01x03 - Looking Down

[bunniefuu]

Looks like a good spot.

We see the mesa, the moon's

gonna be giving us

some backlighting.

THOMAS:

Do you see the glow?

- The flicker?

- Yeah, it looks like the whole

top of the mountain is glowing.

Look, there it is again.

Whoa! That's a definite beam.

- That's spiking.

- That could be dangerous.

My head is hurting bad.

Let's get you

the heck out of here.

- I'm serious.

- This could be life-threatening.

He needs to be in the car,

right now on the way

to the emergency room.

NARRATOR: There is a

ranch in northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most

disturbing phenomena on Earth.

Animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings,

and unusual energies

that have proven harmful

to humans.

For 20 years,

the federal government tried

to find answers and failed.

Now a new team

of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts

has taken over.

They are determined

to solve the mystery

and reveal

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

(telephone ringing)

Hey, Brandon. So, as you know,

we had the team out last night,

and we started picking up

really heavy RF signals

and things like that,

like we have previously.

And, all of the sudden, Tom

started saying

that he had a headache

and then reached back to the

spot on the back of his head

where he previously

had his serious injury

and said that he was

having pain there again.

So, Kaleb actually

grabbed him and drove him

to the emergency room

to have more testing.

All I know is that people

are getting hurt,

and we've got to figure out

why the hell that is happening.

I think that's a good idea.

I will. See you.

- JIM: Morning, guys.

- BRYANT: How are you?

Well, I'm sure I got a little

more sleep than you guys.

- If you got any, you got more than us.

- BRYANT: Yeah, exactly.

- We haven't slept any.

- Oh, my gosh.

How about Thomas?

Where's our-our good friend

Thomas?

TRAVIS:

After what happened

during last night's stakeout

at the mesa,

all of us are a bit freaked out.

I mean,

what we saw was strange enough,

but then Tom Winterton

started getting

the same symptoms

he'd had before

where his scalp started

separating from his skull.

Right near daylight,

Thomas started having

recurring symptoms

from his previous injury,

and we had him go

to the emergency room.

BRYANT:

We got

some crazy readings

on the RF scale

and things like that.

And immediately, he was like,

"Oh, man, my head hurts."

(exhales, sniffles)

We got him off of the property

as quickly as possible.

- How bad is it?

- TRAVIS: You know, it was

It was just

It happened so suddenly.

But we don't know.

(grunts)

TRAVIS:

Let me tell you.

What we measured tonight

wasn't a spook.

- It was a real thing.

- Yeah.

TRAVIS:

We all saw it. It was real.

I completely agree.

JIM:

For some reason, uh,

this phenomenon

attaches like a hitchhiker

to Tom.

- Yeah, I know. It's

- JIM: And that's one of my biggest fears,

is this happening to,

collectively, any one of you.

BRYANT: This is the

second injury of this type

that Tom has suffered,

and I don't know if he's

gonna be able to come back.

SEGALA: So, let's do this.

Let's go get some rest

and then come back to this

and-and figure out next steps.

- TRAVIS: I think that's a good plan.

- JIM: Yep.

- Yeah, I'm wiped out.

- I don't even know

- what my name is anymore.

- Yes.

- And keep me posted on-on Tom.

- Thanks so much.

- Right? All right.

- BRYANT: Oh, yeah, absolutely.

- Thanks so much.

- TRAVIS: Yeah, man.

- SEGALA: That's good.

- TRAVIS: Yeah.

- All right. All right. Yep.

Yep, good. - (horn honking)

What's Kaleb doing?

(grunts)

(chuckles):

Hey!

- You're up and about.

- BRYANT: Tom!

Hey, guys.

Well, it's good to see you

in an upright position,

my friend.

THOMAS:

I'm fine.

Welcome back, buddy.

- How you feeling, man?

- I'm good.

Good. I'm glad to see that, man.

THOMAS:

It was good to come back

and see the guys.

You know, when-when I drove up

and the guys are standing there,

um, their concern

was definitely humbling

and appreciated.

- Hey. Good to see you, brother.

- JIM: Good to see you.

- Appreciate you.

- It is really good

to see you, uh,

up and about, man.

What'd they say at the hospital?

They took me in for a CT scan,

and it didn't pick up much.

Well, what about

How long did the pain last?

More than the pain

was where it was located.

And the thing

that really caused me alarm

was that that exact spot

where that lump first appeared

on my first injury

- Right.

- THOMAS: That's where the pain started,

and it started throbbing there.

Well, and it swelled up

a little bit.

When we first brought you in,

you could feel that there was

- a little bit of it raised up.

- Yeah.

And the doctor

could even feel

You know, when he was looking

at it and examining me,

he could feel

a difference there.

He said, "Yeah, there is

a little bit of swelling there."

Even when they

took the first scans

in my previous injury,

they didn't notice anything

right off the bat.

It wasn't until

they started looking closer

that they started to see

similar characteristics.

SEGALA:

The injuries

that Tom Winterton

experienced two years ago

were of the nature that he had

a neurological episode,

and he had a big swelling

in the back of his head.

He was admitted to the hospital,

and the attending physicians

really were not able

to determine what was wrong

with him.

I was called in as a consultant

to try to figure out

what happened,

and one of the things that-that

struck me about Thomas's case

His injuries were consistent

with a radiation beam

that entered his body

from a specific angle,

angle of attack,

back behind his head.

We got a lot to do.

Let's get back to it, man.

THOMAS: All right.

Let's get back to work.

TRAVIS: It was certainly a

relief to see Tom up and about

and learn

that he wasn't suffering

any long-term effects,

but we're

still pretty spooked out

by what caused his injury

in the first place.

I've got the team

assembled inside.

- Very good. I have the devices.

- Okay.

Let's head on in.

BRANDON:

Hey, guys.

- How are you? So good to see you.

Tom. - (chuckles)

- THOMAS: Hey, good to see you.

- Oh, my friend.

It's so good to see you.

- Oh, well

- I've been so worried about you.

BRYANT: There's a seat

right here for you, man.

Great.

Well, it's good to be with you.

And as soon as I heard

the report

of Tom being run

to the hospital,

I've been very, very concerned.

Yeah.

It's one thing to see lights

on the mesa.

It's another thing to see

the TriField meters going off.

But it's a whole other situation

when one of our team members

ends up going to the hospital.

- Right.

- BRANDON: Given all the incidents

that have occurred recently

and Tom's injuries

and so many strange anomalies,

should we go ahead

with the investigation further?

Or is this really a point

where we need to take

a deep breath

and maybe a step back?

What-What's your thoughts

on that, Tom?

I appreciate

all of the concern and love

that's been shown towards me.

This is like the ranch family,

as we call it.

If this is about us,

we quit.

But this shouldn't be about us.

I think we're seeing

that the ranch

could potentially be

a very dangerous place.

But to me, the question is

is it the Uinta Basin

that could be

a potentially dangerous place?

What are my neighbors

and my friends being exposed to?

Now, whatever's happening

on this ranch

I highly doubt is confined

to the barbwire fence

of the 512 acres.

Okay? There are good people

that live in this valley.

These people are my people.

- So, you feel a responsibility?

- THOMAS: If we're truly

seeking for answers,

then I think

the answer is we stay

because I want to know

if there's

something here

that's affecting not just us

but the good people

that live around in this valley.

My injury really made this quest

for this science discovery

personal.

There's something dangerous.

We need to identify what it is.

We can't cut and run.

It'd be irresponsible.

Well, Thomas,

if that's how you feel,

Erik and I

have taken immediate steps

regarding how we move forward.

Okay BRANDON: ar.

Lights on the mesa.

Tom's injuries.

- These things are real.

- Right.

BRANDON: Now, it's one thing

to see the TriField meters

going off,

but it's a whole other situation

when one of our team members

ends up going to the hospital.

Well, with that urgency,

I've recently reached out

with Erik to a company

called Biobeat.

They have armed us

with some devices

that I wanted to fly out today.

These are

wearable sensor devices.

Medical-grade. Will give us

the ability to better monitor

the health and safety

of our team.

ERIK:

What we have here are

basic vital sign measurements

like our body temperature,

our heart rate and perspira

our perspiration, respiration.

But we also have

the stress indicators

that tell us if we are

under some kind of stress.

If something's happening with

us, we will immediately be able

to see that right in here.

So, the idea is, yes,

we're keeping people safe.

But yes, we are also serving

as, as bio sensors.

JIM: So now we have these watches

that we're all gonna wear.

We're gonna be monitored 24/7.

If something does happen,

then we're alerted

and brought off

the ranch immediately.

So, actually, if we had that

that night,

and it was set up to alarm,

we might have known this

before even Thomas knew this.

Well, gentlemen,

I need to get back.

Please know

that I am available real time,

and let me know

- how things progress.

- JIM: Thank you.

- Appreciate you.

- Good to see you.

- Thank you so much.

- Yeah.

♪

Hey. There they are.

TRAVIS: After the other

night, we all agreed

that we should continue

our noninvasive search efforts

to see if the strange radiation

spikes we've been getting

are coming from underground.

But what concerns me is that,

even though

he hadn't been digging,

Thomas still got sick

near the mesa.

So far, it just doesn't add up.

Hey, guys.

- Morning, Erik.

- Like to introduce you guys

to Derrick.

He's from Hot Shots

- out of L. A.

- Derrick and Erik.

- Okay, I can remember that.

- How are you? Travis Taylor.

- Derrick Ward. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you, man.

So, I've brought Derrick out

to do a thermographic imaging

of the entire property.

He's a drone expert,

and I think he can show us

some things

that may be just beneath

the surface of the soil here.

The results of

Robert Bigelow's investigation

have never been fully released.

There are rumors

about some kind of base

or perhaps an alien artifact

beneath the property

using drone thermography.

Perhaps there is, in fact,

something under the ground

that will show up

in our imagery.

Really looking forward to seeing

what comes out

of our work today.

Yeah. Yeah, we got some

of the best technology

out there right now.

Drone itself is about $35,000.

In every image

and every pixel of that image,

you're able

to capture the temperatures.

- Wow.

- It's-it's crazy technology.

ERIK: So, for example,

if-if there were something,

say a stone structure,

beneath the surface of the soil,

uh, let's say

maybe two, three feet down

If it's right below

and it's actually hotter

than everything else,

it's creating a signature,

- then we will find that and see that.

- Right.

That's cool stuff, man.

I'm excited to see what you got.

- So, let's get going.

- Yeah.

TRAVIS:

Because any large metal objects

or structures

located underground

are likely to have

a higher temperature,

it should appear on Derrick's

camera as a darker color.

So if we see anything

out of the ordinary,

we can pinpoint it as a place

where we can come back later

and maybe dig.

DERRICK:

Okay, all clear.

Those things are so cool.

DERRICK: Now watch

carefully what happens.

Give you guys an example

of the capability here.

So we got a thermal camera.

If we see something

and we're not sure what it is

in the thermal image,

we can immediately switch over

to the regular image,

get a closer look.

Watch the zoom here

when I do this.

BRYANT:

That's amazing.

JIM:

You can get on a leaf.

So, if there was

a mountain lion up in there,

- you'd probably see that.

- Oh, yeah.

JIM:

So, right in here,

there's a whole bunch of caves

we get a lot of radiation

out of.

We got some black stuff

right there.

See all inside of there?

TRAVIS: Is that a shadow

or is that a cool spot?

DERRICK:

Well, let's find out.

ERIK: I think you're

looking at shadows.

DERRICK:

Yeah, that's all shadows.

BRYANT:

So, Erik, what are you

mostly curious

about checking out

- with all this thermal I-imagery?

- What I'd like to do

is I'd like to put that drone

as high in the sky as I can

and look straight down

and fly over the field.

We'll go up

and get that for you.

ERIK:

Let's suppose we have

some really big structure

under the property,

like circular things,

something rectangular.

If we see shapes like that

in the thermal profile,

then that may be a hint

as to where something unusual

is located under the ground.

So, what would account

for this

this boundary here,

between this area and this area?

DERRICK: Just the way

things are hitting the sun.

The vegetation of it is longer

in one area than the other,

then it's creating shade

somewhere.

I like the striations there.

That's interesting.

JIM:

That's the bait pen.

- DERRICK: What's that?

- BRYANT: The previous ownership

put cattle or dogs

or whatever in that area

as an early warning

or detection system.

- TRAVIS: It wasn't us.

- Yeah. Not at all.

BRANDON: Immediately upon

Robert Bigelow's occupation

of the property

and bringing the

scientific team

on Skinwalker Ranch,

they installed

observation towers

with razor wire

and enclosures around them.

With the constant

daylight cattle mutilations

that were occurring

on the property,

the idea was to actually place

livestock

- in these enclosures

- (mooing)

to see the phenomena at work.

That study

and a lot of the findings

that came out of those years,

you know,

remain under lock and key.

ERIK:

So far in what you've seen,

have you seen any hard edges,

corners, anything?

No. I haven't seen anything

that-that just seems abnormal.

TRAVIS: Even though

everything from UFO sightings

to cattle mutilations

have happened

on this part of the ranch,

we didn't see anything unusual

underground.

Yeah, well, this is all data

- that we've got.

- ERIK: Yeah.

I think we can bring it in,

and-and let's head on

to the western end

of the property.

- (beep)

- All right. That works.

TRAVIS: We decided to head over

to what's known as Homestead Two.

It's right by the area

of the mesa

where we've been getting

all these radiation spikes.

It's also where there's been

a concentration

of strange phenomena,

like glowing lights

at night and even some reported

paranormal activity.

Homestead Two was built in 1905

by John and Emma Meyers,

who lived there

and raised cattle.

It's been abandoned

since the 1930s,

and a lot of the locals think

it's haunted.

ERIK:

As we go out just around

- the point of the mesa here.

- DERRICK: Okay.

BRYANT: It seems to be

that a lot of the activity

or strangeness that we encounter

is centered

around those homesteads.

THOMAS: You can see the

old homestead right there.

- DERRICK: Yeah.

- BRYANT: We have things

from batteries on equipment

going from 100%

to zero in a matter of seconds,

people feeling vertigo

or not being able

to hear sound.

DERRICK:

All set. Ready to go.

Well, so, our hot spots right

here are on top of the mesa.

And-and right over

in this area is a cave

that we've been observing.

And then these houses here--

we want to make sure

we get good views of them.

- Right?

- DERRICK: Okay. All right.

Let's do this.

I'll fire it up.

(drone beeps on)

(beeps)

No connection.

TRAVIS:

Huh.

That's weird.

That

It makes no sense.

- (beeping)

- DERRICK: We're not connected.

I'm not connecting

to the remote.

I don't know

what's happening with it.

Well, there's a reason why we

wanted him to check this area,

because of stuff like this.

BRYANT: Near the old

Homestead Number Two

is an area

where we're always having issues

with electronic equipment

and malfunctions.

When we went to the sinkhole

that we have up

above Homestead Two,

another similar thing happened.

I will tell you,

my phone battery just went

- (sputters) - Your

battery's dead on your phone?

- Huh.

- TRAVIS: Yeah. Your battery's dead, too,

- ain't it?

- It shut off.

TRAVIS: If there's one

place on the property

where cell phones and

electronic equipment won't work

or meter readings

will go haywire,

it's here.

The real problem is

we can't figure out why.

Do you think it's interference

from something or

Well, it is, but what's cau

I mean, I could walk five feet

and see if it changes.

- So let me do that first

and see what happens. - Okay.

Is it connecting to you

over there, Derrick?

- No.

- Huh.

Yeah, we've seen batteries act

squirrelly around here anyway.

And it zapped the battery of my

phone, like, almost instantly.

It could be something weird

about

this-this little area here.

ERIK:

I do have

some prominent signal here.

- TRAVIS: At what frequency? Do you know?

- Well, 5480.

TRAVIS:

So, at five gigahertz.

5.2.

So, we're getting

a five gigahertz signal.

That's weird.

That's not just weird.

It's concerning.

BRYANT: There have been

times when I've been out

by the old homestead

and got a really creepy feeling.

So, whatever it is, you know,

I'll leave it to the scientists

to try and decipher it.

All I know

is that something strange

happened that caused

so much interference

that a $35,000 drone

couldn't get up in the air.

You know,

we may be done here for the day,

because, uh

because of this.

And we certainly don't want

to put your drone at risk.

- Yeah.

- Let's call this a wrap.

Derrick, man,

appreciate you coming out.

- We really appreciate you coming out.

- More than happy to do it.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- Hey, we'll figure this out.

TRAVIS: There is

electromagnetic radiation.

That spike all around the ranch.

You know what, we should get

those TriField meters

- Yep.

- out here.

So, after the drone

stopped working,

I figured out a way

that we could modify our meters

so that they could help us

pinpoint the source

of this interference.

So, real quick, I'll show y'all

what we're gonna do.

Right now, I'm not sure,

when we're holding these meters

any particular way,

which direction

the signal's coming from.

That's what these are for.

We put this in the can,

turn it on.

- SEGALA: Right.

- That's gonna allow us

to do directional measurements,

and that'll tell us

which direction

the-the signal's coming from.

SEGALA:

Oh, my God, that's huge.

- That's at 900.

- 900.

- There's a blip there. - There is a

huge peak right now, 900 megahertz.

It is totally pegged out

right now.

As I turn it away,

and as I turn it that way,

it picks back up.

This is strange.

Because the coffee cans block

out any extraneous RF signals,

it seems that the radiation

might be coming

from above the ground and not

below, like we all suspected.

Now, to prove it,

we need to get measurements

from three random locations

on the ranch.

By pointing our meters

in the direction

toward where we get

the strongest reading

and see where they intersect,

we can then use triangulation

to pinpoint exactly where

this radiation's coming from.

Okay, so here's

what we need to do, guys.

While we know

there's a signal there,

let's run

some distance from here,

like maybe over to the corner

of the helipad area.

We are pegged out,

pointed in this direction.

Where's my phone?

Let's get a reading

from both phones, right?

- THOMAS: Yep.

- Then we can draw a line

from here

straight that way,

straight in the direction,

and then from over there

draw a line,

and wherever those lines cross,

that should be

where the signal's coming from.

- Here, let me hold that.

- See, when I go like this,

I'm picking up horizontal stuff.

I go like this,

I'm picking up vertical.

So I get my biggest readings

when I'm like this, looking up.

Yeah, it's straight.

It's coming straight up,.

THOMAS:

This is perfectly plum.

It's coming from up there.

Look-it, it's going nuts.

Look at that jumping like crazy.

All right, right now

we need to get in a vehicle

and drive

to the far corners of the ranch

and make this measurement

and mark where we were

when we made it.

So then we can map it on a map.

♪

So we just need to find

a spot that we can use

as a marker.

What about right there?

This flower will be our spot.

All right.

It's pegging out, right now.

- Is it pegging out on yours?

- Pegged.

TRAVIS: What's the pitch

angle of these right now?

- THOMAS: We're right around 38.

- SEGALA: Close to 40.

TRAVIS: Well, I think

we got what we need from here.

So we need to go either

as far east or as far west

and get one more point.

Here you go.

We've got to find a point

down here

and make the same measurements

that we made up there.

♪

TRAVIS:

All right, so,

what we got to do is get

some reference points

where we took the measurements.

Now that Jim and Tom and I

have recorded three different

points across the ranch

where these radiation spikes

keep occurring,

we're gonna go plot them out

on a map

and see exactly

where they intercept.

Right here is the spot. Right?

THOMAS: We had right next

to the helipad right there.

TRAVIS:

Right there. Okay.

And then we were out here

by a power pole somewhere.

Right there is the shadow

of the power pole.

- TRAVIS: Yeah. - THOMAS: Good, good.

- SEGALA: Perfect.

TRAVIS:

So right there.

So there's one, two

three

let's see, and we'll need

the angles that we measured

from each of the points.

We figured out the angles

that we were detecting energy

from the sky

at three different points.

And these angles are gonna cross

at some point above the ranch.

Using some basic

high school trigonometry,

we can calculate that height.

This one was like that.

Look, they're gonna cross

up here somewhere.

SEGALA:

Yeah.

TRAVIS:

And this one was like that.

- So how-how high is that?

- SEGALA: Who's got that calculator?

Yeah, it's just, it's

it's 5,700 feet.

One mile high.

Do we ever see airplanes flying

at a mile high over there?

What does that mean, even?

TRAVIS:

So, one mile high

is only about a sixth

as high as jets fly.

That means that

whatever is doing this

should be seen by the naked eye.

So why can't we?

This just doesn't add up.

We took scientifically

accurate measurements,

and they lead us to a spot

somewhere up here

over the ranch.

That is our next measurement.

And the way we could do that

is we tether a weather balloon

and raise it up

through that region,

that has equipment on it.

We get it up there and see

if we see something there.

If we see something there,

that's even more exciting.

That sounds like fun.

Hey, th yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah. And every time we think

we have an idea of a solution,

the answer ends up

being something weirder.

THOMAS: This TRAVIS: of the most

impor Hey, Matt. ments

- Hey, Travis.

- How you doing, man?

- I'm great. How are you?

- Good to see you.

- Good to see you, too.

- This is Thomas.

TRAVIS:

Once we figured out

that the strange energy source

was coming from

about a mile above the ranch,

I called up a friend of mine,

Dr. Matt Turner--

he's from the University

of Alabama in Huntsville.

He's got a PhD in mechanical

and aerospace engineering,

and he's an expert

in the use of weather balloons.

We've measured

some really strong RF fields

- Mm-hmm.

- coming from the sky.

And so we think

there's a focus somewhere,

and we're guessing

that the focus may be as much

- as a mile high, so what I'd like to do

- Yeah.

is set up an experiment,

and let's start measuring that.

That sounds great.

I got balloons.

We've got helium.

We've got

some payload platforms.

And we just need your meters,

- and we're good to go.

- All right.

- Let's get everything loaded up,

and let's do that. - Excellent.

THOMAS:

You just go down the road,

and you hit it right over there.

TRAVIS: I think this is a good

spot, guys.

Based on the triangulation

of where these strange

microwave and radio signals

are coming from,

what we're going to do is

use a weather balloon

with instruments on it

to fly it through

the point on the ranch

where we believe

this stuff is coming from.

All right,

so, with this balloon,

with the tether, especially,

we should be able

to pick an altitude

and go to that altitude

and measure,

with the TriField meters,

- and dial in the altitude that we want.

- TRAVIS: Nice.

SEGALA: So, at the end

of the day, if we could have

a chart that says altitude,

RF energy, and show the plot,

that would be amazing.

TRAVIS: After attaching

one of our RF meters

to measure possible radio

or microwave energy,

we've also attached a camera,

so that we can photograph

what happens when the balloon's

up in the sky.

MATT:

All right, Kaleb.

Fire in the hole.

(gas hissing)

MATT: What Travis is trying

to measure-- I've never heard

of that occurring on Earth.

But the physics behind it

is sound.

So it could exist--

we just don't know it yet.

- MATT: Okay.

- (turns off gas)

TRAVIS: So, we're connected

to the top of the chute.

Okay, you guys ready?

- Yep.

- Good to go.

TRAVIS:

All right, here we go.

Jim, watch your head.

All right.

All right, slowly let it up.

All right, keep going.

You're good.

THOMAS:

Hey, we're clear.

TRAVIS:

All right.

THOMAS:

Man, that's a big balloon.

KALEB: I'm surprised

there's not any wind blowing

- that sucker around right now.

- MATT: I know,

I'm extremely surprised.

Yeah, ain't that cool?

THOMAS: I can only

imagine what the neighbors

- are saying right now.

- TRAVIS: Oh, yeah, right?

THOMAS:

The balloon experiment, for me,

is one of the most important

experiments that we've got.

Because of my injury

and what's taken place,

I'm very interested

in these unseen frequencies

and signals that

are going through the air.

This is proving to be one of

the more significant anomalies

on Skinwalker Ranch.

- MATT: 320 feet.

- (low, rapid clicking)

- (whirring) - That's not bad.

- TRAVIS: Yeah.

Uh, I want to see

how high we can get it,

- so feed me the spool right through here.

- MATT: Through here?

Yeah.

(wind whistling)

The wind's picking up, so

what I'd like to do

is pull this thing down,

and don't let it hit the grass,

'cause it goes pop.

♪

TRAVIS:

Yo! Whoa, don't go too fast,

'cause the wind's blowing.

The wind's

really picking up now.

We got to let it out now,

or it's gonna crash.

Let it go, let it go,

let it go, let it go.

Hurry, we're gonna lose it.

- THOMAS: Cut it?

- No, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

Let it spool it,

let it spool out.

Go up, go up, go up, go up,

go up, go up.

It's going down

Come on. Up!

We lost her.

We lost it.

- I think it broke the line.

- KALEB: It's all over there.

There's that 50-pound test line.

That's a lot of pressure.

- There was a lot of wind.

- Crap.

Dadgum it.

So here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna go and try

and recover the payload,

and if the wind

dies down enough,

I say we're gonna forget

with the tether at this point,

and let's just do a free-fly,

- let one go with the payload on it.

- Okay.

Once we find the balloon

and get our gear off of it,

we're just gonna let the next

one get as high as it can.

Hopefully,

it'll help us figure out

what could be above the ranch

causing these radiation spikes.

(over radio):

All right, then we'll meet you

- back at the Jeep.

- THOMAS: Okay.

We're gonna head back and start

preparing for the next launch.

This next balloon

will not only have the TriField

meter and a camera on it,

but also an audio beacon

and a GPS device.

That way we can track its

location as it gathers data.

- Shut it off.

- Okay.

Got a lot of lift on it?

- Yeah.

- Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:

All right, we're good.

- (steady beeping)

- MATT: Yep, yep, yep, we know.

- Audio beacon is on.

- TRAVIS: We need to let it go.

The wind's kind of

dying down-- it'd be

a good time to let it

let it rip.

I mean, it's gonna go

like a rocket, right?

- Yeah, it's gonna take off pretty quick.

- Well, so we hopefully

get it to go through the

you know, mile-high mark

that we were calculating.

I'm just hoping

that it hits that

before it gets

too far to the west.

- You know what I mean?

- I hope so, too.

- You got it, Matt?

- Yeah, I got it.

- Here we go.

- We're clear.

- Start easing it up.

- (exclaims)

Start letting it go,

start letting it go.

(steady beeping continues)

Three, two, one.

Let it launch.

♪

Look how fast it's going.

Hey, I love how it's

It's going

right through the spot, too.

That is awesome.

THOMAS:

Oh, that is perfect!

Right where it needs to be.

TRAVIS: That couldn't

have worked out better,

- I don't think.

- MATT: That's a good launch.

I say we pack up and go back

and try and track it

- on the Internet.

- MATT: Sounds good. THOMAS: Yep.

♪

TRAVIS: Now that we have

T a successful launch, d

we're going to go track

the balloon

from the command center.

If this experiment

is successful,

it'll tell us exactly where

these energy spikes

are occurring,

and hopefully,

what's causing them.

Are you tracking it already?

Yeah. Yeah, come sit down

and take a look.

- Can you see okay?

- Yeah, I can see good.

MATT:

What does it look like so far?

Yeah, so, um, we've got

a few good hits already.

It looks like it's tracking off

towards the east.

How high is it right now?

Um, it's giving us an altitude,

well, above sea level,

of 10,453.

TRAVIS: Now, Skinwalker Ranch

is already

at 5,000 feet above sea level.

And the balloon

we're tracking right now

is approximately

5,500 above the ranch.

That means its total elevation

is about 10,500 feet.

Now, that's pretty much exactly

where we believe

the RF energy above

the property is coming from.

Well, that is odd, though,

because you'd think

it gone more than that

in the time it took us

to get out there and into here.

- Yeah.

- Well, it's-it's not

This is not updating.

MATT:

That's strange to me.

That's supposed

to update every minute.

It seems to have stopped after

the 10,000 foot above sea level.

So, when was the last time

that-that blip sent data?

I mean, how long ago was that,

Erik?

- A few minutes ago? A minute ago?

- Yeah.

- It's been a lot more than a minute.

- Okay.

And that's-that's

baffling to me.

The sensor is rock-solid.

Dude, I have flown this thing

30 times, more than 30 times.

It's never failed on me.

So, I don't understand

why it went out.

I'm kind of worried

about this balloon.

I don't think

we've ever had anything

that we could not explain

in the atmosphere.

We can usually figure

most things out

if we have enough data.

Roughly a mile,

or you know,

a little above a mile high,

and it's lost,

which I never thought

would happen.

So, what altitude

did you say that was?

Well, this is telling us

10,453 above sea level, so

- What's the altitude of our

- We're about 5,000 here.

Okay.

So it's about 5,500 feet.

- Right?

- Yeah.

- THOMAS: Well, that's interesting.

- TRAVIS: Yeah, it is.

MATT: So, somewhere,

the sensor stopped working.

That's right

right where we figure

those, uh,

field lines are crossing.

That's right where

the triangulation put it.

Oh, wow.

THOMAS:

We did get it to ping

as the balloon was going up.

So, we know it was transponding

and-and sending information.

The last ping that we got

showed the battery was good,

the temperature was good,

everything was functioning

properly, and then, magically,

it hits this 5,000-foot mark,

and it's gone.

I've flown 30 of these balloons.

I've dropped 'em, I've stepped

on 'em, I've gotten 'em wet.

They've flown through,

you know, thunderstorms.

- They go up to 100,000 feet.

- Yeah, they're rock solid.

There must have been something

at 5,000 feet

- that shut it off.

- Something happened.

TRAVIS:

It's crazy that the point

where we lost contact

with the balloon

is at the exact same altitude

we calculated

the RF energy to be coming from.

But where the heck

did the balloon go?

It's like it just disappeared.

Why don't we look at the footage

from the tethered test,

and, uh, what I'd like

to see is the meter.

- Oh.

- So we can kind of see what it's doing.

Easy enough.

- (beep)

- THOMAS: Whoa!

- Look at that. Look at that.

- Oh, wow!

- Wow.

- TRAVIS: Wow. So we're getting

about .3 milliwatts

per meter squared.

Thought I saw it spike at five.

I thought I

I thought I did, too.

That's like standing by

a microwave that's on.

So, this isn't someone

just sending a Wi-Fi signal

back and forth

or anything like that?

It can't be at that altitude

with these types of spikes,

right?

- Okay.

- SEGALA: So one of the things

that really jumps out at me

is that you can tell if

a frequency or RF energy

comes from the ground,

as most do,

because it will actually

fall off as you go up.

So, in order

to create something up there,

you have to have an antenna

up there to create the energy.

So, what's disturbing is that

it has to come

from something off-planet.

It's not something

that humans have created

on the face of the earth.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

So the interpretation

of this is there's something

above us sending signals down.

I mean, yeah,

it's coming from above.

- It's coming from off-planet, right.

- Yeah.

That is what

the data is suggesting.

A lot of this is not adding up.

- ERIK: Right.

- THOMAS: So I am sitting in a room

full of baffled scientists then?

Uh, that sounds about right.

- Yeah.

- TRAVIS: There's no

known asset that's just sitting

right over the ranch.

- Yeah.

- TRAVIS: So, uh, I'm thinking about

us building a rocket,

'cause we can put sensors

on the rocket, measure things

as it passes through that spot.

- Maybe this will help us figure that out.

- Right.

TRAVIS: Man,

I appreciate you coming out, man.

MATT:

I'm glad that I could help.

TRAVIS: While the team

and I are waiting

for our rocket equipment

to arrive,

Thomas Winterton invited me

to come with him

over to Homestead One.

THOMAS:

We'll see what we can see, yeah?

All right,

let's grab the stuff out.

Now, Homestead One

is the homestead

nearest the command center,

and it's where

the two caretakers, Kandus

and her boyfriend Tom, live.

They've only been staying here

on the ranch

for a few weeks,

and according to Thomas,

they've already been hearing

strange sounds

coming from the basement.

So I'm really curious to see

if what's happening in the house

could have any connection

to what we've been

experiencing recently

in other places on the ranch.

- Well, hello.

- Hey, there.

Come on in. What's going on?

- Hey, hey.

- We're gonna see if we can have a

We want to look down

in that thing in your basement.

- Oh, h*.

- There's a special camera.

- TOM: Oh, you got a camera?

- Okay.

- TRAVIS: Yeah.

- TOM: Nice.

THOMAS: The ranch house has had

three generations of ownership

before Brandon

took possession of it.

Starting with the Meyers,

who reported

strange sounds, rumblings.

And when the Shermans

took possession of it

from the Meyers,

there were locks on everything

from the cabinet doors

to the closets.

They started reporting

groceries coming out

of the cabinets,

farm equipment ending up

in the trees,

all types

of weird anomalies that

were pretty scary.

All right,

if we just head down, then?

KANDUS:

Yeah, you go-go ahead.

- TOM: Yeah, watch your head there.

- KANDUS: Yup.

THOMAS:

Two weeks ago,

Tom and Kandus reported

strange noises

coming from the basement.

I was able to punch

a small hole through the wall,

and we discovered that there was

possibly a room there.

So there's a room in there?

TOM:

There's a room in there.

But it goes back quite a ways.

Now the interesting thing

about it is,

as far we can tell, we can't see

any pipes coming in or out,

and there's no access to it.

That's the

That's the weird thing is

I don't know why

you'd have a concrete box

- Completely walled off.

- with no access.

Uh, it's-it's weird, man.

I don't know what

- It's just out of place.

- Yeah.

- You know?

- Well, let's get in there.

TRAVIS:

Let's get this thing hooked up

and take a look.

A room

that's completely closed off

in the basement with no doors,

and no doors

being prepared to be built

on it or maybe,

there was never any intent

to put a door on it--

it's horror movie stuff.

Is this gonna

fit through that hole?

THOMAS:

I'm pretty sure it will.

- If not, we'll make it bigger.

- All right.

Yeah, I mean,

everything's connected

the way it's supposed to be.

- All right, there we go.

- THOMAS: Got it?

Does that seem like

it's gonna stay?

Yeah, I think

I think it will.

- Okay.

- All right.

- THOMAS: We're in.

- KANDUS: Oh, wow. - TOM: Cool.

- It's bone-dry in there.

- Mm.

TRAVIS:

So, it means it's not leaking,

or there's no

external entrances to it.

TOM:

So it looks square, doesn't it?

THOMAS:

Yeah, definitely square.

Well, look how thick

that concrete is.

I mean, that tells you

just how strong it is.

TRAVIS:

That's heavy duty, something.

You know, that's-that's

a foot thick on top.

I'm gonna try

to angle this down a little bit

and just check along this wall.

- TRAVIS: That's a good idea.

That's a real good idea. - KANDUS: Mm.

TRAVIS:

Oh, what is that?

Is that a drain?

What is that?

TRAVIS: Go all the way

down to it if you can.

- What is that? - KANDUS: What is that?

- It looks like rubble

- to me. - It does.

- Yeah, it's rubble,

but where rubble from what?

THOMAS:

I wonder, when I drilled this,

if it didn't beat it in,

and it popped in there.

KANDUS: That looks like

way more material

- that would have come out of that hole.

- That's way more material

than that hole.

See, go a little bit lower

if you can.

Oh, slow down, slow down,

slow down.

That looks like kindling

or something.

THOMAS:

I don't know what

the black stuff is.

That is really weird.

KANDUS:

It looks like charcoal.

It it might be ash.

It looks ashy and black flecks

and charcoal.

It sure does. It looks like

there's been a fire in there.

TOM:

It does.

That's-that's a little creepy

right there.

TRAVIS:

Right in the bottom,

there's a pile about the size,

of, say, a volleyball,

and it looked like ash,

but how did it get in there,

and what's the purpose

of it being there?

It makes no sense what this is.

How could you build a fire

in there without suffocating?

THOMAS:

Why would you?

- TRAVIS: I mean, is it an oven?

- KANDUS: Well, yeah, almost

- looks like a cremation.

- THOMAS: So it looks like ash, huh?

TRAVIS:

Hey, hold on a minute.

What are those white pieces

right there?

THOMAS:

I'm wondering if that's

- It looks a lot like bones.

- KANDUS: Is that even bone?

TRAVIS:

Bones?

What in the world?

TRAVIS: We need to see

what's really in there.

- What is that?

- ERIK: It could be human remains.

THOMAS: We have a couple

trucks bringing cattle.

Each cow we bring on

is another biosensor.

TRAVIS: There's some

signal coming from space.

- Inserting safety key.

- Ignition.

So we're gonna use rockets and

see what's going on up there.

- What the heck's up with the cows?

- (loud lowing)

- THOMAS: Look, look, look!

- BRYANT: What is that?

- What is that?

- KAITLIN: What is that?

THOMAS:

It's gone. Did you see it?

TRAVIS: It's gone.

Yes, I saw it! It's gone.

BRANDON:

I think that's historic.