06x13 - Fire In The Holes

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This is a dome
that's 300 meters underground.

The question is,
what is this bubble?

That data corruption error
happened

right at the edge
of that bubble.

Correct. I've lost
complete control of the drone.

CHRIS:
I wanted to show you

what we found inside the mesa.

TRAVIS: This could be one
of the most miraculous finds

here on the ranch.

ERIK: I think we need
to run more lab tests

on the ceramic materials
at Utah Valley University.

TRAVIS: So, if we cool this to
about -320 degrees Fahrenheit

and it shows superconducting
properties, then we'll know

this material is a
superconductor.

BRIAN: And it's still
warmer than the nitrogen,

so the nitrogen is boiling away.

This is taking a lot longer
than I was expecting, right?

ERIK: That just makes

no sense to me at all.

TRAVIS: It does if it's like

a space shuttle tile.

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!

...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: The ceramic is still
boiling in the liquid nitrogen.

ERIK: That just makes
no sense to me at all.

It does to me if it's
like a space shuttle tile.

The ceramic materials

that came out of the
mesa on Skinwalker Ranch

right where we believe
a massive, metallic object

is buried are very strange.

We've been running tests on
them at Utah Valley University

to figure out what they
are, and the results suggest

they could be superconductors.

Those are
state-of-the-art materials

that can transfer energy
without any resistance

and might one day be used to
construct things like spacecraft

with gravity-defying
propulsion systems

that don't require rocket fuel.

ROYSTON: It is
boiling at almost the rate

-it started boiling.
-Yeah.

I just can't believe
something so small

could withstand something
that cold for that long.

TRAVIS: Typically,
in order to verify

if a material is a
superconductor,

they have to first
be cooled down

to liquid nitrogen temperatures

of about -320
degrees Fahrenheit.

But our ceramic sample
has been boiling in a dish

of liquid nitrogen
for several minutes,

and it isn't cooling down.

The only materials
I've ever seen

with the capability
to retain heat like that

are the ceramic tiles
that are used by NASA

and SpaceX as protective
coating for spacecraft.

But even then, those
will eventually cool down.

So what is this stuff?

BRIAN: Can we do a control?

We just want

to see how quickly
regular ceramic will cool.

TAMMY: It might be
worth comparing that.

Yeah, those blue pieces are...

-They're roughly the same size, right?
-Yeah.

TRAVIS: Let's-let's...
Why don't we do that?

Yeah, let's do that.

Okay. Anybody looking

-at their timer?
-SAM: It's running.

BRIAN: I'm gonna fill this up.

TRAVIS: As the ceramic sample

from the mesa continued boiling

in the liquid nitrogen,

we wanted to see for ourselves

how fast a control sample

of a normal, everyday piece
of ceramic tile would cool down.

The normal blue
one's cooling down.

There's a lot less
bubbles than in the dish

with the mesa ceramic.

-THOMAS: Our ceramic is still going.
-SAM: Yeah.

ERIK: I'm beginning to wonder

whether this is ever
going to stop boiling.

BRIAN: We're going
to add a little bit more

just for good measure.

Make sure we get nice and cold.

THOMAS: Oh, it's
start... It looks like

it's starting to
calm a little bit.

It's slowing down, I think.

Finally. But it took
several minutes longer

than it should have for the
mesa ceramic to cool down.

I say we give it a shot and
set the ceramic over the magnet

-to see if it shows the Meissner effect.
-BRIAN: All right.

TRAVIS: When a material that
is a superconductor is cooled

to a very low temperature,
it does something incredible.

It creates a kind of
force field within itself

that repels any change
in the magnetic field.

The superconductor
will push itself away

from the magnet
and possibly levitate.

This is called the
Meissner effect,

and that's what
we're testing for.

If the ceramic we found
is a superconductor,

we expect to see it push
itself away from the magnet.

He's going to set this
over that magnet right there.

Now, if the sample becomes

superconducting,
when it gets cool,

it will repel it.

To test for the Meissner effect,

Dr. Patchett is placing a magnet

right under the
center of a dish.

Then we'll place the ceramic

in the dish right
above the magnet

to see if it pushes itself away.

Here we go.

TRAVIS: It did jump a little.

-Did you notice that?
-BRIAN: Yeah.

-It did drift.
-It did, it did drift.

-Yes, it did.
-When I set it down, it drifted to the side.

ERIK: Let's try it again.

All right, here we go.

-TRAVIS: It did it again.
-BRIAN: It did it again.

-TRAVIS: Did you see that?
-TAMMY: Oh, wow.

-Yeah.
-You see it?

TRAVIS: That is
the Meissner Effect!

Yes.

TRAVIS: When we placed
the ceramic right over the center

of the dish and the magnet,

it immediately pushed
itself away and to the side.

If anything, you'd expect it
to stick right to the magnet,

but it was like the
ceramic levitated away.

The fact that it seemed

to levitate away from
the magnetic field

suggests, potentially,

that it could be
superconducting.

Fantastic.

TRAVIS: We still have no idea

what the massive object
and other anomalies

that we've detected
in the mesa are yet.

But could they really be covered

with superconductive ceramic
materials that can absorb heat,

like the protective
coatings on spacecraft?

If so, what the hell are
they, and how did they get



Boy, watching this makes me
want to do all kinds of follow-up.

We're going to have to. If
we're ever going to figure out

what it is, we're gonna
have to do lots of follow-up.

-Let's do it.
-All right.

Next, Erik devised a test
to see if another sample

of the ceramic material
would repeat a crazy result

we got a couple of weeks ago

when we examined it with a
scanning electron microscope.

As a beam of electrons
hit the ceramic's surface,

a bunch of holes
mysteriously appeared.

But when we turned the beam off,

the surface transformed
back to its original state.

All right, let's do this thing.

All right, Dr. Patchett, I'll go
ahead and prepare the samples.

Sure.

We want to be sure
that it wasn't simply

an optical illusion in the
scanning electron microscope,

and that the holes
really did open

and then close back up

on the surface of
the ceramic material.

So, we're going to
repeat the experiment

with another
ceramic sample to see

if the same thing happens again.

But this time, Erik has covered
half of the ceramic sample

with actual gold to act
as a protective coating.

ERIK: So, you can,
you can see the...

the gold covering is
distinctively different.

TRAVIS: Yeah,
yeah. I can see it.

So, I'll put this
in the chamber.

TRAVIS: We wanted to
see if the electron beam

from the scanning
electron microscope

would cause holes to appear
in the gold-covered portion

of the sample, as well
as the uncovered portion.

And if holes do
appear on both sides,

we want to see
what happens to them

when the beam is turned off.

So now I can turn
on the electron beam

and get a picture of what we're
looking at inside the chamber.

Yeah, there we go.

TRAVIS: Look at that. You
can tell where the gold is.

Wow!

It's already
starting to open up.

ERIK: Actively changing.

So, we've got a dramatic change,

as we've seen before,

on the uncoated
portion of the sample.

TRAVIS: Yeah. That
is really interesting.

I want to move
just onto the gold.

So we can clearly
see the surface.

Let me get a good contrast
so I can see where I'm at here.

Well, look here.

-Uh-huh. Are you seeing some change?
-Yeah.

-Slowly.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

It's tearing it apart.

THOMAS: It is
definitely changing.

-ERIK: Yeah.
-BRIAN: You can tell.

We're getting through the gold

-into the surface of the material.
-ERIK: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Yeah, it looks to me
like we charged the ceramic,

and it's opening up, and
it's tearing the gold loose.

ERIK: Yeah, so, in principle,
the changes should persist,

-even if we turn that electron beam off.
-TRAVIS: Yes.

-Let's do it.
-Okay.

THOMAS: I didn't know
science could be so suspenseful.

Right? See?!

BRIAN: All right, here we go.

There's the spot.

-Still see the tears.
-BRIAN: I would agree.

You can see the
tears in the gold.

TRAVIS: Let's move down to
look at the uncovered portion.

Can you bring up a
screenshot of this area

-from before we turned the beam off?
-BRIAN: Sure.

TRAVIS: And look at that.

ERIK: I don't believe it.

TRAVIS: So only the holes

on the uncovered side
have gotten smaller.

Which suggests that the
ceramic material opened up

under the gold coating,

and when it did, it tore loose,
it tore a rip in the gold paint.

And then when it went
back to the ground state,

the normal state, you can
still see the tear in the paint.

ERIK: Wow.

TRAVIS: This is not
some optical illusion.

It fixed itself again!

TRAVIS: This ceramic material

-really does transform.
-Yeah.

You can see the
disturbance of the gold layer

where it was torn apart.

TRAVIS: Those
are the tears, man.

How about that?

For the second time now,

an electron beam from a scanning
electron microscope caused holes

to appear in the surface
of the ceramic material

that came out of the
mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.

We wanted to verify that a
physical change really happened,

and it wasn't an
optical illusion.

So Erik coated one
half of the ceramic

with a thin layer of gold

to see if holes would
appear on that side, too.

When the electron
beam hit both sides,

holes did appear
in both of them.

But when the
beam was turned off,

the ceramic seemed
to fix itself again

while the holes remained

in the gold-covered portion.

This proves it was
no optical illusion,

and the ceramic
really did transform.

So, what is this stuff?

You know, Erik, let's look at
a standard ceramic sample.

ERIK: Yeah, we have
a standard ceramic

that we can put
into the instrument.

I'll get that ready.

TRAVIS: In order for us all
to believe what we had seen,

Erik prepared another normal,
everyday ceramic sample

to repeat the process in the
scanning electron microscope.

We wanted to see if the
same thing would happen

to this common
household ceramic, as well.

ERIK: What we'll
be looking at is

just how does the ceramic
sample respond under the beam.

THOMAS: So,
these are kind of like

common, off-the-shelf
ceramics then, right?

-TRAVIS: Yes.
-ERIK: Yup.

Okay, so,

the reference ceramic
is in position number five.

-All right, here we go.
-ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS: This looks
like normal ceramic.

ERIK: This is not what we
were seeing with the samples

-we brought in from the mesa.
-TRAVIS: No, not at all.

THOMAS: Totally different.

ERIK: Yeah, now that's
what I'm used to seeing.

TRAVIS: Gives us
a sanity check, right?

-Yeah. Yeah.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS: No holes
opening up at all.

So, it's clear that whatever
that is out of the mesa

has, you know, different
properties than these ceramics.

Oh, that's for sure.

TRAVIS: The regular ceramic
sample showed no change

from being hit with
the electron beam

in the scanning
electron microscope.

It's what we expected,

but it also corroborated
how special

the ceramics that came
from the mesa actually are.

Here's the thing.
why was it so hard

to drill through
whatever this stuff is?

Is it the ceramic,

or is it something
else, and this was just,

like, the outer hole layer,

when they punched through
that and then hit the hard stuff?

-Hmm.
-TRAVIS: I think these ceramics

might be covering the surface

of something pretty incredible.

Yeah.

These tests have
given us more evidence

that the ceramics we
pulled out of the mesa

can absorb massive
amounts of heat,

may be able to conduct
endless amounts of energy,

and have a strange ability
to transform their surfaces.

So, what could that suggest
about the massive object

that's buried inside the mesa?

So, I think there's
nothing else really to see

with these ceramics. We
know what we're getting.

ERIK: I think you're right,
I think we got our answer.

-But I want to see the metal sample.
-Sure.

TRAVIS: Along with
the ceramics we found

in our mesa drilling spoils,

we also found a bunch
of strange metal pieces.

THOMAS: So, with
this, you guys are

most interested in the
elemental makeup of it?

-Yeah, what is it?
-Yes. Yes.

TRAVIS: So, after the
test results of the ceramics,

which we believe

could be from the massive
object buried in the mesa,

Erik wanted to examine
a sample of the metal.

ERIK: You'll see
there's a region

where I've scraped the surface

so that we can get down
to the material underneath

what might be a
corrosive or an oxide layer.

TRAVIS: Erik scratched
the surface of the metal

so that when we examine it

in the scanning
electron microscope,

we could find out the
elements that made up not only

its surface, but
also its interior.

That might help us figure out

what the metal
would be used for.

So, this is the
elemental breakdown?

TRAVIS: It's iron and... iron.

THOMAS: So, that first
scan, though, was really

of the cut part, right?

Yeah, that was just a point

-right here where the cut was cleanest.
-Oh.

So let me shift up here.

TRAVIS: Yeah, let's
scan the outer layer.

Oh, yeah, look at this.
There's a lot of stuff in it.

We got zinc, we got,
uh, carbon, iron, silicon.

A lot of aluminum.

Which suggests that
there's an aluminum coating.

-All right?
-Oh, because you're seeing less aluminum

-in the cut...
-Yeah.

-...than you are on the surface.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

So, could it give us
clues as to what it was,

-based on what we're seeing?
-I can tell you this, Thomas.

Every one of the space
experiments that I've flown

that was exposed to
the vacuum of space

was coated with aluminum oxide.

-Okay.
-ERIK: Yeah.

The oxide of aluminum
forms this clear,

nonconductive,
very tough surface.

ROYSTON: So, as we're
building satellites right now,

we're getting ready
to put them up,

-that is the coating, right, that we use.
-Yup.

Very common both for the
components, for the structures.

-Yeah.
-Yup.

That's interesting.

TRAVIS: Over the past three
decades, I've worked on a number

of projects in the aerospace
industry involving rockets

and advanced propulsion
systems for spacecraft.

The metal and the
ceramic materials

we pulled out of the
mesa are very similar

to what's used to protect
them from the extreme heat

of reentry into the
Earth's atmosphere.

When did they start using
aluminum oxide on things?

When did you see
that start to show up?

ROYSTON: If we talked
about the space program,

the Apollo missions.

TRAVIS: But that
would be in the '60s.

Yup.

TRAVIS: So, how
did this get in there,

into the mesa?

Well, I mean, we pulled a


-Right.
-And if Chris Roberts is right,

and that was a sign of
an archaeological dig,

what were they
digging out of there?

And it's very interesting
that we're seeing

a material that could be similar

to what the space program
was using at the time.

I mean, you could
speculate all day long

that, uh, something
crashed there,

in the mesa, and
they would have come

and taken it and
covered it all up because

it was all... they were trying
to keep everything secret.

A couple of weeks ago,

archaeologist Chris Roberts
found a 1964 U.S. nickel

in the drilling spoils,
and informed us

that it is a common
practice to leave a new coin

in the backfill as a time stamp

to indicate when an
official dig was completed.

So, given the
stunning test results

of the metal and ceramic
that came out of the mesa,

right where we believe a
massive object is buried,

Thomas's suggestion that
they could have been related

to our 1960s space program
really makes you wonder.

Did something of
ours crash there,

and the government
covered it up?

Or, given all the crazy UAPs
we've seen on the ranch,

is it possible they
found something there

and took part of it away to
try and reverse engineer it?

Who knows? That's why
we're going to keep working

to uncover whatever
is inside there.

You know, we really
appreciate the access

to the lab today, Dr. Patchett.

Well, I'm happy to help
you, I'm definitely happy

to investigate new things.

Something new in
science is always exciting.

I agree, 100%. There's
nothing more exciting

than making a new
observation or discovery.

-Yes, sir.
-Right?

ERIK: Well, we've
got a final experiment

of the year to prepare for.

TRAVIS: Yeah, I think let's

grab our stuff and
let's head on back.

-All right.
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-TRAVIS: Thank you very much.
-BRIAN: Yeah.

THOMAS: Here they come.

TRAVIS: Hey, fellas.

We're absolutely committed

to figuring out
what's in the mesa.

But since we've stopped

our drilling operation
so that we don't

damage whatever
is buried in there,

we're turning our attention
to another huge mystery

on Skinwalker
Ranch-- the bubble.

So two days after
our visit to the lab,

Kevin Devoll and
his pyrotechnics team

from Red Devil Pyro,

along with technologist
Dave Mason,

and some high-speed
camera experts from a company

called Kron, came out

to help us conduct our
final experiment of the year.

ERIK: Well, gentlemen, it's
good to have you out today.

We've got a very large and
ambitious experiment planned.

We're going to be
energizing the environment

of what we've been
calling "the bubble."

TRAVIS: Aside from the
buried objects in the mesa,

the bubble is literally
the biggest mystery

we've been
working to figure out.

According to multiple
infrared scanning devices,

it's an invisible sphere
that's centered at the triangle

and has a 2,000-foot radius.

Whatever it is, it contains
a huge area of the ranch,

including the mesa drill site,

where we've detected
strange radio frequency signals,

experienced bizarre
equipment failures

and seen a bunch of UAPs.

Some with our own eyes,

and some that were only
visible on thermal cameras.

Our goal is to put

a lot of light, smoke,
debris, energy

into these anomalous areas

and monitor them with
high-speed cameras

and RF equipment, gamma
ray detection, you name it.

KEVIN: So, we have
several fuel mines.

They're going to
have a various amount

of gasoline and really coarse,

slow-burning, black
powder in them.

Okay.

TRAVIS: For today's experiment,

Kevin and his team will
place four expl*sive fuel mines

at the triangle and five more

at the western boundary of
the bubble near Homestead Two.

On cue, they'll be detonated,
creating massive fireballs,

which will then produce
perfectly circular smoke rings

that will rise up
through the interior

and around the
exterior of the bubble.

We'll be looking for
changes in the smoke rings

that might suggest
they're making contact

with something invisible
to the naked eye.

I say we divide and
conquer. Let's go start

getting sensors ready,
tables ready, expl*sives ready.

-THOMAS: Let's get it done.
-ROYSTON: We have a lot to do.

TRAVIS: As all of the
explosions are set off

and the smoke rings rise up...

All right, I'm getting power.

TRAVIS: ...technologist Dave
Mason will be recording them

with FLIR thermal cameras,

that may be able to identify

whatever is affecting
the smoke rings.

In addition to thermal cameras,

the team from Kron will be
using high-speed cameras

to record images of
the entire experiment

at 1,400 frames per second.

The 4K cameras are doing


And the older generation
cameras are doing 2.1.

That's a smoking-hot data rate.

Yeah, that's a lot of
data flying around here.

TRAVIS: When the
experiment is finished,

we'll have all that data

to scour through for any
UAPs or other strange things.

We're going to hook
the rest of these up

and just wait for the fuel,
and then we're ready to sh**t.

TRAVIS: And while Erik monitors
everything near the triangle,

I'm equipping my Jeep
with spectrum analyzers

so if we do detect any
strange radio frequency signals,

like we have in the
past, I can try to pinpoint

where they're coming from.

Well, we got the Jeep

finally rigged up to be the
mobile science platform.

-We're ready to go.
-KEVIN: Good.

We've got charges
set in four fuel mines.

-We're good to go.
-TRAVIS: All right.

We'll get in place and get
ready to do these explosions.

Let's break and get with it.

-Okay. -All right.
-All right.

TRAVIS: This is our last chance
of the year to get some answers

about what the bubble contains
and maybe what the heck it is.

So, hopefully, this
experiment will deliver.

We're going to go hot and
get armed. We're ready.

All right, everybody,
here we go in

five, four, three, two, one.

ERIK: Wow.

TRAVIS: Look at that
weird figure eight it's making.

KEVIN: Hey,
Travis, that definitely

looks more dispersed than
what they normally look like.

-Isn't that strange?
-KEVIN: Yeah.

That's definitely not
your average ring.

The first charge didn't
come out in a ring.

It's just kind of

an ominous-looking
ball of smoke.

I've shot upwards of
several hundred fireballs.

Never seen the
smoke look like that.

That was a pretty good
distortion right there.

Yeah, it came out
like a figure eight

instead of a
smoke ring at first.

KEVIN: Any typical time

that I've seen them not
form, we're talking wind.

Here, we had no wind.

They've talked about there
being the bubble around the ranch.

There could be definitely
an influence on the equipment

or on the effects, but

there's no explanation of
why these things happened.

Well, let's do another
one and see what happens.

Okay.

TRAVIS: Everybody ready?

I'm ready.

MICHAEL: We're good.

Ready!

In five, four, three, two, one.

THOMAS: There's the ring.

KEVIN: Yeah, that first
one should have looked

just like that.

ERIK: It's not at all symmetric.

TRAVIS: No!

KEVIN: It's usually
concentric, right? It's even

-all the way around.
-KALEB: Even all the way around?

-It's usually not separated.
-Okay.

TRAVIS: Now this
was really interesting.

The second smoke ring
started off in a perfect circle,

as normally expected.

THOMAS: That'd be,
probably right over the top

of the bubble boundary.

Yeah, that's right, Thomas.

Hey, look how it's slanting!

But as it got up to
about 2,000 feet,

right around the top
boundary of the bubble,

it was practically split in two.

Is it bumping into the bubble?

Erik, look at it!

-ERIK: It just broke up.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Like it hit the bubble
wall or something.

We couldn't see
anything in the moment

that made contact with the
smoke ring, so our hope was

that maybe the thermal
and high-speed cameras did.

What the hell? This
basically just reset itself.

Like, I didn't do that.

MICHAEL: That's not what's
supposed to be happening.

Wait. What's happening?
What's happening?

MICHAEL: What's
happening is, basically,

this camera is
supposed to be recording

something like 65,000
frames all together.

But what is actually recording
is only 15,000 frames.

Essentially, they're resetting
to, like, a factory default.

This is weird. You would really

have to go out of your
way to set that setting.

TRAVIS: This is so crazy.

Every time we've
run an experiment

in the bubble this year,

different high-tech
devices have malfunctioned.

Could whatever messed
up the smoke rings have also

somehow caused the
high-speed cameras to glitch?

That sounds impossible.

We got a third one
queued up, ready.

Okay.

But the best way
to try and find out

was to trigger
another expl*si*n.

-The other two are rolling?
-Yeah, we're rolling.

TRAVIS: All right,
well, here we go.

In five, four, three, two,

-one.
-Holy crap!

-TRAVIS: That is really odd.
-Right?

KEVIN: The smoke rings
are completely different

than what we normally see.

ERIK: Oh, wow.

That is really odd.

Have you ever seen
anything like that happening?

No, the smoke rings
are completely different

than what we normally see.

ERIK: Wow.

When they come out of the tube,
they should roll the whole time.

TRAVIS: We've
set off three massive

fireball explosions
at the triangle,

which is right in the
center of the bubble.

And each time, something
between 50 and 2,000 feet high

seems to have caused
the circular smoke rings

to lose their shape.

Is something in the bubble

or its vertical barrier
making that happen?

So, should we start
moving to other places,

-and see what happens?
-TRAVIS: Yeah. The next thing to do

is another one here,
and simultaneously, one

right at the western
bubble boundary.

-Okay.
-All right, let's do it.

TRAVIS: We saw repeated
evidence that something at the center

of the bubble might have
been affecting the smoke rings.

So, next, while Erik monitored

another expl*si*n
at the triangle,

me and Kaleb planned
to oversee a second one

at the same time over at the
western boundary of the bubble.

That is crazy.

It's just stuck right there.

This year, we've
had multiple drones

and even rockets
seem to be prevented

from passing through
the bubble's boundaries.

It's like the
bubble deflected it!

We wanted to see
if the smoke rings

would now be
affected at both places.

And if so, would
something appear

in our data that
would tell us why.

So, we got everything
prepared to hopefully find out.

Okay. Armed.

So, Mike, you're
gonna go with me

and take the high-speed cameras

over to the western
boundary of the bubble.

-Sure.
-Mike, are you comfortable

that your system is now working?

Yeah, it's been
acting up, but, um...

we can work around it.

ERIK: We're just
into this experiment,

and we're already
starting to see equipment

doing things it's not supposed
to do, never done before.

We can imagine

for a moment that setting
off these detonations

could produce
some kind of a ripple,

a response in this bubble

and that this
disruption could result

in some kind of event
that affected our equipment,

the likes of which we haven't
seen in any other exercise.

That implies
something purposeful.

We'll be watching
this very closely

throughout the course
of the experiment.

TRAVIS: Hey, Bill,
y'all about ready?

-Yes, sir!
-TRAVIS: Mike,

that's what you're
going to want to look at.

So, we'll set up right here,

and you'll look
between these trees.

If you give us a
five-minute warning,

that should be plenty of time.

All right. Well, we're going
to get to work setting up,

and we'll yell at y'all in
about five or ten minutes.

BILL: All right. Sounds
good. I'll be ready.

All right. Let's go.

[beeps]

TRAVIS: Just have it
point straight ahead.

All right.

We're getting a 1.2
gigahertz signal right now.

Hey, Erik, this is
Travis. You copy?

Yeah, Travis. What do you got?

Yeah, we're already
getting a 1.2 gigahertz signal

down here that's
pulsing pretty strong.

ERIK: Yeah, Travis. I see it.

TRAVIS: We had just gotten over

to the western
boundary of the bubble,

and boom! Erik and I both
detect a 1.2 gigahertz signal

on our spectrum analyzers.

That's weird. Huh. Looks like

we're getting the 1.2
gigahertz signal again.

Now, we broadcasted
that signal ourselves

during our first bubble
experiment earlier this year.

And ever since, we've repeatedly
detected the same signal.

It's like something
in the bubble

cloned it and has been
sending it back just to taunt us.

Is that even possible?

-Hey, Bill. You copy?
-BILL: Yeah, go for Bill.

TRAVIS: We're set on our end.

Copy that. We'll
drop the charge now.

TRAVIS: One way
to try and figure out

was to launch those
next two fireballs

and see what would happen.

Okay, I'm tracking you, Jim.

TRAVIS: Erik decided
to add Jim Royston's

thermal drone to this
leg of the experiment

in the hopes of capturing images
of anything above the triangle

after the next
round of explosions

that might be invisible
to the naked eye.

And Erik and Sam Deriso

were tracking the
drone's GPS data

in real time for
any strange errors.

-Travis, we're ready when you guys are.
-TRAVIS: Okay.

Start the countdown
and go, Bill.

BILL: Five, four, three, two,

one.

Fire!

TRAVIS [laughing]: Whoa!

We got a great ring down here.

Did it go at that end?

THOMAS: We have a
malfunction in the triangle.

KEVIN: I've never
even seen that before.

I don't even know what that is.

So, Kevin's got flashing
lights on his panel.

He-he doesn't
even know what it is,

he's never seen it before.

That sounds about right.

THOMAS: Over on the
west side of the bubble,

these smoke rings behaved
exactly the way they should,

but what's happening
in the triangle is,

we had major malfunctions.

That just did not function.

THOMAS: Now Red
Devil Pyro is telling us

they've never seen this before,

and this time in conjunction
with us seeing the 1.2 signal.

I don't know if they're related,

but we definitely
had a lot of issues.

ERIK: Okay, so, I just
got a data corruption error.

I've got a red point just now.

Jim, have you hit errors?

Yup. I'm getting
satellite errors.

THOMAS: Oh, wow.

That's a lot of things going
wrong at the same time.

I'm coming straight down, Erik.

ERIK: Okay.

Is the bubble preventing us

from proceeding with
collecting the data?

Or there may, in fact,
be a connection with

the 1.2 gigahertz
signal emerging

in the timeframe when
we've begun detonations.

We want to keep a very close eye

on what's going
on as we continue

to do these detonations.

I've got to tell you,

it's pretty clear we've got
something going on site-wide.

Yeah.

-THOMAS: So, are we good to go ahead...
-Yeah.

-...and let them arm that?
-Yeah, let's not,

-let's not delay things any further.
-All right.

-Hey, Kevin. Do you copy?
-KEVIN: 10-4.

-Go for Kevin.
-THOMAS: Yeah, Kevin.

Go ahead and arm your system

and let's go ahead
and move ahead.

Okay, I'm going
to drop the charge,

and then, as soon as I get back

-to the table, we'll sh**t it.
-Sounds good.

TRAVIS: If it really was
something on the ranch

that made the last
ignition at the triangle glitch,

Tom asked Kevin to arm it again.

The hope was, it
would explode this time,

and maybe reveal the culprit.

Erik, I'll stay on the ground
and point the thermal camera

-right at this charge.
-Yeah. Yeah.

Good idea.

Okay. We got the 15-gallon
fuel mine at the triangle

in five, four,

three, two, one.

-Oh, my God.
-ERIK: Oh, man.

-Wow.
-Wow.

-Look at that.
-Look at that.

TRAVIS: Wow.

TRAVIS: That's pretty crazy.

-It's a pretty big signal.
-KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik,

when that went off, we had
a 1.6 gigahertz signal spike.

Oh, wow.

That's not normal.

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik, when
that detonation went off,

we had a 1.6
gigahertz signal spike.

ERIK: Yeah, copy that, Travis.

We're seeing things from
the triangle all the way

at the south tower now.

TRAVIS: What in the
world is happening tonight?

We had just seen more
evidence of something messing

with our equipment all
across the ranch, as well

as the smoke rings near the
western boundary of the bubble

by Homestead Two
and over at the triangle.

And then, out of nowhere, a


on our spectrum analyzers.

We've detected that
strange signal so many times

during our investigation,

including at the
mesa drill site.

A spot that's also
inside the bubble

and right between
where we had our

two fire ignition
stations set up.

KEVIN: Yup, that's
good. That's good.

TRAVIS: We didn't know
where the 1.6 gigahertz signal

or the 1.2 gigahertz signal

that we detected
earlier came from.

But in the hopes of finding out,
we prepared another expl*si*n

along the western
barrier of the bubble.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

Yeah, Travis. What's up?

Yeah, man. We're about ready
to go with our next detonation.

Jim, want to get the drone up?

Yeah, Travis.
That's affirmative.

Jim's going to put
the drone in the air.

Copy that.

While we still had
our high-speed

and thermal cameras looking

for any phenomenon in
and around the bubble,

we also had Jim Royston
launch his thermal drone

to focus on the smoke
ring and look for anything

that might alter its formation.

Bill, if you're ready,

give us a countdown,
and let's do this thing.

All right, in five, four,

three, two,

-Here we go.

ERIK: Oh, wow.

Oh, man.

It didn't do the
ring, though, guys.

-I'm looking at it right now.
-ERIK: Nope, there's no ring.

SAM: It never formed.

ERIK: It could well be

that that boundary
is playing a role

in the shaping of that cloud.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: This was
the strangest result yet.

After the massive expl*si*n,

the smoke didn't even
come close to forming a ring.

Nothing appeared
in Jim's thermal video,

so, was it just a glitch?

Or could the bubble's
barrier have done that?

Okay, so, now, we're
going to get three

-simultaneous explosions in one field of view.
-Sounds good.

All right, let's go.

We had three
ignitors left to find out.

So, we decided to
position them in a line

and see what would
happen with each one

as we ignited them
all simultaneously.

Michael, are you setting
up for the high-speed

on the explosions here?

-We're ready to go.
-All right.

BILL: All right, Travis, we
got our charges dropped.

TRAVIS: Copy that.
We're ready down here.

Is Jim gonna put
his drone in the air?

ERIK: Drone is in the air.

The camera is on
your position now.

TRAVIS: All right, we're
all clear on our end, Bill.

In five, four,

three, two, one.

TRAVIS: Wow!

Ha!

Oh, my God, that was awesome.

Erik, did you guys see
that from down there?

We sure did. We're
watching it right now.

We're watching the ring and
cloud in the infrared camera.

Yeah, we see one that was a
ring and one never made a ring.

It's kind of weird.

And it looks like that third
charge didn't go off at all.

ERIK: Yeah, that's
really strange.

TRAVIS: Hey,
Bill, can you verify

that the third charge
actually went?

I saw a fire down there,
but we didn't see the fireball.

That is correct, charge number
two, the one in the middle,

did not go.

TRAVIS: Wow! Three
totally different results.

On one end, we had an expl*si*n,
and a perfect smoke ring formed.

On the other end, a great
expl*si*n, but no ring at all.

And right in the middle,
the ignitor didn't even go off.

Could the bubble or
something related to it

have caused all these glitches
and odd formations in the smoke?

DAVE: What is that?!

-Hey, Dave, are you getting anything?
-DAVE: Come here and, uh,

-take-take a look at this.
-Yeah, sure.

So, it's on the top of
the ridgeline of the mesa.

I saw something going from
right to left, going up in altitude.

I don't know what it was.

ERIK: Okay, there
it is. There it is.

DAVE: Yeah, see,
there it is. Look at that.

Here it goes. That's
what I'm talking about.

ERIK: What the...?
This could be two,

traveling essentially
the same path.

This is really weird.

ERIK: What was that?

DAVE: It's something
I cannot explain.

-That's amazing.
-DAVE: The objects I observed

in my differential
FLIR look elongated,

and had a temperature
above the nominal background.

I've seen plenty of bird flocks,
birds and bugs and aircraft.

I know what they all look
like in thermal cameras.

This didn't look like
any of those objects.

It was not something
that can be explained

under natural phenomenon.

Oh, my God, that was weird.

Take a look at this.
I just saw this kind of

temperature anomalies forming.

ERIK: I see it. I see it.

DAVE: Right at
the mesa ridgeline.

And now, now we're
getting the-the colder one.

-ERIK: Oh, yeah.
-DAVE: Just on the ridge.

ERIK: I can clearly
see that difference.

TRAVIS: What Dave's camera
showed next was even more stunning.

Right after two UAPs flew

in a streak right over
the mesa and the drill site,

a wave of thermal energy
swept across the mesa ridgeline.

Something above the
ridgeline appeared very hot,

and then suddenly became colder.

Were they related to the UAPs?

Could all of these things
have come from the bubble

and stopped our explosions
from making smoke rings

like they were supposed to?

Erik, we're going to
wrap everything up

and we'll head that way,
and we'll close this thing up.

Yeah, we'll see you down here.

TRAVIS: What we saw tonight

in real time with all
the equipment failures,

the weird formations
in the smoke rings,

strange signals and UAPs

was incredible. I just hope

that our high-speed
cameras were able

to get us some clues as to
what was behind all these things.

Whoo! I tell you what.

ERIK: Well, I think
we just witnessed

the most energetic
events we've set off

in the entire time we've
worked together here.

Well, the things that we saw

when the multiple shots
went off in the barrier.

-Mm-hmm.
-I mean, they just kind of just broke apart,

as soon as they
came out of the tube.

Michael had some issues
with the high-speed camera.

-Exactly.
-ERIK: It's as if there's

some kind of
phantom manipulation

of your devices, and
that's not the first time

-we've seen that.
-KALEB: No.

-Incredible.
-ERIK: So, Kevin,

typical, atypical, crazy?

What do you think?

You know, seeing the
rings not act normal.

Um, also, one of
the other things--

you know, our connectivity
issues were a problem

with the fuel mine expl*sives.

SAM: Something

really has been messing
with the GPS signals

around the perimeter
of the bubble.

Wow.

Yeah, GPS continues to be

a great canary for
whatever is going on here.

Yeah.

Dave picked up some
really interesting things.

DAVE: Yeah, we had a rolling

thermal anomaly along the mesa.

-Wow.
-Got that on recording.

Wow, that's crazy.

Who knows what
kind of data we'll see

-on that when we pull it up?
-Yeah.

-Right, I agree, I agree.
-Yeah.

-All right.
-TRAVIS: All right, great.

Good job,
everybody, great night.

THOMAS: Yeah, great job.

TRAVIS: Let's load up,

pack everything
up, and head out.

Between our
discoveries of the bubble

and the ceramic materials
that came out of the mesa,

this year is proving
more than ever

that Skinwalker Ranch is home

to a very real and
surreal mystery,

and I can't wait to see if
some answers will be revealed

in the data that we
collected tonight.

ERIK: There are some features
that set the results of this year

apart from the results
of previous years.

I'm talking about the
ceramics, the metals,

and of course that abstract
bubble structure of some kind

where we see things
happening or changing

as we cross into or
out of that boundary.

Following up on this will be
one of our priorities going forward.

BRANDON: There's so much
going on at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're confirming
that which is unseen,

such as the mysterious bubble
above the ranch,

and not only is this ceramic
material manufactured,

but the properties
of this material react strangely

under analysis.

We are more focused
and determined than ever

to get the answers

to what is happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.