MASSIVE Experiment Reveals Shocking Answers | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S5)

-Hey, Cam.
-Hey.

TRAVIS: …Cameron Fugal arrived to help us conduct our last, and most ambitious, experiment of the year.
Well, the lidar trucks are coming down the road.
And we also welcomed a whole team of lidar experts, including Pete Kelsey, John Brown, Jim Royston, and Sam Deriso.

ERIK:
Well, before we jump in to what we’re planning on doing, this looks like some serious tech.

JOHN:
It’s pretty serious technology when it comes to lidar. This one is specifically used for long-distance collection.

ERIK:
Okay.
And it’s incredibly accurate.
Once the sun goes down, we’ll start the experiment by launching a rocket in the east field to see if we can stimulate phenomena.
From there, imaging expert John Brown will drive his mobile lidar vehicle, while Cameron Fugal shadows him in the helicopter.
They’ll move past the east field, the triangle, the mesa drill site, and over to Homestead Two.
John will be scanning the entire area between the ground and the helicopter for signs of the cone or any other strange things.

Then, after that experiment is done, we’re going to do an experiment at the triangle.
Yeah, let… let me describe that.
We’re going to have the burner from a hot-air balloon heating up that space where we have detected something at an altitude of about 30 feet.
And we’ll be doing some thermal and lidar imaging on that.
So, we’ll be using a hot-air balloon burner to blast flames into that 31-foot region while we scan it with lidar devices and record it with high-speed, night vision, thermal, and infrared cameras.
And all during the experiment, we’ll be monitoring numerous spectrum analyzers, radiation detectors, and GPS devices to collect more data than we ever have before.
This place has been hiding its secrets from us for more than five years now.
But tonight, we intend to finally reveal just what they truly are.

CAMERON:
So, as serious as this is, this is exciting, too.

-Oh, it’s very exciting.
-Oh, yeah, very.
-And we have a lot of work to do.

CAMERON:
It’s a super science project tonight. We have a lot to do.
Well, guys, I can see our shadows are getting awfully long.
I think it’s time to get out there, get set up and get ready to go.

Yup. Let’s get to work.
-We got to go.
-ERIK: Okay.
CAMERON: Okay, we’re going to get airborne.

TRAVIS:
All right, looks like Cameron’s up.
Sam, do you copy?

SAM:
Yes, so we have just entered the gate. We are ready.

TRAVIS:
Just after nightfall, Cameron Fugal lifted off in the helicopter to get positioned 1,000 feet above John Brown’s mobile lidar truck at the eastern gate.
It was time to start our ranch-wide experiment.

Cameron, are you in place?
We’re going to go in five, four–

-BRYANT: Three, two.
-Three, two.
One.
There it goes. Rocket’s up.

BRYANT:
We had a good launch, good chute, and you can send them on their way.
Tell him let’s go, we’re good.

TRAVIS:
All right, here they come.
Right after Dragon launched his rocket, John Brown began driving his lidar truck from east to west across the ranch while Cameron was positioned right above him, flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet.

TRAVIS (over radio):
Copy that, Sam, go all the way to the gate and turn back around.

THOMAS:
Lidar truck just passed the drill site, proceeding to the triangle, over.

TRAVIS:
Copy that, Thomas.

TRAVIS:
Everybody, be advised that, uh, the lidar truck is passing through the triangle right now.

THOMAS:
Just curious, is the helicopter, uh, does he think he’s directly over the lidar truck?
‘Cause he’s directly over the drill site right now.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, that’s a good question, Thomas.
He’s way behind the lidar truck.
I don’t know– something’s going on.
Yeah, I can confirm, that’s exactly what I saw here.
Behind them? (chuckles): There’s no way.

Okay, now this was really odd.
Cameron said, according to what he was seeing, he was tracking directly above the lidar truck as they headed back east past the triangle.
But we could all see the helicopter positioned way behind the truck and much closer to the mesa drill site.
So, were our eyes being deceived or his?
It made no sense.

TRAVIS:
As Steve Jones prepared to start shooting flames up above the triangle…
We’re running, lidar’s running.

…we activated our stationary and handheld lidar devices.
-I’m live.
-Oh, you’re up.

Then, Pete Kelsey got his thermal camera drone in the air, and we also started recording with a FLIR thermal camera on the ground.

TRAVIS (over radio):
Go ahead and do a run, Sam.
10-4, we’re a-going.

TRAVIS:
Steve, you copy?
Copy.

TRAVIS:
Are you ready to go?

STEVE (over radio):
Yes, sir.

All right, we’re gonna go in five, four, three, two, one…
Whoa!
(static hissing)

TRAVIS:
Three, two, one, stop.
How can fire cause static on the radio? That’s crazy.
Go.

It made me wonder if the flames that were directly hitting the 31-foot blob zone at the triangle were somehow triggering more phenomena that was affecting the helicopter.
So, we needed Steve Jones to shoot more flames to see if it would keep happening or possibly stimulate something even stranger.

Stop.

-KALEB: Whoa, what was that?
-BOBBY: I don’t know, something just went right across the mesa like that.
-Yeah.
-It looked like it was right in front of the…
-Like a band just went across.
-Yeah.

KALEB:
I’m looking at this monitor and I see almost like a-a fog or a field of some kind moving across the mesa and we don’t know what it is.
Hopefully, Erik caught some more video footage of it in his cameras and we can figure out exactly what that is.

TRAVIS (over radio):
Hey, Steve, we’re gonna do one more burn.

STEVE:
Copy that.
Three, two, one, go.

KALEB:
Right there, it just did it again.

ROYSTON:
I saw it again.
(burner whooshing)

TRAVIS:
Two, one, stop.
Looks like a smoke ring, like a donut.
It looked like it was going along the side of something.
Yeah, there was that little section right there on the edge.
And it looked like it hit something and, like…

-BOBBY: And it went around it.
-KALEB: Yeah.

Kaleb, did you say you saw something in the scanner?
Well, so, a couple things.
When, uh, Steve was making the flare go…

-Mm-hmm.
-…it looked like there was, like, a circle that kind of went around.
And it almost like it followed the edge of a bowl.

Oh, wow.
And Pete had the drone come back out and we saw two different things look like they went across the screen.
But they, almost like they were distorted.

-All right.
-So…
We’ll absolutely look at that.
That’s awesome.

It was odd that the flames might’ve possibly affected Cameron’s comms system in the helicopter nearly 5,000 feet above the triangle.
But when the guys saw a distorted shadow move across the face of the mesa on Pete’s thermal camera screen, and then the flames appeared to wrap around an invisible object right at the 31-foot blob level, it seemed like we were definitely getting responses from something on the ranch.
The question was, just what could it be?

We reset everything on the SLAM scanner and so the next experiment, we’ll… I’ll try and scan again and I’m gonna try and do that same pattern around the triangle, so…

-Okay.
-Isn’t that bizarre?
-Yeah.

Okay, just confirming, you did see two smaller orbs.
-Correct?
-Yes!

All right.
-That’s awesome.
-Okay, Travis says it’s awesome.
And I bet you Erik will be looking forward to seeing that data, Cameron.

TRAVIS:
None of us could see any signs of the UAPs that Cameron– who was wearing night vision goggles– was reporting flying all around the helicopter nearly 5,000 feet directly above the triangle.
But from the tone in his voice, we could all tell he was definitely seeing something that had no conventional explanation.

ERIK:
I think we’ve accomplished just about every single one of our objectives tonight.
-Correct.

TRAVIS:
We did get a lot of data.
In fact, what we’ve done tonight has probably generated more data than any other data collection exercise that we’ve done in a single evening.

Dude, you’re right.
We’ve got more data points to go through right now than we’ve had probably in the entire summation of the five years that I’ve been here.
That’s daunting to even think about.
That’s an insurmountable task, but hey, look, you know, it’s late, we still got to break down and put stuff up.
So I say we divide and conquer and let’s get out of here.

-Feels like it’s almost time to get up.
-Yeah, it is.