06x06 - Posting Up

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TRAVIS: Our intent today
is to do an experiment

to measure a phenomena
that we call the bubble.

ROYSTON:
I can't take off.

TRAVIS: How is putting
a balloon up in the sky

keeping you from
launching your drone?

Rocket's hot.

Something pushed
the rocket away!

ROYSTON: Unbelievable.

Let's dive in on this
part of the video frame.

- ROYSTON: Wow.
- ERIK: That's actually not far

from the boundary of our bubble.

TRAVIS: We need
to devise experiments

at those barrier locations.

KALEB: Maybe we need to go out

and do field markers.

ERIK: They will indicate
the boundary of that bubble.

TRAVIS: We've
got a hole drilled.

Erik and I both
would really like to get

some scientific analysis from
instruments inside these holes.

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.

- THOMAS: New day, huh?
- ALEX: New day.

Are we ready to go
on the second hole?

Ready to go.

TRAVIS: This morning kicked off

with a lot of excitement for
our team on Skinwalker Ranch.

After more than a year

of dealing with strange
mechanical problems,

we've finally completed
the first of two boreholes

up through the mesa,

where ground-penetrating
radar has showed evidence

of a massive object

and several smaller
anomalies buried inside there.

I would recommend that we stay

as close to the depth
as the other hole

- as we can.
- Yeah.

We can definitely do that.

- TRAVIS: Let's get to drilling.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: Let us know if
anything weird happens.

- ALEX: Sounds good.
- Perfect.

TRAVIS: So, today, the team
from Mark Construction Drilling

is getting started on a
second identical borehole

about 45 feet to the west,

which will give us
one hole on either side

of the large buried object.

- ALEX: Push it faster.
- I'll let you know

when you're about
to get into the wall.

ERIK: Our plan is to have
a pair of parallel boreholes

on either side of
the large object.

Having these two parallel
pathways through the mesa

would enable us to insert

a variety of
scientific instruments

so that we can study
whatever that anomaly is.

So it is essential that
we get this second hole

through the mesa.

THOMAS: Hey, guys.

I want to introduce you
to, uh, Chris Roberts.

- How you doing, Chris?
- Hey, man.

- Travis.
- While the drillers got to work

on Borehole ♪2,

we welcomed archaeologist
Chris Roberts to the ranch.

He's going to play a critical
role in our mesa investigation.

I figure since he's got a lot
of experience of looking for,

- uh, you know, things and...
- TRAVIS: Artifacts

- in dirt.
- Looking for artifacts in dirt,

uh, it'd be a good fit.

But we get so
spread out sometimes,

- I figure we could use a little help.
- Mm-hmm.

- TRAVIS: That's a good idea.
- We could use a lot of help. -Yeah.

CHRIS: I've done a lot of historic
and prehistoric archaeology.

So I've been invited

to look at the spoils that
have come out of the mesa

from the drilling process

and determine if there are
any artifacts in those spoils.

THOMAS: So, uh,

Chris, we're-we're
just getting ready

to start drilling our second
hole up into the mesa.

And as they're drilling,

those spoils will
come out of the-the pit

and they get sucked up in
this vacuum trailer over here

so you can sift through 'em.

So any-any insight that
you can, uh, you know,

bring is-is great. It's
another perspective.

You know, we're looking
at it more from engineering

and-and physics perspective.

To have archaeological
perspective is good.

Great. Yeah.

TRAVIS: Three years ago...

- Look at that.
- When we first drilled into the mesa,

we were stunned to
recover fragments of metal

that are similar to what NASA,

SpaceX, and even Blue Origin use

to protect the
exterior of spacecraft.

Oh, my.

So as Borehole ♪2 goes
up through the mesa,

Chris will use
specially made screens

to scour the drilling spoils
for any additional clues

that might help us figure out

just what is
buried inside there.

I can get out here
and look at anything

that's coming out of
there that's unnatural

and see what we have
for any kind of materials

that we really want
to look at closely.

And, in addition, I do
have a metal detector.

TRAVIS: That sounds great.

Okay, well, uh, Chris,

I think I'm gonna take
you up to the spoils pit

and get you familiar with
kind of the lay of the land.

And then we'll get you
going with the spoils sifting.

Sounds great.
Let's take a look at it.

TRAVIS: Sounds great.
Good to meet you, man.

Later that day...

while the drilling operation
in Borehole 2 continued...

All right.

Kaleb and Thomas
went to the top of the mesa

with ground-penetrating
radar expert Jan Francke

to start our very first scanning
operation in Borehole 1.

THOMAS: So you've
got your GPR equipment.

I've got my device.

And what's really
neat about this is,

instead of the backpack system,
this is much more compact.

THOMAS: Perfect.

JAN: There's an actual
computer on board.

Got the data coming in.

And when we're ready to
go, I'm just gonna press start.

We're ready.

- JAN: Awesome.
- KALEB: Yeah.

JAN: Wi-Fi on.

TRAVIS: In the past, Jan
has used his GPR devices

to scan from the
outside of the mesa,

which is how we
originally detected

all the things we think
are buried in there.

But now that we've
completed our first borehole,

he's going to insert a much
more specialized GPR device,

which will be scanning all
the way down and around

to hopefully give us
even more information

about the exact locations and
sizes of these believed objects.

JAN: I want to read
out the distance.

Let's do meters,
'cause if we do feet,

there's just too
many feet to read out.

THOMAS: All right.

JAN: Okay, let's do this.

So, one meter.

Two meters.

So, what I brought today

is a different type of GPR
than we've used here before.

In fact,

I designed it
specifically to be used

in the pyramids in Egypt

to be able to get up
into a very small crack

between some rocks.

So this is a tiny, tiny GPR.

And the idea is get
it down the borehole.


really deep in there.

So they can at least

look around the hole 20 feet out

and see anything
that might be there.

Sixty-five.

- Oh, geez.
- All right.

Whoa.

- THOMAS: Getting tough?
- Yeah. Right there.

I'm starting to hit
something right there.

JAN: What do you
think we're hitting?

I don't know. We can't
get past where we're at.

- There's no getting by it.
- What are we at?

How many meters
are we at right now?

JAN: We're at, uh,



- Right? So 240 feet.
- So...

We're definitely
alongside of the anomaly,

- I think.
- I would think so.

TRAVIS: The inside of Borehole 1

has been coated
with a gel-like cement.

So it should be totally open

for the device to move
all the way through it.

Could the massive object or
one of the smaller anomalies

that we believe are in
there have stopped it up?

If so, how?

- THOMAS: I think we pull it out.
- JAN: Okay... Yeah.

THOMAS: I can't wait to
see what the data says.

JAN: I'm excited.

TRAVIS: What's going on, man?

Well, I have some
results for you guys.

- Ready.
- Well, I'm glad. Let's see what you got.

The next morning, Jan met
with us in the command center

to present the processed
GPR data from Borehole 1.

So, what we did was we
tied the GPR to the PVC pipe,

right, and we pushed that down
as far as you can get in there.

- And this is in Borehole 1?
- This is in Borehole 1.

- ERIK: Right.
- That's right.

And we got down
just over 200 feet.

Which is, I guess,
about a third of the way

of the entire borehole.

So I want to show you
some of the results from that,

and it showed me
something really interesting.

So, if I double-click on this,

take a look at this, guys.

So, this is the radar profile.

Remember, the left side
is the entrance to the hole.

TRAVIS: And the horizontal axis

is how deep we are in the hole.

JAN: Exactly right.

- Okay. Understood.
- Exactly.

And for this first bit,

there's really nothing
there. Nothing to speak of.

But you get to about, I
don't know, 20, 21 meters...

so that's about 60 feet...

and we get this very
interesting reflection

that could be metal.

- Really?
- JAN: Yeah. This device

doesn't penetrate metal.

So any reflections
we get are going to be

very, very strong if the
energy hits the metal target.

But what's interesting is

that this really shouldn't be

in a sandstone mesa out
here in the middle of nowhere.

Right.

So, this is not the only
anomaly though, right?

We see another one.

- TRAVIS: Yeah, I'm looking. I see.
- There's a second one

- right there.
- TRAVIS: 25 meters away

from the other
one down the hole.

That's about 150 feet in.

JAN: Isn't that interesting?

Uh, we're quite
deep into the mesa.

So I wouldn't expect there
to be metal. [chuckles]

- Right?
- Wow.

TRAVIS: Jan's new GPR scans

definitely helped verify that
there are possible objects

buried in the
sandstone mesa and...

they're really in close
proximity to Borehole 1.

But what are these things and
how might they have been related

to whatever stopped Jan's device

from proceeding
further into Borehole 1?

I'm very hopeful that we're able
to get that second borehole up

and understand what
the shape of this thing is

- that we're dealing with.
- THOMAS: The drillers are getting

their butts kicked
out there right now,

but they are making progress

and we are inching
up towards the top

- of Borehole 2.
- ERIK: Yeah.

- This is fantastic. Yeah.
- Well, if anything, this makes me

- more excited than ever to get down in that hole.
- Yeah. Yeah.

- Yeah.
- Thank you.

Awesome, Jan.
Appreciate it, man.

- My pleasure.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: All right,

well, let's get to work.

CHRIS: Let's go take a
look. See what we see.

All right, well, uh, call
down to us, and, uh,

- if we've got something, we'll come over.
- Sounds good.

TRAVIS: The next
morning, while Erik Bard

was overseeing the drilling
of Borehole 2 in the mesa,

nearby, Thomas Winterton

was helping Chris
Roberts prep the sifting area

where Chris will search
through all the spoils for clues.

KYLE: Hey, Allan.

Easton said he's still
not getting water in the pit.

Try blasting it some more.

Okay. I'm gonna blast it.

TRAVIS: Everything
with the drilling operation

seemed to be going fine.

But then,

all of a sudden,

something really weird happened.

ALLAN: Still nothing?

KYLE: I got nothing.

Easton said there's
nothing coming out, man.

TRAVIS: The drillers use
water to lubricate their bit

while cutting through
the sandstone,

which should then
come back out of the hole.

Well,

suddenly, all of the
water was disappearing

somewhere inside the mesa.

ALLAN: Hey, Thomas.

This is Bearcat
over at the drill.

Yeah, this is Thomas. Go ahead.

We're not getting
anything out of the mesa.

We're pumping water in.
We're not getting anything out.

All right, I'll head up there.

This is definitely
concerning to hear

that there's no water coming
back out of Borehole 2.

I hope there isn't a
major problem here.

It's imperative that we
get these two holes finished

so we can finally
get some answers

as to what lies inside the mesa.

So how far are we into the mesa?

Should be about 85 feet.

So, at 85 feet is
when you noticed

- the fluid stopped flowing back?
- Yeah.

Yeah. 'Cause I pumped

about a quarter of my
thousand-gallon tank through it,

and all my returns stopped.

So you've pumped 250 gallons
in so far with nothing coming out?

Yeah.

Where it's going, we don't know.

Some kind of void.

TRAVIS: Based on
numerous GPR scans,

we believe we're drilling
just to the west of a massive,

possibly metallic object

and smaller anomalies
buried in the mesa.

Now we're finding
evidence of a void there, too?

Just what could that be?

So what are you guys
thinking you're gonna do?

ALLAN: We're gonna
keep drilling forward

and hopefully we get
back into rock soon

and the water and
spoils will come out again.

I find that very interesting.

It's definitely something I
want to let Erik know about.

Okay.

Hey, Erik. You got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas, what do you got?

So, the drillers are
into the mesa 85 feet,

and, uh, the fluid has
ceased to come out of the hole,

indicating that we've got
some kind of void in there.

Uh, so far, they've lost
about 250 gallons of fluid.

Copy that. Boy,
that sure reminds me

of what happened the first
time we got into that mesa,

with the smoke bombs.

TRAVIS: All right, we're
gonna pop the smoke.

Three years ago,

after hearing rumors
about possible caves

or even some kind of secret
structure buried in the mesa,

we dropped smoke
bombs into small crevices

between some boulders

not too far from where
we're currently drilling.

We wanted to see if the
smoke would just rise back up

or come out somewhere
else and prove

that there was some
kind of void in there.

Look, look! It's
getting sucked in.

Yeah, the smoke's going down!

We should be seeing smoke
everywhere. There's no smoke.

There's nothing here.

TRAVIS: Well, something seemed
to actually suck the smoke in,

and it didn't come out anywhere.

It was like there was
some kind of vacuum

pulling it down inside there.

It made no sense.

At this point, uh,

not much else to do
other than press on

and see how much fluid we lose.

ERIK: Agreed.

That might be into
a much larger void.

TRAVIS: Is it possible that
some of the objects we detected

are sitting in some kind
of large void or structure?

And could that be related to
whatever pulled the smoke down

into the mesa several years ago?

It'll be interesting to see

if the drillers keep going
through empty space

or if they hit something solid
as they continue in Borehole 2.

ERIK: Tell them to keep
us advised as they continue

into the hillside.

THOMAS: Copy that.

[door opens]

All right, guys.

Think we've got
it all sorted out.

TRAVIS: While drilling
continued at the mesa,

Erik and I met with the team
outside the command center

to further investigate

another crazy mystery

that we're determined
to figure out.

ERIK: So we're looking

at points on the perimeter
of our structure, our bubble.

We've got three locations
where we'll put markers up

- around its perimeter.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: According to
several different kinds

of infrared lidar devices,

there is a gigantic,
invisible sphere or bubble

that is centered at the triangle

and has a radius
of about 2,000 feet.

That means it covers a
huge area of the ranch

where we've encountered
all kinds of phenomena...

like UAPs,

a mysterious cloudy blob,

and other anomalies in the air

that we can only see
with thermal cameras.

And its boundaries have
actually appeared to stop drones

and rockets from entering it.

So, I think we'll
start in the east field.

- THOMAS: Yeah, that'll be good.
- ERIK: Yeah.

- I'm ready to get started.
- Let's do it.

TRAVIS: Using all the lidar
data that identified the bubble,

Erik has been able to
map out the GPS points

for its believed perimeter

on the ground in
a computer model.

But to help us see the
perimeter with our own eyes

so that we can investigate it,

our plan is to mark it using
wooden posts all over the ranch.

Then we can also
equip the posts with lights

and different instruments.

Erik, if you want

to give me a GPS
coordinate, I'll walk to it.

Okay. So, 40 degrees,



and 109 degrees,



One, two, three.

ERIK: Let's go
ahead and land a post.

TRAVIS: Copy that.

ERIK: These wooden
posts will define

the boundary between

the interior and
exterior of the bubble,

with the intent of coming
back to those locations

and performing experiments.

TRAVIS: Looks great now.

- We'll see you, Thomas.
- Yeah.

ERIK: Hopefully,
we'll get some clues

as to what is responsible for
the nature of the phenomena here

at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're gonna go
to the tree lines.

I'm gonna go and find
where the next post would be.

- THOMAS: All right, sounds good.
- Okay.

It is thick in here.

KALEB: Hey, Travis.

- Yeah.
- Look, look. What's over here?

TRAVIS: You got
to be kidding me.

TRAVIS: You've
got to be kidding me.

It's one of the GPS
bottles we lost?

Yeah.

It's been... three years

since we dropped them
things out of the helicopter.

That's crazy.

Holy crap. Just as we were
about to mark another spot

right at the western
boundary of the bubble,

Kaleb and I found a bottle
with a GPS device in it

that we lost back in 2021.

- I've got the triangle.
- CAMERON: Yep.

- Package away.
- TRAVIS: Package away.

After detecting some
strange radio frequency signals

high above the triangle,

we dropped bottles

with devices in them
from Brandon's helicopter,

hoping to collect data
between 5,000 feet

and the ground to
see if we could pinpoint

- the source of the signals.
- It looked like,

uh, it pulled the
bottle behind us.

- That makes no sense.
- Makes no sense.

TRAVIS: But several of
them seemed to bounce off

of something
invisible in midair,

and then we never
found them again.

Did they bounce
off of this bubble?

Look what Kaleb found!

What?

[laughing]

We dropped that three years ago,


way over the triangle.

THOMAS: Three years ago.

Th-That's crazy, man.

- Good eyes.
- TRAVIS: Erik's gonna be excited.

Hey, Erik. You copy?

Yeah, Travis. Go ahead.

Man, you ain't
gonna believe this.

Kaleb found one
of the yellow bottles

that we dropped from the
helicopter three years ago

just outside the bubble.

That's incredible.

Good find, guys.

All right, man, we're gonna head
on across to the south field now

to keep on with
the post exercise.

- Copy that.
- Okay.

I have to say, it's
almost surreal to find

this bottle that was
dropped out of the helicopter

at about 5,000 feet

years after the
actual experiment

on the edge of what
we're calling the bubble.

TRAVIS: How are we
where we are right now, Erik?

You're right on top of it.

All right, man.

We're marking the
spot. We're gonna dig

a hole, put a post in it.

ERIK: I'm not really
sure what mechanism

would transport the bottle

from the place
where it was dropped

along that bubble
to the very edge.

- TRAVIS: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- There we go.

I mean, it's... [chuckles]

it's such an improbable outcome.

ROYSTON: This
is it. Let's crown it

and get out of here.

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik, I think
we're gonna call it and head back.

All of you guys have
done some amazing work.

You have landed every
single one of those things

within a very tight margin.

TRAVIS: Can't wait
to see it from the sky.

-[steady beeping] -I'm walking
now with this GPS tracker,

so if you want to log it...

Hey, Travis!

TRAVIS: What?!

You're not gonna believe this!

What is it?

Are you kidding me?

THOMAS: What is it?

TRAVIS: Kaleb
just found a bottle!

Another one?

Yeah!

It's just unbelievable.

First we find one of
the missing GPS bottles

at the western
boundary of the bubble

and then another one right
outside the southern boundary.

It's like they literally
hit the top of the bubble

and then slid down its
barrier to land in these spots.

I mean, look at over
there, look how far we are

from the center of the triangle

on top of the mesa,
way over there.

How did that bottle get to here?

Look how far that is.

TRAVIS: We put up 30 posts today

to mark the bubble's
boundary on the ground

and made two
incredible discoveries.

Now we need to do
another experiment

to see if we can figure out
what this invisible phenomenon is

and how it's able to deflect
our instruments away from it.

It's been a long day.

We'll get your drone,
we'll head back.

THOMAS: We're facing
a potential problem.

- Right? -Yep.
- TRAVIS: Such as?

ALLAN: I'm hitting a
layer that's almost harder

than granite.

TRAVIS: How far in?

ALLAN: I'm about 130 feet in.

TRAVIS: The next day,
as we were getting ready

for a new experiment
at the bubble,

the drillers called
us out to the mesa

to see their progress
in Borehole 2.

They got past that strange void

and drilled up to
about the 130-foot level

through the sandstone.

But then, they
hit an obstruction

that didn't sound at
all like natural rock.

So, what do we do?

ALLAN: So, I'm trying
to carve up through it,

but it's way harder than
I was expecting to hit.

TRAVIS: All right, man.
Keep us posted on this.

- Yep.
- And Thomas, if he sees anything in the spoils,

- make sure you let us know.
- THOMAS: Will do.

- Just wanted to let you guys know.
- ERIK: Okay, guys.

TRAVIS: All right, man.

THOMAS: Look at how
much that pipe is flexing.

A lot of pressure.

TRAVIS: After a couple
hours of grinding away,

the drillers were able to
get through the obstruction

and move forward.

CHRIS [over radio]:
Hey, Thomas, it's Chris.

Uh, this is Thomas. Go ahead.

So I got something over here
you guys should take a look at

in the spoils.

All right, Chris, I'll
let the guys know.

We'll head right over.

[vehicle doors closing]

- Hey, guys, thanks for coming over.
- TRAVIS: What's going on, Chris?

I got something that
you guys would probably

be interested in right here.

Well, I've been, uh,
sorting the spoils,

kind of looking at
it a little bit closer,

broke out my magnet,
and this is what I found.

Wait, what?

THOMAS: Son of a g*n.

CHRIS: Yeah, it's
very suspicious.

If you look closely at
this one right here...

Man, look at this.

This looks just like what we
pulled out before, Thomas.

Exactly the same.

TRAVIS: We'll be
collecting anything strange

that comes out of Borehole


But these metal pieces
looked just like the ones

we found while drilling in
the mesa three years ago

when we first identified the
huge object buried in there.

And again, these metal pieces
turned out to be very similar

to what NASA and SpaceX use

to protect the
surfaces of spacecraft.

It looks layered to me.

Wow.

TRAVIS: Like, there's multiple
layers of different things.

If it is layered, what
would that tell you?

Well, that means it's a
manufactured material.

Did we just find
more major clues

about what the drill
just hit and what's buried

inside there?

We don't know yet,
but we're dang sure glad

that we have Chris looking
through all the spoils.

Th-That's jackpot
right there, man.

That's-that's amazing, Chris.

- It's a needle in a haystack.
- Absolutely.

Thanks. I'll look for more.

All right, well, stay with it,

and let us know if you find
anything else that awesome.

TRAVIS: Pete Kelsey,
ladies and gentlemen.

- KALEB: Hey, Pete.
- How you doing, man?

Good to see you.

TRAVIS: After marking
the western boundary

of the bubble earlier in the day

and finding those
two GPS bottles,

we asked lidar
expert Pete Kelsey

to help us with an experiment

to learn more about
the western boundary

out by Homestead Two.

Yeah, what's up for tonight?

We're standing not too far
from that boundary of that bubble.

- Right.
- You know, this is a spot

where we have seen that
rocket freeze in the airspace

from the perspective of
observers on the ground.

- That was here?
- TRAVIS: That... and it stayed there for, like,

six or seven seconds
without moving.

Wow.

TRAVIS: Last year, before
we knew about the bubble,

we launched a
rocket in this area

where we had detected a
strange radio frequency signal

coming from somewhere
up above the ranch.

And on its way
down, the rocket froze

at a few hundred feet
high for several seconds.

- Dude, it looks like it's stuck there. Look.
- KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS: So, was
that somehow related

to the western
boundary of the bubble?

All right, so we're at the
westernmost boundary

of the bubble for
this experiment.

So, we've got just a few
minutes of daylight left,

and I want to get this first
launch before the sun goes down.

You know I'll be monitoring
this part of the ranch

while we're doing all this.

So let me get out of
here and let you guys

- get to work.
- All right, let's get to work.

Let's go.

Tonight, Erik and I want
to see what'll happen

if I launch a new
rocket in that same place

near the western
boundary of the bubble,

where the other
one froze last year.

Whoa, the sun's sinking quick.

Meanwhile, Pete will run

his terrestrial lidar
scanner on the ground,

which is what first detected
the bubble earlier this year.

And Jim Royston is
going to attempt to fly

his lidar drone through
the barrier of the bubble

while looking out
for anything strange

that would otherwise be
invisible to our naked eyes.

Tracker's mounted,
and we're ready to go.

Well, let's get everything
in the air, and I'll launch

as soon as I see
the drones in the sky.

Okay, guys, I'm
gonna get up in the air.

I'm gonna do a scan.

TRAVIS: While
we work in the field

and I monitor my
spectrum analyzer

for any strange signals...

- All right.
- Erik will be watching us

on his surveillance cameras
in the command center

and monitoring his
own spectrum analyzer.

THOMAS [over
radio]: Hey, Erik, uh,

Jim's drone is in
the air and flying.

ERIK: Copy that, Thomas.

I am data-logging the
position of his drone.

TRAVIS: He'll also be tracking

the real-time GPS
data of Jim's drone,

looking out for any
errors like we've seen

at other spots along
the bubble's boundaries.

All right, everybody,
the rocket is going hot.

Here we go, in five,

four, three,

two, one.

ROYSTON: Look at how
fast that thing's moving.

TRAVIS: Beautiful!

It's going to exactly
the right place!

Wow.

TRAVIS: Oh, it's moving fast.

Crap.

The rocket's completely
changed direction.

Hey, Thomas? I
think that the rocket

made a turn when it got to about

the, uh, the barrier wall

of the bubble, over
Homestead Two.

- Now, that's interesting.
- Yeah...

That's interesting.

It's like the
bubble deflected it.

Well, the rocket
didn't freeze this time,

but there was definitely a point
when it suddenly veered away

from the believed
boundary of the bubble,

which is something we've
seen with other rockets

that got close to it.

What in the world is this thing?

Uh, how's your... Are you
getting good connectivity?

- No errors?
- [chuckles]

SAM: He's got errors already.

ROYSTON: Right
when you said that.

- Look at that.
- SAM: Nice.

ROYSTON: Uh-oh.

TRAVIS: You getting
errors? You losing it?

Right when I asked him, it
popped up on the screen.

ROYSTON: Oh, yeah,
it's... it lost everything.

THOMAS: Where was
it at when you lost it?

ROYSTON: Right over the barrier.

TRAVIS: Yeah, it was.

Unbelievable.

TRAVIS: That's interesting.

- THOMAS: What?
- Look,

I'm getting a 1.2
gigahertz signal, y'all.

We're not transmitting.

- Look at that.
- Whoa.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, what's up?


going absolutely nuts.

Copy that. I'm gonna
tune into that range.

You know, I'm seeing a
strong 1.2 gigahertz signal.

My antennas show the
signal is coming from the west,

somewhere near your location.

Copy that.

This was so creepy.

Erik had broadcast
a 1.2 gigahertz signal

earlier this year just to
monitor it for interference

during another experiment.

Something is
strange going on here.

And then something on the ranch

appeared to clone
it and broadcast

an identical signal back at us.

Since then, we've detected
this signal over and over

while investigating the bubble.

It's like something related
to it is trying to taunt us.

We don't have anything
transmitting from on property.

-That's the middle of dirt.
[laughs] -That's... well, that's...

it's right down there on
the edge of the bubble.

- Right where we put those posts.
- It's right where we put those posts.

It sure is, Thomas.

- I'll fly the drone down.
- Yes, yes. Can you?

- Yeah.
- All right, man.

- If you can fly, we'll do it.
- We'll get the thermal, yeah.

- I'm gonna go down there and look for it. All right.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: I wanted
to see if Jim's drone,

which is equipped
with a lidar scanner,

could finally get through

the western
boundary of the bubble

and pick up infrared images

of a potential invisible
source of that signal.

All right, let's go.

I want to follow that
drone over there.

THOMAS: So, you're
approaching as, uh...

- See the post right there?
- Yeah.

So you're not quite
to the bubble yet.

Uh-oh.

- THOMAS: There you are.
- Look at this.

ERIK: Be advised, I am seeing
some of the GPS data corruption errors

as he's flown out, uh,
towards the edge of the bubble.

THOMAS: So, right when
you get to the bubble wall,

your errors start
popping up like crazy.

ROYSTON: Well, you see that?

Every time I try to
push through the barrier,

look what happens.

THOMAS: It's like
it's pushing you back.

ROYSTON: So, I'm literally trying
to push through the barrier, right?

I'm right up against it.

THOMAS: He's trying to push
the drone through the bubble,

and it won't go.

No kidding.

Yeah, look it. It's
just right there.

TRAVIS: That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

- That's crazy, dude.
- KALEB: That's freakin' nuts.

TRAVIS: The drone
is stuck in the air.

That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

ROYSTON: Uh-oh.

THOMAS: I'm watching
you try to fly forward,

- and then the camera starts shaking.
- No, it's... yeah.

THOMAS: Like it's
up against something.

TRAVIS: We've been
trying to figure out

what causes all the high
strangeness on Skinwalker Ranch,

and it really looks like
this huge, invisible bubble

could be the answer.

And its barrier is
like a physical wall

that Jim Royston's lidar
drone is bumping up against

as it tries to fly into it.

THOMAS: It's like
he's being pushed back.

He can't get it to
advance any further.

Guys, I'm seeing a pile
of GPS error messages

with this drone.

Something's corrupted in
the data, and it correlates

with what you guys
are talking about.

- That's amazing.
- That's nuts.

ROYSTON: I'm almost out of...

communication here with it.

I'm gonna try to get it home.

THOMAS: We lost all
communication. He's bringing it home.

Or it's bringing itself home.

ROYSTON: That's crazy, man.

TRAVIS: Erik, there's not
much more we can do, then.

Why don't you head
down and we'll wrap

this thing up?

ERIK: Copy you, Travis.
I'm on my way over.

Tonight is one of those
nights on the ranch

that I won't forget
anytime soon.

It showed us once again
that the bubble is real.

And somehow it's able
to stop our equipment

from going inside its boundaries

to figure out
what it actually is.

All we can hope is
that crunching the data

we collected tonight

might get us
closer to an answer.

What a night.

What do you think
about that barrier?

KALEB: Well, you got to see a...

a recording of that
drone just stuck there.

- It was the craziest thing.
- Wow.

I think this turned out to be a
fascinating experiment, guys.

And I think we've added
more data to th-this bubble.

- This barrier is something real.
- Mm-hmm.

- Amazing. All right.
- Good night.

- Yeah, it was a good night.
- Yeah.

ERIK: Wait till you see the data

from last night's experiment.

ROYSTON: Oh,
absolutely. It was...

just like something
stopped my drone.

- [laughs]: Right.
- Literally

pushing the joysticks
as far forward...

It would not move.

- TRAVIS: That's crazy.
- THOMAS: Wow.

So, I've got the GPS
tracker data for the drone.

Here we see the
entire flight path.

Blue points are GPS
points that report back good.

TRAVIS: So, what
are the orange dots?

ERIK: So, those orange
dots represent the posts

that we've put out at
the edge of the bubble.

Right, I get it.

I'm gonna dive in.

Look at the red dots.

Let me rotate it.

Those are error points
at the edge of the bubble.

First errors is at the
frozen rocket spot,

and then the next
big bunch of errors

is right as you
enter the bubble.

Wow.

TRAVIS: This is crazy.

The GPS data
errors from the drone

started glitching right
at about the same place

where our rocket
froze midair last year.

And then the GPS data
was completely corrupted

when Jim's drone
bumped up against

the invisible barrier
of the bubble.

It's like a literal wall

that stops both entry
and data collection.

What the crap?

ERIK: Next, I'm gonna
ask you to walk us through

some of the video from
the drone perspective.

Yeah, let's look at it.

ERIK: Guys, you're
not gonna believe this.

This is from right when you got
stuck along the bubble barrier.

I mean, obviously, something
looks wrong with this.

I'm seeing a horizon that's...

TRAVIS: Why don't
you freeze it first, Erik?

- ERIK: Okay.
- Now, Jim, why don't you go up there

- and tell us what it all means?
- Yeah.

ROYSTON: Here, this
is the indicator right here,

though, my radio control
is having problems.

So the controller that I'm using

is having trouble
talking to the drone.

Something's interfering
electromagnetically

with the drone.

At that same time,

we see that bundle of
red GPS error points.

All right, and then
the "H" is what?

ROYSTON: This is my home.

Every time I leave the ground,

before I take off, it
registers a GPS home point.

And it also tracks my
distance from that point,

so it knows, if
anything happens,

how to get right to home.

ERIK: So, Jim,
is this a good time

to let this continue to play?

- Yeah. Yeah, let's go ahead and play it.
- Okay.

TRAVIS: Look at the home,
how it's going everywhere.

- It's even up in the sky.
- ROYSTON: Oh, that's crazy.

How did home
ever get in the sky?

ROYSTON: The
drone's stuck, but yet

it's thinking the home
point's changing.

At this point, the drone
doesn't know where the hell it is.

ROYSTON: Yeah.

ERIK: Let me play it
again, watch this number.

This is how far the
drone currently is

from its takeoff
location, from home.

Look here, that says 850 feet.

Which is pretty accurate.

ROYSTON: What the hell?

So he's coming backwards.

TRAVIS: Something
pushed it backwards

to 645.

It went 200 feet back.

What did we just witness here?

TRAVIS: Something
pushed the drone back.

Did it get pushed back 200 feet?

ERIK: Yeah, so,
let's play that again.

TRAVIS: As we're reviewing
last night's camera data

from Jim Royston's drone,

it appears that the western
boundary of the bubble

pushed the drone
backwards about 200 feet

in just a couple of seconds.

That's not at all what
we saw in the moment.

Is this the dang Twilight Zone?

What pushed the dad-gum
drone 200 foot backwards?

That is not wind.

THOMAS: No. There's no way.

TRAVIS: Do we have this on
another angle by any chance?

Absolutely.

Okay, here we go.

Now we're looking from
west of Homestead Two,

looking back towards the east.

Okay.

Would you rewind it real
quick and kind of zoom in

to where you can
get some airspace

- on the left side of the drone?
- Yeah.

What?

Is anyone else seeing
something over here?

All right, let me take
it back. You point it out

when I, when I get to it, okay?

THOMAS: There it is.

I see a green flash.

TRAVIS: I did
see it. I did see it.

Frame through it, Erik.

See how long it stays there.

ERIK: So, I'm gonna dive in.

- TRAVIS: There it is.
- THOMAS: There it is.

- TRAVIS: Holy crap. Look at that.
- KALEB: Yeah, there's something

right next to the drone.

There is something absolutely
right next to the drone.

A light that appeared there
kind of following the drone.

What does that mean?

ERIK: And we have the errors
thrown by multiple systems

during the flight.

You're getting, uh, messages
coming back on your display.

I'm getting data corruption
at very specific locations

during the course of the flight.

TRAVIS: So many
crazy things happened

in a short period
of time last night

along the western
barrier of the bubble.

We had the strange 1.2
gigahertz signal that we detected,

the rocket and GPS malfunctions,

and something pushed
the drone back 200 feet.

Could this UAP
have been connected

to all these things?

Uh, you know, I-I don't
know what else to say about it

other than we need to
keep studying this bubble.

- Right. -I love it.
- Yeah.

ERIK: Well, if nothing else,

this certainly makes
me want to return

to that part of the ranch.

- Absolutely.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, I agree.

- Thank you, guys.
- Yep.

ERIK: Well, that was
a deep dive, wasn't it?

ROYSTON: It's unbelievable.

ERIK: We have what
appears to be the confirmation

of some kind of


above the ranch.

Something that is
potentially energetic,

that can sometimes
result in data loss

on some of our equipment.

I'm still trying to sort out

what could be
responsible for that.

TRAVIS: Every method that
we've used to study this bubble

has led us to something
new that defies expectation.

I know it sounds crazy,

but the data keeps
showing that it is real

and it correlates with a
lot of other phenomena

that makes no sense.

We need to figure out
what the hell this thing is

and what it's doing here
on Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON: What we are
seeing shouldn't be possible.

That phenomenon that
we refer to as the bubble

continues to be
mapped with diligence.

Pressing forward with the
next series of experiments

as we enter and exit the bubble

will be more important
than ever before.

As we look to the future,

we hope to find even
greater insight and answers

about what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS: Lasers are up.

I'm just hitting
the bubble barrier.

KALEB: Dude,

it looks like you just
flew through something.

What?

KALEB: Hey, guys,
that laser just went out.

I-I don't understand it.

I took this picture.

TRAVIS: Something flying
through the laser beam.

-Oh. -What's beeping?

TRAVIS: Oh, my God, we're
getting huge gamma rays.

- THOMAS: Guys, it's going off!
- Everybody out now!