The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

It's hitting something really hard.

What could be hard enough to be pushing back on that?

There is something in the mesa right there.

Whatever this is is as tall as the mesa.

Whoa! What was that purple light over there?

- Looks like a deer. - Look at this.

What the heck would have burned this post?

You've got the five lines converging

to a point down by the tree behind the homestead,

and then the mesa is right there where that gpr anomaly is.

We need to see what's underneath the entire ranch.

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 skin walker ranch.

I think we're just about past that second rock.

Hey, Thomas.

Yeah, go ahead.

I'm about 20 feet in with the drill,

but it's gonna take a lot more time

- to reach the anomaly. - Copy that.

For two weeks now, our drill operator Joe loeb

has been trying to reach the 120-foot-tall,

possibly metallic anomaly

that we detected about 40 feet below the top of the mesa.

And since it's right next to the massive

dome-shaped anomaly

that a much larger drill rig couldn't penetrate,

we're hoping that Joe can help us determine

just what's inside there.

Keep it running. We'll check in with you a little bit later.

- Sounds good. - While Joe loeb continued

the drilling operation on top of the mesa...

Your guests are here, Erik.

Erik bard and the other guys from the team

were meeting with physicist Jeremiah pate

and his colleagues from lunasonde.

Well, Jeremiah, it's been

a long time in the making.

Yeah, great to finally be here in person.

With all the anomalies

that we've detected inside the mesa,

under homestead two,

and in the air above the triangle,

Erik hoped that the specialized aerial technology

that Jeremiah invented could scan those areas

and reveal some answers above and below ground

about all the uaps,

the energy spikes, and the other phenomena

that we keep experiencing here on skin walker ranch.

So, tell me how this is gonna work.

It's a very versatile technology,

but essentially it's a low-frequency radar.

Today we'll be flying it on a weather balloon

that's actually gonna take it up to about twice as high

as a jetliner, over 70,000 feet

- above the ranch... - Wow.

And actually let us see, potentially, kilometers

beneath the surface.

Did you say

- kilometers under the earth? - Absolutely.

That's crazy.

- That's a long ways down. - Yeah.

All of our sensors are attached

to a large meteorological balloon.

This takes it up to its final altitude

of around 70,000 feet.

Our technology works by using low-frequency radio waves

to actually see deeper into the planet

than anyone ever has before.

Ultimately, what we'll see

is actually what's known as a tomographic image.

This is a true 3D map of the subsurface.

This is incredible.

You know, for years, decades, there's been rumors

on this property of underground bases, tunnel systems.

Maybe we can put some of these, rumors to bed

or-or maybe validate 'em. Who knows?

Exactly. We want to peel back just a little bit

of the mystery today.

I think the triangle

will be a good dry, flat area that we can stage from.

Plus, you know, this is an area

that's been of great interest to us.

- Yeah, definitely. - At the triangle,

it seems as though there is something in the air

at varying heights that we can't see with our eyes

but seems to show up on equipment.

So, I know that you're looking to see what's underground here.

Would it be able to pick something up, say,

in the air as well?

Definitely. So, the way these sensors work

is they measure both the far field and the near field.

We'll actually be able to measure

the air column directly above the triangle as we ascend.

Well, there's our reason for putting it in the triangle.

Absolutely. We've...

We've had some strange things happen in that particular area.

This area above the triangle has high strangeness to it.

We've seen rockets try to go through this area and explode.

Three, two, one.

That motor blew.

It exploded. No.

There is something in the air

above the triangle on skin walker ranch

that's causing all sorts of strangeness to happen.

We got a malfunction.

Everybody, watch out.

But why?

We're trying to find answers to what's going on here.

If you want to follow me out,

I'll lead you out to the area where we can

- get you set up. - Sounds great.

I have high expectations about

what we may be able to detect with this lunasonde technology.

Well, antenna one is the b field antenna,

which is that guy there.

I'm hoping that we'll be able to see

if, in fact, we have any interesting structures

beneath skin walker ranch.

Or even metal deposits in the mesa.

And perhaps an answer to the anomaly

just above the triangle.

I really don't know what to expect.

Okay, balloons ready for the fill.

Beginning fill.

So each of these payloads you see here,

they each have a very particular function.

- Okay. - So, up here we have

a couple payloads that are involved

in the actual tracking of the overall balloon setup.

Down here, this is another setup.

So, this, actually, is a, camera setup

as well as some other tracking equipment.

- Wow. - Each payload has a specified function,

and so our actual experimental sensors,

each of them measures a different part

of the electromagnetic field.

We have several cameras on board

that actually will record the flight.

Wow, look at that.

Are we getting close to launch?

Yep. Balloon's almost ready to go.

Perfect. I need to get back to the control room.

I want to keep our assets trained on, on your payloads.

Absolutely.

As we near launch,

I'm heading back to the command center

so I can train some of our surveillance cameras

on the sky and watch that balloon as it ascends,

and observe whether there is any strange interference

on the way up.

Okay, we're releasing the balloon.

- Very careful. - Hey, Erik?

Just giving you a heads-up,

we've started to deploy the balloon

and slowly letting up all the payloads.

Copy you. I can see it ascending.

Fantastic.

Okay, I think we're good.

Go for launch.

And off it goes.

That is a heck of a payload.

Wow.

Now those payloads are recording,

and we'll start the tracking effort.

The lunasonde team will remotely control the balloon

as it ascends to about 70,000 feet high

and scans the skies and the grounds

of the entire ranch,

with a specific focus on the triangle,

the mesa and homestead two.

Fantastic.

Once the survey is complete,

Jeremiah will remotely deflate the balloon

and retrieve it along with his devices.

It could take days or even weeks to get

the aerial and underground data fully processed,

but hopefully this will get us the best data yet

of not only what could be causing anomalies

above the ranch but also underground

and in the mesa as well.

I'm impressed.

Hopefully the data

that comes back is as impressive as

getting that thing in the air.

- Hey, Bryant. Hey, guys. - Hey, man.

While lunasonde conducted

the aerial survey of the entire ranch...

This is a really good friend of mine kori Reed.

- Hey, kori. I'm Bryant. - How you doing?

Tom Lewis and kandus linde

met outside the command center with dragon