03x06 - Where There’s Smoke…

[bunniefuu]

If we were to come in

and dig again,

would we get any response?

Where you dig

makes a difference.

It's got a dead battery.

What the actual hell is this?

You got to get those

people out of there. - Okay.

There was a spike at 3400.

Everybody out of here, now.

Erik, are you doing

something at 1.6?

I'm not broadcasting.

That's a communication

signal or something.

This is out of

the carriage house.

What the hell is that?

You captured a UAP on camera.

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.

How's it going, Chris?

Hey, Kaleb. How's it going?

- Good, good.

To help us

with our ongoing investigation

of Skinwalker Ranch,

we've been trying to engage

as many people as possible

who took part

in the previous operations

over the last two decades.

What's it like coming back?

It's pretty surreal, actually,

you know.

It's kind of like being back

home a little bit, you know.

Chris Bartel

is a former military officer

who was contracted

by Robert Bigelow

and the Defense

Intelligence Agency

when they were

investigating Skinwalker Ranch

several years ago.

We used to have trouble

getting guys like him

to share anything about

what they've seen out here.

Well, it's an "it"

that's in control.

But after last week's visit by

another former Bigelow employee,

Colonel John Alexander,

and the federal government's

report last year

acknowledging

the existence of UAPs,

it's like the floodgates

have finally opened up.

I know, a couple years ago,

I was worried about, you know,

maybe possibly losing

a clearance talking about

some of the experiences

I had here on the property.

Losing a clearance as far as?

Like a security clearance?

- Right, it was a concern

'cause, you know,

I'm still active

in the federal department,

I'm still operating and,

now it's more of a

mainstream topic, it seems like.

I was

a BAASS Security Investigator

for Bigelow Aerospace

for Skinwalker Ranch

from the years 2010 to 2016.

BAASS stands for

Bigelow Aerospace

Advanced Space Studies.

It was the organization

to study UFO phenomena.

This is also during the time

of the federal contract, AAWSAP.

AAWSAP stands for

Advanced Aerospace

Weapon Systems

Applications Program.

I was one of

the lead members out here.

I spent lots of time exploring,

documenting data

and also safekeeping

and protecting the property.

I have a lot of

experiences out here.

You know, I lived and breathed

this property for six years.

I would love to show you guys

some of the things

that I went through

and important aspects

of the property.

Well, I'm eager to do that.

I think we throw you

in the UTV right here,

and let's start across,

because I-I want to hear

everything that happened.

- That sounds, that sounds good.

Okay.

- I appreciate it.

We have this 20-year gap

where Mr. Bigelow

owned the ranch

for which we know very little.

I think somebody

that spent six years here,

and spent a lot of time

during that six years,

is critical and could be crucial

to helping us solve

some of the mysteries

that are here on the ranch.

Yeah. Right here.

This is the spot.

Let's park here, then.

I find it interesting

that you, stop us here.

This is by a place

we call the triangle.

Been a place we've done

a lot of experiments

and research and had a lot of

interesting data.

So, I'm curious, tell me

about what you experienced here.

So, October of 2010,

we had a pretty good routine

where one guy would do

a normal run

through the property to get

kind of eyes on what's going on.

That day,

the other officer came back,

and he was like,

"Hey, I found some big prints

on top of the mesa."

And I'm like, "Okay,

let's go take a look at them."

We get to the top of here,

and we find these gi--

these pretty good-sized

canine prints.

I have photos of those,

if you'd like to see them.

Yeah, I'd love to see those.

- Sure.

Here. Take a look at this.

You can see here

Look at those,

look how deep those go down.

Look at that.

- My gosh.

So, that's about three feet

between step?

And then, we had

a couple labs with us.

You can see here in the top

corner, the labs' prints.

That thing's like four times

the size of those.

That's a very big canine.

Seeing this picture,

you could tell by both

the size and the stride

that we're talking about

a very large animal.

It makes me think about

the legend of the skinwalker.

The legend of the skinwalker is

that it's an entity

that can shape-shift.

Often, the lore is having it

go from a wolf to a man.

For whatever reason,

this piece of ground

was cursed with the skinwalker.

I was here, the other officer

was right there,

and the dogs were kind of

in between us.

And the other officer says,

"Chris, stop. I hear something."

And I'll-I'll never forget this,

because it has been replaying

in my mind forever

since this day.

Out of that ditch,

I hear a God-awful, guttural,

howl growl.

And I was, like,

frozen for a second.

So was the other officer

and the dogs were all alerting.

The animal jumps out

of the ravine

over the berm and travels west.

This thing was probably

the size of a donkey, black.

Instinctively,

the dogs chase after it.

I run after the dogs.

We get around that corner there.

It's-it's gone.

Wow.

I can understand why

Chris was hesitant to share

some of these stories.

If I had heard this

on day one of the ranch,

I would have dismissed Chris.

But after spending five years

here on the ranch

I-I find myself believing

his story.

Did you come back and look for

tracks the next day, I imagine?

The next day we came back.

We followed the ditch.

We really didn't find

any tracks.

But there was an area

I found on this mesa slope,

and it led to this open cavity.

It looked like a cave.

So, I jumped down into it.

I look around, and it's a,

a decent-size open cavity,

but inside the cavern,

I pulled out

two old canine traps.

So, anytime somebody says

the word "cave"

or "cavern" here,

it catches our attention.

- Right.

You think it's still there?

- Yeah.

You mind taking us there to it?

- Absolutely, let's go.

All right.

I find it interesting

that this DJ said

they were picking up

some kind of weird signal.

Yeah, that's the part

that got my attention.

You know, normally when

you think about a radio station,

you think of them broadcasting

but not receiving anything,

so I'm surprised

that they're vigilant

to any incoming signals.

Well, I can't wait to hear

what they say.

Ranch caretakers

Tom Lewis and Kandus Linde

let me and Erik know that

a local radio station nearby

reached out to them about

a really strange frequency

interference

that's been jamming

their system and it sounds

just like what we experienced

last week on Skinwalker Ranch.

Hey! hey, hey, hey, hey,

it's here.

We've got that 1.6 thing.

During a lot of

the experiments we've done

to stimulate different

phenomena, including UAPs,

Erik has detected a huge

radio frequency energy spike

of 1.6 gigahertz

on the spectrum analyzer.

And last week, we detected it

after launching a rocket

out by Homestead Two.

1.60000.

But this time a mysterious sound

came through with it.

You want to try and listen to it?

Yeah.

I swear that sounds

like a communication signal.

So, here we are.

So, when we heard that

a potentially similar signal

was occurring at a radio station

ten miles away in Roosevelt,

we definitely wanted to meet

with the station manager

and DJ, Jenn Rook.

Hi!

- Hey, I'm Travis.

Hi, I'm Jenn.

- Nice to meet you, Jenn.

You, too.

We wanted to see

if it could be related

to the strange

communication signal

we've detected

on Skinwalker Ranch.

So, we hear you've been

having some weird signals

or interference

with your radio station.

Some interference for sure

and just some other

weird anomalies that happen.

You're talking about

interferences, is it keeping you

from being able to operate

at certain times, or?

I livestream online,

and it keeps it from operating. Really?

Like, the online stream was

just absolute fuzz.

It was just

cutting out everything.

It was just

such an interruption.

You couldn't hear the

radio station online. - Wow.

So, if I was listening

to your station,

and I hear,

some kind of a problem,

I would expect to hear what?

Static? Strange tones?

Signals that don't belong

in your signal stream?

What would I hear?

I mean, you could

probably hear any of that.

Wow. - You know,

we've heard some weird stuff,

and we see weird signals

at the ranch

that we can't figure out

where they're coming from,

and we've found this one that

seems to be repeating

around here all the time,

near 1.6 gigahertz.

Travis, can you bring that up

and play it?

Yeah. I believe it's this one

right here.

You know, I've heard

something similar to this

along with all of

the fuzz that I get

that I know is interference.

Really?

- Yeah.

There's something not right,

and I've had people look at it

and try to fix it,

but it's a signal that is not

supposed to be there. - Wow.

After we verified

that Jenn believed that

the 1.6 gigahertz communication

signal from the ranch

was very similar to the one

that's been coming through

the radio station,

it made both

Erik and I think that

maybe we could use it

to try to communicate back

to whoever sent it

in the first place.

We couldn't, by any chance,

talk you into maybe broadcasting

this strange signal

that we've picked up?

- And see if we'll

detect something

with our instruments

when you do.

Are we poking a bear here,

or?

Well-well,

the expression that I use is

one my grandmother taught me and

it's "poking the hornets' nest."

And-and so - Okay, let's do it.

Let's poke that hornets' nest.

Let's see if

any hornets fly out, right?

All right, let's do it.

So, we have some equipment

outside, in the car,

we'll run out, give us

we'll get it set up,

and running.

- Okay. Yeah, let's do it.

So we'll got set up

the equipment.

I'll be right back

and tell you when we're ready.

All right, sounds good.

- All right. Thank you.

After Jenn Rook,

the station manager at Jack FM,

told us that the 1.6 gigahertz

communication signal

that we've detected

on Skinwalker Ranch

sounded similar to

what's been interfering

with her station's broadcasts,

we convinced her

to let us run an experiment.

I'm going to go ahead

and start the Jeep

and tune in to the radio station.

- Perfect.

The idea was to play

the 1.6 gigahertz signal

over her airwaves

All right.

I got the radio station up.

while Erik and I set up

an antenna

with our spectrum analyzer

in the parking lot

so we could monitor

the broadcast

for anything strange

that might happen in response.

All right, I think

that's good right there.

All right.

I'm interested in

watching the RF spectrum

through our spectrum analyzer.

I got really high hopes

that we're going to see

something unusual.

So, I'm-a go in

and tell her we're ready.

All right.

Hey, Jenn. Yeah,

we've got our equipment set up

in the parking lot,

so whenever you're okay

to broadcast the signal,

we're watching.

All right. Ready.

- All right. Cool. Thanks.

All right, Erik.

She's about to broadcast it.

All right.

- Hey there, everybody.

Just a little interruption

in the music right now.

We're doing a few tests

here at the studios,

and, you know what?

I'm going to play

something here.

And if you've heard this,

you can always give me a call

here at the studios

and let me know.

This is just a test, everybody.

There it is.

Wow. It really changed

the waveform big time.

Look at how the waveforms

are reacting to it there.

You see that?

Watch right here.

When a FM radio station

broadcasts music or anything

over the airwaves,

the frequency always has

a constant and uniform pattern.

You shouldn't see

any deviation in it

no matter what the sound is.

But as soon as Jenn

started broadcasting the sound

from our 1.6 gigahertz signal,

the station's frequency

began showing strange,

sporadic spikes.

Now, that shouldn't be possible.

So, it really made us wonder

if our experiment

might stimulate

something strange out here

in the Basin community.

And, if so, would it be anything

like the phenomena we've seen

on Skinwalker Ranch?

This has just been a test,

everybody.

Thanks for listening. I'll put

you back to the music now.

I'm Jenn Rook.

All right, well, I say

we go tell her what we saw.

Yeah. Let's go follow up.

I wonder what the locals thought

that was listening to

the radio station.

- My gosh.

Wow.

That was pretty cool.

Thank you for that.

Yeah, we, were

watching the spectrum

all around your signal

and when you were broadcasting,

the,

the waveform actually changed.

Normally it has a certain shape,

and when you started

that signal,

it changed to something

completely different.

It was really odd.

Now,

the interesting question is

if there's any kind of response

- Yeah.

what form will it take and

how will we find out about it?

Yeah, if anybody calls you

and says,

"Hey, what was

that weird thing?"

Or "I had a headache

when that was going,"

you know, or whatever.

- Yeah.

Okay. Especially if

someone happens to see

a UFO or UAP,

or something strange

in the sky, anything at all,

please let us know.

Okay. - You may be able to

provide some information

that's very helpful to

our research going on,

so thank you for accommodating us today.

- All right.

Yeah, anytime.

- It was great to meet you.

You, too.

- Yeah. Thank you very much.

Thanks, guys.

So, it's gonna be

in this little area right here,

where I was walking down

from the top of the mesa

and I found a cave.

Over the years that

I have been here on the ranch,

there's been rampant rumors

about underground bases,

of tunnels, all kinds of

underground things

here at the ranch.

If there are some,

we definitely want to find them.

I just happened to notice it

from on top.

Then I-I suggest maybe

we just all climb up there

and see if we can find it.

- Yeah.

Hey, I found

what looks like to be a cavern.

Let me take a look.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure this is it,

or it-it looks like it.

You can tell that at one time

it was a lot larger.

And it's collapsed down

in on itself.

You can tell

that this whole area

looks like a sunken-in area.

Like it caved in. Yeah.

- Yeah.

It's so strange.

If this is the opening

to that cave that Chris found,

did it collapse?

Is it still there?

Does it continue back,

and it's just covered by rocks?

Definitely a lot of

unanswered questions.

There's been one consistent

thing I've heard

since I've been here on the

ranch for the last five years

and that's there is

a system of tunnels

that goes throughout the ranch.

We've got reports of

UFO flying into the mesa,

that we have people

that think that

there's underground bases here.

We've yet to find it.

Who knows?

Maybe this is the entrance

or maybe this is a way in,

and, I'm all for figuring out

a safe way to explore this more.

Well, I'm ready to head down

if you guys are.

I appreciate you showing us, Chris.

- Hey, no problem, man.

There's multiple layers

to this property.

I think what's going on here

is bigger than any of us here.

It's bigger than

a science experiment.

It's bigger than

a government contract.

It's bigger than all of us.

How else can I explain

some of this stuff

throughout all those years?

Okay, we got our GPS data.

We know where it's at.

Let's get out of here.

Hey, there's Jim.

Hello, guys.

- Hey, Jim.

What's going on?

- Good to see you.

The day after Erik

and I conducted our experiment

at Jack FM,

ranch manager Jim Morse

showed up to share

something pretty crazy with us.

Been doing a little outreach.

I had a guy that,

sent me some videos.

This is local?

- This is local.

Yeah, so,

maybe I can show you these,

and you can make heads or tails

out of them.

What are we looking at here?

I guess it's these lights

right here.-

Where did this come from?

Is this from

the community nearby?

Yeah, this is from the community

out here in the basin.

Um

I mean, there was people

from Moon Lake,

miles away, that saw the lights.

- Really?

Well, you know, looking at that,

first I thought it was stars,

but look, look, they're moving.

- Yeah.

Look at that.

Wow.

Jim, when was this video taken?

Last night, about 8:00 p.m.

Really?

That's just a few hours

after we played

that sound on the radio, Erik.

No kidding.

It definitely stirred up

a lot of interest out here.

Look, and in the next video,

they're in

completely different kind of

They've moved a bunch.

- Yeah.

And there's a bunch.

There's, like,

four or five of them.

Wow. Well, that is interesting.

It's like some kind of formation

of the lights,

they're doing something.

Now, if we actually stimulated

these UAP to appear

by broadcasting

the sound from

our 1.6 gigahertz signal

out to Roosevelt,

that's incredible.

They definitely didn't look like

any conventional aircraft

I've ever seen.

It looks like five lights.

What on earth?

They're clearly moving.

They're flying,

and I don't see

any airplane navigation lights.

No, I didn't either.

- I didn't either.

I couldn't see a single blink.

Yeah.

I don't know what that is.

- Yeah.

I got to tell you, though,

it's intriguing.

Yeah, I-I want to pick this

apart frame by frame.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Let me take a look at this.

I've never seen a pattern

of this many mysterious lights

in the sky,

after any of our activities.

You know, usually we see one.

- One.

Maybe two. But that's pretty

That's pretty exciting.

I don't know what that means.

Yeah. That's more

than a coincidence.

Seeing these videos

was incredible,

because it wasn't just

multiple UAPs

that appeared at the same time.

They also seemed

to be maneuvering

in a coordinated formation.

There it is.

Wow.

When we broadcasted our signal

at the radio station,

we could see a very definite

frequency register

on the spectrum analyzer,

as if something was responding.

What I want to know is

if these UAP

were also stimulated

by our experiment.

Clearly,

we now have an investigation

that goes beyond the boundaries

of Skinwalker Ranch.

Well, if you get

any stuff like this,

absolutely let us see it.

- Okay. Yeah. Thank you.

Especially, you know,

getting the date and the time

with it also, that's great.

You guys really stirred

the old, hornets' nest up.

Yeah.

Okay, well, if I can borrow this

long enough to get the video off

Yep, absolutely.

Absolutely.

And I'm gonna tear it apart

frame by frame.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll get back to the neighbor, okay.

- All right.

Thanks a lot.

- Thanks so much.

I'll get this back to you soon.

- Thank you.

See you later, Jim.

- Thank you.

All right.

Well

- Yup.

This is the area

we're looking at.

After our meeting

with Chris Bartel,

we brought Jake Huffman out,

who has spent his career

building oil well sites

and as part of that,

has used a lot of expl*sives

and done a lot of blasting.

We wanted to get

his eyes on the mesa

and see if he could tell

if this was a natural cave-in

or a purposeful one,

and what the best method

for getting into the mesa

would be.

Well, about a quarter of

the way down from the top,

there's an opening where

that little clay slough-off is.

We had a former guard

from Bigelow's era

that told us about

this large opening

he'd climbed down in,

there were some traps and stuff,

but it appeared

like it had collapsed in.

And the whole time

we've been here,

we've heard reports of

these large tunnels

that people can walk clear,

clear back in.

Really?

Some underground bases

and, I mean, you name it.

We've heard

all kinds of crazy things

about this hill.

And we've searched and searched

and haven't found anything

that resembles that

until we got to this spot,

and it does appear

like there could have been

a large opening

that went back and it caved in.

I'd like to take a closer look,

see if maybe we can see

some signs

of any drilling activity.

- Okay.

Go ahead.

We're just gonna go

right up here to the base.

Looking at it,

do you see anything

that would indicate to you

that this was collapsed

on purpose?

Actually, yeah.

Usually, if you have a slough,

then you're gonna have material

that's built up somewhere,

you know, and I'm not seeing

anywhere where

softer material or mud

or anything

pushed out from underneath it.

- That was pushed out?

That's a good point.

That tells me

this was done for a purpose.

I don't know

what that purpose would be.

I can't see the rock

having a value

as landscaping rocks, or

I believe at some point

there was blasting done,

and perhaps that was done

to hide something.

Jake suggests that blasting

has occurred in this area,

that perhaps the face of

this mesa has been collapsed in,

and if so, it makes me wonder,

why did they collapse it in?

Was it for safety,

to keep people out

of these, tunnels or mines,

or whatever they were,

or were they trying

to hide something?

We got to talk to

Erik and Travis about all this

and see what they think.

We definitely need to

investigate it a lot more.

Yep.

- So

We appreciate your expertise.

I can only imagine we'll

have you back out here again.

Whatever I can do to help.

Okay. - Okay. We appreciate it.

Thank you.

We had an interesting

visit with Chris Bartel.

Chris shared

some experiences that he had

while he was here on the ranch.

One of them,

he was going across the mesa.

He was following some very,

very large tracks.

The stride of this animal

is like three feet.

That's a big animal.

He used the term canine,

but those tracks

looked like a very large wolf.

And as he came down,

he found this cavern.

It was pretty large,

and there were large traps

that had been set down

inside of this.

The interesting thing was, is

that when you look down in it,

you can tell that

the rocks have collapsed down.

Wait, wait,

so you've actually seen it?

Yes, and I have

a solid GPS coordinate

for the actual opening.

So, if you provide

the coordinates,

I can actually bring it up

on the screen.

Ever since I joined the team

two years ago,

I've wanted to investigate

the stories about caves

and supposed

underground caverns,

but we just couldn't find any.

I say we pull this up on the

screen and look at it. Yeah.

Yeah, let's do that.

So, when Thomas said that

former Bigelow team member

Chris Bartel showed them where

one was possibly covered over,

I couldn't wait to learn more.

It's about three-quarters

of the way up the mesa,

and it looks like

there potentially could

have been a much larger cavern

that the whole thing has just

kind of sunk in and collapsed.

Is this close to

where we're starting to see

some of the GPS anomalies where

they vanished into the mesa?

Now, that is a great question.

Actually, it's the opposite.

In some of our exercises,

we've seen things seem to emerge

from about that part

of the mesa.

Really?

Package away.

- Earlier this summer,

we conducted two different

aerial experiments

over the triangle area,

using GPS sensors

I'm getting something, yeah.

trying to pinpoint

the location

where we keep detecting

high-energy spikes

about a mile above the ranch.

These blue cubes represent

the position of

the GPS payloads.

It looks like

you smashed into the mesa.

You popped out on this side

right there.

But in both cases,

the GPS data we collected

inexplicably showed

that our aircrafts

flew down below the mesa.

Look at that.

That's about

that location right there.

And now it looks like

the exit point corresponds

with this spot

where Chris Bartel says

a cave entrance used to exist.

I don't know yet,

but maybe that's where

our answers about

the triangle area are hidden.

After seeing this,

we brought Jake out here

and had him look at it.

He had a feeling that

it looked like

there had been

some demolition work there.

Did Bigelow's team

discover something

that we have yet to discover?

If there really is a cave there

and it was covered up,

that had to be done

during Bigelow's

ownership of the ranch,

since he's the one

that Brandon bought it from.

So, given that

Bigelow was funded in part

by the federal government

for his research,

what could they have found

that needed to be kept hidden?

It'd be good to get Pete Kelsey

to fly over it

with the infrared camera

and see if there's

any temperature differences

that might suggest

there's an airflow

or a pocket or something.

Absolutely.

I-I've been really impressed

by his work in the past,

and to be able to have him

bring out even more equipment

that's more technologically

advanced would be awesome.

It sounds like we got a plan.

The more detail we can get

about this part of

the property the better.

We'll get right to it.

- Okay, sounds good.

Right in here somewhere?

Right up on the edge up there.

To help us figure out

if this really is

a covered entrance

to something in the mesa,

technologist

Pete Kelsey has brought out

a drone with

a thermal imaging camera

that'll be able to identify

any signs of voids

or caverns below the rubble.

This looks great.

Thank you, sir.

The guys have asked me

to look for caves

here on the property.

The thermal camera could be

a really good fit there,

because typically caves,

tunnels,

the air inside is much cooler

than the air outside.

If it shows cold air,

that could mean

that there's a network.

All right,

I got all green lights here.

Ready when you are.

Where's the hole, Thomas?

It's, basically right

right up there.

You can only see it

from the top down.

You can't see it looking up.

So, I'm gonna just go up there

so that you have

an easy point of reference

as you're trying to locate

where this opening is at.

I think it will be

a lot easier if I'm up there

standing close to it, so

- Okay.

Okay, I'm gonna get started.

Be careful.

- Yup.

In my years on the ranch,

there's been rampant rumors

about underground tunnels,

underground bases,

and really, with the technology

that we're deploying now,

the hopes is to either find it

or-or finally put it to bed

once and for all.

Right here.

- There?

Yup.

- Spinning up.

So, you're flying

the thermal camera first?

Yeah, so the fancy term is

this is a radiometric

thermal camera,

which means it will give me

the temperature.

But it also can do just video.

Very cool.

- Heading for Thomas.

There he is.

I will zoom in on him a bit.

So, the hole must be that thing

right in front of him.

Is that hole really the coldest

thing within the field of view?

Yes. It's black.

- Okay.

It's 64 degrees.

Whereas on the rock surfaces

you are at

Yeah, out in the sun,

it just went to a 102.

A 40-degree difference?

I'm gonna go ahead and take

one of those smoke bombs

up there.

So you guys keep an eye out

down here

and see if you see smoke

coming out.

That is a great idea.

In addition to

Pete's high-tech drone,

we also brought along

some low-tech smoke bombs,

to look for evidence of holes

or possible entry points.

Once we drop the bombs,

if the smoke starts emitting

back out of the mesa

from different points

then where we dropped them,

it would be a sign

that there really is

a covered-up cave

or tunnel system

under all these boulders.

- Hey, Travis.

We're ready for you to pop

that smoke b*mb.

All right,

we're gonna pop a smoke.

Three

two, one

Popping smoke, popping smoke.

You see any effect?

- No.

There, it's starting to

come out. Look at that.

Blue smoke.

Yeah, so I'm getting no love

on the thermal.

So, I'll switch to RGB.

It's coming out down here.

Look. Look behind you.

It's coming out everywhere.

Ooh, that makes my day.

Wow, look at that.

Little wasps of it down here.

If there's a connection

between these larger openings,

perhaps that cave we're

talking about. Yeah.

There was a cave at one time.

Thomas and I have found

a couple of holes up here.

I think we're gonna throw

our smoke grenades in there.

So, keep an eye out,

see if you see it coming out

anywhere on the mesa.

- Copy that, thanks.

Right here.

Let it get smoking good.

That's good,

orange smoke, orange smoke.

I'm gonna step back.

Yeah, definitely, we got smoke.

A little bit.

Yeah.

There should be

a lot more smoke coming out.

Actually, look, look,

it's getting sucked in.

Yeah, the smoke's going down.

Look, it's completely gone.

We should be seeing smoke

everywhere.

There's no smoke.

- There is nothing here.

No smoke?

I don't see anything.

Where did it go?

Where'd the smoke go?

Where'd it go?

Actually, look, look.

It's getting sucked in.

Yeah, the smoke's going down.

The wind's blowing

the smoke down, Dragon.

Really?

When we dropped smoke bombs

down this opening,

the smoke started to come out,

and then it was as if somebody

turned on a vacuum,

and the smoke just disappeared

and sucked down in the hole.

Yeah,

something's sucking the smoke

into the cave or the hole.

Nothing.

There's no smoke at all!

That is really strange.

Yeah, it's inhaling.

Yeah, it's inhaling all right.

So, if that's an inhale,

the question is,

where are the lungs?

Hey, Erik, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Travis.

You guys don't see

any smoke down there?

Travis, I could only see

the smoke at the beginning.

It disappeared

just like you reported.

No trace.

I don't see it

coming out of anywhere.

You going up top?

- Yeah.

Thomas is going up top.

Look up there and see

if you can see any smoke

with the drone.

Yeah. All right, panning up.

You see any effect?

- No.

Anything, Thomas?

- No.

For the smoke to be getting

pulled down into the mesa,

that means that there's

some kind of cavern or void

sucking the smoke

back underground like a vacuum.

Is it something natural

or could there be

some artificial object

or device causing that?

Hey, guys, I got one more.

Do we want to try

and repeat that?

I say we do. What do you think?

Yeah.

- Heck, yeah.

Okay, I'll bring it up.

- Okay.

Erik, be advised,

Dragon has

one more smoke grenade.

He's gonna bring it up

and we're gonna drop it

in the hole for a repeat.

Copy that.

You want to do it, Dragon, or

Sure, I can.

All right, well, look.

We're getting ready

to pop smoke again,

so keep an eye out.

Three, two, one

Yeah,

that's probably good enough.

Purple smoke.

- Yeah.

There's just a little bit

coming out,

but that-- N-No.

Look at it.

It's pulling it back down.

- Yeah, it is, look at it.

Yeah, look, it's pulling it down

right here.

That first little bit

kind of filtered out,

the rest is getting sucked

back down.

There should be

a lot more smoke than that.

Those smoke grenades last

a while.

It's gone.

- It's gone, look.

That's just weird.

Hey, Erik, same thing happened.

A little bit of smoke came out

then it all just kind of

went away.

Did y'all see any smoke

come out of anywhere?

Not down here, Travis.

Did Thomas see anything

on the back side?

I don't see anything up here.

- Yeah?

I even walked back there

up on the ridge a little bit.

I don't see anything.

We've got a lot of data

suggesting that

there's something interesting

going on in this area.

With all the stories

that we've heard of tunnels

and caverns and underground

bases here in the mesa,

I finally feel like we're

starting to make some progress.

Well, it means there's got

to be some sort of an opening,

if it's pulling that much smoke

and none of it's leaking out.

We're out of smoke bombs,

I guess just head down.

All right, I'm landing.

As I like to say,

"We are led by the data."

And all of the data

are pointing to

the existence of a large void,

somewhere inside of

the face of this mesa.

I would love to get eyes on

what's in there.

Welcome back to earth.

- Yeah.

So you did find something?

We did find something.

Sure weird, from what I saw

from the air.

It was, it was like the mesa

just took a deep breath.

Yep, you could literally see it

being sucked down into the hole.

And the hole, it seems

like it just went forever.

It was just like

a vacuum cleaner turned on

and it sucked

all that smoke down

and then it was gone.

- Yeah, it was gone.

So, it went somewhere.

That hole goes deeper

than we think.

Well, I think we got to figure

some things out

before we do the next thing.

We really want to do this right.

The experiment

definitely confirmed

that there is something

that we need to explore

deep inside the mesa.

But we're gonna have

to move some earth,

and that means digging

or drilling

to find out what it is.

So, we need to have

a serious meeting

with Brandon

and get his blessing,

'cause we've seen in the past,

it's always risky to dig

on Skinwalker Ranch,

but I don't see another choice.

Great work, as always, Pete.

Thank you very much, appreciate it.

- My pleasure.

All right.

We'll load up, head back.

Well, here they are.

Now that we've found what may be

a purposely covered up system of

caverns, or who knows what,

in the mesa

we need to explain it

to Brandon

and have

a serious discussion about

what he's willing

to allow us to do

to get inside and see

what the heck could be there.

Well, Brandon, as usual,

we have some intriguing things

to report.

We've taken a lot of data

with the GPS experiments,

with the helicopter,

with the airplane,

and we've seemed to find

there's an anomaly

that's just a little bit west

of the, triangle that's

causing it to look like

actually, that

Cameron's helicopter flew us

into the mesa,

and then out of the mesa on top

somehow or other.

Okay. That's kind of

in the same location

that we've had

an eyewitness suggest

that there was a cave there

in the past.

Really? Wow.

Chris Bartel,

one of the former guards

for Mr. Bigelow, he came out

here and visited with us,

and he showed us this cavern.

Thomas and I had one of

his associates come out

who's done a lot of

blasting and drilling.

Well, he-he just looked at it,

and he said it does have

the appearance

that it could have been

blasted and collapsed.

Chris Bartel showing us

this cavern

led us to explore further

in that area

to see if we could find

other clues

or maybe other entrances.

And we actually did find

some other holes,

which we dropped smoke bombs

down into.

The smoke started to come up

out of the hole and then it was

as if somebody turned on

a vacuum,

and the smoke sucked down

into the hole,

and we never saw

another trace of it.

Wow.

- That was really strange.

Yeah, it was-- it was odd.

It really suggests that

there is some sort of opening,

network underneath

the rocks, underneath the mesa.

The fact that

the-the smoke experiment showed

that there's some void,

there's something

that is pulling

that material into the mesa,

I mean,

that's-that's a key clue.

Yeah, it was

the most bizarre thing.

There's an airflow

somewhere going into something,

a void somewhere or whatever.

Since it never came out lower,

that suggests

there's an opening underneath,

underneath the mesa out there.

Yeah.

- As we've discussed before,

this is an area

attended by GPS receivers

behaving anomalously

in that part of the ranch.

What's doing it?

What's interfering with them?

And what may have been

covered up in the past? Yeah.

What were they hiding

in that mesa?

That's the big question, right?

What were they hiding

and why would they

deliberately cover up

their tracks?

I think Thomas has found

the ideal solution.

What would you propose?

Well, I have a,

I have a good friend

that is a driller.

Now, he's a horizontal driller.

This drill is special in

the fact that it's directional,

and it allows him

to steer the bit around.

Wow. - And so, we could set

it up at the base of the mesa

and drill horizontally

into the mesa,

and we can steer it around.

And so, it would allow us

to explore and see

if we might be able to

punch into one of these voids.

That is a perfect match

for our problem set, Thomas.

I'm very curious to find out

what may be hidden

in that chamber

or at least in that area.

You have my approval to proceed,

but proceed with care.

I want to minimize

the amount of disruption

over in that area,

and I want to make sure

that safety is paramount.

You got it, Brandon.

- Let's go.

You can't really take this ranch

as a serious

scientific investigation

if you don't take in mind

all of the lore and mythology

that comes with it.

We've heard so many stories

about what's

underneath this mesa.

We've heard myths of caves

that have portals in them,

even a military base.

Any information we could get

that tells us

there's some type of void

or even a structure,

that would be

amazing information.

I believe as we move forward,

the mesa holds secrets

that have yet to be revealed.

We have to always be aware

that anytime we begin digging

or disturbing the earth,

we stand to experience harm

and there's a risk involved.

However, I can tell you

we are onto something.

This is the time

to put our foot on the gas

and to charge forward,

so we can hopefully

catch a glimpse

of what is really at work

at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're hoping that we can go

drill through the mesa

and see if we hit any voids.

That looks like

a big chunk of something.

What is that?

It definitely looks metallic.

Let's run a snake camera

down in the mesa.

There it is.

What is that?

This thing is broadcasting.

This thing shouldn't be

broadcasting anything.

Hey. Are you okay?

- No.

Tom just blacked out.