05x12 - Drone-Ageddon

[bunniefuu]

ALEX: And I lost signal. There's
something throwing interference

inside the mesa.

I got to try
an entirely different beacon.

PETE: This is the
terrestrial laser scans we did.

- TRAVIS: It does go into a cone.
- KALEB: Whoa. Look at that.

TRAVIS: We're all inside it.

How many drones did
you bring us this time?

- A thousand.
- A thousand!

[drones whirring]

They hit each other.

- Did you hear 'em hit?
- Yep.

TRAVIS: What
could be causing that?

ERIK: There's a lot
going on here, guys.

I'm gonna play this through.

- TRAVIS: Wow.
- This is really interesting.

- Yep. I saw it. Yep.
- THOMAS: Oh, yes! Look, it's right there!

TRAVIS: Yeah. There
you go. I'm seeing

maybe a formation flying event.

That is just unbelievable.

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.

♪ ♪

ERIK: There's a
lot riding on this.

THOMAS: So, this new beacon,

supposedly able
to go deeper, then?

ALEX: Deeper and
a stronger signal.

ERIK: That's encouraging.

Wow.

- Definitely a lot different.
- Yeah.

And so is this the component

- that goes into the actual drilling...
- This is

- what's gonna go into the drill head. Yes.
- Okay.

ALEX: So, a transmitter.

THOMAS: Cool. Well, I say

we get it installed
and get it back up

- in that hole.
- Yeah.

- We'll do that right now.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: This morning, the team
from Mark Construction Drilling

needed to make
another repair to the drill

that we hope will
finally help us figure out

just what is buried in the
mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.

For nearly two months,
we've been struggling to drill

the first of two boreholes
up through the mesa

on either side of a massive,
dome-shaped object

that is surrounded by
several smaller anomalies

that may all be
composed of metal.

And once these
holes are completed,

we'll insert scanning devices
to better study and determine

what these anomalies are.

ALEX: Full battery.

Uh, calibrated.
Everything should be

- good to go on it.
- THOMAS: Awesome.

Hey, guys, you got
a copy down there?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

THOMAS: Just
letting you guys know

they're just about
ready to continue drilling.

- Copy you, Thomas.
- TRAVIS: Let's hope this new beacon works.

During our drilling
operation in the mesa,

the drilling team has been
plagued with strange setbacks,

including drill rods breaking

after making contact
with the anomalies.

And their drilling beacon has
quit working over and over,

right when the drill
bit reaches a spot

nearly 200 feet inside the mesa.

That's perfect.

Go ahead and just keep
corkscrewing it on up, bud.



TRAVIS: The drilling beacon
is a device inside the drill head

that sends a signal to a
receiver on the surface.

This allows the team to track

the direction
they're drilling in,

which is critical to our plan

to further study
these anomalies.

So, hopefully, this
new beacon will work

and we can get our
first borehole completed.

Are you still showing
good connectivity?

I'm showing good
signal on it, yeah.

It's moving forward.

Yeah, I'm seeing that, dude.

ALEX: We definitely have
been doing this a long time.

So, when we came
down to Skinwalker Ranch

with full intentions of quickly
punching through the mesa,

we sure didn't anticipate

snapping off rods and problems

with the receivers
and transmitters.

I feel there's definitely
something going on here.

I don't know exactly what it is,

but there's some activity
here that can't be explained.

[grunts] This locator's
a lot harder to carry.

THOMAS: I'll update you
guys as soon as we get on top

and we see whether or
not he can still get a signal.

Copy you, Thomas. Thank you.
We're all encouraged down here.

We'll, uh, we'll stand
by for your word.

In recent drilling attempts,

we have lost contact
with the beacon

at close to 200 feet
inside of the mesa.

From what we've
seen in the past,

I'm tempted to
speculate that perhaps

that dome-shaped,
impenetrable object

inside of the mesa itself

is acting like some kind

of electromagnetically
active structure.

It could be interfering
with our ability

to receive the beacon's
signal and continue forward.

THOMAS: Hey, guys.
You got a copy down there?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

We have reached
the last known spot

that they had a signal
with the other one.

They're making better progress.

They're happy with their angle.

So far, so good.

TRAVIS: As the drilling operation
inched closer and closer to that point

about 200 feet inside the mesa

where the other beacon
just stopped working,

we were all anxious as
hell to see if this new one

would finally get us past it.

We've been able to punch
past that 240-foot mark.

It's struggling pretty hard

to, uh, drill through it.

It's real slow going right now,

but we are making
progress and inching forward.

Copy you. That's good to know.

TRAVIS: What a relief to finally

drill past that spot
inside the mesa.

Did we simply have
mechanical failures

with the other beacons?

Who knows?

But with the power
of this drill rig,

if this new beacon stays
connected to the rig,

we're hopeful to get through
the next 300 or so feet

and complete this first
borehole very quickly.

- THOMAS: It'd be cool to finally punch through after all this.
- ALEX: I know.

THOMAS: You guys
have earned a victory.

ALEX: We want it, for sure.

[loud rattling]

Hold on one sec.
My screen froze up.

Nothing's working right now.

[beeping]

- Is he being serious?
- Yep. [chuckles softly]

[whirring]

[loud rattling]

You going through something
real hard right now or what?

JARED: Feels like we, uh,
broke a rod or something.

Hey, buddy, the head's not
moving. Are you pulling back?

Yeah, I'm about five
feet back already.

We broke somewhere.

We got to figure out
where we broke now.

- Broke a ro... another rod?
- Bro-Broke a rod, yeah.

So, we have, like, 480
feet of steel in the ground

with the head.


pulling this rod back

and we'll see where we sit.



THOMAS: You probably don't
have any idea where it broke.

ALEX: That's... Yeah, just
gonna have him pull back.

Hey, guys, you copy?

Yeah, Thomas, what's up?

Can you guys meet
us up by the spoils pit?

Yeah.

We'll be right over.

Yeah, we got problems.

TRAVIS: This rig is designed

to drill through
solid rock with ease.

So, did it hit one of
the anomalies in there?

And if so,

how much of a setback
is this going to be?

Is that supposed
to look like that?

ALEX: No, it is not, no.

TRAVIS: That used to go all
the way to the other piece, right?

ALEX: Yeah.

We were hitting
something pretty hard

somewhere right up in here.

So, the entire
string with those rods

and with the drill
head and everything

is in the mountain right now.

KALEB: How far in
from right here are we?

ALEX: Uh, we're about four...


Right around there.

- So you'd have to dig a hole or what to get to it?
- ALEX: Uh,

we have a fishing tool.

- Um...
- A fishing tool. How's that work?

ALEX: It's shaped like a cone,

and it's got threads
on the inside of it.

- Ah.
- So I put it on the end of that

and I can run up in
there and hopefully

catch a bite on the rod.

Assuming you can fish that
bit out with th-this fishing tool,

what do you think is the time
delay that that's creating now?

A day?

- Two days?
- It's hard to say.

Just like everything
else that's happened,

I guess we, uh, we-we wait.

But we're gonna get the steel
out. That's what we're gonna do.

- Get it out.
- JARED: We're gonna pull that out, get that broken rod off

and then continue to drill a
hole through this mountain.

THOMAS: The more
experiments we do,

the more we realize that
whatever's in this mesa

is of extreme significance.

So, we have

more resolve than
ever to figure out

what it is that lies
inside that mesa.

Hopefully we won't be down long.

Because, at this point,

we could be on
top of discovering

a long-held secret here
at Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK: Well,

we got some other
things we need to work on.

TRAVIS: Yeah. We've got a
major drone experiment tonight

that we've got to
go get ready for.

All right. Good luck.

- Thank you, guys.
- Yeah, thank you, guys.

KALEB: Hey, guys. I've
got Sky Elements down here

by the front gate. I'm
gonna be bringing 'em down

- to the triangle.
- TRAVIS: Copy that.

Dragon and I will
meet y'all over there.

While we were waiting
for the drilling operation

to get going again
at the mesa...

Tyler Johnson, Preston
Ward and their team

from a drone-based light show
company named Sky Elements

came back out to the ranch.

- Here's Travis and Bryant.
- TRAVIS: Their equipment was perfect

to help us with another
major experiment we designed

to collect more data

where we've experienced a
number of stunning phenomena

between the triangle
and the east field canyon,

including a UAP

entering the mesa
in the east field

and exiting moments
later near the triangle.

- Oh! Right there!
- Oh, my gosh!

TRAVIS: A month ago,
using an infrared lidar scanner,

technologist Pete Kelsey

detected a massive
cone-shaped anomaly

that covered an area
stretching from the east field

all the way to Homestead Two

on the western
side of the property

that was centered
nearly 2,000 feet high

directly above the triangle.

Three, two, one.

And just last week,
we had Sky Elements

attempt to launch a
swarm of 1,000 drones

in a preprogrammed
pattern of straight lines

right above the triangle.

- You see that?
- BRYANT: What the hell is up there?

TRAVIS: But just after a
UAP appeared in the sky,

only 200 of the drones could
launch, and then struggled

- to keep their formations.
- TYLER: We got a few

on the west side that
seem to be misbehaving.

So when the sun
goes down tonight,

we want to split the
drones into two groups

and, along with our
own instruments,

see if we can get
more data on some

or all of these
phenomena and figure out

if they are somehow
related to one another.

So, I think the
game plan is that, uh,

unlike the way we've
done in the past,

where we've picked
one site and we have, uh,

all the drone, uh, experiment

in one location, either
here or in the east field,

tonight, we'd like to split it,
and do both simultaneously.

- Yeah.
- Got it. Easy.

TRAVIS: Okay, so, tell
us what you brought for us.

TYLER: We've got 600 drones

that we're gonna fly directly
overtop of the triangle.

Preston's gonna be
the pilot over here.

We've got 400 drones
that we're gonna take over

to the east field and we're
gonna take KC over there

and he's gonna pilot
over there and I'll be roving

back and forth to
support both teams.

TRAVIS: Tonight,

the Sky Elements team
will launch two drone swarms

equipped with
specialized GPS tracking

above the triangle
and the east field

in preprogrammed
cylindrical formations.

Then, we plan to launch rockets

directly up through the
center of each swarm

to see if the rockets or
the drones themselves

make contact with
anything strange in the air.

To look even closer
for any anomalies,

Kaleb McEwen will
be flying an FPV drone

all around the swarms,

which is equipped with
an onboard camera.

While all that's going on,

Jim Royston will fly
his infrared lidar drone

between the triangle
and the east field

along the same path
that we witnessed

the UAP fly in and
out of the mesa

back in 2022.

And during the
entire experiment,

we'll be using infrared
and thermal cameras

which can visualize anomalies
with temperature variations

that we might not be able
to see with the naked eye.

Finally, we'll be monitoring
an array of spectrum analyzers

to look out for
strange energy spikes

and signals in
the field while Erik

does the same thing
from the command center.

Tonight, we're using
more tools than ever

to figure out this
place's secret.

So, hopefully, the
effort will pay off

with some
incredible revelations.

Well, I'm really excited.

The thought of putting that
spiral, uh, drone configuration

up in the air at the same time
at two locations that seem to,

for whatever reason,
be connected...

who knows what we're gonna
see when that takes place.

TRAVIS: Yeah.
Okay, all right, let's go.

- Great.
- All right.

I have all the drones connected,

I have their flight
paths on them.

I also was able to set the time,

so now we have a
manual start time.

Perfect.

TRAVIS: Well, I've got
the standard kit going.

I've got my gamma
ray detector running,

I've got the spectrum
analyzers going

and we've got the FLIR.

I got it set up on
top of the Jeep.

We're-we're looking
almost due north,

a little bit east.

So we're looking at the
place on the mesa here

where we saw that UAP come in

-and go into the
mesa -Oh, yeah. Yep.

And, you know, fly out
down by the triangle.

So, I was hoping if something
flies into the-into the mesa

while we're doing
this, we'll catch it

- on the FLIR.
- Perfect.

Whoa, what is that?

BRYANT: Whoa.

TRAVIS: Holy cow.

Oh. We got... Look
right there, right there.

Just as we were getting
ready to start the experiment,

I saw a UAP that
looked very similar

to one that appeared in the sky

right before
everything went haywire

with our drone experiment
at the triangle last week.

BRYANT: I think it's gone now.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

Hey, we just saw

kind of the same
UAP fly across the sky

from, uh, west to east

right over the mesa here,

uh, as we saw the last time
we were with these guys.

I was wondering if you
had anything on the ADSB

or if you saw anything
on any of the cameras.

Okay, let me tell you what
we got on the ADSB. Um...

The closest aircraft
would be about


out at 35,000 feet.

And, uh...

I doubt that's a good match
for what you're describing.

ERIK: Our ADSB
transponder data receiver

receives the signals directly

from the aircraft
in our airspace.

This object, whatever it is,
is not broadcasting a signal.

In other words, it doesn't
appear to be an airliner.

It is, in fact, at least, for
the moment, unidentified.

Yeah, I-I don't think that's it,

and, uh, we don't see
any other aircraft, either.

All right, well, uh,
just letting you know.

Hey, we're getting close
to, uh, getting started.

I'll let you know when
we, uh, turn the trackers on

and, uh, when we're ready
to launch rockets and drones.

Copy you. Thank you, Travis.

PRESTON: We are all set
up and ready to go on this end.

KC: Copy.

I take that back. As
soon as I said that,

I lost 168.

TYLER: And we just lost 200
drones at the east field as well.

What the hell?

TRAVIS: It's like a repeat
of our last experiment

with the Sky
Elements drone team.

Just as we were about to
start our dual drone experiment

between the triangle
and the east field,

a UAP suddenly appeared
over the east field mesa,

and just vanished into thin air.

And literally,

right after that,
hundreds of drones

in both locations malfunctioned.

Did the UAPs that appeared
tonight and last week

interfere with the drones?

If so, what were they,
how did they do it,

and then, where
the heck did they go?

THOMAS: The fact that
we fought through this

last time you were
here, and then, tonight,

the closer that we're
getting to launch time,

the more unstable it's becoming

and the harder that it is
to-to keep these connected...

yeah, i-it's just...
it's-it's interesting to me.

PRESTON: Yeah, it's weird.

THOMAS: I don't
know what's going on,

but it makes me wonder
if what we're seeing

is electromagnetic interference
or some type of radio frequency

that's jamming the
signal at both locations.

These sights have
shown that they could

possibly be connected through
some of our experiments,

and they're both sights

where we've seen a
lot of anomalous activity.

If these two locations
are connected,

we're gonna have to
get to the bottom of it.

Hey, Travis?

We can only get 200
of our drones connected

over here at east field.

Copy that. Okay.

When Tyler said that only 200
of the drones in the east field

were staying
connected to the system,

I couldn't believe it.

The same thing happened
last week at the triangle.

What could possibly explain
only 200 drones... exactly...

staying connected while
the others went haywire?

KC, this is Preston.
Do you have a copy?

- KC: Go for KC.
- We reconfigured some things,

I put more access points
on, that seemed to solve it.

They're slowly coming back.

So, we should be good, though.

Okay, so we still good to go?

PRESTON: Gonna go ahead and arm.

Thomas, Kaleb, can
you guys hear me?

Uh, Travis, we hear you.

TRAVIS: We've only got 200

of the 400 drones connected.

How are the 600
that you guys have

over there at the
triangle doing?

THOMAS: Uh, he is
arming the drones now.

Kaleb's over at
the launchpad, uh,

ready with the rocket,
and we're all systems go.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, go ahead, Travis.

They're a matter of minutes
from starting the drone launch.

We've got a rocket
on the pad ready to go.

Hey, everybody,
keep clear of the grid.

KC: Clear the field.

Arming, arming, arming.

Good arm on 200 drones.

TYLER: Good arm,


Good arm, 200 drones.

Okay, we're going hot here.

Ten seconds.

Ten seconds, ten seconds.

TRAVIS: My rocket is hot.

Rocket is hot.

TYLER: Three, two, one.

KC: Here we go.

Solid...

grid forming.

PRESTON: We are
ready to go on this end.

THOMAS: Whoa!

What...

What the heck's going on?

It's raining drones over here.

Heads up! Heads up!
They're coming down!

THOMAS: Heads up! Heads
up! They're coming down!

Holy crap.

PRESTON: FPV
drone is in the sky.

THOMAS: When these
drones got 30 feet off the ground,

they just started to
drop out of the sky.

We got them coming right
down on top of the tents.

For these brief moments,

everything is complete chaos.

It's raining drones over here.

Raining drones.

Raining drones?
Is that what he said?

Raining drones in
the... at the triangle.

BRYANT: We're
raining drones here, too.

TRAVIS: We're
raining drones here, too.

We've had strange
equipment failures

on Skinwalker Ranch before,

but it was insane that
so many of the drones

were dropping out of the sky

just after both swarms
launched at the triangle

and the east field.

KC: Cylinder forming.

Two more dropped.

TRAVIS: Several seconds
later, our swarm in the east field

finally started to move
into its cylinder formation,

but then, more
drones continued to fall

every couple of seconds.

KC: Look at 'em.

- TRAVIS: It's raining drones.
- BRYANT: We got drones dropping like crazy.

TRAVIS: We've had
several fall, we got several

that are missing
out of the formation.

Look at that!

PRESTON: Everybody stay back.

Everybody get back
behind the vehicle.

- THOMAS: Oh, [bleep]!
- PRESTON: Holy mackerel.

We have a massive
amount being lost.

Oh, my God.

THOMAS: We just
had catastrophic failure.

They're gonna hit the tent.

THOMAS: Holy crap.

It looks like we're
having major problems.

- No, won't work.
- Here, let me get...

We have one drone
that literally comes down

and starts to come
inside the tent towards us.

So I took my coat off,

and as this drone
was coming down,

I had to swat it to the ground

to keep it from hitting us.

Stay under the tent.
Stay under the tent.

Holy crap.

Still got one right there.

Yeah, we still have...

- They're coming down behind us.
- Yeah, yeah.

THOMAS: Where-where
the hell's that one going?

TRAVIS: They're
just coming out of...

They're fall... There's...
Look at that one!

That one just fell
right out of the sky.

- BRYANT: -Oh, my God.
- TRAVIS: Oh, it hit hard, too. Heads up!

- Heads up! You see that?
- I don't want to be underneath this.

TRAVIS: Was the massive
cone causing all this,

or something else
that we couldn't see?

There was no way
to tell in the moment,

so I wanted to start

launching rockets to
see if it would reveal

whatever was
affecting the drones.

BRYANT: Dude, it
could clobber us, dude.

Just keep a watch,
just keep a watch.

I'll watch, you launch.

If I say run, we're running

to the west, okay?

We're about to launch.

-BRYANT: Dude, I don't... I don't
know -TRAVIS: Get ready, get ready.

- If this is gonna be a good idea.
- TRAVIS: Get ready.

- Do not let me get clobbered.
- Get ready, get ready, get ready.

So we prepped our rocket
at the east field as a cylinder

formation moved into position
directly above our launchpad,

while Kaleb prepped another
one over at the triangle.

TYLER: Travis, I'll let you know

as soon as we're
centered over top.

- Show me 2D, please.
- 2D's up.

We're set. Almost in position.

-TYLER: Travis, I got
five, four, -Almost there.

- Three, two, one.
- Almost there.

TYLER: You're good, send it.

TRAVIS: Do it, Dragon! Do it!

BRYANT: We just
blew our igniter out.

TRAVIS: Crap!

Oh, heads up! Let's
get out! Get out! Get out!

Look, you can see
over there, they are, like,

dropping like flies.

KALEB: I'm gonna
send our rocket in

three, two, one.

[device beeping]

Malfunction on
our rocket as well.

Give me a couple minutes.

Their rocket didn't go
either. Grab an igniter.

TRAVIS: When the rockets
failed to launch in both locations,

as drones were still
falling out of the sky,

it honestly seemed
like the ranch...

or something on the ranch...

was completely shutting us down.

Nothing made any sense.

We're too close,
we're too close.

BRYANT: I don't know
if I want to run over there

- and put another...
- I'll do it.

Give me an igniter.
Give it, give it.

I'll do it.

TRAVIS: But while what was
left of the drone swarm cylinder

was still directly
over the launchpad

in the east field,

I wanted to get a rocket

launched up through there
before the swarm began

its preprogrammed flight
back to the landing area.

You go, I'll watch.

Let's go. Move, move, move!

You go, I'll watch. Let's go.

After our first attempt to
launch rockets at the triangle

and the east field
ended with inexplicable,

simultaneous
rocket malfunctions,

I wanted to make another attempt

to launch a rocket up through

the drone swarm cylinder

in the east field.

After all these crazy drone
failures, I wanted to see

if the rocket would hit or
be affected by whatever

might be up in the air
causing these things to happen.

Watch out... another
one coming down!

It's gonna take us ten
seconds, 20 seconds.

We were quickly
running out of time before

the cylinder would move
away from its position

and complete its
preprogrammed flight

back to the landing area.

We got to move, got to move.

BRYANT: Dude, I'm working on it.

I know, I know.

- TYLER: Let me know as soon as it starts to move off, KC.
- KC: Copy.

TYLER: Travis, they're starting
to move out of position now.

- BRYANT: They're moving out of position.
- TRAVIS: It's okay.

You good?

Go, go, go, go, go.

Don't count down.
Don't count, just launch.

Don't count, just launch.

TRAVIS: We'll go up the side.

Even though the
cylinder had moved away

from its position directly
above the launch tower,

we still wanted to get
a rocket up into the air

close to the drone swarm
to see what would happen.

Uh, it's coming down.
Something's wrong!

It's coming down!

I don't see a chute yet.

Looked like it was
in two pieces, though.

What the hell happened there?

I don't know! We
just rebuilt that rocket!

It broke apart. How?

'Cause the chute came out.
There's another piece somewhere.

I have no idea what
caused the rocket

to break up in the air.

It sure didn't appear
to hit anything.

So, did it collide
with something

that just wasn't visible?

BRYANT: Oh, my hell,
what just happened?

Oh, man.

- What happened?
- Look.

There's a nose cone with a
chute attached to it somewhere.

Yeah, look.

TRAVIS: It just blew...
it broke through the line.

They're coming down.

Now that all the drones
are on the ground,

we finally have time
to come out of the tent

and start examining.

And I have to say it
looked like a b*ttlefield

out on the triangle.

- Look at that... pulverized.
- PRESTON: Yeah.

THOMAS: There are
crashed drones everywhere.

Honestly, I'm in
shock right now.

I can't believe what
I just witnessed.

Look... you've got
'em in the tents.

I mean, this is like mass chaos.

Landing now, yes.

All down.

TYLER: This year we
thought we were ready.

We brought out
some new technology,

but even with all the experience
we have, and all the shows

we do, I just couldn't
believe what I was seeing.

We've never seen drones
fall out of the sky like that,

and drones start to return
to home in random waves.

We're clear over here.

Everything looks
good on our end.

Copy.

PRESTON: We do
shows all over the country.

We never have these
kind of issues that we get

here at Skinwalker Ranch.

There's definitely
something going on here

that's unexplained, so
once we can get the data,

I can't wait to see
what actually happened.

- Hey, guys.
- What a night.

What a night, huh?

So, there was a really odd...

phenomenon taking place today.

RF, electromagnetic,
uh, maybe software.

You know, uh, who knows what?

I can't wait to see, though,
how all this pans out.

Man, we got a bunch of
data, we got to wrap up.

- I say we pack it up and get out of here.
- TRAVIS: Let's do it.

- I'm 100% percent ready.
- Let's get out. All right.

TRAVIS: Great work,
guys. Thank y'all.

- TRAVIS: Hey, guys.
- ERIK: Come on in, have a seat.

I've got, uh, Preston and
Kaleb from Sky Elements.

- Oh, wow.
- Good.

For a video call.

TRAVIS: Two days later,
after scouring through all

the video that we collected
during the drone experiment,

Erik called us into
the command center

for a video conference
with Preston Ward

and Kaleb McEwen
from Sky Elements

to review what he found

and to compare data.

You know, I... I've been
thinking about this day

a lot, and we've got a ton of
stuff to share with you guys.

We've learned a lot. So, we took

the-the logs, and we
were able to plot where

the drones thought
they ended up.

So, this is from the triangle.

Uh, you're gonna see
them lift off here in a second.

And, ultimately, what happened

is the GPSs were spoofed, right?

So, they lift up, and
then, immediately,

they thought they
were over here.

- ERIK: What?!
- TRAVIS: Whoa!

ERIK: Gosh.

That's the in...
that's the in spot.

TRAVIS: That is the in point.

What are the odds that the
GPS devices in the drones

at the triangle would
reveal messed-up data

that showed the swarm

literally teleported

over to the east field canyon,

right at a spot we
call the in point?

That's the exact spot where
we witnessed a UAP entering

the mesa before exiting it
near the triangle back in 2022.

It made no sense.

Except that it
pointed, once again,

to a place on the ranch

where strange things
keep happening.

Of all the places on the ranch
for them to think they were...

exactly over the spot that
we think is the possible

- in spot.
- TRAVIS: Well, but here's-here's... Wait, here's

the important question.

At what height were these drones

when they immediately
jumped to the other location?

So, it was right after
they started moving

from that 30-feet mark is when

they really started
to have issues.

- ERIK: Whoa.
- THOMAS: Incredible.

TRAVIS: Unbelievable. That's

right where we detected the blob


above the triangle.

Dude, you cannot make this up.

TRAVIS: Oh, my goodness.

Preston, we got to go
through this one more time.

So, the drones' GPS show
they basically teleported

over to the east field
mesa when they got



Correct, correct. They instantly
thought they were over here.

- Instantly.
- The ranch is 512 acres.

If it was gonna be random, it
could have put 'em anywhere.

Why did it put it there?

And at the exact same height

where we had the rocket
blow up and we see the blob

- in the high-speed camera.
- TRAVIS: That's right.

This is one for the books.

Two nights ago,

when the drone swarm
that was launched

at the triangle reached
an altitude of 30 feet,

which is right where we detected

a blob-like anomaly in 2022,

the drones' GPS data shows
that they instantly moved

to a location more
than half a mile away

in the east field near
the so-called in point.

The spot where we recorded video

of a UAP passing
through the mesa

and flying toward the triangle.

This is fantastic data.
Absolutely fantastic.

ERIK: Yeah. So, Preston,

we have some additional material

that we want to share with you.

Let's check it out.

ERIK: Okay.

This is footage from the
camera that's positioned

at the east field looking
off towards the west.

PRESTON: All right.

TRAVIS: There goes the rocket.

BRYANT: Yep.

KALEB: Why did it disappear?

It went off of the camera angle.

No, no, no, in the
middle of its flight.

- Oh, I didn't see that.
- Go back.

ERIK: I'm gonna
play through this.

So, watch the rocket, guys.

Watch its path.

- TRAVIS: Oh, crap.
- KALEB: Why does it disappear?

TRAVIS: Where did it go?

And look at where that's at.

It's right in that same
area above the petroglyph.

Well, that's
actually right above

- the photogrammetry anomaly.
- Yes.

TRAVIS: I couldn't believe it.

The rocket that was
launched in the east field

disappeared for a moment
right near the in point too.

And as Kaleb and
Dragon pointed out,

this is also where we detected

a strange column-shaped
spire in 2021

using photogrammetry,

which is right near

an ancient petroglyph
on the mesa

that's meant to depict
an interdimensional portal.

I'm not sure yet what the
heck any of this means,

but holy crap, we got incredible
data from this experiment.

Why does it
disappear right there?

What did it go behind?

Where did the light go?

- Yeah, where did the light go? Yes, right.
- ERIK: Mm-hmm.

So, walk it through there.

ERIK: Yeah, so I'm
frame-advancing.

TRAVIS: Right
there... it's just gone.

This is fascinating.

It's a-a... a kinetic projectile

going through a spot

and it's blacked out
so that we can't see it

and the light from it is
redirected to who knows where.

ERIK: I'm gonna show you
something that gives us a chance to get

an additional perspective
on what we just watched.

This is the camera
perspective from the triangle

looking back over the
drone swarm on the ground

and here we have
the cylinder in the air.

TRAVIS: Ah, yeah. I see, okay.

The rocket goes.

The rocket vanished.

And it comes back.

That's really weird.

Okay, back up down
through that, Erik.

All right, I'm gonna
take us backwards.

Gone. Comes back.

TRAVIS: It vanished
behind something.

ERIK: Yeah.

There's something there.

- [chuckling] What the hell?
- TRAVIS: Play it again.

ERIK: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Oh, what is
that? Is that a drone?

- That's got to be the FPV right there.
- Yeah, that's got to be

Kaleb's FPV drone
flying right there.

ERIK: Watch-watch...
watch the drone.

Gone and comes back.

It-it vanished behind something.

ERIK: Yeah. I'm going
to look at that again.

I want to see what's
happening here.

BRYANT: Look where it's going.

- Right above the launch tower.
- TRAVIS: Over the launch tower.

It is right over
the launch tower.

Oh, my God.

And I'd bet you
anything that's about

- that 30-feet mark, too.
- Oh, yeah.

- I'm gonna zoom in.
- Yes.

- ERIK: Okay.
- TRAVIS: Oh, my God.

ERIK: Let me manipulate
the brightness controls.

- Gone.
- TRAVIS: It looks like... Wait, wait, wait.

There was something
up right there.

TRAVIS: Something
flashed when you did it, but

play it through again,

'cause I swore I saw something.

Oh, whoa, whoa,
whoa, right there.

- That was real time?
- ERIK: Yeah.

- Where it went like this?
- Yes.

What did we just see?

THOMAS: Oh, my gosh!

TRAVIS: Wait, wait, wait.

I swore I saw something.

Oh, whoa, whoa,
whoa, right there.

- That was real time?
- ERIK: Yeah.

- Where it went like this?
- Yes. What did we just see?

TRAVIS: We may have
documented our best evidence

of high strangeness
yet on Skinwalker Ranch

during our drone
experiment two nights ago.

Right after a rocket
disappeared from site

for several seconds near
the mesa in the east field,

the Sky Elements FPV
drone did the same thing

at about 30 feet high above
the center of the triangle,

right where we captured images

of the blob-like
anomaly in 2022.

Did these devices pass behind
invisible aerial phenomena?

Or did they disappear into
them for brief moments?

And then, just seconds later,
we captured a flash coming out

and then going
back into the mesa.

What could explain all of this?

Especially given that
these things happened

within the area where
we recently detected

a massive cone-shaped anomaly

that encompassed the
triangle and stretched all the way

from Homestead Two
over to the east field.

- I got to take it backwards so I don't miss it.
- Yeah, sure.

There's so much
going on right now.

- ERIK: Something here.
- TRAVIS: Keep-Keep going,

see what direction
it's going in.

There's something coming out
of and going back into the mesa.

Yeah, it looks
like the out point.

TRAVIS: It is... Yes.

That is at the out point.

Just when you think it
can't get stranger out here,

right as our rocket and
the FPV drone disappeared

for a split second, a
UAP... or some kind of light...

jumped out of the mesa
and then immediately back in

right at the out point where
the UAP exited the mesa

and flew toward
the triangle in 2022.

That's crazy.

So, the rocket goes up.

KALEB: Disappears.

TRAVIS: Right, and
then it gets to apogee,

got a motor burn out then.

That's probably
the chute charge.

KALEB: The drone
disappears right there.

The drone
disappears right there.

Then, boom, look at
that, how fast that is.

- That's at the exit point.
- It is the exit point.

That is absolutely
the exit point.

What in the hell are we seeing?

Something's obscuring
objects in both locations.

And while that's
happening, we have drones

that suddenly appear over there.

- Or think they do.
- ERIK: Yeah.

Preston, I think this
is absolutely amazing.

And, uh, Kaleb,
you flew your drone

right behind whatever it was.

You didn't see anything
in the virtual goggles?

I didn't see anything
through the goggles.

Everything was on
that flight to normal.

Wow. Wow.

PRESTON: Yep.

It's very interesting.

ERIK: I did not expect

anything quite like this.

Not at all.

This was pretty spectacular.

- Yeah.
- Thanks, guys. Thanks a lot.

- This was amazing.
- PRESTON: Absolutely. Anything

we can do to help you guys out

and test and improve
our safety systems,

we're always ready to do it.

- Fantastic. -Awesome.
- Amazing.

Okay, well, we'll
be in touch, guys.

PRESTON: Sounds great.

Thanks, guys.

ERIK: Gosh. There
was so much in that.

- BRYANT: Yeah.
- TRAVIS: Yeah. What if we're

seeing something here
that is a doorway for signals

to go through,
like blinky lights,

right?

Or communication
signals or GPS signals.

ERIK: Exactly. The
things we've seen this year

have, you know, convinced me

there's a connection between
east field canyon and triangle.

I think we have to
follow up on that.

TRAVIS: That's
a great point, Erik.

And I would include
Homestead Two

and the mesa drill site as well.

ERIK: You know, I'm thinking,

given the possible
connectivities

between different
regions of the ranch,

you know, we really need
to put something together

that spans as much of
the ranch as possible.

- Yeah.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.

If the east field's
connected to the triangle,

if the drill site's somehow
connected to all of this,

the homesteads, everything,

then, uh, that's-that's
a great idea

to do a complete east
to west experiment.

- I like it.
- THOMAS: I like the logic of that because

as the weather turns and
our investigation for the year

starts coming down
to the... to the wire,

how would you pick
one spot to really study?

And we've seen so
much ranch-wide.

Well, that means we've got a
lot of work to do in the meantime.

So I say we get to it.

-Let's do it.

♪ ♪

THOMAS: No matter
how you look at it,

the data that we
got from this exercise

is definitely strange
and, so far, unexplainable.

What took place to make those
drones just fall out of the sky?

We definitely need
to find some answers.

But I will tell you that we've
witnessed and experienced

some of the most
incredible things

I've ever seen on
Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS: As riddled with malfunctions
as this drone experiment was,

it produced some of the
most incredible data yet

that suggests there may
be a connection between

all these hot spots where we
keep documenting phenomena.

So, if we can incorporate
all of these locations

into one grand experiment,

we might be able
to finally reveal

just what that connection is.

ERIK: As we continue to witness

and to document these
unusual phenomena,

these outlier events,

our search for a
unifying explanation

will also continue.

We're operating
under time constraints.

So, hopefully, our
final experiment

will help us to put all of
these different phenomena

under one umbrella, if you will,

and help us finally get some
better informed answers.

TRAVIS: Three...

There it goes, rocket's up.

Two...

THOMAS: He's airborne.

- BRYANT: Another drone going up.
- TRAVIS: one. Go.

ERIK: This experiment
is one of the biggest,

if not the biggest, that
we've ever attempted.

Cameron, you need
to go up to 5,000 feet.

THOMAS: Does he think
he's directly over the truck?

Something's going on.

TRAVIS:
Holy crap. What is that?