The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

My name is Travis Taylor.

I'm an optical scientist,

aerospace engineer and astrophysicist

who has worked on many classified programs for NASA

and the intelligence community for over 30 years.

One year ago, I was invited to join a small team of scientists

who were investigating a place called skinwalker ranch.

Now, all I knew was that the ranch had been associated

with some very strange ufo activity over the years.

There'd also been reports of animal mutilations

and other bizarre phenomena.

I was open-minded but fairly skeptical.

But nothing could've prepared me

for what my colleagues and I were about to experience.

Do you see the glow, the flicker?

Yeah, the whole top of the mountain is glowing.

We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.

This looks like there's something a thousand feet long.

- We got something. Hold on. - Look, look, look!

- What is that? - It's gone.

Look at the cows.

That is the strangest thing.

There is something going on out here.

There's no sign of struggle.

It's just dead.

The cow is right here.

I can't help but also notice there's something here.

Now I've been invited back.

And this time, I've got a better idea of what we're dealing with.

And this year, we're going to start

finding the answers to why this 512-acre

stretch of land is one of the strangest places

on the planet earth.

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.

We're approaching the ranch.

All right.

My name is Brandon fugal,

and I'm the owner of skinwalker ranch.

The ranch continues to surprise and astound, I think, all of us

that are involved with this investigation.

Dr. Lee, it's a privilege to have you come out to the ranch

and engage with the team, right here on-site.

Yeah, this is an incredible experience for me

to be able to visit the ranch and to

see some of things

that you've been involved with over the last few years.

After the repeated injuries

with Thomas winterton,

and then dr. Taylor having radiation injuries

that remain unexplained,

I thought it was important that we bring in a professional

that is not only credentialed but someone that I trust.

A good share of dr. Lee's practice involves

clinical research into radiation oncology,

and I've come to trust him as not only a medical advisor

but as someone that doesn't screw around.

So, dr. Lee, as we fly into the ranch here,

just to the north of these observation towers

is skinwalker ridge.

Many of the phenomena we've seen have come from skinwalker ridge,

so I try to be extra careful as we fly over,

just to avoid any electromechanical issues

that could arise from... From some of that phenomena.

But I'll fly out here just... Just south of it to be safe.

We know that we're dealing

with potentially dangerous phenomenon.

There are certain risks associated

with activity on the ranch, but

I think it's time to take the investigation to another level.

I'm anxious to get some answers.

Here's the helipad.

We're making our final approach in here.

It's a thrill to have the whole team

come back together in order to continue the investigation.

This is a multidisciplinary team of professionals.

People who bring to the table not only scientific

expertise but also advanced technology experience.

- Everybody's waiting to see you. - Very good.

- We're excited to have you back. - It's good to be back.

Remarkable things happened this past year,

and to build on that momentum, to further understand

the phenomena and what is really at play

on this unique piece of property

is really exciting.

Well, it's, good to see you back

at skinwalker ranch, dr. Taylor.

- Thank you. - I'd like to introduce all of you

to dr. Chris lee.

He's a nationally-recognized radiation oncologist.

Having him as an outside medical consultant is

a vital part of establishing the health and safety protocols

here at skinwalker ranch.

I appreciate meeting all of you.

So, I know I'm a visitor today, and, this is my first time

being here, but, I believe that safety is

of utmost importance, and I do think that it's critical to know

exactly what to do, when to do it,

how to do it and the proper methods, so

I've offered to Brandon I can lend my expertise

with regard to safety or radiation exposures,

or if there's questions regarding, um,

some of the electromagnetic phenomenon

that they've been experiencing.

I also would like to have dragon

take on the added role and responsibility

of being the safety officer at the ranch,

in order to not only ensure that everyone is kept

healthy, but, really kept safe.

I'm-I'm happy to do it.

And we have Kaleb to be able to watch over

the more day-to-day security side of things.

So that, you know, we can focus on, you know, the investigation

- and what we're doing as a team. - Speaking of that,

I do have some other issues I got to go get taken care of,

- so I'll leave you guys to it. - We'll let you get to work.

- Thanks, Kaleb. - Thanks, Kaleb.

So next, Travis,

as you come out and, rejoin the effort,

are you prepared for another stint here at skinwalker ranch?

Well, what we saw last time

was some extremely unusual things

that you can't explain with modern physics,

or at least we can't yet.

And so, the opportunity to come back out here

and see if we can see what it really is, is-is...

It's exciting, and I appreciate you inviting me back out.

Well, it's been interesting in that during the off-season,

we've had no shortage of incidents

that have taken place.

In fact, we've continued to track and monitor events

that have con-continued to occur here on the property.

Well, and hopefully we can figure out something

that will stimulate these events to occur.

If we can figure out the switch that makes it happen,

instead of it always being sort of we-we got lucky

and caught it this time, then that would be huge.

That's exciting.

What would you propose as far as experiments?

I would actually like

to look underneath the surface of the ranch.

So, last year,

there was this fear of digging on the ranch.

We should see what happens

when we do something like digging a hole.

I know for a fact

crap goes down when people start disturbing the earth.

I have to say unequivocally say no digging.

So, as a result, we didn't do much research

into looking at what's underneath the property.

There have been stories and legends

of what might be underneath the ground here, like

ancient meteorites, alien spacecraft

and even underground bases.

Perhaps this secret base could be the source of

all this weird transient energy that we've been experiencing.

I think if we're gonna get to the bottom

of what's going on here,

we're gonna have to start looking underneath the ground,

and maybe that means we're gonna have to start digging.

Last time, we had Travis out

and stuff like that, it was your mandate

that there was not to be any invasive digging.

And so, you know,

I took that seriously, and in order to explore

what Travis is talking about and, you know,

the possibility of something larger, you know,

I will follow your lead.

Yeah.

Um, well, without digging,

we could try looking at photogrammetry,

lidar, scanning.

Well, you know, as you guys have been talking about this,

just to the west of homestead two

is a fairly significant hole of size,

big enough you could probably put a car in.

But it's been

filled up with trees and branches,

and you can't see down into it.

You can't tell how deep it is or-or how far down it goes.

And so, you know, one of the days

I was irrigating, I thought, you know, just out of curiosity,

I'm gonna divert some of the water

down into that hole and see how long it takes to fill it up.

It took about three and a half hours

to fill this thing up to the top.

Now, the interesting thing was,

is that after taking three hours to fill it up,

the water disappeared out of sight within 15 minutes.

Wow.