Swarm of Drones STUNS Team | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S5)

BRYANT:
Hey, guys. Welcome back.

TRAVIS:
How many drones did you bring us this time?

BRYANT:
Brought you a thousand.

THOMAS:
Quite the crew you guys brought.

BRYANT:
We’ve got a few people. We welcomed our friends from a drone light show company known as Sky Elements back to help us with another major focus of our investigation—the mysterious spot in the center of the ranch that we call the triangle.

TRAVIS:
To collect more data on this cone-shaped anomaly and anything else that might be in the airspace above the triangle tonight, Tyler Johnson, Preston Ward, and their team are going to launch a thousand illuminated drones to various altitudes in a preprogrammed formation of two parallel lines.

So, tell us about this fleet that you’re putting out in the field.

TYLER:
We’ve got a series of two lines. It’s gonna be a hundred drones, two meters apart, and it’ll be two sets of those per flight. And we’ll fly it from back-to-back-to-back-to-back. So the lines will go straight out over top of the triangle towards the mesa, they’ll go up to 40 meters and come back. And when they’re on their way back, the next fleet will pick up and do the same thing.

TRAVIS:
Some of the drones will also be equipped with GPS devices, so as the swarm reaches higher elevations, if the drones’ straight-line pattern is altered in any way, it could be evidence of any number of the anomalies we’ve measured above the triangle in the past.

In order to gather additional data tonight, we’ll monitor the experiment with multiple cutting-edge technologies.

First, high-speed cameras will be positioned to the east and west of the triangle and one directly under the center of the triangle that will be taking hundreds of pictures per second.

And also a FLIR thermal camera that will visualize anything that might have a different temperature than its surroundings.

Finally, Jim Royston and Sam Deriso from OmniTeq will be using their multi-sensor scanning systems, while Erik and I will have an array of antennas to look out for any strange energy spikes or signals, which we frequently detect during our experiments.

TRAVIS:
With that said, we’ve got some rocket stuff to get ready. I’ve got to get the spectrum analyzer up and running. Uh, so let’s get to work.

BRYANT:
All right.

TRAVIS:
You got it?

BRYANT:
Yeah. Come on. There we go.

TRAVIS:
Just before the drone swarm takes flight, we’ll kick off the experiment using our favorite probing tool—rockets. Launching rockets has repeatedly given us indications of strange things in the airspace and sometimes even seemed to trigger phenomena to appear.

SAM:
The GPS is looking good.

TRAVIS:
We have a lot of components to this experiment tonight. But hopefully they’ll get us closer to answers about the triangle and Skinwalker Ranch.

BRYANT:
Okay, that’s it. All right. Call over to them and tell them we’re ready.

BRYANT (on the phone):
Hey, guys, we are ready to rock and roll here. All right. Let’s launch this thing.

TRAVIS:
You want to give a countdown?

BRYANT:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
All right. Going hot on the battery. Rocket is hot. You ready?

BRYANT:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
In five, four, three, two, one.

(beeping)

BRYANT:
We got a chute.

PRESTON:
Look at that.

TRAVIS:
Flash it again. Do it again.

TYLER:
They should be in unison.

TRAVIS:
Oh, really? Ain’t none of ’em blinking at the same time.

TYLER:
Copy that. Let us know when you’re ready.

PRESTON:
Arming! I’ll send everything that’s connected.

TYLER:
Five, four, three, two, one, go.

TRAVIS:
What do we have? Four?

TYLER:
Four didn’t take off.

TRAVIS:
Look at ‘em moving around. They cannot control ‘em. Look at ‘em.

PRESTON:
Some of them are out.

THOMAS:
They’re having a hard time down here.

In typical ranch fashion, we’re having all sorts of problems with these drones. We’ve got a few on the west side that seem to be misbehaving.

PRESTON:
Time to land?

TRAVIS:
After eight minutes in the air, the drone swarm needed to land. And because of all those malfunctions, the team from Sky Elements decided that it was time to end the experiment.

TYLER:
Guys, heads on a swivel. We may have some bumps on the way down here.

All right, coming in to land. We may have lost a drone in the air.

PRESTON:
It was difficult to get those 200 drones connected and get everything going. Once we got the swarm going, we noticed a couple of drones that were out of position that were definitely having GPS issues.

TRAVIS:
All right, all drones back on the ground. Man, what a night, right? Very eventful, for sure.

Well, we’ve got a lot of data to look through, and we also had high-speed cameras going. There might have been things in there that we haven’t seen yet.

BRYANT:
That was crazy.

TRAVIS:
Okay, I’m gonna play this through.

THOMAS:
We know what we’re looking at when we see a plane. This didn’t match any of that.

TRAVIS:
I agree.

We’ve got it from another angle.

ERIK:
Let’s take a look at that.

ROYSTON:
There it is.

ERIK:
There it is.

THOMAS:
So, this is the UAP that correlates with the same time that their equipment went down and all of the drones disconnected.

Right. I think we all want… Whatever this really bright UAP was, it didn’t appear like a meteor or a satellite or something natural. And then it just vanished into thin air.

Since it showed up just before all of the drones and a lot of our other gear malfunctioned, could it have been related or maybe even the cause?

ERIK:
So, guys, we’ve got one more piece of footage that we want to share with you. This is thermographic imagery off of a FLIR camera out at the triangle. Again, this is sky-facing.

ERIK:
Yeah, so here you can see top of the mesa. And I’m just gonna let this play through at its normal speed.

TRAVIS:
Wow, it looked like it was far away.

ERIK:
Can you zoom in on it?

TRAVIS:
Sure.

ERIK:
So, we’re looking at something that’s clearly giving off a heat signature that’s warmer than, you know, the surrounding part of the frame.

TRAVIS:
I don’t see any wings or anything, like it would be a bug flying over the FLIR.

ERIK:
This is very persistent, it’s very graceful, linear travel. Clearly not a— it’s not an aircraft.

TRAVIS:
It’s too fast for an airplane.

ERIK:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Don’t know what it is.

So, what I’m about to share with you is some footage that was obtained through a high-speed camera asset.

TRAVIS:
And this is looking straight up through the anomaly at the launchpad.

ERIK:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Oh.

ERIK:
Yeah, you caught that?

TRAVIS:
I didn’t see anything.

ERIK:
I’ll back it up just a bit. Zoom in on it, Erik.

ERIK:
Okay, you got it.

TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah, yeah, there it was.

THOMAS:
There’s two things there.

ERIK:
Yeah.

Let me take that back through, using frame advance.

ROYSTON:
Ooh, that looks like two there.

TRAVIS:
Well, I find that really interesting.

ROYSTON:
Looks like it starts with one. Must be right behind each other.

THOMAS:
Where do they go?

TRAVIS:
Yeah, that’s a good question. Let me try one thing, let me turn the contrast and brightness up just a bit.

TRAVIS:
What are we seeing?

THOMAS:
I would say that they’re still right there.

ERIK:
Okay. How about I dive in on it?

TRAVIS:
Yep, I saw it. Yep.

THOMAS:
Oh, yes, look, it’s right there.

TRAVIS:
Yep, there you go. Sure is.

I mean, think about all the problems we were having on the ground, guys. Sky Elements is trying to connect those thousand drones up…we’re having this take place above us, and we’re not even aware that it’s going on.

Well, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine, if you’ve got a bunch of things popping in and out of your space, that you’d expect to see interference with all your stuff.

BRYANT:
Especially if they have some sort of an electromagnetic quality to them or something of that nature.

ERIK:
Yes, yes.

BRYANT:
Have y’all seen anything like that before while you were doing drone shows?

SAM:
No, no, we’ve never seen anything strange in the sky, you know. It’s totally unexpected to see that kind of stuff, you know, in the middle of nowhere, and especially if it’s something we can’t identify.

ERIK:
Well, look, guys, after all of these really unexpected, amazing things that we’ve seen, we definitely want to get you guys back out here, boots on the ground.

BRYANT:
Let’s do it.

ERIK:
Let’s see if we can make it happen.

TRAVIS:
All right. See you guys later. Good to see y’all.

BRYANT:
You guys rock.

THOMAS:
Thank you.

ERIK:
Thank you, Kaleb.

BRYANT:
Well, let’s get ‘em back and let’s do it.

ERIK:
All right, guys.

TRAVIS:
Sounds great.

BRYANT:
We’ve got a lot of planning to do.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, we do.

BRYANT:
That was crazy.