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Erik, we got something
moving right over head of us.

Of all the places
on Skinwalker Ranch

where our team has witnessed
stunning phenomena...

-THOMAS: Oh, it's on fire.
-TRAVIS: We got a fire!

TRAVIS:
...the spot known simply
as the triangle...

Something doesn't want us to
collect data from the triangle.

TRAVIS:
...has become one
the most compelling...

ERIK:
Whoa, what was
that purple light over there?

TRAVIS:
...and disturbing focuses
of our investigation.

What on Earth is that?

So, join me, Dr. Travis Taylor,

for a mind-bending look

at some of the strangest events
we've documented...

There's clearly something there.

...which suggest the triangle

may be the key
to revealing the true secret

behind this 512-acre property.

THOMAS:
Heads up!
Heads up, they're coming down!

Everybody, stay back!

BRANDON: So, I think we all know

how important
this investigation is.

-And the world is watching.
-Absolutely.

So, plotting the course ahead,
what do you have planned?

Well, given that the center
of all of our experiments,

at least in the sky, has been
right over the triangle,

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

Great.

TRAVIS: In the five years

that our team has been
working to reveal

the cause
of all the high strangeness

on Skinwalker Ranch,
we've repeatedly encountered

things above
the so-called triangle

that simply defy
the laws of nature.

Oh, we got a malfunction!
Everybody watch out.

-BURDETTE: There's something...
-TRAVIS: There's something
in the sky

above the rocket right here!

We've recorded images
of a blob-like anomaly

that may have destroyed a rocket
about 31 feet in the air.

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

THOMAS:
Right there, right there!

TRAVIS:
We've seen UAPs

that appeared
thousands of feet in the sky...

ERIK:
This thing is really
clipping along.

Oh, my gosh. It disappeared.

TRAVIS:
...and others that vanished.

What did it disappear into?

BRANDON: So, what do we
have here?

PETE:
That is the Hover Map.

Um, basically, handheld lidar.

TRAVIS:
So, in 2022,
we came up with a daring plan.

Are you saying you're
going to literally hang

outside the helicopter and
scan the space with this device?

With your permission, of course.

Okay.

TRAVIS:
At the direction of

principal investigator
Erik Bard,

Cameron Fugal flew me
and technologist Pete Kelsey

in a helicopter
up above the triangle,

so that Pete could scan the area

with a handheld lidar device.

It works by emitting
infrared light

that we hoped would reveal

anything invisible
to the naked eye

that might explain all the UAPs

and other phenomena
we've detected up there.

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

PETE:
All right, so,
are you seeing data, then?

TRAVIS:
Nothing yet.

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

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

You're at 300 feet and we're
detecting an object in the air.

PETE:
What?!

TRAVIS:
The anomaly that Pete detected

seemed like it was tracking
alongside the helicopter.

At first, we thought
that the lidar device

might be malfunctioning.

But then, when we reached
about 5,000 feet high,

something else happened
that suggested

this anomaly
was definitely for real.

-Whoa! Whoa!
-PETE: Whoa!

TRAVIS: We were still detecting
the anomaly above the triangle.

CAMERON:
Wow.

TRAVIS:
But now, it felt like

it was pushing
the helicopter around.

Wow!

Yeah, I think
it's time to abort.

That was enough data
and excitement for that day.

BROCK: How high up are we going?

ERIK: 5,000 to 6,000 feet
at the top end.

-Okay.
-Great.

-THOMAS: Well, let's get
these birds in the air.
-All right.

-Let's do it.
-Let's go to work.

TRAVIS:
But the following year,

we conducted
a dual helicopter experiment

to figure out
what we were dealing with.

I was in Chopper One
with pilot Brock Wilson.

Erik was in Chopper Two
with Thomas and Cameron.

The plan was to ascend
in a synchronized pattern

to various altitudes,
while I transmitted

a 1.6 gigahertz frequency
signal over to Erik.

That's the strange signal
that we had detected

during many of our experiments
at the triangle.

The thought was that if we saw
any breaks in the signal,

we hoped that the GPS devices
attached to the helicopters

would pinpoint
exactly where it happened

and help determine

if there is one big anomaly
above the triangle,

or something that really does
move around in that entire zone.

TRAVIS:
When Cameron's helicopter
reached the northern region

about 300 feet
above the triangle,

the signal connection
between the choppers

was suddenly broken.

And that was right where
we detected the anomaly

the previous year
that seemed to shove us around.

Okay.

Uh...

TRAVIS: And as we ascended
higher and higher,

the same thing happened
again and again.

So, what could have been
blocking the signal?

Well, the answer
might just be connected

to another incredible legend
about Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK: I've got something
to show you

that I think you're going
to find really interesting.

This is a camera
that's positioned

right on the observation point

looking off towards the west,
right there at the triangle.

TRAVIS:
In 2023, Erik Bard
showed us something

unbelievable that was captured
by a surveillance camera

above the triangle
on Skinwalker Ranch.

(Travis exclaims)

-That was fast, whatever it was.
-ERIK: Let me take it back.

TRAVIS:
A UAP that was flying faster
than any commercial

or military aircraft
simply vanished into thin air

about 30 feet high,
right above the triangle.

ERIK: Okay, so we get
to this frame, and it's gone.

What?

-KALEB: It disappeared
right there.
-Yeah.

THOMAS:
So, look at where it's at

right there in the middle
of the screen

and if you come straight down,

that would be exactly
within the bounds

-of that hole in the lidar data.
-Thomas, you're right.

In recent years,
we've collected numerous sets

of infrared lidar data
at the triangle

that resembled the theoretical
circular structure

of what a so-called portal

or traversable wormhole
might look like.

And what makes that
incredibly curious to us

is the fact that
the local native tribes

and even former
ranch investigators,

who worked
with the federal government,

have long believed
that interdimensional portals

actually exist on the property.

So, we have eight
total laser space cannons

-and they're higher power.
-Great.

ERIK: I love the idea 'cause,
you know, that'll help us

to see if, in fact,
we get a repeat of the things

we've seen before
right over this triangle.

TRAVIS:
So, a few weeks later,

in order to test that theory,
and collect more data,

our friends from
Nu-Salt Laser International

used several high-powered
laser space cannons

to shoot beams of light
from the center of the triangle

all the way up into space.

If we saw
any breaks in the beams,

it might help us
identify the cause

of all the anomalies we've seen
and detected at high altitudes.

And they also deployed
an additional laser cannon

that was aimed at
a 12-by-eight-foot white screen

that Thomas secured to a lift

positioned
at the 31-foot-high mark.

That allowed me
to monitor the beams

with a device
known as a spectrometer

for any variations
in the color spectrum,

which could indicate
more evidence

of the blob-like anomaly.

But even before we got started,

something crazy happened.

Hey, hey! What is--
Look right here. What is this?

I don't see
aviation lights at all!

ERIK:
Yeah, I don't see any strobe.

KALEB:
It's gone.

TRAVIS:
That UAP seemed
to come out of nowhere.

It was definitely not a plane

and was too low to the ground
to be a satellite.

And then, like many others
we've seen before, it vanished.

All right, well,
let's get going.

So, we fired up
the single laser cannon

that was aimed
at the white board

to see if we could
detect anything strange

in the 31-foot-high blob zone.

Yeah, that's bright.
Wow, that's bright.

Suddenly, it's gotten brighter

in the green
and dropped off in the blue.

Why would it be doing that?

There is clearly some sort
of anomaly above the triangle.

When I saw that
the green light was

suddenly getting brighter while
the blue one started to fade,

that meant something about
31 feet high was causing it.

So it was time to use
all the laser cannons together

and see what more
could be revealed.

Travis, you copy?

Go ahead, Erik.

I'd like to know
what you're seeing

around 1.6 gigahertz

over there on your antennas.

Because I do show a source
right behind Homestead Two.

TRAVIS:
The timing was crazy.

Just after all of
the laser cannons got turned on,

Erik detected a 1.6 gigahertz
radio frequency signal

on his spectrum analyzer system

coming from Homestead Two,

about a half a mile to the west.

And, incidentally,
that is another location

on the ranch known
for legends about portals.

Nothing more was seen
during the experiment

to offer any explanations.

THOMAS:
That night was so crazy.

BRYANT:
That was quite an experiment.

TRAVIS:
But then Erik and I scanned

through
the surveillance camera data

and found something
very interesting.

-THOMAS: Whoa!

-KALEB: No!
-ERIK: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Looks like the beam stops
and then starts again.

So if there was something
in there blocking the beam,

it wouldn't continue above it.

How could it block out
the green and not the blue?

TRAVIS: It doesn't make
any sense at all.

ERIK: And it appears
that this is cutting

into the beam profile
on the left-hand side.

What-what could be doing that?

Three different cameras
captured images of voids

that only appeared
in the green laser beams

at an altitude
of about a hundred feet.

We had no idea
if they were related to the UAP

that we saw appear
and then disappear

or the 1.6 gigahertz signal
that Erik detected,

but it gave us a spot
to laser focus on

for our next experiment.

And that's when we made
one of our craziest discoveries

so far on Skinwalker Ranch.

BRYANT:
So I'm curious.

What is the plan for tonight?

Well, if you think about
what we have seen out here

over the triangle, you know,
the gap in that powerful laser.

What we can do is direct these
right at that same spot

and see
if that triggers the anomaly.

So is there a surface there,
is there a force there?

What is it?
So, if we can categorize

what that is, then, uh,

-that should tell us something.
-Yes.

TRAVIS:
On the day after we obtained

images of mysterious gaps
in laser beams

about 100 feet high
above the triangle,

we were just getting ready

for a more focused
laser cannon experiment

when high strangeness
appeared out

of nowhere on Skinwalker Ranch.

Hey, what is that?

You see that?

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah! What is that?

Yeah, it's right there.

BRYANT: It doesn't look
like it's moving.

TRAVIS: It doesn't look
like it's moving.

I blinked and it was gone.

TRAVIS: The UAP
that Dragon spotted in the sky

looked just like the one
we saw the night before

and it also vanished
into thin air.

So we got a lot to do,
so I say we get to it.

-Time to split up.
-All right. Let's go.

TRAVIS:
So we kicked it into high gear

to get
all of our equipment ready

for what we hoped would be
an even more revealing night.

JIM: Man,
we've got all kinds of TVs.

TRAVIS:
In order to visualize
the anomaly or anomalies

above the triangle,
the plan was for Nu-Salt

to use a single laser cannon

to shoot a beam
up through the area

where we saw the void
in the green lasers.

But Pete Kelsey also scanned
the entire triangle area

with a terrestrial lidar
laser scanner

that was set up on a tripod.

The hope was
that the infrared light

from the device would image
things on the ground

and in the air that the naked
eye might not be able to see.

Okay, Tim.
You're ready to test.

TIM:
Lasers on.

There you go.

TRAVIS:
Ah, guys?

We are hitting something
with the laser.

Y'all-- y'all, look.

THOMAS:
Is that clouds?

I'm seeing stars.

TRAVIS:
You see the spot up there?

That should just be a beam.

What are we hitting?

DON:
I have no idea.

TRAVIS:
At about 2,000 feet high,

something that seemed invisible

was blocking
or absorbing the beam.

We didn't know if this
was evidence of a portal

or some kind of anomaly
that roams around

above the triangle.

PETE:
Well, I still have the...

laser scanning data to show you.

TRAVIS: But the next day,
after Pete Kelsey processed

his terrestrial lidar data,

he showed us something that
none of us could have expected.

PETE: From our perspective
at the triangle,

the terrestrial laser scanner
can see

farther and gather more points

per second
than the SLAM scanner can.

Okay.

What in the actual crap?

Whatever is there,

is, it's as if it's invisible.

Look at this smear
all around us,

like we're inside
a cone of something.

Can you look up?

-It does go into a cone.
-KALEB: Oh, look at that.

TRAVIS:
It is a cone.

ERIK:
Wow.

I mean, that is insane.

You're inside it.

We're all inside it.

Pete had detected what appeared

to be a massive,
cone-shaped anomaly.

It stretched
from Homestead Two--

where we had recently detected

the 1.6 gigahertz signal--

over to the east field canyon

where we've seen
all kinds of phenomena.

It also had an apex
that was centered

about 2,000 feet high
above the triangle,

right where
the laser beam was cut off.

This is incredible.

This is the craziest thing
I've ever seen.

If this turns out
to be real measurements

of some real phenomena...

-Yeah.
-...then we've
measured something

nobody has ever seen

-before, period, ever.
-Yes.

TRAVIS:
Could this massive,
cone-shaped anomaly

be connected
to all of the phenomena

that we've encountered, both
high and low, at the triangle?

Another major experiment
that we conducted

just a few weeks later
would shine

a lot more light
on that possibility.

How many drones did you
bring us this time?

-Brought you 1,000.
-1,000?

A few weeks after we detected

the massive, 2,000-foot-high,
cone-shaped anomaly

that encompassed the triangle
area on Skinwalker Ranch,

our friends from Sky Elements

brought 1,000 drones
that they had programmed

to fly in various light show
patterns above the area.

-SAM: The GPS is looking good.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
We wanted to see if
these illuminated devices

would be affected
by the phenomenon and help us

identify what it could be.

Rocket is hot.

Yep.

TRAVIS:
In five,

four,

three,

two,

one.

But just after
we launched a rocket

to kick off the experiment...

PRESTON:
Look at that.

TYLER: That's nuts.
Flash it again, do it again.

PRESTON:
It should be in unison.

TYLER:
They should be all at once

TRAVIS:
...all 1,000 drones

suddenly malfunctioned.

PRESTON:
Yeah, everything's disconnected.

-TRAVIS: You see that?
-THOMAS: Is something
happening over there?

TRAVIS: We have an object
in the sky over the mesa.

Then, a bright, flashing UAP

appeared above the mesa
for a few seconds

before simply vanishing.

The correlation
between that phenomenon

and all the drones
losing connectivity

was more than curious
to me and Erik.

But that was just the beginning
of the strangeness to come.

TYLER: I got it, I got it!
Hey, guys, we are ready.

We have 200 drones ready to go,

60 seconds from liftoff.

TRAVIS:
Several minutes later,

the Sky Elements team
was able to launch

only 200 of the 1,000 drones.

Yeah, look at,
look at them moving around.

They cannot control them,
look at them.

The 200 drones that were able
to launch struggled to stay

in their pre-programmed
formations.

Yeah, that one's gonna hit.

Oh, they look terrible.

So Kaleb McEwen of Sky Elements
launched their FPV drone,

which was equipped with a
camera, to get an up-close look

at what may have been
affecting the drone swarm.

FPV is down, lost video feed.

TRAVIS:
They crashed.

Just as the FPV drone reached

the swarm, its camera feed died

and we heard it hit something

and crash to the ground.

None of us saw anything
in the air

to explain what caused all those
issues during the experiment.

ERIK:
This is thermographic

imagery off of our FLIR camera
out at the triangle.

This is sky-facing.

TRAVIS: But next day,
Erik showed us video

of something incredible
that had been recorded

on a thermal heat FLIR camera.

Wow!

This was right around the same
time that Kaleb's drone crashed.

Yeah, it was.

It was stunning
that the thermal camera

captured a UAP that was
invisible to the naked eye

right around
the same time something

crashed into the FPV drone.

So what I'm about to share
with you is some footage

that was obtained through
a high-speed camera asset.

TRAVIS: And then Erik
showed us high-speed

camera images
that were also taken

during the experiment from
the center of the triangle.

Let me try one thing,
let me turn the contrast

and brightness up
just a little bit.

THOMAS: Oh!
Yes, look its right there!

TRAVIS:
Yup, there you go, sure is.

ERIK: There's a lot
going on here, guys.

TRAVIS:
Look at all this.

Wow, there are so many
in this clip, it's crazy.

More UAPs than we have ever
documented at one time

appeared above the triangle,

all within the area where we had

detected the huge,
cone-shaped anomaly.

THOMAS:
Think about all the problems

we were having
on the ground, guys.

I mean, Sky Elements is trying

to connect
those 1,000 drones up,

and we're having this take place

above us and we're not
even aware that it's going on.

TRAVIS:
That is just unbelievable.

All of the phenomena that keeps
happening at the triangle

is perplexing and beyond
any conventional explanation.

So we will conduct even

more high-tech experiments
there, because it may

soon reveal the ultimate secrets
of this place.

ERIK: We've seen
so many unusual things

happen here above the triangle.

It raises the question as to
what could be operating there.

What could be present
in that space?

Could it be related to something
in the UFO or UAP domain?

We can't dismiss it.

And that's tantalizing.

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