02x09 - Look, Up In The Sky

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Get a clean spot
and hook the wire to it.

We're gonna see if the ground
underneath skinwalker ranch

Is conductive.

- All right, erik. Hook it up.
- All right.

- There... Look at that.
- Thomas: Oh, wow!

Travis: The ground itself

Might be acting like a battery.

We're gonna be
putting so much power

Through the ground,

And hopefully we can stimulate

Something on the ranch.

Cameron: Energize.

Wait, wait, wait. What is that,
right there?

- Thomas: Just diving down.
- Diving and then it stops.

Travis: What in the world?

That is crazy.

Narrator: There is a
ranch in northern utah.

It is considered the epicenter

Of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on earth:

Animal mutilations,

Bizarre ufo sightings

And unusual energies that
have proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years,
the federal government

Tried to find
answers and failed.

Now a new team of
dedicated scientists,

Researchers and
experts has taken over.

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

...The secret of
skinwalker ranch.

Travis: After conducting
a bunch of experiments

To "poke the nest"
here at skinwalker ranch,

We're finally
zeroing in on a spot

That we think could reveal
some answers: The triangle.

Erik: Oh, well, here they are.

- Yeah. - Travis: There he is.

Travis: The soil there is
not only strangely conductive

And stores massive
amounts of energy,

But after we discovered high
levels of microwave radiation

About a mile above it last year,
we launched

Some small rockets and
suddenly saw a number

Of unidentified aerial phenomena,
or uaps.

Kaleb: Hey, guys.

- Thomas: Hey, kaleb.
- So, we've got loc precision

Here today bringing
us some rockets.

These are the rocket men.

Travis: So, now,
we're going all-in

To fire even bigger
rockets up there

Equipped with measuring devices

That will hopefully provoke a
response that we can identify,

And get some irrefutable data.

These guys make big rockets.

- You design them? - Yeah.

'cause you said you
wanted big rockets?

Here we are.

You know,
after we launched the rockets last year,

Uh,
and we had the phenomena occur that we did,

We wanted to kind
of step it up a little bit

And have some bigger
payload requirements,

So we put bigger
instruments in there.

Maybe even get up
to that 5,000-foot mark

That we talked about
that-that we think

There's something there,
whatever.

The rockets we launched
last year were nothing.

I'm talking about big rockets.

Let's get this
launch ready to go.

The small rockets we
launched last summer

Above the triangle area

Didn't get as high as we
wanted for data collection.

Oh, yeah!

- Looks good.
- Thomas: Look, look, look!

- What is that? - What is that?

Travis: We got something,
hold on.

But it was really eerie

How we saw uaps
right afterwards.

Thomas: It's gone.

- Did you, did you see that?
- Travis: It's gone.

Yes,
I saw it! It's gone. Did y'all see that?

Bryant: I saw it, finally.

- Travis: You finally saw it.
- Erik: Yes, I saw it.

Bryant: What the hell was that?

Show us what you got. I mean,
I can't wait

- To see the rockets.
- Let's see.

- Dave: Here we go.
- Thomas: I've been excited

To see this since
the day you told us

That we were going bigger.

- Whoa, here we are.
- Now there's a truckload of rockets right there.

That is a rocket.

Ever since we started preparing
for the investigation this year,

We-we talked about bigger,
better rockets.

Kaleb: That's like a


- Yeah, hand us stuff. We'll help you carry it.
- Dave: Okay.

Thomas: I've been
looking forward to that

Ever since, and, uh,

I mean,
who doesn't love rockets?

You guys have probably
heard something about

The unusual indications
that we have at altitude,

At about 5,000 feet
above the ranch.

- Right.
- We've got some indication that,

You know,
there might be something up there.

We're talking about

A location over which,

Through a triangulation
exercise last summer, we seem

To have found some sort of,
what's been called

An energetic source or a nexus,

And so many things
have been observed there,

So many things have
happened historically.

Uh, you know, we've-we've sent,
uh, gamma detectors up,

We've sent rf detectors up.

We want to do some
things like that this time,

- Cool.
- Only on a bigger scale.

Travis: We've tried rockets,
we've tried balloons,

We've tried drones.

A lot of times the drones fail.

The balloon got to that altitude
and just kind of disappeared.

Three, two, one, let it launch.

That is awesome!

If these rockets
that we'll equip

With measuring
devices and cameras

Can reach that point
above the triangle area,

Maybe we'll find out what
happened to the balloon.

Why don't you guys walk us
through what all you brought

So then erik and I can start thinking,
well, what we're gonna

Put in each one of these as far as,
uh,

The science is concerned.

The motors that we
brought are g's though m's.

So, the bigger the letter,
the stronger,

The more powerful the motor,
guys.

Um, allen brought this one.

- That's gonna be an l motor, right?
- Yeah.

Bryant: Wow,
that thing is awesome.

So,
what type of altitudes are you thinking

We're gonna get in a range from

From the small rockets
up to the big ones?



- Bryant: 12,000?
- Travis: Wow. That's gonna cover

A lot of range.

There has to be well
over a dozen rockets

That they've brought this year,
some of them are massive.

The fact that we have these
big rockets that can hold

All sorts of equipment and
larger payloads of instruments

And can reach that height
is gonna be really interesting

To see what the data yields.

I'm excited all the way
across the board for this day.

So,
we are really excited to have this happen,

But this ranch is the
most unpredictable place.

Sometimes when we have guests

Come on to the ranch,
they may get an odd feeling.

And if you start
feeling off yourself,

Don't be shy to express that.

Thomas: You know,
last year when we launched rockets,

We had a lot of unexplained
strangeness take place

During the launch
and after the launch.

And, uh, even after you go home,
over the next couple of days,

If you experience anything
that's out of the ordinary

Or-or strange,
we want to know about it,

Because sometimes maybe
the effects aren't immediate.

If your phone acts crazy
or your car starts itself

- Or the radio acts weird...
- And if any of the equipment

Malfunctions unexplainably.

Any-any of that kind of
stuff is data points for us.

- All right. - Okay.

- All right, we want these guys to stay.
- Yeah.

So, let's not,
let's not scare them off just yet.

- Jay: We're good.
- Well, let's build some rockets.

- That's what I want to do.
- Sounds good.

- Let's go. - Let's get shaking.

- Hello. Welcome.
- Ward: How's it going?

Tom: Hello. Welcome
to skinwalker ranch.

- Good to see you. -Hi, ward.
- Good to see you too!

Travis: While we were
building the rockets,

Tom lewis and kandus linde
met once again with the family

Of the late ufo and uap
researcher junior hicks.

With everything we've seen
and are now trying to verify,

We reached out to
them to see if anything

In junior's more than


Could help us with
this investigation.

- Tom: We're happy to have you back.
- Ward: Thanks for inviting us.

Tom: Junior hicks is
kind of a local legend.

Unfortunately,
he passed away a few months ago,

But he kept thousands of
different documents of people

Who had seen sightings of
ufos and different creatures.

Just recently,
his son ward found a lot more documents.

So we invited him to the ranch
to go through these documents,

Because this is gonna help us,
you know,

Put more pieces of
this puzzle together.

Yeah, we were so impressed

With the notion of
his recordkeeping.

I mean,
that... Knowing that he kept those records

And then your willingness
to-to share some of them

- Is really incredible.
- Ward: Yeah. Yeah.

Whenever there was a phenomena,

A ufo or unexplained,
um, flying objects,

He would want to
interview people.

So, what he would do,
he would drive out to their place,

He had a form
that he'd fill out.

He had the date, the time,

The-the place, the weather conditions,
how many witnesses,

What was actually observed,

And then they'd even draw
pictures of what they had seen

And he kept a file on every,
uh, incident,

- Of every observation. - Wow.

Ward: When I was growing up,
I remember a lot of ufo reports.

I remember my dad
going out to visit people

And he interviewed people.

I remember him,
uh, bringing home

The paperwork and talking
about it with our family,

And I thought it was interesting,
exciting

And it was pretty cool.

- There's over 200 of them in here.
- Wow.

Uh, for example, here's one.

This was, uh...

You can see they've
drawn the image there...

- Tom: Mm-hmm. - Kandus: Mm-hmm.

...Showing the
image of the object.

- Kandus: Wow.
- Down-down below there.

Here's one... You can see,
this one,

- Uh, that one right there.
- Kandus: Oh, wow.

See?

Some were double convex,
and some were half convex.

Kandus: Hmm.

Now, here's another one.
Here you can see this one.

Kandus: Wow.

Ward: And that one was in 1965.

Here is another
one that shows the...

Oh, wow.

Ward: The beam coming out.

Some of them
mention a-a red beam

That would come out and
would... They could actually see

The end of the beam,
it would slowly come out

Of the object, hit the ground

And light it up for a little
bit and withdraw the beam.

You could actually
see the end of the beam

- Wow. -That's incredible.
- ...Coming up.

They're really incredible
images to see... To look at.

- Mm-hmm.
- And what was fascinating to my dad was

When they would have a sighting

And then he would
get another report

And he could tell it was
the very same object.

- Oh, wow.
- Two people... didn't even know each other...

And they both reported that...
It happened the same day,

The same time and
the same description.

Tom: Some of these stories
completely correlated with each other.

Seeing these strange
lights in the sky.

That lends a lot of,
you know, validity

And credibility to what
these people had to say.

Ward: Well, here-here's one.

This one, uh, happened in 1970.

A man and a boy were riding horses,
uh...

He said it was... He
noticed this-this object

About a mile from us.

Said it was white halo of light.

Another person driving by,
saw the same thing.

So,
he's got a report of that one as well.

Kandus: Wow.

Tom: These images
are very similar

To something that we've seen.

Exactly, yeah. That looks
just like what we saw last year.

Tom: Some of these drawings
resonated with some of the things

That we've seen on the ranch.

There is one instance
where I saw something

That I can't explain
fly across the mesa

Right in front our house.

We're seeing this weird ball
of light flying across the sky.

Is that a ufo? Is that alien?

I don't know. It
wasn't a helicopter,

It wasn't a satellite,
it wasn't an airplane.

I can tell you what it wasn't,

But I can't tell you what it is.

- Excited.
- We're so, so thankful and so excited

To get this information, uh,
because it's going to help us

Paint a better picture of
what's happening here.

- Mm-hmm.
- Um, you know, going through all these records,

Putting them in a database.

We'll digitize and scan these

And then give them,
the originals back to you,

- Uh-huh. Yeah. - And then

- That would be great. That'd be great.
- Go from there.

Tom: Hopefully this project will
provide the investigative team

With something very valuable

That they can use and-and
continue to take forward.

Thank you again, so much,
for-for bringing this to us.

- We're gonna get started on it really quickly here.
- Okay.

Looking forward to
it. That'd be great.

Travis: On the-the little
black rocket over there,

- Do we have enough motors that we could fly it a couple times?
- Allen: Yep.

Thomas: This year travis is
promising bigger and better and higher.

It's gonna allow them to
take bigger payloads up,

And the ability to get up
higher is also going to help us

Try to break through
that 5,000-foot mark.

Bryant: The scope of the
rockets we're sh**ting off this year

Far exceeds
anything we had last.

So,
it will be fun to not only see the rockets,

But see if it stirs up any
strangeness like last year.

Well,
here's my thoughts on order of launch.

I want to launch that one first.

- Great. Perfect.
- Okay. And then we're gonna launch that one,

That tom and-and
dragon and I put together.

And then, uh,
the big rocket that's got the payload

That erik and I have
been working on,

That's got the-the
trifield meter,

The optical clock, uh...

- Gamma ray detector.
- ...Gamma ray detector,

And it's also going to have, uh,

The transmitting chirp
that we can pick up

- With the spectrum analyzer.
- Yeah.

Erik: One thing we
want to keep in mind

Is as interesting as it
is to track these rockets,

We should just keep our
eyes on the sky in general.

'cause we don't know
what else might happen.

Travis: Yeah. So, one thing

To keep in mind is
what happened last year,

While we were
launching those rockets,

We had all these experiences,

Saw all these ufos
appearing in the sky.

Yeah,
I wanted to say something about that.

And remember that
something could occur...

A phenomena could occur,
and our goal,

If that phenomena occurs,
is to get data.

We... I know we all are
gonna want to sit and stare at it

And look,
but if we got an instrument

On the launchpad,

We're gonna want
to get that launched

If there's a
phenomena occurring.

I'm gonna point every single
one of our camera assets

That I can spare
at the sky itself.

- Travis: All right.
- In worst case, everyone's got

- A camera in their pocket.
- Travis: Yep, that's right.

Travis: Grab your
cell phone out,

Start snapping pictures,
too. That's right. Or video...

Or even if you feel something.

- Yeah, that's absolutely right.
- That's true.

And so,
I-I think we all know where we're going.

I say we-we get started.

- Bryant: Let's do it.
- Dave: All right.

Erik: After discussing the
best way to go about this work,

We've decided to
divide into three teams.

We have our launch control
team down at the command center.

Dave: Let's get
the box set up here.

Erik: We have the launchpad
team up on top of the mesa,

And of course,
our recovery team out in the field

To retrieve the rockets
and their payloads.

This is the minirad-d
we got going on here.

It's ready to go.

Erik: I've also requested
that casey from qal-tek

Come out and help
us personally install

Our dosimeters,
or radiation detectors,

That data log and allow us to
go back and examine the record

After we've
retrieved the rocket.

Thomas: Where we're
positioned right here

Is almost exactly underneath
where we've triangulated

That there may be some
weird energy going on.

- Wow.
- Matter of fact, last year when we launched

The weather balloon,
it took a turn and came right up

And went right up above
where we're at right now.

So,
to have the rocket positioned right here

Is actually pretty significant.

- All right. - Perfect.

We'll see what
the winds are doing

- And we'll see what's up there.
- Yeah.

Travis [over radio]:
Launch control

To launchpad, copy?

Yeah, we got you.

- Are you ready to go?
- Bryant: Yeah, travis.

We are in a safe zone,
the launchpad is clear.

All right. You guys ready here?

Erik, we are clear on the air traffic,
right?

Yeah, nothing within ten miles.

Launchpad, we are going hot.

The launchpad is going hot.

Everybody stay in the
safe zone. We are armed.

Kaleb, be ready for chase.

And we are ready for countdown.

Yep,
the skies are clear. Good to go.

Travis: Five, four,

Three, two,

One. Ignition.

There it goes. There it goes.

Nice. See,
that one went up pretty good. Look at that.

We have good launch.

Looks like we're
about at apogee.

Allen: Parachute deployed,
it looks like.

- There we are.
- Chute-chute's out.

Travis: We have chute deployed,
chute deployed.

Range is cold,
the pads are clear.

Kaleb,
I think it's gonna come right to you.

Bryant: Having a recovery
team and a whole bunch of eyes

On this rocket is
really important.

Oh, there it is.

Not only to recover
the rocket itself,

But we have thousands of
dollars of equipment monitoring

All sorts of things that we
are anxious to get the data for.

So,
it's vital that we recover all of these

Rockets once they come down.

Everybody,
keep your eyes peeled to the skies.

- I see nothing.
- Nothing's happening.

Yeah, there's nothing happening.

Travis: I don't see the
phenomena right now.

- Travis. - Travis: Yeah.

Did it work? Is your phone going crazy?
- Kaleb: Yeah.

My phone's freaking out.
I just want you to see it.

- Travis: Oh, look at this.
- It's dialing numbers.

It just logged in. Look at that.

Travis: It broke your code

In three tries.

Yeah, and I just shut it off
and it just turned back on.

- Yeah. - That's creepy.

Kaleb: We launched
the first rocket,

And I was working
with tom and kandus

On retrieving them,
and my phone actually started

Going into the different apps,
it actually started

Changing languages while it was dialing,
uh, phone numbers.

Travis: That's insane. I mean,
we don't know how to break an iphone

And I just,
and I just watched it break your iphone

- In three tries. - Twice.

Before I shut it off
and after I turned it off.

- That's crazy. That's crazy.
- Kandus: Crazy.

Travis: All right. Well,
let's get on

With the next rocket
launch and you know what,

If your phone don't work,

Maybe the,
maybe the ranch will fix it.

Kaleb's phone was
freaking me out,

And I-I really can't explain it.

I don't know if
it's a-a warning,

But nothing weird is happening

Other than that,
so I say we keep launching rockets

And see what happens.

All members be advised,
we are launching rockets.

Keep your eyes peeled on the skies,
your heads on a swivel.

You never know when a
phenomena might occur.

All right. Copy that.

Jay: Launch control, come in.

Launchpad,
this is launch control, go ahead.

We are now flying
off of pad four.

Electronics are hot,
verifying now,

And we'll step back
when we're ready to rock.

Copy that.

We put gamma ray detection
sensors inside the next rocket.

Gamma rays are a
higher intensity x-rays,

And we have detected
them in the east field

Where the cow died last year.

So if we do see gamma rays,
we'll record it.

Then we also installed
a camera on top of that

In case the rocket encountered
anything out of the ordinary.

Be advised that's a


armed, ready.

Going back. We'll reach
back out when we're there.

Erik: With large
rockets of this kind,

There are always
safety concerns.

There's always the possibility,
however remote,

Of an expl*si*n or fire.

So we've been advised
to stay at safe distances

From each of the rockets
according to their sizes

And we've got fire
extinguishers on hand just in case

There are any brush fires
out here in the dry brush.

We are now armed and
ready for our countdown.

Travis, start your countdown.

- We are in the safe zone.
- This is launch control.

We are ready for launch in five,

Four, three, two,

One, ignition.

Oh, man! Look at that.

Jay's team,
keep your eyes on it.

There it goes!

Main chute deployed.

Good chute, good chute!

It's gonna hit the tree,
right in the tree.

We have eyes on the rocket,
it's down.

The second rocket was awesome.

It was powerful enough to reach

That mile-high zone
above the triangle area.

It also got data on
gamma rays and video.

Let's take this inside and
see what it has to tell us.

Travis: So before we
launch another rocket,

We wanted to
take the opportunity

To analyze what it recorded.

- All right. - There you go.

- Okay. - There's our device.

- Still on. - Still alive.

- Still alive. It made it.
- All right.

All right.

Oh, hot.

The moment of truth.

How many data points
are we looking at?

Um...

- I got a lot. - Oh, yeah.

Well, we've got over a
hu... We've got over 120...



Um,
so I don't see anything above background.

- So... - Erik: Okay.

Erik: Unfortunately,
the analyses that were performed

Shows us the gamma
ray instruments

Did not log any particularly
high radiation levels,

Whereas we had some
indications last year.

But we cannot allow ourselves
to become discouraged

When things don't go as planned.

In fact, this is data.

This is telling us something.

So,
we have to keep going and see what happens.

Our next one is the payload.

Erik,
it's gonna have a transmitter,

It's got the, uh, dosimeter.

- It's got the camera. - Okay.

So,
uh... You've got to go with that payload

- Yeah, I've got to set that up.
- Up to the launchpad

- To turn it on, right? - Right.

And I'll have a spectrum
analyzer with me up there.

- Okay. - A portable.

Travis: After two good launches,

Erik is going up to the mesa
with some more equipment

To prepare for the next rocket.

Thomas: Oh, here comes erik

- With our next payload.
- Oh, cool.

Travis: Along with the camera,
we put a dosimeter

In the payload
of this next rocket

To see if we could measure
any harmful ionizing radiation

Above the triangle.

It was that kind of radiation

I got exposed to last
year at homestead two

That left burn marks
on my hand and my face.

So,
we wanted to see if the mile-high zone

Above the triangle area
might actually be the source.

Launchpad to launch control.

Travis: Launchpad,
this is launch control. Go ahead.

Okay, we got the first, uh,

Class-one with the payload
camera ready. Igniter in.

Are you okay to go
with the next launch?

- Oh, yeah.
- Yep. The rocket is on the pad

And it's ready to roll.

Travis: Guys,
the air traffic is clear.

We're going hot with
the launch control box.

We are armed.

- We're ready.
- We are ready for launch

In three, two, one.

Ignition.

Thomas: We've got deployment.

Travis: Good chute.

Oh,
I see here. See it right here?

Travis: All right,
team. Keep your eye on it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait,
what's this right here? What's this?

Travis: We got something,
we got something!

We got something right here!

Guys,
we just had a uap appear, uh,

In the same spot as last year.

Uap in the same
spot as last year.

Travis: Launchpad, do you copy?

Thomas: Yes, we copy.

We're looking for it
and you said there was

No aircraft in the area,
correct?

There is no
aircraft in the area.

We're clear for 20 miles

Of air traffic and
then the uap appeared

Just like last year
and vanished.

It would have been off...

So,
it would have been right out in here.

Travis: I would suggest

If you have some
other class-ones ready

Get them ready to go,
rapid-fire.

Thomas: Copy.

Dave: Whoa.

- [exhales sharply] -
bryant: Are you all right?

- Dave: Do you guys feel that?
- Uh, no.

- Thomas: No.
- Dave: I don't understand

How nobody else can feel that.

I don't get it.

Look at his arm.

- It is not cold out here.
- Something's up.

So, we hear travis on the radio,

Uh, say, "hey,
I think we saw something up there,"

And, uh,
my eyes just kind of lit up.

I'm like, "yeah, well,
I'm feeling like my hair

Is getting almost pulled out."

Whoa, that was strong.

My hair on my arms would

Just stand up, and it was

Kind of weird,
it was a very fast wave,

But it was a very intense wave.

Bryant: Hey, travis.

We also, at the same time,
had dave from loc

Experiencing all sorts of
magnetic anomalies on his body.

All the hair on his
body standing on end.

He's got goose pimples.

We're monitoring
that here closely.

Travis: Uh, okay, well, if there are
any other symptoms, let us know.

Are you okay to go
with the next launch?

Thomas: Can we get
one more up right now?

Yeah, let's get her up there.

There's definitely
something going on.

But we had a job to do,
we had to get rockets in the air

And get the instruments up,
so focus up, get to work.

- Let's do it. - Jay: All right.

[exhales sharply]
that's so crazy.

I can't believe nobody
else can feel that.

I've got something going on,
too, now.

Okay, well,
good. Making me feel like I'm a nutjob.

We'll have it up in
just a few minutes.

Travis: Roger.

We've launched
several rockets now,

And down at the
launch control pad here

We see this
phenomenon in the sky.

And, so,
I call up to the launchpad,

"guys,
we got to load the next rocket quickly."

Because we need to get
as much data as we can

And maybe keep this
phenomena occurring.

- We're hooked up.
- All right. We'll move back.

Kaleb: The range is clear. Pad two,
pad two.

- Are you ready over there?
- Allen: Yeah.

- Pad two? - We're good.

Here we go,
guys. Ready for launch in five,

Four, three, two, one, ignition.

We've got launch,
we've got launch!

Somebody follow the
rocket and make sure

We don't lose it.

Everybody,
keep your eyes peeled to the skies.

- Bryant: Chute's out.
- Thomas: Got deployment. Chute's out.

Travis, take the pad cold,

We're gonna put another
rocket up right now.

I don't see the
phenomena right now.

Maybe we should push
forward with the big rocket.

Bryant: All right. Copy you.

As the team got this mondo,
granddaddy rocket

Ready for launch,

I headed to my trailer to
monitor my spectrum analyzer.

Now, we had plenty of
witnesses in case a uap appeared,

But if a major energy
spike happened,

I wanted to be able to
measure it in real time.

Okay, so what are we doing here?

Erik: So, we've got several
things happening with this payload.

We've got an optical clock,
so this is an led

- That's strobing. - Okay.

- We've got our geiger counter.
- Okay.

- We've also got magnetic field sensor.
- Okay.

Erik: And then, finally,
we're going to be broadcasting

A sweep signal using
a signal generator,

So,
a lot of stuff going on here.

Yeah,
that's a lot business. Good.

All right.

Hey, erik,
I think we're seeing you now.

- Are you on?
- Erik: Yes, travis.

The signal generator is on.
You should see the sweep.

Yeah, we're seeing it.

We're ready whenever you
guys are. Load the rocket.

- Copy that. - Dave: All right.

- Very cool.
- Well, let's get it going.

Yeah, let's do it.

One of the more
interesting experiments to me

Is the use of a
signal generator.

This is a basically a radio
that sends out a signal

Whose frequency sweeps from

One value to another,
repeatedly.

Bang that together,
we're good to go, I think.

Erik: Travis is
monitoring that signal

Down on the
ground in his trailer

Using the antenna
array that we set up.

Dave: Thanks for the help, boys.

Erik: And as the rocket goes up

And reaches apogee
and comes back down,

He's looking for changes
in that sweep signal.

Any change in the signal,
whether it's the disappearance

Of the signal or a
shift in the frequencies,

Would be indicative
of something strange

Going on above this ranch
at about that 5,000-foot level.

Travis: Launchpad, launchpad.

This is travis. Anybody
got an eta on launch?

Dave: Launch control,
we are arming the electronics right now.

All right, guys. Checking,
uh, radar.

We are clear.

Skies are clear,
we're ready for launch

If I can get a go
from everybody.

Dave: Launch control,
we are at a safe distance

And we are ready to go
and everything looks clear.

Allen: Copy that.

We're about to
begin the countdown.

Five, four,

Three, two, one, ignition.

We've got liftoff.

Jay [laughs]: Oh, my gosh.

- Up there.
- Thomas: That was perfect.

That is unreal.

Travis: Oh, my god,
during launch,

The electromagnetic
spectrum is going crazy, guys.

I've never seen
anything like it.

Bryant: Awesome.

Well,
it looked amazing from up here.

- There we go, we got a chute.
- Thomas: Look at that.

Bryant: We got a good chute.

Travis: You wouldn't believe
what I'm seeing on the spectrum.

I can't wait till
you see this data.

It's absolutely unbelievable.

Bryant: Yeah,
we can't wait to see it, either.

The spectrum analyzer just died.

Erik's spectrum
analyzer just died.

Travis: There is no
way to explain that.

Before I ever came here,
I would've just thought,

"so what? A machine broke."

But here we're correlating
events and repeatable results.

There you go.

Oh, look at that!

The same thing happened
at the triangle last week,

When we used a tesla coil

To send electricity
into the ground.

What happens is this entire
interface just shuts down.

Travis: That's crazy.

It was like the ranch

Was stopping us
from recording data.

So we were all really anxious
to see just what would happen

When we launched another rocket.

All right, guys,
I'm gonna head back to launch control

And watch the launch from there.

We'll keep you posted on
our progress with this rocket.

It should only be just
a couple more minutes.

Uh, that would be great.

Ground control,
this is launchpad.

The range is clear

And we are go
for launch on pad...

- Four. - Four.

Allen: Copy that.

Arming pad now.

Travis: So, air traffic's clear.

We are ready for launch

In five, four,

Three, two,

One, ignition.

There it goes, there it goes.

I lost it. It-it got up there.

I don't see it.

- What the heck?
- All eyes on the sky

Looking for the rocket.

Anybody have
sight on the rocket?

We've lost the rocket.

- I lost eyes on it.
- Where'd it go?

I don't know where it is,
either.

I saw it go into the cloud,
I never saw it come out.

Yeah, me either.

What the hell?

You guys see the rocket?

We have yet to find it.

I'm not seeing anything.

[bang in distance]

Thought I just
heard the chute go.

You'd think we'd see it.

I heard it.

Thomas: Oh, there it is,
right above us.

That right there.

Bryant: Travis,
we've got eyes on it.

It's looking like it might
come right down on top of us.

Oh, yeah. Yeah,
we've got it. I see it.

Bryant: Hey,
launchpad to recovery team.

We will go ahead
and pick this one up.

It's up here on top
of the mesa with us.

- Kaleb: Copy. - [exhales]

Here we go. All of a sudden.

We're... Yep, nope. Whoa, whoa.

That's a big one.

- Heavy. - Erik: I can see that.

My legs, too.

Bryant: So,
there's absolutely something

Going on right now.

I'd have to say that this year,

This is probably one of
the most intense moments

We've had so far.

We have meters going off

And have an individual here
that's having a crazy reaction

With whatever magnetic
anomaly is going on right now.

Hey, travis. This is bryant.

Yeah, we copy. What's up,
dragon?

Dave is feeling somewhat of
the strangeness in his body.

He started having
all the hair on his body

And his arms and
everything standing on end...

- [exhales] - something's up.

Dave still is
getting little waves

Of this magnetic
sensation in his body.

We might have to bring him down.

- Uh, you know, I'm getting to wonder...
- That's gonna be... That...

Allen,
is that something that y-you'd swap

- With him or something?
- Allen: Yeah.

- We'll do whatever we need.
- We need the...

I'm-I'm thinking we
need to pull him down

If he's having
that much reaction.

Travis: Hey, dragon,
we were talking about it down here.

We think maybe we need to swap,
uh, allen and dave out.

Pull dave the mesa,
bring him down here

And let allen come up there.

I don't think that's a bad idea.

I can bring dave
down and grab allen.

We've got to bring some
other stuff up anyway.

Uh,
start thinking about our night launches.

So, when you come down,
that'd be a good time

To swap stuff out.

All right, copy you.

We'll wrap up what we're doing
here and we'll get him down.

Travis: We definitely
needed to get dave down

And away from the launch
site and make sure he was okay.

But we were also really eager

To regroup and keep
launching rockets.

'cause I wanted to see if
we could keep stimulating

Whatever we saw in
the sky to appear again,

So we could figure out
just what the heck it was.

- Thomas: All right. Bringing my end down.
- Bryant: Here we go.

Travis: We're about to launch.
We want all eyes on this one.

'cause it's got an
expensive payload in it.

- Bryant: Is it in?
- Yep, go dragon. You're in.

- In like flynn, baby.
- I've got the weight.

Travis: We've got this last,
big rocket ready to go.

We've got a lot of lights on it,
we've got it,

Uh,
lights and beacons on the inside of it,

And it's gonna get up to probably seven,


And it's got a
lot of instruments

On the inside of it, too.

So, number one,
I hope we find the rocket,

And number two,
I hope it collects some really good data.

Number three,
maybe it'll stimulate something exciting.

Launch control,
this is launchpad. Copy?

Copy.

We have the payload in place,

We are in the safe zone.

Erik, uh,
you're ready to commence the countdown

Whenever, and when you do,
don't forget the time stamp.

Will do. I'm gonna have
kaleb give you that countdown

And I'll give you
the time stamp.

All right, guys,
this is the last launch of the night.

Let's make it a good one.

Kaleb: Launchpad,
we have continuity.

Launching in three,
two, one, launch.

- Jay: There it goes.
- Travis: There it goes.

- Man, look at that!
- [laughter]

- Travis: Wow!
- Jay: Still blinking up there.

Thomas: You can
still see the light!

- Jay: Oh.
- Travis: There it is, main chute.

Travis: Yeah,
we can go to her now.

- What is that? Lightning.
- Yeah, lightning.

We saw what looked like

A little short burst
of lightning in the sky.

- You got it? -Oh, it's...
- All right, do your thing.

Erik: As always,
we pay special attention

To coincidental or
concurrent things.

Anything that generates
an unexplained

Electrostatic discharge is
potentially interesting to us.

- Thomas: There it is, guys.
- Bryant: There... Oh, man.

- Jay: Sweet.
- Travis: Glad we put all that glowing stuff on it.

Travis: I guess let's just,
uh, let's head back down.

I really want to go
investigate this particular event

From the perspective of
our surveillance cameras,

And see if it had something
to do with this launch.

[whoops]

- What a night, and day.
- Travis: Yeah.

Good job,
everybody. That was awesome.

- Yeah, that was fun.
- Erik: Yeah.

Erik: We got a lot of
data to look through.

You know, we need to process
it and look through it tomorrow,

Figure out what just happened.

So,
we've got a few things to do to wrap up.

We need to go make sure
we got all the data downloaded,

At least, uh,
and in, and stored.

- I'd say it's a great day.
- I would agree.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

- Thank you.
- Thanks again, guys.

Travis: After launching
all the rockets yesterday,

We were eager to
meet with brandon.

Oh,
I think I hear brandon coming in.

Hey, guys, how is it going?

- What's up, brandon?
- Good to see you.

- Good to see you.
- Travis: Of course, we needed

To show him everything
we saw and recorded...

How's everything going, buddy?

...But we really wanted to see

How far he would let us go next

In order to keep
investigating the triangle.

Well,
I'm looking forward to this report,

And, uh, ready to dive in.

Well, you know, we were,
we were just reviewing some of the data.

This year was a completely
different undertaking.

- Yeah.
- A lot more rockets and a lot bigger.

Yeah,
we actually got up to about 13,000 feet

On one of them.

- Wow.
- Yeah, it was pretty significant,

And we had similar
events happen this year.

- Oh, yeah.
- Bryant: Yep. When you undertake

A rocket launch like this,
you know,

You bring professionals in.

These guys, that's what they
do for a living and, one of them,

It was crazy... He started feeling,
you know,

All the hair on his
body stand on end.

Thomas: And goosebumps

All the way up his arm.

And it got to a point where
we had to bring him down

Off the mesa and bring
him down here to kind of...

So he would feel better.

- Yeah.
- At the same time, all these guys

Were up on the mesa

And we had just
launched a rocket.

We did have,
for about three seconds,

That same glowing, silver sphere

Appear at that same spot.

And it looked just like the
one that was there last year.

Wow. So,
we continue to see repeated evidence

And repeated events
with correlations.

Yes. I do have one of the clips

As viewed from down
here at the command center.

- So, I'll bring that up.
- Brandon: Awesome.

Erik: We're looking, uh,
towards the right extreme,

Just as the rocket
launch had initiated.

I'm going to zoom in on it.

Brandon: Wow.
That's extraordinary.

Travis: It is extraordinary,
and it's interesting

That we see,
when we're doing these things,

Something about that spot.

Well,
for something to appear at all,

It doesn't matter whether
it's a few seconds or minutes.

Something is
there. It's present.

Our speculation is that there
may have been a response

- To what we were doing there.
- Mm-hmm.

Well, we actually got other
scientific data, though, from...

Oh,
yeah. Let me scrub forward a bit.

So, this is gonna be one
of our larger payloads.

So,
I'm just gonna let it play though.

Okay, launch.

- Oh, wait, whoa, whoa.
- Thomas: What was that?

Travis: Whoa, back it up, erik.

You see it coming
down the screen?

Erik: Near the center,
just left of center.

Whoa.

- That's really interesting.
- Brandon: Yeah.

What the hell would
be dropping down

Onto the ranch simultaneous
with our rocket launch?

I don't know...

...But that is
really interesting.

Why is it every time you're
trying to monitor this area

Or conduct an experiment,

Something happens of
an anomalous nature?

- Well, it suggests there's something there, right?
- Yeah.

I don't know.

Brandon: In light of
all of these combined

Incidents being recorded,
what would you propose?

Well,
we've kicked this topic around

Amongst ourselves
about using the helicopter

As a long dwell
time test platform.

Right.

Erik: I think we all
agree the best way

To get reliable data is to have

More time in that location
with our instruments,

To take measurements right
there at that 5,000-foot level

And once and for all
determine whether or not

There's something happening
with the magnetic field,

With electromagnetism,
with gamma rays.

I want to do that with a
helicopter above the ranch.

Thomas: You know,
cameron is one of the greatest pilots

That I have ever been around,
and if there is a safe pilot

That can go up there and-and
hit this target, it's cameron.

Brandon: Yeah, well,

I think we dive into it.

And I-I give you full authority

To immediately implement
what needs to be done

In order to better understand
what is at work, and really,

The agenda and
origin associated with it.

Well, we really appreciate
having that kind of support.

- Travis: Thanks, brandon.
- Yeah.

- Thank you.
- Travis: We'll let you know

- What we find. - Great.

Bryant: We don't know
if we can communicate

With whatever's here.

We don't know if we're going

To stimulate something.

We hope that it has
a positive reaction,

But you never know
on skinwalker ranch.

One thing I do know is there
are things happening here

That we can't explain,
and whatever the source of it is,

We're definitely
gonna figure it out.

Travis: Now that we know
exactly where this spot is in the sky,

We need to fly through
there with sensors.

And this is where brandon's
helicopter comes in.

I'm really excited to be a
part of this next experiment

And I can't wait to see
what the results are.

Brandon: I'm anxious
to get some answers.

I know the team is anxious
to get some answers,

And it is my responsibility
to support them

To getting to the
bottom of the truth.

- [cows bellowing] -travis:
Something's got the cows going nuts.

- Kandus: Holy sh...
- Thomas: What the hell?

- Brandon: This is crazy.
- Kandus: Yeah.

Travis: Due west is
due north right now.

So,
your compass reading is way off.

Travis: There is a phenomena
taking place right now.

We need to get instruments
above the ranch so we can

Get more data on this phenomena.

There's something underneath
us according to the radar.

Cameron: Something
is tracking us.

Bryant: We have
no visual on anything

Beneath the aircraft.

Dude, I'm getting chills.
Something is following us.

What the hell's under us?