Drilling Operation in the Mysterious Mesa | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S5)

THOMAS: Well, I see the drillers
are pulling up.
I’m gonna go over
and visit with them and…
Yeah, let’s go come up
with our game plan.

• Hey, guys.
• How’s it going?
• Ready to get back at it?
• Yep.
• Yes, sir.
  Well, let’s see
  what the day holds, huh?
• Yep.
• Hopefully we can get this
  punched through for you guys.
• That’s the goal.
• That’s our goal.
  All right, well, while you get
  fired up, we’ve got some stuff
  we’re going to be turning on
  over here.
  We’re going to be turning on
  over here.
  Just monitoring what’s going on.
• Perfect.
• Sounds good.

TRAVIS:
So, as the drilling proceeds,
we’ll be monitoring
our spectrum analyzers
for any mysterious
radio frequency signals
or energy spikes,
We are set up and ready
over here. Travis is monitoring.
All right, bud,
go ahead and push it.

ERIK:
All right,
let’s just keep looking.
What?
Wait a minute. What?
What is that signal?
There’s a signal
at 919 megahertz
that’s going nonstop
on every antenna.
That is a strong signal, too,
whatever that is.

• Let’s listen,
• let’s listen to it.
• Yeah.
  (static buzzing, whirring)

ERIK:
I’ve never seen that
before on the ranch.

• This shouldn’t be here.
• No.
  Unless there’s somebody
  that’s got a tracker on us
  or a listening device
  or something here.
  You know, like LoRaWAN
  surveillance devices.
  This signal
  at 919 megahertz that was
  being detected coming from
  several different directions
  by our antennas was
  really suspicious to me
  because that’s
  the approximate frequency
  that so-called
  Long Range Wide Area Network
  or LoRaWAN devices emit.
  These are tiny devices
  that are designed
  for conducting surveillance.

TRAVIS:
It made me and Erik think about
all the military and unmarked
aircraft that we’ve seen
flying over the ranch
during our investigation
over the past few years,
including one
just the other day.
Has somebody been dropping
these surveillance devices
all around the ranch
to monitor what we’re doing
and we’re just now
detecting them?
It’s another unsettling mystery
that we have to figure out.
This is concerning.

ERIK:
Yeah.

BRYANT:
Travis.
Lookit, all the cows are
moving this direction
for some reason now.
They are.
That is weird.
They’re mooing at us.
Like, they’ve been sitting
over there all day and now,
all of the sudden, they just got
up and started coming this way.
I wonder if there’s something
happening down there.
Reckon we ought to run
down there?

BRYANT:
I’m gonna check it out.
(cow lowing)

KALEB:
Hey, guys. You see that?

TRAVIS:
Look at this cow, guys.
Hey, guys.
Look at this cow!

ERIK:
What’s going on?

BRYANT:
It’s spinning in circles.
What the hell’s wrong
with that cow?

KALEB:
Hey, call and tell Tom
to come down here.

TRAVIS:
Call, yeah,
let’s get Tom down here.

BRYANT:
Hey, Thomas, you copy?

THOMAS (over walkie):
Yeah, Bryant, I copy.

BRYANT:
Uh, you might want
to get down here.
We’ve got a calf over here
that is literally
spinning in circles
like it’s losing its mind
and is about to go down.

THOMAS (over walkie):
We’ll see you in a few minutes.
Given the fact that we have seen
cows reacting when strange
phenomena happened in the past,
it’s really making me wonder if
this calf and its weird behavior
is a sign that something strange
is happening right now.

TRAVIS:
What in the world is going on?

THOMAS:
As I look down there, I can
see a calf spin in circles.
I’ve grown up around livestock
and I’ve never seen
this type of behavior.
Something’s keeping the herd
from going over to the calf,
and even more importantly,
something’s keeping the calf
from going over to the herd.
And it just keeps spinning.
We’re really eager
to figure out what just happened
to this calf.

THOMAS (over walkie):
It looks like there’s something
pretty messed up
with its right eye.

TRAVIS (over walkie):
Like it’s been injured, Thomas?

THOMAS (over walkie):
Its eyes are pure white.

TRAVIS:
That’s what happens when
you get exposed to microwaves.
You guys start
feeling weird at all,
get the hell out of there.
(moos)

THOMAS:
That’s not it.
You’re thinking
the same thing I am, Travis.

TRAVIS:
As I scanned the field
where the calf was,
I got no harmful readings at all
for microwave radiation
or other kinds of energy.
But my compass was going crazy.
So, what in the heck
caused this?
Could it be connected
to whatever is inside the mesa?
We probably need
to get a vet out here.
Yeah, the herd broke through
all of this thicket of trees.
So I’m gonna go get them
pushed this way.
See if we can get them headed
down towards the corral
where I can get that calf and
its mom separated from the herd.
Well, I’m gonna wander
back toward the tent.
I’m not seeing anything else
I can do from here.
All right,
I’m gonna take Kaleb with me.
Copy that.

THOMAS:
Something just happened
to this calf.
Due to the fact that
this ranch has so much history
with cattle mutilations,
I’m really wondering
if we’re seeing
another example that
strange things are happening
with the animals
here on Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
I think if we get the herd
up and around,
-they’ll continue
down the fence.
-Yeah.
How’s it going?

THOMAS:
Good. How are you guys?

THOMAS:
So, I called
the rancher, Glendon,
who is the owner of the cows,
to come out and help us
get the cows rounded up
over to the corrals
and separated from the calf
so we can get this calf looked
at immediately by the vet.

GLENDON:
Get back. Get back. Get back.

THOMAS:
I’m really curious as to what’s
gonna happen with this calf.
Especially with
the strange things happening
at the drill site today.
Hey there.

HALEIGH:
Hey, how are you?
Good. Can’t tell you
how much I appreciate
you making that drive.

HALEIGH:
-Oh, yeah, no problem.
-I’m Thomas Winterton.
-Good seeing you again.
-Yeah, good to see you. Haleigh.
-Nice to meet you.
-This is Tate, my technician.
Hey. Nice to meet you guys.
KALEB: Nice to meet you.
So, uh, we’ve had some
unusual things happening today.
And, uh, this calf,
its eyes were glazed over white.
Uh, almost like
it’s got cataracts. So…
Yeah. Okay.
Um, we’re concerned
about its wellbeing.
We’re also trying
to ascertain, you know,
what could have caused it.
Yeah. Let’s take her temperature
and listen
to her heart and lungs
and-and check out what’s
going on with those eyes.
Go in here.
Ooh.
I mean, she’s hemorrhaging
from both eyes.

• So, something’s making
• the eyes bleed?
• Yeah.
  Those eyes have ruptured
  on the inside.
  There’s no way she’s seeing
  out of those.

GLENDON:
She’s pretty blind.

HALEIGH:
Yeah. That is bad.

HALEIGH:
We may not really know
what causes this.

THOMAS:
One thing that
we’re concerned about
is maybe
some possible microwaves.

HALEIGH:
Yeah. I would presume
that microwaves
or magnetic waves
would produce heat
and that’s what would cause it.
I mean, the eyes I feel like
are secondary
to what’s really going on,
and it’s trauma related.
The fact that she’s circling,
this tells me
something’s affecting
her cranial nerves.
Something damaged her brain.
Is this something we can treat
and try to– try to fix?
My hope is that with enough
eye drops and things like that
we can help it,
but I don’t think
that’s our primary issue here.
Especially with her neurologic
signs that we’re seeing.

BRYANT:
Oh, man, she doesn’t
look good, does she?

THOMAS:
A couple years ago,
we noticed that this cow had
separated herself from the group
and it was pretty aggressive
with us.

BRYANT:
Okay. You’re good.

THOMAS:
And then a short time later,
we found out
that something messed up
its neurological system.
Makes me wonder if maybe
we might be seeing
some of the same things
happening to this calf today.
What may be causing these cows
to have these adverse reactions?
(moos)

GLENDON:
Your dad said that once
you got it off the ranch,

• she calmed right down.
• Yeah, she was fine.

THOMAS:
I guess the best we can do
-is for you to get
her off the ranch.
GLENDON:
Yep.
So we’ll keep a really close eye
on the rest of the herd,
and I guess just take her home,
let us know how she does.
Okay, yeah,
we’ll take her, absolutely.
Okay, thank you.

THOMAS:
I have to wonder,
after seeing this calf
while drilling
into this anomalous mesa,
if the two are related.
We’re often told that
when you dig on the ranch,
bad things happen.
Watching a calf
out there in distress
definitely was a bad thing.
It’s definitely
got me on high alert.

THOMAS (over walkie):
Hey, Erik. You got a copy?

ERIK (over walkie):
Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.
I’m just curious how things
are going over on your end.

ERIK (over walkie):
We are shut down for the day.
The drillers got into something
that was blocking
the signal on that beacon
and so they can’t get
any sense of direction
on the drill head, so they’re
going to have to pull out.

THOMAS:
You’re kidding me.
They’ve got to pull
all the way out
of the hole again?

ERIK:
Yeah, Thomas.
That’s the call.
We’ve got to figure out
what’s going on up there.

THOMAS:
Well, after everything
we’ve seen today,
that’s just par for the course.
That’s unfortunate.
That’s a…
that’s a big setback.

ERIK:
Yep. Same thoughts on this side.
The guys and I are getting ready
to, uh, break down over here
and call it a day.

THOMAS:
Okay, sounds good.