Strange Energy Detected Above the Ranch (S1) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | History

TRAVIS:
All right, so, what we got to do is get some reference points where we took the measurements.
Now that Jim and Tom and I have recorded three different points across the ranch where these radiation spikes keep occurring, we’re gonna go plot them out on a map and see exactly where they intercept.
Right here is the spot. Right?

THOMAS:
We had right next to the helipad right there.

TRAVIS:
Right there. Okay.
And then we were out here by a power pole somewhere.
Right there is the shadow of the power pole.

TRAVIS: Yeah.
THOMAS: Good, good.
SEGALA: Perfect.

TRAVIS:
So right there.
So there’s one, two… three… let’s see, and we’ll need the angles that we measured from each of the points.
We figured out the angles that we were detecting energy from the sky at three different points.
And these angles are gonna cross at some point above the ranch.
Using some basic high school trigonometry, we can calculate that height.

This one was like that.
Look, they’re gonna cross up here somewhere.

SEGALA:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
And this one was like that.

So how-how high is that?

SEGALA:
Who’s got that calculator?
Yeah, it’s just, it’s… it’s 5,700 feet.
One mile high.

Do we ever see airplanes flying at a mile high over there?
What does that mean, even?

TRAVIS:
So, one mile high is only about a sixth as high as jets fly.
That means that whatever is doing this should be seen by the naked eye.
So why can’t we?
This just doesn’t add up.

And the way we could do that is we tether a weather balloon and raise it up through that region, that has equipment on it.
We get it up there and see if we see something there.
If we see something there, that’s even more exciting.

That sounds like fun.
Hey, th… yeah, that’s awesome. Yeah.

And every time we think we have an idea of a solution, the answer ends up being something weirder.

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TRAVIS:
Hey, Matt.

MATT:
Hey, Travis.

TRAVIS:
How you doing, man?

MATT:
I’m great. How are you?

TRAVIS:
Good to see you.

MATT:
Good to see you, too.

TRAVIS:
This is Thomas.

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TRAVIS:
Once we figured out that the strange energy source was coming from about a mile above the ranch, I called up a friend of mine, Dr. Matt Turner—he’s from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
He’s got a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and he’s an expert in the use of weather balloons.

We’ve measured some really strong RF fields—

MATT:
Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
—coming from the sky.
And so we think there’s a focus somewhere, and we’re guessing that the focus may be as much as a mile high, so what I’d like to do—

MATT:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
—is set up an experiment, and let’s start measuring that.

MATT:
That sounds great.
I got balloons.
We’ve got helium.
We’ve got some payload platforms.
And we just need your meters, and we’re good to go.

TRAVIS:
All right.

MATT:
Let’s get everything loaded up, and let’s do that.

TRAVIS:
Excellent.

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TRAVIS:
I think this is a good spot, guys.
Based on the triangulation of where these strange microwave and radio signals are coming from, what we’re going to do is use a weather balloon with instruments on it to fly it through the point on the ranch where we believe this stuff is coming from.

All right, so, with this balloon, with the tether, especially, we should be able to pick an altitude and go to that altitude and measure, with the TriField meters—

TRAVIS:
—and dial in the altitude that we want.

SEGALA:
Nice.

SEGALA:
So, at the end of the day, if we could have a chart that says altitude, RF energy, and show the plot, that would be amazing.

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TRAVIS:
After attaching one of our RF meters to measure possible radio or microwave energy, we’ve also attached a camera, so that we can photograph what happens when the balloon’s up in the sky.

Shut it off.

MATT:
Okay.

Got a lot of lift on it?

TRAVIS:
Yeah.

MATT:
Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
All right, we’re good.

(steady beeping)

MATT:
Yep, yep, yep, we know.

TRAVIS:
Audio beacon is on.
We need to let it go.
The wind’s kind of dying down—it’d be a good time to let it… let it rip.
I mean, it’s gonna go like a rocket, right?

MATT:
Yeah, it’s gonna take off pretty quick.

TRAVIS:
Well, so we hopefully get it to go through the, you know, mile-high mark that we were calculating.
I’m just hoping that it hits that before it gets too far to the west.
You know what I mean?

MATT:
I hope so, too.

You got it, Matt?

MATT:
Yeah, I got it.

Here we go.
We’re clear.
Start easing it up.

(exclaims)
Start letting it go, start letting it go.

(steady beeping continues)

Three, two, one.
Let it launch.

Look how fast it’s going.
Hey, I love how it’s…
It’s going right through the spot, too.
That is awesome.

THOMAS:
Oh, that is perfect!
Right where it needs to be.

TRAVIS:
That couldn’t have worked out better, I don’t think.

MATT:
That’s a good launch.
I say we pack up and go back and try and track it on the Internet.

THOMAS:
Yep.