02x02 - Go Bigelow or Go Home

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.

The investigation at Mount
Wilson Ranch continues.

ANDY: If this doesn’t get
to the bottom of that hole,

I will be blown away.

CARL: Drill, baby, drill.

ANDY: What is this thing?

What is it?

ROBERT: It’s a metallic object
that’s shaped like this.

The manta ray.

Shape of a manta ray,
but being a craft.

Something strange was either
developed on Mount Wilson Ranch

or discovered.

What the heck is
going on out here?

ANDY: You’ve got power.

They’ve got to be Bigelow’s.

Maybe they were
trying to use these

to make contact with
whatever’s in the lower meadow.

This is our first chance
to really carry out

an investigation with the same
technology, the same tool that

the Bigelow team may have used.

We might be reaching the
manta ray 200 feet down.

PAUL: Oh, wow.

This could be far stranger
than ghosts and aliens.

NARRATOR: For years,
scientists have

been working to reveal the
secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.

But is it possible
that the clues

to unlock the
mystery are located

beyond the borders of this
hub of high strangeness?

Wow!

NARRATOR: Now, an ex-CIA
agent and a veteran journalist

have been recruited
by the Skinwalker team

to go on a high stakes
mission across America.

ANDY: Look at all this
activity that’s happening.

CARL: That’s unbelievable.
- That is right over our heads.

That’s it.
- That’s it right there!

NARRATOR: The goal?

Uncover evidence that may
finally expose the truth.

ANDY: How is this happening?

PAUL: Now it’s going
to get interesting.

Look, it’s moving!

Look at that!

ANDY: This is just
the beginning.

Still climbing.



That’s unbelievable.

What could be so
big and so deep?

NARRATOR: Andy and Paul
continue their investigation

at Mount Wilson Ranch,
a property once owned

by the elusive
aerospace billionaire

Robert Bigelow at the same time
that he owns Skinwalker Ranch.

There are rumors that
Bigelow and his team

were searching for
something mysterious

buried under the lower meadow.

So you have Bigelow’s
researchers following up

with you because they
believe there might

be some sort of
alien craft buried

in a meadow on this property.

Apparently, down in the meadow,

there’s something
that emits a signal.

A lot of history in
the ground around here.

NARRATOR: Andy is with Terra
Exploration Group, completing

a scan of the lower meadow, and
they found something that could

prove Bigelow’s team was right.

All right, here we go.

I think it’s going
to peg out again.

Yeah, just switch it.

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby.

Wow.

Holy smokes.

It’s pegging off the charts.

We’re hitting some
kind of material

that is highly conductive.

Highly conductive.

And that means
it’s pretty thick,

because we picked
it up at 100 feet,

and we’ve picked it up at 200.

Well, let’s see
if it still does it.

All right, about right there.

All right, here we go.

Are you on?

Yeah.

OK, so what’s the reading?




almost 2/3 in conductivity,

which suggests that whatever
we were hitting there

in that slice is
different than what

we’re hitting in this slice.
- Yeah.

It’s almost like
there’s something

there that’s shaped like this.

Right.

You know, you imagine like a
manta ray or something like...

I don’t know.

I’ve never chased a UFO before.

Very strange, guys.

All right, start packing it up.

NARRATOR: After
breaking for the day,

the team gathers in the
Mount Wilson Ranch saloon

to analyze the
lower meadow results

and plan their next move.

All right, fellows.

Well, welcome back to the table.

So I just... I...

what the heck is
going on out here?

That’s all I can say.

So we got good data, but
it’s the weirdest thing.

The lower meadow,
we used the EM34,

and it’s just an
analog instrument.

It just gives us a number,
no pretty pictures.

But it will reach 50 feet,


OK.

So we’re reading conductivity,
the conductivity of the soil.

Yeah.

And we did four
lines at each depth.

But once we got down to the 100
feet, the meter would just peg.

So it’s hitting something
very conductive.

We’ve never seen
conductivity peg on that thing.

It just went like that.

And the size?

You said you had over 100 feet.

Yeah, I mean, we picked it up
from 100 feet all the way down

to 200 feet.



Think about this for
a second, Paul, right?

Essentially, we’re looking at
a 200 foot deep chunk of earth.


Earth, you don’t see anything.

PAUL: Right.

And then at 100 feet, you
see high conductivity that

lasts all the way to 200 feet.

And so it’s hitting
something very conductive.

But there was one, this line
right here, it didn’t peg.

So it’s like we hit an
air pocket at 200 feet.

And then he had a
theory that it’s

a metallic object that’s shaped
like this, And the word...

The manta ray.

Whoa.

Wow.

He said.

Are you kidding me?

That’s... we’ve been told that
there is a manta ray under here.

The exact...

Shape of a manta
ray but being a craft.

Yeah, yeah.

Wow.

Well, that’s really
funny, because I had never

heard that term, but me,
I’m just imagining something

like that, and it came to me
that it looked like a manta

ray going through the water.
- Yeah.

I mean, they even went as far
as to say the one at Skinwalker

Ranch was a sport
model and the one

here is more like a giant
manta... a manta ray.

They literally said manta ray.

Who said that and what
technology did they use?

These are people
from Bigelow’s old team

that has leaked
photos and information

to us that looked through files
from when they were up here.

OK.

Yeah.

CARL: How far down
were you told?

Anywhere from 200 feet.

No way.

From 200 feet.

And the way you describe
the shape of that

is like everything that
we’ve been told to look for.

Interesting.

Of all the animals that
you could relate this to,

of all the creatures that get
pulled out of our imaginations

to describe an anomaly, how is
it that these two gentlemen,

without talking to each other,
landed on the same description

that the Bigelow team used
to describe this phenomenon?

What you’re getting at, Carl,
that’s so interesting to me

is that you and Jeff have
been following stories.

Right.

Paul and I have
been following data.

Right.

So the stories and
the data are aligning.

Oh, absolutely.

Correlating almost perfectly.

If there’s something that
large under this meadow,

it was either placed
there and concealed,

or it’s been there for
a very, very long time.

Something strange was either
developed on Mount Wilson Ranch

or discovered.

ROBERT: Interesting.

It’s a matter of just
following the data.

That’s what Eric always
tells us to do anyways.

So we’re really just
taking the same steps

that our Skinwalker
team counterparts do.

Find the data, follow the
data, see where it leads.

Yep.

Rock and roll.

NARRATOR: After the revelation
that test results may have

confirmed a manta ray-shaped
craft buried in the lower

meadow, Jeff and Carl lead Andy
and Paul to inspect some items

left behind by
Robert Bigelow that

may give them more
insight into Bigelow’s

investigations on the ranch.

Now, this is just one of
the things that was left

here when I bought this place.

Bigelow, I assume,
didn’t take it with them.

There were several of them.

Maybe just take a look,
see what you guys think.

ANDY: Whoa.
PAUL: Yeah.

Look at this, man.
ANDY: Whoa.

PAUL: This is an old
school projector for sure.

JEFF: Projector?
- Yep.

So how many?

There’s one, two.

There’s more.

Three so far.

Yeah, we’ve busted
this one open just trying

to get one working,
and we’ve got

one fired up that will turn on.

You can take a look at it
and see what you think.

CARL: This might be
the power button.

PAUL: But What would
you be using these three

huge projectors for?

CARL: Well, We got power, Paul.

ANDY: Oh, yeah.

I mean, this is for projecting
some kind of light show, right?

I mean, this isn’t
just a movie projector.

These were not intended for
entertainment, that’s for sure.

Not if you have three of them.

I mean, that’s redundancy.

Yeah, we had an old
saying in the Air Force

that two is one and
one is none, which

is our way of
remembering that you

always need to have redundancy.

So to have three units
would be true redundancy.

So here’s the thing, though.

What are they... what
were these here for?

Do you remember
when Jack Vallee...

the movie Close Encounters
of the Third Kind,

there was a French
scientist in that movie

that was projecting light and
sound to try and communicate

with extraterrestrials, and
that character from that movie

is based off of him.

And we have photographs of
him up here with Bob Bigelow

and the rest of the team.

So we thought maybe
there’s a chance that these

might have been part of
that original experiment

back in the day.

It would make sense.

This would be a precursor
to laser technology.

Some kind of light
show or trigger

or just energy into
the environment

to see if they got a response.

The place to launch
this technology

would really be down
in the lower meadow.

Yeah.

Because that’s
where we have the most

saturated signal activity.

If we really wanted to see if
we could invite or possibly

instigate a response using
this kind of technology,

it would be down there.
- I think that’s a good idea.

Yeah.

Meadow seems to be our hotspot.

This is our first
chance to really carry out

an investigation with the same
technology, the same tool that

the Bigelow team may have used.

This is a beast.

Yeah.

I can’t believe
you guys got this.

We got it.

NARRATOR: For their next
experiment at Mount Wilson,

the team is going
to use an old school

video projector left behind at
the ranch by Robert Bigelow.

They’ll project light patterns
onto a cabin on the edge

of the lower meadow to see
if they can elicit a response

from the possible
alien craft that might

be buried 200 feet below them.

Let’s see what happens if we
fire up Bigelow’s old projector

and add that energy
to this environment.

Rock and roll.

NARRATOR: On Skinwalker
Ranch, the team’s

conducted several
light based experiments

to stimulate anomalies.

Holy cow.

Look at that.

NARRATOR: Which resulted
in a correlating

UAP sighting in 2021.

- You see this?
- Yeah.

What the crap is that?

MAN: Unbelievable.

NARRATOR: And in
previous investigations,

Andy and Paul conducted
similar experiments

that seemed to trigger unusual
readings on their radio

frequency spectrum
analyzer and also

coincided with orb appearances.

Right there.
There it is.

Look at that.
Look at that.

Look at that.
Look at that.

What is that?

This is a UAP.

There’s no question about it.

NARRATOR: Now the team
will use their modern tech

to measure whether
stimulating the lower

meadow with Bigelow’s
old equipment

will trigger a response.

So we have a hell
of a setup tonight.

We’ve got two different
generations of thermal cameras

that are set on the
front of this house.

We’ve got UFO daps.

That’s these two
AI eyes in the sky.

They’ll scan, anything
that might fly over,

so if there’s a UAP,
UFO, we might catch it.

Correct.

We’ve also got our
spectrum analyzer going.

That’s going to give us a really
strong idea of what’s going on

in the radio spectrum,
as well as the ability

to track FAA and satellites
overhead to rule out

any false positive hits that
we see from potential sightings

in the sky.

As soon as the sun goes down,
we’ll get the show started.

Let’s do it.

It looks like we
have everything set up.

I think it’s time to start the
main crux of the experiment.

Jeff, you want to
fire up the projector?

Let’s put power to it.

I’m going to turn on our
spectrum analyzer as well,

get a sense of baseline.

Monitoring 1.611 to start.

What device is that
coming in on, Andy?

Our spectrum analyzer
right here is picking up

through this antenna.

Gotcha.

JEFF: You guys ready?
ANDY: Ready.

PAUL: Yep.
- All right, here we go.

All right.

Look at that.

Looks like it’s working, Jeff.

Amazing.

So this piece of


and now we’ve got to roll
in some test patterns here,

and we’ll just see what it does.

Yeah no changes on the FLIR.

Let me scroll
through the spectrum

just so we can get a
sense of baseline here.

PAUL: Super quiet.

ANDY: And the higher end of the
spectrum is still steady too.

Let me go ahead and jump down
to our low frequency areas.

PAUL: OK.

NARRATOR: While sending
out light patterns from

Bigelow’s old projector to
provoke a response and not

seeing any strange activity
in the Earth to space 1.6ghz

frequency range, Andy decides
to scan the lower frequencies

on the spectrum analyzer.

So here is what it looks
like very, very low frequency.

What are these?

PAUL: Whoa.

JEFF: Oh, already?

Yeah.

As soon as you turned
that projector,

we saw a wide spectrum
response here.

We’re seeing frequencies
that have some sort

of overlap with visual cues.

And look at this.

In such a low
frequency band, man.

What could that be?

I don’t know.

I don’t know the answer to that.

What I do know is that this
intensity zone is a zone

that we can respond back on.

Playback?

Yeah, because we
have a tone generator,

and we can use a tone
generator to playback the

exact same frequency in a tone.

NARRATOR: After detecting a
significant incoming signal

in an ultra low
frequency zone, the team

decides to call
an audible and use

their tone generator to respond
by broadcasting a sound.

Let me see if I can find
the peak so we can try

and get as close as possible.

Looks like this is at 68.

NARRATOR: Since
ultra low frequencies

are used to communicate long
distances that can travel

thousands of miles
through the Earth,

then sending a signal on
the same low frequency

may be the best way to
communicate with whatever might

be buried 200 feet below them.

I could feel that in my feet.

That’s ultra low frequency.

That’s going to be sending
vibrations for miles.

PAUL: What the heck?

What is going on there?

ANDY: You can see the
changing in intensity,

but it’s more focused, and
there’s our wide spectrum.

Look at how strong and intense.

It’s like fire, man.

There’s absolutely
something happening

that’s causing this bleed
effect when we send out

an audio signal at 68 hertz.

NARRATOR: Shown as a widening
of the graphic display

on a spectrum analyzer,
the bleed effect

means the team is receiving an
intense communication signal.

Is it a transmission?

I don’t know.

It’s a crystal clear
correlation, man.

The two are related,
but I don’t know why.

At 68 hertz we seem to be
triggering a much wider

response in the radio spectrum.

Which is just bizarre.

The idea that an audible tone
triggers a radio frequency

difference, I mean,
there’s no... there’s no

logical connection between...
- No.

Two completely different
forms of energy.

Let’s turn it off, Paul,
and see if it persists.

I mean, look at this.

It’s unlike anything
we were seeing before,

and it started a few seconds
after we turned on 68 hertz.

PAUL: Yeah.

And now it’s starting
to fade away a few seconds

after we stopped it.

It’s like the sound
that we’re creating

is somehow causing a reaction
in whatever is producing this.

Maybe this is some
kind of a communication.

Like something is
hearing it and responding.

We might be
reaching the manta ray


coming from our speaker.

Unbelievable.

Wow.

ANDY: All we’re doing right now
is playing the same frequency

back that we were receiving
in our RF spectrum,

and we’re seeing
an actual response

in terms of radio energy.

Whatever this anomaly is that’s
more than 200 underground,

it really does seem like
we are engaging it somehow

with our tone generator.

I mean, think about this.

This is what Bigelow
was looking for when

he came to Mount Wilson.

Are we potentially communicating
with the highly conductive

mass, the rumored
downed spacecraft

buried in the lower meadow?

I can absolutely see why Bigelow
went crazy with this ranch.

This lower meadow is...
it’s absolutely the hottest

of hot spots on Mount Wilson.

ROBERT: There’s weird
stuff going on out here.

Just baffling.

Baffling, baffling.

With all the data that
we’ve been able to collect,

we are trying to come up
with what we want to do next.

NARRATOR: Given the team
has possibly communicated

with a large metal object
buried deep in the lower meadow,

they meet in the saloon
to plan how to uncover it.

I would love your thoughts
on if you were in our shoes,

where would you want to dig?

Where would you want to drill?

I guess the lower meadow is
out of the question to drill.

There’s no way a rig would
be able to sit on there

and drill right into
the side of a spaceship

because of the softness.

NARRATOR: The lower meadow
is a marshy area located next

to a creek, and when
Bigelow’s team tried

to dig there with a bulldozer,
it sank all the way up

to the driver’s seat.

Later, he brought the same
bulldozer to Skinwalker Ranch.

When you were digging, Paul, you

mentioned that you
reached the extent

of what the excavator
was capable of,

but did you reach solid soil?

PAUL: We literally have
not gotten to the bottom

of what that collapse site is.

Whether it’s a shaft, whether
it’s an entrance to a bigger

chamber, we have no idea.

NARRATOR: Last week on Mount
Wilson Ranch, the team uncovered

a new collapsed area that looked
like it might be a covered up

opening to a tunnel.

ROBERT: This is like an
entrance to an underground vault

or a tunnel or cave system.

It’s just way too big.

NARRATOR: They excavated tons
of strange metal objects,

including military vehicles.

ANDY: 2005, Bigelow
still owned this place.

So Bigelow must have filled
this in with some of his stuff,

potentially, right before
deciding to sell it to you.

NARRATOR: Magnetometer
scans of the collapsed area

showed a possible tunnel
leading to the Ranch’s lower

meadow, where Bigelow
reportedly believed

an alien craft is buried.

The mag data is
going to blow you away.

Boom.

It would be consistent
with a tunnel.

Right under the meadow.

Exactly.

ROBERT: Perfectly.

We tried to look for
that tunnel, that space,

and we didn’t hit it.

And it could be
anywhere from, you know,



We just have no idea.

You’re going to
dig, and you might

get past where you can’t dig
anymore if you get too deep.

What I would suggest is if you
do have access to a drilling

rig, get as much
metal out as you can

and then drill and verify it.

If you found the
entrance to the tunnel

and they tunneled
over to your spaceship

or whatever is down there,
there’s your answer.

All right.

I really like the idea of
maybe bringing Jerry back up

and having him clearing some
of that metal out as much

as the bucket can
reach, and then

maybe try to drill a hole in the
pit and see if we can go deeper.

To me, the odds of us being
able to answer a question

by focusing a drill,
that could unlock some

significant information for us.

So it sounds like
we’re drilling, then.

We’re going back to the hole.

ANDY: We’ve already
basically knocked on whatever

hornet’s nest is here.
PAUL: Exactly.

ANDY: And now we’re coming in
with an even larger hammer.

Wow!

This is huge.

Look at the size of that thing.

If this doesn’t get to
the bottom of that hole,

I will be blown away.

NARRATOR: To successfully
reach a possible tunnel

from the collapsed area
to the lower meadow,

the team is bringing
in a commercial drill

that can go much deeper than
the excavator could reach.

Drill, baby, drill.

Yeah, this is awesome.

NARRATOR: But after
clearing most of the metal

out of the hole, they’ll need to
build a ramp for the drill rig

to get down into the bottom of
the excavated collapsed area.

Then, once the rig is positioned
right over the dug-out target

area, the drill will
bore into the ground

and hopefully break through
to the possible tunnel

leading to the lower meadow.

Hey.
Hi.

Good to see you again, Paul.
- Great to see you.

Appreciate it.

NARRATOR: They’ve called in
demolition expert Jack Peters.

In 2023, Jack attempted
to help them reach

the possible tunnel
system beneath the mines

by using expl*sives.

Fire in the hole.

[boom]

PAUL: Wow.

NARRATOR: This time, Jack
will try to help them finally

strike paydirt with the
drill and prove that a tunnel

system exists below the ranch.

Meet Johnny Havens,
everybody, our drill operator.

Hey, Johnny.

We appreciate your help here.

We’ve got a big job.

Really going to rely on your
expertise for how we’re going

to get down into this hole.

Well, this drill is capable
of drilling about 60 feet.

Perfect.

We’re still excavating,
trying to build a ramp for you

to get down as close as we can.

Let’s show you the site here.

Absolutely.

Are we looking for a
void underneath this hole

potentially?

Either it’s filled
all the way down now

that it’s collapsed completely.

Yeah.

Or there’s another ceiling
or a void underneath.

Well, if there’s something
under there, we’ll find it.

Perfect.

This drill, this may be the
biggest thing we’ve ever done

as part of our investigation.

Now we’re finally getting really
to the heart of the matter.

We’re getting into the hole.

JACK: It’s a tight squeeze,
but he’s going to make it.

We’re going to go down as
deep as 60 feet underground

to see if we can’t figure out
what’s going on with this void

and a possible tunnel
network Bigelow

and his team may have
actually excavated.

All right, brother, I’m going
to go up to the upper meadow

and meet with the
Terra Exploration Team.

Perfect.
Divide and conquer.

Absolutely.

Find us a void, man.
- Yep.

All right, good luck.
- See you, gents.

We’ll be in touch.

We’ll keep you posted.

You got it.

What we’re finding as
we get down into the hole

is that there’s bedrock here.

So if there is a tunnel,
it was very tightly

constructed into this void.

It looks like Bigelow
may have repurposed

something that was here
before, but this is solid rock.

It took a lot of work
to get down this far.

They must have blasted this
out when they made this pit.

You think they used
expl*sives to excavate this pit?

I do, because
look how hard it is.

You can’t dig through that.

That’s bedrock on both sides
right there and right there.

Why would you blast here?

Because you want
to get down deeper?

Whatever they were trying to do.

The fact that this
was blasted open

makes it abundantly clear
this was dug for a purpose.

If there is, in
fact, a tunnel, that

would mean that
Bigelow and his team

had the money, the
time, and the reason

to build out maybe
something far more extensive

than we ever imagined.

That looks like
hard rock right there.

We could punch a hole,
right where you’re standing.

Right through here?

What do you think, guys?

I’ll tell you what, why
don’t we try and repo down here

and we’ll just get started?

NARRATOR: While Paul
and the rest of the team

prepare to bring the drill
down into the collapsed area

to try to bore into a
possible tunnel system,

Andy meets with Terra
Exploration Group

at a site in the upper
part of the ranch

they investigated in 2023.

Well, you know, and this
is the area in here where

we had the big drone problems.

In fact, as I remember,
we launched it right

on the other side of this tree.

NARRATOR: Last winter,
Terra’s drone went haywire.

MAN: That looks way off track.

That looks way off track.

NARRATOR: And it crashed.

Oh.

Oh.

Dang it.

NARRATOR: They determined
the reason for the crash

was a GPS anomaly that made the
drone think it was somewhere

thousands of miles away.

The errant GPS data in our drone

correlates to this red line and
each of these yellow placements

that connect the corner
of Cuba up to the corner

of the Bermuda Triangle.

Wow.

That’s where our drone
thought it was going.

NARRATOR: Andy wants to do a new
test to see if the GPS anomaly

still persists on
the ranch, especially

since another drone just crashed
last week in the lower meadow.

Whoa!

Oh, no.

I have this guy for you.

NARRATOR: A GPS tracker strapped
to the production team’s

low tech drone flown
manually by a crew member

will map the route the
GPS says the drone flies.

So we want to fly
directly this way and then

do a U-turn about face.

You just want to keep
going in that pattern.

- OK.
- Basically like mowing a lawn.

Sounds good.

Ready when you are, sir.

NARRATOR: If the GPS tracker
data matches the drone’s

actual flight path, it
should show a series

of straight grid-like lines.

All right, so here’s the
drone flight path that we took.

Holy moly.

That looks like a
drunken monkey flying it.

MAN: That does not look like the
drone path that we flew at all.

ANDY: Yeah, he flew 40
feet off the ground.

ROBERT: Right.

I mean, this kind of shows
that there is most definitely

some significant variation
in what the GPS is logging

for its actual altitude.

I mean, that would
certainly make a drone crash,

because if a drone
thought it was

trying to maintain the
altitude and it’s just going...

NARRATOR: Because Terra’s
pre-programmed drone relies

on GPS for its navigation,
the persistent GPS

anomaly the team just proved is
still here caused it to crash.

The problem we’ve had is when
we have a programmed grid, OK?

We’re flying this today manually
and it didn’t have any problems.

But whenever we have a
programmed grid into there,

somehow the altitude is being
messed with in the GPS signal,

and it says, oh, wait a
minute, I’m at 90 feet.

I’m supposed to
be way down there.

NARRATOR: The question
is, who or what

is causing the GPS
on Mount Wilson Ranch

to act so strangely?

It was here when you came
for the first investigation

and it’s even present now.

So for sure, something is
scrambling the GPS signal.

The big question is why?

How does this phenomenon
in the upper meadow

relate to the
phenomenon that we’re

seeing in the lower meadow,
which are less than a mile away?

- Strange stuff.
- Yeah.

ROBERT: More questions.

ANDY: But a fantastic
thread for us to follow.

Wow, yeah, Jerry did
a great job on this.

One step closer getting
to the bottom of this.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Now that the
ramp is ready for the drill

to descend into the
excavated, collapsed area,

the moment is at hand.

PAUL: It’s going to be
very interesting to watch

this piece of equipment
actually drop into this hole.

Big question about
everything up here

is what was Bigelow
and his team...

what were they doing here?

This literally is our attempt
to get to the bottom of it,

and using the biggest
piece of equipment

we’ve ever had in
an investigation.

This is it.

We’re going to get some
answers hopefully soon.

OK, Johnny.

Let it rip.

PAUL: This is it, Jeff.

We’re about to find out.

JEFF: This is it.

[beeping]

[sputtering]

Uh-oh.

What’s cooking?

I don’t know.

The drill’s acting funny.

Uh-oh.

Is it an engine problem or is it

something with the electronics?

I can’t read the codes.

It’s just like a pickup.

So it gave me a
check engine light

and then a stop engine light.

[bleep]

We run these drills like this...

JACK: All the time.

Yeah.



JACK: Yeah.
I’ll

Tell you what, it’s going
to be incredibly frustrating

if we’re this close to
the bottom of the hole

and get shut down by
some kind of electronics

or equipment failure.

Yeah.

JACK: Oh, a phone.

PAUL: Is he calling
tech support?

JACK: Maybe

I mean, if we hit, like, say,
an engine block or something

really hard, it would
sit there and spin,

but it wouldn’t stop the drill.

That doesn’t look
very promising.

JOHNNY: All right.

Thanks.

Hey, Johnny.

So what do you think
is going on here, man?

I have no idea.

Have you ever had anything
like this happen before?

No, sir.

Nowhere else?

Can you back out?

No.

I didn’t have any power.

Oh, good.
[bleep]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It’s got... like, every code
you can think of has come on.

Oh, [bleep].

OK.

Umm. Wow.

What do you think is
going on here, man?

I have no idea.

Have you ever had anything
like this happen before?

No, sir.

And it’s got... like, every code
you can think of has come on.

Oh, [bleep].

NARRATOR: As the team was
close to possibly breaking

through the collapsed area
into a tunnel entrance leading

to the lower meadow,
the drill completely

malfunctioned and shut down.

What if we took the drill
and limped it down the road

and rebooted it and just had a
look to see if it would change?

Can you limp mode it?

Yeah, we can try it.

NARRATOR: By
resetting the battery,

Johnny will attempt to start the
drill in limp mode, a function

in a piece of heavy machinery to
help prevent it from suffering

catastrophic damage.

I’ve got a weird
feeling that if we

got this equipment out of this
area, it might heal itself.

It’s worth a try, I think,
because we have no other options

right now, honestly.

It’s one thing
when we lose a drone.

We’ve lost a piece of
equipment, the size of a tank

to some kind of
electronics problem

when we’re as
close as we’ve ever

been to getting literally to the
bottom of whatever is in here.

This thing is taken
out of commission.

JACK: Come on, Johnny.

Do your magic, buddy.

PAUL: Fingers crossed, man.

We have lights.

All right.

Got it out of the hole.

Yeah, that’s good.

Jeez.

NARRATOR: With the
drill rig now running,

Johnny can drive
it out of the hole

to see if he can
reset its systems

and enable it to drill again.

To be right on the
goal line of getting

potentially some answers
to what’s going on here.

JACK: Let’s see here.

PAUL: Here he comes.

JACK: Do you have
any news for us?

I don’t, really.

PAUL: We’re trying to figure
out how this massive piece

of equipment, as soon
as we got in the hole,

is out of commission.

It wasn’t just one fault code.

I mean, it’s showing me...

Oh, yeah.

That fault, that fault,
that fault, that fault.

PAUL: Like the engine stopped.

JOHNNY: Check engine.

And there was a few
more, and I just quit...

I quit taking pictures.

Has that ever happened before?

No.

I’ve been in this
drill for a year,

and it hasn’t given me
any problems like this.

So this is a pretty
new piece of equipment?

This is one of our
newer drills, yeah.

And it’s just basically
giving you an error message

like, this is it?

Exactly.

The bottom line
is here, we’re not

getting this thing restarted?

JOHNNY: No.

All right.

Andy’s out with the Leonards,
but let me call Andy,

and we’ve got to figure out
what our next move is here.

Hey, it’s Paul for Andy.

ANDY [ON RADIO]: Hey, Paul.

I’m here.

Andy, do you want the
bad news or the bad news?

Hey, man.

What’s going on, brother?

It’s really wild.

We got right down.

We started drilling
into the pit itself.

We got, what, maybe
four or five feet?

And started getting just
error messages left and right.

Just a few feet?

And the drill just stopped.

So, Jack, what’s the situation?

We’ve got, what,
nine codes and a check

engine light on still.

OK.

Hopefully we’ll
get it on a trailer.

Yeah, hopefully.

But it doesn’t give
us the RPMs needed to be

able to operate the drill.

The newer drills with
emissions run off of diesel

exhaust fluid, DEF.

OK.

It’s saying it’s
not getting DEF.

So when it’s not doing that, it
automatically gins itself down.

But you know, it has the fluid.

JOHNNY: Yeah, correct.
- So here’s...

I mean, here’s... just, you know,
in layman’s terms, something

is depowering this thing.

This thing is getting shut down.

Even more specific, what’s
happening is that the system

inside is saying
that the machine

is doing something it isn’t.

Right, exactly.

And then as a responds
to that false code,

it is powering itself down.

Exactly.

This is literally our big
g*n, but this may be it, man.

Yeah.

Man.

This is the end of the line.

I mean, we’ve got a lot of data.

We’ve got a lot of
information to take

back to the Skinwalker team.

I wish we had more.

We were so close.

Yeah, that’s exactly what it
feels like is that we are so

close to where we need to be.

Yeah.

This place thwarted us for now.

It has been a
little bit frustrating

to keep running up against
these walls and these limits

here in Mount Wilson, right
when we’re on the verge

of some major discovery.

But we’re a long
way from giving up.

We’ve hit it with
everything we’ve got.

Drones, drills,
bulldozers, expl*sives.

Mount Wilson just
keeps coming at us.

But we’re going to
keep coming back at it.

There’s still just so
much more to learn here.

ANDY: This isn’t
over by a long shot.

PAUL: Nothing is over.

ANDY: It’s not over yet.

Well, it’s great to
be back with you guys,

and we are anxious to hear what
happened at the mysterious Mount

Wilson ranch.

Yeah, absolutely.

So let me start.

First, at the collapsed area.

We did excavate in that site.

This is some of the first
stuff that we discovered.

BRANDON: Those are
railroad rails.

Yeah.

High tension cables.

We saw military vehicles.

I mean, we pulled
out such a huge volume.

You know, there was a
massive pile of debris.

There was so much buried so deep

that we simply couldn’t reach
it with an excavator anymore.

So in addition to excavating,
we brought in a drill.

When we drove the drill,
fully functioning drill,

into the actual tunnel entrance
itself and we started drilling,

it started to have
catastrophic failure

within the electronic
system, to the point

where the drill operator wanted
to leave the tunnel site.

PAUL: Yeah, almost a
complete breakdown.

Let me guess, he’s been using
this equipment for a long time,

never encountered these issues?

Never seen it before.

So both of those
things are true,

and it is a brand new
machine, recently produced.

Better yet.

We’ve had that exact
same circumstance play out

here at Skinwalker Ranch over
and over, year after year,

literally blocking our progress.

Anything show up
that could possibly

account for the malfunctions?

Nothing that we could identify,

but there was something that
occurred that we also wanted

to dig into and share with you.

We had the opportunity to
collect drone-based magnetometer

data in the lower
meadow specifically,

and we started to have
drone malfunctions.

Whoa!

Oh, no.

Just shut down, like it
was slapped out of the sky.

Yep.
Came down like a rock.

Needless to say, the Terra
Team was not happy about it,

but what stunned them
most was that they

had never, ever seen any kind
of experience like this before.

They had never had
a device shut off

as if it had hit a
k*ll switch, override

all of its own self protection
overdrives and overrides.

There is technology to
shut a drone down like that

and take it out of the
sky just like we saw.

Yeah.

I think you guys were just hit
with an RF weapon right then.

But from where?

Hell, it takes something the
size of a truck to power it.

What have we stumbled on?

Yeah, it’s crazy.

I...

So there was one event
in the lower meadow

that I want to share with you.

Instead of trying to
go more high tech,

we tried to go back to more
analog, reliable tech using

a tool called the EM34, which is
a conductivity meter that gives

us a chance to look deep
underground, between 100 and 200

underground.

So it’s a very indirect form
of imaging, but it’s simple.

It’s elegant.

Simple, old school, and reliable

is the key, especially when
we’ve seen the weirdness,

whatever the high
strangeness phenomena

affect modern equipment.

Yeah.

And in that
survey, what we found

is that there is
some kind of highly

conductive mass with a unique
shape from between 100 and 200

underground.

When we were passing under
here, when we were up here,

we were hitting metal, but we
were passing under the object,

and the word...

The manta ray.

Whoa.

He said.

Are you kidding me?

Yeah.

We’ve been told that there
is a manta ray under here.

The exact...

ROBERT: Shape of a manta
ray but being a craft.

- Yeah.
- A manta ray.

They literally said manta ray.

Who said that and what
technology did they use?

ANDY: These are people
from Bigelow’s team

that’s leaked information to
us that looked through files

from when they were up here.

Are you kidding?

Right.

That is such a
remarkable coincidence.

What’s incredible is that
we had just learned about it.

It sort of just
all came together.

You got it and front
loaded with that.

No, that came out
of absolute nowhere.

Jeff and Carl didn’t know
why it had that nickname.

We had never heard that before
until this exact investigation.

This is startling.

Oh, yeah.

This is so startling.

I think the fact
that a completely

independent third party
conjured up the same term

is beyond coincidence.

It’s statistically impossible.

And we’ve learned not
to ignore those events.

We have some sort
of complex, highly

conductive, potentially
metallic device

underneath the lower meadow.

Our next question became,
can we find some way

to provoke a
response or instigate

a reaction from that device?

So we ex*cuted an
experiment using projectors

that we found on
site, projectors that

were from the Bigelow era,
and actually try to replicate

the sort of experimentation
that the Bigelow

team would have used when
they were here on the ranch.

And we are on top of
whatever that is that’s buried

under the lower meadow.

ANDY: During that
projection, we identified

an ultra low frequency
that was emanating

from the area, 68 hertz.

We took that, turned it
around, and put it back

into the environment
by projecting it

out of our own tone generator.

When we did that, we actually
saw a change in the RF spectrum,

where the original signal
seemed to intensify.

So it’s almost as if
you’re getting a response?

There is an answer, if
you will, coming back.

That’s what it felt
like we were doing.

We’re putting out something and
we’re getting something back.

It really does look like
some type of communication.

Wow.

It makes me think that there’s
still an experiment going on,

something’s left on.

Somehow you stimulated it.

We’re seeing the same type
of unexplainable readings.

So you take all of the equipment
malfunctions, the failures, even

the high strangeness,
and I think

we’re on the verge of getting
answers for the first time.

Well, we certainly have
data we’ve never had.

I cannot believe that
there wasn’t more

things like black SUVs and
helicopters showing up.

Bigelow knew there was
something buried out there.

So what did he know was there
and why did he leave it?

Who or what came
to Bigelow and told

him to get the hell out of
there and he got out of there?

What you experienced
could very well be part

of a monitoring effort to
watch, observe, and meddle

in the investigation.

You guys may have had a
nefarious set of oligarchs

watching you or a
foreign intelligence

organization watching you.

But why deploy the
resources and the technology...

Unless they know
something’s there.

in the middle of nowhere.

I look at this scenario with
Mount Wilson and the fact

that I know for certain that
no one really anticipated

our investigation at
Skinwalker Ranch advancing

to the level it has today.

Oh, yeah.

This all begs
the question, could

this be some secret
government installation,

or is it a crash site?

You know, what is
the true nature

of the Mount Wilson property and
why was it abandoned so quickly?

I need to stare at this
thing again and again

until I understand it,
because none of this

makes any sense to me.

It still feels like there’s
more to be discovered.

Oh, Lord have mercy.

We’re not done at Mount Wilson.

There is something
big right there,

and Bigelow missed it or was
told to get away from it.

This could be far stranger
than ghosts and aliens.

I don’t know what
this is, but it’s weird.

Good stuff, guys.

Bravo.

Absolutely.
All right, fellows.

PAUL: All right.
Thanks, guys.

- Thank you so much.
- Awesome stuff, man.

- Appreciate it.
- Great stuff.

Fantastic job, guys.

- Thank you so much, Paul,
- Thank you.

- Wow.
- Awesome.

All right.

I was not expecting this at all.

I really don’t know
what to make of it.

I’m anxious to see what Paul
and Andy come up with next,

and we definitely
need to get back boots

on the ground at Mount Wilson.

Let’s make a plan to do that.

BRANDON: We’re just barely
scratching the surface.

NARRATOR: This season on
Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.

PAUL: Are we ready to go?
- I was born ready for this.

Right.
ANDY: Oh, look at this, Paul.

Look at this.

Whoa.

PAUL: Whoa!
ANDY: What was that?

We had never seen this before
in any of our investigations.

Look at that.

Did you see that, right here?

I mean, it just
changed direction.

The G forces on that
would be ridiculous.

There’s no pilot on Earth that
could handle a turn like that.

- What are you feeling?
- I’m in pain.

I’m in pain.
- It feels wonky over here.

Trying to keep my
head on straight.

I’m having a problem
with breathing.

I can’t abort.

What, so you can’t
even call it back?

- No.
- Whoa.

Big jump.

Everything dropped
about four degrees.

This was one of the
things that had us

scratching our heads for sure.

That’s not natural.

Look at that now.

Look, it’s moving!

Look at that!

I don’t know what
this is, but it’s weird.

That looks like a
privately-owned helicopter,

but it’s all blacked out.

MAN: Does it say 1,100?

ANDY: What?

MAN: Everybody out,
everybody out, everybody out.

There’s data underground.

I’ve only seen
this in two places,

Skinwalker Ranch and here.

That is a massive...

Look at that thing.

massive rocket.

ANDY: Right on top of the trees.
Tree level.

Flowing through the
trees right now.

That is something we
need to watch out for.

Pythons, panthers, skaters.

Isn’t there a little short line

between bravery and stupidity?

Look at that.

No question, we opened
some kind of portal.

Guys, this could
be one of the most

important things you’ve done.

But wonder if we’re on
the verge of potentially

opening a Pandora’s Box.

This could be far stranger
than ghosts and aliens.