We don't know what it is, there's a big anomaly
in the ground-penetrating radar right there.
What the heck?
What in the hell is that?
That pink rock doesn't look natural.
We've never done a mortar shell
where it's got a big percussion.
There we go.
Whoa, what was that purple light over there?
I'm gonna head down. We need to know
if this is a reaction to that rocket.
What is that?
It looks like
this thing's following Thomas.
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Clearly, um...
you guys saw something, a purple light.
Yeah, I saw it multiple times, right?
The way that it correlated with the timing
of the launches was very interesting.
It was really bright. - Okay.
Last night we were hoping to zero
in on the cause of all the energy spikes,
GPS anomalies and UAPs that we keep seeing
in the so-called triangle here on Skinwalker Ranch.
But instead, the rockets and mortars that we launched
seemed to have triggered two new phenomena that we've never
seen before hundreds of yards away in the south field.
Whoa, what was that purple light over there?
Thomas Winterton saw what he described as a purple
flashing light in the south field,
but when he went over there to investigate it
with Tom Lewis and Kandus Linde, it disappeared.
Neither one of us has seen
anything to account for that purple light.
And then Kaleb Bench and I
saw a UAP above him
in our night vision scope that seemed to be
tracking his movements, like it was stalking him.
If you've got the, the footage of that light,
I'd love to see it 'cause I never
did get to actually see it.
So I've... I've got the video up here.
So, guys, look there. We've got our familiar landmarks.
We know what those lights are.
They're security lights at the houses,
you know, far enough away.
Okay, I'll continue playing.
For purple.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- There, right there. - Whoa, right.
That's it, though.
The first takeaway for me looking at this is,
okay, it is at the same level in our shot
as those known terrestrial, light sources.
Exactly. - So it's down low.
It was not in the sky. - Right.
Now the question is, what is it?
So, when you compare the size and the brightness
and the intensity of the light
to the amber yard lights and the white ones off there,
you know, those lights are big, big lights-- bright...
...and this is just as big.
And-and the fact that it's purple, maybe I'm wrong,
but purple lights don't carry as far as...?
No, it's, your eye doesn't respond to purple.
In fact, your eye responds best to a greenish yellow color.
For it to be a purple light and you to see it,
it had to be, have a lot of energy in it.
And so I find that really interesting.
As an optical scientist, I've studied
the light spectrum that the human eye
can see for more than 30 years.
Purple is near the edge of that spectrum.
So, for it to be as bright as this, it had to have been
created by something emitting a lot of energy.
I'm not sure what that could have been.
While you're chasing this purple light,
we've got what appears to be
something blinking over your heads
only a couple hundred feet above you
and following your motion.
That is odd. - Can you point it out to me?
Yeah, I'll-I'll show you. - Okay.
Kaleb and I could tell this thing
was moving and it was right over your head.
- I see it right there. - Yeah, you see it right here.
It was right over your heads,
and it moved with you. It was, like, a couple
hundred feet, at most, above the ground. - Okay.
See it right there, how bright it was? - I'm seeing it.
You can't, you can't miss it.
Why is that happening at the exact same time
we're doing these, stimulation experiments,
and there is a-a strange purple,
light or object appearing on the property?
I don't like that.
I-I don't like that either. - I don't like the fact
that there was something following me as I was out there.
If it was a human doing it, it's a bad thing,
and if it wasn't a human doing it, it's-- I don't know
if that's a good thing or not.
- Yeah. - Well, guys,
thanks for helping me look through this today.
Yeah, man. - Yeah, we'll get back to work.
We got the hole empty, so we ready to drill again?
After our meeting in the command center,
Erik Thomas and I headed out to the mesa where Aaron Blunt
and his team from Straight Shot Drillers
were about to continue another major investigation
that we recently started.
Would this drill, would it drill through
steel-reinforced concrete?
Yes. - It would?
Yeah, we do it quite a few times.
Okay.
Last year...
...Aaron drilled at this location
and his bit scraped along the bottom
of a 400-foot-long dome-shaped,
possibly metal, object...
Yeah, I'm up against something pretty hard right now.
The bit couldn't penetrate it,
but scientific analysis that we had
conducted on small fragments of metal
that were in the spoils showed
they were composed of the same type of materials
that NASA uses on the space shuttle.
That's actually very interesting.
And then, three weeks ago,
we conducted new ground-penetrating radar scans
in this area and found that there appears
to be a second,
120-foot-tall vertical anomaly sitting
just behind whatever this dome-shaped object is.
Whatever this is is as tall as the mesa.
So now we're having Aaron drill
from above the dome-shaped anomaly
in the hopes that from this angle,
he can penetrate it and reach the vertical object behind it
to help us figure out what in this world they could be.
I have one more question. The, the beacon
on the end of the drill-- is it always on,
or do you guys just turn it on when you're looking to find it?
It's always on while we're drilling.
And you're at 33 megahertz?
Yeah. - Okay.
So, when we're out drilling, we have a beacon
that you run in with the bit,
and the locator will be up on top of the mesa.
So it'll send a signal up to the locator
and it'll tell how deep it is, where it's at,
what direction it's going, so we know
where that bit is at all times.
We're gonna look for that.
We got to look for it? - Yeah.
Aaron's drill beacon transmits
at a frequency of 33 megahertz
in order for the rig to track
the drill bit's progress underground.
That's good to know. We will also monitor that signal
with the spectrum analyzer as they drill.
Thomas, I want you to, keep an eye
on the, the gamma ray detector fairly periodically.
- Okay. - In the past, when we've drilled here,
we detected strange radiation and energy frequencies,
most notably one measuring 1.6 gigahertz,
which I think could be some kind of communication signal.
I just don't know who or what could be
trying to communicate or how it might be related
to these strange anomalies in the mesa.
Yeah, I say let's start drilling.
Did you get that one working?
Yeah, I got 'em all working now.
During the drilling operation
we were using our spectrum analyzer
to detect various energy signals...
That's the beacon.
Now, this included
the drill beacon's 33-megahertz signal,
which we were monitoring for any changes
that might suggest some kind of phenomena was affecting it.
Just a minor note to let you guys know
as we're about 160 feet in.
I'm gonna head up the mesa to where I can get eyes
on Gavin and find out how deep they are.
Understood, copy and thanks.
I'm getting more and more excited with every foot
that we're drilling into the mesa.
Last year during our drilling exercise,
we discovered metal that was forged,
that's not natural, 300 feet into the hill.
Really, I'm most excited about finding out
what that metal is inside the mesa.
Right now we're just about right here,
right below your feet. - The drill bit's right here?
Yep. That's where it's at. He's trying to work it down,
but it's... it'll let him drill forward,
but he's not able to work it down as much as he'd like.
Okay. What-what causes that?
Um, just really tight ground
or, um, other...
objects pushing him in certain directions.
So... - Okay.
Guys. You got a copy?
Go ahead, Thomas. We hear you.
I'm up here on top with Gavin.
The drill bit is approximately 40 feet
below where we're standing right now.
There's something that's been pushing the drill up.
If you remember last year,
there was something pushing it down.
So he's been trying to turn that drill and level it out,
and it's just pushing him up higher and higher.
Similar to what we experienced last year.
Just other direction.
Maybe we're on top of it
instead of the bottom of it this time.
That could be.
Think Erik's gonna come up and, do some
experiments up there with you.
He'll be there in a few minutes.
Copy that.
Be careful.
When Thomas told us the drill bit was being pushed up
by something inside the mesa,
Erik and I wondered if Aaron was just
scraping along the top of the dome-shaped object.
So Erik took a handheld spectrum analyzer up to Thomas.
We wanted to see if any strange energy signals could be detected
when the drill made contact with the anomaly inside the mesa.
When we try to approach that point,
our bit is getting pushed down or it's getting pushed up.
So he's hitting resistance right now?
You can hear that drill's hitting something hard.
Yeah.
What's going on, Thomas?
After drilling more than 270 or 280 feet
of going through sandstone like butter,
the drill has encountered a hard object
that it cannot penetrate.
Wow. - Well, if that's the case...
um, what I want to do is see if I can pick up that beacon...
Travis, you hear me?
Copy that, Erik, I got you.
I'm looking for the beacon signal
at 33 megahertz right now.
Copy that.
Let me go to that signal and see... where it is.
All right. I think that's him.
See all that activity right there?
What is that?
Something's going nuts there.
You see the small peak in the middle,
that's the beacon from the drill bit.
Yeah. - But these other--
the three peaks on either side were not there
until the drill bit hit whatever it can't go through.
Hey, Thomas.
Tell Erik that when the drill bit hit
whatever you guys hit up at the top,
that the 33-megahertz signal
coming from the drill bit amplified and spread out
all around it like something was rebroadcasting it.
I see the peak at 33 megahertz.
As soon as the drill bit
hit whatever stopped it,
six other peaks appeared on the spectrum analyzer
around the 33-megahertz peak.
And we've seen this before.
What's going on here?
There's a phenomenon occurring
right now that we don't understand.
This small peak in the middle--
that's the, that's the beacon from the drill bit.
Yeah.
But these other-- the three peaks
on either side were not there
until the drill bit hit whatever it can't go through.
Right after Aaron Blunt informed us that his drill bit
couldn't penetrate what we believed to be the top side
of the massive dome-shaped object inside the mesa...
Erik and I noticed that the 33-megahertz radio signal
from the drill's tracking beacon was being rebroadcast
into our spectrum analyzer.
The question was, what could have been rebroadcasting it?
What are you thinking right now?
I'm thinking metal.
Especially what, what we just heard from Travis.
He said that when that drill bit contacted whatever this is
that we can't get through, all of a sudden
that beacon signal was coming, blasting out
to his instruments. Think about what that means.
He said he's hitting something that's rebroadcasting.
Well, something that behaves like a large antenna
would do that.
So, when it pushes up against something metal,
it would actually act like a big antenna and amplify it out?
Yeah, or a reflector, I don't know.
Makes me want to pull the bit back and do it again.
Try it over and over and see if, in fact,
that same thing happens with,
with the instruments down there where we're set up.
Well, it sounds like a, quick experiment.
That something we could coordinate with you guys? - For sure.
Perfect, perfect. - See if we can get Travis on board with that.
Hey, Travis.
Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.
We would like to do an experiment
based on what you are seeing with that amplifying.
We want to try something where the driller goes
and pushes up against it, let you see it, then backs off,
then pushes up against it and then backs off.
And let you look at that and see what you see.
I like that experiment a lot. Let's do it.
All righty, so what we're gonna have you do is
just pull back your bit.
Erik's idea was the perfect way
for us to test if whatever the drill was hitting
inside the mesa really was altering--
or rebroadcasting-- the 33-megahertz signal.
Okay, and then
come back into contact with what you're hitting.
Here we go.
He's going.
He should be coming back into contact with it here right now.
Boy, it's suddenly gotten strong as crap.
Look how strong that is.
All right, so let's back away.
All righty, Aaron,
go ahead and back it off completely
and then hold there for a second.
Well, I can tell you, when they pushed the drill forward,
the peaks went really high,
and now it seems like they've backed off
and they've dropped really low.
That is exactly what we're looking for, Travis.
Okay, Travis, we're going to instruct him
to bring it back into contact.
Watch for that.
Copy that.
All right, so now look, look. - See, there it goes.
Look, look, look, look, look!
Holy cow, look at that!
Sure enough, when Aaron pulled his drill bit
away from the obstruction in the mesa,
the 33-megahertz signal returned
to normal frequency on the spectrum analyzer.
But then each time it made contact
with whatever is inside there,
the signal would be amplified again.
Look how strong it got.
Man, it just really started broadcasting.
I have no idea what could be in there that would do that.
Could it be a response?
What could cause the RF spectrum to suddenly change
as the drill bit encounters this apparently impenetrable object?
We want to know, is this, is this aggression?
Is this an attempt to communicate?
At this point it's speculation, but it is certainly
very suggestive that we're dealing with something
that isn't native to that mesa.
- There's something in there. - And we hit it.
And the drill cannot punch through it.
There is something in there.
Now, you hear that high-pitched sound it's making?
Yeah.
So, we're just hitting
something really, really hard.
I don't know if I'm getting through this.
See, and we're at 8,000 pounds of push.
Yeah. - Hardly any rotation off of it.
So either my bits broke off or it's just
spinning on something smooth.
I've just been sitting here, rotating on it.
No movement? - Nope.
And he even put his augers down so he'd have more push.
So he can't push any harder?
Not right now, nope, not without breaking something.
I got to tell Travis. - My gosh.
He's officially at the point he cannot go any further.
Well, that's exciting. It means there is something
different in there, and it does match the GPR data.
We need to figure out how to get to it and see what it is.
Precisely.
We know we're on track.
And what we didn't know from the GPR data
was how far south and north it went.
I think we just got our answer.
Well, I guess, we need to look at the spoils bin
and see what's in there.
I agree with you.
I'm completely baffled as to what it was
that was so hard, we couldn't drill through it.
I'm eager to get this drill bit pulled out of the hill
and see what kind of condition the drill bit's in.
I'm also really eager to look at this spoils pile
and see, do we have any metal shavings in there
like we found last year?
I want to hear from this guy right here.
I mean, you do this every day, all day.
It's hitting something really hard and smooth.
8,000 pounds of push, and it wasn't budging.
That's a lot of pressure.
What could be hard enough to be pushing back on that?
I don't know, 'cause we cut through everything
all the way up to the top just fine.
I didn't move even a little bit through it, so...
That's the thing. What in the world is that?
Well, I want to see what's in that pit,
'cause you might have got some chips off of it
that it'd be nice to see what it is.
I think we ought to get this sucked out and go look at it.
Yeah, and I'd like to see the end of the bit, too,
to see if it dulled it or what happened to it.
Once we were done drilling, we vacuumed all the spoils out
of the pit where the drill bit entered the mesa
so they could be screened for possible clues
of what this dome-shaped object could be.
Meanwhile, Aaron began retracting the drill bit
so we could see what kind of damage it incurred
after grinding away on that huge
impenetrable object for so long.
Here she comes!
Here you go, Thomas.
Getting this cleaned off...
these teeth are all perfectly intact.
It's not missing a single tooth. - Yeah.
I mean, it, it looks like it's in perfect condition.
You'd think, if you were grinding that against
something for a half hour, that it would dull it at least.
It should have heated up and at least wore it down flat.
- That's crazy. - Yeah, that is.
After all the grinding did against
the top of the dome-shaped anomaly inside the mesa,
it showed no sign of damage at all.
It was like it had been spinning on an invisible,
frictionless force field.
That's like the stuff of science fiction.
It made no logical sense.
That's good.
Let's hope we have some.
So, as the drill team dumped the materials
that were collected inside the spoils tank,
we were hoping that once we sifted them
through a screen, we'd find evidence that might
tell us what the object inside the mesa could be.
It doesn't look anything like what we did
- last year. - No.
I'm not seeing anything like those
large flakes that we saw last year.
It looks to me like it's something different.
We're going to have to do some further analysis
on that material to compare it or differentiate it
from the material that we pulled out of the base
of the mesa last year.
I'll scoop what's left here in a bucket.
If there's any trace of what we ran into that was so hard,
if we got any of it.
The spoils didn't contain any
pieces of metal like last year,
but we'll still send samples of the muddy material to a lab
for testing just in case they aren't natural to a rocky mesa.
Hopefully, we can still learn something about what could be
inside there, especially since we detected a possible
communication signal when we were drilling up against it.
This is a head scratcher, right?
There's something in the mesa.
The drill bit won't go through it, though. That's the thing.
So I don't know, what in the world
could that be that you're putting that much
pressure on and you're not chipping pieces of it off?
Yeah. - There's clearly something there.
We've got three tests now that tell us
there's something there.
We need to send these samples out to be tested.
Appreciate you guys doing this.
This was a lot of hard work.
Thanks a lot, guys.
Yeah, we appreciate the call. - Well, let's do it.
I agree.
Ready to go?
Yeah, I've got the cameras.
While I was taking care of getting
our drilling samples sent off to the University of Utah
for testing, Erik Bard worked with Thomas Winterton
and Kaleb Bench to help us try to get more data
down in the south field where the purple light and the UAP
appeared during our experiment a couple of nights ago.
I know we've got that whole southern portion
covered but not very well down in the trees, so...
Not in the trees.
This will help supplement what you've already got.
All right, I'll keep eyes on you.
All right, sounds good.
After our experience with this mysterious
purple light in the southeast region of the property,
we've decided that we need to increase
our surveillance efforts down there.
I've instructed our team to install additional cameras.
These are motion-triggered cameras that should detect
anything that emerges in the field of view
should we see any more of these purple lights
or any other light, for that matter, emerging
in the space over the ranch.
Let's see what we can do with this tree right here.
So, when that flash happened, it was hard to tell
whether it was coming from...
up in the tree level or whether,
whether it was on the ground level.
And even though we could capture some of this
with our other cameras, I think having a perspective
right here at the ground,
if we, if we see that flash again,
we're gonna know whether it's coming from the trees
or if it really is happening down on the ground.
The purple light's something I just
keep reflecting back on over and over.
What was it doing there on the south end of the property,
and why was that UAP we saw observing us?
If I remember right,
you were the only one that really saw the flash.
Yeah, I was.
Is that why that UAP was following me?
I'd really like to know what it was doing above me.
We've been out here for years,
and it just seems like there's always new questions.
Hey, Erik, do you, copy?
Yeah. I've got you loud and clear.
There's an entire
big grove right here that I don't
think that we have eyes on from our cameras.
So we're thinking about setting one up here,
facing the west.
That way, if anything shows up, either tree level
or on the ground, we'll be able to capture it.
Thomas, that is perfect
because where you're standing, I cannot see you
from any of the assets up here.
All right, well, we're gonna have to clean
a couple branches real quick, and, we'll put it up
and then we'll make contact with you when we're done.
Copy you.
We've never really spent a lot of time
investigating on the south side.
So, at this point, it's an area of interest
that we're definitely gonna want to follow up on.
I think these trail cams are gonna be the first step
in fully instrumenting out the ranch.
I'm excited to see if we capture anything
on these cameras down there.
Okay. Is it, all turned on and ready?
Well, that's great.
That gets us an entire area right here
that we couldn't see down on the ground
from our cameras, so,
if anything happens here, we're gonna be able to capture it.
And that light was right over this area, so...
Yep. Okay.
Well, let's go get the next one done.
Whoa, what is that in front of us?
What kind of animal is that?
Looks like a deer.
Yeah, you can tell that one's been torn apart by something.
I wonder what the heck killed it.
This is strange.
Not seeing any cat tracks or bear tracks.
You know, I don't, I don't know what caused it.
Mysterious animal deaths and mutilations
have been documented on Skinwalker Ranch for decades.
What in the world?
Four years ago, a healthy young cow
died under very mysterious circumstances
not far from the south field.
Was that black object the cow?
- Yeah. - And later,
when we reviewed surveillance footage, Erik noticed
a UAP in the sky directly above the dying cow.
Whoa, hey, look at that.
I don't know. This is strange.
Hey, Erik, do you have a copy?
Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.
Interesting thing.
We got up here to the fence line and found a dead deer carcass.
Any idea how long that carcass has been there?
I think that this animal
has been there for a long time,
but, it's really hard to tell.
Yeah. Understood.
Okay. Well, we'll go and get this
camera up, and then we'll check in with you.
Copy you.
Huh, well, look at this.
We got a...
burn mark.
That's interesting.
Just that one section.
There's nothing burned around here.
What the heck would have burned this post?
This plant's untouched.
I mean, there's not a burned branch on the shrub.
Pretty fresh looking.
And it's in the weirdest spot, too.
This has me baffled.
We find a burnt post
that's raising some questions.
Just this one spot right here.
And there just so happens to also be a deceased deer
in this exact same area.
That's definitely interesting.
Is a dead deer on the ranch
really out of place? Not necessarily,
but it's hard to say how this deer died,
so are they connected?
There's some circumstances here
that do raise more questions.
All right, so this is installed. It's turned on.
So we're good.
Hey, Travis, you got a copy?
We found a dead deer carcass, and one
fence post along
this, fence line
has got a pretty severe burn scar on it,
about three feet off the ground.
But the plant around it doesn't show any signs of burn.
There's no signs of fire out here.
You probably ought to come our way.
Copy that, Thomas. See you in a minute.
The fact that we're seeing this dead deer,
along with this burn mark down on the south side,
shows we really do need to get more eyes
down on the south side.
You can see, there's pieces of it
strewn all over the place.
Yeah.
After the cow died four years ago,
we detected elevated levels of gamma rays around it.
So I immediately wanted to scan the area
for any signs of that.
So, you picking up anything?
No higher levels of gamma rays
than usual. - That's good.
Now, obviously this deer was killed a while ago,
but given the strange UAPs we had recently seen
right in this area of the south field,
it was only logical to wonder
if something out of the ordinary might still be the cause.
Show me this post you guys were talking about.
Yeah, so this burned post is just right over here.
So here's that post.
It's really burned.
Let me look at it with this Geiger counter.
Huh.
Nothing out of the ordinary from radiation,
but that's real interesting, and there's no other
- signs of fire around here... - No signs.
...or nothing, right?
None of the trees have been burned.
If you were gonna do that...
I mean, even if we took a torch...
You'd have to torch that for a long time.
That'd be for hours. - And
none of the rest of it's touched, right?
So, just that one point.
You know what it looks like? If something just flew
- and went right through it. - It's very localized
in that one spot.
That looks like, whatever it was, it was so hot,
it just went right through it.
That is just weird.
When I saw how burned
that one section of the post was,
all I could think about was how
the purple light Thomas saw
over here the other night
must have been emitting a lot of energy.
So, could it have burned this post?
And could it be connected to whatever killed the deer?
What's interesting, though, is, we saw this strange light,
and right here the UAP was following you,
and it led-led us
to find this burned post that makes no sense.
So, the one thing about this area is,
we've got a lot of cameras up on the north side,
they're facing this way, so we've got
great coverage up in the sky here,
but you see this tree line right here.
I mean, if we had a lot of activity,
we wouldn't capture it on our cameras
because it would be hidden behind the tree line.
Right here in this sort of valley between the tree lines,
- right? - Exactly.
So who knows what's been taking place
on this side of the ranch.
We-we know we've been watching the sky a lot,
but we haven't been keeping as close an eye on the ground.
Well, we've got this camera here now.
Maybe we'll capture something with it.
I don't know what else we can do here. I say we head back.
Let's call a vet out to look at this deer.
Sounds good.
- Hey, Kaleb. - Hey, Bryant.
So, this is Haleigh. She's one of our local vets.
Hi, Haleigh. Nice to meet you. - Hi.
I'm Bryant. - Nice to meet you.
We all know that there's a history
of cattle mutilation on this property.
In our investigation here on Skinwalker Ranch,
animals we have here have been attacked by something.
We got a deer down on the south end of the property,
or the remains of a deer. - Okay.
So, given the fact we found
this mysterious burnt post next to this dead deer,
we decided to bring Haleigh Lundgreen out.
She's a veterinarian that is an expert
in looking at animal remains.
Let's head out.
And it just so happens
it's in the same area where we had this purple light.
And so we want to know, are they related somehow?
It's really strange, so we'd like an expert's opinion.
So, pretty much everything's in this area.
It's really scattered, huh?
Yeah.
Well, we'll start with the hide.
There are some puncture holes here.
Are you thinking that's from predators?
Or where do you think that's from?
You know, likely from coyotes.
They're pretty close together. - Okay.
it wasn't the cause of death, though.
I will say that much.
There's no, no bruising under the skin
which would indicate cause of death.
Okay.
And so, coyotes likely, I mean, got after him.
Got it after it was dead? - Yep.
But I'm not seeing any kind of bleeding or trauma
on the hide that would have been while the deer was alive.
Interesting.
The puncture marks look like they had been done
after this animal had died.
What killed this animal?
It wasn't a predator that killed it.
The question remains,
is it something we need to worry about?
We have the pelvis here.
The spine's actually really intact, all things considered.
If a predator had gotten this when it was alive,
I would have expected more damage to the spine as a whole.
Okay. If you had to give me
your forensic expert opinion as to what happened,
what would you say took place here?
We have a, a young six-month
or under, fawn that died of something
that we're not sure of and...
Not predator, though, correct? - Not predator.
Okay. - Died of something other than a predator.
And then was scavenged on at least by coyotes,
that we can confirm, and possibly some other animals.
Okay.
We're gonna have to really keep a watchful eye
on everything in this area
and try some different experiments
to maybe see if we can really find out
what's happening in this place.
We're really grateful that you'd come out here,
lend your expert opinion, and give us
a little bit more insight. - Sure.
Well, should we get her back? Get her out of this heat?
Yeah. That sounds good. - Okay. Let's do it.
Now, this is what you guys imaged.
So, that's the pink rock inside the mesa.
Yep.
And I am still puzzled by...
I mean, what are we looking at here?
A few days after we had to halt
our drilling operation inside the mesa,
we got lab results back for two items
that we sent off to the geology department
at the University of Utah for analysis.
First was a photo of the pink rock
that Dragon and Kaleb captured with a snake camera one week ago
in a crevice between boulders near where the dome-shaped
and vertical anomalies are buried.
And the second was a sample of the spoils we obtained
while drilling up against the top of the dome-shaped object.
The geology, geophysics guys are-are giving us
their best guess based upon these images.
They have a couple of opinions on this.
So, one of the interesting comments
was that the pink coloring seems to be like
a deposit on the sandstone.
Really? - TRAVIS: Meaning it's not a mineral
that's through and through, like a chunk of it.
They think it's a coating.
Right.
Now, this is interesting.
"Possibly from vapor," right?
Okay.
Okay, so the rest of the comment was that the color
reminds this individual of elemental selenium deposits.
Yes, it does.
Selenium is, a semiconductor material.
You find it in almost every microprocessor chip,
every computer, you find it in solar panels.
Really? - And, in fact,
if you mix selenium with zinc, and you get zinc selenide,
it's an optical material that-that is being used
in military experiments to bend light around objects
to create, metamaterials like a cloaking material
on a plane to make them look invisible.
Wow.
What would produce a vapor
that could leave a selenium deposit...
I'm trying to-- I... - ...on a rock?
Selenium is a solid material
- at room temperature and pressure. - Huh.
So, you'd have to get it to whatever its boiling point is
to create a vapor to do that,
and that-that would have to be hot.
So what would cause that, I don't know.
And then let's say maybe the anomaly in the mesa
may have been what caused that.
- Really? - Yeah.
Zinc selenide is a compound
that scientists and researchers at DARPA,
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
are currently experimenting with for possible optical stealth--
in other words, cloaking applications--
on a number of assets including soldiers' gear and uniforms,
tanks and even fighter jets.
But it's a pretty futuristic technology at this point.
So, what the heck would similar kinds of materials
be doing inside the mesa, especially since
they appear to have been artificially placed there?
Is it connected to the dome-shaped anomaly?
What would cause that, I don't know.
And I want to go dig the mesa out...
- I know. - ...and see what's in there.
- I do, too. - I do have another image.
You guys all remember that stuff that we brought down
from the drill site, the material from the,
the drill tip itself?
I think you took that off of the, off of the drill bit...
- Yeah, off-- right off the tip of the bit. - Yeah.
I'll take you through the elemental, analysis
that was done from the University of Utah
- geology department. - There's two lines here,
the drill tip mud is the bottom one.
Is there anything that jumps out as if it doesn't belong?
Europium shows up.
Yeah, like when we got drilling
from last year at the mesa,
where we pulled out metal flakes.
Wow. - You've got sodium, magnesium
and aluminum very abundant in the drill tip mud.
This is, like, a very metallic, conductive kind of mixture.
Which suggests to me again
that the things that we got out of the bottom
were part of a manufactured something.
This mud is leached material,
over time, right at the spot
where the GPR says there's something there,
and right where the drill bit couldn't go any further.
So it suggests that whatever is there,
and whatever that GPR anomaly is,
is something highly metallic.
Yeah. - Jan told us that
it didn't look like a natural-occurring anomaly.
It looked like it was some other thing
that may be buried there or something.
So all this suggests there's a big metal object in the mesa,
so how the heck do we get in there to-to tell for sure?
How do we feel
about simply drilling with some portable apparatus
from the top of the mesa down into that 40-foot-or-so level?
That seems like the s...
the first obvious thing, right, Erik?
I mean, we could at least give it a shot.
Maybe we see if we can
- find us a portable drill... - Yeah.
...that we could carry up there. - I think-- I'm sure
there's got-- there's got to be something.
Okay. Well, I guess
we have our next step, then, is, focus on trying
to find some way to drill down from the top.
Worth a shot.
Yeah. - All right.
Well, I guess we got our work cut out for us.
Yep. Let's go... - And I've got my homework.
...see if we can find a drill, then,
and how to haul that thing up the mesa.
We're seeing things that are
very hard for us to explain inside the mesa.
This part of the ranch continues
to defy our efforts to characterize it.
At least it's gonna make us work for the answers we get.
You name it, we've probably heard
a story about what's inside the mesa here.
Underground alien bases, UFOs crashed inside there.
If there is an asset, an object, an artifact inside the mesa
that could be of great importance,
we need to know what it is, and I'm fired up to find out.
Skinwalker Ranch continues to be
the center of gravity for high strangeness.
I believe that we've seen more evidence than ever before
of the reality of the phenomenon,
and we're emboldened to move forward to get the answers
that we so desperately seek.
As we move forward, the team is dedicated
and focused on getting to the bottom of the truth.
I want you all to meet Jay Stratton.
We're gonna use you today
as part of an experiment.
The word "bait" comes to mind.
This is not arson, this is not chemical,
and this is not lightning.
So what is it, then?
It would go back to
what the ranch is named after.
We just found something
that we thought you guys might want to look at.
Whoa.
Middle of the day, an orb like that showing up?
That's crazy.