06x03 - Smoke It Out

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Uh, we're coming up
on the triangle at this time.

THOMAS: Copy that.

Did you see what happened there?

That's registering
a positional error

and data corruption.

And it's
right above the triangle.

We are getting the 1.6 gigahertz

coming straight
from the drill site.

Right now, they cannot
get the beacon to sync.

TRAVIS: Let's see if they will
take the beacon outside

the bubble and see if it syncs.

- ALEX: It's linked up.
- Interesting.

So, this is
one of the terrestrial

laser scans
of the triangle and...

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow.

I mean, look at that.

- Right there!
- Back up, back up.

The rocket vanishes.

Where did it go?

NARRATOR: There is
a ranch in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings have
never been made public.

TRAVIS: Right there.
We got something.

NARRATOR: Now a new team

of independent
scientists and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

Of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

- UAP right there!
- KALEB: Yep.

Bizarre energies...

It looks like there's a heat
source right above 'em.

And portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe
looking at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

Might actually be true.

They will stop at
nothing to reveal...

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS: Morning, fellas.

Today's a new day, man.

- THOMAS: Well, are you guys ready to go at it again?
- BOTH: Yeah.

- Are we ready to get into the ground?
- Yes.

TRAVIS: The team from Mark
Construction drilling is back out

at the ranch today to continue
helping us with one of our

biggest investigations
this year:

finding out what's
inside the mesa.

Previous GPR scans have shown us

that there's a


and several smaller
anomalies buried inside there.

So our plan was to
drill two boreholes

on either side of the object

and insert scanning
devices that can

help us figure out what
these anomalies actually are.

Last year, we got the
first borehole drilled.

JARED: All right,
buddy, we're out.

But now we need to widen
its diameter by a few inches

so we can send in our equipment.

During our first drilling
operation this year,

something kept
causing the beacon...

which tracks the direction
of the drill bit underground...

to malfunction.

Unbelievable.

What could it be?
We're not sure yet.

But the only thing to
do is keep pushing.

We just got to get the,
uh, the beacon in the head

and we're ready to drill.

I actually stopped
out at the main road,

checked the calibration on it.

So you stopped before you came

- through the gate?
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: And it was working?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

ALEX: We got
everything linked up,

calibrated. We're ready to go.

We just got to get that
beacon in the head,

get everything tightened on,
and just start pushing back in.

- ERIK: Fantastic.
- Let's do it.

TRAVIS: When these repeated
issues with the drill beacon

started happening,
our first thought was

that it was somehow
connected to that unknown,

massive object inside the mesa.

But last week, when the drilling
beacon suddenly died again,

we realized there might be
an even crazier explanation.

A gigantic, invisible bubble or
sphere-shaped phenomenon

that we've recently identified

with numerous
infrared lidar devices.

We don't know what it is,
but it's centered at the spot

we call the triangle
and covers a huge area

of the ranch, including
the mesa drill site,

where a lot of strange
things keep happening.

THOMAS: This right here
puts us well outside the bubble.

TRAVIS: So when the drilling
beacon died again last week,

we took it just outside
the western boundary

of the bubble and were stunned
when it started working again.

ALEX: It's linked up.

That's interesting.

I mean, you can't
make this stuff up.

So, let's get this
beacon put in there,

- and we're ready to go.
- Okay, sounds good.

TRAVIS: When we make
the next attempt to widen

borehole one today,

everyone's
crossing their fingers

that the drilling beacon
will work properly

and we can punch
through the top of the mesa.

At that point, we'll
attach a larger bit,

known as a reaming
bit, and then pull it back

down through the
mesa to enlarge the hole.

ALEX: Okay, Bearcat,
go ahead, start pushing.

I got this.

As long as he gets
in there, it'll chase it.

- Okay, it's in the hole.
- Cool.

Go ahead, start corkscrewing in.

THOMAS: Hey,
guys. You got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas. What's up?

Just wanted to report
I'm standing here watching

one length of pipe after
another disappear up into the hill.

So we are up into the mesa.

- Yay.
- That is fantastic.

THOMAS: I know that myself as well
as the whole team have been waiting

to get this hole reamed
out to where we can

get scanning devices
down inside this hole

and hopefully start to get
some more answers about

what could be deep
inside the mesa.

Hey, guys, just wanted to
give you a status update.

We're 150 feet into the mesa.

Wow.

That's a lot of
progress in a short time.

It'll be interesting to see
what happens with that beacon

- right at 200 feet.
- Yes, it will.

TRAVIS: The 200-foot mark is
right where we've experienced

a bunch of other
malfunctions with the drill.

So Erik and I are wondering
could they be connected

to the buried objects in
the mesa or the bubble?

Or some combination of both?

Hey, guys, you got a copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

We're about to hit
that 200-foot mark

where we lost the beacon
signal every time last year.

Copy that.

We'll see what happens.

TRAVIS: Look at
that. Erik, we do

have the 1.2 gigahertz signal.

There's some unidentified
source of 1.2 gigahertz right here.

That has never been
there before until this year.

Now, this is really strange.

Erik broadcast a 1.2
gigahertz signal two weeks ago

as a baseline signal to
monitor during an experiment

focused on the bubble.

He just wanted to see if the
signal would be interfered with.

And believe it or not,
something or someone

cloned the signal and
started broadcasting

a duplicate one back at us.

What in the hell is going on?

TRAVIS: And now it's happening
again here at about 200 feet

inside the mesa

even though we're not
broadcasting any signal.

So where was this
one coming from?

Wh... There... Look
at this spike right here.

There's two of them, look,
they're appearing at 1.603-750

and 1.604-5.

- You see it right there?
- Yep. There it is.

TRAVIS: And
that's in the antenna

pointed right at the drill site.

And we still have
that 1.205 one.

So what is doing that?

It was one thing after another.

The two 1.6 gigahertz signals
we detected were just as freaky,

because they were coming from
the spectrum analyzer antenna

that we had pointed
directly at the mesa.

So is it possible that
they were coming

from the objects
buried inside there?

Thomas, be advised, just
as you were coming into

that spot, Travis detected

a couple of signals that
just showed up down here.

Literally just showed up.

THOMAS: That's very interesting.

It seems like déjà vu.

Yes, it does.

THOMAS: Copy that.
Well, we're gonna keep

going into the hill and
see if we can get to the top.

ERIK: Good luck, man.

I don't know what
we're dealing with here.

We have indications
that there is something

potentially energetically
active within the mesa.

It certainly bears
revisiting the question,

what is inside the mesa?

ALEX: I don't see this taking
much longer to come out.

THOMAS: All right.

Hey, guys, you got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.

We are really close to
punching out through the top

- up here.
- Okay.

Thanks for that
fantastic update, Thomas.

I've seen the drill head
come out of the top

of the mesa the very first time.

I can't wait to see it again.

That will be our first
indication that we have

a clear pathway from which
to start the reaming operation.

ALEX: He's definitely cutting
through some material right here, so...

We can hear it down
there churning away.

Yeah.

He's coming right now, so...

THOMAS: Awesome.

The drill bit is
through the top.

All right, Bearcat,
you're good to go ahead

and start corkscrewing
her on out, bud.

Okay, hold that
right there, Allan.

Uh, we're gonna
get that head off.

And we'll get that reamer on and

we'll get to opening
this hole for you.

THOMAS: All right. I'm
excited to start reaming.

ALEX: Yeah. I am, too.

TRAVIS: After spending
more than a year dealing with

the strange setbacks
while working

to get borehole one finished,

there was a huge sense of relief

as the drilling team
began the reaming process.

THOMAS: Hey, Erik and Travis?

ERIK: Yeah, go ahead.

They're ready to go
ahead and fire up the drill.

The beacon was
removed, it turned off,

so it's not gonna be
transmitting on the way down.

Thanks for the update, Thomas.

Let's get underway.

Copy that.

ALEX: Okay, Allan,
we've got water.

You can go ahead and
start taking her, bud.

THOMAS: Hey, guys,
uh, drill bit's rotating

and descending into the hill.

Sounds like the washing machine.

Hey, Erik, look at this.

Oh...

TRAVIS: That's a strange signal.

This is at the beacon frequency.

ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS: So why are we now
getting a beacon frequency

when they are not putting
a beacon into the hill?

Unlike the regular drill bit,

which contains a
beacon that emits

a 34 megahertz signal,

the reaming bit
has no beacon in it.

So there should be no
signal for us to detect.

And yet we're getting
one that was fluctuating

around that frequency.

So where was it coming from?

This signal is absolutely
sending information.

This is between 29 and 35...

megahertz, but where is
the source of that signal?

I'm pointed right at the mesa.

Well, that's...
whatever's in there.

TRAVIS: Hey, guys, we really
need to keep an eye on that.

ERIK: Hey, guys,
what's the good news?

Well, it's going.
It's moving. Slow.

Whatever we're in right
now is, I mean, it's really hard.

TRAVIS: Despite the
strange signals we detected,

we had really hoped
that the reaming process

in borehole one would move fast

since the drillers were simply
widening an existing hole.

But when we checked in with
the team later that afternoon,

things got even more bizarre.

THOMAS: They're not
making a lot of progress

down the hole.

H-How far?

We're about 30,
almost 40 feet in.

- Forty feet from the top?
- Yeah.

Then y'all haven't made
much progress at all, then.

- No, it's real hard.
- Dang.

What would be the normal rate?

Uh, normal? Like, I'd say,
five to ten foot a minute.

- Oh, wow.
- Oh, man.

Okay, there's something
unusual going on.

That-that makes no sense.
I wonder what's in there

that's causing it to
be so difficult to ream.

Yeah, mm-hmm.

THOMAS: So at this pace

we're looking at
months and months

before we'd break
through the bottom.

Uh, do you guys
have a plan of...

ways that we could
possibly speed it up?

We have different style
reamers that we can try

to speed things up.

TRAVIS: So does that mean we'll
go to a slightly smaller hole then?

- Yeah, the ten-inch hole.
- Right now, you're at almost 12?

- Yeah...
- So we'd be reducing the diameter by two inches?

Yeah, in fact, some of the
instruments we're talking

about putting in are maybe
an inch, two inches in diameter.

- Should be fine.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: We're planning
to use specialized devices,

including
ground-penetrating radar,

in this borehole to give us a
much more detailed picture

of what the believed
objects in there actually are.

So we're really hoping
we can find some way

to get this borehole completed.

Then we'll go ahead
and try that ten-inch,

see if it moves any faster.

Fingers crossed
that it does, huh?

Yeah.

- Yeah, good luck, man.
- Thanks for that update, man.

Thanks, guys.

TRAVIS: While the drilling
operation continued at the mesa...

How you doing, man?

- Good to see you, Travis.
- Yeah, good to see you, Dave.

We welcomed
thermal imaging experts

Dave Mason and Pete Kelsey back

to help us conduct nighttime
experiments at the triangle

designed to learn more
about the bubble-like anomaly.

So we've got some
experiments to do here.

Yeah, it's all about
thermal tonight.

- It's thermal.
- Thermal and smoke.

Lots of smoke, hopefully.

Our goal is to build
some large fires

right here at the
triangle that will

generate a bunch
of smoke and, uh,

and hopefully fill this area

above us with a lot
of fire and a lot of heat.

Who knows what the bubble
is, right here above the triangle?

But tonight is
another attempt to put

a particulate matter
into the space so

that we can map it
and watch what it does.

ERIK: So if there's a structure,

I'm hoping you'll be able to
give us an insight into that.

I hope we'll be
able to detect it.

Try to smoke it out, huh?

Yep, exactly,
that's exactly right.

- Yeah.
- DAVID: I've got the differential

FLIR technology that is
not commercially available.

And this will allow
us to see very micro

changes of temperature

and look for anything
that may be anomalous.

- Love that.
- TRAVIS: You got the terrestrial laser scanner

- and the SLAM scanner with you?
- I do.

Well, then, we should
be running that tonight.

Agreed.

TRAVIS: Based on our
previous experiments,

we believe that the
bubble is centered

at the triangle and has a
radius of nearly 2,000 feet.

What is it?

And within this area,

we've documented all
kinds of strange things.

Holy crap, look at this.

Including unusual
radio frequency signals

and numerous UAPs.

ERIK: Look what
just happened there.

TRAVIS: Also, Erik
has been unable

to obtain GPS data right

in the center at various
altitudes above the triangle,

as if some kind of mysterious
void exists in that spot.

But this is also

where we obtained
high-speed camera images

a couple years ago of a
mysterious, cloudy blob

that may have
destroyed a rocket.

So tonight we're hoping we can,

as Thomas said, smoke out

some answers
about all these things.

We've placed these receptacles

in a place where we hope

the smoke will be drawn right up

to that region
that we want it in.

Uh, Avalon Fire
Department will be here

in a little bit to help make
sure that we do this safely.

Yeah, so, let-let's get to work.

- Sounds good.
- All right.

I'm praying for a lot of smoke.

Ever since we saw the
blob above the triangle,

I thought that building
large fires there and creating

a lot of smoke might
help us be able to paint

the invisible man, so to speak.

So tonight's exercise
where we're gonna have

two large containers with fire
is gonna give us the opportunity

to put a lot of smoke
up in this space

over a long period of time.

We're getting there.

TRAVIS: While
the fires fill the air

inside the bubble with smoke,

we're hoping
that it will allow us

to see the shape of the bubble

either with our own eyes,

or on our instruments.

Dave Mason will be operating

his specialized FLIR
thermal cameras to capture

anything strange that might
appear cooler than normal

in what will be a
very hot environment.

If he does capture anything,

it could be more
evidence that something

of significance is
above the triangle.

Meanwhile, Pete will fly

his thermal drone to also
look for unusually cold

or hot spots

and operate a
terrestrial laser scanner

to hopefully image
and confirm the size

and shape of the bubble anomaly.

With some luck, this
experiment will help us determine

if the bubble is the source
of strange phenomena

that we continually
see on the ranch.

Hey, triangle, this is Erik.

Hey Erik, its Travis,
go ahead, man.

Hey, man, how you
guys doing on setup?

I'm ready here at
the command center.

TRAVIS: So, we're
ready to actually

start the fires if you are.

Copy that. Thanks, man.

TRAVIS: While I monitor my
spectrum analyzer in the field

for strange energy signals,
Erik will be watching everything

on his surveillance system
in the command center

which not only includes
his own spectrum analyzer,

but also high-speed and
night vision camera feeds

from devices that he's
placed all around the ranch.

All right, Thomas. I
say we light this thing.

Copy that.

If there's anything
in that airspace

above the triangle tonight,

my hope is that,
with all this smoke,

we're gonna be able to see it.

TRAVIS: What the hell?

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Travis.

Hey, man, I'm suddenly getting

a signal at 1.2 gigahertz.

Are you seeing
anything like that?

I have a very strong
peak right at 1.2 gigahertz.

Let's just keep an eye
on it through the exercise.

Copy that.

Just as we were about
to light our first fire,

I take a look at my
spectrum analyzer

and see a 1.2 gigahertz signal.

But we weren't broadcasting it.

So that put me and
Erik on high alert

for anything that might
appear in the smoke

once we got the fire lit.

All right, guys, we're
ready to light this first bin.

Uh, here it goes.

There it goes.

Burn, baby, burn.

There's a lot of heat
coming off that now.

Yep.

Well, we're now flooding
that zone pretty good.

Yeah, we sure are.

That's a lot, that's
a lot of hot air.

THOMAS: You guys ready
for us to light the second one?

Light that second fire.

That's all I needed to hear.

All right.

Perfect.

That's a great smoke column.

DAVID: All right,
what the hell is that?

A big cold pocket just forming.

Oh, that is weird.

You guys should see this.

This is just weird.

This cold vortex in the heat.

David, that is
really interesting.

Oh, there's another one.

In the FLIR we're picking
up these dark zones.

These cold vortexes in the heat.

And then some of them
would just kind of move around.

ROYSTON: Look at that.

DAVID: Yeah, see? Right
there. That, yeah, see?

That doesn't make any sense.

ROYSTON: It's a cold void.

A cold void that's...

and it's right
above the triangle.

ROYSTON: We're
getting multiple now.

DAVID: Yeah.

Ooh, ooh.

Whoa.

DAVID: Cold zones in the heat.

- ROYSTON: Whoa, right there.
- DAVID: Yeah, see? Right there.

- That, yeah.
- Look at that.

TRAVIS: The
fires at the triangle

were filling the air
with heat and smoke

just like we planned.

But what we couldn't
have expected

were the strange cold
spots that appeared

in Dave Mason's
thermal camera data.

DAVID: This is just amazing.

And I don't have
an explanation for it.

DAVID: The cold
spots that registered

as black or just extremely cold

are in the vicinity of where
there would be extreme heat,

and there's no physics
explanation for this.

I have never observed
this, nor would I expect

to be able to observe this.

This was the strangest
thing I've ever seen.

TRAVIS: All right, I
think I'm gonna put

a rocket up through there.



Since we had no idea if the
cold spots were physical objects...

I think right
there's gonna do it.

I decided to
launch a rocket to see

what would happen as it flew

through one of these anomalies.

Everybody, everybody be advised.

At the triangle, we have
a rocket is going hot.

Rocket is going hot.

Copy that.

Guys, be advised
we're about ready

to go with the rocket launch.

Have all your
sensors ready to go.

Uh, David,

be paying attention on
your differential FLIR, please.

Yeah, roger that,
I'm doing that.

In five,

four, three,

two,

one.

Dude, that one went straight up.

Come on, chute.

KALEB: Eyes on it?

TRAVIS: I don't have
any eyes on it either.

- KALEB: Right there.
- There it is.

Good chute.

KALEB: It stopped?

Rocket went straight
up, chute has deployed.

And it's sitting still
right over the triangle.

- KALEB: What?
- TRAVIS: Look at that.

It's not even moving.

It looks like it's floating
right over the triangle.

It's not coming down.

Look at that.

KALEB: It's not even moving now.

TRAVIS: It's not moving.

Thomas, look, it ain't falling.

KALEB: It looks like
it's suspended in the air.

It ain't even falling.
What the hell?

That is insane.

KALEB: Now it's moving.

TRAVIS: Yeah, it's
coming down now.

It's gonna come right
down on top of us.

I couldn't tell at the
moment what caused it,

but something clearly
made that rocket freeze

midair a couple hundred
feet high for several seconds.

There was literally no wind at
the time that would explain it.

So, could it have been
something strange inside

the bubble that held
it in place like that?

Look at that, there's
that cold thing again.

- Yeah, look at...
- Oh, you got a vortex.

DAVID: We're getting stuff here
showing up on the differential

where it's just cold
temperatures above the flames.

TRAVIS: That's fantastic.

And it's repeatable.
It keeps doing it.

DAVID: Yeah, it keeps doing it.

That's great stuff.

You got something
repelling it, repelling the heat.

And look how it, like,
you can tell how it moves,

like it's resisting.

- Yeah, that's great stuff, man.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: When Dave Mason
showed me another cold anomaly

that appeared in the
smoke above the triangle,

I couldn't believe
it. It was huge.

And he was right that it was
moving through the smoke,

seemingly pushing the heat
away like it was a physical object.

Hey, Erik?

Do you copy?

Yeah, Travis. Go ahead.

Dave's still got, on
his differential FLIR,

a cold vortex

going straight up
from the flames.

All the way up to probably
about 200 feet high.

- Look at that, David.
- ROYSTON: Look at that.

TRAVIS: There
it is. Look at that.

ERIK: I cannot wait to see that.

TRAVIS: All right, I'm gonna
go set this over and check out

my instruments to see if we're
detecting any strange signals.

Oh, what we got here?

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Travis,

go ahead.

I'm getting

a signal at 1.6 gigahertz.

I was wondering
if you're seeing it,

uh, with any of your equipment.

ERIK: I'm dialing
in on it right now.

So, Travis, I'm looking
at the spectrum analyzer.

And I do show a peak

right at 1.60001.

That looks like a
communication signal.

ERIK: That is
really interesting.

TRAVIS: I'm getting,

uh, a signal at 1.601 gigahertz.

That looks like a
communication signal.

ERIK: Copy that.

Keep an eye on that, please.

Copy that.

Right after we saw another huge
cold spot appear in the smoke

right above the
center of the triangle,

my spectrum analyzer

started detecting a


But since that's the frequency
that our own military reserves

for Earth-to-space
satellite communications,

the obvious question was:
what or who might have

been trying to
communicate with us?

So I think, uh, I think we're at
a point where we might as well

douse the fires because
there's going to be a lot

- of smoke at the end, right?
- Yeah.

And then when they
douse it, put it out,

- I'll launch another rocket when the smoke's the biggest.
- Okay.

I'll, uh, radio Erik
and let him know.

Okay, great. Thanks.

THOMAS: Hey, Erik, um...

we're gonna go ahead
and douse these things out,

uh, here in just
a minute or two.

Uh, you should see quite a
bit of smoke coming up off of it.

Copy that, Thomas.

I'm gonna watch
when that happens

and then get out there as
soon as I can afterwards.

TRAVIS: Soon as they
get it doused, we'll go.

KALEB: Okay.

TRAVIS: The flames were
putting out a lot of smoke.

But we wanted to get
even more up into the air

to see if it would reveal
any other anomalies

within the bubble before I
launched one more rocket.

ERIK: Smoke looks good.

We're ready to launch.

TRAVIS: Copy that. All right.

The rocket is
hot, rocket is hot.

All right, Kaleb.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

Dude, that went
straight up, too.

- Come on, chute. Oh, did you see that?
- Yeah, I saw that.

TRAVIS: Oh, holy
crap, what was that?

KALEB: What was that light?

TRAVIS: Yeah, did you
see that? Where did...?

I lost the rocket completely.

KALEB: Did the chute open?

It was, like, right
next to the rocket.

We heard it hit the ground!

It lawn-darted.

Right after we launched
the rocket straight up

above the triangle...

What the crap?

Everyone on the ground saw

a bright bluish-white
orb fly by it.

And then the rocket's
chute failed to deploy.

I don't know if the two
things were connected,

but it was really odd timing.

KALEB: Erik?

Kaleb, go ahead.

When, when we
shot that rocket off...

there was a bright light
that went flying right by it.

Did you, by chance, see that?

I did not notice a bright
light flying past the rocket.

Hey, Erik. I'm gonna say it
was no-no higher than 100 feet.

It was a bright orb,

flew by the rocket
right as we launched.

Is that a naked eye observation,
or is that through a camera?

Naked eye observation.

It was a bluish-white light.

Copy that. Now,
that's dang interesting.

I'll be right out there.

TRAVIS: What we all saw tonight

during the experiment
was beyond stunning.

Erik, I think we're
wrapping up, so, uh,

we could meet and
wrap up out here.

But we have a lot of lidar data,

thermal, and Erik's various
surveillance videos to review

to see if any of those
instruments captured

anything else tonight
that might tell us

more about the
bubble and all the other

crazy phenomena that
keeps happening inside of it.

- Erik.
- Some excited voices.

Right when the
rocket went up, Erik,

this blue-white orb flew over
probably about 100 feet high.

Now, he was doing probably


All of us saw it.

We got everything running.

Something had to
have captured that.

Yeah, we will have
a record of that.

And I got to tell you, when
we, when we look at the plume,

when we look at the
smoke, we're gonna see

brief periods of time

when there's structure
in that smoke that is

very reminiscent of what
we like to call the blob.

He caught many of those.

I caught those in
the differential FLIR.

And we were seeing in the
heat plumes, we were seeing

these cold zones,
circular patterns,

appearing in the heat.

- And they were cold.
- ROYSTON: Black. Black cold.

Black cold. I mean,
just, just black.

He has some fascinating stuff.

What is going on?

So who wants to stay
up and help me scrub

- through data tonight?
- [laughter]

I cannot wait to
look through all that

to find what that was.

TRAVIS: What's going on?

Well, you know what they say...

where there's smoke there's
fire, so we're gonna be looking

at the data coming
out of that smoke

and fire experiment that we did.

ROYSTON: Yeah.
There was a lot going on.

TRAVIS: After
processing our data

the following morning
and most of the day,

Erik gathered us in the
command center to review it.

And we could all tell

by his expression that he found

a lot more incredible stuff
for us to analyze together.

Well, I can't wait
to dive in on this.

You know, quite a
bit of data to review.

I've got video footage from
so many different perspectives

across the ranch.

You know, uh,

not surprisingly, one of
the interesting things we got

was actually before we got
into the experiment proper.

During the setup.

TRAVIS: Oh. You
mean when we were

detecting that 1.2
gigahertz signal?

Yeah.

Let me bring it up.

Okay.

Yeah, so we're looking at
color night vision footage

of the mesa.

And, uh, the area of interest,
really, is gonna be up here.

Now I'm gonna take us
forward. You're gonna see...

and I'll zoom in on it...

you're gonna see
some things happening

up here in this
part of the screen.

Right here.

And there it is. There it is.

TRAVIS: Oh, what is that?

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ERIK: Okay, and
this kind of thing

really illustrates the
challenge we face

whenever we see
stuff over the mesa.

It's really hard to make
out any kind of form to it.

TRAVIS: Yeah, that one's

not an aircraft or a drone.

That's all I can
say about that one.

The possible UAP
that Erik captured

on his night vision
surveillance camera

during our experiment

was flying too low
to be a satellite.

And it was definitely not
maneuvering like a plane.

So, what was it?

Where did it come from?

And could it have been
related to the mysterious


detected when it showed up?

ERIK: You know what
really stands out for me?

- It's the rate of travel.
- Mm-hmm.

It's traveling faster than
a satellite typically does,

and it's not an airplane.

ERIK: That's right.

There's no strobe.

- Yeah.
- Now I want to jump into

the rest of the experiment.

Remember, after
we got the fires going,

we did do a rocket launch.

I've got some video content

that David Mason
has shared with us

from his differential
thermal FLIR system.

We do see the rocket
in this video sequence,

but there's also another
feature that you may remember

he was drawing our attention to,

- and it was a cold zone.
- Mm-hmm.

- I remember that.
- That cold zone was there almost all night.

- It was really weird.
- Yeah.

ERIK: I'm just gonna
let this play through.

TRAVIS: So, you can see
the two fire bins on either side

and the hot smoke rising.

But for some reason you
got these dark, cold zones

right about where the blob was.

THOMAS: As we review the data
from the smoke-fire experiment

in the triangle,
it's crazy to think

that these cold spots
were right above me.

There was so much
heat in that area.

I don't even see
how that's possible.

To have these cold spots,

what could possibly
be going on here?

You know, we sat there all
night with that... those fires burning

and the smoke going.

And that spot of coldness

stayed right there

above the triangle.

That stayed there.

What anchored that to that spot?

And it lasted for a long time.

ERIK: I say

there's an effect
there and it's real.

But what the hell
is it? I don't know.

PETE: I have

no explanation for that.

But I've got a few things
I wanted to show you all.

Okay.

PETE: This is the triangle.

This is the SLAM lidar scanner.

This, to me, was the
most interesting one.

The first thing that I thought
was cool is lidar can see smoke.

TRAVIS: Look at
that. That is cool.

ERIK: Wow.

Well, it's really interesting

that we have such
a sharp boundary,

such a sharp line defining...

Do you see that
upper left corner?

ROYSTON: Yeah, that's true.

TRAVIS: Almost like it was kept
inside the triangle for some reason.

PETE: I was just gonna say.

- That's what I'm seeing.
- Yeah. Yeah.

Look at the boundary
t... on the east.

TRAVIS: To the triangle, yeah.

Look at the triangle around it.

PETE: That's weird.

TRAVIS: Yeah, why
is that a straight edge,

like there's a boundary
that the smoke just stops at?

ERIK: What the hell in
that space is bounding

the flow of smoke?

TRAVIS: That's pretty crazy.

ERIK: To find some structure

in the smoke,

honestly, this is not
what I'm expecting to see.

We don't claim to know
the physics at this point.

We don't even know
how this is possible.

Clearly, there's
something going on,

and that something is real.

What that something is
remains to be determined,

but I want to find out.

Well, check this out.

If you rotate this and
look at it from the south,

there was something
that looked quite solid

sort of poking
out of that cloud.

The feature that
first caught my eye...

because it appears
to be more solid...

- was actually in this area here.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.

ERIK: All right,

I'm gonna point and you tell me

where Dave's feature,
his cold spot, was located.

You can stop in height, but
you need to go to the west.

Stop right there.

- Right there?
- Yep.

That's where the big
cold spot, or vortex, was.

PETE: That's crazy.

- ERIK: Yeah.
- They look similar,

now that I'm looking at it.

Wow.

PETE: That is wild.

TRAVIS: There's clearly
structure right in there

that's more dense, or
has more particle points,

than the rest of the cloud.

ERIK: How do you get such
coherent structure in smoke?

TRAVIS: That's crazy.

Between the cold spot
that Dave Mason captured

in his thermal camera

and the features in the smoke

that both Erik and Pete Kelsey
picked out in the lidar data,

it made us wonder if there
could be multiple anomalies

at the center of the bubble.

But if so,

what are they and what
purpose do they have?

PETE: I'll bring up another one.

Another scan.

And this... I remember

this last scan was running

when we saw
something in the sky.

TRAVIS: Now, was this when
we launched that last rocket?

PETE: Yes. But that

was over the mesa.

And right now

we're looking
towards the east field.

Everybody saw
a blue ball of light

fly across the property,

probably about


Do you see any returns from
that on any of the lidar data?

PETE: Well, check this out.

TRAVIS: What is
this dot right here,

floating in the air?

- PETE: Over here?
- Right there.

There it is.

TRAVIS: What is this
dot right here, floating

in the air?

Everybody on the
ground saw this.

- It was so bright. - PETE: Yeah.
- ERIK: That's right.

TRAVIS: We captured

whatever this thing
was with the lidar.

Yeah.

We're talking about

a visible light phenomenon

with so many witnesses.

TRAVIS: What is
this dot right here?

ERIK: I fully expected to have

multiple angles of
whatever this object was

in the video record.

But, clearly,

while none of the camera assets

caught this thing
in the field of view...

- I was convinced we would've had it in multiple cameras.
- Yes.

We do have a potential match

to that very bright light

in the lidar data.

How is that possible?

Maybe there's a
connection to the bubble.

I'm not gonna
pretend to understand

what's going on there,

but I'm anxious to see

what comes out of
the rest of the data.

We did a lot of scans.

I'm just gonna
show you one more,

because this is the
really interesting one.

I'll just come around
to the launch site.

TRAVIS: Okay, so what
are we looking at right there?

PETE: This, I
believe, is the rocket.

TRAVIS: The rocket? Uh-huh.

PETE: This is a total
mystery once again.

In almost the same spot
in over 25 scans now,

there's been something
in that direction

giving me returns,

going well up into the sky.

- TRAVIS: Is that the edge of the bubble?
- Yes.

TRAVIS: All right. So
this is looking straight up.

- Straight up. Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, this is looking straight up. And there's the top

of the bubble. You
can see the rings.

Look here. It's, uh...

You can see this ring right
here. There's the central point.

There's another
ring here and there.

Look, here's-here's
an outer ring here.

You can still see it.

You can see the
walls of the bubble.

- PETE: Yeah.
- Look. See?

Here's... Here it is. Look.
You can see the walls.

You can see it.

The lidar picked it up again.

Our fires

and smoke certainly gave us

more data on possible
anomalies above the triangle.

But just like Pete's lidar
data from one year ago,

we now have
repeatable hard evidence

that a massive
bubble-shaped phenomenon

is encompassing the entire area.

Now we've got to
figure out an experiment

to determine what it is

and what these weird
things inside of it could be.

This was a
fascinating experiment.

- Yeah.
- We've got a cold blob floating in the air that doesn't move.

- We've got people seeing blue orbs.
- [chuckles]

And we got, uh,

lidar picking up a
bubble around us.

That's crazy.

So, Erik, maybe you were right.

Where there's
smoke, there is fire.

This time for sure. And more.

- Yes.
- So, after looking at all the data, you know, I wonder,

what follow-up do
we feel is appropriate?

I'm gonna reach
out to LOC Precision

and see if they have
some slightly larger rockets.

- ERIK: Mm-hmm.
- Large enough, we could put better instruments in.

And maybe we could plan
an experiment around that.

So that we could do a
launch and track the launch

all the way up and then all
the way back down, right?

And not only that, we
put high-speed cameras,

maybe some long time
exposures. Uh, you know,

- whatever we can think of, we'll-we'll throw at it.
- Yeah.

- All right, guys.
- All right. I'm gonna leave you with it, Erik.

That was amazing.

ERIK: We've seen the cold spots

and other interesting features
above the container fire,

which, quite frankly, I
don't fully understand.

You know, we're just continuing
to see activity in that region.

So my hope is that,

as we continue
to collect the data,

we will have a
better understanding

of what we're dealing with here.

I'm convinced that whatever's
surrounding the triangle

could be the key to
identifying all the phenomena

we keep seeing in the air.

And, who knows, if we
can crack this mystery,

it might also help
give us the answer

to what's inside the mesa.

BRANDON: For years,
the mysterious triangle

has continued to
be a center of gravity

for high strangeness

and some of the most
compelling evidence

observed and documented
at Skinwalker Ranch.

As we commence this next chapter
of the investigation,

the triangle and its region
continue to baffle us

and hold secrets
that have yet to be revealed.

We see the triangle

as potentially the key
to finding answers

as to what may lie
above Skinwalker Ranch.