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-THOMAS: Right there, right there! -TRAVIS: Hey, look!

-UAP right there! -THOMAS: Yep.

TRAVIS: With all the shocking things

that our team has witnessed in the skies

on Skinwalker ranch...

-KALEB: That's not a plane. -TRAVIS: ...it absolutely

remains one of the most notorious UAP hot spots

in the world.

There is something in the mesa right there.

We've made other kinds of stunning discoveries

that suggest...

-ERIK: Three, two, one. -BRYANT: Three, two,

one.

TRAVIS: ...the keys to revealing

the truth about this mysterious place

might also lie hidden underground.

JEREMIAH: It definitely seems like a tunnel.

What have we stumbled on?

TRAVIS: So, tonight,

we're taking a closer look at how

the incredible phenomena that we keep witnessing

high above Skinwalker Ranch...

THOMAS: Let's get drilling.

TRAVIS: ...may actually be connected to something

-deep below it. -ERIK: Whoa.

This material is elemental selenium.

TRAVIS: Selenium is used to create

-a cloaking device. -Oh, wow.

TRAVIS: Oh, wow.

You know, there's no telling

how far that thing goes down in there.

In 2019, when I joined the team

to help investigate Skinwalker Ranch,

we quickly discovered that mysterious phenomena

didn't only come from the sky.

JEFF: I clearly see some spikes forming.

I've got some peaks showing.

-You sure do. -JEFF: Yeah.

You good?

Slightly, I felt like I was

not holding my balance well.

We detected disorienting energy spikes

from underground that seemed to come and go

with no explanation.

We should see what happens

when we do something like digging a hole.

And we create a precisely controlled experiment

where we're digging to this depth

and to this size and this volume.

When I suggested that we break ground to see

what might be causing it,

I got some pretty staunch resistance from Dragon,

our head of security.

I mean, I'm not a scientist,

but I've spent a ton of time here.

I know for a fact

crap goes down when people start disturbing the earth.

Start digging,

that's the trigger.

You know, if you're gonna be a part of this,

I have to "unequivocabally" say,

no digging.

TRAVIS: It turns out there had long been rumors of

some kind of alien base or craft buried beneath the ranch.

And as the legend goes,

anyone who dug in order to look for it would pay dearly.

It sounded pretty crazy to me at the time,

but then I found out why Dragon

wasn't so eager to test it.

It's impossible to explain the risk.

There's one person that knows the risk,

and he's sitting right there. Right?

Having been a person that's done a lot of digging on this ranch,

the more serious of digging I do,

the more serious of consequences that follow.

I didn't believe in the paranormal

when I came out on this ranch,

and I paid a pretty hefty price.

When they told me not to dig,

I just thought it was ridiculous.

And so, one day, I decided to do some digging.

And then, three days after, I noticed that

I had a goose egg on the back of my head.

By the time I let my wife

finally take me to the emergency room,

the goose egg had actually spread through my entire head.

My scalp separated from my skull.

The pain is so excruciating.

I've never felt anything like it before in my life.

The doctors had no idea what caused it.

They didn't know how to fix it.

Basically, they're telling me what happened to me

was medically impossible.

And it caused me a severe injury that,

to this day, I'm still having some repercussions with.

ERIK: So, for Phil's benefit,

-you see that roof over there? -Yes.

-We call it Homestead number Two. -PHIL: Okay, got it.

TRAVIS: We all agreed to take a cautious approach

for underground investigations on the ranch.

So, we asked ground penetrating radar expert Phil Oviatt

to scan the ranch to see if he could find evidence

of anything strange.

And, once he reached Homestead Two--

which had been a hot spot for all kinds of phenomena

including UAP sightings

since it was first built back in the early 1900s--

things got really freaky.

Now, look at this, right here.

ERIK: Okay. Whoa.

I see that.

How do you interpret that feature?

PHIL: Well, it looks like a dome feature.

-Really? -Yes.

TRAVIS: When Phil Oviatt detected evidence of

something dome-shaped beneath Homestead Two...

BRYANT: A little more. All right.

About there is good.

...it was enough to convince even Dragon

that we needed to poke this nest

and see what we might find.

THOMAS: So, guys, before you drill,

I'm gonna remove myself.

Keep us posted on how you doing.

All right. Okay.

TRAVIS: Tom Winterton got the heck

out of Dodge, just in case.

And then we got down to business.

Well, maybe this will be X marks the spot.

It's where I put the X on the GPR

and said that's where we should dig.

BRYANT: Look at that.

The whole power line's wobbling.

SEGALA: Why is that rocking like that?

TRAVIS: The wire's going nuts.

-It was violent. -Hey, look. Look at...

BRYANT: Yeah, all the way down there.

TRAVIS: Oh!

Suddenly, something made the ground

and the nearby utility pole

shake like an earthquake was happening.

SEGALA: Is somebody messing with that wire?

-TRAVIS: Well, who would be there? -SEGALA: I don't know.

SEGALA: Hey, they stopped shaking.

That is really weird.

That's crazy.

We have no idea what caused those tremors

underneath the drill rig.

But after all that, we didn't find any

conclusive evidence of the dome-shaped feature

or any kind of artificial structure below Homestead Two.

But the following year,

we would have much more compelling results

When we investigated beneath

another one of Skinwalker Ranch's

most notorious hot spots for high strangeness.

THOM?

Yeah, I think this'll be a good place to get started.

Hey, let us get out of your way, right?

You guys get it going. I want to see it fly.

Okay, I'm gonna power up the drone.

TRAVIS: After our inconclusive

drilling operation at Homestead Two,

the following year, Erik Bard arranged for a company

named Juniper Unmanned...

CHRIS: Taking off.

...to conduct a more comprehensive

subsurface scan for possible structures on the ranch.

CHRIS: Starting the route.

TRAVIS: To conduct the survey, the Juniper team

used a drone equipped with a magnetometer device to scan

the entire ranch, sensing for any magnetic anomalies

a hundred or more feet underground.

So, if there were tunnels, objects or structures,

like we'd heard about in the past,

the hope was that Juniper could pinpoint them.

CHRIS: Magnetometer is nice and stable.

ERIK: I think the magnetic survey really holds

the greatest promise for providing

insights into some of the strange things

that have happened down at the homesteads

and at the point of the mesa.

NATHAN: Here is the magnetic data

of the whole property.

The cooler colors represent lower

magnetic intensity readings,

and the warmer colors are higher.

-Here's the triangle. -TRAVIS: Mm-hm.

NATHAN: There's something going on right here.

TRAVIS: The Juniper survey detected

some interesting things all across the ranch.

But the most intriguing anomaly was

an elongated feature of some sort beneath the triangle,

where we've seen more phenomena

in recent years than anywhere else on the property.

Several days later,

after getting permission from ranch owner Brandon Fugal,

Erik Bard arranged for a team

from Pete Martin Drilling to bring out a rig

with a 24-inch diameter bit that was capable of

reaching as much as 100 feet deep

to look for underground structures at the triangle.

And meanwhile, Erik and Casey Smith set up

a number of scanning devices

to look out for harmful radiation

or any other strange signals

which we had detected during other experiments.

BRYANT: Erik, what exactly have we got?

On the laptop is where

we're looking at our spectrum analyzer.

It allows us to see

any unusual radio frequency signals

that show up while we're conducting our experiment.

Okay. Let's go, guys.

ERIK: Look, the history is what it is.

Our attention is naturally drawn to this spot.

But, then again, we've never tried

drilling at the triangle.

We may provoke some response from the ranch.

Who knows what will happen?

How far down are we?

-FERNANDO: 25 feet. -All right.

Wow.

Look at that. You see what's going on here?

-BRYANT: Yeah. -ERIK: This line you see right here?

-BRYANT: Mm-hmm. -I've been watching this thing dance around

and I've never seen that before.

A spectrum analyzer is a device that's sensitive

to electromagnetic waves,

like radio waves.

We seem to be receiving some kind of

energy.

I think that there may be

an energy source nearby

that could be interpreted as artificial.

I wonder if this is somehow connected to the drill.

Sure enough, Erik continued

to detect the mysterious signal

as they drilled deeper.

ERIK: This line you see right here

is... it's moving around

as if under some kind of, uh, deliberate control here.

What would the purpose of something like that be--

a communication device?

ERIK: I don't know. Look at this.

-That's bizarre. -Yeah.

ERIK: I sure don't know how to explain this.

TRAVIS: After reaching a depth of nearly 95 feet,

no obvious evidence of a tunnel or structure was found.

But then Dragon suddenly made an odd discovery

in the drilling spoils.

Oh, look at that.

CASEY: What's that? It's like pitch black.

That is some dark, dark stuff.

-ERIK: Yeah, it looks like coal. -CASEY: It does.

-You see this? -Yeah.

ERIK: The only other black stuff

around here that I know of...

-Gilsonite. -Gilsonite.

BRYANT: We're here at the triangle where we were able to

reach a depth of a hundred feet,

and so the drillers pulled out this strange black substance,

and we've heard stories of this Gilsonite that is

a byproduct of a meteor impact from years ago.

ERIK: I got the data back from the analysis.

You might find this interesting.

Take a look.

TRAVIS: After sending the black substance off

for lab analysis, Erik and I were stunned

by the report of what this black material

actually was composed of.

ERIK: It doesn't look like Gilsonite.

-Well, there's strontium. -Yep.

-Barium... both of which -Strontium and barium.

have radioa... uh, radioactive isotopes.

I found that interesting.

But the interesting thing here though, you've got manganese,

iron, uh...

aluminum, sulfur and silicon.

I mean, that's all the stuff you would need to put together

modern-day electronics.

ERIK: That's pretty interesting.

TRAVIS: If you go and take any modern-day...

fighter plane or spacecraft,

and you crush it up and then you take a sample

of it, you're probably gonna get these materials.

Oh, these kinds of elements would most likely

never be found in nature deep underground.

This is very interesting.

So, how in the world did materials

that we use to make military aircraft

get almost a hundred feet beneath Skinwalker Ranch?

And what could that mean about what was really below the train?

Two years later,

we discovered a shocking possible answer.

So tell me how this is gonna work.

It's a very versatile technology,

but, essentially, it's a low frequency radar.

Today we'll be flying on a weather balloon

that's actually gonna take it up to about 70,000 feet

-above the ranch. -Wow.

TRAVIS: In 2022, Erik Bard invited

Jeremiah Pate and his team from a company named Lunasonde

to conduct the most cutting-edge scientific examination

of what might be below Skinwalker Ranch.

And actually let us see, potentially,

kilometers beneath the surface.

All of our sensors are attached

to a large meteorological balloon.

This takes it up to its final altitude

of around 70,000 feet.

Our technology works by using low-frequency

radio waves to actually see deeper

into the planet than anyone ever has before.

Ultimately, what we'll see is actually

what's known as a tomographic image.

This is a true 3D map of the subsurface.

Hey, I think we're good.

Go for launch.

Off it goes.

That is a heck of a payload.

Wow.

CLAYTON: Now those payloads are recording and...

we'll start the tracking effort.

ERIK: I have Jeremiah Pate queued up on video call.

BRANDON: Greetings, Jeremiah. Thank you for joining.

Yeah, thank you, Brandon. And hello, everyone.

ERIK: Hey, Jeremiah.

TRAVIS: Several weeks later,

we were all meeting with Brandon Fugal

and former Utah governor Gary Herbert in Salt Lake City.

And Jeremiah also joined us via video conference

to share his incredible report.

JEREMIAH: There were a number of anomalies.

They seem quite out of place,

geologically, would be the-the best way to put it.

So many anomalies you saw underground

appear to be voids beneath the surface.

How big would you suspect, uh, some of these voids are?

So, these voids

tend to be in the, uh, tens of feet,

um, from what we've seen.

Whoa.

JEREMIAH: This is a 2D rendering

seen from above what we saw underground,

with the same sort of color coding.

Jeremiah, what do you conclude from this?

If you were to speculate, based on your expertise,

what are we looking at here?

The conclusion this has all led me to

is some sort of tunnel

with a high metallic content.

TRAVIS: Just like Juniper Unmanned had done the previous year,

Jeremiah and his team detected a possible tunnel,

and their data suggested it was not only metallic,

but also ran underground between the triangle area and the mesa.

Hey, guys, just letting you know the drill is going.

We are in the ground.

TRAVIS: So, after collecting additional GPS data in 2023

that also suggested something might be buried in that area,

we invited driller Jeremy LeBeau and his team back

to see if they could find out just what it was.

And at a depth of about 30 feet,

they made a compelling discovery.

Here we go. So, if you can see--

solid, solid, solid, and then nothing.

Like, they just hit the-the ceiling of whatever

it was punched through, and-and that was it.

So that would imply a void.

Yes.

ERIK: Interesting.

TRAVIS: But if it was a void,

was it natural?

Or could it be a tunnel

or some other kind of structure

like all the legends we had heard about on the ranch?

Something happened as they kept drilling

that really made us wonder.

Getting, like, a really bad metallic...

-Taste? -Taste. Are you?

Or is it just me?

No.

Shut it down. Shut it down.

TRAVIS: For Brady to taste metal while operating the drill,

it could've been an indication

that he was suddenly exposed to a strange radiation spike.

I think we should get him off the ranch.

I agree, I agree, I agree.

ERIK: Hey, guys, you want to help me

take some instruments over

and take some local readings?

-Let's go. -All right.

TRAVIS: As a precaution,

we had Brady leave the ranch immediately

while Erik and I scanned the borehole

for harmful radiation.

Curiously,

we didn't detect anything

at a dangerous level,

but that didn't end the strangeness.

I'm starting to taste metal. I'm not kidding.

-I'm not kidding you. -You're tasting metal now, too?

Yeah. I'm not kidding you. I'm-I'm...

-I'm tasting.... -All right, then you need

to get... you now have to leave.

-Come on. -All right.

TRAVIS: We weren't able to figure out

what affected Erik and Brady

as we drilled

into the possible void.

Do bad things really happen

on Skinwalker Ranch when you disturb the Earth?

It's anyone's guess at this point.

But that was only the beginning

of mysterious things that happened

during that drilling operation

in the triangle area.

JONATHAN: Start spinning her.

MASON: Spinning.

TRAVIS: The week after we drilled into a possible void

near the triangle where evidence

of a metallic tunnel had been detected,

Erik Bard directed us to drill

right at the triangle to see if we could prove it.

KALEB: Five, four,

three, two, one.

TRAVIS (on comms): Holy crap, look at that thing go.

(voice-over): As night fell during the operation,

we also launched some rockets to see if that might stimulate

any more strange phenomena.

Right there.

KALEB: Right there, right there, right there, right there.

TRAVIS: That is flashing, whatever that is.

Sure enough, we suddenly witnessed

a strange flash in the sky.

BRYANT: Is it an airplane?

KALEB: That's not a plane.

TRAVIS: And then, just moments later,

as the drillers hit what they described

as a really hard layer,

about 35 feet deep below the triangle,

I saw something else high above the ranch.

Hey, did you see that?

-KALEB: Yeah. -TRAVIS: Did you see the UFO?

Holy crap.

Look at that thing.

KALEB: Erik, something just

went behind the mesa to the north.

I don't know if you can see it.

ERIK (on comms): Yeah, I do not have any aircraft

in the airspace, uh,

to the north of mesa moving west to east.

What is going on?

TRAVIS: Yeah, what the heck was going on?

We hit a hard layer below the triangle,

and then, suddenly, flashes and a UAP in the sky,

which Erik confirmed was not a conventional aircraft.

Hey, Travis, we do have the core sample

from-from down there where it's hard.

THOMAS (on comms): What'd it look like?

Well, we-we actually just

got it out, we were just gonna break it open right now.

Let's go look and see what, uh, they pulled out of the drill

on this last, uh, core sample.

As we opened the core barrel,

all we could hope

was that the drillers collected evidence

of something, anything

that might help us figure out just what is down there.

-It's empty. -THOMAS: Uh, what?

TRAVIS: Why is it empty?

THOMAS: What was so hard

that it was taking so many hits

to get it to go down?

To my shock,

the whole bottom part of it is... is empty.

This is not what any of us expected.

TRAVIS: This is interesting.

I don't know what to think about all of this.

Right.

TRAVIS: We expected a full core, since the drillers

believed that they broke through

whatever the hard layer down there was.

After drilling two more holes where a possible tunnel

was detected in the area of the triangle,

the only thing we came up with was more questions.

-Thank y'all. -(chuckles) Yeah, our pleasure.

All right.

TRAVIS: It's been a little frustrating to investigate

what really could be below Skinwalker Ranch,

but at the same time,

what we've encountered makes us more determined than ever

to keep looking for the answers.

ERIK: If it turns out that we are dealing

with continuous structures--

anything at all like tunnels--

then that does lend credence

to the reports that we've heard of artificial structures,

even things referred to as bases beneath the ranch.

And we're going to have to investigate

deeper what's underground there at the triangle.

BRANDON: Our investigation at Skinwalker Ranch

attests to the reality of not only the phenomena

but the fact that we are onto something.

We are dealing with powerful forces,

unknown forces,

and we are finally on the precipice

of getting the very answers that we've been seeking for years.

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