UFO Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (Season 3)

They’re here, awesome! I’m excited for the equipment. After last week, when Chris Bartell, who worked security on the ranch for Robert Bigelow more than a decade ago, showed us where a cave entrance in the mesa had mysteriously been covered over, we invited a team of drillers to the ranch to help figure out what the Bigelow team might have wanted to keep hidden.

Aaron and his crew from Straight Shot Drilling, they’re going to do some horizontal drilling into the side of the mesa. The way that this horizontal drill works is, they’re actually going to go down under the road, under this canal, and then be able to maneuver up and hopefully puncture up into the mesa and see if we find a void there.

“How deep are you?”

“80 feet.”

“You’re 80 feet out?”

“Yep.”

“How many gallons of fluid are we into this now that hasn’t come back out?”

“500 out of this tank, 1,000 out of the last one, and 4 out of the first, so we’re talking 2,000 gallons, around there. It could be punching through into that void.”

“Wow.”

“Whoa, look at this.”

“That’s what’s going on there. Okay, so it’s there, it is again.”

Again, we’re doing something here that we’ve not done before out here, outdoors, with this thing running.

“Yep.”

And so, um, there’s a correlation, followers. Yeah, I noticed that the spectrum analyzer is giving us once again this mysterious 1.6 gigahertz signal, like the one recently captured at Homestead 2. Every time we’ve seen that signal, something really strange has happened.

“Hey, Brian, if you guys are game, I’ve got some handheld instruments that you can take out to the homesteads. You know, just wander about and see if you get any unusual readings out there.”

“Yeah, it always seems like it’s almost like a bait-and-switch type of a thing. You focus your energies in one spot, and then all of a sudden, stuff happens in other areas.”

“Right, well, do you want to go head down to the homestead then?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay, let’s do it.”

I’ve decided to send Tom and Dragon out to the homesteads and see if we pick up anything happening out there.

“I guess we’ll walk around with both the geiger counter and then you’ve got the tri-field meter. We’ll see if anything strange pops up and keep in touch with them.”

“Yeah, I’ve also got the lightning detector, and right now it’s not measuring anything above background.”

“Okay.”

“Yeah, let’s walk around the back where we’ve seen some strange stuff, and then I guess we could even poke around inside the building a little bit.”

“Okay.”

“Now, what am I getting? We’ll get all that.”

“Oh, it’s a lot of noise.”

“This doggone thing is broadcasting. This thing shouldn’t be broadcasting anything. Why would a device that’s designed to receive be broadcasting?”

“Hey, Bryant, Tom, you copy?”

“Yeah, I got you. Go ahead, Eric.”

He’s got an RF spectrum analyzer, which is a receiver that seems to be broadcasting instead of just receiving.

“That’s not good. We’ll just have a listen at this.”

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“Are you okay?”

“No, I just blacked out.”

“Like blacked out?”

“Yeah, it was like all the blood rushed out of my brain.”

“This is not okay.”

“Here, help me up.”

“Dude, you’re shaking.”

“You want to go?”

“Yeah, let’s go.”

“You can’t feel your hand?”

“I can’t feel my hand.”

“That’s your left arm.”

“It’s my left arm.”

“That’s scary, dude.”

“I don’t just—here, give me, put your arm around me.”

“I don’t want to around with that.”

Tom Lewis said that he had no feeling in his left arm. I knew it had to be something cardiac-related.

“Hey, you guys, Tom is experiencing stuff. He blacked out. Blacked out, has pain in his arms.”

“Are you serious?”

“Oh, he’s taking him straight to the emergency room. I think so. Brian, Candice is right behind you, so you can be watching for.”

We’re here at the emergency room still. The doctor finally came with results and basically couldn’t say what exactly happened to cause Tom to pass out or black out. He said my heart is skipping beats every so often, and so he’s running lots of lab tests to see if he can figure out why. It’s very unsettling because of the sequence of events that led up to that radio call for what I was experiencing and the sounds that Eric was sharing with everyone and the way that it starts to… it’s… those things don’t seem coincidental.

Just like so many others, there’s once again more questions than answers. But at least I’m alive. It was scary, and that’s all over now.

What happened to Tom? It’s serious. The ranch takes a toll on people. But we need to move forward, go back into the hole, and keep drilling.

As we get deeper into the hill, the mud finally starts flowing. It fills up this large hole that they dug with a backhoe to catch this stuff. It becomes necessary to vacuum it out.

“Hey, Thomas, yeah, my back’s full. I need to go dump it.”

“Oh, okay, all right.”

“You think that’ll catch it?”

“Yeah. We put a screen underneath of it when we dumped it just to see if we could catch anything that might be coming out of that hole.”

“Okay.”

“What is that?”

“Hey, uh, look at that.”

“Thomas.”

“What are you seeing?”

“There’s a little study rocker, there’s like rust… what?”

“Oh my…”

“Just rock. It’s brittle.”

“This is really thin.”

“What do you think it was when you first saw it?”

“Well, I wondered if it’s like metal flakes or something.”

“That’s exactly the same impression I got.”

I’m surprised to see that there are pieces of material, not rock, possibly metal, being screened out of that 800-gallon volume of slurry with bentonite clay. I don’t know what this material is. At first, it appears to be like rust or some kind of sheet metal that has been broken into pieces.

“So this is that really—that’s that really large one, that’s the biggest one we found, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Yeah, right. I want to rinse it off back here away from the electronics.”

“Okay, let’s get the other side.”

“All right, look at that.”

“Do you have any… yeah, look at this. The surface here is all bumpy. It’s a kind of a brownish color, and this has got streaks of that brown in it, but there’s a black color here on this much flatter, smoother surface. Let’s find out what it is.”

“Does that need to be dry to analyze it?”

“Yeah, I’d prefer to let the thing dry off.”

In order to identify what that material is, at least to get a sense of its composition, I’ve decided to use the handheld x-ray fluorescence analyzer, or XRF instrument, and see what elements show up.

I like to describe the XRF device as basically a fancy x-ray flashlight. We shine those x-rays at objects, and we look at what x-ray colors come back to identify the materials of which they’re made.

“So this is telling me, on this first reading on this side, we’re looking at calcium, iron, silicon, aluminum, magnesium.”

“Wait, iron?”

“Yeah.”

“And aluminum?”

“Yeah, it’s like 8 percent aluminum on that shot.”

“How much iron is it?”

“That time it was 26 percent.”

“So this is definitely metallic then?”

“Oh, yeah.”

“Let’s take a look at this other side.”

“Guys, that number’s much different.”

“Yeah, this side of this thing is showing up, it’s almost 72 percent iron.”

“This thing is just straight up metal.”

“Wow, what is metal doing coming out of the hill, 300 feet in?”

As the experiments get bigger and better, they also get more dangerous and more hazardous. What are we going to trigger with these bigger experiments? Metal flakes or something? I don’t know how this material got inside the mesa. Could it be from an asteroid impact, or an alien spacecraft, or an underground base? Who knows? But what we do know is, whatever this is, it’s made up of rare and unusual elements. We need to find out what it’s doing here on Skinwalker Ranch.