Suspicious Phenomenon Spotted in the Sky | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S5)

TRAVIS:
Looks like Nu-Salt is here.
Hey, Tim, how you doing, man?
Good to see you.

But as sundown was approaching,
we regrouped at the triangle
for a nighttime experiment
with our friends
from Nu-Salt Laser
and technologist Pete Kelsey.

Well, it’s good to have you
back out to the ranch, Tim.
There’s something
very interesting happening
in the space right
above the triangle.

–Okay.
–ERIK: I understand
you’re bringing
more wattage this time
than the last time
you were out here with us.

TIM:
So, this year we actually have
eight total Laser Space Cannons,
and they’re higher power,
so I would expect
we are definitely
gonna see something.

I love the idea of getting
more photons into the sky,
’cause, you know, that’ll
help us to paint that space
and see if in fact
we get a repeat
of the things we’ve seen before
right over this triangle.

Tonight,
once the sun goes down,
the Nu-Salt team is
going to set up
several high-powered
Laser Space Cannons
that will shoot beams
of laser light
from the center of the triangle
all the way up
into outer space.

If we see
any breaks in the beams,
it might help us pinpoint
whatever might be responsible
for the anomalies
we’ve seen and detected
between the ground
and high altitudes.

And they’ll also aim
an additional Laser Cannon
at a 12-by-8-foot
white screen
that Thomas will position
at the 31-foot mark,
using a lift.

Then I’ll use a device
known as a spectrometer
to measure any variations in
the laser beams’ color spectrum,
which could indicate
more evidence
of the blob anomaly.

So we’re gonna look
all across the spectrum
with all of our sensors,
and hopefully we’ll—we’ll see
something in that spot again.

ERIK:
I know we’ve got a lot of
equipment to put out,
-so I say we get to it.
–Great.

TRAVIS:
All right, let’s do it.
Let’s go.
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Yeah, when you come up with it,
it’ll be at low power, Chris.

TRAVIS:
Tim, you guys about ready?

TIM:
Yeah, we’re ready to go, Travis.
Hey, hey. What is–
Look right here.
What is this?

KALEB:
What is that,
right there, right there?

TRAVIS:
I don’t see lights on it.

KALEB:
I’m not seeing lights, either.

TRAVIS:
I don’t see
aviation lights at all.

KALEB:
Yeah, I don’t see any strobe.

TRAVIS:
I think that could be a UAP.
Yeah, I can barely
still see it moving
to the north and west.
It’s gone.

TRAVIS:
We’ve seen
a lot of UAPs in the sky
during the last few years,
but as an optical scientist
who’s worked with NASA
and the Department of Defense
on space technology
for more than three decades now,
this one looked bigger
and brighter than anything
we’ve ever documented
on Skinwalker Ranch.

It was even maneuvering
like a craft
for several seconds there,
but then it just disappeared.

All right.
Well, let’s get going.
All right.
Well, let’s get going.
Okay, I’m gonna go
lift the screen up.

TIM:
We’re all hooked up
and ready to go
and we’ll energize it
when the backstop is
up in the air.

TRAVIS:
All I knew for sure was
that we needed to start
our laser, lidar,
and rocket experiment
at the triangle right away
to see if it reappears
or, given all the legends we’ve
heard about portals out here,
detect something
to explain why it vanished.

We’ve got–
Pete’s ready over here,
OmniTeq’s ready.
Where are you gonna be?

ERIK:
I’ve got to get back over
to the command center
where I’ve got all
the monitoring screens up
-right now.

–TRAVIS: Great.
Well, I say we get to it.
big laser’s coming on.

TIM (over walkie):
Hey, Chris.
On the laser,
go ahead and slowly
bring up the power.
Copy that.
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TRAVIS:
Yeah, that’s bright.
Wow, that’s bright.
Look at that.
Look at that right there.

Before the Nu-Salt team
turned on
the seven vertical laser cannons
that were positioned
around the triangle,
I wanted to test the one
we had aimed at the whiteboard
positioned 31 feet high.
That’s right where we saw
the blob-like anomaly
that may have caused
a rocket to explode
back in 2022.

KALEB:
It’s like staring at the sun.

TRAVIS:
While the laser canon
fired its beam—
which has a specific
spectrum of colors—
into the 31-foot zone,
I watched my spectrometer
for any changes in those colors
which might indicate
something strange
was in the airspace.

So you can see
the red, green and the blue.
Look at that.

Suddenly, it’s gotten
brighter in the green
and dropped off in the blue.
Why would it be doing that?

This laser is programmed
to emit light
with no variation
in its brightness or color.
So when I saw the green light
was suddenly getting brighter
while the blue light
started to fade,
and then the colors
actually changed slightly,
that meant something strange
at about 31 feet was causing it.

So it was time for us
to use all of our tools
to identify just what it was.

All right, next step.
Uh, Jim,
you’re gonna run lidar, right?
–Correct.
–TRAVIS: So, Pete,
–I’d rather you run thermal.
–All right, check.

TRAVIS:
All right, Jim, if you want
to go ahead and get in the air.

JIM:
Yeah, copy that. All righty.
All right. Lasers are up.
Lasers are up, guys.
(buzzing)
Here we go.
Pete’s in the air.

JIM:
Pete, I’m at 133 feet.
I’m coming
to a hundred feet, Jim.
The lidar and thermal drones
are up in the air.
Copy you, Travis.

–Try to go hot on the battery.
–TRAVIS: All right.
Rocket going hot
in five, four,
three, two,
one.

Did y’all see that?
It was like it was
diverted around the anomaly.
It’s gonna land on the mesa.

The rocket should have gone
straight up,
but it clearly flew up
in this odd S-shaped pattern,
as if something
redirected its course.

So, could it have been
the blob that did that?

Everybody clear out
for the lasers.

TIM:
Lasers up, Chris.
Lasers up.

TRAVIS:
The rocket is going hot.
Rocket is hot!
Going in five…
four, three,
two, one.

How did it go over there?

BRYANT:
I don’t know.
There’s hardly any wind.

All right, let’s go back
and, uh, see what they got.
Okay.

TRAVIS:
Sure enough,
the rocket veered away
instead of going straight up,
as though something
pushed it off course.
Who knows what caused it,
but it was really weird that
the same thing
happened multiple times.

I don’t see anything
weird or crazy.
Uh, Pete,
are you seeing anything?
Jim, are you seeing anything?

KALEB (over walkie):
Nope.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

ROYSTON (over walkie):
We just flew on
that last rocket launch.
There was nothing in the air.

Okay.

Hey, Erik, do you copy?
Hey, Erik, do you copy?

TRAVIS:
We’re about to wrap up
out here at the tent.

Okay, guys, uh,
we can bring the lasers down,
and, uh, let’s start—
let’s shut everything down.

–ERIK: How we doing?
–TRAVIS: All right.
We are just about to review
everything that happened during
the exercise with Nu-Salt.
In effect,
trying to probe the anomaly
directly above the triangle.

THOMAS:
That night was so crazy.

BRYANT:
That was quite an experiment.

TRAVIS:
The day after our multi-laser
rocket experiment
at the triangle,
Jim Royston, Pete Kelsey,
Erik, and I scoured
through our data,
hoping that we would see
something at 31 feet in the air
that might explain all
the strange things we detected.
But instead, we found something
that none of us were expecting.

So, near the tent,
you guys remember we had
a couple of cameras locked off
on the Space Cannon
beams going up.
–Yep.
–And they were set to take
a snapshot every so often,
and we found something
that is, uh, really odd.

ERIK:
Yeah, odd to say the least.
I can’t explain this.

–THOMAS: Whoa.
–KALEB: No.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, looks like the beam
stops and then starts again.
So, if there was something
in there blocking the beam,
it wouldn’t continue above it.

THOMAS:
How could it block out
the green and not the blue?

TRAVIS:
It doesn’t make
any sense at all.
I’ve never seen anything
like this ever.

And if you look
at the ends of the beams,
the beams look rounded off.

ERIK:
Yeah, these do, certainly.
Here and here.
And it appears
that this is cutting into
the beam profile
on the left-hand side.
What-what could be doing that?

And it didn’t just happen
in one of the images.

-(laughs) Oh, no.
–BRYANT: You’re kidding me.

THOMAS:
What?

ERIK:
So, here we see
unaffected, blue-ish…

TRAVIS:
Blue-ish and purple
lasers, right.
–And now, look. Look there.
–ERIK: Look here.
–Look near the top here.
–TRAVIS: Yeah.

Again, just the green,
just the green.

ERIK:
It’s got that hard-edge
geometry on it.
I c– I cannot explain it.
I do not understand it,
but there it is, and then, uh,
we have another one.
Look here.

THOMAS:
Yeah.

So, you see, we had this
in three different
long-exposure photographs.
And they’re all at about
100 feet off the ground.

TRAVIS:
And, if we’re running around
doing so much stuff,
we may not ever looked
at the right time and saw this.
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
The fact that we captured
three different images
of gaps in only
the green laser beam
showed that this
wasn’t a camera error.
Something created
three different voids
in just the green laser beams
at a height of about 100 feet
above the triangle.

I guess we need
to invite these guys back
-and bring those lasers
back here.

ERIK:
Absolutely.
Absolutely. I want to understand
what just happened here.
–I did not expect to see that.
–Right.

–ERIK: Okay. Thanks, guys.
–THOMAS: Thank you.