I've got some footage that shows the helicopter
passing overhead. It's not a drone.
TRAVIS: And it turns and goes the other way.
It seems to be just navigating of its own accord.
TRAVIS: When we launch rockets,
our instruments pick up something unusual.
We're getting some kind of signal.
ERIK (over radio): Hey, Travis.
The Kraken has been tracking
the 1.6 gigahertz signal down to the southern fence line.
Oh, what's that?
TRAVIS: Oh! That thing is moving fast!
NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth:
animal mutilations,
bizarre UFO sightings
and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.
For 20 years, the federal government
tried to find answers and failed.
Now a new team of dedicated scientists,
researchers and experts has taken over.
They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal...
...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
What the hell?
THOMAS: I mean, that's the same height that we fly our drones at.
So, it's gotta be, like, 300 to 400 feet.
What in the hell is that thing doing right here?
KALEB: If that's military, you're not going to see that
on the ADS-B.
Hell, it's clearly marked, "United States Air Force".
That's interesting.
Well, I got it on camera. It's definitely changing course.
BRYANT: Yeah, they're gone now.
TRAVIS: This morning, another strange thing that our team
has repeatedly encountered on Skinwalker Ranch happened again.
A United States military aircraft
suddenly flew back and forth
over the property at an extremely low altitude.
Out of just happenstance.
Like, that does not happen.
Like, you don't have a military jet of that size
cutting through this airspace
that low just out of happenstance.
-That's nuts. -It's bizarre. Anyway.
I want to know what in the world is going on.
TRAVIS: Incidents like this have now happened
several times during the past few years
of our investigation...
TRAVIS: Helicopter, helicopter! Helicopter coming right over!
...and have even taken place right after we saw
incredible phenomena, such as UAPs.
BRYANT: I gotta get back and tell Thomas because
he probably got good footage of it, too.
BRYANT: Why in the world would there be a big military aircraft
cruising around in our airspace
and buzzing over the property?
Was this a warning?
Is it letting us know we're being watched?
I don't know,
but eyes are on Skinwalker Ranch.
Did you see that plane?
BRYANT: Driving down the road, that thing looked like it was
going to land on the damn property.
THOMAS: Dude, it was, it was just barely above the mesa.
I estimate it was between 300 and 400 feet above ground level.
I'm glad you got it from this point of view,
because I have it coming right over the top of us.
There's no military base anywhere near the ranch.
But we do know that the U.S. government
partially funded the investigation
of aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow
on Skinwalker Ranch from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
So these kinds of incidents make us wonder
if we're being surveilled.
It's obvious the military is interested for whatever reason,
I don't know, but I mean, there's proof.
You guys getting everything hooked back up
over there, Travis?
Yeah. Working on it.
TRAVIS: One of the reasons that we're extremely curious
about the government possibly watching us is
based on something we're currently investigating
deep inside the mesa
on the northern border of the property.
It's here, during a drilling operation in 2021,
that we first encountered a buried, 400-foot-long,
dome-shaped object that was totally impenetrable.
But while searching the spoils, we found small pieces of metal
that were scientifically proven to be made of similar materials
like what NASA uses to protect the surface of spacecraft.
THOMAS: Well, I see the drillers are pulling up.
I'm gonna go over and visit with them and...
Yeah, let's go come up with our game plan.
-Hey, guys. -How's it going?
-Ready to get back at it? -Yep. -Yes, sir.
Well, let's see what the day holds, huh?
-Yep. -Hopefully we can get this punched through for you guys.
-That's the goal. -That's our goal.
TRAVIS: Earlier this year, we conducted
a ground-penetrating radar scan that showed
there could also be several smaller metal objects
surrounding whatever the dome is.
So, we've been working with a team from
Mark Construction Drillers. They brought out a much
more powerful rig to make two large boreholes
through the mesa that will trace around these objects.
This will enable us to insert a number of scanning devices
to hopefully identify just what these anomalies are,
and then decide the best way to uncover them.
-THOMAS: How deep are you? -ALEX: I'm 120 feet.
All right, well, while you get fired up, we've got some stuff
we're going to be turning on over here.
Just monitoring what's going on.
-Perfect. -Sounds good.
Okay.
TRAVIS: Even with this more powerful rig,
the team has struggled the last few weeks
to get the first borehole completed,
and experienced several strange equipment malfunctions.
I'm set up, Erik, I'm ready to go.
-Did he have the Kraken running? -It is running.
TRAVIS: So, as the drilling proceeds,
we'll be monitoring our spectrum analyzers
for any mysterious radio frequency signals
or energy spikes,
and also use Erik's Kraken antenna system,
which is designed to track the direction
that those signals might be coming from.
And the drillers will also be monitoring
their progress with a beacon.
That is a device that tracks the position
of the drill bit underground
as it cuts through the rocky mesa.
Hey, Alex. You copy?
We are set up and ready over here. Travis is monitoring.
All right, bud, go ahead and push it.
ERIK: All right, let's just keep looking.
-Hey, David! -Jim!
(laughing)
TRAVIS: While the drilling operation
continued at the mesa,
ranch manager Jim Morse
and caretakers Kandus Linde and Tom Lewis
headed about 20 miles southeast
to a property known as Four Star Ranch
to meet with the property owner David Yeaman.
Beautiful, beautiful place you have here.
I think you told me about two or three weeks ago
you actually had an incident on the ranch with a colt?
A week-old colt, yes.
That's the same thing that Tom
and Kandus have been witnessing out there on Skinwalker.
It'd be nice to compare some notes with you.
TOM: Skinwalker Ranch has a history going way back
with cattle mutilations.
These were mutilations that looked like surgeries.
Eyes missing, organs missing, no blood anywhere.
David Yeaman's a local rancher.
Apparently, he's had some mutilations on his ranch.
So, what's the connection there?
You know, I think it's worth investigating his ranch
and what he has to say.
We had a week-old colt
out in the middle of the corral.
It was fine, everything was fine, and the next day,
our ranch hand, he said we lost the colt.
He texted me the picture.
That's the colt.
JIM: Oh, you actually have a photo of it.
DAVID: It was mutilated. Just a mutilated colt.
TOM: So, what do you surmise did this to this colt?
DAVID: You know, a lot of times you would think, well,
what was it that did it?
Was it a coyote, or was it a mountain lion?
I mean, none of those things seem to fit the scenario here
because we didn't see any footprints from it.
There was no blood coming out.
None of the usual signs that it's an animal attack.
None of the usual-- The mother actually seemed
very distant from the colt after this happened.
And that's unusual.
Usually, if they lose a colt,
they're kind of wanting to
revive it or something, yeah.
JIM: Yeah, that's strange.
And we've had calves that we couldn't explain
how they were lost, either.
I had one here my manager sent.
There's one right there.
-Wow. -Oh, boy. -Yeah, yeah.
And, uh, this year we had one cow that we lost
right down here in the field this spring.
It was fine. Couple hours later
and the cow is on the ground dying.
It died very shortly after.
The only thing that we could identify was
there was a hole in its knee that was not a bullet hole.
-And it wasn't really bleeding, you know. -Yeah.
TOM: So, as soon as I hear about this strange hole
in this cow's knee,
that immediately got my attention
because we've seen similar things
on the ranch.
BEN: Look at this one!
That is a tooth that bit all the way through.
TOM: This year, we had a cow mysteriously die
that had this puncture mark in its rib.
BEN: The size fits into that hole perfectly.
TOM: The only thing that really fit in that hole was
the tooth of a dire wolf.
And the strange thing is, dire wolves have been extinct
for supposedly 10,000-plus years.
Will you promise to let us know
if anything else happens out here?
-Yeah, I sure will. -Yeah. -Absolutely.
Can't thank you enough.
TOM: It's been a pleasure. Thank you.
Boy, you can hear that below us, can't you?
Yeah.
TRAVIS: The drilling operation had been pretty uneventful all morning.
The team was making good progress,
so we were hopeful that they'd finally be able
to complete one borehole
all the way through to the top of the mesa.
Jared, you got a copy?
Are you going through something real hard right now or what?
I'm into something fairly decently hard.
I'm only going about a foot a minute at 12,000 pounds.
You can hear that he's hitting something down there.
THOMAS: Really?
Is there any indication from the drill what you're into?
ALEX: He said it's just really hard.
-THOMAS: Something really hard? -Yeah.
So, we're going down now.
-So, your bit's now being pushed down? -Yes.
THOMAS: How far from the drill
when you started encountering that?
We hit it at about 180 feet.
THOMAS: That's interesting.
So, the drill bit's not levelling out
but it's actually getting pushed down.
Could it be that we are hitting up against
the dome-shaped object, and it's pushing us
even deeper down inside the mesa?
It's important that we get the angle on this bit perfect
and bring it up or we're never gonna break through the surface.
TRAVIS: Well, now, that, to me, is just the strangest damn thing.
Big signal, right here.
ERIK: What are you tuning into there, Travis?
There's a signal at 1.6-ish.
-Yeah... -THOMAS (over radio): Hey, guys, you copy?
ERIK: Here we go.
Yeah, Thomas, what's up?
We're at that 180-foot mark from the drill.
What we didn't expect is for there to be
some type of wedge that's pushing down,
not allowing us to go straight in.
ERIK: Copy you, Thomas.
TRAVIS: Maybe the signal's connected
to whatever the drill is hitting.
Yeah.
Are you getting it?
Yep, I've got it.
All right, guys, the 1.6
measured by the Kraken is coming
right down the line from Homestead Two.
Right there.
TRAVIS: I'm going.
Man, you can't write stuff like this.
Just after the drill may have hit
the dome-shaped object inside the mesa,
we detected another strange radio signal at 1.6 gigahertz.
And Erik's Kraken antenna system pinpointed the source
over at Homestead Two, several hundred yards to the west.
You gonna go down with the-the TriField?
-Um, the spectrum analyzer. -What else you got? Okay.
TRAVIS: And what's really curious about this happening
during our drilling operation
is that we detected a 1.6 gigahertz signal
two weeks ago at Homestead Two.
-It does go into a cone. -ROYSTON: Oh, look at that.
ERIK: Wow.
We're all inside it.
It was at the same time that Pete Kelsey imaged
a massive cone-shaped anomaly with an infrared lidar device.
Whatever it was covered an area between Homestead Two
and the east field and had an apex
that reached 2,000 feet high above the triangle.
So, before we lose the signal, we're gonna get. Let's go.
So, I grabbed an antenna, some scanning devices and Kaleb,
and rushed over to Homestead Two to see if we could find out
what was broadcasting that signal
and how all these things might be connected to one another.
Yeah, it's coming from this direction.
ERIK: The 1.6 gigahertz signal
will sometimes appear briefly on our spectrum analyzers
and then disappear.
I would really like to know
what relationship there is between these emerging signals
and some of the other phenomenology,
like the UAPs that we sometimes see.
This year, we've added the ability
to localize these signals in space,
perhaps identifying a moving source.
Are we actually able to use a system like the Kraken
to determine where that 1.6 gigahertz signal originates?
I'm hoping that the answer is yes.
TRAVIS: Be advised that I am picking up
the 1.6 gigahertz signal
pointed toward Homestead Two.
ERIK (over radio): Copy you, Travis.
And right now, that's exactly what the Kraken's showing us.
TRAVIS: Oh, oh, there it is.
Oh, yeah, it's clearly there.
Let's stop right here and, uh, let me look for it.
Weird, it's like, are we on top of it...
...or are we under it?
We're-- Holy crap.
It is right here.
I-It is coming from straight overhead.
KALEB: Well, this is the same spot that we picked it up years ago.
TRAVIS: Holy crap.
It is absolutely coming from above us.
This is the first place we found that signal, what,
-two years ago, three years ago? -Two or three years ago.
TRAVIS: Kaleb was right.
We've detected multiple 1.6 gigahertz signals
in recent years at Homestead Two.
(radio crackling)
It's chirping in frequency.
Including some that emitted sounds
like possible communication signals.
So, since this signal was coming from overhead,
it made me wonder if the massive cone-shaped anomaly
we recently discovered is actually the source.
I want to put a rocket right here
and launch it right up through there.
-KALEB: Hey, Bryant, do you copy? -BRYANT: Yeah, go ahead.
KALEB: Could you bring some rockets down here by Homestead Two?
BRYANT: Yeah, absolutely. Copy that.
TRAVIS: We couldn't see anything in the sky,
but something had to be there emitting this signal.
So, I thought maybe if we launched a rocket up there,
we could hit it and hopefully find out
what the heck it was.
Hey, Dragon.
We just found the 1.6 signal.
-We had the signal coming from up there at the same time. -From right this spot, too.
BRYANT: It seems to be whenever we drill,
other things happen in strange ways
on other parts of the ranch.
And sure enough, that 1.6 signal showed up again,
this time, from straight up in the air.
Now that we have an idea
of where this signal is coming from,
we're hoping to try and better figure out what it is.
And hopefully start us in a direction
to come up with some answers as to what's happening
here on Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS: All right.
(device whirring)
KALEB: We are about
one minute from a...
rocket launch over here at Homestead Two.
Yeah, I appreciate the heads-up, we'll watch for the sky.
Just a second. Oh, yeah, the signal is still there.
We're going in...
five, four,
three, two, one.
-Great launch. -Uh-huh. -TRAVIS: Where's the chute?
-No chute yet. -That's way, way up there, that's for sure.
BRYANT: Come on, there we go.
We got chute.
He's got good chute.
It's co-- yeah, it's coming right to us.
The signal just went away, y'all.
-It's like it just turned off. -BRYANT: What?
-Yep, it's like it just turned off. -What?
-What the crap? -KALEB: Hey, Erik, it's Kaleb.
ERIK: Hey, Kaleb, go ahead.
Are you still picking up the 1.6,
'cause the moment we launched, Travis had
the spectrum analyzer pointed up into that area
where we found it earlier, and it's not there anymore.
That is really interesting you say that, Kaleb,
'cause right now,
the Kraken's having a hard time locating anything.
-That's weird. -BRYANT: What? -KALEB: 10-4.
TRAVIS: So let's put another rocket into it.
I don't know if the rocket hit whatever broadcast
that 1.6 gigahertz signal or not,
but the timing of it just cutting off was crazy.
It was like the ranch was playing peekaboo with us.
And that happens a lot with other phenomena here, too.
We've seen UAPs in the sky one second
and then they just vanish.
But what do these things vanish into?
-We're ready, Dragon. -(device whirring)
Okay, going hot on the battery.
TRAVIS: All I could think to do was launch another rocket
and hope something tangible would be revealed
that would finally give us an answer.
KALEB: Rocket is hot and we're gonna be launching in five,
four, three, two, one.
TRAVIS: Boy, that one went straight up, didn't it?
BRYANT: Yep.
TRAVIS: There it is, it just came back.
Well, that signal's strong right now.
KALEB: Almost looked like it stopped right there for a second.
-Dude, it looks like it's stuck there. Look. -Yeah.
TRAVIS: Look, it's not moving at all. It's just sitting there.
KALEB: It stopped.
TRAVIS: It looks like it's stuck there. Look.
It's not moving at all.
It's just sitting there.
KALEB: It stopped.
TRAVIS: At this point, we've seen a lot of things
on Skinwalker Ranch that we couldn't believe,
but this one has to rank pretty high on the list.
Just after we detected another strange 1.6 gigahertz signal
at Homestead Two, a rocket that we launched
suddenly just froze and hung there about 200 feet in the air.
It's suddenly like something let it go, look.
KALEB: How the heck would that happen?
The rocket literally just stopped in midair.
That's crazy.
I don't know if this was related to the huge cone-shaped anomaly
that we recently imaged with lidar,
which surrounded this area,
or the 1.6 gigahertz signal that we detected.
Since this all happened right after the drillers
hit something really hard inside the mesa,
where we believe a dome-shaped object is buried,
I wonder if there's some kind of correlation.
And just what are we dealing with here?
Hey, guys. You got a copy?
Yeah, Thomas.
I got a copy down here at the table.
I, unfortunately, have some bad news. Uh...
(over walkie): The bit is still being pushed down.
It's gonna be necessary to pull the bit back.
They're gonna bring it back to the spoils pit,
we're gonna suck out right now.
And they're gonna put on a whole different type of bit,
so unfortunately, uh, we're gonna try this again.
This mesa's just not cooperating with the drill.
ERIK: Copy you, Thomas.
TRAVIS: That's weird.
That's interesting.
All right, guys.
You're good to go ahead and start it up.
(drill engine rumbles)
THOMAS: We have something that this drill bit can't go through.
This is really mysterious, because this is a much bigger
drill than we've ever had on the ranch before.
This exact drill bit should be able to drill
through reinforced concrete with no problem.
Whatever this dome-shaped object in the mesa is,
it must have a really hard outer shell,
because this drill bit cannot penetrate it.
I don't know what could account for that,
but the spoils pit is full,
and it's time for us to go over and dump it.
It's just one step closer to finding out
what that metal object is inside the mesa.
So, guys, the tank is full, then?
-Yeah. -THOMAS: I'll go ahead and radio the guys
and tell them we're gonna go dump the spoils, then.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.
So we just sucked out the spoils pit.
I'm gonna have them bring it over
behind the tent now and dump it.
So if you guys want to meet us over there,
uh, we can screen through it and see if we see anything.
Absolutely, Thomas, come on down.
We'll see you in a minute.
All right, sounds good.
ERIK: I can't say that I'm surprised
to see setbacks at the drill site.
And I have to admit,
I'm becoming a little frustrated myself with this outcome.
THOMAS: Right here, how about that?
-TRAVIS: Yeah. -ERIK: Yeah.
But with all this strange phenomena happening
in this attempt to drill into that impenetrable,
possible dome-shaped object in the mesa, I have to admit,
whenever we run into these unexpected problems,
I see it as a data collection and learning opportunity.
TRAVIS: Come on back.
ERIK: I'm hopeful that we will be able
to get answers of the kind
that we all really want.
Well, let's see what we got in the tank.
What in the world? That's some thick mud there.
It's not going through the sieve.
♪ ♪
THOMAS: Awesome. Thank you.
I'm not seeing anything jumping out at me right now.
TRAVIS: Drag that magnet across there,
see if anything sticks to it.
-What is this? -What do you got?
Yeah.
-BRYANT: Magnetic. -ERIK: It is magnetic.
We've got metal.
-ERIK: Is it? -BRYANT: Yep.
THOMAS: It's sticking to the magnet.
TRAVIS: It looks a lot like that material
-we pulled out of there before. -ERIK: Yeah.
That was a good eye, Thomas, to catch that.
TRAVIS: Erik and I always say that collecting repeatable data
is how we're gonna figure things out
on Skinwalker Ranch.
So when Thomas found a metal fragment
in the drilling spoils that just came out of the mesa,
it offered more evidence that we may really have
a huge, metal, dome-shaped object in there.
But just what could it be?
So the first hole, we had something
that was driving you up, right?
Now, the second hole, it's driving you down?
-ALEX: Yeah. -Oh, my goodness.
-We hit it at about 180 feet. -BRYANT: Okay.
So it's a dome shape, or something like that.
Yeah.
THOMAS: Here's the problem. We can't have
any down trajectories in our drill hole,
or it'll fill up with mud
and we won't be able to get equipment up there.
-No. -THOMAS: And you guys are
gonna put a different drill bit on now, and we're gonna try
the third attempt to get in there, so you're gonna go
into the-the second hole that you just drilled...
-Yeah. -THOMAS: ...with the bigger bit,
but your hope is, because it's bigger--
And it's wider.
-It's about eight inches wide. -Oh, wow.
Wow, so you'll be, I mean, so you're gonna be
right off the bat, putting an eight-inch hole
-right in there. -Yeah.
I say you go drill some more, is what I say.
THOMAS: Do you guys want to get back up there
and get that drill bit changed?
Yep. We can do that.
TRAVIS: It was getting late in the day,
but this discovery made us hopeful
that once Alex Swanson and his team
got a bigger, eight-inch drill bit installed,
by tomorrow, we'd be back on track
drilling a borehole up through the mesa.
That would bring us one major step closer
to getting some answers.
THOMAS: Okay, we'll go up there and we'll clean that out
-a little bit for you some more. -ALEX: Yup.
ALEX: Definitely seems like
we're cutting through that ground
a little bit better with that bit on.
JARED (over walkie): Yeah, it's going pretty decent.
TRAVIS: This morning,
the drillers got an early start with their new eight-inch bit
and had reached the same place nearly 200 feet inside the mesa
where we had all the problems.
All right, Erik, that looks right, we can do our thing.
All right.
TRAVIS: So Erik and I were
monitoring our spectrum analyzers very closely
in case anything strange happened again.
ALEX (over walkie): We're looking good there.
Just go ahead and keep drilling it,
try and maintain that pitch.
10-4.
TRAVIS: We're good to go.
Let's take a look.
What?
Wait a minute. What?
What is that signal?
There's a signal
at 919 megahertz that's going nonstop
on every antenna.
That is a strong signal, too, whatever that is.
-Let's listen, let's listen to it. -Yeah.
(static buzzing, whirring)
ERIK: I've never seen that before on the ranch.
-This shouldn't be here. -No.
Unless there's somebody that's got a tracker on us
or a listening device or something here.
You know, like LoRaWAN surveillance devices.
This signal at 919 megahertz that was
being detected coming from several different directions
by our antennas was really suspicious to me
because that's the approximate frequency
that so-called Long Range Wide Area Network
or LoRaWAN devices emit.
These are tiny devices that are designed
for conducting surveillance.
TRAVIS: It made me and Erik think about
all the military and unmarked aircraft that we've seen
flying over the ranch
during our investigation over the past few years,
including one just the other day.
Has somebody been dropping these surveillance devices
all around the ranch to monitor what we're doing
and we're just now detecting them?
It's another unsettling mystery
that we have to figure out.
This is concerning.
ERIK: Yeah.
We're drilling through some (bleep) right now.
It feels like a, like a hard clay.
THOMAS (over walkie): Hey, guys, you got a copy?
Yeah. Go ahead, Tom.
Uh, they're in something incredibly hard
and just barely moving forward.
KALEB (over walkie): 10-4.
Yeah, sounds like it's really struggling.
TRAVIS: Not again.
Man, the power of that drill should be able
to cut through the sandstone mesa
like a hot knife through butter.
So when Tom told us
that the bit was struggling to advance, we all thought
it had to have hit the dome-shaped object again.
And it was anybody's guess
what was gonna happen next.
♪ ♪
ALEX: Are you hitting something right now?
I'm up against something,
but it's going, but it's just slow.
-ALEX (over walkie): Copy that. -JARED: It's weird.
(cows bellowing)
BRYANT: Travis.
Lookit, all the cows are moving this direction
for some reason now.
They are.
That is weird. They're mooing at us.
Like, they've been sitting over there all day and now,
all of the sudden, they just got up and started coming this way.
I wonder if there's something happening down there.
Reckon we ought to run down there?
BRYANT: I'm gonna check it out.
All right, well, I'm gonna go help Erik.
Erik, are you still picking up that 919 megahertz signal?
ERIK: I don't have it.
TRAVIS: It went away, look.
It just went away.
All right, you're not gonna believe this.
The spectrum analyzer just died.
Are you kidding me?
What's happening today?
(cow lowing)
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?
KALEB: Hey, call and tell Tom to come down here.
TRAVIS: Call, yeah, let's get Tom down here.
BRYANT: Hey, Thomas, you copy?
THOMAS (over walkie): Yeah, Bryant, I copy.
BRYANT: Uh, you might want to get down here.
We've got a calf over here
that is literally spinning in circles
like it's losing its mind and is about to go down.
THOMAS (over walkie): We'll see you in a few minutes.
Given the fact that we have seen
cows reacting when strange phenomena happened in the past,
it's really making me wonder if this calf and its weird behavior
is a sign that something strange is happening right now.
TRAVIS: What in the world is going on?
THOMAS: As I look down there, I can see a calf spin in circles.
I've grown up around livestock
and I've never seen this type of behavior.
Something's keeping the herd from going over to the calf,
and even more importantly,
something's keeping the calf from going over to the herd.
And it just keeps spinning.
We're really eager to figure out what just happened
to this calf.
THOMAS: (over walkie): It looks like there's something
pretty messed up with its right eye.
Like it's been injured, Thomas?
THOMAS (over walkie): Its eyes are pure white.
Its eyes are white?
THOMAS: Its eyes are pure white.
TRAVIS: That's what happens when you get exposed to microwaves.
You guys start feeling weird at all,
get the hell out of there.
(moos)
You're thinking the same thing I am, Travis.
TRAVIS: After everything we encountered the last couple of days
while drilling in the mesa,
where the massive dome-shaped object
and other anomalies are buried,
it's really curious
that a calf has suddenly started showing signs
of microwave radiation exposure.
That's weird.
THOMAS (over radio): Hey Travis, you seeing any elevated readings
over there where that calf was?
TRAVIS: Hey, Thomas, no weird readings
with the gamma ray detector or with the TriField meter,
but 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 going to say
20 degrees to the east.
THOMAS: That's interesting.
Something definitely affected that calf.
TRAVIS: As I scanned the field where the calf was,
I got no harmful readings at all
for microwave radiation or other kinds of energy.
But my compass was going crazy.
So, what in the heck caused this?
Could it be connected to whatever is inside the mesa?
We probably need to get a vet out here.
Yeah, the herd broke through all of this thicket of trees.
So I'm gonna go get them pushed this way.
See if we can get them headed down towards the corral
where I can get that calf and its mom separated from the herd.
Well, I'm gonna wander back toward the tent.
I'm not seeing anything else I can do from here.
All right, I'm gonna take Kaleb with me.
Copy that.
THOMAS: Something just happened to this calf.
Due to the fact that this ranch has so much history
with cattle mutilations,
I'm really wondering if we're seeing
another example that strange things are happening
with the animals here on Skinwalker Ranch.
I think if we get the herd up and around,
-they'll continue down the fence. -Yeah.
THOMAS: I'm really troubled.
Hopefully, this calf will improve.
Oh, there we go, perfect.
Hey, Bryant. You got a copy?
BRYANT: Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, absolutely. We'll be right over.
Weird things at the drill, Erik. You want to go?
Jared's call was a little ambiguous.
So, we headed over there hoping he was describing
a good kind of weird situation with the drilling operation.
What's going on?
So, we keep losing communication with our transmitter.
TRAVIS: Wow.
Something blocking the signal, yeah, yeah.
You know how we've been clunking the whole time
-and bouncing around, chewing on stuff? -Yeah.
My rotation pressure climbs to almost 40,000 pounds.
We've drilled almost 100 inches into it.
But we're not moving very much.
Suggests it's hitting something hard.
We had made so much progress in this hole.
And now the drill was up against
something that was slowing it way down.
It also appeared to be causing the beacon,
which tracks the location of the drill bit,
to lose its connection.
That means that the team is now drilling blind
and we have no way of knowing
if it's heading upwards like we need it to.
I'm going to try to go a little further
-and if we can't pick up our signal again... -Yeah.
-...I-I'm not sure what-what we could do.
-I say we keep moving, keep going. -Yeah.
TRAVIS: At that point, our only hope
was that the beacon would reconnect
and we could keep making progress
to get at least one of our needed boreholes completed.
Only time would tell if we would get lucky
or have to pull it out, try to fix the beacon
and then start all over again.
Well, I appreciate you telling us.
Okay.
How's it going?
THOMAS: Good. How are you guys?
THOMAS: So, I called the rancher, Glendon,
who is the owner of the cows,
to come out and help us get the cows rounded up
over to the corrals and separated from the calf
so we can get this calf looked at immediately by the vet.
GLENDON: Get back. Get back. Get back.
THOMAS: I'm really curious as to what's gonna happen with this calf.
Especially with the strange things happening
at the drill site today.
Hey there.
HALEIGH: Hey, how are you?
Good. Can't tell you how much I appreciate
you making that drive.
-Oh, yeah, no problem. -I'm Thomas Winterton.
-Good seeing you again. -Yeah, good to see you. Haleigh.
-Nice to meet you. -This is Tate, my technician.
Hey. Nice to meet you guys.
KALEB: Nice to meet you.
So, uh, we've had some unusual things happening today.
And, uh, this calf, its eyes were glazed over white.
Uh, almost like it's got cataracts. So...
Yeah. Okay.
Um, we're concerned about its wellbeing.
We're also trying to ascertain, you know,
what could have caused it.
Yeah. Let's take her temperature
and listen to her heart and lungs
and-and check out what's going on with those eyes.
Go in here.
Ooh.
I mean, she's hemorrhaging from both eyes.
-So, something's making the eyes bleed? -Yeah.
Those eyes have ruptured on the inside.
There's no way she's seeing out of those.
HALEIGH: Those eyes have ruptured on the inside.
There's no way she's seeing out of those.
GLENDON: She's pretty blind.
HALEIGH: Yeah. That is bad.
TRAVIS: A calf suddenly started showing signs
of microwave radiation exposure
right as we were drilling into the mesa.
So, Thomas Winterton called our friend
veterinarian Dr. Haliegh Lundgreen
out to the ranch so she could examine it.
HALEIGH: We may not really know what causes this.
THOMAS: One thing that we're concerned about
is maybe some possible microwaves.
HALEIGH: Yeah. I would presume that microwaves
or magnetic waves would produce heat
and that's what would cause it.
I mean, the eyes I feel like are secondary
to what's really going on, and it's trauma related.
The fact that she's circling, this tells me
something's affecting her cranial nerves.
Something damaged her brain.
Is this something we can treat and try to-- try to fix?
My hope is that with enough eye drops and things like that
we can help it, but I don't think
that's our primary issue here.
Especially with her neurologic signs that we're seeing.
What was it, last year or the year before
-when we had the cow down here that was exhibiting... -Yeah.
...neurological issues.
Yeah, a-and we mentioned that at the time
that we haven't really seen
a cow act like that before.
BRYANT: Oh, man, she doesn't look good, does she?
THOMAS: A couple years ago,
we noticed that this cow had separated herself from the group
and it was pretty aggressive with us.
BRYANT: Okay. You're good.
THOMAS: And then a short time later, we found out
that something messed up its neurological system.
Makes me wonder if maybe we might be seeing
some of the same things happening to this calf today.
What may be causing these cows to have these adverse reactions?
(moos)
Your dad said that once you got it off the ranch,
-she calmed right down. -Yeah, she was fine.
THOMAS: I guess the best we can do
-is for you to get her off the ranch. -GLENDON: Yep.
So we'll keep a really close eye on the rest of the herd,
and I guess just take her home, let us know how she does.
Okay, yeah, we'll take her, absolutely.
Okay, thank you.
THOMAS: I have to wonder, after seeing this calf
while drilling into this anomalous mesa,
if the two are related.
We're often told that when you dig on the ranch,
bad things happen.
Watching a calf out there in distress
definitely was a bad thing.
It's definitely got me on high alert.
Hey, Erik. You got a copy?
Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.
I'm just curious how things are going over on your end.
We are shut down for the day.
The drillers got into something
that was blocking the signal on that beacon
and so they can't get any sense of direction
on the drill head, so they're going to have to pull out.
THOMAS: You're kidding me. They've got to pull
all the way out of the hole again?
ERIK: Yeah, Thomas. That's the call.
We've got to figure out what's going on up there.
THOMAS: Well, after everything we've seen today,
that's just par for the course. That's unfortunate.
That's a... that's a big setback.
Yep. Same thoughts on this side.
The guys and I are getting ready
to, uh, break down over here and call it a day.
Okay, sounds good.
ERIK: Every time we've tried to penetrate the mesa
and better understand the anomalies inside of it,
we've run into problems.
We get part of the way in,
and some aspect of our equipment stops working.
Something breaks, something stops operating altogether.
But I think the team and I are unfazed
by our experience on the ranch.
We will proceed, but slowly and carefully.
TRAVIS: This week, we've detected invisible phenomena in the sky,
we've witnessed a rocket seem to freeze in midair,
detected numerous strange energy signals
and had a cow suddenly become inexplicably injured.
What could possibly explain all those things?
I'm more convinced than ever
that the answer might be buried inside that mesa.
BRANDON: Even though we've had
intriguing ground-penetrating radar results
and other findings, we have no idea
what we will uncover in that mesa.
Will we uncover further evidence of strange material?
Or will we find something exotic,
like a craft or some other type of technology
that may be involved
with what we are seeing
both above and below Skinwalker Ranch?