The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

- That upper area right there. - Up in there?

We could see in the distance

what looked like a shadow figure or,

you know, a person standing on the second floor.

I'm wondering

what's setting off the cameras.

If it's back at the tree line,

that thing's pretty big.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Middle of the day,

an orb like that-- that's crazy.

There's something about those two spots

and the point where it dips into the ground a thousand feet.

That's amazing.

Wow.

There is a ranch in northern Utah.

It is considered the epicentre

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.

OK, so here we go.

Come on over, Pete.

What you got for me?

I'm glad you're here, because, Erik

was telling us that you got some new equipment that can help us

maybe better identify what lies below the ground here,

with a particular interest

in spots that have been disturbed

perhaps in the past.

Huh. - Last week,...

We're going to use you today

as part of an experiment.

...we conducted an experiment

with former Skinwalker Ranch investigator Jay Stratton

to see if the property would respond in some way

to his presence.

- Y'all in? - You are cleared

- for takeoff. - We took him

on a tour where he had experienced phenomena

when he was here over a decade ago,

and we were shocked by the results.

Now, I'm going to bring up the data

generated during your visit.

The GPS data we recorded during the tour went

several hundred feet underground

Between Homestead Two and the drill site at the mesa.

Wow.

So now Erik Bard arranged

for technologist Pete Kelsey to come back out

to help us search for anything strange or unnatural

beneath that location.

Pete, fill us in on what you've got.

Yeah.

Multispectral.

What does it do?

Well, it's designed,

really, to work in agriculture.

If the soil under plants has been disturbed,

they will show up differently in the multispectral imagery.

A drone-based multispectral camera

is designed to image different wavelengths of light.

By scanning the ground,

it can build a geophysical model of the surface

that could help us identify any evidence of past excavations

or even underground structures like tunnels.

A multispectral camera--

It's typically used on farms and for agriculture

to determine

the health, if you will, of the crops.

But because plants grow differently

over soil that's been disturbed at some point in time,

it's an amazing tool for archaeology.

I've got colleagues who have found Roman ruins

under wheat fields in England. - Wow.

If we're lucky, things will jump out in this field

that we'd never see otherwise.

That's what we're after.

I'm excited to get you to work and get that scan.

I'd love to see what you find.

It's very interesting to me to see

the GPS data from the experiment that we did with Jay Stratton.

That'll work.

And it's at this very point

that we see the GPS start diving underground.

You can slide it on the back, if you want.

I'm really curious to see Pete Kelsey's data.

What would make the GPS go below the surface here?

That is a multispectral camera.

- That's it, huh? - Wow. Wow.

The stories that have been shared with us

about this region of the property suggest

that there is, in fact, a concentration

of unusual phenomenology that begins at the mesa

and extends all the way out to the homesteads.

Is there some kind of a connection

between these two locations?

Hopefully, this exercise will help us to sort that out.

I'm going to power up.

Pete's multispectral scan

was going to take a couple of hours to complete.

So, while Erik supervised that process...

- Hey, Joe. - How you doing?

...Thomas Winterton, Dragon and Kaleb Bench

led our colleague Joe Loeb out to the mesa drill site.

So, got the drill?

Got it in the back of the truck, all ready.

Over the past couple of years,

Joe's been helping Dragon and Kaleb with ranch security,

But he's also a professional drill operator.

So, Thomas and Erik asked him to try to help us

with our new strategy to figure out what could be buried

inside the mesa.

We've got a

water truck or two coming here in a little bit.

So, really, we'll get the drill up there.

We'll find a place that you feel like you can get it set up

that's right over top of the anomaly.

So if we can get right in that area

and then drill down on top of it,

that's our hope. - OK.

How fast do you think you can drill 40 feet?

We're working with sandstone and

who knows what else through this area right here in the mesa.

So it could take

- one foot an hour. - OK.

So the rocks aren't going to be an issue.

They'll just slow it down.

Yeah.

Using ground-penetrating radar,

we've identified two possibly metallic anomalies

buried in the mesa.

One is about 400 feet long,

and we believe that it's shaped like a dome.

Yeah, I'm up against something pretty hard right now.

Could even be, maybe, a dome.

We've conducted two drilling operations

trying to penetrate it,

and we failed both times.

But we did collect small fragments

that are made of the same kind of materials

that NASA uses to protect the space shuttles

from the extreme heat of reentry

- from outer space. - My.

And behind that, we've identified something

in a vertical position that's over a hundred feet tall

and about 40 feet below the surface of the mesa.

Look at that.

Since we couldn't penetrate

the dome-shaped object,

Joe has brought out a manually operated drill

that we hope can reach the vertical anomaly from the top

and help us identify just what it is.

We've got a thousand-plus pounds of stuff to get up there.

I guess we should get it unloaded

and get started. - Let's do it. - Yeah. Yeah.

So is this the heaviest part?

- Yes. - Sheesh.

It's not going to be fun.

Six years, I've heard all kinds of crazy stories

about this mesa -

spacecraft going in it,

tunnels, caverns, underground bases.

We've seen the mesa light up.

Definitely makes me wonder what's going on inside the mesa.

Dude, where's Cameron's helicopter?

Well, we got to pump water to the top

of the hill here. Think you can pump it?

Well, we're crazy enough to try it.

So... - OK.

- Heads up! - Yeah!

Here it comes.

The way that this drill works is they pump water,

which makes a lubrication

for this thing to be able to drill through

and keep the bit cool.

I'm not going to lie-- it's been a lot of work getting this pump

and this drill rig up on top of the mesa.

I'm really hopeful that all the sweat

and effort that's gone into it pays off with results.

Going to fire this up.

There it goes. OK.

Given the nature of the dirt and the sandstone here,

it's proving again on Skinwalker Ranch

that nothing is easy.

I've asked Joe if he would stay up here on top of the mesa

and keep working this drill.

We're not making a lot of headway right now.

But if anyone can do it, he can, and we're hopeful

that we'll get some results.

We'll just keep grinding on this.

OK. All right. - So Kaleb and I

are going to do a patrol on the south side of the property.

OK. Well, we'll get out of your way