The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

It's hitting something really hard.

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

So is it drilling, then?

It's doing about three inches an hour.

We go to bust through that crust to get it stabilized.

We'll be flying a weather balloon

with low-frequency radar.

We're seeing

all these strange things in the data.

There's a phenomena

that the instruments are passing through. Nobody's ever measured

any anomaly like that on the planet.

I mean, what the hell is up there?

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.

Got problems, huh?

Oh, yeah. Plenty of problems up here.

'Kay.

-What's going on? -Well,

we got down to 24 foot

and we hit something hard, really started chattering.

And then around 25 feet,

it locked up and the engine went dead.

Of the several hot spots on Skinwalker Ranch

where our team

may be close to getting some answers

about all the mysterious phenomena that happens here,

the mesa has literally been the hardest to figure out.

So you think the engine's blown?

I believe so.

The engine's gone?

I think it just hit something hard and...

couldn't keep up with it.

For almost a month now,

our manual drill operator, Joe Loeb,

has been working like crazy on top of the mesa

trying to reach a 120-foot-tall, possibly metallic anomaly

that we detected with ground-penetrating radar

earlier this year.

Look at that.

Look at that.

This is highly anomalous.

And it's sitting right in front

of another 400-foot-long, possibly metallic anomaly

that we not only think is shaped like a dome

but has proven to be totally impenetrable

during two previous drilling operations.

It's hitting something really hard.

8,000 pounds of push and it wasn't budging.

The only thing we have determined

about that particular object

is that the metallic fragments that came out of the spoils

were scientifically proven to be composed

of similar materials that NASA uses

to cover the surface of our own spacecraft.

Down below, we hit something really hard,

and the whole thing started shaking.

And then one loud pop and that was it.

Like a backfire on the exhaust.

Will the engine start or is it seized up?

It is seized up.

That's as far as it gets on the pull start.

Oh, man.

But what caused it? -What would do that?

And it's a brand-new motor.

Brand-new motor. -Yeah.

You know, it really makes me wonder, I mean,

you drilled through 25 feet of rock and sandstone

and all kinds of stuff.

What are we hitting that stopped us?

Could we be at the top of whatever we're looking for?

Could be. I say we pull the...

bit out and look at the bottom of it.

Indeed,

what are we hitting here?

Why can't this drill bit penetrate?

What could account for this drill head

having been stopped dead

near the anomaly in the GPR data?

Oh, there it is.

How's it look?

The bit looks fine.

-Everything still turns in there. -Yeah.

-Everything's still turning. -Teeth look like they're good, too.

There's no broken teeth on it.

This one's smooth.

Strange.

I don't know.

We're so close. I mean, it just--

It's driving me crazy that we're

-so close to this thing and yet... Yeah.

-I feel robbed. -...we might as well be far, far away.

I think we need bigger equipment or something.

Unfortunately, I think we've just run out

of time this year to be able to get this.

This is gonna be something that we're gonna have

to put on pause, and, uh,

come back with another game plan. I mean,

we're not giving up on this spot.

It's just-- It's beat us for the time being.

It's beyond frustrating

that we haven't been able to figure out

what these anomalies are,

why they're so resistant to heavy-duty drilling machines

and why they may contain materials related to spacecraft.

Well, Joe, you've done amazing work with what you've had,

so we appreciate your diligence.

We need to come up with a much bolder plan

to get inside that mesa.

It just might hold some of the keys to understanding

all of the phenomena that happens at Skinwalker Ranch.

Joe, I'll help you get this taken apart.

There you go.

Let's get out of here.

Man, welcome back. Welcome back.

Burdette. Good to see you, man.

Later that night, high-speed camera expert

Burdette Anderson came back to the ranch

in order to help us with an experiment in the east field.

It's another location that may be just as critical as the mesa

to solving this mystery.

Over the past three years,

we've seen numerous aerial anomalies in the east field

near an ancient megalithic spiral of boulders...

...as well as a petroglyph depicting stars and a serpent

that Indigenous tribal experts

have said are meant to represent interdimensional portals.

Snakes represents two different worlds.

So it's a guardian to the portals.

I know it sounds pretty incredible...

...but in 2021, we detected

a column-shaped anomaly in that area using photogrammetry.

And then, while conducting a lidar scan this year,

we identified something about 300 feet in the air

that matched up with the top of the column-shaped phenomenon.

We're getting a significant anomaly

in the air right now.

What?

And right in that spot is where an invisible force

inexplicably pushed the helicopter around.

These are

huge anomalies,

and the scale of it

is very surprising.

It's like there's wrinkles in space and time.

Exactly.

And just last week,

Jeremiah Pate, the CEO

of a high-tech company named Lunasonde,

conducted a radar scan

and found potential evidence

that the portal theory could actually be true.

Well, you know, this may be the...

first time we've actually got evidence

of there being something

above the triangle, the object, whether it's a portal or s--

whatever else. I don't know, but it's something.

So, Burdette,

this is the area where we saw that anomaly

in the-the photogrammetry data that we showed you.

-Right. -So,

what we're gonna do is we're gonna play some acoustic sounds

and look, uh, uh,

you know, with the high-speed, if we see anything odd.

-Okay. You know,

if we produce a frequency,

one line of thinking has it

that we may activate something here in response

to the emission of that sound frequency.

So we're gonna-- we're gonna sweep the frequency range

a little bit and see if something changes

up over our heads.

We believe that it's very possible

that different frequencies can open portals to other places.

Last year,

Navajo Ranger Jon Dover explained to us that,

in ancient times,

his and other Indigenous cultures

believed that certain sound frequencies

could actually open up

gateways to other dimensions.

We've actually had stories involving UAPs

that have entered into mesas...

...and just gone right into the rock.

There's a lot of mythos that,

you know, certain acoustic resonances

are allegedly opening portals to heaven

or to other places and so on.

It's in all the religions.

So I don't know if there's any truth to it or not,