07x04 - Smoking g*ns

[bunniefuu]

- Go ahead and spin her.
- [Erik] We want to go down

until we hit whatever
is buried in the mesa.

[Thomas] The center
of that formation

should be right over
the bubble boundary.

Whoa! They're starting
to fall out of formation.

Oh, did you see that?
Erik, something just zipped

right overhead,
just above Homestead Two,

moving real fast.

So, watch that little dot
right there.

- [Erik] Okay, there's the light.
- [Travis] That could be it.

You know, I got to tell you,
the bubble wall,

- it could be a real thing.
- Yeah.

[Royston] Wow.

[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!
- 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.

[Erik] Well, guys,
I'm feeling scan-happy.

[Travis] Me, too.

Yeah, I'm excited about, uh,
what we're about to see.

I want to show you
the terrestrial lidar scans

when we started drilling.

- Okay.
- [Travis] Let's go. Let's do it.

Pete's excited
to share some data

he took a couple of days ago
with his lidar scanner

right as we started
drilling a new

vertical borehole
at the top of the mesa.

Our goal is to get down
to around 33 feet,

which is where our drill
got damaged last year

when it hit something
super hard.

[Kyle] It's completely

welded shut.

- It's friction-welded.
- Yeah. Mm-hmm.

[Travis] It's also where
we found some material

we think was manufactured
that we call Type A ceramic.

It might be similar
to heat shield tiles

you'd find on the space shuttles
or starship.

- Whoa, that's interesting.
- Yeah.

So we're drilling
a four-foot-diameter borehole

to get back down there
and figure out

where these ceramics came from.

[Thomas] Hey, guys,
the drill is in place.

[Travis] But the moment our
drill bit touched the ground...

Look right here,
it's the 1.6-gigahertz signal.

We got one of those strange


that we see
all the time out here

right when we start experiments.

That's so weird.

So we're hoping
Pete may have caught

some kind of image that might
provide new clues or insights

on what's producing
those signals.

So why don't I show you
what we got?

So, this is
from the top of the mesa

looking to the southwest.

[Erik] Okay.

[Pete] Now check this out.

I spotted some interesting data.

- [Travis] Now, look at that.
- [Kaleb] Whoa.

[Pete] Those should not
be there.

[Erik] As you can see,
it's intersecting

- with the bubble boundary.
- [Travis] Sure is.

[Pete] This is why
I got excited.

So, you see this large piece
of data right here.

If I reorient,
reposition our point of view,

it's actually underground.

[Erik] Are you kidding me?

[Travis] What in the world?

[Pete] If you'll notice,
they're actually on an arc.

[Travis] It looks like
it's forming a semicircle.

[Pete] And then,
if you look over here,

it almost begins to look
like something circular.

[Erik] So, could we be seeing

part of the bubble
in this lidar data?

- Could be.
- All right.

[Travis] When we've seen
this giant sphere-shaped thing

that we call the bubble
show up in the past,

it's always centered
at the triangle

and encompasses
the mesa drill site.

And when it appears,
it also seems to be caused

by our activities.

[Erik] We have speculated

several times that the bubble
can be turned on and off.

So I can't dismiss the idea
that we're looking at something

- caused by the drilling.
- [Thomas] Yeah.

This just reinforces
that we've got to go back

to that mesa and keep drilling.

- [Travis] Absolutely.
- [Erik] Yeah.

[Travis] All right,
we'll see y'all up there.

[Thomas] Yeah,
see you guys on top.

- [Travis] Hey, fellas.
- [Kaleb] Sup?

[Travis] Greetings, Jan.

- How you doing?
- Very well, sir.

[Travis] Later that morning,
before drilling started again,

we welcomed back
our buddy Jan Francke.

Jan's a ground-penetrating
radar expert,

and we wanted to have him run
some new GPR scans of the mesa.

Two years ago,
Jan first captured

what's been a key image for us:

something that seems to be
a big object

along with a bunch
of smaller objects around it

buried inside the mesa.

[Erik] As you can see, we've
already made some progress.

-Uh, what are we, 50,


Today, as we do the drilling,
the objective is to get

your instrument
into that, uh, borehole.

-Yep. -Take it all the way
from bottom to top,

- probably a couple of passes.
- Yep.

It's similar to any of the other
ground-penetrating radar systems

that we've used on the surface,

except this one,
being in a borehole,

what we'll end up
making for you, hopefully,

is a map of anomalies

giving you depth and distance
away from the borehole.

That's fantastic.

[Travis] Erik and I wanted
to see if putting Jan's GPR

inside Borehole 1
might give us a clearer idea

of what's inside the mesa.

We're really interested
in what he captures

at around 33 feet,

where the drill bit
in Borehole 2 broke last year.

-[Erik] We've got
a lot of work to do. -Yeah.

- I say we get to it.
- Let's get to work.

- All right.
- Yeah.

We're good.

- Oh, it's running?
- It's running right now.

- I can't stop it.
- Okay.

[engine starts]

We're on it.

[Thomas] The drill bit just
made contact with the earth.

Uh, be advised,
the drilling has begun.

[Travis] Copy that, thank you.

Whenever you're ready
for us to start pulling,

uh, the GPR down the tube,
let us know.

[Erik] Copy that.
We'll get everything in place

and, uh, we'll let you know.

[Travis] As the drilling
started, the rest of us

were keeping an eye out
for strange signals

on our spectrum analyzers

positioned both at the top
and bottom of the mesa.

[Sam] So, we are picking up

- a 33-megahertz s-signal.
- Wait.

- [Erik] Are you kidding?
- I am not kidding.

[Sam] It's-it's strong there.
You see it popping up?

It is weird.

[Erik] Okay, get this, Travis.

Sam reports he's getting
a 33-megahertz signal.

This is not us.

Copy that. I'm gonna start
looking for it down here.

There it is.
There it is right there.

[Kaleb] Yeah.

[Travis] Talk about another
obvious correlation

right when
we start drilling again.


was the same frequency

broadcast by the drilling beacon
last year

when the drill bit
got destroyed in Borehole 2.

This year's drill has no beacon,

so what was emitting
that exact signal?

The buried object?
Or something else?

Whoa. 1.2 gigahertz
just started right there.

[Kaleb] Whoa.
And we also have the 1.6.

[Travis] Erik, we just had

a 1.2-gigahertz signal pop up,

and there's
a 1.6-gigahertz signal.

Looks like we've got everything
in the box showing up.

[Travis] It was a perfect storm
of ranch strangeness.

Over the last year,
these are the three signals

that we detect over and over
during our experiments.

They've got to be connected
to what's in the mesa.

Could it possibly be
from the dadgum drill rig?

So you guys are positive
there's nothing on this rig

that's transmitting a signal?

No.

- Nothing.
- [Thomas] Well, I verified

with the drillers,
there's absolutely nothing

on this drill that is
transmitting any signal,

so, no, it's not coming
from the drill

unless the drill somehow

is stimulating
whatever's in the mesa.

[Thomas] It's not coming
from the drill

unless the drill somehow
is stimulating

whatever's in the mesa.

[Erik] This is a bit puzzling.

I'm not really sure
what we're dealing with here.

We're still seeing the


Hey, Travis.

Are you guys seeing any changes

- down there?
- Not really.

All right, guys.
We're gonna watch it.

[Travis] As soon
as we started drilling,

our spectrum analyzers
picked up signals

at 33 megahertz,
at 1.2 gigahertz,

and at 1.6 gigahertz.

It was like drilling woke
something up inside the mesa

and now it was staying awake.

All right, so, are you about
ready to put the instrument

- into the borehole?
- Yeah, let's do it.

All right,
so we'll start with this one.

[Travis] We thought
that if something in the mesa

was sending out those signals,

maybe Jan could
get the best images yet

of what it actually is.

Nice and easy, nice and smooth.

The device was rigged up
to a pulley system

at the top and bottom
of the mesa.

- There it goes.
- [Travis] So,

we could pull the scanner
all the way through

from the top to the bottom
of Borehole 1.

That's 100 feet.

That's 450 feet right there.



[Erik] Copy that, Travis.


[Travis] All right, Erik,
we have the instrument here now.

[Erik] Copy that, Travis.

We've got Sam
back on this end of the rope.

When you guys are ready, we are.

Bring her back up.

[Travis] While we
were scanning...

[Thomas] Wow,
that's a good one there.

Archaeologist Chris Roberts
was standing by

to inspect the drilling cores
with a gamma ray detector

to measure if there were
any high levels of radiation.

[Chris] I need to get
a look at that.

The Type A ceramic
that we found last year

had some interesting
radiation levels.

That's why we need to go in
looking for gamma rays

or something unnatural.

Anything that stands out
that indicates

we're getting closer
to what we need to find.

That's weird.
This is not normal.

[detector clicking]

All right,
I'm 108 right now. 110.

'15, it's going back up.



There is some
elevated radiation in there.

Hey, Chris for Bard.
Do I got a copy?

Yeah, Chris, go ahead.

Yeah, I've got some
interesting gamma readings

on this core that just came out,

and it's elevated up to 115.

Yeah, that's clearly
much higher than normal.

Hey, Erik.

When we took that,
uh, ceramic out,

it was around


Exactly what I was thinking.

[Travis] Now, 100 counts

of gamma rays per minute
isn't dangerous,

but it's about ten times
the radiation levels

you'd expect to see
in normal sandstone.

And here's the kicker:

it matches the levels
we detected

on the Type A ceramics
we pulled out

of the drilling spoils
last year.

I just put it right here
in the center like this.

- Oh, wow.
- [clicking]

[Chris] 119, 122.



Now, that's interesting.

Chris, do you know
our depth on this core?

- It was at 100 inches.
- Okay.

[Erik] I did not expect
to see radiation

in the core samples
coming out of the drilling,

at least not at this depth,

because when we first
encountered

the ceramics last year,

that came from
a much greater depth.

Well, that's
an interesting finding.

- I don't know what it means yet.
- Yeah.

[Erik] Is it just
a coincidence? I don't know.

But I'll tell you this,
could this be an indication

that we are getting
very close to some

of the ceramic-like material?

[Jan] Okay, there she is.

All right! Travis,
we've got the instrument.

- Good run.
- Copy that.

[Jan] We got the data.

Now my job's to go back
and process it all

and hopefully have
some results for you

- very soon.
- [Thomas] Okay.

[Thomas] We are just about
a third of the way down

to our 33-foot mark
that stopped that drill.

- That's really exciting.
- [Erik] Yes.

- It's gratifying.
- Yeah.

[Travis] It was gonna take Jan
several days

to process his data.

I'm hoping it'll give us
some real answers

about whatever's happening
inside this mesa.

I say we call it a day.

- [Thomas] Productive day.
- Very productive.

[Chris] Hey, guys. Welcome.

- [Bob] Chris, how you doing?
- Good. How are you?

I'm doing well.

[Travis] The next day,
while drilling continued,

Chris Roberts set up
a videoconference

with Bob Dodge
and his colleagues

from Artemis Testing Lab
in Louisville, Colorado.

We want to determine
how old the Type A ceramic

we found last year might be.

A few weeks ago,

Chris ran a UV light test
on the Type A ceramics,

and the results were crazy.

Yeah, I've got
four pieces in here.

I saw some buildup and erosion

that would take a long, long
time to occur inside the mesa.

How much time?

Conservatively,
it's in the thousands.

Thousands?

Chris found material
built up on them

that would take
thousands of years

to accumulate on the surface.

If the ceramics
are really that old,

how could they also have
advanced properties

like the heat-absorbing tiles
on the space shuttle?

That's too crazy
for me to even think about.

So Artemis tested
the ceramics with a dating test

called thermoluminescence.

Erik and I were really curious
about what they've learned.

[Erik] Well, let's jump in.

[Travis] Let's see it.

[Bob] The thermoluminescence
process,

you, uh, take a sample
from ceramics or pottery.

[John] We cut through
that pottery, and then we get

a very kind of simple
dust amount of, uh, material.

[Bob] And then you put it
into a very special type

of contraption, and it measures

the amount
of stored light energy.

Okay, and it's the intensity
of that value

that tells you the age?

Yes.

-I'm on the edge of my seat
here. -[Chris] Yeah.

[Erik] So this piece
is not from the ranch?

[Bob] Correct.
That's a sample from

an old pottery vessel.

Perfect sample,
very easy to analyze and read.

[Thomas] What the heck?

[Erik] That looks very messy.

[Chris] What is that?

[Chris] It's not dateable?

[Serge] Basically,
it's not dateable.

You said it's not dateable?

[Bob] So,
ceramics would be fired,

but this material probably

has not been fired...

would be my assessment.

[Travis] When Bob said that
the material had not been fired,

what he meant was:
it was not created

using a high amount of heat,

which is how modern ceramics
are made.

Especially the ones
that are used

to make heat-resistant tiles
on spacecraft.

Our previous lab test
showed that our Type A ceramics

behaved exactly like
those kinds of materials.

So these should have been
easy to date with this test.

[Chris] There isn't the right
ingredients to get a date?

Correct.

So what is it?

- [Erik] Wow.
- [Bob] We also did

an XRF analysis of the material,

and we're getting elements
that would lead us to believe

it is a plaster-like substance.

[Erik] Oh, wow.

[Thomas] So it's plaster?

-Is that what you're
saying, then? -[Serge] No.

It's like plaster.

Well, it's not a plaster
we've seen before,

-I would think
is a safe assessment. -Yeah.

[Travis] It makes no sense
that this material

could be like plaster.

When we found
these Type A ceramics,

our drill bit
had been destroyed.

And the bit was literally fused
to the drill bar.

It would take something
much more durable

than plaster to do that.

Well, we really appreciate
your expertise,

and we appreciate
this information.

It gives us more questions

but maybe a new road
to travel down

to try and find some answers.

- All right.
- Thank you, too.

- Yeah. -See you later.
- Thanks, guys.

[Erik] Would you expect

a plaster material
to survive the rigors

of the drilling process?

[Travis] You take
any plaster known to man

and you put that kind of force
and torque on it,

it's gonna turn into powder.

You know,
we need to contact UVU again

and see about getting access
to their, to the lab.

- Yes.
- That would be great.

We were hoping
this test would help us

take a big step forward
in figuring out these materials,

but it didn't provide us
anything conclusive.

All we can say for sure is,
we need to keep drilling

to get down to that big object.

And we need to keep looking
for new tests to find answers

about what we're dealing with
inside the mesa.

Well, sounds like we're giving
ourselves some marching orders.

Thanks, guys.

[Thomas] I'm gonna
get back to work.

How fast is the wind
blowing right now?

That right there feels like 50.

It's perfect to use
the wind to our advantage.

- Yeah.
- [Travis] Later that day,

while the drillers
kept working at the mesa,

Erik and I wanted to turn our
attention back to the bubble.

There were crazy
high winds forecast,

which was the perfect weather
for an experiment

we've wanted to try
for a long time.

[Erik] These are the right
conditions to run a test

with a smoke machine
to see how the smoke interacts

with the boundary of the bubble.

We can exploit the fact
that we've got the wind.

You know, we have a, uh...

you know,
w-we know what to expect.

It-it should just
blow right through.

Well, so, what-what
I'm thinking is, uh,

the wind's blowing west to east.

So I say we get on
the west side of the bubble

and blow smoke at it
while we drive back and forth

through the boundary
and watch it with cameras.

-Yeah. -[Thomas] So,
what are you looking for,

to see if the currents
are changing at all

- when they get to the boundary?
- See if the boundary

does something unusual
to the smoke flow.

[Erik] Yeah, that's right.

If we see a change in direction,

that would tell us we may have

- something else going on.
- [Travis] Yeah.

[Travis] When we've detected
the bubble

during our experiments,

it's always been centered
at the triangle

with a 2,000-foot radius.

But what we don't know
is if it's always there

or if it's maybe
something that gets activated

to act like a giant
spherical force field

when we start
using our equipment.

[Kaleb] It's almost like
it's not even moving.

[Thomas] I think
something's stopping it.

[Travis] In the past,
we've seen a helikite,

drones...

It's just stuck right there.

And even rockets appear to bump

against its boundary
and be pushed away.

So now we're curious
if something like smoke

would be affected
in the same way.

Maybe this experiment
would show whether this thing

is always present,
even if we can't see it.

So I think it'd be fair to say

that this is really more
of just a passive measurement.

Purely passive, to see what...
see if it's there

- without us poking at it.
- Yep.

- Yeah.
- Well,

it-it's fairly straightforward.

Um, let's do it.

-[Thomas] All right. -All right.
I'll-I'll keep an eye

- on things from the CC.
- [Travis] That's great, Erik.

I'll be giving you
wind gust alerts.

Yeah, that'll be good.

[Erik] I'm really interested
to see what we'll learn,

given the fact that
it's a very simple approach,

it's something
we haven't done before.

Will we see effects
out at that boundary,

as we have in the past?

Or will we learn something more
about this bubble?

[Travis] I'll walk
with the truck

and watch for,
you know, what we're seeing.

And, Thomas, you run
the smoke machine. Is that good?

- Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great.
- All right.

[Travis] The plan was simple.

We're gonna start just outside
the bubble boundary.

Then we'll reverse the truck

with the smoke machine
pointed towards it

in the direction of the wind.

The smoke should
just sh**t straight out

if nothing is there to stop it.

Hey, Erik, I'm setting up
cameras right now

so I can, uh,
get as many views on the...

- barrier wall as I can.
- Copy that.

[Travis] We also had several
regular and high-speed cameras

set up all around this area.

This camera's
ready to go, y'all.

If the smoke
did anything unusual today,

we'd be ready to capture it.

Well, all right, Erik,
we've got everything in place

to do the first test here

on the western boundary
of the bubble.

We're gonna get going, so, uh,

we're-we're gonna start
this thing right now.

Copy that, Travis.

-Okay. -[Travis] All right,
let's do it.

I am recording.

Our, uh, gusts are at, uh,


current wind speeds are 31.1.

[Travis] That's crazy.
It's almost like we're having

a hurricane out here
or something.

All right, let's back up.

Hang on, Thomas.

All right, Jim, we're
approaching the bubble boundary.

We're gonna stop
just short of it.

Okay, stop there.

Wow!

[Royston] Travis,
it's being pushed back at us.

It looks like
it's coming our way.

[Travis] Yeah,
it came backwards on us.

- Right at the wall.
- Yeah! I know!

[Thomas] When we were right
at the boundary of the bubble,

there was a pretty significant
and noticeable effect

right there on the wall.

The smoke seemed to lift up

and kind of just
really become discombobulated

as if some invisible force
was stopping the smoke.

[Travis] Let's keep backing up
through the boundary

and see what happens.

Copy that.

[Travis] We got through
the boundary of the bubble.

That's good, Jim.

Now that we're inside
the bubble,

it looks like
it's blowing normal.

- [Thomas] It is!
- [Travis] Isn't that weird?

Yeah, that's weird!

[Thomas] Interestingly enough,

as we proceeded
through the bubble boundary,

the smoke went
from being completely chaotic

to a well-organized
stream of smoke

in the same direction
the wind was blowing.

- [Travis] Can you believe it?
- It does seem to indicate

that the boundary of the bubble
seems to be affecting the smoke.

[Travis] Okay, Jim,
now just drive forward slowly.

Copy that, here we go.

[Travis] Now that the smoke
is blowing in the direction

of the wind inside the bubble,

we're gonna drive back
outside of it

to see if the smoke changes
again at the bubble boundary.

Now, look right here
in the bubble. Look!

- Look!
- [Thomas] What the hell?

[Travis] Look! Look!

[Royston] That's crazy.

[Travis] We couldn't believe it.

Even while moving
and sh**ting smoke

with the direction
of 30-mile-an-hour winds,

our smoke was being
deflected and redirected

by the bubble boundary.

So either the smoke
triggered the bubble

to turn on its boundary
in response to a stimulus

or we got more data telling us
that it's always there.

Ooh, that thing's loud.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

- Yeah, go ahead.
- Wow.

The smoke, as we were
on the outside of the bubble,

it seemed to spread across
like it was,

uh, hitting something
and move up and out,

but once we got
through the bubble,

it was just going with the wind.

Copy that. I'm not sure
what to make of it yet.

Let's move to the opposite side

and see
if the same thing happens

at the eastern boundary
of the bubble.

I'll get the assets
trained on that area.

[Travis] Copy that.

All right. Well, let's load up
and head on.

For this next test,
we were gonna take

a little different approach.

Since the wind's direction
was blowing

towards the eastern bubble
boundary,

we were going to approach it
with our smoke machine

from the inside going out.

We wanted to see
if the smoke flow

would change again when it hits
the inside of that boundary.

Hey, man, we're in place

and we're ready
to start with the smoke

on the east side of the bubble.

We're just gonna back up
from inside it this time,

and we'll ease through it
like we did over there.

Yeah, Travis, I copy.

All right, Thomas.

All right, Jim, come on back.

Okay. We're approaching
the bubble boundary now.

[Thomas] I'm seeing
the same thing that I saw

over on the western side.

That when we're right
at that bubble boundary,

the smoke is going everywhere

and I'm seeing
a substantial lift,

as if it's being pushed upwards.

[Travis] Okay, we are through
the bubble boundary.

[Travis] Yeah.

-[Thomas] I'm not seeing it
plume now. -No, it's not. No.

[Travis] Just like before,

the smoke started
sh**ting straight

with the direction of the wind

the second it got past

where we've marked
the bubble boundary.

Now look, it's starting
to spread and go up.

[Travis] Yeah.

But no matter if we were inside
or outside of the bubble,

the smoke reacted
any time it was blowing

against the boundary.

[Royston] Boy, from in there,
it looked like

you got the same thing.

- Yeah.
- Was it stopping right there?

Yeah, it was st... and going up,

like if something's stopping it,

and then, when we got
through it, it just went

- straight on down the driveway.
- Yeah.

- [Travis] Isn't that something?
- Unbelievable.

It was very chaotic, it was,
like, trying to go right,

trying to go left, but it wasn't
going down the road

- like you expect it.
- [Travis] Yeah.

But then at a certain...
certain point, it all went.

[Travis] I know.

Hey, Erik, you copy?

I copy.

The wind's still going strong,

so let's move on
to the triangle.

Maybe we'll see some effects
in that blob region.

[Travis] We're gonna,
uh, wrap up,

- then head on to the triangle.
- Copy that.

I'll get the assets ready
at the triangle.

[Travis] After we finished
the second run

through the bubble boundary,

we had one more
smoke test planned.

This time at the triangle,

where we've seen
all kinds of evidence

of an invisible thing
that we call the blob

right at about


We've seen it appear
to destroy and deflect rockets

right at that spot
more times than we can count.

- Let's go on up.
- Okay.

[Travis] So, we used
a cherry picker

to lift the smoke machine
up there

to see if the smoke
might also get us more data

proving the blob is real and
maybe connected to the bubble.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?

We're about to start the smoke
over here at the triangle.

Are you ready?

I'm ready to take data.

All right, let's crank it up.

All right, Erik,
we're about to go.

[device whirring]

[Travis] It's pushing it down.
That's crazy!

I didn't know
what we were looking at.

It was like something invisible
was right there,



and it was making
some of the smoke sh**t downward

instead of straight ahead
with the wind.

When it comes to getting
evidence of the blob,

I mean, talk about
your literal smoking g*n.

[Thomas] It's pretty convincing
that there's something here.

[Travis] Well,
we're finished here.

I can't wait to see
what you captured

on the cameras we got out here.

I'm looking at it.

It's gonna take some
head-scratching to, uh,

interpret what I'm seeing.

So many things
have played out in this space

that are a little difficult
to explain.

I'd really like
to understand how.

I can't wait for us to take
a look at the data and see what

insights we find to show us
what the heck is going on.

[Travis] All right, man,
we're gonna head on in.

[Erik] All right, I'll see you
when you get back.

[Travis] Copy that.

I-I was not expecting
to see something like that.

[Thomas] Yeah.

[Travis] What's going on,
fellas?

[Erik] Uh, I've got the results

of our experiment
with the, uh, smoke g*n.

- [Travis] All right, cool.
- Great. -[Erik] I want to start

with a video I recorded
from a camera on the mesa

processed through
the Meta-Frame software.

You know, you're looking down
from the top of the mesa,

you know,
I'm zoomed in on your location

on the western side
of the bubble.

And I should probably explain,

you know, the colors
and all that, you know,

this is not how
we normally see things.

I've applied a filter
to detect any motion changes

captured on the camera,

so anything that moves,
like our smoke,

will show up in bright colors.

Where you see black,
it's not that it's dark,

it's that nothing has changed.

You guys are stationed here

looking for, you know,
any behavior

in that smoke that, uh,
we wouldn't expect

- from normal air flow.
- Okay, got it.

[Erik] Now watch
what happens here.

This is when you guys
were parked outside

the bubble boundary.

You can see
the bright colors here,

which is our smoke.

And you'll notice we can see
upward movement of the smoke.

[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that.

[Erik] All in this direction
and in this direction.

So it's doing this,
it's fanning like this.

Now, which direction

was the wind
predominantly moving, though?

- It was doing this.
- Right down that road, yeah.

[Erik] And yet you're seeing,
you know, the spreading

of the bright area
to the left and right.

- Which is interesting, right?
- Right.

[Erik] Okay, so I'll just
continue letting that play

at its natural rate.

-[Travis] Look how high
the smoke's going up. -Mm-hmm.

-Can you back that up
a little bit? -Sure.

All right, uh,
go ahead and let it play.

- Okay.
- So, if you start looking,

and you'll start to see in here,

and it starts moving up,
which...

[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that.
I can see it now.

I didn't even notice...
look how high.

That's got to be
hundreds of feet in the air.

[Thomas] Correct.

[Erik] Why? Why is it going up?

Does the "bubble,"

does the structure
we're talking about,

actually introduce
its own effects on the smoke?

[Travis] And that's what
we were looking for,

to see if there's
something invisible

that's gonna change
that normal flow.

It was one thing to see
the smoke pushed around

in real time at ground level,

but Erik's Meta-Frame showed
that the smoke appeared

to get pulled up and around
the bubble boundary,

more than 100 feet in the air.

Normally, it should have
dissipated in all that wind.

So, could the bubble boundary

have displaced the smoke
that much? How?

Now let me show you
an alternate perspective

of the video that was shot
out of the western boundary

of the bubble
as you guys were approaching.

Now, part of what
makes this interesting

is, we're looking at


-[Travis] Okay. -...from over
on the north side of the canal.

[Travis] I'm intrigued.

[Erik] Now what I'm gonna do
is zoom in and apply a filter.

-[Travis] Wow. -Okay,
so I'm playing through this.

Out of nowhere, we've got
something moving around.

[Travis] Oh, yeah, look at that.
Look at that. I can see it now.

-That's got to be hundreds
of feet in the air. -Wow. Yeah.

-Look at that. -[Travis] Right
there. Look at that.

-[Erik] Yeah. -[Travis] What
in the world is that?

♪ ♪

-[Travis] Right there.
Look at that. -[Erik] Yeah.

What in the world is that?

[Erik] Whatever this is,
it's moving freely

- against the wind.
- Yeah,

like it's not even having
an effect on it.

And that's 120 frames
per second.

Lord, that thing's moving fast.

Watching this UAP in
the enhanced, slowed-down video

clearly showed
how it was able to maneuver

without any wind resistance.

I don't think a bug
or even a bird could do that

in a 30-mile-an-hour-plus wind.

So what was it?

And did it come from
something inside the bubble?

That right there is what
is real interesting to me,

where it stops and it,
and it hovers right there.

-Yeah, it kind of
loops around and stops. -Yeah.

[Travis] I can't believe
you saw that, Erik.

[Erik] Well... there's some
things that when you see 'em,

you can't unsee 'em.

Are we looking at something
that could be called a UAP?

I don't know.

But it is interesting
that it showed up

when we were pumping smoke
at the bubble boundary.

Makes me wonder whether

these things
are related somehow.

All right, I want to play
into the next event

from the triangle.

Now, this is video
of our last smoke test,


processed through Meta-Frame.

And we're punched way in.

You can see two towers
out there.

The tower on the right
is just below

where we've seen
that blob feature before.

- [Travis] Right.
- [Erik] Once again,

I've got that
change-detection filter on,

so changes will show up lighter
than what you see here.

- Yeah. -Yeah. -[Travis] Yeah.
- All right. Okay.

[Erik] So, at this point,
already the smoke is flowing

at the center of the triangle.

It's flowing the way
we would expect it to

until it reaches the area
where we've seen the blob.

[Thomas] Wow, right there,
see where it's coming down?

- [Erik] Mm-hmm.
- We did see the smoke

dive down, come about
five feet off the ground.

Yeah, you can see it
right here in the bottom piece.

- It does, you can see that.
- [Erik] Yes. Okay.

[Travis] You see
how the smoke...

it's not coming out
in a, in a smooth path.

It's got a line to it.

That is right over the tower
where the rocket hit the blob.

Okay, so, if I frame forward,

-it maintains that advancing
front. -Look at that.

Yeah. Look at that.

During the experiment,
we only saw it going down.

But it looks like it was
going up around something, too.

Let's see right there. Stop.

- I-I'm gonna draw on the screen.
- [Erik] Yeah. Go for it.

Look at the boundary it makes.

That right there
is almost a perfect circle.

Mm.

- [Travis] So, is this the blob?
- Mm-hmm.

[Travis] Once again,

we're seeing the smoke
being manipulated

right where we've previously
seen evidence of the blob.

The smoke even looked
like it was moving around

a blob-like shape.

Are we looking at more evidence

that there is definitely
something there at that spot,



[Erik] So, now that we've seen
these flow patterns

in the smoke,

does this help explain
anything we've seen?

Well, it doesn't explain it,

but I think it showed
more evidence

that the bubble
and the blob are real

and maybe always present.

-[Erik] Now we need to figure
out what they are. -Yeah.

You know, I think this informs
future experiments

we do in both places.

[Travis] Right,
back to poking harder

at the nest for some answers.

Well, I say we, uh,
we get to it.

- Yeah. -[Thomas] Let's do it.
- Great.

[Royston] I'll see you guys.

[Brandon] As we have elevated
the experimental activity

in the region
that we call the bubble,

we see more UAP activity

coupled with other high
strangeness than ever before.

It will be no surprise
if we continue to see

phenomena unfold
before our very eyes,

so long as we continue
to focus on the bubble.

[Travis] You see one rocket
do something odd,

you chalk it up to chance.

But when you see
multiple things...

smoke, rockets, drones,

helikites, you name it...

all showing
the same kinds of effects?

I think we've proven
that the bubble

is a real phenomenon.

And we're gonna hit it
with everything we've got

until we figure out what it is

and how it's related to the blob

and whatever's buried
inside the mesa.

[Erik] That space
just above the triangle

and the bubble boundary
continue to draw our attention.

We are engaging with several

very interesting features,

both of a very physical nature
and an abstract nature.

I think we are going
to have to retool

the approach to the unknown
on the ranch.