UFO Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong! (S3, E7) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | The UnXplained Zone

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[music playing] THOMAS WINTERTON: They're here. TRAVIS TAYLOR: Awesome. THOMAS WINTERTON: I'm excited for their equipment.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: After last week, when Chris Bartel, who worked security on the ranch for Robert Bigelow more than a decade ago, showed us where a cave entrance in the mesa had mysteriously been covered over, we invited a team of

drillers to the ranch to help figure out what the Bigelow team might have wanted to keep hidden. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: Aaron and his crew from Straight Shot Drilling, they're going to do some horizontal drilling into the side of the mesa.

The way that this horizontal drill works is they're actually going to go down under the road, under this canal, and then be able to maneuver up, and hopefully puncture up into the mesa and see if we find a void there.

How deep are you? 80 feet. You're 80 feet out? DRILLER: Yeah. How many gallons of fluid are we into this now that hasn't come back out? 500 out of this tank, 1,000 out of the last one, and 400 out of the first.

ERIK BARD: So we're talking 2,000 gallons, around there? It could be punching through into that void. - Wow. - Whoa.

Look at this. That-- what's going on there. OK. So there it is, again. [beeping] Again, we're doing

something here that we've not done before out here, outdoors with this thing running-- Yep. ERIK BARD: --and so there's a correlation. Always.

Yeah. I noticed that the spectrum analyzer is giving us, once again, this mysterious 1.6 gigahertz signal, like the one recently captured at Homestead Two.

Every time we've seen that signal, something really strange is happening. ERIK BARD: Hey, Bryant. If you guys are game, I've got some handheld instruments that you could take

out to the homesteads. Just wander about and see if you get any unusual readings out there. Yeah. It always seems like,

it's almost like a bait and switch type of a thing. You focus your energies in one spot and then, all of a sudden, stuff happens in other areas. Right.

[music playing] Well, do you want to go head down to the Homestead, then? Yeah. OK. Let's do it. ERIK BARD: I've decided

to send Tom and Dragon out to the homesteads and see if we pick up anything happening out there. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: I guess we'll walk around with both the Geiger counter, and then you've got the TriField meter.

We'll see if anything strange pops up and keep in touch with them. - Yeah. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: And I've also got the lightning detector, and right

now, it's not measuring anything above background. OK. Yeah. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: Let's walk around the back, where we've seen some strange

stuff, and then I guess we could even poke around inside the building a little bit. TOM LEWIS: OK. [beeping] Now, what am I getting? What was all that? KANDUS LINDE: Oh.

It's a lot of noise. This doggone thing is broadcasting. This thing shouldn't be broadcasting anything.

Why would a device that's designed to receive be broadcasting? Hey, Bryant, Tom, you copy? Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Erik. ERIK BARD: We've got an RF spectrum analyzer, which is a receiver, that

seems to be broadcasting instead of just receiving. That's not good. Well, just have a listen at this. [static and beeping] BRYANT DRAGON

ARNOLD: Are you OK? No. I just-- I just blacked out. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: Like blacked out? Yeah. It was like all the

blood rushed out of my-- my brain. This is not OK. Here, help me up. [radio chatter] Dude, you're shaking. Want to go?

- Yeah. Let's go. OK. I can't feel my hand. You like-- you

can't feel your hand? I can't feel my hand. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: That's your left arm. TOM LEWIS: That's my left arm. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD:

That's scary, dude. I don't-- here. Put your arm around me. I don't want to [bleep] around with that.

Tom Lewis said that he had no feeling in his left arm. I knew it had to be something cardiac-related. BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD (OVER

RADIO): Hey, you guys. Tom is experiencing stuff. He blacked out, has pain in his arm. KANDUS LINDE: Are you serious? Oh.

He's taken him straight to the emergency room. I think so. THOMAS WINTERTON: Bryant, Kandus is right behind you so you can be watching for her.

[monitor beeping] We're here at the emergency room still. The doctor finally came with results and basically, couldn't say what exactly happened to cause Tom to pass out or black out.

He said my heart is skipping beats every so often, and so he's running lots of lab tests to see if he can figure out why. It's very unsettling because of the sequence of events that led up to that radio call.

From what I was experiencing and the sounds that Erik was sharing with everyone, and the way that it starts to-- those things don't seem coincidental, just like so many others. There's once again more

questions than answers, but at least I'm alive. [chuckling] Yeah. It was scary, and that's all over now. THOMAS WINTERTON: What

happened to Tom is serious. The ranch takes a toll on people, but we need to move forward, go back into the hole, and keep drilling. As we get deeper into the hill,

the mud finally starts flowing. It fills up this large hole that they dug with a backhoe to catch this stuff. It becomes necessary to vacuum it out.

DRILLER: Hey, Thomas. Yeah. My back's full. I need to go dump it. Oh, OK.

All right. THOMAS WINTERTON: You think that'll catch it? DRILLER: Yeah THOMAS WINTERTON: We put a screen underneath of it when we dumped it, just to see if we could catch anything that might

be coming out of that hole. DRILLER: Check. THOMAS WINTERTON: What is that? Hey. Look at that. ERIK BARD: Thomas,

what are you seeing? Looks like you're studying some-- THOMAS WINTERTON: I don't know if that's rock or if it's like rust or What is that? Oh, my. THOMAS WINTERTON: Is it just rock? It's brittle.

ERIK BARD: This is really thin. What did you think it was when you first saw it? THOMAS WINTERTON: Well, I wondered if it was, like, metal flakes or something. ERIK BARD: That's exactly

the same impression I got. I'm surprised to see that there are pieces of material-- not rock, possibly metal-- being screened out of that 800 gallon volume of slurry with bentonite clay. I don't know what

this material is. At first, it appears to be like rust or some kind of sheet metal that has been broken into pieces. So this is that really-- that's that really large one.

That's the biggest one we found, right? ERIK BARD: Yeah, yeah. All right. I want to rinse it off back here away from the electronics.

MALE: OK. ERIK BARD: Let's get the other side. All right. Well, look at that.

MALE: Does it have any-- ERIK BARD: Yeah. Look at this surface here. It's all bumpy. It's kind of a brownish color.

And this has got streaks of that brown in it, but there's a black color here on this much flatter, smoother surface. Well, let's find out what it is.

Does it have to be dry to analyze it? ERIK BARD: Yeah. I'd prefer to let the thing dry off. OK.

ERIK BARD: In order to identify what that material is, at least to get a sense of its composition, I've decided to use the handheld X-ray fluorescence analyzer, or XRF instrument, and see what elements show up.

I like to describe the XRF device is basically a fancy X-ray flashlight. We shine those X-rays at objects and we look at what X-ray colors come back to identify the materials of which they're made.

So this is telling me, on this first reading on this side, we're looking at calcium, iron, silicon, aluminum, magnesium. - Wait, iron? - Yeah.

There's-- And aluminum? Yeah. It's like 8% aluminum on that shot. How much iron is it? That time, it was 26%. So this is definitely

metallic, then. Oh, yeah. Let's take a look at this other side. Guys.

THOMAS WINTERTON: That number is much different. Yeah. This side of this thing is showing up-- it's almost 72% iron.

This thing is just straight up metal. This sample is almost solid metal. Wow.

What is metal doing coming out of the hill 300 feet in? BRYANT DRAGON ARNOLD: As the experiments get bigger and better, they also get more dangerous and more hazardous. What are we going to trigger

with these bigger experiments? THOMAS WINTERTON: Metal flakes or something. TRAVIS TAYLOR: I don't know how this material got inside the mesa. Could it be from an asteroid

impact or an alien spacecraft or an underground base? Who knows? But what we do know is whatever this is, it's made up of rare and unusual elements. We need to find out what it's doing here on Skinwalker Ranch.