrating radar expert
Jan Franke
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brought out a specialized device
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to scan back and forth
across the mesa.
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That day, he and Kaleb
gathered the best data yet
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related
to the dome-shaped object.
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JAN:
So, we did a total
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of 12 total passes.
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I got 12 hits
for this same anomaly
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as I went further
and further back.
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What this all adds up to
is probably a metallic object
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that could be buried
inside there,
253
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measuring, well,
at least 300 feet long,
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and it might be even larger.
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-Yes.
-So, it is repeatable.
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Whoa.
257
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So, let me show you what
258
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that looks like in 3D.
259
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This is our target
in the same space.
260
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So we can really see
how that lines up.
261
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-Really?
-There is
262
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an absolutely obvious target
263
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that extends
across this entire area.
264
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I still don't know
how far back it goes.
265
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THOMAS:
Can you tell us
what the distance was
266
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between that first line
267
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and the last line that you did?
268
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We're looking at...
269
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at least 100 meters.
270
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300 feet?
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-Yeah.
-Wow.
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TRAVIS:
It looks a lot
273
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like you would think
a debris field would be.
274
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ERIK:
Just think about
what circumstances
275
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would produce a debris field
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inside of a mesa.
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TRAVIS:
Jan not only confirmed
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the approximate size of
the massive dome-shaped object,
279
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but he also detected
a number of smaller,
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possibly metallic anomalies
all around it.
281
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Could it be something...
282
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man-made? Perhaps.
283
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But why,
in the middle of nowhere?
284
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I can't see
285
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a natural phenomenon
that we could
286
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explain easily causing
287
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this sort of anomaly.
288
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TRAVIS:
Okay, now we had evidence
289
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of a huge debris field
in the mesa.
290
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We recovered metallic fragments
291
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that possibly came
from the dome-shaped object,
292
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which may be related
to spacecraft.
293
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And we might have even detected
a communication signal
294
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coming from inside the mesa.
295
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Could the legend
about what might be buried
296
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under Skinwalker Ranch be true?
297
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What we soon discovered
298
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made it an even more compelling
possibility.
299
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ERIK: So, guys,
300
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sounds like you're bringing
some capabilities
301
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that we've never had out here
302
00:12:01,875 --> 00:12:03,000
in terms
of the horizontal drilling.
303
00:12:03,125 --> 00:12:04,500
Yeah, so we'll-we'll have
the capabilities
304
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to about 60,000 pounds
305
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-of force.
-60,000 pounds?
-TRAVIS: Wow.
306
00:12:08,042 --> 00:12:10,250
After we obtained
ground-penetrating radar data
307
00:12:10,458 --> 00:12:12,958
that showed the dome-shaped
object buried in the mesa
308
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on Skinwalker Ranch
might be surrounded
309
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by several smaller anomalies,
310
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we met a drilling team
from Mark Construction
311
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to devise an ambitious
new investigation.
312
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ERIK: We expect to be able
to punch through
313
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right up beside. We don't want
to go into this thing.
314
00:12:27,458 --> 00:12:29,708
-TRAVIS: What if it's
something important?
-MIKE: Yeah.
315
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ERIK: We've decided rather than
to drill into the structure,
316
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we should create boreholes
on both sides of the anomaly
317
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that will provide
instrumentation access
318
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inside the mesa,
319
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very near to but not penetrating
into the anomaly itself.
320
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I have in mind to insert
active and passive instruments--
321
00:12:49,417 --> 00:12:50,875
some of which simply measure,
322
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others of which
may even broadcast signals
323
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into the anomaly
in order to study its response.
324
00:12:57,542 --> 00:12:59,167
This will give us an opportunity
325
00:12:59,375 --> 00:13:01,417
to better understand
whether it is of natural
326
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or possible
technological origins.
327
00:13:04,167 --> 00:13:07,042
TRAVIS:
As the new drilling operation
got underway,
328
00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:10,333
we were all hopeful to finally
get some definitive answers.
329
00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:11,750
BRYANT:
They've got
330
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the bit to the right level,
331
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and they're gonna-- about
to punch into the main wall
332
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to go up into the mesa.
333
00:13:17,250 --> 00:13:19,333
TRAVIS:
But very quickly,
334
00:13:19,417 --> 00:13:20,708
things got strange
335
00:13:20,917 --> 00:13:22,292
and only got stranger
from there.
336
00:13:22,375 --> 00:13:23,583
-(static)
-Look over here.
337
00:13:23,792 --> 00:13:26,167
Holy crap. Look at this.
338
00:13:26,292 --> 00:13:30,042
First, we detected a mysterious
signal at 31 megahertz
339
00:13:30,208 --> 00:13:32,000
that was coming from
inside the mesa
340
00:13:32,208 --> 00:13:34,625
and possibly from
the dome-shaped object.
341
00:13:34,792 --> 00:13:36,833
I don't know what that is.
342
00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,167
'Cause I've never seen
a signal like that before.
343
00:13:39,375 --> 00:13:41,833
ERIK:
I don't see any movement here.
344
00:13:42,042 --> 00:13:44,333
ALEX:
Uh, it's not moving
in the pit here, so it's broke.
345
00:13:44,458 --> 00:13:47,542
TRAVIS:
Then, nearly 130 feet in,
346
00:13:47,708 --> 00:13:50,333
the drill bit hit something
it couldn't penetrate,
347
00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,417
causing the drill pipe
to break into pieces.
348
00:13:55,333 --> 00:13:57,583
Boy, you can hear that
below us, can't you?
349
00:13:57,750 --> 00:13:59,042
Yeah.
350
00:13:59,208 --> 00:14:00,458
TRAVIS:
A couple weeks later,
351
00:14:00,583 --> 00:14:02,417
after fixing that problem,
352
00:14:02,583 --> 00:14:06,250
the team was able to drill
nearly 180 feet into the mesa...
353
00:14:06,375 --> 00:14:08,958
Jared, are you going through
something real hard right now
354
00:14:09,125 --> 00:14:10,208
or what?
355
00:14:11,958 --> 00:14:13,500
...when they suddenly hit
356
00:14:13,708 --> 00:14:15,958
another
impenetrable obstruction.
357
00:14:18,250 --> 00:14:20,792
TRAVIS:
Big signal, right here.
358
00:14:20,958 --> 00:14:22,833
-ERIK: What are you tuning
into there, Travis?
-There's a signal
359
00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,792
at 1.6-ish.
360
00:14:25,958 --> 00:14:28,375
And just a couple seconds later,
we detected
361
00:14:28,542 --> 00:14:32,000
a radio frequency signal
at 1.6 gigahertz
362
00:14:32,208 --> 00:14:35,083
coming from somewhere
directly above Homestead Two,
363
00:14:35,208 --> 00:14:37,250
which is
several hundred yards away.
364
00:14:37,417 --> 00:14:38,583
I'm going.
365
00:14:38,750 --> 00:14:40,875
Now, since we had detected
366
00:14:41,083 --> 00:14:43,125
that kind of signal many times
during our experiments,
367
00:14:43,292 --> 00:14:44,917
I rushed over there
with Kaleb and Dragon.
368
00:14:45,083 --> 00:14:46,708
KALEB:
Rocket is hot,
369
00:14:46,917 --> 00:14:49,208
and we're gonna be launching
in five,
370
00:14:49,333 --> 00:14:51,167
four, three,
371
00:14:51,292 --> 00:14:53,125
two, one.
372
00:14:55,333 --> 00:14:57,250
TRAVIS:
We launched two rockets,
hoping to either hit
373
00:14:57,458 --> 00:14:59,875
whatever was broadcasting
that signal
374
00:15:00,042 --> 00:15:02,167
or stimulate it to appear.
But then
375
00:15:02,375 --> 00:15:05,167
something we never
would have expected happened.
376
00:15:05,375 --> 00:15:08,000
KALEB:
Almost looked like it stopped
right there for a second.
377
00:15:08,208 --> 00:15:09,750
TRAVIS:
As it was descending,
378
00:15:09,917 --> 00:15:11,958
our rocket
literally froze in midair
379
00:15:12,167 --> 00:15:13,542
for several seconds,
380
00:15:13,708 --> 00:15:15,750
like something invisible
was holding on to it.
381
00:15:15,917 --> 00:15:17,333
Was there a connection
between that
382
00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:20,667
and whatever the drillers hit
inside the mesa?
383
00:15:20,792 --> 00:15:23,292
The timing
was beyond intriguing.
384
00:15:23,458 --> 00:15:25,500
Just like what would happen
the following day.
385
00:15:25,667 --> 00:15:27,542
(mooing)
386
00:15:28,792 --> 00:15:29,542
KALEB:
Hey, guys.
387
00:15:29,750 --> 00:15:31,417
You see that?
388
00:15:33,125 --> 00:15:34,667
TRAVIS:
Look at this cow, guys!
389
00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:35,750
Hey, guys!
390
00:15:35,917 --> 00:15:37,000
Look at this cow!
391
00:15:37,125 --> 00:15:38,542
ERIK:
What's going on?
392
00:15:39,708 --> 00:15:40,875
BRYANT:
It's spinning in circles.
393
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,583
What the hell is wrong
with that cow?
394
00:15:43,583 --> 00:15:45,792
TRAVIS:
As the drilling operation
proceeded
395
00:15:45,917 --> 00:15:47,708
with a larger and stronger bit,
396
00:15:47,875 --> 00:15:51,708
suddenly, a calf in the nearby
field became seriously ill...
397
00:15:51,833 --> 00:15:53,833
THOMAS: Its eyes are pure white.
398
00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,458
...and even showed signs
of exposure
399
00:15:55,542 --> 00:15:58,458
to a high dose
of microwave radiation.
400
00:15:58,542 --> 00:16:00,042
What's going on?
401
00:16:00,208 --> 00:16:03,000
JARED:
So, we keep losing communication
402
00:16:03,167 --> 00:16:05,333
with our transmitter.
403
00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,125
TRAVIS:
Wow.
404
00:16:07,208 --> 00:16:08,833
The drilling beacon mysteriously
405
00:16:09,042 --> 00:16:10,958
stopped communicating
with its receiver.
406
00:16:11,125 --> 00:16:13,125
But when we pulled it out
and inspected it,
407
00:16:13,250 --> 00:16:15,333
it was working perfectly.
408
00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:19,042
So, was the dome-shaped object
and the smaller anomalies
409
00:16:19,208 --> 00:16:22,333
somehow connected to all
of these bizarre events?
410
00:16:23,417 --> 00:16:25,917
And if so,
what the hell are they?
411
00:16:26,042 --> 00:16:28,542
The next discovery
we'd make in the mesa
412
00:16:28,708 --> 00:16:30,500
offered a crazy possible answer.
413
00:16:30,625 --> 00:16:32,625
♪ ♪
414
00:16:37,333 --> 00:16:38,250
ALEX (over walkie):
Okay, Jared.
415
00:16:38,250 --> 00:16:39,958
Go in with this next rod.
416
00:16:42,708 --> 00:16:44,083
Still got him, so...
417
00:16:44,250 --> 00:16:45,667
that's a good sign.
418
00:16:45,833 --> 00:16:47,750
A week after all that craziness
happened
419
00:16:47,958 --> 00:16:49,292
with the rocket and the calf,
420
00:16:49,458 --> 00:16:51,375
the drillers fixed their beacon
421
00:16:51,542 --> 00:16:55,250
and were close to getting
beyond 180 feet inside the mesa.
422
00:16:55,417 --> 00:16:58,250
That gave us a lot of hope
that, soon,
423
00:16:58,417 --> 00:17:01,167
we'd get at least one
of our boreholes completed.
424
00:17:01,333 --> 00:17:03,417
-Listen to that.
He's struggling.
-KALEB: Yeah.
425
00:17:03,583 --> 00:17:05,792
He's trying to push
that thing in right now.
426
00:17:05,917 --> 00:17:08,042
(loud rattling)
427
00:17:09,042 --> 00:17:11,208
TRAVIS:
What the hell is in that mesa?
428
00:17:11,417 --> 00:17:14,292
But then the drill
slowed way down again...
429
00:17:14,458 --> 00:17:16,667
We have no idea where this, uh,
430
00:17:16,792 --> 00:17:18,667
drill head is up in this mesa.
431
00:17:18,792 --> 00:17:20,083
...and the beacon failed,
432
00:17:20,208 --> 00:17:22,500
meaning we had no way of knowing
433
00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:24,500
if they were drilling upwards
like we needed to
434
00:17:24,708 --> 00:17:26,333
for our plan to work.
435
00:17:26,458 --> 00:17:29,250
So, at that point,
they shut the drill down
436
00:17:29,417 --> 00:17:31,500
and we decided
to check the spoils again
437
00:17:31,667 --> 00:17:34,208
for any clues
as to what they hit this time.
438
00:17:34,375 --> 00:17:36,833
We weren't prepared
for what we found.
439
00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,667
What the hell is that?
440
00:17:43,417 --> 00:17:45,292
Hey! Erik!
441
00:17:48,208 --> 00:17:49,500
ERIK:
What do you got, Bryant?
442
00:17:49,625 --> 00:17:50,958
BRYANT:
Uh...
443
00:17:51,083 --> 00:17:53,333
-it's gelatin.
-What?
444
00:17:53,458 --> 00:17:56,167
BRYANT:
It looks like what Kris Porritt
was alluding to.
445
00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:57,667
TRAVIS:
Are you kidding me?
446
00:17:57,792 --> 00:17:59,125
It's green jelly.
447
00:17:59,333 --> 00:18:00,542
Finding
that green jelly substance
448
00:18:00,708 --> 00:18:03,500
in the mesa spoils
was unbelievable.
449
00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:06,333
KRIS:
There was part of a wreckage.
450
00:18:06,458 --> 00:18:07,500
Yeah.
451
00:18:07,625 --> 00:18:09,417
Uh, some-some type of,
452
00:18:09,583 --> 00:18:13,333
uh, aircraft or some-some kind
of flying saucer
453
00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:15,625
or alien craft.
454
00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:19,583
TRAVIS:
Because, before that, retired
Sheriff Kris Porritt told us
455
00:18:19,708 --> 00:18:22,500
that he saw wreckage
from an alien spacecraft
456
00:18:22,667 --> 00:18:24,667
near the south field
on Skinwalker Ranch
457
00:18:24,833 --> 00:18:26,667
back in the 1980s.
458
00:18:26,833 --> 00:18:28,208
Well, I'll tell you,
459
00:18:28,375 --> 00:18:30,708
he found a liquid substance.
460
00:18:30,875 --> 00:18:32,875
But it wasn't liquid.
461
00:18:33,042 --> 00:18:35,208
It was more
of a gelatin-type stuff.
462
00:18:36,708 --> 00:18:37,625
Jelly.
463
00:18:38,792 --> 00:18:40,500
And it was green.
464
00:18:40,667 --> 00:18:43,500
It was pretty much scattered
all over in here.
465
00:18:43,625 --> 00:18:45,917
TRAVIS:
He described seeing a substance
466
00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:48,250
very much like
what we had just found.
467
00:18:48,375 --> 00:18:51,500
And, uh, the jelly sample,
uh, is kind of interesting.
468
00:18:51,708 --> 00:18:53,500
Doesn't really match
with what I see
469
00:18:53,667 --> 00:18:57,125
in terms of the-the geological
history of the area.
470
00:18:57,250 --> 00:19:00,250
TRAVIS: So we had botany expert
Dr. Mitchell Power
471
00:19:00,417 --> 00:19:02,000
analyze the jelly
472
00:19:02,208 --> 00:19:03,875
to see if it might be
something natural
473
00:19:04,042 --> 00:19:05,625
or something else.
474
00:19:08,583 --> 00:19:10,750
TRAVIS:
You mean like something
caused a fire
475
00:19:10,875 --> 00:19:11,667
deep inside the mesa?
476
00:19:11,833 --> 00:19:12,792
Absolutely. Yeah.
477
00:19:13,958 --> 00:19:15,500
TRAVIS:
Wow.
478
00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:18,583
We found more evidence
479
00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:22,875
of a massive fire or explosion
deep inside the mesa,
480
00:19:23,083 --> 00:19:26,750
right where we've identified
a massive dome-shaped object
481
00:19:26,917 --> 00:19:31,250
that may be covered with
spacecraft-related materials.
482
00:19:31,375 --> 00:19:34,625
It's still too soon
to know for sure what it is,
483
00:19:34,792 --> 00:19:38,917
but I can guarantee we're
not gonna stop investigating
484
00:19:39,083 --> 00:19:40,833
until we uncover it.
485
00:19:41,042 --> 00:19:42,500
ERIK:
We're seeing things
486
00:19:42,708 --> 00:19:45,000
that are very hard
for us to explain
487
00:19:45,167 --> 00:19:47,083
inside the mesa.
488
00:19:47,250 --> 00:19:50,542
This part of the ranch
continues to defy our efforts
489
00:19:50,708 --> 00:19:52,167
to characterize it.
490
00:19:52,292 --> 00:19:54,833
At least it's gonna make us work
for the answers we get.
491
00:19:54,917 --> 00:19:58,417
BRANDON:
The mesa continues to be
one of the most challenging
492
00:19:58,583 --> 00:20:02,292
areas of the ranch to explore.
493
00:20:02,417 --> 00:20:05,167
My hope is to find answers,
494
00:20:05,375 --> 00:20:07,000
gain new insights,
495
00:20:07,208 --> 00:20:09,500
be able to understand
the nature of what
496
00:20:09,667 --> 00:20:12,333
we are dealing with
at the ranch.
497
00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:15,000
The deeper down the rabbit hole
that we travel,
498
00:20:15,167 --> 00:20:20,083
the more complex
that it appears.
499
00:20:20,250 --> 00:20:23,708
There are no easy answers
at Skinwalker Ranch.
500
00:20:23,875 --> 00:20:26,375
♪ ♪
501
00:20:26,542 --> 00:20:29,167
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