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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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