Erik, we got something
moving right over head of us.
Of all the places
on Skinwalker Ranch
where our team has witnessed
stunning phenomena...
- THOMAS: Oh, it's on fire.
- TRAVIS: We got a fire!
TRAVIS: the spot known
simply as the triangle...
Something doesn't want us
to collect data from the triangle.
TRAVIS: has become
one the most compelling...
ERIK: Whoa, what was
that purple light over there?
TRAVIS: and disturbing
focuses of our investigation.
What on Earth is that?
So, join me, Dr. Travis Taylor,
for a mind-bending look
at some of the strangest
events we've documented...
There's clearly something there.
Which suggest the triangle
may be the key to
revealing the true secret
behind this 512-acre property.
THOMAS: Heads up! Heads
up, they're coming down!
Everybody, stay back!
BRANDON: So, I think we all know
how important
this investigation is.
- And the world is watching.
- Absolutely.
So, plotting the course ahead,
what do you have planned?
Well, given that the center
of all of our experiments,
at least in the sky, has
been right over the triangle,
it only stands to reason
we got to follow up on that.
Great.
TRAVIS: In the five years
that our team has
been working to reveal
the cause of all the
high strangeness
on Skinwalker Ranch,
we've repeatedly encountered
things above the
so-called triangle
that simply defy
the laws of nature.
Oh, we got a malfunction!
Everybody watch out.
- BURDETTE: There's something...
- TRAVIS: There's something in the sky
above the rocket right here!
We've recorded images
of a blob-like anomaly
that may have destroyed a
rocket about 31 feet in the air.
- Hey, look, UAP right there!
- KALEB: Yep, I see it!
THOMAS: Right
there, right there!
TRAVIS: We've seen UAPs
that appeared thousands
of feet in the sky...
ERIK: This thing is
really clipping along.
Oh, my gosh. It disappeared.
TRAVIS: and
others that vanished.
What did it disappear into?
BRANDON: So,
what do we have here?
PETE: That is the Hover Map.
Um, basically, handheld lidar.
TRAVIS: So, in 2022, we
came up with a daring plan.
Are you saying you're
going to literally hang
outside the helicopter and
scan the space with this device?
With your permission, of course.
Okay.
TRAVIS: At the direction of
principal
investigator Erik Bard,
Cameron Fugal flew me
and technologist Pete Kelsey
in a helicopter up
above the triangle,
so that Pete could scan the area
with a handheld lidar device.
It works by emitting
infrared light
that we hoped would reveal
anything invisible
to the naked eye
that might explain all the UAPs
and other phenomena
we've detected up there.
I mean, we're at
the triangle right now.
PETE: All right, so, are
you seeing data, then?
TRAVIS: Nothing yet.
Holy cow, there's something
right outside the aircraft.
- PETE: You're kidding!
- TRAVIS: No, I am not kidding.
You're at 300 feet and we're
detecting an object in the air.
PETE: What?!
TRAVIS: The anomaly
that Pete detected
seemed like it was tracking
alongside the helicopter.
At first, we thought
that the lidar device
might be malfunctioning.
But then, when we reached
about 5,000 feet high,
something else
happened that suggested
this anomaly was
definitely for real.
- Whoa! Whoa!
- PETE: Whoa!
TRAVIS: We were still detecting
the anomaly above the triangle.
CAMERON: Wow.
TRAVIS: But now, it felt like
it was pushing the
helicopter around.
Wow!
Yeah, I think
it's time to abort.
That was enough data
and excitement for that day.
BROCK: How high up are we going?
ERIK: 5,000 to 6,000
feet at the top end.
- Okay.
- Great.
- THOMAS: Well, let's get these birds in the air.
- All right.
- Let's do it.
- Let's go to work.
TRAVIS: But the following year,
we conducted a dual
helicopter experiment
to figure out what
we were dealing with.
I was in Chopper One
with pilot Brock Wilson.
Erik was in Chopper Two
with Thomas and Cameron.
The plan was to ascend
in a synchronized pattern
to various altitudes,
while I transmitted
a 1.6 gigahertz frequency
signal over to Erik.
That's the strange signal
that we had detected
during many of our
experiments at the triangle.
The thought was that if we
saw any breaks in the signal,
we hoped that the GPS devices
attached to the helicopters
would pinpoint exactly
where it happened
and help determine
if there is one big
anomaly above the triangle,
or something that really does
move around in that entire zone.
TRAVIS: When Cameron's
helicopter reached the northern region
about 300 feet
above the triangle,
the signal connection
between the choppers
was suddenly broken.
And that was right where
we detected the anomaly
the previous year that
seemed to shove us around.
Okay.
Uh...
TRAVIS: And as we
ascended higher and higher,
the same thing
happened again and again.
So, what could have
been blocking the signal?
Well, the answer
might just be connected
to another incredible legend
about Skinwalker Ranch.
ERIK: I've got
something to show you
that I think you're going
to find really interesting.
This is a camera
that's positioned
right on the observation point
looking off towards the
west, right there at the triangle.
TRAVIS: In 2023, Erik
Bard showed us something
unbelievable that was captured
by a surveillance camera
above the triangle
on Skinwalker Ranch.
[Travis exclaims]
- That was fast, whatever it was.
- ERIK: Let me take it back.
TRAVIS: A UAP that was
flying faster than any commercial
or military aircraft simply
vanished into thin air
about 30 feet high,
right above the triangle.
ERIK: Okay, so we get
to this frame, and it's gone.
What?
- KALEB: It disappeared right there.
- Yeah.
THOMAS: So,
look at where it's at
right there in the
middle of the screen
and if you come straight down,
that would be exactly
within the bounds
- of that hole in the lidar data.
- Thomas, you're right.
In recent years, we've
collected numerous sets
of infrared lidar
data at the triangle
that resembled the
theoretical circular structure
of what a so-called portal
or traversable
wormhole might look like.
And what makes that
incredibly curious to us
is the fact that the
local native tribes
and even former
ranch investigators,
who worked with the
federal government,
have long believed that
interdimensional portals
actually exist on the property.
So, we have eight total
laser space cannons
- and they're higher power.
- Great.
ERIK: I love the idea 'cause,
you know, that'll help us
to see if, in fact, we
get a repeat of the things
we've seen before
right over this triangle.
TRAVIS: So, a few weeks later,
in order to test that theory,
and collect more data,
our friends from Nu-Salt
Laser International
used several high-powered
laser space cannons
to sh**t beams of light
from the center of the triangle
all the way up into space.
If we saw any
breaks in the beams,
it might help us
identify the cause
of all the anomalies we've seen
and detected at high altitudes.
And they also deployed
an additional laser cannon
that was aimed at a
that Thomas secured to a lift
positioned at the
That allowed me to
monitor the beams
with a device known
as a spectrometer
for any variations in
the color spectrum,
which could indicate
more evidence
of the blob-like anomaly.
But even before we got started,
something crazy happened.
Hey, hey! What is... Look
right here. What is this?
I don't see
aviation lights at all!
ERIK: Yeah, I don't
see any strobe.
KALEB: It's gone.
TRAVIS: That UAP seemed
to come out of nowhere.
It was definitely not a plane
and was too low to the
ground to be a satellite.
And then, like many others
we've seen before, it vanished.
All right, well,
let's get going.
So, we fired up the
single laser cannon
that was aimed
at the white board
to see if we could
detect anything strange
in the 31-foot-high blob zone.
Yeah, that's bright.
Wow, that's bright.
Suddenly, it's gotten brighter
in the green and
dropped off in the blue.
Why would it be doing that?
There is clearly some sort
of anomaly above the triangle.
When I saw that
the green light was
suddenly getting brighter while
the blue one started to fade,
that meant something about
So it was time to use all
the laser cannons together
and see what more
could be revealed.
Travis, you copy?
Go ahead, Erik.
I'd like to know
what you're seeing
around 1.6 gigahertz
over there on your antennas.
Because I do show a source
right behind Homestead Two.
TRAVIS: The timing was crazy.
Just after all of the laser
cannons got turned on,
Erik detected a 1.6 gigahertz
radio frequency signal
on his spectrum analyzer system
coming from Homestead Two,
about a half a mile to the west.
And, incidentally,
that is another location
on the ranch known for
legends about portals.
Nothing more was seen
during the experiment
to offer any explanations.
THOMAS: That night was so crazy.
BRYANT: That was
quite an experiment.
TRAVIS: But then
Erik and I scanned
through the
surveillance camera data
and found something
very interesting.
-THOMAS: Whoa!
- KALEB: No!
- ERIK: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Looks like the beam
stops and then starts again.
So if there was something
in there blocking the beam,
it wouldn't continue above it.
How could it block out
the green and not the blue?
TRAVIS: It doesn't
make any sense at all.
ERIK: And it appears
that this is cutting
into the beam profile
on the left-hand side.
What-what could be doing that?
Three different cameras
captured images of voids
that only appeared in
the green laser beams
at an altitude of
about a hundred feet.
We had no idea if they
were related to the UAP
that we saw appear
and then disappear
or the 1.6 gigahertz
signal that Erik detected,
but it gave us a
spot to laser focus on
for our next experiment.
And that's when we made
one of our craziest discoveries
so far on Skinwalker Ranch.
BRYANT: So I'm curious.
What is the plan for tonight?
Well, if you think about
what we have seen out here
over the triangle, you know,
the gap in that powerful laser.
What we can do is direct
these right at that same spot
and see if that
triggers the anomaly.
So is there a surface
there, is there a force there?
What is it? So, if
we can categorize
what that is, then, uh,
- that should tell us something.
- Yes.
TRAVIS: On the
day after we obtained
images of mysterious
gaps in laser beams
about 100 feet high
above the triangle,
we were just getting ready
for a more focused
laser cannon experiment
when high strangeness
appeared out
of nowhere on Skinwalker Ranch.
Hey, what is that?
You see that?
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah! What is that?
Yeah, it's right there.
BRYANT: It doesn't
look like it's moving.
TRAVIS: It doesn't
look like it's moving.
I blinked and it was gone.
TRAVIS: The UAP that
Dragon spotted in the sky
looked just like the one
we saw the night before
and it also
vanished into thin air.
So we got a lot to do,
so I say we get to it.
- Time to split up.
- All right. Let's go.
TRAVIS: So we
kicked it into high gear
to get all of our
equipment ready
for what we hoped would be
an even more revealing night.
JIM: Man, we've
got all kinds of TVs.
TRAVIS: In order to visualize
the anomaly or anomalies
above the triangle,
the plan was for Nu-Salt
to use a single laser cannon
to sh**t a beam
up through the area
where we saw the
void in the green lasers.
But Pete Kelsey also
scanned the entire triangle area
with a terrestrial
lidar laser scanner
that was set up on a tripod.
The hope was that
the infrared light
from the device would
image things on the ground
and in the air that the naked
eye might not be able to see.
Okay, Tim. You're ready to test.
TIM: Lasers on.
There you go.
TRAVIS: Ah, guys?
We are hitting
something with the laser.
Y'all... y'all, look.
THOMAS: Is that clouds?
I'm seeing stars.
TRAVIS: You see
the spot up there?
That should just be a beam.
What are we hitting?
DON: I have no idea.
TRAVIS: At about
something that seemed invisible
was blocking or
absorbing the beam.
We didn't know if this
was evidence of a portal
or some kind of anomaly
that roams around
above the triangle.
PETE: Well, I still have the...
laser scanning data to show you.
TRAVIS: But the next day,
after Pete Kelsey processed
his terrestrial lidar data,
he showed us something that
none of us could have expected.
PETE: From our
perspective at the triangle,
the terrestrial laser
scanner can see
farther and gather more points
per second than the
SLAM scanner can.
Okay.
What in the actual crap?
Whatever is there,
is, it's as if it's invisible.
Look at this smear
all around us,
like we're inside a
cone of something.
Can you look up?
- It does go into a cone.
- KALEB: Oh, look at that.
TRAVIS: It is a cone.
ERIK: Wow.
I mean, that is insane.
You're inside it.
We're all inside it.
Pete had detected what appeared
to be a massive,
cone-shaped anomaly.
It stretched from
Homestead Two...
where we had recently detected
the 1.6 gigahertz signal...
over to the east field canyon
where we've seen all
kinds of phenomena.
It also had an apex
that was centered
about 2,000 feet high
above the triangle,
right where the laser
beam was cut off.
This is incredible.
This is the craziest
thing I've ever seen.
If this turns out to be
real measurements
of some real phenomena...
- Yeah.
- Then we've measured something
nobody has ever seen
- before, period, ever.
- Yes.
TRAVIS: Could this massive,
cone-shaped anomaly
be connected to all
of the phenomena
that we've encountered, both
high and low, at the triangle?
Another major experiment
that we conducted
just a few weeks
later would shine
a lot more light
on that possibility.
How many drones did
you bring us this time?
- Brought you 1,000.
- 1,000?
A few weeks after we detected
the massive, 2,000-foot-high,
cone-shaped anomaly
that encompassed the triangle
area on Skinwalker Ranch,
our friends from Sky Elements
brought 1,000 drones
that they had programmed
to fly in various light show
patterns above the area.
- SAM: The GPS is looking good.
- Yeah.
TRAVIS: We wanted to see
if these illuminated devices
would be affected by the
phenomenon and help us
identify what it could be.
Rocket is hot.
Yep.
TRAVIS: In five,
four,
three,
two,
one.
But just after we
launched a rocket
to kick off the experiment...
PRESTON: Look at that.
TYLER: That's nuts.
Flash it again, do it again.
PRESTON: It should be in unison.
TYLER: They
should be all at once
TRAVIS: all 1,000 drones
suddenly malfunctioned.
PRESTON: Yeah,
everything's disconnected.
- TRAVIS: You see that?
- THOMAS: Is something happening over there?
TRAVIS: We have an object
in the sky over the mesa.
Then, a bright, flashing UAP
appeared above the
mesa for a few seconds
before simply vanishing.
The correlation between
that phenomenon
and all the drones
losing connectivity
was more than
curious to me and Erik.
But that was just the beginning
of the strangeness to come.
TYLER: I got it, I got it!
Hey, guys, we are ready.
We have 200 drones ready to go,
TRAVIS: Several minutes later,
the Sky Elements
team was able to launch
only 200 of the 1,000 drones.
Yeah, look at, look at
them moving around.
They cannot control
them, look at them.
The 200 drones that were
able to launch struggled to stay
in their pre-programmed
formations.
Yeah, that one's gonna hit.
Oh, they look terrible.
So Kaleb McEwen of Sky
Elements launched their FPV drone,
which was equipped with a
camera, to get an up-close look
at what may have been
affecting the drone swarm.
FPV is down, lost video feed.
TRAVIS: They crashed.
Just as the FPV drone reached
the swarm, its camera feed died
and we heard it hit something
and crash to the ground.
None of us saw
anything in the air
to explain what caused all those
issues during the experiment.
ERIK: This is thermographic
imagery off of our FLIR
camera out at the triangle.
This is sky-facing.
TRAVIS: But next day,
Erik showed us video
of something incredible
that had been recorded
on a thermal heat FLIR camera.
Wow!
This was right around the same
time that Kaleb's drone crashed.
Yeah, it was.
It was stunning that
the thermal camera
captured a UAP that was
invisible to the naked eye
right around the
same time something
crashed into the FPV drone.
So what I'm about to share
with you is some footage
that was obtained through
a high-speed camera asset.
TRAVIS: And then Erik
showed us high-speed
camera images
that were also taken
during the experiment from
the center of the triangle.
Let me try one thing,
let me turn the contrast
and brightness
up just a little bit.
THOMAS: Oh! Yes,
look its right there!
TRAVIS: Yup,
there you go, sure is.
ERIK: There's a lot
going on here, guys.
TRAVIS: Look at all this.
Wow, there are so
many in this clip, it's crazy.
More UAPs than we have
ever documented at one time
appeared above the triangle,
all within the area where we had
detected the huge,
cone-shaped anomaly.
THOMAS: Think
about all the problems
we were having
on the ground, guys.
I mean, Sky Elements is trying
to connect those
and we're having this take place
above us and we're not
even aware that it's going on.
TRAVIS:
That is just unbelievable.
All of the phenomena that keeps
happening at the triangle
is perplexing and beyond
any conventional explanation.
So we will conduct even
more high-tech experiments
there, because it may
soon reveal the ultimate secrets
of this place.
ERIK: We've seen
so many unusual things
happen here above the triangle.
It raises the question as to
what could be operating there.
What could be present
in that space?
Could it be related to something
in the UFO or UAP domain?
We can't dismiss it.
And that's tantalizing.
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00x08 - Behind the Gates: The Obtuse Triangle
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Series that follows a team investigating Skinwalker Ranch, located in Uintah County, Utah, United States.
Series that follows a team investigating Skinwalker Ranch, located in Uintah County, Utah, United States.