Massive Metal Objects Found Under the Mesa | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S4, E3) | Full Episode

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-TRAVIS: Oh, wow. -We've been wanting to fly a pattern of drones over the triangle and the east field. TRAVIS (over radio): There are several drones out of line we can see

from my perspective. They're clearly out of place. Yeah, we've got eyes on that. I have 80 disconnected. They're coming home.

Three, two, one! KALEB: We got something right there. TRAVIS: There's a thing hovering over the launch site! PETE: So there's a gap in the data from the triangle at the top of the mesa.

Somehow we've got to get inside the mesa. NARRATOR: There is a ranch in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on Earth: animal mutilations, bizarre UFO sightings and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans. For 20 years, the federal government tried to find answers

and failed. Now a new team of dedicated scientists, researchers and experts has taken over. They are determined to solve

the mystery and reveal... ...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. -Pete! -Hey, Pete.

I want you to meet some friends of mine. -All right. -(Pete chuckling) TRAVIS: After our experiment

at the triangle last week actually revealed that there might be a connection to the mesa, we invited Pete Kelsey and his colleague, ground-penetrating radar expert Jan Francke to help us with a new investigation of that area.

Well, welcome to the ranch. Thank you. Happy to be here. TRAVIS: So, uh, Pete tells us

that you've got some interesting technology that might help us out at the mesa. Yeah, I make deep ground-penetrating radar systems and I've got one that I made for you guys that's a really,

really small one. It can get up over some of that really rough rocks, rock face that you wouldn't be able to drag a normal radar on. And I've got one

that's a really deep penetrating ground-based system that looks like a snake actually. -We use this for the mining industry. -Okay.

JAN: What is it you're actually expecting to see? What are you looking for here? -We've heard about caves inside of the mesa. -Okay. We're actually looking for

also a-a structure that was impenetrable to our drilling. You know, as we went back into that mesa, we were using a directional drilling technique that should have been able to turn upward but could not,

we couldn't get through that layer, so it was a dome shape there. And of course we'll be especially interested if we see anything that looks unnatural.

-Absolutely. -Beneath that surface. In our ongoing efforts to find the answers behind all the strange phenomena that occur on Skinwalker Ranch, we're now getting

focused back on the mesa. Oh, wow, look at that! We were all baffled one week ago when the drone swarm we launched over the triangle to pinpoint an anomaly between 300 and 5,000 feet began malfunctioning. -Look at that one!

-One's falling, one's falling! -They're running into each other! -THOMAS: They're going crazy! Almost all of them are disconnected right now. PETE:

What I'm going to bring up now is the data from the terrestrial laser scanner. TRAVIS: And then the lidar data

that Pete recorded was missing a big chunk of data that somehow appeared right over that same spot where we drilled into the mesa last year, and discovered a 400-foot-long dome-shaped metal object. -Wow. -A metal object made of the same kind of material that NASA uses to protect

the outside of space shuttles. So, now we're hoping that Jan, who is a world-renowned expert in ground-penetrating radar, has the technology that can help us figure out just what's inside the mesa and how it might be related to the strange things that keep happening

at the triangle. So, uh, how deep of a-a penetration can you get? Usually we get down to 200, 300 feet with this, so it's pretty exciting. TRAVIS:

GPR works by sending radio waves into the ground that reflect off anomalies like buried objects or voids to reveal an image of their shape as well as their depth. If there's a discontinuity or a void, we definitely should

be able to see that. -What about metal? -(chuckles) Well, yeah, metal's a great target for radar, so if there's something metal there, we'd certainly

be able to see that as well. BRYANT: Sounds like we've got a lot to do. -We should probably get to it.

-Let's do it. -All right, we'll see you. Y'all just follow us down there. -Okay. TRAVIS:

Even before we discovered this mysterious metal object, there were all kinds of rumors about the mesa going back to when Robert Bigelow and the federal government investigated here from the 1990s to the early 2000s.

-X marks the spot, Pete. -X marks the spot. THOMAS: I've heard all kinds of crazy stories about this mesa.

Spacecraft going in it, tunnels, caverns, underground bases. What kind of mysteries lie inside? BRANDON: For decades, there have been reports of underground chambers or tunnels beneath the mesa.

That may hold the key to understanding the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch. The deeper we can see into that pile of rocks, -into that mesa... -JAN: Sure.

Uh, the more we're gonna understand what it is we're messing with out here. Okay. It'll be interesting

to see what's underground. TRAVIS: So that's the antenna? JAN: Well, it's the entire radar. These are the antennas

right here, this is just a separator. It's all fiberglass, keep it as light as possible. We can't use carbon fiber because it's conductive, of course.

TRAVIS: Jan has brought two devices that we'll use to scan the mesa. One is a unit that Tom Winterton will actually wear while he hikes over the area where we drilled against the dome-shaped

object last year. And meanwhile, Jan and Kaleb will run the other device back and forth on top of the mesa to see if anything else might be hidden inside there like we've heard about

in the past. Well, it looks like we're just about set up so, uh, talk us through what you're going to do. Okay, there's a couple

of GPR systems here. So, this one here, what's really nice about it, it's a very long wavelength which means we're gonna get good penetration. And because it's handheld,

it gives us, uh, the ability -to get into areas that are really difficult terrain. -ERIK: Okay. So, we're set up over here. -JAN: Yep.

-ERIK: We're gonna be doing the usual data logging. We've got the SDR, we've got the, uh, Geiger counter running. -Okay.

-All right, man, well, let-let's get going. Okay, sounds good. ERIK: With all that

we have going on and to the extent possible, I'm keeping a close eye on the RF spectrum analyzer to see if any unusual signals show up. Are you centered on 45? -That would be 44.5 something. -Good enough.

TRAVIS: Nearly every time we run experiments on the ranch, we detect mysterious energy spikes, especially one measuring 1.6 gigahertz, which I think could be some kind of communication signal.

Go ahead and turn it on. I've turned it on. Okay, I've got the transmitter and receiver -working right now. -Okay.

And it creates its own little website. -It's like a little access point, so... -Okay.

-...even though we're not on the Internet here, I'm gonna talk to it with my phone. Okay. And you are good...

...good to go. Um... Um... -Are you guys transmitting something?

-BRYANT: No. -No. -Hey, Erik. Travis. -Are you guys

transmitting anything? -Are you transmitting something? -TRAVIS: No. -ERIK: No. We're not transmitting at all.

-What are you seeing? -JAN: Uh... Uh, I've never seen this signal before, uh... What the hell? This waveform is not supposed

to be happening right now. TRAVIS: Where's it coming from? JAN: Yeah, that's a good question. Where's it coming from? Let's-let's...

Way back from the truck here just to be absolutely certain. Uh... Okay. Do you have a cell phone

on you or something? Well, I mean, I got one in my back pocket but I got it on... Yeah, let's just take that out if you don't mind. -Turn it off.

-Here, I'll turn it off. Yeah. Okay. That ain't it. JAN:

See, so that's a normal wave- form there just for a second. -Right? -Mm-hmm, yeah, I see it, yep. But it's freaking out.

TRAVIS: Jan actually built the systems he brought out here, he understands them completely. He is the guy for ground-penetrating radar.

As soon as we got one of his systems off the truck and turned it on, it was instantly detecting a signal that Jan had never seen before. In thousands of experiments

using this device, he was baffled and confused. I find that really interesting. So you've not seen that before? Uh, no, actually, I have not. And I tested it this morning, so...

I'm gonna go scroll through the spectrum analyzer over here. -You tested it this morning and it was working? -I did.

Yeah, yeah. It's a little strange. Um, there's nothing I can do about it. I think we're just

gonna run with it and -see if we can filter it out. -Understood. When I first came on this ranch, I-I just thought, "Look, there's a lot of hype around it and I'm sure everything can be explained, right?" Then weird things

started happening. I-I had that weird interference that just has no simple geological explanation. I'm gonna start recording this. -Okay, well, I'm gonna head

up the mesa so... -JAN: Okay. Careful. THOMAS: Having pulled metal

400 feet inside the mesa and now strongly suspecting that there could've actually been a cavern that went deep into the mesa, I'm praying that the information that we get from this GPR is finally going to answer some of the questions we have as far as what

was this object we were bumping up against with the drill last year? TRAVIS: Man, he's up there. Look at him. What you're gonna do for me

is drag this and it doesn't have to be a straight line because we're tracking exactly where you are -at all times, right? -Mm-hmm. And, uh, this is going

to be taking an image of the ground essentially. -It's a representation of what's in the ground. -Yep.

So, one's a transmitter, one's a receiver and it's gonna stretch out behind you -about five, six meters. -Okay. KALEB:

As Thomas is going up the mesa there, I've been tasked with escorting Jan. He's got a very powerful GPR system that's been used all over the world.

So, this is a very deep-penetrating radar. In fact, it's probably the world's deepest GPR system. I'm excited to see

what kind of results we get and I'm here to help him out with scanning as much as we can. All right, let's hope the GPS works. TRAVIS: There are so many questions

I have about Skinwalker Ranch. I want to know the answer to so many things. If I had to pick one that I wanted the answer to like right now, it would be:

what's inside the mesa? We're just gonna have to see what we've got. -THOMAS: Hey, guys. -TRAVIS: What's going on, guys? So, what you got here? THOMAS: I'm really interested in what you found, Jan.

-Absolutely. -Yeah, I can't wait. TRAVIS: The day after we ran ground-penetrating radar scans over the spot on the mesa where we discovered the massive

dome-shaped metal object last year and also up on top of the ridge of the mesa, Pete Kelsey and Jan Francke joined us to present the processed data of what they had found. We'll start off with the, uh,

small lightweight one. -This is the... This is my walking path? -This is your path, yes. Now, do you recall when we were out in the field we were getting

a lot of interference. Mm-hmm. I've not seen that before. The data is almost unusable. There's just a huge amount

of interference in this area. Right, interference from...? -What? -Yes. What? TRAVIS: Usually good GPR data looks like a slightly

textured surface that might show subtle waves that represent natural ground features. So any stark changes or bizarre shapes that stand out could be things that aren't natural like voids or objects.

But most of the GPR data that Thomas got over the drill site was a checkered mess of strange shapes that didn't make any sense. Which Jan believed were caused

by the mysterious interference that his device detected even before we ran his scans. So we were all at a loss as to what the interference could have been caused by. Could this signal be

coming from the ground? It could be coming from anywhere. We don't know, right? It is something that's strong enough to overwhelm the radar. ERIK:

What exactly is responsible for this interference? I can't help but wonder is there something actually within the mesa generating radio frequency signals that could be causing interference? THOMAS: What would be the cause of this kind of interference? Do you think it's

an environmental thing? Well, the weird part is it works now. When I take it away from the ranch. That's what

I was going to ask you. JAN: I know you were going to ask that. I wanted to know if we could do a control.

-And it sounds like you've already done it. -I can't... I can't replicate it. ERIK:

That is such a... That is such an interesting observation. We can actually recover a little bit of the data, literally like ten percent

of it, okay? -Ten percent of this data is usable. -And that's what we're seeing. TRAVIS: We've detected a number

of weird frequencies and signals during our experiments on the ranch, but never like the one that interfered with Jan's GPR machines. And hearing that he was only able to recover ten percent of what was recorded

on the mesa made us all pretty nervous that we wouldn't get any new information about just what may be buried inside there. JAN: What we can make out

of that remaining ten percent I'm trying to see if there are any hyperbolic shapes, or things that look like horseshoes. That would indicate that that could be a void or something discrete

in the ground. TRAVIS: And where do you see something like that? Well, well, there's subtle hints of things that pop out like here.

There's another one here. There's quite a few of them that are just scattered around. So, what that tells us, uh, there's a series of discrete anomalies.

These are something that's different than rock, right? TRAVIS: I was amazed that the GPR data over the area where we've encountered the dome-shaped object showed numerous, and distinct

other objects or voids that might not be natural. Now, I'm nowhere near ready to buy into the rumors that an alien base is buried in the mesa, but could there be a bunch of metal objects, or tunnels of some kind

in there? If so, what could they be? And who put them there? -I know you did another survey. -We did quite a few. -That's actually got some data, right?

-Absolutely. -BRYANT: I would love to see that. -JAN: Right. Okay, let me switch to that.

In addition to the stuff that I did at the toe of the mesa, we climbed up to the top, and what I used is an even deeper penetrating radar, so this is a lower frequency and this is actually the deepest penetrating GPR in the world.

Wow. -JAN: It's a very sensitive radar. -Okay. So, when we look at

the cross-section there, you can see where I am on the, uh, on the map at the top of the screen there and you can see where the cursor is. Okay? So, as we're scrolling

along, everything's fine and, uh, it keeps going fine until we get to... PETE: Ooh. Hello.

-Look at that. -JAN: Look at that. This is highly anomalous. And this is a good six, seven meters across.

It starts at about six, seven meters from the surface where I was and it extends down to about 40 meters which I guess about the height of the mesa. -Approximately, right? -To the base? JAN:

To the base. The height of the mesa. -JAN: Right, so... -Whatever this is, is as tall as the mesa.

JAN: Right. ERIK: What in the hell are we looking at here? This is six or seven meters across and the depth...

From the surface, I mean, there is a bit of surface expression but it's about five, six meters. And we know that it's about 120 feet deep, -maybe 20 feet wide, and at least 12 feet north and south.

-At least. All right? So it could be bigger. So, I can't tell you what that is, but it is highly anomalous.

What's also interesting is, you know, we did 300 meters of line, -we don't see anything else like that. No. -You don't see it anywhere else? So it's coincidental

where your drill site is. TRAVIS: What in this world could Jan have detected with his GPR device? It was right next to where we previously detected the dome-shaped metal object and it was at least 20 feet wide by 120 feet tall.

Are they connected or related in some way? We have to figure out how to get inside the mesa to know for sure. I'll tell you right now we know exactly -which boulders we need

to be moving out of the way. -JAN: Yep. We've got a map right now of where there is an anomaly and it's only tens of feet into the mesa.

We should be digging, drilling, moving rocks right there to find out what that is. ERIK: We did horizontal drilling

last summer into the mesa. Collecting strange material fragments. Check this out. ERIK:

Curious flakes of metal from within the mesa itself. These are materials of unknown origin. Wow, look at all the metal. ERIK:

It's my ambition, and all of our ambition, to determine what this material really is, what it's doing there. BRYANT: There's no telling how much

of this metallic crap there is still in that hillside. ERIK: We have to continue searching into the depths of the mesa. We know we've got a lot of iron-bearing material coming out of there with those

other elements, tellurium, europium... That seems artificially manufactured, -not a natural process creating it. -Yeah.

Yeah. It's even been described as something -having been made in a furnace. -Yeah. ERIK:

It's not natural. THOMAS: I could line up a crane company to come out and start moving those boulders off.

Uh, gonna have a little bit of site prep that needs to happen to get the crane back there. But I really think it would be beneficial to-to pull those boulders off and then let's bring

in a drilling rig and let's try to pierce the mesa a little bit higher. I mean, if we do that, maybe that gets us up above that hard metal disk that's underneath.

I'm... I'm all for it. -Yes. -And, uh, so I mean, we got our work cut out for us and we've got some spots that we didn't have before.

And, Jan, I really appreciate the work that you've done. -My pleasure. -It's absolutely amazing. I want to get out there

and start throwing rocks. TRAVIS: Let's go get a shovel and pick and start. BRYANT:

Hey, Jake. -How are you? -Good to see you. -Good to see you. Hey, how you doing?

-Hey, man. TRAVIS: A couple of days after Jan Francke presented us with the GPR data showing numerous anomalies in the mesa near the dome-shaped metal object we discovered last year...

Getting ready to move some dirt. TRAVIS: ...Thomas Winterton brought local contractor Jake Huffman back out to the ranch to help prep the area for a major excavation so we can find out what could be buried in there.

THOMAS: So, uh, Jake and I can bring this crane in. Obviously, we've got to get it across the canal, so we're just going to put a temporary little culvert in there.

Then we can get the crane across and start moving some rocks. The crane needs 30 feet to be able to spread its outriggers out and we need to get him as close to those rocks as possible.

Because we're estimating some of these rocks are going to weigh as much as 50,000 pounds. TRAVIS: Oh, I believe it, yeah.

So, we're going to build a 30-foot by 30-foot pad back in there so we can get him right up next to those rocks. TRAVIS: Sounds good.

In order to get the giant, 175-ton crane over to where we need to lift boulders off the mesa, it's going to be a massive project. First, Tom and Jake will have

to move tons of earth to form a bridge over the canal between the road and the mesa. Then, they have to clear and level off a good-sized pad, where they can park the crane close enough to remove many

of the huge boulders. THOMAS: I think it's going to take us a couple days to get the pad ready. So I think we start

slinging some dirt. Sounds good to me. Okay, we'll get out of your way. THOMAS: Watch yourself.

ERIK: In preparation for our surgical examination of the mesa, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Thomas is having to

put a culvert in place. -THOMAS: How does that look? -JAKE: Good to me. BRYANT: What we're doing here

with these excavators and this massive crane is by far the largest scale that we've ever done here on Skinwalker Ranch. ERIK: I'll try to get across. BRYANT:

This is a lot of work, it involves a lot of digging, but we need to get after it and I'm anxious to find out what's inside that mesa. It'll hopefully help us with some answers as to what truly is going on,

on Skinwalker Ranch. BURDETTE: I'm going to take the color camera and we're going to put it right up here. TRAVIS: I think just pull in

right in here. Yeah, that'll be good, yeah. Since it was going to take several days to complete the prep work at the mesa... Hey, Burdette.

Everything okay? Yeah, so, who wants to operate the camera -while I tell them what to do back there? -I can do it. You want to do it? TRAVIS: ...later that evening, we welcomed Burdette Anderson from a company

called Photron Cameras to help us with a new experiment at the triangle. Just hit the green button. TRAVIS: He specializes in a high-speed camera system that can shoot

thousands of frames per second. Everything's talking correctly. Our eyes basically detect somewhere between 24 and 30 frames per second. The advantage of using

a high-speed camera out here is if you have things that are moving that you're just not quite catching, if you're ready for it, you can get a very good look at it. My camera will shoot at 100,000 or a million frames per second.

Let's load a rocket. -Red one first? -TRAVIS: Yeah. Our plan was to launch rockets up through the triangle where we've seen numerous UAPs

and detected what we believe to be some kind of anomaly between 300 and 5,000 feet. -Okay, it's on? -Yeah. TRAVIS: While Burdette

photographed each launch at a thousand frames per second, with both color and infrared cameras. Whoa, whoa, wait, what's this right here? What's this? What's this? TRAVIS: We got something! We got something! When we've seen UAPs

here in the past... A UAP appeared and vanished. ...we've gotten quick glimpses of them. -Hey, look, UAP right there!

-Yep. TRAVIS: But then they tend to just disappear before we can really see what they are. -Are they always that bright?

-And it's gone. Here we go. Let's go straight up. Tell me when you're good. That's fine.

So we're hoping that Burdette's cameras will help us get a much better look at anything that might appear in the sky during our rocket launches tonight. I hope that works.

All right. I learned about the investigations at Skinwalker Ranch through, uh, Travis and some of the things they hadn't done yet is tried to catch things

in high-speed, because there's so many fast-moving things that happen here that you don't get to grasp with your eye. And that's kind of where our Photron cameras come into play.

We got it. BURDETTE: They slow down reality. So anything you can't see with your eye, we can catch with the cameras.

And anything you just kind of saw with your eye, we can slow it down so you can get a very good look at it. TRAVIS: The rocket, it's ready to go.

-All right, um... -Are you good? Yeah, it's on. -We're good, yep. -Hey, Erik, do you copy? All right, copy you. TRAVIS:

Erik was stationed in the command center during the experiment, so he could monitor for any strange energy spikes out at the triangle and keep a close eye on the ranch surveillance cameras pointed in this direction.

All right, here we go, here we go. -Okay. We're hot. -All right, everybody ready? Is everybody ready? Erik, be advised the rocket's

hot. We're going hot now. Copy you, Travis. All right, here we go. In three...

two, one... Hey, did you see that? It turned before it could get to wherever the anomaly is. -How many times have we seen that happen?

-Yeah. It's going to land right here behind us. Right after the first rocket launched, I noticed that in midair,

it suddenly veered a little off course like it ran into something invisible that deflected it. Now, we've also seen that happen numerous times with other rockets and GPS devices at the triangle, so I was really eager

to immediately launch another rocket to see what would happen next. Isn't that crazy? Gosh, if it ain't one thing, it's another. TRAVIS:

Hey, Kaleb, why don't you pull the Jeep around -and shine a light over here. -KALEB: Yep. ♪ ♪ Let me download this image real quick and then we can

look at it again later. Won't take long because there's not much in there. Okay, we're as good as we're gonna get.

Hey, Erik, you copy? Yeah. Go ahead, Travis. -We good? -Yes, sir. TRAVIS:

All right. Five, four, three, two, one. THOMAS: That is cool. TRAVIS:

Oh, that one was awesome. Boy, that went up pretty high. That one may end up in the east field. KALEB:

Hey, we got a light that's right there that's moving. -Where, where? -Right there, right above us. -What? Really?

-Right there. Where? TRAVIS: Yeah! We got it! There it is, right there. Nah, this one's moving pretty fast.

What is that? KALEB: That's not a plane. KALEB: That's not a plane. Erik. We've got an orange light

across the river on the, uh, southwest side. Moving pretty fast about treetop high. Look at that, it's still plenty bright.

TRAVIS: Dang. Yes, I do, Travis. I will take a look. TRAVIS: I don't know where it came from, but just after

we launched our second rocket at the triangle area, probably the most prominent UAP I've ever seen appeared over Skinwalker Ranch. Erik, we got something moving right overhead of us right now. It's moving slightly

northeast, it's orange. And it doesn't look like a satellite. Do you see it in the cameras? I'm going to try to track it. TRAVIS:

You see it? Hey, come, hey, it looks like it's sped up. Does it look like it just sped up to y'all? TRAVIS: It just sped up. Erik, it's almost

right over you now and it's moving really fast. All right. I'm not seeing it. Travis, I don't have it. Ask Erik if he's got anything

on the ADS-B. Erik, is there anything on the ADS-B? It would be going east-northeast right now directly over the ranch. TRAVIS:

I've never seen an aircraft maneuver like this thing, but Thomas was right to have Erik check his Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcasting tracker. It monitors the signals

that airplanes and jets are required by law to emit. I've got eyes on the ADS-B map. ERIK: You know, I get aircraft as far out as 130 miles.

There's nothing over us, there's nothing near us. It was clearly going due north and then it dog-legged and it sped up. -Yeah, it came across

and then it like turned. -Yeah. It's still going, look at it. THOMAS: So, if that was a satellite, you'd expect it

to start fading out. TRAVIS: By now, it'd be fading out. THOMAS: That's no satellite.

TRAVIS: Did it just...? It just vanished. That thing stayed bright and just went away. Well, I don't see it anymore.

THOMAS: Well, I think we got to get that rocket up and see if we can make it... -TRAVIS: Yep, I hear you. -THOMAS: Replicate it. That was not a satellite.

So what was that? Right here over the ranch. Yeah, go ahead, Thomas. -We're good? Okay. -TRAVIS: Yeah. One more sparky rocket.

Okay, perfect. We couldn't wait to see if launching another rocket would evoke the UAP to reappear or stimulate another one or who knows what else. And also, I hoped that Burdette

was getting great pictures that would help us figure out what it was. Hook the wires up. Uh, make sure it's off, hang on. -Are we good here?

-Yeah, yeah, we're good. -Lights on? -Lights on. Hey, Erik, be advised: ...in about 15 seconds. Are you ready? I am ready.

Go ahead. Are you ready, Burdette? -BURDETTE: Yes, sir. -KALEB: Yeah, we're good to go. All right. Going in five, four, three, two, one.

Oh, we got a malfunction. Everybody watch out. Oh. Oh. Oh, it's on fire.

TRAVIS: We got a fire. We got a fire. Oh, dang. TRAVIS: We shoot the rocket up and we-we're ready

to launch this thing. And as the launch starts, it looks like a perfect launch from the beginning, and what we see is that the rocket takes off, clears the tower, gets to somewhere I'm estimating

between 30 and 50 feet, and then suddenly there's a big flash of light and, uh, what sounded like a pop, maybe even an explosion. -It-It's burned out. -The motor burned out.

-Holy crap. I've yet to see that. -Yeah. -What the heck? -What would cause that? What would cause that? The motor blew up.

It-it deflagrated inside the rocket. -Wow. -Hey, Erik, you copy? -Well... -It was worse than that.

At about 30 feet off the launch pad... And started a fire. Well, let's go look at the high-speed because it should be

right in that view. TRAVIS: We recovered it. -Holy crap. -Right? What a night.

What... What... That motor blew up. It literally... it exploded.

I've never seen, uh, I've seen experimental motors do that, Kaleb, but I've never seen a store-bought motor deflagrate like that. -Right there.

-Got it. -Hey, Travis. -Yeah? We caught the malfunction on the high-speed. -Oh, really?

-Yeah. Hey, check this out. There's something on the camera. BURDETTE: It's something I've never

seen before. Check this out. So, as it's going, look what you've got... TRAVIS:

There's something in the sky above the rocket, right here. KALEB: Yeah, look at that, look at the light... -No way. -Look at that (bleep)! -That's crazy.

-There is literally something... We may be looking at the anomaly for the first time, guys. BURDETTE: That's crazy.

TRAVIS: Oh, my God. TRAVIS: There is literally something. We may be looking at the anomaly

for the first time, guys. Yeah, look at that. Look at the light. TRAVIS: All right, now the rocket gets there.

THOMAS: Look how it veers to the side. TRAVIS: And then the rocket blows up -right when it hits it! -THOMAS: Oh, my God! (cheering and shouting) Right on! Right here.

Look at that. Yeah! TRAVIS: Holy crap. All right, Burdette, could you play it one more time? I want to make sure I saw

what I think I just saw. After four years of investigating Skinwalker Ranch as a team, we finally got good visual evidence of something incredible at the triangle. Just as we launched a rocket, Burdette Anderson captured some

kind of blob-like feature on his high-speed camera that literally appeared out of nowhere and caused the rocket to explode. It was something that none of us could see with the naked eye.

That cloud remained intact. The whole thing. This isn't an anomaly in the lens because it didn't move. TRAVIS:

Could this be the phenomenon that causes the energy spikes we've detected? And is it related to the UAPs we've seen? All I know is we may finally be getting closer to possible answers. Think about all

the rockets that hit about that same spot and veered off. So you can see it right there, there's something in the sky. -KALEB: It's already

illuminated by the light. -TRAVIS: Yeah. THOMAS: There's not a cloud in the sky. TRAVIS: There's not a cloud

in the sky. So what is it? THOMAS: And there's no dust. And then, look, it's almost there.

Right there it's like it hits right on something or zap or whatever. -Boom. -Boom! -And it is exactly... -Oh, my God.

-TRAVIS: You can't make it up. -BURDETTE: Oh, yeah. Usually I can explain everything I've seen in a high-speed camera when I record it.

But when we shot the third rocket, as soon as that rocket started illuminating, we saw something that wasn't there in the second shot. I can't explain what it is.

I've never seen anything like that come off a Photron camera. -Holy crap. -Oh, my God. Well, Travis, that's only 30...

30, 40 feet above us. Oh, my God. 40 feet high. What are the odds of that happening right there with other

rockets in that same spot? Last year, we attempted to launch a 15-foot tall rocket through the anomaly, -above the triangle. -Push and hold. ALLEN:

Uh-oh. That motor blew. TRAVIS: And it exploded in nearly the same spot.

Oh, no. Oh... TRAVIS: Shortly after that, we saw a UAP appear over the triangle...

Look at that. Look at that. ...which then vanished into thin air. But what did it disappear into? BRANDON:

Is it a portal? Are we seeing portals open? Yeah. I couldn't possibly know what this phenomenon was, but we now have a clear location to focus our investigation.

Okay, we caught something cool. (laughter) (cheering) (laughter) TRAVIS: That's just more validation. We got to call Erik and tell him this.

Erik, you are not going to believe what the high-speed caught, there is a thing in the sky, the rocket hits it and explodes. That is unbelievable. I want to see that footage. My gosh! (laughs) (helicopter whirring) Helicopter, helicopter! Helicopter coming right over! Erik, we got

a helicopter right over the ranch right now, are you getting it? ERIK: I am getting no helicopter above the ranch on the ADS-B receiver here. TRAVIS: We have a helicopter

right over the triangle. KALEB: Hey, it just went dark. And it just vanished, but we still hear it. Ah, now it's there again.

-There's its light right there. -It went behind the anomaly! THOMAS: That's a bigger helicopter. Why? Why right now? Why right now? (helicopter whirring) Erik, it came over us. We lost the lights for a second and then it turned

away from the anomaly and turned southeast. Well, whoever they were, they weren't transponding. A helicopter that size not transponding? -Well, did you see...

-TRAVIS: Right after we did this! KALEB: The helicopter looks like it's... -TRAVIS: The helicopter is turning around.

-KALEB: ...coming back around. Helicopter's turning back around, Erik. I've got eyes on him. THOMAS:

Where did that just come out of? It's coming back... Erik, that helicopter is coming back at us. Do you see that? Yeah, I've got him. All right, now you're mine.

The aircraft is not transponding... And it's slowing down. And it's-it's doing... It-It's orbiting the ranch.

It's doing surveillance right now of the ranch. We have a helicopter right over the triangle right now right overhead. It's doing surveillance

right now of the ranch. (helicopter whirring) They're definitely watching. They're definitely over the ranch looking at us. THOMAS:

Shortly after this UAP sighting and after this rocket blows up, all of a sudden a helicopter comes flying directly over us. Look at 'em, they're turning again.

-TRAVIS: Yeah, they are clearly... -They are watching. KALEB: And then we also had that other

light that we saw, earlier. Yep. As that helicopter is sitting there hovering, my mind is immediately trying to figure out who this could be that's watching us.

Hey, Erik, uh, are you sure that there's nothing on the ADS-B? Travis, this helicopter is not transponding as far as I can tell. Because I'm getting aircraft 100 miles to the south of here.

So, it's not a connectivity issue. And he's staying right over us and orbiting and orbiting. Well, someone's taken

an interest in what we're doing. There's nothing over us. There's nothing near us. And he has not shown up at all. This is an aircraft that is

deliberately not transponding while flying over the ranch. All I know is there's an aircraft flying after night, which means they got night vision. TRAVIS:

There are not any commercial helicopters around here with night vision capability. The only thing this could be then is a military helicopter.

What is the military doing flying over Skinwalker Ranch while we're doing this experiment, and while we find something that we've never seen before? I don't like the feeling of that. TRAVIS:

I don't like that crap either. Hey, Erik? Uh... Are you, do you have any of the ranch cameras on that helicopter? Yeah, I've got multiple of the ranch cameras on him.

He is sitting still and hovering, watching us. ERIK: That is exactly right. TRAVIS:

It's really spooking us and, uh, pissing us off at the same time. I'm right there with you, Travis. Well, Travis, it's pretty

clear somebody has taken an interest in what we're doing. It-it really... It's a little bit scary. THOMAS: They're leaving.

How long did they stay there, like four or five minutes? Oh, ten minutes. THOMAS: What the heck? -And now they're headed back towards, uh...

Roosevelt. -Roosevelt. They are all but gone now. TRAVIS: It-it came by to show us that it knew we were doing something,

I don't know. It's possible somebody saw rockets and they called, you know, the ATF or something and that was an ATF... ATF has a helicopter

in the Uinta Basin? Uh, they could have hired somebody, right? There are no helicopters out here equipped with night vision. TRAVIS: That's a good point.

I mean, there's not a military base nearby. -No. -I mean right here that has helicopters.

-We're talking minutes. -Yeah. Who alerted them that fast? And where was that helicopter? Where did it come from? How did it get here so quick? It's well known that the federal government investigated Skinwalker Ranch in the past.

But I'm not aware of any current government investigations here. So are we being spied on while we conduct our operations? I don't know, but I want to find out.

THOMAS: What a night! Hey, look, uh, we've got a lot of equipment here, it's getting late. Well, let's get cleaned up, shall we? -Yes.

-All right. TRAVIS: All right, well, let's pack up. THOMAS: Let's get wrapped up.

ERIK: What the heck is going on in that space above this area? What are we seeing? Is there in fact exotic physics playing out in the space just above the triangle? That's what we hope to find out. TRAVIS:

We may have found a real unexplained phenomena above the triangle that nobody has ever seen ever before. Could this new anomaly, this blob, be the cause of each

of these incidents over the triangle? BRANDON: We are on the verge of getting the very answers that we've been seeking for years. We've made incredible progress in documenting the reality of the phenomenon.

We are just getting started in scratching the surface of what we are really dealing with here at Skinwalker Ranch. THOMAS: I've arranged for a crane to come in and to lift a lot of these big rocks

at the bottom of the mesa. This 1.6 gigahertz signal seems to be coming from right there where that big crane is. ERIK:

We're going to probe that space down at the triangle. Kaleb will be releasing projectiles. Holy crap.

This is a video recording taken from the triangle. -Right there. -Holy cow! CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS