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This particular spot had

some kind of flying saucer or wreckage.

Something crashed

through the tree.

I think an arborist should take a look at it.

You see anything?

Something broke off here at some point,

30 years or longer.

- There you go. - Wow.

There's something blocking

the transmission of their beacon.

What the hell is that?

The jelly samples

are pieces of burnt plant material.

- It's full of charcoal. - You mean, like,

something caused a fire deep inside the mesa?

Absolutely, yeah.

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For 20 years, the federal government

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Now a new team of dedicated scientists,

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They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

What's going on, Thomas?

So, we got here earlier today 'cause,

as we discussed previously, the beacon quit

transponding, right?

So we thought if we pulled the beacon back

to that point, he could pick it up, we could mark what position

the bit was in and proceed back up.

The problem is, is that you never picked the bit up

- when we came down, right? - No, never picked it up,

and the signal never came back on, so I completely lose it.

It's not telling me where I'm at,

what depth I'm at, what direction I'm going,

anything like that.

What are our steps right now?

Just back it up, get the beacon out?

Back it up, get the beacon out,

and then put a new battery in,

try and recalibrate it and reset it,

and if that doesn't work, then I have no idea.

This is a job-stopper if this doesn't turn on.

That's serious.

That is serious.

Nothing has been easy

during our team's investigation on Skinwalker Ranch.

But our ongoing drilling operation in the mesa,

where data suggests a 400-foot-long,

dome-shaped object is buried,

with a number of smaller anomalies surrounding it,

has been absolutely frustrating

and, at the same time, very intriguing.

In the past three years,

several drill rigs, designed to cut through solid rock,

have been unable to penetrate whatever is inside there.

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

And in the spoils we've found metal fragments

that are composed of the same kinds of materials

that are used by NASA and SpaceX

to protect the surface of spacecraft.

So, for the past five weeks,

the team from Mark Construction have been working

to drill the first of two boreholes

on either side of the dome-shaped object

that will go all the way up through to the top of the mesa.

This will allow us to insert scanning devices

to hopefully identify what these things are

and help us figure out how to uncover them.

But during this operation,

the drill has been thwarted

by possible contact with these anomalies.

A calf suddenly became extremely ill, as if

it were exposed to a massive dose of microwave radiation.

Do you even have it now, or is it totally gone?

Totally gone.

And last week the drilling beacon,

which is a device that allows the team

to track the location of the bit underground,

just suddenly stopped working.

How much further would you guess you need to go

to come out of the ground?

- About 260 feet. - Wow.

- That's a long way to be operating blind. - Yeah.

So today we checked in with the team,

hoping that we could fix the problem with the drill beacon

and start making some progress in this dang mesa.

So, Travis, do you think there's any diagnostic

that we could help do

as far as with any of our equipment down here?

Well, what we could maybe do is get the handheld,

RF detector systems...

the spectrum analyzer or the TriField meters...

and see if we can actually see the signal coming

from the beacon.

Let's see what the deal is.

Let's get that thing out of there

and look and see if that beacon's working.

Well, it's right here close.

We can have it out in a minute

and, hopefully get it diagnosed.

All right, well, then, Erik and I'll go get our piece

of equipment ready while you guys are getting that thing

- out of there. How does that sound? - Sounds good.

- Thank you, guys. - All right, let's do it.

Maybe the beacon stopped working

purely because of a mechanical failure or a dead battery.

Hey, guys. Just gonna let you know,

the beacon's out of the bit,

and, he's up here troubleshooting it.

We'll be there in... in about one minute.

After the drillers swapped out the battery in the beacon,

Erik and I got our spectrum analyzer ready

to see if we could pick up the signal

and make sure it was working properly.

When we got it out of the beacon, it was... it was on,

and, he was getting a perfect signal off of that.

But still no data was transmitting.

Yeah, I see it right here.

We're getting it. Yeah, yeah, it's strong, too.

I'm about to see if it'll pair right now.

If it doesn't pair, then I got nothing.

Then it was time to see if Alex would be able

to pair or sync it with the rig

so they could start drilling into the mesa again.

Now I'll calibrate it.

Okay, everything's paired up.

Should be, getting signal now.

Works.

So you're getting a signal. Are you getting the data

that you're expecting out of it now,

now that it's out of the ground?

Yeah, we're getting all the data and stuff now, so...

- So it is working? - It's working now.

Well, so, then,

if this is working, then you should be able

- to put it back in, and it ought to work, right? - Yup.

- Well... - Fingers crossed.

- Well, heck yeah. Let's do it. - That's good news.

- Let's hope it stays. - Let's hope for the best. Yeah.

- Okay. -Let's go test this one. - Let's do it.

We have lost contact with the beacon repeatedly

as the drill bit encounters this apparently impenetrable,

dome-shaped object in the mesa.

All right, you guys ready?

Go ahead.

But at this point

we've received a clear and strong signal

from the beacon at surface level.

This is going a lot better.

I'm beginning to wonder

whether the anomaly itself may be interfering directly

with the beacon signal.

This only intensifies my interest

in what is going on in the mesa.

Let's just go right here.

The battery we just pulled out

was in perfect condition, so

I don't know what was causing the problem,

but hopefully, with this new battery,

we'll be able to continue on

and get up into the mesa.

And I lost him.

- Lost him again? - Lost him again.

I mean, the battery's good. You just recalibrated it,

and not... we're not even getting up to the same place

- that we lost it the first time. - Yeah, it's definitely strange.

Makes no sense.

Hey, guys, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

We've encountered some more problems.

You can meet us over... close to the drill.

Yeah. We're on our way over.

Every time that we go out to do an experiment,

you always have to wonder, what's the response

from the ranch going to be?

The lore that has been told about this place says

that something intelligent is here and monitors the ranch.

I know it sounds crazy, but at this point

enough things have happened that seem to be reactionary,

like there's something out here interfering with us,

especially as we try to drill into the mesa.

- Something more's going on? - Yeah.

Isn't this getting a little bit ridiculous as far as

what's being thrown your way?

Yeah, a little bit, but...

So, we, lost signal sooner this time.

- No kidding? - Yeah.

What do you reckon's happening there?

Have no clue at this point.

So, I got to try

an entirely different beacon.

How long will it be before you can implement that?

I-I bet a week at the earliest, right?

Yeah.

It is odd that when we pulled back,

the batteries, after being tested,

were still fully charged.

If it's not the batteries,

there's something throwing interference inside the mesa.

As far as what could be causing this, we're not exactly sure.

There's definitely some weird stuff going on here,

something unexplainable.

Are we gonna lose the hole?

If the ground does shift, you might have

some collapse in some places, but for the most part, it should

- maintain the hole. - I mean,

you guys have drilled a lot.

You've changed the batteries,

you've taken this thing out several times,

tried to recalibrate it several times.

Have you ever had a dig where you had to do this?

- I can't say I have. - Been doing this

for 11 years, and this is definitely the first time

I've ever encountered anything like this.

That's crazy, man.

Yeah, you guys are living the story

of Skinwalker Ranch at this point.

Certainly. (chuckles)

It's a strange and dynamic environment.

At this point,

gonna just be on standby

till that new beacon gets here, so

let's get ready for this drone experiment tonight.

Yeah, let's get to work. Let us know, guys.

- Thanks, guys. - All right, you guys.

Hey, guys. Welcome back.

How many drones

did you bring us this time?

Brought you a thousand.

- Thousand?! - Quite the crew

- you guys brought. - We've got a few people.

While we were waiting for the Mark Construction team

to get the new beacon device

for the drilling operation in the mesa,

we welcomed our friends from a drone light show company

known as Sky Elements back to help us

with another major focus of our investigation...

the mysterious spot in the center of the ranch

that we call the triangle.

So, for tonight, we've got this field mowed down for you.

You guys can set up right here.

- Perfect. Sounds great. - Okay, well, we got

a lot of work, so we'll go get to setting up our stuff.

We know you guys

have a lot to do.

We'll get to it.

- Well, let's get to work. - All righty.

We're gonna go get set up.

- Hey, look, UAP right there! - Yup, I see it.

Over the last several years...

Whoa. We got something on the FLIR.

Wow. I think that may be formation flying.

We've encountered more phenomena at the triangle

than anywhere else on the ranch,

including UAPs...

- Whoa. - Whoa.

That was fast, whatever it was.

Strange energy signals

around 1.6 gigahertz...

That's a communication signal or something.

See that?

It's like it's hitting something up there.

And even invisible obstructions

at various altitudes that have blocked

and created voids in laser beams.

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

I've never seen anything like this ever.

And about a month ago,

technologist Pete Kelsey scanned the area

with an infrared lidar device

and detected a massive cone-shaped anomaly.

Incredibly, it stretched from Homestead Two

all the way over to the east field canyon

and was centered about 2,000 feet high,

right above the triangle.

- Can you believe this? - No, it's crazy.

To collect more data

on this cone-shaped anomaly and anything else

that might be in the airspace above the triangle tonight,

Tyler Johnson, Preston Ward and their team

are going to launch a thousand illuminated drones

to various altitudes in a preprogrammed formation

of two parallel lines.

So, tell us about this fleet

that you're putting out in the field.

We've got a series of two lines.

It's gonna be a hundred drones two meters apart,

and it'll be two sets of those per flight.

And we'll fly it from back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

So the lines will go straight out

over top of the triangle towards the mesa,

they'll go up to 40 meters and come back.

And when they're on their way back, the next fleet

will pick up and do the same thing.

Some of the drones will also be equipped with GPS devices,

so as the swarm reaches higher elevations,

if the drones' straight-line pattern is altered in any way,

it could be evidence of any number of the anomalies

we've measured above the triangle in the past.

Typically, a flight total is eight minutes,

especially out here, with the stuff we've seen with batteries.

So, um, we've got these down to five to eight minutes each.

And so they'll take off every five minutes.

And they have a new drone that you haven't seen yet.

It's like a racing drone.

It'll go up to, like, 100 mile an hour?

- Absolutely. - Thing is amazing. Wait till you see it.

He flies it through VR.

I'm jealous. Can we trade jobs?

(laughs) I get that a lot.

As a first-person-view drone pilot,

I put on a set of goggles and I'll have a controller,

and it puts me

inside the cockpit of the drone.

So we're able to go in and out

through the swarm,

and you get a unique perspective

of what exactly goes on in a drone swarm light show.

So I've got a couple of ways to watch what we're doing.

One of those is, of course, our surveillance camera system.

The other being live monitoring of the GPS positions

of at least one of the drones while we're flying

- as we've done in the past. - Yeah.

- Of course. - We've also got

high-speed cameras to the west, and Kandus

and Tom are gonna be with high-speed cameras to the east.

So we'll see the drones this way.

And, we'll also have, the guys from OmniTeq.

Yeah, our multi...

sensor boxes will be at,

you know, what we say are the primary locations.

- Yes. Yes. - So then we'll be monitoring

while you guys are doing everything here.

We also brought this FLIR.

Where do you want that set up?

We're gonna set it up somewhere

in this vicinity, where we got a full shot

of the sky and the area above the triangle.

And we'll see the drones in it.

In order to gather additional data tonight,

we'll monitor the experiment

with multiple cutting-edge technologies.

First, high-speed cameras will be positioned

to the east and west of the triangle

and one directly under the center of the triangle

that will be taking

hundreds of pictures per second.

And also a FLIR thermal camera that will visualize anything

that might have a different temperature

than its surroundings.

Finally, Jim Royston and Sam Deriso from OmniTeq

will be using their multi-sensor scanning systems,

while Erik and I will have an array of antennas

to look out for any strange energy spikes or signals,

which we frequently detect during our experiments.

You know, as amazing

as the in-flight component of this is,

the stuff that's happened on the ground

when it comes to the connectivity issues

or even equipment failure has really been

the most puzzling in these exercises.

And so, of course, as soon as you guys fire up

your base stations and start talking to your drones,

if anything happens, I want to know about it.

- Absolutely. - Sounds like a plan.

This is gonna be

one heck of an experiment.

With that said,

we've got some rocket stuff to get ready.

I've got to get the spectrum analyzer up and running.

So let's get to work.

- All right. - Okay.

- You got it? - Yeah.

Come on. There we go.

- You let it go. I got it. - Okay.

Just before the drone swarm takes flight,

we'll kick off the experiment

using our favorite probing tool...

rockets.

Launching rockets has repeatedly given us indications

of strange things in the airspace

and sometimes even seemed to trigger phenomena to appear.

- The GPS is looking good. - Yeah.

We have a lot of components to this experiment tonight.

But hopefully they'll get us closer

to answers about the triangle

and Skinwalker Ranch.

Okay, that's it.

All right.

Okay, guys, I've got

good signal here, um, on the tracker.

I-I am really anxious to see how this looks.

Okay, we'll give a countdown over walkie

when we're ready to go.

Call over to them and tell them we're ready.

Hey, guys, we are ready to rock and roll here.

All right. Let's launch this thing.

- You want to give a countdown? - Yeah.

All right. Going hot on the battery.

Rocket is hot.

You ready?

Yeah.

In five,

four, three,

two,

one.

We got a chute.

- Arming! - Arming, arming,

arming, arming.

- Look at that. - That's nuts.

- Flash it again. Do it again. - They should be in unison.

They should be all at once.

Come on.

Look what we're getting.

I've never seen it like that.

Typically, whenever we send a blink command

to the drones, we expect all the drones to blink in unison.

Something we've never seen anywhere

is the drones all blinking randomly

when we send that command.

Didn't make any sense.

But, look, they're already disconnecting.

Yeah, everything's disconnected.

Did you see that?!

Is something happening over there?

Hey, guys, what's up?

We got something in the sky over the mesa.

Where'd it go?

There it is.

Yeah, that don't look like an airplane.

What the hell is up there?

We got something in the sky over the mesa.

Right there. Yep.

You don't typically see satellites that bright

to the north.

That's way... That's a... that's a really high...

- That's going east. - Latitude.

The question is, is that close or is that far away?

Are you seeing it still?

No, I'm not seeing it still.

- It's gone. - It's gone. It went away.

It went away.

Hey, Travis, all the drones

are fully down.

Wow.

As scientists, Erik and I often preach

that correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation.

But right after we launched our first rocket from the triangle,

a UAP suddenly appeared high above Skinwalker Ranch.

And then all 1,000 drones that Sky Elements had programmed

to take off malfunctioned.

So we're actually seeing

some really interesting behavior with the drones.

You see the red blink we've been doing?

Yeah, I've been noticing that. What's that about?

Well, they should all be blinking at the exact same time.

Really?

Ain't none of 'em blinking at the same time.

Copy that. Let us know when you're ready.

- Stay with it. - Copy.

We will.

- Hey, Travis. - Yeah.

We just lost signal from this antenna

as that was coming over.

So we're out.

- You lost signal when that flew over? - It just went down.

We've been up the whole time.

It's down right now.

Wow.

After Jim and Sam reported

that one of the antennas connected

to their multi-sensor system was also glitching,

it really started to look like all these things

might be directly related.

Have you reset it, see if it'll start back up?

Sam just rebooted it and nothing.

- And it's still nothing? - Still nothing.

What?

That's just so weird.

As frustrating as these setbacks were,

they offered compelling evidence

that some kind of ranch phenomenon,

like perhaps that UAP we saw,

caused them all to happen.

Yeah, I mean, that's...

That's insane.

And then we just had... Did you see that?

Yep.

What is that?

There's clearly a signal there.

Something at 1.6 gigahertz,

whatever it is.

Wow, it's definitive, too.

What the crap is doing that?

So, the only antenna picking it up

is pointed directly at the launchpad.

Yeah.

It sounds like a communication signal.

When our spectrum analyzer

detected the 1.6-gigahertz signal,

it was icing on the cake, as far as I was concerned.

We've not only detected this kind of signal many times

when we've seen other phenomena on the ranch,

but this one was making sounds like some form of communication.

And our antenna showed that it was coming directly

from the launchpad in the center of the triangle.

Hey, look, it just showed up

in the sky-facing antenna.

What? What? It just show... Did you see that?

- It was not there before. - Yeah. It's right there.

Yeah.

And you can see it coming across the side,

- like on the other one. - Yeah.

So let's zoom in on that and see what it sounds like

coming from that antenna.

That's coming from the sky-facing antenna.

And-and so we're getting a signal now

in a vertical antenna pointed right at the mesa

and then an antenna pointed at the sky

out in the field here behind us.

What?

We really haven't seen this.

No, we haven't seen this before.

It's jumped to the other antenna now.

So now we've got it coming from the antenna

pointed at the exit spot.

Now things were going from weird to ridiculous.

The signal was not only coming from both the triangle

and the sky in the area where we detected

the huge cone-shaped anomaly

but also from the very same spot in the east field

where we recorded images of a UAP passing through the mesa

and flying toward the triangle back in 2022.

So, we're getting this same signal

from multiple directions at the same time?

Yes. So that signal's coming

from everywhere all at once.

Our antennas are supposed to help us pinpoint

where any signals are coming from.

But they were detecting this one

like it was jumping around from the center of the triangle

to the east field to the south field and then

right above us.

Could that mean that it was being deflected around

from inside the cone-shaped anomaly?

And if so, then what in the world

could we actually be dealing with?

I don't know, man.

Call over to them and tell them we're ready.

Hey, guys, we are ready to rock and roll here.

We have 200 drones ready to go,

approximately 60 seconds from liftoff.

60 seconds from liftoff.

Copy that, guys. We'll be ready with the rocket launch.

Let's go, Dragon.

We didn't know if we should be relieved

or even more freaked out when Preston said

that only 200 of the 1,000 drones were finally working.

But either way, we couldn't wait to get the swarm

and the single FPV drone in the air

to see what might happen next.

Arming!

I'll send everything that's connected.

- Five seconds. - Five,

four, three,

two, one,

go.

What do we have? Four? Four didn't take off?

Four no take-offs. Lots of movement.

Four no take...

Look at... look at 'em moving around.

They cannot control 'em. Look at 'em.

Look at that.

They hit each other.

- Did you hear 'em hit? - Yup.

As soon as our show goes up,

we start having problems.

We started to see some wiggle in several different spots.

Typically, wiggle's not something we see

when we're flying patterns and shapes.

This wiggle was very random,

random drones, random parts of the lines.

It didn't seem to have any cause to it.

It's really weird.

They look terrible.

They're moving into a straight line.

Yeah.

Trying to figure out if they're locked in.

Stay clear, stay clear, stay clear.

Some of them are out.

They're having a hard time down here.

In typical ranch fashion,

we're having all sorts of problems

with these drones.

So, hopefully, this FPV pilot

will give us a real up-close perspective of these drones

to help us see what's possibly above the ranch

that's causing all this trouble.

They are not in line at all.

Look at 'em, there-there's a wave going through it.

Youre going to have to wait.

Why did it cut?

Where'd the other drone go? I thought I heard one hit again.

- FPV just lost video. - FPV just lost its feed.

FPV is down, lost video feed.

Something's not right.

I think that drone crashed.

FPV is down,

lost video feed.

They crashed.

He crashed his drone, man.

Yeah, I heard it

hit the ground.

Kaleb, they think

that you hit the ground.

Just after the Sky Elements team

was finally able to get 200 out of the 1,000 drones

to launch up above the triangle,

inexplicably a number of them were still deviating

from their preprogrammed formation.

And then the manually-operated FPV drone,

which was being flown through the swarm

to look for evidence of whatever might be

affecting all the devices,

suddenly lost its camera feed

and crashed into the ground.

So, did it just lose power,

or did something knock it out of the sky?

Yeah, that one's still really out.

Yeah, you got some right over there.

That one's the most significant one I see.

There's like three or four with spacing issues.

We've got a few on the west side that seem to be misbehaving.

Preston, time to land?

In probably about two minutes.

After eight minutes in the air, the drone swarm needed to land.

And because of all those malfunctions,

the team from Sky Elements decided

that it was time to end the experiment.

Sky Elements, clear the grid! Everybody clear!

Clear the grid!

Guys, heads on a swivel.

We may have some bumps on the way down here.

All right, coming in to land.

We may have lost a drone in the air.

It was difficult to get those 200 drones connected

and get everything going.

Once we got the swarm going,

we noticed a couple of drones that were out of position

that were definitely having GPS issues,

but also our FPV pilot hit something.

We don't know what it was.

We're going to go back and look at the footage.

We're here at Skinwalker Ranch,

there's nothing around, there's no obstacles.

We're not quite sure what he hit.

All right, all drones back on the ground.

Man, what a, what a night, right?

Very eventful, for sure.

Yeah, I got to tell you,

we were picking up a signal at 1.6 gigahertz.

It was moving around, it was interfering

and started on one antenna pointed at the mesa,

moved to an antenna pointed at the sky,

one pointed at the mesa over there.

And it suggests that there's something above us

broadcasting downward at us

and it's bouncing around off the mesa and everywhere.

And maybe some of those things

could be what was causing the problem, but I...

That's interesting you say that signal was bouncing around

'cause we would have periods where everything would connect

for 15, 20 seconds, sometimes a minute,

and then it would all start disconnecting again

and it would do it just randomly.

Wh-What could be causing that?

That rapid loss of power doesn't make much sense.

So, your fast drone that was moving around?

We heard it crash.

You could just see it just go dark and...

And I just watched it drop like a rock right out here,

like someone flipped a switch.

That's crazy.

Well, we've got a lot of data to look through,

and we also had high-speed cameras going.

There might have been things in there that we haven't seen yet.

All right, guys. Let's load up.

- We got a lot to do. - Start heading out.

- Thanks, guys. - Thank y'all.

Hey, thanks, you guys.

Well, we've got quite a bit to go through.

You know, what a night.

The next morning, Erik alerted us

that he had already scoured through the surveillance,

the high-speed, and the thermal camera video

from the drone swarm experiment.

Hey, Preston. Hey, Kaleb, you hear us okay?

- How's it going, guys? - How's it going?

So, we were all eager to review everything

along with Preston Ward and Kaleb McEwen from Sky Elements,

who joined us on a videoconference.

This is really interesting,

this particular, video that I'm going to share.

Okay, I'm gonna play this through.

We know what we're looking at when we see a plane.

This didn't match any of that.

I agree.

We've got it from another angle.

Let's take a look at that.

- There it is. - There it is.

So, this is the UAP that correlates

with the same time that their equipment went down

and all of the drones disconnected.

Right. I-I think we all want

to take a look at this a little closer.

All we can say about it is,

we know it's not one of our drones,

and it's some object that's...

Emitting light.

Emitting light, and it doesn't look like an aircraft.

It doesn't look like anything normal.

So I don't know what it is.

Whatever this really bright UAP was,

it didn't appear like a meteor or a satellite

or something natural.

And then it just vanished into thin air.

Since it showed up just before all of the drones

and a lot of our other gear malfunctioned,

could it have been related or maybe even the cause?

I know that we ran into all kinds of problems.

Maybe just walk us back through and tell us

what you've learned on, you know,

anything you've postprocessed.

Sure, so I looked

through all the logs on the drones

and the system itself, and it didn't tell me anything

that would be impacting that communication level.

And there's no really assignable cause on our end.

Um, you know, it was just kind of more of the same

that-that Skinwalker Ranch seems to cause issues

that don't exist anywhere else.

And, Kaleb, you lost your FPV drone,

and I was wondering if, you had any insight about that

after you've had some time to think about it

and reflect on it.

Yeah, so out of the 50 flights I've flown for drone shows,

I've never lost connection completely.

So, out of nowhere, I was flying and, boom,

I lost the telemetry and my video,

and that's never happened.

I couldn't explain.

I'm excited to see what is on that GoPro.

I'm... I hope y'all found it.

Well, it's right here, as you can see.

- Yeah. - And we found this

nearly right up on top of the mesa.

That's crazy.

So, how did it end up that far

away from the triangle?

So, guys, I have the footage from the onboard camera.

We've recovered that.

We're super excited to see what happened.

We've been racking our brains trying to figure out

what happened to that drone.

Well, I-I think it'll be instructive

to both see and hear,

whatever the drone saw and heard.

What?

- That was midair. - Whoa.

Yeah. I mean, you hit something and...

Yeah, it's... That's weird.

You're in midair, dude.

I'm, like, really high, too.

What in the world?

So, you hit something in the air

and spiraled into the ground.

That's what happened.

I'm, like, really high, too.

- You're in midair, dude. - Yeah.

There's nothing up there.

Well, something made the drone fall out of the sky.

Yeah.

Back it up again.

Watching and hearing the Sky Elements' FPV drone

appear to hit something in the sky during our experiment

over the triangle last night was crazy.

To make things even stranger, Dragon found the drone

several hundred feet away on top of the mesa to the east,

but we saw it flying to the west.

What could have caused it to end up all the way over there,

especially since it didn't have very much physical damage?

Now, see if you can back it up to right as it crashed.

- Okay. - All right.

So, here we're still flying under control.

At this point, you hit something.

What are we hitting? I don't see the mesa anywhere.

And I don't see a bird.

Yeah, I was pretty high, too.

I want to say I was, what,

120 feet?

That is just unbelievable.

So, guys, we've got one more piece

of footage that we want to share with you.

This is thermographic imagery

off of a FLIR camera out at the triangle.

Again, this is sky-facing.

We set it to where the very bottom of the frame

is literally at the top of the launch tower.

Yeah, so here you can see top of the mesa.

And I'm just gonna let this play through

at its normal speed.

Wow, it looked like it was far away.

- Can you zoom in on it? - Sure.

So, we're looking at something that's clearly giving off

a heat signature that's warmer than,

you know, the surrounding part of the frame.

I don't see any wings or anything,

like it would be a bug flying over the FLIR.

So, Kaleb, do you, do you remember the time frame

when you saw this, what was going on the, on the ground?

This was right around the same time

that Kaleb's drone crashed.

Yeah, it was.

In addition to the UAP we all saw

right before our equipment started glitching,

our thermal camera positioned at the triangle caught

another UAP that was literally invisible to the naked eye.

This is very persistent, it's-it's, very graceful,

linear travel.

Clearly not a... it's not an aircraft.

It's too fast for an airplane.

- Yeah. - Don't know what it... I don't know what it is.

It didn't appear to make any contact

with the FPV drone,

so it made me wonder if there was anything else up there

that might have.

What else you got, Erik?

So, what I'm about to share with you

is some footage that was obtained through

a high-speed camera asset.

And this is looking straight up

- through the anomaly at the launchpad. - Yeah.

Yeah. You caught that?

I didn't see anything.

- I'll back it up just a bit. - Zoom in on it, Erik.

Okay, you got it.

Yeah, yeah, there it was.

There's two things there.

- Did you see that? - Yeah.

Let me take that back through,

using frame advance.

Okay.

Ooh, that looks like two there.

- Well, I find that really interesting. - Turned into two.

Yeah.

Looks like it starts with one.

Must be right behind each other.

Where do they go? That's interesting.

Yeah, that's a good question.

Yeah, whatever this is, it appears to fade in and out.

Let me try one thing, let me turn the contrast

and brightness up just a bit.

- What are we seeing? - Okay, I don't see anything now.

I would say that they're still right there.

Okay. How about I dive in on it?

- Yep, I saw it. Yep. - Yes, look, it's right there.

Yep, there you go. Sure is.

There's a lot going on here, guys.

Look at all this.

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

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

So, I think that I'm seeing maybe a formation flying event.

The high-speed video captured

during our drone swarm experiment last night

showed more UAPs than we've ever seen at one time.

They were literally maneuvering around

above the center of the triangle,

and many of them seemed to be flying

in coordinated patterns with each other.

Could these things be what prevented

so many of the drones from being able to launch?

And does it also explain why the 200 that did

struggled to maintain their programmed formations?

Okay, I'm gonna take us

back out.

Let it keep playing for a bit.

Okay.

Whoa, whoa, there was a bright one.

We'll back up and look at the, individual frame.

Look how bright that is.

It's not a satellite, it's not... a satellite at this frame rate

would just be sitting in one spot.

Let it keep playing for a second forward.

All right, I'll keep playing through this.

- Okay. - There was another bright one.

Did you see that one?

- Wow. - Okay, I'm gonna,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring us back through it.

Right there.

Wow, that was a bright one.

And that's, like, a single-frame event.

Lord have mercy, what are we seeing?

Look how bright that was.

We have seen UAPs

moving at fairly high rates of travel

in the area where Pete Kelsey

detected a very large cone-shaped anomaly.

What if there is, in fact, some kind of connection

between those UAPs and that anomaly?

That would be interesting.

And how long is this clip?

This whole clip is about 20 seconds.

That many things in 20 seconds' time?

- Wow. - That's fast.

I mean, think about all the problems we were having

on the ground, guys.

Sky Elements is trying to connect

those thousand drones up,

and-and while we're down there on the ground

trying to fight through that, and you guys

- are losing your equipment... - Yeah.

We're having this take place above us,

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

Well, it wouldn't be hard to imagine, if you've got

a bunch of things popping in and out of your space,

that you'd expect to see interference

- with all your stuff. - Right.

Especially if they have

some sort of an electromagnetic quality to them

- or something of that nature. - Yes, yes.

Have y'all seen anything like that before

while you were doing drone shows?

No, no, we've never seen

anything strange in the sky, you know.

It's totally unexpected to see that kind of stuff,

you know, in the middle of nowhere,

and especially if it's something we can't identify.

Yeah, that's... this is the thing, is,

we recently imaged a massive cone-shaped anomaly

using lidar directly over the triangle,

where you did just fly through, Kaleb, and lost a drone.

So I-I find it really interesting that,

you know, we had something else in the same airspace

that we couldn't see but occasionally with the naked eye,

mostly with high-speed or infrared cameras.

Yeah, it's definitely very unusual, right?

Well, look, guys, after all

of these really unexpected, amazing things

that we've seen, we definitely want to get you guys

back out here, boots on the ground.

See if we can't get those thousand drones in the air.

- How do you feel about that? - Let's do it.

- Let's see if we can make it happen. - All right.

See you guys later. Good to see y'all.

- Thank you. - Thank you, Kaleb.

We definitely need to follow up on this,

but we need to do some planning.

Given what we've seen, what can we do differently,

what can we do better

during these massive drone exercises?

Well, they didn't get the thousand drones up...

- Got to do that. - So I would love to see them get the thousand drones up,

even if they're in sections, you know?

If you create a section, you could do half of them

over here at the triangle and half of them down here

at the east field, simultaneous.

I like where you're going with that.

The idea of maybe two major thrusts simultaneously.

Since the massive cone-shaped anomaly that we detected

encompassed the triangle

and reached all the way to the east field,

my thought was to split the drones into two swarms

between the two areas.

That way, we can see if they are affected in similar ways

or in different ways or not at all.

It could produce more data to help us determine

just what we're dealing with out there.

Well, let's get 'em back and let's do it.

- I'm all about it. - All right, guys. -Sounds great.

- Well, we've got a lot of planning to do. - Yeah, we do.

That was crazy.

Over many years of work on the ranch,

it is often the case

that when we're conducting our experiments,

we have seen UAPs that appear in the sky above us.

And it's not uncommon that we experience

equipment malfunctions at the same time.

I think we would all like to know

how the phenomenon interferes with our equipment,

equipment of all kinds.

This experiment led

to some of the most incredible events

we've ever documented during our investigation.

So, by repeating the exercise on an even larger scale,

maybe it will lead to a revelation

that finally explains

what's behind all the phenomena that we keep experiencing

here on Skinwalker Ranch.

As crazy events continue to occur

in the area of the triangle,

we'll be more vigilant as we set up

the next drone experiment.

I truly believe the team

is closer than ever to discovering the truth.

To understanding

the nature of what we are documenting

in the skies above Skinwalker Ranch.

We're gonna conduct a drone swarm experiment

between the east field and the triangle.

Both simultaneously.

- Whoa, what is that? - Whoa.

Right over the mesa here.

Here we go.

Holy mackerel.

It's raining drones over here.

Heads up. Let's get out, get out!

- Heads up, they're coming down! - My God.

The drones are falling on us.

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