For years, scientists have been working
to reveal the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.
But is it possible that the clues to unlock the mystery
are located beyond the borders of this hub of high strangeness?
-Now... -Whoa!
An ex-CIA agent
and a veteran journalist
have been recruited by the Skinwalker team
to go on a high-stakes mission across America.
Look at all this activity that's happening.
-That's unbelievable. -Oh, my gosh.
Look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that.
The goal--uncover evidence that may finally expose the truth.
-What is that thing? -It's getting more intense.
You ever seen anything like this before?
No.
♪♪
This is just the beginning.
♪
Well, gentlemen, it's good to be back together.
What do you have for us?
So, we've actually been following up
on some of our previous investigations,
and one area that just keeps coming back up again and again
is Bradshaw Ranch.
And the thing about Bradshaw Ranch, I mean,
you remember how much data we brought back?
We found aerial phenomena.
[beeping]
-Right there! -There it is. Look at that.
Look at that, look at that, look at that.
It's getting more intense. What is that thing?
We found strange thermal phenomenon.
-[crackling] -Look at that.
The temperature went up.
It just did it again.
And I'll never forget what you've shown us
with the gamma cam.
-Oh, right. -Yeah.
-[beeping] -What the hell?
What is that that we're looking at?
-[rapid beeping] -I don't know.
It's an incredible effort, unprecedented.
We still have more things to follow up on,
and I think we've got a pretty strong case to go back
to Bradshaw Ranch and try and run down
some more of these leads.
So, what we've done is we've rekindled our human network
on the ground that we built during our first visit.
What we're looking to do this time,
we wanna start looking at the area around the ranch,
what's going on in this area at a larger scale.
-Great. -Instead of focusing so tightly
on the ranch itself, our network is telling us
that there might be some things that are relevant
and interesting off the ranch as well.
There's several people on the ground laying out
what sounds like a history of questions
about possible military involvement,
unusual infrastructure, maybe even a tunnel under the ranch,
a connection to maybe a secret military base.
So, there's just a lot more intelligence
that we think we should try to run down.
So, if you recall Bradshaw Ranch,
we're looking at it here, and the open field here
is the area that's got the heavy fence around it.
In 2000 and 2001,
there was an actual government appropriation of money
to buy this property from the previous owner of the ranch,
which was a multigenerational ranch prior to that.
-Why? -What? What was the reasoning?
The reasoning was that it was being used
for some kind of conservation effort.
Huh.
Why would the government buy this property,
really, out in the middle of nowhere,
just to turn it into an agricultural research center?
It's not a--you know,
it's not like this is a high-priority place
of tactical or strategic value, is it?
And how would the government actually...
-Yeah. -...justify this location?
Right.
There has to be something much more to it than that.
Right. So, that's one of the things
we're gonna be trying to figure out.
Because we know we're looking for
signs or indicators of some sort of government involvement,
we're gonna try and put more equipment out there
to look for the telltale signs of government involvement.
And at the same time,
we're gonna try to go underground as well.
We're gonna try to do some surveys around the ranch,
if there's any truth to these rumors that there might be
some kind of mysterious structures under the ranch.
If you discover chambers or voids under the ranch,
that would, uh, lead us in a whole other direction.
Right.
That's something that, uh, is very similar to what
we've encountered here at Skinwalker Ranch.
The historical narrative speaks of underground chambers,
of voids, of potentially a base beneath the property.
I thought it was a bunch of baloney.
But as we've conducted studies,
I've had a humbling awakening to the fact that things
aren't necessarily what they may seem.
There is so much that doesn't add up,
that just doesn't add up about this entire region.
And I'd like to get to the bottom of the truth.
There's more to the story at Bradshaw.
-Yeah. -There's got to be. Has to be.
I think having a heightened degree of security,
or at least awareness, is going to be important.
I agree. Watch your back. Keep your head on a swivel
and look over your shoulder constantly
'cause you never know what's gonna happen.
Good luck. I can't wait to see what you find out.
♪
Andy and Paul returned to Bradshaw Ranch to meet
with former resident John Bradshaw and his son Mason.
-How's it going? -Hi there.
Hey, gentlemen. How are you? Thanks for coming out for us.
They're following up on reports of covert government activity
close to Bradshaw Ranch.
So, Andy and I were just saying we've talked to you
and so many other people about the UFO sightings out here,
the orbs, you know, all the other mysteries.
But there's a big question about
stories about secret military operations.
Well, you know, there's a--
there's a lot of rumors and speculations and stories,
and, uh, I think there's a little bit of truth
with each story that there is.
And supposedly there is a military site
that is back over here in these rocks over here
on this side called Secret Canyon.
People that have seen people with military-type guns
are back in Secret Canyon, so there's...
I mean, just little curious stories like that.
We are as close to sort of the middle of nowhere
as you can possibly be.
For a secret military base to be out here,
It just doesn't seem likely.
At the same time, this is also a tourist area.
There are thousands of people out here every year.
I'm trying to figure out, make sense of it all,
but so far, it's just not adding up to me.
So, this is a good spot to kind of
show you the house a little bit.
And you can see the window from the kitchen
is that first window, and it looks directly at that tree.
And, uh, right in that tree, my stepmom Linda and my dad,
um, they took a picture of a portal
that they got from the kitchen window.
Right. Yeah.
So, that tree pretty much
was the backdrop for that portal.
The sign at the gate to get onto the ranch,
they have a little sign saying that
it's to study Western plants and animals,
which is kind of weird to me, because they have a big fence
that they put up all the way around the property.
Right. One of the things that it's interesting to me, Paul,
is that we've got new locks here.
-Like, this is maintained. -Yeah.
And when I look at the house,
if you look at the air ducts on the house, you can see
that they're modernized, and they're sturdy, which,
if we had rangers living here, I would expect that.
But if nobody's living here,
I would expect those to show more signs of age.
I see some of the large equipment
that they have over here as well.
We've got an oversized solar panel.
It's got underground electrical wiring.
This is a facility that could have run 24 hours a day,
seven days a week,
without anybody from the outside tampering with it.
This could be a controlled research environment, or...
The question is, for what?
ANDY: It could be a contained terrarium.
PAUL: Right.
ANDY: And they're watching whatever's inside here.
Or it could be that they're keeping an eye
on where Linda and Bob saw the portal.
Yeah, well, you know, you start putting all those things
that are weird together, and pretty soon you want
to know what's going on. -Right.
♪
After meeting with the Bradshaws,
Andy and Paul head to the ranch's Old West Town
to reconnect with Jeremiah Horstman,
who spent the last 10 years researching
the strange phenomena in the area
and has additional information
about the rumored secret military presence nearby.
This entire area are small breakoffs of smaller mountains
which include Secret Mountain here before us.
The rumors of the underground base
seems to be that there's a massive tunnel complex
that we've heard from numerous whistleblowers,
which would go straight through this area.
Supposedly the terminus of those is to the south of us
at a strange facility which is a cement plant
in a very small town called Clarkdale
just at the base of the Mingus Mountains.
And it's not like most cement plants.
This cement plant, on occasion, has much more
heightened security than you would imagine.
And what I mean by heightened is people in Humvees
dressed like military contractors,
body armor, M4 carbines, even helicopters.
-This is a cement plant? -It's a cement plant.
That's just bizarre.
I have my own story from the Secret Mountain area.
My girlfriend, Alexandra, and I wanted to get photographs.
We found a great site that took hours to get to.
Alexandra called my attention to something
that was just in view behind us--
a very hastily, recently cemented-over shaft.
And the shaft was very large,
and there was a broken pulley right beside it.
And then a short distance from that was a large shaft.
♪
And this one they had put bars over,
and it appeared to be an elevator shaft
big enough to take personnel on it.
These are two separate structures you're talking--
Two separate structures within walking distance of each other,
indicative of underground activity
on government property.
So, after I photographed, I'm feeling very good about myself.
I've got photo evidence of two underground entrances
in an area that the government owns
and then started the very long, arduous trek out.
But before we got to the car, we heard the very familiar
thud, thud, thud of a rotor, and we looked behind us,
and there's a UH-1 Huey helicopter
coming up behind us below the canyon walls.
And I looked over my shoulder,
and I could see the helicopter following us.
And right before we got to the top of what would be
the public area, the helicopter, and mind you, again,
this is within the canyon walls,
turned around inside the canyon
and went back to the north, away from us and disappeared
over the canyon wall.
Got back to the car, went home.
We had told nobody where we went that day.
We had told nobody what we were doing.
So, we were loading
the photographs into my computer.
Suddenly, the instant message box pops up,
and the individual tells me, "I know where you went today.
I know what you were doing. I know what you--what you saw.
And I want you to know
that you shouldn't have gone there,
and I want you to delete your photographs.
Do not show them to anybody and do yourself
the biggest favor and delete them.
And I didn't. We kept them, and we kept them
on the memory stick of a camera.
So, I took them off of our computer.
So, at first we're talking about,
uh, to go back in time a bit... -Sure.
...we're talking about a potential
underground tunnel system. -Yes.
And then in that tunnel system,
there's hubs that intersect in locations around here.
Right.
Jeremiah is somebody we have met before.
So, when I hear Jeremiah telling us that there might be
military activity near Secret Mountain,
it's something I take very seriously.
I just want to map this out.
I wanna see where it all is in relation to each other.
-We can do that. I have a map. -Let's do it. Absolutely.
♪
So, the first point we want to reference is where we're at now.
That's the Bradshaw Ranch right here.
-Okay. -So we're going to put an "X."
"X" marks the spot where we're at now.
So, if there is an underground system of tunnels here
that goes under this area,
the shortest distance between any point is a straight line.
The straightest line would have to be between Clarkdale,
which we can reference right here.
Yup. Look, it even has a cement plant.
It sure does. And then Secret Mountain.
Okay. Up this way. For the sake of drawing
a straight line, we have the ruler.
All right. So the top edge is on the cement plant.
♪
Look at that.
The tunnel would go right under us if it's here.
Right down the middle of Bradshaw Ranch.
Yeah, absolutely.
If these stories are true,
we're here on Bradshaw Ranch right now,
and there should be a tunnel running underneath us.
That is something we can measure.
We'd literally be standing almost right on top of it.
-Absolutely. -It would be under our feet.
Here's what I like about topographic maps, Paul.
You can see right here when you follow these curvature lines,
we're in a low point in the valley here.
-Yep. -Right up here,
that is Bradshaw Ridge.
And that Bradshaw Ridge location
is a high point in this local area,
but it gives us a frame of reference to follow
the line between Bradshaw Ranch and Secret Mountain
for anything suspicious that could be
coming out of this area here.
Good thinking. Bradshaw Ridge virtually gives you
a good 360-degree angle looking in all directions.
This is fantastic, Jeremiah. Thank you for showing us this.
You're very welcome.
What I see here is that our primary point
of experimentation is right here
on top of the ranch where we're standing,
and our second point of experimentation
should be right here on the ridge.
We are looking for a tunnel
that runs for miles and miles, potentially.
We're going to apply a magnetometer on it,
and then we can run a big survey in here,
and then it reads the Earth's magnetic field.
So, if there's any voids,
there'll be less magnetic fields.
After hearing from Jeremiah Horstman
about a possible tunnel running below Bradshaw Ranch,
it's time for Andy and Paul to start testing.
So, they're meeting at the Old West Town
with a team of geophysical experts
from Terra Exploration Group.
So, this is the Old West Town.
This is--This is part of an old movie set,
and we're sort of on the edge of the ranch here.
And our thinking is,
is that this may be a track for the tunnel.
Okay.
The team will use a drone that flies in a grid pattern
covering a large area equipped with a magnetometer
that can read the strength of the Earth's magnetic field
and identify hidden voids or tunnels underground.
♪
-[whirring] -Nice, clean takeoff.
I love that solid grid pattern, man.
Yeah.
What's the orientation of the tunnel?
The sources that we have are telling us
that there's a potential tunnel that runs from a northeast
to a southwesterly direction under Bradshaw Ranch.
Wow.
So, what we're looking for is to have our flight path
intersect multiple times on that parallel.
We'll fly it, and if there's a tunnel there, we'll see it.
I mean, it's like an Etch A Sketch, you know,
the way it just tracks those lines.
Mowing the grass.
It's coming back. It already finished.
Here it comes.
-What a beautiful landing. -Perfect.
That is a very cool piece of equipment.
We'll get packed up,
and then you guys can crunch the numbers,
and we'll see what we got. -It's gonna be exciting,
when we see it. -Yeah, yeah, cool. Great.
♪
-All right, here's our guy. -Yeah.
-This is gonna be interesting. -I'm looking forward to it.
-Yeah. -While Terra Exploration Group
analyzes the data from the drone magnetometer,
Andy and Paul head to a ridgeline
overlooking Bradshaw Ranch called Bradshaw Ridge
to meet with local tour guide Joe Occhipinti,
who's reported strange experiences there.
So, you're a tour guide?
-I am. -Okay.
I do offroad Jeep tours up here. Um, I run these trails daily.
I know 'em like the back of my hand.
-Yeah. -And since I've been doing that,
I heard about a lot of the lore out here in the Sedona area,
and Bradshaw point up here is one of the hot spots
that I had heard.
Tell us about sort of what
your experience has been up here.
So, I came up here about a year ago,
about 10:30, 11:00 at night. Wanted to see the night skies
and wanted to see if there was anything
to the stories I had heard.
After about 20, 30 minutes of not really seeing anything,
I decided to drive along toward the ranch...
Okay.
...which is straight down the road here.
I would say about a hundred yards down the road,
I caught something out of the corner of my eye,
out of the passenger window.
I look up, and the best way I can describe what I saw
was a volleyball-size glowing green orb.
I had always heard about these orbs.
I thought they were ping-pong to tennis ball size.
What I saw was much bigger than that.
It basically came straight up out of that canyon,
maybe 60 yards out, probably 30 feet above me...
-Okay. -...and it hovered right there.
So, you had a sense of perspective? Yeah.
Yes. It wasn't way out into the distance.
Those things I dismiss.
If I can't explain it or-- or get a good eye on it,
it's just a light to me. -Sure.
It was a perfect sphere of emerald green light
and almost like it had a border around it.
As I started to move further down the road,
it went exactly parallel with me.
Did you find that it was moving in, like--
Perfect pace with me, and stopped as I looked at it.
It sees me, and it knows I see it, basically.
Right.
It tracked me down to the bottom of the hill.
There's a little turnaround point down there.
Where I turned around, it tracked me all the way back
up the hill and then descended right back down into the forest
where I saw it come up.
In all the years I've been a journalist,
I've talked to a lot of people with some really intense
and, frankly, unbelievable stories.
Joe is one of those people who strikes me as very credible.
There's just something about his demeanor,
the way he tells the story. He's not making this stuff up.
At the same time, I mean,
the idea that this thing tracked him along
as he was driving, that's a wild story.
But Bradshaw Ridge is not that far from Bradshaw Ranch.
So, my question is,
is there a connection between the ridge and the ranch?
How do you explain this?
My first reaction is always logical and scientific.
Maybe I tripped some sort of ground sensor,
and that was some sort of advanced surveillance apparatus.
What I can also add is not this past summer,
so probably 13 months ago,
well, I had a couple active duty Marines
out on one of my Jeep tours. We were taking some pictures.
They were out here with their girlfriends,
and one of them had a drone.
And he asked if he could take some aerial shots of themselves,
and I said, absolutely.
He got it about 75 to 100 yards out, straight out here.
He had his iPhone set in a joystick holder,
and that's how he controlled it.
And I looked at the camera, and he said, "Look at this."
The camera feed had shut off, and it said,
"Restricted airspace. Drone returning."
And the drone flew right back to us.
And I said, "Well, fly it out there again."
He got it to the same exact spot.
Same thing happened. Camera feed cut off,
said, "Restricted airspace. Drone returning." I mean--
-That happened right here? -That happened right here.
-Right where we're standing? -Right where we're standing.
He had told me when he signed up for the terms of service
and bought the drone, that it said,
"If you're anywhere around an airport or a military base,
it's restricted airspace. The drone won't work."
There's no military base out there that we could see.
No, absolutely not.
If it happened right here, we have a drone right now.
-Let's do it. -Yeah.
-Okay.
Hey, Fernando, do you mind donating
that drone to the cause?
Not at all.
[whirring]
So, it sounds like what we're looking for
is 75 to 100 meters in this direction?
Yep, straight out.
[whirring continues]
♪♪
So far, so good?
Oh, uh...
-Yeah. -[beeping]
-Um, getting sent home. -What? Really?
-What's the beeping? -It's returning home.
-Look at that. -So, "RTH" is "Return to home."
-It's coming back. -And that's automatic?
Yeah. It's satellite control, 100%.
So it would definitely come back
if I entered any kind of restricted space.
So, you're not flying it now. That's automatic.
No, it's coming back.
My CIA training tells me that there is
something being hidden, something is being protected.
But what? It doesn't say
it's a restricted air zone on the map.
There's nothing here that we can visually see
that would confirm that it's a restricted zone.
There's something strange happening here.
Fernando, what circumstances would have to occur
for the drone to automatically return home?
Restricted space, airports, any kind of military base.
So, it just--it basically overrides your commands
and comes back. -Absolutely.
So you couldn't have gone any farther?
No. No. It wouldn't have allowed me.
Wow.
You've obviously flown near airports.
What's the radius on-- on something like that?
-5 miles. -5 miles?
5 miles?
-5 miles. -Wow.
So they don't want you coming close.
We're on the edge of it here.
Whatever--Whatever is putting out that signal is
as much as 5 miles away.
Looking in the direction up in the Secret Mountain area.
Right.
That's very similar to what Jeremiah was saying, too,
if you recall.
We're getting close to something.
-Yeah. -I appreciate you coming out
and sharing your information. -Absolutely.
Because without it, we wouldn't be able to connect these dots.
♪
Well, John, thanks for joining us.
I think you're gonna be really excited to see what we got here.
This is the team from Terra Exploration,
and yesterday we were flying a drone
with a magnetometer over locations at the ranch,
and we got a more thorough picture now.
So, why don't you explain for John what we're looking at?
I mean, he knows the ranch, but not what we were doing.
So, yeah. This is a picture of how we program our flight path
for the drone, so we flew it up at about 100 feet up in the air.
We have a magnetometer that hangs off of it,
and it went and flew a grid over the Old Western town.
And then I'm gonna show you the overlay
on the satellite imagery, and fortunately for us,
we got some really interesting readings there.
[keyboard clicks]
Zoom in here some.
Now, there's rumor
that there's a tunnel somewhere, correct?
Yeah. Been living with the rumors for 20 years.
So, that line right there is not normal.
-This bisecting here? -Yes.
-Going across? -Yeah.
That anomaly there was about 50 feet across.
Wow.
And we can look at it in a 3D view.
[keyboard clicks]
You can really see that feature there.
Yeah. It almost looks like a cut,
like with a knife, you know?
Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say it looks like someone
just cut through there with a knife.
Yeah.
So, guys, I got to ask you,
knowing what you know, with your experience,
are we looking at a tunnel?
We've seen tunnels before. That's what they look like.
That's what a tunnel would look like.
Yeah. Yeah.
The fact that it does line up like the story says,
that's likely a tunnel.
Is it more natural, or is it
more look like something that's man-made?
♪
As straight as it is, it looks man-made.
It doesn't look like a natural feature, that's for sure.
There's another reason why I think this is a tunnel.
What you do is like solving a mystery, too, is you're just
piecing all the puzzle pieces together,
and then all of a sudden,
you're just like, oh, okay, this just makes sense.
So, what I did is I put this line in there,
and I was like, oh, let's-- let's follow it.
So, we come way down here.
♪
And it lands...
-[bleep] -[laughs]
Right at the front door of your concrete plant.
Can you believe that? [chuckles]
What's the significance of the plant?
I've gotten bits and pieces of the story.
Back in the day, they used to be the biggest employer in town.
I mean, it's out in the middle of nowhere,
and they used to have a front guard gate,
and you couldn't get through, um, the guard, uh, armed guard.
Question is, why so many? Why--why so many employees?
-Yeah, but the-- -And why--
-And why such tight security? -Yeah.
By the same token, equipment going in and out of that plant
wouldn't raise an eyebrow, right?
No, not at all.
You could have trucks going out day and night,
and nobody would ask any questions.
Now, on the other end, so it goes off this way, and...
what do we have? Secret Mountain.
-And Secret Canyon... -That is the axis.
You take that anomaly from the magnetometer,
and then you put this line, and now this is very plausible
that there is a tunnel under there.
I mean, there's no mistaking it.
That line on the ranch is-- is perfectly in line.
Speaking of the ranch...
It runs right through the field.
-Right through the field. -The middle of the field.
So, I mean, it's really close to that same access line.
Yeah. Not only does it go right under the ranch,
it lines up exactly with the anomaly
that we found in the field.
There's something out here that's a hole.
A hole in what?
A hole, an aperture, a screen,
a block of metal with a-- with a square hole in it.
Okay. Okay.
Well, is this a point of entry or activity?
The fact that you described it as something almost rectangular,
I mean, that matches up exactly
with the photograph that Linda took
and their descriptions of what they called
something like a portal.
Now, could the fact that the government
bought this property,
could there be another access to that tunnel there?
Your guess is as good as mine. I mean, I really just
never put two and two together until just now, so...
This literally is one of the craziest things
we've ever seen. It's--It's--
Well, I mean, there's definitely something--
something to at least one of the stories.
Yeah. John, I mean, given you grew up out there,
you know, you've heard these stories for years.
Where does this land with you?
Well, you know, I'm-- I'm actually amazed
at what you're-- were able to find,
and I'm actually even more amazed that, you know,
it's almost exactly where I thought it would be. [chuckles]
So it's--it's pretty spectacular that you guys were able
to, you know, add some credence to the--to the story,
Um, you know, so I don't know where we go from here,
but I'm already blown away by what you guys found already.
It's pretty--pretty amazing, to be honest.
Yeah. We don't have the full picture,
but we've moved the ball a long way down the road, for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah. If, uh, some black SUVs
show up at my house when I get home,
you're the first person I'm gonna call.
♪
PAUL: So, I mean, what-- what do you think
we're dealing with out here? -ANDY: For sure, we're dealing
with something in the Secret Mountain area.
-Right. -What we don't know is whether
it's military, whether it's secret,
whether it's government, whether it's private government.
So, it could be a contractor of some kind.
And when you hear about unmarked soldier types--
Right, we heard from Jeremiah and others, yeah.
That suggests potentially
some sort of private military contracting presence.
When you add on top of that the evidence that we see now
of some kind of underground structure...
Also in that valley on the way to Secret Mountain...
-Right. -...which is exactly where
Joe said he saw the strange orb.
Yeah. I mean, it all starts to add up to something.
The question is, what do we do next?
What's our next effort?
Well, we know that we're honing in on the right space.
-We're in the right area. -Yep.
Because we're seeing all this activity
right there on Bradshaw Ridge. -Sure.
What I'd like to do is
further stimulate the environments
between Bradshaw Ridge and Secret Mountain, and I think
the perfect way to do that is to bring out
the laser experiment. -Lasers. Yeah.
Shooting lasers into space at Skinwalker Ranch...
Holy cow. Look at that.
...and nearby Bradshaw Ranch...
Three...two...one.
Hit it.
...has coincided with appearances of UAPs.
-All the way back. You see this? -Yeah.
-What the crap is that? -Unbelievable.
Oh, look at that! It's getting more intense.
What is that thing?
But what will appear when lasers paint the sky
near a possible secret military base?
Secret Mountain is holding some kind of secret.
We have half of the equation.
The only way that we can connect the dots is if
we keep following that line.
Well, that's why we got to keep moving.
That's why we got to keep pushing.
ANDY: Yeah.
♪
Paul and Andy's next target is Bradshaw Ridge,
where Joe Occhipinti had his mysterious orb encounter.
Along with Joe, they've called in Skinwalker Ranch veterans
Tim Anderson and Jeremy Fenton from Nu Salt Laser
to poke the hornets' nest
by lighting up the mountains with lasers.
This ridge that we're at is above the ranch house,
and it's facing straight down the barrel
of what's known as Secret Mountain
off in the darkness,
exactly where we've set up for tonight.
The kind of the heartbeat of this experiment, Joe, is that
we want to fill the environment with light energy.
Any kind of military monitoring, whether it's automated
or whether it's manned,
is going to see this light activity,
and it's going to react. -React, sure.
In addition to the laser test,
Andy and Paul are also
deploying multiple scientific tools
to monitor any possible anomalies on the ground
or in the sky.
We have our FLIR camera here for thermal readings.
We also have our spectrum analyzer
that's gonna give us a live ear
into what is happening over radio frequencies.
So, what I want to do is start loading up our technology.
All right, I'll hit the FLIR. Power up the lasers, Jeremy.
Yes.
-[high-pitched electric whine] -All right. Recording.
-All right, I got FLIR feed. -Beautiful.
♪♪
Okay, lasers on.
We've got lasers. Our systems are running.
All systems go.
[beep]
We have an error? Huh.
♪♪
-[beep] -Whoa. That's...
We lost it all, Paul. Look at that.
Yeah, what's going on?
Everything is failing right now.
Except for the FLIR, which is running completely independent.
Completely independent on battery.
We're having trouble with the laser connection as well.
It's kind of strange 'cause everything was working so well
the last time we used it. -Yeah.
I'm gonna keep trying to reconnect.
I'm gonna keep resetting, too.
I'm not gonna let this get in the way.
This is catastrophic technological failure.
Doesn't make any sense.
I almost hesitate to say it, but is it possible
that someone scanned this area, picked up on us,
and is somehow closing us down?
I can't rule it out.
We've done experiments in Bradshaw Ranch,
and we've seen equipment struggles in the past,
but nothing like this.
There's no power to it yet right now.
Let me try that again.
Tim are you having any success over there, sir? Not yet.
When you see one or two pieces of equipment kind of hiccup,
that can just be par for any kind of field experiment.
But when you see all of this happening,
it starts to feel like something's working against you.
Oh. And we're back.
Yeah, I've got my spectrum.
Right now we're looking at a very even level
of background static radio frequency broadcasting.
-And that's what you'd expect? -That's what we'd expect to see,
especially at this time of night from a place like this.
-Right. -As fast as possible,
I would love to get lasers on.
I was gonna say, we should get the lasers up.
Because I don't know how long any of this is gonna last.
Let's light it up.
-[click] -[whirring]
Lasers are scanning.
[whirring continues]
Look at that, as soon as the lasers came on.
So right now we're at 1.603 here.
-That just started now? -It just started.
1.6 is what they see at Skinwalker.
Correct. 1.6 gigahertz
is an interstellar communication signal.
Anybody on Earth who is a professional
treats 1.6 as a privileged frequency...
-Right. -...that's only used for
communication from Earth to space and space to Earth.
The fact that we're seeing this transmission right now,
when we were not seeing this transmission earlier...
-Right. -...is significant.
The only thing I can think of-- these are radio frequencies
that are available only to the military to co-op.
So, it's almost as if it was being picked up
and then rebroadcast to us on a military bandwidth.
On a bandwidth that's available only...
-Only to the military. -...to the military.
Holy [bleep].
♪
What is going on?
So right now we're at 1.603 here.
-That just started now? -It just started.
The only thing I can think of-- these are radio frequencies
that are available only to the military to co-op.
Holy [bleep].
That's a very steady signal at 1.6.
Let me see if I can listen in on it.
[steady static sound]
[indistinct voice cuts out]
Oh, my gosh.
What is that?
[static continues, indistinct voice cutting in and out]
PAUL: But this isn't a civilian band, right?
It's not.
It sounded like some weird radio transmission.
[static continues]
ANDY: This is outside of any AM or FM bands.
There should not be civilian radio traffic
in this 1.6 gigahertz range.
-What the hell? -I don't know what this is.
[static continues]
What is going on?
As long as this pattern has been running,
this has been happening.
[static continues]
Every time we change the laser pattern,
we seem to find our 1.6 frequency also shifts.
It shifts, yeah.
I'll put up a different pattern.
-Yeah. -[clicks]
[static, beep]
-Here we go. -Whoa, whoa. What's that?
-You see this? -Wow.
Once again, we change the pattern.
-Look at this. Look at this. -Wow, wow.
-What is this? Whoa. -It's the biggest activity yet.
-Whoa. [laughs] -[static continues]
It does look like it's responding
to our changing stimuli.
-It does feel like it's... -Whatever it is.
...responding to the different laser patterns.
The fact that we are putting all this energy out,
all this light energy... -Yep.
...out into the universe,
something is picking it up... -And sending it back.
-...and sending it back to us. -Yeah.
You were seeing none of this as we were setting up?
We were seeing no activity on these frequencies
as we were setting up. -Okay, but once we started
trying to launch all of our equipment,
you started picking it up, this began?
-Correct. -This--This static.
Correct. Is the space cannon still available to us?
Yeah, the space cannon is ready to go.
I feel like if we're seeing a signal on radio frequencies
coming from space, let's fill up the sky
with the strongest energy that we can fill it up.
-Absolutely. -Let's use a space cannon laser.
-Let's do it. I'll turn it on. -Okay.
The Laser Space Cannon
is the brightest RGB-colored laser in the world,
powered by over 1 million milliwatts.
In the right conditions, this laser can be seen from space.
Go ahead and ignite it.
-Wow. -Wow.
Very cool.
Oh, man.
If that doesn't look like we're sending a signal...
[chuckles] I don't know what does.
If there is any kind of government
or military anything back there, they are not
gonna appreciate that at all. -No.
Cool.
[static continues]
Oh, Paul, check this out.
What is this?
[static continues]
Listen to this.
We're at 730 megahertz.
[voice echoing] Megahertz. Megahertz. Megahertz. Megahertz.
Whoa. What's happening?
[voice echoing] What's happening? What's happening?
What's happening? What's happening?
Over and over. Over and over. Over and over. Over and over.
Wait, so help me out.
I'm just--I'm not comprehending what's happening here.
What's happening here. What's happening here.
We are not transmitting that. We are not transmitting that.
-Transmitting that. -[static]
We are picking up the signal.
That is being reflected back to us.
That's being sent back at us.
What this is telling me is that
if we are not broadcasting on 730 megahertz,
somebody is listening to us,
and the reflection back to them is carrying at 730 megahertz.
And we're able to pick that up and hear it.
-And we're able to pick that up. -What?
Seriously?
That's not comforting at all.
I mean, are--are we essentially being eavesdropped on?
Is that what you're telling me?
There is a very real possibility
that we are absolutely being listened in on right now.
-That's... -What?!
That's the only explanation I have, man.
What change--Yes. It's...
I don't...I... I'm losing my words, Paul.
I was gonna say I'm losing--
I'm losing places to go with this, because this...
I don't have any place to take this.
This is highly strange. This is...
"Highly strange" is--
is understatement of the year, pal.
Ugh.
I don't know if it's terrestrial,
if this is some kind of military base.
I-I don't know if it's extraterrestrial,
if we're seeing something else. Is it even interdimensional?
I mean, we've got a lot of questions here.
But what we do know is these results are really similar
to the kind of stuff they've gotten back at Skinwalker.
There is some kind of connection or correlation here.
The question is, what is it?
I can't wait to get back to Travis and Erik,
bring all this data to them, and--and see what they say.
Knocking with this massive amount of energy
that we're putting up into the atmosphere
on Bradshaw Ridge,
this is something knocking back.
We're getting a reply, essentially.
We found something.
Something found us.
Well, gentlemen, it's good to be back together.
What do you have for us?
Man, the second time back to Bradshaw Ranch
and the area around it was absolutely excellent.
Yeah, it was wild. I mean, you think back on what we got
the first time around, the second bite at the apple,
we got a whole new data set
and--and really some incredible results and stories.
If you recall, we heard about some kind of
secret military base, some kind of connection to a massive
and really weird cement plant miles and miles away.
-Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. -So, here we go.
[click]
So, what you're looking at here are the magnetometry results
over what's known as the Old West Town.
The full image that you're looking at here
is about half of the entire size of the field.
And the field itself was maybe two football fields in size?
Yeah.
-So, these are large structures. -These are large structures,
and the Terra Exploration Group specifically keyed in
on this strange diagonal. -Mm-hmm.
First glance, when you look at this slashing diagonal line
suggests some kind of unnatural formation.
-All right, you with me there? -Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
'Cause Mother Nature isn't precise.
The Terra Exploration team flat out said,
"Look, to us, to our expert eyes,
that looks like a tunnel, period."
And then we went to go ahead
and try to match these images up on top of a map.
[click]
When you draw a line through that diagonal,
it goes straight down to Clarkdale.
And not just to Clarkdale, gentlemen.
That is a cement factory.
♪
That's the cement factory?
The line that was created was set by the magnetometer.
When you extend that line in both directions,
it terminates here at the Clarkdale cement factory.
What we have here is magnetometry data,
you know, suggesting this tunnel connects the dots
from Secret Mountain through the ranch to Clarkdale.
Secret Mountain. Secret Canyon.
This area is where there is rumored to be
some kind of secret military base.
Funny they would actually call it Secret Mountain.
That's a really interesting nomenclature strategy, isn't it?
Nothing to see here.
[laughs] Nothing to see here. Move along.
Nothing to See Here Valley is right by Secret Mountain, is it?
So, you're basically hiding in plain sight.
No one's looking there, so it's the best place
to stick something. -Yeah.
Our next round of experimentation,
we stayed on the ridge.
We had Nu Salt Laser flooding the area
between Bradshaw Ridge
and towards Secret Mountain with energy in the evening,
we also had a spectrum analyzer
that would allow us to tune into frequencies to listen in.
Here's what we were finding.
-[high-pitched static] -ANDY: Whoa. You hear that?
PAUL: Yeah. What's-- What's going on there?
It sounded like some weird radio transmission.
[static continues]
You sure you guys weren't bugged?
Back up a little bit, and I'll tell you when to stop.
All right, stop right there. Hold it there.
-Whoa. Oh, my God. -Yeah, let me...
it's all--These are the side bands for it, too.
There's a peak here, and then you see the peak
right there on the edge of the-- of the--of the band.
We've seen it here.
We saw it with everything turned off,
and there was nothing transmitting on this ranch.
And we picked it up on the spectrum analyzer
in about this range.
[static]
-What is that? -What the heck?
[static continues]
Why is that picking us up?
-Uh... -It's picking us all up.
We were hearing ourselves speak.
-That's what I was about to say. -Oh! Okay. [laughs]
Guys. Okay.
Guys, buckle up.
♪♪
This is the same night and the same experiment.
Listen to this.
This is extremely strange, Paul.
What is that?
[echoing] That. That. That. That. That. That.
Not comprehending what's happening here.
What's happening here. What's happening here.
♪
You guys had somebody that's eavesdropping on you.
-Why? -Yeah.
You just asked the question.
That's the ques-- the big question. Why?
Is there any chance that it's just environmental disruption?
-No. -No.
This pisses me off. This pisses me--
It's one thing to be meddled with,
to have all of your efforts obstructed,
and then to find something embedded
in the transmission, to find something that truly
attests to something really, I think, concerning going on.
♪♪
You're lucky you weren't harmed, because whatever technology
is being utilized could, without question,
be repurposed or directed in a way that would be negative.
This is the point in the discussion where I say,
well, should we take this off record?
Because it's the implications. It's...
I've been thinking about that question for a while.
Anytime we're talking about agency involvement,
You know, I'm reminded that I am probably outsmarted,
certainly outmanned, and outgunned.
I don't want to see a bunch of black SUVs show up
in about five minutes and shut this [bleep] down.
♪
If Paul and I were being monitored, we're already known.
This is a situation in intel that we call burned.
-Yeah. -We're already burned.
-Yep. Yep. -Moving forward
doesn't burn us anymore. -Yeah.
Well, the only thing that saves us is disclosure.
♪♪
That's how we have governed ourselves
since the beginning, is we've taken a very, very open,
collaborative, transparent approach.
We may be the best hope of finding the answers.
-Well, I mean-- -Hey, if we're
under surveillance, then they've got a hell of a ride ahead.
It's a done deal 'cause we're not done yet.
-Thank you. -Fantastic. Fantastic.
What an eye-opening discussion.
-Thank you. -We're gonna come back
with our next location soon.
-Fantastic work, man. -Thanks, guys.
Watch your backs, gentlemen, and stay in contact.
Yeah.
I think it's fair to assume
that whatever we're experiencing here,
whatever technology is being utilized to monitor us...
-Mm-hmm. -...and our investigation
is now being used against our extended team.
I'm the one who has preached this doctrine
of being led by the data for so long.
I think this raises a new question,
and that is how far are we willing to be led by the data?
We'll just do it in plain sight until they come
and try to tell us not to, and that's how you find 'em.
And we just keep going until somebody does.
♪
Okay. Agreed.
Indeed.
♪♪