- [Chris] It's shaking the drill. - [Thomas] Holy smokes.
[Jed] It feels different than anything
he's drilled up here yet.
[Thomas] Do you have a sense on what you're grinding on?
Feels like you're hitting metal.
- [Thomas] Find something? - Yeah.
Oh, look at that.
All right, that's what I was expecting to see.
[Travis] That's a lot of metal.
[Ellis] Drones are rolling.
Looks like the swarm is getting movement
all throughout the formation.
[Thomas] The drones look like they're spinning in circles.
[Ellis] Yeah, they look wonky.
There's a huge magnetic field
that caused the drone to swirl around.
- There's a structure to it. - There is a structure to it.
That shows that there is a big magnetic anomaly
floating right over the triangle.
- [Thomas] Wow. - That's fantastic.
[Narrator] There is a ranch in Northern Utah.
It is considered the epicenter
of the strangest and most disturbing occurrences on Earth.
For two decades,
the federal government
investigated the property.
Their findings have never been made public.
[Travis] Right there! We got something!
[Narrator] Now a new team
of independent scientists and researchers are taking over.
They are uncovering evidence
that the countless stories...
It came right out of the mesa.
...of unidentified aerial phenomena...
UAP right there!
...bizarre energies...
It looks like there's a heat source right above 'em.
...and portals that lead to other dimensions...
We're maybe looking at the anomaly
for the first time, guys.
...might actually be true.
They will stop at nothing to reveal...
...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
[Thomas] Let's get this drill into position.
Looks great.
Down off the hill here.
- Down in this flat. - Okay.
[Travis] Today we're taking a much more strategic approach
with our drilling operation to finally figure out
what's buried in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.
[Erik] Jed, Bo, it's good to have you back out.
This is a very special "X" marks the spot.
You know, we're essentially on top of the anomaly
that you've heard us talk about.
[Travis] The first hole we drilled this year
was directly over Borehole 2,
which runs alongside the 400-foot-long,
possibly metallic object that we've detected
with ground-penetrating radar.
We hoped to come down right on the edge of this thing,
but unfortunately we didn't hit it.
So now we're gonna dig
a new two-foot-diameter vertical borehole
right between Boreholes 1 and 2,
which should make a direct hit on the object
somewhere around 60 to 90 feet.
Well, the odds of us hitting something are better here,
I would say, than anywhere else, at least from the data.
[Erik] Now, how far down
- are we equipped to go? - [Jed] This rig
is designed for, you know,
- cutting 90 foot instead of 45. - That's about
- as deep as we've ever put a hole in this property. -Yeah.
Now, we don't want to damage whatever this object is.
So the team will be working with caution
to hopefully bring up core samples
and ultimately expose a good section of it.
Once we reach this thing,
we're also excited to examine its surface,
which we believe might be covered
by the strangely engineered Type A ceramic materials
that we extracted last year.
[Thomas] Well, the nice thing about this 24-inch
- is, you're gonna be able to do it much quicker. -[Jed] Yeah.
[Travis] How long would it take, do you think?
[Jed] Probably a good couple of long days.
- [Travis] Wow. Okay. - I say we get after it.
- Let's go. Let's do it. - Yeah.
[Jed] All right.
[Travis] All right, fellas, let's dig a hole.
[Thomas] Let's start drilling.
Okay, go ahead.
[Travis] Looks like it's going pretty easy, Thomas.
[Thomas] It is.
He's just in dirt right now.
There's a lot of optimism with the team
as we come down on top of whatever the anomaly is.
[Travis] Look how sandy that looks.
[Thomas] And Chris is gonna be sorting through these spoils
as he tries to determine if there's anything
unnatural in this hole.
Chris, you found anything yet?
Sandstone.
- That sounds right. - Wet-wet sandstone.
- That sounds right. - About it, yeah.
Nothing unexpected.
[Thomas] Let's go ahead and stop it.
Can I come out of the hole?
Yeah, let's go ahead and wrap it up.
[Travis] By the end of the day,
the drillers got as far as they could get--
about 45 feet deep in the mesa.
So it's gonna take at least until tomorrow
to reach our target.
Here comes Cameron.
But when the sun starts to set on the ranch,
that's prime experiment time at other hot spots.
So we started setting up for a pretty exciting one
over at the triangle with my buddy,
Tesla coil engineer Cameron Prince.
I'll carry the boots if you get that backpack.
We invited him back to help us
with an ambitious new experiment to study
what we call the bubble.
- [Thomas] Man, those look cool. - [Prince] Yeah.
Cameron, it's great to have you back, man.
Uh, we've had a lot of instruments--
probably 30 different instruments at this point--
detect some kind of weirdness that shouldn't be there.
Radio signals, uh,
and even lidar showing that there's a bubble that's centered
- right there on those towers. - Right.
Although we can't see it with the naked eye,
our most recent experiments this year
have already shown us evidence that the bubble boundary
is about 120 feet thick.
[Thomas] UTV's through the boundary.
[Kaleb] It's almost like it's not even moving.
[Travis] And when we try to pass our instruments through it,
the boundary obstructs them like some kind of force field.
[Thomas] Look at the way it changed directions
- as we got through. - Yeah.
[Travis] We've also seen similar things happen
at a spot 31 feet above the triangle.
In 2022,
an odd shape we call the blob appeared in our data
and seemed to cause a rocket to explode
when it flew through that airspace.
And that's not the only time the blob
affected our experiments.
When we recently shot smoke through that area...
Look at the boundary it makes.
...the smoke appeared to move around something
that had the same shape as the blob.
So tonight we're hoping
Cameron can help us make the blob appear again
so we can identify what in the world it could be
and also find out if it's connected to the bubble.
Cameron, a very important part of this
is, we're looking for interactivity
between the blob and the bubble boundary.
When you energize this space here,
right where we've seen evidence
of what we've referred to as the blob,
do we see an effect out there
at the bubble boundary and vice versa?
When we energize the space out here, do we see it here?
Because in our current thinking,
there's a connection, there's a kind of structure.
- Okay. - [Travis] Well, Cameron, tell us
- what you brought for us. -So, I got two Tesla guns this year.
About 300,000 volts each.
Makes about four- to five-foot sparks.
- [Erik] Okay. - The Tesla coil needs
a ground connection for optimal operation.
If you don't have a good ground,
the arcs are kind of drawn back towards you.
[Travis] There's gonna be two phases
to this Tesla coil experiment.
For the first phase,
we'll raise Cameron to the 31-foot level.
There, he'll use one of the Tesla coil guns
to blast electricity through the so-called blob region
directly towards one of the 30-foot towers
that we have at the triangle.
The tower will act like a grounding rod
that should attract the electricity toward it
in a straight path.
If the direction deviates in any way,
it could be evidence of the blob.
And if we're lucky, the electricity might make it appear
long enough for us to get better images of it.
For the second phase, we'll set up another metal grounding rod
at the southern bubble boundary.
That way, Kaleb can use the second Tesla coil gun
to shoot electricity directly at the boundary
while Cameron simultaneously fires at the blob.
That should help us see if there's any connection
between the bubble and the blob.
Soon as it gets good and dark, the first thing we'll do
is fire that Tesla gun at the blob only.
- I can do it. -All right. -Okay. Well, I'm gonna get to work
grounding stuff off over here, then.
I'm just excited to get started.
Well, I'm gonna go put this up
and get the cherry picker in place.
[Erik] Thanks for that.
[Travis] To document tonight's experiment,
we'll be using several high-speed cameras staged
all around the triangle and the southern bubble boundary.
Which way is it going? Clockwise or counterclockwise right now?
[Kaleb] Uh, counter.
[Travis] We've also set up several directional antennas
at the triangle, which will feed into our spectrum analyzers.
That way, Erik and I can keep an eye out
for the strange radio signals we've seen
during our past experiments in the bubble.
- Erik, looks like we're just about set up. -All right.
I'm gonna check the antennas.
Okay.
Oh, Erik.
Look at this. 33 megahertz,
you know, like-like what we've seen before
when we were drilling and stuff.
- Okay. - Just now.
This strong 33-megahertz signal is something
that started showing up recently during our investigation.
And the weird thing is, over a year ago,
we ran a drilling beacon into the mesa
that was broadcasting at 33 megahertz.
Since then, it's almost like something cloned that signal
and keeps broadcasting it back to us.
But where or what is it coming from?
That's really strong.
I mean, I had to turn the gain down on the antenna.
It's coming from the stationary antenna
on top of the tower at the triangle.
- The one up on the tower? - Yeah.
[Erik] Yeah, Travis, is your antenna telling you
- what direction it's coming from? -Yeah.
This is coming from the sky.
[Travis] This is coming from the sky.
Look at this. And make note of this.
[Erik] Yeah, that's really interesting.
[Travis] Just as we were about to start shooting
the Tesla coil gun at the spot where we've seen
the blob above the triangle,
a 33-megahertz signal showed up on my spectrum analyzer.
One of our stationary antennas indicated
that the signal was coming from somewhere in the sky above us.
So what could it be?
[Erik] I don't understand it.
- [Travis] Kaleb, watch the antenna for me. -Copy you.
[Travis] To see if we can isolate
which direction the signal is coming from,
I'm gonna rotate one of the antennas.
So that's-that's stronger there.
- [Travis] Yeah, right in there somewhere. -Where are you now?
You're kind of between the triangle and the drill site.
- Okay. - So, mesa.
[Erik] That's something.
[Travis] If we're picking it up when we point at the mesa,
it could be coming from the sky and bouncing off the mesa.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah. I get it. - Right?
It was really odd that we were detecting 33-megahertz signals
coming from both above us and from the direction of the mesa.
It made me wonder if there were two signals--
maybe one coming from something high above us
and the other from whatever might be buried in the mesa.
Travis, I want to see what happens
when we rotate it towards the triangle.
Kaleb, just say "stop"
when it's pointed at the triangle.
Stop.
[Travis] Oh, yeah. It's big when you point it
right at the triangle.
The signal was the strongest
when the antenna was pointed directly at the triangle.
So could I have been wrong?
Could the blob actually be the source?
Is the signal coming from the blob
and then reflecting off the bubble's boundaries
so it looks like it's coming from two different directions?
I mean, that's the way to start the experiment off right.
We need to get a Tesla coil up in that thing.
- Yeah. - Kaleb and Jim,
- y'all ready? - [Kaleb and Jim] Yeah.
For the first stage of the experiment,
we broke up into teams.
Thomas and Cameron will be in charge of firing
the Tesla coil gun at the 31-foot mark
where we first saw the blob.
Kaleb, Jim, and I will be at the southern bubble boundary
to look out for more signals.
And Erik and Sam will be monitoring everything
from the science station near the triangle.
All right, Kaleb, you know what to do with the antenna.
- [Kaleb] Yeah. - I got to get my computers
and everything running.
Before we started,
Kaleb put another radio antenna on top of my jeep,
facing the triangle.
I wanted to see if I would still pick up that 33-megahertz signal
even from this far away.
Oh, yeah, I'm seeing the spikes.
Hey, Erik, you copy?
Yeah, go ahead, Travis.
Yeah, be advised that, uh, the antenna
is pointed at the triangle and tuned to 33 megahertz.
I'm seeing
that same set of spikes
but, uh, really low
signal strength.
Yeah, copy that. Well, that's really interesting.
We're still trying to figure out where the heck that's sourced.
And, uh, we've yet to determine.
So that, uh... that's worth keeping an eye on.
[Travis] The fact that I'm picking up a much weaker signal
when I'm far from the triangle but still inside the bubble
is another sign that the source of the signal could be the blob.
We're about in place,
if you're ready to send Cameron up and do the first test.
Copy you, Travis.
All right. Going up.
[Erik] As we are energizing the space above the triangle,
we are looking
to collect contiguous data from
both the bubble boundary and the blob
to learn as much as we can about the connection between the two.
[Prince] Powering up.
[Erik] Okay, Travis, uh, guys, be advised,
uh, Thomas and Cameron look like they're,
uh, just about in position.
All right, let's go ahead and start firing.
All right, he's firing in three, two, one, go.
[Travis] Oh, yeah. I can see it. Heck yeah, I can see it
from here.
We can see it from here. And when it started,
the 33-megahertz thing started pulsing up and down.
Look at that. Yeah.
It definitely made the signal stronger.
[Erik] So we're looking for effects that are not normal.
In this case, an electric discharge
at the center of the triangle
would not be expected to affect a 33-megahertz signal.
What could cause that? The blob?
I don't have a good explanation for that.
Stop.
[Travis] Erik, I can see
when he stopped, the peaks stabilized.
But when he's firing it, they start bouncing like crazy.
Yeah, copy that. I saw corresponding activity
here at the triangle.
[Travis] The strength of that 33-megahertz signal got stronger
right when Cameron was firing his Tesla coil gun
at the spot where the blob has been seen.
It was like he was pushing an on button.
You know what I'd like to do, uh, Thomas?
If you can have Cameron fire again
so we can watch this closer.
Copy that. Firing in five,
four, three,
two, one.
[Travis] Oh, man. Those spikes at 33 megahertz are going nuts.
Oh, wow.
[Travis] Well, that's weird, man.
[Travis] Look at that. See it? See it? Look at it bouncing.
It's crazy what's happening at 33 megahertz.
This is wild.
Every time we fire that Tesla coil gun
directly at the place where we first spotted the blob,
the 33-megahertz signal goes nuts.
Could this be more evidence
that the blob really is the source of this signal?
Stopping now.
[Travis] All right.
So, uh, Erik, if it's all right with you,
we're gonna go ahead and move on to the next phase
and get, uh, Kaleb suited up and ready to,
uh, light up the bubble barrier down here.
Yeah, copy you. I'm all for it. Let's go.
[Travis] For the next phase of our experiment,
we're gonna fire two Tesla guns simultaneously,
both at the blob and bubble boundary.
We want to see if that 33-megahertz signal
reacts again. If it does,
that might prove there is some kind of connection
between the blob and the boundary.
All right, going up.
- You got it? - Yep. Good.
[Erik] I don't know what to expect
with the discharges at the center of the triangle
and the bubble boundary.
But we do know we've seen
some kind of a response from the ranch itself
when we stimulate other areas on the property.
And that's the purpose of this two-site experiment.
Will an effect in one location
be reflected in the other?
Uh, we are ready to do the simultaneous,
- uh, test. - Copy you, Travis.
Thomas, give us a countdown to fire the Tesla guns.
- Copy that. - We are
in position, so whenever you're ready.
All right. In five,
four, three, two,
one, fire.
[Travis] Fire, Kaleb.
Dude, look at that.
Okay, you see what's happening
- with the 33 over here? - Oh, yeah.
[Erik] That signal is pulsing with higher strength again.
Five,
four, three, two,
one, stop.
[Travis] Stop!
Erik, are you seeing anything on the sensors at the triangle?
Yes, we are seeing a lot of hopping,
uh, on the 33 on both instruments.
Yeah, we're-we're seeing a lot down here as well
while the guns are firing.
Copy that.
[Travis] Firing the Tesla coil at both the blob
and the bubble boundary simultaneously
caused that 33-megahertz signal to spike again
but this time even higher.
It seemed like a pretty clear correlation to us.
Uh, I think we're ready to, uh, move to the next phase.
Thomas, you set up to do a rocket launch down there.
Copy that.
We'll go ahead and prepare for rocket launch.
And we need to prepare for a lo-- rocket launch down here.
[Kaleb] Sounds good.
[Travis] Next up, we're gonna fire some rockets to try
and make the blob appear again.
First we're gonna aim exactly for the spot
at 31 feet where we first saw the blob.
Then we're gonna fire one at the southern bubble boundary
to explore a possible connection between the blob and the bubble.
And finally we'll launch rockets in both places at once.
Thomas, you set up to do a rocket launch at the triangle?
[Thomas] Yes, we're ready to go.
Okay. Fire away, Thomas.
Copy that.
Three, two,
one.
[Travis] There it goes!
Whoa! That one just changed direction!
[Thomas] For such a calm night,
it sure veered off there at the end.
[Travis] Yeah, and it fell rapidly suddenly
once it got outside the bubble.
[Kaleb] I can see it coming down now.
[Erik] Yeah, guys, from my perspective,
looking through the camera assets at the south tower,
it looked like it, uh, took off towards the east.
- Do you confirm? -[Thomas] Yeah, Erik, that's what I saw.
[Travis] Well, the rocket didn't explode,
and no one reported seeing anything show up
where the blob appeared before.
But it was curious that the rocket
veered away from that area.
It should have flown straight up.
So it'll be interesting to see what Erik finds
when he reviews our high-speed cameras.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
Yeah, Travis, I copy.
I didn't see that 33 megahertz change that time. Did you?
[Erik] Yeah. It's staying steady on my end, too.
[Travis] Unlike with the Tesla coil guns,
the 33-megahertz signal didn't seem to react
after the first rocket launch.
So we decided to launch another rocket
at the southern bubble boundary
to see if that would make the signal spike again.
We got the rocket on the pad ready to launch.
Copy that. We are, uh, recording
and observing on all the instruments.
All right. Going to launch in five,
four, three,
two, one.
Dang it. Dang it.
I don't see it.
[Travis] We had a malfunction down here. We're having
some kind of issue with the, uh, connectivity.
I don't understand it.
Yeah, copy that, Travis. Standing by.
[Travis] I tested that launcher earlier.
So why was it not working in the bubble boundary?
Maybe it was a malfunction.
Or did the boundary somehow make it glitch?
[beeping]
- [rapid beeping] - [Sam] Oh, oh, dang.
[Erik] What the hell's going on?
It's off the charts.
It's reading really high carbon monoxide,
but there's nothing around here.
[Erik] Yeah, there's no elevated
- carbon monoxide. - Yeah, it's going off again.
[rapid beeping]
- Oh. - [Erik] What happened?
[Sam] Two of our sensor boxes just lost connection.
- Are you kidding? - No.
[Erik] This is a really peculiar,
even disturbing sequence of events.
Certainly, we've seen our share of equipment malfunction,
possibly as a result of this high-voltage source
at the center of the triangle
and even right at the bubble boundary.
But we have to get
to the bottom of what this interference is.
Where is this coming from?
Okay, guys,
we've got a lot going on here simultaneously.
But now Sam's getting errors
on a bunch of our sensors.
So it-it seems like we've got, uh,
quite a sequence of things, uh, unfolding here.
[Travis] What a coincidence, Erik.
All right. I'm gonna try another launch over here
and see what happens.
[Erik] Yeah, copy. Good luck with that.
[Travis] All right, rocket's going hot.
Second attempt in five,
four, three, two, one.
[Erik] Okay, that was a good launch.
Well, that seemed to work.
We have a good launch and good chute.
Seems like it's coming down normal.
Hey, look at that.
Signal's kind of come back pretty strong.
That 33-megahertz signal spiked stronger
than we've seen it all night.
So, if it's coming from the blob like we suspect,
could that mean that shooting a rocket
through the bubble boundary
somehow triggered a response from the blob?
Hopefully, our simultaneous rocket launch will tell us more.
All right, so let's, uh, let's go get another one on
and get ready for the simultaneous rocket launch.
[Travis] All right, so let's go get
another one on and get ready for the simultaneous rocket launch.
Hey, Thomas. It's Travis.
You copy?
[Thomas] Go for Thomas.
I'm ready to go when you are.
All right, going hot.
Launching in five, four,
three, two,
one.
We've got simultaneous launches.
[Erik] Did we get both of 'em? Oh, yeah.
There goes chute.
Good chute.
Theirs is, like, coming straight down.
- Look at that thing. - [Travis] Yeah.
Our rocket's on the ground, we had good chute.
Yeah, guys, that looked great.
[Travis] The simultaneous rocket launch
went off without a hitch,
and nothing odd happened in the moment.
But all things considered,
from what we saw during the experiment,
I think we learned a little more about the blob tonight.
I think, uh, we're good, we're gonna start
wrapping up down here
and I'm just gonna head on back to the triangle.
Copy that.
We've seen some very unexpected results.
I don't know what to make of that,
but we have all the data,
and I can't wait to take a look at it.
Man, that was some... unusual stuff happening.
- Mm-hmm. - I think we got a lot of data,
we still got to go through the high-speed video.
I say we wrap it up and, uh, get back to the command center.
[Thomas] I appreciate you bringing your cool toys
out here-- I mean, they're more than toys, but...
Me, too. I enjoyed it. Thank you so much.
[Travis] All right.
What are you at right now?
- [Bo] 68. - 68 feet?
- Yep. - Okay.
[Thomas] The fact that we haven't hit any hard objects,
I'm not seeing anything that's promising.
[Travis] The next morning, we headed
back out to the mesa first thing,
after receiving word from the drillers
that they were closing in on the 60-foot depth
where we hope to find the anomaly.
If they hit it, we absolutely wanted to be there.
[Erik] Hey, Thomas, you copy?
Yeah. Go for Thomas.
Yeah, Thomas, just checking in on progress.
Wanted to know what depth we're at
- and how things are going over there. -Yeah.
You guys might want to come over here to the drill rig.
Yeah, copy that.
So, what's the word, Chris?
- What depth we at? - We're at 68.
- 68 feet deep already? - Yeah.
Where is the anomaly?
We should have hit it by now.
I'm baffled.
[Erik] After over 60 feet of drilling
directly down onto the top of that anomaly
that shows up in GPR data,
we were fully expecting to encounter
something very hard by now,
and we just don't see it.
Maybe we're just not there yet.
Well, I say we finish this hole out to the 90 feet,
and while you guys are doing that,
we can be sifting through the spoils.
Sounds good.
[Travis] The only thing that would make sense to me
is if this object is somehow deeper than we thought.
So, once we started drilling again, we were hoping
that within an hour or two, we'd hit our target.
[Chris] We've got a little ways left to go.
[Travis] While the drillers continued working...
Yeah, I copy you, Cameron. We got eyes on you.
[Travis] ...the rest of us headed back
to the command center to greet Cameron Fugal.
We asked him to fly in from Salt Lake City today
to help us run an impromptu experiment.
Hey, Cameron, how's it going?
[Cameron] Good. Good to be back, guys.
Flying in, I see we got a lot of activity
- up on the drill site. - Yeah, we're gonna be busy.
A couple weeks ago, when we drilled
our first vertical borehole
in the same general area that we're drilling now,
Pete was running some lidar scans up there
and captured images of the bubble boundary
starting to show up.
It made us wonder if the drilling
was a triggering effect that caused that to happen.
And if so, can we make it appear again today?
- I'm excited. Let's... - Yeah.
We'll get up in the air and get-get Pete monitoring.
- Let's get to it. - All right.
[Travis] So, as the drilling continues,
Erik and I want Pete to run scans from the helicopter
as Cameron flies him back and forth over the mesa.
At the same time, we'll have Kaleb
run stationary scanners at the triangle and also where
we've marked the western bubble boundary.
The TLS in triangle is good.
[Erik] Thanks, Kaleb.
[Travis] If the bubble starts to show up again
during the drilling operation,
it could mean that the buried objects in the mesa
are connected to the bubble
and may even suggest that they cause it to appear.
And we'll start spooling up right now.
Copy that.
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[Cameron] How's that camera moving out there?
[Pete] Uh, looks good.
Today we're gonna get to map across the bubble,
east to west,
at ever-increasing altitudes,
and we should get amazing lidar data
of anything it sees, like the bubble.
[Cameron] Okay, we're over on the east side
of the bubble.
Yeah, Cameron, copy loud and clear.
[Pete] The helicopter's such a great tool because we can cover
so much ground quickly and at varying altitudes.
This will be adding
to an already rich dataset to help us
try to understand what's going on here.
[Cameron] Uh, we're commencing the descent.
We're gonna land up at the drill site
- here in just a bit. - Yeah, copy that.
I'm gonna go ahead and get up to the top of the mesa.
Sounds great, man. We'll see you guys in a bit.
[Pete] Coming in.
- Well, what'd you think? - Was awesome.
- Hey, fellas. - [Thomas] Hey, guys.
How's it going down at the drill?
We're-- they're making good progress.
Ah. Did you find anything in the spoils?
Right now there's nothing coming out that's not natural.
I'm pretty optimistic
that we still have a chance in this hole.
- I-I'm in agreement. - Fingers crossed.
Well, you know, today's scan was really exciting.
- I can't wait to see that data. - Yeah.
It'll just take me a couple of days to process the data.
[Cameron] It's been really good to be out here with y'all.
I look forward to seeing what-what we yield from,
from all this work.
[Thomas] Let's move in position
- and let's do it. - All right.
[Thomas] I'm gonna go tell the drillers
to keep charging forward.
[Thomas] Thomas to the science tent. You guys copy?
[Travis] Yeah, Thomas, it's Travis. Go ahead.
[Thomas] We hit our 90-foot mark.
We are literally bringing up the last scoop of dirt
out of this hole.
Uh, we're-we're finished,
- if you guys want to come down. - Wow.
[Travis] We'll be right there, Thomas.
Man, they're at 90 feet already?
After several more hours of drilling at the mesa,
Thomas called us over because the drill
was reaching its maximum depth of 90 feet.
We were all surprised, given the fact that,
according to all our data,
we should have easily hit that anomaly by now.
So they're down at 90 feet? That seems quick.
Chris, have you found anything in the spoils yet?
So far, preliminarily, we don't have any, any artifacts.
I don't get it.
[Erik] No ceramics yet, no metal.
Why have we not hit that?
What the hell's going on there?
[Travis] I know I sound like a broken record here,
but this makes no sense.
It's like whatever is in there moved.
- Well, that's it, guys. - All right.
I say we call it in this hole
and drill our next one, right in line with Borehole 2.
But this time we'll drill much closer to the face of the mesa.
- All right, cool. - [Thomas] Okay.
Well, that's gonna give us a good chance
of finding more of those ceramics.
Let's move in position and let's do it.
Since we missed the target
that we were so desperately hoping to find,
we pick a spot close to the face of the mesa
right in line with where we found
these ceramics in Borehole 2.
We wanted to hit the dead center of this object,
but now it's important that we get back in there
where we've already found important clues before.
[Travis] Well, let's get on with it.
[Erik] Hey, guys.
So, I have the data from our exercise
- that I want to get your eyes on. -Oh, okay. -Okay.
[Travis] After a long day of drilling
and scanning the mesa,
Erik called us together to go over
all the high-speed video we captured
during last night's Tesla gun experiment.
[Erik] This is from the first test at the tower
at the center of the triangle.
What do you say I just play through a-at regular speed?
[Travis] Yeah.
Whoa.
Look how many times it doesn't hit the grounding rod.
[Erik] Exactly.
You know, I understand that there's gonna be
some variation each time, but you know,
when you're that close to that, uh, grounding rod,
they should always be hitting the grounding rod.
[Travis] Right.
It's like there's another grounding rod
up there above it or out in the air or something.
[Kaleb] Yeah, what the heck is going on?
[Royston] Wow.
[Travis] Oh, wait, back that up. That was a good one.
[Erik] Okay.
[Travis] Now, see, that one, it went way...
like it was avoiding the tower.
- [Kaleb] Like it's turning away from it. -Yeah.
[Erik] So what is attracting the arc?
[Travis] I don't know. I-I'm just...
I-I don't know, I don't know what to think.
I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
[Erik] I'd expect to see a single arc
going from the gun to the grounded launch tower,
but that's not what happened at all.
In fact, the electric arcs turn, like, up and to the left.
And so, that suggests
that there might be something in that space.
Maybe it's the blob that causes
the electric current to take paths
that we wouldn't normally expect.
So I'd like to bring up the Meta-Frame view
from these cameras that we have here
mounted on the science tower.
So, here we're looking directly over at the grounding rod,
and you enter the frame in a moment.
- [Travis] Now, look at that. - [Royston] Whoa.
[Erik] So what you're seeing here
are all the arcs from the Tesla gun
in a time-lapse long exposure.
They keep curving up and away from the grounding rod.
[Travis] Maybe it's the blob, but I don't really see anything.
Do you?
Let's take a look at the next one.
What I've done here is I've zoomed in the view,
and-and, uh, tell me if anything jumps out at you guys.
[Travis] What is that in the top?
- What is that? - [Erik] Yeah.
[Travis] It's almost like we're illuminating something
right at where we hit the blob with that rocket.
This is crazy, man.
The enhanced video seemed to show
the electric arcs making contact with something
right where we first saw the blob.
Could this experiment have made it appear
for the second time and prove that it's real?
If so, what the heck is it?
Uh, these are clearly not arcs from the Tesla gun.
[Travis] Could it be a region of charge?
And that some kind of the electrical charge
is what blew the rocket up?
[Erik] Right. We should probably watch
the launches themselves.
So let me take us to the first launch at the triangle.
- All right, there we are. - [Travis] Now, right there
- you're at the height of the tower. -That's right.
So this rocket is headed,
essentially, straight up at this point.
- Yep. Yeah. - Yes?
So, again, straight up.
- And let's see... - [Travis] Ooh,
and immediately it turns.
Now, there was no significant wind.
And if that was wind-cock,
you'd see that-that contrail right there
- shooting off to the south. - Yep, you're right.
[Erik] We've seen so many strange things
in our rocket launches there at the center of the triangle
at that 30-foot-or-so point.
Large deviations, very sharp, uh, angular changes
in the trajectories of the rockets at launch.
Is this, in fact, evidence of this structure
that we've been trying to study
to which we've given the name "the blob"?
[Travis] Where's the turn?
- [Erik] It's right here... - Right there.
[Erik]...where the Tesla coil gun arcs curved upward.
[Travis] Mm, right there.
That is crazy.
[Thomas] That's exactly where the blob was.
I don't know what to make of it.
[Travis] Our high-speed cameras helped us pinpoint the moment
when a rocket suddenly turned midair
and flew away from the triangle.
And once again it's that same spot
where we saw the blob appear a few years ago.
Let's see what's going on here.
So, we're going straight up.
[Travis] And then, I mean, what is that little...?
Look at how it's kind of got some separate, weird...
Back up a minute. I just realized what's happening.
Now watch when it makes this turn.
[Erik] You don't see the effect.
- [Travis] Right there. - Oh, yeah,
- look at that discontinuity. - See, look how much
it's pushed the rocket tail end.
- [Erik] That disconnect... - That's a foot or something
at that, at this angle, probably.
At this distance and field of view.
So that means it pushed--
something literally pushed the tail of the rocket
that caused it to, to,
to teeter like a seesaw.
[Thomas] I-I would put the bottom of the rocket
just about the exact same height
as the sparks that are reaching up.
Yep, that's a good point.
The tip and body of the rocket
made it through that area
and only got redirected at its tail end.
So, was the blob not present one second
but then somehow got triggered to materialize out of thin air
as the rocket flew through that space?
I don't know.
All right, uh, all right, so, uh, let me take us
to the next launch.
So, again, straight up.
- And the same thing. - [Travis] Ooh,
- immediately it turns. - [Thomas] Same place.
- [Royston] No way. - [Erik] All right,
look at what's going on here.
Why?
- [Travis] Zoom-zoom, zoom in on it, too. -All right.
[Erik] Dive in here. Okay.
[Travis] Ooh, stop. Look at that rocket.
It was teetering again.
- There it is. - Oh, yeah.
[Travis] The-the motor was literally pushed
about a foot.
Look at that. Exact same spot.
This is absolute evidence
that something hit the rocket right there.
What are the chances that two different rockets
veered off in the exact same spot
and that they both teetered like something
bumped them in midair?
That cannot be a coincidence.
Clearly, there was something with a physical presence
in that spot.
Now we just need to figure out what it actually is.
There was a lot of data came out of this experiment.
I think that catching that data was very important.
[Erik] Well, you know, given what we've seen
with the rocket launches, you know, I-I think
that we absolutely know what we're looking for now.
We need to follow up and, uh, see if we see more of it.
Yes, absolutely. In fact, I have some ideas of, uh,
making some measurements there, where we've seen that blob.
Uh, I really want to launch a lot more rockets
right there in the triangle
and see if we continue to see that but track it better.
- Sounds good. -[Erik] We've got a lot to work on.
This was a good conversation. I say we, uh, regroup tomorrow.
- Yeah, let's get after it. - Okay, let's go.
Let's do it.
[Erik] We've seen so many anomalies
and unusual effects in the blob.
There is some kind of connectivity
between the region we're calling "the blob"
and the periphery of the bubble.
I want to study that space in as many ways as we can.
[Travis] Every experiment that we run on the bubble
and that spot above the triangle
gives us more evidence that something
is hiding from us in plain sight.
It just might be the key
to revealing the truth about this place.
So we're gonna keep poking this invisible nest
harder until we know for a fact exactly what it is.
[Brandon] Why are we seeing something that is so
out of place on Skinwalker Ranch,
particularly above the triangle?
Do our experiments
trigger or activate this bubble
or this region of the property
where we have recorded the anomaly?
What or who could be behind
this strange force that continues
to have a presence at Skinwalker Ranch?
- We got metal from the mesa. - Hey. Fantastic. -Oh.
- [Thomas] Holy... - Look, it stalled.
It's like it's stuck at the top of the bubble.
It should be coming straight down.
[Erik] Looking at that sensor
to record changes in the magnetic field.
- Oh, gosh,.0273. - [Travis] Look at that.
That coil was cutting through a magnetic field.
- [Travis] Oh, look at that. Yep. - Right there.
[Travis] Hold on, now.
We may have caught something. I don't know what that is.
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