The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch - Behind The Gates | S6 E11 | The Teams Initial Ceramic Tests [2025]

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Thanks for being here to meet with me because tonight we finally get more on this potentially incredible piece of ceramic. Something pulled out of the mesa that could be a game changer, >> right? >> That it's a perfect opportunity to sit with you two in particular because of the amount of technology and science applied and what this huge anomaly in the mesa could be. >> Yes. >> Y. >> So with all that in mind, let's start kind of at the beginning.

talk about the science and technology brought to bear in the command center. >> Matty, I don't think we could resist the impulse to just bring our instruments to that sample. You know, we're anxious to observe whether we see any unusual properties out right there in the field. >> So, Eric put it under the microscope. Yeah.

With my reading glasses on, I thought I was seeing a pattern on one of the pieces. >> Wow. I want to show you a cross-section of one of the parts and get your assessment of what in the heck we're looking at here. >> Wow. >> Oh, that is fantastic, Eric.

>> Look at that. >> Wow. >> So, this image here, this isn't a picture. This is actually under the microscope. This is live off of the microscope.

>> Yeah. You look at your crosshatches, right? The preciseness of these lines. look like they were made by laser etching or centering. >> So that is potentially machined. >> Yes, there's absolutely a crosshatch pattern.

Clearly something put it there and it's so highly improbable that it was, you know, accidental scratches. >> So that is something we can put scientifically into the if not definite box close to it that this is a manufactured piece. >> Yes. Yep. >> Okay.

It's not something that mother nature's going to create. >> And what kind of manufacturing process could be responsible for etchings as you've seen? >> It's a good question if it's etchings or if they were molded that way. We're not real certain. U it's going to take a little more data or analysis to figure that out. >> So the fact that it's even coming from the mesa no matter what the ceramic turns out to be is in itself hugely important.

>> Absolutely. Look, we have no history of humanity being inside of that messa as far as the historical record goes, right? There are stories about there being a cave somewhere that somebody went into back, it would have been in the ' 70s maybe. Um, but we don't have any evidence to back that up. And all of the aerial photographs that we have, Eric and I have been looking for caves since day one. We've got every aerial photograph there is of the place all the way back to was 1935, I think, is the earliest one.

It's 1936. >> 36. Wow. >> Something made it. Someone made this material.

So, how did it get hundreds of feet inside the mesa? >> And then and then our our gears start turning. You know, then we start thinking about now what is the more rigorous follow-up test? Does it respond in any way to uh something as simple as a as an applied magnetic field? And in fact, the results that we got were interesting. They were surprising. Moment of truth. What? >> Whoa, whoa, whoa.

>> Can you believe that? >> They're even magnetic. Like, I'm still trying to wrap my head. >> Aren't magnetic. >> Yeah. I want you to feel this.

Watch. >> Oh, it's pushing against it right now. And I'm like, "Wait, that's ceramic." And he said, "I know." And we were both like, ceramics don't do that. >> I was not expecting to see that little white piece of ceramic leap into the magnetic field of a permanent magnet. >> Oh man.

>> Wow. This reaction, this odd behavior with the magnet had you guys theorizing in the moment about a superconductor. Right. >> This is the fun part of the discussion. >> All right.

A superconductor. Describe that to me. >> Zero electrical resistance. A perfect conductor. >> Perfect flow of energy.

not wasting anything. >> Yes. >> Got it. >> So, a normal wire as you flow energy through it, it heats up and you lose some of the energy that gets from point A to point B on the ends of the wire. But if it's a superconducting wire, it doesn't heat up and it doesn't lose any energy.

>> Okay. >> We're looking at, you know, a ceramic behaving in a way that we didn't expect. >> Yeah. So, as if this were a room temperature superconductor that has properties that you could use for levitation. So to fly something through space and time to have some sort of incredible spacecraft and again I'm just theorizing it might have material like this when we evolve to the point with our technology and our civilization that we're doing star travel uh that would be commonplace.

>> Yeah. So you know what we describe as a wish today I like to think of as an inevitability for tomorrow.