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Yeah, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.

What is that?
It definitely looks metallic.

MATTY:
Of all the hot spots
for high strangeness

on Skinwalker Ranch...

ERIK:
This is not something
I would've expected

to encounter
hundreds of feet into the mesa.

Wow, look at all the metal.

MATTY:
...there is one,
that by its very nature...

What is that thing
that flew into the mesa? Wow!

MATTY:
...is the hardest
for the team to investigate.

ERIK:
What the hell
are we looking at here?

TRAVIS:
Whatever this is
is as tall as the mesa.

MATTY:
So, tonight,
I'm meeting with them

to get a deep, insider's take...

Now we realize we've really
got something special here.

MATTY:
...on just what...

What we found
was absolutely amazing.

MATTY:
...lies buried
in the rocky mesa.

It could be something incredibly
important to mankind.

That's unbelievably fascinating.

MATTY: It's great to be
back on Skinwalker Ranch,

in the command center, no less.

We all watch you
do so much here.

This is where
we bring it all together,

put it on the table,
or on the screen,

and try to make sense out of
what is going on here.

-Right.
-Yeah, it's-it's incredible
to watch you guys work here.

And if you could come up
with one word

to define what you have
discovered in season five,

what would that word be?

Validating.

Mmm! Excellent.

-Astounding.
-(chuckles)

-I would say groundbreaking.
-MATTY: Wow.

Look at that scapula!

That is a tooth
that bit all the way through.

It would have to be
larger than a wolf.

That is a dire wolf,
which is an extinct species.

Watch what happens here.

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-ERIK: We have several objects
moving in unison.

TRAVIS:
Look how fast they're moving.

That's not natural.

They got them coming
down right on top of the tents.

-Yeah, they're coming
at the tents.
-(drone crashes)

(bleep)

THOMAS:
Heads up, they're coming down!

PRESTON:
Everybody stay back!

Well, all those words
sum up what you have found

and I'm here tonight to
really drill down on the mesa.

I'd like to go back if we could,
and talk about its genesis

in your investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch.

Well, you know, we inherited
a-a legend

or a narrative of there
being underground bases

or a vast tunnel system
being under the ranch.

I have to say,
from my very first experience

of coming out here
on the property,

the first indication of anything
strange that I observed

was on top of that mesa.

We saw regions of the mesa
possibly illuminating.

And in the context
of something technological,

potentially under the ranch,

this all starts to become
very interesting.

We had a guard
from the Bigelow era

that had indicated
he'd found a spot

that could have been
a caved-in entrance to a cave.

-You mean the visit
by Chris Bartel?
-Yes.

Hey, I found what looks like
to be a cavern.

CHRIS: Let me take a look.

Oh, yeah.

I'm pretty sure this is it.
Or it looks like it.

THOMAS:
You can tell that at one time
it was a lot larger.

And it's collapsed
down in on itself.

CHRIS:
You can tell
that this whole area--

it looks like a sunken-in area.

-THOMAS: Like it was
all caved in. Yeah.
-CHRIS: Yeah.

So strange.

After Chris Bartel
showed us the spot,

we started to explore
the area around it

to see if we could
find any clues

that might lead to more answers.

And we did find
some pretty deep holes

that we couldn't see
the bottom to.

And we determined
that we'd take some smoke bombs

and drop 'em down these holes

and see if we could see smoke
coming up anywhere else.

Maybe clues
into where these holes

are going into the mesa.

Thomas and I have found
a couple of holes up here.

I think we're gonna throw our,
uh, smoke grenades in there.

So, keep an eye out,
see if you see it

coming out
anywhere on the mesa.

Copy that. Thanks.

Right here.

TRAVIS:
It goes as far
as you can see down.

Let it get smoking good.

Oh, that's good.
Orange smoke, orange smoke!

Oh, I'm gonna step back.

Yeah, definitely we got smoke.

PETE:
A little bit. Yeah.

TRAVIS:
There should be a lot
more smoke coming out.

THOMAS:
Actually, look, look,
it's getting sucked in.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, the smoke's going down!

THOMAS:
Look, it's completely gone.

We should be seeing smoke
everywhere, there's no smoke.

(laughing):
There's nothing here.

-Yeah.
-No smoke?

BRYANT:
I don't see anything.

TRAVIS:
Where did it go?

There's a opening
underneath the mesa out there.

The interesting thing is

when I dropped
the smoke bomb in,

the smoke started to come out
and then almost instantly,

as if someone
turned on a vacuum,

it sucked all the way down,
and-and disappeared.

And we repeated that
multiple times.

-Sure did.
-Yeah.

Yep. And then that led
to the exercise of,

okay, well if there's
truly a void in there,

-can we get
a camera down there?
-Right.

-The hole's right here.
-Okay.

So we got one of these
snake cameras, actually...

I think we're live.
I'm gonna hit record.

...and we did get some
really interesting footage.

A good 30 feet
down in the mesa...

What the hell is that?

BRYANT: ...we saw some metallic
object down in there

that absolutely
shouldn't be there.

-Nope.

The rocky mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch

has been shrouded in mystery
and rumor for years,

but when this team
literally looked into it,

what they found
in this imposing feature

might just be out of this world.

Gentlemen, let's go back
to the very first

drill operation you did
at the mesa and how it went.

Our idea was to bring
in this horizontal drill

and actually drill into the mesa

where we approximated
this cave to be.

Right.

THOMAS: We brought out a driller

who is probably one of the top
drillers of the United States.

So, he's had a lot of experience

drilling through landscapes that
are almost identical to this.

And he gets into the mesa

and immediately encounters
something that will not let

his directional drill bit
start to turn upwards.

I'm up against something
pretty hard right now.

So, we're coming up about
11 inches every ten feet.

It was-it was
directing you downward

and now you're still on it,

but it's allowing
you to go upwards?

-Right.
-ERIK: So, that-that
tells us something

about whatever
this impenetrable thing is.

So, it sounds like
you're describing kind of a V.

May not even be a V,
it could even be...

maybe a dome.

-We're looking for a void.
-Right.

We weren't looking
for anything else.

And he hit something hard,
shaped like a dome,

-that would not allow
his drill to turn up.
-That's incredible.

And of course, we hit
the-the metallic material

-that appears in flakes.
-Yeah.

Those drilling spoils...

THOMAS: Okay.

-What is that?
-what are you seeing?

Oh, my.

-THOMAS: It's brittle.
-ERIK: This is really thin.

I wondered if it was, like,
metal flakes or something.

That's exactly
the same impression I got.

So, was it a fact
of that drill bit knocking

pieces off of whatever
this object is?

We don't know,
but it does correlate

in the timing as to when
the driller hit something

that was hard enough
that it drove his drill bit down

and he could not
turn it to go up.

THOMAS:
180 feet in is where

we first started
bringing those spoils up.

How'd they get there?

-That's the question.
-ERIK: Mm-hmm.

Yeah, Matty. We took those
spoils to the University of Utah

to have analysis done on them.

And what we found
was absolutely amazing.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

The way I understand it, there
was also trace elements of, uh,

europium and tellurium
in the sample?

Okay.

This material was manufactured,

as opposed to
a natural occurrence?

Yeah.

ERIK: Well, That's interesting.

That's actually
very interesting.

When you get
scientific corroboration

like that from a lab,
that it is something strange...

Historically, do we know

of any space shuttles
parked in the mesa? Anyone?

Uh... not that I know of.

-No.
-TRAVIS: How did it
get in there?

That's the big thing.

How did that material
get into the mesa

and to what purpose?

And that set you up
for a second drill attempt.

Literally and figuratively,

you guys were looking
for a breakthrough.

First, we're looking
for a tunnel.

The second time, we were looking

for a metal object
inside that mesa.

And so we actually

did the GPR on top of the mesa

and discovered that, in fact,

there was some type of anomaly.
So, whatever it was

that we were getting
pushed down by, maybe we could

-come in and catch it above.
-Right.

And this second one, the goal
was to go into the mesa

and as soon as he got
into the mesa,

his instructions were
to turn that bit and go up.

TRAVIS:
We set up our spectrum analyzers

and we're watching the frequency
that they were using

on their drill bit beacon.

And when they hit whatever
they hit inside there-- wow.

It changed the signal
and rebroadcast it.

What's going on, Thomas?

The drill has encountered
a hard object

that it cannot penetrate.

Wow.

Whoa, what is that?

Hey, Thomas.

Tell Erik that
when the drill bit hit

whatever you guys hit
up at the top,

that the 33 megahertz signal
coming from the drill bit

amplified and spread out

all around it like something
was rebroadcasting it.

So, let me just
put this another way.

It sounds to me
like you're saying that

y-your drill hit the object
and every time

you hit the object, it...
it was responding.

That's one interpretation.

That is one way
to look at it, sure.

And that drill bit
was not damaged.

And you're sitting
there grinding that bit

against some
immovable something.

Right.

-It's-it's weird.

Does the mesa
on Skinwalker Ranch

contain the ultimate answers

to the bizarre phenomena
that happens on the property?

Thus far, your efforts in
the mesa have been incredible.

Talk to me about
your approach this season.

This time we got much more

of that ground-penetrating
radar data that

gives us a partial
three-dimensional image

of something quite large.

Something that runs quite deep.

TRAVIS: You've probably seen
this before, where they take

-the ballistic jelly.
-Yes.

And they'll fire a bullet at it.

And it shatters and creates

-a shrapnel field
inside the jelly.
-MATTY: Yes.

TRAVIS: That's exactly what
this three-dimensional,

ground-penetrating radar image
looks like in the mesa.

It's almost
as if something had come...

down really fast
and hits the mesa,

goes into it,

gets stuck in there and creates
a debris field on the inside.

Something that happens
to be saucer-shaped.

Something that happens to be
saucer-shaped.

MATTY:
I know with your science minds

and everyone here
is very rational,

this could be natural.

We're not gonna throw
that possible solution out.

But the ground-penetrating
radar expert told us

that this is not a naturally

occurring fissure

or object
that he's ever seen before.

And you can't get away
from the fact

that we pulled metal

-out of the mesa.
-That's a great point.

So, Matty,
the emphasis has shifted.

You know, whereas before we were
trying to drill into something.

-Right.
-Now we realize we've really
got something special.

-Yeah, yeah.
-ERIK: Clearly, this is

something not to be destroyed

if we can avoid it,
but to be studied.

So to study whatever this is
in the mesa,

we drill boreholes that
go right up beside it--

not into it, but beside it--

so that we can
insert instruments

that are side-looking
that may give us

a more complete picture
of what it is

we're dealing with in the mesa.

And almost right off the bat,

when you guys
begin this operation,

things get weird again.

Absolutely.

TRAVIS: What's going on?

So we keep losing communication

with our transmitter.

-TRAVIS: Wow!
-THOMAS: We start having

equipment failures.
And by that, the beacon

that should be transmitting
the drill bit location,

that's how we steer
this thing around.

JARED:
When you start drilling,

I lose all communication
with him,

and he loses
communication, also.

-Yeah.
-THOMAS: Quits transponding
to the receiver.

And so that caused us to have

to stop work and try to figure
out what's going wrong.

And they were attributing it
to a dead battery,

but we pulled the battery out.

And what did you guys find?

I put a volt meter to it,
and it was

completely full
as if it were new.

There was something else
that was causing them

to lose signal between
that beacon and that receiver.

And things got
even more shocking.

I mean,
what happened with the cow?

We were, uh, looking
at the spectrum analyzer.

What?

What is that signal?

There's a signal at 919...

megahertz that's going
nonstop on every antenna.

What?!

And while we're watching it,

we saw a strange signal
just appear, and that's

when we all turned around
and we saw the calf.

(cows mooing)

KALEB:
Hey, guys, you see that?

TRAVIS:
Look at this cow, guys.

Hey, guys, look at this cow!

ERIK:
What's going on?

BRYANT:
It's spinning in circles.

What the hell's wrong
with that cow?

Literally 45 minutes or less
before that,

these calves were coming

toward the operation
we were doing.

So I went over to shoo them
back to their mothers.

I specifically looked
at this cow.

It looked perfectly normal.

And then, within 45 minutes,

we see this calf just
absolutely spinning circles,

like as if it doesn't know
where it is.

And then, Thomas, you tell 'em
what else you witnessed.

This calf's eyes were white,

like almost solid white.

As if there was
a lens or a cover over 'em.

TRAVIS:
That's a telltale sign

of being exposed
to microwave radiation.

Where the calf was
running around in circles,

all of our compasses were off.

-North was moved off
by about 20 degrees.
-MATTY: Wow.

That's weird.

THOMAS:
Hey, Travis, you seeing any
elevated readings over there?

I've got a, uh, an old-school
compass standing right here

where that cow was
running around in circles.

North is about, oh, I'm gonna
say 20 degrees to the east.

THOMAS:
That's interesting.

TRAVIS:
It was weird.

ERIK:
And all of this is happening

just feet away
from where we were stationed

-during our drilling activity.
-Yes.

But it does correlate
in the timing

as to when the driller
hit something.

Yeah.

Do we have an update
on the calf?

Yeah, we immediately removed
the calf and its mother

from the property as soon
as the vet got done doing

an examination, and...

it's doing much better.

Great.

Could the legends
of a secret base

or otherworldly object
buried deep in the mesa

on Skinwalker Ranch
actually be true?

Guys, I put the question to you.

It sounds unbelievable,

but given everything
we've talked about,

but given everything
we've talked about,

everything we've seen
in season five,

it might not be that crazy.

You know, we're taking the data,

we're being led by those data.

And the further
we progress in this work,

the more we find seems
to align with the idea

of something technological.

You know,
for every underground base,

there has to be
an entryway somewhere.

-Right. Oh, right.
-Right?

BRYANT:
Could that possibly be

what we're tapping into
in the mesa? We don't know.

If that's where
a base might lie,

is this dome structure, um,

what other plans for that?

Will that be in play
moving forward?

You know, we've described, uh,
a strategy for studying that.

Uh, you know, we want to get in
as close as we can

to whatever that structure is so
that we can insert instruments

into the mesa
and build a more complete map

to characterize
whatever that artifact,

perhaps, whatever
that structure turns out to be.

This is essentially,
like, uh, what you do

when you're trying
to gather information on, say,

if you're in the military
and you're trying to get

more information, you do recon.

-Right.
-And we're trying to get
as much information

as we can before we make
a really big decision

about what we're gonna do
with that object

inside the mesa.

TRAVIS:
Right now,

we really only have
a few data points here.

We have the data points
of a drill going

under the bottom profile

of whatever this is and...

-a drill profile going
over the top...
-Right.

...of at least something.

We don't know that they're
even connected because they're

80, 90 feet apart
from each other.

But we also have
the ground-penetrating radar

that suggests
that the top profile

looks like something
and it's so wide.

But it's hard to say from that

if it's a solid object that goes
all the way to the bottom.

And until we can look
through this, this pathway,

now that
we're drilling alongside,

and-and put instruments
side-looking,

as Erik's talked about,

only then will we be
able to really start

looking at what this thing
might actually be.

BRYANT:
And I really appreciate

the approach that
Erik and Travis and the team

has taken of...

really doing it very carefully

with the biopsy type
of approach.

You know, we've heard
so many people just say,

"Well, why don't you
just blow the mesa up,

or just go in there
and demolish it?"

Well, first off,
we don't know what's in there.

-Right.
-It could be something

incredibly valuable or
incredibly important to mankind.

And by demolishing it,
you could ruin whatever's there.

I'll tell you,
our intent obviously is

to find out as much as we can.

But whether the ranch lets us
or not is another question.

Our drilling exercises
have proven over and over

unforeseen obstacles
that keep us

from achieving what it is
that we're wanting to do.

It's amazing how many
roadblocks are

constantly being
thrown in our way

in our efforts
to find more information.

But I can tell you, Matty,

there's a lot in store,
and I can't wait for you

to see what else we find

-as we're moving forward
on this.
-ERIK: Yeah.

Well, we can't wait to see
what you guys discover.

Thank you so much for letting
us in the command center.

It's been very exciting.

-Thank you, man.
-Thanks for joining us.

Is the mesa simply testing

our understanding of nature,

or will it ultimately change

our understanding
of the nature of our world?

Maybe the next episode

of The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch

will reveal that and more.

Thank you so much for watching
and have a great night.

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