06x02 - The Drone Zone

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What you see here is
a construct that is based on

Pete Kelsey's
terrestrial laser scanner data.

TRAVIS:
That looks like a dome to me.

ERIK: I think we
should take a helicopter

through that zone.

I'm coming up on the triangle

here on the west
side of the dome.

TRAVIS: This dome...

is it something that
we can measure?

There is a signal
that is not Erik

right there by the
signal that Erik's sending.

It's strong.

ERIK: Do you see
those red points?

These are the errors.

Look where he's oriented.

Right above the triangle.

This is a dome
that's subsurface.



I feel like we're
in a bubble here.

The question is,
what is this bubble?

NARRATOR: There is
a ranch in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing occurrences on Earth.

For two decades,

the federal government

investigated the property.

Their findings have
never been made public.

TRAVIS: Right there!
We got something!

NARRATOR: Now a new team

of independent
scientists and researchers

are taking over.

They are uncovering evidence

that the countless stories...

It came right out of the mesa.

Of unidentified
aerial phenomena...

- UAP right there!
- KALEB: Yep.

Bizarre energies...

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

And portals that lead
to other dimensions...

We're maybe
looking at the anomaly

for the first time, guys.

Might actually be true.

They will stop at
nothing to reveal...

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS: I can't wait to
get back into that mesa.

[exhales]

Man, it's hot.

We have so much
that we're investigating

all across Skinwalker Ranch.

But this morning
our team got started

by resuming an operation

to figure out if
something extraordinary

is buried deep inside the mesa.

Well, guys,

uh, today I brought Josh
Halprin from Strahl out,

and we're hoping you
can give us a glimpse

at what lies inside that,
uh, borehole right there.

JOSH: Yeah, so
the camera I brought,

it's got about 394 feet.

It's also got HD
imagery and video,

so it should give
us a good glimpse

of what's inside
that hole there.

That's a great way to start.

- I say we get going.
- Let's get on it.

TRAVIS: Based on experiments we've
done here over the past three years,

we believe that there's a


inside the mesa along with a
bunch of smaller anomalies.

We have no idea what they are.

But while trying to
drill into these objects...

- THOMAS: What is that?
- We've discovered

metal fragments that are similar

to the protective
coatings on space shuttles.

Last year we had Mike,
Alex, and their team

from Mark
Construction Drilling...

create the first of two
boreholes up through the mesa,

positioned on each
side of the anomalies

that are buried inside there.

Now, we want to
widen that first borehole

and, when that's done,

create a second one
that's the same size.

This will let us insert
high-tech scanning devices

into the mesa

that will hopefully identify
what's actually in there.

Put that thing in there.
We'll see what we can see.

But before they start trying to
widen borehole number one,

we're having Josh Halprin
feed a snake camera

up through it

to confirm that it didn't
collapse over the winter.

- JOSH: Can you see that?
- Yeah, sure can.

[squeaking]

Just send it in slowly.

- THOMAS: Oh! Back up, back up, back up.
- That's what I'm saying.

Hang on.

TRAVIS: What is that?

THOMAS: Not more
of that green jelly, is it?

That is... interesting.

That looks like that
green stuff, man.

- Yeah, I'd like to take a look at this.
- It's-it's...

it's a lot like that green
jelly that we pulled out

of the spoils pile last year.

Okay. I see it.

TRAVIS: Last year,

while searching
through the drilling spoils

from this borehole...

What the hell is that?

We found one of
the strangest things

we've ever seen on
Skinwalker Ranch...

a green jellylike substance

that, when tested, came back

with some truly
surprising results.

The particles you see are
pieces of burnt plant material.

And the real take-home
here is that it's full of charcoal.

TRAVIS: You mean
like something caused

a fire deep inside the mesa?

Absolutely. Yeah.

If we're actually
finding evidence of a fire

or maybe an expl*si*n
deep in the mesa,

it makes us even more
curious about what that object

and other anomalies could be
and how the heck they got in there.

I say we keep pushing
forward, see if we see more of it.

♪ ♪

JOSH: It's having a weird...

connection issue, almost.

ERIK: Interference?

Yeah. You see a little
bit of interference here

on the monitor.

Yes, I can see that. I
can see all that flickering.

THOMAS: We lost picture.

What?

It just went, uh, black.

TRAVIS: Is the
battery still good?

JOSH: Yeah, oh,
yeah, battery's still good.

That is damn interesting.

- THOMAS: Oh. Oh. There you go.
- TRAVIS: Oh, came back, came back.

THOMAS: Something
just happened. Yeah.

So, at this point,
right where we are,

it's-it's about 200 feet in.

KALEB: Guys, think about that.

We're about 200
feet into the mesa.

And last year, where did the
beacon start having issues?

About 200 feet in.

Have you ever seen any kind

of interference like
this before in a job?

Not like this, no.

TRAVIS: It's really odd
that the camera's video feed

cut out right at 200
feet inside the borehole.

That's the exact spot
where the drilling beacon,

which tracks the
drill bit underground,

malfunctioned over
and over last year

and made it nearly
impossible to finish the hole.

That's more data suggesting
that whatever's buried in there

could be jamming our equipment.

So what could these
things be in order to do that?

Think we can keep going.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

- Look how the hole looks clear.
- ERIK: Yeah.

TRAVIS: I mean, look at that.

- JOSH: You got it.
- It's like you passed

through a boundary.

It's going up at a...

- higher degree.
- Well, the hole looks perfect, though.

THOMAS: Luckily, despite

the interference we're
seeing on the camera,

that hole has
held its integrity.

The drillers are
gonna have no problem

getting right back up
to the top of the mesa.

TRAVIS: Well, I'm excited
about what we're seeing so far.

ALEX: And our hole
definitely looks good.

Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Well, cool. I say we-we
roll her back out of there

and figure out what we're
gonna do about it tomorrow.

JOSH: Glad I could help, guys.

TRAVIS: Thank you,
man. It's awesome.

♪ ♪

What's going on, fellas?

THOMAS: We're
gonna put this pipe

up to that 20-foot mark
where we saw that first...

what appeared to
be a green object,

and then they're gonna
turn on the vacuum truck

and-and try to suck
it up into the tank.

ERIK: There are green materials

in the hole that
look out of place

in the mesa itself.

So we've decided,

before we put any of
the drilling hardware

into the existing borehole...

- [vacuuming] - TRAVIS:
Well, you hear stuff

- coming out.
- Yeah.

Uh, we want to see
what we can retrieve,

pull into that vacuum truck,

sift through, and, you know,
perhaps help us to get insights

into the interior of the mesa.

[vacuuming stops]

THOMAS: Well, that
should be in that tank.

TRAVIS: Holy crap. Look at that.

That looks like more
than I was expecting.

ALEX: Yeah, there's
actually quite a bit in the back.

[grunts]

[splashing]

- ERIK: Any greenish metal?
- Uh...

- Well, well.
- You got green?

TRAVIS: No, I
got something else.

I think it might
be metal or flint.

Reminds me of a
black shale or-or flint.

TRAVIS: We
couldn't find any signs

of the green material.

But these black fragments

didn't look like anything
you'd expect to find

inside a sandstone mesa.

Dude, look at that.

- ERIK: Yes.
- KALEB: What?

- ERIK: Again, smooth.
- TAYLOR: Look how thin it is and smooth.

We need to-to test

the elemental analysis on this.

What in the heck
are we looking at?

Much to, I think,
all of our surprise,

we're seeing materials
that don't appear to be native

to the mesa at all.

The question stands...
could some of these materials

help us determine
what is inside the mesa?

TRAVIS: That's fantastic.

Well, I got a lot
more out of that

than I was expecting, fellas.

ERIK: All right.

TRAVIS: Oh, nice!

Oh, man, you brought a crew?

I thought you'd just
bring a few people, man.

While the drillers were prepping

to get back to
work at the mesa...

KALEB: Good to have
you guys back out.

PRESTON: Thanks for having us.

Man, what's going
on? Good to see you.

We welcomed Preston
Ward and his team

from Sky Elements Drone
Shows back to the ranch.

- Good to see you guys! Yeah.
- Hey, nice to meet you.

They're here to help us with
another critical investigation.

It's at a spot near the
middle of the property

that we call the triangle.

I'm-I'm pretty curious

about what you guys
have planned for tonight.

PRESTON: For the
first experiment tonight,

we're gonna use 100 pyro drones.

And I... It's probably gonna be
the most pyrotechnic devices

you guys have ever set off here

on the ranch before.

TRAVIS: During
our investigation,

we've seen
countless UAPs here...

Y'all see that?!

Holy crap. Look at this.

Detected strange energy signals,

and even obtained
infrared images

of a huge anomaly that
surrounded the triangle.

But last week, while running
lidar scans from a helicopter

and on the ground,

we saw something incredible.

This anomaly is not
just above the ground

but also below it.

So now we're thinking it's
shaped more like a bubble.

Its epicenter appears
to be at the triangle,

and it has a radius
of 610 meters,

or about 2,000 feet,

which covers other hot spots
such as the mesa drill site.

In the past, we used fire,

and we've tried to use smoke

to kind of map whatever's
going on here over the triangle.

The problem is, we
couldn't get any higher than,

well, with the fire, up
to about 30, 40 feet.

So I'm really excited

about using the
drones to help us reach

a higher elevation
with the smoke

and confirm if
the bubble is real.

There's something
odd about that spot

over the center of the triangle.

- Absolutely.
- PETE: Yeah.

TRAVIS: We want to fill it

with smoke and light and map

whatever's going on in there.

PRESTON: Yep. So we're
gonna have the drones take off.

They're gonna make a cone that's
going to move over the triangle.

When it's in place, I'm
gonna trigger the pyrotechnics,

so each one of those drones

is gonna be dropping
sparks 30 feet down.

And then the second drone swarm

that we're gonna run
tonight is 200 drones.

So it should be lots
of good data from that.

And-and just as last year,
I'll have eyes from all angles.

Um, I-I'd say we
get-get started.

Sounds like a plan.

- Let's get to work.
- Great.

♪ ♪

PRESTON: Then we're
gonna mount it on the side

of the pyro mount,

secure it to the drone.

TRAVIS: Tonight
we want to verify

that the bubble is real.

So, to build on what we've
already seen with the lidar,

we want to use some new
tools to collect more data.

Maybe it'll help us figure
out what the bubble could be

and why so many strange
things keep happening inside it.

So Sky Elements
is going to launch

two different
illuminated drone swarms

in preprogrammed formations

right above the
center of the triangle.

ERIK: I'll be tracking
this with GPS

while we're doing the cylinder.

KALEB: That's awesome.

TRAVIS: The first swarm

will have 100 drones flying
in a cone-shaped formation.

They'll be equipped
with GPS trackers

and with pyrotechnics that
will spark and emit smoke.

We're hoping that the bubble
might keep the smoke contained,

verifying its shape
and dimension.

Then we'll replace the
swarm with another one

made up of 200 drones,

forming a big cylinder with
a large enough center area

to give me room to fire
a rocket up through it.

These are good.

TRAVIS: Another strange thing

that repeatedly happened
during our experiment last week

was that the GPS
data from the helicopter

disappeared every time it passed
over the center of the triangle

inside the bubble.

So, once the second
drone swarm is in place,

I'm going to launch a rocket
directly up through the center.

We want to see if anything
strange affects its flight

or if it makes contact
with something

that we can't see
with the naked eye.

DRONE VOICE:
Check map to confirm.

TRAVIS: We'll be recording
everything with Jim Royston's drone...

KALEB: All right, speed's up.

As well as high-speed cameras

that will be taking hundreds
of pictures per second

to help capture images of
anything out of the ordinary

that we might miss
during the experiment.

Pete will also help us
look for anything invisible

to the naked eye by
running new lidar scans.

Okay.

TRAVIS: And since we're
working with pyrotechnics,

we've asked the
local fire department

to keep an eye on things
and make sure we're all safe.

Erik, look at this.

We-We're getting a


That's so weird.

Last week, Erik broadcast a
signal at the same frequency

so we could look for
any strange interference

during our helicopter
experiment.

- Huh.
- But then we started detecting

a second 1.2-gigahertz signal

as though something cloned it

and was broadcasting
it back to us.

And now here it is again.

So where's it coming from?

That's so weird.

Well, I'll be
following it tonight.

Yeah. All right, man.

Is everyone ready to begin?

TRAVIS: We're ready to go

over here.

ERIK: Um...

I've got eyes on everything,

and I am ready to go.

Copy that.

We're ready on our end.

Arming drones.

TRAVIS: I'll be danged.

Hey, guys, uh,

be advised that, uh,

we do still have

that 1.2-gigahertz
signal and suddenly

we've also got several signals
at the 1.6-gigahertz range.

ERIK: Copy that, Travis.

That's weird. Right when
we're starting to get ready to go.

The 1.2-gigahertz signal
was strange enough.

But when I saw those


it was really strange

because that frequency is
usually reserved by the military

for tracking communications
between satellites

and the ground.

But we've detected


many times right before
we've seen UAPs on the ranch.

So where is this coming from?

The bubble or somewhere else?

We are starting the
drone takeoff now.

JAVIER: We're going.

BRIAN: Okay, taking off.

PRESTON: So, the drones
we use have multiple sensors.

And each one of those drones
has GPS that can provide

real-time location data.

KALEB: That's cool.

PRESTON: So we make sure

that we have flight paths that
we can center over the triangle,

right where Travis
and Erik want it,

and we want to make
sure we get that perfect.

All right, looks like
we're ready to go.

All right, Thomas.

JAVIER: The drones are
over the center of the triangle.

- We ready to trigger it?
- Yep.

We're gonna
trigger the pyro now.

They're not over the triangle!

Go ahead and hit.

TRAVIS: There goes the pyro,

but they're not anywhere
near the triangle!

Hey, Thomas?

They are not over the triangle!

They're over the, uh, road
that goes into the south field!

Not over the triangle at all!

Should be right here.

PRESTON: Yeah.
They're right over it.

THOMAS: Oh, yeah.

JAVIER: That's
right over the triangle.

So, on the map
over here, Travis,

it shows them right over
the top of the launchpad.

TRAVIS: Yeah, we're nowhere
near where it's supposed to be!

Hey, guys, I confirm...

that the formation

is not over the center
of the triangle at all.

Thomas has reported that,

on the real-time Sky
Elements GPS display,

the formation is actually
centered over the triangle.

Whereas, according
to the naked eye,

the formation

is actually
significantly to the east

and slightly to the south
of the center of the triangle.

There's clearly a mismatch

between what we
see with the naked eye

and what we are now
seeing in the telemetry.

TRAVIS: What in the world

is going on?

TRAVIS: They're
not over the triangle.

Tonight we launched a
pyrotechnic drone swarm

through the center
of the triangle.

It emitted smoke that
we hoped would help us

map the dimensions
of an invisible bubble

that we've recently
detected with lidar.

Everything went as it should.

TRAVIS: But
something was fooling

the GPS trackers
in the drone swarm

and caused it to be positioned

about 40 yards to
the east of the triangle.

Hopefully, when we review
the high-speed camera data,

we'll find out what it was.

They should be
heading back right now.

THOMAS: They should
be heading southwest,

back to the landing
spot at this point.

Copy that.

Hey, Travis,

Preston and I are coming over

to compare notes.

TRAVIS: Copy that.

So,

the drones didn't
report any issues.

They seemed to, according
to your software, be

where they were supposed
to be the whole time, right?

Absolutely. And everything
worked exactly as it should.

The pyro system
worked without issues.

TRAVIS: So how did it get

confused as to where it thought

- the center of the triangle was?
- And that far off.

Yeah, and that far off. Right.

- Mm-hmm.
- I went

and stood under it. We were 30,

- 40 meters from the center of the triangle.
- PETE: Right.

- We were way off to the-the east. Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- KALEB: That's crazy. I'm interested

to see if this next flight
does the same thing

and comes to the
east of the triangle now.

Speaking of next flight,

I'm sure you've got
stuff to do to get ready.

I've got some
rockets to get ready,

so I think we need
to get back to work.

- Sounds like a plan.
- I'm gonna go back over with Preston.

All right, man.

We were ready to launch
our second drone swarm,

which didn't have
any pyrotechnics

but was made up of
twice as many drones.

- THOMAS: It's looking good.
- PRESTON: So far, so good.

TRAVIS: We hope that this
time the GPS system would work

and the drone swarm would
get centered above the triangle.

Then I could launch
a rocket up through it

to see if anything would
happen in the same place

where we continuously
lost GPS data

during our experiment last week.

Rocket's on the pad,
hot and ready to go.

All right, then, we're gonna
go ahead and send the drones.

Drones going up.

JAVIER: First lift.

- There we go.
- THOMAS: There we go.

- They all got up in the air again.
- Yeah.

- THOMAS: That just looks perfect.
- PRESTON: Yeah.

[thunder rumbles]

JAVIER: Looks like
we're over center now.

PETE: That is pretty cool.

They ain't gonna make it.

They're not gonna make it
to the center of the triangle.

KALEB: I'm right underneath
the center of it right now.

PETE: It needs to go east.

TRAVIS: Son of a g*n.

Hey, Thomas, tell
me when y'all think

they're directly
over the launchpad

at the center of the triangle.

- You're there, Javier, right?
- We're there.

- PRESTON: We're there.
- THOMAS: They should be there now.

No, you're not, you're


Oh, my gosh.

JAVIER: That point in
the map is dead center.

THOMAS: Oh, yeah,
it should be right there.

Right.

THOMAS: Hey, Travis,

it should still be well over
the triangle and-and, uh,

over the launchpad.

No, it's not, Thomas.

You'll see when I
launch this rocket.

All right, I'm
launching this rocket.

Even though this drone
swarm wasn't perfectly centered

over the triangle...

- PETE: You need a light?
- I still wanted

to launch a rocket to
see what would happen.

In five, four, three, two, one.

Look at that!

Did you see that?

It was real close
to the northern wall

of the cylinder, guys.

That looked like it
went right up the middle.

TRAVIS: Where'd it go?

I don't see it.

KALEB: Right there, Travis.
It's coming straight down.

TRAVIS: Man, I
don't see a chute!

THOMAS: No chute.

PRESTON: No chute,
no chute, no chute.

We had a lawn dart, dad-gummit.

It was maddening
that we couldn't get

the drone formations
into the right position.

But it was giving
us more evidence

that something strange is
at the center of the bubble.

ERIK: Hey, guys,

I'm headed out your way.

I want to compare notes.

TRAVIS: Copy that, Erik.
We'll see you in a minute.

[thunder rumbles]

- Hmm.
- ERIK: Hey, Travis.

TRAVIS: Hey, man.

This is still going on.

And you've had the 1.2
through the whole exercise?

The entire exercise,
but before we got started,

it was going and it's going now,

and it's not anything
we-we're doing.

Wow. So, Preston,

so we had two flights

with exactly zero drones
falling out of formation.

- Mm-hmm.
- THOMAS: But...

we didn't get smoke
above the triangle

like we wanted,
it was to the east.

And it did not get in a
region where we need it.

So once again, we're left
without the smoke in the center,

so we're gonna have
to think of some way

to get that smoke

up through that-that zone
that we've been trying to get.

TRAVIS: Yeah, and we've
been trying to get smoke

in that spot for
three or four years

and have been
unsuccessful doing it.

So, is that just a coincidence
or was that whole set thrown off

and the smoke diverted?

I-I'm beginning to not
believe in coincidences

out here anymore, Thomas, so...

ERIK: I'm anxious to see

what comes out of the
post-processing results.

My hope is that we will
have a better understanding

of the nature of the phenomenon

that we call the bubble.

You know, I-I've got
a lot of data to crunch.

I know you guys do as well.

Yeah, we got to pack up and then

see what I, what all we've got.

Can't wait to see what
you've got post-processed.

- Yeah.
- Me, too.

- THOMAS: Well, let's call it a night, then.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.

Good work, everybody.

TRAVIS: Hey, guys.

- What's up?
- How's it going?

They're ready to start drilling.

TRAVIS: Cool.

The next day, while we
were waiting for the data

from our drone
experiment to be processed,

the team from Mark
Construction Drilling

called us back out to the mesa,

where they're getting ready to
enlarge borehole number one.

To do this, first they'll have
to run their original drill bit

all the way back up
through the existing hole

to the top of the mesa.

We'll be tracking its progress
with a beacon in the drill bit

that emits a 34 megahertz signal

and shows exactly
where it is underground.

Once the bit reaches
the top of the mesa,

the team will
attach a larger bit

known as a reaming bit and
then work it all the way back down,

enlarging the
diameter of the hole.

And once all that is done,
they will case the hole

with a gel-based
concrete that will allow us

to insert scanning devices

so that we can identify
the buried objects in there.

ALEX: So, earlier today,

I went to calibrate the beacon,

and I calibrated
it, put it in the head

and everything, and
battery was showing full.

We let it sit while we were
doing some other stuff,

getting some other stuff
ready, and I went back,

tried to wake it up and
the beacon was locked

and the battery was dead.

What would it take to lock it?

- You have to go in manually and lock it.
- ERIK: Exactly.

- And you guys didn't do that?
- Did not do that.

ERIK: So, from everything
I'm hearing, it sounds like

someone's interacting
with the device, using it,

- although none of us did that.
- Yep.

This is really weird.

If the drill beacon can
only be locked manually,

how did that happen if
no one on the team did it?

KALEB: I can't help but
thinking about where we're at,

especially with what we
found with this barrier...

- ERIK: Mm-hmm. Yes.
- Or bubble here.

The wall of this barrier
bubble is literally right there.

ROYSTON: That's a great point.

And we're inside of it.

- Yeah.
- We're actually inside, so...

This operation has been plagued

by strange equipment
failures over the last year.

We've wondered
if they were caused

by the huge buried
object in the mesa.

But now I'm wondering, based
on what we saw yesterday,

could this also have
something to do with the bubble?

And are all these
things connected?

What do we do now?

ALEX: Uh, I just put
a new battery in it,

unlocked it and recalibrated
the beacon, and it's fine.

All right, well,
let's get to drilling.

A lot of times, when mechanical
glitches happen on the ranch,

we also detect strange
radio frequency signals.

Just like last
night, when the 1.2

and 1.6 gigahertz
frequency signals showed up.

So, we set up our
spectrum analyzer today

to see if anything
similar might happen.

How is the calibration going?

Trying to link it
up right now, um...

Didn't link the first time.

I just heard the word
"trying," which means

that it's not going the
way it usually does.

No, it's not.

Linking it shouldn't
take this long.

THOMAS: Unbelievable.

Hey, uh, Erik?

- Yes?
- Uh, we're getting, uh, a 1.6 gigahertz signal.

- Can I see that?
- Uh... yeah, it's right here.

TRAVIS: We are getting
the 1.6 gigahertz coming

- straight from the drill site.
- KALEB: No way. That's crazy.

TRAVIS: This was insane.

The 1.6 gigahertz signal,

which is used by
our own military

to communicate with satellites,

looked like it was coming
from inside the mesa.

- You're not gonna believe this.
- ERIK: What?

We right now, are
simultaneously getting

a 1.2 gigahertz signal
and a 1.6 gigahertz signal.

We are not broadcasting

any 1.2 gigahertz signals.

So this is coming
from somewhere.

- I want to find where the hell that's coming from.
- I do, too.

TRAVIS: Oh, my God.

It was exactly like last
night at the triangle.

We detected 1.6 and


right before we launched
our drone swarms,

and then they failed to center
above the triangle as planned.

Now we can't seem
to pair this beacon,

and we're seeing the
same signals again.

Okay, we're powered up.

ERIK: All right, one sec.

TRAVIS: So, since
the 1.6 gigahertz signal

seemed to be coming
from inside the mesa,

Erik wanted to try and
track the origin point

of the 1.2 gigahertz signal.

Yeah, I think it's
getting stronger.

TRAVIS: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is that pointed at the triangle?

- ERIK: Sure is.
- SAM: Yeah.

Dead straight at the triangle.

- You're kidding?
- No.

TRAVIS: Hey,
Thomas, do you copy?

Okay.

Yeah, go ahead.

That 1.2 gigahertz
signal is coming

from the triangle.

From the center of the bubble.

Copy that.

I will tell you that right now,

they cannot get
the beacon to sync.

That's really interesting
that that sort of coincides

with when we've got this signal.

Yeah.

Let's see if they will take

the beacon outside the bubble

and see if it syncs.

Y'all go down to Homestead
Three or something,

see if it works there.

Copy that.

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

It will be interesting
to see if you can, uh,

get it to sync here.

ALEX: Powering back up.

[beeps]

It's linked up.

- First try.
- First try.

That's interesting.

Hey, guys, you got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

First try, it synced
up beautifully.

There you go. There you go.

That's just unbelievable.

THOMAS: We're
gonna get in the truck

and slowly make our way back.

We're right at the edge
of the bubble right here.

We're entering in.

The signal is kind of
bouncing all over again.

THOMAS: Hey,
guys, you got a copy?

Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

Right where we got to that point

at the boundary of the bubble,

it started bouncing wildly
on the signal strength.

That's absolutely
fascinating, Thomas.

TRAVIS: The bubble covers a large
area, including the mesa drill site.

But when the drill beacon
gets outside the bubble, it works.

Then, when it comes back
inside where the drill site is,

it glitches again.

If we can't continue
this drilling operation,

I don't know how
we're gonna figure out

what the heck is
inside that mesa.

[groans]

I'll let you guys tell him.

MIKE: If we go in tonight
and we get back in the morning

and it's not calibrated,
we're gonna have to take

everything out and it's
gonna cost us a lot of,

lot of wasted time.

So I think the best bet
is to let it sit overnight,

we'll make sure it's calibrated
first thing in the morning,

- and get going. - Well...
- ERIK: Understood.

TRAVIS: Well, I find it
really interesting, uh, that,

when you went outside
of what we call the bubble,

that it seemed to sync up
and stay synced up this time

- as you brought it back in.
- Yeah.

Yeah, you know,
honestly, I feel like this is

as valuable if not more valuable
than what we would have learned

if we had just poked that

drill head, drill head
into-into the earth.

Absolutely right, Erik,
I agree with you 100%.

ERIK: Let's break it
down and get out of here.

- All right.
- Amen.

- ERIK: Hey, guys.
- TRAVIS: How are y'all today?

- What's up, guys?
- PETE: Hey.

Good to have you on with us.

So, let's see if we
can make sense

of all of... all
that we collected

during that drone
swarm exercise.

Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: Later that night,

we met with Preston and
Brian from Sky Elements

and Pete Kelsey via
video conference to review

the processed data
from our drone swarm

and lidar experiment.

ERIK: Hey, Pete,

I'd like to have you lead
us into, uh, what you got,

from your perspective.

PETE: Sure.

Let me share my screen.

We did a number
of scans, of course,

and the lidar scan
can see fine details

that would be invisible
to the naked eye.

But this is the interesting one.

So, this is one of the
terrestrial laser scans

at the triangle.

And I'll just cut to the chase.

So, if I pull way out...

TRAVIS: Oh, wow.

I mean, look at that.

ERIK: This is fascinating.

TRAVIS: What's the
peak point at the top?

Yeah, you're reading my mind.

It's 2,000 feet.

How about that?

To see that Pete's
terrestrial lidar scanner

once again showed
infrared images

of a 2,000-foot-high
rounded feature

over the triangle, it
confirms our previous data

of the bubble's dimensions
above the ground.

Now we have to
figure out what it is

and how it's connected
to all the other phenomena

we keep seeing
here on the ranch.

ERIK: We've speculated that
we're dealing with something

that keeps moving and changing,

which is why we
don't always detect it.

That blows my mind.

We may be getting just a glimpse
of whatever this structure is.

TRAVIS: Well,
and think about this.

If it is something
like, say, a force field,

um, it takes power,

and would you have it always on

or would you turn it
on when something is,

is interacting with
it in a location?

- Yeah.
- So, it's potential that, uh,

it only comes on when
something interacts with it.

ERIK: I could see that.

- Yeah.
- TRAVIS: During our experiment,

we detected those strange


So, I'm wondering if
one or both of them

could have activated
the bubble and caused it

to show up again in our scan.

But if so, then the question is,
what was broadcasting them?

ERIK: So I'm going to bring up

the high-speed video,

looking up into that
Christmas tree drone formation.

- TRAVIS: That looks so cool.
- Yeah.

ERIK: And there's
some things that show up.

I'm gonna play it through.

- THOMAS: Whoa.
- TRAVIS: There's something falling right there.

- THOMAS: Black thing flying by the lens.
- Yeah.

- Whoa.
- Oh, wow.

- THOMAS: What the heck?
- ERIK: Okay, I'm gonna back us up

a few frames and let's
observe the movement

of this object, whatever it is.

Like, it's definitely
not a drone,

'cause it'd still have
the lights, it'd still be lit.

TRAVIS: Holy crap. Here we go.

We detect weird signals,
have equipment failures

and then see a UAP right
inside the drone swarm.

Could that be the
source of the signals?

And could it also be what
prevented the drone swarms

from getting positioned
over the center of the triangle?

THOMAS: All the
drones returned back.

Um, you didn't have
anything fall out the sky

that you know of, did you?

PRESTON: All the
drones came back.

Then what in the heck

are we looking at here?

This appears to have a
very well-defined shape,

a very well-defined boundary.

That's really odd.

ERIK: Another thing I
want us to focus on...

- So, Jim, you've got video records?
- ROYSTON: That's right.

And this is from your
drone perspective?

- ROYSTON: Yeah, from the second swarm.
- Okay.

So, this is the second
flight with the rocket.

So, let me bring that up.

So, coming up.

Let me move frame by frame here.

So, we see the rocket
going straight up.

TRAVIS: This is going
perfectly straight, too.

- Look at that.
- ROYSTON: Yeah.

TRAVIS: It's still burning.

Yeah, it should burn on
up to about 700 or 800 feet,

- I would think.
- KALEB: So, go back.

Was that the drone that
I saw on the right side?

ROYSTON: Yeah, I'll go
frame by frame through it.

KALEB: Right there.
To the right there.

TRAVIS: Oh, yeah,
a dot. A dot appears.

So it starts right here
and comes down.

- I'm gonna go frame by frame to pick it up.
- ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS: Yep, I see it.

ERIK: Whoa.

TRAVIS: Boy, in one
frame, it jumps half the sky.

ROYSTON: Yeah.

Is that the FPV?

That's not the FPV drone.

TRAVIS: That's-that's
really bizarre.

- Yeah, that's...
- That's fast.

That's either something
moving very fast

or that's more than
one light source.

TRAVIS: That... I
mean, that's way too fast

for a plane or a satellite.

ERIK: That's none of our assets.

TRAVIS: What is that?

TRAVIS: That's way
too fast for a plane

or a satellite.

What is that?

ERIK: That's none of our assets.

TRAVIS: T-That's
kind of fascinating.

ERIK: Yeah, that makes me

a lot more interested

- in the high-speed video...
- Yeah.

- Showing the black object.
- TRAVIS: Yeah.

- Yep.
- ERIK: And so,

what is in that airspace
with our formation?

- TRAVIS: Right.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: Now, was
this the same UAP,

for lack of something
else to call it,

- or a different one?
- PETE: Good question.

KALEB: Well,
go... just keep going

and see if we see
something else.

- Whoa, what was that?
- Right there. - Oh. Back up, back up.

Do it again.

What I'm guessing this
is, is the light on the rocket

- coming down.
- So it disappears,

but it comes up back right here.

- Wow.
- ERIK: Yeah, I'd like to see this frame by frame

if we can do that, Jim.

Yeah.

TRAVIS: So I-I think the
rocket motors burn out

and now we can see
the blue light on the rocket

and then it vanishes.

Where did it go?

And then, there it is again.

But why did it vanish?

Yeah.

ERIK: I think what we're seeing

is really strange.

The question is, is the rocket
passing behind something?

Is there something interfering
just with the light itself,

or is some physical object

obscuring our
view of the rocket?

You know, it doesn't
make any sense.

I-I think, once again,
we do an experiment

to find answers and we
come up with more questions.

- [laughter]
- Exactly. Exactly.

Well, guys, thanks for
joining us for this review.

THOMAS: Yeah, thanks, guys.

Great stuff, guys, as always.

Cheers. Thanks, guys.

- Thanks, everybody.
- See you guys.

TRAVIS: Well, you know,

the pyro turned out pretty good,
but it only lasted for seconds.

It would be better
if we could put

a lot of heat and
smoke into that region

for a long period of
time above the triangle

and see, uh, what happens.

The ability to get smoke up
there, we've tried a number

of different ways to see it.

What would happen if we
just put some big bonfires

in the center of the triangle,

and then, you know, doused
them with water to create

the smoke and try to do that...

- Yeah.
- Over a prolonged period of time?

I like the idea that
we're putting energy

into the space, thermal energy.

This may provide some
interesting insights into

what is above the triangle.

- That's a great way to do it.
- And hopefully, the smoke

will rise for, you know,
several hundred feet.

And, uh, th... I think that
would be a fantastic experiment.

- Yeah.
- THOMAS: So, uh...

You know, I'll-I'll
get on the horn

and get us some fire
canisters that we can put there,

and some firewood.

And you guys can take
care of all the tech side.

I'm liking this idea.

- TRAVIS: Good idea, Thomas. Let's do it.
- Okay.

All right.

Well, that's a wrap.

ERIK: I think this is an ideal
time to be exploring the space

above the triangle
with a new perspective,

given the fact that
we're finding that

there may, in fact,
be a connection

between the center of
the triangle and the bubble.

We're going to have to continue

to probe this space
above the triangle

in order to better understand
this phenomenology

with which we are
engaging here on the ranch.

TRAVIS: Erik and I believe

that if we can keep
repeating our data,

we can figure out the
phenomena on Skinwalker Ranch.

So now that we've confirmed
that this bubble is real,

maybe our next experiment
will help us smoke out the truth

of what it actually is.

BRANDON: Proceeding
forward with these experiments

that will take into
account the strange activity

and even equipment malfunction

that we are dealing with in
the region on Skinwalker Ranch

that we now refer to as
the bubble is imperative.

Its placement on the
property may hold answers

and help us solve the mystery

as to what is
happening both above

and below this
mysterious property.

TRAVIS: Our goal
is to build large fires

so that we can map that bubble.

There it goes.

KALEB: It stopped.

It's floating, right over the
triangle, it's not coming down.

- Oh, did you see that?
- KALEB: What was that light?

TRAVIS: Erik, it
was a bright orb

that flew by the rocket.

Something had to
have captured that.

Yeah, we-we will
have a record of that.

I've got video footage.

- And there it is.
- TRAVIS: Oh, what is that?